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Gardeners turn back the clock at Cragside's Ivy Bridge
By Tony Henderson
The National Trust has been replanting a picturesque bridge at Cragside to restore its original look
Dale Stevens, right, placing one of the pots on the bridge at Cragside
A bridge will be in bloom again this year as part of a project to revisit its past.
The Ivy Bridge, which crosses the Debdon Burn, at the National Trust’s Cragside estate in Northumberland was designed for plant pots to be inserted across its span.
But the recesses have been standing empty for some time.
The National Trust asked visitors to help plant seasonal pots to be displayed on the bridge for the first time in many years.
The project is part of National Gardening Week during which Cragside has hosted a series of walks, talks and activities celebrating the magic of gardens.
The recesses in the Cragside bridge are once again filled with plant pots
Cragside assistant head gardener Dale Stevens said: “It’s great to celebrate National Gardening week at Cragside and it’s a wonderful opportunity to share our gardens and hopefully inspire and encourage people to try their hand at gardening at home”
“I’m especially excited as this year we’re offering visitors an opportunity to be part of something that hasn’t been done at Cragside for a long time.”
When Cragside was the home of Lord Armstrong, the sides of the bridge were covered in clipped ivy which made a green arch in the landscape
The nooks across the bridge would then have been used to take seasonal pot plants.
Dale said :“It would have been planted with colourful foliage and flowers and would really enhance the walk over to the formal gardens throughout the year for the Armstrongs. “We are going to be planting it with different ivy and all things colourful. I can’t wait to see the finished result.”
An early postcard featuring the Ivy Bridge at Cragside
Property curator Andrew Sawyer said: “It is a very significant place in the history of Cragside. “The Ivy Bridge was an important crossing of the Debdon Burn to the Formal Garden from the House in days gone by and it was also a popular route for the Armstrong family to take as they walked to and from their church in Rothbury.
“I’m sure guests would have been surprised and impressed by this unusual floral display among the clipped ivy surrounding the bridge.”
National Gardening Week was launched four years ago by the Royal Horticultural Society and since then it has grown into the country’s biggest celebration of gardening.
Events include today (Saturday) a ranger-led walk from 1.30-3.30pm to explore parts of Cragside that are off the beaten track. Sign up at the shop and meet on the house forecourt.
On Sunday from 11am-3pm visitors can design and create their own miniature garden with the materials provided by Cragside. Cost £2.
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Iran Blames Israel, US and Saudis for Attack on Tanker, and Promises Revenge
October 16, 2019 Peace and Conflict
Iran has attacked oil shipping and yet claims they were the ones recently attacked. Oil Tanker. Illustrative. Photo Courtesy of U.S. Navy. Photo by Mass Communication 2nd Class Nathan Schaeffer
The Iranians claim to have video evidence and other documents that will allegedly show the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia were behind the recent explosion on an Iranian oil tanker, although they haven’t produced such evidence yet. Senior Iranian Parliamentarian Abolfazl Hassan Beigi said on Wednesday per a report by the Fars News Agency that the cameras on the damaged tanker would lay the blame on those three nations for the incident, which Iran claims was a missile attack. Fars noted that no sailors on the ship were injured and the ship was in stable condition.
Beigi said they planned to deliver their supposed evidence to the United Nations, but as of his comments Iran had not yet published the evidence. Meanwhile, another Iranian official promised revenge for the alleged attack and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced plans to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. While the US announcement did not mention the tanker incident or Iran’s accusations, Iran is on the agenda.
On Wednesday, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani was quoted by Iran’s Press TV as telling a Russian envoy “We will give a response that will make those behind the attack on the Iranian vessel and seek to create a new wave of tension in the region regret their act.”
The same day as Iran’s threat, the US State Department announced a planned visit by Pompeo with Netanyahu, “to discuss developments in Syria and the continued need to counter the Iranian regime’s destabilizing behavior in the region.”
Connecting Iran’s two comments implies that the Iranians intend to respond to the US, Israel and the Saudis in some form. Iran has repeatedly threatened Israel over the years.
Just this week, Iranian Tasnim News Agency posted a photo to Twitter of new recruits in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps marching with flags of Israel under their shoes. Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon tweeted in response, “These soldiers expose the Iranian regime’s true colors: their mission is to try to destroy Israel.”
The tanker incident also comes as tensions remain high between Iran and the West. After failed negotiations with Europe to strengthen the Iran nuclear deal last year, the United States exited the accord and subsequently renewed major sanctions on Iran.
In response, Iran has unleashed a host of belligerent activity, including attacking shipping, shooting down a US drone, and launching a missile attack at the Saudi oil industry.
That has the US concerned about maritime security in the region. Last week, Special Representative for Iran and Senior Advisor to the Secretary Brian Hook said that their security initiative in the strategic Strait of Hormuz waterway—known as Sentinel—is intended to “raise awareness about threats in that area so that we can deter them.”
“We have asked nations to contribute maritime and aviation assets so that we have more eyes on that area,” said Hook in a State Department press release. “The more people that we have there, it makes it harder for Iran to execute its operations against tankers and other things like they’ve done in the past, if they ever wanted to threaten to mine the Strait of Hormuz, which they’ve done in the past, take out oil tankers, capture oil tankers in other countries’ waters.”
(By Joshua Spurlock, www.themideastupdate.com, October 16, 2019)
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Think Foolishly
Visual Comedy and Creativity blog for performers and artistic problem solvers. There is an art to foolery and foolery in all the arts.
How to Think Like a Fool in 60 Ways
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How to Think Like a Fool #30: Make and Break the Rules
PLAY: Make and Break the Rules
"Rule Six: There is NO... Rule Six."
Fools look for games everywhere. If they can't find them, they make them up. If they get bored, they add new rules. If they aren't getting what they want, they break the rules. If that's not enough to win, they'll start a brand new game.
Games have goals, strategies and tactics, limited time and space, fun (essential!), and rules. The rules give structure that frees you up for creative expression. Too many choices lead to indecisive paralysis. Too many rules, and the thrill is gone.
Look at your problem as a game, figure out what the rules are, then go from there.
In a stage play, fools can be participants in a story, then suddenly step outside the action, break the imaginary fourth wall, and comment on the events as if they were members of the audience. In a similar way, you can be utterly immersed in a game, then stop and see it for what it is, just a game, one you most likely invented yourself, and with arbitrary rules ready to be challenged, broken, and changed.
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Think: What game am I playing? What are the rules? What rules can I make up? What rules can I break? How do I get out of this game and start a new one?
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Lumbini Reborn, Nepal Reborn, Buddha Reborn
posted Dec 11, 2011, 9:01 AM by The Tibetan Political Review [ updated Dec 22, 2011, 6:57 AM ]
By Gabriel Lafitte (December 6, 2011)
NEPAL: THE NEW RAINBOW NATION?
Among Tibetans and their supporters worldwide, Nepal evokes dread. The news out of Nepal is invariably bad. The 20,000 Tibetan refugees in settlements are prisoners, unable to move freely, unable to obtain certification of their refugee status, unable to find employment or get an education, stigmatized and excluded. They may not publicly vote, protest or even hold religious celebrations of the birthdays of their most revered lamas.
China’s power over Nepal extends to equipping and financing the armed forces to patrol the border with Tibet, to apprehend Tibetans using the only route of escape. China’s ability to get the Nepali army to do its security work is aided by the willingness of Nepali politicians to be seduced by the largesse of China’s aid program, no strings attached, no accountability auditing of where the money went. From the outside, it seems that Nepal, riven by revolution, is agreed on only one thing, right across the spectrum, from Maoists to royalists: no-one likes the Tibetans.
It is not just the elite that is prejudiced. The Tibetans, like the landless urban poor in the Kathmandu slums along the riverbanks, are considered sukumbasi, a term so broad it includes all the excluded, the displaced, landless, unacknowledged refugees, with no means of subsistence, suspected of thievery, gold smuggling and an inclination for criminality. Sukumbasi are feared and sneered at, especially by the upper caste hindus who depict them as dangerous outsiders, despoilers, polluters of the rivers, a threat to the nation. The slum dwellers are seen as puppets of the Maoists, a rent-a-mob willing to swarm into the city on command to fill rallies with their shouts. The sukumbasi are said to have toppled the king, and that behind the scenes, they are tools of foreign meddlers or get undeserved help from NGOs.
The Tibetans have been granted permission by the US to migrate, but Nepal refuses to let them leave. This is one of the lowest points in 50 years, and some are choosing to return to Tibet because every opportunity in Nepal is blocked.
That’s the bad news. It’s not the whole story. The more hopeful news, that gets little publicity, is that the many Nepalis of Tibetan and/or Buddhist cultures have a new name, and a new dignity, which may soon extend to the refugees as well. The landless sukumbasi may also be jana-jati, a term that includes everyone in Nepal who is racially and religiously not Hindu or of Indian origin. That’s a lot of people, perhaps even a majority, and in today’s Nepal they are finding their voices.
The rights of jana-jati, indigenous adivasi, outcaste dalits, refugees and the socially excluded are being actively debated in Nepal at present. The new Constitution should be drafted soon, and a “Maoist” Prime Minister deeply sympathetic to minority rights is in power.
Nepal’s violent but inconclusive revolution brought in a demotic awakening, a new consciousness that the pedagogy of the nation state need not submerge the heartfelt identity of Himalayan peoples and their loyalty to the lamas and thus to a wider concept of Tibet as the spiritual home.
Now, despite a repressive political scene, with thousands of police mobilized to beat Tibetan pilgrims and refugees, the Himalayan peoples are awaking, discovering new space in which they can be both Nepali and Gurung or Sherpa; both citizens and Buddhists; inheritors of traditions far older than the Hindu monarchy, going all the way back to the birthplace of the Buddha, which is in Nepal.
For their tentative coming out, they quietly assembled in Lumbini in late 2011, far from the mountains, on the plains bordering India, in a newly built temple financed by Germans wanting the Buddha’s birthplace back on the map. The Himalayan Buddhists, by assembling, declared their existence, no longer veiled by the nationalist/royalist/Hinduist discourse of a single Nepalese identity. It had to be organized in the most low-key way, lest it be declared illegal before it could manifest, but now confidence is growing, people are getting used to having a voice, and keen to learn from indigenous communities worldwide that have overcome marginalisation and now assert their difference.
CONTESTING VISIONS OF LUMBINI
Lumbini today is a prize contested on all sides, but the Buddhists, with their usual long view, remember that Lumbini was forgotten, an overgrown ruin like Angkor Wat, engulfed by forest, consigned to the silence and amnesia essential to nation building. It was U Thant, the Burmese Secretary-General of the United Nations, who in 1967 made a pilgrimage to the ruins and shed a tear, which grew into the gradual rediscovery of this obscure village and its axial son.
Now Lumbini is hotly contested, by competing elites. China has apparently trumped all other initiatives dangling the fabulous sum of $3bn before bedazzled Nepali eyes as the sum total of an as-yet unexplained scheme to make Lumbini a Buddhist Disneyland, complete with six-lane expressway connected to Kathmandu. Other than the expressway, little else has been revealed, but the message is clear: Nepali leaders, local and national, are salivating, confirming China’s firm belief that the answer to any problem is money, the only question being how much. China’s leaders are used to promising big packets, naming eye-popping amounts as if they will be parachuted in at any moment, sufficient to bedazzle even austerity-strapped western governments. The money seldom materializes, but it takes years to discover that the hard way, and in the intervening years, the prospect of a short cut to riches suffices to hook the venal into chronic hopeful expectation. Thus does China get its’ way, often at minimal cost in fulfillment of maximal promise.
Kenzo Tange’s plan for Lumbini is a three square mile mandala that leads in concentric circles to the sanctum sanctorum: the circular sacred garden surrounding the Mayadevi Temple. The eastern monastic zone was set aside for Theravada Buddhism from Burma, Thailand and Sri Lanka and a Vipassana Centre, and the western zone for Mahayana Buddhism from Tibet, China and Bhutan. Tange’s plan is being followed but not all the temples and monasteries conform to the overall harmony and scale he had in mind. He died in 2005, at the age of 91, his vision for Lumbini eclipsed by revolution.
Tange was involved in the replanning of the city of Hiroshima after its destruction by the atomic bomb on 6 August 1945. At the heart of the revived city, Tange built a peace centre, raised on stilt-like, Le Corbusier-style columns, faced by a monument that married ancient forms and the latest structural technology. This peacetime fusion of a traditional Haniwa tomb and a concrete parabola was very much a symbol of new Japan, resolutely looking to the future while proudly recalling the best of its pre-imperial past.
New money, or the smell of it, is especially effective as China’s primary tool of diplomacy, because there is no competition. India, holder of the other key pilgrimage sites of the Buddha’s life, enlightenment, teachings and death, has little interest in promoting Lumbini. Only the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation promotes Lumbini as part of its Maha-parinirvan Express package tour. IRCTC’s video is worth seeing, less for its snapshots of the holy places of Buddhism than its lingering shots of railway catering. http://www.railtourismindia.com/cgi-bin/dev1.dll/irctc/booking/planner.do?trainType=Buddhist%20Train&trainCat=Buddhist%20Train&screen=FromTrainType&pressedGo=&submitClick
Yet Lumbini is contestable, notwithstanding the eye-bulging promise of $3bn. The Buddhists who rediscovered Lumbini before Nepal and China did, are not without influence. Elaborate and culturally sensitive plans for restoration of Lumbini were drawn up by Japanese architect Kenzo Tange, and UNESCO is keen to see the restoration/reinterpretation built. WWF has plans for the surrounding landscape, on a large scale, not as theme park but forest of the kind that flourished at the time of the historic Buddha, now a rarity as the Terai lowlands of Nepal adjacent to India, forest until less than a century ago, was cleared by settlers flooding in from India. With some celebrity backing –maybe from the monk Mathieu Ricard or the evangelical Prof Bob Thurman- the big corporations which discharge their corporate responsibility funding through WWF could mobilize the money to fulfill the Lumbini vision.
The Tibetans, as refugees, are not even entrants in the money stakes. Yet China’s expressway to Lumbini, right on India’s border with Nepal, is a move too far and too soon. Even though the Chinese entrepreneurs had cobbled together an improbable business alliance, embracing the Economist Intelligence Unit, the UN Industrial Development Organisation and a Chinese foundation with no record, it all fell apart after being prematurely announced in July 2011. Suddenly, everyone nominally associated disowned it, no-one knew anything.
Chinese entrepreneurs on Party business are not easily deterred. Within weeks it seemed a fresh start had been made, not through an obscure UN agency with limited capital, but to the UN Secretary-General himself, appealing to Ban Ki-Moon as a Korean who would want to see a Buddhist site restored, to lend his prestigious but powerless name to endorse the alpha of Buddhist destinations. The Economist reported in August: “As for Lumbini, the Buddha scheme has been shot down, but attempts to revive it are already under way. If the would-be investors handle it better next time, such a huge project may prove irresistible.”
The “Maoist” government of Nepal is finding ruling trickier than revolution. Their own rhetoric of power to the masses has become a pedagogy in which the masses, including the Buddhists of Nepal, are now well-versed. They demand inclusion in the development plans for Lumbini, and are organised to march in the streets if the Maoists’ dirigiste commandism persists. On 5 December 2011 the “Maoist” government opened its Lumbini development project to include on the steering committee Buddhists and women, for the first time, while appealing to the World Bank, UN and UNESCO to become stakeholders who might finance a meeting of the biggest Buddhist states at Lumbini in 2012. The Chinese dream of monopolising a Buddhist theme park has been both localised and internationalised. The “Maoist” rhetoric of social inclusion has bite.
What makes the project resistible to the upper castes without the right connections to the money pot is that it brings Chinese influence to India’s doorstep, and showcases Nepal’s Buddhists who, officially, are but 20 per cent of the Nepali population. The Buddhists of Nepal, who are growing increasingly confident to say publicly they are a majority of Nepal’s population, themselves resisted the irresistible by manifesting, in November 2011, as the first International Conference of Himalayan Buddhism, in Lumbini, thus planting their vajra in the subtropical soil of southern Nepal. In so doing they declared themselves to be both Nepalese (not Tibetan refugees) and different, and to share in ownership of Lumbini, as children of the Buddha.
THE GREAT GAME, YET AGAIN
Media simplify these multiple meanings by reducing it to an India/China power contest. But on the ground, the Buddhist peoples of Nepal know time is on their side, democracy and regional autonomy are taking shape and cannot be rolled back. The tide has turned, the unitary state is exposed as a fiction, multiplicity is blooming, custom is making a comeback, and devolution is a fruit soon to ripen.
China seems to have recognised this, and is starting to go beyond duchessing the elite, across the spectrum from Maoists to royalists. As well as squiring the political class for all-expenses paid junkets to Shanghai, China is aware it needs more than one client in Nepal if its power projection is to succeed. Taking advantage of its physical position in Tibet, overlooking the mountainsides below, China now trucks in loads of rice to poor villagers, something the Nepalese ruling elites never did, no easily could do by hauling rice upwards, since there are so few roads. Whether China will succeed in mobilising villagers, to turn against fleeing refugees en route to safety, or to renounce their lamas, remains improbable.
Centuries of Gorkha rule from Kathmandu failed to persuade these mountain dwellers they are Nepalese, or to see Nepal as their home or benefactor. Decades of Chinese rule over Tibet, on the far side of the high passes, only strengthened the Himalayan Buddhists, who found their revered lamas no longer far away, across the vast expanses of Tibet, but among them, as refugees. The presence of lamas, khenpos, geshes and educated monks and nuns in the Himalayas has countered the usual seductions of lowland urban modernity, turning a steady decline gradually into a renaissance of language, culture, education, pride in identity and awareness of rights. The monasteries planted on the soil of Nepal by exiled lamas, engines of enlightenment and bastions of learning, are now full of monks and nuns who are Nepali citizens from the Himalayan belt. Similarly the monasteries in India now attract Indian citizens born Buddhist in the high Himalayas of India, from Ladakh, Lahul, Spiti and Zanskar in the west to Tawang in the east.
DISCERNING THE HIDDEN POSITIVE
Tibetans are good at finding something constructive in a negative. The negative way of looking at the monasteries of exile, whether in Nepal or India, is that they depended on an endless stream of refugees escaping Tibet seeking only a religious life, and recruits among the refugees growing up in Nepal or India. The recruitment of exiles dried up many years ago, as the young discovered modernity and its attractions, especially the magical solution to all discontent, escaping to the West. Recently, the number fleeing Tibet has dropped greatly, due to intensive militarisation of the China-Nepal border on both sides, with massive Chinese subsidies to the Nepalese Army.
This could have emptied the monasteries, leaving huge monastic assembly halls with only old monks. At the same time, an exile dedicated to cultural preservation saw with alarm the erosion of Tibetan Buddhist civilisation along the southern flanks of the Himalayas, eroded not by communist frontal assault but the seductions of modernity and lowland comforts.
Two negative make a positive. The Himalayan renaissance has provided the brightest young people growing up in the mountains new ways of becoming modern, educated and successful. Instead of becoming traders or tourist guides, they become monks, teachers and community leaders able to connect lowland to highland, development to continuity.
In turn, that generates another positive. If the great monasteries established by exiled lamas, that surround the sacred Boudha stupa of Kathmandu are full of Nepali citizens, are they any longer alien institutions barely tolerated by a unitary, centralised state? Are they not the new homes of traditional Himalayan learning, for Nepal’s many Himalayan Buddhist communities, all of whom are to have greater local autonomy in a decentralised democracy? The situation is transformed: samsara is nirvana, nirvana is samsara.
This is the Tibetan genius. Everything depends on how you look at it. Nothing much may have changed, yet everything has changed, if you change perspective. Something can be made of nothing. The Tibetans, with their long term outlook and strongly positive view of the world and its workability, have countless times pulled the trick of succeeding where conventional perspectives see only problems.
What enables the Tibetans to bob up after catastrophe, time after time, is an inner strength that remains invisible to outsiders. Because outsiders are so important to Tibetans, who are only one in every 10,000 of India’s population, what is invisible to outsiders is sometimes invisible to Tibetans too, especially the young exiles to whom Buddhism remains a mystery, now that there is no longer even one monk in every family.
Sympathetic outsiders, whether Indian or angrezi inji, see the Tibetan situation from afar, through a geopolitical lens, seeing everywhere only danger, threat, vulnerability and China’s omnipresence, even omnipotence. A quite typical expression of the Tibetans framed as pawns of geopolitics, is an India Today article of 5 December 2011. Filed from Kathmandu, The Himalayan Race recycles the Great Game of the British Raj, arguing that “two Asian superpowers battle for control of Nepal. As China woos with aid and infrastructure, India struggles to contain China’s rising influence.” China’s Lumbini aerotropolis proposal “could potentially weaken the Dalai Lama’s hold over Tibetan Buddhists.” Meanwhile, “Nepal is on course to becoming another glittering jewel in China’s ‘string of pearls’ strategy designed to encircle India.”
If such jingoism, alternating between nationalist bombast and paranoia, were merely the parlour game of retired generals and inheritors of Lord Curzon’s viceroyalty, they should be left to sticking their pins into maps. But a steady drip-feed of such venom into the veins of India has its toxic effect, creating an elite mindset that is half fear, half belligerence. It is necessary to the worldview of the political class that Tibetans are but pawns, the eternal victim, powerless and hopeless.
TIBETAN INNER STRENGTHS
To Tibetans, especially those with the inner strength that comes of Buddhist practice, of experiential familiarity with the nature of mind, the idea that a Chinese aerotropolis could weaken the reverence Tibetans have for the Dalai Lama is ridiculous. China’s interventions in Tibet, including the massive spend on infrastructure projects, have only enhanced the standing of the Dalai Lama in Tibetan hearts. The more they see of China, they gladder they are to be Tibetan, and to have a leader who can be fully trusted.
The same inner strength that transformed Tibetans, in Indian eyes, from dirty beggars and grog sellers to old friends of the establishment, is now beginning to make its appearance in Nepal, at the very time Tibetan fortunes in Nepal appear, from afar, to have hit the bottom. The story the world is told is that the Nepalese elite, across the spectrum, from royalists to Maoists, are so much in the pocket of the Chinese, that the Tibetans trapped in Nepal, or seeking to flee Tibet via Nepal, are hounded, persecuted, beaten, robbed, detained, refouled and are helpless, intimidated, silenced and paralysed by fear. This is true, especially for refugees struggling across the border in midwinter, plodding through deep snow, evading the patrols of both Chinese and Nepalese armies, all moving in slow motion due to the combination of altitude, lack of oxygen, intense cold and snow cover. The freeze frame ballet of death, hunting down escapers in excruciating slo-mo, ends with the speed of a bullet. It could hardly get worse.
Yet the seed of a Tibetan flowering exists in the minds and long term thinking of Tibetan leaders, amidst the chaos of revolution and China’s grip on the Nepalese elite. The revolution created not only a supposedly Maoist party in power, popularly elected in a democratic vote, but out of revolution comes all the florid rhetorics of federalism, regional autonomy, a constitution filled with directive moral principles enshrining lofty goals of social justice, respect for difference, empowerment and effective rule of law to enforce such principles.
This revolution is far from won, and is resisted at every turn by vested interests unwilling to concede centuries of power. How it will turn out is impossible to predict. Yet some things can never be lost, especially the sense, among ordinary people, that they have a voice, and rights.
It is utterly Tibetan to be alert to paradox, to the phoenix hidden in the ashes, yet to arise, to find opportunity amid chaos and the din of confusion. Outsiders, led by Indians alarmed at “Maoist” popular democratic strength, see only a Nepal descending into being, at worst, a willing pawn of China or, at best, a mess of unresolved contradictions. To the Tibetans, vajrayanist peacocks thriving in the forest of poisonous plants, this is a fertile field of opportunity.
Any Buddhist claim to be a new majority will be fiercely contested, from without and within. The Hindu high castes will not yield their power easily. Not only do they dominate in Kathmandu, the centralised locus of power, they dominate the armed forces, media and the education system. They have India on side, and China eager to do deals.
On the Buddhist side, the Buddhists foreigners think of first are the peoples of the high mountains, the Sherpas, who migrated from Tibet a few centuries ago, or the peoples of Mustang and Dolpo. But in the context a small country with 30 million people, the 200,000 high mountain folk are less than one per cent, many in villages requiring a week’s walk on rugged trails, to reach from the nearest road. Their isolation may be in part due to neglect, benign or otherwise, but they are inevitably few, in the rain shadow of the high Himalayas, growing crops in the few valleys wide enough for fields irrigated by the mountain rivers, glacier-fed.
These Tibetan Buddhists will have to find common ground with the wave of low caste converts to Theravada Buddhism down on the plains adjacent to India, if numbers are to count. Yet most of Nepal’s Buddhists are neither in the plains or the high mountains, but in the hills, the most populous, contested heartland of Nepal. These peoples live alongside the Hindus in a complex mosaic that is now unravelling, revealing divergent identities that had been obscured by the mission of the state to create the world’s last pure Hindu warrior monarchy.
LAST REFUGE OF DIVINE RULE
That mission, of the Gorkha conquerors of the Kathmandu valley two and a half centuries ago, was driven by the vision of a pure Hindu kingdom, free of the menacing British and, at a deeper level, uncorrupted by the Mughal Muslim wave that had conquered India centuries before. It was to be India reborn, in the hills, a preBritish and preMuslim purely Hindu India on a sacred mission to keep intact a civilisation which, on the plains, had succumbed to waves of invasion. The waves of immigrant Hindus who populated the hills, pouring in from what are now the Indian states of Himachal and Uttaranchal, found the hills a defensible zone for a warrior caste to vigilantly subdue. The uplands of inner Asia are sometimes romanticised by theorists such as James Scott, arguing that they are the refuge of small, anti-authoritarian, even anarchic communities fleeing the mobilised martial states below. But the Gorkha kingdom that made Kathmandu its capital in the mid 18th century saw itself as a high civilisation twice born, not an antinomian counterculture.
In today’s Nepal, these things can now be openly said. Not only does the actual diversity of Nepal manifest on the streets, and in the armed revolution that tore the country apart, but in the peace that followed, the establishment has been unable to reassert its master narrative. In the public sphere, the riotous diversity of Nepal is most obvious on television, in the proliferation of raucous channels mocking the old elites with earthy humour.
Assembling a Buddhist majority, that can find common cause, see itself as a majority and then persuade the whole country, will take time, perhaps a decade, perhaps longer. At present, it is little more than an idea of a few, who take the long view. Being Buddhist, their approach is not dualistic, or confrontational. They take care not to antagonize Hindus, even when Hindu ideology claims Buddhism to be a minor protestant movement within Hinduism, the Buddha merely one of the many incarnations of Vishnu. Since Shiva’s home is Kailash, they joke, and he only comes down from his mountain once a year, he must be a Tibetan the other 364 days. Who whom? The Hindu ideology of inclusiveness, even when it smothers difference, is not refuted but nor is it accepted. It remains a Hindu gift to the Buddhists that lies on the table, returned politely to the giver.
The Buddhists are clear that the problem is not Hinduism, but the dominance of one specific Hindu caste, the Bahun/Brahmin. The Bahun not only oppressed the nonHindus to the point of making them invisible, but also oppressed the big population of dalit untouchables on whom they relied for all manual labour. It is Bahunism that is the problem.
The inborn assurance of entitlement, the systemically entrenched corruption, the ingrained sense of privilege of the Bahuns led Nepal to ruin, destitution, violent revolution and now, after the exhaustion of an inconclusive civil war and 15,000 violent deaths, a state that sways between failure, farce and renewal. Through it all, the Bahuns have never questioned their divine right to rule, which now translates, more respectably, as the Bahun as the only group with modern education, holding by far the most top jobs in any field from army to media. Their mini-imperium is unraveling, yet they remain in denial and defiance of the new order, led, inevitably by a Maoist Bahun with a PhD in architecture and a mastery of turgid Marxist prose.
WHO ARE THE “MAOISTS”?
It is the “Maoist” appellation that freezes the brains of India’s political class, which keeps Nepal on the US list of terrorist states, and led both countries to pour weaponry into the Royal Nepalese Army in a vain attempt to halt the revolution. The Maoism of the “Maoists” could be likened to Mao’s strategies of the 1930s, nothing whatever to do with the China of the past 30 years. But naming is powerful, blinding India, the US and others to unswerving adhesion to the Bahun as the only hope for a decent future for Nepal and its neighbor. But the ground has shifted, the same old will not do. The subalterns have spoken, and can never be silenced.
The Maoist party, and current elected government, has detailed plans for realizing ethnic autonomy including a separate autonomous state for the Sherpa and another for the Bhotelama, as those of Tibetan descent are known. Further, the Sherpa are to be given their own autonomous iilaka districts within other new states where they are not the majority, including the proposed new states of Tamsaling, Kirant and Limbuan.
Tibetans seeking genuine autonomy for Tibetans under Chinese rule should look no further than these detailed Maoist blueprints of ethnic autonomy in a federal future Nepal.
Many now read the calligraphy of Nepal’s new pluralism, the enduring legacy of the Jan Andolan, the revolution in which ordinary people found their voice, their identity which had been submerged by centuries of Gorkha regime efforts to suppress the highlanders quite different history and orientation, towards Buddhism and Tibet.
The revolution, keen observers say, may have brought China further into Nepal, although the Bahun high caste Hindus so used to monopolizing power were always ready to accept lavish trips to Shanghai as their entitlement. But China’s ever extending penetration of Nepal is only one of the energies unleashed by the revolution, even if it is what the headlines focus on. Behind the headlines a new Nepal is being born, and the Tibetans, whether as refugees given real rights of asylum and protection under a new constitution, or as Nepali citizens, the jana-jati indigenous to the high mountains, have a place in it.
Originally published at http://rukor.org/2011/12/lumbini-reborn-nepal-reborn-buddha-reborn/ and reprinted in TPR with permission of the author.
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Pollen Street Social: a place to enjoy friends, food and drink
Pollen Street Social edges the restaurant concept forward and that fact alone hasn't pleased everyone. For those looking for a revolution, it isn't avant garde enough; for traditionalists who want old school fine dining, it is of course still too much. And while there's already talk of Michelin recognition, it doesn't feel like that's a primary aim of PSS either; if they get a star, we're sure it will be welcome but also incidental. So what then is Pollen Street Social all about?
First and foremost it's about enjoyment: they want to create an environment where you can have a good time around food and drink. In the age of informality, that also means creating an informal environment where you can relax: no hushed tones and whispering here, the dining room should (and does) have a buzz. The room too is light and visually interesting with contemporary art and design.
They also want people to feel more involved with the food which has, amongst other things, given rise to the no reservations dessert bar, more of that later. It also gave rise to a very extensive menu in their first week of opening with the purpose of putting the meal construction into the hands of the diners. Some found this confusing while others found that too much choice can itself get in the way of enjoyment. They listened to feedback and rapidly changed up the menu such that it is now simpler and easier to navigate.
The bar area, also called 'The Social Room' is open all day for drinks and tapas, and is likely to be your first waypoint before moving through to the dining room itself. The cocktails are broadly prohibition era but given a modern twist. The Breakfast Martini dates from the Marmalade Cocktail created in the Savoy of the 1920s, since updated by Salvatore Calabrese at the Library Bar in the 1990s and now finding itself garnished with toast and marmalade here in The Social Room. Best of all though was the Prince of Wales (see first picture below) that uses dry ice at the bottom of a goblet no less to produce a magical witches brew that pops, bubbles and overflows. It nicely captures both the lightness and serious intent of what they are trying to do here.
Moving through to the light and airy dining room, we're keen to try as much as we can across the menu and sharing a number of plates seems like the obvious way to go. We start with the Fowey oysters served 'hot and cold'. The hot oyster has been poached in dashi broth and is served with the broth and with onion, and was excellent, the broth giving the dish a comfort angle not expected from an oyster. The cold 'oyster' was an oyster blended with crème anglaise and turned into an ice-cream. Served with a 'silver pearl', a brandade of cod and eel, the 'cold' makes the flavours more subtle than a pure oyster alone though it's an interesting take.
Oysters 'Hot & Cold'
The next dish is considered by many who have eaten it to be one of the stars of the menu, The English Breakfast. Centred around a slow cooked egg that just oozes a vibrant yellow yolk over the plate as you cut into it, tomatoes, bacon and mushrooms are all there making this an absolutely brilliant starter and a dish that puts a smile on your face. Taste wise, it's sensational.
Two fish courses next, Light cured Loch Duart salmon, avacado, smoked herring roe cream and BBQ mackerel, cucumber chutney, frozen ajo blanco and scallop. Worth noting too is that portion sizes in both of these dishes were generous enough for any sharing scenario. Of the two, the mackerel was preferred with the BBQ flavours coming through nicely and the cucumber chutney providing a contrasting freshness.
Light cured Loch Duart salmon, avacado, smoked herring roe cream
BBQ mackerel, cucumber chutney, frozen ajo blanco and scallop
We've had a variation of the squid risotto before and were wowed by it then and we were wowed by it again today. This might turn into something of a signature dish in time and it rated as perhaps our favourite of the day. Genius.
Cauliflower and Squid, clear roasted squid juice
At the recent soft opening I had the pork belly as my main course and declared at the time that the pork may well have been the best piece of pork I'd ever had: the flavours were there in every mouthful while it retained a succulence that made eating it so easy (too easy) such that sadness dawns on you when you finish. As a sharing plate, a smaller portion today (more sadness) but still all the flavour. On top of that, the lightest crackling ever has found its way onto the plate; delicious but possibly too light, some things are supposed to be naughty. The final sharing savoury was lamb, again, excellent and developed flavours.
We headed to the dessert bar where the real difficulty lies in deciding. Watching the desserts being made in front of you makes you want to try each one and while we didn't quite go that far, but we did manage a few. It's hard to pick a favourite as they are all done so well. Pre-dessert of Eton mess spruced with delectable wild strawberries certainly gets you in the mood.
The PBJ (Peanut butter & jelly) is simply excellent on both textures and flavours while the Tiramisu was fantastically indulgent. Finally, cheesecake and rhubarb that was refreshing rather than acidic. The puddings here are well thought out, well constructed and quite sophisticated offerings rather than just aiming for a bullseye on your sweet tooth. All lovely though.
Cheesecake & rhubarb
A trip downstairs, as required by a washroom visit reveals further elements to the restaurant including the private dining area and a glass fronted meat hanging room where the beef looks spectacular and encourages us (if indeed further encouragement were needed) to come back for the Cote de boeuf for sharing next time.
This is our second time at Pollen Street Social and we've loved it on both occasions. PSS wants to be about 'social' and 'friendly' and 'fun' and it is all those things, it is a place to go to have a good time without pretensions. It is also very good food, very serious food but food that can be enjoyed lightly. The fun element of PSS has in our view led some to underestimate the quality of cooking that's being undertaken in the kitchen, that's a shame.
In their first week of opening, there were clearly some issues, we can't comment as we weren't there, but here in week two, things are running well: food coming to the table is pretty much spot on and service too is settling down. Things are only likely to get better from here as everyone further settles into their roles and the rate of change slows. We can't help but feel that PSS is likely to be increasingly well regarded over time.
We've always enjoyed Jason Atherton's cooking and now he has his own place, he can fully deliver on his (considerable) talents without restraints. And in our opinion, Pollen Street Social achieves its aims in providing a place to go where you simply have a good time, a social time, revolving around good food and drink. On both occasions that we've been, we've left happy, with a smile on our face, mission accomplished. As such, we think it's a great addition to the London restaurant scene and we're already planning another return visit.
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demi lovato on The FADER
The best celebrity Halloween looks of 2019
See the best celebrity Halloween looks from Megan thee Stallion, Cardi B, The Weeknd, and more.
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Demi Lovato issues apology after accepting $150,000 trip to Israel
Backlash to a promotional trip to Israel has led to an apology from Demi Lovato.
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Demi Lovato will join Will Ferrell in upcoming Netflix musical comedy
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Meet Victoria, Demi Lovato’s childhood ghost friend
The house Demi Lovato grew up in was filled with ghosts. She even befriended one.
Demi Lovato’s mom shares update on her health following overdose
Demi Lovato is “happy and healthy,” following a recent drugs overdose, Dianna De La Garza confirms.
Demi Lovato reportedly facing “complications” following alleged overdose
Demi Lovato is believed to be suffering extreme nausea and a high fever.
Demi Lovato’s family releases a statement concerning her well-being
Demi Lovato's family has made a statement following the singer's overdose.
Demi Lovato reportedly hospitalized for alleged overdose
A new report claims Demi Lovato has been hospitalized after an overdose in the Hollywood Hills.
Watch Demi Lovato and DJ Khaled’s “I Believe” video
DJ Khaled and Demi Lovato bring the affirmation on the "Wrinkle In Time" soundtrack cut.
Demi Lovato Is Named As New Global Citizen Health Ambassador
She will pair up with Save The Children to work with Iraqi kids.
Sleigh Bells Are Suing Demi Lovato For Copyright Infringement
Sleigh Bells are suing Demi Lovato over the similarities between their song Infinity Guitars and her Stars
Miley Cyrus, Pharrell, Major Lazer, And More React To Terrorist Attacks In Brussels
Musicians express solidarity for the people in Brussels and around the world on social media.
The 17 Most Important Things That Happened At The 2016 Grammys
Kendrick Lamar didn't win Album Of The Year, but he stole the show.
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Road to Revolution #6: The Sundered Legion
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File Size 6.5 MB ZIP
Publisher 01 Games
Stock Number UA013
Welcome to The Road to Revolution campaign arc; a series of adventures designed for use with the 3.5 version of the world's most popular role-playing game. Set in the Great City, this epic campaign takes characters from their humble beginnings, all the way to powerful adventurers upon whose actions the City will come to depend. The Campaign Arc contains six adventures in all, each written by the original authors of the Great City Campaign Setting. Arc adventures can be played individually or linked with others in the series to create a complete campaign.
The Sundered Legion serves as the series' stunning conclusion and is written by Liz Courts and Brendan Victorson.
The fires still burn and smoke billows over the bloodstained walls of Lord Erasmus' fortress in the Castle Ward. In the aftermath of the attempt on Erasmus' life and the chaos that followed, the Kharel had no choice but to enact martial law to regain some semblance of order. Talquar troops stationed in the Army Ward were deployed into the city to reinforce the Night Watchmen in every ward and the city walls have been manned with full complements around the clock. As the Kharel prepares to lock down the city, tensions run high with the reports of Commander Jaken Abberbaugh's thousand-strong army fighting in the borderlands returning to enforce Prostolom's decree. Commander Jaken Abberbaugh, Malkan Abberbaugh's less popular twin brother and mentored by General Uril Krakon himself, has designs upon a seat in the Kharel and has been waiting for just such order to return to the Great City. Favored by General Krakon for the position within the Kharel, and with his brother out of the way and leverage in place, his confirmation is sealed . . . or is it?
The City is on verge of tearing itself apart and the Kortezian Army may follow suit. Whatever happens in the next 48 hours, the Great City will never be the same.
This 48 pages adventure will take you to explore the depths of the Circus Maximus, in the Army Ward of the Great City.
The Sundered Legion is an urban adventure most suitable for 14th-16th level characters.
The module features the beautiful artwork by Eric Lofgren and Hugh Vogt.
Additional material about the Great City and the Castle Ward can be found in the following titles:
The Great City Campaign Setting
0one's Blueprints: The Great City
0one's Blueprints: The Great City, Army Ward
0Øone's Blueprints Backdrops: The Headquarters
Written by Brendan Victorson / Liz Courts
The Andwan Legacy
Blood Runs Cold
Deadly Ice
The Divine Alligator
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Archive for sexualization
Hot for Santa: The Unbearable Horniness of Vintage Christmas Ads
For vacuum fetishists, it’s the best Christmas ever!
By David Futrelle
With Christmas only a couple of days away, I decided to put together a little roundup of some of the most wildly misogynistic Christmas ads from the Mad Men era — loosely and somewhat expansively defined as the mid-50s through the mid-70s.
4channers embrace YouTube shooter Nasim Aghdam as “goddess of retribution,” dream girlfriend
Nasim Aghdam: 4chan’s “girl” (Meme from 4chan)
When rumors began to spread yesterday afternoon that the YouTube shooter was “a woman wearing a head scarf,” many on the right assumed that their gut instinct was right: the attack on YouTube, although it took no lives other than the shooter herself, was an act of Islamist terrorism. When the name of the shooter was released, and it turned out to be Nasim Aghdam, this was all the confirmation the Islamophobic right needed.
Paul Elam’s Drunken Party Tape Makes The Majority Report, Inspires Meme Game
In another grand public relations coup for the Men’s Rights movement, Paul Elam’s drunken party tape has been featured on The Majority Report with Sam Seder, a sharp and funny political podcast I’ve started listening to on a fairly regular basis (and that you all might want to check out).
Check Out the Stumbling Block on Her: How the Duggars (and some MRAs) blame women’s bodies for men’s actions
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How women secretly run the world
Over on Boing Boing, Mark Frauenfelder has posted the excerpt below from A Love That Multiplies: An Up-Close View of How They Make It Work by Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar — yes, those Duggars — explaining how women “defraud” men when they dress in a way that men find exciting (in their pants). Read More→
In creepy Reddit megathread, thousands of women recount the first time they were perved on by a grown man
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So there’s a giant, growing, and extremely creepy megathread up on Reddit at the moment, and for once, the creepiness isn’t coming from inside the Reddit. Well, less of the creepiness is coming from Reddit than you might expect.
Yesterday, you see, a Redditor known as BA_Baracus posted a couple of simple questions to AskReddit: Women of Reddit, when did you first notice that men were looking at you in a sexual way? How old were you and how did it make you feel?
This wasn’t the first time he’d posted a question to his fellow Redditors; he’s posted a bunch, including “People of reddit with eyes that point in different directions, which one of them is usually looking at me?” and, er, “Recent rape victims of Reddit, how did it happen, and what the hell were you doing in India?” None of these questions got much of a response.
But this time, well, thousands of “women of Reddit” stepped forward to tell the horrifying yet in most cases completely unsurprising stories of the first time men started perving on them, in many cases before they were even teenagers.
Here’s a sampling of some of their stories. TRIGGER WARNING for extreme fucking creepiness.
A Voice for Men Paul Elam and pals rebut GQ article depicting them as creepy misogynists by acting like creepy misogynists
“Pretty girls” are always up to something
If you’ve read Jeff Sharlet’s magnificent GQ account of his lost weekend amongst the “Men’s Human Rights Activists” at A Voice for Men’s conference last summer (or my take on it here), you know that some of the creepiest moments his account involved his friend Blair, a twentysomething writer who came along for the ride and ended up, by her account, being groped and propositioned by AVFM’s “director of collegiate activism” Sage Gerard.
Sharlet never mentions Blair’s last name, but Elam outs her in a AVFM post with the lovely title “GQ’s Jeff Sharlet pimps out Blair Braverman for clickbait.”
How A Voice for Men's Facebook memes inadvertently reveal the deep sexual insecurities underlying the misogyny of the Men's Rights movement
Detail of an unintentionally revealing A Voice for Men meme
The We Hunted the Mammoth Pledge Drive continues! If you haven’t already, please consider sending some bucks my way. (And don’t worry that the PayPal page says Man Boobz.) Thanks!
From time to time I like to check in on the Facebook page for A Voice for Men, to see how that eminent men’s human rights organization’s program to advance the human man rights of human men through badly designed and even more poorly conceived graphic “memes” is going.
Well, I can report that this program is going, and going, and going, a bit like a famous battery-powered bunny.
Looking through them today, I couldn’t help but notice the weird sexual undertones — and overtones — of many of the memes, and realized that, while none of the memes tell us much about the world, they do, in an altogehter accidental way, offer some pretty interesting insights into the ids of those making and “liking” them on Facebook.
You don’t have to be a trained psychoanalyst to see the not-very-well-hidden straight male sexual insecurities that lie behind a large number of AVFM’s memes — both the ones they create themselves and the others that seem to have arrived on the AVFM page after being forwarded via email from someone’s cranky misogynistic uncle. Let’s take a look at some of them.
The Top Five Most Ridiculously Ironic #GamerGate Memes
These memes ARE actually ironic.
GamerGate, so depressing and destructive and … inadvertently hilarious?
Like the MRAs I write about so often here, GamerGaters have a certain fondness for the propaganda of the meme, attempting to win hearts and minds with elaborate infographics, repurposed propaganda, and basically any sort of graphic they can pull together in a few minutes with Photoshop or MSPaint.
They are, unfortunately for them, terrible at it. It’s not just that the amateur graphic designers of GamerGate lack a basic understanding of good design. They are also so completely lacking in self-awareness that they are unable to see when their graphics completely undercut the messages they are intended to convey.
So today, let’s take a look at the The Top Five Most Ridiculously Ironic #Gamergate Memes that I’ve found posted recently on 8chan and Twitter.
These Men's Rights Activists and GamerGaters get off — literally — by fantasizing about sexually humiliating feminists.
Every MRAs not-so-secret fantasy. (From a vintage cigar ad.)
[TRIGGER WARNING: Discussion of rape, violent misogyny]
Today, the easy winner in my informal “Worst Thing I Saw On The Internet” contest is a horrendous little hangout for dudes with a very particular sexual fetish: they like to fantasize about raping and sexually humiliating feminists.
The Breaking Feminist Superheroines subreddit (r/breakfeminazis), with 865 subscribers, describes itself as
Warren Farrell is an Ass, Man
Yep, that’s a butt on the cover. He put a butt on the cover. Men are oppressed by women’s butts.
You may remember the embarrassing spectacle a couple of months back when Warren Farrell asked the readers of A Voice for Men to help him pick out a cover picture for a new ebook version of The Myth of Male Power, the 21-year-old crackpot bestseller that more or less provided the, er, intellectual foundation for today’s Men’s Rights movement.
It wasn’t just embarrassing because AVFM is a noxious hate site that regularly calls women c*nts and whores and helps to organize informal campaigns of harassment directed at individual women. It was also embarrassing because all three of the pictures were sexualized images focusing on specific female body parts. You can guess which three, and you’d be right: tits, ass, and vagina (the latter tastefully covered in a merkin made of moss).
Well, Farrell ended up rejecting all of these images in favor of … a different picture of a woman’s butt. Yep, the screenshot above features the actual cover of the recently released ebook version of The Myth of Male Power. (You can see it in its full sized-glory over on Amazon.)
The implicit message of the cover couldn’t be clearer: men may seem to run the world, but women can control and exploit them through the power of their sexuality. Male power is undercut by … butt power.
Am I reading too much into a cover image? Farrell doesn’t really believe this nonsense, does he?
Well, in the introduction to the ebook, Farrell writes:
In case you’re wondering, “genetic celebrity” is Farrell’s term of art for any attractive woman.
But golly, you say, the fact that a dude feels “powerless” because he can’t have sex with every woman with a nice butt that happens to wander across his field of vision doesn’t actually mean that men are powerless or that male power is a myth. Well, Farrell has an answer to this as well. And by “answer” I mean, well, whatever this is:
Got that? I’m not sure there’s anything there to get; it’s nothing more than hand-waving to distract attention from the nonsensical nature of his previous statements. In case any Men’s Rights activist ever brings Warren Farrell up as an example of a respectable, “academic” MRA, you may wish to point out that almost nothing Farrell writes ever actually makes any fucking sense.
In the book itself, Farrell repeatedly suggested that male power can be undone almost completely by the sexual power of women. In one oft-quoted passage, he wrote about the effect that a “secretary’s miniskirt power, cleavage power and flirtation power” allegedly has on their male bosses. (Myth of Male Power, p. 21)
While that statement has earned a certain notoriety for its sheer ridiculousness, Farrell went further elsewhere in the book, essentially arguing that men are as addicted to female “beauty” as drug addicts are to the drug of their choice — and as helpless.
“Sexually, of course, the sexes aren’t equal,” Farrell wrote. “[M]any men feel ‘under the influence the moment they see a beautiful woman.” (p. 320, emphasis in original.)
This sort of temporary “intoxication,” Farrell argued, leads men into shackling themselves to these temporarily sexy tyrants for the rest of their lives — thus agreeing to support them (he suggested implicitly) even after they get old and ugly. (p. 85.)
In Farrell’s original book, this “argument,” such as it is, was merely one of many that he thought undercut the alleged “myth of male power.” Now, with the butt on the cover, he’s put it front and center. Or, more precisely, rear and center.
Warren Farrell, you’re an ass, man.
Oh, awkward segue here, I just wanted to show off the cover to the new edition of my classic book, The Myth of Human Power.
It will soon be available for one million dollars in cash in unmarked bills, upon delivery of which I will sit down and write it for you. It will probably be pretty short and not very convincing.
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Paul Elam responds to critics of his phony White Ribbon page with reasoned argument. Kidding! He had a tantrum October 24, 2014
A Voice for Men's fake WhiteRibbon.org site proudly reposts an article on domestic violence plagiarizing from Amanda Marcotte February 16, 2015
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"U.S. Ambassador Says Israel Has Right to Annex Parts of West Bank" (Halbfinger). And he's a big part of the creation of President Kushner's eliminationist plan! "U.S. Ambassador’s Remarks on Annexing Parts of West Bank Outrage Palestinians". "Palestine considers ICC complaint against US Ambassador Friedman". Again, Khazar = nepotism + thievery.
"David Schenker, 'pro-Israel wonk', confirmed as top US Middle East envoy". Maximum MIGA. Also: "Israeli occupation is like US occupation of Germany and Japan that people grew to like — Ambassador Dermer" (North/Weiss)!
"The Arrival of the Anti-Christ, Delayed" (Shamir). The ongoing set of questions involving who Putin might sell out - Palestinians, Syrians, Iranians - should Israel be able to convince MIGA Trump to life sanctions against Russia. The argument that Putin is happy with Iran's isolation by the US: "What Is Russia’s Game in U.S.-Iran Standoff?" (Hunter). I guess we shouldn't be surprised that this kind of analysis comes from an Assholian standpoint (see also Korybko). You could alternatively argue that Putin has done strikingly well with a principled foreign affairs stance based on the importance of fostering a multi-polar world (in contrast to a world which is run by the hegemon and its lackeys), and selling out any one part of that world would ruin his brand as a fair-trader.
"More Evidence US Armed Syria Terrorists as Trump Pleads Ceasefire" (Cunningham). Protecting Assholia's greatest only ally!
". . . the offensive to retake Idlib comes as new evidence emerges of the massive – albeit covert – international military support given to the various terror groups during Syria’s nearly eight-year war. Syrian state media this week reported arsenals of weaponry recently recovered in Damascus countryside and further south in the Daraa area.
The arsenals included rows and rows of heavy machine-guns, sniper rifles and US-made TOW missiles. Much of the weaponry was also of Israeli-origin, according to reports.
A separate find showed tonnes of C-4 plastic explosive, which Syrian military intelligence said was “US-made”. Up to four tonnes (4,000 kgs) were recovered this time around. Half a kilo of this lethal material is enough to kill several people.
This is not, of course, the first time that such huge caches of US, Israeli and NATO-origin weaponry have been recovered from territory formerly held by terrorists in Syria. There have been numerous such finds, which also included industrial chemicals made in Germany and Saudi Arabia, capable of producing sarin and other highly toxic munitions. That implies military-grade logistics and technical knowhow."
"While the world watches Donald Trump, it’s missing what’s really going on with US foreign policy" (Fisk) (my emphasis in red):
"Take Donald Trump’s desire to furnish Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates with billions of dollars of extra weapons so that they can increase the ferocity of their war in Yemen against the Houthis – whose support from Iran, such as it is, prompts much of the international abuse against the Islamic Republic. French intelligence officers in Washington have apparently discovered that this is no routine request from Riyadh but a desperate appeal to Washington, because so promiscuous has been the Saudis’ use of US munitions against Houthi rebels (and civilians, hospitals, aid centres, schools and wedding parties) that they are running out of bombs, guided and unguided missiles, drone parts and other “precision” arms to be used on one of the poorest countries in the world.
Thus when Trump found himself confronted by congress, which wanted to halt the supplies – not least because its members are still very angry about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi – the destination of the weapons supplies was broadened to include America’s plucky little ally, King Abdullah II of Jordan. Yes, we all missed that bit, didn’t we? We added the words “and Jordan” to the headline, but didn’t ask why. And the munitions will come not from direct sales to the Gulf, with a possible congressional cap of $25m (£19.7m), but from US government military stocks and – so the French suggest – a very large part of these weapons will go to Jordan.
Which is very odd, because Jordan is not at war with anyone right now, and is certainly not part of the Saudi “coalition” forces bombing Yemen.
So how much of the $8.1 billion worth of missiles, bombs and so on will be sent to Amman? And how much of that will be unloaded from US military aircraft and reloaded onto Saudi military aircraft once the stocks arrive in Jordan? Only one small but traditionally brave little publication, the unputdownable French weekly Le Canard enchaine picked up this story. Its Washington sources have always proved correct in the past, and the whole wretched arms transfer was summed up by the paper as: “Very smart, if not moral, [just] a few trifles for new massacres.”"
"The Geo-Port-Politics of Gwadar and Chabahar" (Sheikh):
"In a highly surprising move, Iran’s foreign minister, on an unscheduled and unannounced visit to Pakistan on Thursday (May the 23rd), announced the proposal to link Pakistan’s port of Gwadar with Iran’s Chabahar port."
"As far as the US—Iran tension is concerned, unlike India, Pakistan has already said that it will not take sides in the conflict. Pakistan’s neutrality in the on-going scenario suits Tehran far more than it does for the US, that is if it does at all.
There is also no gainsaying that Tehran’s proposal to connect the two ports couldn’t have come with prior consultation with the Chinese, who are practically running the port in Pakistan. Accordingly, before coming to Pakistan, Zarif was in China where he met his Chinese counterpart and certainly discussed this proposal, leading Chinese foreign minister to “Welcome Iran” to actively take part in the joint building of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) through Chabahar.
China also re-affirmed its support for Iran. “China firmly opposes unilateral sanctions and the so-called ‘long-arm jurisdiction’ imposed by the United States on Iran,” Wang said, pledging to maintain the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and safeguard the authority of the United Nations and basic norms governing international relations.
Chinese support’s major manifestation came a few days ago when Chinese oil tanker Pacific Bravo left the Persian Gulf with 2 million barrels of Iranian light crude, ignoring the US sanctions and practically challenging the US unilateralism.
Pacific Bravo is owned by Bank of Kunlun, a financial institution that is owned by the Chinese state oil company CNPC. Bank of Kunlun has long been the financial institution at heart of China-Iran bilateral trade—a role for which the company was sanctioned during the Obama administration. Despite already being designated, Bank of Kunlun ceased its Iran-related activities in early May when the oil waivers were revoked. But Bravo’s current moves point to a change in Chinese policy. Importantly enough, Bravo sailed from the Persian Gulf on the same day as Zarif arrived in Beijing and met Chinese foreign minister to discuss Iranian participation in BRI (through linking Gwadar and Chabahar).
With Iran now taking this fundamental shift, what is apparent is that a major foreign policy shift in Iran has taken places whereby its leadership has come to an understanding that their relations with the US are unlikely to take a positive turn for a long time and that a necessary adjustment in the foreign policy is absolutely needed. As a matter of fact, it was only a few days ago when Iran’s supreme leader criticised Iran’s foreign policy and dropped a major hint about why changing the course of foreign policy was an utmost necessity."
"Washington’s “Tiananmen” Lies Begin to Fray" (Thomas). Same PR as used against Syria - 'brutal dictatorship' kills 'peaceful' protesters. For more anniversary PR, see: "What HBO Got Wrong: Chernobyl General Gives Hit Show A Reality Check" (Durden).
"US sees Turkey’s S-400 deal as fait accompli" (Bhadrakumar). "US condemns Turkey for drilling in Cyprus, foiling Israel pipeline deal". "Cyprus signs $9bn contract with Israel to extract gas".
I've been a little suspicious of the Assange health wailing, as it won't move any of the bad guys involved, and there is no room in defending Assange to fudge the truth. Here he looks fairly good (at the very beginning there might be some shuffling that might indicate something more serious): "Footage Released of Julian Assange Inside Maximum Security British Prison" (Anglin).
Macron's Rothschild's goons are still hard at work.
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The Wine Origin of Oregon
As of 2012, Oregon has been producing wine with over 400 vineyards across the state. Nature being the biggest forte of Oregon, wine production benefits incredibly. Hence the reason behind this state developing an international reputation due to their wine.
The memorable hills of Oregon with its glorious beaches and powerful waves are breath-taking. Its spectacular landscape inspires you to paint, even if you're not an artist. It's the type of atmosphere that creates and builds an exotic yet old-fashioned feel.
The Viticultural areas throughout the state include the Williamette Valley, Southern Oregon, Umpqua Valley and Rogue Valley AVAs. In fact, parts of the Columbia Gorge lie within Oregon, such as Walla Walla Valley and Snake Valley.
The top two grapes grown across Oregon are Pinot noir and Pinot gris. Pinot noir ripens in this state's microclimate. A lot of sun and heat in the climate will ripen the fruit and produce a lot of sugar and no acid. So the climate needs to be a cool yet warm one in order to ripen fruit at a balance.
This means that their wine variety runs from Riesling, Sauvingnon blanc, Syrah, Zinfandel to Baco noir, Black Muscat, Cabernet Franc, Chardonnay, Chenin blanc,
Dolcetto, Leon Millot, Merlot, Pinot Meunier and
Scheurebe. Many other grapes are produced in Oregon as their valleys and vineyards undertake over 20,000 acres.
Valley View in Jacksonville was the first recorded winery in the state, and was established by Peter Britt in the late 1850s. However, after the Prohibition in the United States, Oregon lay dormant for 30 years. However, once it rebuilt in the 1900s, there were five commercial wineries by 1970.
Oregon is a beautiful place to visit with shining lakes, gleaming hills and mountains designed with so much personality that falling in love with it all won't even cut it. The precious vineyards expanding themselves across waving hills, with forest trees or mountain tops encircling all around it is what you find in Oregon. A tasting of this state's wine will not only take your taste buds away but your imagination too. So get some more information on this magnificent place and see why you should try their wine.
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Back in November Verse Simmonds dropped his new project Diamonds, which spawned his most popular track Liquor & Misunderstanding. Now breathing new life into the track Verse taps fellow singer/songwriter Sevyn Streeter and Eric Bellinger for the remix of the popular track.
New Video: Sevyn Streeter Feat Ty Dolla $ign, Wiz Khalifa & Jeremih – Anything U Want
Just a few days after releasing her debut album “Girl Disrupted,” Sevyn is back this week with her official video for “Anything U Want” featuring Ty Dolla $ign, Wiz Khalifa & Jeremih. In the new clip directed by ALFY, we see Sevyn chilling, having fun at a party. With cameos from Empire’s Serayah and singer/songwriter Eric Bellinger.
Describing “Anything U Want” as a carefree, fun record, Streeter tells Billboard that “it only seemed right for the video to feel the same. I never went to college — unfortunately — so I lived out a little piece of my dream in this video. I threw a frat party, took a few shots and invited the three coolest dudes I know, LOL. Along with releasing her new video, Sevyn also appeared on Wendy Williams to perform her ballad song “Before I Do.” Check out both the video and performance below.
New Music: Sevyn Streeter Feat. Wiz Khalifa, Jeremih & Ty Dolla Sign “Anything U Want”
Today is not only Sevyn’s birthday but also the release of her long awaited debut album “Girl Disrupted.” With the release of her LP, Sevyn has unleashed her new single ‘Anything U Want’ featuring Wiz Khalifa, Jeremih & Ty Dolla Sign. Produced by Hitmaka, Sevyn sings about holding down her significant other. Check out the single below and look out for the official video which will premiere this Monday.
Stream Sevyn Streeter’s Debut Album “Girl Disrupted”
After dropping various EP’s and songs for her fans to enjoy, the time has finally come! Sevyn Streeter has released her long awaited debut album ‘Girl Disrupted’ on her 31st birthday. The album which has 13 tracks, has guest features from artist such as Jeremih, Ty Dolla Sign, August Alsina, The-Dream and more. Stream the album below.
Sevyn Streeter Shares ‘Girl Disrupted’ Cover Art & Album Release Date
Let the countdown begin! Sevyn Streeter has finally answered the question her fans have been asking for since January, Where’s the album?
At 12 am Sevyn gave her fans a special treat when she revealed the cover for her debut LP “Girl Disrupted,” which will be released on Sevyn’s birthday 7•7•17. Check out the official tracklist below.
Girl Disrupted TRACKLIST:
Living Without A Care
Anything You Want Feat: Ty Dolla Sign, Jeremih & Wiz Khalifa
Old School Feat: Dej Loaf
Soon As I Get Home
Before I Do
Been A Minute Feat: August Alsina
Peace Sign Feat: Dave East
Fallen Feat: Ty Dolla Sign & Cam Wallace
Everything In Me
Sevyn Streeter & Luke James Cover “Nothing Even Matters”
Just in time for Valentine’s Day Sevyn Streeter gave her fans a gift to remember as she and Luke James dropped off their cover to Lauryn Hill & D’Angelo 1998 hit single “Nothing Even Matters.”
Sevyn Streeter Previews New Music During Girl Disrupted Tour
In support of her debut album, Sevyn Streeter’s Girl Disrupted tour made it’s stop in Philadelphia this past Saturday. Commanding the stage in a black hooded top, Sevyn kicked off her show with her Gucci Mane assisted single “Prolly.” The high energy didn’t stop there as Sevyn performed her Hit Boy produced single ‘Boomerang’ and ‘nEXt.’
As the show went on Sevyn explained that her fans have to wait just a while longer for the release of her Debut album “Girl Disrupted” saying “I think this album is just to special to release it without the proper promotion and awareness, so I decided to push my album back to the spring, but I promise it will come out in the spring.” As a treat for her fans Sevyn previewed August Alsina-assisted track “Been A Minute,” and the Ty Dolla $ign featured “Fallen. ”
Sevyn Streeter Keeps it Simple & Sexy For Her New Video “Before I Do”
This past weekend Sevyn Streeter debuted her new Aaliyah inspired single “Before I Do” which will appear on her highly anticipated debut album “Girl Disrupted.” Today as promised, Sevyn unleashed the official visual to her new song, which exclusively premiered on Essence today.
When speaking about the concept of the video, Sevyn told Essence, “The concept for the video was birthed from the simplicity of the song, I wanted it to be raw and vulnerable. It’s all about reflection. Being alone, in your home with your thoughts.” Check out the new video below as Sevyn sings about a potential romance.
New Music: Sevyn Streeter – Before I Do
Since this summer Sevyn Streeter has been gearing her fans up for the release of her debut album, Girl Disrupted, by releasing new songs such as her Gucci Mane-assisted song, “Prolly,” “My Love for You,” and “D4L.” As promised Sevyn is back with another track titled’ “Before I Do.”
“We should be together, Want to let go, but I don’t really know / I heard you got a girlfriend / Trying to go to another level with you.” Sings Sevyn in the 90’s R&B nostalgic song, channeling the smooth vibe of one of her favorite singers, Aaliyah. Along with a new album on the way, Sevyn will kick off her “Girl Disrupted Tour,” Jan. 12 in St. Louis. Check out the new track below.
Sevyn Streeter Announces Girl Disrupted Tour
Atlantic Records own Sevyn Streeter is heading back on tour! Just last night the singer/songwriter announced that she will be starting her new year off with her “Girl Disrupted Tour.” Which kicks off on January 12 in St. Louis, Missouri.
Making the announcement on Instagram Sevyn posted the official tour dates saying “Can’t wait to see all your faces, so happy to announce my ‘Girl Disrupted Tour’ coming in January!”
Can’t wait to see all your faces!! So happy to announce my Girl Disrupted Tour coming in January! Tickets on-sale Friday
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The 18 date tour is meant to build anticipation for Sevyn’s debut album Girl Disrupted, which is due January 27, 2017 Tickets for the show will go on sale Nov. 18. Check out the official tour dates below.
Jan. 12 – St. Louis, MO – TBD
Jan. 13 – Chicago, IL – The Promontory
Jan. 14 – Detroit, MI – TBD
Jan. 15 – Cleveland, OH – TBD
Jan. 18 – Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Soundstage
Jan. 19 – New York, NY – B.B. Kings Blue Club & Grill
Jan. 21 – Philadelphia, PA – The Foundry
Jan. 22 – Washington, DC – Howard Theatre
Jan. 24 – Atlanta, GA – TBD
Jan. 26 – Dallas, TX – The Cambridge Room at House of Blues
Jan. 28 – Houston, TX – The Bronze Peacock at House of Blues Houston
Jan. 29 – New Orleans, LA – House of Blues: New Orleans
Feb. 7 – Santa Ana, CA – Constellation Room
Feb. 8 – San Diego, CA – TBD
Feb. 9 – Oakland, CA – The New Parish
Feb. 10 – Santa Cruz, CA – TBD
Feb. 11 – Sacramento, CA – TBD
Feb. 12 – Los Angeles, CA – The Roxy Theatre
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New PoolPod at Ramsgate Leisure Centre Offers a dignified and accessible way for people to enter the swimming pool
Your Leisure senior managers, board members and community managers along with TDC Councillors and the Mayor of Ramsgate attended Ramsgate Leisure Centre on Tuesday 14 January to officially launch the centre's brand-new PoolPod.
Leader of the Council, Councillor Rick Everitt, Deputy Leader, Councillor Helen Whitehead and Mayor of Ramsgate, Councillor Raushan Ara along joined the team from Your Leisure to mark the occasion as PoolPod represents a significant progression in providing improved accessibility to swimming.
PoolPod is a submersible lift designed to provide dignified and independent access to the water for swimmers. Thanks to funding by the London Marathon Trust and Swim England, Ramsgate Leisure Centre aims to create an inclusive swimming environment for people with long-term health conditions, disabilities and rehabilitation needs.
Your Leisure was able to install the PoolPod thanks to a successful funding application to Swim England and The London Marathon Trust. Due to the organisation's registered society (under the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 with charitable status, Swim England and The London Marathon Trust approved the application making Ramsgate Leisure Centre one of only 20 pools in the country to provide PoolPod facilities to its members and customers.
Ian Barker, Your Leisure’s Community and Funding Manager, said: “we are so proud to have this amazing, free to use addition to our centre. We already have had significant interest from like-minded organisations who are keen to refer their clients into the centre to use the PoolPod and therefore improve their wellbeing through swimming.”
The PoolPod is free to use and open to anyone, for more information please contact Ramsgate Leisure Centre on 01843 585111, or click HERE to go to the Ramsgate Leisure Centre “swimming page,” or email ian.barker@yourleisure.uk.com for a free swimming voucher to try out the PoolPod.”
January 17, 2020 in Blog Post
Local Charities Benefit from Green Initiative
Margate Winter Gardens and Your Leisure are pleased to announce that following on from our decision to remove the regular Christmas crackers from 2019's Winter Wonderland nights - which contain non-recyclable plastic products - we have been able to start to make our donations to our chosen charities. Karen Kenward from Pilgrims Hospices popped in this week to collect their cheque.
Max Rennie, Bars and Services Manager, said: "It's a great feeling to be able to donate to good causes while you know you're having a positive impact on the environment. The feedback we received off the back of this decision was positive, our wonderful guests appreciated the need to think about waste and also how local businesses going green can help support local charities."
This donation was made possible due to the ethical decisions made prior to Christmas. Inspired by the successful launch of the single-use plastic elimination project at other Your Leisure operated facilities, the team at Margate Winter Gardens are on a mission to make their venue greener for the new decade; which started with the removal of “wasteful” Christmas crackers at this year’s Winter Wonderland festive banqueting nights. Instead, the money usually spent on crackers will be donated to local charities, spreading goodwill to local communities.
Each year it is estimated that Christmas crackers account for up to 154 million pieces of plastic that end up in UK landfills and potentially our oceans causing harm to British wildlife and ecosystems.
Lynne Boyd, Deputy Hospitality & Entertainment Manager at Margate Winter Gardens said: “One of the most wonderful things about the venue is the sweeping sea views. Looking out upon a Turner seascape every day, we wanted to make sure that as a coastal venue we are doing everything we can to protect our seas. This is the start of us phasing out all single-use plastic items, and products that contain single-use plastics which can end up in our waters. In 2020, we’re looking to invest in eco-friendly alternatives. Winter Wonderland is a fabulous run of dinners and welcomes thousands of guests but over previous years, our teams have thrown away far too much non-recyclable plastic from these wasteful crackers and it’s time and we’re looking at procuring genuinely environmentally friendly alternatives for the future.”
The money saved this year by not purchasing thousands of Christmas crackers is now being donated to local charities.
Throughout 2020, Your Leisure will be focusing on not only looking in at itself to improve its environmental footprint but also placing a focus on education. The Kent-based Leisure operator hopes to lead the way; educating staff and members of the local community on how to reduce their ecological footprint while enjoying life and having fun.
PoolPod Has Landed at Ramsgate Leisure Centre
Thanks to funding by the London Marathon Trust and Swim England, Ramsgate Leisure Centre aims to create an inclusive swimming environment for people with long-term health conditions, disabilities and rehabilitation needs.
PoolPod is a submersible lift designed to provide dignified and independent access to the water for swimmers.
PoolPod makes getting in and out of the pool safer, simpler, quicker and more dignified than using the steps. Many different people can use the PoolPod, including people living with disabilities, living with long term health conditions, reduced mobility, customers with children, pregnant women, not to mention the PoolPod is free to use.
Our fantastic team at Ramsgate are really excited to share this amazing opportunity with you and help even more people enjoy swimming and improve their wellbeing, who perhaps felt they couldn’t before.
“We know that people who benefit most from aquatic activity – including disabled people, people with long-term health conditions, older people, people with mobility issues and pregnant women – often face the biggest barriers to accessing a swimming pool. This exciting initiative is making swimming pools across the UK more accessible and ensuring a more inclusive customer experience for all.” - Sir Rodney Walker, Chair of The London Marathon Charitable Trust
January 7, 2020 in Blog Post
Fitness Journey for Brave Fundraiser
New Discovery Park Gym member, Melissa St George, will be taking a huge leap for charity on Saturday 9 May as she abseils down the side of Portsmouth’s Spinnaker Tower to raise money and awareness for SSAFA: The Armed Forces Charity.
Standing 557ft tall, Spinnaker Tower dominates the skyline of the Naval city. The tower is a popular destination for thrill-seekers looking for an adrenaline rush as they descend 100 metres down the side of the landmark. To prepare for the biggest challenge of her life, Melissa has set off on a 6-month mission to improve her physical fitness using the revolutionary BioCircuitTM at Discovery Park Gym.
Melissa St George said: “I wanted to make a difference and support the UK’s oldest tri-military charity, the work they do is truly inspiring, and I also wanted to challenge myself in the process. I knew the Spinnaker Tower abseil would push me to my limits, so I needed support to improve my strength and fitness and that’s why I joined Your Leisure’s Discovery Park Gym to use the new BioCircuitTM.”
BioCircuitTM prescribes a personalised 30-minute full-body workout programme designed for the individual, increasing in intensity as their fitness levels improve. Melissa continued, “I was not a gym user and would consider myself very unfit. What attracted me to BioCircuitTM was the personalised 30-minute workout programme that I could easily fit into my working day and, thankfully, start off gently to ease me into my training regime.”
Melissa’s abseil takes place during the ‘Spinnaker SuperCars in Aid of SSAFA’ event on Saturday 9 May. SSAFA exists to relieve need, suffering and distress amongst the Armed Forces, veterans and their families in order to support their independence and dignity. SSAFA offers a wide range of support, from helping elderly veterans with mobility scooters, to providing things like accessible bathrooms & kitchens if needed, mental wellbeing, even helping those in the armed forces to adopt children or arranging family holidays.
If you would like to sponsor Melissa and help support SSAFA, you can visit the Just Giving page using the link https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/spinnakersupercars and reference Melissa St George when prompted.
You’ll be able to follow Melissa’s story via the Discovery Park Gym Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/DiscoveryParkGym
‘Single-Use Plastic Elimination’ Project a Success
Inspired by the BBC’s Blue Planet 2, the Indoor Leisure Manager at Your Leisure, Gavid Vickers, set out on a mission to purge ‘single-use’ plastics from its centres, replacing the plastic items with compostable alternatives. Several months into the project, over 12,000 plastic straws have been eliminated from its catering operation in a bid to lessen its impact on the environment, and the company is well on its way to also removing over 100,000 other single-use pieces of plastic.
Gavid Vickers, Indoor Leisure Manager, who founded the project stated: “Blue Planet 2 was a catalyst for change. Following the airing of the Plastic Pollution episode, I set out to remove all single-use plastics from the leisure operation; with plastic straws being the first to be banned across the sites. As a business, we have a ‘do it now’ ethos, not waiting any longer to make the changes needed today.”
However, the anti-plastic project didn’t stop there. Gavid used the straws as an initial step to launch a company-wide environmental mission ‘to zero’ throughout its leisure operations.
Warren Reeves, Your Leisure Operations Manager, said, “After Gavid’s successful purge on plastic straws, it was important for the business to get behind his charge and assess its impact on the environment. Buoyed by the positive feedback from our members and local communities, Gavid is now leading the way and has expanded the scope of the project to remove a target of 100,000 items of single-use plastic products from the operation and replace them with sustainable and environmentally friendly alternatives. The company provides leisure services in multiple sea-side towns, so it’s vital we do our best to protect the coast for future generations and wildlife.”
Going forward, Your Leisure’s focus is not only looking in at itself to improve its environmental footprint but also placing a focus on education. The Kent-based Leisure operator hopes to lead the way; educating staff and members of the local community on how to reduce their ecological footprint while enjoying life and having fun.
A Win For Team DITC
Congratulations are in order! Deal Indoor Tennis Manager, Vanessa Webb, has been awarded 'Honorary County Colours' from the Kent Lawn Tennis Association at their AGM.
Vanessa received this accolade for her significant contribution to Kent Tennis since taking a seat on the Kent LTA council in 2003. Vanessa is nearing the end of her 4-year term as Kent Deputy and President. She will remain on the council and continue with her roles as EK Representative to EK Clubs as well as being the Mixed League Organiser for the Kent LTA Inter-Club League. She also sits on the communications board as the County Press Officer and is on the Awards Panel.
Margate Winter Gardens Dreaming of a Greener Christmas
The team at Margate Winter Gardens are on a mission to make their venue greener for the new decade; starting with the removal of “wasteful” Christmas crackers at this year’s Winter Wonderland nights.
The money saved this year by not purchasing Christmas crackers will instead be donated to two wonderful charities who support Thanet’s communities; Speak Up CIC and Pilgrims Hospices.
Lynne Boyd, Deputy Hospitality & Entertainments Manager at Margate Winter Gardens said: “One of the most wonderful things about the venue is the sweeping sea view. We wanted to make sure that as a coastal venue we are doing everything we can to protect our seas. This is the start of us phasing out all single-use plastic items, and products that contain single-use plastics which can end up in our waters. Winter Wonderland is a fabulous run of dinners but our teams have thrown away far too much non-recyclable plastic from these wasteful crackers and it’s time to make a change. We’re looking at procuring genuinely environmentally friendly alternatives for the future.”
December 18, 2019 in Blog Post
Primary School Children Experience the Fun of Panto
Thanks to a combined generous grant by KCC Thanet Councillors Barry Lewis (Margate Labour) & Karen Constantine (Ramsgate Labour), and subsidy by Your Leisure, over 200 primary school children who wouldn’t otherwise have had the opportunity, came to the Theatre Royal this week to see this year’s Panto 'Aladdin'.
Lucky children from Dame Janet Primary Academy & St Anthony’s School saw the show in the last days of the school term & like the 2000 other schoolchildren who are coming to see “Aladdin” this year, they cheered, booed, sang along & had the most wonderful time!
Pam Hardiman, Programme Manager said “This year’s panto is our biggest & best ever! We’re delighted to be working again with the Wicked Productions team, who have pulled out all the stops to bring another top-quality traditional pantomime to our beautiful theatre. The performers are all stars of course, but I’d like to give credit to all the backstage heroes & front of house volunteers who have worked tirelessly throughout the Christmas season. To bring children to see the show, who wouldn’t otherwise have managed it, is the cherry on the cake for us all.”
Pic: KCC Cllr Barry Lewis & 'Aladdin' cast
Total Gym Re-fit for Hartsdown Leisure Centre
Yes, it’s open and your feedback about our fresh look gym equipment has been fabulous.
You are telling us you are delighted with all our wonderful brand-new Technogym work out equipment.
With 20 new Group Cycles and equipment to strengthen and work every muscle in your body, there is no longer any excuse not to get in shape at Hartsdown Leisure Centre.
Our new equipment is ideal of all user levels and includes a comprehensive range of cardio and strength equipment covering upper, lower and total body routines, ensuring exceptional training comfort along the way.
And if you are not sure how to operate our new training aids, our friendly and trained team are on hand to give advice and training tips too.
We are proud of our new gym and if you haven’t already taken a look, we hope you will be too.
Whatever your ability or previous experience, now is the time to visit our beautiful new gym and test it out for yourself. You will not be disappointed.
May 12, 2017 in Blog Post , Hartsdown , Home Page
Your Leisure Goes Social
We are loving talking to you guys!
It’s so great to hear all your fun news and your ideas. That’s why we’re so excited to have made it even easier for you to talk to us.
Social Media is AMAZING!
Social is where you make us blush with your lovely reviews and, sometimes, let us know where we fall short – Either way we love the feedback. It helps us help you ‘Enjoy Life and Have Fun’!
So, we’ve massively improved our focus on social media customer care. 🙌
Your Leisure has long recognised social media is how you want to talk to us, but until recently, because of technology restraints, all our customer service communication on line has been handled at our Head Office. We agree it has been far from satisfactory. There has been a massive need to empower all our centres with their own access to this ever more popular form of communication.
Whilst all older mediums of communication are still very relevant, so now, just as important is social media. So, over several months, a dedicated team has been experimenting with various platforms, testing their effectiveness for use in all our centres. The idea has been to give back control of customer service to each centre, so we can meet you, our customers, at the place of your choosing, be that on the phone, by letter, email or social media.
It’s taken time, but over the last few weeks we have been rolling out to the Leisure Centres a platform called Hootsuite.
Hootsuite makes it possible to monitor and be proactive with different social media platforms all in one place; for our purposes, we are concentrating on Facebook and Twitter.
Hootsuite has already been rolled out to Hartsdown, Tides and Dover and the feedback from customers and staff has been fantastic!
The benefits this brings are many. It means that each centre can now once again control their own customer enquiries from any medium a customer wishes to approach them. They can do it, using local knowledge and so deliver a positive solution to the customer. It’s a win win for everyone.
Over the next couple of weeks the Hootsuite roll out will be completed with the addition of Ramsgate Leisure Centre and our Theatre Box office going live on the system too.
Using Hootsuite is our latest step to improve on the delivery of our expectation to excel in customer care.
April 25, 2017 in Blog Post , Home Page , Leisure
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Holly Herndon : Shares New Song + Visual For 'Frontier'
Holly Herndon brings the full force of her vocal ensemble to the fore with new single ‘Frontier’ and accompanying visuals by Darío Alva. An interpretation of Appalachian Sacred Harp music, the song considers a ‘Frontier’ of green or of dust – the consequences of the choices we make as a society. ‘Frontier’ follows the euphoric ‘Eternal’ and skittering beatbox of ‘Godmother’ [featuring Jlin and Spawn], all taken from her third album, PROTO, out on 10 May.
Check out ‘Frontier’ here.
"I went to an international Sacred Harp Meetup in Berlin where I live, which was jointly led by Evelyn Saylor (an ensemble collaborator who helped to arrange ‘Frontier’ to more accurately reflect the tradition), and people gathered in a square to sing facing each other. When I stood in the middle the power of the voices brought me to tears. It was partly pure sonics and the beauty of the songs, but also the sight of witnessing people from all different backgrounds come together under such a simple and elegant premise. There were visitors from afar for whom the experience clearly had some deep religious significance. There were even more visitors clearly drawn to the event for other reasons, albeit the nature of the communion itself, or just to nerd out on the music. It felt like a rare union."
Holly’s third full-length album PROTO (out 10 May) isn’t about A.I., but much of it was created in collaboration with her own A.I. ‘baby’, Spawn. PROTO makes reference to what Holly refers to as the protocol era, where rapidly surfacing ideological battles over the future of A.I. protocols, centralised and decentralised internet protocols, and personal and political protocols compel us to ask ourselves who are we, what are we, what do we stand for, and what are we heading towards?
+ You can pre-order on black vinyl, extremely limited clear vinyl, and CD via 4AD here +
+ You can pre-save, and pre-order, on all platforms here +
Since her arrival in 2012, Holly has successfully mined the edges of electronic and Avant Garde pop and emerged with a dynamic and disruptive canon of her own, all while studying for her soon-to-be-completed PhD at Stanford University, researching machine learning and music. Her LP Platform closed out 2015 by gracing year-end lists from Pitchfork,The Guardian, NME, and The Wire. In the aftermath, Radiohead hand-picked her to open up their European tour.
A hybrid of studio project and touring band, Herndon’s live show will incorporate an expanded vocal ensemble and a newly developed A/V experience.
16th - Red Bull Music Festival, New York, NY [TICKETS]
18th - Teragram Ballroom, Los Angeles CA, US [TICKETS]
20th - August Hall, San Francisco CA, US [TICKETS]
22nd - Thalia Hall, Chicago IL, US [TICKETS]
12th - Kammerspiele, Munich, Germany
14th - Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany
19th - Sonar By Day - SonarHall, Barcelona, Spain [TICKETS]
20th - Manchester International Festival, Manchester, UK [TICKETS]
16th - The Barbican, London, UK
“ PROTO is as avant-garde as we’ve come to expect from Herndon’s wild and mighty brain, tempered by plenty of beauty and harmony.” – DJ Mag - Album of the Month
“The future of A.I..” – CNN
“Herndon’s machine-R&B masterpiece is a total sensory assault..” – The Guardian on ‘Eternal’
“Multilayered, glitchy beatboxing, human input dispensed with inhuman timing.” – NY Times on ‘Godmother’
Release ‘Hairpin Turns’ From Forthcoming Album.
New U.S. Girls Album 'Heavy Light' In March, 'Overtime' Out Now, New Tour Dates
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Apple Computer Built In 1970s Sold For $375,000 At Auction
Posted 7:13 am, September 27, 2018, by 5NEWS Web Staff
An Apple-1 computer, built in 1976, similar to this one displayed during the First Bytes: Iconic Technology From the Twentieth Century, sold recently at an auction for $375,000. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
BOSTON (AP) — A computer built in the 1970s that helped launch the personal computer age — as well as a trillion-dollar company — has sold for $375,000.
The fully functioning Apple-1 auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction was sold at a live sale Tuesday.
RR says the winning bid came from a U.S.-based businessman who wishes to remain anonymous.
The computer is one of 60 or so remaining of the original 200 designed and built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976 and 1977, and one of 16 that still works.
It sold back then for less than $700. The original owner offered to sell it to Wozniak in 1982 for $10,000, an offer that went unanswered.
Cupertino, California-based Apple recently became the world’s first publicly traded company to be valued at $1 trillion.
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Kurt Cobain’s Famous Sweater, Still Unwashed, And Other Rare Rock Memorabilia Go Up For Auction
Netflix Teams Up With Nickelodeon To Take On Disney Plus
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Tag Archives: Eliminate America
Paul Revere’s Daily News Brief – 4.16-17.2014
Which path do you choose: One of violence or one of peace with God
http://www.glennbeck.com/2014/04/15/which-path-do-you-choose-one-of-violence-or-one-of-peace-with-god/
“Inciting violence doesn’t solve anything”: Glenn Beck denounces violence in response to Nevada ranch conflict
http://www.glennbeck.com/2014/04/14/inciting-violence-doesnt-solve-anything-glenn-denounces-violence-in-response-to-nevada-ranch-conflict/
‘I’m Planting My Flag’: Glenn Beck Doubles Down on His Message to Those Calling for Violence
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/15/if-you-find-yourself-believing-this-glenn-beck-wants-you-to-unfriend-him/
Glenn Beck Moves Into Movie Production
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/glenn-beck-moves-movie-production-696274
I’ll bet the Government Propaganda Ministry, I mean the Main Stream Media won’t tell you about this !!!
EDWARD LUCAS: I hope I’m wrong but historians may look back and say this was the start of World War III
‘Vladimir Putin is striking at the heart of the West’
‘We can chose to surrender any responsibility we have to protect Ukraine and the Baltic states’
‘Or we can mount a last-ditch attempt to deter Russia from furthering its imperial ambitions’
‘If we choose to resist Putin, we will risk a terrifying miltary escalation’
‘I do not think it an exaggeration to say this could bring us to the brink of nuclear war‘
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2605578/Edward-Lucas-I-hope-Im-wrong-historians-look-say-start-World-War-III.html
Putin Marches Towards World War III?
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/04/16/putin_marches_towards_world_war_iii
“The times, they are a-changin'” – BUT NOT VERY MUCH !
Now Vlad Putin = Adolph Hitler and
John Kerry = Neville Chamberlain
Yup. “Peace in our time” – R-I-G-H-T . . . !
” The reason Chamberlain’s “peace in our time” is remembered is not that his theory of international relations was wrong but because he was hopelessly, dangerously naïve about Hitler’s intentions.
Russia’s propaganda worse now than at height of Cold War
http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2014/04/16/expert-russias-propaganda-worse-now-than-at-height-of-cold-war/
Heavy Gunfire Heard at Airport in Ukraine as Government Sends in Troops to Retake Control From Pro-Russia Militiamen
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/15/heavy-gunfire-heard-at-airport-in-ukraine-as-government-sends-in-troops-to-retake-control-from-pro-russia-militiamen/
Citing Russian Moves, NATO Plans New Deployments
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/17/world/europe/nato-ukraine.html?hp&_r=0
Pro-Russia separatists take armor, humiliating Ukraine forces
http://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-tightens-grip-eastern-town-talks-073939979.html
Al Qaeda’s ‘Brazen’ and ‘Dangerous’ Meeting Where Militants Expressed Desire to ‘Eliminate’ America
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/16/al-qaedas-brazen-and-dangerous-meeting-where-mililtants-expressed-desire-to-eliminate-america/
NY Arab Advocacy Group Funding Linked to Qatar
http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/ny-arab-advocacy-group-funding-linked-qatar
But NYPD can’t investigate MUSLIM TERRORISTS !!!
NYPD Disbands Muslim Surveillance Program
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/04/15/NYPD-Disbands-Muslim-Surveillance-Program
De Blasio Surrenders New York to the Jihad
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/04/16/De-Blasio-Surrenders-New-York-to-the-Jihad
NO PRAYER IN SCHOOLS? NO MENTION OF CHRISTIANITY IN SCHOOLS? SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE? BUT THIS……
Obama Administration Announces Nationwide Muslim Outreach Program For Children Grades K-12
American children gathered around a Muslim learning about the Qur’an for school credit.
Washington, DC – At a press conference Friday afternoon, President Obama announced plans for the first ever federally funded Muslim outreach program.
The program will be available nationwide for all elementary school students grade K-12 beginning February 1st, 2014 .
The program is designed to educate children about the fundamentals of the Muslim religion and Islamic belief. President Obama spoke with reporters to explain why it is so important that these outreach programs exist. “The Muslim community deserves our full understanding and respect,” Obama said.
“We have killed millions of Muslims overseas since the September 11th attacks. These folks are not all bad. In fact, most of them are hardworking citizens just like you and me. I encourage every student in America to participate in your school’s Muslim outreach program. Learn about the Muslim community, the beauty of the Sunnah and the magic of the Qur’an.” 35-year-old Paul Horner, a teacher at Starks Elementary School in Louisiana, told MSNBChe is excited about the new programs. “I think anything a child can learn is good. We need more learning in this country. And, these classes are not mandatory but children can use them as extra credit towards other classes.
For example, if Becky has a D+ in math she can simply take a three week after school class on the Qur’an and now Sally has an A in Math. How great is that?”
The Muslim youth outreach program is designed to help young people from different cultures work together to break down ethnic barriers. Their goal is to help promote a greater respect for other cultures, understanding while at the same time learning about all that culture has to offer.
Khaled Matei, who is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, told CNNhe is pleased with Obama and his actions. “I spoke with President Obama by telephone yesterday and personally thanked him for what he is doing for the Muslim community,” Matei said. “This is definitely a step in the right direction I explained to him. Praise Allah.” If any parents of students would like to volunteer to teach the Muslim religion you can call the United States Muslim Outreach hotline at (785) 273-0325 .
Do we do this for other cultures and religions? NO
Do we federally fund religious for other religions? NO
TELL ME THE FOX IS NOT IN THE HEN HOUSE….. OR THE WHITE HOUSE!!!
Rubio: Terrorists Training In Syria Could ‘Soon’ Attack US
http://houston.cbslocal.com/2014/04/15/rubio-terrorists-training-in-syria-may-strike-us/
Immigration activists urge Obama to act boldly
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_IMMIGRATION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-04-15-15-56-30
NY Times Editor: Obama Administration ‘Most Secretive White House’ in Recent Years
http://blog.heritage.org/2014/04/14/ny-times-editor-obama-administration-secretive-white-house-recent-years/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_content=DD140415&utm_campaign=dailydigest
Major Changes to U.S. Census Will Make It Nearly Impossible to Track How Obamacare Is Doing
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/15/major-changes-to-u-s-census-will-make-it-nearly-impossible-to-track-how-obamacare-is-doing/
The Legal Challenge to Obamacare You Probably Haven’t Heard of (And Why It Matters)
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/15/the-legal-challenge-to-obamacare-you-probably-havent-heard-of-and-why-it-matters/
Regime Fakes Obamacare Census Data
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/04/16/regime_fakes_obamacare_census_data
86M Full-Time Private-Sector Workers Sustain 148M Benefit Takers
http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/terence-p-jeffrey/86m-full-time-private-sector-workers-sustain-148m-benefit-takers
Obama, Michigan in talks to free up $100M to BAIL OUT Detroit pension deal
http://www.freep.com/article/20140415/NEWS/304150147/Obama-Michigan-talks-free-up-100M-aid-Detroit-pension-deal
New Emails Show Lois Lerner Was in Contact With DOJ About Prosecuting Tax Exempt Groups
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/04/16/breaking-new-emails-show-lois-lerner-contacted-doj-about-prosecuting-tax-exempt-groups-n1825292
Lerner Wanted DOJ to Prosecute Tea Party
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/04/16/lerner_wanted_doj_to_prosecute_tea_party
Don Rumsfeld’s Letter to the IRS
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/04/16/don_rumsfeld_s_letter_to_the_irs
Texas Congressman Wants to Take Away Eric Holder’s Salary
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/04/16/Texas-Congressman-Wants-to-Take-Away-Eric-Holder-s-Salary
American Oil Reserves Now Top Saudi Arabia
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/04/16/American-Oil-Reserves-Now-Top-Saudi-Arabia
D R I L L, B A B Y, D R I L L ! ! !
Recovering America’s Exceptionalism
http://townhall.com/columnists/drbencarson/2014/04/16/recovering-americas-exceptionalism-n1825245
WATCH Michael Farris in the Definitive Convention of States Debate
http://conventionofstates.com/watch-michael-farris-in-the-definitive-convention-of-states-debate/
Is Obama signing a secret spy plane deal with Russia?
Read more at http://allenbwest.com/2014/04/obama-signing-secret-spy-plane-deal-russia/#0sW2IL404DrHP5aP.99
FBI Visiting Gun Shops to Investigate “People Talking About Big Government”
http://www.infowars.com/report-fbi-visiting-gun-shops-to-investigate-people-talking-about-big-government/
Real-time ‘Google Maps’ for Police Monitor Every Street in California Test Project
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/15/real-time-google-maps-for-police-monitor-every-street-in-california-test-project/
The USPS wants to mine and sell data gathered from your mail
http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/16/the-usps-wants-to-mine-and-sell-data-gathered-from-your-mail/#ixzz2z5q8RrJQ
Here’s What Defiant New York Gun Owners Decided to Do on the Day of State’s Gun Registration Deadline
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/15/time-is-up-for-new-york-gun-owners-to-register-their-so-called-assault-weapons-see-what-some-chose-to-do-instead/
Principal: L.I. High School Students Suspended Indefinitely For Displaying Confederate Flag
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/04/15/l-i-high-school-students-suspended-for-displaying-confederate-flag/
How about a little “EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE LAW” ? When do you suppose we will see students suspended for wearing Che Guevara, Fidel Castro and Mexican flag T-shirts? Can you say, “When Hell freezes over” ???
Here’s Why Author Brad Thor Is Fleeing Chicago — and Where He’s Going
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/14/heres-why-author-brad-thor-is-fleeing-chicago-and-where-hes-going/
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” – George Orwell
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Amputee Male Model – Jack Eyers
Last month I was commissioned by Barcroft Media to photograph and direct a piece about 26-year-old, Amputee Male Model – Jack Eyers from Bournemouth. Jack is also a personal trainer and ambassador for the charity, Models Of Diversity. Growing up Jack was diagnosed with proximal femoral focal deficiency (PFFD), a congenital condition which meant his right leg did not develop as it should. At the age of 16, Jack elected to have his leg amputated, a decision that has changed his life and enabled him to develop his career in personal training and modelling. Since then, Jack was part of the opening ceremony at the 2012 Paralympics, featured on the cover of Men’s Health, walked at fashion weeks in New York, Milan, Russia and only last week added London to the list.
We shot the main interview at Jacks home along with some stills before heading to the gym for Jack to have a training session. On the way, we stopped at Boscombe beach to shoot some B-Roll which was great considering it was the nicest day of the year so far. The great thing about Jack is his endless positivity and enthusiasm coupled with such a grounded nature which renders his ‘disability’ invisible. We talked a lot about the terminology around his amputation, words like handicapped, phrases like able-bodied; they really are poor descriptors when it comes to Jack and others like him who have adapted their lives and overcome the limitations a prosthetic could present. Jack is fitter and more ‘able’ than most people and so it is high time for an industry that is preoccupied with stereotypes and artificial beauty standards to diversify and be more inclusive.
Spending the day shooting with Jack was a huge inspiration. His appetite for life, fitness and using his place in fashion to show others who may feel sidelined or singled out for any reason that they can pursue exciting careers was truly humbling. 2017 is a big year for Jack, determined to sign a contract with a modelling agency and take steps toward opening the fashion industries eyes to the opportunities of using models from a wider spectrum of body types.
To read the full story about Jack then head to www.barcroft.tv.
By Adam Prosser
Filed under Commercial, Inspiration, Interviews, Location, Photography, Video.
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Athena, CEO and founder of BlissQuest Publishing, Author of “Pillars of Dawn”
by Kelli Richards | Dec 5, 2016 | Athena, Entertainment, Radio | 0 comments
Athena is the CEO and founder of BlissQuest Publishing, an online publishing house concept which when funded will be the first publishing house in the world to offer healthcare and retirement planning to artists and writers, as well as 50-50 royalty splits. Her first novel, a fantasy called “Murder of Crows,” was published in 2012 as the first installment in a trilogy called “Pillars of Dawn, which follows heroine Fable Montgomery on a treacherous, magical journey through the mythical land of Aria.
The second installment, called “Sinnet of Dragons” is currently under production. Athena lives on the rugged Oregon coast, where her passions include travel, photography, scrapbooking, scotch and storytelling…preferably all with chocolate.ones.
03:04 why “spice and chaos” is important to Athena
06:25 what is bliss quest publishing and what can readers expect?
08:50 what is fair trade publishing?
12:50 the corporate side of Athena’s work
18:30 what’s so special about Fable Montgomery?
19:20 what would happen if the Muse of Story dies?
20:25 what Athena would say to someone who said “but i’m not a good storyteller”
21:26 why story is both art and science
23:47 sneak peek at Athena’s next book, “Sinnet of Dragons”
25:25 what’s next for Athena’s creative work
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chris M asked in SportsHockey · 1 decade ago
will hockey ever be as popular as football/baseball?
i hope so cause whenever i try do talk about it at school people think i'm retarded cause nobody else likes hockey. they say they think it's boring but most of them have never seen a game cause it has the physicalness of football and finesse.also i know physicalness probably isnt a word.
^^Never heard of fantasy hockey.
No it wont be as popular as baseball or football because as you mention your classmates say its boring.When you think of hockey boring isn't a term I think of..Most people I'd ask would say baseball or golf is boring.ALOT of people can't skate so its easy for them to say hockey stinks.
Physicalness is a great word but I think you mean physicality?
Leafsfan29-Embrace the drought!
In America, this won't happen. As to American football's popularity, three things in its favor that hockey doesn't have on the same scale:
1) Huge gambling potential
2) Fantasy sports
3) Massive stoppages in play which make for great "social" events
Plus, you have the stigma of hockey being a "foreign" game. Pointing out that baseball and football are derivatives of cricket and soccer/rugby help not a jot.
Stick to what you like.
auntie gladys
In Canada I hear it's practically a national obsession - at any rate, there was plenty of hockey on TV when we visited, at all kinds of times.
In the USA, probably not, for all kinds of reasons. For one thing, not everyone can skate or get access to learn, so you won't get so many little kids developing those early skills, as you do in ball sports. For another thing, I think the commercial sponsorship will never be there - although you get TV timeouts in hockey, I just don't think it takes long enough to play the game (cause they get on with it!) for major advertisers to be interested, so they won't push it so hard. I'm kind of saddened that soccer has the same problem - no timeouts at all, so there will never be any commercial interest, yet I think it's a better game than your football.
Honestly I feel that hockey being more popular in the USA would be both a blessing and a curse. I would love to 'talk hockey' to more of my friends, most of whom think I've gone a little crazy. On the other hand, 'ice girls' and other circus nonsense would only be the start of it - and I'd rather watch hockey than that kind of rubbish. There would probably be some silly rule changes, too.
It is! Football is just more popular in america, but if more than half the countries in the world doesnt even know what american football is, and most of the other countries laugh at america for playing such a talentless sport. As far a america, i dont think so, sadly. Americans like high scoring, simple games. Hockey and Soccer are both difficult to understand because it takes a lot of work to get the goal, a lot of passing and technical stuff, in which football and baseball are pretty straight forward
In Canada, Russia, Sweden, Finland and some other countries they play hockey a great deal.They dont play football or baseball that much becouse they think those sports are boring.
PuckDat
Depends on where. In Canada, Russia, Sweden, Finland and some other countries they play hockey a great deal and not the other sports not so much. The football in those countries is actually soccer.
In the US it won't happen unless there's an ice age soon. Now if the NHL owners could just gather that wee tidbit up into their brains and stop putting teams in the deep south the NHL would be much better off.
trombass08
Hockey will probably not be as popular as football or baseball in the US but I think it will surpass both in other places, if it hasn't already.
Europeans will never like anything American. They think that everything about America sucks because they're jealous. I can't stand Europeans. EDIT: Noah D, no, we don't like soccer. Soccer is the least popular major sport in the country, and it's less popular in the US than just about any other country.
probably not, mostly becuae people wont give hockey a chance. The best way to get people to be hockey fans is to get them to come to games becuase hockey is best watched and expeirenced live. I have brought friends to games and they became fans after the game, I even got em to buy an ovechkin shirt.
NB Josh
In the United States, no. In a lot of other countries its more popular than one or both of the other sports you mentioned.
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The Sea of Grass (1947)
Cast: Edgar Buchanan, Harry Carey, Ruth Nelson, Wm. "bill" Phillips, Robert Armstrong, James Bell, Robert Barrat, Charles Trowbridge, Russell Hicks, Trevor Bardette, Morris Ankrum, Dan White, Glenn Strange, Douglas Fowley, Guy Wilkerson, Buddy Roosevelt, Earle Hodgins, Hank Worden, Dorothy Vaughan, Marietta Canty, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Phyllis Thaxter, Robert Walker, Melvyn Douglas
Director: Elia Kazan
Synopsis: Lutie Cameron (Katharine Hepburn) arrives in New Mexico, having married cattleman James Brewton (Spencer Tracy) after a short courtship. She finds that her husband is considered a tyrant by locals for jealously guarding his million acres of land, the "Sea of Grass," against homesteaders. Lutie is unfaithful to him with his enemy, liberal lawyer Brice Chamberlain (Melvyn Douglas), and conceives a son. When James finds out, he orders her to leave -- without her two children.
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AfraRaymond in CL Financial Bailout March 13, 2010 September 15, 2012 1,815 Words
CL Financial Shareholders’ Agreement
FOR YOUR INFORMATION: A copy of the official agreement between C.L. Financial Limited and the Government of Trinidad and Tobago has finally been delivered to me per my request under the Freedom of Information Act. This CL Financial Shareholders’ Agreement (SA) of 12th June 2009 which I requested on 16th November 2009 under the Freedom of Information Act was sent to me by the Ministry of Finance on 11th March 2010 and my emailed response to the Minister of Finance is on the home page of this blog.
My preliminary comments are –
Quantum – The SA is silent as to quantum, which would seem to mean that the group will enjoy unlimited access to taxpayers’ funds. The 2010 budget statement on 7th September states an estimated allocation to the CL Financial bailout of $5.4Bn – but subsequent events have only added to the confusion. To wit, the $50M USD for the British-American Insurance recovery (as per 2nd November ECCU press release) and the ‘up to $510M’ announced to be available to meet the pensions due to ex-Caroni workers. Question being whether the $5.4Bn includes the subsequently-announced amounts or are those to be added-on?
Security–At the preamble to the SA – on page 5 – we are told that “…valuable consideration…” is being offered by CLF as per the original MoU. Of course, given the Governor’s revelations on 7th April 2009 – see http://guardian.co.tt/business/business/2009/04/08/govt-left-empty-handed-cl-financial-bailout – that is simply not so. Indeed, it seems clear that the cupboard is bare and that this CLF group has no unpledged assets of any value.
Interest–No mention of interest at all. We are therefore now advancing an unlimited quantum of taxpayers’ funds, for which no security has been provided and those funds are being advanced at ZERO interest. Given the well-established rule that late payment of taxes makes a taxpayer liable to 20% interest and the interest rate the Federal government charged AIG for their bailout funds – it was 8.5% above the benchmark LIBOR, which was at 3.0% – it is clear that this represents a massive concession to the CL Financial group. Quite apart from the bailout itself, the 325 shareholders of this group are also benefiting from this unprecedented and unexplained facility of ZERO percent interest rate.
Accounting–Section 4 of the SA sets out the procedure for a proper system of accounts, culminating at 4.4.5 – “…shall ensure that an annual report of CLF is prepared and dispatched…in manner consistent with standard corporate practice…” The accepted interpretation of this language informs us that the word ‘shall’ denotes an obligatory, non-voluntary duty. If that is the case, when can we expect publication of the 2008 annual report, accompanied by audited accounts, as per ‘standard corporate practice’?
The role of the Shareholders–The MoU of 30th January, at Para (c) of its preamble, spells out its aims as “…to protect the interests of depositors, policyholders and creditors of these institutions…” According to the second sentence of the Ministry of Finance press release of 12th June 2009 – this is the penultimate document in the ‘Quick-Guide’ in the CL Financial bailout section of this website – “This new agreement is designed to give substance to the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) of January 30th 2009.” The SA of 12th June 2009 was the subject of that press release. The SA, at Para A. of its preamble, states the intentions of the parties as having been set out in the MoU of 30th January 2009 and ends by “…their stated understanding, inter alia, that certain steps be taken to correct the financial condition of CLICO, CIB and BA in order to protect the interest of depositors, policy holders, creditors and shareholders of these institutions…” (These two words are put in bold as my own emphasis). I questioned that official version in ‘Fit and proper?’, ‘Party of parties’ and ‘Figuring it out’ – all available on this blog. Now that we have the actual SA to work with, it is clear that the statement in 12th June press release is extremely misleading. The SA does not just ‘…give substance to…’ the original MoU, it in fact is an entirely different species of agreement. The SA constitutes a written guarantee to protect the 325 shareholders of this CLF group.
Assisting the incoming Management–Clauses 2.3.3 and 2.3.4. of the SA, require the outgoing CL Financial chiefs to render all assistance to the incoming Board and Management in terms of all records and accounts etc. The question here is ‘Have the new Board and management been receiving the full assistance of the previous CLF chiefs?’ If not, what is being done about it? If yes, where is the $5.0Bn missing from the CLICO Statutory Fund?
Analysing the lacunae–The events in the interregnum and their consequence are extremely important aspects of this matter. I say so because the intervening period – i.e. between 30th January and 12 June 2009 – was one in which several important and shocking facts came to light. Some of these were –
Payment of Dividends – $3.00 per share paid on 16th January – i.e. three days after Duprey wrote to the Central Bank Governor for urgent financial assistance.
Over-pledging of assets – As cited above, the Central Bank Governor revealed that CL Financial’s assets were all fully pledged.
$5.0Bn is missing from CLICO’s Statutory Fund – According to the newly-appointed CEO of CLICO, Claude Musaib-Ali (he has since resigned, effective 14th February 2010) the CLICO Statutory Fund had $5.0Bn missing – see http://guardian.co.tt/news/general/2009/03/01/where-money-gone.
Attempted sale of assets as per CLICO Energy – Also, CL Financial attempted to sell its shares in CLICO Energy, which was in breach of the terms of the MoU. At clause H. and 6.1, the outgoing CL Financial Directors agree to use their best endeavours to reverse the sale of those shares.
With the exception of the last item, none of these other three serious matters are addressed at all in the SA. Silence on the payment of dividends. Over-pledged assets are described as being ‘valuable consideration‘. Silence on the missing $5.0Bn from CLICO’s Statutory Fund.
Those four events, having been revealed in the gap between the MoU and the SA, should have informed the stances taken by the parties. To my mind, these actions by CL Financial are indicative of insincere behaviour intended to outwit and cheat the taxpayer. The Ministry of Finance press release describes the SA as ‘…giving substance to…‘. Nothing could be further from the truth, since the SA in fact creates new levels of entitlements and protections for the CL Financial shareholders.
As taxpayers, we ought to have been able to rely on the State negotiators to propose terms which would have extinguished the equity of the CL Financial owners and taken other steps to restore the correct position. Instead, the SA has not sought to address their assaults on good faith and ‘fit and proper’ behaviour. We have now been bound into a long-term arrangement to restore the fortunes of one of the Caribbean’s riskiest adventurers.
Readers, please take note. In terms of its size, timing and terms, this CL Financial bailout is a grievous attack on the very integrity of our Treasury.
SIDEBAR: Heads we lose, tails they win…
The EQUITY position
In a situation like this, where a company is effectively both illiquid and insolvent, the incoming investor/lender has enhanced rights. Effectively, such a company is dead – just like someone whose heart has stopped beating – and any assistance or lending is usually on very onerous terms. The only exception would be in the case of related-parties who are able to agree special terms which no one else could accept.
That seems to have been the case here, since we had the CL Financial group out of cash, with its assets fully pledged, but yet able to get the full financial assistance of the State, without being forced to relinquish the rights of its shareholders.
One is reminded of the telling statement by the Governor at the press conference to announce the bailout on 30th January 2009, as to the fact that one of the main reasons for the collapse of the CL Financial group was ‘…excessive related-party transactions…’. It seems to me that this is exactly what we, the entire nation of Trinidad & Tobago, have now entered into.
The capacity to learn from the past is one of the main signs of maturation, but we are not displaying those qualities here at all, at all.
We do not seem to have learned from the central lesson of that tragic collapse.
The PUBLIC position
Another troubling aspect of this SA is that it does not properly allocate risk and reward between the parties. Again, readers are asked to remember that the mis-matching of risk and reward was also one of the elements which brought down the CL Financial group.
First example, let us use an Optimistic Modelin which the State intervention in CL Financial is successful. That would look like this –
All policyholders’ and depositors’ claims are satisfied;
All asset values are restored;
Republic Bank Limited and Barbados National Bank continue to thrive as leading banks in their sectors;
CLICO, British-American etc are restored as dynamic companies with healthy market share;
Angostura, Methanol Holdings, Home Construction Ltd and the other non-financial parts of the CL Financial group are also restored to health;
Overall, the CL Financial group returns to profitability.
If that happened, the State investment in CL Financial would have been beneficial to the 325 shareholders, but all the State would be entitled to receive, for having risked its own capital, would be a repayment of those sums, with no interest.
In this situation, the SA has allocated to the State all the risk, a massive injection of capital, responsibility for management, yet even in the case of a successful outcome there is no return either by way of interest on the funds advanced or equity in the rejuvenated enterprises.
Second example, let us use a Pessimistic Modelin which the State intervention in CL Financial fails. That would look like this –
Many policyholders’ and depositors’ claims are frustrated;
Assets are sold by mortgagees and decline in value;
Republic Bank Limited and Barbados National Bank are disposed of to meet the demands of creditors;
CLICO, British-American etc fail to regain their place in the markets;
Angostura, Methanol Holdings, Home Construction Ltd and the other non-financial parts of the CL Financial group are adversely affected by the group’s troubles and also decline or are disposed of;
Overall, the CL Financial group is slowly broken up.
If that happened, the State investment in CL Financial would have been a loss for the taxpayer, since it would be impossible to recover our funds.
In this situation, the SA has allocated to the State all the risk, a massive injection of capital and responsibility for management. The only thing the State has to look forward to here is the blame and the losses.
Heads we lose, tails they win…
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michael montrichard says:
Maybe the provision for interest is in the origional MOU which is a part of the shareholders’ agreement.
AfraRaymond says:
Thanks for your comments, Michael –
The 30th January 2009 MoU did not mention interest on the funds advanced at all. This is is an unsecured, unlimited advance of taxpayers’ funds at ZERO percent interest, with the shareholders enjoying a written promise of protection. Even for this place, that is a first.
As I said – ‘Heads, we lose and Tails, they win…
St George's Dragon says:
The reference to valuable consideration is merely a legal term which is making sure that the document is binding as a contract between the parties. You will see it in most contracts, in some form or another.
Hello to you St. George’s Dragon – whoever you really are,
I do appreciate that the phrase is a ‘stock’ one with that meaning, but that is the very point, since, according to the Governor of the Central Bank of Trinidad & Tobago, CL Financial had NO valuable consideration. That lack of consideration is far more than a terminological nicety, since it meant that CLF were simply unable to enter into a binding contract – legally and financially they had lost the means to do real deals.
That is at the root of my outrage, because the Shareholders’ Agreement uses that phrase, after it was revealed that the CLF cupboard was bare, to create an odious obligation on our State.
That is why I emphasized it as a serious defect in the agreement.
I am looking forward to your open participation in this important discussion.
Gregory Cuke says:
Hello Afra: Do you know which partner at PWC signed off on the accounts for 2007? Has this partner been quizzed or had any comment at all on this subject?
Hello Gregory,
No, I have no idea which PWC partner signed off on that CL Financial 2007 audit. No comment or response from the firm thus far and I am not holding my breath at all.
There is a comprehensive and malodorous ‘Code of Silence’ in effect here, to the detriment of the wider society.
I will continue this work as long as my resources will allow.
Thanks for your questions and please join into the discussion again
You should take a look at one of my previous articles – ‘Finding the Assets’ – to see what is the apparent gap here.
Paulie C says:
Dear Afra,
As a CLF shareholder, it has been interesting to read your analysis and interpretation of the ongoing debacle. Sadly, the more one asks, the more questions arise.
The matter of CLICO’s statutory fund deficit is not new. It has existed since 1994, a fact that all commentators have overlooked. How did they get away with it for so long? Was in really because “proper” regulatory legislation did not exist? Did the Central Bank and the Supervisor of Insurance do their jobs? Did the substantial donations to the PNM and UNC have anything to do with the CLICO being given a free pass? The same situation seems to have existed in the other territories where CLICO and BA operated.
You made reference to the initial MoU between CLF and the GORTT and you are correct, it is essentially worthless, hence the rush for the 2nd agreement to give substance to it. But who was the facilitator in obtaining the MoU? How did the supposedly intelligent people at the CBTT get hoodwinked into signing off on what was literally a blank cheque to CLF with no assets or guarantees to show for it? Lawrence Duprey made a great show of praising the Minister of Finance, the CBTT and Supervisor of Insurance who all smiled and lapped up the praise. Not a single person there had any clue as to what they were doing. Talk about “madoff” with the money! Thankfully somebody took the time to check the supposed assets.
Keep digging Afra, but be warned, the stench will only get worse and you already know, nobody will ever be called to account for what went on. And we expect foreigners to send their money to Trinidad’s IFC to be managed and safeguarded. What a joke.
Hello Paulie,
Thanks for your comments and here is my first question –
CLF wrote to the Central Bank for urgent financial assistance on 13th January 2009, paid dividends of $3.00 per share on the 16th and then there was the ‘bailout’ Press Conference on the 30th – In between all of those vital points and literally amidst ‘the change’, CLF held its AGM at Trinidad Hilton on 23rd January. We were told that Michael Carballo deputised for an absent Lawrence Duprey on that occasion.
Question – Given the group’s impending collapse and the payment of dividends only 7 days before, what was the mood/sentiment/outlook taken at that meeting by the CLF Board? Did Carballo simply read Duprey’s very ‘Brave Dange’ statements in the 2007 Annual Report? Did shareholders know about the situation?
I look forward to your reply.
Hello Afra,
Firstly a correction to my earlier post, CLICO’s statutory fund was in deficit since 1992 and not 1994 as previously stated.
I attended the CLF AGM at the Hilton and as I recall, none of the “big boys” including Lawrence Duprey attended. We were told that Lawrence was travelling on important business. The feeling was that, although the dividend has been cut from $5 to $3 per share and that the group as a whole was feeling the effects of the global downturn, it was able to weather the passing storm and that the effect on the bottom line when the upturn began would be significant. None of us had any knowledge of the true state of affairs and none of the directors present indicated that anything was wrong. Mr. Carballo, in response to a shareholder’s query as to how he could extract value from his shareholding (apparently you could use the shares as collateral with CIB for loans) remarked that although he owned no CLF shares, he was interested in obtaining some.
That is just fascinating…I don’t think you could make this stuff up, even if you were high or you were to really, really try.
From what you are saying, there are 2 likely possibilities, either of them being unappealing in the extreme – firstly, the CLF Directors knew full well the true, dire position of the group and set about to give a false impression to the assembled shareholders or secondly, that they were themselves unaware of the ‘Duprey letter’ and therefore ‘set up’ to perform as they did.
Of course, it is also clear that the ‘Code of Silence’ extends to that AGM, since its timing and reporting significance make it a critical element in the debacle. I wonder if anyone/CLF filmed or recorded the proceedings? Were there cameras and so on there?
Have you any views on those possibilities? Is there a likely option I missed?
Hi Afra,
To quote Warren Buffet, “you only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out”.
As I recall, the people on the podium were Michael Carballo, Gita Sakal, Clinton Rambersingh, Bhoe Tewarie and Roger Duprey. The AGM’s used to be filmed but I cannot remember if the last one was. Of those people, I suspect that at least Carballo and Sakal must have known what was going on. Remember, CLF had directors and executive directors. How much the others knew is open to speculation.
CLICO was the cash cow with a large, constant cash inflow every month that was milked to pay for everything else. Questions must be asked of the auditors PWC, the CBTT and SoI since nobody who should have been aware of the problems, realised anything was wrong until the tower of Babel started to fall in on their heads.
The company that used to film the AGM’s was Video Associates but I don’t know if they did the last one.
Afra,
As usual…thanks for doing the homework for us – the man in the street.
I particularly appreciated the clarity received from your commentary in the sidebar, ‘Heads you win, tails they lose.’
I guess you can say that we…’caught between the devil and the deep blue sea!’
What a ting !!!!
MMLadyH says:
I read these comments with alacrity and amusement/bemusement.
I see Trinidad’s central problem, front and center here: we disbelieve what we seein clear as day, in bright sun. And come up with all kinds of rationale to help and support our disbelief. Fuss we disbelieve; things can’t be as bad as that; we cannot be taken in front, left, right, back and center. You can’t sodomize a rape victim. Oh yes, you can. The Rape was CL Financial’s operations. The Sodomy is the Government’s “takeover”
In other words, we are trying to make sense when there is none, but for the dregs that are left after the tide is gone: dealmakers, topline shareholders, treasury and pawns. The citizens are the pawns. The Exec Directors and topline shareholders (government and opposition cabal), who are also the dealmakers…are sitting around the Treasury deciding what else we go take.
CL Financial was the biggest sousou I have ever seen or heard of in my life (and my career was in Africa), and the people at the bottom thought they were really in for a penny, to get their pounds. American youths used to say “Psyche” when something expected was pulled away.
The government’s support of CL Financial happened ONLY (I think) because the whole Caribbean would have fallen in a financial crisis, like dominoes–the one they said was not affecting us here…and they would have had such s*&& on their faces on the world stage..that is what I see.
Duprey is a Criminal which no one has yet to say in public; and all were in league with him…all the people the auditors, Central Bank; between gross and incomplete incompetence (Peter Principle) and interest to gain for being at the top and at the table, is what is the source and reason for this mess.
Feel I am not expressing myself adequately
Afra thanks for this, but my sense of things are played out by all you discovered in the shareholder agreement and your approach by item:
Why and What sensible fidicuary would give unstated quantum?
What oversight would put citizens at such risk, twice if not thrice (first by being CL payors, then by its demise, and third by ensuring to prop up their failure)?
How no security?
How no interest as if that money is “theirs”?
The long reel of misinformation, who knows what, when?
These kinds of arrangements only happen in select frameworks: mafia, of one kind or another…
Afra constantly references the taxpayer and all seem not to want to read the writing on the paper—they do not figure.
this is the case, from beginning to end, with Maybe, shifting seats and decision makers, from beginning to end, was a Bag. Marbles played between boys. The largest sousou made to sustain their feeding.
I get a picture in mind of the poor citizens in the Nigerian Oil Delta who try to catch the remnants of oil leaking in their decimated lands for use in their hovels and end up getting blasted to bits or killed…that is citizens around CL Financial trying to see what dregs are left when in all actuality there are none. Refer to Pessimistic Model Above, which was always the Operation Manual.
What we have not remembered is (this sousou) was stalled by the world economic financial crisis —Duprey and his merry gang could not get more takers (loans) to keep building the pyramid. Poor people do this by getting one credit card to buy out the other.
I need an editor, but try and see if you can see my sense for the over-writing.
Afra, I have sent this out. It does need to be made public far and wide, for those who did not read the signs before, one more drop of information to ignore, in disbelief.
thoughts apart from a PhD/Economics
evan lobo says:
as i have always maintained – they use the cover of friends and associates to do everything wrong – and as always said – quote – no one in trinidad ever gets locked up – remember the past – international trust – trade confirmers – after a lull and all the great meetings and deliberations – another phoenix will rise from the ashes to take investors $$
pwc just like ey in the enron affair will be never even held accountable
why were none of the big boys at shareholders meeting
they knew what was going on but as usual have someone like mike carballo do the dirty work – he was being paid enough
until we say enough is enough
it will continue in the future
where is anthony fifi of hcl and 1 woodbrook place in all of this
smiling all the way to the bank
long live the clubhouse and pnm
It’s really sad that this institution has been mismanged to such an extent.
This whole debacle occurred with some of our so-called sharpest entrepreneurs. I still laugh at going out and some of the Clico/ CL people wanting to buy out the place and saying we will make you millions if we invest with them.
The whole group seems to have been mismanaged or managed like a rum shop with the average man on the street investing due to Fifi’s/Duprey/John’s stature or salesman look (nice cars/money etc)
Is the PWC team liable/culpable in any way? These same professionals that speak about wrongdoing and corruption seem to have added to the incompetence in some way. The saying don’t throw stones if you live in a glass house.
I don’t believe it is really a political issue but a Trini issue manifested in our view of ‘so called successful people’.
Should we not be looking to divest the whole group?
When will we start prosecuting or laying criminal charges?
Will PWC be held accountable to name a few organisations?
Does the Gov’t have the right team in place to ensure that a balanced outcome is acheived.
tamana says:
The fact is… when people die… in a corporate world.
No one pays
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/pottersbar
And the fact is…
http://www.iadb.org/projects/project.cfm?id=TT-M1019&lang=en
More people will die…
But so long as we die quietly…
It doesn’t matter.
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Turkey’s Erdoğan stresses unity despite rumoured breakaways in ruling party
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Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, called on the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to act in unity despite those attempting to leave the party in his Eid al Adha celebration message, reported daily Cumhuriyet on Monday.
Two different initiatives led by former AKP luminaries have been planning to establish breakaway parties. Former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said on Friday that work for a new party had begun. Former Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan is also leading another initiative with former senior names from the AKP who embrace a more liberal approach compared to Davutoğlu.
“There may be leavers, there may be those attempting other things, there may be those running different campaigns. But remember, holidays are a time for us to be together, united, in solidarity at the topmost level. We will not let them divide our fraternity,” said Erdoğan in his message.
Erdoğan also said that the AKP would be strengthened by general congresses ahead at the national, provincial, and district level.
A source close to both breakaway initiatives told Ahval in early August that that each had claimed a 5 percent to 10 percent share of voter support in recent opinion polls.
Another source who is close to Davutoğlu but remains a member of the AKP still said the ruling party had decided to make wholesale changes to personnel in its provincial chapters after facing major blows in local polls on March 31, but had delayed enacting the changes to prevent ousted members joining new political parties that could be established.
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Ralph Schraivogel was born in 1960 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He studied graphic design at the Schule für Gestaltung Zürich from 1977 to 1982. After receiving his diploma, he opened his own graphic design studio in Zurich. He designs print media and devotes himself above all to poster design.
Ten years after graduating, Schraivogel returned to the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich as a lecturer, where he continued to teach until 2001. During 2000-2001 he was a guest professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. Since 2003 he teaches at the Luzern University of Applied Sciences and Arts.
One-man shows in many locations including Tokyo, Osaka, Tehran, Paris, and Zurich, have helped make his poster work known to a wider public. His posters are part of numerous collections around the world including the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Poster Collection 09 / Ralph Schraivogel
Lars Müller Publishers
ggg Books-93 / Ralph Schraivogel
ginza graphic gallery Tokyo
DNP Art Communications Co.Ltd
IDBN 978-4-88752-318-0
Posters / Ralph Schraivogel
National Museum Poznan
Atelier Schraivogel
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Ash monofill facility standards.
(1) Applicability. This section applies to owners and operators of facilities that monofill special incinerator ash, except as WAC 173-306-400 provides otherwise.
(2) Minimum standards for performance.
(a) Groundwater. Monofill owners or operators may not contaminate underlying groundwater beyond the point of compliance. Contamination and point of compliance are defined in WAC 173-306-100.
(b) Soil. Soils at the property boundary may not exceed the following limits for cadmium due to the facility operations based upon annual samples:
(i) The annual increase in cadmium loading in the upper six inches of soil with a pH equal to or greater than 6.5 may not exceed 0.5 kilograms per hectacre annually or a total accumulation of 20 kilograms per hectacre; and
(ii) The annual increase in cadmium loading in the upper six inches of soil with a pH less than 6.5 may not exceed a total accumulation of 5.0 kilograms per hectacre.
(c) Air quality. Monofill owners or operators may not cause a violation of an emission standard from any emission of particulates, dusts or gases associated with the operation and/or closure/post-closure of the landfill nor any ambient air quality standard at the property boundary including the following ambient lead standard:
The level of lead and its compounds measured as elemental lead in suspended particulate matter measured during a twenty-four hour sample taken at the downwind facility boundary may not exceed 1.5 micrograms per cubic meter of air due to the facility's operation or the latest national ambient air quality standards. The sampling frequency will be monthly unless otherwise approved by the department.
(d) Surface waters. Monofill owners or operators may not cause a violation of any receiving water quality standard or violate chapter 90.48 RCW from discharges of surface runoff, leachate, or any other liquid associated with a monofill.
(3) Siting standards. Monofill owners or operators receiving special incinerator ash shall comply with incinerator ash siting standards of WAC 173-306-350(2).
(4) Minimum design standards.
(a) Minimizing liquids. Monofill owners or operators shall minimize liquids admitted to active areas by:
(i) Covering according to subsection (5)(e) of this section.
(ii) Disposing of no ash containing free liquids unless approved by the department;
(iii) Designing, constructing, and maintaining runoff controls to restrict the chance of a runoff event from releasing contaminated runoff waters to an annual probability of one percent or less (one hundred-year event or greater). In meeting this requirement the following items are to be considered:
(A) The design of the containment structures should be selected based on the ability of the facility to store, test, and/or treat the runoff during a twenty-four hour or longer storm event.
(B) The design assumes that the storm event occurs during the final year of the active life of the monofill or at a time when the facility is most vulnerable to a storm that could produce the release of contaminated waters. The method of placement of the ash should be considered when determining the volume available for storage of runoff.
(C) A minimum of one foot of freeboard (measured from the invert of the emergency spillway) should be maintained following the occurrence of the design storm.
(D) An emergency spillway is to be constructed for the containment structure to provide controlled release of excess runoff waters in the case where the design storm is exceeded.
(iv) Design, construct, and maintain diversion channels, channel containment berms, culverts, pipes, and other drainage control features to pass and/or store run-on to restrict the chance of failure of the drainage control features to an annual probability of one percent or less (one hundred-year event or greater). In meeting this requirement the following items are to be considered:
(A) For those cases where the run-on waters are to be stored and/or treated, selection of the storm design should be based on the appropriate procedures governing runoff controls.
(B) For those cases where the run-on waters are to be diverted around the facility, the drainage control features should be sized to pass the run-on peak discharge (design flood) of a magnitude that has an annual exceedance probability of one percent or less (one hundred-year flood peak discharge or greater).
(C) Sufficient erosion protection and freeboard (one foot minimum) are to be provided for all drainage control features to preclude failure of those features during passage of the design flood.
(v) Submit engineering plans and specifications for any containment barrier equalling or exceeding as storage capacity of ten acre-feet to the department's dam safety section for review under RCW 90.03.350.
(b) Leachate systems. Monofill owners or operators shall:
(i) Install a department-approved leachate collection system sized according to water balance calculations or using other accepted engineering methods;
(ii) Install a leachate collection system to prevent no more than one foot of leachate developing at the topographical low point of the active area; and
(iii) Install a leachate treatment system to meet requirements of WAC 173-306-200 (3)(c)(ii)(B) through (E).
(c) Liner and final cap design. Ash monofill owners or operators shall comply with the requirements of WAC 173-306-450.
(d) Liner construction and inspection. Ash monofill owners or operators shall:
(i) Comply with the requirements of WAC 173-306-450.
(ii) Employ an independent third party as defined in WAC 173-306-100 to inspect the liners during construction and installation for uniformity, damage and imperfections (e.g., holes, cracks, thin spots, foreign materials) and quality of construction; and immediately after construction and installations to inspect:
(A) Synthetic liners and covers for tight seams and joints and the absence of tears, punctures or blisters; and
(B) Soil-based and admixed liners and covers for imperfections (e.g., lenses, cracks, channels, root holes) or structural nonuniformities that may affect liner permeability.
(e) Filling requirements for ash cells. Monofill owners or operators shall design and fill ash monofills in phases or cells, as defined in WAC 173-306-100. Only one cell may be open and in use at one time; each cell must be graded and covered with a flexible high density polyethylene liner or other material of equivalent mechanical strength and chemical resistance during the interim period before reaching final elevation. The liner must be 60 mils and have the ability to withstand weather conditions. The owner or operator shall provide, as part of the interim cover, a method of detecting and/or monitoring/inspecting the integrity and any possible failure of the interim cover.
(f) Fugitive dust controls. Monofill owners and operators shall:
(i) Employ tire washing for all ash-carrying vehicles as they leave the site or any equivalent method to prevent the trackout of ash onto the site and the public right of way. Contaminated wash-waters must be disposed of according to WAC 173-306-200 (3)(c);
(ii) Orient the major axis of the active area of the monofill with respect to the prevailing wind directions so as to minimize the effect of wind upon dispersion of special incinerator ash unless engineering designs can provide equivalent protection; and
(iii) Provide for paved approach and exit roads outside the active area with traffic separation and traffic control on-site and at the site entrance.
(g) Other design requirements. Monofill owners and operators shall:
(i) Post signs at each entrance to the active portion and at other locations, in sufficient numbers to be seen from any approach to the active portion. Signs must bear the legend "Danger - unauthorized personnel keep out" or an equivalent legend, and must be legible from a distance of twenty-five feet;
(ii) Have either:
(A) A twenty-four-hour surveillance system which continuously monitors and controls entry onto the active portion of the facility; or
(B) An artificial or natural barrier; or
(C) A combination of both, which completely surrounds the active portion of the facility, with a means to control access through gates or other entrances to the active portion of the facility at all times.
(iii) Provide for monitoring according to WAC 173-306-500 using a design approved by the department;
(iv) Weigh all incoming ash on scales or provide an equivalent method of measuring ash tonnage;
(v) Provide for employee facilities including shelter, toilets, handwashing facilities, and potable drinking water;
(vi) Provide for unloading areas to be as small as possible, consistent with traffic patterns and safe operation; and
(vii) Provide communication (such as telephones) between employees working at the monofill and on-site or offsite management offices to handle emergencies.
(5) Standards for operation and maintenance. All owners and operators shall:
(a) Prohibit the co-disposal of any other solid or hazardous waste in a special incinerator ash landfill;
(b) Comply with the requirements of the general operation standards, WAC 173-306-405;
(c) Control fugitive dust by wetting, by the use of dust suppressing substances, covering, compacting, or otherwise managing the active area of the monofill to control wind dispersal and prevent visible emissions of windblown dust. Road dust on unpaved roads must also be similarly controlled.
(d) Clearly mark the active area boundaries authorized in the permit, with permanent posts or using an equivalent method clearly visible for inspection purposes.
(e) Compact and cover ash daily before adding successive layers according to the requirements of WAC 173-306-450.
(f) Maintain the monitoring systems required in subsection (4)(g)(iii) of this section;
(g) Inspect the monofill weekly while it is in operation and after major storms to detect evidence of any of the following:
(i) Deterioration, malfunctions, or improper operation of run-on and runoff control systems and interim cover;
(ii) The presence of liquids in leak detection systems, where installed, to comply with subsection (4)(b) of this section. The department must be notified of any leaks into the leak detection system within seven days after detecting the leak and immediately remove any accumulated liquid. Notification shall include a schedule for determining the cause of the leak and any remedial measures or increased groundwater monitoring to assure that the performance standards of subsection (2)(a) of this section are met;
(iii) The presence of leachate in, and proper functioning of, leachate collection and removal systems; and
(iv) Proper functioning of engineered wind dispersal control systems.
(h) Record the inspections in the log as required in WAC 173-306-405(6).
(6) Closure and post-closure requirements.
(a) At final closure of the monofill or upon closure of any cell, the owner or operator shall cover the monofill or cell with a final cover designed and constructed according to subsection (4)(d) of this section and shall comply with all closure requirements of WAC 173-306-410;
(b) After final closure, the owner or operator must comply with all post-closure requirements of WAC 173-306-410, and must:
(i) Maintain the integrity and effectiveness of the final cover, including making repairs to the cap as necessary to correct the effects of settling, subsidence, erosion, or other events;
(ii) Prevent run-on and runoff from eroding or otherwise damaging the final cover;
(iii) Maintain and monitor the leak detection system in accordance with subsection (4)(b) of this section, where such a system is present; the owner or operator shall immediately remove any accumulated liquid and notify the department of any leaks into the leak detection system within seven days after detecting the leak. Notification shall include a schedule for determining the cause of the leak and any remedial measures or increased groundwater monitoring to assure that the performance standards of subsection (2)(a) of this section are met;
(iv) Operate the leachate collection and removal system; and
(v) Maintain and operate the monitoring systems of WAC 173-306-500.
[Statutory Authority: Chapter 70.138 RCW. WSR 00-19-018 (Order 00-17), § 173-306-440, filed 9/8/00, effective 10/9/00; WSR 90-10-047, § 173-306-440, filed 4/30/90, effective 5/31/90.]
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Arquivo diário: junho 16, 2017
por antoniodavirolanddebrito
Just Real Estate launches luxury lifestyle hub ‘View Bchamoun’
Just Real Estate officials and guests taking a look at the ‘View Bchamoun’ model
Just Real Estate (JRE), the leading property service provider in Qatar, has further expanded its diverse portfolio with the launch of unique investment opportunities in ‘View Bchamoun’. The brand-new development in Lebanon was launched in the presence of Lebanon’s Ambassador to Qatar, Hassan Najm , at the Just Real Estate Sales Center in Al Shoumoukh Tower.
The luxury residential and lifestyle destination project is located 200 meters above sea level in the district of Alley on Mountain Lebanon.
“It is an honor for Just Real Estate to now be able to offer our clients and potential clients this unique opportunity in an established international real estate market in such an iconic location, not too far from our doorstep. This partnership with ‘View Bchamoun’ is just another example of how our reputation continues to grow overseas,” said JRE Chairman, Engineer Nasser Al-Ansari.
“ ‘View Bchamoun’ gives buyers the chance to own a home in a holistic residential community that puts the focus on their wellbeing and it also provides great potential for investors as this new development will be extremely popular, I’m sure.”
Designers and developers of ‘View Bchamoun’ have taken the lush green mountain surrounds as inspiration and created a holistic residential hub, with a focus on wellbeing of residents. The complex comprises 144 apartments, with options from 2-4 bedrooms, distributed across 9, sophisticated buildings.
In addition to the luxury apartments, all designed and finished to the highest standards,’ View Bchamoun’ offers residents an extensive range of facilities and amenities. The complex includes indoor and outdoor swimming pools, a high-tech gym, football courts, a full-size basketball court, a tennis court, dedicated children’s playground, BBQ area and lush gardens and walkways.
‘View Bchamoun’ also offers commercial investment opportunities with a 21-unit retail complex, providing residents with the ultimate lifestyle destination. Its vantage point on Mount Lebanon makes for stunning vistas across downtown Beirut and out to sea, complemented by the mountain scenery that surrounds the complex.
The project’s location services residents with the best of a both worlds, the tranquil setting to enjoy life away from the hustle and bustle, but just 15 minutes’ drive from the center of one of the Middle East’s most iconic cities, and easy access to Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport and the city’s exhaustive list of attractions and activities.
After the event, in which guests were able to a more in-depth insight into ‘View Bchamoun’ project, JRE hosted members of the media for Suhoor at the La Cigale Hotel.
Source : thepeninsulaqatar.com
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Over 70% of QIC business comes from global operations
Khalifa Abdulla Turki Al Subaey
With over two-third of Qatar Insurance Group’s business now contributed by its international operations, the Group noted that it has successfully achieved its strategic objective of “diversity and geographic expansion”.
The statement came from the Qatar Insurance Company (QIC) Board of Directors’ meeting (fourth meeting in 2017) held on Tuesday evening, which was presided over by Sheikh Khalid bin Mohammed bin Ali Al Thani, the Chairman and Managing Director of the Group.
During the meeting the board discussed the all the points on the agenda of the meeting, including a report on the performance of the company and the results of its activities during the period from January to May 2017.
Khalifa Abdulla Turki Al Subaey, Group President & CEO, QIC Group, said that the report showed that Qatar Insurance Group continued to successfully pursue its strategic objective of diversity and geographic expansion, such that over 70 percent of its business today comes from the Group’s international franchise. This diversification of business has been achieved through the group’s subsidiary, Qatar Reinsurance Company Ltd (Qatar Re) which is based in Bermuda and licensed by the Bermudian Monetary Authority.
Qatar Re has expanded its business globally and has established its offices in the major global reinsurance hubs such as Singapore, Zurich and a representative office in London.
Qatar Reinsurance Company was ranked among the top 35 global non-life reinsurers according to the credit rating agency (A M Best).
Qatar Re and Antares lead the group’s international business. The group also succeeded in diversifying its business through its Lloyds operations, Antares, which is located in one of the world’s most important insurance markets. The syndicate underwrites specialised insurance risks, contributing to the diversity of the group’s business, both geographically and through products. In 2016 the company joined the Lloyd’s China platform in Shanghai, China.
The group also managed to expand its direct insurance activity in the continent of Europe through its subsidiary Qatar Europe Limited (QEL) which is located and registered in Malta.
“The strength of the Group’s financial position enables us to serve our global clients, despite the difficult economic and political environment,” said Al Subaey. He also said that the strength of the group’s financial position has enabled it to serve its clients globally. The financial strength of the Group has contributed to maintaining its credit rating from S&P “A” Stable and “A” Excellent from A M Best.
He stressed that the continued growth of the group’s business globally reflected its utmost commitment for creating Shareholders’ value and reflecting our dedication towards implementing the group’s strategic plan successfully in a difficult economic and political environment.
The board was informed about the procedures of adjusting the nominal value of the company’s share from QR10 per share to become QR1 per share. The board approved the initiation of such procedures on the meeting held on April 25, 2017, in order to execute the decision taken by the Extraordinary General Meeting which was held on February 21, 2017. The Board was informed about the full notification of Qatar Central Bank, Qatar Financial Markets Authority, Qatar Stock Exchange and Qatar Central Securities Depository of the board’s decision in this regard, to determine their requirements.
ECB switches 500 million euros’ worth of US dollar reserves to Chinese RMB
By Hu Ximeng (People’s Daily Online) 16:32, June 14, 2017
European Central Bank (file photo)
The European Central Bank (ECB) confirmed on June 13 that it has for the first time changed 500 million euros from U.S. dollar reserves to the Chinese RMB, according to the Financial Times. The move is said to reflect the increased use of the Chinese currency and Beijing’s importance as one of the largest trading partners of European nations.
Last year, the RMB was included in the International Monetary Fund’s elite basket of currencies and gained its “special drawing rights.” The ECB’s recent reserve conversion marks another milestone in the RMB’s internationalization.
ECB holds foreign exchange reserves in US dollars, Japanese yen, SDR and gold.
Source : People’s Daily Online
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China’s youth aware of negative impact of social media: Report
By Zhang Huan (People’s Daily Online) 16:33, June 14, 2017
Nearly 40 percent of China’s young people born after 1990 have turned off notifications from social media apps due to the perceived negative impact of social media, according to the recently released Kantar China Social Media Impact Report, Beijing Evening News reported.
The report shows that social media, and especially WeChat, has become more and more popular in the past year among people over the age of 40, while the WeChat use of the “post-90s” generation has slightly decreased, from 94.1 percent to 86.6 percent.
Most of those surveyed for the report mentioned that positive impacts of social media include socializing with acquaintances and taking in more information. However, respondents also noted that social media has caused them to read fewer books, suffer from worse eyesight, sleep less and maintain less privacy, among other concerns.
As a result, 39 percent of the post-90s generation tries to avoid the negative effects of mobile phone use through measures like turning off app notifications, intentionally limiting the frequency of social media interactions and staying away from social media entirely in certain situations.
SDF capture former IS member known as Jihadi Jack
(SyriaNews.media) The Syrian Democratic Forces captured the Briton known as Jihadi Jack, who joined the Islamic State in Syria in 2014, Qasioun News reported on Wednesday.
The 21-year-old Jack Letts (Known as Jihadi Jack) is currently imprisoned by Kurdish forces, however, he claimed abandoning the Islamic State group and its ideology.
Jihadi Jack also claimed that he was deceived by the Islamic State, but he quit after witnessing the group killing their own supporters, while said that the terrorist group jailed him three times and threatened to kill him.
Letts converted to Islam while attending high school and travelled to Jordan in 2014, then moved to Syrian Raqqa in the same year.
He got married in Iraq, however, his wife and child are still in the Islamic State-held territory, while he revealed that he went to Raqqa to recover after being wounded in an explosion.
According to Daily Star, Jack said he linked with a people-smuggler who helped get him out of the Islamic State-controlled territory before being captured by the Kurds.
Noteworthy, in a news report published last year by “The Independent”, Letts has dismissed reports that he is a member of the Islamic State and accused the media of demonizing young Britons who convert to Islam and publishing lies about him because of his Islamic faith.
“It’s sort of awkward when the media thinks your ISIS and your not. Thinks you have a son and you dont. Thinks your married when your not,” he wrote.
Source : SyriaNews.media
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Assad officially includes foreign militias in regime forces
Damascus (SyriaNews.media) The Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued a decree to include the pro-Syrian government forces foreign militias in the Syrian Ministry of Defense, as a recognized military formation.
Qasioun News Agency reported that President Bashar al-Assad issued a decree to include Iranian, Lebanese and Iraqi militias that support the Syrian regime forces as a recognized military formation.
According to the decree, Iranian militias have been considered, since the issuance of this decree, as military forces belonging to the Syrian army and under its command.
The decree added that the Syrian regime will take care of the needs of families of the militias, who lost a fighter, and therefore this will be a step toward the naturalization of the militias’ families supporting the regime forces.
It is noteworthy, since the beginning of the crisis in Syria, the Syrian regime, Russia and Iran have been working to change Syria’s demography by displacing its indigenous people and bringing in sectarian militias instead.
Uzbekistan toughens punishment for abetting people to suicide
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) — On 13 June, President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a law “On introduction of amendments and additions, as well as abolishment of some legislative acts of Uzbekistan”.
The law was passed by the Legislative Chamber on 25 May 2017 and approved by the Senate on 27 May 2017.
The law amends the Criminal Code. Amendments tightened punishment for abbeting to suicide and imposed sanctions for inciting to suicide.
According to the amendments, abetting to suicide or attempting to commit suicide by threats, cruel treatment or systematic humiliation of the person’s honor and dignity is punishable by imprisonment from 3 to 7 years.
The same actions committed against a person who was in material or other dependence on the perpetrator; in respect of a minor or a woman known to the perpetrator to be in a state of pregnancy; by prior agreement, a group of persons; with the use of telecommunications networks, as well as the Internet, punishable by imprisonment from 7 to 10 years.
The document noted that incitement to suicide, that is, the initiation by another person of the determination to commit suicide by persuasion, deceit or by means of a way, if a person has committed suicide or attempted to commit him, is punishable by restriction of freedom from two to five years or imprisonment up to five years.
The same actions committed against a minor or a woman, known to the perpetrator in a state of pregnancy; by prior agreement, a group of persons; with the use of telecommunications networks, as well as the Internet is punishable by imprisonment from five to seven years.
Source : UzDaily
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Morning Report: 2014-04-25
Uganda: Persecution of gays intensifies. 'The law prescribes life imprisonment for some homosexual acts and also criminalises the "promotion of homosexuality", among other measures.' Activist Sandra Ntebi tells more, at the link.
Indonesia: Drunk passenger triggers hijack alert. 'A Virgin Australia Airlines official said there had not been an attempt to hijack the aircraft but a "flight emergency" when a 28-year-old male passenger banged on the door of the cockpit trying to get in an hour before it was due to land.' Australian Matt Christopher Lockley is in custody.
Mali: French hostage Leal reported killed by al-Qaeda affiliate MUJAO. 'A Portuguese-born French national, Leal was kidnapped in November 2012 from a Malian town near the Mauritanian border. At the time, it was not clear which group had physically taken him, although the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) claimed responsibility.' Full details at the link.
Apr 25, 2014 5:40:56 AM | Africa, Al-Qaeda, Lesbian & Gay
Lesbians Come Out of the Republican Closet
Sarah Wheaton at NYT:
In 1996, Kathryn Lehman was a soon-to-be married lawyer working for Republicans in the House of Representatives. One of her major accomplishments: helping to write the law that bans federal recognition of same-sex marriages.
Today, Ms. Lehman, 53, no longer has a husband, and no longer identifies as straight. And she is a lobbyist for Freedom to Marry, which is devoted to overturning the very law she helped write, the Defense of Marriage Act.
But Ms. Lehman is still a fervent Republican.
“I’m trying to break the stereotype that all gays and lesbians, especially lesbians, are Democrats,” she said. ...
From the comments:
As a conservative lesbian who spent many of my adult years as a Left-winger and registered Democrat, I don't exactly fit the profile presented here of the closeted life-long church-going Republican who figures out she's a lesbian later in her life.
I've been out since the age of 22 and have lived through those bad old days before homosexuals became the victim class du jour. Yet, as a white middle-class woman, I would never have the audacity to describe myself as 'oppressed'.
And calling the Republican party 'the oppressor', as one commenter did, and insisting that lesbians and gays place their sexual orientation first and foremost when it comes to the complex political issues of the day is to present us to the world as two dimensional people with absolutely no other concerns about our country and our culture.
I worked with a Tea Party organization as an out lesbian and never experienced any negativity around my sexual orientation. To the contrary---I was welcomed. Yet, on the liberal side of the fence, I have had to put up with confrontation, threats, and shunning for being an out lesbian conservative.
I host a little blog that attracts conservative lesbians and gay men as well as conservative straight men and women. Some of my biggest supporters have been straight conservative men. Quite frankly, I have found more acceptance and more open-minds on the conservative side than I have ever found on the Left.
Nov 26, 2012 9:47:05 PM | Lesbian & Gay, Republican Party
SF Gay Activist Larry Brinkin Arrested on Child Porn Concerns
Advocate: 'Longtime San Francisco gay rights activist Larry Brinkin has been arrested on suspicion of possessing child pornography, but he has yet to be formally charged. ... Police arrested Brinkin at his home Friday night. In their search warrant, police said pornographic images of very young children were embedded in messages from Brinkin’s email account, the Citizen reports. According to the paper, the search warrant also noted that some emails from his account included fantasy stories involving the rape and torture of African-American children and one contained the words “White Power! White Supremacy!” ...'
Breitbart: 'The search warrant is a comprehensive list of terribles: images of year-old infants subjected to sodomy and oral sex, and perverse racial comments (Brinkin’s email: “I loved especially the 2 year old n----- getting nailed. Hope you’ll continue so I can see what the little blond b---- is going to get. White Power! White Supremacy! White D--- Rules!”).'
Jun 27, 2012 2:29:09 PM | California, Crime and Punishment, Lesbian & Gay, San Francisco
G, L, B ... and what's the other thing?
Transsexual neocon Zoe at A. E. Brain clears up a few points:
1. First, we're all human beings. That needs saying because we too often lose sight of the fact that everyone, even those we don't identify with, even those we feel uncomfortable being around, have human rights. And I speak as a conservative neo-con, not a tree-hugging kumbayah-singing liberal.
2. Then some of us are GLBT - people who do not fit in in some way with the standard bigendered model, where men look and act in accordance with society's norm for men and are only attracted to women, and women look and act accordance with society's norm for women and are only attracted to men. About the only thing such people have in common with each other is that it's the same people who persecute them. Many in this conglomerate - that is, a matrix containing parts of very different nature - don't remotely understand each other, and there's both phobia - fear - and loathing even when they do understand.
There's Androphobic Lesbians who see men, even Gay men, as a threat, Gynaphobic Gays who see anything redolent of femininity as beneath contempt, Homophobic Transsexuals who resent being conflated with those they see as morally corrupt, you name it. And straight Intersexed people who don't see why having an unusual medical condition automatically drafts them into a political activist group made up of weirdoes like mentally ill Transsexuals, Fetishistic Crossdressers, and perverted GLBs.
3. The there are some who are T. This is where it really gets confusing. T for Transgender. And what that word means changes from day to day. ...
Go read it all.
Jan 25, 2008 5:42:20 AM | Gender, Lesbian & Gay
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Mary Cheney's Baby: Answering TNR
Glen Wishard at Little Green Colloquium lets loose with both barrels on The New Republic:
Dear TNR:
I did not know that Mary Cheney was going to have a baby. Still less did I know that this baby presented a personal problem for me – a conundrum, no less. In a time of war and momentous ideological struggle, thank you for taking a moment to warn me of this fresh unforeseen threat. Forgive me if my reaction seems ungrateful.
Mary Cheney’s baby is none of your damn business. Who the hell do you people think you are, the Gay Standards & Practices Committee? Why don’t you keep your sheet-sniffing ferret noses out of other peoples’ laundry?
However many things I have failed to decry in this life, and however profound my baby-induced existential crisis is, I must decline your offer to have Andrew Sullivan dissect me for nine bucks and some change. In fact, if Andrew is looking for something to do, why don’t you tell him to get his own head and ass wired back together into some kind of functional apparatus? If he did he might start making occasional sense again.
Feel free to contact me if you have anything to say that isn’t utterly moronic.
* stands on chair and cheers loudly *
Glen adds: 'It’s not the fact that the New Republic has decided to pester a baby that makes me mad, per se. It’s the fact that so many responsible liberals, for whom TNR once served as a flag ship, still insist on retreating into frivolities like this one.' Go read the rest of this magnificent post.
I wanted to write to TNR too when I saw that article. The thing is, it's not substantially different from every other sneering piece from the left-of-center press. These are the guys that will go and dig up some quote from some fringe-right-wing group and say "Look! See what a hard time those lesbian Republicans have!"
It's because the liberal Left needs Archie Bunker. They can't deal with a rational, moderate, center-to-right mainstream; so they drag up the boogeymen they know they can defeat. And they have to convince their liberal audience, and themselves, that those Archie Bunkers are the threat to America that only they - the liberal establishment - can defeat. What a transparent farce. What an insult.
As I observed earlier, most of the news coverage of the Cheney pregnancy has been gratuitously nasty. The only unequivocally positive statement I could find came from - you guessed it - President Bush. I quoted the media on the couple of issues - specifically the lesbian couple's legal standing in their home state of Virginia and Bush's previous comments on same-sex parenting - that were legitimate and directly relevant to the story.
As my regular readers know, and as you'll know from reading my earlier posts, I do not shy away from speaking up on gay domestic issues, and I don't hesitate to criticize social conservatives when I think it's appropriate. But I also understand that the conservative world is far richer and deeper than the liberal media's caricature would allow us to believe. And I don't need the intellectual pipsqueaks at The New Republic telling me what I'm supposed to think about this.
Because, with all due respect to the late Carroll O'Connor, Archie Bunker is dead.
Dec 24, 2006 10:14:45 AM | Lesbian & Gay, Liberalism, Media
Self-Hating Queers Defend Mideast Fascists
Jeremayakovka documents one of the worst cases of internalized homophobia in the queer community: the love affair with the anti-Israel, pro-jihadi cause.
For several years, the misfit outfits "Queers for Palestine" and "Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism" (QUIT) have militated for the destruction of Israel under the banner of agitating for Palestinian rights. They have done so since the 2000 resumption of the Arab war-by-Palestinian-proxy against the Jews (also known as "the al-Aqsa Intifada"), and maybe from before. If you live in the real world you probably have never heard of "Queers for Palestine" and "QUIT," but the sad fact is that they are a freak-show fixture of the lib/rad "scene" in and around the San Francisco intergalactic zip code and beyond.
"Queers for Palestine" and "QUIT" consistently:
* oppose Israeli anti-terrorist operations in the Palestinian territories;
* endorse divestment from the region's most thriving economy (and most thriving democracy); and, most notoriously . . .
* endorse the Arab demographic atom bomb aimed at the heart of Israeli civil society, the so-called "right of return" ...
Go to the link for the rest.
Jul 24, 2006 10:30:18 PM | Homophobia, Lesbian & Gay
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General (ASoIaF)
A Song of Ice and Fire: The Novels
Baelish's plan to the Throne
By nyser1, August 28, 2019 in General (ASoIaF)
nyser1
Given what has happened in the first five books, how could you realistically (realistic in a Westerosi Universe sense) see Baelish becoming King? Or does he simply want authority (and would be a willing Regent/Hand of a Harry/Robin & Sansa baby)?
Lord Varys
Most Devious 'Man' In The Seven Kingdoms
Location:Definitely somewhere in King's Landing
20 minutes ago, nyser1 said:
At this point he might plan to simply buy himself the crown with food - because if he continued to control the food of the Vale he certainly could make himself very popular with every single starving Westerosi in winter.
Aside from that, he doesn't seem to have a plan for the Iron Throne with Harry and Sansa - but once he learns about Aegon he could try to marry Sansa to Aegon, wait until she has born an heir, and then kill Aegon to rule as regent alongside in the name of her child. Once he has married the dowager queen (like Rogar Baratheon did during the minority of Jaehaerys I) he could make plans to claim the Iron Throne for himself.
Free Northman Reborn
By orchestrating Sansa’s path to Queenship through marriage, secretly fathering a child on her and passing it off as the King’s child. Then offing the King and being the hidden power behind his son’s Throne.
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Sellsword
Sansa doesn't have a pathway to the throne. Sansa and Harry could become lord and lady of the vale. He could influence them to back him for the throne. Maybe he thinks Braavos might side with him. That would not be enough ordinarily but the recent war tooks its toll on everyone.
Megorova
Location:King's Landing
I think that in the past Littlefinger was one of Varys' agents, so he knew about fAegon years ago. Also I think that LF is a dragonseed, and Aegon IV's descendant, thru Aegon's daughter-mistress, Jeyne Lothston, and Jeyne's son, the Bastard of Harrenhal (who was defeated in a melee by Ser Arlan of Pennytree). I think that that Bastard was either first Lord Whent of Harrenhal, or he was the father of first Lord Whent (he was grandfather of Lady Shella Whent, and great great-grandfather of Littlefinger. So, LF and Catelyn Tully are something like third cousins).
After Daeron II Targaryen, Aegon's next son is Balerion Otherys, then Daemon Blackfyre, then Bittersteel (who possibly died childless), then Bloodraven (who supposedly had no children, and went missing beyond The Wall), then next is son of Jeyne Lothston (if the real reason of her exile from Targaryen court was her pregnancy from her father, King Aegon). Could be that Jeyne's son, who was Aegon's secret child, after his father's death, went to Braavos, to visit there his Otherys-siblings, who, same as the Bastard of Harrenhal, were never acknowledged by Aegon as his children. Possibly while he (the Bastard) was in Braavos, he had a child/son with Balerion's daughter. This son is Littlefinger's great-grandfather, the sellsword from Braavos. All of Daeron's male descendants, such as King Aerys, Rhaegar and his son, and Viserys, are dead, and no one knows about Jon. Thus, officially male line of House Targaryen has ended. If Balerion Otherys had only daughters, then male line from this House has also ended. It is known, that male line of Blackfyres is also dead. Bittersteel and Bloodraven had no children. Viserys Plumm and Ambrose Butterwell were never acknowledged by Aegon as his children. Though, in case with Bellegere Otherys and Jeyne Lothston, they both were Aegon's official mistresses. Thus, if in the span of their relationship with Aegon, they gave birth to sons (Balerion was born between 163 and 172, and the Bastard of Harrenhal possibly was born in 178, or 179, or 180), then those sons are next in line for Iron Throne, after male-Targaryens.
If Littlefinger is descendant of Aegon IV, thru Jeyne Lothston's son, the Bastard of Harrenhal, and thru Balerion's daughter, then he has a higher claim over Iron Throne than Daenerys.
I think, that Varys is a Blackfyre from male line. But because he can't have children, to have a claim over Iron Throne, he went to Westeros, to look for other people with Targaryen blood, who can have a claim over their throne. And that's when he found Petyr Baelish, revealed to him his dragonseed ancestry, and offered to him to conspire together, to get Iron Throne for him. So, LF became Varys' agent, and he thought, that thru their partnership, he will become the King of 7K. Though later Varys had found a better option (could be that Barristan Selmy is grandson of Aenys Blackfyre, and fAegon is Barristan's son from septa Lemore/Jeyne Swann), and cast Petyr aside, as a candidate. That's when Petyr decided to betray Varys, and use everything he had learned from him, to get to Iron Throne on his own.
So, Littlefinger knows Varys' plan, how to get Iron Throne for fAegon, because originally Varys made that plan, to make Petyr the King of 7K. Thus LF is going to offer Sansa to fAegon. She's the heiress of The North, also, as Robb's sister, she can have a claim over Riverlands (because Riverlanders proclaimed Robb not only the King in The North, but also the King of the Trident, and Tullys acknowledged him as their overlord). Probably, if fAegon will agree to marry with Sansa, and to make her his Queen, then LF will promise to additionally give him support of The Vale. Thus, Sansa is the key to three Kingdoms, and thru marriage with her fAegon will get significally more power than thru marriage with Arianne Martell or Margaery Tyrell.
And after Queen Sansa will get pregnant (from LF, not from fAegon), Petyr will use her, same way as he used Lysa. He will make Sansa to poison her husband. Then he will either marry with her, and will become her King-consort, or he will kill her too, same as he killed Lysa, and then he will become the Regent of Sansa's child. It's likely, that Robert Arryn is actually Littlefinger's son, not Jon Arryn's. So LF is planning to use with Sansa and fAegon the same scheme, that he has already used with Lysa and Jon Arryn. If it had worked once, then why not to use it again?
And he thinks, that he has a right to sit on Iron Throne, because he is Aegon IV's descendant, and has a higher claim than Daenerys Targaryen.
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On 8/28/2019 at 5:56 PM, Lord Varys said:
This would be very interesting.
20 hours ago, Unit A2 said:
There is a Northern throne. Plus the country has been at civil war. A leader or leaders of great region(s) certainly are in a position to make a play.
9 hours ago, Megorova said:
If you write this fanfic I will definitely read it.
Rose of Red Lake
On 8/28/2019 at 4:52 PM, Free Northman Reborn said:
Maybe after the plan to marry her directly fell though. He even offered a proposal through Cersei. Creepy.
6 hours ago, Rose of Red Lake said:
Not more creepy than Rhaegar fucking Lyanna, Drogo fucking Dany, Viserys I marrying Aemma Arryn, Margaery Tyrell marrying Tommen, etc.
Not to mention Walder Frey's young wives or Eldon Estermont's most recent young and nubile Dornish wife.
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23 minutes ago, Lord Varys said:
Yeah, all of that is gross as well but this is NEXT LEVEL. He orchestrates her choices behind the scenes, with the goal of predation, stalks her, arranges her life so she has to be indebted to him, frames her for murder, takes her identity away, makes her his fake daughter, hides his complicity in her real father’s murder, whores her out to other men, and on top of that, wants to fuck her. Great fodder for “To Catch a Predator.”
19 minutes ago, Rose of Red Lake said:
Not sure how this is much different from any other old guy preying on a your girl he eventually marries.
Littlefinger offering to marry Sansa back in AGoT was at a time when he has done pretty much no harm to her, personally. And he definitely did not ruin and destroy Ned so he could marry Sansa - he had other motives for that. If Ned hadn't been so damned stupid and stubborn Ned could have arranged the Sansa-Petyr match.
But there is nothing unusual that the daughter of a guy marries the man who destroyed her. Do you think Jaehaera Targaryen wanted to marry Aegon III? Or Argella Durrandon Orys Baratheon? I don't think so.
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Oh my god, can you not tell that the problem with it is that he LIES to her about it and treats her like his daughter? it’s one step below Craster. Foul. Orys and Angela were nothing like that. These wild comparisons are a reach. And why?
Every time I bring up how Sansa’s been manipulated and controlled by captors or opportunists, I get rebuffed with statements that attempt to minimize or normalize her specific experiences, by playing “whataboutism” or whitewashing the people who are using her. Some people seem to be dead set on defending men’s right to use her. No wonder Sansa fans asked to have their accounts deleted and fled this place for other discussion forums. They wanted to avoid the inevitable creep factor whenever Sansa/LF, Sansa’s/Tyrion, or Sansa’s/Sandor comes up. The fandom discussions about Sansa are sometimes even creepier than what’s actually happening to her in the books.
Edited September 4, 2019 by Rose of Red Lake
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On 8/28/2019 at 5:29 PM, nyser1 said:
I don't think he wants to be king. He's too smart for that. Running a kingdom is dull, tedious work, and then usually end up getting killed.
He wants to be the power behind the throne, moving all the pieces, including the king, acquiring all the wealth, wielding all the power. Like Tywin, only better.
Anck Su Namun
Baelish is playing the best tools he has. He is acting like Illyrio Mopatis. He wants to get ahead but they are limited by what they have. Can you imagine the delight Illyrio got after he heard about the dragons coming back to life. He must have had an orgasm.
Baelish only has Sansa. That is the only play available to him. High chances or low this is what he has.
1 hour ago, Rose of Red Lake said:
By comparison, this was not that big of a deal.
What's much worse by comparison is you being dragged naked - and by your own men at that - in front of the murderer of your father and eventually be forced to marry that man and bear his children. That's just sick by every standard. And it doesn't get better if the man in question is nice to the woman - giving her clothes and talking to her gently. That makes him simply a nice abuser/rapist.
The issue here is that you claimed Littlefinger asking for Sansa's hand in AGoT was 'creepy'. I agree with that insofar as relationships in the real world are concerned, but this is not the case for the framework within the society the characters live in - and the author doesn't describe it as being as creepy as the scenarios were young girls or women are actually forced to marry much older men, among them even some such who have personally killed (or directly or indirectly responsible for the deaths of) close family members.
I mean, you are aware that women are trained to think of themselves as brood mares their fathers and brothers use to make political alliances, right? Women don't have the right to choose their own husbands - they marry who their fathers and brothers choose for them. This is essentially institionalized sexual abuse. Some people make their peace with it and actually make a relationship work neither of them would have started if they had had a choice (like Cat and Ned) while others are stuck in loveless (Stannis-Selyse) or outright abusive marriages (Cersei-Robert, Lysa-Jon).
If we imagined for a moment that Sansa and Littlefinger married then she would have, most likely, be in a much better position than her dear aunt (who never loved Jon Arryn, nor enjoyed having sex with him), Cersei, Argella Durrandon, Sylva Santagar, various women who were forced to marry Maegor, etc. We can, for instance, be very sure that Sansa would have been much happier as Lady Baelish than she actually was as Tyrion's wife.
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argonak
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Some people make their peace with it and actually make a relationship work neither of them would have started if they had had a choice (like Cat and Ned) while others are stuck in loveless (Stannis-Selyse) or outright abusive marriages (Cersei-Robert, Lysa-Jon).
Was Jon Arryn abusive towards Lysa? Or do you mean how she murdered him? I don't recall reading anything about him being bad to her previously.
Yes, I can't see Littlefinger misstreating Sansa. As far as I've read he only abuses people when there's something to gain, there's been no sign of wanton cruelty. His fewsmallfolk seem to like him surpisingly well, despite him mocking the fingers the whole time he's there. And he has some loyal followers, besides the ones who he's simply enriched. She'd have been safer with him than with Tyrion certainly, as Littlefinger would have had good excuses to get her away from Joffrey and King's Landing. Lysa might have tried to murder her though I guess.
Your post very well highlights the situation in Westeros. i think a lot of people get stuck trying to view it with modern eyes, which probably comes down to how well GRRM can draw the reader into the setting. Its a rough place to live in which tends to reward the brutal and the strong and abuse the weak and kind.
•Brandon Ice Eyes
Location:Winterfell Crypts
It would be impossible for Baelish to become king as people would never accept him as the legitimate monarch and I believe he knows this. He simply want a puppet on the throne and himself as hand of the king and regent with his cronies on the small council and his gold as a way to buy swords and people. And controlling the food to feed people and become popular maybe? Not sure on the food part but doesn’t he also have lords who are in debt to him, that could also be a way to control them and with him as lord of Harrenhal, which is a powerful and respected lordship ,albeit, feared due to rumours of it being cursed, he can legitimately become powerful on the council without people claiming that he was simply some minor lord from the fingers that had risen above himself. He required war to rise up through the chaos. I doubt he planned all that happened throughout the WOTFK however as he strikes me as an opportunist who simply created chaos, then attempted to see which king he should back to benefit himself the most and go from there.
2 hours ago, argonak said:
Yes, I can't see Littlefinger misstreating Sansa. As far as I've read he only abuses people when there's something to gain, there's been no sign of wanton cruelty.
Read between the lines. He got rejected by a woman and sought revenge, some 15 years later by helping destroy Sansa's family, all because he couldn't get laid. Classic incel behavior, perhaps even "wanton cruelty." He and Tyrion have a lot in common.
She'd have been safer with him than with Tyrion certainly, as Littlefinger would have had good excuses to get her away from Joffrey and King's Landing.
Every Sansa discussion: who would have abused her less. Yawn.
3 hours ago, Lord Varys said:
What's much worse by comparison is you being dragged naked - and by your own men at that - in front of the murderer of your father and eventually be forced to marry that man and bear his children. That's just sick by every standard. And it doesn't get better if the man in question is nice to the woman - giving her clothes and talking to her gently. That makes him simply a nice abuser/rapist.
Yeah Sansa already went through that. It was called Joffrey. Baelish is nice to Sansa and talks to her gently. That simply makes him a nicer abuser, who would have raped her if he got the chance to marry her, but is currently pressuring her into kissing him (Its even the last line of her arc in AFFC, meaning its significant). He needs to stop touching her, period, or it will escalate.
"I am Alayne father, who else would I be?" is a horrifying line that illustrates psychological brainwashing. Its a storyline that is unique to her and but I'm sure folks will either say "eh suck it up" or come up with some unnecessary comparison to basically render Sansa's story unremarkable and average. Just shrug at the whole thing, and show no empathy whatsoever, because other women "have it worse" (wtf). So that when she triumphs over these things, it will also be unremarkable and average. And people can continue to discount her story overall, because they erased her struggle. Better off marrying Baelish? How about better off not marrying at all which is what she wants right now. She is not safe with Baelish. Readers should be able to recognize the dangers of the situation she is in with LF, who shows all the signs of predation.
And with that, I need to go bleach my eyes reading these posts.
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1 hour ago, •Brandon Ice Eyes said:
Littlefinger does have a lot of Lords, lesser lords, and merchants who owe him favors or money. Not the best way to maintain loyalty, but it can work. Also he's not just Lord of Harrenhal, he's also Overlord of the Riverlands (technically). But both of those are poisoned gifts which will require huge amounts of effort to succeed with and pay little in immediate return, and keep him reliant on the Throne's support and generosity. He wisely stuck with his plan of gaining control of the Vale instead.
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3 minutes ago, argonak said:
Yes and he has already reconciled with half the Lords Declarant, and made friends with Lyonel Corbray and Nestor Royce.
I mean that she clearly did not want to marry the fellow and did clearly not like to have sex with him. She phrases that as being disgusted by his bad breath - but the thing that counts for me is the fact that it's clear she didn't like the man and would have never allowed him to fuck her had she had a choice (or been trained to see it as her duty to allow him to impregnate her so she can fulfill her societal function).
This is why I think Selyse is better off since she actually seems to worship this Stannis fellow and actually desires to have sex with him. In their case Stannis seems to be the greater victim of the arranged marriage.
I was talking about the point where they were married. Considering Littlefinger actually loves Sansa chances are pretty low that he would actually harm her or make her life unpleasant. If she betrayed her marriage vows, etc. he might deal with her harshly, but he wouldn't be different there than any other Westerosi husband (hello there, Merry Meg, Naerys, Margaery).
Any setting where the kind of arranged marriages exist that we see in Westeros is deeply misogynistic, especially if it allows for men having sex outside of marriage (i.e. having the chance at romance and love and sex outside of a shitty, loveless marriage) while women are stuck with the husband and the husband only. And that's Westerosi culture.
Littlefinger is more complex than that. And he doesn't want revenge against Catelyn at all insofar as I understand it. He wanted her back, and when it was clear he couldn't get her he wanted Sansa.
There is also pretty much no reason to believe Littlefinger was ever an incel. He is a very nice and charming man who can seduce pretty much any woman he wants. He is very popular with everyone, and obviously quite capable of satisfying Lysa despite the fact that he must be disgusted by her.
You can complain to the author about that. George made Sansa a pawn in the game, a character who is essentially completely defined by what she means to other people and whose only means to gain power for herself would be through other men.
And that goes for essentially all women, even Asha and Brienne, because dragons or not - in the end these women can only exercise power through men, be they their consorts, officials, or soldiers.
The very framework of the society makes that clear.
Sansa's own people never chained her naked and handed her over to her enemies. And Joffrey never married or raped her as far as I know.
"I am Alayne father, who else would I be?" is a horrifying line that illustrates psychological brainwashing. Its a storyline that is unique to her and but I'm sure folks will either say "eh suck it up" or some up with some unnecessary comparison to basically render Sansa's story unremarkable and average. Just shrug at the whole thing, and show no empathy whatsoever, because other woman "have it worse" (wtf). So that when she triumphs over these things, it will also be unremarkable and average. And people can continue to discount her story overall, because they erased her struggle. Better off marrying Baelish? How about better off not marrying at all which is what she wants right now. She is not safe with Baelish. Readers should be able to recognize the dangers of the situation she is in with LF, who shows all the signs of predation.
Nobody says she is safe with Littlefinger. We just said she would not be that bad off as his wife than she actually was with Tyrion. And I think she could be much worse than she is with Littlefinger. Most other would-be husbands or protectors would not care to teach her the game of thrones. Littlefinger is. And that counts in his favor, no matter whether you like it or not.
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At Franco’s behest, the construction of the Valley of the Fallen began in 1940 and continued over the next 18 years, finally finishing in 1959. The bodies of over 40,000 people who died during the civil war were laid to rest within the valley and Franco hailed his creation as a work of healing for the ages. Unfortunately not everyone felt the same, many accusing the leader of forcing political prisoners to labor on the construction, which itself was also seen as a colossally unnecessary and expensive show piece to gloss over the war crimes of a brutal authoritarian regime.
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One down, and one to go… next month, NASA intends to perform another first; the first follow up flyby of a cometary nucleus. The spacecraft is Stardust, and the comet is Tempel 1. Today’s mission briefing gave a glimpse of the action that is in store. Launched in February, 1999 Stardust has performed an array of firsts, including the first sample return from Comet Wild 2 in 2004, and one of the highest re-entry velocities ever attempted during its successful sample return in 2006.
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NASA engineers directed the Stardust spacecraft to fire its rockets briefly on the of 17th of February, putting it on course for a new mission; a flyby of comet Tempel 1 February 14th of next year. If that comet sounds familiar, it should be; Tempel 1 was smacked by an impactor released from the Deep Impact space probe in 2005. The pass will allow scientists to see how the impact crater has evolved, as well as mark the first mission to re-visit a comet. Launched on February 7th, 1999, Stardust also returned a first ever sample of a comet. This sample has been the subject of much scrutiny by Earth-bound scientists, including that favorite obsessive/compulsive-creating crowd-sourcing project, Stardust@home. Hey, I’m still in the top 100, last time I checked… NASA has also rechristened the spacecraft as Stardust NExT, or the New Exploration of Tempel. Not only will next years’ passage provide close-ups of the nucleus, but expect to see high resolution images of the coma and key insight into just how these Jupiter-class family of comets formed and evolved.
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Stardusters rejoice; one of the largest citizen scientist projects has borne fruit. In 2004, NASA’s Stardust spacecraft passed through the outer envelope of comet Wild 2, allowing its sticky aerogel detectors to capture samples of gas and dust. Ever since the detectors parachuted safely to Earth on January 15, 2006, scientists, bloggers, and school kids have been pouring over the aerogel microscope scans looking for tell-tale dust tracks in a project known as Stardust@home, a vast citizen science project that might well be dubbed as the greatest science project done before bedtime. Scientists at Goddard Space Flight Center announced late in 2009 that the molecule glycine has been detected in the aerogel detector. A key amino acid used in the construction of proteins, glycine is represented by the formula NH2CH2COOH. Scientists actually detected the molecules trapped in the foils at the rim of the detectors. Terrestrial glycine was ruled out due to the isotopic structure of the carbon atoms seen; Earth bound carbon tends to be of the Carbon 12 variety, while the glycine in the sample is the heavier Carbon 13, just what would be expected if the compound had come from the nucleus of a comet. It should be pointed out that the discovery of organic compounds is not the same as the discovery of life, but rather the key building blocks of such. This does, however, provide evidence that the raw materials to get life going may indeed be prevalent in the cosmos.
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Male-Mediated Gene Flow in Patrilocal Primates
Grit Schubert, Colin J. Stoneking, Mimi Arandjelovic, Christophe Boesch, et al
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{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/381905", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/381941", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/381988", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/382032", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/382064", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/382094", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/382133"], "description"=>"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>Many group–living species display strong sex biases in dispersal tendencies. However, gene flow mediated by apparently philopatric sex may still occur and potentially alters population structure. In our closest living evolutionary relatives, dispersal of adult males seems to be precluded by high levels of territoriality between males of different groups in chimpanzees, and has only been observed once in bonobos. Still, male–mediated gene flow might occur through rare events such as extra–group matings leading to extra–group paternity (EGP) and female secondary dispersal with offspring, but the extent of this gene flow has not yet been assessed.</p> <h3>Methodology/Principal Findings</h3><p>Using autosomal microsatellite genotyping of samples from multiple groups of wild western chimpanzees (<em>Pan troglodytes verus</em>) and bonobos (<em>Pan paniscus</em>), we found low genetic differentiation among groups for both males and females. Characterization of Y–chromosome microsatellites revealed levels of genetic differentiation between groups in bonobos almost as high as those reported previously in eastern chimpanzees, but lower levels of differentiation in western chimpanzees. By using simulations to evaluate the patterns of Y–chromosomal variation expected under realistic assumptions of group size, mutation rate and reproductive skew, we demonstrate that the observed presence of multiple and highly divergent Y–haplotypes within western chimpanzee and bonobo groups is best explained by successful male–mediated gene flow.</p> <h3>Conclusions/Significance</h3><p>The similarity of inferred rates of male–mediated gene flow and published rates of EGP in western chimpanzees suggests this is the most likely mechanism of male–mediated gene flow in this subspecies. In bonobos more data are needed to refine the estimated rate of gene flow. Our findings suggest that dispersal patterns in these closely related species, and particularly for the chimpanzee subspecies, are more variable than previously appreciated. This is consistent with growing recognition of extensive behavioral variation in chimpanzees and bonobos.</p> </div>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["male-mediated", "patrilocal", "primates"], "article_id"=>135435, "categories"=>["Genetics", "Evolutionary Biology"], "users"=>["Grit Schubert", "Colin J. Stoneking", "Mimi Arandjelovic", "Christophe Boesch", "Nadin Eckhardt", "Gottfried Hohmann", "Kevin Langergraber", "Dieter Lukas", "Linda Vigilant"], "doi"=>["https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021514.s001", "https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021514.s002", "https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021514.s003", "https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021514.s004", "https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021514.s005", "https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021514.s006", "https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021514.s007"], "stats"=>{"downloads"=>37, "page_views"=>7, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/Male_Mediated_Gene_Flow_in_Patrilocal_Primates/135435", "title"=>"Male-Mediated Gene Flow in Patrilocal Primates", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>4, "published_date"=>"2011-07-01 01:30:35"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/759498"], "description"=>"<p>Using empirically–based levels of reproductive skew, mutation rates and group sizes, we examined levels of haplotype diversity in terms of (A), number of haplotypes and (B), maximum number of mutational steps between Y–haplotypes that might arise within groups in the absence male–mediated gene flow. (A), the proportion of groups with more than one Y–haplotype and (B), the simulated maximum number of mutations possible between Y–haplotypes within groups increases with the number of males in the group. White bars indicate bonobos, grey bars indicate chimpanzees. Maximum numbers of mutations are only shown if observed in >1% of simulated groups. Average number of reproducing males in the habituated study groups = 9. Error bars represent ± one standard deviation.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["groups", "chimpanzees"], "article_id"=>429873, "categories"=>["Genetics", "Evolutionary Biology"], "users"=>["Grit Schubert", "Colin J. Stoneking", "Mimi Arandjelovic", "Christophe Boesch", "Nadin Eckhardt", "Gottfried Hohmann", "Kevin Langergraber", "Dieter Lukas", "Linda Vigilant"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021514.g002", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>1, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Simulations_of_Y_8211_chromosomal_variation_in_social_groups_of_western_chimpanzees_and_bonobos_/429873", "title"=>"Simulations of Y–chromosomal variation in social groups of western chimpanzees and bonobos.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2011-07-01 02:44:33"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/759627"], "description"=>"<p>*We examined genetic differentiation for a more locally restricted subset of chimpanzee social groups (Central Region, <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0021514#pone-0021514-g001\" target=\"_blank\">Figure 1</a>) which was comparable to the bonobo sample, and for the entire chimpanzee sample. Results, however, did not qualitatively change. To minimize stochasticity, for all analyses of genetic differentiation between communities we excluded social groups with fewer than four individuals genotyped at the respective marker (autosomal/Y-chromosomal). Therefore, the number of pairwise comparisons differs between the autosomal and Y-chromosomal data (<a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0021514#pone-0021514-t002\" target=\"_blank\">Table 2</a>).</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["differentiation", "bonobo", "chimpanzee"], "article_id"=>429995, "categories"=>["Genetics", "Evolutionary Biology"], "users"=>["Grit Schubert", "Colin J. Stoneking", "Mimi Arandjelovic", "Christophe Boesch", "Nadin Eckhardt", "Gottfried Hohmann", "Kevin Langergraber", "Dieter Lukas", "Linda Vigilant"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021514.t001", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>9, "page_views"=>11, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Autosomal_genetic_differentiation_with_95_confidence_interval_in_bonobo_and_chimpanzee_groups_/429995", "title"=>"Autosomal genetic differentiation (with 95% confidence interval) in bonobo and chimpanzee groups.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>3, "published_date"=>"2011-07-01 02:46:35"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/759706"], "description"=>"<p>*We examined genetic differentiation for a more locally restricted subset of chimpanzee social groups (Central Region, <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0021514#pone-0021514-g001\" target=\"_blank\">Figure 1</a>) which was comparable to the bonobo sample, and for the entire chimpanzee sample. Results, however, did not qualitatively change. **Eastern chimpanzee data taken from Langergraber and colleagues <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0021514#pone.0021514-Langergraber1\" target=\"_blank\">[62]</a>. To minimize stochasticity, for all analyses of genetic differentiation between communities we excluded social groups with fewer than four individuals genotyped at the respective marker (autosomal/Y-chromosomal). Therefore, the number of pairwise comparisons differs between the Y-chromosomal and autosomal data (<a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0021514#pone-0021514-t001\" target=\"_blank\">Table 1</a>).</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["standardized", "differentiation", "bonobo", "chimpanzee"], "article_id"=>430073, "categories"=>["Genetics", "Evolutionary Biology"], "users"=>["Grit Schubert", "Colin J. Stoneking", "Mimi Arandjelovic", "Christophe Boesch", "Nadin Eckhardt", "Gottfried Hohmann", "Kevin Langergraber", "Dieter Lukas", "Linda Vigilant"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021514.t002", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>1, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Unstandardized_and_standardized_Y_8211_chromosomal_genetic_differentiation_with_95_confidence_interval_in_bonobo_and_chimpanzee_groups_/430073", "title"=>"Unstandardized and standardized Y–chromosomal genetic differentiation (with 95% confidence interval) in bonobo and chimpanzee groups.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>3, "published_date"=>"2011-07-01 00:01:13"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/759339"], "description"=>"<p>Western chimpanzee samples were collected within Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire, and bonobo samples at the border of Salonga National Park, DRC. Labels designate known (C1, East, Middle, North, South) and assumed (C2–6, G2, G4, GTZ, Meteo, N1– 2) social groups. The Central Region in Taï National Park represents a geographically limited subsample of chimpanzee groups analyzed in addition to the full data set (see also <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0021514#pone-0021514-t001\" target=\"_blank\">Table 1</a> and <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0021514#pone-0021514-t002\" target=\"_blank\">2</a>). Y-chromosomal data from bonobo group C3 were taken from <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0021514#pone.0021514-Eriksson2\" target=\"_blank\">[61]</a>, while autosomal data were not available for that group. Sample sizes of individuals with an estimated minimum age of 5 for each group are the following (females typed at autosomal loci/males typed at autosomal loci/males typed at Y-chromosomal loci): bonobo, C1 (17/11/10), C2 (14/10/15), C3 (0/0/6), C4 (12/9/6), C5 (4/3/2), C6 (8/3/3); chimpanzee, East (8/10/8), G2 (10/7/7), G4 (4/3/3), GTZ (3/8/6), Meteo (13/6/3), Middle (7/4/4), N1 (2/2/2), N2 (6/2/2), North (14/9/4), South (31/26/15).</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["locations", "genotyped", "individuals", "groups", "chimpanzees"], "article_id"=>429706, "categories"=>["Genetics", "Evolutionary Biology"], "users"=>["Grit Schubert", "Colin J. Stoneking", "Mimi Arandjelovic", "Christophe Boesch", "Nadin Eckhardt", "Gottfried Hohmann", "Kevin Langergraber", "Dieter Lukas", "Linda Vigilant"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021514.g001", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>1, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Geographical_locations_of_genotyped_individuals_from_social_groups_of_western_chimpanzees_and_bonobos_/429706", "title"=>"Geographical locations of genotyped individuals from social groups of western chimpanzees and bonobos.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2011-07-01 02:41:46"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/759664"], "description"=>"<p>Estimated rates of male–mediated gene flow in bonobos and western chimpanzees for different male group sizes.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["rates", "bonobos", "chimpanzees"], "article_id"=>430039, "categories"=>["Genetics", "Evolutionary Biology"], "users"=>["Grit Schubert", "Colin J. Stoneking", "Mimi Arandjelovic", "Christophe Boesch", "Nadin Eckhardt", "Gottfried Hohmann", "Kevin Langergraber", "Dieter Lukas", "Linda Vigilant"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021514.t003", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>1, "page_views"=>3, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Estimated_rates_of_male_8211_mediated_gene_flow_in_bonobos_and_western_chimpanzees_for_different_male_group_sizes_/430039", "title"=>"Estimated rates of male–mediated gene flow in bonobos and western chimpanzees for different male group sizes.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>3, "published_date"=>"2011-07-01 00:00:39"}
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A microRNA Signature Associated with Early Recurrence in Breast Cancer
Luis G. Pérez Rivas, José M. Jerez, Rosario Carmona, Vanessa De Luque, et al
http://www.mendeley.com/research/microrna-signature-associated-early-recurrence-breast-cancer-10
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{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1420505"], "description"=>"<p>The angiogenic (VEGF), proliferative (Ki67) and hormone receptor (ER) status of the primary breast tumors were assessed by immunohistochemistry with specific antibodies. Interpretation of the immunohistochemical signal (low/high for VEGF and positive/negative for Ki67 and ER) followed the criteria specified in the methods section. Patients were classified according to the VEGF, Ki67 and ER status of their tumors and the cumulative RFS was calculated. The Kaplan-Meier plots show a reduced RFS in patients with tumors highly positive por VEGF, positive for Ki67 and negative for ER, although the differences were only statistically significant for Ki67 (Log-rank P = 0.044). All 71 tumors included in this study were processed for Ki67 and ER staining while only 67 could be processed for VEGF staining.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["Biochemistry", "Nucleic acids", "rna", "cell biology", "Molecular cell biology", "Computational biology", "genome analysis", "Transcriptome analysis", "Genome expression analysis", "genetics", "epigenetics", "RNA interference", "genomics", "oncology", "Basic cancer research", "metastasis", "Cancer detection and diagnosis", "Cancer screening", "Cancers and neoplasms", "Breast tumors", "Bioassays and physiological analysis", "microarrays", "higher", "relapse", "tumors", "proliferative"], "article_id"=>962302, "categories"=>["Biological Sciences"], "users"=>["Luis G. Pérez-Rivas", "José M. Jerez", "Rosario Carmona", "Vanessa de Luque", "Luis Vicioso", "M. Gonzalo Claros", "Enrique Viguera", "Bella Pajares", "Alfonso Sánchez", "Nuria Ribelles", "Emilio Alba", "José Lozano"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0091884.g007", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>3, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Patients_with_a_higher_risk_of_relapse_have_tumors_with_increased_proliferative_capacitity_/962302", "title"=>"Patients with a higher risk of relapse have tumors with increased proliferative capacitity.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2014-03-14 03:29:06"}
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Rosanna del Solar: A Collective Future, 2018
Cómo Senka Ezhik hizo un cuchillo (1928) (Как Сенька Ежик сделал ножик)
Two of the most striking manifestations of the Soviet culture of image were the children’s book and the poster. Both managed to blur the boundaries between propaganda and art in a captivating way, through the alliance between experimental aesthetics and the radical socialist ideology that extended from the Revolution of 1917 to the early 1950s.
Shaping this way, a distinctly Soviet civilization where the appearance of a new type of graphic art takes center stage to educate in favor of a collective future. It was so, that the first attempts to put Russian children’s literature at the service of communist ideology were made just a few months after the October Revolution.
The 1930´s were characterized by an ideological offensive not only within politics and economics, but also within the new children’s literature that by this time began to flourish. The distance taken from children’s books with fairy tales was not an accident. This call to revolutionize children’s illustration played a central role in political struggle of socialism. Instead of fairies and anthropomorphic crocodiles, children’s literature focused on practical concerns like farming, industry, solidarity and the construction of a great Soviet Union around the world.
In How Senka Ezhik made a knife(1928) we are shown the industrialization of Soviet societies. The story, written in verse, begins with the description of an industrial town and how its people awaken early in the morning and happily, at the sound of the whistle, go to work in the factories.
На гудок
идет народ,
смех и песни у ворот.
Вот ребята –
фабзайчата
через поле,через сад
идут в ногу всю дорогу,
словно в праздник
на парад.
On the whistle
the people goes,
laughter and songs at the gate.
Here are the guys –
through the field, through the garden
keep the pace all the way,
like a holiday
on the parade.
The story continues telling us about Senka Ezhik. Senka is a boy that after breaking the last knife that his family has at home, decides to go to the factory to correct the damage caused by making a new one. Teaching this way not only responsibility as a necessary value but also, the work ethic in an emerging society, allowing children to immerse themselves in the industrial world of their future.
– Вот так штука!
Зх, тьі, Ежик,
поломал последний ножик.
Если б бьіл отец твой жив,
у нас бьіли бьі ножи.
А с тебя вот, что возьмешь?
Зх, тьі, горе!
Зх, Тьі, Еж!
Here’s the thing!
Ezhik,
broke the last knife.
If your father was alive, we will have more knives.
And from here, what will you do?
Good grief!
Wow,woe, Ezhik!
The call to Literary Realism, which praises men and women and their ability to create a new world with the help of reason, was the starting point in the creation of the Communist Party’s literary agenda, where the idea that Soviet ideologies were faster to learn through the “language of images.”
*images from Cotsen Collection at Princeton´s Firestone Library
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AviationManuals launches iPad app for its ARC SMS online platform
Washington, D.C., May 28, 2018 – AviationManuals, the world’s leading provider of aircraft manual development services and Safety Management System (SMS) software for business aviation, announced today the release of its new ARC iPad app. The app will complement AviationManuals’ intuitive online modular SMS platform, making it even easier for business aviation professionals to manage their risk assessments, forms, and documents while offline.
“The app was designed with ease of use in mind to encourage even more SMS participation by ARC users,” said AviationManuals CEO Mark Baier. “Our App simplifies the SMS process because users are able to initiate, and manage risk assessments and forms, as well as manage their documentation while offline. Mobile applications for SMS should help drive a broader acceptance and use of SMS.”
AviationManuals’ ARC SMS modular platform is the most configurable SMS available on the market today. The App conveniently syncs clients’ custom risk assessments and forms, as well as provides access to the latest versions of their documents. Users also have the ability to toggle back and forth between the online and mobile versions of ARC for increased convenience and productivity.
AviationManuals’ ARC APP is available for download from the Apple App Store however the App is currently only accessible to ARC’s online SMS software subscribers.
Aviation Operations Resources
ARC, an SMS software, continues to add new users every week due to it being the only highly configurable and modular Safety Management System software available, allowing operators to choose only what they need. AviationManuals current focus is on Mobile Safety Management Systems through easy-to-use modules and apps.
AviationManuals also delivers International Operations / Procedures Manuals and custom Flight/General Operations Manuals for numerous registries. The company has over 800 subscribers to its International Operations Update Service and its Flight Operations Reissue Service.
The Metrics module is currently available for ARC online, with planned integration into the ARC iPad App shortly.
About AviationManuals
AviationManuals, based in the Washington, D.C. area, provides operations manuals and SMS software to business aviation flight departments, aircraft management companies, and independent owner / operators worldwide. Founded in 1996, the company has produced thousands of manuals and supports over half of IS-BAO registered operators.
Products and services include Safety Management System (SMS) software, Flight / General Operations Manuals, International Procedures Manuals, Minimum Equipment Lists, Emergency Response Plans, Internal Audit Programs, and Letters of Authorization (LOA) support for RVSM, Data Link (CPDLC / ADS-C), EFBs, and ADS-B operations.
AviationManuals is a member of the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) and a part of its Leadership Council, International Business Aviation Council (IBAC), Flight Safety Foundation, and National Aircraft Resale Association (NARA). For more information go to aviationmanuals.com.
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Stephen Yool
Geography and Development, School of
Emailyool@skydog.geog.arizona.edu
Modeling Fire Pathways in Montane Grassland-Forest Ecotones
Conver, J. L., Falk, D., Yool, S. & Parmenter, R. R., Feb 1 2018, In : Fire Ecology. 14, 1, p. 17-32 16 p.
ecotones
Sonoran Desert rodent abundance response to surface temperature derived from remote sensing
Pianalto, F. S. & Yool, S., Jun 1 2017, In : Journal of Arid Environments. 141, p. 76-85 10 p.
Perognathus
Discriminating disturbance from natural variation with LiDAR in semi-arid forests in the southwestern USA
Swetnam, T. L., Lynch, A. M., Falk, D., Yool, S. & Guertin, P., Jun 1 2015, In : Ecosphere. 6, 6, 97.
soil air
soil biota
Effects of irrigated parks on outdoor residential water use in a semi-arid city
Halper, E. B., Dall Erba, S., Bark, R. H., Scott, C. A. & Yool, S., Feb 1 2015, In : Landscape and Urban Planning. 134, p. 210-220 11 p.
water demand
Estimating individual tree mid- and understory rank-size distributions from airborne laser scanning in semi-arid forests
Swetnam, T. L., Falk, D., Lynch, A. M. & Yool, S., Oct 15 2014, In : Forest Ecology and Management. 330, p. 271-282 12 p.
understory
stand density
Mapping impervious surfaces using object-oriented classification in a semiarid urban region
Sugg, Z. P., Finke, T., Goodrich, D. C., Susan Moran, M. & Yool, S., 2014, In : Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. 80, 4, p. 343-352 10 p.
urban region
semiarid region
A country bug in the city: Urban infestation by the Chagas disease vector Triatoma infestans in Arequipa, Peru
Delgado, S., Ernst, K. C., Pumahuanca, M. L. H., Yool, S., Comrie, A., Sterling, C. R., Gilman, R. H., Náquira, C. & Levy, M. Z., Oct 30 2013, In : International Journal of Health Geographics. 12, 48.
Triatoma
Disease Vectors
A taste of place: Environmental geographies of the classic beer styles
Yool, S. & Comrie, A., Aug 1 2013, The Geography of Beer: Regions, Environment, and Societies. Springer Netherlands, p. 99-108 10 p.
Monitoring fugitive dust emission sources arising from construction: A remote-sensing approach
Pianalto, F. S. & Yool, S., Jul 2 2013, In : GIScience and Remote Sensing. 50, 3, p. 251-270 20 p.
Correlating Vegetation, Water Use, and Surface Temperature in a Semiarid City: A Multiscale Analysis of the Impacts of Irrigation by Single-Family Residences
Halper, E. B., Scott, C. A. & Yool, S., Jul 2012, In : Geographical Analysis. 44, 3, p. 235-257 23 p.
single-family residence
Modeling Valley Fever incidence in Arizona using a satellite-derived soil moisture proxy
Stacy, P., Comrie, A. & Yool, S., Mar 1 2012, In : GIScience and Remote Sensing. 49, 2, p. 299-316 18 p.
disease incidence
Remote sensing of live fuel moisture
Yool, S., Jan 1 2011, Advances in Environmental Remote Sensing: Sensors, Algorithms, and Applications. CRC Press, p. 321-338 18 p.
Spatial and temporal corroboration of a fire-scar-based fire history in a frequently burned ponderosa pine forest
Farris, C. A., Baisan, C. H., Falk, D., Yool, S. & Swetnam, T., Sep 2010, In : Ecological Applications. 20, 6, p. 1598-1614 17 p.
Broad-scale monitoring of live fuel moisture
Yool, S., Sep 2009, In : Geography Compass. 3, 5, p. 1703-1716 14 p.
Plant invasions in dynamic desert landscapes. A field and remote sensing assessment of predictive and change modeling
Sánchez-Flores, E., Rodríguez-Gallegos, H. & Yool, S., Mar 2008, In : Journal of Arid Environments. 72, 3, p. 189-206 18 p.
genetic algorithm
Topography affected landscape fire history patterns in southern Arizona, USA
Iniguez, J. M., Swetnam, T. & Yool, S., Jul 30 2008, In : Forest Ecology and Management. 256, 3, p. 295-303 9 p.
GIS pedagogy, web-based learning and student achievement
Clark, A. M., Monk, J. & Yool, S., May 2007, In : Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 31, 2, p. 225-239 15 p.
Sensitivity of change vector analysis to land cover change in an arid ecosystem
Flores, E. S. & Yool, S., Jan 2007, In : International Journal of Remote Sensing. 28, 5, p. 1069-1088 20 p.
Unstable desert environments and vulnerability to plant invasions. A field and remote sensing assessment
Sánchez Flores, E., Rodríguez Gallegos, H., Yool, S. & Granados Olivas, A., 2007, Proceedings, 32nd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment: Sustainable Development Through Global Earth Observations.
Human engineering
Modeling Interactions Among Wildland Fire, Climate and Society in the Context of Climatic Variability and Change in the Southwest US
Morehouse, B., Christopherson, G., Crimmins, M., Orr, B. J., Overpeck, J., Swetnam, T. & Yool, S., 2006, Regional Climate Change and Variability: Impacts and Responses. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., p. 58-78 21 p.
The sensitivity of SIR-C backscatter to fire-related forest spatial patterns
Henry, M. C. & Yool, S., Jan 2005, In : GIScience and Remote Sensing. 42, 1, p. 19-43 25 p.
patch size
Assessing relationships between forest spatial patterns and fire history with fusion of optical and microwave remote sensing
Henry, M. C. & Yool, S., 2004, In : Geocarto International. 19, 2, p. 25-37 13 p.
Indexing Endangered Species risk in the Colorado River Delta, Mexico using AVHRR NDVI time series data
All, J. D. & Yool, S., 2004, In : Geocarto International. 19, 4, p. 5-13 9 p.
AVHRR
Monitoring mountain snowpack evolution using near-surface optical and thermal properties
Lampkin, D. J. & Yool, S., Dec 30 2004, In : Hydrological Processes. 18, 18, p. 3527-3542 16 p.
Numerical simulations of MODIS sensitivity potential for assessing near surface mountain snow melt
Lampkin, D. J. & Yool, S., 2004, In : Geocarto International. 19, 2, p. 13-24 12 p.
agricultural product
Site environment characterization of downed woody fuels in the Rincon Mountains, Arizona: Regression tree approach
Sánchez-Flores, E. & Yool, S., 2004, In : International Journal of Wildland Fire. 13, 4, p. 467-477 11 p.
fuels (fire ecology)
fuel loading
Cluster analysis of structural stage classes to map wildland fuels in a Madrean ecosystem
Miller, J. D., Danzer, S. R., Watts, J. M., Stone, S. & Yool, S., Jul 1 2003, In : Journal of Environmental Management. 68, 3, p. 239-252 14 p.
vegetation type
Modeling potential erosion due to the Cerro Grande fire with a GIS-based implementation of the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation
Miller, J. D., Nyhan, J. W. & Yool, S., 2003, In : International Journal of Wildland Fire. 12, 1, p. 85-100 16 p.
Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation
subwatersheds
Characterizing fire-related spatial patterns in the Arizona Sky Islands using Landsat TM data
Henry, M. C. & Yool, S., Oct 1 2002, In : Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. 68, 10, p. 1011-1019 9 p.
Landsat thematic mapper
Mapping forest post-fire canopy consumption in several overstory types using multi-temporal Landsat TM and ETM data
Miller, J. D. & Yool, S., Oct 2002, In : Remote Sensing of Environment. 82, 2-3, p. 481-496 16 p.
overstory
Modeling fire in semi-desert grassland/oak woodland: The spatial implications
Miller, J. D. & Yool, S., Aug 1 2002, In : Ecological Modelling. 153, 3, p. 229-245 17 p.
Enhancing fire scar anomalies in AVHRR NDVI time-series data
Yool, S., 2001, In : Geocarto International. 16, 1, p. 7-14 8 p.
Environmental variability and coccidioidomycosis (valley fever)
Kolivras, K. N., Johnson, P. S., Comrie, A. & Yool, S., 2001, In : Aerobiologia. 17, 1, p. 31-42 12 p.
Coccidioides immitis
Coccidioides
Mapping fire-induced vegetation depletion in the Peloncillo Mountains Arizona and New Mexico
Rogan, J. & Yool, S., Nov 10 2001, In : International Journal of Remote Sensing. 22, 16, p. 3101-3121 21 p.
Characterizing the spatial structure of vegetation communities in the Mojave Desert using geostatistical techniques
Wallace, C. S. A., Watts, J. M. & Yool, S., May 2000, In : Computers and Geosciences. 26, 4, p. 397-410 14 p.
variogram
Regression-tree modeling of desert tortoise habitat in the central Mojave Desert
Andersen, M. C., Watts, J. M., Freilich, J. E., Yool, S., Wakefield, G. I., McCauley, J. F. & Fahnestock, P. B., 2000, In : Ecological Applications. 10, 3, p. 890-900 11 p.
Semantic modeling and decision support in hydrology
Ram, S., Khatrl, V., Hwang, Y. & Yool, S., 2000, In : Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. 66, 10, p. 1229-1239 11 p.
decision support system
Decision support systems
Detection of Subsurface Archaeological Architecture by Computer Assisted Airphoto Interpretation
Weber, S. A. & Yool, S., Aug 1999, In : Geoarchaeology - An International Journal. 14, 6, p. 481-493 13 p.
Computer-assisted terrain stratification
Medler, M. J. & Yool, S., Sep 1998, In : Physical Geography. 19, 5, p. 433-443 11 p.
complex terrain
Land cover classification in rugged areas using simulated moderate-resolution remote sensor data and an artificial neural network
Yool, S., 1998, In : International Journal of Remote Sensing. 19, 1, p. 85-96 12 p.
artificial neural network
Maximum likelihood
Mapping fire-induced vegetation mortality using landsat thematic mapper data: A comparison of linear transformation techniques
Patterson, M. W. & Yool, S., Aug 1998, In : Remote Sensing of Environment. 65, 2, p. 132-142 11 p.
Linear transformations
Multi-scale analysis of disturbance regimes in the northern Chihuahuan Desert
Yool, S., Dec 1998, In : Journal of Arid Environments. 40, 4, p. 467-483 17 p.
Chihuahuan Desert
Improving thematic mapper based classification of wildfire induced vegetation mortality
Medler, M. J. & Yool, S., 1997, In : Geocarto International. 12, 1, p. 49-58 10 p.
fire behavior
Techniques for computer-assisted mapping of rangeland change
Yool, S., Makaio, M. J. & Watts, J. M., May 1997, In : Journal of Range Management. 50, 3, p. 307-314 8 p.
computer techniques
Landsat multispectral scanner
Remote discrimination of clouds using a neural network
Yool, S., Brandley, M., Kern, C., Gerlach, F. W. & Rhodes, K. L., 1992, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. Publ by Int Soc for Optical Engineering, Vol. 1766. p. 497-503 7 p.
Automated band selection for multispectral meteorological applications
Westerman, S. D., Drake, R., Yool, S., Brandley, M. & DeJulio, R., 1991, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. Publ by Int Soc for Optical Engineering, Vol. 1492. p. 263-271 9 p.
spectral bands
Real-time video image processing
Smedley, K. G. & Yool, S., 1990, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. Tescher, A. (ed.). Publ by Int Soc for Optical Engineering, Vol. 1349. p. 284-293 10 p.
Videocassette recorders
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHMS FOR CLASSIFICATION OF NATURAL VEGETATION IN THE MOUNTAINS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
Yool, S., Star, J. L., Estes, J. E., Botkin, D. B., Eckhardt, D. W. & Davis, F. W., May 1986, In : International Journal of Remote Sensing. 7, 5, p. 683-702 20 p.
Describing the brushfire hazard in Southern California.
Yool, S., Eckhardt, D. W., Estes, J. E. & Cosentino, M. J., 1985, Annals - Association of American Geographers. 3 ed. Vol. 75. p. 417-430 14 p.
Image processing for surveying natural vegetation: possible effects on classification accuracy.
Yool, S., Eckhardt, D. W., Star, J. L., Becking, T. L. & Estes, J. E., 1985, Theodolite to satellite. Technical papers 51st annual ASP meeting, Washington, DC, 1985. Vol. 2, (American Society of Photogrammetry, Falls Church, VA). p. 595-603 9 p.
environmental effect
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Carnaby Union
Pop art print of the faces of John Stephen's Carnaby Street within the Union Jack flag, part of The King of Carnaby Street pop art collection.
Unframed art giclée print, printed on 310gsm fine art archival matte paper, made from 100% cotton, using pigment inks for longevity.
Available in three sizes, choose your preferred colour from 23 options – select a colour to preview image (click on image to expand):
Also available as part of a group of 4 and a group of 12.
Size Choose an optionA4A3A2
Colour Choose an optionRedYellowStoneMintVerdigrisEmeraldAquaCyanSkyCobaltPurpleLilacBlushFuchsiaCoralCopperGreyThink PinkEmerald & Think PinkRed & AquaFuchsia & YellowCobalt & BlushRed & Cobalt Clear
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SKU: N/A Categories: A2 Art Prints, A3 Art Prints, A4 Art Prints, Art Prints Tags: 2017, Carnaby, Cult, Film and TV, London, Mods, Music, Retro, Style
Starting with one shop in 1957, on what was a run-down backstreet with low rents, within 10 years John Stephen had 15 boutiques on Carnaby Street, as well as more across London, in Brighton, Italy, America, and his home town of Glasgow.
Flying the flag in red, white, and blue, the 1960s really was the Great British decade, from the “I’m backing Britain” campaign to successful British exports of music (including The Beatles) and television shows (such as “The Avengers“).
This pop art print features the faces of John Stephen’s Carnaby Street within a Union Jack design.
Available in A4, A3, and A2 sizes to fit standard-size picture frames. Please note that black frame is not included – for a guide on choosing a frame size take a look here.
An official collaboration with the estate of John Stephen, this print is part of the new collection of stylish pop art prints, exclusively by Art & Hue, inspired by John Stephen of Carnaby Street and features Art & Hue’s signature halftone style (halftone is an age-old technique that uses dots to make up the printed image, similar to newspapers or comic books).
Copyright © The John Stephen Estate (1957-1975). All rights reserved. | Pop Art Copyright © Art & Hue ™ 2017. All rights reserved.
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Legislation will make it easier to build housing
Homepage News / News / 0 Comment / January 16, 2020
On the heels of the Gov. Gavin Newsom’s more than $1 billion budget announcement on homelessness, Assemblyman Miguel Santiago (D-Los Angeles) introduced Assembly Bill 1907, which would remove barriers...
Miwa Matreyek’s ‘Infinitely Yours’
Calendar / 0 Comment / January 16, 2020
Miwa Matreyek performs in a show titled “Infinitely Yours,” running from Thursday, Jan. 16, through Saturday, Jan. 18, at 8:30 p.m. at REDCAT. The performance is a dream-like meditation on climate...
Program aims to boost Latinx representation in film
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has launched LA Collab, an effort to connect Latinx talent, executives and creators to opportunities in the entertainment industry, and double Latino representation...
Leaders offer more strategies to end homelessness
A day after the Governor’s Council of Regional Homeless Advisors issued a Comprehensive Crisis Response Strategy, Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, 2nd District, filed a motion on Jan....
Actors’ Gang Theater
Actors’ Gang Theater continues its 2019-20 season with a workshop production of Fritz Lang’s “M,” running from Thursday, Jan. 16, through Sunday, Jan. 19. Originally written by Lang and Thea von Harbou,...
WeHo seeks public input on improvements at Hart Park
The city of West Hollywood invites community members to take part in shaping future site improvements at William S. Hart Park, located at 8341 De Longpre Ave. Community members are asked to share ideas...
Meetings and webinar offer updates on subway work
Metro is holding a quarterly meeting to provide updates on the Wilshire/La Brea, Wilshire/Fairfax and Wilshire/La Cienega subway stations this evening, Jan. 16, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at John Burroughs...
The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage presents the return of four-time Grammy Award-winning bass virtuoso Stanley Clarke for an evening of jazz fusion on Saturday, Jan. 18, at 7:30 p.m. Clarke has attained...
Suspect charged for robbery, firing a gun in Beverly Hills
Crime / Homepage Crime / 0 Comment / January 16, 2020
A 23-year-old man was arrested in Beverly Hills on Jan. 11 after allegedly robbing a victim in the 300 block of Canon Drive and firing a shot while attempting to escape. The robbery occurred at approximately...
Driver sought after Koreatown police pursuit
Authorities are searching for the driver of a stolen vehicle who crashed after a brief police pursuit in Koreatown on Jan. 13. Officers from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Olympic Division attempted...
NFL player faces vandalism charge in Beverly Hills
A player for the New England Patriots was arrested in Beverly Hills on Jan. 11 after he allegedly damaged a vehicle by jumping on the hood. Julian Edelman, 33, was taken into custody by Beverly Hills...
D.A.’s office warns about puppy breeding scams
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office is warning the public about scams in which perpetrators attempt to sell mixed-breed dogs as purebreds. In purebred puppy scams, victims may find themselves...
New director of sales joins Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills
Homepage Life Style and Arts / Life, Style & Art / 0 Comment / January 16, 2020
The Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills announced the addition of Kelly Teo as director of sales and marketing on its executive team. “Returning to California after spending the last six years working...
Owner of former rehab facilities pleads no contest to fraud
The founder of a Los Angeles-based drug and alcohol treatment facility pleaded no contest on Jan. 6 to running a $175-million fraudulent healthcare billing scheme, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s...
Driver pleads no contest to fatal collision involving texting
A 39-year-old woman entered a no contest plea on Jan. 13 for hitting a pedestrian with her vehicle while she was allegedly texting and driving a year ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office...
Lynne Twist to give financial talk at WeHo EDITION
Visionary Women, a Los Angeles female empowerment nonprofit created by Beverly Hills City Councilwoman Lili Bosse, hosts author Angella Nazarian and entertainment executive Shelly Reid, who will present...
Filmforum viewing of international short films at the Egyptian
On Sunday, Jan. 19, the Los Angeles Filmforum will present highlights from the 2019 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen at 7:30 p.m. in the Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian. The program...
Grammy Museum launches awards week with Amy Winehouse exhibit
On Monday, Jan. 20, the Grammy Museum will celebrate the opening of “Beyond Black – The Style of Amy Winehouse” with an exclusive program for museum members and free public launch party as a special...
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Lie Detectors: The return of trial by ordeal
Simon Oxenham
Up until 800 years ago, guilt and innocence in the UK was regularly determined not by judge and jury but through a process known as trial by ordeal:
“There were two main ordeals, by fire or by water (and occasionally the oath was to be proved by making the oath taker swallow a large piece of hardened dry bread!). In the ordeal of fire a piece of iron was put into a fire and then into the party’s hand, the hand was bound and inspected a few days later: if the burn had festered, God was taken to have decided against the party. The ordeal of water required the party to be tied and lowered into a pond; if she/he sank the water was deemed to have received her/him with God’s blessing, and she/he was quickly fished out.” - The Politics of Law by Geary, Morrison and Jago, 2nd Edition. Chapter 3. Pg. 45
Parliament is currently discussing a law that would allow for compulsory polygraph (lie detector) tests to sex offenders. Polygraph tests are inadmissible in UK court because the evidence is so flimsy, Dr Jamie Horder from the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London tells Sense About Science:
“Polygraphs don't work - that's why they're not admissible in court. They can't accurately distinguish between people who are lying and people who are telling the truth. If they work at all it is by the deterrent effect, people are more likely to tell the truth if they believe that the machine will catch them lying. The Ministry of Justice pilot which is being used as evidence for this decision had many limitations."
Sense About Science have an awesome review of the evidence (PDF) which explains exactly how unreliable polygraphs really are. A British Psychology Society review of the evidence comes to the same conclusion (PDF), reporting false positive rates of up to 47% for innocent people:
“People incorrectly judged by polygraphers as lying or having guilty knowledge may be falsely convicted” - British Psychology Society review of the evidence
Like much of the US, the UK is about to return to the methods of the dark ages for determining innocence and guilt. The use of the polygraph technique in the UK will of course be limited to sex offenders - much like in more primitive times when such techniques were reserved for "witches":
“(after the Catholic Church banned priests from administering trial by ordeal), the ordeal soon became virtually obsolete (with the exception of witches).” - The Politics of Law by Geary, Morrison and Jago, 2nd Edition. Chapter 3. Pg. 45
It's clear that polygraph testing is amongst the weakest forms of evidence, but even well trusted techniques such as DNA testing and fingerprint matching are subject to bias. When fingerprints are ambiguous, we will unconsciously be biased by our knowledge of the case (PDF) . Similarly, even DNA experts will cast differing judgments depending on what they know about the case (PDF). With this knowledge of our inherent weakness to bias in mind, it’s difficult to see how a technique with a false-positive rate as high as the polygraph, can be seen as anything other than old-fashioned trial by ordeal.
Bull, R. Baron, H, Gudjonsson, G. Hampson, S. Rippon, G. Vrij, A. (2004) A review of the current scientific status and fields of application of Polygraphic Deception Detection. Final report from the British Psychological Society Working Party (PDF)
Dror I.E., Péron A.E., Hind S.L. & Charlton D. (2005). When emotions get the better of us: the effect of contextual top-down processing on matching fingerprints, Applied Cognitive Psychology, 19 (6) 799-809. DOI: 10.1002/acp.1130
Geary, A. Morrison, W. Jago, R. The Politics of Law. 2nd Edition. Chapter 3. Pg. 45
Horder, J. Lane, S. (2012) Sense About Lie Detectors. (PDF)
Itiel, D., & Hampikian, G. (2011). Subjectivity and bias in forensic DNA mixture interpretation Science and Justice, 51, 204-208 DOI: 10.1016/j.scijus.2011.08.004
Image Credit: Original Water Ordeal Engraving, in slide from the free English Common Law course from the University of London, which I highly recommend.
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How to Get Kodi for iPhone in 2019 (No Jailbreak Required)
Last Updated: May 16, 2019 11:00 pm
Kodi is a massively popular application which streamlines and offers all your media content at one place. It’s available on almost all the platforms including Android, Windows, macOS, Raspberry Pie, Linux, Amazon Fires TV Stick and more, just not on iOS. And that’s disappointing for iPhone users. The official App Store doesn’t have a Kodi app so iPhone users are out of luck. At present, there is absolutely no way you can officially install Kodi on iPhone. However, there is a workaround which lets you get Kodi for iPhone through a third-party app store. So in this article, we are going to show you how you can install Kodi along with some useful alternatives.
Note: We are using AppValley, a third-party app store to download and install Kodi on iPhone. Allowing a third-party app store may compromise your iPhone’s security. We tested this on our iPhone and everything was fine. That said, we do advise that you proceed with caution.
Kodi for iPhone Installation Guide (No Jailbreak Required)
As we mentioned before, this process can be a security risk. If you are an advanced user and want to go ahead with the installation, you can follow the steps below. For those users who don’t want to install Kodi unofficially, you can check out the Kodi for iPhone alternatives in the next section.
1. Open AppValley webpage on Safari and tap on the “Install” button. It will open a dialog box, tap on “Allow”.
Note: The AppValley domain keeps on changing so if the current website doesn’t work, head over to its Twitter handle to find out the updated domain.
2. After that, tap on “Close” and open Settings. On the very first page, you will find “Profile Downloaded”. Tap on it.
3. Here, tap on “Install” on the top-right corner and enter your iPhone’s pass code. Again, tap on “Install” to complete the installation of AppValley.
4. Now come back to the home screen and you will see AppValley already installed on your iPhone. Open it and search “Kodi”. Choose the preferred Kodi build and tap on the “Get” button. A prompt will appear, here tap on “Install” button.
5. AppValley will start installing Kodi. After the installation is complete, open Settings again and head over to General→ Profiles and Device Management. Here, tap on the Enterprise App.
6. On the next screen, tap on “Trust Shanghai P&C…” and again tap on “Trust” following the prompt.
7. Finally, you are all set to use Kodi on iPhone. Just open the Kodi app and it will run without any issues. Now go ahead and install your favorite Kodi add-ons.
Kodi Alternatives for iPhone
Kodi is not officially available on iPhone or iPad so it becomes a hassle for users to go through the hoops to install an app. While Kodi is a great media player app, there are other Kodi alternatives too which work quite well on the iPhone. In this section, we will go through some interesting apps which you can use in place of Kodi.
1. Plex
Plex is one of the most popular media player apps available on almost all platforms. in fact Kodi vs Plex is a huge debate which will go on till eternity. Personally, I love Plex as it allows users to organize all my videos, photos, music, and podcasts at one place, and lets them access media across all devices. Just like Kodi, you can record Live TV shows and that’s absolutely great. Plex has a personalized feed of videos and it’s really helpful when you want to kill time without wading through scores of content. Do note that Kodi brings all the content at one place, but it doesn’t personalize or provide any kind of feed.
In terms of content availability, you have Plex Free which lets you access limited numbers of free content. However, if you choose to get Plex Pass, you will have access to all the premium content including unlimited music, videos and lots of bundled perks. If you want something like Kodi for iPhone, Plex is the closest you can get. Heck, in terms of appearance and user experience, Plex is way better than Kodi. So go ahead and try it out.
Install: Plex (Free, Plex Pass starts at $4.99/month)
2. Infuse 6
Infuse 6 is a new video player in town and it’s already getting rave reviews. It looks pretty simple but has lots of functionality under the hood. Similar to Kodi, you can play content wirelessly from different sources including PC, FTP, Direct URL, and more. The app also adds subtitles automatically if the video doesn’t have it embedded. You also have Trakt Sync which is a popular feature in Kodi so you can seamlessly sync all your shows across platforms, apps, and devices. Besides, you can connect your Plex subscription to this app which is a bonus. Other than that, it can fetch metadata and artwork from the web for local videos and music.
You can also upgrade to the Pro version to get additional benefits. With Infuse Pro, you can stream videos at 4K with Dolby TrueHD support. Also, you get AirPlay, Google Cast, and background playback which is an added advantage. All in all, Infuse 6 is a capable app and you should definitely check it out. It has got many Kodi features and I am sure you will love it.
Install: Infuse 6 (Free, One-time purchase of $24.99)
3. PlayerXtreme Media Player
PlayerXtreme is a powerful video player with support for numerous video formats, way more than what iTunes supports. Just like Kodi, you can play content directly from the PC, web, local NAS server, etc. The good part is that it doesn’t convert the videos to playable formats. Instead, it has support for lots of video codecs which makes it easy to seamlessly stream large files of content. This also saves battery drain which is a huge plus point.
Besides, there is support for real-time subtitles and you can connect various video streaming services within the app. You can also upgrade to the Pro version which has support for AirPlay, Chromecast, and HD quality audio. In a nutshell, it’s not as feature-packed as Kodi, but does the basics pretty well and has a stellar video playback quality. You can surely have a look.
Install: PlayerXtreme Media Player (Free, One-time purchase of $6.99)
SEE ALSO: 10 Best Kodi Repository You Should Install in 2019
Enjoy Kodi for iPhone
Kodi is a behemoth application which has a huge library of add-ons, developer and community support and what not. If you want Kodi for iPhone and can’t compromise with its features then go ahead and install it from a third-party source. However, keep the security implications in mind. In case, you can do away with the add-ons, check out the alternative Kodi apps. These apps bring almost everything what Kodi offers except the add-ons. I am pretty sure these apps will suffice your content need.
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>> How one of our edtech clients generated £75k of school sales in just 4 weeks
The Education Sector. It’s constantly under pressure, with budget cuts left right and centre meaning that, for those businesses operating in this sector, it’s more important than ever to ensure that any marketing spend actually makes a real impact – and offers a serious return on your investment.
When we were approached by the people at MINTclass to help them to generate new leads, we were excited by the opportunities for truly creative campaigns which lay ahead. MINTclass trusted us to reposition the brand in a way which highlighted just how diverse their resource truly is, however we faced a challenge: MINTclass is a product for schools developed by tech-people, not educators. This makes the messaging tricky, as in the education sector people want to hear from the teachers about what their needs really are. So how could we get around this?
MINTclass had been developed with teachers’ support, and had an outstanding reputation. Their success up until this point had been purely down to its spread through word of mouth – but we needed to take it further.
We enlisted the help of educational psychologist, Dr Asha Patel, to work with MINTclass to create content to form part of our 8-step marketing funnel (download it here) which turns teachers into customers and, ultimately, into brand advocates. With Dr Patel able to represent the brand from the perspective of someone with professional insight into student wellbeing, we were able to give the campaign the gravitas it needed to resonate with teachers.
With Dr Patel’s help, we created an insightful blog which was hosted on MINTclass’ website and promoted via a Facebook advert, with a call to action to download our free high-value blueprint to effective classroom management. This gated content allowed us to capture the details of these new leads, and bring them into an email series which we used to encourage people to request a one to one demo with MINTclass.
For every campaign we work on, we don’t just get it running and leave it running. We constantly monitor, tweak and refine it to ensure that it’s as impactful as possible- and this campaign was no different. The landing page taking people to the blueprint to effective classroom management originally converted at 38% (which was great, as we aim for a 40% conversion rate to consider a campaign successful) but we wanted to aim higher. We analysed the performance of the landing page and made some adjustments for mobile viewing (as most of our traffic was coming via mobile devices) and managed to increase to the current click through rate to 63%!
The Facebook advert, which we split tested and refined to ensure they were constantly optimised currently sits at a 2% click through rate (doubling what Facebook classes as a good CTR), making the cost per click only 11p! Plus, the high conversion rate to the gated download of 63% meant it cost MINTclass only 17p per person subscribing to the download and registering for email communications.
So in layman’s terms: that’s 17p for every warm lead we gained for MINTclass.
When you think how expensive the cost per lead can be via other forms of marketing, such as stands at events or PR campaigns which are difficult to measure, it’s easy to see how high the return on the investment can be for data driven campaigns such as these.
But of course, leads are nothing if they don’t convert to sales.
We contacted these leads through an email automation to upsell the idea of having a product demo. MINTclass converted almost 60% of the demo requests into sales, resulting in a whopping £75,000 of business in just 4 weeks.
We’ve been operating in this sector for almost a decade, and in that time we’ve refined our process in helping businesses sell to schools to ensure that our clients marketing spend goes further, and makes the most impact possible.
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A World of Populations
Transnational Perspectives on Demography in the Twentieth Century
Edited by Heinrich Hartmann and Corinna R. Unger
264 pages, 5 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-427-4 $135.00/£99.00 Hb Published (September 2014)
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“…an important step in writing global or transnational histories of demographic ideas and discourses… The volume offers insights into global and local interactions, covers major aspects of global family planning programmes and "overpopulation" debates, as well as contains case studies on the United States, Poland, Chile, South Korea, Turkey, Kenya, and Melanesia.” · H-Soz-Kult
“I learned something new on almost every page of A World of Populations, despite having worked very closely in this field. The case studies herein are surprising and fascinating, offering new geographies and perspectives. This book has made me intrigued and curious about demography and world population all over again.” · Alison Bashford, University of Cambridge, author of Global Population
“Overall, this is a compelling, well-researched set of essays..[that] show us the nuanced, place-specific negotiations between international institutions and experts, national political entities, and local actors… Both the overall picture and the specific stories provided in this text are important contributions to the emerging literature on the history and social studies of demography and population policy.” · Saul Halfon, Virginia Tech
Demographic study and the idea of a “population” was developed and modified over the course of the twentieth century, mirroring the political, social, and cultural situations and aspirations of different societies. This growing field adapted itself to specific policy concerns and was therefore never apolitical, despite the protestations of practitioners that demography was “natural.” Demographics were transformed into public policies that shaped family planning, population growth, medical practice, and environmental conservation. While covering a variety of regions and time periods, the essays in this book share an interest in the transnational dynamics of emerging demographic discourses and practices. Together, they present a global picture of the history of demographic knowledge.
Heinrich Hartmann is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Basel, Switzerland. His book, Der Volkskörper bei der Musterung. Militärstatistik und Demographie in Europa vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg (Wallstein 2011) received the Henry E. Sigerist Award in 2012. His research focuses on the history of nineteenth and twentieth century demography in Europe and on the history of Turkish modernization in a transnational perspective.
Corinna R. Unger is Professor of Global and Colonial History (19th and 20th centuries) at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.
Subject: 20th Century History Sociology
LC: HB851.W56 2014
BL: YC.2014.a.15798
HIS037070 HISTORY/Modern/20th Century;
SOC006000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Demography
HBLW 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000;
JHBD Population & demography
Introduction: Counting, Constructing, and Controlling Populations: The History of Demography, Population Studies, and Family Planning in the Twentieth Century
Corinna R. Unger and Heinrich Hartmann
Part I: Producing Demographic Subjects: Transnational Discourses
Chapter 1. The View From Below and the View From Above: What U.S. Census-taking Reveals about Social Representations in the Era of Jim Crow and Immigration Restriction
Paul Schor
Chapter 2. “Reproduction” as a New Demographic Issue in Interwar Poland
Chapter 3. Family Planning: A Rational Choice? The Influence of Systems Approaches, Behavioralism, and Rational Choice Thinking on Mid-Twentieth Century Family Planning Programs
Corinna R. Unger
Chapter 4. “Overpopulation” and the Politics of Family Planning in Chile and Peru: Negotiating National Interests and Global Paradigms in a Cold War World
Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney
Chapter 5. Revisiting the Early 1970s Commoner-Ehrlich Debate about Population and Environment: Dueling Critiques of Production and Consumption in a Global Age
Thomas Robertson
Part II: Demographic Knowledge in Practice: Transfers and Transformations
Chapter 6. “Counting People”: The Emerging Field of Demography and the Mobilization of the Social Sciences in the Formation of Policy, South Korea since 1948
John Paul DiMoia
Chapter 7. Laparoscopy as a Technology of Population Control: A Use-Centered History of Surgical Sterilization
Jesse Olszynko-Gryn
Chapter 8. A Twofold Discovery of Population: Assessing the Turkish Population by its “Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices”, 1962-1980
Heinrich Hartmann
Chapter 9. Seeing Population as a Problem: Influences of the Construction of Population Knowledge on Kenyan Politics (1940s to 1980s)
Maria Dörnemann
Chapter 10. Filtering Demography and Biomedical Technologies: Melanesian Nurses and Global Population Concerns
Alexandra Widmer
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RNI lists Dainik Bhaskar as largest circulated daily
Venkaiah Naidu, Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting, announced this while releasing the Press in India Report 2015-16 prepared by RNI
BestMediaInfo Bureau | Mumbai | January 3, 2017
Dainik Bhaskar, published by DB Corp Limited (DBCL), has become the nation’s largest circulated multi-edition daily. The company also publishes Divya Marathi and Saurashtra Samachar. This was shared by Venkaiah Naidu, Minister for Information & Broadcasting, while releasing the Press in India Report 2015-16 prepared by the Registrar of Newspapers of India (RNI).
Dainik Bhaskar is the flagship publication of Dainik Bhaskar Group, which enjoys a readership of nearly 44 million across 14 states with five newspapers and 62 editions.
This year Dainik Bhaskar was ranked the world’s fourth largest circulated daily by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) in its World Press Trends 2016 report. Audit Bureau of Circulation, in its latest audit report of Jan-Jun 2016, also ranked Dainik Bhaskar as India’s largest circulated daily.
Girish Agarwal
Girish Agarwal, Director, Dainik Bhaskar Group, said, “This is truly a great moment for us. All our hard work and sincere efforts has culminated into this recognition and in being crowned the undisputed leader by RNI. We take this opportunity to thank our readers who continue to demonstrate immense trust in Dainik Bhaskar and have integrated us so strongly into their daily lives. We also thank all our associates who have supported us through our journey that started at a very modest scale. We are excited about the future and look forward to working even harder towards our mission of being a key partner and enabler of India’s socio-economic transformation.”
Vinay Maheshwari
Vinay Maheshwari, SVP - Sales and Market Development and Brand Marketing, Dainik Bhaskar, said, “This achievement is a resultant of our reader-centric approach which forms the core of our editorial and operational philosophy. We are very excited and understand that as a team we need to bring even more efforts to live up to this acknowledgement. This also speaks of our endeavours to constantly bring the best quality content, create the right kind of product and promotion mix for our associates, all the while ensuring total adherence to stringent quality management systems.”
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IRS 2017
Commentary: Rethink the AIR, else meet the fate of print in West
Total readership better metric than AIR, says Rishi Darda of Lokmat
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By Denise Paglinawan Canadian Startup News November 26, 2019
Mavencare launches ‘first-of-its-kind’ portal for real-time access to home care patient data
Toronto-based Mavencare, a home care technology company that aims to connect seniors to home healthcare services, has launched what it is calling a first-of-its-kind digital portal to provide care managers access to real-time patient data.
“The current state of communication between the provider and payer is fragmented throughout the industry.”
The new portal, Mavencare Plus, aims to increase efficiency and save time by improving communication between the provider and its partners in order to promote better care coordination and health outcomes for home care patients. Mavencare also noted that the new portal is compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
“Our goal is to create better health outcomes for patients while also providing our partners with the ability to be more efficient,” said the CTO and president of Mavencare, Nukul Bhasin.
“We recognized that the current state of communication between the provider and payer is fragmented throughout the industry, so we set out to develop a solution as part of our partner offering for a new level of enterprise access,” Bhasin added.
RELATED: Zonetail and Mavencare expand to the US
Mavencare’s home care technology service collects real-time, in-home data and uses predictive analytics to identify patient risk and reduce hospitalizations. The new portal utilizes a notification system and houses all communication between its team, caregivers, clients, healthcare partners.
“Care managers can now simply access Mavencare Plus to have real-time in-home status updates including visibility into critical events,” said Mavencare CEO Adam Blackman.
The startup also vets its caregiver applicants and matches patients with a caregiver according to their needs. It provides services in the Greater Toronto Area and New York City, and also expanded to the Greater Boston Area in December 2018. The Mavencare Plus portal is expected to be rolled out over the coming months.
Image source Mavencare
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2015 Bikepacking Awards
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In appreciation of all that 2015 has brought us, we’re delighted to announce our first ever, year-end bikepacking awards. Read on to find out our 25 picks, including the ‘Most Inspiring Photo’, ‘Best Short Film’, ‘Ballsiest Trip’, ‘Explorer of The Year’, and more…
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Explorer(s) of the Year
Our top award goes to those who simply inspired us most to explore… To connect dots on a map and establish new routes for others to aspire to, and enjoy.
Tom and Sarah Swallow
Tom and Sarah’s journey was one of the most inspiring this year. In August, they set out from the shores of North Carolina to ride the Trans America Trail, a moto-specific route previously uncharted by cyclists, in what was to become an 87 day, 4,970 mile, off-tarmac adventure. Not only that, but they also documented their journey beautifully along the way. In case you missed it, read about their story here.
ULTRA-ACHIEVER OF THE YEAR
Sometimes finishing isn’t enough… This award goes to a bikepacker who has redefined what we imagined possible – for herself as much as the community at large.
Lael Wilcox (rarely without a smile)
Over the summer, we all watched a colorful dot with the initials ‘LW’ tearing across our screens… that little dot was the Trackleaders.com GPS map icon for Lael Wilcox, as she flew through the Tour Divide bikepacking race at an astonishing speed. Lael made history, completing the self-supported Tour Divide bikepacking race in a record-setting 17 days, 1 hour, and 51 minutes. Not only that, but as a warm up to the Tour Divide, Lael pedaled over 100 miles per day for 19 straight days from her home in Anchorage, Alaska to the start of the race in Banff, Alberta. And, if that wasn’t enough, she then rode the GDMBR again later in the summer, bettering her record by over a day and a half…
Top Finish of the year
Sometimes records are broken… and sometimes they’re shattered. Our next award goes to this year’s most impressive finish in the race calendar.
Photo from Old Guys Finish First, by Eddie Clark Media.
Josh Kato
In a nail biting finale, Josh Kato, a 40 year-old full-time nurse from Washington, won this year’s 2,745 mile Tour Divide, setting a new course record of 14 days, 11 hours and 37 minutes (14:11:37). Josh beat the former record by over 24 hours, held by Jay Petervary, who finished a close second. Way to go Josh! In case you’re interested, read about Josh’s pack list here.
The Big Trip
Long journeys don’t just happen. They take dedication, focus and drive. This award goes to the person with the most oomph to make a big trip happen. The kind of trip that makes us say: ‘I wish I could do that’.
Markus Stitz, Around The World by Singlespeed
On the 3rd of September, Markus Stitz set off on an around the world bike trip. No big deal, right? A handful of folks have completed such a cycling adventure. Markus, however, has chosen to carry out such a mission on his trusty singlespeed. Since his departure, he’s already racked up over 8,000 KMs throughout Europe and the US, cycling over 130KM per day. At this rate, Markus is on course to finish the journey in New Zealand, in September of 2016. Read about the highs and lows of his ride at MarkusStitz.com
The Ballsiest Trip
Every trip, whether large or small, has challenges that place us outside our comfort zone. For some folks, searching out these extremes becomes the bread and butter of the ride… Our next award recognizes such undertakings. These sorts of journeys aren’t for everyone, but we’re grateful that there are people in the world driven to devise them.
Steve ‘Doom’ Fassbinder, The Brooks Range Traverse
In the summer of 2015, Steve Fassbinder, Jon Bailey and Brett Davis set out to cross the Brooks Range, a vast expanse of remote mountains, stretching 700 plus miles east to west across northern Alaska and into Canada’s Yukon Territory. The planning and risks involved in this bikerafting trip were more than intense. Fortunately, on the ground, the trip went butter smooth. As Steve put it, “… the trip did go well, but it could easily have not! There were several times leading up to the trip where I was thinking ‘I hope we don’t have to abandon our bikes out there.’” Learn more about the adventure at SeekAndEnjoy.com.
Given the bike industry’s propensity to jump on bandwagons in the quest for the ‘next big thing’… this award recognizes a manufacturer that has been there for the long haul – and continues to create great new products intended for adventure.
With the tagline ‘Adventure by Bike’, Salsa Cycles has certainly lived up to their mantra. In 2015, they released three capable bikes designed primarily for bikepacking – the sleek Cutthroat, the drop-barred, plus-tired Deadwood, and the long distance Marrakech. Salsa also published a book on the intricacies of bikepacking, as well as releasing the new Anything Cage HD, which has set up residence on all our bikes over the last year.
As bikepacking captures the imagination of more and more riders, we’re seeing an ever growing plethora of companies releasing specialized products. Amongst the many striving to make their passion a successful business, here are two that really stood out to us in 2015.
Although Bedrock Bags’ Andrew Wracher is no newcomer to sewing, we’ve noticed a distinct upturn in this year’s offerings. Products that particularly stand out include the Entrada handlebar system, the new Dakota top tube bag, and the origami-like Tapeats To-Go bag. Stay tuned as Bedrock and Velorution Cycles join forces in a new creative workshop, tucked high in the mountain biking mecca of Durango, CO.
In business for the last few years, Oveja Negra quietly upped their game over 2015 and moved into a gorgeous new workshop in bike-friendly Salida (be sure to ride there if you haven’t already). We’ve been consistently impressed with their classy designs, and the general quality of everything they lay their hands on.
Most Inspiring Image
A moment caught in time can touch our psyche more deeply than we might expect. A simple photograph can drive us to explore, challenge ourselves, and seek out new experiences. Amongst the wealth of wonderful imagery we’ve seen this year, here are three picks that have wielded such a power over us.
Cover of Bike Mag, September, 2015, by Joey Schusler
Aside from being a strong and evocative image, this photograph by Joey Schusler stands out because it was chosen as a cover shot for the Bike Mag, bringing the notion of traveling by bike to a wider and more mainstream audience than it’s reached before.
Cass Gilbert, Trans-Ecuador
You’ll be hard-pressed to find another bikepacker who’s put out the quality, or quantity, of inspiring bikepacking photos into the ether. Being a part of this site, Cass didn’t want to toot his own horn, but given his accomplishments this year, I insisted. In addition to finishing his Americas tip-to-tip odyssey in 2015, Cass took off to Mongolia to gather even more stunning photos. There is an incredible collection on his Tumblr; the image I chose is a mind-blowing capture from his Trans-Ecuador trip. – Logan
Our goal was to pick three photos from across the world of bikepacking, but as you can see, we failed. There are so many good ones out there, that making a decision proved too hard. So we thought we’d ask for some help from our readers. If you’ve bookmarked, created, or know someone that captured a great photo in 2015 that embodies bikepacking, send it to pedalingnowhere at gmail dot com. At the beginning of 2016, we’ll make a choice based on your suggestions, and post it here as well as our email newsletter.
Best In Film
The sheer professionalism and quality of storytelling in adventure filmmaking never ceases to impress us. Given the advent of drone footage and miniaturization of professional-grade cameras, bikepacking is certainly reaping its benefits. In our next award, we’ve chosen three different films that we feel capture the spirit of bikepacking in their own special way.
Best Picture: The Trail to Kazbegi, by Joey Schusler
Mind-melting descents. Gorgeous scenery. Tense encounters with overzealous border-patrol guards. Dogfights – literally. It’s all here… if you haven’t already, find 15 minutes and watch this finely crafted film of a journey across Georgia’s Caucasus Mountains.
Best in Cinematography: The Cold Vein, by Montanus
“The call of the mountain is even stronger during winter, when the snow breaks the tree-tops and the cold weather freezes the bones.” The Cold Vein is a short film about a winter bikepacking adventure, beautifully filmed by an Italian duo who go by the name of ‘Montanus, The Wild Side’.
Best in Storytelling: MegaMoon, by Hannah Maia
A must-watch, short-format film. So often overshadowed by the popularity of racing the Tour Divide, it’s refreshing to glean a more personal insight into riding the GDMBR at a more leisurely pace – and seeing the way in which its two British protagonists react to the sweeping landscapes of the Great American West. Read more about the story here.
Best Documentary: Mountain Bikes & Bothy Nights, by Al Humphreys
Champion of the Micro Adventure, Alastair Humphreys’ Bothy Nights captures perfectly both the majesty, and the bikepacking potential, of the the Scottish Highlands. It poetically recounts the remarkable story of its bothies, the simple houses and huts that dot its glens and coastlines; sanctuaries from the elements open to whomever makes the journey to them. With its stunning drone footage and inspired storytelling, Bothy Nights has us itching to visit Scotland for our next adventure.
Best New Route
Each season hundreds of intrepid, amateur explorers set out on two wheels to weave together bikepacking routes, for personal satisfaction, or to share. We’re grateful for all the wonderful contributions we’ve posted to the site in 2015… As fanatical bikepackers ourselves, here are three that have really stood out to us; two are on the more accessible end of the spectrum, and one is distinctly on the wild side…
Three Sisters Three Rivers, Oregon, USA – Limberlost
Three Sisters Three Rivers is a new route, devised by Oregonian experts Limberlost, linking up some of the state’s primo mountain bike trail systems. Set over 325 memorable miles, terrain covers loose, sandy singletrack outside of Bend, to the lush, wet, mossy trails of the North Umpqua River. What’s more, the whole region is incredibly bike friendly, making this ride one that should definitely be pencilled into your 2016 calender.
The Capital Trail, Scotland – Markus Stitz
Just a stone’s throw from Edinburgh, the Capital Trail guides you through some surprisingly remote and beautiful spots, all within easy access of the Scottish Capital. It features windswept beaches, superb singletrack, historic Land Rover tracks, countryside backroads, mellow cycle paths, and more. Whether you choose to race it or ride it, this challenging, two day route is a great taste of what Scotland has to offer.
Camelsfoot Range, BC, Canada – by Skyler Des Roches
Some routes aren’t meant to be easy… From nirvanic, backcountry double-track to rowdy DH descents, rooty tech to open alpine free-riding, bikepacking the Camelsfoot Range has it all – including a dash of gravel grinding and a burly ‘pushwack’ for good measure. Make no doubt about it – this is a route that requires planning and commitment, quite apart from navigational experience. But as ever, the rewards for its inevitable toils are more than worth it…
Most Influential Event
This award recognises an event that has helped promote and celebrate bikepacking, in whatever form it may take.
Photo by Jason Boucher
Evening of Adventure, by Bunyan Velo
Many of you will be familiar with Bunyan Velo, the online publication dedicated to ‘travels on two wheels’, in all its luxuriant forms. Perhaps you’re not aware, however, of editor Lucas Winzenburg’s series of bicycle-themed talks, held at the Angry Catfish in Minneapolis. A combination of diverse story telling, great food and local beer (as well as the best bike-related raffle we’ve feasted our eyes on), we think it’s the perfect blueprint for likeminded events within the bicycle touring community.
Best New Ride/Race
Grassroots races are springing up all around the world, showcasing the very best of local bikepacking to anyone willing to sign up and test their mettle. As much as we love to pit ourselves against the clock, this year’s award goes to two different kinds of events, both of which highlight the social side of bikepacking…
The Dorset Gravel Dash
Tucked away in a quaint nook of the English countryside, the Dorset Gravel Dash is one of the more curious events in the bikepacking calender. For a start, it doesn’t take itself too seriously. Its refreshingly unusual format incorporates both an incredibly scenic, challenging century ride for diehard racers, and a self supported overnighter – spent in a woodland glade – that splits the ride into two more digestible halves for mellower participants. The organizers stress that time spent in pubs and tea houses is just as important as miles spent in the saddle…
Swift Campout
This year’s inaugural Swift Campout, held over the Solstice Weekend, was devised by Seattle gear fabricators Swift Industries to promote a campout on a worldwide scale. Or as they put it, a reason to ‘pack up and skip town’. The weekend spawned a ton of global fun and shared experiences, as well as a whole wealth of inspiring imagery and film making (from New Zealand to Japan).
Most Interesting New Bike
Each year a slew of new steeds are dropped into the marketplace. An increasing number of these are being designed with bikepacking in mind. Several released this year have really impressed… including the Chumba Ursa BC, the Jones Plus, and the Jamis Dragonslayer (reviews forthcoming). But if choices have to be made, our top spot for 2015 goes to…
The Salsa Cutthroat
Granted… most of us have yet to ride one. But what’s not to like?! A gorgeous color scheme on a bike built for the race that’s done the most to popularise bikepacking, the Tour Divide. Aptly, the featherweight, mile-munching Cutthroat even includes an illustration of the GDMBR route under its the down tube. Read Salsa Rider Jay Petervery’s impressions here.
Gear of The Year
After much deliberation, we’ve whittled the list down to our top three picks from all the gear tested in 2015…
Porcelain Rocket Orbiter Framebag
We’ve always admired the way in which Porcelain Rocket intertwines a sense of aesthetics with innovative designs – a case in point being this year’s waterproof version of the popular Mr Fusion seatpack, and the tough as nails Orbiter expedition framebag. Inspired by the classic roll-top dry bag… and all the zips that long distance bikepackers have trashed over multi-month journeys, Porcelain Rocket’s Orbiter is our framebag of choice for anyone with expedition-style aspirations. Read our review here.
The Hauser by Acre Supply
Acre/Mission Workshop has a knack for creating trim, aesthetically pleasing, and adventure-ready gear. The Hauser is their take on a do-all backpack. It isn’t new for 2015, but it’s new to us. We’ve recently tested the Hauser 10L in Spain, and after 6 solid weeks of riding, we can safely say that it’s the most comfortable backpack we’ve ever had the pleasure of buckling.
Revelate Terrapin V2
Supplying bags to the likes of Salsa, Surly and Jones, it’s little surprise that Alaskan-based Revelate Designs is the top selling, bikepacking-specific gear manufacturer. And for good reason. Established in 2007, each product Eric Parsons and his team launches is a thoughtful, well conceived evolution from the last. Revelate’s updated Terrapin seat pack is no different. It improves on the original design (which we loved) by introducing an air valve, a new strap system, and a super handy top load deck for gear overflow. Stay tuned for our reviews of the V2 Terrapin and Revelate’s new Zipstretch framebag.
Good Deed of the Year
Our final award is dedicated to those who have balanced their own enjoyment with an inspiring act of goodness. Although this year’s good deed is a relatively small one, it’s a fitting template we could all follow.
Chris Reichel, @Dirty_Biker
At the end of each of Chris’ big trips, he disassembles his bike, donating all its parts to young and interested mountain bikers. What a great way to spread the joy; we should all take a cue from this little act. Here’s what Chris had to say: “Whenever I finish a bike trip, I have a tradition of giving away as many of my parts as possible to young local riders. I was affraid that I wouldn’t be able to give as much this year due to returning home to no job… That is until these great companies offered to donate this pile of parts. They are going to a new home with some young Kathmandu shredders. Hopefully they will inspire a new generation of bad ideas and adventure. Your next trip to the shop, please remember how rad these companies are: @maxxistires @mrpbike @crankbrothers @paulcomponents @endlessbikegirl @pteclights @handupgloves”
Adios 2015…
We hope you’ve enjoyed this celebration of a stellar year, in which we’ve paid homage to the people, their creativity, the companies, and their products that have made 2015 such a memorable one for bikepacking. We’re the first to admit that such ‘awards’ feature a large dose of subjectivity. If there’s anything else that’s stood out to you – individuals, gear, images or otherwise – please feel free to share them in the comments below. Thanks!
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BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 Version 10.2 Roll Out
12.03.13 / Ali Rehman
We’ve got some exciting news for BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 (BES10) customers — today we begin to roll out enhancements to our leading multi-OS enterprise mobility management (EMM) solution with the release of BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 (BES10) version 10.2. BES10 customers including Morgan Stanley, Boeing, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board and Secusmart are currently participating in the BES10 version 10.2 early adopter and beta programs, and are running the new version in a test environment.
To date, customers have installed nearly 30,000 BES10 commercial and test servers around the world. Organizations continue to choose BlackBerry because it is the most proven and trusted enterprise mobility management (EMM) solution, supporting iOS, Android and BlackBerry smartphones.
BES10 version 10.2 brings key new features to the platform, including:
• Expanded Multi-Platform support: Includes Secure Work Space support for iOS 7 background email sync, API support allowing the automation of BES10 functions for iOS and Android devices through BlackBerry Web Services, and dynamic support for iOS and Android OS updates, which allows IT administrators to create activation and application distribution rules for the latest iOS and Android devices that employees bring into the organization, without requiring a server upgrade.
• BYOD Enrolment for iOS and Android: truly enable BYOD by allowing administrators to manage only the Secure Work Space container on iOS and Android devices, thereby providing BYOD users with the assurance that the personal information and apps on their device remains in their control.
• Self-Service Portal: A self-service portal enables users to perform device management tasks on their own, meaning fewer calls to IT, lower TCO and more control to users.
• Reduced Cost: BES10 now easily scales to support 100,000 devices per domain, with any mix of BlackBerry, iOS and Android devices, reducing the number of servers and resources required for large scale deployments, and significantly reducing costs.
BlackBerry Software Assurance
In addition, BlackBerry is also introducing BlackBerry Software Assurance. This new service offering helps customers to easily upgrade to BES10 from earlier versions of BES. BlackBerry Software Assurance is included with the “Advantage” level or higher technical support or as a standalone annual subscription service for customers who may not require full support.
Customers are actively taking advantage of BlackBerry’s global enterprise support services. The company provides support to enterprise customers in more than 90 countries, with some of the largest device deployments across a variety of industries, including Health Care, Public Safety, Finance, Public Sector, Education and more.
‘BlackBerry Care support’ is included when customers deploy BES10. It comes with 12×5 electronic access to experts at BlackBerry for two named IT administrators with a next business day response, as well as access to training, productivity and diagnostic tools. Additional levels of technical support services are also available, including support for BES10 deployments with iOS and Android devices.
We are looking forward to your comments and feedback, join the conversation on @BlackBerry4Biz
About Ali Rehman
@AliRehman81 is the Enterprise Social Marketing Manager at BlackBerry. He is involved in managing social media program for the B2B community. Also focusing on developing engagement and awareness across various social properties. Outside of work he is a massive aviation fan and big supporter of the 'Blue Angels (USN)' aerobatics team.
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RGV revisited: now no vodka, no women
By Khalid Mohamed on May 30, 2014 • ( 5 Comments )
By Khalid Mohamed
RGV: unfazed
Lately you might have read the post on Ram Gopal Varma on this space that he’s “down but not out”. Naturally because the man’s a fighter, and has buffeted several storms: not only flops, Aags, court cases but also personal attacks in print.
Don’t get me wrong though. I’m not a burqa-clad PR of the 52-year-old RGV (going on 32, I suspect he uses L’Oreal for his hair). And in fact, he’s been downright nasty to me, following a negative review for any of his films. That’s human, I guess. Which filmmaker doesn’t suffer from bad review allergy? He retaliates, simmers, sulks but the lord be blessed, returns to normal.
And what is the normal RGV? The honest answer to that he’s the most abnormal person I’ve ever met in my lifetime. Abnormal in a nice way. He’s viciously honest about his dislikes and childishly playful about his likes. Yup, I’m sure he dislikes and likes me. Chalo, that’s much better than friends who’ve turned out strictly to be opportunistic friends in need. Extremists are preferable to those who’re neither here nor there. And there’s no filmmaker who’s more fun and no-nonsense to converse with. The only comparable name I can think of is the late Manmohan Desai, who was consistently straight as an arrow.
And although RGV pretends to be irrevocably heartless, it’s a front. When I lost someone very dear to me, very dear, he was there, spending an entire day with me when I went numb, and could hardly register what he was saying. He didn’t offer fake homilies of consolation, he strived to divert my mind by discussing his favourite writers, Ayn Rand and Nietzche.
This must have been at least a dozen years ago. RGV went to the kitchen, made himself a mug of coffee, and was there for me, cancelling a day’s shooting: the presence mattered particularly because none of my other friends had understood that I couldn’t be left alone in those immediate days of mourning. He’s ‘senti’ even though he doesn’t know it. And I suspect he’s even forgotten that afternoon when he was there, assisting me to come out of my vortex of grief.
Films that hurt him the most: Bhoot Returns, The Attacks of 26/11 and Department
We call each other ‘Gaaru’ simply because it sounds correct and maybe even endearing. When he’s upset with me the ‘Gaaru’ vanishes, I become that ‘bloody fellow, he doesn’t know anything.’ Such snubs are a piffling price to pay for the positives. Today, we are back on ‘Gaaru’ terms, not that he’s close enough to inform me about the hell he’s gone through lately, following the consecutive rejections of his movies, the last one being Department, The Return of Bhoot and The Attacks of 26/11.
He went riot with the new digital medium, entrusting the cinematography to film students armed with HD cameras. In addition, I think he couldn’t quite deal with the interventions of Sanjay Dutt (some believe Sanjay Dutt’s secretary) in the making of Deparment. RGV, a fantastic technocrat, became associated with mind-spinning camera angles and an arrogant attitude towards his audience.
Take it or go for a walk. Audiences preferred to go for a walk. Reviewers slammed him, the trade went tsk, tsk. Personally, I found a visceral power in his Not A Love Story. It would be facile to say he’s ahead of his times. He can be a solid story-teller in the cause-and-effect mode as well. Proof: Rangeela and Sarkar.
Muse No.1: Urmila Matondkar
Incidentally, a poll which had been conducted by a newspaper among a group of critics, ranked Satya as their all-time favourite. Its impact – because of strikingly realistic content and a style to match – has lasted decades. Urmila Matondkar and RGV may have had an acrimonious parting of ways, but that hasn’t ever stopped her from admitting that he’s the best director that she has ever worked with.
And Dibakar Banerjee, in an interview with me, pointed out that today’s adventurous filmmakers owe a huge debt to Gaaru, a debt that is rarely acknowledged. RGV has mentored Anurag Kashyap and gave Sriram Raghavan his first break with Ek Haseena Thi.
According to Dibakar Banerjee, “Ram Gopal Varma pioneered the indie wave with his Factory production office. It buzzed with some of the most remarkable writers, technicians and directors on the scene today.”
So, that’s the verbose backstory to Ram Gopal Varma of 2014. As it happened, I collided into Gaaru during a visit to Hyderabad this week. He’s completed a Telugu film featuring Vishnu Vardhan Babu on the trail of a serial killer.
Earlier, he delivered the successful Rowdy, with the legendary actor Mohan Babu and his son Vishnu, a riff on his obsessive film The Godfather, which had spawned two Sarkars in Hindi. His other obsession has been Sholay but you know what happened there: a calamity which he takes either with a sense of humour or wants to forget like the raging Hyderabad heat outside his editing room.
Sobering influence: with Dr Mohan Babu
RGV angle: Vishnu Vardhan Babu in Rowdy
I’m not surprised that he’s cutting a promo of the serial killer film right now. He shows it to me with the expectation of a school kid eager to score high marks in a report card. The promo has RGV’s trademark swift cutting, gratifyingly the camera’s rock steady.
What is the film’s title, Psycho? Or is it Tension? Who told you that, he balks, nothing has been decided. Who who who who told you about Tension? Gaaru, I saw the title scribbled on the production’s soft-board Easy! “Oho, you were the last person on earth I expected to see here,” he guffaws. “Don’t make trouble for me. The title hasn’t been finalised yet. Okay?”
Okay Gaaru. According to internet news reports, Dr Mohan Babu has been a sobering influence on RGV, talking him into giving up on his evening tankards of vodka. Instead, at most Gaaru pours himself a glass of white wine in the evening, or makes do with a filter coffee. “Ya,” he says, “that’s correct. Only wine sometimes.” Is it a good French wine, I wonder, to which he creases his eyebrow, “I don’t know. It’s Sula something. Is that French?” No, it isn’t, ha ha!
Currently, the filmmaker’s staying in the service apartment of a five-starrer. He has a family home in Hyderabad but then he’s not been much of a family man, needs his tanhaai, creative space and all that. Ummm, is there any new muse in his life?.. I roll a tongue in cheek. He glares. No? I badger him, whatever happened to Nisha Kothari, for instance? No expression this time, Gaaru speeds off to the washroom to wash his hands before lunch. It’s nearly 1.30 pm., and if he doesn’t eat by this time, he’s dead, another way of saying that he doesn’t have much of a breakfast. Result: the stomach’s growling like one of the ghosts in his movies.
The underworld, ghost stories and twisted love valentines have been his calling card. Gaaru tells me that he will be back in Mumbai, June-end, to look for a new office. And he will start the pre-production of his next Hindi film.
Aaah! that’s Gaaru RGV. Nothing can faze him, and that’s the way it should be with filmmakers. Who knows, he could even come up with a Dilwale Bhoot Le Jayenge some day.
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bollywoodtales says:
I remember RGV once in an interview was asked about the miserable failure of his most ambitious project ‘Aag’ and he said he had made the movie with all the energy, heart and skills that he made other successful films like Satya and Rangeela. He expressed a surprise why audience didnt like the film. I wonder if this was true then why was there hell lot of difference between the quality of Satya and Aag? Where did he compromise?
Pranjal says:
RGV’s contribution to Indian cinema is highly understated. We would still have films like DDLJ if it wasn’t for him ,sadly a man is judged by his present actions. In the nineties I remember when a film would have the RGV tag on it,it would invite a variety of people to the theatres, very rarely has a film worked on the name of the directors rather than the star or heroes or maybe some hot song in the film.
But today if a Hindi film has RGV even written in the corner of the poster people predict torture and runaway from it.
Anurag Kashyap once said that he (RGV) has cut off from the world ,which is true in a sense that he needs to re-invent his style which was loved at one time.if you see he’s recent films which bombed they were actually good at content but the way they were made really invited boredom.i very strongly feel of he moves ahead then he can once again make flicks which are ahead of time.
Shantanu says:
Hi, do you know when ab tak chappan-2 will release? am eagerly waiting for this film for a long time now.
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Good thing about the film is its honesty in sticking to the genre of crime thriller. No unnecessary romantic songs or mindless comedy to hinder the narration. Varma’s rationalism comes handy in the film. Film opens with a verse told in Mahabharatha that bad people need to be punished. In fact, a song debating between what’s good and what’s bad going by characters of Ramayana and Mahabharatha. Manoj is left helpless as one after other family members are killed. Second half shows how he takes revenge. You can see the complete Manoj movie Attack Review at http://www.teluguodu.com
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Phalcon 0.3.0 released!
Phalcon Team (niden)
Last week, we were working on a huge refactoring over many aspects of Phalcon. Once all code in the last 0.2.x branch has reached maturity and reasonable stability We are now working on a new exciting branch producing a cleaner code base which let us to add many improvements as possible.
The current list of changes is:
Refactoring many code patterns as C macros, the total base code was reduced by about 8000 lines of code less.
Most function calls were rewritten to avoid any string length counting by avoiding potential use of strlen. Functions and method names have fixed string lengths improving general performance. This improvement was also implemented for static string concatenation.
We have implemented some kind of Register Allocation to take advantage of processor registers. However, the compiler will choose best register allocations when it compiles the extension.
Support for PHP 5.4. A number of issues when running Phalcon under PHP 5.4 were identified and corrected.
In some cases memory was copied without need when updating internal arrays, they were fixed.
A function cache was included to avoid potential function lookups on internal HashTables. This cache stores internal pointers to functions low level code improving performance.
We would like to thank each and every person who has contributed feedback, testing, and more for the last release and invite you to send us your comments on the new branch.
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Extremely Common Eloquence
constructing Scottish identity through narrative
Series: SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature, Volume: 3
Author: Ronald K.S. Macaulay
Extremely Common Eloquence presents a detailed analysis of the narrative and rhetorical skills employed by working-class Scots in talking about important aspects of their lives. The wide range of devices employed by the speakers and the high quality of the examples provide convincing evidence to reject any possible negative evaluation of working-class speech on the basis of details of non-standard pronunciation and grammar. In addition to this display of linguistic accomplishment the examples examined show how these skills are employed to communicate important aspects of Scottish identity and culture.
Although the political status of Scotland has fluctuated over the past four hundred years, the sense of Scottish identity has remained strong. Part of that sense of identity comes from a form of speech that remains markedly distinct from that of the dominant neighbour to the south. There are cultural attitudes that indicate a spirit of independence that is consistent with this linguistic difference. The ways in which the speakers in this book express themselves reveal their beliefs in egalitarianism, independence, and the value of hard work. Extremely Common Eloquence demonstrates how the methods of linguistic analysis can be combined with an investigation into cultural values.
The Politics of English as a World Language
New Horizons in Postcolonial Cultural Studies
Series: ASNEL Papers, Volume: 65/7and Cross/Cultures, Volume: 65/7
Editor: Christian Mair
The complex politics of English as a world language provides the backdrop both for linguistic studies of varieties of English around the world and for postcolonial literary criticism. The present volume offers contributions from linguists and literary scholars that explore this common ground in a spirit of open interdisciplinary dialogue.
Leading authorities assess the state of the art to suggest directions for further research, with substantial case studies ranging over a wide variety of topics - from the legitimacy of language norms of lingua franca communication to the recognition of newer post-colonial varieties of English in the online OED. Four regional sections treat the Caribbean (including the diaspora), Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and Australasia and the Pacific Rim.
Each section maintains a careful balance between linguistics and literature, and external and indigenous perspectives on issues. The book is the most balanced, complete and up-to-date treatment of the topic to date.
Las gramáticas misioneras de tradición hispánica (siglos XVI-XVII)
Series: Portada Hispánica, Volume: 7
Editor: Otto Zwartjes
La conquista y la colonización del Nuevo Mundo iban acompañadas por el gran esfuerzo de los misioneros por la enseñanza y el adoctrinamiento de los indios. Los clérigos y los políticos sintieron la necesidad de predicar en las lenguas indígenas. En esta monografía se recogen estudios sobre las gramáticas de lenguas amerindias. Se comentan gramáticas de las lenguas otomí, tarasco, náhuatl, quechua, mapuche, guaraní y el millcayac. A modo de epílogo se analiza la política lingüística española y se da una respuesta a la cuestión de hasta en qué medida se encuentran repercusiones de los ’descubrimientos lingüísticos’ del Nuevo Mundo en el pensamiento lingüístico español.
English Literature and the Other Languages
Series: DQR Studies in Literature, Volume: 24
Editors: Ton Hoenselaars and Marius Buning
The thirty essays in English Literature and the Other Languages trace how the tangentiality of English and other modes of language affects the production of English literature, and investigate how questions of linguistic code can be made accessible to literary analysis. This collection studies multilingualism from the Reformation onwards, when Latin was an alternative to the emerging vernacular of the Anglican nation; the eighteenth-century confrontation between English and the languages of the colonies; the process whereby the standard British English of the colonizer has lost ground to independent englishes (American, Canadian, Indian, Caribbean, Nigerian, or New Zealand English), that now consider the original standard British English as the other languages the interaction between English and a range of British language varieties including Welsh, Irish, and Scots, the Lancashire and Dorset dialects, as well as working-class idiom; Chicano literature; translation and self-translation; Ezra Pound's revitalization of English in the Cantos; and the psychogrammar and comic dialogics in Joyce's Ulysses, As Norman Blake puts it in his Afterword to English Literature and the Other Languages: There has been no volume such as this which tries to take stock of the whole area and to put multilingualism in literature on the map. It is a subject which has been neglected for too long, and this volume is to be welcomed for its brave attempt to fill this lacuna.
Sociolinguistics and Language History
Studies based on the Corpus of Early English Correspondence
Series: Language and Computers, Volume: 15
Editors: Terttu Nevalainen and Helena Raumolin-Brunberg
What role has social status played in shaping the English language across the centuries? Have women also been the agents of language standardization in the past? Can apparent-time patterns be used to predict the course of long-term language change?
These questions and many others will be addressed in this volume, which combines sociolinguistic methodology and social history to account for diachronic language change in Renaissance English. The approach has been made possible by the new machine-readable Corpus of Early English Correspondence (CEEC) specifically compiled for this purpose. The 2.4-million-word corpus covers the period from 1420 to 1680 and contains over 700 writers.
The volume introduces the premises of the study, discussing both modern sociolinguistics and English society in the late medieval and early modern periods. A detailed description is given of the Corpus of Early English Correspondence, its encoding, and the separate database which records the letter writers' social backgrounds.
The pilot studies based on the CEEC suggest that social rank and gender should both be considered in diachronic language change, but that apparent-time patterns may not always be a reliable cue to what will happen in the long run. The volume also argues that historical sociolinguistics offers fascinating perspectives on the study of such new areas as pragmatization and changing politeness cultures across time.
This extension of sociolinguistic methodology to the past is a breakthrough in the field of corpus linguistics. It will be of major interest not only to historical linguists but to modern sociolinguists and social historians.
The construction of intercultural discourse
Team discussions of educational advisers
Series: Utrecht Studies in Language and Communication, Volume: 2
Authors: Tom Koole and Jan D. ten Thije
This book breaks open the 'black box' of the workplace, where successful immigrants work together with their Dutch colleagues. In their intercultural team meetings the work itself consists of communication and the question is how that work is done.
The teams consist of Dutch, Turkish, Moroccan, and Surinamese educational experts whose job it is to advise schools and teachers on the form and content of language teaching.
Their meetings are structured according to institutional patterns, such as 'interactive planning' and 'reporting', and according to intercultural discourse structures. For instance, Dutch team members identify their immigrant colleagues as 'immigrant specialists' and are themselves identified as 'institutional specialists'. Further, the intercultural pattern 'thematizing and unthematizing racism' provides the team members with communicative methods to deal with the societal contradictions that exist between different cultural groups, in the Netherlands as well as elsewhere. These intercultural discourse structures concur with the institutional patterns so that, for instance, they affect the outcomes of planning discussions.
Most studies on intercultural communication focus on misunderstandings and miscommunications. This book demonstrates that also communication without miscommunication can be shown to be intercultural.
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!This Saab 96 got away, but there are more like it here.
Seller: ekmcmullen
Location: Bremerton, Washington 98312
1k Miles Indicated, TMU
841cc Inline-Three
Repainted in Green
White Vinyl & Black Cloth Interior
Tool Kit & Owner's Manual
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Additional Charges From This Dealer: USD $100 Document Fee
Model Page: Saab 96
Category: Swedish
The 1967 Saab 96 has been repainted in green over a refurbished white vinyl and black cloth interior and is powered by an 841cc inline-triple paired with a four-speed manual transmission. Additional features include a Solex carburetor, a period AM/FM radio, and stock wheels with hubcaps. This 96 was acquired by the selling dealer earlier in 2019 and is now offered with a tool kit, an owner’s manual, and a Washington State title.
The exterior has been refinished in green according to the selling dealer, and features chrome bumpers with overriders as well as bright fender trim and windshield surrounds.
White-painted 15″ steel wheels wear polished Saab hubcaps and Classic All Season tires. The condition of the paint and trim can be seen close-up in the gallery below.
The interior has been retrimmed with white vinyl and black cloth on the seats and door panels, while green carpets cover the floor. Appointments include crank windows, a period AM/FM radio, and a white-rimmed steering wheel with a chrome horn ring. The manual transmission is operated via a column-mounted shifter. A tour of the cabin is shown in this video.
The white-painted dash houses instrumentation including a 100-mph speedometer and gauges for fuel level and coolant temperature. The five-digit odometer shows just over 1k miles, with actual mileage unknown.
The 841cc “Shrike” engine is equipped with a triple-throat Solex carburetor and was rated at 46 horsepower when new. Power is sent to the front wheels through a four-speed manual transmission with syncromesh on its forward gears. An engine startup video can be viewed here.
Additional images of the underside can be viewed in the gallery below. The car is supplied with a tool kit, an owner’s manual, and invoices from the selling dealer for refurbishment work totaling approximately $15k. Walk-around and driving videos are shown below.
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New leadership appointments for Honeywell Life Safety
Published: 06 June, 2014
Honeywell Life Safety has made some senior appointments within its sensors division.
Sean Clay has been promoted to the role of general manager, and Alexandre Naef, ex Johnson & Johnson director, has taken on the role of sales leader.
Mr Clay was previously sales director for the Honeywell Life Safety sensing and devices division. Other roles included head of marketing and business development director at Novar Intelligent Building systems, and sales and service manager for Gent. He has an MBA in Strategic Marketing and Planning.
Mr Naef was formerly managing director of Jude Medical in Switzerland, and general manager at Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices in Paris. He also co-founded a start-up business, and has a Masters degree in Economics.
Mr Clay said: “Alexandre will be a great asset to Honeywell with his extensive global brand experience. His key responsibility will be developing and executing successful global sales and marketing strategies and for driving uptake of new products such as FAAST aspiration detection, next-generation AV devices and long-life oxygen and ammonia gas sensors. Honeywell Life Safety Sensors is a world-class business creating inspirational solutions for customers.
“I am looking forward in my new role as general manager to continuing to deliver great service and value for customers, whilst driving the business forward into new global markets and achieving sustainable profitable growth, as we continue to invest in new technologies.”
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" Met Me in St. Louis "
Met Me in St. Louis
Some Nice Press Coverage --- Including the Obligatory Lies from an Election Official --- Out of My Old Hometown...
By Brad Friedman on 8/25/2007, 8:41am PT
Blogged by Brad Friedman from Salina, KS...
There was some pretty decent press coverage of my speaking event last week in St. Louis as sponsored by Missourians for Honest Elections.
The full front-page feature article "Voter Beware", by Fran Mannino of the Webster Times, was the most complete in describing the "packed house" event, offering a very good description of some of the issues we face, and featuring a bunch of good quotes from myself and other sources as well.
It also offered a pathetic and shamelessly untrue quote (an out and out lie actually) from St. Louis County Election Director John Diehl, who was invited to share the podium, as were St. Louisans Thor Hearne of the GOP voter-suppression front-group ACVR and Paul DeGregorio, the former chair of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) who parlayed the gig into his next one as chief of an Internet Voting Company. All three were no shows, but that didn't stop Diehl from trying to bullshit the voters he's supposed to be serving, as revealed in Mannino's report...
Diehl, reached after the presentation for comment, was adamant in his defense of the ES&S voting machines used in St. Louis County, and was dismissive of Friedman's claims.
"We would hear some of the same conspiracy theories, and we thoroughly checked those out and found them not to be the case," said Diehl. "In November, we had hundreds of thousands of people vote on these machines on multiple ballot issues – a few million touches on the screens – and didn't receive a single complaint on election day that the machine didn't register their vote as intended."
As an Election Official, we understand that he's either under contract, or sworn oath of fealty to his bosses as the Voting Machine Companies (they use ES&S in St. Louis County), and thus legally required to use the phrase "conspiracy theory" in at least one sentence when speaking to anybody in the media, so we'll forgive him that. The rest of of his lying and disservice to his voters we won't overlook quite as easily.
Diehl did not and could not have "thoroughly checked...out" anything and "found them not to be the case." Had he bothered to check anything, other than the delivery orders for his ES&S voting machines, he'd have found --- beyond a scientific shadow of a doubt --- that his machines are susceptible to tampering and impossible to use transparently.
As to his claim that he "didn't receive a single complaint on election day that the machine didn't register [votes] as intended"...well, he's just lying. Or derelict in his duty as Election Director. He can take his choice. The "Issues Reported" section [PDF] of MO Sec. of State Robin Carnahan's Report on the 2006 Election in the Show Me State lists several complaints by voters using ES&S touch-screen systems in St. Louis County showing votes registered for Republican Senator Jim Talent when the voters were attempting to vote for the Democratic challenger, Claire McCaskill. For example, "Voter reported he touched screen for McCaskill and it registered as a vote for Talent," and "Voter attempted to vote for McCaskill, but touchscreen registered vote for Talent," and "Touchscreen was registering vote for Talent rather than McCaskill."
McCaskill eventually won the election in a squeaker, helping to give the majority in the U.S. Senate to the Democrats, even while there were no complaints in the MO SoS report describing the reverse situation of attempted votes for Talent flipping to McCaskill. As well, the folks from Mo Honest had told me they had received stacks of complaints, via public records records, collected by the County themselves which Mr. Diehl, apparently, didn't see fit to share with the SoS.
UPDATE: It's been pointed out to me that the SoS report also includes an entire series of snail mail letters [PDF] sent to St. Louis County Elections Officials, right from the SoS office, passing on some of the complaints received from voters concerning touch-screen voting machines flipping votes, showing them incorrectly on the confirmation screen, and other related problems. Thus, further confirming the fact that Diehl is simply out and out lying to the media when he says he "didn't receive a single complaint on election day that the machine didn't register their vote as intended."
He knows he did. And if he doesn't, he should be out of a job for dereliction of duty.
As well, we've been told on very good authority that of Missouri's 116 counties, St. Louis County --- the state's largest --- is the only one in the state which has more DRE touch-screen systems than paper-ballot op-scan systems and that they're hoping to go all touch-screen in the future...unless someone stops them. Hardly a surprise for the county where democracy-hater Thor Hearne resides and pulls his vote-suppression strings behind the scenes.
And beyond that, as Diehl knows well, it is strictly impossible to know whether or not any of the county's DRE touch-screen systems registered a single vote "as intended," since nobody can ever know one way or another. Except for Diehl via his Amazing X-Ray Electronic Vision apparently.
I had hoped Diehl would be one of those rare Reality-Based Election Directors interested in democracy and assuring voter confidence and accurate elections. I am disappointed, though unfortunately not surprised at this point, that he does not appear to be. Good luck, St. Louis County.
But thanks for the good coverage nonetheless to Mannino and the Webster Times.
Over at the Riverfront Times, on their blog, Aimee Levitt filed a short but decent piece the day after the event, comparing me, oddly enoughly, to Barack Obama (the resemblance is obvious!)...
With his sleeves rolled up, Barack Obama-style, Friedman paced the front of the chapel with a portable microphone, exhorting the crowd (mostly comprised of senior citizens) to take action. “Let’s count these damned elections accurately for once!” he cried, to much applause.
The puzzling part of her item though, was its headline: "Elections and Self-Promotion: The American Way."
For those who know me or this blog, it wouldn't be difficult to make the case of "Self-Promotion," even if those who really know me and this blog understand both the necessity and the satirical elements built into the The BRAD BLOG's "Self-Promotion." Yet beyond the headline, Levitt didn't even mention, much less make a case for, the "Self-Promotion" mentioned in the headline. That, even while I had mentioned during my remarks that I have no book and nothing to sell, other than hopes of supporting the Mo Honest folks and democracy in Missouri. I sent Levitt an inquiry on the headline, asking for specifics or explanation, but she hasn't bothered to write back. So it's a mystery for the ages, I suppose.
At least she showed up to report on the event, which is more than I can say for the folks at the big boy St. Louis Post-Dispatch, whose editorial board I had met with, upon their invitation, the day before. That meeting went very well, I believe, so either they didn't come because they'd heard enough, or they didn't come because it didn't go as well as I might have thought. I believe it's the former.
I should add that one reporter from the Post actually did turn out, but when he introduced himself to me after the event --- mentioning that he agreed with a few of the shots I'd taken at his once-great paper during my remarks --- I believe that he pointed out he was not there to cover the event, but simply because he was interested in the topic. So I'm much obliged to him for both coming and saying hello afterwards. As I am to the Mo Honest folks for inviting me, and to the loads of folks who turned out.
As the Governator of my current home state famously said: I'll be back...
(ADDENDUM: Wow, just noticed this is article number 5000 here at The BRAD BLOG! And yet, I'm still scrounging to pay the rent each month. Perhaps I should do more self-promotion.)
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"Met Me in St. Louis"
... Dredd said on 8/25/2007 @ 9:07 am PT...
Way cool. Hometown boy makes good!
The lying by the election official illustrates the point that the problem is bi-cameral, at a minimum.
If that election official will lie in this instance why would he not lie in a paper ballot system?
Like Stalin and his paper ballot elections?
Thus, the problem is two fold: 1) we need paper ballots, and 2) we need election officials who are honest and can do simple arithmetic.
Without both it is still a faith based system. "Trust us" or "trust the machines" is a symptom of the same election disease.
Anyway, congrats on the good effect you are having on election matters across the country.
... Thick-Witted Liberal said on 8/25/2007 @ 1:43 pm PT...
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Bradbloggers:
Can you believe that GWB compared Iraq to Nam and used that as a reason to stay in Iraq? This man is delusional. He's looney. Why have we stopped blogging about this?
I cannot afford to leave my job and march on Washington and you probably cannot either, but we can make a statement. I can afford to buy a 41-cent stamp every day and send a letter to thw White House with three words: END THIS WAR! We can send millions of letters. They cannot ignore that. Let's get these huge mail deliveries on the 6:00 news. Let's call every talk show host and pass the word. Do you have a better idea? Let's do something big.
Dredd sedd #1 -
Only slightly disagree with you, Dredd. Whether or not we have paper ballots, there is never a reason to trust Election Officials. (This is not an insult to Elections Officials, as the best ones will tell you not to trust them either, as you shouldn't have to, since the system should be transparent and not require trust.) Hence the point of the transparency of paper ballots in the first place.
You may be a Republican, and thus trust your Republican Election Director. Until the new one, a Democrat, takes office, and then you won't trust him/her. Shouldn't matter if they are an R or a D or a supposed "non-partisan" public official. We shouldn't be forced to trust them and thus have faith-based elections in the bargain.
ThickWittedLiberal asked #2 -
Can you believe that GWB compared Iraq to Nam and used that as a reason to stay in Iraq?...Why have we stopped blogging about this?
We haven't. Jon Ponder of Pensito Review expertly guest blogged that very issue for us a day or two ago right here.
Yes, Brad and there were only nine comments. You write about a 9/11 conspiracy and you get 200 comments. What is happening? We have the numbers now. We have blogs, radio, some tv and print media. We need to do something big now!
... TG said on 8/25/2007 @ 5:52 pm PT...
I was in St Louis 3 weeks ago, too bad I missed ya.
Brad #3
The point I was makeing was that a belief in paper ballots per se is superstitious.
As I said, just ask Alice Stalin, who did just fine with paper ballots, if you know what I mean.
"The people who vote on paper ballots decide nothing, the people who count the paper ballots decide everything."
You are deluding yourself if they think just having paper ballots will solve the problem. It is not brilliance that recognizes that honesty by definition must be a component of honest elections. Honesty in this context comes from honest election officials.
I agree that faith ("trust us") must not be a part of elections, scientific observation and proof must replace faith based elections.
"Big" Diehl and "Thor" Hearn crashed and burned on the way to the talk.
Rumor has it that they were practicing their speeches when the smell from the lies ignited the whole mess spontaneously and they were forced to "take a break".
... the_zapkitty said on 8/26/2007 @ 9:27 am PT...
For passerby... meet Dredd... an unfortunate individual afflicted with a peculiarly post-modern condition: the implicit belief that e-voting can be made to work somehow
Meet Dredd... still putting words in people's mouths while twisting logic and reason into a non-Euclidean distortion more suited for the interior of a wormhole than anyplace on this world... all for the purpose of getting someone, anyone, to agree with him that e-voting and paper ballots are somehow equal in their risk factors... and/or that HR 811 (Holt's Fiasco) does anything other than what the plain language of the bill says it does.... (which said same plain language often does the exact opposite of what Holt claims it does)
I'm aware of no one here who has claimed that paper ballots will somehow magically solve all problems. That is Dredd's imagination... at best.
There are those hereabouts who strongly believe that paper ballots must be the first step, and that that step must be taken now, and that it will make weeding out bad actors much easier. But... they have both past precedent and current examples globally to back their assertions.
Dredd has neither.
All Dredd has to present in return is Stalin... but Dredd obstinately (and consistently) fails to understand that what Stalin actually illustrated was that when you exercise complete control of the State and its mechanisms then elections become irrelevant.*
(*For current references to this phenomenom see K. Rove: "A Permanent Republican Majority"; see also his papers on "Electoral Fraud", "Voter Disenfranchisement" and "Partisan Government Agencies")
Dredd sedd:
The point I was makeing was that a belief in paper ballots per se is superstitious...You are deluding yourself if they think just having paper ballots will solve the problem.
Who in the world has ever said that "just having paper ballots will solve the problem"? What blog have you been reading every day, Dredd?
Election integrity begins with a paper ballot --- one that is actually counted --- for every vote cast. It does not end there. Not by a long shot. But it doesn't even get off the starting line if there is nothing but an invisible, completely-unverifiable "ballot" on which to hang our hats.
Dredd further sedd:
It is not brilliance that recognizes that honesty by definition must be a component of honest elections. Honesty in this context comes from honest election officials.
Complete and utter nonsense. Democracy and elections with integrity demand that the most honest elections officials in the world should be considered completely dishonest.
Thus, the process must be 100% transparent and the citizenry must participate in that process (ie. watch like a hawk) every step of the way.
An honest election official has nothing to do with it. A paper ballot is just the beginning. But it's a beginning without which nothing else matters.
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Adrian Mouat
Docker and Container Provenance
October 21, 2014 by Adrian Mouat
Docker 1.3 was released on the 16th of October and top of the announcements was a "tech preview" of digital signature verification. In this post, we'll have a look at what this means and why it's needed.
To date, most of the security discussion around containers has centred around how "contained" they are; can a malicious user break out of a container and gain access to the host? Whilst undoubtedly important, it has overshadowed another concern - why should I trust the code (or data) in a container at all? If it wasn't me, how do I know for sure who built it?
It's easy to see the importance of this if we think about what could happen if we run a malicious image. If we assume that Docker containment is entirely secure, it shouldn't be possible for code inside the container to access confidential files on the host or to do permanent damage to the host. We cannot however place any trust in the services running inside the container. In the case of a database container we cannot trust the data will not be leaked or tampered within some way. In the case of a compiler container (e.g. the official Java or Go containers), a malicious container can inject whatever code it likes into your software. This is a horrendously bad situation; a rogue compiler is free to inject backdoors, turn off encryption, corrupt data etc. To make matters worse, it's almost undetectable - sure, you could analyse the assembly, but how many times have you done that?(1).
So what's the answer? Actually, there isn't a foolproof one. You can't be completely sure of your existing OS, compilers or even hardware - after all you (probably) didn't write them. But we have to get things done, so we put our trust into various organisations and companies. Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Debian, Docker etc all stand to lose a lot if they ship compromised or malicious software. This leads us to a second, more tractable, question - how do I know that the software I've downloaded or been given really comes from the company or organisation it claims to? This issue is commonly known as provenance and one answer is Digital Signature Verification (DSV).
The basic idea of DSV is to create a unique and verifiable "signature" for a given payload (be it a container, software package or simply a message). This signature can be decrypted into a secure hash by using the public key of the organisation (which must have been previously obtained in a trusted fashion). If we then compute the secure hash of the payload ourselves, assuming the hashes match we can be sure the payload hasn't been tampered with and originates from the organisation in question.
Docker 1.3 makes the first baby steps towards adding provenance. At the moment there are no commands to play with, but if you pull a certified Docker image (the ones with no user namespace) from the Hub, you should see something similar to the following:
$ docker pull nginx
nginx:latest: The image you are pulling has been verified
5a7d9470be44: Pull complete
feb755848a9a: Pull complete
Note the "has been verified" message, which indicates DSV has succeeded and we can be sure the image does indeed come from Docker(2). (For the moment, verification failures will print a message but otherwise will be ignored).
In future releases of Docker, users will be able to sign their own containers, allowing non-Docker certified containers to be verified. For the moment though, if it's not from a certified image, you'll just have to hope that container you're running is what it says it is...
(1) For an illuminating look at trusting compilers see Ken Thompson's seminal Reflections on Trusting Trust. Also, it's worth pointing out that compilers have been trojaned before.
(2) Docker seems to currently download the Docker certificate from a Cloudfront URL via https, which effectively places Cloudfront in the chain of trust. I would expect this change in future versions of Docker.
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Drug Testing Index: A look at 2014-2018
Quest Diagnostics proudly celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Drug Testing Index™ (DTI). Published annually, the DTI reveals insights into patterns of drug use among the American workforce. During the past 30 years, we have seen both the public and private sectors use substance abuse testing programs to deter drug use in the workplace. Our timeline tracks both the progress of the testing industry and illustrates our company’s steadfast commitment to helping to keep workplaces drug-free. Today, we take a deeper look at overall positivity rates and key milestones from 2014 to 2018.
In the past 5 years, marijuana and opioids have captured a majority of the media attention in our industry and, more recently, cocaine may be staging a comeback.
Cannabis continues to cause confusion for employers as more states pass medical and recreational use statutes and employee protections vary dramatically across the country. Former U.S. Attorney General James Cole published a memorandum on August 29, 2013, stating that the Obama administration would not challenge state marijuana laws as long as states maintain strict rules involving sales and distribution. Three years later, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) denied 2 petitions to reschedule marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act and it remains a Schedule I drug today. In 2016, marijuana positivity rates in Colorado and Washington, the first states permitting recreational use, outpaced the national average for the first time and rates are climbing in states allowing recreational use. Lab-based oral fluid testing has proven especially effective in detecting marijuana, with a nearly 75% increase in drug test positives from 2013 to 2017.
In 2014, drug overdoses ranked as the new leading cause of accidental death in the U.S., surpassing traffic fatalities. A Quest Diagnostics Health Trends study highlighted our country’s struggle with opioids and found that that half of Americans (52%) tested misused their prescription medications. This crisis extends to the workplace and affects 7 in 10 U.S. employers, according to the National Safety Council. Heroin positivity jumped 146% between 2011 and 2015 as more people sought a cheaper alternative to prescription painkillers.
The Trump administration formally declared the opioid crisis a national public health emergency in April 2017 with a strategy that prioritizes prevention, treatment, research, and recovery. Also responding to the epidemic, the U.S. Department of Transportation expanded its test panel to include hydrocodone, hydromorphone, oxycodone, and oxymorphone at the start of 2018.
The paperless revolution for our industry continued with the acceptance of electronic Custody and Control Forms (eCCF) for federally-regulated testing on April 13, 2015. Every Quest Diagnostics drug testing laboratory was approved for eCCF in August 2016 after a rigorous inspection and certification process. Additionally, the Department of Health and Human Services requested comments for guidelines that would accept oral fluid and hair specimens for federally-regulated drug testing in the future.
This 5-year time period began with an overall positivity rate of 3.9% in 2014, which increased to 4.2% in 2018, fueled by cocaine, marijuana, and methamphetamine use. A 12-year high was reached in 2017. Bright spots in the latest data showed heroin positivity declining in the general U.S. workforce to a 3-year low and efforts to curtail the opioid crisis are reducing use, at least among the working public. Our interactive map illustrates more than a decade of overall positivity, as well as positivity by drug in urine testing.
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Hamas slams German foreign minister's refusal to meet
Germany's Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (4th R) stands in front of students during a visit to a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) school in Gaza City November 8, 2010. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem
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Militant group furious at snub from Guido Westerwelle during Gaza visit.
November 08, 2010 (KATAKAMI / HAARETZ) — The Hamas administration in the Gaza on Monday slammed as “insulting” the refusal by German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle to meet it while visiting the strip.
Senior Hamas leader and legislator Kamal Shrafi said that while the Islamist Palestinian movement welcomed a visit by an official of his standing, it was “completely wrong to come to Gaza and not meet with the legal government’s representative.”
Westerwelle is the first German government official to visit the Gaza Strip in nearly four years. On Monday, he visited a girls’ school and toured a water treatment plant.
He said he would not meet Hamas over its repeated refusal to renounce violence, honour previous Israeli-Palestinian agreements and accept Israel’s right to resist. Hamas, which has administered the Gaza Strip since June 2007, is subject to a Western diplomatic boycott.
“We really condemn the refusal of officials and diplomats to hold talks with the Palestinian government, which was legally elected with transparency by the Palestinian people. Every official arriving in Gaza did not meet with anybody here, and this is really
insulting,” Shrafi said.
Hamas won the 2006 Palestinian legislative elections, but a unity government set up with President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party was dismissed after Hamas militants routed security officials loyal to Abbas and the Palestinian Authority and seized full control of the enclave.
Abbas also dismissed Hamas leader Ismail Haniya from his post of prime minister, a dismissal Hamas did not accept.
“We are legal government, and I believe that it is completely wrong to come to Gaza and not meet with the legal government’s representatives,” Shrafi said.
Westerwelle also met with Gaza businessmen Monday to discuss economic problems in the enclave, which has been under an Israeli blockade since the summer of 2006.
At a press conference along with his Israeli counterpart Avigdor Lieberman in Jerusalem following his arrival on Sunday, Westerwelle called on Israel to allow exports to leave Gaza, saying such a move was “necessary.”
Israel imposed its blockade after militants from the enclave, led by Hamas, launched a raid in which they snatched an Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, who is still being held.
The blockade was significantly tightened after the Hamas seizure of the Strip, but was eased in the summer of this year, although Israel still does not permit exports to leave.(*)
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Germany's Foreign Minister called on Hamas to free captured IDF soldier Gilad Schalit, during a visit to the Gaza Strip
Germany's Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (L) stands next to Noam Shalit, father of captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, at the start of their meeting in Jerusalem November 7, 2010. Shalit was captured by Palestinian militants who tunnelled from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel in June 2006. (Getty Images / REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun )
November 08, 2010 (KATAKAMI / Jpost) — Westerwelle says his country sees speedy return of soldier to his family as humane step; comments come a day after meetings with Noam Schalit, Lieberman, Shimon Peres in J’lem.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle on Monday called on Hamas to free captured IDF soldier Gilad Schalit, during a visit to the Gaza Strip.
He urged the terror group to “finally free this young man, after so many years in captivity.”
Westerwelle says his country sees speedy return of soldier to his family as humane step; comments come a day after meetings with Noam Schalit, Lieberman, Peres in J’lem.
Westerwelle stressed that Germany views the speedy return of Schalit to his family as the humane step.
His comments came a day after a meeting with the soldier’s father, Noam Schalit, as well as President Shimon Peres, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, and Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat in Jerusalem.
During a press conference after their Sunday meeting, Lieberman said that the biggest threat to the Middle East is Iran.
“Not only Iran with its nuclear problem, but Iran through its proxies in its terrorist activity in all our regions. We see Iranian activities through proxies in Lebanon through Hizbullah, in the Palestinian Authority through Hamas, their deep involvement in Iraq, in Yemen, in Somalia and, of course, this threat may be the biggest threat that we are facing as a Western society, as a free society in the modern world,” Lieberman told his German counterpart.
He also said that while Israel has a “political dispute” with the Palestinians, it also has “very good cooperation with the Palestinians on the security level and on economy.”
Westerwelle referred to Schalit, saying that Germany has an “abolultely clear position” that the soldier be “released very soon.”
“We think that our Israeli friends know that they can count on us. And I do not want to comment any further because it is very important that we help the family, that we help this poor young man and that we see him as soon as possible, safe and healthy, back in the arms of his family,” the German foreign minister said. (*)
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Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano causes more flight chaos
Indonesia's Mount Merapi spews massive hot clouds of volcanic ash and rocks as seen from Sleman district in central Java on November 6. Airlines cancelled dozens of flights to and from Jakarta, affecting international carriers from Europe to Asia, because of the volcanic ash. (AFP/SONNY TUMBELAKA)
Flights to Jakarta Canceled Over Volcano
November 08, 2010. JAKARTA (KATAKAMI / Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama’s twice-postponed visit to Indonesia looked on track on Monday after flights to the capital returned to normal following a weekend of disruptions caused by a deadly volcano.
Mount Merapi in central Java began spewing lava, superheated gas and deadly clouds of ash two weeks ago, and has so far killed over 130 people and forced the evacuation of nearly 300,000.
Dozens of flights to and from the capital Jakarta, around 600 km (375 miles) from the volcano, were cancelled over the weekend after the volcano belched fresh clouds of volcanic ash 6,000 metres (19,000 ft) into the atmosphere.
Indonesian authorities saying conditions were safe, but international airlines scrapped scores of flights.
By Monday afternoon normal service had mostly resumed, though Filipino budget airline Cebu Air Inc said it had cancelled its 9.30 p.m. (1330 GMT) flight to Jakarta.
“All have returned to normal,” said Andang Santoso, a spokesman for the operator of Jakarta’s Sukarno-Hatta airport. “They trust us that there is no impact of Merapi here, so they can fly here.”
Authorities did, however, order the closure of the airport at Yogyakarta, the historic cultural city closest to the volcano.
“Since the weather is impossible … we decided to close Yogyakarta for both commercial and civil aircrafts,” said Harjoso Tjandra, operational and technical director at the airport.
On Sunday, U.S. officials said they were closely monitoring the situation ahead of Obama’s scheduled Tuesday arrival.
Obama has twice postponed visits to Indonesia — where he lived for several years as a child with his mother — the first time in March as he struggled to push through a healthcare reform bill in the U.S. and the second in June after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
A British Airways flight came close to crashing nearly three decades ago after its engines sucked in ash from another Indonesian volcano, Mount Galunggung, about 180 km southeast of Jakarta.
Indonesia’s disaster agency said clouds of hot toxic gases continued to roll down the slopes of Merapi on Monday, hampering efforts to create a 20 km (12 miles) exclusion zone around the summit.
The country is also struggling with the aftermath of a tsunami in the remote Mentawai islands off Sumatra last week that killed at least 445 people.
Metro TV footage showed an aerial view of Borobudur, site of one of the world’s largest Buddhist temples and a UNESCO heritage site about 50 km northwest of the volcano coated with ash. (*)
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Photostream : Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano still spews volcanic ash on Monday, death toll reaches165
A villager watches from Jambon village in the Sleman district of Indonesia's central Java province, as Mount Merapi spews smoke and ash, November 8, 2010. The death toll from the eruption of Mount Merapi, reaching 165 people. A total of 148 victims came from Yogyakarta, and 17 people from Central Java. The data was presented the Special Staff of the Presidential Disaster Area, Andi Arif, Monday (8 / 11), Metro TV reported on Monday. Data obtained from Dr. Sardjito Hospital, Yogyakarta. To reach the 453 people injured. The average victims died of burns suffered from hot clouds. It happened the first time since the Merapi eruption on October 26, 2010 ( Photo by REUTERS/Sigit Pamungkas )
Mount Merapi spews volcanic ash into the air as seen from Cangkringan, Indonesia, Monday, Nov. 8, 2010. The death toll from the eruption of Mount Merapi, reaching 165 people. A total of 148 victims came from Yogyakarta, and 17 people from Central Java. The data was presented the Special Staff of the Presidential Disaster Area, Andi Arif, Monday (8 / 11), Metro TV reported on Monday. Data obtained from Dr. Sardjito Hospital, Yogyakarta. To reach the 453 people injured. The average victims died of burns suffered from hot clouds. It happened the first time since the Merapi eruption on October 26, 2010 ( Photo by AP Photo/Trisnadi)
Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano spews smoke and ash, as seen from Jambon village in the Sleman district of Indonesia's central Java province November 8, 2010. Mount Merapi, on the outskirts of Yogyakarta, began spewing lava, superheated gas and deadly clouds of ash two week ago and has so far killed over 130 people and forced the evacuation of nearly 300,000. REUTERS/Sigit Pamungkas
Mount Merapi spews ash to the sky as seen from Cangkringan in Sleman, Yogyakarta, on November 8, 2010. International airlines were forced to reschedule dozens of flights to Indonesia yesterday as deadly Mount Merapi spewed ash into the sky, ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama. The toll from a series of eruptions since late October rose to 132 as bodies were pulled from the volcanic sludge that thundered down on central Java on November 5, Merapi's biggest eruption since the 1870s. (Photo by BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images)
Indonesian army special forces wearing masks prepare to evacuate the victims of Mount Merapi eruption at Pejambon in Sleman, Yogyakarta, on November 8, 2010. International airlines were forced to reschedule dozens of flights to Indonesia yesterday as deadly Mount Merapi spewed ash into the sky, ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama. The toll from a series of eruptions since late October rose to 132 as bodies were pulled from the volcanic sludge that thundered down on central Java on November 5, Merapi's biggest eruption since the 1870s. (Photo by BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images)
Ashes from the eruption of Mount Merapi cover Muntilan city, central Java, on November 8, 2010. Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano killed 85 people in its latest eruption, with scores more suffering severe burns, an official said on November 6, bringing the overall toll to 128. (Photo by BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images)
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Merapi Ground Heat Forces Indonesia to Halt Search for Bodies
Mount Merapi erupting again on Monday. (AFP Photo/Bay Ismoyo)
November 08, 2010. Indonesia (KATAKAMI – THE JAKARTA GLOBE) — Indonesian rescue workers were forced to abandon efforts to retrieve bodies of victims from the Nov. 5 eruption of Mount Merapi in central Java, as increasing ground temperature and volcanic instability made it unsafe to continue.
Rescuers had been using wooden boards to walk on in areas where the soil reached temperatures higher than 70 degrees Celsius, Oka Hamid, a spokesman at Red Cross Indonesia’s Yogyakarta branch, said today.
“We found five bodies at Glagaharjo village, but only one was removed,” Hamid said by phone. “We are coming down now because the ground there is too hot and Merapi is unstable.”
Non-flammable boots and special gloves are needed to protect rescuers from hot burning soil, Hamid said.
“We need at least 30 pair of gloves and boots,” he said. “Non-flammable boots are important in case we need to flee if anything bad happened.”
The death toll since the volcano began erupting Oct. 26 rose to 141 from 135 yesterday, with about 280,000 people seeking shelter in evacuation centers outside the 20-kilometer safety zone from Mount Merapi, the National Disaster Management Agency said in a statement on its Web site today.
Merapi, which means mountain of fire, has been spewing hot ash clouds for two weeks, stretching rescue efforts as villagers defy safety orders to tend to their cattle stranded on the mountain’s slopes. The volcano may release hot ash for about two months, Subandriyo, an official at the Energy Ministry’s Volcanology and Geology Disaster Mitigation Center, said on Nov. 3.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono returned to Jakarta today, ahead of United States President Barrack Obama visit on Nov. 9-10, after spending two days in Yogyakarta to directly overseeing Merapi relief efforts.
Obama is scheduled to fly to Jakarta from India tomorrow, for a brief trip to the world’s largest majority-Muslim country, where he spent part of his childhood.
“The Embassy fully expects President Obama to arrive on Nov. 9 as scheduled,” Paul T. Belmont, press attaché at the United States Embassy in Jakarta, said in an e-mailed statement today. “The Merapi eruptions have not altered his plan to visit Indonesia.”
At least nine airlines including Singapore Airlines Ltd., Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. and Japan Airlines Corp. resumed services yesterday after suspending them for one day for safety reasons due to volcanic ash from Merapi, Frans Yosef, an officer at Angkasa Pura II, the operator of Soekarno-Hatta international airport, said on Sunday.
Philippine Airlines Inc., Emirates, Eva Airways Corp. and Valuair Ltd. resumed services to Jakarta today, the operator said on its Web site today.
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Photostream : Indonesian Elite Forces (Kopassus) and rescue team evacuated the victims of Mount Merapi eruption
Indonesian army special forces wears masks as they prepare to evacuate the victims of Mount Merapi eruption at Pejambon in Sleman, Yogyakarta, on November 8, 2010. International airlines were forced to reschedule dozens of flights to Indonesia yesterday as deadly Mount Merapi spewed ash into the sky, ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama. The toll from a series of eruptions since late October rose to 132 as bodies were pulled from the volcanic sludge that thundered down on central Java on Friday, Merapi's biggest eruption since the 1870s. (Photo by BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images)
Indonesian army special forces wear masks as they search for victims of Mount Merapi eruption at Pejambon in Sleman, Yogyakarta, on November 8, 2010. International airlines were forced to reschedule dozens of flights to Indonesia yesterday as deadly Mount Merapi spewed ash into the sky, ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama. The toll from a series of eruptions since late October rose to 132 as bodies were pulled from the volcanic sludge that thundered down on central Java on Friday, Merapi's biggest eruption since the 1870 (Photo by BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images)
Indonesian army special forces and rescue team evacuate a victim of Mount Merapi eruption at Pejambon in Sleman, Yogyakarta, on November 8, 2010. International airlines were forced to reschedule dozens of flights to Indonesia yesterday as deadly Mount Merapi spewed ash into the sky, ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama. The toll from a series of eruptions since late October rose to 132 as bodies were pulled from the volcanic sludge that thundered down on central Java on November 5, Merapi's biggest eruption since the 1870s. (Photo by BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images)
Indonesian army special forces and rescue team evacuate a victim of Mount Merapi eruption at Pejambon in Sleman, Yogyakarta, on November 8, 2010. International airlines were forced to reschedule dozens of flights to Indonesia yesterday as deadly Mount Merapi spewed ash into the sky, ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama. The toll from a series of eruptions since late October rose to 132 as bodies were pulled from the volcanic sludge that thundered down on central Java on Friday, Merapi's biggest eruption since the 1870. (Photo by BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images)
Indonesian army special forces search for victims of Mount Merapi eruption at Pejambon in Sleman, Yogyakarta, on November 8, 2010. International airlines were forced to reschedule dozens of flights to Indonesia yesterday as deadly Mount Merapi spewed ash into the sky, ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama. The toll from a series of eruptions since late October rose to 132 as bodies were pulled from the volcanic sludge that thundered down on central Java on Friday, Merapi's biggest eruption since the 1870 (Photo by BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images)
Indonesian army special forces search for victims of Mount Merapi eruption at Pejambon in Sleman, Yogyakarta, on November 8, 2010. International airlines were forced to reschedule dozens of flights to Indonesia yesterday as deadly Mount Merapi spewed ash into the sky, ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama. The toll from a series of eruptions since late October rose to 132 as bodies were pulled from the volcanic sludge that thundered down on central Java on November 5, Merapi's biggest eruption since the 1870 (Photo by BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images)
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Netanyahu – Biden meeting ends, discussed Iran, Palestinians
Israeli PM Benyamin Netanyau (R) meets U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on November 7, 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Netanyahu is on a five day visit to the U.S. to discuss the ongoing Mideast peace process. (Photo Avi Ohayon/GPO via Getty Images)
November 8, 2010 (KATAKAMI/ YNET) — A meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Vice President Joe Biden ended late Sunday night in New Orleans. The two discussed Israel’s desire to provide a credible threat against Iran.
The leaders also spoke of the direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, the Israeli claim being that as long as the Palestinians have recourse to an indirect route, such as the UN, they will not behave seriously in talks. (*)
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The Big 200 at Tet Zoo
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“There aren’t a lot of white running backs at the Division I level.”
You’d like to believe we’ve entered an enlightened era when college football players are judged strictly by their ability and not by their skin color. Sadly, College of the Sequoias coach Curtis Allen says that’s not the case.
Just not in the way you’d think.
Allen, a former Fresno State cornerback who also played in the Canadian Football League, has been around college football for 30 years. Since taking over the COS program in 2005, he’s sent 130 players to four-year schools. He knows what recruiters are looking for when evaluating a player, and he believes race plays a role.
The numbers back up Allen’s assertion.
Out of 120 Division I football programs, 110 of them have a leading rusher who is black.
There is only one white starting running back in the NFL — Peyton Hillis of the Cleveland Browns. Out of the top 40 NFL leading rushers, Hillis is the only white player on the list, and he ranks No. 17.
“For a long time, they didn’t want any black quarterbacks either,” Allen said. “I don’t understand why those perceptions are there. A player is a player. If he can play for me, I don’t care what color he is.”
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Ah, this argument. Is it not possible that black people are on average quicker and faster than white people, which leads to the disparity?
Potentially, but that doesn’t explain why there are certain positions dominated by white guys. Fullback in particular has always confused the hell out of me.
Regular Guy
A quicker, faster Fullback is usually known as a linebacker. 🙂
Careful. We will be talking about Physics Professors next.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is my hero.
What if someone in reference to an article about an underrepresentation of blacks among quarterbacks or coaches said the following:
“Ah this argument. Is it not possible that (white) people are on average (smarter) and (more bright) than (black) people, which leads to the disparity?”
Such a comment would be considered racist wouldn’t it?
I do not think it would be racist if you had the overwhelming evidence there is for black men generally being better athletes than white men. The subject would certainly be taboo even if you did have such evidence though.
Their also a good bit of evidence that caucasians as a whole score better than those of on academic aptitude tests than those of African descent do, as a society we need to pick a standard of what is or isn’t racist to say and stick to it, if the comment you made about blacks generally running faster than whites is not to be considered racist neither should the second comment be. If the second is to be considered racist, so should the first. There are numerous extremely intelligent persons of black persons but their are also white guys that can outrun black guys.
I totally agree. And medically speaking, treating everyone as if they’re the same is dangerous. The problem is that studies of racial differences have been so abused in the past that it’s nearly impossible for most people to be rational about it. And of course, there’s always the chance that it could be misused in the future if you did study the matter in depth.
Definately. I can understand either approach, the history of racial strife might very well justify us being super sensitive about this kind of thing, if that’s true, fine, I get that, but let’s be consistent.
the movie “Top Secret!” immediately comes to mind:
“Do you know any good white basketball players?”
“There are no good white basketball players.”
I like how anytime there is a big white guy in basketball, the commentary is always that he “can really run the floor”. Anytime you read a breakdown of the NBA draft, and there is a white big man, you can bank on that being part of the analysis of the player. I’ve never quite figured out exactly what it means.
I’ve heard announcers in just about every sport use the same tired cliches at one time or another. Think about all the white athletes who got to the pros because of their “hard work.” Black athletes, however, succeed because of their “natural ability.” It’s a BS categorization either way you slice it.
masivatack
My friend invited me to join a NBA Fantasy league this year. Considering my complete indifference to basketball in general, I decided to put those assumptions to the test by drafting only white guys. Well the first week was actually pretty close and I lost by a respectable margin. This week…. I am getting completely waxed in all phases of the game except for Free Throw Percentage. Go figure.
I always loved that interview with Magic Johnson where he tells the story about how younger black NBA players have come to him and asked him: “Man, was Larry Bird really that good or was a big deal made of him because he was white?” To which Magic Johnson replies: “Man you have no idea how good Larry Bird was.”
Speaking as a Caucasian, I would just like to point out that I am sick and tired of being held down by the Man.
I’ve always wondered why white receivers have “deceptive speed”.
hayduke
I think it’s because they “are precise route runners” with “solid footwork”.
dawgfish
Not to mention their “hustle,” and the fact that they “play the game the right way.”
There will always be a place for the white guys at quarterback, fullback or possession receiver. Also, defense in general is off-limits to white guys. Pollack in ’04, Josh Mallard in ’01 and Kirby Smart in ’98 are the only ones I can even think of going 12 years back if you don’t count the punter. I think its more of a skill set issue that black guys have more often than white guys. The coaches put the best players on the field and I don’t think they are seeing it in black and white.
Reggie White- The Minsiter of Defense
Roddy White is one of the top WR’s in the NFL!
John Lynch?
Oh, and Jim Leonard is a 5’8″ safety on one of the best defensive units around.
Jimmy the Greek is rolling over in his grave.
SC Dawg
Agreed. If you watch that 30 for 30 special you’ll notice that no one said that Jimmy was wrong. They just say he shouldn’t have said it.
“There aren’t a lot of black downhill skiers”
We had a strong white RB at Georgia the year Donnan beat Tennessee- Brett Millican. If I recall there was some press about him not getting a scholly or being able to compete in the SEC as a RB because he was white. I found that curious. There ARE indicators that definitely seem to follow (or precede) conditions that produce more athletes (Note: you get better athletes by having more athletes–because of competition, higher standards, and improvements passed down to the players coming along).
Chief among them, irrespective of race, are 1) “effectively” single-parent families (think of the football-productive coal mining areas of Pennsylvania during the mid-20th century; although there were 2 parents, Dad was down in the mine 12 hours a day and dead-tired when he got home), and 2) pervasive poverty. A higher percentage of young males growing up under these conditions will typically be drawn to either gangs or team sports–mainly because they provide identity, a non-matriarchal family, and strong father-figures.
The social dynamics are the same regardless of race. We just happen to live in a time when nearly 70% of black children are growing up in single-parent homes.
(Next time you hear of a “values-preaching” coach giving a “bad” kid a second or third chance after screwing up… remind yourself that some of these athletes are just now facing demands for self-discipline that you mastered in grammar school.)
I agree more with this attitude than just the blanket this race is a better athlete argument. I have seen more studies that link professional success to athletics based upon social economic status than I have to actual race. If you look at today’s professional athletes, very few of them grew up in economical successful families. If you factor out the athletic families (Sims, Mannings, etc.) the number of successful professional athletes drops to next to nothing. This trend goes back all the way to the early 1900’s. Back then it was the Italian, Irish, and Jewish athletes dominating college and the early professional sports. These were the immigrants and poor of the time. If you polled most kids in a poor neighborhood (regardless of race), they would rank the path to wealth in the following order; Sports, Lottery, and then an education. Also take a look at the kids that make up the participants in X games and Extreme Sports. Those are some great athletes. Kudos to the Senator for his willingness to discuss. Also, just to get it out of the way….Muckbeast I really don’t care how you feel about my posts.
Brett Millican was on scholarship when he was at UGA. He was pretty highly recruited coming out of Parkview. He did not get a lot of looks at Georgia because he was behind some other pretty good backs (Robert Edwards – 1st rounder, Olandis Gary – NFL starter, Patrick Pass – NFL starter) as well as the “immortal” Jasper Sanks. He got some time his senior year and scored against Carolina and a couple of other times.
Once on a wheel route I’m pretty sure.
He was large against Tennessee…. in Donnans win…the goal posts came down. Both of them. He was the difference in that game. Yes he was…and Robert Edwards wasn’t in that game……. I remember QC throw it over their heads Carter got the MVP but it was all Millican on third down conversions. And there was the press on a Euro-American (I hate the term Caucasian-sounds like Italian shoes……just apply that anthropologically term elsewhere and see what you gather) Brett as never really having a chance.
I can’t believe none of you dolts failed to mention Joe Dudek.
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And I’d say Gale Sayers is whiter than most white people.
And that Obama kid from Chi-town is half white and plays a mean pick-up game.
And my man Joe Dudek would have smoked Jo Backson, who was only 99% black (btw).
etenndawgfan
I have been wondering why UGA hasnt had any white linebackers. Meanwhile, it seems as if Ohio St has an all-american white linebacker every other year…so I know they exist. Not saying we should one, just wondering why I havent seen any in a while.
think about the demographics in GA vs Ohio.
P44Haynes
because Ohio State is in the midwest, and UGA is in the south.
Whit Marshall was the man!
he was a stupid drunk that got his ass whipped all the time by other less-drunk frat boys.
Are you forgetting Brandon Tolbert from 1997? And what about all the buzz around Chase Vasser? A white linebacker at UGA is like a hot girl at GTU.
Wasn’t it Tolbert and Bobo that got cuffed and stuffed for being in an altercation at Foxz?
same for Pennsylvania.
kurlos
“You’d like to believe we’ve entered an enlightened era when college football players are judged strictly by their ability and not by their skin color.’
Part of not being a racist, according to the Left, is, in fact, to sometimes judge people by their skin color.
To always or never use race as a factor equals racism. To sometimes use race as a factor equals enlightenment. ; )
Look at the D-lines of teams around the Mississippi river. There is a difference. Kind of like the vet in Alabama said, ” the further you get away from the train depot, the worse the football gets”.
You guys have busted on me for saying athletes are alot like hunting dogs. It is true though. Genetics and environment play are huge role in athletic development. Watch blacks children play outside. They are essentially doing plyometrics early in life. One thing, they are outside and not playing video games because they don’t have the money. All that is changing though, and couple that with the genetics thing. Hell, Tubberville even said when he recruited a kid that he wanted to see his momma and sisters. Translated, he wanted to see the bottom side of the pedigree or heifer line. Ask any cattleman, he will tell you the heifer line is as important as the bull. Same thing with dogs, what is the bitch line bringing into the equation.
I think black men liking women with big asses has something to do with it. A white man’s idea of a thing of beauty is a fine boned skinny woman. A brother loves him some thick women. Look at black women, on average they are taller, broader shouldered, and have big hips. This translates into producing a more athletic child. Call this racist or whatever, but it is all about the brood stock. That is part of the talent evaluation process. A coach has to know if the kid’s body can carry 20 to 30 lbs more. Does he have the body structure to handle it.
Jimmy the Greek incarnate, right here. 😉
Hey, it is about like two short, fat, big bone people having a kid and thinking the child is gonna be a distance runner. Yeah! If your a liberal you say the child will compete equally with a Kenyian.
“Look at black women, on average they are taller, broader shouldered, and have big hips”.
Michelle, you phone is ringing.
You knew who I was thinking about!!
‘Chelle, with the a*e vulva. to boot.
So does having a liquor store and a gun shop on every corner in the black community produce good RB’s?
I guess having a financial planner and a tennis racket shop on every corner in a white community doesn’t produce top notch RB.
elwoodGT
Wow. Just…. wow.
It’s all BS, of course.
Fastest kid I ever knew was white.
“Brood stock?” Seriously?
Usain Bolt is white?
He didn’t say fastest man in the world, just the fastest he ever saw, presumably in person.
I was laughing while I typed, but I was serious. As much as we want to believe we are domesticated and civil, we still are animals. We are what we come from. Socially not always, but physically, yes.
The Big 10 is usually called the slow plodding running conference. Thats why the white LBers do okay up there. And then usually get to the NFL and suck or they faten them up and move them to the OL.
Do you guys remember that story on ESPN a few years ago about where speed comes from? They showed black kids in south florida running down swamp rabbits in the mucky sugar cane fields. You don’t see those cream of wheat, hash brown eatin’ mofos from Wisconsin doing that.
Danny Woodhead (Patriots) has been making some unbelievable runs this year. He is fast (4.33 to 4.38), great balance, great moves, and he is white. A little undersized at 5 ft 7 in. but he weighs in at 205 lbs.
Peyton Hillis is a monster at 6 ft 1 in. and 240 lbs….he also ran a 4.58 which is fast for his size….hell Dexter McCluster ran a 4.58 at the Combine and people don’t say he is slow.
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Bad cases make bad law.
I’m beginning to wonder if one day we’re going to look back on this year’s BCS title game, aka The Rematch, as sort of college football’s Bush v. Gore equivalent. Check out this comment from Andy Staples:
This season’s Alabama-LSU national title game was the tipping point for the anti-playoff crowd. Several leagues were already leaning in the direction of a four-team playoff — strategically called a “plus-one” so dim bulbs won’t realize it’s actually a playoff — but when voters passed over Oklahoma State for an all-SEC rematch, the momentum finally swung in the direction of a bracketed tournament, even if it is a small one… [Emphasis added.]
If there is some form of SEC backlash involved in the playoff movement – and I’m not saying Staples is wrong to suggest there is – boy, are some people going to be disappointed when the SEC puts three schools in a plus-one tourney. (Unless, of course, they limit the number of schools one conference can place in a plus-one, which would speak volumes about Andy’s point.)
Then there’s this from playoff proponent Matt Hinton.
… For the sake of argument, let’s say Alabama beats LSU in another generally competitive game, by a margin of anywhere from one point to two touchdowns. In that case, the Crimson Tide will finish the year 12-1 with two or three wins over teams ranked in the final polls (give or take Penn State). LSU will finish 13-1 with four or five wins over teams ranked in the final polls (give or take West Virginia). They’d be be 1-1 against one another, with LSU’s win coming at Alabama. LSU will still be the SEC champion.
Under the circumstances, that’s a formula for a split championship, at worst. (The Coaches’ Poll is contractually obligated to vote the winner of the BCS title game No. 1; as LSU fans are well aware, the Associated Press poll is not.) That wouldn’t be the case if the rematch came as a result of the Tigers and Tide eliminating the competition head-to-head, on the field, leaving no questions and no alternatives. If there happens to be a rematch at the end of a playoff, it’s between two teams who have decisively earned it in a way that Alabama, in the current system, has not. [Emphasis added.]
Don’t you just love that? It’s not the rematch that’s bad; it’s the system which delivered it that’s bad. Nifty bit of circular reasoning there.
Of course the real problem this season isn’t that there’s a rematch in the title game. As Matt backhandedly acknowledges, the real problem is that there’s a debate over which team is the second best.
… That’s not to suggest that Oklahoma State or anyone else has earned a stronger claim on a second chance, either. But as long as that opportunity exists for some teams at the expense of others, the current system belongs in the scrapheap.
And because we can’t decide that issue (and because, let’s not forget, the schools want that TV/BCS money), the solution is to make the clear number one team in the country play more games so that we can all feel better about which school is the runner-up. We’re supposed to take an illogical situation and make it even more illogical.
You can see the slippery slope coming a mile away once this rationale is sanctioned, can’t you? This time it’s about #2 vs. #3. With the plus-one, the next debate will come when the argument is over which team is the nation’s fourth-best and the pressure will return to expand again to solve that debate (even if, say, it comes in a season à la 2005, when there was a clear consensus on the top two teams in the country). In other words, a playoff won’t solve this particular concern any better than what we’ve got now.
My point here isn’t to argue against a plus-one format (even though I expect most to question me on that). I’m okay with one that’s constructed with an eye towards being resistant to further expansion. There’s a convincing case to be made that there should be a better way to deal with the way the 2003 and 2004 seasons played out. But those were situations where the debate centered on more than two teams with a legitimate claim to being considered the best going into the postseason. Now we’re being urged to replace that standard with one that merely asks which teams deserve to show up in a postseason tourney, and that’s a very different animal.
Which means that if this season truly and finally provides the impetus for a D-1 playoff, either the movers and shakers embrace a new, flawed metric for inclusion, or (what I suspect) give it to us with a nudge and a wink that while it’s about what happened in 2011, the facts are unique and they promise with all their hearts that it will never, ever be a factor again. We can believe them, right?
Hey, if you can’t trust the folks who were pushing to expand the basketball tourney to 96 schools until they couldn’t find a broadcast partner willing to pay for the privilege, whom can you trust?
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126 responses to “Bad cases make bad law.”
Trey (@cpadawg)
If we are now pushing to go from a two-team playoff to a four-team playoff without changing how the entrants are determined, then what is to stop an 8, 16, 20-team playoff in the next decade?
Btw, I’ve been pushing for a “conference champs only” rule for the two-team playoff since 2001.
We assume that you took off from that position in the 2007 season.
Exactly. The larger the field, the more teams get left out too. A couple of teams can argue for the two spot, but there are probably eight teams tht would get left out of a sixteen team bracket. Few will admit that college comes closest to getting it right.
I disagree with this sentiment. “Oh, we shouldn’t have a playoff, because while we’ll definitely get teams #1 – #10, people might be unhappy with our selection of teams #11-#16. And because of that, we shouldn’t have a playoff.”
The reason few will admit that college comes closest to getting it right is because they don’t. That would be like me saying, “Hey, few will admit it that Hitler came closest to getting it right.”
So I’m a Jew hater if I’m against a playoff? Well damn, I guess I want a playoff. You win. Great point. I never thought about it that way till now, but wow. What an eye opener. Thanks.
Yes, if you don’t want playoffs, you hate Jews.
Serious as a heart attack
Honey Do!!
Didn’t understand that ‘Jibberish’; talk English, man; and btw, give us a playoff with 8 teams, and pick from the 12 top teams from AP & CP; no computers..
I think Adolf would have been a wishbone man, but aside from that what’s the use of bringing all that up on a college football blog?
To point out the absurdity of the statement in reference by making a similar, but exaggerated claim, to bring attention to and further elaborate my point.
I didn’t find it that exactly. But you brought the Hitler stuff into the football blogosphere, not this Dawg.
You right, Lone. Indian Rights much better topic.
Sorry. “Signed, Tonto”.
The whole point is there is rarely a season where more than 3-4 teams deserve a chance at the National Title after the regular season has been played. Teams 5-?? don’t need to be involved. Ever.
Thanks – that a better way of putting my comment above.
really? Hitler? 3 posts into a discussion? You must not be old enough to buy beer.
That’s my opinion on the issue and ought to be Topic #1 — a prerequisite for a national champ should be a regional championship. Sort of a football pyramid, of sorts.
I read this blog a lot and generally agree with what you have to say, but your anti-playoff stance is becoming increasingly dated. Hinton, who I read and respect, makes great points and I imagine 90% of the people out there would agree with him.
Alabama did not win their league, Alabama had a less impressive resume of wins than OSU, Alabama already lost to LSU at home, and the only thing Alabama had in favor over OSU was their loss was more respectable, but its hard to consider that when their loss is to the very team we’re deciding who Alabama or OSU would play.
The people freaking out about having a 4 or 8 team playoff turning into a NCAA style tournament come off to me as the same people who were scared to give women the right to vote, because whats next, the blacks?! (this is made in jest, but the point remains is you come off as outdated and paranoid).
As Hinton points out had Alabama gone through a playoff and ended up matched with LSU, it is what it is, but that would have left other teams (such as OSU) with good claims to that coveted #2 spot the opportunity to play for it. I’ve increasingly lost interest in the bowls as 8-4 teams, with coaching staffs having been fired, go through the motions. I’d rather see playoff football.
I’d rather see playoff football.
I can respect that. But it means the rest of your comment is irrelevant.
– I like your blog (how is this irrelevant?)
– I think your anti-playoff stance is outdated (how is this irrelevant?)
– Alabama does not deserve to be in national title game, though should be in a playoff with OSU (this relates directly to what I said)
– Not wanting a playoff because you’re afraid of playoff creep is paranoia (this is relevant)
I’m not sure what is not relevant.
You state a personal preference for playoff football. That’s cool. It’s also purely subjective. So turning around and telling me that my fear of playoff expansion is mere paranoia is an opinion on your part, not a factual subject for debate.
It’s pretty much the same for the rest of your commentary. For example, I don’t have an anti-playoff stance, but if I did, it’s outdated only in the sense that you prefer something else. After all, there is no playoff now (unless you consider the BCS title game a one-game playoff).
Though I’ll admit your blog praise isn’t irrelevant. 😉
No, I love your blog. #1 Fan.
I just wish you fell in line with my opinion on this issues.
Jordan – you’re simply blinded by preference. Every argument you make can probably be similarly turned around on you. For example, team A is 13-6, team B is 18-1 and they are 1-1 against each other. Team A is the champion. This is obviously absurd if the question is “Who had the better season”. But in a playoff, Team A is the champ. End of story. And like the Senator says, that’s cool if you prefer that.
But to sit here an call people who prefer the current format over a larger playoff out of date is pretty lame. Simply say “I’m a bracket buy” and you’ll find a lot more respect. Logically, both sides of the argument are reasonably compelling. I personally find the 2 team playoff more compelling simply because it places so much importance on almost every game in the regular season, which I personally favor. Those two last second pass plays broke Wisconsin’s heart this year. And the fans will still talk about it 20 years from now. I like that. This is an odd year where we really don’t need a playoff because LSU is the best team. A playoff wouldn’t change that if LSU and Bama met in the finals. One bit. Of course, playoffs seem to have a lot of odd years lately in the NFL with the wild cards winning it all. Might explain why I skip most of the regular season in the NFL and watch the playoffs.
I believe anything more than a 4 team playoff would severely dampen regular season importance of almost every game. I’ll never know for sure since I haven’t figured out the whole alternate universe thing yet, but looking at almost every other sport, it’s hard for me to argue otherwise.
Again, note I simply state personal preference.
That’s good. So was Jordan. His comments were to the point and no more inflammatory than the Senator’s. For all the reasons you seem to think a playoff has so many holes, I can rip off a littany of reasons why the present BCS system is straight BS, embraced by those who simply want to play a game of who can outbitch the other.
When you lay all the pros and cons end to end, a playoff seems more reasonable than preferential treatment to decide the top two teams to play for a championship out of 120 teams (which is absurd). If we can all get over ourselves, we should proceed as fans who give a shit, to embark on playoff planning.
Fans… playoff planning… wait, what?
You’re not seriously suggesting that we have any input in the process, are you? That would be crazy talk.
Mr. Sanchez
If it’s just a “+1” or 4 team playoff, it definitely expands. And it also will assuredly not allow 3 SEC teams out of the 4. It may not even allow 2 and be restricted to just conference champs. At most, I’d see it requiring 3 conference champs with 1 “at large” selection, but no more than 1.
So much for “settling it on the field”, then.
Right – and which conference championship will Notre Dame win?
But how can you be national champ if you’re not a conference champ? That’s settled on the field, right?
Although from past back and forth, I’m thinking you and I are both pretty much lock step in thoughts on this stuff.
By that rationale, Notre Dame could never be a national champ.
Your point?
Like they were ever gonna be anyway.
Switch on your sarcasm meter…
Fair enough, although they’d try and throw their weight around in the process, and maybe make themselves guaranteed as the at large when they win 10 games. Because you know, there is so much interest nationally in the Notre Dame brand.
I got them “Lockstep Blues”. {(one word. ;-)}
Yeah, you haven’t stalked me enough lately.
Goodness are we cross again? Are things slow over there at the shock blog? Nothing to poor mouth about?? Too much time on your hands? Reaching out? Let me lift up up your spirits.
There … now we can be friends again.
AthensHomerDawg; That really U doing that picking? If so stop fussing bout futball & go out pickin.. Come on & lets get something going rather than what we’ve got, it does not work neither, i cannot decipher just what would be best, but i think most everyone on these “BlogSpots” will agree with me that we need some kind of change; And who said he was going to “Bring About Change”; though it was ‘NOT’ in the realm of ‘Football’; it was about “Government”. And not seen any better; only worse!!.. There i’ve got onto another irrelevant subject.. BTW– Answer– Husan Obama..
And of course that “at large” team would be Notre Dame eight years out of ten.
I could absolutely agree with up to an 8 team playoff. I think that is a bit much because I can’t think of anytime in the history of CFB that 8 teams have “deserved” to be in consideration.
My concern is that 8 will become 12 or 16 because playoff addicts are just like alcoholics. Their motto is MORE IS BETTER. It never stops. MLB going down that path now. It is a mere matter of time before the NCAA Basketball Tourney goes to 90 plus teams. The NHL and NBA are a joke…the regular season is nothing more than extended Spring Training for both.
If we take the step on the playoff, I would want the absolute strictest rules in place to prevent this type of mindless expansion.
Thank you for the reply.
I don’t think a concern that an 8 team playoff would turn into a 12 or 16 playoff is adequate reason for adopting a better (in many people’s opinion) system. Sure, it could happen, and if it does, its because the market (the people) demanding it. Would we not be stoked at playing Michigan State right now for the right to move onto the next round of the playoffs? I would love that. I would be there. As of now, while I want UGA to win, I’m apathetic to the game. Its just a bowl game, a glorified scrimmage.
And lets not compare NCAA Basketball to NCAA Football. NCAA basketball has 350+ teams, football has what, 120? Also, NCAA basketball also does not have a lot of disparity. A school like Butler or Gonzaga can compete with schools like Duke or Kentucky, unlike football where there are maybe 2-10 teams that could win the national title each year.
Also, the ADs and conferences have a lot of say in what goes on in college football it appears, whereas the NCAA controls college basketball. It appears the ADs and conference officials all have the same fears as you Bob (and the Senator) and they would most likely check your fears with those rules and regulations to prevent mindless expansion.
But I reiterate, to not move towards a better system that would allow the best 4-8 teams to play for the national title on the field, simply because you’re afraid of what might happen is unjustifiable. Progress can’t be stopped because of fear.
As a card-carrying member of the anti-playoff crowd, I’m willing to listen to the other side.
But I will tune out any argument made by someone who is apathetic
about a UGA football game.
That proves a fundamental difference in the way we view college football, and it’s a gap that won’t be
bridged by any postseason system.
So how should I feel?
You’re telling me you wouldn’t have more invested in a game in which if we win we would move onto the next round to play another game for the opportunity to play for the national title? I’m sorry, but as you said, if you prefer a post season scrimmage than you’re right, there is a fundamental difference in the way we view college football.
I see no reason to set up college football in a way that attempts to crown a national champion. That’s what the NFL is for. Same reason I don’t get worked up when Walton High doesn’t
get to play Mater Dei for a national championship.
That’s the fundamental difference.
And the only good one I’ve seen in this now-volatile discussion.
Jordan has good points and is not trying to be overwhelming in his preferential statement. Others come from an opposite standpoint. We all should be able to subscribe one way or the other and reason past unsubstantiated points. It’s all good. When we have to examine our reasoning, most often we learn.
Careful Brad
In an 8 team playoff UGA-Michigan State would still be a “glorified scrimmage” because we would not be in the top 8. Do you really think that the number 8 team in the country, Kansas State, has a legitimate claim to the national championship? If not then including them in a playoff makes it just as much of an exhibition as a bowl game.
Careful Brad,
I understand, I’m just trying to address a UGA crowd by using relevant examples. Unfortunately, we wouldn’t be in the playoffs this year.
And Brad, that’s the great thing about a playoff. If Kansas State made the playoffs they don’t need a “claim” to the national championship. They just have to play well and win their games and they’ll be given the national championship. No one needs to make “claims”, they just need to get into the playoffs (by whatever measures are set in place) and then win.
And no, including them in the playoffs is not as much an exhibition as a bowl game. The MSU / UGA game is a post season exhibition game. The Kansas State versus whomever game is a playoff game in which the winner would go on to play another team for the right to play in the national title.
So Kansas State beats LSU and now Kansas State has the opportunity to move on and LSU stays home? After the season that both of those teams have had I don’t see how that seems logical. LSU beat Oregon, Bama, WVU at Morgantown, UGA, and Arkansas while K-State lost a game 56-17. If you think that makes sense then I hope you have no complaints about our home schedule next year. If I’m an AD I am not putting a team on my OOC schedule that does not start with either Eastern, Western, Northern, or Southern, it does me no good. I can beat cupcakes and get at least a number 8 seed, then I’m in!
I appreciate your response.
Yes, if Kansas State beats LSU, they deserve to move on. How could they not? Kansas State is a good team and having beat LSU in a game clearly, and irrefutably, they deserve to move on.
I have no complaints about our schedule this year. I would like to see a marquee out of conference game, but we can’t help what Georgia Tech has become ;-).
If you’re an AD you can schedule how you’d like out of conference, but you’d still (most likely) have to win your conference and in Georgia’s case beat teams like South Carolina, Florida, Auburn, etc. If UGA finished #8 I’m sure they would’ve deserved it, regardless of who they played.
Thanks for the civil debate Jordan. I don’t think either one of us will change the other’s opinion but it’s good to hear some different opinions. The college football regular season is the best and most important of any sport and a playoff would cheapen that. The great thing about college football is you have to be good throughout a four month regular season, not a three week tournament in the post season.
+1, +1
There is the truth. A playoff of too many teams will definitely dilute the CFB season. CBB used to be great. And it still is…in March for 16 days. From December to early March it is a snorefest of utterly unimportant games. #1 plays #2 and no one pays any attention at all. Believe me, it did not used to be that way before every team with a pulse made the tourney.
Be very careful for what we wish for. The CFB season is by far the best regular season going. The ending is like a whimper some times, but we have 3 plus months of great drama in MOST years. There is absolutely none of that in basketball.
+2 – see Bob’s reply above as well. Jordan wants killer post season matchups that he believes will “irrefutably” crown a champion. I still think the Patriots were better than the Giants in 07, but I guess that’s just me. The rest of us like the fact Vandy can ruin someone’s season. It’s really that simple.
Jordan’s case is better than the BCS, no matter the word differences. A playoff champions the best team at that end of the season. Isn’t that what we are discussing? If LSU loses it before the season is over, then they no longer are the best team. Pretty simple with a playoff. When we were relegated to playing Hawaii in the Sugar Bowl instead of playing for the NC at that time, can you honestly not feel we were the best in the country at that time? And wouldn’t you have given anything for the chance for that team to prove it? The BCS rooked us and as long as snarky insinuations by ESPN are taken into consideration, the BCS will remain an indeterminate method of crowning a “NC”. I personally don’t like my alma mater playing in that shitty pool. A playoff deprives the sobs of exercising decisions and provides them with only a minimum amount of power over our great University.
I’m probably being pedantic, but this:
“No one needs to make “claims”, they just need to get into the playoffs (by whatever measures are set in place) and then win.”
Could be describing the BCS. Minus the ‘s’ at the end of playoffs, it’s the entirety of the argument for the creation of the BCS championship game in the first place 13 years ago. You’re just arguing that it should be 4 teams, or 6 or 8 instead of 2. Count me in the camp that doesn’t want that, and that would be fine with scrapping the whole thing. Make the SEC championship and a trip to New Orleans the ultimate goal of Georgia and every team in the SEC. The game I grew up watching and came to love can’t support a huge playoff.
DarrrenRovelll
So if Butler had won the national title in basketball the last two seasons then they would not have had a legitimate claim to the NCAA title?
They were not seeded in the top 8 in either tournament.
Are you really making a basketball-football comparison as if it is apples to apples? Are you advocating a 65 team football playoff? Are you going to put the Horizon League champion in your playoff?
No but your argument is flawed. Are you saying that no team below the 8th seed has any hope of beating a team ranked 8 or higher?
You nailed it Jordan. The anti’s arguments are not just dated and tiring, they are flawed with the “you can’t do what is right to fix it because we would then screw it up”, as if that has ever been a reason for man not striving to make things better. We would never have had cars or planes because someone might use them unsafely. A plus one is a half-assed solution that says we know we don’t have enough entrants with two teams yet doesn’t allow just one more round, to insure the major conferences have representation. It is destined to fail because a plus one would cry out for immediate expansion because it doesn’t solve the problem of legitimate inclusion. 8 teams would do that for all but the weird.
The Senator summarily dismisses Hinton’s point about the rematch, but Hinton’s comments are irrefutable. If Bama could earn their way back to a rematch, more power to them, but to just be awarded another shot is pitiful. We have 120 teams scattered through all geographies, most all of which have not interacted,so it is pretty myopic to think the best way to determine the top team in 2011 is to replay a game we have already seen. Even worse, should Alabama win, they would still have a lesser pedigree than the vanquished LSU. How hollow will that title, or ring, be? I doubt it would bother the Tide fans at all, but who else would recognize them? They are the butt of many jokes about this already.
But this isn’t about the lack of cred of Tide fans, this is about how CFB has gone a century without finding an adequate way to have one team earn it’s way to a title bigger than a regional one. No sport, at any level, does that. But if we are going to ignore that need/desire for a true champion, let’s win it on the field and stop pretending we have a true method of identifying a champ. Let’s just stop at conference titles, they are the highest earned achievements in CFB. As silly as I think that is, I could support that ahead of the disastrous system we currently have in post season play.
Has America gone completely to preferring handouts to actually earning something?
Mac, needless to say I think your argument is overwrought, but one thing in particular stands out:
… it is pretty myopic to think the best way to determine the top team in 2011 is to replay a game we have already seen. Even worse, should Alabama win, they would still have a lesser pedigree than the vanquished LSU. How hollow will that title, or ring, be?
Isn’t that an argument that we don’t need a playoff at all?
As I have said many times before, I would rather have no claims of having a champion than this phony process we now have. I am cool with everyone having their conference champion and nothing beyond…certainly nothing as contrived as what we have now. It is the falseness of it that bothers me most.
How so? In what way does his quote argue that we don’t need a playoff?
He clearly states:
“If Bama could earn their way back to a rematch, more power to them, but to just be awarded another shot is pitiful. We have 120 teams scattered through all geographies, most all of which have not interacted…”
At this point the anti-playoff crowd is like the old man resistant to change, not because of actual, sound reasoning, but because he’s afraid of change itself.
I know you’re an educated man Senator, but I can’t help but feel you’re anti-playoff stance is simply a rabble-rousing maneuver to draw page views. Fess up.
If LSU is the best team, regardless, what’s the point of a playoff?
Also, I’ve got better things to do than write merely to draw page views. That’s Mark Bradley territory, thanks.
Dawgaholic
In reality, this is a year where LSU deserves the pre-1995 system. The best system for college football is a variable system that is flexible according to the state of things after the regular season. For this year, the pre-bowl alliance system would work as we have one clear top team. For years like 2005, 2006, or 2010, the current regular season plus BCS model is great. For years like 2003, 2004, or 2007, a 4, 6, or 8 team playoff may be needed – though I’ve never seen a season where 8 teams had a legitimate argument that they were number one.
Any playoff should be limited to teams that have a legitimate argument that they are number one. If it’s just one team, nothing is needed. If five teams, then the 4 and 5 play and the winner advances to a 4 team playoff. To determine what is needed, you would need a set metric that qualified all teams within a certain point ranking or score of the number one ranked team. Ideally, this system would contain record, strength of schedule, and a component that gave additional credit to schools from conferences that had won recent national championships.
Although this would only result in at most 3 additional games, I doubt such a system would ever be accepted due to the uncertainty at the end of each year- despite the fact it may be the best way to determine a true national champion and still keep emphasis on the regular season.
Dawgaholic;
I think you may B forgetting about the inclement weather we have at ‘Bowl Playing Time’. If all wining teams playing in Bowls could play in Domed Stadiums, then that would be grand; but reckon that could B the case? Hardly..
Note that the title is ambiguous as to what the subject matter of the post might be, thus negating any chance of increased page views from people who might be “roused” enough to click through to it simply because they disagree with it.
WVMtnDawg
I think its supports the argument that there are too many FBS programs out there. 120 is too many, we should have less, and let conference champs settle it on the field against each other.
It really is that simple WV, If we can just get those mid-majors to step back. That was close to what the BCS founders tried to do but they left the door ajar. The 4 Super Conferences could accomplish this in the next few years but it would be cleaner if there were different divisions established for the have and have-nots.
“No sport, at any level, does that.”
Not true. High school football.
I understand that the money and the stadiums and the TV contracts of CFB resemble the NFL, and that’s great, because it puts UGA on my TV every Saturday. I just don’t want it to copy the NFL on the field, because I find the NFL very boring.
Don’t think Mac’s argument is “overwrought” at all. That would make yours “overbought”, Senator.
The words “National Champion” should be dissected. Some of us put different meanings to the words than do others.
Yeah, I see exactly what you mean.
It may be a leap (but not overwrought) to compare Bammers with the entitlement mentality spreading from the Leftist movement, but the whining and begging for another shot is annoying for similar reasons. Of course, there are those who don’t see a problem with either.
And , as sharp as your vision is with all matters football, I really don’t think you “see exactly” much at all when it comes to what is going on outside the game. JMO.
From Jordan:
Yeah – not overwrought at all…totally logical – after all this isn’t an opinion it is FACT that a playoff will be better for every single person!
I’m a Saints fan, and I hate that the Saints are probably going to have to play the Falcon’s in the first round of the playoffs, for the 3rd time in 8 games. Talk about watering dwon the regular season.The worst the Saints can be this season against the Falcons is 2-1, but if that’s the case, the Falcon’s will have had a better playoff run than the Saints. Nobody has ever complained about the fact that teams that already played in the regular season play again in various playoff formats until the BCS did it.
See the Senator’s circular reasoning in the post.
That’s just a bit over the top. Where do you get off attaching some nasty label on someone who doesn’t agree with you and then ask for a pardon for rude statements because it was supposedly done “Tongue in Cheek”. “One day climate change skeptics will be seen in the same negative light as racists, or so says former Vice President Al Gore.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/28/gore-global-warming-skeptics-are-this-generations-racists/#ixzz1i2oK49tk
Now this from the guy who invented the internet and you both concern me.
I may be outdated but I do enjoy the long standing traditions of college football. The bowls are one of those traditions and I would like to think the athletes enjoyed playing in them as much as I enjoy watching them. It was something we always looked forward to and they do too!
“The BCS was not designed to award the national title to the most deserving team; it was designed to make money for the top-20 or so programs in Division 1.
Football programs need cost certainty; the business model of D1 athletics depends on it. The “revenue” sports (men’s football and basketball) generate millions of dollars in profits that are re-invested into “non-revenue” (Olympic and women’s) sports, as well as various facilities to enhance/solidify recruiting.
Why exactly are poor inner city kids sacrificing their bodies to subsidize suburban kids playing country club sports in college anyway? **
So it doesn’t matter that a playoff system will bring in more money to college athletics. That’s money the NCAA would get its hands on; money that would be spread much more equally around the 100+ Division 1 programs. The big-time programs would rather have bigger cuts of a smaller pie than smaller cuts of a larger one.
That’s the fundamental problem with playoff proponents’ – they think they are talking to a business when they are actually negotiating with a monopoly.
And like all monopolies, the six BCS conferences aren’t looking to give up their power.
The way the system is set up now, if you go undefeated in a BCS conference, you will play for a national title. Except in a rare occasion like 2004, when USC, Auburn and OU all finished undefeated.”
Now unless you are a racist, sexist, Nazi homophobe wife beater…. I’m sure we can agree. (Just kidding..it’s all good!)….right?
or “overwrought”.
I am all for a plus one as long as the College Administrators fix it as a long term contract to stem the voracious appetite that exists for playoff addicts. And make it a requirement that you must win your conference. We know Alabama is inferior to LSU. I would like to KNOW that Oklahoma State was.
And yeah, I am hoping against hope that LSU beats the ever living hell out of Bama just so I can see Herby tell us how this was the right match up. That alone would be worth it.
I like the cut of your jib, Bob … and in a football way. ‘Special interests’ have that certain special habit of nibbling at the edges of issues and exploiting the idea of a utopian solution to common inconvenience. Once the lid is off the ‘playoffs bottle’ the result will be a stampede for profit. And, I think, the inherent unpredictability of semi-amateur football will be gone down the drain.
As opposed to the current state of football where conferences and broadcasting companies ink billion dollar deals and we have 30+ bowls simply because they rake in profit. Yea, playoffs are really going to ruin college football and cause a stampede for profit.
To be a playoff opponent simply because the bowls have existed and that’s “how we’ve always done it” is absurd. Doing something wrong, even if you’ve been doing it wrong all along, is still wrong.
Well, that’s just like your opinion, Man…If and when there is a movement toward a playoff it will only be about one thing —- DOLLARS (or yuan)! Profit is what has proliferated these Belk/Meineke/San Diego Credit Union(?) Bowls and should sponsors be presented with a business plan that increases revenues faster they’ll jump on it like Chuck Berry on a honky girl.
I think you may be confusing what is best for a marketplace of jackal advertisers vs. the maintenance of the most meaningful regular season on the American sports landscape.
I’m not confusing anything. A playoff might be best for the marketplace, but that’s irrelevant, its whats best for college football. The regular season would still be meaningful and please spare me that line when Alabama, who did not win the SEC and lost to LSU at home during the regular season, was selected to rematch LSU for the title game.
Again, I don’t understand why the regular season would all the sudden lose its meaning. Look at this year. In an 8 team playoff, there would only be 8 coveted spots. A single loss could knock you out of the running, just like now. The regular season would maintain its importance. The whole “the regular season would lose its importance” argument is old and holds no water.
I don’t like the prospect that Bama gets another crack at LSU, but sell those goods to the voters. Those Harris Poll grandpas and the Coaches Poll sycophants are the responsible agents for elevating Alabama above OSU.
Strength of schedule, in some form agreeable to every conference, must be sprinkled into this BCS formula or else all manner of subjective bias can creep in.
We think it’s hard deciding who the second best team in America is, wait til we have to decide who the 8th or 16th best is.
But they rake in the profit because the large BCS schools also control the power too.
If they opt for a football in the FBS division, we will see a major shakeup in the NCAA. There will be a big fight and it will be bloody. Non-BCS schools have reasonable representation and revenue sharing from the basketball and they will demand the same from a football playoff.
This probably why the BCS conferences floating the “plus one” are calling it such. Labeling it a playoff will open the Pandora’s box with the potential to completely destroy the NCAA as it is currently structured.
Ty Webb
By your reasoning, we KNOW UGA is inferior to South Carolina. Why did UGA make the SECCG? Because of how the rest of the season played out for those two teams and others. Same reason Bama was able to slide into the NCG.
If Bama beats LSU an LSU is voted #1 in the AP, will they claim a national championship? Anybody remember 2003? That would be fun to follow on the LSU boards!
Yeah, I just thought about that. I would really enjoy hearing them debate themselves. I might just start cataloging some of their arguments from 2003 for fun.
Having seen both Bama and Okie State play several times this season, I can tell you I don’t need to watch LSU play Okie State to KNOW LSU is better.
I don’t even need to spend the night at a mid priced motel to know it.
If you don’t KNOW LSU is better, well…maybe you should find some other sport to be interested in.
Scorpio,
I think I have been around long enough to know something about this sport. Do you really know that LSU is better? For fact? I think they are better. Hell, I THINK Alabama is better that OSU. But I do not know that they are not better than Alabama. Don’t need to see that show again.
And no matter how smart you think you are, you don’t know either. Did you assume Utah was better than Alabama? Oh, I thought so. 😉
Bob;
I think we “ALL” should wait until 1/09/12 to see who wins “THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES”;
Alabama OR
LSU ?
If Bama comes up and wins!! Well stranger things have happened.
Wasn’t it not 2 many years ago when LSU was undefeated and came time to play (was it Kentucky, or someone else) whomever? And that whomever beat them handidly. I say “Don’t count your ‘Chicks’ B4 they hatch”. If LSU goes into that game “OverConfident”; well don’t B suprised if BAMA pulls out a win; I Said; “Stranger Things Have Happened”..
The only reason I’d like to see Okie State play LSU is to watch LSU destroy them. Alabama is the only team that has a chance (and a good chance) to beat LSU if they’re both on their games. Ok State, not so much.
As long as the number of SEC teams are not limited in a playoff system and just based it on rankings of some sort. I still can see the SEC dominating and other conferences unhappy.
You can already see the dilemma coming for UGA next year (yes, that’s premature I know but we do have a very easy SOS, i’ve heard…)
Undefeated UGA wins East
Undefeated LSU wins West, beating one-loss Alabama (or vice versa)
West winner beats East winner in SECGC.
Two 1-loss SEC teams remain, both losing only to #1 ranked LSU.
who goes to the BCS CG? The divisional winner? But we just demonstrated that isn’t a criteria this year. Is it the one with the higher ranking? that will likely be the one that lost earlier in the year.
I think this year’s rematch sets bad precedent, and sort of upturns previous precedent from 2007 when some Eastern division team didn’t deserve to go to the Championship because they didn’t win thier division. I forget who that was…
reipar
Did I actually see a slippery slope argument?! When I was in school it was not against the conduct code to punch someone for making a slippery slope argument in crim pro.
The bcs is designed to get the two best/most deserving teams in. You can’t make the argument that Osu is better or more deserving than Alabama. Moreover, you can’t justify LSU having go win 2 games to claim the national title when they shouldn’t have to play one. This is ahead in which the old system of choosing a national champ before the bowls makes the most sense. Instead, you have a system where the most accomplished regular season team has to beat a team it beat on the raid to claim a trophy. Rather than acknowledge the stupidity of that process most want to aggravate it by making LSU beat two undeserving opponents. I just can’t make any sense out of that.
so much of this season’s anti-BCS argument seems to be summed up in the following sentence: “We dont like seeing LSU play Alabama again.”
Well, I dont like it either, but anyone who thinks these arent the two best teams this year just hasnt been paying attention. If your point is “Alabama shouldnt be in this game because they already had their shot at home and lost,” I can’t argue against that; however, the BCS rules dont prohibit it. Does anyone really think OK St’s O would do much against the Bama D? Does anyone think a mediocre OK St D would do much to slow down Bama’s O? Substitute Stanford or Oregon for OK St, same conclusion.
I can see the argument that a second place team in its division shouldnt play for the title. Fair enough. But if your goal is to put the two best teams in the title game, this year is your dream game. Makes no sense to me to make LSU play MORE games to get to the title game.
If the BCS title game is to determine which is the best team in the country, everything such as conference titles, affiliations, schedules, who Corso is in love with, who Herbstreet is trying to screw, great traditions, and so on and so on need to be put aside. Let a computer program decide who’s stongest. If it’s two teams from the same conference who have already played….so be it. BUT if it’s about making every region and conference feel needed and building the biggest national audience, figure out a playoff system. Pandora can help arrange it. It will give a lot of people the warm fuzzies to think that their team is “going to the big dance”, or is “on the bubble” (just to use the more boring sports’ tourny lingo).
Just think of the possibilities. If you think the a-holes at espn (just for instance, not to be picking on that wonderful cast) are sickining in their partiality now…just wait until you have a playoff system. Game day will have to start at midnight on Thursdays just so they can get their politicing in….
Keeping it like it is sucks.The subjective, human element has to be removed and this is the time in history where, thanks to technology (computers) it can actually be done. Just don’t let GT write the program.
But even if we finally got it all perfect….with computers or playoffs or whatever, one bad call by a biased referee could sink the whole thing….again. And it WOULD happen…again. Or someone would sue that the computer program wasn’t written perfectly and some quirk left their team out.
Oh, well. It never hurts to try.
Bottom line here…this year the two best teams are playing for it.Next year maybe not…one of them might get stuck playing Hawaii becase Corso says so.
What if you had three polls at the end. If they disagreed, any of the teams could challenge one of the others to a playoff game. They would have to be willing to put up one million dollars and forfeit it and every cent they made on the extra game to charity if they lost. They’d have to be pretty confident, as would the opposing team to accept the challenge. You think OSU would do this against LSU? KSt against Bama?
Yes…I’m crazy. Just fun.
I think you would have the same problems with a play off system that you do now. Somebody’ s going to be left out and will start whining about the unfairness of it all. What if 4 of the top ranked 8 teams are from the SEC? You would again hear how the system is rigged to favor the SEC from all those other conferences that don’t know how to play defence.
Yeah, but the differences in selecting the 16th team (I just used that number because it will piss someone off) are so close that you may settle for a raffle system. Now there we go! Select the top 8-12 teams and throw 8-16 in a pile to raffle off the next placements. These would be called The Future Incoming National Games Raffle and by acronym would be known as the FING Raffle, shortened by some to FING R. By having this Fing Raffle, we can stipulate we are giving the BCS the FING R.
I’ll have to check with corporate to determine the use of the FING R logo since that conflicts with the next model name for Fing Scooters.
surely!
Dear 4 Team Playoff Advocates,
Please explain how the argument of Bama vs. OSU is not the same, if perhaps not even more intense, between #4 Stanford and #5 Oregon?
Oregon beat Stanford, Oregon is the Pac (whatever) Champion. Oregon lost to LSU. Stanford has arguable a weaker schedule. Stanford beat USC in triple OT, Oregon lost to USC by 3.
And if you want conference champs only, Bama’s out and Whisky is in (as well as Oregon, so you’ve got #5 and #8 in the playoffs, while #’s 2, 4 , 6, and 7 are out)?
I’m not sure what that would be, but it’s not “progress”.
It’s a clarion call for 8-16 teams in a playoff! Outstanding, AusDawg.
It’s called the pros. They play on Sunday. Check it out sometime.
Every year, without fail, a four team playoff is messier than the two team BCS. Every year. The argument I get is that people won’t care about who is 4 or 5 as long as they ‘know’ that the best teams are in the playoff. But you won’t know that. Look at this year. No one is arguing that LSU shouldn’t be in there. And no one is arguing that Bama or OSU are better than LSU. The quest is whether or not Bama is better than OSU. Move it back, is Stanford Better than Oregon? Move it back, is Kansas State better than South Carolina? Is Michigan State better than UGA? I guess we’ll find that one out, but I assure you if we just got the spot and they were left out (they’re currently 17th in the BCS to our 16th) they’d be screaming mad.
I doubt anyone will be able to give a serious answer to this. Any takers?
The lone voice in the wilderness. I am against the BCS as it now stands.
I am against any team playing in more than 2 bowl games.
I like the bowl system in place now EXCEPT: I am a proponent of a PLUS ONE (4 TEAM PLAYOFF).
That would settle the National Championship issue for me every year.
all great points made by the senator….
I find the most irritating element whenever someone attempts to examine the DI FBS “Champion” is that they do so in a vacuum, completely isolated from causation and rationale. We have a current system in place for post-season play that by-and-large is irrespective of the polls (save the BCS bowls) and is settled by conference ranking. We have large scale exhibition games geared at pitting equal conference opponents against each other.
If we introduce a “+1” system of a 4-team playoff scenario, it would be honest for us also to actually address how the rest of the bowls will be impacted. No, it won’t be “just an extra game”. It will essentially become two post-season seasons; the “haves” and the “have nots”. I think what gets lost in all of this is what bowl games represent to college football. These really aren’t “just games”, they are winter vacations for both the schools and fan bases that travel. Its a big deal and an event (even when teams lose the bowl game). The perspective of the spectator that actually takes part and attends the game is missing from this discussion. The “playoffs or bust” is mainly coming from people who are just casually watching on the tube.
What is ‘broken’ in the current bowl series? Is it JUST determining the National Champion? If thats all it is…then I suppose we have to ask if something could help weight these teams to create a consensus of a team’s ability. We already have it – its the BCS score combing several polls and computer formulas. The “National Champion” isn’t endorsed by the NCAA (it is completely a concoction of the ‘BCS’ collective), so whatever we’re attempting to do here is simply for TV and sponsor revenue.
It would be nice the next time some sportswriter brings up this argument, that he does his homework and actually illustrates what would happen from all perspectives. Is the current bowl system profitable for the bowl, for the hosting city, do the teams actually profit, what impact does being a bowl winner (no matter how trivial the bowl) have on a program – instead of just how making a change to satiate ESPN ratings?
Hilarious to see all the “regular season is so sacred” crowd defend a system that completely ignores the November 5 game between LSU and Alabama. No requirement to earn it, let’s just hand them a do-over. I understand that some prefer no playoff at all, but at least be consistent. If you aren’t gagging about this, then you weren’t sincere about the sanctity of the regular season. This is the worst of all scenarios. It knocks out the “regular season” argument in a way a playoff never could.
And I am a “regular season is sacred” guy who supports a limited playoff because it would enhance the regular season.
This again? It doesn’t ignore the November 5 game. LSU is 1 and Alabama 2 because of that game. The nice thing about the system is that it also factors in the other 11 weeks of the season in arriving at the matchup. In those other 11 weeks Alabama didn’t play a game closer than 16 points. They were also the only team to stay within 13 of LSU. I don’t like the rematch, and I’ve always thought they should have a conference championship requirement for participation (with exemptions for independents). However, Alabama has no embarrassing losses and pretty clearly looks like the second best, if not the best, team in the country by any metric you want to use.
Beyond my other argument, even if I concede that in this one particular instance the regular season is somewhat diminished by this rematch, why in God’s name would I want to switch to a system that would ensure multiple instances of regular season matchups between top teams being only determiners of seeding?
Bogus.
If LSU beat Bama 27-3 on Nov 5, I guarantee you OSU is in the title game.
Bama rightly gets credit for playing LSU very close.
The regular season matters.
Patrick..very important point. The closeness of that game begs for the rematch.
Also, I came away thinking that Alabama was a little better overall. That may no longer be the case with Jefferson playing QB. He certainly gave the LSU offense a spark when he entered that game.
Guys, having a playoff whether it is 2,4 8, 16, or 32 teams does not guarantee you will identify the best team…ever. Each match-up is unique and results are for that day only. We can all make extrapolations based on interwoven five-off game results, but you never really know who is the best…that will always be argumentative. Only the intensity of the argument will vary. You can have a NC though, if you have a representative playoff.
If anyone using the “regular season” stuff isn’t disgusted by what the rematch says about the importance of the regular season results Biggus, I don’t guess we are discussing the same thing. It couldn’t be a more direct assault the foundation of the regular season’s significance.
And a playoff is not an even more fierce assault on the regular season? Seriously, if LSU having to play Bama is a travesty, what is LSU having to play Stanford and then Bama, or K State, Stanford, then Bama? You can’t make an argument that the BCS harms the regular season’s sanctity and argue for a playoff at the same time.
Dude – rematches happen ALL the time in the pros. Giants/Pats anyone? Yes – smaller population granted. We’ve had 2 (that I can remember) maybe 3 rematches in the BCS history. Guarantee playoffs it happens as well. This is a tired argument. A playoff won’t prevent rematches. A 2 team playoff (which the BCS really is when you get down to it) won’t as well. Your first paragraph, with the exception of the last sentence, is the most coherent thing you’ve written on this post. You “can” have a NC either way. But it means different things to different people.
But the regular season will get diminished the larger the playoff gets. Go look at revenue distribution of most (if not all) playoff sports and then look at what we have. Not too difficult to figure that one out, but it’s not something the playoff advocates tend to address.
Dave, first of all I am not a “dude”, nor have I ever been referred to as one unless I traveled from the East to the Old West in another life. Just cannot recall that far back.
Secondly, if you honestly don’t see how a playoff of 8 teams from a group of 120 differs with what the NFL does (or the NBA, NHL, NCAA Basketball, etc) there is simply no way to have a conversation with you on this subject. You seriously don’t think they are relevant do you? I have always said I opposed the 12, 16, 32, or more playoff proposals for many reasons. And, a well designed playoff of 8 would most definitely enhance the regular reason by making each game precious and a step to something very significant, something earned, something never accomplished before (beyond the Conference title, of course, which is actually earned.)
If Oklahoma State had lost twice in the regular season, would you still exclude ‘Bama from the title game?
Yes, if presented with the current “vote them in” option, I would have taken the next best team from a different region of the country….Stanford probably. Let’s face it, Bama is really only in because of a small plane crash involving OSU coaches.
Stanford didn’t win their Conference, or even Division, either. You’d have to take Oregon, right? Wait… they already lost to LSU too.
Oregon 53, Stanford 30. ‘Course, that would be a rematch, too. 😉
That is why I wouldn’t take Oregon. Keep in mind, I am not in favor of a 2, or 4 team playoff…was just answering what I thought would be the best choice if OSU were not available with the resume they have.. I would choose to not pretend that would be a NC at all until we really have a playoff.
While respecting all opinions on a college fotball playoff, have to say we begin to take on fake expertise when we argue points we have conjured up from media info. It just creeps into all our arguments. It all begs for a study of playoffs that are already set in college football transposing over to study such a large number of interests that reside in college ball.
I confess that most of my interest in a playoff comes from negative aspects of the BCS and all the self-serving interests from afar who try to and sometimes impact my alma mater negatively and in a poor spirit of competition. And sometimes what I write as attempted humor somehow begins to look more and more plausible.
It’s time to up the FING R plan for the BCS.
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Pedestrian serious but stable after bus crash
CareFlight's rapid response team landed at a nearby park.
Friday 1 July 2016, 10am Sydney time
A 63-year-old man has been taken to hospital in a serious but stable condition following a bus crash in Cammeray this morning.
It’s understood the man was walking along the footpath on Miller Street when he was hit by the bus shortly before 9am.
CareFlight’s rapid response helicopter landed at a park near the scene and the medical crew rushed to him.
The man suffered leg and arm injuries, and fractured ribs. He was transported in a serious but stable condition, by NSW Ambulance, to Royal North Shore Hospital. CareFlight’s medical crew accompanied him in the road ambulance.
It’s understood NSW Ambulance are treating a number of other patients on scene. NSW Police and other emergency services are also at the scene in Cammeray.
CareFlight: the next life we save could be yours.
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Two things we learned: Paris Saint-Germain 1-3 Manchester United
Manchester United managed to stun Paris Saint-Germain on the road as they secured their berth in the quarter-final stage of the Champions League. The Red Devils were trailing Les Parisiens by a 2-0 score after the first leg of the round of 16 clash at Old Trafford, but they managed to make a sensational comeback with a 3-1 triumph at Parc des Princes which saw them progress on the away goal rule.
Romelu Lukaku scored on either side of Kylian Mbappe’s strike for Paris Saint-Germain in the first period, but the game was defined right at the end after United were handed a controversial penalty through the VAR in the fourth minute of injury time. Marcus Rashford stepped up to convert the effort against Gianluigi Buffon and ensure that United produced one of their best-ever comebacks in history.
Two things we learned:
Ole continues to exceed expectations: Interim boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has already earned plaudits for transforming the club’s fortunes in the Premier League where they are currently occupying the fourth position. However, very few would have expected the same against Les Parisiens on the road, given the team were dealing with the absence of 10 first-team players. With the stunning turnaround at Parc des Princes, the Norwegian is surely the favourite to acquire the permanent managerial role, given the hierarchy don’t have any reasons to decline him with the chance. United have suffered just one loss under Ole’s tutelage since he took charge in mid-December.
Paris Saint-Germain suffer another European setback: Paris Saint-Germain seemed favourites to progress to the quarter final stage until the dying seconds of the game where a Presnel Kimpembe handball handed United the advantage through the penalty spot. The result should no doubt hurt both the players and the hierarchy alike, but there could also be question marks regarding Thomas Tuchel’s managerial reign at the club. The German tactician was reluctant to bring Edinson Cavani onto the field until United grabbed their third goal, and the decision is sure to bring criticism despite the Uruguayan only recently returning from a thigh injury. Les Parisiens have now bowed out at the round of 16 stage in each of the past three seasons.
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43 Brownies from across March District Stay Away at St Wendreda’s Church Hall
Girls from across March District have returned home from an exhilarating Brownie Stay Away at St Wendreda’s Church Hall last weekend.
The girls, aged 7 to 10, enjoyed an action packed event with exciting challenges and adventures including malteser racing and games.
Ammie, aged 8, said: “I really enjoyed spending the weekend with other Brownies, we did lots of fun things but what I most enjoyed was the wake up call this morning. It was really funny.”
The event coordinator, Sarah Benningfield, said: “The stay away was a great chance for the girls to get away and enjoy each other’s company in a safe, girl-only space and a chance to meet other Brownies from around the district. All the girls told me how much they enjoyed themselves and they can’t wait to decide what they want to do at the next district event.”
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The Flash shoots a couple scenes for the season 3 finale with most of the cast.
THIS IS A POST ABOUT SCENES SHOT FOR THE FLASH SEASON 3 FINALE. IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THIS EPISODE, AND DONT WANT TO SEE OR READ ABOUT ANY POSSIBLE SPOILERS FROM THE EPISODE, DO NOT CONTINUE READING OR VIEWING THE PHOTOS BELOW.
* - article revised to include information after the episode aired.
Original article stated Anne Dudek (Tracy Brand) and not Michelle Harrison (Nora Allen) was in the scene. It is info that was on the official call sheet for the day.
The Flash shot several scenes out in public in the last week of filming, including the much talked about Funeral scene HERE. This set is about their 2 night shoots. The first one was the same night as the funeral scene. They moved to B.C. Place to shoot the big spoilery finale scene you have likely seen almost everywhere.
In the scene, you can see Grant Gustin (Barry Allen), Tom Cavanagh (Harrison Wells), John Wesley Shipp (Jay Garrick), Jesse L Martin (Joe West), Keiynan Lonsdale (Wally West), Candice Patton (Iris West), Carlos Valdes (Cisco Ramon), Tom Felton (Julian Albert), Jessica Camacho (Gypsy) and Michelle harrison (Nora Allen)
The scene shows Barry go around to everyone in the group and say some good byes to them, including a kiss with Iris, before he turns around, and for reasons I dont really know.... leaves with Nora*.
In the other night scene shot a few days later at Victory Square. The crew and cast shot scenes in the same location we all know as where Iris dies in episode 309. A few cast were there at various times throughout the night....but I was too tired to stay in the wet weather to watch it all happen. Tom Cavanagh, Jesse L Martin, Candice Patton and Grant Gustin were all scheduled to work that night. I only saw Gustin and Patton working during the time I was there. What I did see though was a confrontation between The Flash & Savitar. Grant was doing scenes where he holds a big ass gun and shoots at Savitar. But does he hit him?? the way the scene plays out, it seems he doesnt.
You can catch The Flash on Tuesday nights on The CW in the U.S.A. and on CTV in Canada.
You can find our other BTS blog posts on The Flash HERE
You can find out autograph gallery for The Flash HERE
The Flash films scenes for the season 2 premiere in downtown Vancouver on a couple different days
The Flash filmed some scenes in downtown Vancouver earlier in July for the season 2 premiere.
The first day they shot scenes in a large park in the West End for "Flash Day" in Central City. I missed all the actual filming, but I did get there in time to see Carlos Valdez on lunch and meet Adam Copeland (aka Edge from WWE) who was guest starring in the episode.
A couple days later, I caught up with them shooing in an alley a block from BC Place. There was very little to be seen there due to the way the alley was set up.
Again Adam Copeland was on set, along with Grant Gustin dressed in his standard Flash suit with the red logo still being repped (spoiler alert for those not on the internet in the last 3 weeks and this is the first thing you are seeing... a change is coming to the logo SOON).
The most interesting thing from this shoot wasn't the actors on set. It was a new prop that I'm assuming the CCPD has. As much as I love the Flash, I am a little disappointed to see them so blatantly rip off an idea from another superhero show. The Flash now has his own version of The Bat Signal.
I also added a few pics of the cast of The Flash going to & returning from Comic-Con weekend. Grant, Carlos, Tom Cavanagh, Victor Garber and Candice Patton.
The Flashs season 2 begins October , 2015 on The CW in the U.S. and on CTV in Canada.
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The Flash shoots a scene for last weeks episode with Grant Gustin also spotted Tom Cavanagh and Patrick Sabongui
The Flash shot a scene late March 5th/early March 6th for the episode 120 that recently aired.
An earlier scene was shot inside upstairs with Tom Cavanagh. Then as he left, those needed for the exterior scene arrived. Grant Gustin was in his Flash attire, and I I saw Patrick Sabongui on set as Captain Singh, but it was dark & he was far away, so I never got any good shots of him.
The scene is pretty cut & dry. People in an apartment/business tower evacuate as fire & police show up. Then, lastly, The Flash comes to the door & speeds away.
The Flash and Barry Allen/The Flash are up for this years May Madness tournament going on right now HERE
The Flash autographs can be found HERE
The Flash airs Tuesday nights on The CW in the U.S. and on CTV in Canada.
The Flash shoots scenes for episode 318 and maybe 319 back in February
THIS BLOG MAY CONTAIN POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR EPISODE 118 OR 119. If you have not seen these episodes and want to avoid potential mild spoilers to them. DO NOT continue reading or viewing the photos..
I ran into The Flash a couple times in mid February, as they shot scenes for episode 118 (and possibly 119)
The 1st set I know were for 118 as Emily Kinney and Amanda Pays were on set that day. The shoot took place at a massive business park in South Burnaby that's used by most productions at some point. The shoot was all interiors, but I can tell you I saw Grant Gustin, Jesse L. Martin, Rick Cosnett, Tom Cavanagh along with previously mentioned 2 guest stars there that night.
Uunfortunately, the location left no chances to shoot any parts of the scenes. However, meeting the cast was plausible. I went out there that day & night to meet The Walking Dead star Emily Kinney. While I did meet everyone else that was there that night, Ms. Kinney was less than receptive to meeting fans at any time I was there. Allegedly she met fans earlier in the day, but, during the 11 hrs I spent there, she never did. Even as she wrapped, and KNEW the whole TWO of us that were there were still waiting, and that she had earlier denied when she said "I just got to go to set (a small lie... she went to set 20 mins later.. after going to hair & make up, then coming back to her trailer for a few mins), so its not like she didn't know why we were there.... she speed walked from her transport vehicle, into her trailer, they speed walked from her trailer to her awaiting shuttle vehicle. I rarely take it too personally if a celeb denies signing for me. I get it. But this particular instance, I took pretty personally. She COULD have said "no" one of the 3 or 4 times prior, or even as she was leaving for the night. Instead, just left the pair of us there hanging. Classless move by her. A simple "no" would have solved everything.
This episode of The Flash comes up this week.
Just two days after that I found the set for The Flash 2 times that day. First up was a shoot at Victory Square with Danielle Panabaker as Caitlyn Snow and Candice Patton as Iris West and a young girl.
It was hard to make out what all was going on in the scene, but it appeared the little girl was speaking quite annoyed/angrily at Iris and Caitlyn who were in a car. Unfortunately, I got there near the end of their shoot, so I never saw a lot of the scene, just 3 or 4 takes. While I was there, I saw Grant Gustin show up for reasons I do not know (he never did any scenes there...and seemingly wasn't there very long). Shortly after, the crew moved to their second location, about a 20 minute walk away at a residential area in Strathcona.
At the 2nd location there was not much to see besides the actors going in or coming out of the house they were shooting at. I've been to sets like this 100X, they are pretty bland, mundane interaction experiences that don't require a lot of "security". However, this particular small, irrelevant set had more security than most high profile big budget films do. I even asked the 1 main guard what the deal was, he responded that he was just as perplexed by it as we were. There was no spoilers to be seen as they were filming indoors, the wasn't even any "special guest stars" of note to hide. This really shouldn't have been a "high security" situation, and as I pointed out to the main guard, and he seconded my observation, MOST of the security they had brought in were utterly pointless & more in the way than anything they were "guarding". I got a few pics of Rick and Grant coming out of the house 1 take, then left.... which was for the best Just as I got to the porch of my house, which was only a 8-10 minute walk away, the skies opened up and a substantially intense downpour erupted for the next 1/2 hour or so. Had I been even 2 minutes longer, I would have got soaked to the bone... so I guess the extra security and interior shoot DID something positive for me, it inspired me to leave early.
The scenes on that 2nd day I believe are for episode 19, but could be 18 just because of how close it was to the filming date of the scenes that I know were for 18. Guess we'll find out soon enough.
The Flash returns from its 1 week hiatus Tuesday on The CW in the U.S. and on CTV in Canada.
You can see more of my Flash blog posts HERE. My Flash autographs for sale can be found HERE.
The Flash shoots scenes for episode 122 with Grant Gustin, Tom Cavanagh, Robbie Amell and a Guest Star in a VERY Spoilery Outfit.
THIS POST CONTAINS POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR EPISODE 122 OF "THE FLASH" If you have not seen the episode and do not want to view or read any potential spoilers for the show, do not continue reading the blog post, or viewing the photos below.
Wednesday night the cast and crew of the hit DC Comics superhero show The Flash took over the entire B.C. Place Stadium building and grounds. Shooting started early in the day with several cast members inside the stadium. I never saw anyone but Jesse L. Martin go in or out, but another fan tweeted about seeing Carlos Valdes, Danielle Panabaker & Wentworth Miller leaving.
In the early evening crews moved outside to an entranceway on the eastern side of the building. There they had a large crane and several cars parked on the ground, giving the illusion that the walkway was in fact a parking lot outside of S.T.A.R. Labs. The crane then hoisted a stunt man in full Reverse Flash attire up several stories, before he was dropped down into a pile of awaiting mats while attached to a safety harness. Then another stunt man followed, doing the same jump in a dark black outfit and beige vest. I never got any shots of that one, as I wasn't ready for the 2nd stunt mans fall.
After a couple of other scenes back on the ground, out of the way of any viewers because of the unique angle that the platform holds in comparison to any viewpoint other than the viaduct that goes past it, which the crew, with the permission of the Vancouver Police Department closed off from pedestrians (despite it literally having no safety concerns) while they shot the scenes.
After shooting those scenes, the crew moved to the front of B.C. Place to shoot in Terry Fox Plaza. The unique art work in the plaza of the famed 1 legged runner who ran to raise money for Cancer research gave the set designers an idea, they used the growing in size statues as places to put "S.T.A.R. Labs" signs.
As the evening started to pick up, the cast showed up in a few SUVs. first was 1 that caught me off guard, as Arrow star Stephen Amell arrived wearing some odd clothes. Grant Gustin and Robbie Amell then arrived, with Tom Cavanagh showing up slightly after them.
It didn't take me long to realize Stephen was dressed oddly because he was not dressed like Oliver Queen or "The Arrow" but as a member of the League Of Assassins. I'll even go as far as to say he was dressed like Ra's al Ghul.
This probably had something to do with why the crew, which does already have a lengthy history in their short existence of trying to flex their muscles over watchers & regulars alike even in situations that they clearly have no rights to, doing so often this night. No less than 5 times were the TWO people who were there for any length of time me, and a professional photographer were "asked" (more like "strongly insisted") to move from public spaces despite not being in the view of the cameras.
The scene itself did not reveal TOO much. It seemed to be a face off between Reverse Flash & Ras Arrow Ghul, Firestorm & The Flash. Perhaps the stunt scene I saw earlier is the end product of the battle? Hard to say without seeing more than a few seconds of the filming.
The Flash is on Tuesday nights on The CW in the U.S. and on CTV in Canada.
You can see my other Flash blog posts here. You can see my Flash autographs HERE.
Here is a couple extra photos of Stephen Amell in his League Of Assassins outfit courtesy of local photographer Nigel Horsley.
You can find more of Nigels work on his Flickr Page.
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Featured Op-Ed: Southern Poverty Law Center Now Has Half a Billion Dollars to Attack Conservatives
by Matthew Vadum
This article originally appeared in the Washington Examiner, May 3, 2018.
The Southern Poverty Law Center is stockpiling close to half a billion dollars to blacklist conservatives, slander its critics, and redefine what “hate” means in America today.
As the Capital Research Center first reported , the SPLC disclosed in a new IRS filing that it had $477 million in assets in October after taking in an astounding $136 million that year. The year before, it had total revenue of only $58 million, which means total revenue rose by over 200 percent in a single year.
There has been no comparable leap in bigotry or poverty. Hate crime statistics don’t reflect such a massive shift. So why is the SPLC taking in more money than ever?
Posing as a civil rights watchdog, the SPLC lumps mainstream conservatives in with fringe extremists, white-supremacists, and neo-Nazis as a matter of policy. According to the SPLC, opposition to open borders and multiculturalist initiatives is indicative of hate, and all political expression of those views is “hate speech.”
The SPLC’s involvement in YouTube’s policing of mainstream conservative voices is just one example that ought to worry Americans. The SPLC’s Heidi Beirich confirms her group crushes nonleftist political expressionas part of YouTube’s “Trusted Flaggers” program. YouTube (owned by Google) has recently suspended the accounts of several conservatives and demonetized them — that is, revoked their ability to collect ad revenues based on viewership.
An organization doesn’t need to be hateful or violent to make it onto SPLC’s Hate Map. The SPLC says a hate group “has beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics.” Yet legitimate right-leaning organizations like the Family Research Council, or FRC, and the Alliance Defending Freedom, or ADF, have been labeled “hate groups” just for adhering to conventional religious values.
The FRC’s opposition to same-sex marriage and the ADF’s good-faith defense of religious freedom and expression aren’t hateful. They are just the “wrong ideas” as determined by the SPLC.
“Sometimes the press will describe us as monitoring hate groups,” former SPLC spokesman Mark Potok has said . “I want to say plainly that our aim in life is to destroy these groups, completely destroy them,” using a “strictly ideological process.”
The Center’s stratospheric holdings are virtually unheard of in the world of tax-exempt 501(c)(3) political advocacy nonprofits. If anything, the ascendancy of President Trump has been good for the SPLC’s bottom line. Fomenting outrage to turn a profit is the specialty of SPLC co-founder Morris Dees, a master fundraiser and longtime Democrat insider. Dees spends his days whipping up hysteria over tiny fringe-right groups and portraying President Trump as a would-be fascist dictator .
JoAnn Wypijewski of the Nation once described Dees as a “millionaire huckster.” Left-wing journalist Alexander Cockburn said Dees’ fundraising letters have been “scaring dollars out of the pockets of trembling liberals aghast at his lurid depictions of hate-sodden America.”
But sometimes the good guys triumph over the SPLC.
Recently, the SPLC deleted the “Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists” from its website after Maajid Nawaz threatened legal action for including him on the list.
The document was originally posted in December 2016 “as a resource for journalists to identify promoters of hateful propaganda; but it included a number of liberal reformers such as Nawaz, a former Islamic extremist who has since dedicated his life to combating the hateful ideology,” according to National Review .
Last fall, the Department of Defense’s Office of Diversity Management and Equal Opportunity removed all SPLC-provided training material pertaining to extremist groups. In the documents, the SPLC compared Roman Catholics and Protestants to al-Qaeda.
Under pressure from Capital Research Center and other groups, GuideStar, whose website provides a massive database of information on other nonprofits, did an about-face and announced it would no longer flag nonprofits on its site that the SPLC labels “hate groups.”
On the other hand, Twitter succumbed to leftist agitators and began purging users in December based on SPLC-inspired criteria. Such an ideological cleansing was needed at Twitter, the SPLC claimed, because “the racist ‘alt-right’ — a collection of far-right ideologies, groups, and individuals who believe multicultural forces are using ‘political correctness’ to undermine white people” had rushed to the social media platform.
Of course, skepticism of multiculturalism and political correctness is not an extremist view. Mainstream conservatives have long been naturally suspicious of both. And that’s what really enrages the radicals at the SPLC.
Matthew Vadum
The author of Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers (WND Books, 2011), Vadum, former senior vice president at CRC, writes and speaks widely…
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US 23-man roster, Pellegrini Sacked, TFC Win Voyageurs Cup, AC-DC Battle at RFK, Red Bulls Run in USOC, Holden in Bolton Extension, Fabregas leaves it up to Wenger and more…
UNITED STATES NAMES 23-MAN ROSTER FOR 2010 WORLD CUP
Bob Bradley named his 23-man roster for the US National Team Wednesday, and there were surprises for many fans.
Brad Guzan – Aston Villa
Marcus Hahnemann – Wolverhampton Wanderers
Tim Howard – Everton
Carlos Bocanegra – Rennes
Jonathan Bornstein – Chivas USA
Steve Cherundolo – Hannover 96
Jay DeMerit – Watford
Clarence Goodson – IK Start
Oguchi Onyewu – AC Milan
Jonathan Spector – West Ham United
DaMarcus Beasley – Out of Contract
Michael Bradley – Borussia Monchengladbach
Ricardo Clark – Eintract Frankfurt
Landon Donovan – Los Angeles Galaxy
Maurice Edu – Glasgow Rangers
Benny Feilhaber – AGF Aarhus
Stuart Holden – Bolton Wanderers
Jose Francisco Torres- CF Pachuca
Jozy Altidore – Villarreal
Edson Buddle – Los Angeles Galaxy
Clint Dempsey – Fulham FC
Robbie Findley – Real Salt Lake
Herculez Gomez – CF Pachuca
REAL MADRID SACK PELLEGRINI TO MAKE WAY FOR MAURINHO
Real Madrid have sacked manager Manuel Pellegrini who lead the team to their largest points total ever in a season.
Though Madrid racked up points, they failed to win any silverware in the year Pellegrini was in charge, even though the team spent $308 on the likes of Kaka, Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema and Xabi Alonso. Worse, Madrid fans had to stand by and watch Barcelona win a second consecutive league title as well as snatching up a domestic treble in 2009.
This move, however, is less about Pellegrini’s performance as it is about clearing the way for the Special One who is set to arrive any day now.
The Portuguese superstar coach has agreed in principal with Real Madrid to coach the team to the tune of $12 million per year for four years. This would make him the highest-grossing coach/manager in all of sports.
It will certainly be Jose Mourinho’s biggest challenge yet. Real Madrid, a team that thrives on ego is about to learn the definition of the word.
TORONTO FC WIN CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIP FOR SECOND STRAIGHT YEAR
Toronto FC were not even in action tonight, but the Reds secured their second straight Nutrilite Canadian Championship.
Vancouver Whitecaps needed to secure a win at Montreal against the Impact tonight in order to stay alive in the NCC.
The two sides played a listless first half in front of 11,000 fans at Saputo Stadium, but the ‘Caps came out blazing in the second half getting a goal from Ansu Toure in the 50th minute. Vancouver seemed a new team. It was not to be. Less than 7 minutes later Montreal drew level on a deft move by veteran striker Eduardo Sebrango, how seemed to draw the Vancouver defense to him, then pushed a perfect pass to Philippe Billy who volleyed home.
TFC will likely hoist the Voyageurs Cup next Wednesday when the host Vancouver Whitecaps in Week 6 in the NCC at BMO Field.
The match, with just pride on the line, will likely be a 90 minute celebration for Toronto fans and Preki will be able to start his reserve side for the first time this season with a clear conscience.
Toronto will face Honduran club Motagua in the Champions League preliminary round on July 27 and 29 at BMO Field, with the return leg a week later in Honduras. It has not yet been determined who will host the opening leg of the aggregate-goals series.
STUART HOLDEN SIGNS EXTENSION WITH BOLTON WANDERERS
Stuart Holden had good a good day. Not only was Holden named to the 23-man United States World Cup roster, but the Scotland born midfielder found out that his Premier League club wants to keep him around a bit longer.
Bolton Wanderers manager Owen Coyle handed Holden a one-year contract extension, even though the US International has only played three matches for the club.
“He came to the club with the option of another year,” Coyle told The Bolton News.
“Like everyone, I have been really impressed with Stuart on and off the pitch since he came here. The players really like him, and he’s been terrific in each game he has played in for me.
“I’d love him to be a part of this football club for a long time to come.”
MEXICO DEFENSIVE WOES CONTINUE AS WORLD CUP TUNE-UP’S CONTINUE
The Netherlands were up on Mexico 2-0 after 45 minutes, but the could have been up 3-0 in the first 15 minutes of the World Cup warm-up match the two teams played in Freiburg Germany.
The Mexican side was really after the first quarter hour as the Oranje shredded El Tri’s defense. By halftime two goals from Robin Van Persie was all that the Netherlands had to show for their dominance.
The second half was different, though as Mexico controlled the pace of the match and eventually put a goal back, but regularly presented problems for the Dutch.
“We did not play during the first few minutes. We didn’t wake up until the 70th minute.” Mexico Coach Javier Aguirre told L’Equipe, “But after that it was very good and that’s what I want to see, even though our first half was difficult, especially defensively.
“Tonight my team played the second half with heart and character.”
Other Results from Wednesday
Chile 3-0 Zambia
France 2-1 Costa Rica
Mexico 2-1 Netherlands (Freiburg, Germany)
Uruguay 4-1 Israel
Matches for Thursday May 27
Belarus v Honduras
South Africa v Columbia
Denmark v Senegal
FABREGAS TO BARCELONA RUMORS HOT UP
In what is likely to be the highest profile player transfer battle of the summer, Cesc Fabregas has left his future for Arsene Wenger to decide.
the 23 year-old Fabregas, who has never shied away from the fact that he wants to play at Barcelona, and for his boyhood hero Barca coach Pep Guardiola, has left the dilemma to his current boss at Arsenal to sort out.
Fabregas has played at Arsenal for seven years and apparently has a great respect for Wenger.
“I will only say one thing, I have great respect for Arsene Wenger, for Arsenal Football Club and for the Arsenal fans,” Fabregas said in a press conference. “Sometimes not even in my house have I felt more loved than I have at Arsenal.
“I had a long conversation with Arsene, it is probably the greatest conversation I have had with someone in my life, and I respect him so much and I don’t want to say too much about this.”
Fabregas won’t have to say much at all, but fans of the game will be hearing about this affair all summer.
NEW YORK ELIMINATE COLORADO FROM 2010 US OPEN CUP
John Wolyniec’s two first half goals powered New York Red Bull to a 3-0 win over Colorado Rapids to become the 7th of 8 Major League Soccer teams to qualify for the 2010 Lamar Hunt US Open Cup.
Rookie Conor Chinn added a goal in the 56th minute to give him three total goald in the qualifying tournament. Greg Sutton, acquired from Toronto FC before the season began notched his second straight U.S. Open Cup shutout.
The final qualifying slot will go the the winner of the DC United v Real Salt Lake ‘Win and You’re In’ match scheduled June 2 at RFK Stadium.
DC UNITED SURVIVES AC MILAN IN A THRILLER
Over 30,000 fans at RFK Stadium watched in delight as their side, hapless in Major League Soccer play, put two first half goals past Italian super club AC Milan.
Young United Goalkeeper Bill Hamid was called into duty early foiling an attempt by Alexandre Pato. Hamid, a back-up until playing his first ever MLS match two weeks ago, was now staring down the barrel of the Milan gun that included bullets such as Pato, Brazilian wonder Ronaldinho and the ageless Clarence Seedorf.
Milan controlled the first half but goals from Luciano Emilio and Chris Pontius had the home side up by two at the interval.
A Ronaldinho bicycle kick that lashed the post early in the 2nd half seemed to set the tone for a comeback, but DC had another bit of fortune.
Massimo Oddo’s awkward back pass fooled Milan goalkeeper Christian Abbiati and his clearance careened into the net of the back of Danny Alsopp. 3-0 to DC United.
The DC Faithful, so delighted in the first phase of the match, would be on the edge of their seats during the remainder, an injury to Brandon Barklage in the 66th minute would force United to play with ten men for the duration.
Oddo made up for his earlier culpability by slotting home a PK for Milan to get them on the scoresheet after Kurt Morsink handled in the box.
Oddo wasn’t done there as his blast from 30 yards out brought Milan within one goal of an equalizer. Milan kept up pressure for the remainder of the contest and Oddo missed his hat-trick when another long range bomb missed the target.
DC United prevailed 3-2 at the end of the day and hopefully gained something they can apply to an otherwise woeful 2010 MLS season.
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Chris Attends 2019 Toronto International Film Festival (September 7)
Hello Chris fans! Yesterday (September 7), Chris attended the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival for his upcoming film Knives Out. It was the first time Chris has gone since 2014, so it was great to see him attend again. He made his way around different events including the Variety Studio, The Hollywood Reporter Studio, Knives Out premiere, and many more! Check out the gallery for all the photos!
Public Appearances > 2019 > Sep 07 | 2019 Toronto International Film Festival – Variety Studio
Public Appearances > 2019 > Sep 07 | 2019 Toronto International Film Festival – The Hollywood Reporter Studio
Public Appearances > 2019 > Sep 07 | 2019 Toronto International Film Festival – ‘Knives Out’ Premiere
Public Appearances > 2019 > Sep 07 | 2019 Toronto International Film Festival – Entertainment Weekly’s Must List Party
Public Appearances > 2019 > Sep 07 | 2019 Toronto International Film Festival – The Hollywood Foreign Press Association And The Hollywood Reporter Party
Chris Evans to Present at Oscars
THE WRAP – The Academy has announced the first round of presenters for what will be a hostless Oscars ceremony.
Awkwafina, Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Tina Fey, Whoopi Goldberg, Brie Larson, Jennifer Lopez, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Amandla Stenberg, Charlize Theron, Tessa Thompson and Constance Wu represent the first round of presenters at the ceremony that will take place on Sunday, Feb. 24.
The L.A. Philharmonic, led by conductor Gustavo Dudamel, will perform during the “In Memoriam” segment of the show.
The producers will announce more talent in the coming weeks, and, as previously announced by the Academy on Twitter last week, the show will feature musical performances of all five of the nominees for Best Original Song. Those include Jennifer Hudson for “I’ll Fight,” Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper for “Shallow,” Gillian Welch will perform “When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings,” and a “surprise special guest” will perform “The Place Where Lost Things Go” from “Mary Poppins Returns.”
Kendrick Lamar and SZA were not previously announced to perform “All the Stars” from “Black Panther.”
“The Oscar nominees have generated tremendous worldwide attention through their captivating stories, achievements and performances,” producers Donna Gigliotti and Glenn Weiss said in a statement. “We want to give the public an opportunity to once again experience the moments that have moved us all. It is a celebration of our universal love of movies.”
The 91st Oscars will be held on Sunday, Feb. 24 at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, and will be televised live on ABC at 8 p.m. EST.
Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame – Big Game TV Spot
Today, during the Big Game, fans got an exciting new look at Marvel Studios’ AVENGERS: ENDGAME.
AVENGERS: ENDGAME opens in U.S. theaters on April 26, 2019.
Film Productions – Avengers: Endgame (2019) – Big Game TV Spot Captures
Happy 37th Birthday Chris!
Today is the amazing Chris Evans’ 37th birthday! On behalf of Chris Evans Central and all Chris fans around the world, we wanted to wish you a very happy birthday! We are all wishing you another year of happiness, success, joy, health, and love. We hope you get to spend it with all your family and friends! We love supporting such an amazing person. Tweet your birthday messages to Chris: @ChrisEvans!
To celebrate Chris’ birthday this year, I have added 5 exclusive outtakes from the photoshoot Chris did for Rolling Stone in 2016. These are definitely some of my favorite photos! Enjoy!
CEC Exclusive — Chris Evans
(Video) Chris Evans opens up about ‘Avengers: Infinity War’
Happy 36th Birthday Chris Evans!
Today is the wonderful Chris Evans’ 36th birthday! On behalf of Chris Evans Central and all Chris fans around the world, we wanted to wish you a very happy birthday! We are all wishing you another year of happiness, success, joy, health, and love. We hope you get to spend it with all your family and friends! Have an amazing day Chris! <3 Tweet your birthday messages to Chris: @ChrisEvans!
Escape with Chris Evans
Chris Evans is running a fundraiser in support of Chris Haven. With a donation, you can get the chance to meet Chris himself for the escape room adventure of a lifetime, celebrate your escape (or soothe your sorrows) with burgers and beer, and get flown out to Boston and put up in a 4-star hotel. You also get some perks with donating like a t-shirt, poster, and more. Check out all the information over at omaze.com/experiences/chris-evans!
From stealing the answers to the SAT in The Perfect Score to fighting his way through a train of horrors in Snowpiercer, when it comes to escape, few have more experience than Chris Evans. Now, Chris is inviting you and three friends to join him in what could be one of his most action-packed adventures yet: a custom escape room in Boston. You could solve a murder, get locked up in a haunted house, rob a bank or maybe even solve a murder in a haunted bank. No matter the narrative, it’s going to be a night you’ll never forget, complete with scares, laughs, and celebratory burgers and beer. Flights and hotel are on us.
Who You’ll Help
Christopher’s Haven operates a supportive community consisting of nine temporary apartments and a community recreation area for families of children being treated for cancer in nearby Boston hospitals. Over 300 families to date have stayed in the fully-furnished and equipped apartments located across the street from Massachusetts General Hospital. The Loft is utilized to provide programming for children undergoing outpatient treatment, as well as their siblings and parents. Activities coordinated primarily by volunteers, include massage therapy, pet therapy, arts & crafts, movie nights, birthday and holiday parties, bell-ringing ceremonies, outings to sporting events and excursions to local attractions.
Chris Evans — Fundraisers
Today is Chris Evans’ 35th birthday! On behalf of Chris Evans Central and all Chris fans around the world, we wanted to wish you a very very happy birthday! We are all wishing you a year of happiness, success, joy, health, and love. We hope you get to spend it with all your family and friends! Have an amazing day Chris! :)
Chris Evans — Photos — Photoshoots
Chris Evans And Jeremy Renner Ring NYSE Opening Bell
Chris Evans and Jeremy Renner rung the New York Stock Exchange opening bell this morning. You can check out photos in the gallery and a video below!
Public Appearances > 2016 > May 03 | Chris Evans And Jeremy Renner Ring NYSE Opening Bell
Today is Chris Evans’ 34th birthday! On behalf of Chris Evans Central and all Chris fans around the world, we wanted to wish you a very happy birthday! We are all wishing you a year of happiness, success, joy, health, and love. We hope you get to spend it with all your family and friends! Have an amazing day! :)
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Hong Kong: Illicit Crypto Mining Operations Are Punishable by Fine or Imprisonment
Hong Kong’s financial watchdog secretary states that illicit crypto mining operations are subject to local trading law.
The secretary of Hong Kong’s financial watchdog has stated that illicit crypto mining operations are subject to local trading law
The secretary of Hong Kong’s Financial Services and the Treasury has stated that crypto mining operations are regulated by local trading law. His written response to Hong Kong’s Legislative Council was published on Wednesday, April 3.
The Council has solicited information about the risks and fraudulent activities related to cryptocurrencies and underlying activity, such as mining. Moreover, the officials are interested whether mining is regulated under the Trade Descriptions Ordinance (TDO) — a bill passed in 2012 that prescribes penalties for unfair trading practices in Hong Kong.
Secretary James Lau has responded that the sale of mining equipment and any other products related to virtual assets falls under the TDO. The unfair practices he mentions in this regard include false trade descriptions, misleading omissions, aggressive commercial practices and wrongly accepting payment, among others.
According to Lau, illicit mining activity can thus be subject to a $500,000 fine or five years in prison.
The secretary also mentions a particular fraud case, when Hong Kong police arrested three persons that allegedly lured 20 victims into investing over HK$3.7 million (around $471,400) in crypto-related equipment and services.
As Cointelegraph previously reported, a similar amount of funds — HK$3 million ($383,000) — was mentioned in a criminal case involving a purported Bitcoin millionaire (BTC) Wong Ching-kit. The 25-year-old businessman and his 20-year-old-colleague were arrested at their office in Hong Kong for conspiracy to defraud 20 investors by selling them mining machines.
Wong Ching-kit is wide known for a publicity stunt in Hong Kong’s relatively poor district Sham Shui Po in December 2018. The entrepreneur appeared in a video posted on his firm Epoch’s Facebook page, asking whether anyone believed that money could fall from the sky. Immediately after his question, stacks of bank notes reportedly amounting to HK$6,000 ($764) were thrown from a nearby rooftop. Following an incident, Wong was arrested on suspicion of disorderly conduct in public, but later released on bail.
#Mining
#Bitcoin Regulations News
#Crimes
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Logies 2018: Dave Hughes delivers hilarious opening monologue
By Áine Ryan| 2 years ago
Dave Hughes didn't hold back during his 2018 Logie Awards opening monologue.
The return opening act -- he's been the face of the Logies since 2015 -- took aim at Barnaby Joyce and his affair with Vikki Campion.
"That was a great interview, the Barnaby Joyce interview on Sunday," he said, referring to the Sunday Night exclusive.
Hughes was particularly taken aback when Camption said Joyce was "surprisingly good" at changing their newborn baby's nappy.
"Is he, Vikki? He's got four other kids! He's done it before!"
Hughes also joked about Karl Stefanovic's Uber incident from earlier this year.
"Be careful, Stefanovics," Hughes jokes, looking at the TODAY host. Stefanovic was then seen holding up his iPhone with an app for 13Cabs open -- he's no longer an Uber fan.
"Can you imagine Karl and his brother at the bunk beds at home as kids?" Hughes asked the audience. "Just talking smack about mum. She's outside the bedroom saying, 'I can hear you d---heads.'"
Changing tack, Hughesy brought up the interview Gold Logie nominee Tracy Grimshaw conducted with Don Burke.
"Give it up for Tracy Grimshaw, guys," he said. "Thirty years, nominated for gold. And also her Don Burke interview has been nominated as well. That was amazing. We have a lot of revelations from that. We got the revelation that Don apparently has Aspergers. No-one knew about that. Including his doctor. No, I love Don Burke. I love Don."
When the audience groaned at Hughesy's gaffe, he backtracked.
"I don't love everything about him. Alright? Now I've taken myself to weird zone. Sorry."
Later in the night, Hamish Blake and Andy Lee addressed the awkward moment.
"We did just have a chat to Hughesy out the back. He would like us to clear up one detail: He does not love Don Burke. In fact, I don't know if we have got any of the cricket instant replay, but I think he said it four times. The old, 'I'm Hughesy and I will say I love the person I'm having a go at', it has never backfired before and it did in that instance."
The 2018 TV Week Logie Awards will take place on Sunday, July 1 at The Star Gold Coast. The red carpet will air at 7pm and the ceremony will air at 7:30pm on Nine and 9Now.
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Center for Jobs 50 States
State Projects: California
California Reports
Economic Indicators is designed to help gauge America’s current economic health and performance. Using public data, and with the oversight of our Research Advisory Council, we assembled a database of key economic indicators that are useful for understanding current and future economic conditions.
Jobs & Wages
Hourly Earnings: Professional & Business Services
CURRENT REAL
COMPARE STATES
Economic Health
Personal Income: Annual
Source: US Bureau of Economic Analysis
Total annual personal income consisting of income that persons receive in return for their provision of labor, land, and capital used in current production as well as other income, such as personal current transfer receipts.
https://bea.gov/regional/downloadzip.cfm.
Personal Income: Quarterly
Total quarterly personal income consisting of income that persons receive in return for their provision of labor, land, and capital used in current production as well as other income, such as personal current transfer receipts.
https://bea.gov/regional/downloadzip.cfm
Total Civilian Employment (Not Seasonally Adjusted)
Source: Employment Development Department
Includes all individuals who worked at least one hour for a wage or salary, self-employed, or working at least 15 unpaid hours in a family business or on a family farm. Those who on vacation, on other kinds of leave, or involved in a labor dispute, are also counted as employed. Data for Assembly, Senate, and Congressional Districts are estimated using the LAUS Census Share methodology using data from the 5-year American Community Survey (ACS) estimates. This approach assumes that the rates of change for employment and unemployment within the larger geographic area are the same as those within the smaller geographic area being estimated. Not seasonally adjusted. http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/data/unemployment-and-labor-force.html
Data is preliminary and revised in the subsequent month. Multiple years are subject to change in the annual revisions. Release schedule: http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/data-release-schedule.html
Annual Gross Domestic Product
Source: US Bureau of Economic Analysis, https://apps.bea.gov/itable/iTable.cfm?ReqID=70&step=1
GDP by state/county excludes and national GDP includes the compensation of federal civilian and military personnel stationed abroad and government consumption of fixed capital for military structures located abroad and for military equipment, except office equipment. Data is subject to revision in the subsequent release and annual revisions. Release schedule: https://bea.gov/newsreleases/news_release_schedule.htm
Annual Real GDP
Value is published by BEA. Base differs from the real, $2007 values calculated for other indicators from the CPI. Data is subject to revision in the subsequent release and annual revisions. Release schedule: https://bea.gov/newsreleases/news_release_schedule.htm
Balance of Trade in Goods
Source: US Census Bureau
Total Exports minus Imports.
http://usatrade.census.gov
Includes goods produced/used within the state and goods assembled for subsequent export/transportation to other states. Release schedule: https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/reference/release_schedule.html
Change in Private Jobs (CEWNSA)
Source: See: Employment: Total Private (CES)
Calculated as change in total private employment from the prior month.
Change in Private Jobs (QCEW)
Source: See: Employment: Private (QCEW)
Calculated as change in total private jobs from the same quarter in the prior year.
Source: US Energy Information Agency
Average barrels of oil produced per day, calculated as a running 12-month average. US total covers all domestic production, while state and regional levels cover only production on state territory and not in federal waters. Regional levels are calculated from the available state data in each month.
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_crd_crpdn_adc_mbbl_m.htm
Data available monthly, generally with a 3-month lag. Data subject to periodic revision. Data for Texas differs from that published by the Texas Railroad Commission due to differences in the treatment of incomplete and lagged data.
Total Civilian Employment (Seasonally Adjusted)
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics
Includes all individuals who worked at least one hour for a wage or salary, self-employed, or working at least 15 unpaid hours in a family business or on a family farm. Those who on vacation, on other kinds of leave, or involved in a labor dispute, are also counted as employed. Seasonally adjusted. https://www.bls.gov/cps/, https://www.bls.gov/lau/
Data is preliminary and revised in the subsequent month. Multiple years are subject to change in the annual revisions. Release schedule: https://www.bls.gov/schedule/news_release/laus.htm
Employment: Manufacturing (QCEW)
Data is number of wage and salary jobs at all establishments reporting to the Unemployment Insurance program, representing about 99.7% of all wage and salary civilian employment in the US. The data is establishment based, meaning it counts the number of wage and salary jobs rather than the number of people employed. An individual worker may hold more than one job, but each job is counted separately in the data base. Similarly, the jobs may be full or part time, but each one is treated equally for the purposes of counting employment. All data is for quarterly averages. The 2002 version of NAICS is used for 1990 to 2006, 2007 version for 2007 to 2011, and 2012 version for 2012 and later. Comparisons across these periods should take these changes into account.
Employment and wage data does not include proprietors, self-employed in an unincorporated business or practice, unpaid family members, certain farm and domestic workers, jobs held by those not working because of a labor-management dispute. Quarterly data subject to revision in the annual updates. Release schedule: https://www.bls.gov/cew/releasecalendar.htm
Employment: Manufacturing (CES)
Data is from monthly surveys covering about one-third of total nonfarm employment. Employment covers the number of persons on payroll, but does not include proprietors, unincorporated self-employed, volunteer or unpaid family workers, farm employees, domestic employees, non-civilian government, and employees of intelligence services.
Employment: Private
Employment: Total Private (CES)
Total exports of goods from within the geographic area, from Origin of Movement (NAICS) State Export Data.
Includes goods produced within the state and goods assembled for subsequent export. Release schedule: https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/reference/release_schedule.html
Exports: US Share
Share of total US exports of goods from within the geographic area, from Origin of Movement (NAICS) State Export Data. To eliminate seasonal factors, the percentage is calculated from a moving 12-month total.
Gross domestic product (GDP) is the measure of the market value of all final goods and services produced within an area, All Industry Total. GDP by state measures its “value added,” equivalent to gross output (sales or receipts and other operating income, commodity taxes, and inventory change) minus intermediate inputs (consumption of goods and services purchased from other U.S. industries or imported).
GDP by state excludes and national GDP includes the compensation of federal civilian and military personnel stationed abroad and government consumption of fixed capital for military structures located abroad and for military equipment, except office equipment. Data is subject to revision in the subsequent release and annual revisions. Release schedule: https://bea.gov/newsreleases/news_release_schedule.htm
Total imports of goods to the geographic area, from State of Destination (NAICS) State Import Data.
Includes goods imported for use within the state and goods assembled for subsequent transportation for use in other states. Release schedule: https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/reference/release_schedule.html
Labor Force (Not Seasonally Adjusted)
Sum of civilian employment and civilian unemployment. Civilians are age 16 years or older, not members of the Armed Services, and are not in institutions such as prisons, mental hospitals, or nursing homes. Not seasonally adjusted.
http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/data/unemployment-and-labor-force.html
Labor Force (Seasonally Adjusted)
Sum of civilian employment and civilian unemployment. Civilians are age 16 years or older, not members of the Armed Services, and are not in institutions such as prisons, mental hospitals, or nursing homes. Seasonally adjusted.
https://www.bls.gov/cps/, https://www.bls.gov/lau/
Natural Gas Production
Source: US Energy Information Administration
Average natural gas production in million cubic feet produced per month, calculated as a running 12-month average. US total covers all domestic production, while state and regional levels cover only production on state territory and not in federal waters. Regional levels are calculated from the available state data in each month.
Data available monthly, generally with a 3-month lag. Data subject to periodic revision.
New Residential Permits Cost (US Census Bureau)
Total value for all residential units covered by building permits, from Census estimates with imputations for survey nonresponders.
Monthly data is subject to revision in subsequent months.
https://www2.census.gov/econ/bps/State/
New Residential Permits Cost
Source: California Homebuilding Foundation
Total value for all residential units covered by building permits.
CHF|CIRB California Construction Review report provided by the California Homebuilding Foundation, http://www.mychf.org/go/cirb/ https://www2.census.gov/econ/bps/State/
New Residential Permits: MFR (US Census Bureau)
Number of multi-family units covered by building permits, from Census estimates with imputations for survey nonresponders.
New Residential Permits: MFR
Number of multi-family units covered by building permits.
Monthly data is subject to revision in the semi-annual and annual updates.
CHF|CIRB California Construction Review report provided by the California Homebuilding Foundation, http://www.mychf.org/go/cirb/
New Residential Permits: SFR
Number of building permits for single family homes.
New Residential Permits: SFR (US Census Bureau)
Number of building permits for single family homes, from Census estimates with imputations for survey nonresponders. Monthly data is subject to revision in subsequent months.
New Residential Permits: Total (US Census Bureau)
Total number of residential units covered by building permits, from Census estimates with imputations for survey nonresponders. Monthly data is subject to revision in subsequent months.
New Residential Permits: Total
Total number of residential units covered by building permits.
Non-Residential Permits
Value of building permits issued for non-residential construction, consisting of hotels and motels, non-housekeeping shelter, recreational, churches, industrial, parking garages, service stations, hospitals, offices, public works, schools/education, retail, other non-residential buildings, structures other than buildings, non-residential alterations, and residential garages.
Patents Issued
Source: US Patent and Trademark Office
As an indicator of entrepreneurship and STEM activities, the number of issued US Utility Patents (inventions) by state. Data for 2014 and prior is from the US Patent & Trademark Office tabulations and is based on the state of the lead inventor. As this report is no longer published, data for 2015 and after is from the Patent Full-Text and Image Database and is based on the state where the patent was assigned. The results for California are generally comparable, but vary widely for the other states.
US Patent and Trademark Office, 2014 and prior at http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/cst_utlh.htm, 2015 and after at http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html.
Real GDP
GDP value in chained 2009 dollars.
https://bea.gov/iTable/iTable.cfm?reqid=70&step=1&isuri=1&acrdn=1#reqid=70&step=1&isuri=1
Residential Alteration Permits Cost
Value of building permits issued for residential alterations. As such, the data covers only alterations done under permit rather than all alteration construction activity.
Source: Board of Equalization
Quarterly sales of taxable goods and services in the state. Data is available quarterly for both the state and counties, generally with at least a one year lag.
http://www.boe.ca.gov/news/tsalescont.htm
Goods and services subject to tax have changed over time. Items not included in taxable sales include many food items including groceries, hot bakery items, candy, and bottled water; food products sold through vending machines; animal life, feed, seeds, plants, and fertilizer; sales to the US government; prescription medicine and certain medical devices; purchases with food stamps; and a range of other products and services. General consumption patterns have also changed, with a growing share of total consumer and business purchases being made for non-taxable services and goods. The full list of covered and non-taxable items is covered in Board of Equalization publications.
Total Farm Output
Source: US Department of Agriculture
Annual value of agricultural sector production including crop production, animal and products production, and farm-related income.
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/farm-income-and-wealth-statistics/data-files-us-and-state-level-farm-income-and-wealth-statistics/
Data released in August each year, including revisions to prior year estimates.
Trade through State Ports: Exports
Total exports of goods through all ports within the geographic area, from HS Port-level Data.
Release schedule: https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/reference/release_schedule.html
Trade through State Ports: Imports
Total imports of goods through all ports within the geographic area, from HS Port-level Data.
Trade through State Ports: Total
Combined total of imports and exports of goods through all ports within the geographic area, from HS Port-level Data.
Trade through State Ports: US Share
Relative share of total US imports and exports of goods, as an indicator of the relative competitiveness of each state’s ports and the related trade-supported jobs base. To eliminate seasonal factors, the percentage is calculated from a moving 12-month total.
Unemployment Insurance Claims
Source: US Department of Labor
Number of initial claims for unemployment insurance, not seasonally adjusted.
https://oui.doleta.gov/unemploy/5159report.asp; county data from Employment Development Department.
US number is total of states, DC, and Puerto Rico.
Unemployment Rate (Not Seasonally Adjusted)
Unemployment Rate (Seasonally Adjusted)
The number of unemployed as a percentage of the Labor Force. Seasonally adjusted.
Source: Department of Motor Vehicles
Number of fee paid vehicle registrations for light duty vehicles, defined as a passenger vehicle used for the transportation of persons.
http://apps.dmv.ca.gov/about/profile/est_fees_pd_by_county.pdf
Data is published monthly. Additional data is available from DMV on commercial vehicles by county along with other vehicles covered by fee-paid registration.
Patents Issued: Foreign
Number of US Utility Patents (inventions) issued to entities in other countries. Data for 2014 and prior is from the US Patent & Trademark Office tabulations and is based on the state of the lead inventor. As this report is no longer published, data for 2015 and after is from the Patent Full-Text and Image Database and is based on where the patent was assigned. The results for California are generally comparable, but vary widely for the other states.
Avg. Annual Wage: Accommodation & Food Services
Data is the equivalent annual average wage based on the reported quarterly average weekly wage. Average weekly wage is a combination of the hourly wage rate and the average number of hours worked in each industry. The 2002 version of NAICS is used for 1990 to 2006, 2007 version for 2007 to 2011, and 2012 version for 2012 and later. Comparisons across these periods should take these changes into account.
https://www.bls.gov/cew/datatoc.htm
Avg. Annual Wage: Admin & Support & Waste Mgmt & Remediation
Avg. Annual Wage: Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing, & Hunting
Avg. Annual Wage: Arts, Entertainment, & Recreation
Avg. Annual Wage: Construction
Avg. Annual Wage: Educational Services
Avg. Annual Wage: Finance & Insurance
Avg. Annual Wage: Government
Avg. Annual Wage: Health Care & Social Assistance
Avg. Annual Wage: Information
Avg. Annual Wage: Management of Companies & Enterprises
Avg. Annual Wage: Manufacturing
Avg. Annual Wage: Mining
Avg. Annual Wage: Non-Classified
Avg. Annual Wage: Other Services
Avg. Annual Wage: Private
Avg. Annual Wage: Professional & Business Services
Avg. Annual Wage: Real Estate & Rental & Leasing
Avg. Annual Wage: Retail Trade
Avg. Annual Wage: Total
Avg. Annual Wage: Transportation & Warehousing
Avg. Annual Wage: Utilities
Avg. Annual Wage: Wholesale Trade
Average Compensation: Private
As an indicator of the relative cost of government in each state, compares average compensation for private and for state and local government workers. Compensation is a broader measure of labor remuneration, covering wages and salaries and employer contributions for employee pension and insurance (including health) funds and for government social insurance.
Employment: Accommodation & Food Services (QCEW)
Employment: Admin & Support & Waste Mgmt & Remediation (QCEW)
Employment: Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing, & Hunting (QCEW)
Employment: Arts, Entertainment, & Recreation (QCEW)
Employment: Construction (QCEW)
Employment: Construction (CES)
Employment: Educational Services (QCEW)
Employment: Education & Health Services (CES)
Employment: Finance & Insurance (QCEW)
Employment: Financial Activities (CES)
Employment: Government (QCEW)
Employment: Government (CES)
Employment: Health Care & Social Assistance (QCEW)
Employment: Information (QCEW)
Employment: Information (CES)
Employment: Leisure & Hospitality (CES)
Employment: Management of Companies & Enterprises (QCEW)
Employment: Mining (QCEW)
Employment: Mining & Logging (CES)
Employment: Non-Classified (QCEW)
Employment: Other Services (CES)
Employment: Other Services (QCEW)
Employment: Private (QCEW)
Employment: Professional & Business Services (CES)
Employment: Professional & Business Services (QCEW)
Employment: Real Estate & Rental & Leasing (QCEW)
Employment: Retail Trade (QCEW)
Employment: Total (QCEW)
Employment: Total Nonfarm (CES)
Employment: Trade, Transportation & Utilities (CES)
Employment: Transportation & Warehousing (QCEW)
Employment: Utilities (QCEW)
Employment: Wholesale Trade (QCEW)
Establishments: Accommodation & Food Services
Number of establishments is the number of individual physical locations reported by all firms within each NAICS code. An employer may operate more than one establishment at the same location if the operations fall under distinctly different NAICS codes and if separate records are maintained. Similarly, employers may operate a number of different establishments at different locations. The 2002 version of NAICS is used for 1990 to 2006, 2007 version for 2007 to 2011, and 2012 version for 2012 and later. Comparisons across these periods should take these changes into account.
Establishments: Admin & Support & Waste Mgmt & Remediation
Establishments: Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing, & Hunting
Establishments: Arts, Entertainment, & Recreation
Establishments: Construction
Establishments: Educational Services
Establishments: Finance & Insurance
Establishments: Government
Establishments: Health Care & Social Assistance
Establishments: Information
Establishments: Management of Companies & Enterprises
Establishments: Manufacturing
Establishments: Mining
Establishments: Non-Classified
Establishments: Other Services
Establishments: Private
Establishments: Professional & Business Services
Establishments: Real Estate & Rental & Leasing
Establishments: Retail Trade
Establishments: Total
Establishments: Transportation & Warehousing
Establishments: Utilities
Establishments: Wholesale Trade
Hourly Earnings: Construction
Data is from monthly surveys covering about one-third of total nonfarm employment. Data covers the gross hourly wage (basic pay plus other components such as incentive pay and overtime but not including benefits, irregular bonuses, and payroll taxes) of all persons on payroll, but does not include proprietors, unincorporated self-employed, volunteer or unpaid family workers, farm employees, domestic employees, non-civilian government, and employees of intelligence services. Regional averages are calculated from the available data. Construction data for Delaware, DC, and Hawaii includes both construction and mining and logging. Current month data is preliminary and revised in the subsequent month. All data subject to revision in the annual updates. Release schedule: https://www.bls.gov/sae/790sced.htm
Hourly Earnings: Education & Health Services
Data is from monthly surveys covering about one-third of total nonfarm employment. Data covers the gross hourly wage (basic pay plus other components such as incentive pay and overtime but not including benefits, irregular bonuses, and payroll taxes) of all persons on payroll, but does not include proprietors, unincorporated self-employed, volunteer or unpaid family workers, farm employees, domestic employees, non-civilian government, and employees of intelligence services. Regional averages are calculated from the available data.
Hourly Earnings: Financial Activities
Hourly Earnings: Information
Hourly Earnings: Leisure & Hospitality
Hourly Earnings: Manufacturing
Hourly Earnings: Other Services
Hourly Earnings: Total Private
Construction data for Delaware, DC, and Hawaii includes both construction and mining and logging. Current month data is preliminary and revised in the subsequent month. All data subject to revision in the annual updates. Release schedule: https://www.bls.gov/sae/790sced.htm
https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/sm/, https://www.bls.gov/ces/
Hourly Earnings: Trade, Transportation & Utilities
Weekly Hours: Construction
Data is from monthly surveys covering about one-third of total nonfarm employment. Data covers the average weekly hours worked of all persons on payroll, but does not include proprietors, unincorporated self-employed, volunteer or unpaid family workers, farm employees, domestic employees, non-civilian government, and employees of intelligence services. Due to high seasonal variability, hours are shown as 12-month moving averages to provide more consistent comparability.
Weekly Hours: Education & Health Services
Data is from monthly surveys covering about one-third of total nonfarm employment. Data covers the average weekly hours worked of all persons on payroll, but does not include proprietors, unincorporated self-employed, volunteer or unpaid family workers, farm employees, domestic employees, non-civilian government, and employees of intelligence services. Due to high seasonal variability, hours are shown as 12-month moving averages to provide more consistent comparability. Regional averages are calculated from the available data.
Weekly Hours: Financial Activities
Weekly Hours: Information
Weekly Hours: Leisure & Hospitality
Weekly Hours: Manufacturing
Weekly Hours: Other Services
Weekly Hours: Professional & Business Services
Weekly Hours: Total Private
Weekly Hours: Trade, Transportation & Utilities
Weekly Hours: Mining
Hourly Earnings: Mining
State & Local Government Revenues: Charges & Miscellaneous General Revenue
Source: US Census Bureau, State and Local Government Finance
Total state and local government revenues from own sources generated from charges (e.g., user fees, licensing fees) and miscellaneous general revenues by fiscal year.
State and Local Government Finance, https://www.census.gov/govs/local/index.html
State data compiled from a census of all states. Local government data from a survey and subject to sampling error.
State & Local Government Revenues: Total General Revenues from Own Sources
Total state and local government revenues by fiscal year from own sources generated from taxes, fees, other charges, and miscellaneous revenues.
State & Local Government Revenues: Intergovenmental Revenues from Federal Government
Total state and local government revenues from federal subvention funds by fiscal year.
State & Local Government Direct General Expenditures: Other Education
Total state and local government direct expenditures by fiscal year for other education and libraries.
State & Local Government Direct General Expenditures: Environment & Housing
Total state and local government direct expenditures by fiscal year for natural resources, parks and recreation, housing and community development, sewerage, and solid waste management.
State & Local Government Direct General Expenditures: Other General Expenditures
Total state and local government direct expenditures by fiscal year for miscellaneous commercial activities and other and unallocable activities.
State & Local Government Direct General Expenditures: Administration
Total state and local government direct expenditures by fiscal year for financial administration, judicial and legal, general public buildings, and other governmental administration.
State & Local Government Direct General Expenditures: Public Safety
Total state and local government direct expenditures by fiscal year for police, fire, corrections, and protective inspection and regulation.
State & Local Government Direct General Expenditures: Transportation
Total state and local government direct expenditures by fiscal year for highways, air transportation, parking facilities, and sea and inland port facilities.
State & Local Government Direct General Expenditures: Interest on General Debt
Total state and local government direct expenditures by fiscal year for interest on general debt.
State & Local Government Revenues: Taxes, Personal Income Tax
Total state and local government revenues from personal income tax by fiscal year.
State & Local Government Revenues: Taxes, Property Tax
Total state and local government revenues from property tax by fiscal year.
State & Local Government Revenues: Taxes, Sales & General Use Tax
Total state and local government revenues from general sales and use taxes by fiscal year.
Pensions: Funded Ratio
Source: Public Plans Data, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
Average funded ratio for state and local pension systems within each geographic area, calculated from the actuarial value of assets and liabilities for the covered pension systems.
Pensions: Revenue Ratio
Indicates the degree to which current state and local government general revenues are being devoted to past pension obligations rather than current service delivery. For each fiscal year, calculated as: total state and local government pension contributions divided by total state and local government general revenues from own sources (taxes, charges, and miscellaneous revenues).
Average Compensation: Local
Average Compensation: State
CIT Receipts: Income
Source: Franchise Tax Board
Total income from All Reporting returns for state Corporation Income Tax for the tax year.
Data for state from Franchise Tax Board annual report, https://www.ftb.ca.gov/aboutFTB/data-statistics.shtml/. Data for counties, regions, and legislative districts estimated from zip code data provided by the Statistical Research & Modeling Section of the Franchise Tax Board, with assistance through Board of Equalization Boardmember George Runner’s office. The zip code data was aggregated by legislative district and county based on zip code equivalence files provided to FTB by the Center.
For counties, regions, and legislative districts, the data shown covers only returns that could be allocated within the state. The summation of these geographic areas differ from the state totals due to the following factors: (1) additional returns are filed by out of state individuals for income earned within California, (2) a relatively small number of returns are unallocated by geographic area, and (3) some of the returns are not disclosable by zip code or county level. These amounts are included with the state data but are not allocated by the various geographic regions.
CIT Receipts: Tax Assessed
Total tax liability from All Reporting returns for state Corporation Income Tax for the tax year.
Debt Outstanding
Total state and local government short term and long term debt outstanding at the end of the fiscal year.
Debt: State Pensions
Total state pension obligations at the end of the fiscal year.
PIT Receipts: AGI
Adjusted gross income from state personal income tax returns filed for the tax year.
Data for state, counties, and regions from Franchise Tax Board annual report, https://www.ftb.ca.gov/aboutFTB/data-statistics.shtml/. Data for legislative districts estimated from annual zip code data.
PIT Receipts: Tax Liability
Total tax liability from state personal income tax returns filed for the tax year.
Source: Federal Reserve Economic Data
The S&P 500 Index is a broad index tracking the large cap US equities market. The index covers 500 leading companies on both the NYSE and NASDAQ, and accounts for about 75% of the US equities. The Index incorporates only prices, and is not a total return index that also covers dividends. As an indicator, this measure reflects general conditions affecting public revenues in those states with volatile tax structures that are heavily reliant on capital gains. The Index incorporates only prices, and is not a total return index that also covers dividends.
Average monthly index from the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) data bank maintained by the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SP500#0.
The Index incorporates only prices, and is not a total return index that also covers dividends.
State & Local Government Direct General Expenditures: Capital Outlay: Construction
State and local government expenditures for the construction of new or rehabilitation of existing physical assets and infrastructure by fiscal year. Does not include repairs (which are treated as an operational expense) and capital outlays for other than construction.
State & Local Government General Expenditures: Elementary & Secondary Education
Total state and local government direct expenditures by fiscal year for elementary and secondary education.
State & Local Government Direct General Expenditures: Higher Education
Total state and local government direct expenditures by fiscal year for higher education.
State & Local Government Direct General Expenditures: Social Services & Income Maintenance
Total state and local government direct expenditures by fiscal year for public welfare, hospitals, health, employment security administration, and veterans’ services.
State & Local Government Direct General Expenditures: Total
Total state and local government direct expenditures (all expenditures other than intergovernmental transfers) by fiscal year.
State & Local Government Revenues: Taxes
Total state and local government revenues from own sources generated from taxes by fiscal year.
State & Local Government Revenues: Total General Revenues
Total state and local government revenues by fiscal year from taxes, charges and miscellaneous general revenue, and intergovernmental revenues from federal government. Does not include restricted revenues from liquor stores revenue, insurance trust revenue (e.g., pensions, unemployment insurance), and utility revenue.
Sales & Use Tax Rate: State
Source: Tax Foundation
State portion of generally applicable sales and use tax. Goods and services subject to tax varies widely by state.
https://taxfoundation.org/publications/facts-and-figures/.
Goods and services subject to tax varies widely by state.
Sales & Use Tax Rate: State-Local Average
Average of state and locally-assessed generally application sales and use tax. Goods and services subject to tax varies widely by state.
https://taxfoundation.org/publications/facts-and-figures/
Per capita state and local property tax collections.
UI: Average Employer Contribution Rate
Source: US Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration, https://workforcesecurity.doleta.gov/unemploy/avg_employ.asp.
Average employer contribution rate for unemployment insurance, shown as a percentage of taxable payroll.
Data is estimated, and excludes state and local jurisdictions covering state and local government employees on a reimbursable basis. Taxable wage base varies by state, ranging from the first $7,000 (US standard) in several states to $45,000 in Washington in 2017.
https://workforcesecurity.doleta.gov/unemploy/avg_employ.asp
Rank: Tax Climate
Tax Foundation’s State Business Tax Climate Index developed from individual income tax, sales tax, corporate income tax, property tax, and unemployment insurance tax.
https://taxfoundation.org/publications/state-business-tax-climate-index/
Age 25+ Share: Bachelor’s (ACS 1yr)
Source: American Community Survey
For persons age 25 and over, percentage with highest educational attainment of a bachelor’s degree.
ACS data is comparable across the same data series: 1-year survey results (data from the year indicated) or 5-year (data compiled from the year indicated and prior 4 years).
Age 25+ Share: Graduate or Professional (ACS 1yr)
For persons age 25 and over, percentage with highest educational attainment of graduate or professional degree.
Corporate Income Tax Rate
Maximum corporate income tax rate. States vary in the tax base against which the tax rate is applied. States also impose franchise, gross receipts, and similar taxes in addition to or instead of corporate income tax.
https://taxfoundation.org/state-tax/corporate-income-taxes/
Diesel per Gallon
Source: GasBuddy
Diesel prices are shown as the monthly average, dollars per gallon (including taxes) for all grades. Monthly data is reported on or around the 5th of the following month. Monthly data is subject to annual revisions. www.GasBuddy.com
GasBuddy’s gasoline price data is a collection of prices reported by its users via the GasBuddy website, the GasBuddy mobile apps, credit card (fleet card) transactions, and directly from gas stations. Since the prices on GasBuddy.com are input by individual users, no guarantees are made in regard to the accuracy of the inputted price, station name, station location, or other user dependent variables. GasBuddy.com, GasPriceData.com and/or GasBuddy/OpenStore LL. shall have the right to, but not the obligation, to monitor, change, or remove any of the site content or information without notice at any time. GasBuddy.com, GasPriceData.com and/or GasBuddy/OpenStore LLC shall not be held liable, regardless of the cause or duration, for any errors, inaccuracies, omissions, untimeliness, unauthenticated information, or other defects in the information or content within the website or associated tools (e.g., GasBuddy Price Tool).
Gasoline per Gallon
Gasoline prices are shown as the monthly average, dollars per gallon (including taxes) for Regular Gasoline. Monthly data is reported on or around the 5th of the following month.
www.GasBuddy.com. GasBuddy’s gasoline price data is a collection of prices reported by its users via the GasBuddy website, the GasBuddy mobile apps, credit card (fleet card) transactions, and directly from gas stations. Since the prices on GasBuddy.com are input by individual users, no guarantees are made in regard to the accuracy of the inputted price, station name, station location, or other user dependent variables. GasBuddy.com, GasPriceData.com and/or GasBuddy/OpenStore LL. shall have the right to, but not the obligation, to monitor, change, or remove any of the site content or information without notice at any time. GasBuddy.com, GasPriceData.com and/or GasBuddy/OpenStore LLC shall not be held liable, regardless of the cause or duration, for any errors, inaccuracies, omissions, untimeliness, unauthenticated information, or other defects in the information or content within the website or associated tools (e.g., GasBuddy Price Tool).
Home Price +/- CA Avg
Ratio of the quarterly average home price to the quarterly average California home price. This index shows the relative cost of homes (as percent above (+) or below (-) the US average) in the different geographic areas of the state. Data for California, counties, regions, and legislative districts is through a subscription to the DQNews data base. Legislative Districts are estimated using zip code data from DQNews.
Data covers all new and existing, attached and detached single family home sales.
Overtime Rule
For states with their own overtime laws, indicates the number of hours worked before overtime pay is required, as an indicator of which states maintain workplace laws allowing for flexible employee schedules. 40 hours or more indicates a weekly standard; 8-12 hours indicates a daily standard. Where no number is shown, federal overtime requirements apply.
Some states that require overtime pay based on number of hours worked daily also have a weekly standard as well, generally 40 hours.
https://www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/america.htm
Highest state-levied personal income rate. Tax rates are as of January 1 in each year. Note that income brackets at which the highest rates apply also vary widely by state.
Rank: Best States for Business
Source: Chief Executive
Chief Executive magazine ranking of Best & Worst States for Business based on a survey of CEOs.
https://chiefexecutive.net.
Rank: Legal Climate
Source: US Chamber of Commerce, Institute for Legal Reform
Legal climate ranking from Institute for Legal Reform, Ranking the States.
Institute for Legal Reform, http://www.instituteforlegalreform.com/states.
Right to Work State
Source: National Conference of State Legislatures
Indicates whether the state has enacted right to work statutes.
The year of enactment is based on the first year either a statute or constitutional provision became effective.
http://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/right-to-work-laws-and-bills.aspx.
State Minimum Wage
Highest applicable general minimum wage rate per hour imposed by states. Federal minimum wage applies in those states without an entry.
States may have differing rates based on employer characteristics. Local governments in some states may impose a rate higher than the state level.
https://www.dol.gov/whd/state/stateMinWageHis.htm
Tax Burden
Per capita taxes paid by individuals to state and local governments (own state and other states).
https://taxfoundation.org/state-and-local-tax-burdens-historic-data/.
Union Membership: Construction
Source: Union Membership and Coverage Database
Union membership as a percentage of construction wage and salary employment, from Current Population Survey (CPS) data.
The Union Membership and Coverage Database is available at www.unionstats.com. The Database, constructed by Barry Hirsch (Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University) and David Macpherson (Department of Economics, Trinity University), was created in 2002 and is updated annually.
Private and public sector labor union membership, coverage, and density estimates compiled from the monthly household Current Population Survey (CPS) using BLS methods.
Union Membership: Manufacturing
Union membership as a percentage of manufacturing wage and salary employment, from Current Population Survey (CPS) data.
Union Membership: Private
Union membership as a percentage of total private wage and salary employment, from Current Population Survey (CPS) data.
Union Membership: Public
Union membership as a percentage of total public wage and salary employment, from Current Population Survey (CPS) data.
Union Membership: Total
Union membership as a percentage of total wage and salary employment, from Current Population Survey (CPS) data.
Workers Compensation Cost
Source: Oregon Department of Consumer & Business Services
Relative index of workers’ compensation premium rates, derived as a weighted average of rates for NCCI classification codes.
Data is for rates in effect January 1 of each survey years. US level is the state median.
http://www.oregon.gov/DCBS/cost/Pages/index.aspx.
Home Price +/- US Avg
Ratio of the quarterly average home price to the quarterly average US home price. This index shows the relative cost of California homes (as percent above (+) or below (-) the US average) compared to the US average. Data for the US is from the US Census Bureau. Data for California, counties, regions, and legislative districts is through a subscription to the DQNews data base. Legislative Districts are estimated using zip code data from DQNews.
Electricity Price Commercial
Electricity prices are shown as the average price in cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) for all electric industry providers for the commercial end-use sector. To provide a consistent comparison basis, prices are shown as a 12-month moving average.
Monthly data is updated on or around the 5th of the 3rd following month. Monthly data is subject to annual revisions.
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861m/index.html
Electricity Price Industrial
Electricity prices are shown as the average price in cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) for all electric industry providers for the industrial end-use sector. To provide a consistent comparison basis, prices are shown as a 12-month moving average.
Zillow Home Value Index: Single Family Homes
Source: Zillow Home Value Index
Median value of single family homes. (ZHVI), Zillow Data, https://www.zillow.com/research/data/#median-home-value.
Value is based on sales prices and estimated sales price for all homes within the Zillow database. Provides a more consistent median value less affected by changing composition of homes actually sold.
Zillow Home Value Index: Condo/Co-ops
Median value of multi-family residential units. (ZHVI) Condo/Co-op, Zillow Data, https://www.zillow.com/research/data/#median-home-value.
Value is based on sales prices and estimated sales price for all units within the Zillow database. Provides a more consistent median value less affected by changing composition of homes actually sold.
Median Price: Existing SFR Detached Homes
Source: California Association of Realtors, Median Prices of Existing Detached Homes
Median sales price for existing single family homes. https://www.car.org/en/marketdata/data/countysalesactivity
Value is from the final escrow price of actual sales.
Natural Gas Price Commercial
Natural gas prices are shown as the average price in dollars per thousand cubic feet (tcf) for all natural gas delivered to commercial end-use sector. To provide a consistent comparison basis, prices are shown as a 12-month moving average. Monthly data is updated on or around the 5th of the 3rd following month. Monthly data is subject to annual revisions.
https://www.eia.gov/naturalgas/monthly/
Natural Gas Price Industrial
Zillow Rent Index: Mulitfamily, SFR, Condo/Co-ops
Median value of rent for all housing units. (ZRI) Summary: Multifamily, SFR,Condo/Co-op, Zillow Data, https://www.zillow.com/research/data/#median-home-value. Value is based on actual rents and estimated rents for all units within the Zillow database. Provides a more consistent median value less affected by changing composition of units actually rented.
Migration: Higher Income Non-Migrant Average AGI
Source: US Internal Revenue Service
As a point of comparison, average adjusted gross income for returns filed by residents showing an AGI of $200,000 or more who have not changed address in the past year.
Migration: Higher Income Inflow Average AGI
Average adjusted gross income per return of in-migrating residents showing an AGI of $200,000 or higher.
Migration: Total Inflow Average AGI
Total average adjusted gross income per return of in-migrating residents.
Migration: Higher Income Inflow by Number of Tax Returns
Number of tax returns filed by residents with an AGI of $200,000 or higher who have moved into the state or county based on their prior year address. Number of returns is an approximation of migrating households.
Migration: State Non-Migrant Average AGI
As a point of comparison, total average adjusted gross income for returns filed by residents who have not changed address in the past year.
Migration: Higher Income Outflow Average AGI
Average adjusted gross income per return of out-migrating residents showing an AGI of $200,000 or higher.
Migration: Total Outflow Average AGI
Total average adjusted gross income per return of out-migrating residents. https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-migration-data.
Data covers only persons who have filed a tax return in both years. Due to the IRS method changes, data is not strictly comparable over time, and differences should be taken into account. The primary point of discontinuity is the 2012 data. AGI incorporates negative amounts into the averages.
Migration: Higher Income Outflow by Number of Tax Returns
Number of tax returns filed by residents with an AGI of $200,000 or higher who have moved from the state or county based on their prior year address. Number of returns is an approximation of migrating households.
Migration: Total Outflow by Number of Tax Returns
Total number of tax returns filed by residents who have moved from the state or county based on their prior year address. Number of returns is an approximation of migrating households.
Data covers only persons who have filed a tax return in both years. Due to the IRS method changes, data is not strictly comparable over time, and differences should be taken into account. The primary point of discontinuity is the 2012 data. https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-migration-data
Migration: Total Inflow by Number of Tax Returns
Total number of tax returns filed by residents who have moved to the state or county based on their prior year address. Number of returns is an approximation of migrating households. https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-migration-data.
Data covers only persons who have filed a tax return in both years. Due to the IRS method changes, data is not strictly comparable over time, and differences should be taken into account. The primary point of discontinuity is the 2012 data.
Age Share: 55-64 (ACS 5yr)
Percentage of persons age 55-64 within total population.
Age Share (monthly): 0-15
Source: Department of Finance
Percentage calculated from the annual estimates from Department of Finance as of July 1 of each year. Other months are taken as a straight-line distribution.
http://dof.ca.gov/Forecasting/Demographics/
Data updated annually, with decennial revisions based on census-level data.
Percentage calculated from the annual estimates from Census Bureau as of July 1 of each year. Other months are taken as a straight-line distribution.
https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/tables/
Census Bureau no longer prepares projections for the states. Data updated annually, with decennial revisions based on census-level data.
Age Share (monthly): 16-19
Age Share (monthly): 65+
Gender Share: Men (ACS 1yr)
Percentage of men within total population.
Gender Share (monthly): Men (BOC)
Gender Share (monthly): Men DOF
Percentage calculated from the annual estimates and projections from Department of Finance as of July 1 of each year. Other months are taken as a straight-line distribution.
Gender Share (monthly): Women (BOC)
Gender Share (monthly): Women DOF
Gender Share: Women (ACS 1yr)
Percentage of women within total population.
Population (Dept. of Finance)
Calculated from the annual estimates and projections from Department of Finance as of July 1 of each year. Other months are taken as a straight-line distribution. Covers resident population and does not include armed forces overseas. Population and population aged 16 and over estimates for legislative districts are calculated using the Census Share method, population share data from the ACS 5-year survey, and county estimates for each month.
Population (US Census Bureau)
Calculated from the annual estimates from Census Bureau as of July 1 of each year. Other months are taken as a straight-line distribution. Covers resident population and does not include armed forces overseas.
Race/Ethnicity Share (monthly): Asian & Pi (BOC)
Percentage calculated from the annual estimates for Asian and Pacific Islander, Non-Latino share of population from Census Bureau as of July 1 of each year. Other months are taken as a straight-line distribution.
Race/Ethnicity Share (Monthly): Asian
Percentage calculated from the annual estimates for Asians and Pacific Islanders, Non-Latino share of population from Department of Finance as of July 1 of each year. Other months are taken as a straight-line distribution.
Race/Ethnicity Share (monthly): Black (BOC)
Percentage calculated from the annual estimates for Non-Latino share of population from Census Bureau as of July 1 of each year. Other months are taken as a straight-line distribution.
Race/Ethnicity Share (Monthly): Black
Percentage calculated from the annual estimates for Non-Latino share of population from Department of Finance as of July 1 of each year. Other months are taken as a straight-line distribution.
Race/Ethnicity Share (monthly): Latino (BOC)
Percentage calculated from the annual estimates from Census Bureau as of July 1 of each year. Other months are taken as a straight-line distribution. Latinos may be of any race.
Race/Ethnicity Share (Monthly): Latino
Percentage calculated from the annual estimates and projections from Department of Finance as of July 1 of each year. Other months are taken as a straight-line distribution. Latinos may be of any race.
Race/Ethnicity Share (monthly): Multirace (BOC)
Race/Ethnicity Share (Monthly): Multirace
Race/Ethnicity Share (monthly): Native American (BOC)
Race/Ethnicity Share (Monthly): Native American
Race/Ethnicity Share (monthly): White (BOC)
Race/Ethnicity Share (Monthly): White
Number of Employees: 0-4 employees
Average number of employees reported in Q1 by all Private establishments in the Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages.
Data only available for states and US. Data is also available for many detailed NAICS codes. Quarterly data subject to revision in the annual updates. Release schedule: https://www.bls.gov/cew/releasecalendar.htm
Number of Employees: 1,000 or more employees
Number of Employees: 250-999 employees
Number of Employees: 5-49 employees
Number of Employees: 50-249 employees
Number of Establishments
Average number of establishments reported in Q1 by all Private firms in the Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages within each NAICS code.
US Average Forecast: Unemployment
Source: Various
Average of the most recent forecasts for the state and national economies, including Department of Finance, Legislative Analysts’ Office, Congressional Budget Office, and various private forecasting sources.
Business Registration Terminations: Corporations
Source: Analysis of Secretary of State Corporation and LP-LLC files.
Total number of registrations for for-profit Corporations becoming inactive through the end of each quarter.
Totals for the component geographies do not sum to state total due to lack of California zip code for some registrations.
Business Registration Terminations: LLC
Total number of registrations for LLCs (limited liability corporations) becoming inactive through the end of each quarter.
Business Registration Terminations: LP
Total number of registrations for LPs (limited partnerships) becoming inactive through the end of each quarter.
Business Registration Terminations: Non-Profit
Total number of registrations for non-profit Corporations becoming inactive through the end of each quarter.
Business Registration Terminations: Total
Total number of registrations for Corporations, LPs (limited partnerships), and LLCs (limited liability corporations) becoming inactive through the end of each quarter.
Births: Employment
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Business Employment Dynamics
Job gains from establishments with positive third month employment for the first time in the current quarter with no links to the prior quarter, or establishments with positive third month employment in the current quarter and zero employment in the third month of the previous four quarters. Births are a subset of Openings, which are broader and include establishments with re-openings within a year (e.g., seasonal businesses). All data is for Private establishments, all establishment size classes, not seasonally adjusted. Data is drawn from the Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages and covers all private establishments with covered workers who worked during or received pay for the pay period that included the 12th day of the subject quarter, including workers on paid leave during that period. The data is establishment based, meaning it is based on the number of wage and salary jobs rather than the number of people employed. An individual worker may hold more than one job, but each job is counted separately in the data base. Similarly, the jobs may be full or part time, but each one is treated equally for the purposes of counting employment.
https://data.bls.gov/bdm/
Data available only for US and states. Additional detail available by establishment size and certain NAICS industry levels. Quarterly data subject to annual revisions. Release schedule: https://www.bls.gov/schedule/news_release/cewbd.htm
Births: Establishments
Number of establishments with positive third month employment for the first time in the current quarter with no links to the prior quarter, or establishments with positive third month employment in the current quarter and zero employment in the third month of the previous four quarters. Births are a subset of Openings, which are broader and include establishments with re-openings within a year (e.g., seasonal businesses). All data is for Private establishments, all establishment size classes, not seasonally adjusted. Data is drawn from the Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages and covers all private establishments with covered workers who worked during or received pay for the pay period that included the 12th day of the subject quarter, including workers on paid leave during that period. The data is establishment based, meaning it is based on the number of wage and salary jobs rather than the number of people employed. An individual worker may hold more than one job, but each job is counted separately in the data base. Similarly, the jobs may be full or part time, but each one is treated equally for the purposes of counting employment.
Closings: Employment
Job losses from establishments showing zero employment compared to the prior quarter. All data is for Private establishments, all establishment size classes, not seasonally adjusted. Data is drawn from the Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages and covers all private establishments with covered workers who worked during or received pay for the pay period that included the 12th day of the subject quarter, including workers on paid leave during that period. The data is establishment based, meaning it is based on the number of wage and salary jobs rather than the number of people employed. An individual worker may hold more than one job, but each job is counted separately in the data base. Similarly, the jobs may be full or part time, but each one is treated equally for the purposes of counting employment.
Business Employment Dynamics, https://data.bls.gov/bdm/
Closings: Establishments
Number of establishments showing zero employment compared to the prior quarter. All data is for Private establishments, all establishment size classes, not seasonally adjusted. Data is drawn from the Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages and covers all private establishments with covered workers who worked during or received pay for the pay period that included the 12th day of the subject quarter, including workers on paid leave during that period. The data is establishment based, meaning it is based on the number of wage and salary jobs rather than the number of people employed. An individual worker may hold more than one job, but each job is counted separately in the data base. Similarly, the jobs may be full or part time, but each one is treated equally for the purposes of counting employment.
Contractions: Employment
Job losses from establishments with a decrease in jobs compared to the prior quarter. All data is for Private establishments, all establishment size classes, not seasonally adjusted. Data is drawn from the Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages and covers all private establishments with covered workers who worked during or received pay for the pay period that included the 12th day of the subject quarter, including workers on paid leave during that period. The data is establishment based, meaning it is based on the number of wage and salary jobs rather than the number of people employed. An individual worker may hold more than one job, but each job is counted separately in the data base. Similarly, the jobs may be full or part time, but each one is treated equally for the purposes of counting employment.
Contractions: Establishments
Number of establishments with a decrease in jobs compared to the prior quarter. All data is for Private establishments, all establishment size classes, not seasonally adjusted. Data is drawn from the Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages and covers all private establishments with covered workers who worked during or received pay for the pay period that included the 12th day of the subject quarter, including workers on paid leave during that period. The data is establishment based, meaning it is based on the number of wage and salary jobs rather than the number of people employed. An individual worker may hold more than one job, but each job is counted separately in the data base. Similarly, the jobs may be full or part time, but each one is treated equally for the purposes of counting employment.
Deaths: Employment
Job losses from establishments with no employment or zero employment reported in the third month of four consecutive quarters following the last quarter with positive employment. Deaths are a subset of Closings, which are broader and include businesses with seasonal closings during a year. All data is for Private establishments, all establishment size classes, not seasonally adjusted. Data is drawn from the Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages and covers all private establishments with covered workers who worked during or received pay for the pay period that included the 12th day of the subject quarter, including workers on paid leave during that period. The data is establishment based, meaning it is based on the number of wage and salary jobs rather than the number of people employed. An individual worker may hold more than one job, but each job is counted separately in the data base. Similarly, the jobs may be full or part time, but each one is treated equally for the purposes of counting employment.
Deaths: Establishments
Number of establishments with no employment or zero employment reported in the third month of four consecutive quarters following the last quarter with positive employment. Deaths are a subset of Closings, which are broader and include businesses with seasonal closings during a year. All data is for Private establishments, all establishment size classes, not seasonally adjusted. Data is drawn from the Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages and covers all private establishments with covered workers who worked during or received pay for the pay period that included the 12th day of the subject quarter, including workers on paid leave during that period. The data is establishment based, meaning it is based on the number of wage and salary jobs rather than the number of people employed. An individual worker may hold more than one job, but each job is counted separately in the data base. Similarly, the jobs may be full or part time, but each one is treated equally for the purposes of counting employment.
Expansions: Employment
Job gains from establishments with an increase in jobs compared to the prior quarter. All data is for Private establishments, all establishment size classes, not seasonally adjusted. Data is drawn from the Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages and covers all private establishments with covered workers who worked during or received pay for the pay period that included the 12th day of the subject quarter, including workers on paid leave during that period. The data is establishment based, meaning it is based on the number of wage and salary jobs rather than the number of people employed. An individual worker may hold more than one job, but each job is counted separately in the data base. Similarly, the jobs may be full or part time, but each one is treated equally for the purposes of counting employment.
Expansions: Establishments
Number of establishments with an increase in jobs compared to the prior quarter. All data is for Private establishments, all establishment size classes, not seasonally adjusted. Data is drawn from the Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages and covers all private establishments with covered workers who worked during or received pay for the pay period that included the 12th day of the subject quarter, including workers on paid leave during that period. The data is establishment based, meaning it is based on the number of wage and salary jobs rather than the number of people employed. An individual worker may hold more than one job, but each job is counted separately in the data base. Similarly, the jobs may be full or part time, but each one is treated equally for the purposes of counting employment.
Gross Job Losses: Employment
Total of job losses from Establishment Closings and Contractions. All data is for Private establishments, all establishment size classes, not seasonally adjusted. Data is drawn from the Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages and covers all private establishments with covered workers who worked during or received pay for the pay period that included the 12th day of the subject quarter, including workers on paid leave during that period. The data is establishment based, meaning it is based on the number of wage and salary jobs rather than the number of people employed. An individual worker may hold more than one job, but each job is counted separately in the data base. Similarly, the jobs may be full or part time, but each one is treated equally for the purposes of counting employment.
Gross Job Losses: Establishments
Total number of closing and contracting establishments. All data is for Private establishments, all establishment size classes, not seasonally adjusted. Data is drawn from the Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages and covers all private establishments with covered workers who worked during or received pay for the pay period that included the 12th day of the subject quarter, including workers on paid leave during that period. The data is establishment based, meaning it is based on the number of wage and salary jobs rather than the number of people employed. An individual worker may hold more than one job, but each job is counted separately in the data base. Similarly, the jobs may be full or part time, but each one is treated equally for the purposes of counting employment.
Gross Job Gains: Employment
Total of job gains from Establishment Openings and Expansions. All data is for Private establishments, all establishment size classes, not seasonally adjusted. Data is drawn from the Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages and covers all private establishments with covered workers who worked during or received pay for the pay period that included the 12th day of the subject quarter, including workers on paid leave during that period. The data is establishment based, meaning it is based on the number of wage and salary jobs rather than the number of people employed. An individual worker may hold more than one job, but each job is counted separately in the data base. Similarly, the jobs may be full or part time, but each one is treated equally for the purposes of counting employment.
Gross Job Gains: Establishments
Total number of opening and expanding establishments. All data is for Private establishments, all establishment size classes, not seasonally adjusted. Data is drawn from the Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages and covers all private establishments with covered workers who worked during or received pay for the pay period that included the 12th day of the subject quarter, including workers on paid leave during that period. The data is establishment based, meaning it is based on the number of wage and salary jobs rather than the number of people employed. An individual worker may hold more than one job, but each job is counted separately in the data base. Similarly, the jobs may be full or part time, but each one is treated equally for the purposes of counting employment.
Openings: Employment
Job gains from the opening of new establishments (or establishments with zero employment in the prior quarter) in the quarter shown. All data is for Private establishments, all establishment size classes, not seasonally adjusted. Data is drawn from the Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages and covers all private establishments with covered workers who worked during or received pay for the pay period that included the 12th day of the subject quarter, including workers on paid leave during that period. The data is establishment based, meaning it is based on the number of wage and salary jobs rather than the number of people employed. An individual worker may hold more than one job, but each job is counted separately in the data base. Similarly, the jobs may be full or part time, but each one is treated equally for the purposes of counting employment.
Openings: Establishments
Number of new establishments (or establishments with zero employment in the prior quarter) in the quarter shown. All data is for Private establishments, all establishment size classes, not seasonally adjusted. Data is drawn from the Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages and covers all private establishments with covered workers who worked during or received pay for the pay period that included the 12th day of the subject quarter, including workers on paid leave during that period. The data is establishment based, meaning it is based on the number of wage and salary jobs rather than the number of people employed. An individual worker may hold more than one job, but each job is counted separately in the data base. Similarly, the jobs may be full or part time, but each one is treated equally for the purposes of counting employment.
Labor Force Participation Rate (Not Seasonally Adjusted)
The number within the Labor Force as a percentage of the total Noninstitutional Civilian Population. Data for areas below the state level other than for Los Angeles County are calculated from the estimated population age 16 and over, adjusted for the non-civilian component based on the state average. Not seasonally adjusted.
Labor Force Participation Rate (Seasonally Adjusted)
The number within the Labor Force as a percentage of the total Noninstitutional Civilian Population. Seasonally adjusted. Data is preliminary and revised in the subsequent month. Multiple years are subject to change in the annual revisions. Release schedule: https://www.bls.gov/schedule/news_release/laus.htm
New Business Registrations: Corporations
Total number of new business filings plus previously inactive registrations revived or restored for for-profit Corporations through the end of each quarter.
New Business Registrations: LLC
Total number of new business filings plus previously inactive registrations revived or restored for LLCs (limited liability corporations) through the end of each quarter.
New Business Registrations: LP
Total number of new business filings plus previously inactive registrations revived or restored for LPs (limited partnerships) through the end of each quarter.
New Business Registrations: Non-Profit
Total number of new business filings plus previously inactive registrations revived or restored for non-profit Corporations through the end of each quarter.
New Business Registrations: Total
Total number of new business filings plus previously inactive registrations revived or restored for Corporations, LPs (limited partnerships), and LLCs (limited liability corporations) through the end of each quarter.
Number of Business Registrations: Corporations
Total number of active for-profit (stock) Corporations at the end of each quarter.
Number of Business Registrations: LLC
Total number of active LLCs (limited liability corporations) at the end of each quarter.
Number of Business Registrations: LP
Total number of active LPs (limited partnerships), at the end of each quarter.
Number of Business Registrations: Non-Profit
Total number of active non-profit (non-stock) Corporations at the end of each quarter.
Number of Business Registrations: Total
Total number of active Corporations, LPs (limited partnerships), and LLCs (limited liability corporations) at the end of each quarter.
Number of Establishments: 1000 or more employees
Average number of establishments reported in Q1 by all Private firms in the Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages within each NAICS code. Data only available for states and US. Data is also available for many detailed NAICS codes. Quarterly data subject to revision in the annual updates. Release schedule: https://www.bls.gov/cew/releasecalendar.htm
Number of Establishments: 50-249 employees
Number of Establishments: 0-4 employees
Number of Establishments: 5-49 employees
Number of Establishments: 250-999 employees
Proprietors: Farm
Number of individuals operating as Sole Proprietorships and General Partners in farming operations. Data is generally updated in September (states) and November (counties), along with revisions to previous year data.
Proprietors: Farm Income
Total income from farm Sole Proprietorships and General Partners. Data is generally updated in September (states) and November (counties), along with revisions to previous year data.
Proprietors: Non-Farm
Number of individuals operating as Sole Proprietorships and General Partners in nonfarm businesses. Data is generally updated in September (states) and November (counties), along with revisions to previous year data.
Proprietors: Non-Farm Income
Total income from non-farm Sole Proprietorships and General Partners. Data is generally updated in September (states) and November (counties), along with revisions to previous year data.
Proprietors: Total
Number of individuals operating as Sole Proprietorships and General Partners. Total employment includes this group along with wage & salary employment and unpaid family workers. Data is generally updated in September (states) and November (counties), along with revisions to previous year data.
Affordability: Index (Homeowners)
The Affordability Gap in each geography is measured by the total for all Necessity Costs compared to pre-tax income. Necessity Costs are net of the duplication in property tax for homeowners and motor vehicle licenses for all households, and also have been adjusted to net out the tax incidence amounts in the Tax component estimated for fees and other taxes, other property taxes, and sales tax as a significant portion of these items have already been built into the prices paid for items such as food, fuels, and other consumer goods and services. The resulting number is used to show the total and percentage of income for the average household spent annually on the necessities contained in the Index.
The Affordability Gap can be used in two ways:
• Relative costs in each California geography can be shown by comparing to the average Affordability Gap for all states other than California (US less California). Relative costs within California can be shown by comparing to the California average.
• Cost burdened provides an absolute measure for comparing geographies, based on the ratio of total Necessity Costs to average income. Cost Burdened is where the Necessity Costs contained in the Index fall between 70% and 75% of income. Severe Cost Burdened is where the necessity costs are 76% or more of income. Not Cost Burdened is where necessity costs are 69% or below.
The cost burdened measure was developed from the detailed average expenditure results in the 2017 Consumer Expenditures Survey that allows a comparison to the expenditure categories in the Affordability Index. Spending at the 76% of income level for the Index necessities allows just for other essential goods and services (other housing costs such as maintenance, repairs, equipment, and supplies; apparel and services; personal care products and services; and other transportation costs not included in the Index such as maintenance and repairs, vehicle payments, and public and other transportation). At this point, spending is crowded out for “nonessentials” (such as entertainment and reading; miscellaneous including alcoholic beverages, tobacco products, and other; and cash contributions), expenditures related to upward mobility and the future (education, savings, and life and other personal insurance), as well as any amounts needed for other items such as child care and elder care.
Individual households will obviously make adjustments well before the 76% level is reached, but this measure represents the point where keeping up with just the Index necessities becomes overwhelming for the average household.
Affordability: Index (Renters)
Affordability: Necessity Costs – Total (Homeowners)
The Affordability Index is structured to display the core costs of living faced by the average household (owner-occupied and renter-occupied) in the different states and for California, the counties and legislative districts. The Affordability Index is consequently a measure of how the general cost of living differs by geographic area rather than—as in other indices of this type—a measure of what a given income can buy in different areas.
Data availability varies for each of the components contained in the Index. All values, however, are brought up to the same, most current full year using the different estimation sources discussed under each component. These estimations are performed on a rolling basis. As data is published, it is provided in an update, and the subsequent year is then estimated from this base.
Affordability: Necessity Costs – Total (Renters)
Affordability: Housing – Total (Homeowners)
Source: IPUMS USA
The cost of housing continues to rise in California as the supply of housing grows far slower than the rate needed to keep up with population. As stated by the nonpartisan Legislative Analysts’ Office: Rent is high in California because the state does not have enough housing for everyone who wants to live here. People who want to live here must compete for housing, which increases rents. The state Department of Housing & Community Development estimates that California has needed 180,000 new housing units each year since 2014 (200,000 units in the prior years) just to keep up with population. Yet, the Center’s Indicators show permits for only 116,000 housing units were issued in 2018.In fact, since 1990, new housing permits have been near or exceeded the required additional supply in only three years.
The cost of housing is also affected by the significantly higher costs of building in California. These factors include relatively higher costs for land but also items such as the greater cost and length of the required permitting in California compared to other states, the growing size of local fees including escalating “impact” fees, restrictions on the type of finishings that can be used such as appliances, lighting, plumbing fixtures, and irrigation, and other state and local regulatory requirements unique to California that mandate how housing is to be built and where it can be located.
The Housing Cost category in the Index is shown separately for owner-occupied and renter-occupied housing using averages within each of the covered jurisdictions. The components in this category include all housing costs, including mortgage or rent payments along with property tax, property insurance, electricity, natural gas, and water and sanitary sewer to encompass the full costs of housing generally used in affordability comparisons.
Affordability: Housing – Total (Renters)
Rents paid by households vary widely by what they cover—rent alone or rent along with amounts for utilities built into the rent amount or allocated as a separate monthly charge.In the Index, Rent is the average gross rent adjusted for these costs—electricity, natural gas, and water/sewer.Data is taken from the American Community Survey tabulations and from IPUMS NHGIS, University of Minnesota, www.nhgis.org, and from analysis of the American Community Survey public use microdata statistics through IPUMS USA, University of Minnesota, www.ipums.org. The rents were bottom coded to remove the lower outliers and cover units with at least 2 bedrooms. The data was grouped by household income in increments ($0 – $50,000; $50,001 – $100,000; $100,001 – $150,000) to produce averages paid at the average income levels in the Index. The gross rent amounts were then adjusted for the amounts paid for electricity, natural gas, and water and sewer.
The data contained in the Index is the average of rents actually being paid by rental households by income group, including those who have been in the same unit for several years and those living in rent-controlled units often for many years. As a result, these average numbers are generally lower than the average and median rents more frequently reported in the media, which are not rents being paid but instead are asking rents for units on the market.
For some geographic levels, the data is only available in the 5-year results from the American Community Survey. These are turned into one-year estimates using a census share methodology.For the smaller counties, the estimates are based on their relative shares within the encompassing Public Use Microdata Area (PUMA).For the legislative districts, the estimates are based on their relative shares of their component county portions and for districts wholly within a single county, adjusted based on the relationship for the 5-year values.
The American Community Survey data is top coded at about $5,300 a month. The data is adjusted for this factor to some extent by the fact that state values in the Survey above the annual top code level are entered as the average of all such values. However, this component of the Index still likely undercounts values for very high cost areas such as San Francisco and much of the rest of the Bay Area.
Data is generally available with a 2-year lag. Estimates for the most current year are done using the change in the Zillow Rent Index for all rental types.
Affordability: Housing – Condo Fee (Homeowners)
While currently a significant factor primarily in the larger urban areas, condo and other homeowners association fees are becoming a more significant component of housing costs as state policies push more for multi-family housing developments, and even in the case of single family developments as a result of local regulations and fee structures.
This factor was estimated through the PUMS data and University of California, Berkeley SDA program available through IPUMS USA, University of Minnesota, www.ipums.org
Values for the smaller counties are taken as the overall overage for the encompassing PUMA. Values for the legislative districts were estimated from an average of the component counties, weighted by owner-occupied units. Because of the small differences, a single average rather than by income class was used.
Affordability: Housing – Electricity (Homeowners)
Prices for electricity in California have risen substantially compared to the national average as a result of growing state mandates on electricity generation under the state’s climate change program. Between 2010 (when the state’s Early Action climate change elements were begun) through 2018, the average annual residential bill grew 24% in California, while the average bill for all other states grew only 5%.
Electricity bills also vary widely within the state primarily coming from the need for air conditioning in the hotter interior regions. From the calculations in the Index for 2018, average annual electricity use was as much as twice as high for homeowners in the Central Valley compared to the milder climate Bay Area, and close to three times as high for renters.
Annual Electricity cost in the Index was estimated through the PUMS data and University of California, Berkeley SDA program available through IPUMS USA, University of Minnesota, www.ipums.org. In the calculations, extreme values were removed from the sample to develop a more reasonable average. Values for the smaller counties are taken as the overall overage for the encompassing PUMA.Values for the legislative districts were estimated from an average of the component counties, weighted by units for each tenure class.
Previous analysis by the Census Bureau concluded that the Survey respondents generally overestimate the value of this cost.The initial results were consequently trued up to other data on electricity use. Usage by kWh was estimated for each jurisdiction by using the applicable average annual price for residential end users from US Energy Information Administration, and then adjusted to conform to total annual residential use for both the states using US Energy Information Administration data and the counties using Energy Commission data.
The American Community Survey data is generally available with a 2-year lag while the price information is available with only a 4-month lag. The most recent year values were estimated using the prior year usage by tenure type and the most current year residential electricity price.
Affordability: Housing – Electricity (Renters)
Affordability: Housing – Insurance (Homeowners)
Property Insurance is the average annual amount for each income band for fire, hazard, and flood insurance. This factor was estimated through the PUMS data and University of California, Berkeley SDA program available through IPUMS USA, University of Minnesota, www.ipums.org. Values for the smaller counties are taken as the overall overage for the encompassing PUMA. Values for the legislative districts were estimated from an average of the component counties, weighted by owner-occupied units.
The American Community Survey data is generally available with a 2-year lag. The most recent year values were estimated using the prior 2-year average growth.
Affordability: Housing – Mortgage (Homeowners)
Data is taken from the American Community Survey tabulations and from IPUMS NHGIS, University of Minnesota, www.nhgis.org, and from analysis of the American Community Survey public use microdata statistics through IPUMS USA, University of Minnesota, www.ipums.org. The data was grouped by household income ($0 – $50,000; $50,001 – $100,000; $100,001 – $150,000; $150,001 – $200,000; $200,001 – 300,000) to produce averages paid at the average income levels in the Index while retaining sufficient survey responses to cover these income bands in most areas. Where applicable, property tax and insurance components were netted out where one or both were included in the primary mortgage payment. The mortgage payment component includes both the primary and any secondary (including lines of credit) mortgage secured by the primary residence. The legislative district estimates are an average of the component counties, weighted by owner households within each county portion. For those districts lying wholly within the larger counties, an adjustment was made based on the relationship between selected owner costs from the 5-year American Community Survey data.
The data in the Index shows the average mortgage payment (net of property taxes and insurance) currently paid at the household income level in each area. As such, this data includes households who have just bought their homes, households who have lived at the same address for decades, and those who have refinanced their loans including often borrowing against their principle for home improvements and other purposes. The resulting averages show what homeowners are now paying in each area, and do not reflect current home values such as the rising median housing prices that are often cited in the media. As with rents, the mortgage values in the Index are what households now pay, and not what they would pay if moving into the area and buying a new home.
The property tax component is included in both the Housing Cost and Tax Burden categories of the Index, but this duplication is netted out in the overall Gap values.
Data is generally available with a 2-year lag. Estimates for the most current year are done using the change in the Zillow Home Value Index for all housing types and the relative housing values for legislative districts contained in the Center’s Indicators.
Affordability: Housing – Natural Gas (Homeowners)
California prices for natural gas for many years were below national averages as a result of ample interstate pipeline capacity that produced a highly competitive market.This situation has changed as that capacity has grown constrained and as natural gas costs have also been affected by the state’s climate change policies.In 2018, California residential natural gas prices were 21% higher than the average for the rest of the states.
Natural gas use also varies by region in California primarily because of colder winter weather in the interior regions.From the calculations in the Index for 2018, average annual natural use was as much as a quarter higher for homeowners and renters in the Central Valley compared to the milder climate Bay Area.
Annual Natural Gas cost in the Index was estimated through the PUMS data and University of California, Berkeley SDA program available through IPUMS USA, University of Minnesota, www.ipums.org.In the calculations, extreme values were removed from the sample to develop a more reasonable average.Values for the smaller counties are taken as the overall overage for the encompassing PUMA.Values for the legislative districts were estimated from an average of the component counties, weighted by units for each tenure class.
Previous analysis by the Census Bureau concluded that the Survey respondents generally overestimate the value of this cost.The initial results were consequently trued up to other data on natural gas use.Usage by tcf was estimated for each jurisdiction by using the applicable average annual price for residential end users from US Energy Information Administration, and then adjusted to conform to total annual residential use for both the states using US Energy Information Administration data and the counties using Energy Commission data.
The American Community Survey data is generally available with a 2-year lag while the price data is available with only a 4-month lag.The most recent year values were estimated using the prior year usage by tenure type and the most current year residential natural gas price.
Affordability: Housing – Natural Gas (Renters)
Affordability: Housing – Property Tax (Homeowners)
California’s ranking in property tax collections depends on which measure is used. Because of Proposition 13, California has a relatively low tax rate. Tax Foundation data indicates California had the 35th highest rate in 2017, at 0.70% of full market value. Proposition 13’s limits on property tax rates and reassessments also mean households buying a home or employers buying a property to begin a business know with a high level of certainty what their property tax payments will be over time, while this amount will vary in other states according to periodic assessments of a property’s value and far fewer limits on the property tax rate.
Measured by property tax collections per capita, however, California ranks much higher at 17th as a result of the state’s significantly higher property values.
Property Tax costs in the Index are estimated in two components. The portion paid by homeowners is calculated as described under the Housing Cost category.
For the non-homeowner portion, the homeowner total is subtracted from total property tax revenues (state and local government total) reported in the annual US Census Bureau State & Local Government Finance report. The amount ultimately passed on to individuals (through higher prices and reduced wages) by businesses is estimated using the general share of existing business taxes shifted to labor and prices from a 2010 business tax incidence study prepared for US Federation of Tax Administrators. The result is then divided by the total number of households in each geographic area. No adjustments are made for differences between homeowners and renters, although renters pay a relatively higher share as a result of property tax pass-throughs in their rent. This amount is assumed to be counterbalanced for the relatively lower consumption levels as reflected in the differences in average income.
The Census Data is generally available with a 3-year lag. The non-homeowner portion is updated based on the relationship between homeowner and non-homeowner portions in the most recent year available.
Note that the homeowner portion is included in both the Housing Cost and Tax Burden categories, with the duplication adjusted in the total amounts used for the Gap calculations.
There is an element of double counting associated with the non-homeowner portion. This component is already built into prices paid for food, energy, healthcare, and insurance and generally is incorporated into rents as well. While these sectors do not constitute the full amounts paid, the overlap is significant enough that this component is adjusted from the total amounts used for the Gap calculations. This element is retained in the Tax portion of the Index to illustrate the total cost of taxes to the average household in each area.
Affordability: Housing – Rent (Renters)
Source: IPUMS NHGIS
Rents paid by households vary widely by what they cover—rent alone or rent along with amounts for utilities built into the rent amount or allocated as a separate monthly charge. In the Index, Rent is the average gross rent adjusted for these costs—electricity, natural gas, and water/sewer. Data is taken from the American Community Survey tabulations and from IPUMS NHGIS, University of Minnesota, www.nhgis.org, and from analysis of the American Community Survey public use microdata statistics through IPUMS USA, University of Minnesota, www.ipums.org. The rents were bottom coded to remove the lower outliers and cover units with at least 2 bedrooms. The data was grouped by household income in increments ($0 – $50,000; $50,001 – $100,000; $100,001 – $150,000) to produce averages paid at the average income levels in the Index. The gross rent amounts were then adjusted for the amounts paid for electricity, natural gas, and water and sewer.
For some geographic levels, the data is only available in the 5-year results from the American Community Survey. These are turned into one-year estimates using a census share methodology. For the smaller counties, the estimates are based on their relative shares within the encompassing Public Use Microdata Area (PUMA). For the legislative districts, the estimates are based on their relative shares of their component county portions and for districts wholly within a single county, adjusted based on the relationship for the 5-year values.
Affordability: Housing – Water (Homeowners)
Water is the average amount paid annually for each income band for both water and sanitary sewer service. This factor was estimated through the PUMS data and University of California, Berkeley SDA program available through IPUMS USA, University of Minnesota, www.ipums.org. In the calculations, extreme values were removed from the sample to develop an average closer to the typical household use. Values for the smaller counties are taken as the overall overage for the encompassing PUMA. Values for the legislative districts were estimated from an average of the component counties, weighted by units for each tenure class.
Affordability: Housing – Water (Renters)
Affordability: Income (Homeowners)
The indicator shows average household income by tenure, calculated by dividing total household income by total number of housing units in each jurisdiction for both owner-occupied and renter-occupied housing units.Data source is the annual American Community Survey, taken directly both from the US Census Bureau tabulations and from data available through IPUMS NHGIS, University of Minnesota, www.nhgis.org.Average income covers before-tax household income from all sources, and is not adjusted for non-cash government transfer payments such as food stamps or the value of Medi-Cal benefits or for the value of employee non-wage compensation such as health insurance benefits.
For some geographic levels, the data is only available in the 5-year results from the American Community Survey.These are turned into one-year estimates using a census share methodology.For the smaller counties, the estimates are based on their relative shares within the encompassing Public Use Microdata Area (PUMA).For the legislative districts, the estimates are based on relative shares of their component county portions.As with the other Index components, the resulting estimates for very small areas are consequently more variable than those for larger areas with sufficient survey data, but are included to remain consistent in the data sources.
Data is generally available with a 2-year lag.Estimates for the most current year shown in the Index use the 2-year average growth rate in per capita income by state from US Bureau of Economic Analysis.Estimates of the most current year for housing units is done using the growth rates derived from the Census Bureau annual estimate of housing units for states and counties.
Affordability: Income (Renters)
Affordability: Transportation – Total (Homeowners)
Source: American Petroleum Institute, US Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Zebra’s State of Auto Insurance Reports
Transportation is the total annual cost for fuel, fuel taxes, vehicle insurance, and motor vehicle licenses.
Affordability: Transportation – Total (Renters)
Affordability: Transportation – Gas Tax (Homeowners)
Source: American Petroleum Institute
As of July 2019, California had the highest gasoline tax at $0.7960 per gallon (federal and state taxes). Although not included as a separate fuel, California also had the highest diesel tax at $1.1133 a gallon.
Total annual cost for fuel taxes was estimated using the annual gallons of gasoline used by each household type, as detailed under the Fuel methodology. Applicable federal, state, and local taxes by state are from the July reports each year from American Petroleum Institute. The value for each of the California geographies uses the state average and is not adjusted for any differences in sales tax rates.
Affordability: Transportation – Gas Tax (Renters)
Affordability: Transportation – Gasoline (Homeowners)
Source: US Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Throughout 2018, California had the highest or second highest price among the states for gasoline and diesel. While some of the factors producing these price levels are a result of higher general operating costs in California for production, transport, and retail sale of these fuels, others are attributable to several California-only conditions. California has its own regulations for the formulation of these fuels, and the costs to produce to these regulations are higher. The regulations also have changed frequently over time, leading to additional production cost components. As of July 2019, California had the highest gasoline tax at $0.7960 per gallon (federal and state taxes). Additional costs have also come increasingly from the state climate change program, including Cap and Trade fees on both the production and use of fuels as well as production-specific regulations such as the Low Carbon Fuel Standard.
California fuel prices are more volatile than in other states. Because of the state’s regulations on fuel production, there have been limited and in some years no alternative sources for compliant fuels and blending components, essentially isolating the state from all other fuel markets. Any disruptions at the state’s refineries—which have been more likely during the biannual refinery changeovers between the winter and summer fuel formulations—have often led to supply disruptions and consequent price increases.
Fuel costs are based on annual vehicle miles traveled using data from the 2009 and 2017 National Household Travel Surveys under US Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics. The estimates come from average vehicle miles traveled per driver by tenure (owner occupied and renter occupied) and income class by state, and then are applied to the average household income by tenure estimated for each state. In cases where the miles data point is not available or a clear outlier, the state-wide average was used instead. The 2009 Survey is used for 2005-2012 to reach the mid point between the two survey periods. The 2017 results are used for 2013 to the most current year.
Using two drivers per household and the assumption that the second vehicle is driven half as much as the first, total number of gallons of gasoline annually were calculated using the national average of fuel efficiency for existing US light duty vehicles from US Department of Transportation. This data generally has a three-year lag, and updates to the most recent year were based on the average value of the two most recent available years, an approach which currently reflects the growing consumer preference for light trucks that accelerated after 2016. While California is the only state with a significant component of zero emission vehicles in its fleet, no adjustments have yet been made due to: (1) low overall penetration to date into the total California fleet, (2) results of studies indicating that many of the battery electric vehicles continue to be driven primarily as other than the main commuting vehicle, and (3) two-thirds of “zero emission vehicles” sold in the state to date are actually combustion-electric hybrids. This factor will be revisited as appropriate in future updates.
Total annual fuel costs were then calculated using the average annual price per gallon for each state from GasBuddy.com data, adjusted to be net of applicable federal, state, and local taxes.
Affordability: Transportation – Gasoline (Renters)
Affordability: Transportation – Insurance (Homeowners)
Source: Zebra’s State of Auto Insurance Reports
The factors going into insurance costs varies widely by state. Regulation of prices and the price factors insurance providers are able to consider is also different in every case.
Vehicle Insurance costs are developed from data obtained from Zebra’s State of Auto Insurance Reports (https://www.thezebra.com/), using the average rates published for each state and for the California geographies, averages based on the Zebra zip code data weighted by population. The costs assume two vehicles per household, with a 20% multiple vehicle discount for the second one. Data is available through the current year. However, the data is only available beginning in 2011, and transportation costs calculated in the years prior to that include only the fuel cost component.
Affordability: Transportation – Insurance (Renters)
Affordability: Tax Burden – Total (Homeowners)
Source: US Census Bureau State & Local Government Finance report
Tax incidence theory concludes that ultimately, consumers and workers bear the cost of all or most of taxes, both as a result of taxes levied directly on them along with taxes they pay indirectly as business taxes are passed on to them through higher prices, lower wages, or fewer working hours. An awareness that these business costs get passed on to consumers is particularly evident among lower income workers. In surveys done for the Center’s recent Jobs, Poverty and Upward Mobility project, nearly two-thirds of low income Californians agreed that a higher minimum wage would help workers like themselves, but a higher share at three-fourths believed higher minimum wage leads to higher prices.
According to Tax Foundation data, California had the 8th highest state tax collections per capita in 2017, at $3,936 per person or $15,744 for a family of four. In 2016, California also ranked 8th highest for combined state and local tax collections per person at $6,077 per person, or $24,308 for a family of four.
Tax Burden cost in the Index is the sum of taxes and fees paid by household, calculated separately for owner-occupied and renter-occupied households. Federal income, state personal income, and FICA taxes are calculated through the TAXSIM application available through the National Bureau of Economic Research (https://users.nber.org/~taxsim/taxsim27/). Rather than general comparisons based on total tax revenues, this approach allows for detailed consideration of tax brackets, credits, and exemption policies incorporated into the different federal and Sales Tax state tax codes over time. Federal income taxes are included to incorporate the interplay of exemptions for local taxes and mortgage interest. FICA, which does not vary among the states, is included to ensure the indicator assesses the full tax burden on households. The total tax burden also includes property tax, sales tax, and fees and other taxes with the property tax component included in both Housing Cost and Tax Burden. This duplication is netted out in the overall Gap values.
The tax calculations are current through the most recent year, but rely on the estimates as discussed under the individual components as inputs.
Affordability: Tax Burden – Total (Renters)
Affordability: Tax Burden – Federal Income Tax (Homeowners)
Source: NBER, TAXSIM.
Federal Personal Income Tax is calculated through TAXSIM. The primary change affecting differences among the states is the federal tax reform components that were effective for the 2018 amounts. These effects vary widely by state, but the results for California can be illustrated by comparing the calculated tax bills for 2017 and 2018 using the assumptions below and the 2018 amounts including keeping income ($133,400 for homeowners in both years and $72,900 for renters) the same. From this comparison, the average owner-occupied household in California saw their federal tax bill drop $1,810 as a result of the federal changes, and the average renter-occupied household saw a drop of $2,180.
The TAXSIM application was run based on the following assumptions to ensure a like-for-like comparison between the states: joint filing by a household composed of two adults aged 30 with two children under 17, average income for owner and renter households taken as the estimate in each jurisdiction, total income coming solely from wages split equally between the two adults, no childcare expenses, mortgage interest for homeowner households estimated by assuming an average mortgage age of 7 years for the amounts shown under Housing Cost, property tax for homeowner households taken from the estimated average property tax for each area, and rent for renter households taken from the estimated average for each area as calculated under the Housing Cost category. These last three components were included to incorporate tax effects from the relevant deductions and to reflect state income tax policies on property tax rebates for renters.
Affordability: Tax Burden – Federal Income Tax (Renters)
Affordability: Tax Burden – Fees (Homeowners)
Source: US Federation of Tax Administrators
A growing component of the total tax burden on households comes from fees and other taxes collected by states and a wide array of local governments. At the state level in California, the primary budget focus is always the General Fund which is supported primarily by Personal Income Tax, Sales Tax, Corporation Income Tax, and Insurance Tax. In 2018-19, the General Fund total amounted to $143 billion. But that same year, state fees and special taxes into the Special Funds were about another $63 billion, largely paid directly by households or indirectly as these costs were incorporated into prices for the affected goods and services. Local governments in California have a much higher reliance on similar fees and special taxes for their revenues.
The tax incidence—who actually pays in the end—of these fees and taxes is variable. A number are levied directly on individuals and households, and are paid by them as a result. Others are imposed on businesses, but vary in the extent to which they are then passed on to consumers and workers through higher prices and lower wages, shifted to capital, exported to other states and countries through sale of goods and services, or absorbed through lower profits. In California, some business fees are passed on directly to customers such as the cost of the state’s cap and trade system and fees on tires, mattresses, electronics, containers, and a growing array of other goods presumed to be used for recycling.
No good data exists that could be used to break down this component by how much is paid directly by households vs. what is levied on business in every state. Consequently, this component takes a conservative approach that the total amount is levied on business. The amount passed onto workers and consumers through lower wages and higher prices is then estimated using the general share of existing business taxes shifted to labor and prices from a 2010 business tax incidence study prepared for US Federation of Tax Administrators.
Fees & Other Taxes per household is calculated using the Other Taxes and Other Current Charges revenues reported in the US Census Bureau State & Local Government Finance report, total for both state and local governments. Because these categories include gross revenue taxes levied by some states such as Texas and various cities to replace or supplement corporation income tax, Corporation Income Tax is included in this amount as well to provide a consistent comparison. The total is then adjusted for tax incidence as above and divided by the total number of households in each geographic area.
These amounts do not include proceeds from and public enterprise user charges such as parking fees and utility fees. They also do not include all business income taxes as fewer businesses are now organized as corporations, but instead as forms such as LLCs, partnerships, and sole proprietorships that are taxed on a pass-through basis under personal income tax. For example, in the latest data from the California Franchise Tax Board, those corporations reporting a profit in 2016 paid a total of $9.3 billion in income tax. The other business forms—as reported through business income, rents and royalties, partnerships and S-Corporations, and farms—paid an estimated net total of $17.4 billion through personal income taxes. Because data is not readily available for all the other states, this much larger component is not included.
The total amount of this component can also vary by where a household is located or where purchases are made within a state as the local level of fees and other charges can vary widely by state, county, city, and in some cases neighborhood as well.
The Census data is available by fiscal year, and is transformed into a calendar year basis by dividing the applicable fiscal year amounts by two. The information also is generally available with a 3-year lag. The estimates are updated in the first year using the growth rate in the applicable state-only portion available in the related Census Annual Survey of State Government reports. The remaining two years are estimated using a conservative estimate that total revenues grow at the same rate as inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index.
There is also some overlap between this component and the other Index categories. Some portion of fees and other taxes is already incorporated into Food (primary Food Away from Home), Housing, Healthcare, and Transportation. While these sectors do not constitute the full amounts paid, the overlap is significant enough that this component is adjusted from the total amounts used for the Gap calculations. This element is retained in the Tax portion of the Index to illustrate the total cost of taxes to the average household in each area.
Affordability: Tax Burden – Fees (Renters)
Affordability: Tax Burden – FICA Payroll Taxes (Homeowners)
Source: NBER, TAXSIM
FICA payroll taxes for Social Security and Medicare are calculated through TAXSIM using the assumptions described under Federal Personal Income Tax. Although not incorporated into the Index, employers pay an equal amount which forms a portion of total compensation paid as retirement benefits rather than directly as wages. Self-employed pay both the worker and employer shares, but are able to deduct the “employer” portion from their taxes to gain a partial offset.
Other state-specific payroll taxes such as California’s Unemployment Insurance (UI) Tax, Employment Training Tax (ETT), and State Disability Insurance (SDI) Tax are not included. These vary widely among the states, both in terms of tax rates and the income base to which they are applied
Affordability: Tax Burden – FICA Payroll Taxes (Renters)
Affordability: Tax Burden – Property Tax (Homeowners)
Source: American Community Survey PUMS
Average household Property Tax is calculated for each income band both from the American Community Survey tabulations and from the related PUMS data using the University of California, Berkeley SDA program available through IPUMS USA, University of Minnesota, www.ipums.org. The smaller county numbers are the averages from the encompassing Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMA). The legislative district estimates are an average of the component counties, weighted by owner households within each county portion.
The American Community Survey data is generally available with a 2-year lag. The most recent year numbers are estimated using the average growth rate over the prior two years.
The data used in this element is based on self-reported tax amounts from the survey respondents. Consequently, the amounts are likely the totals shown on the annual tax bills rather than just the amounts from the general property tax rate that is normally used in property tax comparisons. These bills in California include other local taxes on property including rates for voter-approved general obligation bonds, parcel taxes, and Mello-Roos rates. As such, this data incorporates all taxes on property rather than just the general rate information typically used from the Board of Equalization.
While the property tax component does not apply directly to renter occupied households, this tax on residential rental property is reflected in the average rents as an element of the cost of providing this type of housing.
Property Tax is also included under the Tax Burden category. The duplicative value for the homeowner’s portion is netted out in the totals used in the Gap calculations.
Affordability: Tax Burden – Property Tax (Renters)
Source: US Census Bureau State & Local Government Finance
Affordability: Tax Burden – Sales Tax (Homeowners)
According to Tax Foundation data, California has the highest state general tax rate at 7.25%. Including the average of local add-ons, California has the 9th highest combined state-local average tax rate of 8.56%.
Sales tax practices, however, also vary widely by state—including 5 states that have no sales tax—with a different array of goods and services subject to sales tax in each location with items such as food being treated as taxable depending on how and where they are offered by sale. Ranked by per capita sales tax collected, California ranks 29th.
Sales Tax per household is calculated using the General Sales Tax revenues reported in the annual US Census Bureau State & Local Government Finance report, total for both state and local governments, divided by the total number of households in each geographic area.
The Census data is available by fiscal year, and is transformed into a calendar year basis through a running average of the two applicable fiscal years. The information also is generally available with a 3-year lag. The estimates are updated in the first year using the growth rate in the applicable state-only portion available in the related Census Annual Survey of State Government reports. The remaining two years are estimated using a conservative estimate that total revenues grow at the same rate as inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index.
Not all sales tax is paid directly by households, with businesses also paying tax on some purchases as well. Which sales are taxable and what portion is paid directly by households varies widely state to state, but tax incidence theory indicates that consumers end up paying the full amount—both directly as they buy taxable goods and services and indirectly as the amount paid by businesses on intermediate goods and services is embedded in the final product. However, at least a portion of the indirect amount is shifted out of state through sales to other states and countries. While the results will differ by state and year, a general adjustment factor was developed using 2017 data for California. The portion of these taxes exported through out of state sales was estimated using estimates of the state’s good and services exports in 2014 compared to total state GDP.
The total amount of annual sales tax paid can also vary by where a household is located or where purchases are made within a state as local add-on rates may be different. As of April 2019, total sales tax rates in California ranged from 7.25% to 10.50%. The state average, however, is used for all areas within the state.
There is also some overlap between this component and the other Index categories. Some portion of sales tax is already incorporated into Food (primarily Food Away from Home), Transportation, and Healthcare. While these sectors do not constitute the full amounts paid, the overlap is significant enough that this component is adjusted from the total amounts used for the Gap calculations. This element is retained in the Tax portion of the Index to illustrate the total cost of taxes to the average household in each area.
Affordability: Tax Burden – Sales Tax (Renters)
Affordability: Tax Burden – State Income Tax (Homeowners)
According to Tax Foundation data, California has the highest state personal income tax rate at 13.3%, while seven states do not impose this tax. The steeply progressive nature of California’s tax system, however, affects the results at different income levels if ranking is instead done by the amount of state tax paid.
State Personal Income Tax is calculated through TAXSIM using the assumptions described under Federal Income Tax.
Affordability: Tax Burden – State Income Tax (Renters)
Affordability: Taxes – Motor Vehicle Licenses (Homeowners)
Motor Vehicle Licenses per household is calculated using the reported revenues in the US Census Bureau State & Local Government Finance report, total for both state and local governments, divided by the total number of households in each geography. To estimate the portion paid by households rather than businesses, the totals are adjusted based on the share of commercial vs. other vehicles in California.
The Census data is available by fiscal year, and is transformed into a calendar year basis by dividing the applicable fiscal year amounts by two.The information also is generally available with a 3-year lag. The estimates are updated in the first year using the growth rate in the applicable state-only portion available in the related Census Annual Survey of State Government reports. The remaining two years are estimated using a conservative estimate that total revenues grow at the same rate as inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index.
This component is included under both Tax Burden and Transportation. The Tax Burden portion is netted out in the Total Necessities Costs and Cost Burden calculations to remove the duplication.
Affordability: Taxes – Motor Vehicle Licenses (Renters)
The Census data is available by fiscal year, and is transformed into a calendar year basis by dividing the applicable fiscal year amounts by two. The information also is generally available with a 3-year lag. The estimates are updated in the first year using the growth rate in the applicable state-only portion available in the related Census Annual Survey of State Government reports.The remaining two years are estimated using a conservative estimate that total revenues grow at the same rate as inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index.
Affordability: Healthcare – Total (Homeowners)
In 2017 in California, the American Community Survey shows 53.7% of the population had coverage through their employer, 16.6% Medicare or VA, 26.6% Medi-Cal and other means tested coverage, 12.6% by direct purchase private coverage (of which about a quarter was Medicare supplemental), and 7.2% were uninsured due to a variety of factors including job transitioning, employer insurance vesting periods, cost/benefit considerations (especially for younger adults), overall cost, and immigration status. Note that these percentages are for persons covered alone or in combination by the various insurance sources and add to more than 100%.
The actual amount paid annually for healthcare will vary depending on the source of healthcare coverage.In the case of employer coverage, households generally pay only a portion if any of the amount out of pocket, but in essence cover the entire amount as health benefits are one of the primary components of total compensation, with this benefit being provided in lieu of a portion of wages beginning in California during World War II. Coverage of other types vary widely on out-of-pocket costs and the extent to which each type represents an addition to total household income as a government transfer payment.Payments for Medicare are dependent on income level and plan type. Private insurance purchased through Covered California varies by income and the availability of tax credits. Self-employed generally are eligible for tax deductions for family insurance coverage. Finally, co-pays and annual deductibles vary widely by plan and by state, with a general trade-off between the plan cost and the amount of the deductible. This variability, however, is captured by using average out-of-pocket costs.
The Healthcare cost category in the Index is the total of the amount paid annually by households for health insurance, medical services (including co-pays and deductibles), prescription and over-the-counter drugs, and medical supplies. Data is from US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Expenditure Survey, using the percentage of income before taxes allocated to Healthcare by income group adjusted to a four-person household. Data for each state is taken from the applicable geographic Division region (Northeast, South, Midwest, West).
The core data is generally available with a two-year lag. The most recent year estimates were calculated using the Medical Care component of the consumer price index for each applicable region Division.
The use of Consumer Expenditure Survey data produces results that are more variable over time, similar to those for the Food component of the Index. While factors affecting out-of-pocket healthcare expenses also are highly variable over time, the same data smoothing methods as for Food were used to provide more consistent results across time and geographies.
Affordability: Healthcare – Total (Renters)
Affordability: Food – Total (Homeowners)
Prices for food prepared at home—such as food bought at grocery stores—in general have been stable or in some cases declined in recent years in California and other parts of the country. Prices for food prepared away from home—such as take-out and restaurant food—in contrast have grown rapidly as a result of higher costs for labor, taxes and fees, rent, energy, and other non-food components that go into preparing these products for sale to consumers.Food away from home, however, has become a growing component of the food budget for those consumers, especially lower income consumers, who now spend increasing portions of their day commuting as they have been forced further away from job centers in the search for housing they can afford.
The Food cost category in the Index is the total of the amount paid annually for food prepared at home and for take-out/restaurant food prepared away from home. Data is taken from US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Expenditure Survey, using the percentage of income before taxes allocated to each food component by income group adjusted to a four-person household. Data for each state is taken from the applicable geographic Division region (Northeast, South, Midwest, West).
The core data is generally available with a two-year lag. The most recent year estimates were calculated using the Food at Home and Food Away from Home components of the consumer price index for each applicable region Division, and for California geographies using the comparable indicators for California available in the Center’s Indicators.
Use of this data source produced data results that are far more variable than in the other components of the Index, in particular for states in the South, the smaller geographies, and for geographies where the average income is close to an income band endpoint rather than in the center. Results using the most recent year surveys, however, are more consistent.Data smoothing tools including use of 5-year averages were used to produce consistent results overall.
Affordability: Food – Total (Renters)
Affordability: Food – At Home (Homeowners)
Affordability: Food – At Home (Renters)
Affordability: Food – Away from Home (Homeowners)
Affordability: Food – Away from Home (Renters)
Housing: Percent Cost Burdened (ACS 1yr)
Percent of rented units paying gross rent that is 30% or more of total income.
Data is for percentage of units where the ratio can be calculated. ACS data is comparable across the same data series: 1-year survey results (data from the year indicated) or 5-year (data compiled from the year indicated and prior 4 years).
Housing: Percent Severely Cost Burdened (ACS 1yr)
Regional data is based on states for which data is available. ACS data is comparable across the same data series: 1-year survey results (data from the year indicated) or 5-year (data compiled from the year indicated and prior 4 years).
Affordability: Transportation – Licenses (Homeowners)
Motor Vehicle Licenses per household is calculated using the reported revenues in the US Census Bureau State & Local Government Finance report, total for both state and local governments, divided by the total number of households in each geography.
Affordability: Transportation – Licenses (Renters)
Average Residential Electricity Bill
Average electricity bill is calculated from total sales and total customers for the residential end user sector. To provide a consistent comparison basis, the monthly entries are derived from a 12-month moving total.
Electricity Price Residential
Electricity prices are shown as the average price in cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) for all electric industry providers for the residential end-use sector. To provide a consistent comparison basis, prices are shown as a 12-month moving average.
Natural Gas Price Residential
Natural gas prices are shown as the average price in dollars per thousand cubic feet (tcf) for all natural gas delivered to industrial end-use sector. To provide a consistent comparison basis, prices are shown as a 12-month moving average. Monthly data is updated on or around the 5th of the 3rd following month. Monthly data is subject to annual revisions.
Electricity Use per Household
Energy Production: Non-CO2
Share of electricity generation from renewable and sources producing no carbon dioxide emissions: geothermal, solar, wind, wood and wood derived fuel, other biomass, conventional hydroelectric, nuclear, and net production from pumped storage.
Data generally update Oct/Nov. Data based on generation within each state and does not include imports from other states. For example, in 2016, California imported 32% of its electricity, of which only one-third was from identifiable non-CO2 producing sources. This generation is assigned to the states in which it was produced and not applied to California’s total.
Energy Production: Solar & Wind
Total electricity generation (thousand megawatt-hours) from utility-scale solar and wind. Preliminary data available monthly, with final annual data generally having a 2-year lag. Data based on generation within each state and does not include imports from other states. Currently, distributed generation (i.e., thermal and photovoltaic solar panels) is only in the monthly data beginning 2015.
Energy Related CO2 Emissions: Total
Total CO2 emissions cover direct fuel use across all sectors along with fuels used for electric generation allocated based on the location where fuels are consumed. For feedstock applications such as plastics, carbon stored in products is subtracted from emissions in the states where they are produced. Biomass is treated as carbon neutral. The data covers over 80% of total CO2 emissions in the US.
Counts emissions based on where energy is used. For example, California imported about a third of its electricity in 2016, but the associated emissions are counted in the state of production rather than California.
Population 16 and Over Share: Age 16-19 (ACS 1yr)
Percentage of persons age 16-19 within the population age 16 and over
American Community Survey, 1 year survey results.
ACS 1-year survey results are not directly comparable with the 5-year results.
Percentage of persons age 16-19 within the population age 16 and over.
Population 16 and Over Share: Age 65+ (ACS 1yr)
Percentage of persons age 65 and over within the population age 16 and over.
Population 16 and Over Share: Men (ACS 1yr)
Percentage of men within the population age 16 and over.
Population 16 and Over Share: Women (ACS 1yr)
Percentage of women within the population age 16 and over.
Employed Share: Latino (ACS 1yr)
Share of total number of employed of Latino ethnicity.
Employed Share: Other-Non Latino (ACS 1yr)
Share of total number of employed of all other races including unknown, Non-Latino.
Employed Share: White-Non Latino (ACS 1yr)
Share of total number of employed who are White, Non-Latino.
Employed Share: Asian (ACS 1yr)
Share of total number of employed, Asian or Pacific Islander.
Employed Share: White (ACS 1yr)
Share of total number of employed, White.
Employed Share: Black (ACS 1yr)
Share of total number of employed, Black or African-American.
Employed Share: Other (ACS 1yr)
Share of total number of employed, all other races including unknown.
Labor Force Share: Latino (ACS 1yr)
Share of labor force of Latino ethnicity.
Labor Force Share: Other-Non Latino (ACS 1yr)
Share of labor force of all other races including unknown, Non-Latino.
Labor Force Share: White-Non Latino (ACS 1yr)
Share of labor force who are White, Non-Latino.
Labor Force Share: Asian (ACS 1yr)
Share of labor force, Asian or Pacific Islander.
Labor Force Share: Black (ACS 1yr)
Share of labor force, Black or African-American.
Labor Force Share: Other (ACS 1yr)
Share of labor force, all other races including unknown.
Labor Force Share: White (ACS 1yr)
Share of labor force, White.
Population 16 and Over Share: Latino (ACS 1yr)
Share of working age population 16 and older of Latino ethnicity.
Population 16 and Over Share: Other-Non Latino (ACS 1yr)
Share of working age population 16 and older of all other races including unknown, Non-Latino.
Population 16 and Over Share: White-Non Latino (ACS 1yr)
Share of working age population 16 and older who are White, Non-Latino.
Population 16 and Over Share: Asian (ACS 1yr)
Share of working age population 16 and older, Asian or Pacific Islander.
Population 16 and Over Share: Black (ACS 1yr)
Share of working age population 16 and older, Black or African-American.
Population 16 and Over Share: White (ACS 1yr)
Share of working age population 16 and older, White.
Population 16 and Over Share: Other (ACS 1yr)
Share of working age population 16 and older, all other races including unknown.
Population 25-64 Share: Bachelor’s or Higher (ACS 1yr)
Source: American Community Survey, 1-year survey.
Share of working age population 25-64 with highest educational attainment of a BA or graduate/professional degree.
American Community Survey, 1-year survey.
Population 25-64 Share: Below High School (ACS 1yr)
Share of working age population 25-64 with highest educational attainment of below high school, no diploma.
Population 25-64 Share: High School Diploma (ACS 1yr)
Share of working age population 25-64 with highest educational attainment of a high school diploma, including GED or equivalent.
Population 25-64 Share: Some College (ACS 1yr)
Share of working age population 25-64 with highest educational attainment of some college including an AA degree.
Unemployed Share: Latino (ACS 1yr)
Share of total number of unemployed of Latino ethnicity.
Unemployed Share: Other-Non Latino (ACS 1yr)
Share of total number of unemployed of all other races including unknown, Non-Latino.
Unemployed Share: White-Non Latino (ACS 1yr)
Share of total number of unemployed who are White, Non-Latino.
Unemployed Share: Asian (ACS 1yr)
Share of total number of unemployed, Asian or Pacific Islander.
Unemployed Share: White (ACS 1yr)
Share of total number of unemployed, White.
Unemployed Share: Black (ACS 1yr)
Share of total number of unemployed, Black or African-American.
Unemployed Share: Other (ACS 1yr)
Share of total number of unemployed, all other races including unknown.
Employed (Seasonally Adjusted)
Includes all individuals who worked at least one hour for a wage or salary, self-employed, or working at least 15 unpaid hours in a family business or on a family farm. Those who on vacation, on other kinds of leave, or involved in a labor dispute, are also counted as employed. Seasonally adjusted.
JOLTS: Job Openings Rate
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, https://www.bls.gov/jlt/jlt_statedata.htm
The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) provides indicators of the underlying dynamics in the labor market, including the extent to which the state economies are moving towards a labor surplus (recession) or labor/skills shortage. Job Openings covers all Nonfarm job vacancies remaining at the end of each month, excluding those that will be filled internally, through layoff recalls, or means such as temp agencies or contractors. The rate is calculated by dividing the number of job openings by the sum of Nonfarm employment and Job Openings for each month.
JOLTS: Hiring Rate
The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) provides indicators of the underlying dynamics in the labor market, including the extent to which the state economies are moving towards a labor surplus (recession) or labor/skills shortage. Job Hires covers the number of hires at any time within a month regardless of work status, excluding those filled internally, through layoff recalls, or means such as temp agencies or contractors. Job Hiring Rate is calculated by dividing the number of Job Hires by Nonfarm employment for each month.
JOLTS: Quit Rate
The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) provides indicators of the underlying dynamics in the labor market, including the extent to which the state economies are moving towards a labor surplus (recession) or labor/skills shortage. Job Quits are voluntary separations at any time within a month regardless of work status, excluding those as a result of internal shifts, layoff recalls, or means such as temp agencies or contractors. Job Quits Rate is calculated by dividing the number of Job Quits by Nonfarm employment for each month.
JOLTS: Layoffs & Discharges Rate
The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) provides indicators of the underlying dynamics in the labor market, including the extent to which the state economies are moving towards a labor surplus (recession) or labor/skills shortage. Job Layoffs & Discharges are involuntary separations at any time within a month regardless of work status, excluding those as a result of internal shifts, layoff recalls, or means such as temp agencies or contractors. Job Layoffs & Discharges Rate is calculated by dividing the number of Job Layoffs & Discharges by Nonfarm employment for each month.
JOLTS: Total Separations Rate
The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) provides indicators of the underlying dynamics in the labor market, including the extent to which the state economies are moving towards a labor surplus (recession) or labor/skills shortage. Total Job Separations cover Quits, Layoffs & Discharges, and Other Separations as a result of retirements, transfers to other locations, deaths, and disability. Jobs Total Separations Rate is calculated by dividing the number of Job Total Separations by Nonfarm employment for each month.
JOLTS: Number of Unemployed per Job Opening
The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) provides indicators of the underlying dynamics in the labor market, including the extent to which the state economies are moving towards a labor surplus (recession) or labor/skills shortage. Number of Unemployed per Job Opening is calculated by dividing the 3-month moving average of the total number of unemployed (seasonally adjusted) by total number of Job Openings in each month.
Employed (Not Seasonally Adjusted)
Includes all individuals who worked at least one hour for a wage or salary, self-employed, or working at least 15 unpaid hours in a family business or on a family farm. Those who on vacation, on other kinds of leave, or involved in a labor dispute, are also counted as employed. Not seasonally adjusted.
Employed Share: Age 16-19 (ACS 1yr)
Percentage of persons age 16-19 within the number of employed, civilian labor force.
Employed Share: Bachelor’s or Higher (ACS 1yr)
Share of total number of employed age 25-64 with highest educational attainment of a BA or graduate/professional degree.
Employed Share: Below High School (ACS 1yr)
Share of total number of employed age 25-64 with highest educational attainment of below high school, no diploma.
Employed Share: High School Diploma (ACS 1yr)
Share of total number of employed age 25-64 with highest educational attainment of a high school diploma, including GED or equivalent.
Employed Share: Men (ACS 1yr)
Percentage of men within the number of employed, civilian labor force.
Employed Share: Some College (ACS 1yr)
Share of total number of employed age 25-64 with highest educational attainment of some college including an AA degree.
Employed Share: Women (ACS 1yr)
Percentage of women within the number of employed, civilian labor force.
Labor Force Share: Bachelor’s or Higher (ACS 1yr)
Share of labor force age 25-64 with highest educational attainment of a BA or graduate/professional degree.
Labor Force Share: Below High School (ACS 1yr)
Share of labor force age 25-64 with highest educational attainment of below high school, no diploma.
Labor Force Share: High School Diploma (ACS 1yr)
Share of labor force age 25-64 with highest educational attainment of a high school diploma, including GED or equivalent.
Labor Force Share: Men (ACS 1yr)
Percentage of men within the civilian labor force.
Labor Force Share: Some College (ACS 1yr)
Share of labor force age 25-64 with highest educational attainment of some college including an AA degree.
Labor Force Share: Women (ACS 1yr)
Percentage of women within the civilian labor force.
Unemployed (Not Seasonally Adjusted)
Individuals who are not working but are able, available, and actively looking for work. Individuals who are waiting to be recalled from a layoff, and individuals waiting to report to a new job within 30 days are also considered to be unemployed. Data for Assembly. Senate, and Congressional Districts are estimated using the LAUS Census Share methodology using data from the 5-year American Community Survey (ACS) estimates. This approach assumes that the rates of change for employment and unemployment within the larger geographic area are the same as those within the smaller geographic area being estimated. Not seasonally adjusted.
Unemployed (Seasonally Adjusted)
Individuals who are not working but are able, available, and actively looking for work. Individuals who are waiting to be recalled from a layoff, and individuals waiting to report to a new job within 30 days are also considered to be unemployed. Seasonally adjusted. Data is preliminary and revised in the subsequent month. Multiple years are subject to change in the annual revisions. Release schedule: https://www.bls.gov/schedule/news_release/laus.htm
Unemployed Share: Bachelor’s or Higher (ACS 1yr)
Share of total number of unemployed age 25-64 with highest educational attainment of a BA or graduate/professional degree.
Share of total number of unemployed age 25-64 with highest educational attainment of a BA or graduate/professional degree
Unemployed Share: Below High School (ACS 1yr)
Share of total number of unemployed age 25-64 with highest educational attainment of below high school, no diploma.
Unemployed Share: High School Diploma (ACS 1yr)
Share of total number of unemployed age 25-64 with highest educational attainment of a high school diploma, including GED or equivalent.
Unemployed Share: Men (ACS 1yr)
Percentage of men within the number of unemployed, civilian labor force.
Unemployed Share: Some College (ACS 1yr)
Share of total number of unemployed age 25-64 with highest educational attainment of some college including an AA degree.
Unemployed Share: Women (ACS 1yr)
Percentage of women within the number of unemployed, civilian labor force.
Source: American Community Survey,
Employed Share: Age 65+ (ACS 1yr)
Percentage of persons age 65 and over within the number of employed, civilian labor force.
Labor Force Share: Age 16-19 (ACS 1yr)
Percentage of persons age 16-19 within the civilian labor force.
Labor Force Share: Age 65+ (ACS 1yr)
Source: American Community Survey, 1-year survey
Percentage of persons age 65 and over within the civilian labor force.
Unemployed Share: Age 16-19 (ACS 1yr)
Percentage of persons age 16-19 within the number of unemployed, civilian labor force.
Percentage of persons age 25-54 within the number of unemployed, civilian labor force
Unemployed Share: Age 65+ (ACS 5yr)
Percentage of persons age 65 and over within the number of unemployed, civilian labor force.
Workforce Preparedness
8th Grade Math: Total
Source: National Center for Education Statistics
Percent of all 8th grade students testing at the proficient level or above on the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) test.
8th Grade Math: White
Percent of white, non-Latino 8th grade students testing at the proficient level or above on the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) test.
8th Grade Math: Latino
Percent of Latino 8th grade students testing at the proficient level or above on the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) test.
8th Grade Math: Black
Percent of Black/African-American, non-Latino 8th grade students testing at the proficient level or above on the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) test.
8th Grade Math: Asian-Pacific Islander
Percent of Asian/Pacific Islander, non-Latino 8th grade students testing at the proficient level or above on the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) test.
8th Grade Reading: Total
https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/data_tools.aspx#
Ethnicity/race is from “race used for trends, school reported” categorization. Regional data is from available state results.
8th Grade Reading: White
8th Grade Reading: Latino
8th Grade Reading: Black
8th Grade Reading: Asian-Pacific Islander
8th Grade Science: Total
Ethnicity/race is from “race used for trends, school reported” categorization. Proficiency is based on the 2009 Science Standards. Regional data is from available state results.
8th Grade Science: White
8th Grade Science: Latino
8th Grade Science: Black
8th Grade Science: Asian-Pacific Islander
STEM Employment
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment Statistics
Number of persons employed in a Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) occupation, as an indicator of high tech employment within each geographic area.
Occupational Employment Statistics, https://www.bls.gov/oes/additional.htm
Data is derived from occupational employment data in each May.
STEM Share of Total Employment
Percentage of total employment employed in a Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) occupation, as an indicator of high tech employment within each geographic area.
STEM Average Hourly Wage
Average hourly wage of persons employed in a Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) occupation, as an indicator of high tech employment within each geographic area.
Graduate Students in Engineering/Science: Citizens & Permanent Residents
Source: National Science Foundation
Number of graduate students (citizens and permanent residents) pursuing a degree in engineering or science. Indicator of high tech workforce development for the state and US economies.
https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/webcaspar/index.jsp?subHeader=WebCASPARHome.
Graduate Students in Engineering/Science: Temporary Residents
Number of graduate students (temporary residents) pursuing a degree in engineering or science. Indicator of extent to which geographic area’s higher education institutions are serving an export earnings vs. workforce development role.
https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/webcaspar/index.jsp?subHeader=WebCASPARHome
Graduate Students in Engineering/Science: Total
Number of all graduate students pursuing a degree in engineering or science.
Postsecondary Enrollment: White
Source: National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics
Fall enrollment of white, non-Latino students in degree-granting institutions (associate’s or higher degree) participating in Title IV federal financial aid programs. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/
Postsecondary Enrollment: Latino
Fall enrollment of Latino students in degree-granting institutions (associate’s or higher degree) participating in Title IV federal financial aid programs. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/
Postsecondary Enrollment: Black
Fall enrollment of Black/African-American, non-Latino students in degree-granting institutions (associate’s or higher degree) participating in Title IV federal financial aid programs. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/
Postsecondary Enrollment: Asian-Pacific Islander
Fall enrollment of Asian/Pacific Islander, non-Latino students in degree-granting institutions (associate’s or higher degree) participating in Title IV federal financial aid programs. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/
K-12 Grade Level: English – English Learners
Source: Department of Education
For years 2013 and prior, percent of students classified as English Learners in grades 2-11 testing at the proficient level or above on the California Standards Test (CST). For years 2015 and after, comparable metric for students in grades 3-11 testing at the proficient level or above on the Smarter Balanced Assessment System. No test was given in 2014.
K-12 Grade Level: English – Socioeconomically Disadvantaged
For years 2013 and prior, percent of students classified as socially disadvantaged in grades 2-11 testing at the proficient level or above on the California Standards Test (CST). For years 2015 and after, comparable metric for students in grades 3-11 testing at the proficient level or above on the Smarter Balanced Assessment System. No test was given in 2014.
K-12 Grade Level: Math – Total
For years 2013 and prior, percent of all students in grades 2-11 testing at the proficient level or above on the California Standards Test (CST). For years 2015 and after, comparable metric for students in grades 3-11 testing at the proficient level or above on the Smarter Balanced Assessment System. No test was given in 2014.
High School Dropout Rate: English Learners
Percent of the class cohort dropping out of school prior to graduation from high school for students classified as English Learners. Class cohorts are students who entered as freshman during one academic year who are tracked over four years until graduation.
High School Dropout Rate: Socioeconomically Disadvantaged
Percent of the class cohort dropping out of school prior to graduation from high school for all students classified as socially disadvantaged. Class cohorts are students who entered as freshman during one academic year who are tracked over four years until graduation.
K-12 Grade Level: Math – English Learners
UC/CSU Eligible Graduates: Total
Source: California Department of Education
Percentage of high school graduates completing the A-G courses required for application to UC and CSU.
UC/CSU Eligible Graduates: Female
Percentage of female high school graduates completing the A-G courses required for application to UC and CSU.
UC/CSU Eligible Graduates: Male
Percentage of male high school graduates completing the A-G courses required for application to UC and CSU.
UC/CSU Eligible Graduates: Latino
Percentage of Latino high school graduates completing the A-G courses required for application to UC and CSU.
UC/CSU Eligible Graduates: White
Percentage of White, non-Latino high school graduates completing the A-G courses required for application to UC and CSU.
UC/CSU Eligible Graduates: Asian/PI
Percentage of Asian & Pacific Islander, non-Latino high school graduates completing the A-G courses required for application to UC and CSU.
UC/CSU Eligible Graduates: Black
Percentage of Black/African American, non-Latino high school graduates completing the A-G courses required for application to UC and CSU.
UC/CSU Eligible Graduates: SDA
Percentage of socioeconomically disadvantaged high school graduates completing the A-G courses required for application to UC and CSU.
Age 25+ Share: Bachelor’s or Higher (ACS 1yr)
For persons age 25 and over, percentage with highest educational attainment of a bachelor’s, graduate, or professional degree.
Age 25+ Share: Below High School (ACS 1yr)
For persons age 25 and over, percentage with highest educational attainment of less than a high school diploma.
Age 25+ Share: High School (ACS 1yr)
For persons age 25 and over, percentage with highest educational attainment of a high school diploma or equivalent (e.g., GED).
Age 25+ Share: Some College (ACS 1yr)
For persons age 25 and over, percentage with highest educational attainment of some college but no degree.
High School Dropout Rate: Asian
Percent of the class cohort dropping out of school prior to graduation from high school for Asian students. Class cohorts are students who entered as freshman during one academic year who are tracked over four years until graduation.
High School Dropout Rate: Black
Percent of the class cohort dropping out of school prior to graduation from high school for Black/African-American students. Class cohorts are students who entered as freshman during one academic year who are tracked over four years until graduation.
High School Dropout Rate: Latino
Percent of the class cohort dropping out of school prior to graduation from high school for Latino students. Class cohorts are students who entered as freshman during one academic year who are tracked over four years until graduation.
High School Dropout Rate: Total
Percent of the class cohort dropping out of school prior to graduation from high school for all students. Class cohorts are students who entered as freshman during one academic year who are tracked over four years until graduation.
High School Dropout Rate: White
Percent of the class cohort dropping out of school prior to graduation from high school for white students. Class cohorts are students who entered as freshman during one academic year who are tracked over four years until graduation.
K-12 Grade Level: English – Asian
For years 2013 and prior, percent of Asian students in grades 2-11 testing at the proficient level or above on the California Standards Test (CST). For years 2015 and after, comparable metric for students in grades 3-11 testing at the proficient level or above on the Smarter Balanced Assessment System. No test was given in 2014.
K-12 Grade Level: English – Black
For years 2013 and prior, percent of Black/African-American students in grades 2-11 testing at the proficient level or above on the California Standards Test (CST). For years 2015 and after, comparable metric for students in grades 3-11 testing at the proficient level or above on the Smarter Balanced Assessment System. No test was given in 2014.
K-12 Grade Level: English – Latino
For years 2013 and prior, percent of Latino students in grades 2-11 testing at the proficient level or above on the California Standards Test (CST). For years 2015 and after, comparable metric for students in grades 3-11 testing at the proficient level or above on the Smarter Balanced Assessment System. No test was given in 2014.
K-12 Grade Level: English – Total
K-12 Grade Level: English – White
For years 2013 and prior, percent of white students in grades 2-11 testing at the proficient level or above on the California Standards Test (CST). For years 2015 and after, comparable metric for students in grades 3-11 testing at the proficient level or above on the Smarter Balanced Assessment System. No test was given in 2014.
K-12 Grade Level: Math – Asian
K-12 Grade Level: Math – Black
K-12 Grade Level: Math – Latino
K-12 Grade Level: Math – Socioeconomically Disadvantaged
K-12 Grade Level: Math – White
Public Transit: Unlinked Passenger Miles
Source: US Department of Transportation
Number of persons who board public transportation vehicles, counted each time they board regardless of how many boardings occur while traveling from origin to final destination.
Commuting: Carpooling (ACS 1yr)
Percentage of commuters carpooling as their principal means of commuting.
Commuting: Other (ACS 1yr)
Percentage of commuters walking, biking, or using other means as their principal means of commuting.
Commuting: Public Transit (ACS 1yr)
Percentage of commuters using public transit as their principal means of commuting.
Commuting: Travel Time to Work (ACS 1yr)
Percentage of commuters spending 30 minutes or more commuting (one way).
Commuting: Using Single Occupant Vehicle (ACS 1yr)
Percentage of commuters driving alone as their principal means of commuting.
Commuting: Work from Home (ACS 1yr)
Percentage of commuters working at home.
Housing: Percent Overcrowded (ACS 1yr)
Percentage of all units with 1 or more persons per room.
Housing: Percent Overcrowded, Asian (ACS 1yr)
Percentage of units (Asian-Pacific Islander Householder) with 1 or more persons per room.
Housing: Percent Overcrowded, Black (ACS 1yr)
Percentage of units (Black/African-American Householder) with 1 or more persons per room.
Housing: Percent Overcrowded, Latino (ACS 1yr)
Percentage of units (Latino Householder) with 1 or more persons per room.
Housing: Percent Overcrowded, White (ACS 1yr)
Percentage of units (White, Non-Latino Householder) with 1 or more persons per room.
Housing: Percent Owner-Occupied (ACS 1yr)
Percentage of all units that are owner-occupied.
Housing: Percent Owner-Occupied, Asian (ACS 1yr)
Percentage of all units (Asian/Pacific Islander householder) that are owner-occupied.
Housing: Percent Owner-Occupied, Black (ACS 1yr)
Percentage of all units (Black/African-American householder) that are owner-occupied.
Housing: Percent Owner-Occupied, Latino (ACS 1yr)
Percentage of all units (Latino householder) that are owner-occupied.
Housing: Percent Owner-Occupied, White (ACS 1yr)
Percentage of all units (White, Non-Latino householder) that are owner-occupied.
Property Crime Rate
Source: US Department of Justice
Number of reported property crimes per 100,000 population.
Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics, http://www.ucrdatatool.gov/, https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s
Reporting coverage may vary in some years for some states.
Property Crime Total
Total number of reported property crimes.
Violent Crime Rate
Number of reported violent crimes per 100,000 population.
https://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/crime-statistics/. Crime rates are calculated using the most current Department of Finance population data.
Reporting coverage may vary in some years for some states. Due to the potential for much wider variability, crime rates are not typically calculated for the smaller counties, but are included in here for consistency.
Violent Crime Total
Total number of reported violent crimes.
https://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/crime-statistics/
Economic Disparity
Number Receiving Social Disability
Source: US Social Security Administration
Number of workers receiving payments from the Social Security Insurance Program (SDI) in December of each year. Data covers only workers, and not related beneficiaries such as children and spouses.
Data for legislative districts is estimated from the annual zip code. Congressional Districts data is from the SSA estimates for the years covering the current district designations. County and district beneficiaries cover those who can be assigned, and the totals may not equal the state numbers.
Annual Statistical Report on the Social Security Disability Insurance Program, https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/oasdi_sc/index.html.
Unemployment Rate U6
Alternative measure of labor utilization showing persons who are unemployed (the generally reported unemployment rate) plus all marginally attached worker and, total employed part time for economic reasons, divided by the civilian labor force plus all marginally attached workers.
Published quarterly solely from the Current Population Survey data. The core unemployment numbers, therefore, generally differ from the model-based estimates published monthly.
https://www.bls.gov/lau/stalt.htm
Part Time Employed for Economic Reasons
Percent of employed working part time for economic reasons—primarily the lack of full time work—calculated as a running 12-month average.
Data is analyzed consistent with previous US BLS publication, Geographic Profile of Employment & Unemployment.
Current Population Survey data analyzed through US Census Bureau DataFerret.
Part Time Employed
Percent of employed usually working part time, calculated as a running 12-month average.
Labor Force Participation Rate Total
Average annual labor force participation rate for all persons age 16 and older from the Current Population Survey data, as a benchmark for the demographic labor force data.
Data across race/ethnicity is not additive. Race categories may be of any ethnicity. Latinos may be of any race. Source data is from the Current Population Survey and may differ from the model-based labor force data reported by BLS.
Expanded State Labor force participation Status Demographic Data, https://www.bls.gov/lau/ex14tables.htm.
Per Capita Personal Income: Annual
Per capita annual personal income.
Data from BEA files. Per capita amounts for other indicators generally calculated using the appropriate population figure.
Per Capita Personal Income: Quarterly
Per capita quarterly personal income.
Number Receiving Food Stamps, County Data
Source: US Department of Commerce
Average number of persons receiving benefits from Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP/food stamps).
Average is determined as of July of each year. Some counties include imputed estimates.
https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/saipe/datasets/time-series/model-tables/
Number Receiving Food Stamps, State Data
Annual average calculated from the fiscal year monthly data.
https://www.fns.usda.gov/pd/supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap
Unemployment Rate Total
Average annual unemployment rate for all persons age 16 and older from the Current Population Survey data, as a benchmark for the demographic labor force data.
Poverty Rate: Official
Percentage of persons below the official poverty income threshold, which varies by family size and age.
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/saipe/data/tools.html
Income used to compute poverty status is before taxes and covers only Money Income, including earnings, unemployment compensation, workers’ compensation, Social Security, Supplemental Security Income, public assistance, veterans’ payments, survivor benefits, pension or retirement income, interest, dividends, rents, royalties, income from estates, trusts, educational assistance, alimony, child support, assistance from outside the household, and other miscellaneous sources. The income base does not include noncash benefits such as food stamps and housing subsidies, and does not include capital gains or losses.
Poverty Rate: Supplemental
Adjusts the official poverty rate for specified noncash assistance payments and state differences in specified expenses, primarily housing costs. State and regional estimates are 3-year moving averages.
State and regional estimates are 3-year moving averages.
https://www.census.gov/topics/income-poverty/supplemental-poverty-measure.html/
Unemployment Rate Youth
Average annual unemployment rate for persons age 16-19.
Labor Force Participation Rate Age 55-64
Average annual labor force participation rate for persons age 55-64.
Labor Force Participation Rate Over 65
Average annual labor force participation rate for persons age 65 and over.
Labor Force Participation Rate Youth
Unemployment Rate Age 55-64
Unemployment Rate Over 65
Average annual unemployment rate for persons age 65 and over.
Unemployment Rate Asian
Average annual unemployment rate for Asian, age 16 and over.
Unemployment Rate Black
Average annual unemployment rate for Black/African-American, age 16 and over.
Unemployment Rate Latino
Average annual unemployment rate for Latino, age 16 and over.
Labor Force Participation Rate Asian
Average annual labor force participation rate for Asian, age 16 and over.
Labor Force Participation Rate Black
Average annual labor force participation rate for Black/African-American, age 16 and over.
Labor Force Participation Rate Latino
Average annual labor force participation rate for Latino, age 16 and over.
Labor Force Participation Rate White
Average annual labor force participation rate for White, age 16 and over.
Unemployment Rate White
Average annual unemployment rate for White, age 16 and over.
Labor Force Participation Rate Married
Average annual labor force participation rate for persons who are married with spouse present, age 16 and over.
Labor Force Participation Rate Men
Average annual labor force participation rate for Men, age 16 and over.
Labor Force Participation Rate Unmarried
Average annual labor force participation rate for persons who are unmarried or married with spouse absent, age 16 and over.
Labor Force Participation Rate Women
Average annual labor force participation rate for Women, age 16 and over.
Unemployment Rate Married
Average annual unemployment rate for persons who are married with spouse present, age 16 and over.
Unemployment Rate Men
Average annual unemployment rate for Men, age 16 and over.
Unemployment Rate Unmarried
Average annual unemployment rate for persons who are unmarried or married with spouse absent, age 16 and over.
Unemployment Rate Women
Average annual unemployment rate for Women, age 16 and over.
Data is the equivalent annual average wage based on the reported quarterly average weekly wage.
Population, Labor Force and Unemployment
Population is calculated from the annual estimates from Census Bureau as of July 1 of each year.
Labor Force is the sum of civilian employment and civilian unemployment. (Seasonally Adjusted for US data; Not Seasonally Adjusted for CA data)
Unemployment is the number of unemployed as a percentage of the Labor Force. (Seasonally Adjusted for US data; Not Seasonally Adjusted for CA data)
The number of unemployed as a percentage of the Labor Force. (Seasonally Adjusted for US data; Not Seasonally Adjusted for CA data)
All data from American Community Survey, 1-year survey for the most current year for US data; 5-year survey for the most current year for California data. Data for race, ethnicity, age, and gender is for all persons age 16 and over. Data for educational attainment is for all persons age 25 to 64. Persons listed by race may be of any ethnicity. Persons listed by ethnicity may be of any race. Educational attainment is the highest level of education attained. High school diploma included GED or equivalent.
Data from most recent quarter from Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages. Annual average wage is the equivalent annual wage based on the reported weekly wage.
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Number of building permits for single family homes, from Census estimates with imputations for survey nonresponders.
Total number of residential units covered by building permits, from Census estimates with imputations for survey nonresponders.
Includes all individuals who worked at least one hour for a wage or salary, self-employed, or working at least 15 unpaid hours in a family business or on a family farm.
Quarterly count of wage and salary jobs from Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages.
Monthly estimate of wage and salary jobs from the Current Employment Survey.
The number within the Labor Force as a percentage of the total Noninstitutional Civilian Population.
Gross domestic product (GDP) is the measure of the market value of all final goods and services produced within an area, All Industry Total. GDP by state and county measures its "value added," equivalent to gross output (sales or receipts and other operating income, commodity taxes, and inventory change) minus intermediate inputs (consumption of goods and services purchased from other U.S. industries or imported).
Gross domestic product (GDP) is the measure of the market value of all final goods and services produced within an area, All Industry Total.
Sum of civilian employment and civilian unemployment.
Average barrels of oil produced per day, calculated as a running 12-month average.
Average natural gas production in million cubic feet produced per month, calculated as a running 12-month average.
As an indicator entrepreneurship and STEM activities, the number of US Utility Patents (inventions) issued by origin.
Number of US Utility Patents (inventions) issued to persons in other countries.
Share of total US exports of goods from within the geographic area, 12-month moving average, from Origin of Movement (NAICS) State Export Data.
Share of total US imports and exports of goods, 12-month moving average, as an indicator of the relative competitiveness of each state's ports and the related trade-movement jobs base.
Avg. Annual Wage
Equivalent annual average wage based on the reported average weekly wage from Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages.
Average annual compensation (wages and benefits) for private sector workers.
Number of individual physical locations reported by all firms from Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages.
Hourly Earnings
Monthly estimate of average hourly wage for wage and salary jobs from the Current Employment Survey
Monthly estimate of average weekly hours worked for wage and salary jobs from the Current Employment Survey.
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The failure of Italy’s Wind Jet could prove to be a windfall for Alitalia
The already extensive list of airlines that have folded in Europe this year has a new addition with Italy’s Wind Jet ceasing operations on 12-Aug-2012 after negotiations with Alitalia on the acquisition of the Sicily-based LCC broke down. The country’s Civil Aviation Authority, ENAC – Enta Nazionale Aviaziona Civile on 10-Aug-2012 threatened to revoke Wind Jet’s Air Operator's Certificate (AOC) as of 13-Aug-2012 in the wake of escalating flight delays and cancellations. ENAC also had instructed the financially struggling airline to hold off ticket sales and pay all outstanding bills of ground handling companies and service providers.
Wind Jet’s demise is occurring during Italy's peak summer holiday travel period, and it will provide Alitalia with an opportunity to enlarge its domestic market share organically and build its competitive muscle against the growing presence of no-frills operators. Wind Jet had an approximate 8% share of domestic seat capacity and carried 2.3 million passengers on domestic routes in 2011. Alitalia and Wind Jet signed a MoU in Jan-2012 to explore a merger, which the Alitalia board described as “coherent with the ongoing consolidation processes into the air transport, at national and international level”.
Alitalia concluded a similar agreement with Blue Panorama Airlines, but talks did not progress and integration plans were quietly shelved.
European airline bankruptcies in 2012 include Malev in Hungary, Spanair and Mint Airways in Spain, Climber Sterling, City Airline, Skyways and Air Finland in Scandinavia, Cirrus Airlines in Germany, and Czech Connect and OLT Express in Central Europe. OLT Express’ German operations received a new lifeline from Panta Holdings BV, the Dutch financial investment firm controlled by Jaap Rosen Jacobson, and will continue with its previously announced expansion plans across destinations in Germany and Europe, including launching new services to Stuttgart, Berlin and Vienna from its base in Bremen.
Panta Holdings is the former owner of VLM Airlines, which was sold to Air France-KLM Group. VLM now operates under the CityJet brand and has its main operating base at London City Airport.
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Wind Jet launched commercial operations in Jun-2003. Based on schedules in Innovata filed prior to the its suspension of services, the carrier operated non-stop scheduled service to 23 destinations from 12 Italian gateways. It also operated charter flights. Wind Jet deployed 12 A320 family aircraft in Jan-2012, according to the Alitalia statement on its projected merger with the LCC.
Wind Jet was Italy’s seventh largest carrier in terms of passenger numbers, based on ENAC data for 2011. It flew 2.7 million passengers last year, of which 2.3 million were on domestic routes. The carrier had a mere 2.5% share of Italy’s system-wide seat capacity before suspending services but it had about an 8% share of weekly domestic seat capacity, according to Innovata.
Italy domestic capacity share by carrier (% of seats): 06-Aug-2012 to 12-Aug-2012
Source: CAPA – Centre for Aviation & Innovata
The Italian market is highly fragmented, with no single carrier accounting for more than a quarter of total seat capacity. There is a mix of full service and low-cost carriers controlling significant portions of the market. Alitalia itself currently accounts for only 17% of system-wide capacity, which makes it the second largest carrier in Italy following Irish LCC Ryanair, which has a near 21% capacity share. easyJet has a near 10% share. When factoring in Alitalia's LCC subsidiary Air One Smart Carrier, Alitalia is on par with Ryanair with a 21% seat capacity share.
However, Alitalia is the largest operator in the domestic market and it has been trying to regain a larger foothold since its relaunch under private ownership of CAI – Compagnia Aerea Italiana – in Jan-2009. Alitalia has an approximate 35% share of seat capacity, according to Innovata data. But the domestic capacity share of Alitalia Group expands to 50% when taking into account other group subsidiaries such as Air One Smart Carrier, CAI Second and Alitalia Express.
This share would have grown to about 60% when including Wind Jet’s domestic seat capacity. Combined, Alitalia Group airlines and Wind Jet would offer domestic seat capacity of close to 500,000 on domestic routes per week out of a total seat offering of approximately 843,500. The combinations also would have strengthened Alitalia's position in the LCC segment.
LCCs have successfully heightened their grip on the Italian market and presently have a 46% share of seat capacity on international routes and a 48% share on domestic routes, according to OAG data. The average LCC penetration (in terms of seat capacity) in the European Union is 42%.
LCC capacity share in Italy (% of seats): 2001 to 2012*
Source: CAPA – Centre for Aviation with data provided by OAG a UBM Aviation business
* Year to month indicated
Demise of Wind Jet is less costly for Alitalia than acquisition
The proposed acquisition of Wind Jet was part of Alitalia’s strategy to enlarge its lead in Italy’s domestic market, but it would have come at a price. The group was reportedly willing to pay EUR20 million to EUR30 million for Wind Jet and integrating the LCC. Certainly that is costly and the integration would have been challenging given that Wind Jet was an airline with a lethargic growth and poor operating performance.
On top of this, Italy’s competition authority Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato in Jul-2012 had requested Alitalia to surrender up to five slot pairs in order to receive regulatory approval for the planned tie-up. The combined entity would have to give up two pairs of slots on the Catania-Milan Linate route, two slot pairs on the Catania-Rome Fiumicino route and a single slot pair on Palermo-Milan Linate.
The demise of Wind Jet is a cheaper and a more straightforward option for Alitalia. ENAC President Vito Riggio fell short of accusing Alitalia of using a tactic of deliberately stretching negotiations with the cash-strapped airline; however, he did remark that “Alitalia must take responsibility for a problem which was also created by them”.
Alitalia promptly refuted the allegations and said that Mr Riggio’s “affirmations are particularly surprising given that since April Alitalia has always informed all the competent authorities and kept them updated on a daily basis on the actual status of the negotiations. The authorities were also aware of the enormous difficulties in the operation, due to the inaction of Wind Jet”.
Wind Jet claimed that Alitalia has changed the terms and conditions of the proposed acquisition whereas management of Alitalia contended that Wind Jet never handed over the required financial information of the company. “Wind Jet never complied with the dates and duties set forth under the agreements signed with Alitalia, thus making the transaction far too risky and unpredictable for a serious and responsible management,” Alitalia said in a statement released on 10-Aug-2012.
Alitalia set to become the dominant carrier at Catania
Wind Jet had its main base at Catania Fontanarossa Airport with secondary hubs at Palermo Punta Raisi and Rimini Miramare Airport. It operated only a limited number of international scheduled routes (16% of its system seat capacity) across Western, Central and Eastern Europe.
Nine of Wind Jet's 10 largest domestic services touched Catania and six of its 10 largest international services departed or arrived at Rimini Airport. It served 12 routes from both airports and six routes from Palermo.
Wind Jet top 10 international routes (seats per week) prior to suspending services on 12-Aug-2012
Note: CDG = Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport; CTA = Catania Fontanarossa Airport; BCN = Barcelona El Prat Airport ;
DME = Moscow Domodedovo Airport; BGY = Milan Bergamo / Orio al Serio Airport; OTP = Bucharest Otopeni International
Airport; KBP = Kiev Airport; PRG = Prague Airport; TXL = Berlin Tegel Airport; LED = Saint Petersburg Airport; PMO = Palermo Airport
Wind Jet top 10 domestic routes (seats per week) prior to suspending services on 12-Aug-2012
Note: FCO = Rome Fiumiciono Airport; CTA = Catania Fontanarossa Airport; VCA = Venice Marco Polo Airport; TRN = Turin
Caselle Airport; VRN = Verona Villafranca Airport; RMI = Rimini Airport; MXP = Milan Malpensa Airport; LIN = Milan Linate
Airport; PMO = Palermo Airport; BLQ = Bologna Guglielmo Airport; BGY = Milan Bergamo / Orio al Serio Airport.
Wind Jet held a 29% share in terms of total weekly seat capacity at Catania Airport, which is the busiest airport on Sicily and the sixth busiest international airport in Italy handling around 6.7 million passengers during 2011. In terms of domestic traffic, it ranks in third place, after Rome Fiumicino Airport and Milan Linate Airport.
Some 33 airlines serve the airport and the vast majority (78%) of weekly scheduled seat capacity is deployed on domestic routes. Wind Jet held the leading share of domestic capacity at its main base before suspending services and Alitalia a 34% share. When factoring other Alitalia subsidiaries, the seat capacity share of Alitalia Group on domestic routes amounts to 46%. If Alitalia steps in and takes over all of Wind Jet's flights, its capacity share on domestic routes would grow to a dominant 82% share. This would virtually push Meridiana Fly out of the domestic market at Catania Airport.
Catania Airport domestic capacity share by carrier (% of seats) prior to Wind Jet suspending services on 12-Aug-2012
Rimini Airport lost its main customer
Wind Jet held the leading share at its Rimini base, accounting for almost 63% of the weekly seats deployed from the airport. Alitalia does not serve Rimini, which handled just 916,239 passengers in 2011 and is the country’s 24th busiest airport.
The LCC was the sole operator on 10 of the 12 routes it operates to/from the airport, namely to Amsterdam, Berlin Tegel, Bucharest Otopeni, Catania, Copenhagen, Kiev Boryspil, Palermo, Prague and Saint Petersburg. Wind Jet faced competition on just two routes, with Transaero Airlines on the flights to Moscow Domododevo and with Yakutia on service to Rostov.
Wind Jet launched flights to Rostov in May-2012, not long before its demise. Transaero only operates seasonally to Rimini, but this could become year-round if Wind Jet’s operations on this route were viable. It also could take over Wind Jet’s route to Saint Petersburg.
Rimini Miramare Airport system capacity share by carrier (% of seats): prior to Wind Jet suspending services on 12-Aug-2012
The gap left by Wind Jet’s collapse at Rimini Airport is large and could be an opportunity for Alitalia Group to become a major player at the airport, providing it finds the necessary aircraft to opearate the new routes. Ryanair is the third largest carrier in terms of seat capacity at the airport, but it operates only two routes to London Stansted and Frankfurt Hahn.
airberlin serves Rimini from four German airports and Zurich and could step in on the Berlin route. Budapest is an opportunity for Wizz Air and Ryanair. Both carriers have a base at the Hungarian capital airport.
Palermo base is of interest to Alitalia to fence off LCCs
Wind Jet had an 11% share of total seat capacity as Sicily’s main gateway, Palermo Punta Raisi Airport before it halted operations. Palermo is Italy’s ninth busiest airport with a 2011 passenger throughput of five million of which 84% travelled on domestic routes, according to ENAC data.
Alitalia Group also has the leading market share on domestic routes from/to Palermo, but the budget airline presence is strong at the airport, underpinned by Europe’s most aggressive LCC, Ryanair. Ryanair serves 12 international and domestic routes at Palermo (despite having a base at nearby Trapani Airport) and has almost a 22% capacity share. Europe’s newest LCC, Volotea already operates on eight routes from the airport, five domestic and three international, according to Innovata schedules.
Palermo Punta Raisi Airport system capacity by seats per week: prior to Wind Jet suspending services on 12-Aug-2012
Wind Jet’s collapse presents a nice opportunity for Europe’s no-frills operators to snap up additional market share. It also could allow Alitalia to seize market share to increase its market power against LCCs. Ryanair is Italy’s largest carrier on international routes. The Irish LCC transported 16 million passengers on international routes in Italy during 2011 (and a further six million on domestic routes). In comparison, Alitalia Group transported 15.9 million passengers in its home market (and 10 million on international routes).
Wind Jet’s collapse presents a cost effective way for Alitalia to grow its market share. But it will have to prove that it has gained the ability to react quickly to market changes and that it is a privately held airline not only by equity but also by attitude and spirit.
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10. Female Fetish Urban Form [1]
Female, fetish, and urban form are mutually fashioned in Aristophanes’ comedy Ecclesiazusae, in which the women of Athens, under the leadership of their new στρατηγός “general” Praxagora, disguise themselves as men in order to infiltrate the ἐκκλησία, the male-only “legislative assembly,” where they vote in a new order, one that abolishes the institutions of phallocracy—private property, individual father-ruled households, law courts—and institutes instead, a communistic gynocracy. [2] By this new regime, the women successfully mount a rebellion against the Classical architecture of the house and city. Through their revolution, the play poses the question: What form of city will a woman build, if left to her own devices? To this question, the play answers: If a female designs urban form, she will show phallocracy to be architectural, subject to construction and deconstruction—the phallus subject to cutting, the fundamental architectural act, the detail that joins. [3] She will expose the “reign of the phallus” as the rule of the fetish. [4]
What is a fetish? The psychoanalytic fetish is an architecture, a perverse construction driven by fear of what the male sees in the female genital—the existence and the possibility of castration. It manifests itself in two apparently contradictory forms—both a supplement to and a mutilation of the female genital—that employ the two basic techniques of architectural construction, joining (in the case of the supplement) and cutting (in the case of mutilation). These two forms of the fetish are like the two faces of Janus, the Roman god of doorways, for they share a single goal, to disavow, while simultaneously maintaining, the difference, as the male perceives it, between the female’s genital and his own. {304|305}
Fetish as “Pseudo-Phallic” Joint
In Freud’s theory, the fetish is created as a reaction to the boy’s vision of his mother’s penis-free genital. [5] Assuming that all human beings begin as anatomically the same, the boy interprets his mother’s penis-free condition as castration, that is, the loss of the penis she must have originally possessed. [6] In fear of such castration as the punishment he would receive from his father, were his Oedipal desire for his mother to be fulfilled, the boy creates the fetish as a supplement to the female genital, a Penisersatz “substitute penis” that serves simultaneously to affirm (yes, she is lacking and needs a penis) and to deny (no, she is not lacking, she has a penis) his sight of female lack. [7]
It is not true that, after the child has made his observation of the woman, he has preserved unaltered his belief that women have a phallus. He has retained that belief, but he has also given it up. In the conflict between the weight of the unwelcome perception and the force of his counter-wish, a compromise has been reached, as is only possible under the dominance of the unconscious laws of thought—the primary processes. Yes, in his mind the woman has got a penis, in spite of everything; but this penis is no longer the same as it was before. Something else has taken its place, has been appointed its substitute (Ersatz), as it were, and now inherits the interest which was formerly directed to its predecessor. But this interest suffers an extraordinary increase as well, because the horror of castration has set up a memorial to itself (gesetzt ein Denkmal ‘monument, memorial’) in the creation (Schaffung ‘production, creation, making’) of this substitute. Furthermore, an aversion, which is never absent in any fetishist, to the real female genitals remains a stigma indelebile of the repression that has taken place. We can see now what the fetish achieves and what it is that maintains it. It remains a token of triumph (Zeichen Triumphes) over the threat of castration and a protection against it. [8]
What is the form of this pseudo-phallic supplement? What governs the choice of “organs or objects” to serve this function? Not solely their apparent symbolism of the penis. Rather, says Freud, often
the last impression before the uncanny and traumatic one is retained as a fetish. Thus the foot or shoe owes its preference as a {305|306} fetish—or a part of it—to the circumstance that the inquisitive boy peered at the woman’s genitals from below, from her legs up; fur and velvet—as has long been suspected—are a fixation of the sight of the pubic hair, which should have been followed by the longed-for sight of the female member. [9]
This focus upon the pubic hair motivates the other face of the fetish, the cutting of the female’s hair.
Fetish as “Cutting of the Female’s Hair”
In addition to supplementing it, the goal of assuaging the male’s castration anxiety can be achieved—paradoxically, it may seem—by the cutting of the hair of the female genital. Here, too, as in the case of the pseudo-phallic supplement, the starting point is the boy’s perception of the female’s lack of a penis as proof of the possibility of castration and his subsequent need both to acknowledge and to disavow this perception. This “divided attitude” can manifest itself in cuttings that re-enact, even as they deny, the female’s lack:
To point out that he [the fetishist] reveres his fetish is not the whole story; in many cases he treats it in a way which is obviously equivalent to a representation of castration. This happens particularly if he has developed a strong identification with his father and plays the part of the latter; for it is to him that as a child he ascribed the woman’s castration. Affection and hostility in the treatment of the fetish—which run parallel with the disavowal and the acknowledgement of castration—are mixed in unequal proportions in different cases, so that the one or the other is more clearly recognizable. We seem here to approach an understanding, even if a distant one, of the behavior of the ‘coupeur de nattes’ [“cutter of hair”]. In him the need to carry out the castration which he disavows has come to the front. His action contains in itself the two mutually incompatible assertions: ‘the woman has still got a penis’ and ‘my father has castrated the woman.’ [10]
Like its apparent opposite, the augmentation of her genital by a phallic supplement, this cutting of the female’s pubic hair aims to tame terror by rendering its source ambiguous: the female may both lack and not lack a penis and thus the female may both be and not be a male. {306|307}
The Fetishized Female as “Para-Male”
Whether in supplementing her genital with a penis that simultaneously affirms and denies her castration or in reproducing the same contradictory condition by cutting her pubic hair, the male makes of the female what we may call a “para-male.” The Greek preposition para is useful in capturing the architectural force of Freud’s “language of indecidability” here, [11] for it expresses the ambivalence of the “beside”—the position that is at once different, deviating from an origin (as in the use of para in nouns such as “para-normal” or “para-dox”) and also the same as, at one with, an origin (as in the use of the preposition para with the genitive case of a noun in Greek to mean, like French chez, “at the home of”). A “para-male” is indecidably different from (that is, castrated) and the same as (that is, not castrated) the male. In constructing the fetishized female, the male makes a “para-male,” a parodic version of himself—ironically parodic, perhaps, since parody in literature is so often formed as a critique of the original. [12]
As we will see her in the Ecclesiazusae, the female is just such a “para-male.” Turning away from time to time to other texts that the play calls to mind—the myth of Pandora, the first female who is also a male-molded jar and a house, in Hesiod, the training of the wife in Xenophon’s Oeconomicus, and the wife’s manipulation of that training in Lysias’ On the Murder of Eratosthenes—we will see the Classical οἶκος “house” as the female’s architectural school. There she is taught to devote her architectural capacity, her mêtis “transformative intelligence,” to the formation of herself in both modes of the fetish, both the pseudo-phallic supplementation and the “cutting of the female’s hair”—the first, by imitating male roles, a “general,” a “guardian of the laws,” a “garrison commander,” and the second, by depilating her pubic hair.
It is not by counteracting, but rather by continuing to design just as the οἶκος “house” has taught her that Praxagora will overturn its “power structure.” This is the play’s ultimate irony—that the female’s mode of deconstruction is built into her construction as fetish. In creating their new urban form, the women of Athens—now unfettered by, released from their own “formation” by the οἶκος “house”—in creating this new urban form that abolishes the father-ruled city, what is their source? what are the tools of their design? where did they learn to build in this way? Their school was the very οἶκος “house” in which we, the men, the architects of the phallocratic tradition, formed them in the image of ourselves. In designing as she does, left to “her own devices,” the female will not be exercising some new female identity, some new difference—
but she will design and build exactly as we have trained her to do. {307|308}
The female’s urban form in the Ecclesiazusae is thus an ironic reflection of the phallocracy that formed her. In “cutting off” the structures of phallic power from the city, in the institution of communistic gynocracy in place of phallocracy, Praxagora will reveal these phallic power structures as “fetishes”—
indecidable supplements, yes, but just by being supplements, subject to “decision.” She will detach each structure of phallic power from “mother earth” and by this detachment, dispel any illusion that it grows there naturally. In this revelation of the architecture of their construction, she will also destroy it. By separating phallic power structures from the city, she will reveal each as able-to-be-separated, and thus not a natural phallus, a corporeal growth, but a fetish—a “pseudo-phallic supplement” to the female body, indecidably masking and affirming that body’s phallic lack. So long as this indecidability remains intact, the fetish can work as designed: it can assuage the male’s fear of what he sees in the female genital, the cutting-off-of-the-penis, castration. But to cut off the fetish from the female body is to expose it as de-cidable, “cut-off-able”—the spell of simultaneous affirmation and denial is broken and with that breaking of indecidability is broken the efficacy of the fetish itself. Once the secret of the fetish is told, it can no longer work as designed.
II. The οἶκος “house” as the Female’s Architectural School
Invoking the Ceramic Lamp as the Female’s Sign
The Ecclesiazusae opens in the predawn as the leader of the women’s plot, Praxagora, invokes a ceramic lamp, explaining why it is the right sign by which to signal the other women to assemble. [Figure 1. Ceramic lamp from the Athenian agora.]
Ὦ λαμπρὸν ὄμμα τοῦ τροχηλάτου λύχνου
κάλλιστ᾽ ἐν εὐστόχοισιν ἐξηυρημένον
γονάς τε γὰρ σὰς καὶ τύχας δηλώσομεν·
τροχῷ γὰρ ἐλαθεὶς κεραμικῆς ῥύμης ὕπο
μυκτῆρσι λαμπρὰς ἡλίου τιμὰς ἔχεις·
ὅρμα φλογὸς σημεῖα τὰ ξυγκείμενα.
σοὶ γὰρ μόνῳ δηλοῦμεν εἰκότως, ἐπεὶ
κἀν τοῖσι δωματίοισιν Ἀφροδίτης τρόπων
πειρωμέναισι πλησίον παραστατεῖς,
λορδουμένων τε σωμάτων ἐπιστάτην
ὀφθαλμὸν οὐδεὶς τὸν σὸν ἐξείργει δόμων. {308|309}
μόνος δὲ μηρῶν εἰς ἀπορρήτους μυχοὺς
λάμπεις ἀφεύων τὴν ἐπανθοῦσαν τρίχα·
στοάς τε καρποῦ Βακχίου τε νάματος
πλήρεις ὑποιγνύσαισι συμπαραστατεῖς·
καὶ ταῦτα συνδρῶν οὐ λαλεῖς τοῖς πλησίον.
ἀνθ᾽ ὧν συνείσει καὶ τὰ νῦν βουλεύματα
ὅσα Σκίροις ἔδοξε ταῖς ἐμαῖς φίλαις.
O shining eye of the wheel-driven lamp,
among clever men a discovery most noble and fair—
we shall disclose both your birth and your fortunes:
for driven by the wheel and born from the potter’s thrust,
you hold in your nostrils the shining honors of the sun—
rouse up the agreed-upon signs of light.
For by you alone do we fittingly reveal our secrets, since
indeed in our bedrooms, as we make heroic trial
of the tropes of Aphrodite, you stand near beside,
and of our bodies curved with our heads thrown back
no one bars from the house your eye as superintendent.
Alone into the unspeakable recesses of our thighs
you shine as you singe off the flowering hair.
And with us as we furtively open the full storehouses
of grain and flowing wine you stand beside.
And although you do these things with us, you don’t babble to those who are near.
Because of all these things, you will be a witness of our present plans as well,
as many as were ratified by my women friends at the ritual of the Skira.
Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 1–18
This lamp is crucial to understanding the architectural meaning of the play, for it embodies the ideal, institutionalized relation in Greek thought between architecture and the female body. [13] In being a molded clay vessel and an instrument of depilation (“Alone into the unspeakable recesses of our thighs you shine as you singe off the flowering hair”), the lamp will show, indeed, why and how architecture in its Classical foundation is a matter, both for men and for women, of forming the female body. As a work of the potter’s wheel, the lamp evokes the fundamental analogy, figured in the myth of Pandora, between the {309|310} female body, the ceramic jar, and the οἶκος “house.” This analogy is an ideological construction, designed to mold women who will mold themselves according to the architecture of father-rule. [14] The most intimate physical instance of this self-formation is the Greek woman’s depilation of her pubic hair. As a tool of such “auto-architecture,” the lamp displays women who act as properly male-formed architects by using their form-making power first and foremost to fashion themselves, so that the man will least fear and take most pleasure from the feminine sexe. [15] By giving us this glimpse of how the architecture of the οἶκος “house” normally regulates the female, Praxagora’s apostrophe of the lamp also predicts, in effect, how the women will rebel against it: the women’s strategies for resisting male constructions are themselves built into the original structure of the household. With this prefabrication in mind, let us examine more closely the function of the lamp as ceramic jar and as instrument of depilation.
Female Body as Ceramic Jar and οἶκος “house”
Tracing the implications of the lamp as “driven by the wheel and born from the potter’s thrust” leads us outside the play to the myth of Pandora, which establishes the analogy between the female body, the ceramic jar, and the {310|311} οἶκος “house,” and from there, to Xenophon’s Oeconomicus, which details the ways in which the household works as the woman’s architectural school.
Pandora, the first woman and founding model of all the rest, is molded by the craft-god Hephaestus out of earth and water. In describing how “hope” remains within Pandora, Hesiod presents her as simultaneously a body, a ceramic jar, and a house, with lips as door:
μούνη δ’ αὐτόθι Ἐλπὶς ἐν ἀρρήκτοισι δόμοισιν
ἔνδον ἔμεινε πίθου ὑπὸ χείλεσιν οὐδὲ θύραζε
ἐξέπτη.
Hope alone there in the unbreakable halls
was remaining within under the lips of the jar nor from the door
did it fly out.
Hesiod Works and Days 96–98
As a male-molded jar, Pandora mediates between and thereby links the female as male-molded body and the female as male-molded house. This identification of body and house is embedded in the word for “own” itself, οἰκεῖος, an adjectival form of οἶκος “house.” Your “own” thing is the thing of your house, and your house is your “ownership”—your “ownness” itself—a unity that will be crucial to Praxagora’s urban form, when her operation upon the οἶκος “house” demolishes the distinction between “own” and “other’s.”
The analogy posed by the myth of Pandora is not a simple assimilation of separate and equal male-molded containers. Within their relation of mutual likeness is the hierarchy of original over copy and container over contained with the jar as mediator. The female is modeled upon the jar, being herself ceramic only in metaphor, and she is subordinated to the house that encloses her, molding her as an image of itself, a domestic container like the jar. [16] [Figure 2. Pandora as “mermaid” of female and jar.] What the woman (as contained by the house) is supposed to contain is the female’s architectural power, her mêtis “transformative intelligence.” [17] If the architecture of the οἶκος “house” works, the female will imitate it. She will, like Penelope, confine her “shape-shifting” to the edification of her husband, limiting her material production to the weaving of his walls and her sexual reproduction to the bearing of his legitimate children. Such is the lesson of Xenophon’s Oeconomicus, in which the husband Ischomachus tells Socrates how he taught his bride, who comes to him knowing nothing except how to weave, everything else she needs to know. {311|312}
The husband’s first lesson is the coincident aetiology of marriage and architecture itself. [18] Not simply to produce children or to care for the aged, the ζεῦγος “joining” that is marriage derives from what makes humans different from animals: the need for shelter instead of living in the open air.
‘The gods, O wife,’ he said that he had said, ‘seem with great discernment to have put together this joining (ζεῦγος) which is called female and male chiefly so that it might be most beneficial to itself with regard to commonality (εἰς τὴν κοινωνίαν). For first, so that the races of living creatures may not die out, this joining is established for the making of children with one another; then for human beings at least it is given from this joining to possess supporters in old age; and then also the way of life for human beings is not as it is for cattle, in the open air, but clearly it needs roofed shelters (στεγῶν).’
Xenophon Oeconomicus 7.18–19 {312|313}
Humans need the joint that divides—or the division that joins—inside and outside, and with it, the divisive ζεῦγος of female and male. But in order to have something to bring inside the shelter, so the husband reasons, the man must go outside to work in the open air, while the woman remains within, devoting her mêtis to transforming what he brings in – sperm into children, grain into bread, and wool into woven cloth.
‘It is necessary, however, if the human beings are going to have something to bring inside the shelter, that someone work at the open air occupations. For indeed ploughing, sowing, planting, and herding—all these are works of the open air. And from these come the things that are needed. But again, when these things have been brought inside the shelter, it is necessary that someone preserve them (τοῦ σώσοντος ταῦτα) and work at the tasks that require shelters (στεγνῶν). Shelters are necessary for the rearing of newborn children, shelters are necessary for the making of bread from the fruit of the earth, and likewise for the manufacture of clothing from wool. And since both of these, the things inside and the things outside, require work and attentive care, the god from the first prepared the nature of the woman, it seems to me, for the works and the concerns of the inside and that of the man for those of the outside.’
Xenophon Oeconomicus 7.20–22
All physical and psychological differences between male and female were created by “the god himself” as “architect” of this marital “joint” to fit the sexes for this basic spatial division (Xenophon Oeconomicus 7.23–28).
The sexual spaces of marriage, however, are far from “separate, but equal.” [19] For it is the male outside who functions as architect, teacher, and model of the female and the οἶκος “house” inside. And, paradoxically, the male’s design to maintain the female’s architectural difference—indeed, to maintain the female as architectural difference—does not make her different. Rather, in anticipation of the function of the psychoanalytic fetish, the male’s design of female differences makes her a parodic imitation of himself.
The Female Formed as “Para-Male”
In the Oeconomicus the husband constructs the woman’s realm—from the innermost recesses of her mind and body to the organization of the οἶκος “house” itself—as a microcosm of the roles, institutions, and ideals of the {313|314} exterior, male world. In the manner of a Socratic teacher, the husband illustrates his wife’s role by an analogy, comparing it to that of ἡ τῶν μελιττῶν ἡγεμὼν “a female general of the bees.” While remaining herself strictly within the οἶκος “house,” the wife is to regulate the passage of goods and workers between inside and outside by copying the administrative authority and strategic deployments of a military leader.
‘In what way,’ she said, ‘are the works of the general of the bees (ἡ τῶν μελιττῶν ἡγεμὼν) like those it is necessary for me to do?’ ‘Because,’ I replied, ‘she remains in the hive and does not allow the bees to be idle, but those who must work outside she sends to the work and whatever each of them brings in, she both knows and receives and preserves these things until the time it is necessary to use them. And when the time comes to use them, she distributes a just portion to each.’
Under the command of this ἡγεμών “general,” the hive becomes more than a model house. The bees’ οἶκος “house” is rather a miniature πόλις “city,” indeed a metropolis, for the bee-ruler dispatches the products of her weaving, just as a city-ruler sends out citizens to form a colony. [20]
‘And she stands in charge of the weaving of the cells inside, so that they may be beautifully and quickly woven, and when the offspring is born, she is concerned with how it is nourished. And once it is nourished and the young are fit for work, she sends them out as a colony (ἀποικίζει) with one as general.’
Xenophon Oeconomicus 7.34
In like manner, as commander of her own domestic “mother-city,” the wife is to send workers outside, receive and distribute what is brought inside, and make sure that clothes are woven from wool for all those who need them (Xenophon Oeconomicus 7.36). To fail in this function is to saddle the husband with a faulty “Pandora,” a ceramic container that fails to contain.
‘My bringing things in would appear laughable, if there were no one to preserve them. Do you not see,’ I said, ‘how they are to be pitied who are said to “draw water into a leaking jar (τὸν τετρημένον πίθον)” because they labor in vain?’
Xenophon Oeconomicus 7.40 {314|315}
Lest she become such a leaking πίθος “jar,” the wife must emulate in the οἶκος “house,” in her body, and in her deepest beliefs, the consummate architectural virtue of order—expressed here by the nouns τάξις and κόσμος. Within the οἶκος “house” such order is crucial to the household’s chief purpose, maximum economic profit. For it is order that maximizes both spatial efficiency, human productivity, and the coincidence of aesthetic and moral value that constitutes beauty. “There is nothing, O wife,” says her husband, “so useful (εὔχρηστον) or so beautiful (καλὸν) for humans as order (τάξις)” (Xenophon Oeconomicus 8.3). If she cannot give her husband whatever he asks for instantly, the fault is his, he says, “since I handed things over to you without giving you orders (οὐ τάξας) as to where they must be placed so that you would know where to put them and from where to take them again” (Xenophon Oeconomicus 8.2). The design of the house is the husband’s, an architecture he must teach her continually to reconstruct.
To teach his wife the power of order, the husband again uses examples from the male world: a chorus in drama, a deployed army, and a Phoenician ship (Xenophon Oeconomicus 8.3–17). [21] While random and capricious actions of men in a chorus produce confusion and a lack of pleasure (ἀτερπές), by their ordered movement (τεταγμένως), the same men are worth seeing and hearing. While a disordered (ἄτακτος) army is similarly a source of confusion and an easy prey, an ordered (τεταγμένη) army—echoing the aesthetics of Sappho 16—is “the most beautiful thing” (κάλλιστον) for friends and “most intractable” for enemies. And the sight of a trireme is similarly fearful to enemies and welcome to friends, just because its sailors—in an anaphora echoing the crew’s concerted, repeated movements—“are seated in order (ἐν τάξει), lean forward in order (ἐν τάξει), fall back in order (ἐν τάξει), and embark and disembark in order (ἐν τάξει).” When the interior of the οἶκος “house” emulates such exterior orders, when by means of such τάξις the greatest number of objects are most easily accessible in the smallest amount of space, not only can the wife give her husband whatever he asks for instantly, but “place” itself becomes a working person, since “the place itself,” the husband explains, “will miss the thing that is not there” (Xenophon Oeconomicus 8.10). Such is the radical mêtis of architectural order, the power to personify place.
Climaxing this panegyric of the economic dividends and aesthetic power of Classical order, the husband claims that κόσμος can create beauty out of the most ordinarily ugly things. Again, the text simulates its message, here by the stately reiteration—as if the word were itself one of the ordered objects—of καλόν “beautiful.” {315|316}
‘How beautiful (ὡς δὲ καλὸν) is the sight of all sorts of shoes, provided they are in sequence, beautiful (καλὸν) is the sight of all sorts of clothes, when they are separated, beautiful (καλὸν) are bedcovers, beautiful (καλὸν) are bronze kettles, beautiful (καλὸν) is tableware, and beautiful (καλὸν) is also what of all things would be most laughable, not to the serious but to the comic man – namely, the fact that I say even cooking pots (χύτρας) appear with good rhythm (εὔρυθμον φαίνεσθαι) provided they are distinctly arranged (εὐκρινῶς κειμένας).’
Countering the traditional Greek liaison of the ugly and the impure, the husband declares:
‘All the other things look more beautiful (καλλίω) when they are placed according to order (κατὰ κόσμον κείμενα). Each group appears as a chorus of implements (χορὸς σκευῶν), even the space in the middle appears beautiful (καλὸν), because each thing lies outside it—just as a circular chorus is not only a beautiful sight (καλὸν θέαμα) itself, but also the space in the middle of it appears beautiful and pure (καλὸν καὶ καθαρὸν).’
Here articulated for the first time in Western thought is an idea at the heart not only of architecture, but also of sculptural and graphic design—that of space as a distinct aesthetic phenomenon, a relation between solid and void creatable by the deliberate placement and serial repetition of any material object.
It is as a microcosm of such exterior, male κόσμος “order” that the husband has designed the domestic world. The overall aim of his architecture is beauty in and as the form of maximum economic efficiency. Accordingly “cosmetic” adornments are subordinated to the coordination of form and function.
‘For the house has not been adorned (κεκόσμηται) with many ornaments, but the rooms have been planned (ἐσκεμμένα) and built toward this very end, that they might be the most advantageous receptacles possible for what they will contain.’
Xenophon Oeconomicus 9.2 {316|317}
Hence, a secure location for the storeroom of valuables, a dry covered place for grain, coolness for wine, good light for those jobs and implements that require it, and for human activity, a southern exposure providing cool shade in summer and warm sunshine in winter (Xenophon Oeconomicus 9.3–4). And finally, to regulate the human source of the household’s profit, sexual reproduction, the husband turns to architecture’s founding act, the building of spatial division.
To control its output of children, the husband subdivides the space of the οἶκος “house,” already contained by its exterior walls, into two subsidiary containers, the commerce between the two being controlled by the device that moves architecture from its beginnings as neutral space enclosure to political force, the lockable/unlockable door.
‘Then I showed her the women’s quarters, divided (ὡρισμένην, compare ὁρισμός “marking by boundaries, definition”) from the men’s by a bolted door, so that nothing may be taken out from there that should not be and that servants may not breed children without our knowledge.’
Xenophon Oeconomicus 9.5
Such “social engineering” pervades the house, as all its portable goods are divided “according to tribes” and each “tribe” then taken to its proper place, thereby making an analogue in miniature of political organization (Xenophon Oeconomicus 9.6–9).
To maintain this in-house parody of political τάξις “order,” the wife must become an equally parodic allomorph of male rulers in the outside world. After having taught her how cities with good laws always choose “guardians of the laws” who oversee their application, the husband enjoins his wife to assume this position within the household and to augment it with other, equally male forms of authority. [22]
‘Therefore,’ he said, ‘I charged my wife to consider herself, too, a guardian of the laws in the household, and to inspect our equipment, whenever it seems right to her, just as a garrison commander inspects his guards, and to test whether each thing is in good condition, just as the Council (βουλὴ) tests horses and horsemen.’
By itself, however, the wife’s copying of male models in her behavior is not quite enough to assure the husband’s architectural order. In the grand finale {317|318} to her schooling, the husband explains how and why the wife must mold her body.
This phase of his teaching is triggered when Socrates exclaims, “‘By Hera, Ischomachus,’ I said, ‘you show that the mind of your wife is indeed that of a man (ἀνδρικήν γε ἐπιδεικνύεις τὴν διάνοιαν τῆς γυναικός).’” When Ischomachus answers by offering to recount another instance of his wife’s immediate obedience, Socrates eagerly accepts.
‘Speak, for to me it is much more pleasant to learn thoroughly the virtue (ἀρετὴν) of a living woman than if Zeuxis were to display a beautiful woman by making a likeness of her in painting (καλὴν εἰκάσας γραφῆι γυναῖκα).’
Xenophon Oeconomicus 10.1
This philosophical preference for living truth over material artifice takes the form of an architectural construction, a doctrine of female “auto-architecture” that begins with a wall.
In teaching the wife correct self-fashioning, the Classical οἶκος “house” erects a barrier between the pure and natural beauty of male-designed κόσμος “order” and the women who imitate it, on one hand, and female “cosmetic” deception, on the other. For once, when the husband caught his wife with white lead and rouge on her face (makeup we will see figure in the conclusion to the Ecclesiazusae) and wearing high heels, he was able to correct her instantly by explaining: just as she would not like him to present counterfeit money, fake gold, or fading purple instead of the real thing, or a body smeared with vermilion and flesh color under the eyes instead of one ruddy from natural exercise, so she must present him with a pure body (σῶμα καθαρὸν), free of cosmetic deceit (ἀπάτη) (Xenophon Oeconomicus 10.2–8). And when the wife asks how she might make her body as truly—and not merely apparently—beautiful as possible, the husband recommends exercise through household duties, especially those specialties of mêtis, weaving and bread-baking, because they produce a physique more healthy and “with better color in truth (εὐχροωτέραν τῇ ἀληθείᾳ)” (Xenophon Oeconomicus 10.9–11). To neglect these domestic jobs leaves the woman, ironically, as sexually unattractive as when she employs cosmetic deceits and thereby vulnerable to sexual supplantation. For she will, says her husband, defeat the maid (her ever-present sexual rival) if she is more pure and properly dressed—and if she gratifies him willingly (in comparison with the compulsory submission of the maid). But if she were to eschew her domestic exercise and become one of those “‘women who {318|319} always sit solemnly,” she would open herself “for comparison with those who use cosmetics and deceits (τὰς κεκοσμημένας καὶ ἐξαπατώσας)’” (Xenophon Oeconomicus 10.12–13).
This doctrine of the female “auto-architecture” necessary to win the man’s sexual approval returns us to the Ecclesiazusae and to Praxagora’s invocation of the lamp as a tool of depilation.
Depilation as Female “Auto-Architecture”
In requiring women to depilate their genital hair, the architecture of father-rule reaches into the female body’s “unspeakable recesses” (ἀπορρήτους μυχοὺς) as Praxagora puts it in her prologue (Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 12), using the term μυχός that refers to the innermost part of a landscape or a house. [Figure 3. Ceramic lamp as instrument of pubic depilation.] [23] At the site of these “unspeakable recesses” is the female’s pubic hair. Here is the sight and the site that provokes the Freudian fetish, the pseudo-phallic prosthesis that supplements or the cutting that worships by mutilating the female genital, simultaneously denying and affirming her castration, her “sameness” with men. It is here that the woman’s architectural power is born. For it is on the model of the matted pubic hair that covers her lack of a penis that the female invented weaving, according to Freud, and it is weaving, according to Semper, that is the origin of architecture as vertical space enclosure, and it is cutting, we may add, together with weaving, that constitutes the primary architectural mechanism, the “detail.” [24]
In the detail of pubic depilation, the twin strategies of the fetish and the father-ruled house coincide. Each has the same mission: to form the female by cutting her sexuality—her manifest sexual difference—short. [25] Without such “cosmetic surgery,” female sexuality knows no natural bounds. For in the oppositional categories of Greek thought, the male is dry and limited and the female is unlimited and wet, the two categories being closely connected architecturally. As Aristotle puts it:
The wet is that which is not bounded (ἀ + όριστον, compare “horizon”) by any boundary of its own (οἰκείῳ ὅρῳ) while being easily bounded (εὐ + όριστον) and the dry is that which is easily bounded (τὸ εὐόριστον) by its own boundary (οἰκείῳ ὅρῳ), but with difficulty bounded (δυσ + όριστον).
Aristotle On Coming-to-Be and Passing Away 329b29–31 {319|321}
Because the female’s wetness—the sign, like the male’s erection, of her sexual capacity—knows no intrinsic limit, it must be bound by a formative force outside itself, the institution of father-ruled marriage and its material embodiment in the οἶκος “house.” [26] The trimming of her pubic hair signals the woman’s willingness to draw this horizon, to conform herself to Classical κόσμος “order.” As she devotes her architectural mêtis to weaving the walls that mold the οἶκος “house” and the clothes that veil her body, so the woman trims her genital hair into a particular schema—for example, the delta, one of the two types of triangles described by Plato in the Timaeus as the elementary geometrical forms of the cosmos itself. [27]
At every level of her architectural formation, the female is imbued with a single ideal: to devote her mêtis exclusively to making herself—her mind, her body, and her house—a parodic imitation of male design and desire. Her architectural imperative is thus to fetishize herself—to make herself a quasi-phallic construction and a depilated deconstruction. Ironically, but perhaps inevitably, this very indoctrination programs the methods and forms of the architectural rebellion staged in the Ecclesiazusae. Both in her plot to take over the government and in her new urban form, Praxagora combines two basic architectural operations, sectional inversion and extension in plan, that for all their revolutionary ingenuity are, nevertheless, applications of her in-house training to emulate the male’s design. [28] Sectionally, she maintains the traditional structure of hierarchy, but inverts gender, putting the woman on top, where, true to the self-fetishizing imperative, she can “play the man.” [29] In plan, Praxagora extends the household horizontally, turning the πόλις “city” into one big οἶκος “house,” where women will continue to perform their parodically male role. [30]
In Praxagora’s urban form the female innovates, in effect, by archaizing—by applying just what is traditionally taken to be her founding architectural capacity. For the mechanism common to both her sectional inversion and her horizontal extension is the tropic character of mêtis itself. [31] In its basic constitution as “the circular reciprocity of what is bound and what is binding,” mêtis characterizes those conditions that turn around on themselves, procedures that retreat by advancing, and advance via retreat. [32] In the world of humans and animals, creatures of mêtis imitate their enemies to beat them at their own game. [33] As a mistress of mêtis the female will win not by countering, but by extending her construction by the Classical οἶκος “house” to the point where it, like a drug, recoils upon its practitioner. Such is the insight of a domestic parallel for the technique of Praxagora’s urban revolution, one found among the texts of the Athenian law court. So before turning to the details of Praxagora’s plot and plan, let us again depart briefly from the play itself to pursue this precedent. {321|322}
Inverting the “Power Structure” of the Classical οἶκος “house”
In Lysias’ On the Murder of Eratosthenes, a husband defends his killing of the man he caught in adultery with his wife. In the course of his exculpation, he provides a brief, but vivid vignette of the potential for tropic manipulation within the Classical architecture of the οἶκος “house.” By adhering to the tenets of her architectural education, the wife is able to turn the “power structures” of the household, both the material constructions and the freedom of movement that goes with them, upside down. By appearing to conform completely to the correct use of her mêtis, she reverses the vectors of the husband’s design, down to its very details.
The dynamics of her plot, as they are described by the husband himself, confirm the coincidence of marriage and architecture taught in the Oeconomicus. For here violation occurs via successive breaches of that union’s containing walls. Just as the structure common to marriage and shelter in the Oeconomicus is the division of inside from outside and the containment of the wife within, so the husband’s account of the adulterer’s crime culminates in the act that was first in time, but ultimate in seriousness, mere entrance into the house.
I believe, gentlemen of the jury, I must show this: that Eratosthenes committed adultery with my wife, that he corrupted her and shamed my children and committed outrage against me myself (ἐμὲ αὐτὸν ὕβρισεν) by entering into my house (εἰς τὴν οἰκίαν τὴν ἐμὴν εἰσιών).
Lysias On the Murder of Eratosthenes 4
How was such an infraction ever possible? The husband starts at the beginning, with his wife’s own entry into the household as bride. At first, he says, I was wary and watchful, aiming neither to restrict her painfully nor allow her too much freedom to do as she pleased. But when she appeared to be devoting her mêtis solely to the augmentation of her husband’s οἶκος “house,” his policy toward her changed.
But when a child was born to me, I began to trust her and I gave over all that was mine into her hands, because I believed that this was the greatest intimacy (οἰκειότητα “being οἰκεῖος ‘own’ to one another, belonging to the same οἶκος”).
Lysias On the Murder of Eratosthenes 6 {322|323}
And indeed his trust seems initially well-placed, as the wife fulfills her traditionally “economic” role superbly, distinguishing herself as clever, frugal, and “arranging all things in the οἶκος impeccably” (ἀκριβῶς πάντα διοικοῦσα, Lysias On the Murder of Eratosthenes 7). At the funeral of his mother, however, one of those religious occasions when wives are permitted to leave the house, the wife is seen and thence seduced by Eratosthenes, through the go-between of the maid (Lysias On the Murder of Eratosthenes 7–8). Once the “wall” of her mind is thus penetrated, the wife herself applies her mêtis to inverting the function of the walls in her husband-designed house.
To explain how his wife succeeded in admitting the adulterer into the house, the husband begins by describing its basic vertical hierarchy: “My dwelling is on two floors, the upper equal to the lower, with the women’s quarters above and the men’s below” (Lysias On the Murder of Eratosthenes 9). With apparently no other exit than through the main floor, the house sets the men’s quarters as a barrier to the women’s mobility, confining them upstairs. It is the working of this “power structure” that the wife inverts. She effects a voluntary exchange of places. Devoting herself, like a good “general bee,” to the care and nurture of her husband’s offspring, she plays upon her husband’s desire for the safety of mother and child. A true mistress of mêtis, she so imitates her husband’s desire that he defeats himself.
When the child was born, the mother suckled it, and in order that she might not run a risk by having to go down the ladder, whenever the child needed to be washed, I myself began to live above, and the women below. And by then it became so customary that often my wife would go away from me downstairs to sleep beside the child, so she could give it her breast and it would not cry.
Lysias On the Murder of Eratosthenes 9–10
Not by redesign, but by replacement—a spatial reversal, the wife has transformed the οἶκος “house.” Before on top, but subordinated, now the woman is below, but in terms of architectural power, she is “on top.” It is now the woman who controls access to her house and to her body, and in this position, she stages a scenario, one that again depends for its success upon her mêtis, “imitating the enemy to beat him at his own game.”
Again, the husband gives the details of the plot. Once he returned home unexpectedly from the country and later that night, when the child began crying (having been prodded by the maid, the wife’s co-conspirator), he urged his wife to go down and nurse him, in order to stop the noise. {323|324}
At first she was not willing, as though delighted to see me come home after a long time. And when I started to get angry and was ordering her to go away, she said, “Yes, so that you can have a try here at the little maid. Once before, you pulled her around, when you were drunk.” At that I myself began laughing, while she stood up, went out, and closed the door, pretending to be playing, and turned the key in the lock. And I, thinking nothing of these things, nor suspecting anything, went to sleep happy at having returned from the country.
Lysias On the Murder of Eratosthenes 11–13
Like the fox who plays dead to lure his victim, the wife feigns defeat at the hands of the maid, her ever-present sexual rival (as we saw in the Oeconomicus). In her testimony to her husband’s earlier conquest is the tool of her own triumph. In her beguiling words, he relives his drunken indulgence. By her cosmetic jealousy, by her pretence of erotic play, she casts him as the object of a domestic triangle. Seduced by the pleasure of the role, he takes it to be true. He laughs and goes back to sleep. By devoting her “auto-architecture” to the impersonation of a wife correctly formed by the architecture of the οἶκος “house,” the woman inverts that architecture in its essential joint, the bolt that locks the female under male control. It is by a similar imitation of traditional female mêtis that Praxagora achieves a similar inversion of hierarchy in both city and house. And just as the husband is moved to become himself the ironic agent of his wife’s removal from her place of subordination, so Praxagora’s plot moves the men of Athens to vote in their own removal from the places of urban power.
III. Praxagora’s Plot
Praxagora’s plot has two phases, first visual and then verbal, and in both the women work as masked men. Taking the architectural imperative of the Classical οἶκος “house” to its logical extreme, the women make themselves parodic copies of male models of political action and thought. In order to infiltrate the male-only legislative Assembly and vote in a new regime, the women disguise themselves as men. Thus accoutered, Praxagora will win the votes of the male Assembly by imitating male speech about women. She will cite women’s traditional role—that is, what men traditionally say about women—as the grounds for her proposed gynocracy. {324|325}
Visual Costume: Female as Fetish
In response to the signal light from Praxagora’s lamp, the women come together for a pre-dawn review of their masquerade. To become pseudo-males, they have decked themselves out in typical fetishes—pseudo-phallic supplements—stolen from their sleeping husbands, their platform shoes, their cloaks, and their walking sticks (Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 26–27, 40, 47, 73–75). [34] This theft reverses the clothing of sexual difference, as we see later, when Praxagora’s husband Blepyrus emerges from his house, complaining that he has only his wife’s clothes to wear (Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 311–326). This sartorial reversal triggers the vertical dimension of Praxagora’s plan, inversion of sexual hierarchy, an inversion achieved not by countering, but by applying the injunction to emulate the male.
Moving inward from its exterior envelope to the “auto-architecture” of the body, the women violate the law of the οἶκος “house” by extending its basic principle—extending it to the point where it turns upon itself. By a reductio ad absurdum of the logic of the Classical οἶκος and of the psychoanalytic fetish, if it is good to form your body in the image of male desire, how much better, then, to form it in the image of the male himself. Thus does the architecture of erotically subordinated difference become the building of the same. For the women have now defied the original construction of the οἶκος “house” as a wall to confine them and their mêtis inside. As if their education has given them the ability to analyze the architectural possibilities of any given design, they have taken advantage of the definitive characteristic of the male in the Classical construction of the household, the fact that he goes outside, leaving her alone within.
Whenever my husband would go to the marketplace, I would rub oil over my whole body and throughout the day I would color my skin by standing in the sun.
Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 62–64
If not as irrevocable as a tattoo or scar, this tinting of the skin is still an on-going witness in the material of the body to the woman’s troping of architectural confinement. This “circular reciprocity between what is bound and what is binding” reaches to the woman’s most intimate “auto-architectural” containment, the restriction of her hair.
In the treatment of their hair, the women pursue their imitation of the male to the point of counteracting traditional female depilation. Rather than {325|326} reduce their body hair through the details of aesthetic cutting, the women try instead to augment it, working both by nature and by artifice. During her days of suntanning, one woman refrains from shaving, so that now, she says, “I have armpits more shaggy than a thicket, just as was agreed.” “Me too,” says another, “I first threw my razor out of the house, so that I could be rough and hairy all over and no longer resemble a woman” (Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 60–61, 65–67). [35] Anti-depilation alone, however, cannot reach the face, where the presence or absence of hair most immediately reveals the identity of the genitals below.
To mask their lack of facial hair, the women apply their mêtis to the making of a classical Freudian fetish, a work of artificial maleness par excellence. As women invent weaving, according to Freud, by interlacing their pubic hair to cover their lack of the penis, so the women here sew beards to cover their smooth facial cheeks. [36] As if they are replacing the shame Freud says women feel about their deficient genitals, [37] the women here admire the beauty of their ἐρραμμένους πώγωνας “stitched beards.” One woman exclaims, “By Hecate, this one here that I have is beautiful indeed (καλόν γ’),” while another, pitting her creation against a real man’s beard, proudly insists, “Mine is much more beautiful (καλλίονα) than that of Epicrates” (Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 24–25, 70–71). And finally, Praxagora explicitly correlates these factitious face-extensions with the women’s “beards” below. For when one woman displays the wool she intends to card during the Assembly, a task often conducted with one foot propped up and the clothes pulled above the knees, Praxagora objects: [38]
ἰδού γέ σε ξαίνουσαν, ἣν τοῦ σώματος
οὐδὲν παραφῆναι τοῖς καθημένοις ἔδει.
οὐκοῦν καλά γ’ ἂν πάθοιμεν, εἰ πλήρης τύχοι
ὁ δῆμος ὢν κἄπειθ’ ὑπερβαίνουσά τις
ἀναβαλλομένη δείξειε τὸν Φορμίσιον.
ἢν δ’ ἐγκαθεζώμεσθα πρότεραι, λήσομεν
ξυστειλάμεναι θαἰμάτια· τὸν πώγωνά τε
ὅταν καθῶμεν ὃν περιδησόμεσθ’ ἐκεῖ,
τίς οὐκ ἂν ἡμᾶς ἄνδρας ἡγήσαιθ’ ὁρῶν;
Ἀγύρριος γοῦν τὸν Προνόμου πώγων’ ἔχων
λέληθε· καίτοι πρότερον ἦν οὗτος γυνή.
Just imagine you carding! You who must display
no part of your body to the men sitting down.
We would fare beautifully indeed, if the Assembly
should happen to be full and then one of us by stepping over {326|327}
and raising up her cloak should display her “Phormision.” [39]
But if we sit down first, we will escape notice
by wrapping our cloaks around us. And the beard,
whenever we let fall the one we will bind around there,
what man seeing us would not think we are men? {327|328}
Agyrrhius, after all, by having Pronomus’ beard
has escaped notice. And yet before this man was a woman.
Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 93–103
If the women completely obscure their pubic hair below, its artificial counterpart above will effectively replace it. [Figure 4. René Magritte. The Rape. 1934. A Surrealist assimilation of pubic and facial hair.] All it takes to be taken for a man is a beautiful beard. By hair alone is sex recognized.
Verbal Rehearsal: Pseudo-Phallic Political Speech
Having reviewed the visual elements of their disguise, the women now stage a rehearsal of the speech by which Praxagora will persuade the Assembly to vote for her plan. [40] Like the accoutrements of the women’s costume, her speech and her plan, by following the way she was taught to use her mêtis, pursue this “party line” to the point where it turns into a circle, a figural ouroboros devouring its own tail. By imitating male thought, Praxagora overturns male power. She takes the Athenian male’s habit of perpetual political innovation to the point where it turns into female-rule, that being the only action not yet tried. [41] By an apparent inconsistency with the Athenian penchant for novelty, Praxagora argues for the innovation of gynocracy by adducing women’s lack of innovation. She catalogues those manifestations of traditional female mêtis that never change. But in this assertion of an unchanging female essence, Praxagora acts as a ventriloquist of the husband in the Oeconomicus.
Adopting the voice of an Athenian male, Praxagora argues, in effect, we must put women in power in the πόλις “city,” because they will always do what we have trained them to do in the οἶκος “house.” [42]
ταῖς γὰρ γυναιξὶ φημὶ χρῆναι τὴν πόλιν
ἡμᾶς παραδοῦναι. καὶ γὰρ ἐν ταῖς οἰκίαις
ταύταις ἐπιτρόποις καὶ ταμίαισι χρώμεθα.
For I declare we must hand over the
city to the women. For indeed in our households
we use these as overseers and managers.
Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 210–212
Women, she insists, are τοὺς τρόπους βελτίονες “better in their habits” than “we” men, because they act—as in the case of dyeing wool in hot {328|329} water—κατὰ τὸν ἀρχαῖον νόμον “according to ancient custom.” They never change how they use their power to make changes. Yes, their works of mêtis “transformative intelligence” are many, but they never exceed the “wall” of women’s formation by the οἶκος “house.” Yes, women are “Pandoras,” but as jars wholly conforming to their domestic containers. To prove its predictability, Praxagora catalogues nine instances of typical female behavior – roasting corn sitting down, carrying things on their heads, keeping the Thesmophoria rituals, baking cakes, irritating their husbands, admitting adulterers into the house, buying extra food, loving strong wine, enjoying intercourse—capping each with the refrain ὥσπερ καὶ πρὸ τοῦ “just as also before.” Above all, she argues, it is by embodying the ideal of the Oeconomicus, the maximizing of productive and reproductive good, that women deserve to rule. For being the mothers of the soldiers, they will send them extra supplies to assure their safety, and “when it comes to providing money, a woman is the most resourceful thing” (Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 214–236). And in the final twist of her argument, Praxagora turns what most defines the female as an artificial creation who must be confined by the οἶκος “house,” that is, her capacity for ἀπάτη “deception,” into the ultimate reason she should rule in the πόλις “city.” [43]
ἄρχουσά τ’ οὐκ ἂν ἐξαπατηθείη ποτέ·
αὐταὶ γάρ εἰσιν ἐξαπατᾶν εἰθισμέναι.
Were she to rule, she would never be deceived.
For they themselves are accustomed to deceive.
Female deception detects deception, leaving nothing but political truth. Such are the paradoxical dynamics of Praxagora’s whole plot. For having completed its dress-rehearsal, Praxagora now turns her cohort toward their performance, reiterating the elements of their male costume—short tunics, Laconian shoes, the all-important beards, the cloaks, and the staffs, and directing their exit toward the Assembly singing an old man’s song (Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 268–278). But by neither dimension of the women’s political theater, neither their physical disguise nor Praxagora’s parody of an Athenian male’s political reasoning, is her audience in fact deceived. Indeed, the plan she persuades them to ratify produces precisely what her imitation-male speech has promised—women ruling a city as one big house. {329|330}
IV. Praxagora’s Urban Form
Once the Assembly, packed by the disguised women, votes in Praxagora’s new regime, Athens becomes, in effect, a naked female body stripped of all fetishes, all the quasi-phallic supports of the father-ruled city: private property, marriage, political and judicial institutions, along with the oppositions and hierarchies upon which they stand. This status of the fetish in Praxagora’s city emerges from measuring her plan against the model with which it shares the revolutionary domestic and political tenets of communistic economics, the abolition of patriarchal marriage, and women with political power, that is, the organization of the Guardians in Plato’s Republic. Comparing the two systems with regard to political power, economic ownership, sexual selection, and urban architectural form reveals key provisions of the Platonic system that preserve the rule of the phallus intact. [44]
In its political structure, Praxagora’s Athens preserves hierarchy, while Socrates advocates a near-equality. As in Orwell’s Animal Farm, in which “all pigs are equal, but some are more equal than others,” Guardian women may share rule with men—except to the degree that they are physically weaker (Plato Republic 451d–e). Equal education allows these women to become as nearly like men as possible. [45] And marking a subtle, but crucial opposition to arguments like Praxagora’s that women’s essential nature makes them especially fit for political rule, Socrates proves to his interlocutor’s satisfaction ὅτι οὐδέν ἐστιν ἐπιτήδευμα ἴδιον γυναικὶ πρὸς διοίκησιν πόλεως “‘that there is no pursuit with regard to the management of the city that is particular to a woman’” (Plato Republic 455b). [46] After describing the marks of natural ability—that the mind learns quickly, discovers new things independently, and is well served by the resources of the body—Socrates asks:
Οἶσθά τι οὖν ὑπὸ ἀνθρώπων μελετώμενον, ἐν ᾧ οὐ πάντα ταῦτα τὸ τῶν ἀνδρῶν γένος διαφερόντως ἔχει ἢ τὸ τῶν γυναικῶν; ἢ μακρολογῶμεν τήν τε ὑφαντικὴν λέγοντες καὶ τὴν τῶν ποπάνων τε καὶ ἑψημάτων θεραπείαν, ἐν οἷς δή τι δοκεῖ τὸ γυναικεῖον γένος εἶναι, οὗ καὶ καταγελαστότατόν ἐστι πάντων ἡττώμενον;
‘Do you know any occupation practiced by humankind in which the race of men is not superior to that of women in all these respects? {330|331} Or should we lengthen the argument by speaking of the weaving art and the care of pancakes and vegetables, in which, to be sure, the race of women seems to be distinguished, and it is most laughable of all for it to be inferior to the race of men?’
Plato Republic 455c–d
No typical acts of female mêtis equip women for political rule. Rather, “‘woman participates in all pursuits according to nature, and man in all, but in all of them woman is weaker (ἀσθενέστερον) than man’” (Plato Republic 455d–e). In Plato’s ideal city, women are enabled to emulate the male as best they can. [47]
In contrast to this almost perfect, male-modeled equality, Praxagora’s plan applies at the scale of the πόλις “city” the sectional strategy of the wife in On the Murder of Eratosthenes. As the wife exchanges places with her husband, leaving him locked upstairs and herself in charge of access to the outside, so Praxagora maintains political hierarchy, but puts herself on top. Now men are to remain inside, while women alone go outside into the city to rule. Like the plot that produced it, the play presents this role reversal theatrically. If the Guardian women of the Republic are permitted, in effect, to “wear pants” like men, the men in the Ecclesiazusae are limited to a woman’s “dress.” As the double of its dress-rehearsal with women dressed as men comes the mise-en-scène of Praxagora’s legislative coup, when her husband Blepyrus and his neighbor, the drama’s first real men, emerge from their houses wearing their women’s clothes (Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 317–319, 331–347, 374). Their costume is no merely temporary travesty, as the men now hear. For with “all the duties that used to be the concern of male citizens now assigned to the women,” men are now confined to the female’s role, enclosed within the household and subject to compulsory sex by force in order to be given food—“it’s the most terrible thing,” laments Blepyrus, “to do it by force” (τὸ πρὸς βίαν δεινότατον) (Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 458–471). As the wife in the Oeconomicus was trained to imitate the male, so now the husband must play the parodic female, subordinated to real women’s rule.
Economic Ownership
Under Praxagora’s gynocracy, just as she promised in her rehearsal, the women will extend the economics of the οἶκος “house” and their role within it to the border of the πόλις “city.” [48] As marriage in the Oeconomicus is said to be constructed by the gods as a beneficial κοινωνία “commonality” (Xenophon Oeconomicus 7.18–19), so Praxagora’s plan now decrees the city and all of {331|332} its contents a grand “common possession,” from which women distribute resources as the “general bee” of the now city-wide household.
τὴν γῆν πρώτιστα ποιήσω
κοινὴν πάντων καὶ τἀργύριον καὶ τἄλλ’, ὁπόσ’ ἐστὶν ἑκάστῳ.
εἶτ’ ἀπὸ τούτων κοινῶν ὄντων ἡμεῖς βοσκήσομεν ὑμᾶς
ταμιευόμεναι καὶ φειδόμεναι καὶ τὴν γνώμην προσέχουσαι.
In the first place, I will make the earth
the common possession of all, and both the money and the other things, as many as each owns.
Then from these common resources we will feed you
by dispensing as manager and thriftily conserving and applying our intelligence.
And just as in the Oeconomicus, economic order is taught by the husband to his wife, so now the new economic order is presented in a scene of spousal instruction. But since she now rules as the city’s new στρατηγός “general” (Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 491), Praxagora will play with Blepyrus the teacher’s role.
This pedagogical reversal is triggered by an ironic dialogue which turns Praxagora from feigning ignorance to undertaking the proof of her plan’s benefits. After defending her early-morning departure, wearing Blepyrus’ clothes, and thus forcing him to miss the Assembly, Praxagora pretends to know nothing of the new legislation. So her husband reports what he has heard from his neighbor, “They say the city has been handed over to you women!” Then ironically echoing her own earlier rationale in the Assembly for the transfer—that women would rule by performing their traditional role, Praxagora asks, τί δρᾶν; ὑφαίνειν; “To do what with? To weave?” Equally ironic is Blepyrus’ reply, οὐ μὰ Δί’ ἀλλ’ ἄρχειν “No by Zeus, but to rule,” for the women will now rule precisely by applying their weaving art on an urban scale. [49] At this declaration of gynocracy, Praxagora exclaims, νὴ τὴν Ἀφροδίτην μακαρία γ’ ἄρ’ ἡ πόλις ἔσται τὸ λοιπόν “By Aphrodite, blessed indeed then will the city be for the rest of time” (Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 555–559). In retrospect, this exclamation, too, is ironic, for just as the wife’s training in the Oeconomicus moves from walls to clothes to body and mind, so Praxagora’s economic law will reach finally into Aphrodite’s domain, where it will seem later, to a young Athenian male at least, not a blessing, but a phantasmagorical curse. But for {332|333} now, Praxagora takes up the challenge to “teach the benefits” (χρηστὰ διδάξω) of her plan (Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 569–570, 583). [50]
Like Lysistrata, who proposes the uniting of Athens’ various constituencies by weaving a cloak for the people (τῷ δήμῳ χλαῖναν ὑφῆναι), [51] Praxagora announces an interweaving of rich and poor.
κοινωνεῖν γὰρ πάντας φήσω χρῆναι πάντων μετέχοντας
κἀκ ταὐτοῦ ζῆν, καὶ μὴ τὸν μὲν πλουτεῖν, τὸν δ’ ἄθλιον εἶναι.
For I declare that all people must share all things in common
and live from the same store, and that no one should be rich and another wretched.
To abolish economic disparity, she eliminates private property: ἀλλ’ ἕνα ποιῶ κοινὸν πᾶσιν βίοτον, καὶ τοῦτον ὅμοιον “I will make one means of life, common to all, and this will be equal” (Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 594). Erasing the difference between “own” and “other’s” is also the goal of the Guardians’ communism. Identifying the city’s good as unity based in common feelings of pleasure and pain, Socrates insists:
Ἡ δέ γε τῶν τοιούτων ἰδίωσις διαλύει, ὅταν οἱ μὲν περιαλγεῖς, οἱ δὲ περιχαρεῖς γίγνωνται ἐπὶ τοῖς αὐτοῖς παθήμασι τῆς πόλεώς τε καὶ τῶν ἐν τῇ πόλει;
‘But indeed does the individualization of such feelings dissolve the city, when some grieve exceedingly and others rejoice exceedingly at the same experiences both of the city and of those in the city?’
Plato Republic 462b–c
And regarding the cause of such disintegration, Socrates asks:
Ἆρ’ οὖν ἐκ τοῦδε τὸ τοιόνδε γίγνεται, ὅταν μὴ ἅμα φθέγγωνται ἐν τῇ πόλει τὰ τοιάδε ῥήματα, τό τε ἐμὸν καὶ τὸ οὐκ ἐμόν; καὶ περὶ τοῦ ἀλλοτρίου κατὰ ταὐτά;
‘So, then, does such a condition not derive from this condition: when they do utter such sayings as these, both “my own” and “not my own,” at the same time in the city? And in the same way, with regard to ‘somebody else’s’?”
Plato Republic 462c {333|334}
But a crucial limitation in the Platonic system preserves male privilege. It occurs at the point where economic communism comes up against the dynamics—and, indeed, becomes the basis—of the range and the freedom of erotic choice.
With regard to sexual selection, both Praxagora and Plato abolish father-ruled marriage, thereby dissolving the distinction between legitimate and bastard children—that is, between “own” and “other’s” at the level of reproductive wealth, where economic and sexual profit coincide in the term τόκος, meaning both “child” and “interest on a loan.” [52] In each system, the parental function is spread out over the space of a generation with all older men regarded as “fathers” in the Ecclesiazusae and in the Republic all children born seven to ten months after a man’s marriage called “sons” and “daughters.” [53] But among Plato’s Guardians, communism is constrained by the presiding model of the male as ideal.
Guardian men hold both women and children in common, but no such common ownership of men is accorded to Guardian women. The system is always described from the male position as, for example, when it is introduced in Book V as “‘the common ownership for our Guardians of wives and children’” (ἡ κοινωνία τοῖς φύλαξιν ἡμῖν παίδων τε πέρι καὶ γυναικῶν, Plato Republic 450c). As with their access to political rule, the sexual status of Guardian men and women is almost perfectly equal. Both men and women are joined in eugenically arranged marriages, but it is male Guardians only who are rewarded for military prowess with extra sex. He who distinguishes himself in battle is to be crowned by the right “to kiss (φιλῆσαί)” and “to be kissed (φιληθῆναι)” by every man and child in the army and “‘no one he wants to kiss (φιλεῖν) is permitted to refuse, so that if he happens to be in love with someone, whether male or female, he will be more eager to carry away the prize of victory’” and “‘for him, because he is a good man, more marriages will be provided than for the other men and he will have choices for that sort of thing more often than the others’” (Plato Republic 468b–c). No such erotic benefit is offered to female Guardians. The possibility that they might display extraordinary valor and be given additional opportunities for intercourse with men is not even conceived. [54]
In Praxagora’s city, by contrast, not only women and children but men as well become common property. [55] Her goal is radical equality, and thus wholly equal access to sexual pleasure, despite all physical disparities. To create uncompromised freedom of erotic choice, Praxagora upends tradi- {334|335} tional aesthetic value: in order to enjoy someone young and beautiful, if you are young and beautiful, you must satisfy someone old and ugly first. Under this new law, erotic freedom and economic communism are mutually dependent. Indeed, the issue of sexual access emerges from a question about the continued usefulness of money. When challenged to say what a man would gain by refusing to submit all his resources, including money, to a common store, Blepyrus adduces the example of sexual commerce: “If ever he sees a young girl and desires her, and wants to dig into her, he will be able to take some of his money to give her, and have a share of things ‘communistically’ by sleeping with her in bed.” “But,” objects Praxagora, “he will be able to sleep with her gratis. And these women, too, I make common property (κοινὰς), for any man who wishes, to have sex with and make children.” To such “free love,” Blepyrus raises the obvious objection, “How then will not all men go to the most young and attractive of them and try to press them hard?” Praxagora assuages his anxiety spatially, putting a man’s choices side by side: “The cheapest (φαυλότεραι) women and the most snub-nosed (σιμότεραι) will sit beside those who are worthy of respect (σεμνὰς). And if ever he desires this one, he will give the ugly one a knock first.” And similarly, for women, “they will not be allowed to sleep with beautiful men before they please ugly and short ones” (Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 611–618, 629–630). Here in the sphere of sexual power, as in its political and economic dimensions, Praxagora’s plan joins vertical inversion with horizontal expansion. The space of equal erotic rights is now extended to include women and traditional erotic hierarchy is turned upside down. No phallic priority remains.
With the tenets of her gynocratic communism now delineated, Praxagora’s teaching might come to an end, leaving its overtly architectural implications implicit, as they are in Plato’s ideal city. In the Ecclesiazusae, however, the architecture of Praxagora’s revolution is explicit—indeed, the culminating topic in her instruction of her husband.
Urban Form
To support her new structure of social, economic, and political power, Praxagora reconstructs the material structure of the city. By applying her traditional training in “home-making” to both domestic and public space, she transforms the πόλις “city” into one big οἶκος “house.”
In being taught to devote their mêtis to weaving the walls of the οἶκος, women learn, like Penelope, how to unweave them, when the preservation of the household demands. In its treatment of the οἶκος “house,” Praxagora’s {335|336} urban plan is just such a constructive undoing. Near the end of their dialogue in which he probes the specifics of the new order, Blepyrus asks his wife for a description of its general character, τὴν δὲ δίαιταν τίνα ποιήσεις; “What way of life will you make?” His wife’s answer might not be expected. For to this request for a summation of a life-style, Praxagora responds with an architecture.
κοινὴν πᾶσιν. τὸ γὰρ ἄστυ
μίαν οἴκησίν φημι ποιήσειν συρρήξας᾽ εἰς ἓν ἅπαντα,
ὥστε βαδίζειν ὡς ἀλλήλους.
[A way of life] common to all. For I declare I will make the city
one household by uniting-through-breaking [sun “together” + rhêgnumi “break”] all things into one,
so that as a result everyone walks toward one another.
All of the walls that divide the city into separate households will be unwoven, leaving only a single οἶκος “house,” surrounded by the city’s walls alone. By this (de)construction, the Classical architecture of single-family father-rule is demolished.
The result of Praxagora’s primary move of uniting-through-breaking makes room for a second architectural process, that of re-programming. Now that the city is a single house, its public spaces are large rooms. And as the wife is taught to maintain the program of indoor, domestic spaces, so Praxagora knows how to re-program outdoor spaces—now wholly domestic—so that they serve the function of the ἀνδρών, the “men’s dining room” in the οἶκος “house,” namely, the male-only symposium. [56] With this final phase of her urban form, Praxagora overturns every revered institution of phallic political and economic power, for she deprives each of its foundation, the space and place to act. [57] In answer to Blepyrus’ question of where dinner will be served, his wife explains, “I will make all the law courts and the colonnades into men’s dining rooms (ἀνδρῶνας).” And what, he asks, will be the function of the βῆμα, the “speaker’s platform”—the material pedestal without which the essential, yet non-material element of Athenian democracy, the voice of the individual citizen, is silent? Eradicating this democratic role, Praxagora answers, “To put the mixing-bowls and the water-jars on.” And what of the urns of lots used to designate judicial assignments by lot, the definitive instrument of egalitarian democracy? They will now be placed in the Agora, beside the statue of Harmodius, the tyrant-killer symbolic of democratic virtue, but from this {336|338} vessel of political equality will issue now not the chance to serve on a jury, but a letter designating a place to eat. [58] “The herald will announce that those with Beta should follow her to dine at the Basileus Colonnade, the Thetas to the one next to it, and the Kappas to the Cornmarket Colonnade” (Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 675–686).
With this vision of democratic spaces turned into megalo-domestic dining rooms, Praxagora completes her husband’s indoctrination. Now he knows the details of her communistic gynocracy, and now to the question with which we began—“What will a woman build, if left to her own devices?”—the play has provided an answer, “She will build as we have taught her.” She will turn the city into one big house with herself in power and sexually uncontained. She will expose the land as a female genital stripped of every pseudo-phallic stand-in. Female urban form means the end of the “phallus” as architect of all these oppositions—inside versus outside, own versus other’s, legitimate versus bastard—and all those hierarchies—male over female, youth over age, beauty over ugliness—upon which Classical value and meaning depend. Female urban form means the death of architecture as phallic differentiation.
What is one to see in this vision of the unadorned, unconfined, uncovered, unfetishized female genital? That depends on how you look at it, indeed, upon who you are who is looking. For with an ambiguity true to the fetish’s simultaneous affirmation and denial of loss, the final two scenes of the play present two kinds—two genders, we might say—of response. In the first, the sight is horrible, as when the Devil himself is put to flight by the female’s anasurma “lifting of the skirts” [Figure 5. A female puts the Devil to flight by exposing her genitals]. In the second, we find a counterpart to the laughter of Demeter, as she gazes upon the naked genitals of Baubo [Figure 6. Terracotta figurine of Baubo with a torch. Priene. 4th century BCE]. [59]
Female Urban Form as Phallic Loss
In its penultimate scene, the play displays the impact of Praxagora’s law upon the body of a young man. Here the female is still assimilated, like Pandora, to the man-made containers of ceramic jar and house, but with her openings now free of phallic regulation. In dramatizing what the young man suffers from this unfettered vagina, the scene becomes, in effect, a defense of the fetish and a demand for its return. For the loss of phallic power breeds fear of incest not only in the young man, but also in the woman who fears she might be his mother. Attempting to avail herself of the new sexual order, an ugly old hag {338|339} competes with a beautiful young girl for the young man’s sexual service, each woman stationing herself in an orifice of the house, one at the window and the other at the door, to hurl abuse at the other (Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 877–889). The young man, Epigenes, too, insults the hag. Loaded down, as she is, with white lead and rouge on her face, he likens her to a certain type of ceramic jar, the lêkuthos, a one-handled jug with narrow neck and deep mouth used for athlete’s oil, unguents, makeup, and as an offering for the dead. [60] He charges that her lover is that master pot-painter, Death himself, who makes such a lêkuthos of and for us all.
Epigenes: But, dear lady, I’m concerned about your lover.
Hag: Who is that?
Epigenes: The best of painters.
Hag: And who is that?
Epigenes: He who paints lêkuthoi for corpses. So go away, lest he see you at the door. [61]
These insults alone do not dissuade the hag. But when threatened with the flip-side of eliminating father-ruled marriage-exchange, namely, the violation of the incest-taboo—as if all these hyphenated terms were somehow essential to her safety—the hag turns and runs. As she is about to drag the young man across her threshold, thus inverting the roles of regular marriage, she is put to flight, when the young girl warns: “You would be more like a mother to him than a wife. If you establish this law, you will fill the whole earth with Oedipuses!” (Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 1040–1042).
The hag’s reaction might seem anomalous. Why does she care whether or not the young man is her son? While her plan provided for an inter-generational father-son recognition in order to prevent patricide, Praxagora’s conversation with Blepyrus produced no comparable questioning of how to avoid incest. To some commentators, this silence indicates that Praxagora is not concerned with preventing mothers’ recognition of their children. [62] Another conclusion is that Aristophanes has left a loop-hole in Praxagora’s plan—one which he now exploits. By leaving this gap in the overt defense of her plan—namely, the failure to address the problem of preventing incest—Aristophanes leaves Praxagora’s law vulnerable to this apparent internal contradiction. If erotic equality requires that the young have sex with the old before the young, and if “father” and “mother” now designate the whole of an older generation, how can the system avert the threat of {339|340} incest? If the system, as Aristophanes has permitted Praxagora to formulate it, is to achieve wholly communistic eros, its rationale must penetrate—as was the goal of the husband in the Oeconomicus—the body and the mind, there to eradicate fear of incestuous sex. But when the hag is confronted with the possibility of mother-son union, fear overrides the new sexual right. Ironically recalling Jocasta, who retreats into the house at the realization of her incest, {340|341} the hag runs into the house, figurally re-submitting herself to its sexual law. [63] But no sooner is this hag expelled than she proliferates—another arrives, one uglier than the first, and then a third arrives, the ugliest of all.
Caught in a physical tug-of-war between these two new hags, each trying to drag him into the door of her house, Epigenes must now submit to sex with a woman who might be his mother. His vision of the union contains every dimension of castration anxiety, every fear that motivates the creation of the fetish. He bewails his fate in and as a synesthesia of intercourse, castration, and death, and he caps it with a chimera of compensatory revenge:
O three-times damned, if I must screw a
putrid woman the whole night and day, and then,
whenever I escape from this one, again have to screw
a toad (φρύνην) [64] who has a funeral lêkuthos on her jaws.
Am I not damned? Indeed, I am deeply damned,
by Zeus the savior, a man indeed ill-fated,
who will be shut up inside with such wild beasts.
But still, if—as is very likely—I suffer something, [65]
as I sail hither into the harbor under these whores as pilots,
bury me upon the mouth itself of the entrance,
and this woman above, on top of the tomb (σήματος),
tar her down alive, then pour lead
on her feet in a circle around her ankles,
and put her on top above me as a substitute (πρόφασιν) for a lêkuthos. [66]
Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 1098–1111
In this phantasmagorical vision, entities bear multiple, simultaneous meanings. Intercourse with the female-as-ceramic-embodiment-of-death means imprisonment in her body-as-a-house and being devoured there by the “wild beasts” of her castrating vagina dentata. This diabolical confinement of the man inverts Zeus’ swallowing of Metis and the household’s containment of the wife. And just as the wife before tried to emulate a “ship-shape” κόσμος “order,” so the female is now the pilot of the male, himself a ship, sailing into the harbor of her voracious genital mouth, upon which he will be buried—but not without his revenge. For in his final words, Epigenes envisions a return of the female fetish—that “monument” (Denkmal), in Freud’s terms, “to the horror of castration” feared as punishment for incest—and with the fetish, a return of the “phallus” as architectural support. Tarred alive and welded to his {341|342} tomb by her feet, those perennial objects of the fetishist’s sadistic adoration, female mêtis stands now wholly immobilized, a reduction of the constricting drive of the οἶκος “house” to its ultimate logical absurdity. The female as ceramic Pandora is now the parodic lêkuthos, a pseudo-phallic memorial upon the grave of male glory.
Female Urban Form as Baubo
And then suddenly, as if this fantasy of violent Oedipal transgression had never occurred, the play turns into a “festive conclusion,” comedy’s normative end. [67] We, its audience—especially its judges—are invited to see in Praxagora’s new regime what Demeter saw when Baubo lifted her skirts.
When her daughter Persephone is raped by Death, Demeter, goddess of marriage, childbirth, and chthonic fertility, suspends her powers and wanders the now sterile earth disguised as an old woman. Arriving at Eleusis, she is received by the queen, Baubo, who offers her food and drink. When the mourning goddess refuses this traditional hospitality, Baubo responds by lifting her skirts and exposing her naked genitals. At this sight, the goddess laughs. She eats and drinks, and with her resumption of human social exchange, the fertility of women and the earth returns. [68]
In its final scene, the Ecclesiazusae aims at the tropic power of Baubo’s display. Rather than a system of sterile intercourse with women too old to bear children, rather than requiring a young man’s rape, it offers Praxagora’s city as a source of sexual luxury and gargantuan nourishment for all. It hopes to turn horror into happiness and fear into laughter, thereby to win the comic prize. On the heels of Epigenes’ sexual damnation, a maidservant enters proclaiming this compound benediction:
O blessed is the people, and happy am I myself,
and my mistress herself is most blessed,
and all of you women, as many as stand beside here upon the doors,
and all our neighbors and all the fellow-demesmen,
and I, in addition to these, the maidservant.
The source of her bliss is a profusion of “good perfumes” on her head – perfume being a powerful tool of sexual attraction, [69] and of Thasian wine, whose effect within her head lasts a whole night long (Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 1116– {342|343}1124). She has come not just to extol her pleasure, however, but rather to share it, as she asks the chorus where her master, that is, the husband of her mistress, is. Here he comes on his way to dinner, answers the chorus leader, as a man enters with a couple of μείρακας “young girls.” Whether or not he is to be identified as Blepyrus, the new “first husband,” he is “blessed and three-times happy,” being assured of sexual pleasure in the persons of the “chicks” on his arm and of a sumptuous feast. [70] For his wife has sent the maidservant to bring him and his girlfriends to dinner, where, although he is the last of the 30,000 male citizens, there is still Chian wine and other “good things” left for him (Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 1125–1140).
Indeed, in Praxagora’s grand provision of sex and food, there is enough left for all men, as the invitation to dinner expands to dissolve the “fourth wall” and solicit the audience’s favor. Turning from her master to the audience, the maidservant says:
And of the spectators, if anyone happens to be well-disposed,
and of the judges, if anyone is not looking in the other direction,
come with us. For we will provide all things.
In return for your approbation, you may cross the theatrical threshold and come with us to the feast. But then, urges her master, why not “speak nobly” and “freely invite the old man, the young man, and the boy?” For such is the extent of the gynocratic largess that “there is a dinner prepared for each and every one of them, too, if they return home” (Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 1144–1148)—not a disinterested offer, of course, since the Ecclesiazusae is the first play in the day’s competition and departure at this point would mean missing the others (Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 1158–1159). [71] Rather, the point of the extended invitation is that Praxagora’s new city transcends the space of the theater to encompass the totality of households in Athens itself. All citizens may share its wealth of unlimited pleasure, if only they, like this morning’s Assembly, vote for it. For, as the maidservant and her master then leave for dinner, the chorus-leader appeals to the judges:
τοῖς σοφοῖς μὲν τῶν σοφῶν μεμνημένοις κρίνειν ἐμέ,
τοῖς γελῶσι δ᾽ ἡδέως διὰ τὸν γέλων κρίνειν ἐμέ:
σχεδὸν ἅπαντας οὖν κελεύω δηλαδὴ κρίνειν ἐμέ.
to those who are clever, remember the clever things and vote for me; {343|344}
to those who laugh with pleasure, on account of laughter, vote for me:
virtually all men, therefore, I clearly order to vote for me.
Does the manifold σοφία of Praxagora’s plot and plan resonate with your own? When you gaze at her urban form, do you see Baubo and laugh?
In case you hesitate—in case your hunger is not quite strong enough to scotomize what Epigenes sees in the unadorned female genital—Aristophanes ends the Ecclesiazusae with the promise of an irresistibly huge piece of food, named in “the longest word ever known to have been created in the Greek language, comprising (subject to textual uncertainties) 170 letters and 79 syllables, and describing a gargantuan dish consisting mainly of fish (1169–1170) and birds (1172–1174), plus hare (1174), well sauced and seasoned (1170–1171, 1174).” [72] Who could resist this gigantic offering? Who, now, could withhold his vote? With this sign of the city’s new power to satisfy human hunger, no matter how immense, Aristophanes would seem to have brought us all to the point of ratifying his creation of female urban form. Here, it seems, he brings the turns and returns of comic mêtis finally to a close.
But maybe here it is the goddess Metis herself who has the final word. Maybe the tropology of mêtis exceeds the mastery even of him who created this play’s ingenious play. For if we vote in favor of Praxagora’s gynocratic communism, we have not escaped the effects of the Freudian fetish. If we see ourselves as one of the men treated by the new system to endless sex and food, we have not excluded from our society the young man who sees the unadorned female genital as the site of castration. If we take his fears for fantasy, if we assure ourselves that within the walls of the Hag’s “house,” he will find nothing ultimately more lethal than intercourse—if we, indeed, find ourselves laughing a bit at the groundlessness of his panic and more than a bit indignant at the extremity of his hoped-for revenge, we have not thereby excluded from our society all that continues to result from the force of his fear. {344|}
[ back ] 1. An earlier version of this essay appeared in The Sex of Architecture, edited by D. Agrest, P. Conway, and L. Weisman, New York, 1996:73–92. It is a pleasure to thank Bruce Rosenstock and Giulia Sissa for critical reading of this current version.
[ back ] 2. For editions of and commentaries on the Ecclesiazusae, see Ussher 1973 and Sommerstein 1998. For the historical context and a comprehensive interpretation of the play from the perspective of political philosophy, see Ober 1998. For a penetrating reading of the play’s critical force, see Saïd 1979 and 1996.
[ back ] 3. The architectural term “detail” is derived from the French verb détailler “to cut in pieces.”
[ back ] 4. For the “reign of the phallus” in Classical Athens, see Kuels 1985.
[ back ] 5. For the Freudian account of the fetish, see Freud 1905, 1910 (esp. 96–97), 1927, 1940 [1938]a (esp. 202–204), 1940 [1938]b. The fetish enters Freudian theory in 1905 in the first of the “Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality,” namely, “The Sexual Aberrations,” as a “perversion,” one among the “deviations in respect of the sexual aim.” As that “aim” is limited to heterosexual, genital intercourse, “perversion” from this point of view includes such common practices as the “overvaluation of the sexual object,” the “sexual use of the mucous membrane of the lips and mouth,” the “sexual use of the anal orifice,” and the “significance of other regions of the body” (Freud 1905:150–153; see also Freud 1917 [1916–1917]:305–306). In the concluding section of that essay, Freud reflects upon the relation between perversion and what is to be considered normal: “the extraordinarily wide dissemination of the perversions forces us to suppose that the disposition to perversions is itself of no great rarity but must form a part of what passes as the normal constitution. . . . The conclusion now presents itself to us that there is indeed something innate lying behind the perversions but that it is something innate in everyone, though as a disposition it may vary in its intensity and may be increased by influences of actual life” (Freud 1905:171).
[ back ] 6. On the assumed universality of the penis as the foundation for the construction of the fetish, see Bernheimer 1991:2: “The purpose of the fetish is to preserve the fantasy that all humans have a penis—the childhood theory of anatomical sameness—and simultaneously to represent a recognition that women lack this organ.”
[ back ] 7. Freud 1927:155: "An investigation of fetishism is strongly recommended to anyone who still doubts the existence of the castration complex or who can still believe that fright at the sight of the female genital has some other ground."
[ back ] 8. Freud 1927:154 = “Fetishismus,” 313.
[ back ] 9. Freud 1927:155. As “the last impression before the uncanny and traumatic one,” the fetish functions as what Freud calls a “screen memory.” For the detailed parallels in Freud’s texts between the fetish and the screen memory, see Bergren 1992:138–139.
[ back ] 10. Freud 1927:157. See also Freud 1910:96: "The erotic attraction that comes from his mother soon culminates in a longing for her genital organ, which he takes to be a penis. With the discovery, which is not made till later, that women do not have a penis, this longing often turns into its opposite and gives place to a feeling of disgust which in the years of puberty can become the cause of psychical impotence, misogyny, and permanent homosexuality. But fixation on the object that was once strongly desired, the woman’s penis, leaves indelible traces on the mental life of the child, who has pursued that portion of his infantile sexual researches with particular thoroughness. Fetishistic reverence for a woman’s foot and shoe appears to take the foot merely as a substitutive symbol for the woman’s penis which was once revered and later missed; without knowing it, ‘coupeurs de nattes’ [cutters of hair] play the part of people who carry out an act of castration on the female genital organ."
[ back ] 11. Apter 1991:13.
[ back ] 12. While obvious differences obtain—those of gender and race, in particular—it may be instructive to compare the fetishized female as “para-male” with Homi Bhahba’s description of the “mimicry” imposed upon the colonized male (Bhahba 1994).
[ back ] 13. For this lamp as symbolic of the play’s didactic aim— μόνος δὲ μηρῶν εἰς ἀπορρήτους μυχοὺς λάμπεις “alone into the unspeakable recesses of our thighs you shine,” see Ober 1998:126n10 and for its illumination of the traditional features of women’s life within the οἶκος “house,” see Saïd 1979:40.
[ back ] 14. In light of this analogy, the Vitruvian ideal of the building as male body appears to be less an original principle than a secondary compensation for the primary Classical correlation between architecture and the body, namely, that between the female and the house.
[ back ] 15. Arguing against the claim that Greek males assuaged a fear of the female genital by requiring its complete depilation, Kilmer 1982 shows that the evidence in comedy and vase painting indicates (1) that depilation was partial and not complete, the aim being a particular shape—for example, a halo of hair surrounding an exposed vulva (plate Ib)—and (2) that the goal of the depilation was to enhance erotic attractiveness. From the psychoanalytic point of view, however, requiring women to cut their pubic hair into particular forms is not inconsistent with male fear of the female genital.
[ back ] 16. Compare this complex circulation of likeness and hierarchy with the depiction of Pandora in Figure 2 as a “mermaid”-like combination of female on the top and pithos on the bottom.
[ back ] 17. For mêtis as the female’s architectural power, see “The (Re)Marriage of Penelope and Odysseus” and “Architecture Gender Philosophy” in this collection.
[ back ] 18. Xenophon Oeconomicus 7.18–36.
[ back ] 19. Note the subtle distinction in how the text rates violations by women and men of their proper spatial assignment: “for a woman it is more praiseworthy (κάλλιον) to remain inside than to go outside, but for a man it is more blameworthy (αἴσχιον) to remain inside than to concern himself with things outside” (Xenophon Oeconomicus 7.30).
[ back ] 20. For the analogy of οἶκος “house” and πόλις “city,” see also Xenophon Oeconomicus 8.22, where the husband compares the house with the agora, where anything may be found because it is in a fixed place.
[ back ] 21. Compare Saïd 1979:47–48.
[ back ] 22. Note that the wife’s authority remains subordinate to the husband’s orders: “‘In addition,’ he said, ‘I taught her that she would not be justly angry, if I gave her more orders with regard to our possessions than to the servants’” (Xenophon Oeconomicus 9.16).
[ back ] 23. For the object in Figure 3 as a lamp for depilation, see Hauser 1909.
[ back ] 24. For women’s invention of weaving, see Freud 1933 [1932]:132: "The effect of penis-envy has a share, further, in the physical vanity of women, since they are bound to value their charms more highly as a late compensation for their original sexual inferiority. Shame, which is considered to be a feminine characteristic par excellence but is far more a matter of convention than might be supposed, has as its purpose, we believe, concealment [verdecken: Decke “cover, ceiling, roof, skin, envelope, coat, pretense, screen”] of genital deficiency. We are not forgetting that at a later time, shame takes on other functions. It seems that women have made few contributions to the discoveries [Entdeckungen] and inventions in the history of civilization; there is, however, one technique which they may have invented—that of plaiting and weaving. If that is so, we should be tempted to guess the unconscious motive for the achievement. Nature herself would seem to have given the model which this achievement imitates by causing the growth at maturity of the pubic hair that conceals their genitals. The step that remained to be taken lay in making the threads adhere to one another while on the body they stick into the skin and are only matted together. If you reject this idea as fantastic and regard my belief in the influence of a lack of a penis on the configuration of femininity as an idée fixe, I am of course defenseless" [Emphasis added]. For weaving as the origin of architecture, see Semper 1989, “The Textile Art,” 254–255: "The beginning of building coincides with the beginning of textiles. The wall is that architectural element that formally represents and makes visible the enclosed space as such, absolutely, as it were, without reference to secondary concepts. We might recognize the pen, bound together from sticks and branches, and the interwoven fence as the earliest vertical spatial enclosure that man invented. . . . Whether these inventions gradually developed in this order or another matters little to us here, for it remains certain that the use of crude weaving that started with the pen—as a means to make the “home,” the inner life separated from the outer life, and as the formal creation of the idea of space—undoubtedly preceded the wall, even the most primitive one constructed out of stone or any other material. The structure that served to support, to secure, to carry this spatial enclosure was a requirement that had nothing directly to do with space and the division of space. . . . In this connection, it is of the greatest importance to note that wherever these secondary motives are not present, woven fabrics almost everywhere and especially in the southern and warm countries carry out their ancient, original function as conspicuous spatial dividers; even where solid walls become necessary they remain only the inner and unseen structure for the true and legitimate representatives of the spatial idea: namely, the more or less artificially woven and seamed-together, textile walls. . . . In all Germanic languages the word Wand (of the same root and same basic meaning as Gewand) directly recalls the old origin and type of the visible spatial enclosure. Likewise, Decke, Bekleidung, Schranke, Zaun (similar to Saum), and many other technical expressions are not somewhat late linguistic symbols applied to the building trade, but reliable indications of the textile origin of these building parts" [Emphasis added]. See also Semper, “The Four Elements of Architecture,” 102–103, and compare “Structural Elements of Assyrian-Chaldean Architecture” in Herrmann 1984:205–206: "It is well known that any wild tribe is familiar with the fence or a primitive hurdle as a means of enclosing space. Weaving the fence led to weaving movable walls of bast, reed, or willow twigs and later to weaving carpets of thinner animal or vegetable fiber. . . . Using wickerwork for setting apart one’s property and for floor mats and protection against heat and cold far preceded making even the roughest masonry. Wickerwork was the original motif of the wall. It retained this primary significance, actually or ideally, when the light hurdles and mattings were later transformed into brick or stone walls. The essence of the wall was wickerwork. Hanging carpets remained the true walls; they were the visible boundaries of a room. The often solid walls behind them were necessary for reasons that had nothing to do with the creation of space; they were needed for protection, for supporting a load, for their permanence, etc. Wherever the need for these secondary functions did not arise, carpets remained the only means for separating space. Even where solid walls became necessary, they were only the invisible structure hidden behind the true representatives of the wall, the colorful carpets that the walls served to hold and support. It was therefore the covering of the wall that was primarily and essentially of spatial and architectural significance; the wall itself was secondary." For the role of women’s weaving in the architectural theory of the Odyssey, see “The (Re)Marriage of Penelope and Odysseus” in this collection.
[ back ] 25. Charles Platter “Depilation in Old Comedy,” typescript, 3–4: “The matrix of depilation described by our sources is fundamentally associated with . . . the attempt to control the women of the household whose extravagant sexuality, symbolized by tangled hair, represents a threat to the solid edifice of the family and the social status of the man.”
[ back ] 26. Compare Carson 1990 and Platter “Depilation,” 9: “Thus, the male gender, by virtue of its dryness, lends itself to definition and self-ordering. The female, by contrast, has no mechanism for self-limitation, and like water, spreads out until exhausted—like the sleeping Bacchae of Euripides and the sexually voracious women who appear in Old Comedy, or until stopped by some limit imposed from the outside.”
[ back ] 27. For δέλτα παρατετιλμέναι “plucked in the form of a delta” at Aristophanes Lysistrata 151 as a pubic hair style, see Kilmer 1982:106n10 and compare the “pubic triangle” of his plate Id. For equilateral triangles as cosmic building-blocks, see Plato Timaeus 53c–55c and Cornford 1937:210–219.
[ back ] 28. On the role of extension in Praxagora’s plan, see Ober 1998:127: “the humor of the plot derives from a comic extension (albeit extreme) of the democratic-egalitarian ethos” and “the means by which Aristophanes’ characters effect this comic extension of the democratic ethos is the institutional machinery of the democratic state and its associated ideologies.” For gynocracy as an extension of democratic logic, see also Saïd 1979:35–36, 51–52.
[ back ] 29. Ober (1998) argues that Praxagora’s “proposals for communalization of property and equalized sexual relations stretched the existing reality, without inverting it” (149–150) and that theirs is “the egalitarian logic of the democratic polis taken to extremes, not set on its head” (153). Yet Ober also notes that “[t]his ‘private world of men versus public world of women’ inverts the Athenians’ ordinary assumption that the private realm is the appropriate domain of women, while the public realm is for men only” (132). Ober’s point seems to be that while Praxagora’s plan inverts gender roles, it extends the egalitarianism of democracy without overturning it. What Ober terms the play’s “hyperegalitarianism” (129 n16, 134) is, of course, limited by the fact that it is not women and men together, but women only who rule. Men and women citizens share goods, sex, and children equally, but not political power. On the reduction of the males under Praxagora’s plan to the condition of wholly passive consumers of food and sex—veritable “stomachs”—see Saïd 1979:54.
[ back ] 30. For Praxagora’s plan as turning the πόλις “city” into a single οἶκος “house” with the distinction between inside and outside abolished, see Saïd 1979:46–47.
[ back ] 31. Bly (1982) shows how the phases of Praxagora’s plot manifest the semantic field of mêtis, the mode of intelligence that permits the women to defeat their husbands despite their relative physical weakness.
[ back ] 32. See Detienne and Vernant 1978:305.
[ back ] 33. See Detienne and Vernant 1978, esp. 34 and 37.
[ back ] 34. Because all parts in Greek drama are played by men, we have here males playing females playing males. Taaffe (1993:9–10, 112, 116, 130 and 1991:96–97) shows that among comic actors depicted on vase paintings, the “illusion of gender disguise” was often imperfect: they wear female dresses or masks, but with their beards intact or with the ithyphallic appendages worn by comic actors showing underneath their gowns. Taaffe observes: “There is no way to determine the actual nature of the costumes for Ecclesiazusae, but if the actors wore pads and the phallos protruded from these supposedly feminine bodies once in a while, the comic and metatheatrical effects would be hilarious” (1991:99, see also 1993:104–105, 113). In this context, however, of supposed females decked out in actual male attire, the question might arise: which is the artificial male accoutrement? Such ambiguity is precisely that of the fetish—and indeed, is embodied by the actors, whether or not their prosthetic phalloi were evident. For the “illusion of gender disguise” here is manifestly imperfect, as the supposed females repeatedly reveal their underlying female nature both visually and verbally. For example, despite tanning, their skin remains relatively light, so that Chremes describes the man who persuaded the Assembly to vote in the new order as a “good-looking, white-faced young man” (427–428); the women’s beards are clearly artificial, carried by the women as they arrive (24–25, 68–72) and put on in front of the audience (118–127, 272–274); and during the rehearsal of their impersonation of male speech, one woman slips and swears by the “Two Goddesses” (155–156), another addresses the Assembly as “ladies” (165–166), and they refer to themselves using female gender forms (μεμνημένας, ἡμᾶς) when reminding themselves to call each other “men” (285–287); on these and other examples, see Taaffe 1993:112–114, 116–119. It is this ambiguity that qualifies the women’s disguise as a fetish: their accoutrements both affirm and deny their male identity. Their transvestitism is detectable, but also sufficient to persuade the rest of the male Assembly—possibly, as Saïd (1979:35–36) maintains, because popular male political orators were already held to be effeminate (101–104). The women’s costume is pseudo-phallic, a “phallos that is not one.”
[ back ] 35. For the women’s suspension of underarm depilation and suntanning of their skin as evidence that femininity is not “a simple fact of nature,” but “an artifact of voluntary human action,” see Ober 1998:136 with bibliography. As another instance of the construction of sexual appearance in Greek literature, Ober cites the report of Plutarch (Life of Theseus 23) that Theseus disguised two young men as women by having them take warm baths, stay out of the sun, smooth their skin with unguents, adopt women’s hairdos, and imitate women’s speech, clothes, and walk, and then successfully substituted these pseudo-females in the group of maidens he took to Crete—a ruse commemorated in the festival of the Oschophoria, named for the vine-branches the men carried when they returned to Athens. Thus the women’s imitation of the opposite sex in order to infiltrate its exclusive group is itself an emulation of a male exemplar. For the relation between the Oschophoria and the women-only festival of the Skira, where Praxagora and her cohorts hatched their plot, see Vidal-Naquet 1986a:114–117, 1986c:211, 217–218 and Saïd 1976:37.
[ back ] 36. See above, n. 23.
[ back ] 38. See Sommerstein 1998:147 on 90.
[ back ] 39. For the explanation of the “Phormision” here, see Sommerstein 1998:147 on 97. See also Ober 1998:136 and Taaffe 1993:110.
[ back ] 40. Ober 1998:138–139 shows how Praxagora’s “felicitous performance[s] of a speech act in the Assembly”—both in rehearsal and as recounted later by Chremes—are “models of sophisticated rhetoric.”
[ back ] 41. See Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 455–457:
Blepyrus: So what was finally decided?
Chremes: To hand the city over to these women. For it seemed that this only had not been done before in the city.
Compare Saïd 1979:35.
[ back ] 42. On the relation between Praxagora’s plan and what women are taught in the Oeconomicus, see Foley 1982:3–6, 16–17. On her speech as reflecting a “traditional male point of view,” see Taaffe 1993:120.
[ back ] 43. Compare Saïd 1979:41.
[ back ] 44. For other differences between Praxagora’s plan and the Platonic utopia, see Saïd 1979:61.
[ back ] 45. Compare “Architecture Gender Philosophy” in this collection and Rosenstock 1994:370, 372.
[ back ] 47. Compare Rosenstock 1994:381: “When Plato insists that women be trained as guardians, he hopes to undo the ‘beautiful evil’ ([Hesiod Theogony] 585) that enters the world with Pandora. He is recreating Woman, this time with as close a resemblance to Man as possible, a masculinized woman.” See also Saïd (1979:36), who describes the nature of female power in Plato’s city as a “virilization of women” in contrast with the “feminization of power” under Praxagora’s regime.
[ back ] 48. On Praxagora’s plan as “domestic utopia” and a “symbolic extension of the household,” see Foley 1982:15n33.
[ back ] 49. In addition to the metaphorical weaving of rich and poor and beautiful and ugly, Praxagora’s gynocracy provides that women continue their literal weaving of men’s cloaks. See Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 653–654.
[ back ] 50. See Slater 1997:108–109.
[ back ] 51. Aristophanes Lysistrata 586.
[ back ] 52. Compare Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 614–615:
καὶ ταύτας γὰρ κοινὰς ποιῶ τοῖς ἀνδράσι συγκατακεῖσθαι
καὶ παιδοποιεῖν τῷ βουλομένῳ.
For I make these women too common property for men to sleep with
and for the man who wishes to, to make children.
with the law regarding the Guardians (Plato Republic 457c–d):
τὰς γυναῖκας ταύτας τῶν ἀνδρῶν τούτων πάντων πάσας εἶναι κοινάς, ἰδίᾳ δὲ μηδενὶ μηδεμίαν συνοικεῖν· καὶ τοὺς παῖδας αὖ κοινούς, καὶ μήτε γονέα ἔκγονον εἰδέναι τὸν αὑτοῦ μήτε παῖδα γονέα.
‘that these women are to be common to all men, and no one of them is to live privately with any man, and the children, moreover, are common, and no parent is to know his own offspring and no child, his parent.’
Blepyrus: How, then, if we live in this way, will each man be able to distinguish his own children?
Praxagora: Why is this necessary? For they will regard as fathers all men who are older than they are in time.
with Plato Republic 461c–d: "How are they to recognize their fathers and daughters and the other relationships you mention?’ ‘They will have no way,’ I said, ‘except that all offspring born in the tenth and in the seventh month after he became a bridegroom a man will call his sons, if they are male, and daughters, if they are female.’" See also Rosenstock 1994:371 on how Plato’s transformation of the terms “father” and “mother” from signifying kinship to defining a generational group promotes the model of mono-gendered autochthony by “effacing his culture’s most significant factor in gender role differentiation, namely, reproduction.” Saïd (1979:58) calls attention to the difference between the Ecclesiazusae and the Republic with regard to the origin of the parent-child bond: under Praxagora’s system, the children create the bond by regarding the men of the older generation as “fathers,” while in the Platonic system, it is the citizens old enough to be fathers who create the bond by means of naming the children as “sons” and “daughters.” She notes that this second mode is the same as that employed in Athens, where it is the father who “creates” his son by giving him his name on the tenth day after birth, by attaching him to his οἶκος “house” via the ritual of the Amphidromia and to the πόλις “city” by enrolling him in the registry of his phratry. This parallel with Athenian practice reflects the maintenance of the rule of the phallus in the Platonic city.
[ back ] 54. Compare Rosenstock 1994:381: “The possibility that a woman might exercise sexual power over a male is unthinkable, whereas a man’s sexual power over women and, in some instances, over other men, seems utterly natural to Plato.”
[ back ] 55. See Saïd 1979:33.
[ back ] 56. For the plan and program of the Classical οἶκος “house,” see Walker 1983.
[ back ] 57. On Praxagora’s abolition of Athenian political and judicial institutions through the re-programming of the πόλις “city” as domestic space, see Saïd 1979:47–48.
[ back ] 58. For the assignment of jury duty by letter, see Sommerstein 1998:199 on 683.
[ back ] 59. These two responses to the unadorned female genital parallel the two poles of interpretation the Ecclesiazusae has evoked: for the play as critical satire, see Saïd 1979 and Strauss 1966:263–282; for the play as a testimony to the transformative power of the comic spirit, see Slater 1997:119–123 with bibliography. Acknowledging both positions, Foley (1982) analyzes the criticism of the Athenian males as a potentially constructive call to renewed commitment to the public good, and Reckford (1987:353) concludes that the “final revelry, I think, conveys a spirit of vitality that goes beyond weariness, and hope that goes beyond disillusionment.” See also Ober 1998:134 with n28.
[ back ] 60. For her makeup, see Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 878–879, 929. On the question of whether the lêkuthos was used for cosmetic paint, see Quincey 1949:38.
[ back ] 61. Slater (1989) sees this passage as a play upon the fact that both funerary lêkuthoi and the hag’s mask were colored white. Funerary lêkuthoi were placed around the bier at the prothesis of the dead body and used to carry unguent to the tomb; see Oakley 2004:4–5, 86, 234n43, n44, n45.
[ back ] 62. See Sommerstein 1998:228 on 1042.
[ back ] 63. Ussher 1973:219–220 on 1041–1042 makes the comparison with Jocasta.
[ back ] 64. On the scholiast’s interpretation of Greek phrunê “toad” as the nickname of prostitutes, see Ussher 1973:225–226 on 1098–1101.
[ back ] 65. On this expression as a euphemism for “to die,” and on κασαλβάδοιν “whores” to be taken “as pilots” with ἐσπλέων, see Ussher 1973:226 on 1105–1106.
[ back ] 66. Slater (1989:50–51) argues that the lêkuthos referred to here is no longer a white ground ceramic vase, but a white marble vessel of the sort customarily placed as a grave monument: the greater size of the marble vase would motivate the reference to the molten lead poured around the “ankles” to affix this lêkuthos to a stone base.
[ back ] 67. For Northrop Frye’s concept of the “festive conclusion” in comedy, see Frye 1965:75-76, 103–104, 115, 128–130.
[ back ] 68. On the figure of Baubo, see Olender 1990, Gsell 2001:31–47, and Freud 1916.
[ back ] 69. For perfume as an aphrodisiac that is necessary to attract marriage partners to one another, but also potentially threatening to the ongoing stability of the union, see Detienne 1972a:ix–x = 1977b: vi–vii.
[ back ] 70. The appearance of Blepyrus here, not having eaten and not having come from the Agora, has appeared to be inconsistent with 727, when he followed Praxagora to the Agora, where the communal dinners were to be provided. For discussion of the various attempts to solve the difficulty, see Sommerstein (1998:233 on 1113), who concludes that the inconsistency is unavoidable. See also Ussher 1973:xxxii–xxxiv.
[ back ] 71. See Slater 1997:98. See also Saïd 1979:55
[ back ] 72. Sommerstein 1998:238 on 1169–1175. See also Saïd (1979:55), who notes that the audience is here given literally a word to eat.
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The State Museum of Pennsylvania–Experience Adventure 22 of 100
On Valentine’s Day of 2018, and for our 22nd of 100 adventures, my daughters and I spent the day exploring the remarkable State Museum of Pennsylvania. Established in 1905 and adjacent to the breathtaking and beautiful State Capitol Building, the historical institution is the commonwealth’s official museum located in the state’s important capital city of Harrisburg.
The museum takes visitors through a full range of fascinating regional history, focusing on Pennsylvania’s multi-faceted culture and prominent figures, beginning with prehistoric geology and archeological exhibits and continuing to present time pop culture influences and art showcases.
Four impressive exhibit floors and a full-dome planetarium chronologically organize and display over 3 million items in the museum’s expansive collection.
Interesting and permanent exhibit halls include Life Through Time, Geology, Mammals, Ecology, a Memorial Hall dedicated to William Penn, and Objects of Valor, which features Civil War artifacts.
**Fun Fact: Pennsylvania was named by King Charles II, who took the Penn family name and combined it with the Latin word “silva”, which means “woods”.
The Memorial Hall features an enormous mural, state map, and a monumental bronze statue of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania.
**Fun Fact: William Penn’s forward-thinking policy of religious tolerance and acceptance created a diverse religious and ethnic culture in the state of Pennsylvania.
My daughters and I spent most of our time in the noteworthy exhibits of Pennsylvania Icons, Village Square, the Anthropology and Archeology Gallery, and the Transportation and Industry hall.
**Fun Fact: Pennsylvania is the nation’s #1 producer of mushrooms, #2 producer of apples and ranks 3rd for eggs and Christmas trees!
**Fun Fact: Pennsylvania produces 80% of the nation’s hard pretzels.
More than 350 unusual and thought-provoking items fill the Pennsylvania Icons hall, where visitors learn about the national influence of Pennsylvania’s unique places, people and products.
**Fun Fact: 20% of the United States’ production of craft beer is produced in Pennsylvania.
True-to-life historical facades, buildings, a summer kitchen and a general store represent a 19th century Pennsylvania town in the walk-through Village Square Hall. I wanted to find some hands-on activities, but unfortunately, this is a purely visual exhibit.
The creation and historical significance of the Pennsylvania Turnpike is thoroughly explored within the Transportation and Industry hall. Focusing on the tools, vehicles and the history of innovative machines, the exhibit gives viewers a fantastic and engaging glimpse into transportation industry and commerce.
**Fun Fact: In October of 1940, the nations first modern superhighway birthed a new interest in cross-country travel for post-WWII Americans. That superhighway is the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
Native American artifacts and archeological methods are explored in great detail inside the Anthropology and Archeology Gallery.
**Fun Fact: The Meadowcroft Rockshelter, located near Avella in Washington County, Pennsylvania, boasts the earliest signs of human habitation in North America and has been continually inhabited for the past 19,000 years.
As a lover of the visual arts, we greatly enjoyed the engaging, rotating art exhibit, which featured unique art pieces bought and acquired by the museum through the years.
Overall, we found The State Museum of Pennsylvania educational, interesting and thought-provoking. It was clean, well organized, thorough, and visually stimulating. Of course, I prefer a hands-on approach and appreciate exhibits with interactive components, but the museum’s extensive collection makes up for its lack of experiential learning. My daughters and I left with massive amounts of new and relevant Pennsylvania state knowledge and a greater historical understanding of our nation.
Kudos to The State Museum of Pennsylvania. As a museum-obsessed, homeschooling mom, I give it a “B++”!
Hours of operation: Wed-Sat 9:00 am to 5:00 pm and Sunday 12:00 to 5:00 pm.
Please note: The museum is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.
Adults: $7.00
Children ages 1-11 years: $5.00
The museum is FREE for military members and military families with ID’s. THANK YOU!
The State Museum of Pennsylvania is located at 300 North Street, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 17120. For more information, call 717-787-4980 or visit www.statemuseumpa.org.
For some other fun and educational adventures in the great state of Pennsylvania, check out:
The Turkey Hill Experience
George’s Furniture
The Pennsylvania Farm Show
The National Watch and Clock Museum
The Lancaster Central Market
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100 Experience Adventures–January Summary
By now, most of my readers know that my daughters and I are attempting to complete 100 experiences during our 6 month sabbatical away from our home in Texas.
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And read this.
I am super happy to report we surprisingly completed 18 awesome experiences during the month of January and I kept a running list of the events and the cost for reference.
Below is a quick summary and each one is a clickable link to more information about the experience, in case you are curious. 🙂
Experience 1:
The Pennsylvania Farm Show (Free to attend, $15 for parking)
George’s Furniture in Marietta, PA (Free to visit, we donated $20 for the personal tour)
Cinnaholic, Vegan cinnamon rolls in Lancaster, PA ($28.04 for four cinnamon rolls)
The National Watch & Clock Museum in Columbia, PA ($8.40 for four tickets through Groupon)
The Turkey Hill Experience in Columbia, PA ($45.75 for three people to attend the lab class and the experience)
Burning Bridge Antiques Market in Columbia, PA (free to visit)
The Lancaster Sweet Shoppe and Stroopie Co. in Lancaster, PA (free to visit)
Lancaster Central Market in Lancaster, PA (free to visit)
Beiler’s Doughnuts in Lancaster, PA ($11.25 for 2 dozen doughnuts through Groupon)
Experience 10:
Sledding in real snow in Carlisle, PA (free!)
Maymont in Richmond, Virginia ($12 for three tickets to the nature center and $15 “donation” for three people to tour the mansion)
The Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia ($24 for three tickets)
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, VA (free for military families, $10 for the audio tour for two people)
The Prohibition Museum in Savannah, Georgia ($32.10 for three tickets)
The Museum of Science and History (The MOSH) in Jacksonville, Florida ($30 for three tickets)
Hunting for fossilized sharks teeth in Nokomis Beach, Florida (free)
Artisanal Spice Artistry Workshop at the International Festival of the Arts in Epcot, Walt Disney World ($166.16 for four tickets)
Disney After Hours event at the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World ($476 for four tickets)
What is next?!?
Many more adventures to explore in the month of February!
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The Museum of History and Science–Experience Adventure 15 of 100
For our 15th experience adventure, we explored the Museum of Science and History (The MOSH) in Jacksonville, Florida.
The museum sits on the scenic edge of the Southbank River Walk and opened to the public at the current location in 1969. A planetarium was added in 1988. The most recent renovation came in 1994, even though the planetarium received a technology refresh in 2010.
The colorful, outdoor space represents a natural habitat setting for insects and butterflies and several signs with information are posted so that the learning begins before visitors enter the building. 🙂 I like that!
82,200 square feet of museum space is divided into three levels of exhibits, including the Bryan-Gooding Planetarium and the Hixon Native Plant Courtyard. The main exhibit constantly changes and highlights different topics, while the other halls are permanent.
My daughters and I chose this museum because the main exhibit (which rotates) showcased ancient Rome and Roman history until January 28, 2018.
The massive exhibit featured a wide array of Roman history, culture, simple machines, weaponry, statues, art, clothing and architectural engineering.
We found the area clean, organized, well maintained and everything in working order within the main hall, which changes its display often.
Though I always appreciate hands-on, interactive exhibits, this one lacked information and left me wanting more explanation. Some “stations” offered awesome gadgets and instruments to touch and examine, but the educational material was minimal, insignificant, or missing altogether.
We enjoyed the permanent Jacksonville and Northeast Florida history hall called Currents of Time. It leads visitors through an extensive and visual timeline beginning with the Timucuas and ending in the 1960’s, which represents 12,000 years of Floridian history. We spent the most time in this section.
The Jacksonville, Florida history exhibit showcases one of the best visual and educational timelines we have experienced in a museum. However, the other halls appear gloomy, dark, dingy and significantly lacked updating.
The Atlantic Tails and Hixon Native Plant Courtyard both present dated and “well-loved” displays and need a good cleaning, repairs, updates, and/or re-tweaking. Even though the touch tank was supposed to be available from 11 am to 2 pm, there was nothing in it except slime.
Other exhibits are simple and very limited, though each section did present several hands-on activities.
The entire third floor focused on a tiny area with brain teaser stations. My daughters enjoyed the problem solving, but the exhibit is not substantial and only a fraction of what it could and should be.
Overall, I give the Museum of Science and History a mediocre “C” rating. The regional history hall and Roman exhibit saved it from a failing grade, in my opinion. Our tickets included general admission and 1 program at the planetarium, but my daughters grew bored quickly and did not want to wait around for the show. If my girls want to leave a museum, there is a problem. We left feeling unfulfilled.
Visit the museum for the Jacksonville and Northeast Florida walkthrough-history timeline.
The Museum of Science and History (MOSH) is located at 1025 Museum Circle, Jacksonville, Florida, 32207. It is open 7 days a week and until 8pm on Friday nights. For more information, visit www.themosh.org or call 904-396-6674.
Want to check out some other museums in Florida? Read this! And this!
Heading to Walt Disney World? This is a MUST read!
Everything you need to know about the 2018 Disney dining plan is right here!
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The American Prohibition Museum–Experience Adventure 14 of 100
Savannah, Georgia offers a ton of awesome places to visit–historical sites, meaningful monuments, yummy restaurants, cool bars and shopping opportunities galore. My daughters and I drove through Savannah at the end of January 2018, and only had a few hours for a brief stop. A total bummer for us!
(Currently looking for a good excuse to return!) 🙂
We crammed as much as we could into a few, short hours. While we ate lunch, I did a quick search and learned that the American Prohibition Museum was just walking distance from our restaurant. So, of course, we went. 🙂
The American Prohibition Museum opened in Savannah, Georgia on May 29, 2017, and highlights American history, pop culture and societal norms before, during and after the passing of the 18th amendment. As America’s only museum focused on prohibition, the 2-story building features 5,500 square feet of interactive, hands-on exhibits full of historically accurate, alcohol related treasures.
**Fun Fact (or not-so-fun fact, depending on your personal views, LOL) : The 18th amendment was passed in 1919, and put into action from 1920 to 1933–almost 14 years!
Not only does the museum consist of 13 well organized galleries, it boasts 1,100 prohibition artifacts and 30+ realistic, life-sized wax figures.
**Fun Fact: The first thing visitors see upon entering the museum is a beer truck from 1918!
**Fun Fact: Carrie Nation was a hard-core, radical member of the temperance movement and opposed alcohol consumption long before prohibition. To get her message across, she threw rocks, bricks and hatchets into alcohol serving establishments. That’s legit passion.
As the museum walks visitors through a self-guided tour of the early 1900’s, actors dressed in period clothing offer entertaining stories, historical facts, and interesting tidbits of information. The characters interact with guests and answer questions, instantly bringing American history to life. (My FAVORITE way to learn!)
Exhibits illustrate a time in American history when dividing opinions circled around the sale and drinking of alcohol. The passing of the 18th amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, transport, import, export, and consumption of all alcoholic beverages. This law affected every citizen one way or another, especially those directly working in the industry.
All of the fascinating facets of prohibition and the side effects, consequences, and results of such a polarizing mandate are thoroughly represented. This creates a completely immersive and impressive experience where visitors step back in time to walk among prohibitionists, whiskey runners, flappers, mobsters, and gangsters.
There is even a super cool area to learn the Charleston! Seriously, that is cool.
As the historical experience nears the demise of prohibition, visitors find a door with a “hidden” secret.
Follow the directions and the door opens…to reveal a secret:
The Congress Street Up.
Even as a non-drinker, I certainly appreciate a museum with a bar inside, specifically a 1920’s-themed speakeasy. Full of vintage signs, art and artifacts, a bar serving 1920’s cocktails (IN A MUSEUM!) is even cooler than the chance to dance the Charleston! 🙂
Finally, a small theater features a quick summary film to tie it all together. Education Perfection.
From a historical and educational standpoint, the American Prohibition Museum is winning at all things that make a museum one of my favs. It is comprehensive, interactive, and hands-on, with knowledgeable docents, interesting actors, relevant wax figures, awesome artifacts, including original propaganda posters, pertinent memorabilia, and historically accurate audio recordings, papers and film clips. Oh, and there is a bar. Hello.
Even though this is the only museum I have visited in Georgia, I am going to bravely state that this one is my favorite. 🙂
Put the American Prohibition Museum on the “Must-Do in Savannah” list ASAP.
The American Prohibition Museum is located at 209 W. St. Julian Street, Savannah, Georgia, 31401.
The museum is open 10:00 am to 5:00 pm everyday.
Admission prices: Adults $12 and children $9
Discounts are available online and on the museum website if purchased in advance.
For more information visit www.americanprohibitionmuseum.com or call 912-551-4054.
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The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts–Experience Adventure 13 of 100
My daughters and I spent a wonderful, art-centric day with my cousin and her son at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, our 13th of 100 experience adventures.
My beautiful cousin (Her mom and my dad are siblings.)
My cousin’s son and my daughters (Does that make them 2nd cousins or cousins once removed?!? I can never remember!) LOL
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is located in the historic city of Richmond, Virginia. Like most art museums in larger cities, the VMFA exhibits overflow with artwork from around the globe. However, the interesting architecture of the VMFA building and the breathtaking outdoor sculpture garden make this art destination exceptionally special.
It certainly helped that we visited on a gorgeous day, but the grounds of the museum begged us to stay outside just a little longer. What a wonderful park and public space for the citizens of Richmond!
My daughters and I are always excited to find an unexpected Chihuly sculpture!
The COOLEST thing about the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (besides the awesome Robins Sculpture Garden) is that general admission is FREE. Yep, FREE. This includes ALL permanent exhibits and most collections. Traveling exhibits and special engagements might cost a little, but seriously…FREE general admission…that is AMAZING. I visit a TON of art museums–I cannot recall any of them being free to the public. VMFA, you ROCK! (And thank you!)
With over 35,000 pieces of art that represent almost every major culture, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts offers visitors a thorough and immersive art history experience.
We greatly enjoyed the American Art and Early 20th Century European Art halls, as well as the Faberge and Russian Decorative Arts collection. My daughters love Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Comfort Tiffany and were excited to find several pieces in the Decorative Arts After 1890 hall.
One of our favorite traveling exhibits is secretly following our homeschool journey–we have accidently experienced it at THREE different locations in THREE different states. What are the chances?!?
When I noticed it on the VMFA website before our visit, I laughed to myself and originally planned to skip it (since we have seen it twice already). But when we arrived, the helpful information desk told me this special exhibit was free for military families.
Ok…you twisted my arm…we will enjoy it for the third time! Honestly folks…it is AMAZING and quite an unbelievable archeological find and can we really see it too many times??? Apparently not. 🙂
Put the Terracotta Army: Legacy of the Frist Emperor of China on your bucket list. It is featured at the VMFA until March 11, 2018, and might be near you at a later date. Who knows…maybe we will be lucky enough to see it for a 4th time some day! HA!
The museum boasts two on-site restaurants and we enjoyed a delicious, fine dining lunch at Amuse, which features fresh, local ingredients and beautiful views of the sculpture garden. Best Café, offering a more casual menu, overlooks the reflecting pool.
General admission is FREE (Yippeeee!) and the museum is open all 365 days of the year. That is FABULOUS!
Hours: 10:00 am -5:00 pm and open until 9:00 pm on Thursdays and Fridays. Parking for non-members is $5.
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is located at 200 N. Boulevard, Richmond, Virginia, 23220. For more information, call 804-340-1450, 804-340-1400 or visit www.vmfa.museum
Online museum gallery map and gallery activities (homeschool goodies!) Click here!
Our day ended with a fantastic, personal tour of my cousin’s pre-Civil War home, where I saw a new-to-me picture of my grandparents, who left this world long before I was an adult.
Kind of an amazing day. After we said goodbye to my gracious cousin and her family, my daughters and I continued our journey south.
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Categories: 100 Adventures, Attractions, Experiences, Homeschool, Museums, Profoundly Gifted, Virginia | Tags: Art, Education, Educational, History, Homeschooling, Learning, Museums, Richmond, Road Trip, Terra Cotta Warriors, Virginia | Permalink.
The Edgar Allan Poe Museum–Experience Adventure 12 of 100
I registered my youngest daughter for the SAT test before I knew about this exciting Pennsylvania sabbatical, so I swapped the testing site to a location a tad bit closer to PA than Texas–and Richmond, Virginia won.
During my “What to do in Richmond, Virginia” search, I found the Edgar Allan Poe Museum and I immediately started collecting curriculum to create a unit study for my daughters. I bought several books, a biographical DVD and an audio collection of his stories and poetry. (I will provide a list at the end of this post.)
The girls read many of his pieces, including The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart and The Raven. Along with the readings, we focused on vocabulary, writing responses, discussions and literary devices. We studied his timeline in a historical context, illustrated his poetry, re-wrote sections from other characters’ views and dissected his works as detective-based, science fiction and psychological horror stories.
I love nothing more than finishing up a great unit study with a relevant museum trip. It is the icing on the homeschooling cake. 🙂
Even more AWESOME: When we arrived at the museum, we happened upon the COOLEST thing EVER!
Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809. We visited the museum on January 20, 2018, and guess what?!? The museum was hosting a huge 209th birthday bash to celebrate Mr. Poe. Complete happy accident on our part–we were only there that day because my daughter took the SAT that morning in Richmond.
I LOVE when this happens!
The Edgar Allan Poe Museum began as an enchanted garden shrine to Poe and opened to the public on April 26, 1922. (April 26th is my b-day! Not really relevant, just fun!) James Howard Whitty and a group of literary enthusiasts originally wanted to honor Poe by restoring the Southern Literary Messenger building, where Poe began his work as an editor.
Unfortunately, the historical landmark was demolished. Whitty collected and salvaged the building materials and Annie Jones used the bricks and granite to create paved walkways and peaceful paths, which became the garden and Edgar Allan Poe shrine. Mrs. Jones used Poe’s poem, “To One in Paradise” as inspiration and filled the garden with plants from Poe’s mom’s grave.
Today, the land and museum consists of the garden, an old stone house and several buildings that display relics, artwork, personal letters and furniture from Poe’s life.
Photography is limited to certain areas, so I do not have a ton of pictures. But, the museum is considered the most comprehensive in the world and showcases a large collection of Poe related items, including a staircase from his childhood home.
I took this picture of one of Mr. Poe’s desks.
We were thankful to be able to take advantage of the unique, birthday-themed events offered by the museum. We toured the museum, ate cake, visited the garden and listened to knowledgeable docents explain exhibits.
Our favorite event–hands down–featured an intriguing mock trial, presented by a talented stage actor, portraying the narrator from Poe’s psychological thriller, “The Tell-Tale Heart”. His performance brought the short story to life for my daughters.
The Edgar Allan Poe Museum is located at 1914-16 E. Main Street, Richmond, Virginia, 23223. Admission is $8 for adults and $6 for children and seniors. For more information, visit www.poemuseum.org or call 804-648-5523.
The museum has a wonderful gift shop and educational resources can be found on the website at http://www.poemuseum.org/educational-resources
The resources I used to create an Edgar Allan Poe unit study are listed below:
The Edgar Allan Poe audio collection preformed by Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone.
Edgar A. Poe, Buried Alive, PBS American Masters DVD
Who Was Edgar Allan Poe, written by Jim Gigliotti
The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, book
The Best of Poe, book
Poe–Stories and Poems, a graphic novel adaptation by Gareth Hinds
Several Brain Pop and YouTube videos on Poe and literary devices
The educational resources listed on the Edgar Allan Poe Museum website: http://www.poemuseum.org/educational-resources
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Categories: 100 Adventures, Attractions, Experiences, Homeschool, Museums, Virginia | Tags: Edgar Allan Poe, Education, Educational, History, Homeschool, Homeschooling, Learning, Museums, Poetry, Richmond, Road Trip, Unit Study, Virginia | Permalink.
Maymont–Experience Adventure 11 of 100
For our first stop during our 3 week road trip, my daughters and I visited Maymont in Richmond, Virginia. When conducting my usual Google research, Maymont came up as a Japanese Garden center and since my youngest was registered to take the SAT in Richmond the next morning, I decided a peaceful botanical garden offered the “zen”, pre-test afternoon we would all desire.
We left Pennsylvania on a Friday morning and the three of us drove to Maymont–which surprise–was SOOOOOOOO much more than a Japanese Garden! We hope to go back some day soon because we did not even scratch the surface. In fact, we stayed after closing–until we were kicked off the property. LOL
What is Maymont? A quick historical lesson:
Maymont is the American estate of Mr. James Henry Dooley and Mrs. Sallie May Dooley. The couple purchased the 100 acre property in 1886 and lived there from 1893 to 1925. Nestled up to the banks of the James River, Maymont showcases a beautiful mansion, and a gorgeous collection of pathways, bridges, gardens, and scenic landscapes. The land also features twenty-five other preserved historic buildings, gazebos, a mausoleum and a nature center.
Mr. and Mrs. Dooley had no children and when Mrs. Dooley died in 1925, (Mr. Dooley passed in 1922), she gave the entire estate to the city of Richmond. Within six months, it became a museum and park. Due to the lack of heirs, the mansion is relatively untouched and offers an authentic example of American estates built during the Gilded Age in the south.
**Fun Fact: Maymont was named after Mrs. Dooley’s maiden name, “May”, and the French word for hill, which is “mont”.
During the late 1870’s through the 1910’s, the Gilded Age movement filled the country with elaborate homes, treasures from around the world and created a society obsessed with status. The post-reconstruction era focused on the opulent expression of great wealth, pushing aside the serious social issues of the time.
**Fun Fact: The term “Gilded Age” was coined by Mark Twain.
Maymont, built by architect Edgerton Stewart Rogers, boasts 12,000 sq. ft. with 33 rooms and today, twelve restored rooms on the first and second floor and eight rooms below, can be viewed as a significant and realistic example of life during these times.
My daughters and I walked through the nature center and wandered around the property until we accidentally found the mansion. Several informational posters hang from the gates and after reading a few, I knew we needed to take the guided tour of the interior.
The guided tour was everything I hoped it would be–thorough and informative. The guide, though knowledgeable, was rude, condescending, abrasive and sexist. Her behavior tarnished our experience and made my children very uncomfortable. However, my girls were able to learn quite a bit about daily life, society and social expectations of the early 1900’s (and how not to act in the early 2000’s). Everything (positive and negative) can be a learning experience. 🙂
Maymont is located at 2201 Shields Lake Drive, Richmond, Virginia, 23220.
Plan to visit the Maymont mansion and historic buildings, the nature and visitor center, gardens and arboretum, children’s farm and wildlife exhibit. Visitors can expect to spend the entire day exploring.
The grounds, gardens and farm are free to the public and are open 10:00 am to 5:00 pm during October to March and are open until 7:00 pm from April to September.
The nature center is $4 for adults and $3 for children.
The mansion has a “suggested” donation of $5 a person, but the woman collecting the “donations” was extremely pushy and demanding, shaming the international family in line in front of us. So, when it was our turn, I just donated the expected $15. I think it would be appropriate for the “suggested donation” to become the posted price for the tour.
More information can be found at www.maymont.org or by calling 804-358-7166.
Check out some of our other adventures here, here and here!
Categories: 100 Adventures, Attractions, Experiences, Homeschool, Museums, Virginia | Tags: Education, Educational, History, Homeschooling, Learning, Maymont, Museums, Road Trip, Virginia | Permalink.
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Download the Agenda, New Filings, or Notice.
Item 1B Minutes for the March 30, 2005 hearing were adopted.
Minutes for the May 12, 2005 hearing were adopted.
May 12, 2005 (tentative)
The proposed consent calendar was adopted.
No Appeals
HEARING TO SET ASIDE AND MODIFY COMMISSION DECISIONS PURSUANT TO COURT ORDERS (Gov. Code, § 17559, subd. (b).)
Item 4 Adopted on consent calendar.
Order to Partially Set Aside and Modify Statement of Decision
Test Claim Decision: Pupil Expulsions, CSM-4455
Education Code Sections 48900, 48900.2, 48900.3, 48900.4, 48915, 48915.1, 48915.2, 48915.7, 48916, 48918, as added and amended by Statutes 1975, Chapter 1253 (AB 1770); Statutes 1977, Chapter 965 (AB 530); Statutes 1978, Chapter 668 (AB 2191); Statutes 1982, Chapter 318 (SB 1385); Statutes 1983, Chapter 498 (SB 813); Statutes 1984, Chapters 23, 536, and 622 (AB 1619, AB 3151, and SB 1685); Statutes 1985, Chapter 318 (AB 343); Statutes 1986, Chapter 1136 (AB 4085); Statutes 1987, Chapters 383 and 942 (AB 56 and AB 2590); Statutes 1989, Chapter 1306 (SB 142); Statutes 1990, Chapter 1231 (AB 3794); Statutes 1992, Chapter 909 (SB 1930); Statutes 1993, Chapters 1255, 1256, and 1257 (AB 342, SB 1198, and SB 1130); Statutes 1994, Chapters 146, 1017, and 1198 (AB 3601, AB 2752, AB 2543).
(On Remand from the California Supreme Court, San Diego Unified School District v. State of California (2004) 33 Cal.4th 859); (Peremptory Writ of Mandamus from the Superior Court, San Diego Unified School District v. Commission on State Mandates (GIC 737638)
Item 5* Adopted on consent calendar.
Order to Partially Set Aside Portion of Statements of Decision on Incorrect Reduction Claims (IRCs) and Order to Direct State Controller to Set Aside Reduction of Reimbursement Claims for Teacher Salaries, to Reevaluate the Reimbursement Claims in Light of the Court’s Ruling, and to Submit the Results of the Reevaluation to the Commission Within 60 Days
A. San Diego Unified School District v. Commission on State Mandates, et al., Case Number [03CS01401] in the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Sacramento. CSM Case No. 03-L-03 [Graduation Requirements IRC Decision, 4435-I-01 and 4435-I-37, Adopted September 28, 2001]
B. San Jose Unified School District v. Commission on State Mandates, et al., Case Number [03CS01569] in the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Sacramento. CSM Case No. 03-L-05 [Graduation Requirements IRC Decision, 4435-I-04, Adopted May 24, 2001]
C. Sweetwater Union High School District v. Commission on State Mandates, et al., Case Number 03CS01570 in the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Sacramento. CSM Case No. 03-L-06 [Graduation Requirements IRC Decision, 4435-I-05, Adopted June 28, 2001]
D. Castro Valley Unified School District v. Commission on State Mandates, et al., Case Number [03CS01568] in the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Sacramento. CSM Case No. 03-L-04 [Graduation Requirements IRC Decision, 4435-I-13 and 4435-I-39, Adopted August 23, 2001]
Order to Partially Set Aside Part 2, Issue 3 of the Statements of Decision on Incorrect Reduction Claims (IRCs) and Order Directing the State Controller to Set Aside Reduction of Reimbursement Claims for Teacher Salary Costs, to Reevaluate the Reimbursement Claims in Light of the Court’s Ruling, and to Submit the Results of the Reevaluation to the Commission Within 60 Days
A. Clovis Unified School District v. Commission on State Mandates, et al., Case Number 03CS01702 in the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Sacramento. CSM Case No. 03-L-09 [Graduation Requirements IRC Decision, 4435-I-35, Adopted January 24, 2002]
B. Grossmont Union High School District v. Commission on State Mandates, et al., Case Number 04CS00028 in the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Sacramento. CSM Case No. 03-L-10 [Graduation Requirements IRC Decision, 4435-I-06 and 4435-I-38, Adopted January 24, 2002]
RECONSIDERATION OF PRIOR STATEMENTS OF DECISION AS DIRECTED BY THE LEGISLATURE IN STATUTES 2004, CHAPTERS 895, 227, and 493 (AB 2855, SB 1102 AND SB 1895)
(Note: Items 8, 10, and 12 will not be voted on unless the staff recommendations for Items 7, 9, and 11 respectively, are adopted.)
Item 7 The Commission's vote resulted in a tie.
School Accountability Report Cards I, 04-RL-9721-11
Education Code Sections 33126, 35356, 35256.1, 35258, 41409 and 41409.3, Statutes 1989, Chapter 1463 (SB 280); Statutes 1992, Chapter 759 (AB 1248); Statutes 1993, Chapter 1031 (AB 198), Statutes 1994, Chapter 824 (SB 1665); Statutes 1997, Chapter 918 (AB 568), 97-TC-21
Directed by Statutes 2004, Chapter 895, Section 18 (Assem. Bill No. 2855)
Item 8 The Commission did not vote on this item.
Item 9 The Commission continued this item to the July hearing in order to obtain additional information.
Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR), 04-RL-9723-01
Education Code Sections 60607, subdivision (a), 60609, 60615, 60630, 60640, 60641, and 60643, as amended by Statutes 1997, Chapter 828 (SB 376); Title 5, California Code of Regulations, Sections 850-874, 97-TC-23
Item 10 The Commission continued this item to the July hearing.
Item 11 The Commission adopted the staff recommendation to approve the test claim.
Handicapped & Disabled Students, 04-RL-4282-10
Statutes 1984, Chapter 1747 (AB 3632); Statutes 1985, Chapter 1274 (AB 1500); California Code of Regulations, Tit. 2, §§ 60000-60200 (Emergency Regulations adopted July 12, 1986), CSM 4282
Directed By Statutes 2004, Chapter 493, Section 7, (Sen. Bill No. 1895)
Item 12 The Commission adopted the proposed Statement of Decision.
HEARINGS AND DECISIONS ON TEST CLAIMS, PURSUANT TO AND CALIFORNIA CODE OF REGULATIONS, TITLE 2, CHAPTER 2.5, ARTICLE 7 (Gov. Code, § 17551)
(Note: Item 14 will not be voted on unless the staff recommendation for Items 13 is adopted.)
The Commission adopted the staff recommendation to approve the test claim.
Handicapped & Disabled Students II, 02-TC-40/02-TC-49
Counties of Stanislaus and Los Angeles, Claimants
Government Code Sections 7570, 7571, 7572, 7572.5, 7572.55, 7573, 7576, 7579, 7582, 7584, 7585, 7586, 7586.6, 7586.7, 7587, 7588
Statutes 1984, Chapter 1747 (AB 3632); Statutes 1985, Chapter 107 (AB 1304); Statutes 1985, Chapter 759 (AB 1255); Statutes 1985, Chapter 1274 (AB 1500); Statutes 1986, Chapter 1133 (AB 3012); Statutes 1992, Chapter 759 (AB 1248); Statutes 1994, Chapter 1128 (AB 1892); Statutes 1996, Chapter 654 (AB 2726); Statutes 1998, Chapter 691(SB 1686); Statutes 2001, Chapter 745 (SB 1191); Statutes 2002, Chapter 585 (SB 2012); and Statutes 2002, Chapter 1167 (AB 2781) California Code of Regulations, Title 2, Sections 60000-60610
Proposed Statement of Decision Handicapped & Disabled Students II, 02-TC-40/02-TC-49
ADOPTION OF ORDER TO SET ASIDE PARAMETERS AND GUIDELINES
Item 15* Adopted on consent calendar.
Regional Housing Needs Determination: Cities and Counties Statutes 1980, Chapter 1143 (AB 2853)
Directed by Statutes 2004, Chapter 227, Sections 109-110 (SB1102)
Item 16* Postponed to June 10, 2005 hearing.
Regional Housing Needs Determination: Councils of Governments, Statutes 1980, Chapter 1143 (AB 2853)
Directed by Statutes 2004, Chapter 227, Sections 109-110 (SB 1102)
ADOPTION OF ORDER TO INITIATE RULEMAKING PROCEEDING
Proposed Amendments to California Code of Regulations, Title 2, Chapter 2.5, Article 1. General, Section 1181
Chief Legal Counsel’s Report (info)
Executive Director’s Report (info/action)
Budget, Workload, Legislation, Next Hearing
SPECIAL ORDER OF BUSINESS – 1:30 P.M.
HEARING AND DECISION PURSUANT TO CALIFORNIA CODE OF REGULATIONS, TITLE 2, CHAPTER 2.5, ARTICLE 6.5
Item 20-A
Item 20-B
Errata The Commission adopted the staff recommendation to make a finding of significant financial distress for a period of 12 months.
Adoption of Proposed Preliminary Decision: Butte County Application for Finding of Significant Financial Distress, Welfare & Institutions Code Section 17000.6
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Philippe Langlois (Founder, P1 Security / TSTF)
Presentation Title Attacking The GPRS Roaming eXchange (GRX)
GRX is the global private network where telecom network operators exchange GPRS roaming traffic of their users. It’s also used for all M2M networks where roaming is used, and that is the case from some company’s truck fleet management system down to intelligence GPS location spybug tracking system.
GPRS has been there from 2.5G GSM networks to the upcoming LTE Advanced networks, and is now quite widespread technology, along with its attacks. GRX has had a structuring role in the global telecom world at a time where IP dominance was beginning to be acknowledged. Now it has expanded to a lightweight structure using both IP technologies and ITU-originated protocols.
In this presentation, we’ll see how this infrastructure is protected and how it can be attacked. We’ll discover the issues with specific telco equipment inside GRX, namely GGSN and SGSN but also now PDN Gateways in LTE and LTE Advanced “Evolved Packet Core”. We will see the implications of this with GTP protocol, DNS infrastructure, AAA servers and core network technologies such as MPLS, IPsec VPNs and their associated routing protocols. These network elements were rarely evaluated for security, and during our engagements with vulnerability analysis, we’ve seen several vulnerabilities that we will be showing in this speech.
We will demo some of the attacks on a simulated “PS Domain” network, that it the IP part of the Telecom Core Network that transports customers’ traffic, and investigate its relationships with legacy SS7, SIGTRAN IP backbones, M2M private corporate VPNs and telecom billing systems. We will also seem how automation enable us to succeed at attacks which are hard to perform and will show how a “sentinel” attack was able to compromise a telecom Core Network during one penetration test.
About Philippe Langlois
Founder of P1 Security and Senior Researcher for Telecom Security Task Force. Philippe Langlois has proven expertise in network security. At P1 Security, he is leading a security research team to deliver the first products to scan SS7, SIGTRAN, IMS and LTE networks for vulnerabilities and to detect these attacks in realtime. He founded and led technical teams in several security companies Qualys, WaveSecurity, INTRINsec) as well as security research teams (Solsoft, TSTF).
He founded Qualys and led the world-leading vulnerability assessment service. He founded a pioneering network security company Intrinsec in 1995 in France, as well as Worldnet, France’s first public Internet service provider, in 1993. Philippe was also lead designer for Payline, one of the first e-commerce payment gateways. He has written and translated security books, including some of the earliest references in the field of computer security, and has been giving speeches on network security since 1995 (Interop, BlackHat, HITB Dubai, Hack.lu). He can be reached through his website – http://www.p1sec.com
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Mother Of Charlottesville Victim Thanks Trump For Condemning Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists
Heather Heyer Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla
Chuck Ross Investigative Reporter
The mother of the 32-year-old paralegal who was killed after being run over by an alleged white nationalist in Charlottesville, Va. on Saturday has thanked President Trump for denouncing neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
“Thank you, President Trump, for those words of comfort and for denouncing those who promote violence and hatred,” Heather Heyer’s mother, Susan Bro, said in a statement on Monday, just after Trump condemned Saturday’s violence.
Susan Bro, mother of Charlottesville attack victim Heather Heyer, thanks Pres. Trump for “denouncing those who promote violence and hatred” pic.twitter.com/E46OnwE5fW
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 14, 2017
Heyer died after being struck by a vehicle driven by James A. Fields, a 20-year-old Nazi sympathizer from Maumee, Ohio.
Fields was seen on video plowing his 2010 Dodge Challenger into a crowd of people gathered to counter-protest a “Unite the Right” rally being held in downtown Charlottesville.
Thousands of white nationalist sympathizers gathered in Charlottesville to protest the planned removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Violence broke out during the march between “Unite the Right” participants — some of who wore Nazi regalia — and anti-fascist counter-protesters.
Fields was arrested and charged with second-degree murder in Heyer’s death. At least 19 others were injured. Attorney General Jeff Sessions opened up a hate crime investigation of the incident on Sunday. The Justice Department is also looking into whether Fields was helped or egged on by others to mow down counter-protesters.
Trump’s remarks on Monday came as he faced heavy criticism for not directly calling out the white supremacists and neo-Nazis whose rally in Charlottesville precipitated Heyer’s death. He was blasted by critics on Saturday for decrying violence “on both sides” of the rally.
Trump was much more direct in his condemnation on Monday.
“Two days ago, a young American woman, Heather Heyer, was tragically killed. Her death fills us with grief, and we send her family our thoughts, our prayers, and our love,” Trump said Monday.
“Racism is evil. And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans,” he continued.
Trump also sent condolences to Virginia State Troopers Jay Cullen and Burke Bates. They died after a helicopter in which they were riding to surveil the Charlottesville protests crashed.
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Montclair Residents Raising Funds For Memorial To 7-Year-Old Ballplayer
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Globe watch: A lawyer’s lament, and Stat’s discontents
On November 10, 2015 By Dan KennedyIn Media
Two items of note regarding The Boston Globe.
1. Eric MacLeish, a prominent lawyer who represented numerous victims of pedophile priests, is objecting to his portrayal in the movie “Spotlight.” An item in the Globe’s “Names” column notes, “Curiously, MacLeish hasn’t seen the movie.” Yet someone must have given MacLeish a good briefing, as the bill of particulars he posted on Facebook is pretty accurate in summarizing his character in the film: a lawyer who reached confidential settlements with the Catholic Church on behalf of his clients, thus helping to delay the truth from coming out.
Also of note is that Stephen Kurkjian, a legendary Globe investigative reporter who also does not come off well in “Spotlight,” has posted a comment saying in part: “I can attest to how committed you [MacLeish] were — within the confines of attorney-client relationships — to assisting The Globe in getting the story out.”
Of course, such complaints are to be expected when a fictional movie is made about a real-life story and actual people. I experienced this first-hand when the movie about the Woburn toxic-waste story, “A Civil Action,” came out. (I covered the story for The Daily Times Chronicle of Woburn.) I was so incensed by some of what I saw that I wrote about it for The New Republic.
“Spotlight” is a far better — and truer — movie than “A Civil Action.” But it’s not a documentary.
2. Craig Douglas of The Boston Business Journal reports that the Newspaper Guild has some issues with Stat, a website covering health, medicine and life sciences that is part of John Henry’s Boston Globe Media holdings.
As I wrote last week for WGBHNews.org, Stat launched with about 40 journalists just weeks after the Globe eliminated about 40 newsroom positions through buyouts and layoffs. The two developments are said to be unrelated in the sense that Henry is not funding Stat through cuts at the Globe. As Gideon Gil, Stat’s managing editor for enterprise and partnerships, told me, each property has to pursue its own business plan.
Still, Douglas reports, it has not gone unnoticed that union jobs at the Globe have been eliminated while positions at Stat are non-union. Douglas quotes an anonymous union official as saying: “The feeling is, those weren’t the last layoffs we’re going to see. It feels like they are trying to expand by killing us from inside.”
Surely Henry can’t be blamed for making cuts in a shrinking business while trying to find innovative ideas that could lead to growth and profitability. But it’s not hard to sympathize with the fears voiced in Douglas’ article.
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New York Times defends Saudi killer regime
This 30 November 2017 video from the USA says about itself:
Mehdi Hasan Rips Thomas Friedman’s “Nauseating” Column in NYT Praising Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince
We get response from Al Jazeera’s Mehdi Hasan to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s recent controversial column, “Saudi Arabia’s Arab Spring, at Last.”
While meanwhile, the Saudi regime violently oppressed the activists of Saudi Arabia’s REAL Arab Spring (not the crown prince’s fake one.)
Hasan argues the piece is absurdly sympathetic to Saudi Arabia, and that Trump’s friendly relations with the country mean he “is not just a liar and a conspiracy theorist, he’s a hypocrite. He goes on about radical islamic terrorism but cozies up to Saudi Arabia, which many would argue has done more to promote ideologically and financially radical Islamic terrorism than any other country on earth.”
Feigning moral outrage, the Times’ Thomas Friedman comes to the defense of the Saudi killer regime
Leave it to Thomas Friedman, the New York Times’ chief foreign affairs commentator, to outdo his colleagues at the nation’s foremost sounding board for CIA propaganda when it comes to hypocrisy and deceit. This he has achieved in an op-ed piece on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi published in Wednesday’s print edition under the headline “America’s Dilemma in Saudi Arabia.”
Friedman played a key role in promoting the unprovoked and illegal US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, a war crime that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and laid waste to the entire country. He cavalierly shifted from one pretext to another, penning columns promoting the war as a key front in the post-9/11 “war on terror”, a crusade for democracy in the Middle East and a naked war for oil.
He has since backed every US act of military aggression, including the wars for regime-change in Libya and Syria, which have killed tens of thousands more innocent people, turned millions into homeless refugees, and transformed the entire region into a killing field. He maintains a complicit silence on the US drone murder program and Washington’s key role in the Saudi-led bloodbath in Yemen, which has already killed upwards of 50,000 people and threatens another 14.1 million with starvation, according to the United Nations.
None of this phases him. He—and his newspaper—are ruthless and ardent exponents of the violent drive by US imperialism to establish its hegemony over the oil-rich Middle East.
But of the torture and murder within the Saudi consulate in Istanbul of the former Saudi regime insider-turned columnist for the Washington Post, he writes, “The depravity and cowardice of that is just disgusting.”
He goes on to directly accuse the de facto ruler of the House of Saud, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, affectionately referred to in the Western media as MBS, of complicity in the crime:
“I do not believe for a second that it was a rogue operation and that Saudi Arabia’s effective ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is very hands-on, had no prior knowledge, if not more… not as a journalist, but as an American citizen, I am sickened to watch my own president and his secretary of state partnering with Saudi officials to concoct a cover story.”
His supposed moral indignation notwithstanding, Friedman poses the problem of how to respond to this crime from the “practical” standpoint of imperialist Realpolitik, i.e., the interests of the tiny American corporate-financial oligarchy.
“How should America think about balancing our values and our interests going forward?” he asks. He then proceeds to tout what he calls “MBS’ reform agenda.” The only examples he is able to summon of this supposedly progressive program is bin Salman’s order to allow some women to drive and his decision to reopen cinemas.
He makes no mention of the brutal crackdown bin Salman carried out last year against rivals within the Saudi ruling elite, detaining princes, former government ministers and businessmen, torturing them and extracting billions of dollars in exchange for their release—all in the name of combating corruption. Realizing that he was among those being targeted, Khashoggi fled to the US and became a public critic of the crown prince.
Nor does he mention the more than 150 Saudis beheaded by sword in 2017 and the 48 more put to death in the same way—half for non-violent crimes—in the first four months of this year. Or the stonings and similar barbaric practices, or the ruthless repression against any expression of popular opposition.
He makes no suggestion that bin Salman should be overthrown or prosecuted for his role in the murder of Khashoggi, writing, “Personally, I don’t care if Saudi Arabia is ruled by MBS, SOS or KFC.”
He then seeks to resurrect the discredited “war on terror”, declaring “our most important national interest in Saudi Arabia since 9/11” to be “Islamic religious reform…” (Friedman’s emphasis). He complains, “We have spent thousands of lives and some $2 trillion trying to defuse the threat of Muslim extremists—from Al Qaeda to ISIS—dollars that could have gone to so many other needs in our society.”
Nothing here about the millions of Iraqis, Libyans, Syrians and Yemenis killed, wounded and displaced in the fraudulent “war on terror”, or the fact that the US has conducted these wars in alliance with Al Qaeda-linked Islamist forces, and continues to do so in Syria and Yemen.
It becomes clear that the so-called “religious reform” championed by Friedman is a cosmetic facelift for the semi-feudal regime to give it a pseudo-democratic gloss, including ending the “cynical bargain” that allows the regime to “treat your women however you want.”
Bemoaning the fact that “the promise of MBS… is finished,” Friedman gets to the heart of his concerns over the Khashoggi murder. “MBS may be able to hold onto power in Saudi Arabia”, he writes, “but his whole reform program required direct foreign investment—and money has been flowing out of Saudi Arabia for months, not in. Now it will get worse… without sweeping social, economic and religious reforms, Saudi Arabia could well become a huge failed state.”
Washington and Wall Street have seen the ascension of bin Salman as an opening for US big business to more effectively exploit the vast oil resources and cheap labor in Saudi Arabia. At the same time, the US ruling class is acutely aware that the venal regime sits atop a social powder keg. It has made this rotten and precarious regime its chief ally in the Arab world and, along with Israel, the basis of an alliance in the region to destabilize and ultimately militarily attack Iran. But the fall in oil prices, the vast sums expended by Riyadh for the wars in Syria and Yemen and the internal conflicts within the regime have frightened international investors, compounding the monarchy’s crisis.
The Times and other media critical of Trump have seized on the Khashoggi killing to step up their criticism of his decision to withdraw from the Iranian nuclear accord, not because they are opposed in principle to a war for regime-change in Iran, but because they see his action as a reckless diversion that has isolated the US from its nominal allies in Europe and distracted attention from the more pressing confrontation with Russia and China.
The newspaper has published a series of editorials denouncing Trump for not pulling out of bin Salman’s investors’ conference, dubbed “Davos in the desert”, set for later this month. But it has failed to explain why, in the midst of the relentless repression of the regime and its near-genocidal war in Yemen, it had agreed to become an official sponsor of the gathering in the first place.
For all his moral effluvia, Friedman ends up by recommending a policy of stay the course, at most “finding some way to censure MBS… without seeming to attack the whole Saudi people and destabilize the country. And we have to make sure that the social/religious reform process in Saudi Arabia proceeds—whoever is in charge there.”
In the end his only concrete proposal is to pressure Trump to fill the vacant post of US ambassador to the kingdom.
Friedman personally and the Times as a whole are up to their eyeballs in the blood and filth of bin Salman and his criminal regime. In the midst of MBS’ crackdown on rivals within the Saudi elite, in November of 2017, Friedman published a sycophantic panegyric to the supposed great reformer titled “Saudi’s Arab Spring.”
This set the stage for the crown prince’s triumphant two-and-a-half week tour of the US last March, during which he was feted by Wall Street bankers, tech moguls, Hollywood movers and shakers and politicians of both political parties. The list of notables who lined up to hail the great man in New York, Washington, Seattle, Los Angeles and other cities includes Trump, Michael Bloomberg, Rupert Murdoch, John Kerry, Henry Kissinger, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos …
The American ruling elite and its scribblers such as Friedman bear moral and political responsibility not only for the murder of Khashoggi, but the far more massive crimes of the House of Saud against the international working class.
SAUDI MILLIONS PUMPED INTO TRUMP PROPERTIES President Donald Trump has tried to downplay the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, lest it jeopardize “$110 billion worth of military” sales to the kingdom. That number is not accurate. Only $14.5 billion in weapons sales have been approved by the Trump administration and Congress. What Trump does not mention in his repeated defenses of Riyahd: The many tens of millions of dollars the Saudi royal family and its friends and allies have spent on Trump condominiums and at Trump hotels. [HuffPost]
KHASHOGGI ‘CUT UP AND BEHEADED’ Leaked details of audio recordings from the Saudi consulate in Istanbul reveal that Saudi agents were waiting for Khashoggi when he walked into the building. Minutes later, he was dead — beheaded and dismembered. [The New York Times]
ZERO BACKLASH AGAINST SAUDIS FOR YEMEN The disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi triggered a massive global backlash against Saudi Arabia. Yet the kingdom’s bloody war in Yemen never has. This is how the Khashoggi scandal looks when you’ve been bombed and starved by Riyadh for years. [HuffPost]
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Speaking the Lingo: Business Jargon and the Quest for Clarity
Oct 26, 2018 | Blog | 0 comments
The next time you tell a colleague that you’re going to run something up the flagpole or touch base offline about synergy and ideation, reconsider the impact of “business speak” and language in general.
Language alters the brain
Clarity of thought produces clear communication. In a process known as neuroplasticity, language affects the way your brain maintains itself. Visualizing future positive actions triggers brain activity with a lasting positive impact on the capacity for self improvement.
Working in an environment dominated by business speak and corporate jargon also affects your brain. Tough-talk metaphors lead people to believe winning is everything. Vague, jargon-filled pronouncements lead to imprecise thinking. All of these verbal habits can affect your state of mind and your ability to communicate.
The jargon of business speak began during serious attempts at business reform. In the early 20th century, assembly-line factories dominated industrial production. Mechanical engineer and efficiency expert Frederick Winslow Taylor wrote The Principles of Scientific Management, the century’s most influential work in its field. The son of wealthy Quakers, Taylor used what he called “scientific management” to increase industrial performance. “Taylorism” pioneered industrial engineering, breaking assembly-line work into its smallest units of activity to eliminate wasted motion.
This approach treats employees like cogs in a machine. A few decades later, sociological experiments revealed that workers who thought their bosses paid attention to them as people did better at their jobs than those who were treated like interchangeable parts. This focus on workers’ social and psychological needs blossomed during World War II as a way to understand culture’s role in authoritarian societies.
U.S. corporations emerged from the 1940s as big conglomerates in which workers once again felt disconnected from where they worked, prompting a renewed interest in creating an emotional environment conducive to maximized profits. The 1950s spawned organizational development theory, which viewed employees as self-motivated performers who operate well in an atmosphere of trust. This world view fit the prevailing culture of the 1960s and its focus on personal fulfillment. Surrounding these ideas, a vocabulary of buzzwords began to build. “Synergy,” “paradigm shift” and “disrupt” all arose as business speak during the early 1960s.
Consultants took on a focal role as corporations and organizations attempted to adopt organizational development. The use of “resources” to describe employees came from the influential consultant Peter Drucker, author of the 1954 book The Practice of Management, who teamed with General Electric’s Jack Welch to overhaul GE’s organizational culture in the 1980s. Welch’s “Work-Out” program addressed the process of speeding up business problem solving and applied its own terminology to various aspects of the process. “Low-hanging fruit” emerged from Work-Out’s vocabulary.
The Dilbert era
After AT&T’s breakup into so-called “Baby Bells,” Pacific Bell introduced the management philosophy of consultant Charles Krone, who believed that the use of specialized vocabulary improved organizational health. Instead of enhancing employees’ attitudes and communications, however, “Kroning” increased the reliance on jargon. No one outside Pacific Bell could understand what its insiders said. Inside the corporation, the humanistic-sounding focus of Krone’s philosophy rested atop a “my-way-or-the-highway” approach. The comic strip “Dilbert” emerged from Pacific Bell culture, the creation of a computer programmer who lampooned the management speak he heard at work.
Krone’s philosophy fell out of use, but not its jargon. Other consultants brewed up a stew of terminology to make their insights look unique and add a veneer of pseudo-science to their theories. Consultants also introduced HR’s glossary of terms for human capital, designed to promote a focus on efficiency instead of on individual value.
The world of finance lost its focus on worker satisfaction during the aggressive increase in Wall Street power and influence of the 1970s and 1980s. Many financial concepts, such as leverage and value addition, moved into academia and the larger arena of the world of business.
Advertising contributed its own share of the business-speak vocabulary, from the “run it up the flagpole” of the 1960s to the “personal brand” of the 1990s. With the rise of Internet technology and access, today’s jargon flashes around the globe at lightning speed. The tech world also contributes its fair share of buzzwords, including “bandwidth” and “multi-task.” The current corporate vocabulary teems with “team” language from the world of sports. The language of social equality now speaks of the demographic criteria of “diversity and inclusion.”
So at the end of the day, have an awesome aha moment about bang for the buck, and make the business case for circling back to transform core competencies as the focus of the cutting edge of corporate culture while you’re cross training your empowered employees to disrupt their workflow with deliverables that prove you’re an evolved game changer who’s fully on board with incentivized ideation. Just make sure you explore all your customers’ pain points with a paradigm shift that’s preplanned for outside-the-box thinking!
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Massive Attack to create blueprint for eco-friendly touring
Rober Del Naja wants to address venue waste and power, artist, crew and audience travel...
Martin Guttridge-Hewitt
Massive Attack have announced plans to create a blueprint for eco-friendly touring.
The Bristol, UK group are working with the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at Manchester University, mapping the full carbon footprint of touring bands and musicians.
The goal is to create a "roadmap to decarbonisation" of music tours and concerts, assisting "swift and significant emissions reductions", according to an article in The Guardian by Massive Attack's Robert Del Naja, AKA 3D, who performed at an Extinction Rebellion street protest in London earlier this year.
The blueprint will not only look at artist and crew travel and venue waste, but also audience journeys and venue power — the latter two are thought to generate the most CO2. Del Naja has warned against the idea of offsetting as a means to make the live music sector greener. A European Commission report suggests up to 85% of offsetting programmes will be ineffective.
“The report produced by the Tyndall Centre will not provide a panacea”, De Naja said. “But in an emergency context, business as usual — regardless of its nature, high profile or popularity — is unacceptable.”
Last year DJ Mag produced an in-depth feature questioning whether dance music, and in particular global festival culture, could ever be truly sustainable. This was followed by another piece on the problem of single-use plastics in clubs.
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Daft Punk tower over their indie dance acolytes like, well, a giant, gleaming pyramid. So it's only appropriate that some starry-eyed statesiders would eventually borrow not only the French duo's filters, but even one of their album titles. That would be Discovery, perhaps better known as the duo comprised of Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij and Ra Ra Riot's Wes Miles. (Perhaps to compensate, they named their debut album simply LP.) Their buzzing, gleaming layers of filtered synthesizers would be unthinkable without Daft Punk's influence, but they take just as much inspiration from contemporary R&B, favoring jiggling, syncopated drum-machine beats and scads of breathless falsetto, often run through vocal effects like Auto-Tune. It's more than just musical tourism, though -- Discovery's wide-eyed approach to pop music has a quick wit and plenty of homespun charm. Rhapsody
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Daft Punk tower over their indie dance acolytes like, well, a giant, gleaming pyramid. So it's only appropriate that some starry-eyed statesiders would eventually borrow not only the French duo's filters, but even one of their album titles. That would be Discovery, perhaps better known as the duo comprised of Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij and Ra Ra Riot's Wes Miles. (Perhaps to compensate, they named their debut album simply LP.) Their buzzing, gleaming layers of filtered synthesizers would be unthinkable without Daft Punk's influence, but they take just as much inspiration from contemporary R&B, favoring jiggling, syncopated drum-machine beats and scads of breathless falsetto, often run through vocal effects like Auto-Tune. It's more than just musical tourism, though -- Discovery's wide-eyed approach to pop music has a quick wit and plenty of homespun charm.
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Complex mutation at a microsatellite locus in sturgeons: Acipenser sinensis, A. schrenckii, A. gueldenstaedtii and A. baerii (2005)
Shao, Z. ; Lek, S. ; Chang, J.
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Notes: Cross-species amplifications of microsatellite locus Spl-106, which was originally screened from the genome of shovelnose sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus platorynchus) with a perfect TAGA repeat motif, were carried out in four other species of the genera Acipenser. A total of 34 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) products representing 16 different alleles of this locus was sequenced. Sequence analysis results showed that besides the number changes of repeat units, many mutational events, such as single-base substitutions and various insertion/deletion (indels) occurred not only at species level but also at individual level, even among the different alleles within the same individual. The repeat motifs varied from perfect (TAGA)n array to perfect compound (TAAA)m (GAAA)n and perfect or imperfect compound (TAAA)m (TAGA)n (TAAA)x arrays in different species and different individuals. The evolution dynamics of this locus in sturgeons was inferred in that it may evolve from a single perfect to different perfect or imperfect compounds.
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Microsatellites assessment of Chinese sturgeon (Acipenser sinensis Gray) genetic variability (2005)
Zhao, N. ; Ai, W. ; Shao, Z. ; [et al.] Zhu, B. ; Brosse, S. ; Chang, J.
Notes: Four microsatellites were used to examine the genetic variability of the spawning stocks of Chinese sturgeon, Acipenser sinensis, from the Yangtze River sampled over a 3-year period (1999–2001). Within 60 individuals, a total of 28 alleles were detected over four polymorphic microsatellite loci. The number of alleles per locus ranged from 4 to 15, with an average allele number of 7. The number of genotypes per locus ranged from 6 to 41. The genetic diversity of four microsatellite loci varied from 0.34 to 0.67, with an average value of 0.54. For the four microsatellite loci, the deviation from the Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium was mainly due to null alleles. The mean number of alleles per locus and the mean heterozygosity were lower than the average values known for anadromous fishes. Fish were clustered according to their microsatellite characteristics using an unsupervised ‘Artificial Neural Networks’ method entitled ‘Self-organizing Map’. The results revealed no significant genetic differentiation considering genetic distance among samples collected during different years. Lack of heterogeneity among different annual groups of spawning stocks was explained by the complex age structure (from 8 to 27 years for males and 12 to 35 years for females) of Chinese sturgeon, leading to formulate an hypothesis about the maintenance of genetic diversity and stability in long-lived animals.
Spatial and ontogenetic variability in the microhabitat use of stream-dwelling spined loach (Cobitis taenia) and stone loach (Barbatula barbatula) (2004)
Copp, G. H. ; Vilizzi, L.
Notes: Ontogenetic and spatial variability in microhabitat use of spined loach Cobitis taenia (Linnaeus), considered as one species for the purposes of this study, and stone loach Barbatula barbatula (Linnaeus) were examined in the River Great Ouse basin, England, using multivariate and habitat suitability methods, including a technique for handling spatial variation in collections of preference curves. Distinct ordinations of spined age classes and stone loach developmental stages, respectively, in canonical correspondence analysis of species × variables × samples relationships suggest that the two species occupy completely different microhabitats; however, young-of-the-year spined loach occurred more often than expected with all developmental stages of stone loach except young larvae. Water velocity and filamentous algae were the most influential microhabitat variables, the latter decreasing in importance with increasing age of both fish species. Preferred water velocities generally decreased with age in spined loach and increased in stone loach, with substratum size generally increasing with fish age in both species. Spatial variation in microhabitat preferences was great in both species but less so in the spined loach, suggesting that limited plasticity in habitat use could account, at least in part, for the latter species’ limited distribution and abundance in the catchment. Preference curves for a species, if generated and verified for all life intervals and all seasons, could be used as a management tool for a given stream or sector of river basin. But preference curves should be generated for each location to ensure that river management decisions with regard habitat and species conservation consider local-level species requirements. Thus, a multi-(eco)species and multi-scale approach is required in habitat suitability assessments.
Characterization of nuclear 18S rRNA gene sequence diversity and expression in an individual lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) (2004)
Krieger, J. ; Fuerst, P. A.
Notes: The unexpected discovery of extensive intraindividual variation of the 18S rRNA gene in nine North American species of sturgeon (and its absence in the North American paddlefish) was described in a previous paper by Krieger and Fuerst (2002b). As part of the study, genomic 18S rRNA genes from a lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) individual were amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR), cloned and sequenced, resulting in the identification of at least 17 different sequence variants. Because of the number of variants detected and the improbability that such a large number of different alleles are required for survival, these sequence variants were subjected to further analyses (sequence comparison, phylogenetic and relative rate) to examine the possibility that some variants may be pseudogenes. The cDNA produced by reverse transcriptase (RT)-PCR amplification of 18S rRNA isolated from lake sturgeon liver tissue was also sequenced. The topology of the phylogenetic tree produced suggests a split of the sequence variants into two groups: paddlefish-like (PL) alleles and non-paddlefish-like (NPL) alleles. Relative rate comparisons of these two groups indicate that the alleles within the NPL allele group are evolving more quickly than those in the paddlefish-like (PL) group, and so are likely under relaxed functional constraints. Less than one-third of nucleotide changes in the non-paddlefish-like (NPL) alleles occur at positions that are considered to be highly conserved in a universal eukaryotic model of rRNA structure. No substitutions at eukaryotic universally conserved sites occur in the PL alleles. Analysis of the sequence of the RT-PCR product shows that a single lake sturgeon 18S rDNA sequence variant is expressed in major quantities in the liver, and that this single product is identical to the allele most similar in sequence to the paddlefish. These results provide support for the idea that many variants are unimportant for proper cellular function or are pseudogenes. Although concerted evolution has apparently failed to homogenize the many rDNA sequence variants found within sturgeon, the detection of a single major expressed sequence variant in lake sturgeon indicates that the expression of the variants is in fact under the control of selective factors.
INDEX VOL. 20 (2004)
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0426.2004.v20_i6_volindex.x
Chemical characteristics and lipid fraction quality of sardines (Sardina pilchardus W.): influence of sex and length (2004)
Caponio, F. ; Lestingi, A. ; Summo, C. ; [et al.] Bilancia, M. T. ; Laudadio, V.
Notes: An experimental investigation was carried out on sardines (Sardina pilchardus W.) with the aim to evaluate the influence of sex and total length (TL) on total weight (TW) and fillet weight (FW), chemical composition, and lipid fraction quality. Special emphasis was given with respect to the content of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), which are considered important from a dietary, nutritional, and functional point of view. Sardines were subdivided as a function of TL and sex. Four groups were obtained: (i) males, TL 130–155 mm, (ii) males, TL 155–180 mm, (iii) females, TL 130–155 mm, (iv) females, TL 155–180 mm. Fatty acid composition and chemical analyses were subsequently carried out on the sardine fillets; results showed higher TW and FW in female sardines and higher percentage value of FW/TW ratio in male sardines, indicating a higher incidence of viscera and other non-edible parts in females than in males. Moreover, total lipids were on average significantly higher (P 〈 0.05) in longer specimens (TL = 155–180 mm) than in shorter ones (TL = 130–155 mm). Finally, total saturated fatty acids (SFA) and total mono-unsaturated fatty acids (MUFA) values were found to be significantly higher in females than in males; such values increased significantly (P 〈 0.01) only for total SFA from shorter to longer sardines. As for total PUFA, both ω6 and ω3 were found to be higher in male than in female sardines and significantly higher (P 〈 0.001) in larger than in smaller sizes. Total PUFA/total SFA ratio were in all cases close to 1, with higher values in male than in female sardines and in larger than in smaller specimens.
Influence of environmental conditions on demand-feeding behaviour of gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata) (2004)
Velázquez, M. ; Zamora, S. ; Martínez, F. J.
Notes: We studied the demand-feeding behaviour was studied of gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata, L.) reared under either constant (25 ± 0.5°C, 12 : 12 L : D, control group) or natural (experimental group) temperature and photoperiod conditions during a period from winter to summer. Hourly demand-feeding activity profiles were recorded using self-feeding devices; these profiles showed that control group behaved entirely as a diurnal species, exhibiting no nightly activity and decreased demand rates in winter months. The experimental group did exhibit nightly activity (in incomplete darkness); this group also showed reduced demand rates in winter months, accompanied by a demand peak shift towards evening/night hours that followed the day's temperature peak of colder months.
Utilization of α-starch in ayu, Plecoglossus altivelis, relating to growth and body composition (2004)
Nakagawa, H. ; Furuhashi, M. ; Umino, T. ; [et al.] Takago, A. ; Sakamoto, S.
Notes: To examine the possibility of dietary α-starch in reducing feed costs in a practical diet, α-starch was supplemented at 10, 20, 30 and 40% in a composed diet having the same protein level. The four diets were fed to ayu, Plecoglossus altivelis (initial weight 9.1 g) for 43 days. Growth and feed efficiency increased with the supplement, with values highest in the 30–40%α-starch diet. The level of dietary α-starch did not affect the proximate muscle composition; although the hepatosomatic index was not affected, liver glycogen increased with increasing dietary α-starch. The dietary α-starch did not influence evacuation time from the gut, and was well digested through passage in the gut, mainly between the stomach and the anterior part of the intestine. Ayu have an ability to adapt their metabolism to high dietary α-starch, and can digest 40% or more in a composed diet. Although the muscle lipid content did not change, the fatty acid composition was influenced by dietary starch. With the elevation of dietary starch, a decrease of C18:2n-6 and an increase of C22:6n-3 occurred. These results indicate that at least 40%α-starch can be used in practical diets for ayu.
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Kultur und Wissenschaft. Berichte und Diskussionen auf der Tagung der Vereinigung der Deutschen Staatsrechtslehrer in Frankfurt am Main vom 5. bis 8. Oktober 2005
Authors: Huster, Stefan --- Ruffert, Matthias --- Schulte, Martin --- Sommermann, Karl-Peter
Book Series: Veröffentlichungen der Vereinigung der Deutschen Staatsrechtslehrer ISBN: 9783110927832 Year: 2006 Volume: 65 Pages: 611 DOI: 10.1515/9783110927832 Language: German
Subject: Law
The volume presents the reports and discussions held at the conference of the “Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers” in Frankfurt from October,5th to October 8th,2005.
Cultural assets/law, constitutional state, freedom of science
Author: Gane, Mike
Book Series: Key Sociologists ISBN: 9780203963098 9780415385435 9780415385428 9781134172245 9781134172238 9781134172191 Year: 2006 DOI: 10.4324/9780203963098 Language: English
Subject: Sociology --- Social Sciences
Auguste Comte is widely acknowledged as the founder of the science of sociology and the 'Religion of Humanity'. In this fascinating study, the first major reassessment of Comte’s sociology for many years, Mike Gane draws on recent scholarship and presents a new reading of this remarkable figure. Comte’s contributions to the history and philosophy of science have decisively influenced positive methodologies. He coined the term ‘sociology’ and gave it its first content, and he is renowned for having introduced the sociology of gender and emotion into sociology. What is less well known however, is that Comte contributed to ethics, and indeed coined the word ‘altruism’. In this important work Gane examines Comte's sociological vision and shows that, because he thought sociology could and should be reflexive, encyclopaedic and utopian, he considered topics such as fetishism, polytheism, fate, love, and the relations between sociology, science, theology and culture. This fascinating account of the birth of sociology is an unprecedented introductory text on Comte. Gane’s work is an essential read for all sociologists and students of the discipline.
comtes,works,metaphysical,state,positive,philosophy,analysis,theories,spiritual,power
Thermochemistry and Kinetics for the Oxidative Degradation of Dibenzofuran and Precursors
Author: Sebbar, Nadia
ISBN: 9783866440852 Year: 2006 Pages: VIII, 219 p. DOI: 10.5445/KSP/1000005428 Language: ENGLISH
Publisher: KIT Scientific Publishing
Subject: Chemistry (General)
The emission of dibenzofurans and dioxins from industrial processes is a major environmental concern. Focussing on dibenzofuran, this study tend to improve our understanding of the general oxidation chemistry and to provide a mechanism suitable for future modelling studies.Based on quantum chemical methods, energies, chemical structures and reactions are calculated numerically. Not only stable molecules and radicals, but also transition states are reported in this work.
Dioxin , Dibenzofuran , Thermochemistry , DFT , ab initio , Groupe additivity , Isodesmic reactions , Kinetics ,Transition state theory , QRRK
Conflict and Change in EU Budgetary Politics
Author: Lindner, Johannes
Book Series: Routledge Advances in European Politics ISBN: 9780203002766 9780415356794 9780415499170 9781134249732 9781134249725 9781134249688 Year: 2006 DOI: 10.4324/9780203002766 Language: English
Why did the European Union experience a stark variation in the levels of conflict between the late 1970s, when budgetary disputes dominated European politics, and the 1990s, when political actors were able to settle upon budgetary agreements without major conflicts? This book responds to this key question with a two-step argument: Its first part shows that decision-making rules can be regarded as a key determinant of the level of conflict in EU budgetary politics. It details far-reaching reform in 1988 reduced conflict, because it introduced an institutional setting for multiannual budget planning that corrected the deficiencies of the original budget treaty. Having identified institutional change as the trigger for the reduction of conflict, the second part of this study focuses on the 1988 reform. It shows how a number of ‘reproduction mechanisms’ prevented major institutional change in the 1970s and early 1980s. When these ‘reproduction mechanisms’ lost force, a reform became possible and a new institutional setting emerged in 1988. These findings deliver a sharp insight into the interplay between rules and conflict in the still evolving political system of the EU. Moreover, by identifying precise conditions for the occurrence of institutional change, and by linking political performance of institutions to their stability this is a significant contribution to institutionalist research in social science. This book is an excellent resource for students and scholars of the European Union, Political Science, International Relations, Public Policy and Public Finance.
procedure,member,state,multi-annual,plan,institutional,setting,decision,making,bargaining
The Shifts in Hizbullah's Ideology
Author: Alagha, Joseph
Book Series: ISIM Dissertations ISBN: 9789053569108 Year: 2006 Pages: 380 DOI: 10.5117/9789053569108 Language: Undetermined
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Science (General)
The Lebanese Shi'ite resistance movement, Hizbullah, is going through a remarkable political and ideological transformation. Hizbullah was founded in 1978 by various sectors of Lebanese Shi'ite clergy and cadres, and with Iranian backing as an Islamic movement protesting against social and political conditions. Over the years 1984/85 to 1991, Hizbullah became a full-fledged social movement in the sense of having a broad overall organization, structure, and ideology aiming at social change and social justice, as it claimed. Starting in 1992, it became a mainstream political party working within the narrow confines of its pragmatic political program. The line of argument in this dissertation is that Hizbullah has been adjusting its identity in the three previously mentioned stages by shifting emphasis among its three components: (1) from propagating an exclusivist religious ideology (2) to a more encompassing political ideology, and (3) to a down-to-earth political program.
martyrdom --- wetenschap algemeen --- hizbullah's ideology --- islamic state --- israel and us --- integration (infitah) --- interest (maslaha) --- oppressors and oppressed --- pan-islamism --- anti-imperialism --- popular science --- greater and smaller jihad
Ideologies and National Identities
Author: John Lampe, Mark Mazower
ISBN: 9789639241824 9786155053856 Year: 2006 Language: English
Publisher: Central European University Press
Twentieth-century Southeastern Europe endured three, separate decades of international and civil war, and was marred in forced migration and wrenching systematic changes. This book is the result of a year-long project by the Open Society Institute to examine and reappraise this tumultuous century. A cohort of young scholars with backgrounds in history, anthropology, political science, and comparative literature were brought together for this undertaking. The studies invite attention to fasci...
Southeastern Europe, Romania, Croatia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania, interwar period, politics, political parties, Cold War, foreign relations, Russia, America, political ideologies, communism, unitarism, socialism, statism, state socialism, Stalinism, Marxism, imperialism, nationalism, religion, communist epics, poems, lyrics
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KIT Scientific Publishing (1)
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Knights Across the Atlantic
Author: Parfitt, Steven
Book Series: Studies in Labour History ISBN: 9781781383186 9781781383537 Year: 2017 Language: English
Publisher: Liverpool University Press Grant: Knowledge Unlatched - 100392
Knights Across the Atlantic tells for the first time the full story of the Knights of Labor in Britain and Ireland, where they operated between 1883 and the end of the century. British and Irish Knights drew on the resources of their vast Order to establish a chain of branches through England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland that numbered more than 10,000 members at its peak. British and Irish Knights left a profound imprint on subsequent British labour history. They helped inspire the British “New Unionists” of the 1890s and influenced the movement for working-class politics, independent of Liberals and Conservatives alike, that soon led to the British Labour Party. Knights Across the Atlantic provides new insights into relationships between class and gender, and places the Knights of Labor squarely at the heart of British and Irish as well as American history at the end of the nineteenth century.
History --- Labour --- Labor
The Digital Transformation of Labor
Authors: Larsson, Anthony --- Teigland, Robin
Book Series: Routledge Studies in Labour Economics ISBN: 9780367330705 9780429317866 Year: 2020 Pages: 372 Language: English
Subject: Social Sciences
Through a series of studies, the overarching aim of this book is to investigate if and how the digitalization/digital transformation process causes (or may cause) the autonomy of various labor functions, and its impact in creating (or stymieing) various job opportunities
on the labor market. This book also seeks to illuminate what actors/groups are mostly at risk by it.
This book takes its point of departure from a 2016 OECD report that contends that the impact digitalization has on the future of labor is ambiguous, as on the one hand it is suggested that technological change is labor-saving, but on the other hand, it is suggested that digital technologies have not created new jobs on a scale that it replaces old jobs.
digital --- transformation --- labor
Skilled Labor Mobility and Migration
Author: Elisabetta Gentile
ISBN: 9781788116169 9781788116176 Year: 2019 Pages: 320 DOI: 10.4337/9781788116176 Language: English
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Subject: Economics
One of the primary objectives of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), established in 2015, was to boost skilled labor mobility within the region. This insightful book takes stock of the existing trends and patterns of skilled labor migration in the ASEAN. It endeavors to identify the likely winners and losers from the free movement of natural persons within the region through counterfactual policy simulations. Finally, it discusses existing issues and obstacles through case studies, as well as other sectoral examples.
Migration, ASEAN, Labor mobility, economic development, socioeconomic development, labor migration
Our Union: UAW/CAW Local 27 from 1950 to 1990
Author: Jason Russell
Book Series: Fabriks: Studies in the Working Class ISSN: 19256485 ISBN: 9781926836430 9781926836447 9781926836454 Year: 2011 Pages: 337 Language: English
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
The post-war period witnessed dramatic changes in the lives of working-class families. Wages rose, working hours were reduced, pension plans and state social security measures offered greater protection against unemployment, illness, and old age, the standard of living improved, and women and members of immigrant communities entered the labour market in growing numbers. Existing studies of the post-war period have focused above all on unions at the national and international levels, on the "post-war settlement," including the impact of Fordism, and on the chiefly economic issues surrounding collective bargaining, while relatively scant attention has been paid to the role of the union local in daily working-class experience. In Our Union, Jason Russell argues that the union local, as an institution of working-class organization, was a key agent for the Canadian working class as it sought to create a new place for itself in the decades following World War II. Using UAW/CAW Local 27, a broad-based union in London, Ontario, as a case study, he offers a ground-level look at union membership, including some of the social and political agendas that informed union activities. As he writes in the introduction, "This book is as much an outgrowth of years of rank-and-file union activism as it is the result of academic curiosity." Drawing on interviews with former members of UAW/CAW Local 27 as well as on archival sources, Russell offers a narrative that will speak not only to labour historians but to the people about whom they write.
labour --- labor --- working class --- solidarity
Working People in Alberta: A History
Authors: Alvin Finkel --- Jason Foster, Winston Gereluk --- Jennifer Kelly --- Dan Ciu --- et al. James Muir --- Joan Schiebelbein --- Jim Selby --- Eric Strikwerda
Book Series: Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH ISSN: 1925184X ISBN: 9781926836584 9781926836591 9781926836607 Year: 2012 Pages: 358 Language: English
Working People in Alberta traces the history of labour in Alberta from the period of First Nations occupation to the present. Drawing on over two hundred interviews with labour leaders, activists, and ordinary working people, as well as on archival records, the volume gives voice to the people who have toiled in Alberta over the centuries. In so doing, it seeks to counter the view of Alberta as a one-class, one-party, one-ideology province, in which distinctions between those who work and those who own are irrelevant. Workers from across the generations tell another tale, of an ongoing collective struggle to improve their economic and social circumstances in the face of a dominant, exploitative elite. Their stories are set within a sequential analysis of provincial politics and economics, supplemented by chapters on women and the labour movement and on minority workers of colour and their quest for social justice. Published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Alberta Federation of Labour, Working People in Alberta contrasts the stories of workers who were union members and those who were not. In its depictions of union organizing drives, strikes, and working-class life in cities and towns, this lavishly illustrated volume creates a composite portrait of the men and women who have worked to build and sustain the province of Alberta.
labour --- labor --- unions --- working class
Provincial Solidarities: A History of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour
Author: David Frank
Established in 1913, the New Brunswick Federation of Labour is the second oldest provincial federation of labour in Canada. Its history began in early campaigns for workers
New Brunswick, Labour, Labor, Societies
Globalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Burgmann, Verity
ISBN: 9780415528535 9781315624044 Year: 2016 Pages: 261 Language: English
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Grant: Knowledge Unlatched - 103478
Globalisation has adversely affected working-class organisation and mobilisation; but international labour movement demobilisation is not necessarily an irreversible trend. Globalisation has prompted workers and their organisations to find new ways to mobilise. This book examines international labour movement opposition to globalisation. It chronicles and critically scrutinizes the emergence of distinctively new forms of labour movement organisation and mobilisation that constitute creative initiatives on the part of labour, which present capitalism with fresh challenges. The author identifies eight characteristics of globalisation that have proven problematic to workers and their organisations and describes and analyses how they have responded to these challenges since 1990 and especially in the past decade. In particular, it focuses attention on new types of labour movement organisation and mobilisation that are not simply defensive reactions but are offensive and innovative responses that compel corporations to behave more responsively and responsibly towards employees and society at large. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of globalisation, political economy, labour politics, economics, Marxism and sociology of work.
economics --- labor movement --- politics --- labor and globalization --- labor unions and international relations --- political science
Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor
Authors: Sanson, Kevin --- Curtin, Michael
ISBN: 9780520290853 9780520964808 Year: 2016 Pages: 336 DOI: 10.1525/luminos.10 Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology --- Media and communication --- Performing Arts
Precarious Creativity examines the seismic changes confronting media workers in an age of globalization and corporate conglomeration. This pathbreaking anthology peeks behind the hype and supposed glamor of screen media industries to reveal the intensifying pressures and challenges workers face. The authors take on crucial issues and provide insightful case studies of workplace dynamics regarding creativity, collaboration, exploitation, and cultural difference. Furthermore, they investigate working conditions and organizing efforts on all six continents, offering comprehensive analysis of contemporary screen media labor in places such as Lagos, Prague, Hollywood, and Hyderabad, across a range of job categories that includes visual effects, production services, and adult entertainment. With contributions from John Caldwell, Vicki Mayer, Herman Gray, Tejaswini Ganti, and others, this collection offers timely critiques of media globalization and broader debates about labor, creativity, and precarity.
globalization --- mass media --- precarious employment --- labor
Wirtschaft und Wirtschaftspolitik in Deutschland. 75 Jahre RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung e.V. 1943–2018
Authors: Fremdling, Rainer --- Pierenkemper, Toni
Book Series: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte. Beihefte ISBN: 9783110570557 Year: 2018 Volume: 22 Pages: 486 DOI: 10.1515/9783110570557 Language: German
This title documents the history of the Rhenish-Westphalian Institute for Economic Research (RWI), re-founded in 1943 as the “Western Division” of the German Institute for Economic Research. Starting from the initial founding in 1926, it includes the post-war re-founding and reorientation of the Institute, its redirection in the new millennium through 2018, and describes the changing economic, political, and scientific contexts of the times.
Economics research Spatial research Demography Labor market
Public Sector Employment in the 21st Century
Authors: Weeks, Phillipa --- Pittard, Marilyn
ISBN: 9781920942618 Year: 2007 Pages: 331 DOI: 10.26530/OAPEN_459475 Language: English
Publisher: ANU Press
Subject: Law --- Political Science
License: ANU Press
This book addresses the transformations which have occurred in employment arrangements and practices in the Australian public sector over the past decade and the changes in responsibilities and accountability through employment contracts, whistleblower legislation and partnerships between government and the private sector. It provides a comparative context through studies of reconstruction of the public service in the United Kingdom and New Zealand. Themes of contractualisation, privatisation and outsourcing are explored and critically examined, as well as influences of the industrial relations legislative framework including the Work Choices legislation.
australia --- industrial relations --- civil service --- labor contract --- privatization --- new zealand --- great britain --- labor laws and legislation
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Window editor and page editor
Maximized windows for Android
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Anchoring in a page
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Comparing controls
Data persistence
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First project window
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Importing a non-WINDEV window
Managing layouts
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Maximized windows in Mobile
Modal management of a window
Navigation order in a window, a page, etc.
Navigation size
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Pre-launched sessions
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Special paste
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The window templates
The windows
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Using the Windows XP/Vista style and theme in your windows
Viewing a window in 3 dimensions
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Window with parameters
Title bar
A maximized window occupies the entire screen of the mobile device. Several options can be configured in the wizard for window creation ("File .. New .. Window .. Wizard for window creation"):A maximized window occupies the entire screen of the mobile device. Several options can be configured in the wizard for window creation. To start this wizard:
Click "Window" in the wheel that is displayed. The window for creating a new element is displayed: click "Window" then "Window".
Select "Blank window" in the wizard:
The title bar is used to display the title of the window. This title bar can be displayed (or not) via "With title bar" in the "Style" tab of the description window.
Android 3 allows you to insert an Action Bar into your applications.
The "Actions bars" replace the title bar of a window and they are used to display various information:
the application icon,
the window title,
some menu options,
See Action Bar of a window for more details. See Action Bar of a window for more details.
The tabs are used to display information about the different panes. The user will only have to choose the requested tab.
See Tab control for more details.
The scrollbars will be automatically displayed if the size of the window is greater than the resolution of the screen on the Android device used.
This option can be chosen at any time in the window description ("Details" tab).
Caution: In full-screen mode, the automatic scrollbars are never displayed in a maximized window.
In an application for Android, this menu is located at the bottom of the windows. A drop-down menu allows the user to quickly access one of the features of the application.
In edit, the menus of the Android windows are presented like simple drop-down menus.
At run time, these menus will be displayed differently according to the number of options:
If the menu contains less than 6 options, it is displayed like large buttons at the bottom of the screen.
If the menu contains more than 6 options, the first 5 options are displayed like large buttons and a sixth automatic button ("Plus") allows the user to see the rest of menu like a drop-down menu.
The menus of the Android applications support a single level of sub-menus. Beyond this limit, a fatal error occurs when running the application.
Adding a drop-down menu to a window or deleting a drop-down menu from a window can be done at any time:
via "Windows .. Main menu .. Add the main menu".on the "Window" pane, in the "Bars and menus" group, expand "Main menu" and select "Add the main menu".
in the "Style" tab of the window description ("Enable the main menu").
The usable size of a maximized window depends on the elements taken into account in the window (title bar visible or not, ...).
WINDEV Mobile allows you to configure all these elements in your windows for Android:
The "Style" tab of the window description is used to configure:
The display of the title bar
The display of the system bar
The "Details" tab of the window description is used to configure the size of the window:
Size of the window in the window editor
Size of the window visible by the user on the Android device. This size is defined:
by the size options (display of the title bar, ...).
according to the selected runtime platform (see Runtime platform for more details).
Note: The size is represented by a dotted line in the window editor.
The "Details" tab can also be used to configure the management of the window orientation. Indeed, when the user modifies the orientation of his Android device, the window can:
follow the orientation of the device. In this case, the anchors allow you to define a window that can be used in portrait mode and in landscape mode.
be locked in portrait mode.
be locked in landscape mode.
Note: When changing the display mode (portrait to landscape or conversely), the new size of the window is represented by a dotted line in the window editor. All you have to do is resize the window via the handles and position the controls.
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dj poolboi Forever Yours EP
(Self-Released) NACC
dj poolboi is the moniker of Austin Texas’ resident Adam Ansley. In 2017 Ansley started quietly releasing lo-fi house music as an artistic outlet on Youtube. Channelling his own and family struggles with alcoholism and depression he created his own unique outlet of emotional melodic dance music mixing elation and nostalgia with melancholy.
Residing in the same vein as contemporaries Ross From Friends, DJ Boring, Mall Grab, Park Hye Jin and Dj Seinfeld while building on the experimental dance music of trailblazers such as Radiohead, Four Tet, Caribou and Jamie XX his music found its own niche and began to take flight online.
With a contagious fever and a mix of his own music videos and those made by fans poolboi has amassed over 60k subscribers on his Youtube channel, 13 million streams and attracted industry interest. With a debut LP scheduled for release on Majestic Casual’s label and coveted opening gigs across North America, the world awaits what’s next from this promising new talent.
Poolboi is set to release his 7 track debut EP “Forever Yours” November 29th combining some of his top previously released Youtube material newly remastered with brand new songs including the single “Lilacs” the artists first release with a vocalist, Lucy’s Mirror.
Forever Yours EP
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Tag Archives: writing disability
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Disability Tropes 101 – The Magical Cure
October 22, 2019 dereknewmanstille Leave a comment
Disability Tropes 101- The Magical Cure
While the Spoonie Authors Network is on a temporary break, I wanted to briefly move my Disability 101 posts to my own site – Dis(Abled) Embodiment. If you are interested in checking out the rest of my Disability 101 posts, please go to https://spoonieauthorsnetwork.blog and read them on the Spoonie Authors’ Network. In the meantime, please enjoy my exploration of the Magical Cure Trope
Authors writing about disability frequently have difficulty with the idea that we can live life happily with a disability. This is something that is not limited to literature, and, of course, there are elements of this trope that shape people’s perceptions of disability. For example, when writing a tweet about the problem of people assuming that our lives as disabled people are shaped exclusively by tragedy, I wrote that we can be happy AND disabled. In response, several people send messages that this was impossible and telling me to “f-off” and suggesting that disabled people’s lives can only be filled with suffering and that death is therefore a blessing to us. This ideology is, of course, highly problematic, to the point where it also is cited as the motivations for so-called “angel of mercy” killers to kill disabled people, believing that we are better off dead.
Frequently, abled authors who write about disability feel that they need to either have their disabled characters die as part of their narrative, or have them become magically cured so that they become completely abled. They do this largely because they can’t imagine that one can live a happy life with a disability, so in their wrapping up of their narrative to provide a “happy ending”, they feel the need to either eliminate the disabled character and thus “end their suffering” or to suddenly find a cure for them. There is a term for the first trope that I mentioned – the “Better Dead Than Disabled” trope. However, that isn’t the focus of this particular post. Instead, I want to focus on a related trope, the “Magical Cure”. Both of these are a form of erasure of disability, but the Magical Cure trope relies on the idea that somehow someone’s disability is suddenly erased. Frequently these erasures happen because of the marvels of science, the exertion of willpower (because frequently authors decide that if we want to be abled enough, it will suddenly occur), or because of literal magic. All of these possible cures fall under the “Magical Cure” trope even though only the last one involves actual magic.
Isabel Brittain refers to this trope as the “Happy Endings?” Trope in her article “An Examination into the Portrayal of Deaf Characters and Deaf Issues in Picture Books for Children” (Disability Studies Quarterly, Vol 24, No 1, 2004). She states that in this trope “The author fails to see a happy and fulfilled life being a possibility for a character with an impairment”. She questions the notion of the happy ending by adding a question mark at the end of her title for this trope. She observes that the issue is the failure of imagination of the author to consider that one can have a fulfilled life while also being disabled, but I would also add that in addition to the failure of imagination, the author is also embedded in a culture where ableist ideas about disability are the norm and where it is assumed that disability is the personification of tragedy and “mistake”. Tanya Titchkosky characterizes this well when she states that “What is wrong is seen to belong to disabled people in a more intimate and personal way than it does to others” (Disability, Self, and Society, 2003). Disabled people are perceived as a personification of mistake and tragedy, assumed to be lesser than an able-body. As a result, disability is often conceived of as a fate worse than death and the notion of a happy life for disabled people is not possible for most abled authors to imagine. So disability is perceived as something to be “solved”, as something that is in need of fixing, and therefore abled authors frequently tie up their narratives in what they believe is a happy ending – an erasure of disability entirely.
There is a genre that is particularly wrapped up in the notion of the Magical Cure, and it is the genre that often has an interest in the topic of magic – fantasy. In her paper “Devices and Desires: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Disability in Literature for Young People” (Disability Studies Quarterly, Vol 24, No 1, 2004), Jane Stemp points out that the ease of magic in fantasy means that often disabled people’s bodies are made able with the flick of a wand and a few magical words. But she also points out that fantasy has an interest in the notion of the perfect body and that frequently in fantasy, the imperfect body is also portrayed as an imperfection of moral character. Fantasy has, as she suggests, a pattern of replicating “mythical, perfect archetypes” and as a result, has a fascination with ideas of “perfection” and its relationship to the body and ability.
Frequently the Magical Cure in fantasy is connected to the idea of the quest and the notion of suffering and triumphing over evil in order to finally be rewarded with a cure and live happily ever after. This problematically reinforces the idea that able-bodiedness is not just an ideal state for any body, but can be a reward if one works hard enough.
The trope of the cure can be particularly damaging for disability rights since it also suggests that disabilities can and should be fixed, which is particularly problematic for people whose disabilities are not aided by medical or other interventions. It also reinforces the idea that funding should be given to cures rather than to accommodations to disabled people, suggesting that our disabled bodies should be changed instead of changing the social and physical environment that provide barriers to our access. So instead of working to include us, this trope reinforces the idea that we should change our bodies in ways that are painful or impossible in order to fit into a one-body-type-fits-all ableist system and environment.
I want to highlight some fantasy works that resist this trope, particularly Alison Sinclair’s Darkborn Trilogy, in which there is a world where magic exists and where half the population is blind, but they never try to modify themselves through magic in order to see. Their blindness is part of their culture and their cultural interactions. I talk about this extensively in my article “Where Blindness Is Not (?) a Disability: Alison Sinclair’s Darkborn Trilogy” (Mosaic Vol 46, No 3, 2013), so I don’t want to replicate that here. I also want to highlight a fantasy story published this year in the all disabled anthology Nothing Without Us (Renaissance Press), titled “The Descent” By Jamieson Wolf. In this story, Wolf’s narrator, Jefferson, initially sets out to learn magic in order to “cure” his disability, even dissociating himself from his disability by naming it “Max Shadow”. Despite learning magic, Jefferson is not able to “cure” his disability and eventually seeks an oracle, once again turning to magic in order to try to remove his disability. Yet, throughout the narrative, Jefferson gains a certain intimacy with Max. Not only does he not remove his disability through magic, he gradually comes to understand Max, embracing him and shifting his perspectives on the need to be “cured”. “The Descent” deals with the internalized ableism we feel as disabled people, often assuming that the only way that we can interact with the world is through being “cured”, i.e. made able-bodied. Wolf’s use of the disability as a personified character who is interacting with the disabled person he comes from allows for an exploration of that dissociation from disability that our internalized ableism can create, but it also allows for the disability itself to be personified and humanized. Instead of othering the disability, Wolf’s technique personifies disability and brings up ethical questions around the erasure of disability.
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“Truths”, Fantasies, And The Stories We Are Told About Ourselves
May 12, 2019 dereknewmanstille Leave a comment
We disabled people are asked to tell our stories over and over again. We are asked to narrate our bodies and the difference of our bodies again and again. When we meet with doctors we have to tell the stories of our bodies (and often have to retell them until they fit the medical model that doctors need to understand our bodies). The same happens when we meet specialists. We need to narrate our bodies to employers to get accommodations, to schools to get access to resources, to funding agencies, to government officials when we need additional supports, and, yes, even to strangers on the street.
I recently had someone follow me down the street for multiple blocks asking me what was “wrong” with my body, asking me to tell him the story of my body. This was happening despite the fact that I was having a conversation with my friends that this guy was interrupting. He believed his own demand to hear the story of my body overrode the conversations I was already having. I told him that I didn’t want to tell the story of my body to a stranger, and like most people who I tell this to, he became enraged, told me that I was rude and that he was just curious, and then he said “besides, I am a PSW, so I am an expert on people like you.”
This is not a unique experience. It happens regularly. I am frequently bombarded with questions about my body by strangers, and many of those strangers (who have no disabilities of their own) then believe themselves to be experts on my body and tell me that I don’t really need to use my rollator or my cane, that I can cure my disability with crystals or yoga or positive thinking or walks in the woods or “blu-ray healing”. The narratives people place on my body abound and they come from a society that tells able-bodied people that disabilities are the purview of the public, that our stories are open to their interpretations and their adaptations.
Often the stories of our bodies preclude us even being part of them. Frequently, when our bodies are written about by “specialists”, their stories of our bodies continue on without our own narration, telling stories about us. This seems like it should be something unusual, to have our stories told by other people, but we need those stories told by people who are “specialists” on our bodies in order to get access to many of the accommodations we need. Our stories become papered entities – accommodation letters to professors, medical notes, specialist reports. Our stories are told and retold and we are not considered experts on our own stories. In fact, we are considered inherently biased and our stories are rendered as problematic, fictitious, and yes, even fantastic.
This rendering of our own stories as fictional extends into publishing about disabled bodies, where, frequently, our actual stories about our disabled bodies – told from our own experiences – are considered less authentic than stories told about disabled people by able-bodied others. Like many disabled authors, I have been told that my factual rendering of my disability’s story is not believable, that it doesn’t match with what audiences want or believe, or that it doesn’t ‘ring true’ for a disabled narrative. Publishers and editors are much more interested in the papered story about disability, the one constructed through things they have read before – the story full of tropes about disability. This isn’t surprising (even though it should be) because disabled stories are often inauthenticated, are often rendered as less worthwhile than the people who claim to be experts on our bodies. We are accustomed to this. We get it from doctors, politicians, and others who consider themselves to be experts who render our stories for others, who erase the personal in order to create a fantasy about disability.
So, with all of the fantasies already created about disability, the fictions that are constructed around our bodies because these fictions are considered more realistic than our own tales, are there possibilities for us to reshape those fantasies? Can we assert our own tales through the unbelievable, the magical, the imaginative, and use these stories to reshape the way that our bodies are treated as fantasies?
There is a huge potential in fantasy for operating on the level of imagination, for operating in the realm of the un-real. We disabled people have so often been told that our stories need to be retold by specialists in order for them to be considered real that there is a liberation in telling a story that we don’t have to be x-rayed, MRIed, assessed, and narrated before it can be considered true.
Abled people are constantly believing things about disability because they have been told that imaginations about disability are “true”, so there is a power in challenging thoughts about disability at the imaginative level, at the level of possibility, and therefore to introduce new possibilities for thinking about disability, for imagining us.
Although I have heard from fellow disabled people that what we need is real change, often we forget about the power of imagination as an agent of change. We create change by imagining new possibilities, by thinking up new alternatives, and by challenging what we think of as “truths” because frequently when something is portrayed as “truth”, it is stagnated, constructed as unchanging and unchallengeable. Fantasy stories about disability open up disability itself to imagination, let disability as a subject be something that is fluid, changeable, reimaginable, and adaptable.
As disabled people, we already live in a world of fantasy. We live in a world that pretends that we are invisible, in a world where words – when wielded by policy-makers – can magically take away everything we need.
We have the power to use those fantasies to remake our world, to reforge it as one that includes us, and, not only that, but represents us, and even, dare I say, celebrates us?
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Why We Need Crip Fic – A Love Story to Nothing Without Us
April 3, 2019 dereknewmanstille 1 Comment
As disabled people, we are written about constantly. We are shaped by texts. We have been written about by our doctors, by our schools, by our therapists, by our politicians…. We have been layered and layered with texts, and these texts are generally written by people who are NOT US – people who consider themselves experts on our experiences, who tell us that they have knowledge that is beyond our knowledge of our own bodies and selves. Indeed, we even need to rely on these experts to gain access to spaces and resources as disabled people. We need governmental policies to give us rights we should have as citizens, we need medical doctors’ reports to be considered disabled in the first place, and we need accommodation forms to get access to school resources. We are not only turned into text, we are made to DEPEND on text by other people.
Even fiction is often ABOUT US, written by people who are abled and trying to capture our experiences without talking to us. We get turned into tropes, into stories, into fictions… And we get told that these fictions represent us, and we get told by editors or publishers that our stories don’t “feel authentic” because they don’t match the tropes – they aren’t inspirational, they aren’t about overcoming, they aren’t about suffering, they aren’t about being lesser. Our stories are frequently rejected because the tropes are far more powerful than our voices.
That’s why I am excited about the collection Nothing Without Us – because it centres our voices. It is a collection of Crip voices, disabled voices, about us expressing ourselves and not being talked about. It is edited by two disabled people – Cait Gordon and Talia Johnson. It is published by a disabled publisher. And the way it is shaping up, it looks like it will be an anthology that speaks back to all of those narratives, texts, and stories imposed on us disabled folks.
So, what does it mean to write back? What does it mean for us to speak our own stories, to tell our own tales, to speak from the Crip body and mind?
I use the term “Crip” intentionally. I use it the same way as I use “Queer”, to speak back to a system that has sought to use these words to oppress us. “Crip” is a way of reclaiming the language… but it isn’t just another word for “disabled”. It is an intentional response to attempts to pacify us through language. It is a resistant word, a word made to disrupt, to challenge, and to speak back. It is meant to make people gasp and then to think about why that word is used. I call myself a Queer Crip because I don’t want to conform. I don’t want to be pacified by words because so many of our systems are based on pacifying us with words. Words are so often used to contain us, to confine us, and to render us Other. We wrestle with words because they are used to oppress. So, what happens when we share that wrestling with words? What happens when we tell our own stories and tell the world that OUR WORDS HAVE POWER?
Nothing Without Us is a complicated engagement with our words. It is shaping up to be an anthology that lets us, as disabled people, resist the confinements of hegemonic texts. It engages with realism because we have had so many narratives written about us that claim truth… but it also engages with imaginatory texts, with speculative texts. It recognizes the need for there to be an exploration of the imagination, because our rules, policies, and ideas about disability are shaped in the imagination, in the minds that ponder what disability means.
Nothing Without Us is a multi-genre text because, as disabled people, our lives don’t easily fit into one genre and we bristle at boxes or confines that try to imagine us as only one thing.
Nothing Without Us is a resistant text, a set of stories that provide a counter-narrative to narratives about us. It is about us telling our own stories and the power of our own stories to tear apart the stories and diagnoses and polices that have been written about us.
To discover more about Nothing Without Us, whose Kickstarter is happening right now, check out https://nothingwithoutusanthology.wordpress.com and support the kickstarter at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/renaissancebp/nothing-without-us?ref=ksr_email_user_new_friend_project&fbclid=IwAR2-S8WRjKGuogbKi6aXSo6kvcUcYiQu4KXPW4Z2o9T8bpKfz-szxHJR1KA
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Interview with Nicolette Barischoff
August 23, 2017 dereknewmanstille Leave a comment
I was able to work with the wonderful Nicolette Barischoff when we were both included in the collection Accessing the Future (edited by Kathryn Allan and Djibril al-Ayad) a few years ago and just recently had the pleasure of working with Nicolette again when she edited my personal narrative submission as part of Uncanny Magazine’s Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction. As always, Nicolette had a plethora of ideas and I realized I had to share some of her insights with readers here on Dis(Abled) Embodiment. I want to thank Nicolette for joining us here and taking the time to do an interview.
Q: To start our interview off, could you tell readers a little bit about yourself?
Nicolette Barischoff: Well, I’m a speculative fiction writer. That’s probably the least visible and most important thing I do. I’m also a chronically naked performance artist and art model. That’s a big part of my activism. It’s very important to me that we get people used to seeing many different types of bodies, and that we normalize the sight of visibly disabled bodies in particular. I have Spastic Cerebral Palsy and I use a wheelchair unless I feel like crawling (which I do, frequently).
Q: Could you tell us a bit about how you interact with disability in various ways?
Nicolette Barischoff: I resisted disability as a large part of my identity for a the greater part of my life. I’ve always identified as disabled (having a visible disability kind of forces you to be out and proud) but I fiercely resisted the idea of myself as Disabled Writer or a Disability Activist throughout my teens and early twenties. I think I thought of able-bodied peoples’ preoccupation with my disability as a distraction from the things I really wanted to say and write. To a certain degree, I still think that’s true. But as I grew into a proper adult, and as body and sex positivity became more and more important to me, I realized that I couldn’t be Body-Positive without being actively Disability-Positive. I have a very visibly disabled body. It’s the body I will always have. The two activisms are not separate spheres. They never can be.
Q: How have you interacted with ableism in the past?
Nicolette Barischoff: For me, ableism always seems to take the form of a struggle over personal autonomy. Many of the abled people in our lives really do want to empower us to make our own choices, but they often have trouble respecting those choices when they find them alarming or inconvenient or odd. They feel entitled, often compelled, to step in. Every disabled person I have ever met has at one time or another had their personal autonomy overridden for the comfort and convenience of the able-bodied, sometimes for the comfort and convenience of total strangers. Another off-shoot of this kind of ableism is when a disabled person is denied the assistance they need in the name of promoting their autonomy. I often encounter this at women’s clinics, where they don’t let my partner/assistant past the front desk in the name of protecting my privacy. Able people often fail to recognize a disabled person’s autonomy when it comes in the form of assisted living.
To be a true advocate for disabled rights (or human rights generally) is to empower autonomy, even when that autonomy is expressed in ways you do not fully understand or support.
Q: What does Disability Pride mean to you and what does it mean to be part of a disabled community?
Nicolette Barischoff: To me, Disability Pride is Body Pride. It’s about coming to terms with the enormous variety of bodies there are in the universe, and celebrating them. There is no such thing as a “normal” body, or even a “fully-functioning” body. Every person on earth is just trying to get the most out of the body they’ve got. Disability Pride for me is about building worlds for the bodies we actually have, instead of trying to shove every body under the wheels of a great big Normalizing Machine.
Q: What potential is there is science fiction for thinking about disability in a different way?
Nicolette Barischoff: Science fiction is all about changing the shape of the world. It’s a genre that offers us the space (sometimes literally!) to imagine societies that fit our varied bodies. (Andi Buchanan would call these non-disabling worlds, worlds that don’t favor one type of body above all others.) Science fiction has all kinds of bodies and societies depicted in it. It’s kind of tailor-made for exploring relative concepts like disability.
Q: What are some pitfalls that literature gets into when portraying disability? What are some of the problematic tropes that arise?
Nicolette Barischoff: We have had many talented essayists devote a great many words to answering this question over at Uncanny, so I won’t try to outdo them. But I will say that one of the most common problems I see in disabled characters written by abled writers is a preoccupation with disability itself. Real disabled people have very bored and boring relationships to their bodies (because, you know, we live in them). When I wake up to my spine arching like the Brooklyn bridge, I don’t think “Oh, Gods, my disability! I hate this, this is so unfair!” I probably only have time to think, “Oh, fuck my back, today… Maybe a bath will help?”
Q: There is often pressure on those of us with disabilities to write about disability. How have you balanced this pressure to write disability with all of the other things you want to write about?
Nicolette Barischoff: Good question! And one I haven’t really found a good answer to, yet. I suppose the short answer would be that I’m very choosy about who I write about disability for. And my disabled characters don’t get to come out of my head until I have the right story for them.
Q: You wrote for the collection Accessing the Future. What was it like to write for an anthology that centred disability and didn’t seek to erase us from the future like so many tales of the future do?
Nicolette Barischoff: Wonderful! Accessing the Future means a great deal to me. It was the first science fiction story I ever wrote.
Q: In your story “Pirate Songs” as part of Accessing the Future, you create a wheelchair user, Margo, who is thrust into an alien environment. What was the inspiration for Margo, and in what ways was “Pirate Songs” ultimately about all of us disabled people feeling as though we have been thrust into an environment that is alien to our bodies?
Nicolette Barischoff: “Pirate Songs” is really a story about the fluid and flexible nature of privilege: the idea that a person can be extraordinarily privileged in some respects and utterly marginalized in others, that a person can be marvelously privileged in one environment, and horribly disadvantaged in another. The character of Margo came about as a result of a fun, funny thought experiment. Say you plucked someone from a very sleek, progressive, Roddenberry-esque “Federation of Planets” kind of society (away from all the 127 holodecks and the food replicators and the androids that play the violin) and you plunked them down in a backwater, somewhere at the very far edges of that society. What would they find? All societies look different at the margins, no matter how advanced they consider themselves to be, and if a person is disabled, that difference is all the more keenly felt. Disability is treated very differently in societies and subcultures that lack the resources to create non-disabling environments. Fear or hatred of disability often comes about when a society is too resource-poor to accommodate it.
Q: In what ways can our art (writing, visual arts, theatre, music) be an act of resistance to an ableist world? How can we evoke change through our art?
Nicolette Barischoff: I think change happens naturally as a result of the kinds of art and stories we produce. There’s a reason why book burnings and book bannings are a cornerstone of any burgeoning fascist regime. It’s because stories are natural vehicles for making us think new and uncomfortable thoughts by ancient and comfortable methods. We don’t need to TRY to make change with art. Art, by its nature, changes. All we need to do is write good stories full of wise and sensitive and beautiful human things.
Q: What are some things we can be doing to increase the profile of marginalized stories? So often, one of the biggest challenges is getting the sort of attention for marginalized stories that are already in place for able-bodied, straight, white, cis-gendered men’s narratives. How do we challenge this privilege in publishing?
Nicolette Barischoff: Good question. I don’t know that I’m entirely qualified to answer it. I think one thing we can do is invent new and unconventional ways of promoting stories. New platforms for doing so are popping up faster than publishing houses can make use of them. This is good. This subverts the gatekeepers.
Q: You are currently editing the personal narratives section of the Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction collection from Uncanny Magazine. What are some of the most rewarding parts of reading and sharing these personal narratives?
Nicolette Barischoff: It was always a fun surprise to me what each essayist chose to write about. Discovering which characters and stories are important to people and why. Oftentimes, two essayists would express totally opposite opinions on the disability rep in the same work of fiction, and they’d both make absolutely fabulous essays. That’s the sort of stuff that makes editing fun!
Q: What thoughts, perspectives, and ideas have these personal narratives evoked for you? How have the stories of other people opened up new viewpoints for you?
Nicolette Barischoff: One head-smacking moment occurred for me while reading Elise Mattheson’s essay “The Only Thing Faster Than Tonight: Mr Darkness.” She spoke on the idea that disabled people are often thought to be remarkable for simply existing (we’ve all been called “amazing” by dim and kindly strangers before, right? ) She points out that the mere fact that disabled people are alive and occupying the same space seems remarkable to able-bodied people, because there is an unspoken and unconscious belief that disabled people aren’t supposed to survive. That they aren’t supposed to live long enough to do perfectly ordinary things. That thought was a sharp tack to suddenly sit on! I couldn’t believe that I’d never thought about that aspect of it before. Anyway, there were a lot of little moments like that.
Q: What other current projects are you working on and how can readers find out more about your projects?
Nicolette Barischoff: The novel. Always the novel! (The details of which are still misty and mysterious and very top-secret). I also have some pretty epic body-positive performance art planned for the coming year, so look out for that. You can find me on Twitter @nbarischoff or you can look up my dusty little blog, Turtles Have the Best Dreams.
Nicolette Barischoff was born with spastic cerebral palsy, which has only made her more awesome. Her fiction has appeared in Long Hidden, Accessing the Future, The Journal of Unlikely Academia, Podcastle, and Angels of the Meanwhile. She regularly writes about disability, feminism, sex- and body-positivity, and how all these fit together. Her personal essays on these topics get read way more than her fiction does, which is only a little annoying. She regularly collaborates with visual and performance artists to promote normalization of visibly disabled bodies. She’s been on the front page of CBS New York, where they called her activism public pornography and suggested her face was a Public Order Crime.
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Interview with Elsa Sjunneson-Henry
Interview with Elsa Sjunneson-HenryBy Derek Newman-Stille
I was pleased to encounter Elsa Sjunneson-Henry’s work through the Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction project currently underway with Uncanny Magazine and am glad that we were able to talk about speculative fiction and the power of writing disability. I want to thank Elsa for taking the time to chat with us here at Dis(Abled) Embodiment and for her powerful responses that both enlighten us as readers and empower us.
Q: To begin our interview, could you tell readers a little bit about yourself?
Elsa Sjunneson-Henry: I’m a partially deafblind bicoastal raised speculative fiction writer and editor. I also work in tabletop games and do some theatrical design support work. My platform is more or less broken into three parts: I’m a writer, an editor, and an activist. All three intersect one another, and I work hard to not let them get too disparate.
Q: You do work in both theatre and creative writing. How do these art forms speak to each other? Does your theatre work inform your writing and vice versa?
Elsa Sjunneson-Henry: I was having a conversation about this recently. My job in theater is as a dramaturg, which means I’m basically the researcher for a show. I create books for show staff, information about what a production history might look like, the setting (if it’s historical, it might include a brief for actors) and information on design choices for the tech people. It really informs how I prepare to write novels, or short stories, because I tend to create book bibles for my worldbuilding. Reference books for fictional worlds are how I got my start, and they don’t seem to be going away anytime soon.
Q: How do you identify or engage with the topic of disability?
Elsa Sjunneson-Henry: When I was a teenager I did not identify as disabled the way I do now. But these days, I’m proudly disabled. What that means for me is that I’ve engaged with this part of my identity pretty publicly, as an activist, a creator, and an editor. I don’t shy away from talking about what it’s like to be me, but I also don’t shy away from being honest about what I need or desire from the world.
A lot of my work recently has been as an activist. I’ve been working to get better access to government representatives for disabled people like myself, because equal representation is deeply important to me.
Q: What are some of the pitfalls and tropes that authors frequently get into when writing blind identities?
Elsa Sjunneson-Henry: The biggest pitfall is what I call the Daredevil Problem. A blind character who doesn’t need any of the trappings of blindness because their powers are able to circumvent the reality of being blind. In the TV show, Daredevil doesn’t need his cane to fight; he “sees” in red. His senses are so strong that we don’t need him to really be blind. The other one is, of course, that most sighted creators of blind characters assume that total blindness is the norm. Which it isn’t. Blindness exists on a spectrum of experiences, and not acknowledging that in our fiction is deeply frustrating.
Q: What are some ways that your own work disrupts these tropes?
Elsa Sjunneson-Henry: When I’ve written fully blind characters, I make sure that they intersect with the adaptive devices that would work best for them. Not all fully blind people use guide dogs, some use white canes. Some, like Daniel Kish, echolocate. I try as best as possible to show a wide variety of blindness narratives in my work, because the individual experience of blindness is as much about the way a person interacts with it as what works best for them.
Penny, my blind FBI agent from Seeking Truth uses a guide dog, because her guide dog is a part of her techniques for her job. Tara uses a white cane because she lives in New York City. Different needs for different women. Same disability.
Disrupting the common narrative of blindness is one of my goals as a writer and editor.
Q: Deaf characters are rarely explored in literature. What are some issues that authors tend to get into when writing Deaf characters?
Elsa Sjunneson-Henry: Much like with blindness, there’s a falsehood that D/deaf characters are completely D/deaf 100% of the time. I also think we don’t see a lot of Deaf culture, we see assumptions of how it manifests, but we do not see people who are engaged with (or not engaged with) Deaf culture in meaningful ways. But I suspect the latter will have to come from Deaf authors.
Q: What do you do with your own writing of Deaf characters to create more empowering narratives?
Elsa Sjunneson-Henry: I try to push envelopes. I just wrote a story with a Deaf marine, who uses technology and sign to interact with the world around her. She’s still fully able to participate in the military practices that she has signed up for, and in fact is incredibly good at her job. I try to make sure that my D/deaf characters are just as interesting, and badass, as hearing ones.
Q: What are some ways that we, as disabled authors, can challenge and disrupt tropes and assumptions about us?
Elsa Sjunneson-Henry: I think if you live on the sliding scale of disability (like I do) wherein your disability is not the “expected” representation, it’s really important to show people what disability looks like on a wide array.
I also think we as disabled authors are hungry for stories that many people can’t imagine us wanting. I heard it said recently that disabled people probably don’t want to write horror, because it turns us into victims. My perspective on that is different. I see horror as a place where we can triumph. When the world grows too dark, we can use our canes or guide dogs. When the word loses sound, we can sign. When people are confronted with sirens whose songs compel us into action, we may be able to turn off our hearing aids. Sometimes, being able to lose a sense or knowing how to cope with its loss is a skill we want.
Q: You have written about ways to engage in acts of resistance and civil disobedience in your essay “Rise Up, Act Up”. What are some ways that we can resist ableism through acts of civil disobedience?
Elsa Sjunneson-Henry: Check out National ADAPT for starters. They’re incredible inspirations to me (and I mean that in the best way possible. Sometimes that’s a dirty word in disability politics, but not here). Witnessing disability and civil disobedience in action is incredibly important.
If you want to get active, I suggest starting there.
I think it’s important to remember that not all people with disabilities can or want to participate in civil disobedience, and while that’s not what you asked, what I’m about to say might sound like it excludes people with invisible disabilities, but I hope you understand it’s not meant that way. Civil disobedience for me is about more than just the political action of marching, or resisting, it’s about being visibly disabled in the course of that fight. Disabled people are often erased from political conversations, left out from where we’ve always been. I could probably do a whole essay on this, but the fact is, we’ve always been here. National ADAPT has been around since the 1970s, Helen Keller was a dedicated Socialist. Disability and activism come hand in hand, and by being disabled – even invisibly – in public, while participating in a march, or a civil disobedience actin, you’re being visible as a disabled person. That matters. That’s powerful. Because people don’t want to see us sometimes.
Q: What role do the arts have in disability resistance?
Elsa Sjunneson-Henry: The ability to write about ourselves is an act of resistance. The ability to force people to see from our perspective is an act of resistance. I identify my participation in Disabled People Destroy as an act of defiance almost. I’m saying I’m here, and that I’m not willing to go away. It feels similar to when I march in a protest, or participate in civil disobedience. We don’t get anything done by asking politely, we get things done by defiantly existing. By creating worlds we want to live in we’re not asking to be included, we’re making it happen.
Q: You are involved in Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction. What are some ways that science fiction can respond to ableism and challenge systemic disempowerment of disabled people?
Elsa Sjunneson-Henry: Let’s start by envisioning futures where disabled people exist.
We have Miles Vorkosigan. Miles is great. I’ve been re-reading the books recently as I’ve been preparing for Disabled People Destroy. But despite Miles’ boundless energy, Miles is not enough representation for all of us. First of all, Miles is white. He’s male. Yes, he’s disabled, but I have to ask what Miles would have been like if he’d been a woman (don’t worry, I plan on writing about that soon.)
We need disabilities at all intersections of genre. In our cyberpunk, in our hard scifi, in space, behind wardrobe doors, in alternate history. We need it, and critically looking at why disability hasn’t been included is something I hope to bring out of the non-fiction section of the Disabled People Destroy issue.
Q: What science fiction authors have you read that are writing empowering narratives of disability and what are they doing that empowers us?
Elsa Sjunneson-Henry: As I’ve just mentioned – Miles. We definitely need to acknowledge Lois McMaster Bujold. She’s set the bar really high for disability in science fiction.
While not science fiction, both Fran Wilde and Mishell Baker (disabled authors who will be writing essays for me in Disabled People Destroy) are writing gorgeous books filled with disabled characters. They bring me hope.
I feel like we’re on the edge of seeing more disabled characters in fiction, not just because I’m writing them, but because I see more coming out. I hear from people who are writing disabled characters. It’s coming, and it will be beautiful.
Q: Science fiction is frequently about imagining new possible societies. What are some ways that science fiction can help us to imagine an accessible world?
Elsa Sjunneson-Henry: The future, at least in some incarnations is about what we’ve improved upon with technology. Technology should, theoretically, make disabled lives better. For example, reimagine what a blind person’s life is like with a driverless car. Going from a life where you can’t get anywhere without relying on others, whether it be free rides from friends, or mass transit, to a situation where you can go everywhere by yourself – that’s revolution.
Marissa Lingen’s essay for Disabled People Destroy is a great illustration of this. I highly suggest after you finish this interview that you go read it.
Q: In “A Place Out Of Time”, you explore time travel for a disabled character. When i read through time travel narratives, i frequently ponder how narratives would be different if i engaged with time travel through my disabled body and consider how many time periods would be completely inaccessible. What was it like to imagine disability history and think through ideas of access and the historical erasure of disabled people for this tale?
Elsa Sjunneson-Henry: Going back to my first answer in this article about theater and my job in it, I’m a dramaturg. Which means, rather than studying English, I studied history. I dove into history and swam in timelines and studied the stories of the past. And so telling stories about history is in many ways, like coming home.
I wrote A Place Out of Time in a hot rage. I was reading something, and it erased disabled characters, it actually didn’t even acknowledge them. And I was angry, about where we stood in history, and I wanted to show people what that anger – that loss – feels like. A Place Out of Time is about a lot of things, but for me, most of all, it is about the experience of knowing that your body could fail you, not because it is your body, but because the world around you won’t keep you safe.
Q: Ableism and misogyny frequently intersect in ways that multiply the oppression of women with disabilities. What are some of the intersections you have noticed?
Elsa Sjunneson-Henry: Sometimes, being a disabled woman is a really unpleasant experience. What I mean by that is, society already sees me as fragile because I’m a woman, and then you add the perceived vulnerabilities of blindness and deafness, and well, you get a whole mess of trouble. Not to end this interview on a low note, but the amount of violent language, personal space invasion, and outright assault that I experience on a daily basis is unthinkable if you’re a man. People assume that your body is a public object to be moved and manipulated at will. Women with wheelchairs experience this too (and I’m not a man, but I suspect men with wheelchairs also have the experience of being moved without being asked.)
When disability and misogyny combine it’s outright dangerous. It’s something we have to think about on a constant basis, of “am I safe here” and “will I remain safe here” just to leave the house. These calculations are often left out of fiction. Intersections of safety, or the lack of it, are vital. We also don’t talk about disability and race nearly enough, and I believe that is also something we desperately need to fix. Disabled people are not all white, nor are all disabled experiences ones colored by whiteness. Disabled PoC have a very different experience of the world and it’s important to listen to them. #DisabilityTooWhite is an excellent illustration of this.
Elsa Sjunneson-Henry is a partially deafblind speculative fiction writer and disability activist. Her short fiction is included in Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling, Fireside Magazine, and Ghost in the Cogs. She also writes for tabletop roleplaying games and was part of the ENNIe award-winning staff for Dracula Dossier. Her nonfiction has been included in The Boston Globe, Uncanny Magazine, Terrible Minds, and many other venues. She teaches disability representation at Writing the Other, and recently spoke at the New York Public Library on this topic. She is the Managing Editor at Fireside Magazine. She has a Masters in Women’s History from Sarah Lawrence College, and uses it to critique media representation of disability from all mediums.
Current Projects: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lynnemthomas/disabled-people-destroy-science-fiction-uncanny-m
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Editorials, Speculative Fiction and the Body
Fictional Portrayals of Disability- Why Do They Matter?
June 20, 2017 dereknewmanstille 1 Comment
I frequently get asked why I look at portrayals of disability in fiction. I am often told that I should look at something “real” and “substantial” like policy.
I find this an interesting assumption. People frequently assumed that marginalized identities are going to be best changed through policy and politics, but policies are shaped by social consciousness, by the realm of ideas. Fiction is about the realm of the possible, the realm of ideas, and it is ideas that make changes more than policy. Policies won’t change social attitudes unless there is a social receptiveness to these changes.
I frequently think about this in terms of requirements for accommodation in building codes, and the notion that undergirds this: “minimal compliance”. Minimal compliance with building accessibility codes mean that people can continue to view disability as a PROBLEM, as an issue that doesn’t need to be accommodated, but instead needs to be appeased. This means that buildings often have spaces that don’t really fit disabled bodies, but instead fit codes. Disabled bodies are still viewed as non-viable in these spaces, perceived as a barrier to an easy build rather than a necessary inclusion. Rather than viewing us as needed and essential participants in these spaces, we are viewed as inconvenient obstructions.
Fiction provides a space for radical rethinkings of our social spaces, challenges to a system that is content with our erasure. Fiction invites society to radically re-imagine our perceptual frameworks, our entrenched beliefs and the things that we consider self-evident.
Yet, our fiction is produced from the moulds that have been created previously, from our social frameworks and from our existing taken-for-granted understandings of the world. Our fiction, and our ways of imagining disability are fundamentally problematic, limited, and actively damaging. They reproduce ideologies that push disabled bodies further to the fringes and influence policies that don’t really include disabled bodies and often actively exclude us.
Our fiction, our imaginations, need an infusion of something new and potent, something that radically reconsiders not just literary tropes, but imaginative possibilities. We need a radical reconception of the way that disability occupies our imagination, challenge images that reduce us, and open up new possibilities for discourse.
Critical explorations of popular culture, literature, art, imagination, are not just things in the realm of academia. We should all be radically reconsidering our portrayals, critically questioning them, discussing them, and producing something new.
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Able-Bodied People Speaking ABOUT Disabled People
June 5, 2017 dereknewmanstille 2 Comments
Far too frequently, able-bodied people feel that they have a place to talk about disabled people. They use different justifications for this act of narrating our bodies to us, but the bottom line is always the same. There is an assumption that our bodies are open to public debate, that we are resigned to expertiseism about our bodies not only by medical practitioners, but anyone who feels that they have a stake in narrating us.
I see this most commonly when it comes to medical practitioners, whose power to narrate our bodies is so strong that we have to depend on their assessment of our bodies to get access to basic accommodations. Our own narration of our bodies is never considered enough to guarantee that we will acquire everything we need. In university I observed this with the accommodation letters that I was forced to bring to my professors. My own narration of my bodily needs was not enough to be considered appropriate, so I needed to bring a letter detailing my needs in order to get them. Catherine Duchastel de Montrouge brought up the need for accommodation letters during her recent talk at the Canadian Disability Studies Association and discussed the fetishization of the accommodation letter for our post-secondary education system. Duchastel de Montrouge talked about being told by professors that she shouldn’t need accommodations, that she would be denied accommodations because the “professor knows best”, and the suspicion of accommodation letters by most professors. When talking to her, I likened the accommodation letter to a passport, allowing us into a space that we are considered unwelcome in and a space where we can have our rights withdrawn at any time. We depend on these accommodation letters for access to education, but they are dependent on the physician writing them, a university office drafting their final copy, and a professor deciding to abide by these letters.
This is, of course only one example of the need for physician letters, since disabled people also need the word of a physician to access disabled parking, be able to use accessible seats on aeroplanes, have access to disability accommodation, and in order to access government support funds for people with disabilities.
I have frequently had people narrate my body to me after seeing me walking with a cane. I have been told “if you work hard enough, you won’t have to use that any more”, been asked “why do you think you need a cane?”, and been told that I “look normal enough”. These narrations happened by strangers, which frequently occurs for disabled people. Able-bodied people have been told through their media that they have a right to narrate disabled people’s bodies to them, to tell us how to live our lives, how to be disabled in this world, and how we should act to make them more comfortable with our presence on the landscape.
A friend recently came back from a writers’ conference where she was the only disabled person on a panel about writing disability. It should be abundantly clear to everyone that disability is generally not written of well in our literature and popular culture, so I am amazed at how little people want to listen to disabled people give input on their bodies and how to write them well. She noted that all of the able-bodied people on the panel tried to tell her how disabled characters should be written, replicating tropes about disability. They even waved their hand at her to say “people like you” when talking about people with disabilities.
I have experienced similar issues when able-bodied people have asked me to read their stories about people with disabilities because they generally respond to my reminders that the character is presented problematically by getting angry and saying things like “that is how I need the character to be for the novel to work” or “but it’s not really about their disability, its about what it means for their society” or “but I saw a meme on facebook that said this” or “I talked to someone who was disabled and they said it was okay to write people like them this way” or “but I read a book on it by a doctor and this is what they said” or “but I tried to make this character a nice person, isn’t that enough?” This is one of the reasons I have become more hesitant to read people’s manuscripts, especially when they portray disabled people. I know that little will shift when I ask them for more, ask them to do better, or ask them to listen, pay attention, and understand.
Able bodied writers and media consumers seem resistant to hearing back from the people they write about. Our disabled voices only complicate the easy symbolism that they write onto our bodies, our three-dimensionality only complicates the simple one-dimensional characters they want to write. We make it hard to write us when we speak up.
I think that bears repeating: We make it hard to write us when we speak up.
I think this could be a call to action. A call to able-bodied people to actually listen to us, a call for convention organizers to have disabled people speaking about disabled characters, and a reminder of the call “nothing about us without us”.
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Solar boom or quiet goodbye? Same data, two stories
Written by Ben Heard, Founder and Executive Director, Bright New WorldPosted on January 30, 2014 February 3, 2014 32 Comments
In January of this year this press release on solar installations was released:
Australia reaches two million
small-scale renewable energy installations
The Clean Energy Regulator has welcomed 2014 with news confirming Australia has now installed more than two million small-scale renewable energy systems, under the Renewable Energy Target.
This comes only eight months after reaching one million rooftop solar installations, providing a strong indication that investment in small-scale renewable energy continues to flourish in Australia.
Assisted by falling system costs coupled with financial incentives derived from the Renewable Energy Target, small-scale systems have become more and more affordable for everyday Australians.
The Clean Energy Regulator estimates the two million small-scale installations have a capacity to generate or displace approximately 6,882 gigawatt hours of electricity annually, with 4,182 gigawatt hours generated from small-scale solar, wind and hydro installations and a further 2,700 gigawatt hours displaced by solar hot water systems and air source heat pumps.
This equates to the amount of electricity required to power approximately 1.04 million Australian homes for a year. This is enough to power all Perth, Hobart, Darwin and Canberra households combined1.
It’s an impressive message. Heck, why equivocate, it’s an impressive achievement. That’s a lot of systems, that’s a lot of electricity, and that’s a lot of energy. To add one more stat, it’s national household penetration of PV of about 14%! All told the impression one takes from the media release is that it is boom time for solar. Is it? Or might this be a governmental “goodbye and good luck”?
Commendably the data behind this announcement is freely available. I checked it to confirm the electricity generation numbers. Geoff Russell had another idea: check the installation rate. Here’s what he found:
Rate of installations of all solar systems in Australia. Graph by Geoff Russell
The identical data, presented as above, tells the other side of the story: rates of installation are slowing, dramatically. The peaks and troughs are perfectly correlated to withdrawal of subsidies, to wit:
1 July 2012: Reduction of solar credit multiplier from 3x to 2x
1 January 2013: Phase out of solar credit multiplier
30 June 2013: Closure of ACT feed-in tarriff
30 September 2013: Closure of South Australian feed-in tariff
No doubt Australia’s solar story is far from finished. However right through to 2014 solar PV installation rates remained highly sensitive to Government support. They simply are not that cheap.
It is also worth considering that, at 14% penetration, the rational behaviour evident in the graph above suggests solar has likely knocked off many of the best suited households, like those who:
Can afford it. No I’m not calling PV an upper-class toy, but a household needs to scrape some upfront cash together, and not all households can
Have a roof to put it on. The 14% stat quoted above was based on all dwellings (high density, caravans etc included). As a proportion of separate houses, it’s 18% penetration
Own the roof they are living under. Between 25% and 30% of Australian households are renters. The reality of split incentives in rental/landlord relationships is a well-known impediment to sustainability improvements in dwellings
Have the most favourable aspects, being largely unimpeded north facing roof
Give a damn about climate change and clean energy
These factors are further reasons why new installations may be harder to come by from here. For commercial and industrial roofs, the dramatically lower prices paid for electricity tip the balance against solar far more than residential customers. That potential boom frontier remains out of reach for the time being.
Geoff’s simple analysis is important to help us see the whole picture. If we don’t, we risk making assumptions about the business-as-usual future that simply won’t be true.
Eighteen percent of separate households and 4.1 GWh of electricity… if we were wanting solar power on Australian roofs, it has worked. We’ve got solar. It has been bumby, however since the Photovoltaic Rebate Program was introduced in 2001 we have had 13 years of sustained support in the form of rebates, renewable energy certificates, artificially multiplied certificates and feed in tarriffs. The inarguable popularity of this technology has seen people-power campaigns repeatedly thwart attempts by both major parties to remove financial support.
Between solar PV, wind (which delivers in excess of 5 TWh of clean electricity), and some softening demand, Australia’s electricity emissions have returned to 2003 levels of…186 Mt per annum from a 2009 high of 209 Mt per annum, while total national emissions have climbed.
National greenhouse emissions, year to March. Source: AGEIS quarterly update
We wanted solar and we’ve got solar. Now we need something else and it will need to be big.
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Irregular Commentator says:
Is there a parallel between an individual outlaying thousands in capital and a coalition of utilities outlaying billions in upfront capital to build PV and Nuclear stations respectively? Especially considering that a FiT (strike price) will sweeten a shift to adopt that technology?
Maybe this is a way to explain Nuclear costs to the average person, or maybe I haven’t had enough coffee this morning?
John Newlands says:
George Orwell warned us of ‘doublespeak’ . I see the 2m is made of 1.1m PV roofs, 0.7m solar water heaters and 0.2m heat pumps in rounded figures. Since when was a heat pump water heater a solar device? It could be mainly powered by coal and gas fired electricity. Maybe it’s ‘honorary solar’. With the reduction in incentives like Australia wide feed-in tariffs falling to 8c or less per kwh we may never get to 2m PV roofs.
On another tack I saw in an article in Climate Spectator that a SA Parliamentary Select Committee had looked into the Pt Augusta solar thermal proposal. Since the hyperlink is flakey search and download the pdf file Pt Augusta Power Stations Interim. The recommendations seem quite level headed ie consider alternatives both technology and Pt Augusta. It makes me think SA politicians aren’t quite as starry eyed as we suppose. When the gas price shock hits with 50C summer temps perhaps nuclear will get serious consideration.
The big issue with that committee was it was spurred on by the BZE Repower Pt Augusta proposal of 760MWe of Solar Thermal and 700MWe of Wind to replace both Northern and Playford B but only considered in the end a single 110MWe Solar Thermal (with storage, maybe?) plant.
The entire point of the exercise was forgotten by the end of the Committee hearings, as ti became apparent that the original proposal wasn’t was robust as the members of the committee were led to believe it was.
If they had pressed with the 700MWe of Wind they would have been rebuffed by grid operators as there is no more capacity for large scale wind. So the options were either scrap the Wind and that would compromise the original goal of closure of N&P, or contribute more millions to upgrading the SA grid effectively gold plating it and adding to the cost of SA power prices (due to the AER rules). The Ceres project (600MWe) on the Yorke peninsula had to build it’s own sub-gulf HVDC cable to link into Adelaide to get around this problem.
There were clues to this earlier on in the committee hearings where the Repower Pt Augusta people were asked if the had consulted with local land owners to see if placing 6 solar thermal arrays around Pt Augusta was feasible and had land access agreements, they had none and it became clear after the hearing that the proposal was effectively back of the envelope, albeit on a flashy glossy envelope.
This is why the current committee scope is directed towards building on the existing site. Which would mean either an outright 110MWe w/6hr storage Solar Thermal platn (unlikely; although Solar Reserve is poking around), or a Solar Booster like Kogan Creek. With the plans to increase the life of Leigh Creek and the blending of low grade Coal with the current high grade stockpiles boosting the steam looks like a likely option.
Let us all bask in the Green Wash Kool Aid. OOOOHH YEAH!
More proof that SA is on the same wavelength as Germany….burning coal is OK if you feel green inside.
rgriese77 says:
Decarbonise SA says:
Thanks, full credit to Geoff for passing through the information.
What that really says is that we desperately need the SA-VIC interconnector to be massively upgraded. There’s still heaps of wind capacity there and there’s heaps of brown coal in Victoria just waiting to be undercut on cost. Who cares whether or not it’s the coal plant in Port Augusta or one of the ones in Victoria that’s having its energy replaced by wind it’s still less emissions being released. While SA might be close to maximised in terms of wind it can handle on its grid the rest of the NEM is miles off.
They are currently doing an upgrade at the moment to assist in that:
http://www.aemo.com.au/Electricity/Planning/Regulatory-Investment-Tests-for-Transmission/Heywood-Interconnector-RIT-T
Just wanted to add that when we have capacity issues here we tend to import a lot of Victorian Power (i.e. Hazelwood and Loy Lang) over gas because it’s cheaper.
singletonengineer says:
@ John Newlands:
Good explanation.
Does the solar powered electric fence energiser I bought a year or two back figure in the stats? Its panel is a whopping 200 x 120mm or so.
Solar in Australia’s interesting. I think it’s a great case study in the impact of plummeting solar prices and rising electricity prices on the population’s outlook as well as being a great example of how to destroy any semblance of stability in a sector through poorly planned government subsidies.
First of all the rate of installation is unbelievable. In 2008 there was less than 30MW of capacity installed yet in 2012 there was over 1GW. Of course suddenly the FITs that were supposed to make systems of the 2000s remotely cost competitive were making 2012 systems basically a gold mine. Add in spiralling electricity prices from the grid and the government was massively caught out by the take-up rate. Then we’ve gone through massive peaks each time subsidies are dropped since.
The flat FITs meant the government subsidised far more than necessary certain systems and led to dashes to take advantage of them. It would’ve been much better for the subsidies to be gradually dropped as the price of solar decreased. Now the solar market has to go through a period of consolidation. There are some interesting plans to get around some of the things you mention like such as solar leasing and nice methods for getting around roof ownership problems for business installations.
Solar’s still got a lot of growth though. With dropping costs and increasing prices from the grid they’re only going to get more competitive. It’s only taken 5 years to come this far. There will probably be a short lull but I’d be surprised if in 10 years time solar wasn’t the norm for houses (it’s still the exception). Of course that doesn’t mean other forms of clean energy shouldn’t be considered as well.
Catprog says:
I notice that before the drop their is a spike. Is it possible that when the rebate is cut it is announced before hand and lots of people sign up (which reduces the amount in the future?)
Very much so. There has normally been a month or two of notice, and the vendors spruik the “get in before it closes” very openly. So you can see spike, lull, then build to the next spike before the next closure. Overall trend is very clear. When you could get REC multiples and feed-in tariff, and system prices were falling, solar PV in Australia was a financial no-brainer.
On the Heywood connector I don’t see why SA couldn’t send both wind generated electricity and nuclear power to the Victorians and their dark satanic coal mills should they decide to cut back. At some point SA’s gas fired generators will have to be used more sparingly but hopefully not from importing Vic coal power..
Electric fence zappers are the sort of off grid low power application at which solar excels. Beats me why they then think solar should power aluminium smelters.
For those wondering what Solar PV is doing in real time, check out this handy source:
http://pv-map.apvi.org.au/
I’ve had a read of your report proposing nuclear in Port Augusta. It’s a very interesting report and important that there’s actually a reasonable analysis of all possible options. Whether or not nuclear ends up a realistic candidate to significantly eat in to fossil fuel consumption in the near future, not considering it at all is moronic. So good job on getting a conversation started that hopefully will lead to a more reasonable debate.
From what I can tell most of it seems very reasonable and in line with what I can find online. A lot of nuclear advocates vastly overstate the costs of renewables (for example using renewable costs from 5+ years ago so not accounting for the huge drop in prices recently) in order to make nuclear appear vastly superior. But your projections on the renewables side seem pretty spot on. Just a few questions that I’d be interested in your opinion on:
1. Do you think the $5,000-$7,000 per kW is still reasonable for nuclear? Recent plants in western countries seem to have been higher than that with, for example, Hinkley C construction costs are over $9,000 per kW (I understand at least part of that is due to the exchange rate shift since your report was written).
2. You mention that the maturity of a nuclear industry affects costs but don’t go in to detail (at least I don’t think you did). Realistically how much more do you think it would cost to build a nuclear plant here compared to places with an existing nuclear industry? Along with that what sort of investment (in terms of time and dollars) would we be looking at from the government in order to set up university courses, safety agencies, etc to get a nuclear industry started? Note: I realise these costs wouldn’t be born by a single reactor since surely if we’re going to the effort to build one we’d end up building a bunch more.
3. Why did you choose a CANDU-6 reactor? I’m not criticising your choice I’ve just got no knowledge of why that reactor would be a good choice over others and if you explained that in the report I must have missed it.
4. You make the argument that solar thermal electricity is expensive, which it certainly is. However it does have some significant advantages due to storage. These include the ability to sell to market when electricity costs are higher and also the ability to improve grid stability. Do you know of any studies looking at the impact of this and when solar thermal with storage would become viable? Also do you know how much grid stability it could provide, for example how much extra wind could be built on the grid around there due to the solar thermal plant providing the stability?
I hope that’s not too much for you and again thanks for the report.
Thank you for the feedback, that is much appreciated. Yes, we saw no benefit in overstating renewable expense, so we stuck to prices quoted by renewable advocates. If anything the process of this report enhanced my appreciation for the role of wind to keep the decarbonisation process going, up to a point anyway.
1. Yes. Provided one continues to look at the full spectrum of global prices, and provided Australia runs a competitive process with international consortia, I think that’s perfectly reasonable. I am still trying to pin it down but I understand that for a lot of historical reasons it was only ever really going to be EDF who would build new nuclear for the UK. We don’t have that problem. Would could have competitive processes with tenders lead out of France, USA, China, Korea, India and several others. The recent price for connected EPR reactor in China was astonishing, $2,000 per kW.
2. Wow, good questions. Less than most people think. International labour makets are a fact of life and it’s just the case that when Australia can’t provide labour, in industry after industry, we buy it. If we want to do it sooner not later we can buy a turn key solution such as Kepco have provided the UAE, linked to domestic training and development so that we become more autonomous over time. That said we should get better domestically to get the most out of the opportunity in terms of jobs. Our regulatory systems and bodies are actually really really good, really highly regarded and really competent. They are simply sized structured for what we have now which is an excellent research reactor, a lot of nuclear medicine and a large mining industry. It would be far from starting from scratch. Our existing regulators would need to be bigger with a broader remit.
3. It was discussed, but briefly. Please see top of page 8 and pages 22-23.
4. I don’t really see this as an advantage per se, I see it as solar power gradually mimicking what fossil fuels and nuclear power do as a matter of course, which is provide a dispatchable supply. If you want to hook up salt storage to nuclear, you could, but it’s hard to see why you would. The storage element really pushes up the price, and note the prices in our report would based on (from memory) on 8 hours or so which is really not adequate. All that said the recent AETA update published by BREE suggested much swifter price falls for solar thermal with storage than it had in the previous version. It’s still farking expensive unfortunately and beyond AETA I don’t have insights into the potential for that to change, sorry.
Thanks again for reading and discussing! Lots of work went into it.
On point 2, Australia already has a good base of Nuclear Engineering and Science (Lucas Heights, UNSW, Silex) to go off. So in effect a turnkey solution like UAE would work much more effectively here as there is the engineering and science base to go from.
Thanks for the time and effort you put in to this. I really appreciate it.
1. Fair point about competition for tenders. Hopefully that would reduce costs.
I don’t really see that the prices for nuclear in places like China are really relevant to Australia. Labor costs are just so enormously different. Same for any other technology. For example India’s just recently announced a 4,000MW solar plant at $1,100/kW whereas the new Nyngnan solar plant is looking at around $2900/kW. Sure technology differs a bit but that shows the scale of the difference between Australia and the developing world in terms of construction costs. Looking at comparable countries and plants look to be costing towards the top end of your estimate:
Vogtle 3 and 4 (USA) – over $6500/kW
Okiluoto (Finland) – over $7500/kW
Flamanville (France) – over $7500/kW
Hinkley C (UK) – ~$9400/kW
Of course all of these are still a number of years away from completion and the first 3 are way over budget.
Now perhaps a more basic, ready to go design will make it cheaper. I don’t know. But surely you can understand my scepticism of the predicted costs when existing nuclear countries are struggling to build new nuclear for that price.
2. That makes sense. I hadn’t even thought of our existing nuclear industry. I guess it would just be a case of expanding what’s already there rather than starting from scratch. Having education incorporated in to the tender process would make a lot of sense.
3. Thanks for that. Somehow I missed it on my first look through. I must say, with a bit of research CANDU-6 reactors seem to have a remarkably good record of being on time and budget compared to the nuclear power industry as a whole.
4. I think you undersell the importance of dispatchable power. For example coal definitely can’t deliver grid stability since it takes such a long time to power up and down. I was under the impression nuclear power used similar generating systems so had the same problems (I could be wrong).
Additionally I don’t think LCOE takes into account the possibility for electricity to be sold at times of peak wholesale prices. Although solar thermal with storage costs a lot more to generate, it also has the benefit of being able to choose when to distribute the power which means the plant can make more money off the power it sells than baseload plants which have to sell their energy for whatever the price at the time is. You’re right that 8 hours storage would limit this although it would allow them to cover the evening peak even if that’s after sunset. Of course you’re right that it is still very expensive and I doubt that these positives even go close to making up for that.
Thanks for the discussion.
1. “surely you can understand my scepticism of the predicted costs”…
Certainly! And I would encourage you to keep that sceptism at all times. Cost certainty is, for me, just about the only uncertainty remaining in nuclear and I maintain sceptisism myself, hence my Hinkley piece. As the data sources change so would my analysis. More importantly for China has been the learning. They are getting cheaper, fast, which is a very good sign. All said, I remain entirely open to people being sceptical in this regard. If that becomes the status of nuclear discussions, I think that’s excellent.
2. Those organisations present that the mid-year ATSE conference spoke highly of their abilities and were confident in an expanded role.
3. Don’t they though?
4. Yes I think you are a bit off the mark in your understanding of nuclear, possibly even coal. Both can load-follow, it depends to what degree you mean. France and Germany are two examples of economies with a slew of real-life data showing the load-following behaviour of nuclear in their grids. As for the CANDU 6 you would note the remarks on page 23. The newer the reactors, the better they do this. In Australia, black coal plant in NSW load follows for wind output in the NEM. This may be of interest http://www.oecd-nea.org/ndd/reports/2011/load-following-npp.pdf
The positive you are describing for solar thermal… still not getting it. Solar thermal can, as you say, choose when to sell the power it generated earlier in response to price. A nuclear plant can choose when to make power in response to price and sell it on the spot. I would say nuclear is in front there. Are talking about oversizing the solar thermal to provide both constant supply at X MW PLUS a neat little reserve of stored power to sell when you want? I can’t see that happening. The point of solar thermal is to provide constant supply with dispatchability, like fossil or nuclear. The generation that is economical for taking advantage of the real price spikes is open-cycle gas.
Thanks for the reply. Just on solar thermal I’ll try to explain what I’m getting at.
You’re right that nuclear could target high cost times by switching off the generators at other times. But that’s a different way of targeting high prices than solar-thermal potentially could. Hypothetically let’s say that for 12 hours are day there is a high wholesale electricity price and half the day is a low wholesale electricity price (of course this isn’t realistic but it’s useful to demonstrate the point).
So nuclear targets these high prices by switching off its generators for the other 12 hours a day. But that hurts the LCOE of the nuclear generation. The LCOE assumes a high capacity factor for nuclear (85-90% I think). But if you’re not producing power for 12 hours a day then your capacity factor is 50%. As you’ve noted many times, construction costs are a huge part of nuclear power costs and you’re paying these costs for the reactor to not be producing power for 50% of the time. A plant designed to last for 50 years won’t suddenly last for 100 years because you aren’t using it half of the time. Sure there might be some cost reduction (perhaps the plant would last slightly longer or you’d save some money on fuel costs) but these would be minor. Overall your total costs over the life of the nuclear plant would be split over less electricity so each kWh would cost more. Make sense?
Solar thermal isn’t the same. Storage allows them to sell electricity at times of higher prices without ever stopping collecting the suns rays. The capacity factor doesn’t change so they still produce the same amount of electricity so the LCOE doesn’t change but they can sell it at more optimal times. If you had perfect storage you would take the energy generated by the solar thermal plant throughout the year and just release it at times of huge demand meaning on average you’re selling the electricity at far higher prices than a baseload plant which produces constantly year-round. This is without reducing the total amount of electricity generated over the plants lifetime.
Of course there isn’t perfect storage and limits in terms of the amount of storage capacity, the time it can be kept for and inefficiencies in storage would mean the impact would be far, far reduced from the optimal case. But it would make a difference. I’m not saying you should’ve covered that or that it would make solar-thermal even remotely cost competitive. But it is a benefit of having storage and I’d be interested to see just how much of a difference it could make (my guess is that with only 8 hours storage and an inability to dispatch the stored energy in particularly quick time, the impact wouldn’t be great).
James, one doesn’t “switch off” nuclear reactors. In practice, there’s nothing to gain and much to lose by not keeping the steam circuit hot and operating, even if at low loads. You used the term twice.
You are correct that it comes down to capacity factors, amongst other issues.
Your description of solar thermal reads as though you can store heat without cost, as well as harvesting it and using it immediately. This isn’t realistic. First, any heat diverted to the storage salt is heat not available for the generators immediately. I have read a few estimates of the thermal losses expected from storage and subsequent withdrawal from storage of heat. It isn’t trivial – something like 30% from memory.
So, if a solar thermal plant which is rated at 1MW (direct to turbine) receives sunlight for 8 hours per day average, it may have a 33% capacity factor.
If half of that is cycled through storage, then the capacity factor becomes 33 – (33*0.5*0.3) = 28%.
So, that what you really want, complete with additional need to provide alternative (gas?) power supplies for overcast days, plus conventional immersion heaters to keep the salt above its hardening point when there are a few overcast days in a row?
While you are considering losses, remember that the solar thermal plant also needs to stay hot overnight, or lose at least the first hour of every day just heating its steam mains and turbine through, ready to start work again.
Of course, you don’t want the steam mains to cool down every day — 365 cold starts per annum are exactly what a steam turbine does not want, if the objective is to live a long life. Ditto the steam mains themselves. One way to think of steam plant is that it is good for “X” starts from cold. Keep it running constantly and it doesn’t get damaged due to differential thermal stresses and strains.
How are you going to keep your steam mains and turbine warm when the sun isn’t shining? How are you going to explain to your shareholders that you stuffed a perfectly good turbine by starting it daily, then allowing it to cool?
Some engineers even recommend keeping the whole animal turning over at no load, 24/7, using natural gas to generate the steam to enhance the plant’s availability, flexibility and longevity while decreasing maintenance costs.
A few years back, a solar thermal plant in Spain was observed to be running a diesel generator 24/7 down the back yard. Connected to the grid, which was a bit of a give-away, because they were generating beyond their technical specifications. Naughty, but nice, if the objective is to generate not electricity, but a set of nice looking availability and capacity factor results.
Before you jump onto the solar thermal bandwagon, take a long, hard look. It’s not as easy as at first it appears to be.
I was referring back to Ben’s comment “a nuclear plant can choose when to make power in response to price and sell it on the spot”. Of course you don’t shut it off completely but that suggest altering generation output to match prices as being a realistic possibility for nuclear plants.
I’m not on “the solar thermal bandwagon”. I try not to be on any bandwagon. At the moment solar thermal seems vastly more expensive than other forms of generation. I’m simply interested to know the economic impacts of storage. I was simply showing to Ben how including storage in an LCOE could potentially leave an energy source appearing more expensive than it really is.
If there have been any studies on the economic impact of storage for solar thermal I’d love to see it. Depending on the quality of the storage it could improve the overall economics of the plant. Alternatively it could be a case that storing energy costs extra due to inefficiencies in teh storage process. Either way I’d be interested to see if there’s any information on that and what sort of improvements can be realistically expected in the near future since I can find very little on it.
Thanks, James.
So we were discussing ramp rates, not turning on or off.
All plant with steam generators can ramp up or down within predetermined parameters – typically 20 – 30MW/min loading for a 500MW unit, perhaps more when unloading.
Nuclear, solar thermal, gas (CC) or coal fired, they are all able to follow loads up and down. Philosophically, there’s not much between them in this regard.
4. Where do you think grid stability comes from now? It is from coal sure they do take a long time to start from cold, but once started and warm are what hold the grid together now.
On checking I see that Pt Augusta’s Northern and Playford power stations got $59.5m in 2012 under the ‘contracts for closure’ program. That’s cash not free permits or IOUs. I note the Playford station is under care and maintenance for a quick rebirth ie they’re not demolishing it. If Northern gets a solar boost (like Kogan Ck Qld) we’ll not only have a rather feeble greenwash but what seems like taking money under false pretences. My feeling is that Pt Augusta is a coal town and will be for a long time.
Re First of a Kind (FOAK) costing.
This is always a conundrum for any industry, more so for politically complex ones. Relatively recent experience in trying to put together a contract for a Chinese company to design, construct, operate and maintain, then hand over, a power station to be constructed in Mongolia, indicated that not only finance and engineering are involved, but also politics, language and cultural differences. Those two countries are strongly reliant on trade partnerships but also have a complex and adversarial history.
The same issues will arise to varying degrees with any FOAK source country from Ben’s list of France, USA, China, Korea, India and others.
Even if USA is the supplier’s home, there will be differences regarding regulation of OH&S, environment and industrial relations that will impact daily. Australian engineering standards may not apply to the heavy engineering, but the Building Code of Australia and a whole swathe of Australian Standards will have roles across the site, as also Australian regulators and local, State and Federal authorities.
Training or retraining of operators, which is sometimes portrayed as the major roadblock for Australia’s first nuclear build would, in my opinion, not be a major problem. Examples of similar challenges in the past include the first of many Japanese-designed large steam boilers, turbines and control systems which are now the mainstays of the NEM coal-fired generators. Despite language issues and the lack of familiarity with the plant, they went into service smoothly and have been reliable. In practice, there was and is no discernable difference between the FOAK and subsequent installations within a family – eg the dozen 660MW Toshiba/IHI units installed in four NSW power stations.
Similarly, earlier this decade a solar thermal array which was designed in Germany and constructed by a mixed-nationality team including German and Spanish specialists suffered delays while the design was harmonised with local constraints, but the novelty of the plant and once-pressing issues relating to distant, foreign language designers are now irrelevant memories.
I won’t estimate the FOAK penalty which should be expected for the first Australian nuclear build, but I do expect it to be less than some observers currently expect. The trick is not to buy a new design as the first build. Stick to design(s) that have been tried and proven and don’t fiddle too much with them.
Want to read more? Google EPC purchasing (Engineer, Procure and Construct), although the on-line information can be pretty poor.
Put me down as an optimist.
Terry Krieg says:
Solar thermal for Port Augusta has been given the thumbs down according to my local member who is on the select committee looking at replacing Port Augusta with a better alternative to coal. I presented to the committee immediately after the solar thermal advocates and suggested this was a good time to get serious about nuclear. All five on the committee [3 Labor,2 Liberal] were all,favourably disposed towards nuclear. If anyone is interested, please tune into ABC Radio National next Sunday, Feb 9th at 7.45 am and hear my fourth and final Ockhams Razor talk promoting nuclear power for Australia.By the way, I’ve just published my second book, Walking with Warren, during one half life, an autibiography of the second half of my life. Mostly it’s about all of my adventures in the desert with Warren Bonython plus a few chapters on other issues and people important in those 38 years. There’s a chapter on nuclear power. It’ll cost you $40 including postage if you’d like a copy.
Terry Krieg
FWIW I don’t think Pt Augusta is the right place for either desalination or large (1GW) seawater cooled thermal plant. I see someone is reviving the idea of a canal to Lake Eyre to green the desert. More like an elongated salt evaporation pond I suspect.
I’ve walked parts of the Bonython Trail.
Terry I have an email address for you but it seems to bounce. I’ll order the book if you can advise of me of a working email address.
Can’t fathom why my address doesn’t work for you although one other person seems to have the problem.Please advise your postal address[I thought I had it but can’t find it] and I’ll send you a copy. It’ll cost $40 which includes postage[$13]. You can send a cheque [ made out to T.B. Krieg] or pay direct into my a/c 105:036:096796640 which is Port lincoln Branch of Bank SA.
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Very interesting article. Solar power is a great alternative to coal energy…of the conditions are right. I agree that something big is needed that offering an energy efficient and sustainable product available to those who do not factor into this solar “boom”. Time will tell which energy source will prevail. Hey that rhymed!
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Transformation of Health and Care in Wales: a Revolution from Within (BBC News / Welsh Government)
Posted on January 16, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News
Summary The Parliamentary Review of Health and Social Care in Wales provides an inspiring vision of future directions in service provision, with proposals which are likely to be studied more widely. Dr Ruth Hussey the former Chief Medical Officer for … Continue reading →
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Healthy Lifestyles, Healthy Homes and Patient Activation: Five Prescriptions to Transform the NHS (BBC News / BBC Radio Four)
Posted on April 3, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News
Summary The Radio 4 Healthy Visions series invited five health leaders and thinkers to offer personal “prescriptions” for the future of healthcare. The final Healthy Visions program entitled “A health-creating society” was first broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on Friday … Continue reading →
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Reflections on the NHS: Sixty-Fifth Year Anniversary Special (Nuffield Trust / Other Selected Commentaries)
Posted on July 5, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News
Summary The NHS turns 65 today (July 5th 2013). To mark this milestone, the Nuffield Trust has published a compilation of 65 key commentators’ views reflecting on the state of the NHS and its future. These viewpoints – sometimes surprisingly … Continue reading →
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Alumna Carrie Fox '09 Joins Residential…
Alumna Carrie Fox '09 Joins Residential Communities Team
Assistant Directors of Residential Communities, Carrie Fox ’09 and Ben Daleiden, provide education and resources during Fresh Check Day, an event designed to support students’ mental health. Photo Credit: Francesca Mourey ’18
Carrie Fox ’09 has returned to Denison as the Assistant Director of Residential Communities. During the 2016-2017 academic year, she served in an interim capacity and has now stepped into the permanent position.
Carrie graduated from Denison with a B.A. in both Communication and Psychology. During her time on the Hill, she served as a Resident Assistant (RA), was a member of several student organizations, and participated in many activities across campus. After graduating from Denison, Carrie went on to earn a Master’s Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, and subsequently, to practice as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), working with people of all ages. Now, she’s joining our Denison team, within the re-envisioned department of Residential Communities. The department hopes to reimagine residential halls as a place where community development, responsibility, and support are emphasized, on both an individual and interpersonal level.
When asked about her decision to return to Granville, Carrie cited her enduring “fond memories of [her] Denison experience.” As for returning to Denison as a staff member, Carrie admitted that it “was a little strange at first to walk the same paths in a much different role than when [she] was a student. At the same time, it felt a little like coming home. It has been exciting to be back on campus and investing in the lives of Denison students.” Carrie’s decision to continue at Denison was due to her positive experiences with student staff-members and their residents. Carrie’s student staff members reciprocate the sentiment.
When asked about his experience working with Carrie, Paul Haddad ’18, a Residential Communities student staff member (Head Resident), complimented Carrie’s “ability to have fun but also her optimistic attitude and support. No matter what the problem, she was ready and willing to help.”
During Carrie’s time as a student, the department was known as Residential Life. Carrie is excited about the department’s transition from Residential Education and Housing to Residential Communities, where residence halls will aim to feel more like a neighborhood where “community members feel invested in their personal and common spaces as well as their relationships with others.” She wants to see community members involved in conversations about what they want to see happen in their spaces, programmatically and structurally, to make it feel more like home. Carrie views the shift to Residential Communities as an opportunity to create a sense of home, while also empowering students to come together to creatively solve community concerns.
It is undoubtedly an exciting time for all staff members who work in or with residential hall communities, and having Carrie along for the ride will be invaluable in navigating that process. After all, Carrie has been described by her staff member, Paul, as “one of the most caring people I have ever met.” Paul continues, “When meeting with her or just seeing her around, she is always welcoming with a warm smile. She is easy to talk to and [is very] empathetic.” With Denison’s focus on mentorship and our relational culture, Fox is sure to fit right in.
On her part, Carrie is excited to be back in the village of Granville and to be part of the Denison and Granville communities. Reflecting back on what she wishes she had known as a student, Carrie wishes that she had been more confident, in both her role as a student, and as a student staff member, while attending Denison. She also wishes she had packed even more into her time on the Hill. Most importantly, perhaps, Carrie said, “I wish that I had known that it’s okay to make mistakes and that everyone struggles. It is how you respond to those difficult times that matters most.” Denison students will benefit from Carrie’s mentorship and wisdom.
Carrie welcomes the chance to get to know students, so feel free to stop by for coffee or just a conversation. When she isn’t in her Curtis Community Center office or in one of the East Quad communities, you might find Carrie on the sand volleyball court.
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