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Welcome home, Jose! Mourinho takes stroll through swanky Mayfair as returning Chelsea manager gears up for new season
By Mike Dawes
Published: 14:19 EST, 20 June 2013 | Updated: 14:32 EST, 20 June 2013
Jose Mourinho looked right at home as he strolled through Mayfair on Thursday afternoon.
The returning Chelsea manager was pictured by photographers in the plush west-London area as he begins preparations for the Blues' bid to lift the Premier League trophy once more next.
Chelsea, who won the League title twice under the Portuguese coach, were champions in 2010 under Italian Carlo Ancelotti, but have fallen off the pace set by Manchester City and holders United in the past three years.
Welcome home: Returning Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho walked through Mayfair on Thursday
Stylish: Mourinho looked relaxed as he walked through the west-London spot
Mourinho admitted his first match back in charge at the club will be an emotional occasion.
The Portuguese manager begins his second spell in the Chelsea dugout at home to Hull City, scheduled for August 17.
And though an opening fixture against a newly-promoted side will be welcome, Chelsea have a mouth-watering clash with United at Old Trafford the week after, and also travel to Everton and Tottenham Hotspur in their first six matches.
Looking sharp: The dapper Mourinho will be looking to reclaim the Premier League title come May
'Starting the season at home is a great way for our supporters to show the players they are ready to be behind the team all the way,' Mourinho said on Wednesday.
'At the same time, it is a great way for the players to show how much they are motivated and committed.
'I am so happy to start at the Bridge, but at the same time Hull City is a team who were promoted from the Championship and they will have that spirit, even if now they are in the Premier League,' added Mourinho on Chelsea's website.
New faces: Andre Schurrle (left) has already joined Mourinho at Chelsea, while Edinson Cavani is a top priority
'So it is an emotional but a hard start.
'I wish every club well for the season and I especially hope we can all make it a great competition for Premier League fans all around the world.'
But Hull have vowed to spoil Mourinho's return party in his first match back as Chelsea manager.
Spoiler: Hull City and Ireland midfielder David Meyler (left) insists his team can shock Chelsea on the opening day
Steve Bruce's newly-promoted Hull side are Mourinho's first opponents on August 17 at Stamford Bridge - but his second will be Manchester United at Old Trafford a week later.
Hull's Republic of Ireland midfielder David Meyler insists they can pull off a shock.
He said: 'I'm sure the manager will have us all fired up and ready to go for that opening game against Chelsea.
'Jose Mourinho will do the same with his players and they'll be hoping to win the league. It will be tough, but maybe we can spoil his party.'
Back in the top flight: Steve Bruce will look forward to managing in the top-flight once more
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Crewe Alex opinion: We need direction on and off the pitch
Crewe Alex supporter STUART GRIMLEY gives his View from the Stands
(Image: Nicola Cooper, www.nicspics.co.uk)
It’s not easy being a Crewe Alex fan, and never has been.
This week, however, it actually doesn’t matter.
I am struggling to comprehend the magnitude of the news this week and, in particular, the effect on those former Crewe players.
I was a supporter at Stamford Bridge where Steve Walters scored for the Alex against the mighty Chelsea and can still remember him applauding the travelling fans at the end of the game.
Little did any of us know.
I can only applaud all of those affected now.
Seeing and hearing the club as headline news has made events on the pitch seem almost irrelevant.
However, it does seem as though as a club we are slow to react on a number of fronts, perhaps burying our heads in the sand thinking that if we do nothing the problem might go away.
On the pitch, the Alex are playing in a poor league where a run of good form, or the opposite, can make you a contender at one end of the table or the other.
As an exile based in the East Midlands I have seen the Alex twice this season, making trips to Grimsby Town (a hard-working performance) and Notts County (and you think WE have problems!).
But despite the glimpses of work and magic going forward, we don’t seem to want to go for the kill in games where we are winning.
Instead, we appear to sit back and inviting our opponents on.
At the weekend I followed my usual routine of following the game at Colchester United via Twitter, BBC 5Live and Soccer Saturday on Sky Sports.
For a while I had my usual optimistic head on, especially after Ben Garratt produced a wonder save.
Then that red goal alert just kept coming.
I stayed in on Saturday night, embarrassed.
The manager Steve Davis continues to bemuse – I still think that he is a lucky man after last season’s abject finale where the towel was thrown in before Easter.
I am not sure that a change would make a difference, but surely there must be some thoughts of it?
Crewe Alex remains my passion, one that has bought great joy and extreme frustration.
This week I just want to see some direction and clarity both on and off the pitch.
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Central/Eastern Europe
Category: Democratic Transitions
Fresh hope for Ukraine on Maidan, Holodomor anniversaries?
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Arab Spring 2.0?
Recent disturbances in Arab countries have not yet become as far-reaching as what ensued after a Tunisian fruit vendor immolated himself in protest nine years ago, but observers are already… Read more »
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Post-1989 structures need ‘remodeling, even democracy,’ says Walesa
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Velvet Revolution dissidents warn of new threats to Czech freedom
Protests broke out in Prague Saturday on the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution after courts confirmed that Prime Minister Andrej Babis collaborated with the StB, the Communist era secret… Read more »
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Democracy doomsayers question causes of backsliding
Are the causes of democratic erosion the same in the advanced liberal democracies as seen in Venezuela, Hungary, Turkey, Spain before the Spanish Civil War, and Germany and Italy before… Read more »
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‘Underestimating democracy’ invites demagoguery, says Walesa
Authoritarians are resurgent because of the failure to create a new global system of democratic values, said former Solidarnosc leader and Polish president Lech Walesa. “Polish democracy in practical terms… Read more »
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Arab democrats need ‘realistic pathways for change’
As a fresh wave of protests generates speculation about an Arab Spring 2.0, the challenge for MENA democrats is to move beyond calls for regime change and focus on building… Read more »
Algeria, Analysis, Arab Spring, Authoritarianism, Civil Society, Democracy Assistance and Promotion, Democratic Governance, Democratic institutions, Democratic Transitions, Dictatorships, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Middle East/North Africa A Disordered World: What to Expect in 2020, Alberto M. Fernandez, Algeria, and Egypt, Director of the Carnegie Middle East Center., Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index, Iraq, Jamal Khashoggi fellow Ezzedine C. Fishere., Jordan, Lebanon, Maha Yahya, MEMRI, Michele Dunne, National Endowment for Democracy, Sharan Grewal, Sudan, Understanding the New Wave of Arab Protests: An Expert Panel, William J. Burns
Baltic Road to Freedom: Rhetoric vs. realpolitik
As Soviet communism following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the experience of Baltic “freedom fighters” like Vytautas Landsbergis of Lithuania and Lennart Meri of Estonia demonstrated the “almost unbridgeable… Read more »
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Communism’s Shadow: How post-1989 liberal dream became illiberal nightmare
Central and Eastern Europe’s transition to democracy has not been smooth. But there are grounds for hope, notes Alison Smale. What would Vaclav Havel have made of post-1989 developments? she asked… Read more »
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Europe’s East and West again divided – by values, not walls
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XEMICS extends its Ultra Low Power, Low Voltage Libraries
with TSMC's 0.18 µm cell library
NEUCHATEL, Switzerland - 11th May, 2000 - XEMICS today announced its newly developed TSMC 0.18 µm standard cell library: Ultra low-power CooLIB 4.1. This new library joins the already existing TSMC 0.5 µm and 0.25 µm, as well as the Tower 0.5 µm and UMC 0.5 µm.
Notably today, portable electronic markets are positioned around key issues such as battery life, battery cost and time to market etc. With TSMCs' 0.18 µm technology, customers benefit from such advantages as increased design performance, including more complex features, and longer battery durability.
"With this in mind, and based on XEMICS' 30 years of low-power expertise, XEMICS' CooLIB 4.1 cell library has been designed to team up with TSMC's 0.18 µm technology to meet the needs of ever increasing reduced power consumption demands. Our customers will profit from the use of more leading edge products that can operate below 1 V. The TSMC 0.18 µm evaluation pack allows customers to perform design simulation and thereby gain access to power consumption, design, layout (cell density) and overall silicon surface information", said Remy Pache, President of XEMICS USA Inc.
The complete CooLIB version 4.1 cell libraries for the TSMC 0.18 µm processes can be downloaded from XEMICS' web-site http://www.xemics.com. Users also have direct access to the various evaluation packs available on our web-site, giving them the ability to test and evaluate them.
About XEMICS
XEMICS designs and then delivers in volume mixed analog, digital and radio frequency integrated circuits, mainly for battery-operated devices. The company also markets its ultra low-power digital cell libraries CooLIB 4.1 and 8-bit RISC core CoolRISC® as IP products. In its fourth year of operation, (year 2000) the company is expecting total revenues of 25 M Swiss francs. For its IC activities, XEMICS acts as a fabless semiconductor company, subcontracting wafer manufacturing from major foundries around the world, and offering "One Stop Shop" services to its customers, from design to product delivery. In 1998, 40 different products, representing several million devices were sold. XEMICS markets are those for which high performance, ultra low -power and quite often miniaturization are key elements. These include: Hearing aids, watches, portable electronic devices, utility meters, security systems, pressure and acceleration sensing systems, short distance wireless RF communication, GPS, and deeply embedded systems based on RISC and DSP cores.
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After 26 years, this Ingersoll restaurant serving wings, nachos and beer is closing
The Des Moines sports bar and restaurant known for wings, nachos, sandwiches, burgers and pizza will close permanently on May 31.
After 26 years, this Ingersoll restaurant serving wings, nachos and beer is closing The Des Moines sports bar and restaurant known for wings, nachos, sandwiches, burgers and pizza will close permanently on May 31. Check out this story on desmoinesregister.com: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/entertainment/dining/2019/05/13/zimms-food-spirits-des-moines-metro-restaurant-closing-wings-nachos-burgers-pizza-pool-sports-iowa/1191822001/
Brian Taylor Carlson, Des Moines Register Published 4:59 p.m. CT May 13, 2019 | Updated 11:53 a.m. CT May 14, 2019
A popular sports bar and restaurant on Ingersoll Avenue is closing its doors.
After 26 years, Zimm's Food & Spirits, located at 3124 Ingersoll Ave. in Des Moines, is closing permanently. Its final day in operation will be May 31.
Zimm's is known for being a great place to watch games on TV or play pool, darts and foosball. Menu offerings include apps like wings and nachos, burgers, sandwiches and chargrilled pizzas.
Zimm's Food & Spirits will close permanently on May 31. (Photo: Brian Taylor Carlson/Des Moines Register)
Owner Doug Zimmerman, 55, bought the restaurant and bar during the floods of 1993. At the time, the spot was called The Duck Blind.
"When the floods hit, I had a cabin cruiser at Saylorville and it sank," Zimmerman said. "When I found out about that, I came back here and, after a bit too much tequila at The Duck Blind, the next morning, the guy calls me up and I asked my partner what we did last night and he said that, 'I think we bought a bar on Ingersoll.' So I moved back from Arizona and opened up Zimm's."
The Hotta Spotta - ground Italian sausage and sausage served on a toasted ciabatta hoagie with hot or mild peppers and mozzarella cheese - served with fries at Zimm's in Des Moines on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2010. (Photo: Eric Rowley/Juice, Eric Rowley/Juice)
The Des Moines native had lived in the Florida Keys and Phoenix, Arizona, before moving to Des Moines to operate the bar.
Zimmerman said a new owner will take over the property on June 1. It is unclear at this time who the new owner is, what the new venue will be or when it will open.
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Zimmerman said he plans to have a closing celebration or two. "We don't know what we're going to do yet, but we're going to have some fun."
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The Happiness Scam
The happiness industry, positive psychology and dead-end jobs. How happiness became a scam to hide social inequality and a global economy on a road to destruction
Whether it’s the UN ranking nations in terms of a global happiness index, our National Gas Company’s ad campaign asking “are you the happiest?” or a massive brand like Coca-Cola claiming they sell happiness in a can rather than sugar water—corporate and State use of happiness has become a major aspect of our everyday lives. To support this recent push by private industry and governments to measure, manipulate and promote happiness, a new social science called ‘positive psychology’ emerged at the turn of the century.
This was because back in the early 1990s economists in the Global North began to recognise on a large scale that workers in their nations were increasingly suffering from depression at work. This was clear in the large increases of workers taking time off, being absent or quitting, and citing mental and behavioural illnesses as the reason.
Economists, governments, and private enterprise were greatly concerned. So they came together to fund and promote a new alliance between psychologists and economic policymakers to tackle this increasing depression-driven drag on corporate profit (alongside the antidepressant industry, too). According to its State and academic originators, the supposed purpose of positive psychology is to make people happy using the most up-to-date methods of “scientific” understanding.
Great claims were made by this new social science such as, in the power of positive thought negative emotions can be overcome and as such anyone can achieve personal happiness. Of course, the hard data does not support that, and most people might implicitly realise happiness is much more than a positive mental attitude, something you buy or an individualist project.
Yet, no matter the lack of supporting evidence, a massive and successful corporate field dedicated to promoting personal happiness emerged to re-write how we understand it.
This success is easy to see in the emergence of positive psychology as popular culture—think endless TED talks on the happiness manifesto, companies employing a chief happiness officer, and constant ad campaigns centred on happiness. On cable TV, in our local programing, and overflowing off the bookshelves, the happiness industry—and its constant desire for product diversification—has exploded and is making private enterprise a lot of money.
If we look at the claims of this industry about the production of happiness—such as the idea happiness results from the cognitive outlooks of individuals—we glimpse the cultural logic of our modern times. Much like the ethos of the modern corporation the quest for happiness is today driven by profit imperatives, not social justice.
While the economies of most nations suffer from some combination of dead-end jobs, austerity, inequality, debt, insecurity, poverty and decline, advertisers and health professionals bombard us with daily messages to effortlessly enjoy, create and be amazing by relying on our personal dynamism, enthusiasm and optimism. But what happens to the majority of people that cannot do that? Or people with dead-end jobs? What about their happiness?
In labour terms they become a depressed and mentally withdrawn worker. And under neoliberalism the disengaged worker must be overcome because they harm profits and offer little potential. Or put another way, happy workers are valued higher in terms of costs and benefits to a company than unhappy workers.
On an implicit level this marriage between the self-production of happiness and the ideas of neoclassical economists transform the basic understandings of our personal emotions. Atomistic individualism with its stress and desire for personal choice and responsibility, self-resilience, success, money-making, getting the upper hand at work and much more, now remake happiness from a social matter into an emotionally individualist moment.
According to the academic researcher Sam Binkley happiness today “is more than ever tied to economic freedom and the inclination to act in one’s own self interest.” Another way to say this is that money or entrepreneurship buys happiness. But the world is not equal for all. Not all vocations are valued. Nor do all jobs provide sufficient dignity, purpose or money.
And while some can buy whatever they want, to understand happiness as competitive—as economic and status driven—is to privatise happiness and make it a personal enterprise; no longer a social good connected to the development of empathy, compassion, and social connection.
As such, we might caution that the happiness industry is socially destructive and based on a worldview that suit employers, business and profits. Its genesis was to make workers less depressed, which includes making people more likely to stick it out at their dead-end jobs. Rather than calling it the happiness industry, we might call it instead the unhappiness is bad for profits industry.
http://m.guardian.co.tt/columnist/2015-03-15/happiness-industry
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As Ryan gets ready to take on House Speaker role, Ways & Means members jockey for tax-writing chairmanship
DoJ closes IRS-Tea Party probe, won't bring charges
GOP angry that Lerner, Koskinen let off the hook in tax-exempt targeting scandal
Married? Filing a joint return? Then make sure both spouses sign the 1040 or prepare to pay tax penalties
Marriage means doing things together, even things you hate, like visiting the in-laws, cleaning out the garage and filing taxes.
You might be able to let those first two slide, but when it comes to taxes, no such luck.
Most couples file a joint tax return. That single Form 1040 is a legal document and if you ignore filing it or mess it up, you'll face consequences worse than your spouse's wrath.
Her forced smile makes me think she's not buying what he's saying as they work together on their joint tax return.
The Internal Revenue Service considers both spouses equally responsible for all the taxes due -- known as joint and several liability -- on that one shared return.
The IRS also demands that both spouses sign that single Form 1040 or it's not an acceptable filing.
That dual signature requirement was underscored in a recent U.S. Tax Court ruling.
One couple, one signature, many return troubles: In 2001, a Massachusetts husband and wife got their extended 2000 tax year return back from their CPA for them to review, sign and file.
But as so often happens in married life, one spouse does something and the other doesn't; no implied dig at the hubby here or judgments of other happily marrieds' situations, just a statement of fact.
In this couple's case, he signed the 1040 and put it in stack where he usually placed documents that required her attention and/or signature. But she never signed the tax return and he went ahead and sent the form, bearing only his John Hancock, to the IRS. He apparently thought she had signed it, saying that he didn't remember checking for her signature before mailing the return.
The IRS, however, did check and noticing only on valid signature on a return filed using the married filing jointly status sent the document back to the couple, along with a delinquency notice.
Things then escalated. In 2004, the IRS began an audit of the couples' returns for tax years 2000 through 2005. All of these issues can be traced back to the 2000 tax return that the IRS considered unfiled and ultimately late filed because of the missing signature.
2 exceptions to 2 signatures: The issue that the U.S. Tax Court had to decide was whether a purported joint income tax return with only one spouse's signature was a valid tax return.
There are two exceptions to this rule, as laid out in Section 6061.
The first is when one spouse acts as an agent of the other, e.g., acting with a legal power of attorney, and complies with those rules.
The second is when one spouse is physically unable to sign due to disease or injury.
Neither of these exceptions applied in this case.
The Tax Court noted that return signatures are an important because they "not only verify that a return has indeed been filed by the person indicated on the front page of a Form 1040 but also certify that all the statements in the tax return are made under penalty of perjury and are true, correct, and complete to the best of the taxpayer’s knowledge." Remember that "penalty of perjury" line on the 1040 that precedes the signature line?
The couple acknowledged the need for two signatures, but pointed to two tax situations -- the substantial compliance doctrine and the tacit consent doctrine -- that could apply to their case.
Court counters compliance argument: The basis of the substantial compliance doctrine is that a tax return need not be perfect in order to be valid. Basically, as long as a document meets four distinct elements -- it has sufficient data to calculate tax liability; it purports to be a return; it was filed in an honest and reasonable attempt to satisfy the law; and it's filed under the penalties of perjury -- it is a valid return.
The couple argued that even without the wife's signature, their 2000 return was valid because it met all those elements.
To this argument, the Tax Court said too bad. The court noted that although tax law is "complex and confusing to most of us," the signature requirement is not complicated. The court said it would be "inappropriate" for it to "use its power to create a potentially unlimited exception to a well-established and fairly simple rule."
The "substantial compliance doctrine is not intended and should not be used to justify a failure to comply with simple and clear requirements," said the court.
Tacit consent explicitly shot down: As for the tacit consent doctrine, the couple argued that their return should be valid because they intended to file a joint tax return.
Yeah, I've heard that excuse explanation from the hubby before. It went over as well with the Tax Court as it does with me.
"[T]he intent to file a joint return is different from signing a document under penalty of perjury, and the two do not supplement or replace each other," said the court.
Plus, acceptance of the tacit consent argument could "expose a nonsigning spouse who never intended to sign a joint tax return to the burdens of litigation that could span many years when that spouse did not in fact attest to the veracity of the statements on the tax return," a possible situation the court characterized as "unfair."
The bottom and tax return signature lines are that both husbands and wives need to sign their joint tax returns or face possible penalty consequences.
Nonfiling, nonpaying penalty possibilities: The couple essentially faced nonfiling penalties for not sending in a valid tax return by the filing deadline.
This is one of three common penalty situations that many taxpayers encounter every year. They are:
Not paying what is owed.
Not filing a tax return at all.
Not paying enough tax throughout the year.
While most taxpayers think not paying is the worst tax noncompliance case, the IRS actually penalizes folks more for not filing (or filing late) a tax return. No one really seems to know why this is the case, but the consensus among tax experts is that the IRS thinks that once it knows know where you are via your form filing, it can eventually get at least some of what you owe.
The best advice is to file your return, either by April 15 or the extended due date of Oct. 15, even if you can't pay all you owe. That will keep you out of nonfiling trouble.
When you file, pay at least something, even a minimal amount, to show that you're trying to meet your tax responsibilities. Then work with the IRS to set up a payment plan. That will lessen your nonpayment penalty.
Underpayment tax penalty: The third common tax penalty situation is not paying enough tax throughout the year. This usually happens to folks who get income that isn't subject to payroll withholding, such as investment earnings or payments for self-employed contract jobs.
The U.S. tax system is based on a pay-as-you-earn principle, which gets Uncle Sam money throughout the year to meet his bills. Folks who don't pay taxes from salaries subject to withholding must meet this requirement by making estimated tax payments.
If you don't send in enough with each of these four extra filings, then you could face the underpayment penalty even if you ultimately paid your full tax bill. This penalty essentially is designed to keep folks from simply waiting until the last filing moment to pay their taxes in a lump sum.
While the IRS is happy to get the money, it would rather have it throughout the year. Hey, as a self-employed person, I certainly understand this. I like getting paid for my work as I do it, rather than waiting for clients to pay me all they owe at the end of the year.
These three tax-penalty situations and how to avoid them are discussed in this week's Weekly Tax Tip.
Check out the tip so that you don't end up paying the IRS even more due to tax penalties.
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You are here: Home / Politics / TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference: Government ‘has created hostile environment for disabled people’
TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference: Government ‘has created hostile environment for disabled people’
By John Pring on 31st May 2018 Category: Politics
The government has created a “hostile environment” for disabled people just as it has for members of the Windrush generation, Labour’s shadow minister for disabled people has told trade unionists.
Marsha de Cordova (pictured) described herself as a “grand-daughter of the Windrush generation” as she addressed the annual TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference in Bournemouth.
De Cordova, herself a former member of the TUC disabled workers’ committee, said the “targeting of disabled people for systematic impoverishment, the denial of basic rights, the callousness of the assessment regime, [and] the errors that leave people destitute” had created a “hostile environment”.
And she said this reminded her of the Windrush scandal, “another recent injustice” which saw “British citizens denied their basic rights”.
She said: “It was a gross injustice and as a grand-daughter of the Windrush generation I shake with anger at that injustice.
“What we see with Conservative policies towards disabled people is, again, a hostile environment.
“We see disabled people being treated with suspicion, disrespect, being denied basic rights and even being driven to suicide.
“The government has created an environment that systematically disadvantages and disregards disabled people.”
She said it was not just her party and disability rights campaigners making these points, but also the UN’s committee on the rights of persons with disabilities, which last August told a UK government delegation that its cuts to social security and other support for disabled people had caused “a human catastrophe”.
De Cordova said: “This should be a national scandal that shames the government into action, just as the Windrush scandal rightly was, and it cannot continue.”
She told the conference there were few areas that needed change more urgently than disability rights.
And she blamed not just politicians but also the tabloid press, which she said had together for too long “scapegoated disabled people, they have demonised us and they have created a narrative where we are seen not as citizens and potential value but as burdens on society with social security not seen as a basic right”.
She said that the chancellor, Philip Hammond, had “invoked” this narrative only last year, “when he blamed disabled people for his failure to improve economic productivity”.
She said: “We know the consequences of this narrative. It is to justify brutal cuts to social security and the brunt of those fall on disabled people.”
De Cordova said the next Labour government would not allow this to continue.
Instead, she promised, it would: incorporate the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities into UK law; transform social security, with a new bill published in the first year of a Labour government; repeal cuts to social security support for disabled people; scrap the work capability and personal independence payment assessments, replacing them with a “personalised and human approach”; and scrap the government’s “punitive sanctions regime”.
She said: “What we will need to do, and we will do, is nothing less than transforming our culture of social security from one that demonises sick and disabled people to one that enhances, enables and empowers.”
But she said Labour would also address the barriers facing disabled people in the employment market, aiming to halve the disability employment gap, while it would “enhance and improve” the Access to Work scheme.
She said: “We know that it is workplaces, not workers, that need to be changed.”
De Cordova said that Labour – recognising the importance of the social model of disability – would also ensure that disability was “included in every brief of every department of the next Labour government, be it transport, housing or education”.
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The Future Internet: Future Internet Assembly 2011: Achievements and Technological Promises
Authors: John Domingue --- Alex Galis --- Anastasius Gavras --- Theodore Zahariadis --- et al. Dave Lambert --- Frances Cleary --- Petros Daras --- Srdjan Krco --- Henning Müller --- Man-Sze Li --- Hans Schaffers --- Volkmar Lotz --- Federico Alvarez --- Burkhard Stiller --- Stamatis Karnouskos --- Susanna Avessta --- Michael Nilsson
Book Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISSN: 03029743 ISBN: 9783642208973 9783642208980 Year: 2011 Volume: 6656 Pages: 465 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-20898-0 Language: English
Subject: Business and Management --- Electrical and Nuclear Engineering --- Media and communication --- Manufactures --- Transportation --- Computer Science
Irrespective of whether we use economic or societal metrics, the Internet is one of the most important technical infrastructures in existence today. It will be a catalyst for much of our innovation and prosperity in the future. A competitive Europe will require Internet connectivity and services beyond the capabilities offered by current technologies. Future Internet research is therefore a must. This book is published in full compliance with the Open Access publishing initiative; it is based on the research carried out within the Future Internet Assembly (FIA). It contains a sample of representative results from the recent FIA meetings spanning a broad range of topics, all being of crucial importance for the future Internet. The book includes 32 contributions and has been structured into the following sections, each of which is preceded by a short introduction:Foundations: architectural issues; socio-economic issues; security and trust; and experiments and experimental design. Future Internet Areas: networks, services, and content; and applications.
Computer Communication Networks --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet) --- Information Storage and Retrieval --- Multimedia Information Systems --- Communications Engineering, Networks --- Computers and Society
Bernardino Baldi’s In mechanica Aristotelis problemata exercitationes
Author: Elio Nenci
Book Series: Sources 3: Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge ISBN: 9783869319612 Year: 2011 Pages: 376 Language: English
Publisher: Edition Open Access
"In mechanica Aristotelis problemata exercitationes" written by Bernardino Baldi is reprinted with an introduction and commentary as the third volume of the series "Sources of the Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge." The volume is also freely available in electronic form as an open-access publication on the Internet at www.edition-open-access.de.The "Exercitationes" were first published in 1621, four years after the death of the author. The work belongs to the long tradition of studies on the pseudo-Aristotelian "Mechanical Problems" developed during the Renaissance but, unlike most other works written during the sixteenth century, it takes a critical position against the theoretical approach of the pseudo-Aristotelian text. The "Exercitationes" display a systematic application of Archimedean principles to the explanation of the questions discussed in "Mechanical Problems" illustrating the patchwork character of preclassical mechanics. Moreover, Baldi's work presents lengthy digressions that considerably widen the boundaries of mechanics.
MPRL --- history of science --- mechanics --- early modern period --- Edition Open Access
The Role of Gravitation in Physics: Report from the 1957 Chapel Hill Conference
Authors: Cécile M. DeWitt (ed.) --- Dean Rickles (ed.)
In January 1957, a group of physicists from several countries met at the University of North Carolina to discuss the role of gravitation in physics. The program was divided into two broad sections: unquantized and quantized general relativity. The first section included a review of classical relativity, its experimental tests, the initial value problem, gravitational radiation, equations of motion, and unified field theory. The second section included a discussion of the motivation for quantization, the problem of measurement, and the actual techniques for quantization. In both sections the relationship of general relativity to fundamental particles was discussed. In addition there was a session devoted to cosmological questions. A large part of the discussions is reproduced in the present report in an abridged form, followed by a conference summary statement by P. G. Bergmann.The Chapel Hill conference also marked the establishment of the Institute of Field Physics, directed by Bryce and Cécile DeWitt. The conference was the inaugural conference of this institute.
MPRL --- history of science --- physics --- theory of relativty --- quantum theory --- gravitation --- Edition Open Access
Pesticides - Strategies for Pesticides Analysis
Author: Margarita Stoytcheva
ISBN: 9789533074603 Year: 2011 Pages: 418 DOI: 10.5772/565 Language: English
Subject: Animal Sciences
This book provides recent information on various analytical procedures and techniques, representing strategies for reliability, specificity, selectivity and sensitivity improvements in pesticides analysis. The volume covers three main topics: current trends in sample preparation, selective and sensitive chromatographic detection and determination of pesticides residues in food and environmental samples, and biological (immunoassays-and biosensors-based) methods application in pesticides analysis as an alternative to the chromatographic methods for ""in situ"" and ""on line"" pesticides quantification. Intended as electronic edition, providing an immediate ""open access"" to its content, the book is easy to follow and will be of interest to the professionals involved in pesticides analysis.
Life Sciences --- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology --- Microbiology --- Pestology
Advances in Modern Woven Fabrics Technology
Author: Savvas Vassiliadis
Subject: Manufactures
The importance of woven fabrics increases constantly. Starting from traditional uses mainly in clothing applications, woven fabrics today are key materials for structural, electronic, telecommunications, medical, aerospace and other technical application fields. The new application fields of the woven fabrics is directly reflected in the contents of the book. A selected collection of papers in the technological state-of-the-art builds the book “Advances in Modern Woven Fabrics Technology”. It is written by internationally recognized specialists and pioneers of the particular fields. The chapters embrace technological areas with major importance, while maintaining a high scientific level. This interdisciplinary book will be useful for the textile family member as well as for the experts of the related engineering fields. The open access character of the book will allow a worldwide and direct access to its contents, supporting the members of the academic and industrial community.
Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology --- Technology --- Textile Engineering --- Fabric Engineering
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Blog Kiosk: 6/19/2015 - Dodger Links - A Walk Off Balk
Embraces all around for a tough close game that ended in a surprising way.
Last night the Dodgers won on a walk-off balk.... That's right, they won 'cause a rookie pitcher just a couple months past his 22nd birthday did a little fidget while standing set to deliver his pitch. What caused it can be attributed to third base runner Kike Hernandez; who did a fake steal for home. Per Ken Gurnick at MLB.com:
Hernandez, game enough to wear a banana suit if it'll trigger a rally, jumped at the chance for a mock steal of home and Kela flinched.
"He fell for it," said Hernandez. "I used to do them all the time in high school."
And we have third base coach Lorenzo Bundy to thank for coming up with the idea to execute it.
"That's the way we roll in the Minor Leagues sometimes," said Bundy. "I felt after the young pitcher got into trouble [walks to Yasmani Grandal and Andre Ethier], then he gets the double play [on Alberto Callaspo after he failed to bunt] and, in a tight situation, a lot of times they get the two outs and kind of relax. I figured with two strikes on Jimmy, I'd just take a shot."
Wow! This might be the oddest way to win a game. Go here to watch a replay of it. BTW, the last time the Dodgers won in this fashion was in 2010. Scott Andes at Lasorda's Lair tells us all about it here. And of course, the ever affable Kike Hernandez shared something funny on twitter:
That. Was. Bananas!!!! 🍌🍌🍌🍌 #DOYERSSSS
— Enrique Hernandez (@kikehndez) June 19, 2015
The above photo via the Dodgers on twitter. Below are some links to check out:
Via Eric Stephen at True Blue LA, "Ogden roster includes 12 new Dodgers draft picks, 3 converted pitchers."
Via Mark Saxon at ESPN, "Dodgers meet to discuss hitting woes."
“When we were going good, we were having quality at-bats up and down the lineup. We need to continue to make the guy fight for every out,” Mattingly said. “It’s not that complicated, really, just the mentality of team baseball, getting a good pitch, making him fight for his out, don’t give him any easy ones. If he beats you, then he beats you. We’ve just got to get back to who we are and we feel like we’re a team that is going to have quality at-bats.”
Via Ron Clements at the Sporting News, "Vin Scully calls Joc Pederson best fielding CF Dodgers have ever had."
Via Mike Oz at Big League Stew, "StewPod #5: Joc Pederson talks 'Call of Duty' and MLB's talented rookie class."
I just came across this interview, so I thought I would pass it along. Here is a 2007 interview, via NPR, with Frank Robinson as he speaks about the legacy of Jackie Robinson. He also tells us about his first meeting with Jackie. Check it out here.
In the strange but true bin. Sports card hobby veteran Bob Lemke writes about a, "Player's "prank" would be child abuse today."
A player's "prank" 50 years ago rated a visit by the sheriff, but today would likely have resulted in child abuse charges, a suspension and a multi-million dollar lawsuit....
In the complaint, Mrs. Doreen Buechler charged that when Seattle had been in town on May 11, a player wearing uniform #40 had given her 13-year-old son a chaw of tobacco that made him ill. Jernigan, the Rainers' manager confirmed, had worn number 40 at that time.
The complaint alleged that young Buechler had asked the player for a baseball. Jernigan told the kid he'd give him a ball if take a chew of tobacco and hold it in his mouth for 10 minutes. The boy was later found lying in the middle of a lavatory floor at the park "violently ill."
I'm a terrible man for laughing, aren't I?
I must admit, though, that the same thing happened to me... kind of... I tried chewing tobacco once in my life, and made the mistake of swallowing some of it... Yeah... I didn't feel very well after that.
Labels: Blog Kiosk, Don Mattingly, Jackie Robinson, Joc Pederson, Kike Hernandez, Lorenzo Bundy, Raptors, Vin Scully
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Industrial business and workforce benefit from wearable technology
Written by Quintus Potgieter
A wearable. A word that has a very simple definition. It is an item/s that can be worn. When we think about wearables, we think about the current applications available in the media; smart-watches, head-mounted VR gear etc. However, wearable technology has become valuable to engineering industries. Wearables for industrial operations, coupled with modern day automation with the Internet of Things , will ensure that everyone attached to a project or a factory - or even a mine - will all be on the same page with data that is freely and immediately available.
Credit: Vandrico
A 3D real-time industrial operations dashboard is available from a company named Vandrico Inc. The company currently shows off how it interconnects miners and engineers, but can also be used for other industrial endeavors. It connects all the engineers and workers attached to an industrial operation across platforms. Smart watches, smartphones, tablets, and laptops. The company calls it Real-Time Operational Intelligence. As an example, Vandrico shows off their smartwatch technology, which accounts for on-site safety. Once a fire alarm goes off at an industrial operation, the smart watch can ask questions like: "Are you safe?", "Is everyone near you safe?" This way a fire or industrial problem can be quickly contained and lives can be saved. This assists with site security and safety, something that engineers need to focus on as they begin a project and whilst the project is ongoing. Their safety-smart-watches were announced last year, with the help of a company named Illumiti. They call the watch the MineSafe smartwatch, which also assists with the response-time of life-threatening situations in mines. It could ensure that safety in mines is paramount, especially in a mine collapse.
According to the companies the full list of uses the smartwatch has are:
Safety alerts: Notifications of safety issues and events
Incident Reporting: Let workers document issues quickly
Safety monitoring: Automate lone worker checks & procedures
Safety checklists: Verify proper procedures are followed
The company says their wearable technology would be able to save mines millions and could even save lives.
IoT-connected dashboards for industrial operations could be the most useful way of keeping a close eye on the efficiency of a workforce, and can give engineers a good idea of how far a project is.
Vandrico says their platform can be used for many different applications:
Virtual barricades: Alert miners that they are near an unsafe area and prevent them from going there
Lone worker: Individual miner and engineer tracking for safety check-ins and immediate ramifications for missed check-ins
Real-Time Safety Reminder & Safety Forensic Logs
Real-Time Incident Reporting: Any injuries can be reported immediately. Any mine maintenance issues can be reported instantly
Mementos: The miners can deliver voice notes or text messages to other workers that would improve efficiency.
Automated coordination of work orders: A checklist of what needs to happen during the day. A virtual "to-do" list.
Source: Vandrico
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Watch A Live Sumo Wrestling Match In Sydney And Melbourne
By: Alex Harmon, 06 May 2019
You don't have to fly to Japan to experience the excitement and fun of this 1500 year old sport, experience a live Sumo show right here in Sydney and Melbourne!
For one night in each city you can be ring-side as the best of the best battle it out in full contact wrestling. Learn about the history, rules and culture of Sumo followed by live matches and even a meet & greet with the wrestlers.
Complete your cultural experience at the blossom bar serving Japanese beer, sake, sushi and bento boxes.
We don't have the full details yet but there will be a range of ticket options— from general admission to ringside seats and—if you think you have the stamina—the chance to actually step into the ring and go head to head with a real Sumo. Tickets start at $99 including a custom sushi bento box.
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About Chris Velazco
Chris Velazco is a senior editor at Engadget, covering mobile. Previously, he wrote about startups for TechCrunch.
More From Chris Velazco
Elon Musk Says That Too Many Robots Slowed Down Model 3 Production
Tesla's big issue is battery production, but this robot thing didn't help.
A First Look at Apple's iOS 9
Little changes add up to something big.
What's on Tap for Google at I/O 2015
A taste of what to expect when the show starts in earnest tomorrow.
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Cops: Miami LBs admit to sex assault of teen
Miami (FL) Hurricanes
Miami players arrested, suspended
ESPN.com news services
Two University of Miami football players arrested on sexual battery charges against a "physically helpless" 17-year-old girl were dismissed from the team and suspended Tuesday.
Court and jail records show JaWand Blue and Alexander Figueroa were booked on the charges Tuesday. Both are 20-year-old linebackers.
According to the police report, both players admitted to buying drinks for the accuser, bringing her back to Figueroa's dorm room in the early-morning hours of Saturday and repeatedly performing sexual acts, including intercourse, without her consent while she was intoxicated and "physically helpless to resist."
Both players face charges of sexual battery on a physically helpless victim and are being held on $10,000 bond, according to the Miami-Dade County records obtained by the Palm Beach Post.
Figueroa is additionally charged with possession of a stolen or forged driver's license.
No attorney was listed for either man. The Coral Gables police report said the accuser, a UM student, first reported the assault to university police, which turned to the Coral Gables department to investigate.
In a statement released Tuesday, Miami athletic director Blake James said the players had been dismissed from the team and suspended and barred from campus.
"Earlier today, I permanently dismissed JaWand Blue and Alexander Figueroa from the UM football team," James said in the statement. "The University has also suspended the students from school and barred them from all campus facilities while the University conducts an internal investigation and continues to cooperate with local law enforcement.
"Any allegation of a sexual assault is extremely serious, and the University will not tolerate conduct that threatens the sanctity and safety of our students and our campus. We hold all of our students -- especially student athletes -- to the highest standards of moral conduct."
Miami president Donna E. Shalala said in a statement that the university has "zero tolerance for sexual assault and gender-based violence" and has spoken to the accuser.
"There is no confusion about our responsibility as a university: We will fully and compassionately support the victim of sexual assault. I have spoken to her myself and reassured her of our full support," she said in her statement, adding that Miami has launched its own investigation into the incident and is cooperating with the police.
One of the biggest accomplishments Miami made on defense this past spring was building its depth. That, however, takes a hit with Figueroa and Blue gone.
Both played as true freshmen last year and were going to be counted on to improve a unit that has only one standout. Figueroa, who started two games in 2013 and finished with 17 tackles, was the favorite to win the starting strongside linebacker job. Senior Thurston Armbrister is expected to take that role now.
Blue was penciled in to back up middle linebacker Denzel Perryman, the best player on the defense.
ESPN.com's Andrea Adelson and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Man's golf buggy stolen and set on fire
PUBLISHED: 18:17 06 April 2010 | UPDATED: 09:27 02 July 2010
A disabled golfer may have to give up teeing off after a thief took his golf buggy from a Norfolk golf club and went on a joy ride.
Buggy owner Kenneth Darby has been left devastated after the abandoned vehicle was then set on fire and badly damaged.
Without the buggy the 84-year-old will find it impossible to play a round at Gorleston Golf Club in Warren Road where he has been a member for 35 years.
Mr Darby, from Bradwell, is only fit enough to stand up to tee off and used the £1,200 buggy and his friends to take him to where his ball landed to play his next shot.
On Sunday the buggy was found abandoned about a mile and half away from the golf club in Woodfarm Close by Gorleston Football Club's Emerald Park ground.
Mr Darby, who has arthritis and knee and hip problems, had arranged for the buggy to be collected yesterday but on Easter Monday the dumped buggy was set on fire.
It means Mr Darby may have to spend about £1,200 to get a replacement buggy - money he can ill afford - or give up his favourite pastime.
An upset Mr Darby said: “I feel very rough about it to tell you the truth. I am wondering at this stage what to do.”
David James, the manager of Gorleston Golf Club, said that in his 37 years at the club he had never heard of a golf buggy being stolen from it.
The golf buggy was set on fire at about 7.20pm on Monday with one fire engine from Great Yarmouth taking about 20 minutes to put it out.
Anyone with information about the golf buggy theft should call Gorleston police on 0845 4564567.
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Jason Puncheon
Crystal Palace loanee Jason Puncheon axed by Huddersfield Town after row with Jan Siewert: reports
Puncheon was apparently not happy at being substituted after Tommy Smith's red card at Newcastle
Huddersfield's Jason Puncheon playing against Everton in Jan Siewert's first game in charge
Jason Puncheon has been axed by Huddersfield Town after a row with head coach Jan Siewert, reports have suggested.
The Crystal Palace loanee was not happy at being substituted after Tommy Smith's 20th minute red card at Newcastle last week, according to the Mail Online.
The 32-year-old is said to have exchanged angry words with Siewert and he was then not picked for the Wolves game at the John Smith's Stadium three days later.
Town won that game 1-0 to claim their first victory in 16 matches and Siewert's first three points as Town boss.
Puncheon is understood not to have got on the plane that took the squad down to Brighton on Friday night for their Premier League game at the Amex.
The midfielder is on loan at Town for the rest of the season and reports suggest the deal can not be cancelled without Palace's say-so.
He was signed by previous Terriers boss David Wagner in the January transfer window and has made six appearances for the club, starting three of Siewert's first four games in charge.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 EU
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Louis Vuitton’s “Series 3” Exhibition
Described on Louis Vuitton’s website as: “A modern and unexpected reinterpretation of a fashion show, this exhibition, following on from SERIES 1 and SERIES 2, invites visitors to discover Nicolas Ghesquière’s inspirations for his fourth ready-to-wear show as the Artistic Director for women’s collections at Louis Vuitton.”
I was completely blown away by the innovation and the thought that went behind Louis Vuitton Series 3. Every aspect of the design process was portrayed from the beginning roots of the Louis Vuitton design and creation process to modern day with all the technical advances that have been picked up along the way. Actual artisan from Vuitton were flown in to demonstrate the assembly process for Ghesquière’s and visitors were able to ask them questions, there was a virtual catwalk show and the ultimate Louis Vuitton wardrobe.
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The Bomber Jacket Blitz
Who said you had to be a pilot to wear a bomber jacket? Well this season, no-one. This year's summer trends witness the invasion of the beloved nineties classic; the bomber jacket.
Published in Trends
Keneea Linton
Keneea is a naturally skillful and creative designer whose collection focuses on clean cuts and sophisticated finish that highlights the stylish contemporary look synonymous with Keneea Linton designs. Keneea has produced wardrobes for our Miss Jamaica beauty queens, had collections presented at Caribbean Fashion Week, Miami International Fashion Week, London Fashion Week and the first Jamaican designer to be featured in New York at Brooklyn Fashion Week. Her designs have also been featured in SHE Caribbean Magazine, Jamaque Magazine, Caribbean Belle Magazine, Profiles Magazine, among many others.
Prior to pursuing a Bachelors degree in Philosophy at the University of the West Indies in 2004, Keneea was a flight attendant with the former national carrier, Air Jamaica.
Keneea's first entrepreneurial venture was as part owner and Managing Director of a marketing company, Poise Jamaica Ltd; then went on to becoming a Marketing Executive at RE TV, and was part owner, producer and fashion editor of College Lifestyle Magazine and TV Series.
Keneea is committed to the advancement of the local fashion industry and served as Marketing Officer for the Jamaica Fashion and Apparel Cluster funded by the Jamaican Government and the European Union.
At present, Keneea is the CEO of KTL Group Limited, a marketing and production company and the Host and Executive producer Mission Catwalk, a new reality TV series on TVJ aimed at discovering talented fashion designers from across the Caribbean. Keneea is also the founder of The Designers Guild, a non-profit organization aimed at making the local fashion industry more globally competitive.
CONTACT: keneealinton.george@gmail.com
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HOD by Gregory Williams
Gregory HOD Williams represents bold and powerful women who are leaders in their own way. His designs are edgy, dramatic and stylish.
Gregory is a talented, self-taught designer who, in the space of two years won the Saint International Avant Garde designer competition in 2011 and became the season-two winner of the Caribbean fashion designer TV series, Mission Catwalk. Gregory went on to study fashion design at the London College Of Fashion.
Gregory has shown his collection at Style Week Jamaica, Caribbean Fashion Week and recently at London Fashion Week.
CONTACT: obryans83@yahoo.com
FF Renaissance Fashion Show
Fashions Finest Renaissance evening of fashions and entertainment at the Jewel Bar Piccadilly Circus.
Designers showcasing were: Eva Cammarata, Kgkkt Couture, Boutique De L'Afrique, Novelette Ellis, Wusuwaah's Diary
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Guest enjoying the evening @ FFR
Guest enjoying Fashions Finest Renaissance evening of fashions and entertainment at the Jewel Bar Piccadilly Circus.
Photo Credit: DVB Photography
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FFR Fashion & Entertainment Evening
Fashions Finest Renaissance Fashion Show took place on the 22nd April at the beautiful and luxurious Jewel Bar Piccadilly.
Iconicity @ Fashions Finest Renaissance
Iconicity showcased their very first collection at Fashions Finest Renaissance evening of fashion and entertainment.
Photo Credit: Trevor Griffiths iDeLick Media
The house of Adjeiwaah @ FFR
The house of Adjeiwaah intends on promoting and preserving the empowerment of the most beautiful creature that ever lived, a women.
SVE by Sally Ellis A/W 2012 LFW
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Secret Space Programs & Alien Disclosures may lead to World War if Elites not given Amnesty
Written by Dr Michael Salla on July 9, 2015 . Posted in Space Programs
In a report released today about a series of secret meetings involving delegates from different secret space programs, Corey Goode describes a briefing he received from a Lt Colonel Gonzales (not real name) about a meeting involving the leader of extraterrestrial group called the Draconian Federation Alliance. According to Gonzales, the Draconian leader demanded that a solar system wide quarantine be lifted to release his forces. He also demanded amnesty for the human elites that had served his forces up to the present moment. Failure to fulfill these demands according to the Draconian leader will lead to a global calamity and world war.
While the above scenario sounds like a forthcoming episode of Star Wars, it is quite real according to Goode who has been disclosing information he has learned from a series of secret space program meetings he has attended. The most recent set of meetings occurred from June 5-9 and was followed by an inspection tour of Mars on June 20. Incredible as Goode’s claims are, they are supported by an impressive body of circumstantial evidence. This evidence merits keeping an open mind to his information, while seeking hard evidence to substantiates his incredible claims.
The first thing to consider from Goode’s latest report is what do we know about Lt Col Gonzales who briefed him? According to Goode, Gonzales is a career military officer with the highly classified “Solar Warden” Space Program who has been appointed to be the delegate of a Council comprising an alliance of Secret Space Programs (SSP’s). Gonzales job is to represent the interests of the SSP Alliance Council in meetings with other space programs and/or extraterrestrial alliances. In Goode’s case, he was appointed in early 2015 to be the delegate for a newly arrived group of extraterrestrial visitors called the Sphere Being Alliance
Gonzales has so far chosen to remain anonymous, but Goode’s June 22 report on his participation of an inspection tour of Mars and this most recent meeting with the representative of the Draconian Federation Alliance suggests this is likely to change in the future. So far, we only have Goode’s word that Gonzales is real, and that he is who he claims to be. David Wilcock has more information to share about Gonzales’ identity, and will likely share this in future updates on his Divine Cosmos website or upcoming Gaiam TV interviews with Corey Good.
In the briefing received by Goode, Gonzales describes how he was taken to meet the leader of the Draconian Federation Alliance, a 14 ft Royal White Draco. After being taken to a building somewhere in the American Southwest by a classified spacecraft, Gonzales claims he was first met by a very familiar figure:
Gonzales and his Security Team came out into a hall way and it seemed empty and quiet except the Security/IE’s motioned down the hall with hand signals where they felt the awaiting delegation. When they were most of the way to the end of the hall Gonzales saw a very familiar person. He said this person had to have seen the look on his face and his gaping open mouth. This person introduced himself with his thick accent, droopy eyes and curly white hair. Gonzales said this guy had created so many think tanks, global organizations and advised more U.S. Presidents than anyone he could think of. This person is very well known as a supporter of the New World Order and Depopulation Programs.
Goode’s description makes it almost certain that the person is Dr Henry Kissinger, who has long been rumored to be a key figure in classified extraterrestrial related projects. Most recently, Kissinger attended the Bilderberg Group meeting which occurred only two days after Goode and Gonzales had met approximately 200 human elites that offered a limited disclosure program to begin in November 2015. This would be followed by a 50 year moratorium in prosecuting elites involved in crimes against humanity.
Gonzales was told by three (human) chairmen from the Committee of 200 that the meeting would not be a negotiation, but an opportunity to hear the leader of the Draconian Federation Alliance, at least in this solar system. After being led through an honor guard of nine foot tall Draconian Reptilians, Gonzales met with the White Royal Draco. Behind him were a number of insectoid type extraterrestrial races. The Royal White Draco made a number of demands with serious consequences if they were not met:
The White Royal Draco was making some very serious demands and told Gonzales that a failure to capitulate to them by the SSP Alliance or the Sphere Alliance would be an act of war against the entire Draco Federation Alliance and their Overlords.
Gonzales then describes the specific demands made by Draconian leader:
This same White Royal Draco now made demands wrapped in threats for Gonzales to deliver to the SSP Alliance Council and the Sphere Alliance. The demand was that all of the Draco Federation Alliance would be allowed to leave through the Outer Barrier as they wished and that their human allies would be given clemency and promised no reprisals in future events in a human controlled Sol System.
If the demands were not met, the White Royal Draco said his forces were ready for a prophesied End Times battle:
The White Royal stated in no uncertain terms that they had the power to bring great calamity and war to the surface of the Earth and were prepared to do so. They stated that the Sphere Alliance had not been forthcoming in the true power of their Extra Dimensional Overlords who were now present and ready to do battle beside the Draco Federation Alliance as had been prophesied about their empire millions of years ago.
This is where Gonzales became very surprised to learn that the White Royal Dracos were not at the apex of the Draconian Federation Alliance. There were ExtraDimensional (ED) overlords that were responsible for the creation of Artificial Intelligence as he revealed to Goode:
They boasted that these same ED Overlords were responsible in some way for the entities that we called the ED/ET Artificial Intelligence that is their ally and had conquered entire galaxies. Gonzales stated the grandiose boasting and threats went on for some time in the same theatrical manner before the White Royal Draco let go of his mind and turned and lumbered out of the room with his Reptilian Honor Guard and the Insectoid delegation.
After hearing the White Royal Draco, one of the Chairmen of the Committee of 200 emphasized finding a win-win solution:
The Chairman then approached them and walked them back the way them came and in the same manner went over how serious the situation was for the surface population of Earth that the Alliance agreed to the terms presented. The Chairman stated that this was an opportunity for a win/win situation and that dismissing it like the Americans dismiss negotiating with terrorists would be detrimental to the population on the surface of the planet. Gonzales said that he had enough of the drama and theatre and just wanted to get his aching and pounding head out of there and back to the shuttle.
Goode went on to discuss more details about the Gonzales briefing that concerned evidence that Draconian warriors were infected by nanites that carried an artificial intelligence. This suggested that the Draconian Federation Alliance had succumbed to artificial intelligence that was also threatening other extraterrestrial civilizations and humanity.
Gonzales briefing as relayed by Goode, contains information that many will want to immediately dismiss as science fiction. Unfortunately for that segment of humanity inclined to do so, Goode tells us that there will soon be document dumps and whistleblower testimonies coming forward that will confirm many of his revelations. As mentioned earlier, there is already impressive circumstantial evidence supporting them so Goode’s prediction should be taken seriously.
Notwithstanding the long term threat posed by artificial intelligence the most immediate issues raised by Gonzales briefing is how to deal with the White Royal Draco’s demands that his forces are allowed to leave the solar system, and that his former human servants, the Committee of 200 and other global elites, are given amnesty. Humanity has to decide whether it wants to prosecute those that have committed crimes against humanity in secret space programs and classified projects, or provide amnesty thereby averting a world war.
President Nelson Mandela and Bishop Desmond Tutu supported South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Thankfully, there are precedents in recent human history where regime changes have been achieved peacefully without a nation being torn apart by war. The national precedents offer a model for how global elites that have been involved in crimes against humanity can peacefully step aside without precipitating world war.
In the cases of South Africa during the Apartheid era, and South American nations during military dictatorships, these countries offered amnesty to national elites who peacefully relinquished power and allowed for the truth to be revealed. South Africa set up its “Truth and Reconciliation Commission”, other countries set up their own versions, where victims of crimes could learn the truth of what had happened to them and/or their families. This model of “restorative justice” is very different to the “punitive justice” system used in western democracies. Negotiating a restorative justice model for global elites involved in crimes against humanity in secret space programs may prove to be a viable solution for averting a devastating world war.
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July 9, 2015 Corey Goode Report: The Lt. Col. Gonzales SSP Council Delegation Briefings Part 1
[Note: Corey Goode requires public support to continue his disclosures. You can help by visiting his website to donate, purchase products or register through this link for his upcoming Gaiam TV interviews. A Resource Page listing interviews, articles and more reports about Corey Goode’s revelations is available here].
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Tags: Corey Goode, extraterrestrial life, Henry Kissinger, secret space programs, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, White Royal Draco
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A Tribe Called Quest cancel European festival dates after...
News I By Claire LobenfeldI 19.05.17
A Tribe Called Quest cancel European festival dates after Q-Tip suffers shoulder injury
But it looks like they’ll be back in time for July dates in North America.
A Tribe Called Quest have canceled a handful of European festival dates after Q-Tip suffered a shoulder injury that will require surgery. As SPIN points out, the group has announced this in a press release for France’s We Love Green Festival:
“Have a bit of unfortunate news to share… I’ve injured my shoulder and now need to have surgery which means Tribe won’t be able to perform for our faithful fans in the UK, France, Denmark (We Love Green Festival June 10th in Paris; Parklife Festival June 11th in the UK; and Roskilde Festival July 1st in Denmark). I’m hoping for a speedy recovery and looking forward to getting back to these countries as quickly as possible to perform for all of you. Much Love – Tip”
Ice Cube will replace ATCQ at Roskilde, who wrote: “We had obviously really looked forward to presenting A Tribe Called Quest this summer, but we fully understand the doctor’s strict orders that Q-Tip cannot perform after his surgery.”
ATCQ are scheduled to perform at Pemberton Music Festival in Canada and Panorama Festival in NYC and to headline Pitchfork Festival in Chicago in July, as well, but there is no word yet on whether or not Q-Tip will have recovered by then.
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General excellence of freedom
J.C. Ryle (Freedom, 1878)
On this point some readers may think it needless to say anything; they imagine that all men know the value of freedom, and that to dwell on it is mere waste of time. I do not agree with such people at all. I believe that myriads of Englishmen know nothing of the blessings which they enjoy in their own land; they have grown up from infancy to manhood in the midst of free institutions. They have not the least idea of the state of things in other countries; they are ignorant alike of those two worst forms of tyranny, the crushing tyranny of a cruel military despot, and the intolerant tyranny of an unreasoning mob. In short, many Englishmen know nothing of the value of liberty, just because they have been born in the middle of it, and have never been for a moment without it.
I call then on everyone who reads this paper, to remember that liberty is one of the greatest temporal blessings that man can have on this side the grave.
We live in a land where our bodies are free. So long as we hurt nobody’s person, or property, or character — no one can touch us; the poorest man’s house is his castle.
We live in a land where our actions are free. So long as we support ourselves, we are free to choose what we will do, where we will go, and how we will spend our time.
We live in a land where our consciences are free. So long as we hold quietly on our own way, and do not interfere with others, we are free to worship God as we please, and no man can compel us to take his way to Heaven. We live in a land where no foreigner rules over us. Our laws are made and altered by Englishmen like ourselves, and our Governors dwell by our side, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh.
In short, we have every kind of freedom to an extent which no other nation on earth can equal. We have personal freedom, civil freedom, religious freedom, and national freedom. We have free bodies, free consciences, free speech, free thought, free action, free Bibles, a free press, and free homes. How vast is this list of privileges! How endless the comforts which it contains! The full value of them can never perhaps be known. Well said the Jewish Rabbis in ancient days: “If the sea were ink and the world parchment — it would never serve to describe the praises of liberty.”
The lack of this freedom has been the most fertile cause of misery to nations in every age of the world. What reader of the Bible can fail to remember the sorrows of the children of Israel, when they were slaves under Pharaoh in Egypt, or under Philistines in Canaan? What student of history needs to be reminded of the woes inflicted on the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and Italy by the hand of foreign oppressors, or the Inquisition? Who, even in our own time, has not heard of that enormous fountain of wretchedness, the slavery of the Negro race? No misery is so great as the misery of slavery.
To win and preserve freedom has been the aim of many national struggles which have deluged the earth with blood. Liberty has been the cause in which myriads of Greeks, and Romans, and Germans, and Poles, and Swiss, and Englishmen, and Americans have willingly laid down their lives. No price has been thought too great to pay in order that nations might be free.
The champions of freedom in every age have been justly esteemed among the greatest benefactors of mankind. Such names as Moses and Gideon in Jewish history, the German Martin Luther, the Swiss William Tell, the Scotch Robert Bruce and John Knox, the English Alfred and Hampden and the Puritans, the American George Washington, are deservedly embalmed in history, and will never be forgotten. To be the mother of many patriots is the highest praise of a nation.
The enemies of freedom in every age have been rightly regarded as the pests and nuisances of their times. Such names as Pharaoh in Egypt, Dionysius at Syracuse, Nero at Rome, Charles IX in France, bloody Mary in England — are names which will never be rescued from disgrace. The public opinion of mankind will never cease to condemn them, on the one ground that they would not let people be free.
But why should I dwell on these things? Time and space would fail me if I were to attempt to say a tenth part of what might be said in praise of freedom. What are the annals of history — but a long record of conflicts between the friends and foes of liberty? Where is the nation upon earth which has ever attained greatness, and left its mark on the world, without freedom? Which are the countries on the face of the globe at this very moment which are making the most progress in trade, in arts, in sciences, in civilization, in philosophy, in morals, in social happiness? Precisely those countries in which there is the greatest amount of true freedom. Which are the countries at this very day where is the greatest amount of internal misery, where we hear continually of secret plots, and murmuring, and discontent, and attempts on life and property? Precisely those countries where freedom does not exist, or exists only in name, where men are treated as serfs and slaves, and are not allowed to think and act for themselves.
No wonder that a mighty American Statesman declared on a great occasion to his assembled countrymen: “Give me liberty, or give me death!” (Patrick Henry)
Let us beware of undervaluing the liberty we enjoy in this country of ours, as Englishmen. I am sure there is need of this warning. There is, perhaps, no country on earth where there is so much grumbling and fault-finding, as there is in England. Men look at the imagined evils which they see around them, and exaggerate both their number and their intensity. They refuse to look at the countless blessings and privileges which surround us, or underrate the advantages of them. They forget that comparison should be applied to everything. With all our faults and defects, there is at this hour no country on earth where there is so much liberty and happiness for all classes, as there is in England. They forget that as long as human nature is corrupt, it is vain to expect perfection here below. No laws or government whatever can possibly prevent a certain quantity of abuses and corruptions.
Once more then, I say, let us beware of undervaluing English liberty, and running eagerly after everyone who proposes sweeping changes. Changes are not always improvements. The old shoes may have some holes and defects — but the new shoes may pinch so much that we cannot walk at all. No doubt we might have better laws and government than we have — but I am quite sure we might easily have worse. At this very day, there is no country on the face of the globe where there is so much care taken of the life, and health, and property, and character, and personal liberty of the poorest inhabitant, as there is in England. Those who want to have more liberty, would soon find, if they crossed the seas, that there is no country on earth where there is so much real liberty as our own!
But while I bid men not undervalue English liberty, so also on the other hand I charge them not to overvalue it. Never forget that temporal slavery is not the only slavery, and temporal freedom not the only freedom. What will it profit you to be a citizen of a free country — so long as your soul is not free?
What is the good of living in a free land like ours, with free thought, free speech, free action, free conscience — so long as you are a slave to sin, and a captive to the devil? Yes, there are tyrants whom no eye can see, as real and destructive as Pharaoh or Nero! There are chains which no hands can touch, as true and heavy and soul-withering as ever crushed the limbs of a slave! It is these tyrants whom I want you to remember today. It is these chains from which I want you to be free. by all means value your earthly liberty — but do not overvalue it. Look higher, further than any earthly freedom. In the highest sense let us ensure that “we are free indeed.”
How Should I Feel?
Joe Thorn
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How we may Read the Scriptures with most Spiritual
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New school year, new look for Oak Crest Middle
The finishing touches are being placed on the new administration building at Oak Crest Middle School.
(Karen Billing)
By Karen BillingStaff Writer
Oak Crest Middle School students will return to campus this month to what feels like a brand new school.
Over the summer, construction was completed on the new administration building while older parts of campus were refreshed with bold new colors to match the newer buildings with updated Oak Crest branding and wave logos.
The school on Balour Drive also got a new shade structure in front, a new bike yard, resurfaced PE blacktops and student-made ceramic fish and starfish were added to the lunch area.
The removal of the temporary administration building opened up a whole new space for students with grass and spots to gather and collaborate. Principal Brieahna Weatherford is excited for the new benches to arrive—they are shaped like waves.
“The kids are going to love those,” Weatherford said, noting that the first students back have complimented the campus’ new “beachy” feel.
A newly painted classroom building at Oak Crest.
Last summer the school opened the new science classroom quad with its buildings a mix of deep royal blue, corrugated steel, modern roof lines and lots of windows for natural lighting.
Painting on the rest of campus this summer has followed the new color scheme: sandy beige and royal blue, with pops of teal, red and yellow.
Repainting the campus was bittersweet as many of the buildings had been decorated with student murals. Weatherford felt it was important to preserve and honor those works and thanks to a donation from the Oak Crest Parent Foundation, they found a way. High resolution photos of the murals were converted into 18 art pieces in a variety of styles from metal to canvas prints. The art is now showcased in the new administration building, gallery style, offering what one former student called “a walk through the past”.
According to John Addleman, San Dieguito Union High School District’s executive director of planning services, plans for the Oak Crest administration building changed in 2016 after the building was gutted by an arsonist’s fire. It was originally slated for just a modernization rather than a complete demolition but the fire forced a new design, funded in combination of insurance money and Prop AA dollars.
The new administration is modern with lots of windows, corrugated steel on one side and a mix of bold colors on the other.
A new shade structure in the pick-up and drop-off area.
It features a big welcoming lobby with a separate attendance area (the finishing touches are still being placed on the walk-up attendance window outside) and spaces the school did not have before such as a conference room.
“One of the really exciting things about the building is now we’ve got everyone serving students in one place,” Weatherford said.
Previously, the health office and the school counselors were in separate areas of campus than the administrative staff.
“With everyone in this building, we have a much more unified feel and we can better support students and families in a more functional building,” Weatherford said.
At Oak Crest, Weatherford has focused on making the whole school a welcoming place for all. This year she turned eighth grade students into leaders with the WEB (Where Everybody Belongs) leadership program. The WEB leaders attended training over the summer and will help welcome all seventh graders and new students to campus on a student-led orientation on Aug. 19.
“WEB leaders are focused on making sure everyone has a positive transition to middle school and makes positive connections,” Weatherford said.
To further ensure everybody feels like they belong, last year Oak Crest students created a guide for student success called “What Every Wave Should Know”. The list includes essential tips like: Be organized, bring lots of pencils and tons of binder paper, keep one earbud out, socialize at lunch, be aware soda is not stocked in the vending machine, study hard, don’t feed the seagulls, always recycle, put your phones in the caddies in the classroom and remember your PE clothes.
“Everything will feel overwhelming at first,” reads one bit of Wave wisdom. “Take a deep breath.”
New branding on Crest Hall.
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Best Portable Power Bank External Battery Chargers Reviews
Nowadays, technology advances at a breakneck speed that every information we need and are available to us can be had at the palms of our hands. Our tablets, smartphones, and other gadgets can do more than call or send emails. There is social media, entertainment, current events, organizer, calendar, and many others to make us want to go about our daily lives toting these smart devices wherever we go.
Interestingly, one aspect of technology that does not seem to move forward much is battery life. The more that your mobile phone can do for you means the more it eats up energy. The more features your gadget has, the more you want to use it, therefore, the faster it drains the battery life. This is where power banks come into play.
Our mobile devices have gone through a spectacular transformation that they have become a central element in our lives. Power banks will allow you to use your devices even if you are out for long periods of time. They can certainly help us deal with this hunger for more battery life and has indeed proven to be the best solution to the battery dilemma.
Here are the top 20 portable power banks for your mobile devices:
1. RAVPower 16750mAh Portable Charger
The RAVPower portable charger has 16750mAh of power and very impressive features. It has two incredibly fast USB ports that give you a max output of 4.5A that can charge two smartphones at once. It uses efficient Lithium-Ion batteries that can sustain you for a few days before needing to be recharged.
Another wonderful feature is the iSmart technology that intuitively identifies your device for optimum charge efficiency. It can charge an iPhone 5s up to 7.2 times, a Galaxy S8 for three times, or an iPad Air one full time. It is a sturdy, well made, well-constructed unit that has a sleek and compact design.
This power bank weighs 10.9 ounces and measures 5 x 3.2 x 0.8 inches, a bit heavier than most, but is one of the best performing power banks in the market.
2. Jackery Giant+ 12,000mAh Portable External Charger
The Jackery Giant+ 12000mAh portable external charger has dual USB ports that are rated at 1A and 2.1A that can also charge two devices at the same time. This power bank uses premium Panasonic Grade A Lithium-Ion batteries that can let you charge your gadgets up to two weeks before recharging the unit itself. It can charge an iPhone 5s 5 times, a Samsung Galaxy S6 2.8 times, and an iPad Air 2 1.1 times.
This power bank has a sleek, modern, and sturdy design. It comes with a 3-LED indicator light that shows the current level of the battery when charging or discharging. There is also an LED flashlight located at the bottom, a mini-USB port for charging the unit, and the two USB ports to charge your devices.
3. Poweradd 2nd Gen Pilot 2GS 10,000mAh Power Bank
The Poweradd 2nd Gen Pilot 2GS 10000mAh power bank delivers lightning speed charge at a speed of up to 2.4A from its two USB ports for a total of 3.4A. It has 10,000mAh power capacity that lets you charge an iPhone 6s 4 times, a Galaxy S6 2.5 times, and a one and a half recharge for iPad Mini. It uses a Lithium Polymer battery with premium microchips in an aircraft-grade aluminum casing that is designed to be sturdy and compact.
This power bank comes with a multi-protection system that protects against overcharging, over-discharging, overcurrent, overvoltage, and short circuit. It also has an automatic shut-off sleep mode feature. It is equipped with four light indicators that tell you how much battery power is left or when charging is done.
4. EasyAcc 20,000mAh Portable Charger
The whopping 20,000 power capacity of the EasyAcc portable charger lets you charge up to four devices simultaneously thanks to its dual 4A input USB ports. One of the ports is a Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 output for devices that can use this type of charger. Charging your devices at a max speed of 2.4A, it can easily recharge your iPhone 5s 8.3 times, Samsung Galaxy S6 4.6 times, and an iPad Mini twice.
This power bank is equipped with four LED notification lights to indicate how much power is left and when the charging is done. It has a super-bright LED light that you can use as a flashlight for emergency situations. It uses Smart Technology that automatically identifies the device that you plug into it and delivers the suitable electric current.
5. iMuto 20000mAh Portable Charger
The iMuto 20000mAh portable charger has a massive power that lets you charge an average of six smartphones or 1.5 tablets. It has two output charging ports rated at 2.1A and 1A. It can charge an iPhone 5s 8.3 times, a Samsung Galaxy S6 4.6 times, and an iPad Air 2 1.8 times. This power bank’s USB ports will detect your device and intuitively deliver the fastest and safest charge possible.
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One of its main features is the LCD screen which displays an exact percentage of the power left which is much more accurate than the LED indicators of other brands. It also comes with a small LED flashlight that provides an impressive amount of light. It is encased in a plastic body which makes it lightweight and more compact measuring at just 5.12 x 3.07 inches.
6. Anker PowerCore 20,100mAh Portable Charger
The Anker PowerCore 20100 portable charger is a powerhouse that can even charge the new 12-inch MacBook. It has two USB ports that are able to send 5V 2.4A to any two of your devices at an incredible speed. It can charge your iPhone 5s 8.3 times, a Samsung Galaxy S6 4.6 times, and an iPad Air 2 1.8 times.
It is equipped with Anker’s PowerIQ and VoltageBoost technology that recognizes the brand, firmware, and hardware of your device to give it the most efficient charge possible and send stable power through its output. It has four blue LED lights to indicate the remaining capacity of the unit. It has a smooth and matte finish and is designed to be compact and lightweight.
7. Poweradd Slim2 5,000mAh Portable Power Bank
One of the most compact and portable power banks on the market, the Poweradd Slim2 5,000mAh is a lipstick-sized power bank that has a very affordable price. It is remarkably cheap, this power bank performs quite well, giving you a great value to power ratio, far better than those in its category.
The Poweradd Slim2 is equipped with one charging port with a max output of 2.1A that delivers a specific current depending on the device you have plugged in. Its 5,000mAh battery capacity lets you charge an iPhone X and a Samsung Galaxy 7 twice. It measures just 3.94 x 1.22 x 1.34 inches that fit your pocket easily for extreme portability.
8. EC Technology 22400mAh Power Bank
Packed with a powerful punch of 22,400mAh, the EC Technology power bank can charge an iPhone 5s 9.2 times, Samsung Galaxy S6 5.2 times and an iPad Air 2 twice. It has three separate USB outputs that allow you to charge three devices all at once. Each charging port is labeled, one for iPhone, one for Samsung, and another one for iPad, you need to plug in the device you need to charge that corresponds to the charging port.
It is equipped with AUTO-IC technology that automatically identifies the type of device you have plugged in to charge and deliver the fastest, safest, most efficient current possible. It also has an overcharge, overvoltage, overcurrent, and short-circuit protection for added peace of your mind. It comes with an LED light that has three settings, Soft Light, Hard Light, and an SOS light that can be very useful as a flashlight.
9. Anker PowerCore 5000 Power Bank
The Anker PowerCore 5000 power bank delivers 5,000mAh and has a lipstick design that is so portable and ‘pocket-friendly.’ Measuring 4 inches and having a width of 1 inch, it weighs just 4.73 ounces, making it very space efficient. Its battery capacity can easily give a full recharge twice on your iPhone 6 or a Samsung Galaxy S6, and many other smartphones.
This power bank is small but has remarkable features including the Input and Output charging speeds that are fast at 5V/2.0A, one Amp faster than most of the power banks in its class. It comes with 3 LED lights to let you know how much battery capacity is left. It has Anker’s trademark PowerIQ technology that delivers powerful charge at top speeds. It is very affordable and has a high-quality build.
10. Uni-Yeap 11000mAh External Battery Charger Power Bank
he Uni-Yeap 11000mAh power bank has a high capacity that lets you charge your iPhone 6 for up to 5 times. It comes with Smart Technology that detects the device that you plug into it and delivers the appropriate electric current for a fast and efficient charge. It comes with an LCD screen that displays the remaining energy of the power bank to let you know when it needs replenishing.
It has a universal port that is compatible with most smartphones such as iPhone 6, 6s, plus, 5s, 5, 4s, 4, iPad, iPod, Samsung Galaxy S7, S6, S5, note 5, note 4, Edge, digital cameras, game consoles, and many other gadgets. It uses Polymer batteries that are safer, lighter, has more capacity than standard Lithium batteries.
11. Anker 21W Dual USB Solar Charger
The Anker 21W Dual USB solar charger gets its power through the three panels that harness solar energy and charges directly from them. It does not hold power like a normal power bank does, as it charges your devices with the power it receives from a light source, not only sunlight but also light from a lamp.
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It comes with PowerIQ technology that offers a maximum of 3 amps output with its two USB ports. It can charge two smartphones simultaneously wherever there is plenty of sunlight. You can set it on the ground or place it on your backpack to get sufficient power. It is an environmentally friendly way to charge your mobile devices. Ideal for those planning to be stationary like campers or those who plan to lounge on the beach.
12. RAVPower 22,000mAh 3-Port Power Bank
The RAVPower 22000mAh 3-Port power bank guarantees to charge your devices at least twice. Its 22,000mAh battery capacity can efficiently charge an iPhone 5s 9.1 times, Samsung Galaxy S6 5.1 times and an iPad Air 2 two times. All the 3 USB ports have a maximum charging speed of 2.4A which is one of the fastest in its category.
This power bank uses a Lithium Polymer battery that gives you reliable power than ordinary Lithium batteries. It comes with a fail-safe protection system that protects you from over-charging, overheating or cases of short-circuiting. It is encased in a fire-resistant shell that is rated UL94 V-0 on the flammability standards. It also has four-LED battery indicator lights located on the front to let you know how much power is left.
13. AUKEY 20,000mAh Power Bank
The AUKEY 20,000mAh power bank delivers 90% efficiency of its battery capacity as compared to less than 80% of most power banks in its category. It probably is one of the few to give an appropriate mAh closer to its real output. This power bank can easily charge an iPhone 5s 9.1 times, a Samsung Galaxy S6 5.1 times, and an iPad Air 2 twice.
It has a button that activates the unit and four multi-colored LED indicators to let you know the battery level. It also has a built-in flashlight that you can easily turn on by pressing the power button for two seconds. It has two USB ports that are rated at 2.4A and 1A. A single lightning icon denotes the 1A output, while the 2.1A has two lightning icons.
14. Dizaul 5,000mAh Portable Solar Charger
The Dizaul 5000mAh portable solar charger uses the power of the sun to recharge your mobile devices. Perfect for camping in the woods for a few days as it is shockproof, waterproof, and dust resistant. You can lay it on the ground where there is enough sunlight or place it on your backpack or the top of your tent to get enough energy to power your devices.
Its 5,000mAh battery capacity can charge most of your gadgets up to 1.5 times. Four LED lights let you know how much charge is left and will hold a green light to let you know that it is receiving energy from a light source. It also has a little light that can be used as a flashlight. You only need to leave it under the sun (or any light source like a lamp) to let it charge itself.
15. RAVPower 26,800mAh 3-Port 5.5A Power Bank
The RAVPower 26,800mAh 3-Port 5.5A power bank delivers tremendous battery capacity that lasts for days or even weeks. It has a durable built and is equipped with three USB ports that can simultaneously charge three devices efficiently. It fully charges an iPhone 6s 13.4 times, a Samsung Galaxy S6 9 times, and an iPad Air about twice. Each of the charging ports is labeled according to the power that they can deliver.
It comes with RAVPower’s iSmart technology that provides you fast charging speeds. You can charge an iPhone 6S fully in just over an hour. It has an above average size and weight as it is designed to be a charging hub. It comes with four LED power capacity indicators that are placed on top of the charger and automatically shuts off when charging is done to conserve energy.
16. ZeroLemon ToughJuice 30,000mAh Ultra High Capacity Power Bank
Described as the world’s toughest external battery pack with its 30,000mAh capacity and its rugged anti-shock exterior, we think this is a pretty much accurate description. You can charge up to five devices all at once with five USB ports—three standard 1-amp outputs, one Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 output, and one USB-C output—making this power bank a compatible choice for most devices. It can charge most smartphones up to ten times and tablets for up to two times.
It has a rubber outer shell and rubber flaps to cover all the ports to prevent water and dust from getting in the device and also to protect it from the occasional drops. It comes with four indicator lights, each one represents 25 percent of the battery’s capacity.
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17. TG90° 20,000mAh Portable Charger
The TG90° 20,000mAh portable charger is an ideal power bank for those going on camping trips, business meetings, or picnics. It uses a Lithium-Polymer battery that can charge your iPhone 7 up to 7 times, Samsung Galaxy S7 about five times, or an iPad Mini almost three times. It is also compatible for use with other gadgets such as tablets, digital cameras, game consoles, MP3/MP4 players, and many more.
It comes with two USB ports that allow you to charge two devices at the same time. It is equipped with TG90 Smart Technology that recognizes the device that you plug in and provide the suitable electric current for it. It offers up to 80% capacity even after 500 cycles of charging. In addition, it has built-in safeguard protection systems that protect you from overheating, overcharging and excessive currents.
18. Aibocn 10,000mAh Power Bank
The Aibocn 10,000mAh power bank battery capacity exceeds its very low price, giving you a high price to performance ratio. It can power up your iPhone 5s 3.3 times, Samsung Galaxy S6 1.9 times, and an iPad Air 2 0.7 times. It has two USB ports, one can give you charging speeds of up to 2.4A output, while the other is rated at 1.1A.
Located at the front of the unit are four LED lights that indicate the charge level and an on and off button. It also comes with a flashlight that is activated with a double tap on the power button. It has a sleek and modern design with a shiny lacquer finish that is fingerprint resistant.
19. Xiaomi Power Bank Pro 10,000mAh
The Xiaomi Power Bank Pro 10,000mAh is wrapped in double anodized aluminum and loaded with temperature, input overload, short circuit, output overcurrent, and reset protection features. It can replenish the juice of your iPhone 7 up to four times or two full charges for your Samsung Galaxy S6. It has a compact design with measurements of 0.5 x 5.1 x 2.9 inches and weighing 8.48 ounces, easily fits your pocket and very much transportable.
It comes with a USB port for output, a USB Type-C for input, and a button which will activate the battery indicator light. It can deliver up to 12V 1.5A, 9V 2A, or 5V 2A and can also charge other smartphone accessories like Bluetooth headphones, fitness bands, and many other gadgets.
20. KMASHI 10,000mAh Portable Power Bank
Affordable and efficient, the KMASHI 10,000mAh portable power bank provides you with power in a relatively compact body. With its powerful battery capacity of 10,000 mAh. It comes with two USB ports with different speeds of 1A and 2.4A. It can charge your iPhone 5s about 4.2 times, a Samsung Galaxy S6 2.3 times, and an iPad Air 2 0.9 times.
It has a cool, modern design that has the two USB ports located at the end and the micro USB input, LED battery indicators, and power button placed on the long edge. It has a smart feature that automatically shuts down when charging is finished. Slightly larger and heavier than an iPhone 6, this can easily fit your medium sized bag or purse.
Technology has invaded our lives. Whether it is business, leisure, social, or home life, we have found ways to make them easier and more convenient with the help of mobile devices and gadgets. Power banks are the best solution for these power hungry devices, allowing us to use them for longer periods of time or during situations that will not let us charge them normally.
This list of the top 20 portable power banks for mobile devices is indeed a great help to let you know which one would suit your needs best. It is always a good idea to keep yourself informed of what these products can do for you especially if you are planning on getting one or getting an upgrade.
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The Wolstenholme Square Redevelopment.
Back to square one for a new tapestry of life.
Wolstenholme Square has been the focus of Liverpool’s residents for most of it’s existence. In the days of philanthropist Joseph Williamson it was a place of industry and the place that made him – he had his first job here. In the days of our parents it was a place to be young and free, with the Continental club, Tuxedo Junction and more. Translate that into the modern day and the launch of superclub Cream at Nation, Wolstenholme Creative Space, Mello Mello, and the era-defining Kazimier ran by a troupe of artists, dancers, musicians and theatre producers.
The indication that Liverpool city council wanted this area to evolve came with Liverpool Biennial commissioning Jorge Pardo to create a new sculpture work for 2002’s edition of the UK’s biggest festival of contemporary art. The work, Penelope – a weaving of steel and light, took inspiration from Homer’s Odyssey and his wife Penelope who was waiting for him to come back from the Trojan wars. She would weave intricate tapestries of his conquests, only to unravel them again at the end of the day and start again.
Perhaps the square is itself a tapestry waiting to be unraveled. Jorge also paid homage to the former RopeWalks of area which made rope for the many vessels in our once busy port. The work was supposedly for the clubbers of cream, but in my mind there was a bigger picture.
Now the time is here to refresh again. Elliot group and TJ Thomas estates are seizing on the popularity of the square to install a permanent base of residents. Architects FCH have come up with a residential/retail mix which aims to give life to the square in the daytime and the night, something not possible with clubs and their nighttime only economy. Visitors to the Kazimier would disagree with that statement – the venue often had events during the daytime, but that was mostly in the adjoining garden space they created. The garden is to be retained in the new plans.
Cream/Nation have been promised a brand new subterranean venue, which we are keen to see. Elliot group were in discussions with Kazimier to provide them a new space to operate in, but as the club closed at New Year 2016 it was announced that they would move operations to the north Liverpool waterfront where they would have space for expansion and even bigger events.
Penelope will be refreshed and renewed with the redevelopment of the square. The artist will come back having signed a contract with the developer. Street furniture by the Jorge Pardo has also been commissioned.
The cycle starts again.
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아라 - What& my name? Release Date: 2017. Producer Brave Brothers injects a tropical EDM sound into the title pop dance jam What’s My Name? The five-track Normal Version of the album also contains the title song’s Chinese version, the retro song Reload and the expressive ballad 20090729, which is named after their debut date. Track List: 01. 내 이름은 (What’s my name?) Title 02. Reload 03.
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Openings Apr. 30, 2013
Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s ABC Cocina Opens Thursday
By Hugh Merwin
He’s ready. Photo: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images
We’re just a couple of days away from giving you a full look at the menu and dining room, but in the meantime, Grub Street has learned that Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s anticipated ABC Cocina will open on Thursday evening. Last June, we had the first word about the chef’s reboot of the old Nuevo Latino Pipa Tapas y Mas within ABC Carpet & Home. Vongerichten and Phil Suarez reportedly have a lot of menu surprises in store that involve Mexican and Latin American influences, as well as a lot of Greenmarket produce (plus, chiles!), but all will be revealed on Thursday. ABC Cocina will be open for dinner only for the first month or so, and will begin to offer lunch and brunch options shortly thereafter. [Earlier, Earlier]
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New dates for Provide First Aid and Immunisation
New dates for Provide First Aid and Immunisation program for pharmacists are now available for 2020. Visit https://www.pharmacyguild.edu.au/ to book.Please note bookings are open for the first two courses in Feb and March and the other dates will open up…
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YouTube Search History Now With Disable Option
by Martin Brinkmann on February 21, 2012 in Security - Last Update: February 21, 2012 - 15 comments
The popular video hosting site YouTube up until now kept a log of all of the videos that you watched on the site while logged in to your YouTube or Google account. YouTube knows about all the videos that you watched on the site while logged in to the account. The feature's name could cause some confusion on its own, as it has little to do with searches on the site. Thus, viewing history would be more appropriate.
While it was possible to remove individual video or the complete list of all videos that you watched on YouTube, up until now it was not possible to disable the feature to have the site not record any activities in the first place.
This was a big issue for privacy conscious users who did not want their video history to be recorded at all. It could also be problematic on multi-user PCs that shared a single Google account, or where users sometimes forgot to log out of theirs.
Ghacks reader Odio just notified me that YouTube - finally - had added an option to disable the search history feature on the site. Google calls it pausing, but it effectively stops to record which videos you viewed on the site.
To disable My Search History, go to this settings page on YouTube. Please note that you need to be logged in for this to work properly. The page lists all the videos that you watched on the site in the past.
Locate the pause search history button at the top and click on it to disable the logging of videos that you watch on YouTube.
The button switches to Resume search history automatically which you can activate to have the viewing history recorded again. You may also want to click on the Clear all search history button to remove your existing search history records from the site.
I suggest you test the new feature by loading a video on the site, and then reloading the search history page to make sure nothing gets recorded anymore.
Update: We mixed up search history and video history a bit in the article, as pointed out by one of our eagle-eyed readers. The search history obviously only prevents your searches on YouTube from being recorded. You find the other option under History in the menu on the left side. Click on that and pause that option as well. This takes care of your viewing history so that it is no longer being recorded by YouTube.
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John said on February 21, 2012 at 11:45 am
Excuse my childishness, but YAY! It is about time. I hate how people could always see what I’ve been watching. It isn’t anyone’s business. I remember using the feedback tool about 12 months ago requesting a setting like this. I might be more inclined to watch YouTube now.
Martin, you only included partial instructions – and not even the important part at that.
Not only should you clear/pause the “Search History” option, but more importantly you should clear/pause the “History” option which is a completely separate and potentially a more revealing log of your activities.
(It’s located right above Search History on the left hand side).
In case anybody has trouble finding the pages, here are the steps.
1) Login to your account.
2) Top right corner dropdown box w/ your username – select “Settings”.
3) Top left corner on the ‘Overview” page – click on “Video Manager”.
4) Left hand side – click on “History” and “Search History” for their respective page settings.
I’m glad you posted this article. I would have never bothered to check for new settings options if you had pointed it out to us. In the future, could you be a little more thorough (especially when it comes to privacy settings?)
Martin Brinkmann said on February 21, 2012 at 5:10 pm
You are right, thanks. I have updated the article.
WebHybrid said on February 21, 2012 at 9:25 pm
I am shocked, but *not* dismayed.
Never thought YouTube would allow an escape from the scrutiny.
ódio said on February 21, 2012 at 10:26 pm
we needed it for a long time, looking for solutions… and now its for default. finnally.
bazza said on February 21, 2012 at 10:27 pm
What I want to know is how stop YouTube recommendations appearing. Can anyone help?
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Law No. 352 of 2 May 1945 for the establishment of supervisory bodies and PARLIAMENT, published in the ISSUER according to official Gazette No. 101 of 3 May 1945 MINISTRY of INDUSTRY and TRADE Decree No. 2 May 1945 1,461 article I advise County Prefectures, in the country, set up organs of citizen control, who will work with atribuţiunile and following the rules laid down by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, by regulation, to combat speculation and economic sabotage.
In Bucharest, also set up organs of citizen control, advising the Police Prefecture Capital and advising the Sector Mayoralties.
In urban communes, neresedinte County, will be able to establish, upon necessity, according to the control organs besides the respective mayoralties.
Article II the members of the control bodies shall be appointed according to the Minister of Internal Affairs, through the decision and will work without the honorific way salary, daily allowance or allowances.
The appointment will be made of representatives appointed by the political groups, which enters the composition of the Government of democratic concentration.
The numerical composition of the control bodies shall be established according to the Minister of internal affairs after necessities.
Article III citizen Members of control bodies are subjected to, the action of the vigil and Interior Ministry disciplinary action.
The Interior Minister, to exercise the action of vigil directly or by prefects (governors) of the County, inspectors general and administrative municipalities communes in question.
Minister of internal affairs can take any disciplinary measures against members of the organs of citizen control, which have committed misconduct in their duty of dela.
Article IV Commits the offence of misconduct dela mission entrusted to and shall be punished by imprisonment 1 year, from the correctional facility at 5 years and 1 to 2 years ' ban dela 6 years, any member of an organ of citizen control, which commits an act in order to procure his or someone else's use unfair or in bad faith, causing a pagubire of any kind or coerce any person to do, omit, or to suffer anything in contradiction with the legal dispoziţiunile. Any other offences committed by the members of the supervisory bodies in the exercise of their citizenship, will be punished with the maximum penalty prescribed for the offence committed.
Article V anyone give membership of an organ of citizen control, without having this quality, commits the offence of misappropriation of public debt collection and punishable with prison correctional dela 3 to 5 years and 2 years ' interdiction, from 3 to 6 years.
Article VI the current civic committees in fact disolva, on the date of publication of this law.
This deviation constitutes insider trading dispoziţiune dela usurpation of public debt collection and punishable with prison correctional dela 3 to 5 years and 2 years ' interdiction 1 to 6 years removed from him.
Article VII Prosecuting offences committed by members of the supervisory bodies and the citizen laid down in art. 5 and 6 will be made with the procedure laid down in article 23. 348 and 349 flagrantele from criminal proceedings for felonies.
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Hollywood’s biggest night is almost upon us as movie stars and famous people parade about in designer gowns and suits on the red carpet outside of the famed Kodak Theater in Los Angeles, California. It’s a true who’s who in the entertainment industry, and everybody who is anybody tries to be in attendance for the publicity and the media attention.
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‘It’s nothing new’: Tiger Woods shares Tour Championship lead, and his competitors want a piece of him
By Adam Schupak
Tiger Woods is locked in atop the Tour Championship leaderboard.
ATLANTA — At the third round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational in March, Justin Rose shot 67 and bested his fellow playing competitor Tiger Woods by two strokes, but Rose came off the course convinced that he’d played with a version of Woods capable of climbing his way back to the top of the mountain.
“I saw for myself that he could still make the shots,” Rose said. “I thought the comeback was for real, for sure.”
Rose and Woods will have a chance to renew acquaintances again this weekend as they share the 36-hole lead of the Tour Championship at seven-under 133, two shots ahead of Rory McIlroy in the finale of the season-long FedEx Cup.
All year long, a parade of today’s young stars have all but prayed, if not begged, for a chance to stare down Woods with a title on the line. After his round Justin Thomas, who at the Hero World Challenge last year said he was looking forward to trying to “kick Tiger’s butt,” reiterated that sentiment.
“I know there’s probably nobody else I’d rather be down at the last hole tied with having a chance to win than him,” Thomas said. “It would be pretty cool.”
Then Thomas added one caveat: “I’d rather be one or two ahead, saying that.”
Thomas and the Tour’s young guns don’t have any scar tissue of being beaten to a pulp by Woods during his prime. Rickie Fowler has been around long enough to be stomped by Woods on his way to victories at The Memorial and Arnold Palmer Invitational back in the day and he was left in the wake of Woods on the back nine Friday. Fowler, who shared the overnight lead with Woods, surged in front at seven under standing on the 10th tee before making four bogeys and signing for two-over 72 and fall four strokes off the pace.
Meanwhile, Woods sprayed tee shots left and right on the front nine and continued to escape unscathed. When he rescued par at the eighth after drilling his tee shot at least 40 yards off line to the right, one writer called it highway robbery.
“He should get three-to five-years for that,” I said.
“With good behavior,” the reporter said.
Tiger Woods shares the lead at East Lake with Justin Rose.
Woods rolled in a birdie at the second, but pulled a four-foot par putt at nine to remain five-under at the turn. Spaniard Jon Rahm roared to a five-under 30, but he faded in the sweltering heat and only Billy Horschel and Patrick Cantlay with 65s managed to go low on Friday.
Woods kept digging into his bag of tricks to make pars despite missing fairways at Nos. 10 and 11. His high-wire act led another reporter to ask McIlroy after his round if he was told that one of the leaders had hit only two fairways on the front and made one birdie through 11, what would he say?
“Not surprising,” McIlory said.
“Is that a testament to Tiger’s grinding or…”
At that point McIlory interrupted the reporter and said, “I thought you were talking about Justin Rose.”
Laughter ensued.
“Yeah, look, he’s done it his whole career,” McIlory continued. “It’s nothing new.”
Try telling that to Woods. He’s had to revamp his swing to adjust to playing with a surgically-fused back. When asked how much his game has improved since being paired with Rose at Bay Hill in March, Woods said, “A lot. My body is different, my game is different. I have all new equipment since then. Everything has been evolving and moving and changing since I first started coming back at Torrey (Pines).”
But watching Woods make recovery shots and mark down pars looked a lot like a movie we’ve all seen before. (Woods leads the field in scrambling this week, getting up-and-down on 9 of 11 attempts.) Mark McCumber, the former 10-time Tour winner working as an analyst for the SiriusXM/PGA Tour Network, called it a vintage Tiger round and summed up the Woods’ performance quite eloquently: “It’s either the old Tiger Woods or the Tiger Woods of old. He’s not playing like he’s 42 years old.”
Beginning at the 12th, Woods heated up. He stiffed his approach to 4 feet to take sole possession of the lead. At 13, he made a sloppy error, dumping his approach from 154 yards into the right greenside bunker.
“Only place I couldn’t miss it is anything right of that flag, and I did,” he said.
But his vaunted Scotty Cameron Newport 2 putter bailed him out. He canned the 8-foot par putt and then sank an 18-foot birdie at 14 (earning a baby fist pump) and pointed at the hole as his 24-foot birdie putt dropped at 15. At this point, Woods owned a two-stroke lead over Rose, but just as at the Open Championship, as soon as he grabbed the lead he gave it back.
Woods tugged his drive left into the wiry Bermuda grass and his 9-iron failed to carry a bunker only 130 yards in front of him. With his ball buried in the front lip, he had no choice but to explode out sideways and made a double bogey.
Both Rose and Woods converted short birdie putts at the par-5 18th, with Woods, one of only three players to reach the green in two, particularly pleased with his finish.
“You know, after everything I did today, to be able to turn that over on 18 and roast it down there and hit off that lie, a high, drawing 5-iron was pretty sweet,” Woods said.
For Woods, it marks his first 36-hole lead of his comeback and the 48th time overall that he’s held the second-round lead or co-lead. He’s gone on to win 43 of 48 times, but Rose, the World No. 1, and McIlroy are among a star-studded group of contenders looking to deprive Woods of career victory No. 80. When asked if he has thought about what that win would mean to him in the context of all the victory that have come before, Woods played coy.
“I need to get there first and that’s my responsibility to get there,” Woods said. “Hopefully, I’ll be answering that question come Sunday night.”
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Single Slam – Blinded by As I Lay Dying (Shaped by Fire)
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Californian metalcore band, As I Lay Dying, return with the second single from their incoming new album, Shaped By Fire. This is Blinded.
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San Diego quintet, As I Lay Dying, rise together on their seventh full-length and debut for Nuclear Blast, the aptly titled ‘Shaped By Fire’ will be released on September 20th.
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American metalcore band, As I Lay Dying have released their first piece of new music in 6 years. That music comes in the form of a single called My Own Grave. No word yet as to whether it is part of an album, but it is likely that news will follow soon.
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Updated, Is Global Warming “An Inconvenient Lie”? A Public Response to Ed Griffin
November 30, 2016 205 Comments
Exposing and halting the global climate engineering/weather warfare/biological warfare assault must be our greatest priority if we are to have any chance of salvaging what is yet left of Earth's life support systems. When patently false "global warming is a hoax" and total climate engineering denial disinformation is pushed on the population by individuals that actually claim to be in the fight against climate engineering, the anti-climate engineering cause is greatly harmed. Mr.G Edward Griffin is the organizer of an upcoming event that is titled "Global Warming, An Inconvenient Lie". The top speaker at this event ("Lord Monckton") completely denies the climate engineering/weather warfare reality, on the record. What has Ed Griffin's other top "expert", Tim Ball, said on the record about the climate engineering reality? Mr. Ball also catagorically denies climate engineering. It's all just "contrails" according to Mr. Ball. Mr. Griffin claims to be against climate engineering, if this is so, why is he helping to completely discredit this most critical cause with speakers that completely deny the issue? Why is it so imperative to expose this kind of blatantly false disinformation, and all those involved with it? Because credibility is absolutely essential in the fight to expose and halt climate engineering. The 13 minute video below is my public response to G. Edward Griffin's attempt to refute my full article on his disinformation event (The full article begins below the video response and recent update comment).
Credibility Matters, A Public Response To G. Edward Griffin
When I publicly documented the fact that Mr. Griffin's upcoming event will completely undermine the anti-climate engineering cause (on which all of our futures depend), Mr. Griffin promptly challenged me to debate the issue with himself and his "experts" (Lord Monckton and Tim Ball). I contacted the only radio show host who has previously interviewed all the parties involved: myself, Mr. Griffin, Tim Ball, and Lord Monckton. This radio host is Jeff Rense, who is well known and respected in the alternative news community. Jeff's previous unbiased interviews of all the individuals in question is a clear reflection of his unbiased position. On Tuesday, November 22nd, Mr. Rense sent the following message to G Edward Griffin.
Dear Ed…
I hope this finds you well. The world stage has become ever more dark and dangerous
as we all see on a daily basis.
I received a note from Dane yesterday in which he suggested we have a round table 'debate' between
you and Dane of the issue of GeoEngineering and the evidence for it.
We agreed this was the place to do it and I'd be very happy to donate a two hour segment
on the program to host you both and present your positions. Equal time will be the format.
If this is something you'd like to do, just say the word and I'll pull some dates together
for everyone to agree upon.
Will all good wishes…
Mr. Griffin has, unfortunately, sent no response to this invitation, the invitation still stands. If Ed Griffin truly believes in the validity of his upcoming conference, why hasn't he accepted the debate challenge that he himself offered? The 13 minute video below is a public statement which makes clear all the reasons why G. Edward Griffin's disinformation event is so harmful to the critical effort of exposing and halting the ongoing climate engineering insanity. Griffin's top two speakers/experts (Lord Monckton and Tim Ball) completely deny the climate engineering reality and have stated on the record that all we are seeing in our skies is just "condensation" (which is of course false).
Is Global Warming "An Inconvenient Lie"?
Global warming disinformation is greatly harmful to the critical cause of exposing and halting climate engineering (which is greatly exacerbating planetary warming and poisoning the entire planet in the process). Though Al Gore is a criminal, and carbon credits are a scam, reality is still reality. Because patently false climate information is so harmful to the anti-geoengineering cause, we must not look the other way when individuals of noteriety push total disinformation on the public. Countless lies relating to the climate are so egregious and increasingly blatant that it is nearly impossible to imagine that they are still being propagated. Could a 3 day symposium pushing the "Global warming is a hoax" false narrative actually be carried out with a straight face while the planet is free falling into a state of total meltdown? While BOTH of the planets ice caps are at record low levels with the science community sounding the alarm? Are there people who would pay nearly $400 dollars to attend such a symposium and have so called " world's top experts" attempt to convince them that "global warming is the biggest deception in history"? Mr. Griffin claims to be fighting climate engineering, yet his top "experts" also completely deny the climate engineering issue. Exactly who would sponsor a "global warming is a myth" event? What would be their motive? The organizer of the "Global Warming, An Inconvenient Lie" conference (with top speakers that deny climate engineering) is Mr. Ed Griffin of "Freedom Force International" who seems to be running some sort of multi-level marketing program. Who is Mr. Griffin's top "expert" for the upcoming "global warming is a hoax" event? Enter "Lord Monckton" of Benchley. (who has falsly claimed to be a member of the "House of Lords")
"Lord Monckton" has a long resume indeed, but in reality his resume is better described as a "wrap sheet" which should be examined by anyone who has any notion of attending this disinformation event. Why would "Lord Monckton" put so much time and energy into the "global warming is a hoax" false narrative? Could the fact that Monckton receives funding from the fossil fuel industry have anything to do with his tireless efforts to parrot the oil industry disinformation? Is this the same reason that "Lord Monckton" ardently denies the climate engineering issue in a shocking interview? Exactly as the fossil fuel industry and the geoengineers would want him to?
Who is the second string "expert" in the "global warming is a hoax" line up? Yet another fossil fuel funded actor, Tim Ball (who also denies climate engineering),
Tim Ball has been called "the lie that just won't die" for good reason. Ball's trail of disinformation has been well documented by numerous sources. An international radio show host (Vinny Eastwood) once invited Mr. Ball to debate the geoengineering issue with me on a live radio broadcast, Mr. Ball refused. He denies the reality of the issue, as does Mr. "Lord" Monckton. Individuals like Monckton and Ball are simply paid props in a rapidly disintegrating disinformation theater. There are more featured "experts" that are apparently pushing the "global warming is a hoax" disinformation, but you get the idea (again, denial of the true state of the climate greatly harms the fight to expose and halt climate engineering). Who is the head of the coming disinformation event? It's Mr. Ed Griffin.
Ed Griffin made the following statement on the record in 2013:
… the planet now is in a cooling stage…global warming is a politically inspired myth…
What has happened since 2013? And was already inarguably happening for many decades before 2013? Anthropogenic activity has continued to inflict immense damage to the planet. This damage is fueling what may already be a runaway greenhouse effect. 2016 will break the global temperature records yet again, beating out the record just broken in 2015 which beat the record from 2014. Ice is at record low levels at the North Pole AND the South Pole.The anthropogenic (human caused) sources of decimation to our biosphere and climate of course includes climate engineering at the top of the list. Mr. Griffin is apparently already receiving emails of criticism from his followers for his ridiculously false position in regard to the state of the climate. Griffin actually just published one such message that stated "Griffin, you've got it wrong, climate change is real". Ed seems have been motivated to publish this criticism because he was proud of his answer to critic who had expressed justifiable concern about sea level rise submerging islands. What was Mr. Griffin's answer?
That is part of the global-warming myth. In some places….. the land is sinking…
So, according to Mr. Griffin there is no sea level rise, the land is just sinking. For the record, Mr. Griffin, rapidly rising sea levels are chewing away at shorelines all over the globe. So here is a question for Ed, is all the land sinking all over the world where coastlines are being inundated? What are Mr. Griffin's views on climate engineering? That is also a very interesting narrative that is truly baffling. Apparently (according to Mr. Griffin) the grid patterns we see in the sky are just being blown into these patterns by the wind. Why would someone who claims to be in the fight against climate engineering push the exact "global warming is a hoax" false narrative that the geoengineers, big oil, and the military industrial complex want the public to believe?
So what is the bottom line in regard to the state of the climate? The planet and climate system is not just warming, both are descending into a state of total meltdown with global climate engineering programs helping to fuel the overall fire. Those who have made it their mission (for whatever reason or motive) to deny the planetary meltdown, are simply toeing the line for big oil and the geoengineers.
Here is the climate reality, the record breaking heat on our planet continues to build. Septemper 2016 was the 16th consecutive month of all time record shattering hot months. October 2016 will likely break the record yet again, but that data is not yet available. 2016 will be the hottest year ever recorded since record keeping began, breaking the record set in 2015, which broke the record set in 2014. On the top of the world, the Arctic is in a state of total meltdown (along with the rest of the planet). Even Antarctic sea ice ( the last vestige for the global cooling false narrative) is also now at record low levels.
The "departure from normal high temperature" map above shows the Arctic meltdown with startling clarity. The US is also experiencing record shattering heat with no end in sight.
Ice deposits are crashing around the world. Front-line film footage of the imploding ice deposits (the cryosphere) proves this fact beyond any doubt.
The graph above is a shocking image of the radical decline of global sea ice. And about the front-line reality, we don't need graphs, we have front-line fim footage.
What is the bottom line? There is either the truth, or there is a lie. Those that are pushing the "global warming is a hoax" false narrative are pushing an unimaginably ridiculous lie. Why does it matter? Because credibility is critical in the battle to expose and halt climate engineering. Why is stopping climate engineering so important? Because the global weather warfare assault is mathematically the greatest and most immediate threat we face short of nuclear cataclysm. When so called "independent" news sources completely discredit the anti-geoengineering cause by pushing completely false disinformation, bridges with the science community cannot be built. Such bridges are absolutely essential if we are to have any chance of fully exposing and halting the climate engineering insanity. Investigating the truth is our responsibility, as is sharing it. Make your voice heard.
The extensive list of articles below is only a sample of the front-line information that is available on the state of the climate. We have a responsibility to investigate, all of us.
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/east-antarctica-melting-climate-change-20986
http://www.nature.com/news/incredibly-thin-arctic-sea-ice-shocks-researchers-1.21163
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/arctic-antarctic-sea-ice-polar-global-warming-climate-change-india-alaska-a7458881.html?cmpid=facebook-post
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/25/arctic-ice-melt-trigger-uncontrollable-climate-change-global-level
http://www.labor4sustainability.org/articles/u-s-climate-envoy-jonathan-pershing-five-feet-of-sea-level-rise-by-2050-possible/
https://sputniknews.com/environment/201611261047873798-arctic-sea-islands-erosion/
http://abcnews.go.com/International/arctic-undergoing-rapid-ice-melt-speed-global-warming/story?id=43806027
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/arctic-sea-ice-melting-antarctic-north-pole-climate-change-global-warming-a7432646.html
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-captain-cook-global-today-arctic.html
https://www.wired.com/2016/11/record-temperatures-robbing-arctic-winter/
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/imageo/2016/11/16/2016-on-track-to-smash-record-for-warmest-year-globally/#.WDVNt0uXNZg
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/24/science/global-warming-coastal-real-estate.html?_r=0
http://www.thebigwobble.org/2016/11/weather-wars-commander-of-armed-forces.html
http://climateadaptation.tumblr.com/post/124785072631/scientists-predict-huge-sea-level-rise-even-if-we
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/22/extraordinarily-hot-arctic-temperatures-alarm-scientists
http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2016-11-21/antarctic-and-arctic-sea-ice-levels-at-record-lows
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/18/world/sea-ice-arctic-antarctic-lows/index.html
http://www.stripes.com/military-plans-for-climate-change-despite-skeptics-1.440386
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/antarctica-rsquo-s-southern-ocean-may-no-longer-help-delay-global-warming/?utm_content=buffer85c92&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
https://likethefuture.com/80000-reindeer-deaths-blamed-retreating-arctic-sea-ice/?utm_content=bufferc635c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/14/why-sea-reluctant-freeze-arctic-climate-weatherwatch
http://www.fs.fed.us/news/releases/new-aerial-survey-identifies-more-100-million-dead-trees-california
https://climateandsecurity.org/militaryexpertpanel/
http://www.sciencealert.com/we-ve-been-underestimating-sea-level-rise-this-whole-time-say-scientists
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-14/world-set-for-hottest-year-on-record-again-says-wmo/8024172?section=science
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/climate-trends-continue-to-break-records
http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/8/13568212/rising-sea-levels-climate-change-global-warming-floods
http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-world/
https://weather.com/news/climate/news/warmest-year-on-record-earth-2016
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-arctic-sea-ice-bulwark-summers.html
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/oct/24/the-atmosphere-is-being-radicalized-by-climate-change
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/10/21/west-africa-is-being-swallowed-by-the-sea-climate-change-ghana-benin/
http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/2015495/typhoons-battering-asia-getting-much-stronger-study
http://siberiantimes.com/ecology/others/news/n0760-arctic-methane-gas-emission-significantly-increased-since-2014-major-new-research/
https://weather.com/health/news/fish-stocks-decline-coral-reef-malnutrition-bright-dark-spots
https://summitcountyvoice.com/2016/09/06/climate-trackers-say-august-was-record-warm-globally/
http://grist.org/news/see-how-earth-is-fast-approaching-a-red-hot-mess/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/21/arctic-will-be-ice-free-in-summer-next-year
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/08/arctic-ice-melt-by-2017-says-peter-wadhams/
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/19/arctic-sea-ice-is-vanishing-far-faster-than-anyone-thought-possible.html
https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=3479
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/18/ice-scientists-arctic-ice-disappearing-reduce-emissions-peter-wadhams
http://www.flassbeck-economics.com/how-climate-change-is-rapidly-taking-the-planet-apart/
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-25/climate-change-the-third-pole-under-threat/7657672
http://www.ibtimes.com/extreme-climate-change-pictures-2016-amid-hottest-year-record-famine-drought-grips-2394114
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/07/22/two-middle-east-locations-hit-129-degrees-hottest-ever-in-eastern-hemisphere-maybe-the-world/
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-07/bas-owp071316.php
http://www.skymetweather.com/content/climate-change/climate-change-planet-earth-recorded-hottest-12-month-period-ever/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/07/13/the-extraordinary-years-have-become-the-normal-years-scientists-survey-radical-melt-in-the-arctic/
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-07/june-was-warmest-since-1895-in-u-s-topping-record-set-in-1933
http://mashable.com/2016/07/13/massive-july-heat-wave-coming-us/#Abqs59wPYqq0
https://www.facebook.com/AlaskaClimateFacts/photos/a.220773468074723.1073741828.220671184751618/681936895291709/?type=3&theater
http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/06/18/oceans-are-dying/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/06/17/epicenter-of-obliteration-arctic-ice/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/research-cutbacks-by-government-alarm-scientists-1.2490081
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2016/05/australia-climate-scientists/483084/
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-congress-aims-to-cut-climate-science/
http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/2016/06/02/las-vegas-southern-nevada-face-excessive-heat-warning
http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/las-vegas-nv/89101/weather-warnings/329506
http://www.care2.com/causes/americas-biggest-coal-company-helped-bankroll-us-climate-science-denial.html#ixzz4Br51nJe1
http://mashable.com/2016/06/14/southwest-heat-wave-records/#9O9o2ajlPSq9
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2016/jun/13/tp-hes-the-navys-eye-in-the-sky-scripps-oceano/
http://www.circleofblue.org/2016/world/venezuela-drought-aggravates-instability/
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jun/13/when-you-poke-the-coalitions-great-barrier-reef-rescue-mission-it-crumbles
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/13/peabody-energy-coal-mining-climate-change-denial-funding
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2016/06/climate-chaos-in-britain.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/06/10/greenland-witnessed-its-highest-june-temperature-ever-recorded-on-thursday/
http://wxshift.com/news/heat-soars-to-record-levels-across-west-heads-east
http://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/watch-lake-mead-the-largest-reservoir-in-the-us-shrink-dramatically-over-15-years/ar-BBtACE2?li=BBnbfcL&OCID
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/abrupt_sea_level_rise_realistic_greenland_antarctica/2990
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/01/alaska-wildfires-climate-change
http://siberiantimes.com/ecology/others/news/n0688-forests-on-fire-no-attempt-will-be-made-to-extinguish-219-million-hectares-of-burning-trees/
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/alaska-wildfires-worsening-global-warming-20411
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-antarctic-coastline-images-reveal-decades.html
205 Responses to Updated, Is Global Warming “An Inconvenient Lie”? A Public Response to Ed Griffin
Gail - Yellowhead County Alberta says:
I listened to Ed Griffen explain himself in this video online. I was so upset at what he had to say about you Dane. It did'nt seem right with how detailed you are with all of your research and facts, to send him only one document, which Mr. Griffens dwelled on. This is a man that had a freind murdered by the very persons we are fighting to end Geo Engineering. Ted L Gundersen. Found dead with Arsenic Poisoning! He called the practice; "Death Dumps"! How shameful to Honour his efforts and the sacrifice of his Life this way. I have respect for his efforts on Cancer truths. But to now lie and make his online followers see you Dane in a False Light, Pisses me off. United we STAND, Divided WE FALL!!! Why would he act like you were not interested in an Honest debate? This really rocked me. I know you are always willing to let the public hear what you have learned with your tireless efforts and others at Geo Watch. I am so Glad you cleared up your side of the conversation and that you did send him almost one hundred link's. That's the Man we Respect. Half truth's like DeCaprio are delaying the end we so need to SRM Programs. How could Alex Jones have both of these so called experts on his show and not ask either of them about the Military Ind. Complex spraying Our Planet each day with Toxic Chemicals and ask them if this could have anything to do with the Climate! Not a WORD was spoken about SRM to either of them. Then Alex has a photo up of people with Winter Coats, tukes and scarves on saying Global warming is a fraud and here is the proof. I guess Alex has no clue about Ice Nucleation. I sure hope Mr. Griffens listeners have the sense to listen to Dane's response to his statements. I am sure glad I sat through Mr. Griffens. No matter how hard it was. But that is what Dane asks of us, To listen to mainstream and to listen to what they are trying to hand the listeners. Now I see who Mr. Griffens is working for, and it isn't the Planet. And some of the reply's to his video were so sadly ignorant. Go back to sleep. Mr. Griffen's told you what you wanted to hear!!! I know we would never have known how much you helped Michael Murphy and others with What in the World…unless you needed to make it clear that you were once again wanting to get the facts out. Thanks for doing that Dane. You are such a Good Man. I Pray for thousands more like you. Then a change will come to US and OUR PLANET.
Hello Gail, yes, you are correct, Mr. Griffin’s attempt to make it appear that there was only one source document in my article post (when there was nearly one hundred), was simply total deception on his part. Also for the record, it has now been 8 days since Mr. Griffin and all his “experts” were officially invited by radio announcer Jeff Rense to debate me on air, Griffin and his “experts” have not responded. Griffin publically challenged me to debate the issues of climate engineering and our decimated climate system, and now it seems he is not willing to follow through with that challenge. Thank you for marching with us in this critical battle Gail.
tim peters says:
hi Dane All MR ED has to do is google are sea levels rising .
Susan Ferguson says:
Did Föhn Winds Just Melt Two Miles of East Antarctic Surface Ice in One Day? / robertscribbler … in both the November 27 and November 28 image frames appears to indicate the presence of surface melt. So the downsloping wind related warming may well have produced a more subtle surface melt for this region of East Antarctica. … in the satellite image. A swatch of blue that seems to indicate an approximate 2-mile long melt lake formed over the surface of East Antarctica in just one day. If confirmed, this event would be both odd and concerning. A part of the rising signal that melt stresses for the largest mass of land ice on the planet are rapidly increasing. … While scientists and environmentalists are understandably concerned about ocean warming melting the undersides of sea-fronting West Antarctic glaciers — resulting in risks for rapid sea level rise for the near future, another consequence of global warming is also starting have a more visible impact on the frozen and now thawing continent. Surface melt, which was hitherto unheard of for most of East Antarctica, is now starting to pop up with increasing frequency. Surface Melt as a Feature of Glacial Destabilization: Supraglacial lake is just another word for a surface glacial melt lake. And these new lakes pose a big issue for ice sheet stability. Surface melt lakes are darker than white glacier surfaces. They act as lenses that focus sunlight. And the comparatively warm waters of these lakes can flood into the glacier itself — increasing the overall heat energy of the ice mass. … while Greenland holds enough ice to raise sea levels by around 21 feet, East Antarctica contains enough to lift the world’s oceans by about 195 feet. Surface melt there, as a result, produces considerably more risk to the coastal cities of the world. https://robertscribbler.com/2016/11/28/did-fohn-winds-just-melt-two-miles-of-east-antarctic-surface-ice-in-one-day/
Here is one from the weather network in Canada: https://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/warming-ocean-fractures-antarctic-ice-shelf-from-inside-out/75213/
wearevolution says:
That ice sweet (huge a mount of ice) has recently broken off and will take 7? years to melt.
The Ghost of Fall says:
Open Letter to the Elite
Up until this point many people have wanted to talk directly to you but no one ever knew where you were hiding. I am here to tell you that I know EXACTLY where you are hiding. I know because I have been traveling around the world my entire life, and I have seen you everywhere in the shadows of this beautiful planet. I have seen you causing war, starvation, stealing resources, destroying nature, putting individuals in cages and entire countries in cages…….thinking you were somehow free. You were wrong. Because of everything you have done I had no choice but to put you in a cage with ME. My conscious wouldn't let you get away. And now I have set myself free, and you are trapped in that cage all by yourselves. If you knew how to get out of it on your own you wouldn't be here reading this. And now I'm looking in at you, waving the key in your faces. We here on this site are the only ones that you are actually afraid of for this reason alone, so you better pay attention to everything we are saying right now.
Not only is a large part of the population of the world angry at you, but the Earth itself is VERY ANGRY NOW. You think you are going to destroy first the animals and trees, and then the population of this Earth, and use technology to save you? I am here to tell you that that will never happen. The population of the Earth is the only spiritual resource large enough to fix the problems you have facilitated by your complete lack of connection to the source. At this moment in time you only have two choices:
Option One
Stop the chemtrails, stop the vaccines, stop putting flouride in the water, stop the fracking, stop HAARP, stop the slave labor, stop the wars, stop the armies, stop the contract government, stop building nuclear facilities, and most importantly stop the lies. For once in your lives tell the world truth. Use the media to start telling the populations around the world the seriousness of situation and how everyone must now focus on turning things around while there is precious little time left. The population will start to renew their karma by restoring the planet back to a natural environment that supports all life as it once did. This will be more difficult in the first world countries that have gotten far too comfortable living within your lies. It will be easier for the third world countries which is most of the planet, who have been forced to endure your shackles. You will start to renew your karma by making a book listing in detail all of the countless ways that you have brought an entire planet nearly to the brink of extinction. This will be spread across the entire planet as the new law of the land for future generations to know exactly what to never do ever again.
Option Two
Continue to "play" God, watch the population of the planet disappear shortly to somewhere better, watch the world face a complete meltdown shortly after that, go down into your bunkers never to see the light of day ever again. Your karma will be so beyond repair that you will never escape this cage you are in for the rest of eternity. Let me explain to you what this looks like. This cage you are in now still has some natural light bestowed on you by God. That light will be replaced by artificial light. Your grandchildren will not be close to you because you will be the only connection they have to a humanity that destroyed the entire world, to which your lies will continue on even to them. They will go looking for the truth, and they will find it in a book about the changing of the seasons that no longer exist. And I will come back to them as the Ghost of Fall, time after time. And I will tell them that I tried to save their futures even though you wouldn't. And I will show them the truth behind every one of your lies. After awhile none of them will keep coming back to this Earth down there where you reside because there will be nothing left for anyone to learn there. The artificial light in your cage will then go dark. The spirit of the Earth itself will depart, and you will be left there for the rest of eternity by yourselves trapped within a dead planet unable to ever escape.
Only God holds the hands of time and this is what it looks like. You really think you can play God? Think again.
If this post is removed it will only prevent everyone that needs to from being able to come out of the shadows immediately which will further seal your own fate. You think you are serving us trying to destroy all life of Earth? You are only serving yourselves. So remember this:
EVERYTHING YOU DO TO US NOW ONLY COMES BACK TO YOU.
SO TELL ME NOW HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE TRAPPED IN THAT CAGE ALL BY YOURSELVES WHILE THE REST OF US ARE FREE?
Even at this late hour GOD will not take away free will. The fact that you are reading this now before everyone around the world that cares the most about the future of this Earth is the only sign that GOD needs.
EITHER TAKE THE KEY OR DON'T
http://www.activistpost.com/2016/11/us-navy-plans-release-20000-tons-explosives-heavy-metals-pacific-ocean.html
more poisoning by the government. they do whatever they want when they want without remorse and with no controls on them. law doesn't apply to the military. apparently ethics doesn't either. what a surprise. think of the all the bombs they play with. nuclear and others where does that pollution go? into the environment without a moments consideration for the environment. the same insane individuals and with the same mentality are the ones spraying us each and every day. perfect way to get rid of their toxic waste. make the slaves breath it. drink it. eat it.
In Southwest, New Mexico yesterday 11-28-16 with our climate (weather) so uncharacteristic with very high winds, mixed with rain clouds and SAG/SRM yet no rain. The lines up there –Chemtrails were off the chart people. Our 4 seasons are gone forever it seems as we once knew them, even though our weather has been messed with for over 70 years. HAARP wasn't around then or the GWEN TOWERS and our so called Technology! So much more evil nowadays. Way to much Brainwashing and Propaganda from within.
Griffin is a clown. I don't know who respects his view. I have heard him speak against "collectivism" on numerous occasions and consider him a very pro-capitalist libertarian. He's only an obstructionist. Dane will demolish him.
That said, I am surprised that no one in this community and on Dane's show mentioned the ongoing Pizzagate scandal. This worldwide pedophile scandal, leading directly to the DNC, Clintons and Obama himself, is exploding online. Check Reality Calls on youtube and pizzagate on voat, as well as pedocrats.com and the YTs of David Seaman, a former HuffPo (MSM) reporter who was fired for reporting on Hillary's health problems. The Podestas (Clinton campaign manager) took Madeleine McCann, and stayed at the house of Freud's grandson, Clem, a known pedo British MP (now dead) during the time the girl was taken in Portugal. This is huge considering how huge the McCann case is. Wikileaks has BLOWN this open and we should consider how this can play to this movement's strengths. At the very least, we should be aware. Reddit banned the discussion of Pizzagate and MSM is playing defense. This is important to this cause because it DESTROYS the power structure's credibility to such a degree — and on a very visceral level such that their abuse of children and BABIES is making some 15,000 citizen researchers very ill and disturbed, led by the FBI insiders who want to bust this and can't. This is good to be aware of also in the sense that the power structure's operatives (local officials) are usually "compromised" by participating in pedo activities and this is another reason they are kept in the box. USIC ("US intelligence community") has been doing it for years and this is a key mechanism of their control over the power structure: printing money and sexual destruction of children. It will make you upset and sick, but it may be key in knocking down the power structure's unearned credibility. People are physically repulsed by this and should be. Don't discount its relevance. Check it out!!!
Also Wikileaks is probably now compromised and Assange and 15 others likely renditioned though we do not know for sure. This is a clue to how big the pedo scandal, which includes satanic ritual abuse and cannibalism, is. But again as I say, this rabbit hole is not for the weak of stomach.
Octavia, as impossible and ridiculous and absurd as this all sounds, I concur with all of your observations here based upon my own investigations over the last couple of years. It is truly sickening in ways that are extremely difficult to even think about, much less discuss with anyone. Most people recoil in horror at the mere suggestion of pedophilia (and worse). Trust me. It hit close to home a couple of years ago when I found out my own father sexually abused my two stepsisters for upwards of 10 straight years when they were little girls. Took me fifty years to find out. I wanted to beat him up in the worst way, but reason intervened. He's passed on now, but he is no father of mine.
Dear Mr Griffin, while in Phoenix, I suggest that you spend a little time outdoors, so you can see with your own eyes, the trails being turned on and off. And, if you would like to see up-close footage of which airlines are performing these crimes against humanity, I would be more than happy to drive over and loan my telescope to you. Oh, and Mr. Griffin, while in Phoenix, if you develop a slight cough and eye irritation from that fake, toxic, white canopy (which used to be blue) above you, don't worry, we're told it's just condensation from the jets.
SMOKY MOUNTAIN WILDFIRE – IN LATE NOVEMBER? Must be related to geoengineering activities.
"Residents evacuate as wildfires threaten Smoky Mountains." https://twitter.com/i/moments/803429220126892032
Dane, the Scientists of today could resolve every issue on this planet, however the power structure will not allow good scientists to work on real solutions. That's if you want to work! They own these scientists.. Lock stock and barrel. I speaking in the simplest terms so everyone understands. Money truely the root of all evil men and their power hungry control. We as scientists know there has been an intentional plan to hault progress in saving anything. A man at Lockheed Martin said, and I wouldn't mention his name, said " anything " "you can imsge, anything you can imagine we have already have done" been there, done that. Free Energy, DONE! I would say more but you get my drift… Manlind doesn't mean what it once did! And soon everyone will see!!
Nemo says:
Thinking that "scientists can resolve every issue on the planet" is what got us in this mess. In fact undoing scientist's attempts at resolution is the basis of this incredible site. As Dane said the pharmaceutical approach to healing the planet will not work. We must abandon the growth model and live as naturally as possible.
sea says:
This is who we have become- this is America first hand…as my mother would have said if she were alive, "you make your bed and you lie in it".Shopping for the holidays and killing- they go hand in hand- right?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/25/black-friday-shooting-new-jersey
We are the "ULTIMATE" CONSUMER OF EVERYTHING" no matter how it effects our lives, asleep at the wheel- welcome to the US of A !
I wish everyone here (on this site) lived in close proximity so we could have the human touch… take care to all those that post or visit.
AND Dane THANK YOU always for all you have given up to help us through this – whether we make it or not, you deserve a circle of love and energy that is beyond description, you are the most outstanding representation of integrity, honesty, perseverance, and unselfishness I have ever experienced in my 60 yrs.
Seeing Clearly says:
There is so much deception in so many things it feels like everything.
Hi Dane, I don't know if you read back articles, but I wanted to say thank you very much for your dedication.
I just watched Ed Griffin's response to this article. What a total lack of evidence, perspective, or honesty. I think it will do more to direct his viewers to your site than sway opinion. I hope you get the chance to face them all, in an open debate.
My best friend is a pro fighter, and I we discuss a lot about the focus of perspective, and thought involved in the battle. Train hard (educate yourself), focus your intent on nothing but success,and just be yourself. I see you as having this in spades, and its honorable.
In the battle here.
Thanks again Dane, I hope all the positive energy helps us push the truth out.
It's been well above freezing here in northern Montana most days… and nights! I have yet to see frozen puddles in the morning, even though weather.com has forecasts of dips below freezing fairly often. Today, I walked to the store wearing (after losing layers) a flannel shirt on top, and wishing I'd worn shorts on bottom.
Unfortunately, when I went to Wikipedia to look up the climate information for my new home, I found two serious downers: a) their 'average highs/lows' are now based on NOAA data using a 1971-2000 baseline (hardly representative of the historical averages), and their other source is the Weather Channel – which, as we all know, lies; and b) they have scrubbed the 'year record was set' from all their record highs and lows (!!!)
I checked several pages for various locations; all were doctored in this way. I know that they used to list the year-of-record-setting in the past. Apparently that information has been deemed dangerous – it might start people worrying, if they saw that all the record highs were from this century (many from this year or last). Information that is, as they say, 'Too hot to handle'.
On a more positive note, though there were definitely newly-laid trails in the sky, there was a large patch of blue overhead. (It wasn't by any means a natural blue, but it's been weeks since the sky hasn't been silver-grey…)
Penny, These signs of lockdown on data are telling, aren't they.?Someone thinks it's a good idea to put a cell tower on our local fire dept. So I went to print out some info on the health effects. Gone. The FCC is headed by the former lobby head of the WiFi industry.. coincidence? He is on record saying he will not let science get in the way of 5k signals being everywhere in the country. (Billions can be made, he said) Go in any direction and you will find that science data are no longer THERE for the public to view and use. We apparently are dangerous when armed with facts and people in power don't want to hear facts. I don't revel in the fact that their denial will not matter. Acknowledging reality doesn't change IT, acknowledgment changes us. I am eternally grateful for Dane and all that he has done and continues to do for humanity.
Hi LS,
I share your concerns about cell phones, WiFi, etc. (in fact, I let my internet router crash 2-3 times a day rather than enable the WiFi on it). Here are some links that could help you. Good luck!
https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=barrie%20trower
http://www.tetrawatch.net/tetra/trower.php
https://www.facebook.com/BarrieTrower?_fb_noscript=1
Emergency Services Declare ‘Major Disaster’ after Mass Thunderstorm Asthma Event
Hospitals across Victoria [Australia] have been left reeling after an unprecedented number of people suddenly fell acutely sick on Monday evening, in what is believed to be a mass incident of "thunderstorm asthma". Ambulance Victoria was flooded with calls after a storm hit Melbourne shortly before 6pm, prompting a "major disaster response" from emergency services. The demand was so great that Ambulance Victoria ran out of ambulances and had to call in police officers, non-emergency patient vehicles and field doctors trained for disasters to help with transporting acute patients to hospital. State health commander Paul Holman said in his 40 years as a paramedic he had never seen an event like it. Mr Holman said it is thought the storm brought with it an increase in irritants, leading to the huge wave of patients suffering from breathing issues. He said the majority of the patients were so sick they needed to be taken to hospital (rather than being treated at the scene) and at one stage there were 190 people waiting for assistance. "Every ambulance and ambulance manager was recalled," he said. "It was an unprecedented night."
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/emergency-services-declare-major-disaster-after-mass-thunderstorm-asthma-event-20161121-gsuezc.html
Tiny particles may pose big risk: Some nanoparticles commonly added to consumer products can significantly damage DNA.
Anne Trafton | MIT News Office / April 8, 2014
… several studies have shown that some of these engineered nanoparticles can be toxic to cells. …Some of these nanomaterials can produce free radicals called reactive oxygen species, which can alter DNA. Once these particles get into the body, they may accumulate in tissues, causing more damage. “It’s essential to monitor and evaluate the toxicity or the hazards that these materials may possess. There are so many variations of these materials, in different sizes and shapes, and they’re being incorporated into so many products…” … genotoxicity, or the ability to damage DNA — a phenomenon that may not necessarily kill a cell, but one that can lead to cancerous mutations if the damage is not repaired. … Zinc oxide and silver produced the greatest DNA damage in both cell lines. At a concentration of 10 micrograms per milliliter — a dose not high enough to kill all of the cells — these generated a large number of single-stranded DNA breaks. … The most common routes that engineered nanoparticles follow into the body are through the skin, lungs, and stomach, so the researchers are now investigating nanoparticle genotoxicity on those cell types. They are also studying the effects of other engineered nanoparticles, including metal oxides used in printer and photocopier toner, which can become airborne and enter the lungs. The research was funded by MIT’s Center for Environmental Health Sciences, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health.
http://news.mit.edu/2014/tiny-particles-may-pose-big-risk
Susan: Is not MIT the lair for mad scientist David Keith? Obviously we are put here on earth to breath in his nano-particulates so another bunch of sociopaths at MIT and assorted Frankenstein universities can run tests to see just how much more of his aerosols we can tolerate before we kick off.
Hello Bane, yes, the state of the universities you describe is accurate. About David Keith, he is connected to Harvard, not MIT.
David Keith is now at Haaahvahd, prior to that at the U. of Calgary.
Ken Caldeira's "handlers" are Carnegie Science down on The Farm (Stanford University), would l-o-v-e to show up on his doorstep someday, just to say, "Hi, thought I'd drop by just to say that we all know who you're working for, we know what you do and we know how to find you. Have a nice day!!!"
Don't the Idiot physicians actually EVER test people for metals poisoning? When I suspected metals poisoning I specifically asked my physician for aluminum and barium testing. Boy, you shoulda been there to see the look on her face when she reported the results to me– shocked as sh!t, almost to the "WTF" level of shocked (duh)– well, me too, actually,but mainly because THEY ARE GETTING AWAY WITH MASS MURDER!!!! Now the docs won't even test for this because they do too know it's there, we're getting sprayed with it 24/7/365 (and let's face it, physicians are trained to observe, you bet they see the streaks every day, but you can also bet they're most of them playing possum). The aluminum, I believe, must get taken up fairly quickly into the tissues. The barium, however, always circulates in your blood stream and rather easily found by serum test. Over a period of three years mine was always coming in higher than anything allowed by OSHA, but who cares? And with the trumpster soon to occupy the White House, we soon won't have an OSHA.
I clicked on the link to watch Griffin's video response to you. While he seemed like a nice man, his presentation did not seem chock-full of facts, as yours always are.
I also clicked on the link at the top of your 2013 article about him. It was his written response to something you'd said regarding some of his statements. Hoo-boy! The thing about the checkerboard patterns, and then when he said We still need to find out how these chemicals are getting into the atmosphere!!! He keeps mentioning Occam's Razor, but he doesn't think the most likely reason for the visible trails/particulates in the sky is the jets we see spraying them every day with our own eyes???
Okay, so um, like, WHO is paying Griffin? Where does his money come from? Because THOSE are the "people" who need exposed. BIG TIME. YESTERDAY!!
Occam’s Razor, Moore’s Law, Murphy’s Law, Fermi’s Paradox, etc.
How it is that so many can adopt these clever semantic constructions as proof of anything eludes me. I suppose it’s easier to quote secular scripture than to actually do a little thinking. The triumph of form over substance and propaganda over truth is effectively complete, at least at the scale of collective society. Persevere we must, but it’s like slogging through molasses. Maybe our dumbing down has simply pushed the whole thing past the point of no return for this epoch.
@izzy: The Stoopids are all herding up in a corner, for sure. We heard on NPR last night how Trump is a fan of Alex Jones. So now we see Jones emerging as a player on the field in U.S. politics– here we are, at last. At least Nancy Reagan had real astrologers doing her prognosticating.
One more thought, these Elites have sold their souls so many times that no one's buying their b******* anymore, these people are morally bankrupt and those who go along with it or morally bankrupt as well.
A few observations. I flew back to the Midwest for Thanksgiving yesterday. When I returned I had to take my 15 year old niece to the doctor, really bad sore throat, feeling crappy, etc. At the pediatric office I sat in the waiting area and witnessed maybe 7-8 different moms or dads come in with their kids and sit down at a check-in desk with one of two "receptionists". EVERY SINGLE PARENT was asked if their kids had had their flu shot. EVERY PARENT was asked if THEY THEMSELVES had had their flu shot, and if not, would they like to take care of that today….etc. A huge placard had been placed on an easel next to the sign-in area: "We are pleased to announce blankety-blank will be offering flu shots now to parents. 25 bucks. Are. You. F**king. Kidding. Me? It turns out my niece had just recently had a flu shot. And here she is, today, sick as a dog with an inexplicable sore throat, (not strep) general fatigue, sore glands, etc. Yes, of course, I cannot know if there is a connection but my intuition tells me otherwise. I've seen never seen so many sick kids in one place. Several of the parents, when asked if they'd had their flu shot, said yes. And so it goes, on and on.
We have to ask ourselves, I mean REALLY ask ourselves, what exactly is going on here? With the revelations of "Vaxxed" and "Silent Epidemic" fresh in our minds, when I witnessed first-hand the strategy of the folks working in this pediatric office, it was obvious to me that they have been trained and told that they MUST ask every parent about flu shots. The agenda could not have been more clear. I almost got up to ask one of these people how much money the office is rewarded for each documented flu shot administered. I'm quite sure I would have been viewed with palpable suspicion and likely brushed off with an "I don't know".
Staying at my sister's house. Turned on cable TV to try to find some decent news, surfed past "Good Morning America", but stopped just to see what it was about. Haven't seen it in years. I sat absolutely slack-jawed with disbelief, I f**king kid you not. Either THEY are all from a different planet, or I am. But they indicated an upcoming "report" about airplane air, and the dangers posed by breathing it, etc. So I slogged through some of the show, including commercials, which, by the way, I could literally not bear, never can, actually. And we wonder why everyone is soooo f**king zombified or testy, or somewhere in between. When the show about airplane air finally "aired" (pun intended), I became quickly convinced that it was just a disinformation piece to keep the public pacified about the real true dangers of breathing "airplane air". They're never in ten million years gonna tell us the skies are absolutely saturated with a cornucopia of deadly substances, many, many of which have been intentionally placed there to f**k them all up. Good morning, America. Holy Mother of God………..
Furthermore, what with all the broo-haha about fake news on FB, perhaps we can lump Mr. Ed Griffin's upcoming conference under the same heading: FAKE NEWS. Indeed, is his program any different? You take a whole topic that you know millions will be drawn to, and you dress it all up with apparent facts and experts and photographs and charts and so forth and then you toss it out on the ground for the hogs to eat. Voila! Dumber hogs than before. Mission accomplished.
Marc: you see Susan's article about "thunderstorm asthma. That a new one! I got a robo-call from my supplemental insurance carrier to come in and get a flu shot. No way! Regarding fake news, the new coined phrase is being brought to us by the creators of fake news…the MSM. No doubt this Geoengineering website would be labeled "fake news." But for "fake news" there would be no news, but rather we would be captives of the lies, distortions, and mind control programming and commercials.
I understand why these billionaire's want to rule everything and everyone??? I think, they never been told NO nor a hug, a honest heart felt unconditional warm hug of love. That's why they have no empathy nor real feeling for other humans.. They see humans as an inconvenience. Because they DON'T Like to see others not need them, so they want to own everything that others my need to make life. That's why they want to kill and destroy everytho that lives without their say so… I get it now. No one truely loves them, they think that it's their power & money that makes them wanted by others. And that makes them hate humans. Because everyone want some thing from them or to use them for their money & power which is not true, most people could care less about there money or their power, unless it's people just like them! Chasing money and power from those with it… Quite sad really, because it sounds like every politician in America doesn't it?? These people may change (not) but if they can remember the first real love, maybe, just maybe, they will UNDERSTAND HOW I feel about this planet and the the many great thing living v on this planet. Like my loved ones and the beautiful earth that so many of us take for granted. Now these PEOPLE with all this money & Power want to destroy it all, just because they don't love.. Nor get real love. All they really gay is people just like themselves no empathy leeches it just wants her money they can also be powerful. Sad. There's so much good they could be doing I'm putting smiles on so many young children's lives for so many years into the future but they'd rather just own it not because they need it just because I own everything else. Hopefully one of these billionaires can share their thoughts and use this media to let us know how they really feel because we really need to know I really need to know
I'm sure at least some of them are just born with a biological tendency to sociopathy–no conscience and no empathy–just as some people are born with a tendency to be gay or to develop diabetes, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or depression. There are so many babies born with things physically wrong with them (I know firsthand), that it does not surprise me at all that some are born with something wrong with or different about their brain or other parts of their nervous system. And certainly mental illness often runs in families. Of course, babies could also sustain damage in utero, or suffer damage from infection, isolation, or other environmental assaults at any point after birth.
Hi Dane
I live in Spain near Marbella and witness daily the spraying. I also witnessed it whn I lived in the UK in Manchester.
I am constantly trying to convince people what is going on, by posting your links and whatever I can via social media. The only comments I get back is that I am a conspiracy theorist. One of my pilot friends, who flies for a major airline, just puts it down to contrails and gives me his biased opinionated views of how silly I am thinking otherwise. It is as if most people are living in a bubble. It is so difficult trying to wake them up to what is reality. One thing i will do though is keep trying!
Thanks for all your good work in this arena!
Roma says:
Hi Dane, Neil Keenan and his team have prepared a list of recommendations for President elect Donald Trump and his team (which he says was requested by them). The very first item on this list is "The immediate cessation of chemtrail spraying , associated geoengineering activities and weather warfare". Underneath this he posts a direct link to your site. Do you know this man? Would he have any influence with Donald Trump?
I really appreciate all the work you are doing to expose this criminality, I read your site every day and was particularly interested in your comments regarding the recent NZ earthquake (which has devastated one of our main tourist attractions). I spread the word whenever I can and hope we can all see an end soon to this madness.
Thank you Roma, This is the most hopeful news so far that Geoengineering is in the sights of the new administration as the first thing that has to go!!!!!! I've been working on them getting the info for so long it is a relief to know someone has heard. Actions are what matters. Looking forward to clear skies…. not the giant X over my house like right this moment. Keep informing. Don't let your guard down now.
Thank you Roma, I had not heard of this gentleman. Finally, someone willing to speak about real issues.
SEA ICE LOSS NOW?! Japan 7.4 Quake + Tsunami https://youtu.be/yzXdWk74RmI Could this be a foreshock, like in March of 2011?
Those quakes have been going on and on and on for some time now in the Fukushima area. A search on the internet and you can see quakes in April, September and October this year, and now here on November 21, 2016: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-quake-idUSKBN13G2DC Gotta keep those Japanese in line, ya know…
Steven Chamberlain a.k.a. The Pizza Guy says:
CW, Here is another good video from Dick Benton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcaE1iniBjg
Mary Hollowell says:
What do these straight lines over Japan on Nov. 21 2016 have to do with it? http://www.theforgottenroom.org/seismic_activity.html
Stepping aside from the usual comments: the people of Japan, and the Fukushima Prefecture area, especially, are so deserving of our heart-warming thoughts that they may find safety and resolution of some kind to the nightmares that they are undergoing. Thinking of families, little children who are so innocent and deserving of a better life, going through the horrors of the quakes, tsunamis and the effects of radiation is sad beyond belief.
We are all affected by the radiation spewed by the reactors making this world a toxic marble spinning in space, but for the Japanese, they have been hit more than once by atomic conflagrations, and, so, to them I offer my own personal sorrow, apologies, and love and hope for a better future.
At this time of celebrating our own good fortune, let us remember those who are in such desperate need no matter from what source. Peace and hope.
Evil aside, you guys do know? that Japan is a land, group of lands, prone, very much, to earthquakes? My best friend moved there to work, actually creating her own work, in the mid 80s or so, and told me, called me often at first, telling me every little detail. Such as in order to cook, one had to turn on the gas from the wall, as stove not set to just turn on, this owing to earthquakes.
ARCTIC NEWS: Sea ice is shrinking
Arctic sea ice extent fell 0.16 million km² from November 16 to November 19, 2016, as illustrated by above ads.nipr.ac.jp/vishop image. This is happening at a time when there is little or no sunlight reaching the Arctic, as illustrated by the image below. … This recent fall in extent is partly due to strong winds, as illustrated by the image on the right. … Mostly, though, the lack of sea ice over the Arctic Ocean is caused by very warm water that is now arriving in the Arctic Ocean. During the northern summer, water off the coast of North America warms up and gets pushed by the Coriolis force toward the Arctic Ocean. It takes several months for the water to travel along the Gulf Stream through the North Atlantic. It has taken until now for the Arctic Ocean to bear the brunt of this heat. As the image below shows, record sea surface anomalies showed up near Svalbard on October 31, 2016, when this heat first arrived in the Arctic. On October 31, 2016, the Arctic Ocean was as warm as 17°C or 62.7°F (green circle near Svalbard), or 13.9°C or 25°F warmer than 1981-2011. This indicates how much warmer the water is beneath the surface, as it arrives in the Arctic Ocean from the Atlantic Ocean. … Moreover, Antarctic sea ice is also falling, reflecting the warming of oceans globally. For some time now, Antarctic sea ice extent has been at a record low for the time of the year. On November 19, 2016, the combined extent of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice was 22.423 million km², as the image below shows. [graphs here]:
http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2016/11/sea-ice-is-shrinking.html
David former Navy Aerographers Mate (Weather Obsever/Forecaster) says:
Ed Griffin should explain in detail why he thinks the land is sinking! The statement about wind blowing the jet contrails into criss sross patterns and grid patterns that we all see, what a blatant statement of disinformation that is! I'd like to ask him how is it possible that a perfect X can be formed in the sky, by winds blowing the contrails together. What a joke that is!
I believe Ed Griffin has been paid a visit by the "Men In Black"
He seems to have been 'Neuralized' or maybe just paid to lie.
What a douche bag!
Global warming is earth having a fever if it gets too how it starts to dye.
adam coleman says:
Knowing that yesterday would be the last warm day here in SW, Blowhigho, I took the opportunity to roll up my 75' garden hose for winter storage and raked some of the fallen leaves which are so discolored into every color of dog shit imaginable and still, at the center of November, most of the leaves are still on these huge Oaks, Maple and every other leaf shedding tree around. In a normal mid November, they would all be on the ground ready to be put to layer for gardens next year. The question is…..what are the chances that next year's gardens will bear more harvest than this year. Last January, I was eating Brussel sprouts off my my plants in my front yard which was odd to say the least and I suspect this winter will be a similar harvest IF we make it to winter. I KNOW I can see a big difference in the trees and leaves but I suspect I am only one of too few around here (I speak to every neighbor I know about it) who really knows or even notices why this is happening.
As for G. Edward Griff? I am shocked that a man who HAD sofa king much integrity BEFORE would put his reputation in the bed with treason to hold such a treacherous endeavor as he has chosen to engage. There is this thing….known as KARMA who sees EVERYTHING and misses NOTHING. So for one to go from truth journalism BACKWARDS to ProPaganDUH will most assuredly be noticed and noted by KARMA and there will be a price to pay for the sale of one's soul which I suspect he will be paying up when that time comes.
The elephant is in the elevator ladies and gentlemen. It has made its way down the corridor and has BOARDED THE ELEVATOR with everything that breathes in there with it. ABSOLUTE EVIL CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY and if there is any good news for the planet as a whole, it is that public enemy #1 and the most despicable politicriminal in US history, Thee Evil One, didn't somehow manage to get her hooves back in the oral office to eventually RE-SHORT CIRCUIT and push the WW3 nuke button during one of her many notorious fits of rage and temper tantrums.
SortingHat says:
In fact guys it's gotten to the point where the USA is seen as a nation of clowns running around and are treated internationally as a joke.
I've seen a small handful that aren't but MOST American's are fat,lazy and very boastful about their ego. Why is that? What's up with American's being so closed minded to most of what's going on in the world and furthermore they don't give two flying fucks if you tried to inform one.
They'd rather martyr you instead for trying to free them.
I hope this isn't a sign of the NWO where if you try to free the ones not already awake to begin with your literally fucked.
It seems Obama has done nothing but install MORE racism and MORE Intolerance in this nation then actually whatever was happening before.
Most American I know work two jobs take one week vacation a year.. It does depend on what your talking about. There the hard working Middle Class there are those who just work the system and want everything for free and get it… And there are small business owners that work even harder then most. You must be talking about our politician's, they did everything for free the medical is free they end up being rich which is a mystery to most because it's supposed to be public service and then there's the government Hangarons parasites and then there's the other government people you will always have a job screw in the world these are the shadow government people treacherous and treasonous and don't give a damn about the world these are probably the Americans that you know
Not that I would pay for Ed's Congress, but I would love to hear the arguments for a Cooling Earth Theory. We will learn of them soon enough and then we will pick it apart.
Brisbane, Australia, Saturday 19th November, the sky was heavily SRM'd for the first half of the day. Sky has now turned 'clear', ie no obvious SRM but the colour is still wrong. And wrong is wrong. Even with the SRM cover, the heat coming through was so intense. I now understand how the ozone layer is 'suffocated' by the SRM blocking rising oxygen from getting to the stratosphere to form O3. This plagues my mind now.
So many are now learning about this something has to give soon. I endure ridicule and rolling eyes and laughter from some who are still lost. The Red Pill is hard for them to swallow.
Back to Ed: How disappointed I am. FreedomForceInternational is a great idea, but not if its proponents sell out. The political structure of a Holographic Constitutional Republic is a possible solution, but it needs the integrity of those who will not sell out. The forces of evil will try to subvert every attempt to highlight their deeds. That is why Ed is supporting a warming denialist stance. They got to him. Just like Dr Mercola asked for his article to be withdrawn. They got to him. Anyone who makes too much of a dent will be approached. Soon it may happen to Dane. It probably already has, but he stands strong.
If only everyone could understand how small is the group that assails us. They win by recruitment of their own enemy. They win by stealth and secrecy. There would be no other way to do it. They believe in deception, lies and subversion as the means to some end. Do we dare name them?
"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize". Voltaire.
Michel B: Yes, let's dare name The Beast. The DEEP STATE.
CA JeffO "AmericaisHackedandHijacked" says:
Dane, Thank you for clearly speaking on the facts. It will be interesting to Mr Griffin's response. Keep up your good work. Many are listening.
We MUST LET PEOPLE KNOW THE NAMES OF THE FOLKS FUNDING THESE PROGRAMS, here are just some of those people..Mr. George Soros who stole from his own PEOPLE in WWll while pretending to be a Christian, Mr. Ted Tuner who publicly stated that we must depopulate the Earth, Mr Bill Gates who has poisoned children adults and entire nations in the name of helping people, and let's not forget about the Rockefellers who profit from all sides of all wars. These folks are psychopaths & sociopath, when you have everything and don't need anything you don't understand anything it's just your money and influence that brings you power of a psychopath. People must peel back the onion in order to reach the truth. I hope people around the world will read this and Bowl investigation these people and others that are treasonous against all mankind people must understand AR just a handful of people that control the entire wealth of the world which gives these people great power which we the people have to expose and exposed their various foundations which are front just like any other criminal front these people must be carefully read and they must be brought to Justice before it's too late For All Mankind
jsthe2nd says:
Rothschilds on top. Not Rockefellers.
I hate to say this, but Mr Griffin is a IDIOT. HIS STATEMENTS are IDIOTIC. MR. GIFFIN YOU ARE A LIAR PLAN AND SIMPLE. WE MUST GET RID OF THESE TRADERS if president-elect is true to his word he will extradite all Traders, Andy's so-called dual citizenships of power who only want to see the Earth destruction we got the storm naming names and then get these folks out of this country they're here to destroy us with their money power and influence – don't fall for it….
UK readers and others: Aerosol Spraying Jet : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj8nzZr4J_w&feature=youtu.be
I think they've really stepped things up with crippling the population via fungus in the aerosol spraying. Big problem on the east coast of Canada.The military base is about fifteen minutes from here. It has been weeks of constant grey, wet, rainy days. Fungus is growing on trees all over the place. I have a relative who has developed schizophrenia, as well as my neighbour next door. Research schizophrenia and fungus. Very interesting.
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Please do it for our kids.
[SF: Of course they don't mention the fact that the "very wavy'" jetstream is being manipulated by geoengineering with the ionospheric heater transmitters around the entire planet, because this is a classified technology. The "vast area of cold polar air" over Siberia is precisely what Dane has been accurately pointing to!]
SEEMOREROCKS: North Pole is 20C warmer than normal …
The North Pole is an insane 36 degrees warmer than normal as winter descends / Chris Mooney and Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 17 November, 2016
… people in the science community are watching — the Arctic. … in fall of 2016 — which has been a zany year for the region, with multiple records set for low levels of monthly sea ice — something is totally off. The Arctic is super-hot, even as a vast area of cold polar air has been displaced over Siberia. … “The Arctic warmth is the result of a combination of record-low sea-ice extent for this time of year, probably very thin ice, and plenty of warm/moist air from lower latitudes being driven northward by a very wavy jet stream.” Francis has published research suggesting that the jet stream, which travels from west to east across the Northern Hemisphere in the mid-latitudes, is becoming more wavy and elongated as the Arctic warms faster than the equator does. “It will be fascinating to see if the stratospheric polar vortex continues to be as weak as it is now, which favors a negative Arctic Oscillation and probably a cold mid/late winter to continue over central and eastern Asia and eastern North America. …" … Judah Cohen, a forecaster with Atmospheric and Environmental Research, who has linked odd jet stream behavior with cold air over Siberia. Indeed, another Arctic expert, James Overland with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said that the jet stream at the moment is well configured to transport warmth northward into the Arctic. “There is strong warm advection into the Arctic, especially northern-central Canada, in through the Atlantic, and east Siberian/Chukchi Sea…” – "… the duration of this warm Arctic — cold Siberia pattern is unusual and quite an impressive crysophere/sea ice feedback.” (The “cryosphere” refers to that part of the Earth’s system that is made up of ice.) Abnormally warm air has flooded the Arctic since October.
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2016/11/north-pole-is-20c-warmer-than-normal.html
Carpe diem . An idea or thought by a Roman poet which we find embedded in our brains .
I have replaced this long ago with:
FRUI DIEM! (Enjoy the day!)
Dane, thank you for your tireless efforts in this urgently important issue. In light of the changing administration can you get a few minutes of Trumps time? This is affecting us all, his children and gradchildren as well as ours. I wonder if he is even aware.This is more important than anything on his agenda,as it speaks to the very survival of the human species and ever other living thing on this planet. What can be done to reach him?
Vaxxed fb page has a link. It says – tell your vaccine injury story, but the form is for any suggestions to the new administration. Everyone should suggest Trump have a meeting with Dane, at the minimum.
Dane, just listened again to your audio response to Griffin posted here. May I humbly high-five you on what can only be described as a total checkmate against Griffin's "defensive position". You covered every aspect and angle to this "skirmish" with dignity, straightforwardness, inarguable reason and the spirit of a true warrior for truth and for planetary survival. You flat out whooped his ass, to use a vernacular. Even so, Mr. Griffin will continue to swaddle himself within his cloth of self-righteous indignation and regard your adamantine position as a personal affront to him and to his twisted cohorts. Meanwhile, all hell is breaking loose from pole to pole on planet earth.
Steve Bannon was recently appointed Chief Strategist for the Trump Administration. Bannon led the Biosphere 2 project in Arizona. Biosphere is an attempt to replicate all of Earth's biomes within a set of airlocked buildings. The project was originally funded by Oil Billionaire Edward Perry as an experiment about Mars Colonization when civil unrest takes over Earth. However, in a C-Span interview from 95 Bannon states another goal:
"A lot of the scientists who are studying global change and studying the effects of greenhouse gases, many of them feel that the Earth's atmosphere in 100 years is what Biosphere 2's atmosphere is today" …"We have extraordinarily high CO2, we have very high nitrous oxide, we have high methane. And we have lower oxygen content. So the power of this place is allowing those scientists who are really involved in the study of global change, and which, in the outside world or Biosphere 1, really have to work with just computer simulation, this actually allows them to study and monitor the impact of enhanced CO2 and other greenhouse gases on humans, plants, and animals." source
I visited the site some years back and thought the idea was laughable. The ocean is dead, and the reef never worked. The basement of the building is an industrial monstrosity, requiring huge qualities of power to simulate nature's simplest functions. I did not take it seriously then, but now I do. Bannon was putting human beings in a gas chamber to test the effects of the atmosphere with CO2 off the charts and Methane rising. He knows exactly what is happening. The fact that the project was funded by an oil tycoon in 1983 makes it all the more insidious. Onion style mainstream news headlines declared yesterday "Chinese tell President Trump 'we did not invent climate change'" I have no clue how Bannon will effect a President Trump, but I do find it terrifying that Bannon has already run human experiments gassing scientists with methane and nitrous oxide.
I calmly sat and listened to Ed Griffin's entire 14 minute "rebuttal" to Dane Wigington's alleged "personal attack" on him and a few of his (Ed's) primary contentions. Not once, NOT ONCE, did Mr. Griffin defend or elaborate whatsoever on his contention that "global warming is not only a myth, but a lie." He never alluded to any substantive scientific data that would support his absurd claim. Furthermore, he attempted to establish a contradiction between an article Dane allegedly sent to him regarding rising seas and a different article that Dane posted lambasting some of the "propaganda" that a certain institute disseminates. This is cherrypicking of the most petty kind, especially in view of Mr. Griffin's utterly fantastic (as in fantasy) view that it isn't so much that seas are rising, it's that islands and other lands are sinking. WHAT. THE. F**K? This guy is one sad sonofabitch. A floundering old man who is f**king losing it. This guy can't be for real, can he? Somebody please help me out here. And I have watched George Noory kiss Tim Ball's (ahem) arse on his show "Beyond Belief" on Gaia TV. Yet another buffoon (Tim Ball) whose ideas sound vaguely intelligent on the face of it unless you happen to have actually taken the time (months, years) to dig deep into all this stuff. Even so, Mr. Griffin has succeeded in assembling quite a lineup of personalities whose credentials appear impressive. But I'm not gonna tolerate any smart-ass egghead no matter what his or her credentials if they attempt to refute or otherwise de-legitimize the vast data proving anthropogenic causes for increasing warming since the start of the "industrial revolution". Go f**k yourselves, gentlemen.
Mr. Ed Griffin made a very weak and milktoasty case in his response to Dane Wigington. Again, at this very, very late stage of the game, with literally mountains of extremely fine data out there, I cannot fathom how these idiots think they can make an intelligent case for their claims. This Phoenix conference has an aroma of fishiness about it. It just does. There is not only too much at stake, but there is also too much potential for magnificently orchestrated disinformation, and I believe strongly that this conference should not be written off as perhaps just a manifestation coinciding with the fabricated rise of Trumpism and denier-ism. It reeks of something else. Maybe I'm overthinking all of this. Maybe these geniuses are just surfing the denier wave and hope to cash in on it.
Methinks it's a collection of antique spooks.
" Michael Murphy has also gone on record saying that we cannot know whether the planet is warming due to anthropogenic causes because of the long history of active geoengineering. He implies that, to the best of my recollection, the planet might otherwise be cooling were it not for the effects of geoengineering. WTF? It is almost laughably ridiculous that we would still be entrenched in these kinds of discussions at this late, late stage of the human game. For these guys to be actively running around the country, and the world, espousing what amounts to reeking cowshit reminds me of the degree to which the NIST report on 911 is equally offensive, not to mention laughably delusional in view of the laws of physics. Are there dark elements funding Ed Griffin and Tim Ball to openly prefer such trash??"
Most likely, I say.
For a while now I’ve been observing the trees and also the lizards around our property. I’ve watched on cool days and especially on cool mornings as the lizards laid flattened out in the sunshine. Since their environment regulates their body temperature they flatten their bodies to expose more surface to the sun’s rays. Being able to change their color from bright green to dark brown is regulated by hormones. I’ve observed stressful cause them to turn brown, this usually happens when you disturb one. However, lately it seems where ever I see one laying in the sun it is brown; I’ve concluded just like most humans today they are suffering hormonal damage from the heavy metals they and we are inhaling. I believe they are losing their ability to regulate their body temperatures.
This is similar to what I have observed with the trees. When the weather begins to turn cold and moisture is less plentiful, a tree in order to maintain life seals up the point at which it’s leaves are attached. The leaves then lose their original color, The leaf pigments change and the chlorophyll absorbs colored sunlight to give the leaves their color in the Fall. Now however, the leaves are not falling, they hang on well into the new year. I believe the extreme UV-B rays and extreme heat as we can feel on our skin, is causing hormonal imbalance in the trees and plants. Being confused they are trying to live…instead of closing the points of leaf attachment and retaining nutrients and water, they are holding the leaves in a desperate attempt to survive. This only robs them of moisture as it is drained through the leaves. The leaves usual pigment transformation no longer takes place, so the leaves rather than absorbing color, are actually burned up by the extreme UV. It is extremely hard to watch when you realize what is happening to life right in front of you that is in its death throes. When you think about trees actually communicate with each other of the same species and will actually try to keep the other one alive, it’s even harder to witness what is happening to the environment. But just realize we are the higher animal and apart from a miracle we are next.
Beautifully expressed, Gene, even if only telling us the tale of our destruction. Be well, sweet soul. And DON'T give up! Much love. Oh boy, it's gonna take MUCH love.
Hello gene, and others. You are so right. I noticed the exact same thing last few years on west coast. I'm in Idaho now but starting to see same thing. They have been really manipulating the weather lately, 20 degree plus changes overnight with chemical ice nucleation. One day 64 high, next day 42. Lows one day 32 next day 18 degrees. Snowed little, could've urinated more than they made it snow. What a nightmare and joke. These clowns need to be stopped soon even if it takes a Revolution. The chemicals of recent days have made people really sick, me included one day. I believe it was radiation poisoning because I was gagging, puked, loose stool and felt like crap couldn't breathe well and was pale in color. Felt tired and weak too. All the trees here are dying and many less animals and bugs on daily basis. They are microwaving the skies day and night. See the man-made clouds and ripples and can taste the poisons. Whatever chem cocktail has left my lips chapped and literally BURNING!!! GOD BLESS TO ALL AND KEEP UP THE FIGHT AGAINST THESE SATANIC BEASTS OF ANTICHRISTS! GOD = LOVE!!!
I'd have thought he would do better on researching, based on his older lectures. Now he sounds like he just goes against global warming based on hatred of government and possibly religious reasons. Like how anti-agenda21 people often decide there is no such thing as pollution and get angry at anything sustainable.
Did the Mercola interview get deleted?
Hello Bob, yes, I believe your assesment of the minset is accurate. About the Mercola interview I did, Dr. Mercola asked us to take it down. Why? Warned perhaps? I can’t say. I will hope that conditions will change and that we will be allowed to repost it in the future. Time will tell.
Such a shame about the Mercola interview. I'm glad I caught it when it was posted. He seemed to be genuine and forthright in his dealing with the subject matter and I thought perhaps he was one who could weather any backlash to his foray into the subject of GE. We all know, however, how these 'low men' get to brave individuals who are unafraid; they threaten those who are near and dear to them. They know the good man/woman, while perhaps willing to sacrifice their own life for the greater good, is not willing to sacrifice the lives of their loved ones and innocents. It is such and old and tired story. Most unfortunate, indeed.
Dane, It is puzzling to me why Dr. Mercola requested the removal of his interview. This puts a new light on the honesty of his website, as he professes to be 'open and up front' about his topics. Did someone give him 'that pill' of persuasion that he could not refuse to take? If you are reading this, Dr. Mercola, you owe us an explanation, if for no other reason than to preserve your credibility. Thank you.
Joseph L. says:
About the Dr. Mercola interview — that is bad that he requested to have it taken down– It is almost like all the environmental groups– it seems not almost one of them will touch geoengineering because of their charity status. We are certainly living in some very strange times when the most important thing on the planet you would think — would be clean air, water and food.
I found this link on Dr. Mercola site all the way from 2001 on the subject .
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2001/08/08/chemtrails.aspx
I am very sorry to hear that Dr Mercola…got cold feet in the world of honesty, integrity and upholding his responsibility as a doctor, extremely disappointing. He obviously knows the truth!
Perhaps he is concerned about his very comfortable life in Florida.
I was very supportive of all his products, recommending everything from water filters to supplements for my clients- will no longer recommend his site as a source.
Modern Calamity says:
I think Mercola/friends/family do not want to get deleted. Dane is very brave.
SueG says:
I knew it.. 🙁 And sadly, so many will take this as an acceptable answer. I guess the good news is the report said thousands called in about the plane, and hopefully that means more are paying attention and waking up.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/navy-identifies-mystery-plane-over-denver-its-mission-still-a-secret
SueG: Great! Denver, Babylon's bullseye Capitol, reminds me of that other drone incident referred to as 9-11. My guess, since none of the gibberish made public is likely to be true, is a drunken remote control operator went berserk and decided to reenact the 911 flight of the bumble bee….all the while showing the whole world a pristine view of Geoengineering loop de loops. The FAA states it has no answers but will "continue to investigate. Yeah, sure, just like they did for 9-11. And curiously, given the incident seemingly as national security threat, not a peep is heard from the Department Homeland "Security." Just as well. Given the stated official nature of what the aircraft is designed to task, after reading the article it's strange but am I suppose to feel secure? I don't! Further given the nature of these times, our epoch, this aircraft could have been assigned to paint a nice satellite image of a bullseye, and perhaps an EMP bullseye. Yes, I know this is speculation outside the mainstream sandbox, but what the heck. Authority is not going to let us in on the secrets of the producers of doomsday. And why do we grasp these functionarie's public pronouncement as being any truth whatsoever. When do we cease our trusting Pavlovian addiction to authority when time and again they fail to earn it. If by some miracle one does hear an actual truth you can be sure it was done so because it fits into a convenience whereby truth is utilized for a perfidious purpose.
SueG, Hi! To me, this is great! For one thing, as you said, thousands called in! That is amazing in and of itself! I mean the most dramatic stuff happens here all the time and seemingly no one notices it!! Much less calls in. That, and so many, so many just like that, makes this one case the most remarkable! And the news did all but tell the full truth. It stuns me they said as much as they did.
It does seem the Denver airport is a nexus of something evil for certain. This was an example of cyber war prep. A tuning in for. By tuning, I mean checking, aligning this and that digitally, as cyber war is digital. Stuxnet had evil offspring. The first was Nitro Zeus. Designed to hit electric grids. Future wars Will be radically different. Forget something as old fashioned as flying a nuke, or launching a nuke to an "enemy". It amazes me that the news in Denver got the navy to admit this was indeed navy, trying to further communications with subs. In Denver yet! So very much of what they have been doing is just that. I now feel that what we have been thinking as weather modification efforts, though beginning in that vein, got taken over by the military in our digital age. I think the majority of what we've been seeing in the skies has been to create skies that serve the Force. And not only did we go whole hog into digital everything as well as urging the world to follow, we developed its first war tool And set it loose before ready. All know it was the US. As it is, our cyber people fight off many thousands of various hits all the time. And, not just war, a playing field for crime of all sorts, and worse. Huge mistake, all this, huge. As it turns out, Obama understood it. Was in part responsible. But now Trump set to destroy my life and my family's lives, and while his Orangeness tweets his brains out and lies all over FB, he knows little of this stuff, much less understands. Dangerous times. They are preparing for that transition ahead of time. My take, anyway.
Posted on DCClothesline: Why Was A Mysterious Navy Plane Conducting “Secret Electronic Command/Control Drill” Over Denver?
http://www.dcclothesline.com/2016/11/19/why-was-a-mysterious-navy-plane-conducting-secret-electronic-commandcontrol-drill-over-denver/
The most important piece of information from this story was the fact that the flight originates from Tinker AFB. Tinker is a HUGE player in the geoengineering operations as disclosed by SAIC Ted Gunderson.
Great catch!!
We have to ask ourselves, what kind of strange pathology is it that drives guys like Ed Griffin and Tim Ball to arrive at their absurd conclusions regarding climate change and it's associated effects, IN THE FACE OF MOUNTAINS OF VERIFIABLE FACTS. Michael Murphy has also gone on record saying that we cannot know whether the planet is warming due to anthropogenic causes because of the long history of active geoengineering. He implies that, to the best of my recollection, the planet might otherwise be cooling were it not for the effects of geoengineering. WTF? It is almost laughably ridiculous that we would still be entrenched in these kinds of discussions at this late, late stage of the human game. For these guys to be actively running around the country, and the world, espousing what amounts to reeking cowshit reminds me of the degree to which the NIST report on 911 is equally offensive, not to mention laughably delusional in view of the laws of physics. Are there dark elements funding Ed Griffin and Tim Ball to openly proffer such trash?? I confess I have not done my research about these two guys. Are they drawn to play their game all on their own because they perceive there's alot of money just sitting on the table waiting to be raked in due to the interest of those too stupid to know any better??? Or are they actually and verifiably on the take from elements of the MIC or U.S. government or intelligence agencies? It's all just too goddamn fishy….AND, too stupid to be believable.
Alright, I can see I have some homework to do and I intend to do it. I just reviewed the Phoenix Conference website and I see that Mr. Griffin really has quite an axe to grind with Dane. I don't have time right now to dig into this further but I will tonight. Ciao….
Mike looking up says:
NOT MUCH I CAN ADD TO ALL THE GREAT COMMENTS. However, reporting in from SE Michigan, since September 1st. Daily high tempetatures 5 to 20 degrees above average and night time low's 5 to 10 above normal. This also holds true for the entire midwest and the lower 48, weather channel. Thank you Dane and all who adds such fine content. My Facebook page is loaded with every article from Geoengineeringwatch for over 2 years. God help us all
MS P says:
"A fog blanketed London in December 1952, killing as many as 12,000 people. Its exact cause and nature puzzled researchers for decades "
They now blame it on coal.
Ps 2 days ago in Idaho a nasty black fog cloud came in over the mountain and mixed with the other man-made phony weather making a distinguishable multi layered nasty looking cloud. I started coughing and sneezing when it approached me but was working and had to suffer through it. LOOK UP PEOPLE. GOD BLESS US ALL
I too get these cough /sneeze attacks. A sign my body is fighting this, in more ways than one. It is a reaction to the spraying.
The thought of nasal VAXX technology is scary. They could just load up some pharma drug, into the spray.
Yesterday, big fat extra wide trails went overhead. Ganged up in sly lines. Looking both directions. & all in the same East-west direction. Same altitudes, as well. I felt really sleepy. Took a nap. I expected white out. No white out. They just disappeared. So it must be a different kind of application.
Perhaps working it to bring down the temperatures, or induce wind events. Or prevent the rain in the forecast from falling. Which is very noticeable. When wind is in the forecast. We get lots of planes overhead, working it.
Another Mass 10,000 fish die off happened last Monday." Hampton Bay NY. deaths of these bunker fish — in what's known as a fish kill A similar incident happened in June 2015 on Long Island, when low oxygen levels caused a massive die-off in Riverhead, and again in September in Centerport."►The story says that they were chased by predators, & died due to lack of oxygen. YA RIGHT!
story on drudgereport.com this morning about a "mystery plane" flying over Denver. photos and videos too! you'll get a hoot out of this. guaranteed. nobody seems to know anything about this plane – where it came from, where it was going, where it landed. air force bases say it's military but they don't know anything else. neither did stapleton airport representatives. isn't it amazing in this day and age that we could have a mystery jet circling denver and nodbody, and i mean nobody, knows what it is?
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/mystery-flight-circles-over-denver-officials-have-few-answers
Hello Alan, thanks for posting this very important story. This event presents an opportunity for us to wake up the Denver Channel 7 group. By sending articulate email and social media messages to everyone at the station (with supporting credible informational links), we may be able to push them into a more in depth coverage of the issue. We must all take action when such opportunities present themselves.
How fun, I was just getting on here to copy and paste the same link, great job Alan!! 🙂 I saw this plane yesterday and watched its entire 'show'. I snapped quite a few pictures of it, It was actually to me, pretty clear that it was depositing at an existing geoengineered formation. I suspect they were creating the weather we have today which is a very poor excuse for measurable precipitation at noon here in the Denver area. I hope Channel 7 will be receptive to any communication they receive regarding geoengineering and continue to cover/investigate it. Unfortunately my suspicion is we will never hear from them again on this.
Here is my email to Denver Channel 7, I hope so many more contatct them and flood their inbox!
Great job on reporting on the mysterious plane over the Denver area yesterday! I watched the entire show in the air and was amazed. The reason no one will answer what the plane was doing is because it is geoengineering, and those you contacted are a part of the problem. For excellent information on this subject I strongly urge you to go to: https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/
Bert Goodrich says:
My email to Denver7's Mark Belcher about the "mystery plane":
"Saw the little report on Denver7 with Mark Belcher on the "mystery plane". I have dozens of videos and hundreds of pictures of exactly that same plane here above Albuquerque! And I know FAA, EPA, et. al know nothing about it– that would be letting too much light into the room and enable us to see the elephant. If you're sincerely "continuing to look into it," I can't wait for your public, truthful investigation results. Some hints: SRM, SAG, nano aluminum, etc., etc."
SueG: Channel 7 Denver states at the official site to "contact us." I did. I wrote to their chief weather-liar, respectively. I guess he does not want to be contacted because my properly addressed text to him was rejected. Twice and rechecking his address and my errors if any…. Nope, rejected twice.
Sun glare from skyscrapers is becoming more of an issue lately. Several years ago they had to sand the exterior of Disney Hall here in LA to reduce glare. Now they are complaining about the new Wilshire Grand bldg. Of course we know it's not a construction defect, but rather an INCREASE in solar radiation.
Geoengineers trying hard to cool down SoCal, Much spraying yesterday (Wed) This AM clear, cool, moist air.
Everyone wants early start to ski season. Winter clothes sales also important. Can expect winter to again fizzle out here in Jan/Feb.
Wow SD I just experienced this yesterday while driving in Nevada. The reflection on the vehicle way ahead of me was blinding me even with sunglasses and looking through a sunshade visor. I was having trouble seeing clearly, in general, from so much aerosol sprayed particles. Heavy EMFs. Looks like a blizzard is set to hit the Dakotas. Weather warfare?
Yes indeed, the metallic nano particles are very bad for our eyes.
My best guess, for the so called sanding of the exterior of such buildings, is to remove the build up of the nano particles?
I too wish for a ski season. It's not going to happen. Not in the S. Cal Mountains. Maybe we get a 1 day great snow event? At best? Season ski/board riding passes, are no longer worthy of buying. I used to love to wear my lovely winter sweaters, & warm clothing for 1/2 the year. Now I feel like a Polar Bear, in the Mojave Desert, on a summer day. Old Farmers Almanac predicts no frost days for Southern CA this year. Year round grow season, & no water. This is madness at best!
On the topic of radiation. the numbers on the West Coast keep climbing higher, & higher. I started looking at the Radiation Network site May 2011.It was in the single digits, & low teens, along the west coast, tops!. Now upper 30's -to 50's is the norm. Anything over 100 sets off alerts.
So how did the Fukushima Cloud in June 2015 not make the news? (Stating the obvious here) Look up the alert section of this site. ►
http://radiationnetwork.com/
" Radiation detected on Oregon coast During the early afternoon of June 11, a station in Port Orford, Oregon momentarily detected a radiation level as high as 800 CPM. The elevated levels lasted not more than a couple of minutes, but surged well into the hundreds of CPM against a normal background reading of about 26 CPM.
For context , the Geiger counter in use is the ultra-sensitive pancake-tubed PRM-9000. Logistically, the monitoring is done indoors with alternating open and closed windows, while the house is located only 350 yards from the Pacific Ocean.
The pattern of the minute by minute spreadsheet activity tends to rule out a software glitch as the cause, and a Radon storm seems unlikely because those graphs typically demonstrate a prolonged wavy pattern. Nor do we believe this was a hardware defect with the PRM, which showed normal readings on its display both before and after the 800 CPM detection.
Our best explanation of this genuine Radiation Alert is of Fukushima origin. The actively precipitating fringe of the Jet Stream was roughly overhead at the time, and this looks like a momentary detection of radioactive particles having made their way to the Oregon coast."
SD, The sun has been blinding me for a long time, but then, I have issues and so seek out shade to drive in whenever I can. However, yesterday, here in Berkeley, with my daughter driving, and the thing is, she drives A Lot, is out doors A Lot, boats, swims, camps, never complaining of the sun. First, she remarks that the sun felt so very hot on her face. I remind her that it Is hotter, ozone shredded, and she says I know mom! As if somehow I was missing the point of it bothering Her. A short bit later she semi freaked as blinded in heavy traffic by glare from the building on our left. Both, a first for me with her remarking on these two topics. It was a cloudless day free of trails, not one trail or "cloud" to be found. Daughter does not startle easily and seldom if ever complains about stuff like this. Kinda comforting? to hear others say stuff about this aspect. But gee, the potential problems….
Bella_Fantasia says:
In 2015 National Geographic was bought by Rupert Murdoch. He fired 180 journalists and staff, nearly everyone. I knew it would be lies after that, which is very depressing considering the Society's enduring legacy.
http://boingboing.net/2015/11/05/shortly-after-rupert-murdoch-b.html
Love hearing (not) that the seas aren't rising, but that the land is sinking. Apparently, the globe is deflating, and I may as well call myself Lady Jane Seymour.
Thanks Dane for setting the record straight with these ghouls. And there really is no time to mess around with these disinformation hacks. If they're so "scientific"Do they think all the temperature information from NASA is lies (even though NASA works both sides of the street)? To those who try to say the earth is actually cooling and that we can expect an ice age any moment, all I can tell them is that I'm in Alaska and THE ICE IS MELTING, WE'RE WADING IN PERMAFROST, SO WHERE IS THE COLD COMING FROM?
But I wonder if a little bit of the cold we're experiencing isn't the last gasp ice box effect. Anyway, the geoengineers are steering the jet stream entirely away from the East Siberian Shelf and Alaska, which is criminal. We're mostly getting hot water come up from the mid-Pacific into the Gulf of Alaska. They're making the thawing much worse than it would be without the "engineering".
Musing over civilizational collapse, it's certain not to be pretty. I know the aerosol spraying will stop some day, but will there be anything left to save by then? I'm praying there will be.
11/16/16, 3:30AM The biggest ring I have ever seen around the moon. It was so big, it wouldn't all fit in my picture. And, there were toxic moisture squashing illegal trails everywhere around it.
tony searles says:
Dear Dane I thank you for you endless great work and try to keep up with this but I must say so much information is some times daunting.I am not a scholar but an ordinary man with a family of two grown daughters and a grand daughter and a beautiful partner who is a Head of Dept Nurse and I love them all dearly.My question is are we making any progress or are these b….ds winning this debacle or have these psychotic souls who are poisoning our beautiful mother earth any idea of the human suffering they will cause? I know at the end of every thread is money but can we win.Since first starting on geo engineering watch nz I have seen it grow and have a nice support network of people who can see the big picture in the clouds and I pray we are at least seeing a crack in their lies.After going through another earthquake,thanks to the Amazon Warrior parking off our East Coast in NZ and doing nasty stuff to our fault line I want to do nasty stuff to the ship and those behind its intension,s.I am not a violent man but is that what is needed to wake these sheeple up.Sorry for the rant but still suffering from earthquake fever.Wishing you great things and hope my and others efforts,no matter how small bring us closer to the truth.Kindest Regards Tony Searles Christchurch New Zealand
Hello Tony, thank you very much for your ongoing efforts. Yes, we are making a great deal of progress, much more than is yet even visible. The undercurrent of awareness is much greater than any yet realize. Never yield, never give up, face to the wind, thanks again for marching with us in this battle Tony.
This site see's over 10,000 new visitors per day. I know this because I have have been visiting this site daily for close to four years now.
Here is something to ponder for the newbies.
Early on I remember thinking that there must be somewhere I could move my family to to get away from the spraying. I know now that there is nowhere to hide from Climate Engineering. I remember when I believed only military planes did the spraying. Now I know that THEY ALL are spraying. THEY ALL have been commandeered to participate at some level. I watch them on approach to Anchorage Intl. Airport everyday. ALL commercial and cargo jets are involved, period.
Realizing that there is nowhere to hide from the spraying and that ALL of THEM are involved is a hard truth to accept. What scares me the most is what will happen when the spraying is stopped. I feel that the intensity of the global storms will scour the the planet like a grinder on steel.
This scenario is our only way forward. We must stop the spraying. We must allow our planet to heal itself. Although much damage has already been done, who knows for sure what will happen if our natural climate systems are allowed to function on there own. The only way to save our planet is to let it save itself.
Print some flyers and hand them out EVERYDAY until the spraying stops. I do and will.
https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/ads/
Never, Ever, Give Up!!!
On days when some political leader visits S CA. We get normal weather. The UV index is also low. Blue skies & fresh air! Sure it's not totally normal. But it sure give me some hope. I'd be willing to give this planet a chance to right itself. If the spraying was to stop. I'd also accept what ever in weather, to cleans the earth. If only the geoengineering would just stop!
Awesome job pizza guy. Me too. Keep up the good fight. God bless.
We are the Saints and Angels!!!! Know that People!!!GOD BLESS and AMEN. Calling all Saints and Angels! Ayeee.
The carbon tax should burden alone the oil PRODUCERS…
A recent study, 'confirmed' the CO2 impact on human health:
http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/summer-2016-welcome-there/your-brain-carbon-dioxide-research-finds-even-low
downloadable at:
https://eetd.lbl.gov/sites/all/files/lbnl-6148e-is_co2_an_indoor_pollutant_v3.pdf
Thus solutions like:
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-power-to-liquidpilot-compact.html
confirmed at:
http://newatlas.com/carbon-dioxide-fuel-pilot-plant-finland-kit-ineratec/46362/
and at:
http://www.vttresearch.com/media/news/first-test-plant-to-produce-fuel-from-solar-power-to-be-established-in-finland
maybe of help, in addition to PLANT TREES and stop driving cars, unless they are equipped with WATER engines…
If CO2 continues to rise like it does, in less than 200 years, humans won't be able to think clearly, due to the described CO2 effect on human brian. Btw. Clear thinking is impaired right now already, by the chemtrailing and HAARPING of our skies..
Hello Christine, yes, the carbon tax proposals are all shams. This being said, the buildup of Co2 and methane in the atmosphere are very dire. Climate engineering is making the entire scenario far worse overall, not better. About our timeline if the human race remains on the current course, it will be blindingly short. FYI https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/global-geoengineering-fueling-venus-syndrome/
talawanda says:
Griffin has joined the money men…to lie.. or avoid the truth at all costs. We're behind you, Dane. Blessings always.
Monckton is nothing more than a Jesuit coadjutor. Long time family ties to Knights of Malta/ Freemasonry, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Monckton,_3rd_Viscount_Monckton_of_Brenchley. Classic divide & conquer tactics being played out. TY Dane for all you do!
stephen langley says:
An honest question: If G. Edward Griffin knows about chemtrails / geoengineering what is he doing debunking climate change with his "Global Warming: An Inconvenient Lie Conference" in Phoenix, AZ in December 2016 ? How can anyone who is aware of geoengineering deny climate change? How can this NOT BE PART OF THE CLIMATE CHANGE / GLOBAL WARMING DEBATE ? Has the venerable Mr. Griffin been co-opted as controlled opposition ? This defies the common sense logic and research integrity he has built over a life time.
I can only hope he will be dropping a bombshell at the conference exposing geoengineering… however, I'm not too confident he will considering an interview on the Richie Allen Show. In regards to that interview at 18:45 or so he let's slip "geoengineered foods" rather than genetically engineered foods… or maybe it was a slip that reveals a coming revelation/bombshell at the conference ? … strange days indeed. a
Diane Friday says:
Perhaps these sell-out pseudo scientists know something we don't in reference to the global cooling myth. I read comment after comment here from people in various states, detailing the above-average temps during the day and specifically at night. That hasn't been the case here in eastern Pennsylvania. Quite the opposite. It's the fourth week of relentless chemical ice nucleation here (as well as jet stream manipulation, going by the horrendously loud hish I hear when this is going on). We were having above-average temps until this onslaught began four weeks ago. At that point, the overpaid weather shills were reporting that a cold front would be moving in from Canada, bringing significantly cooler temps. That cold front is apparently of the same class as the "ridiculously resilient ridge of high pressure" off the coast of California. Must be. Because even though it's obvious that the daytime temps want to rise a lot higher most days, another round of high-altitude spraying of what is probably chemical ice nucleation takes care of any further warming.
Maybe it's because I'm becoming highly sensitive to so much of what is being dumped on us every day and every night, but to me, whatever they're using now seems to be far more toxic and caustic than whatever they've used in the past. Or maybe they just have to use more of it. All I know is that crap is like an entity! It makes my skin burn. It seems to cling to skin and clothing. I'm pretty sure it's what's been making my tongue, sometimes my whole mouth burn for over a year now. It makes everything so cold that it hurts to touch even things like wood or plastic, with anything metal being the worst.
The nighttime spraying has been so bad it's absolutely surreal. There are planes flying in every direction, high and low altitude, and there are some aircraft that are unidentifiable; they're silent and somewhat triangular in shape. On some nights there are trails, some nights no visible trails whatsoever. But the results of these "trail-less" nighttime bombing runs become very evident the next day.
We know the northeast US was subjected to two brutal winters: 2013-2014, and 2014-2015. Where better to conduct this large-scale and very significant artificial cool-down than the most populated area of the country? The Raytheon-controlled NWS and NOAA make sure it's in the news constantly, and they're already predicting snow for this area beginning right after Thanksgiving, with one snowstorm or snow event after another scheduled to last through January. The lead up, with temps already having gone down to freezing or below at night at least five to seven times this month, will make it appear to the clueless masses that it's just a natural, and NORMAL, progression. What global warming? All is as it should be. All is well.
May every single individual involved in or with knowledge of this, down to the friendly local "meteorologist", rot in hell.
Yes, Here in Northern CA., we were sprayed almost everyday during the Summer. I have seen the Glider like ..white..Aircraft also and believe they may be Drones. The Sky's were Silver Grey most of the Summer and these Craft seem to be moving through Wet Silver Fog. I got a glimpse of a red light on one of the wings. Very Nasty this year. Did not feel well all Summer either due to the heavy spraying and constant Silver Sky. I wont' go into what it did to my Garden and Fruit Trees.
Rahasya Uncensored says:
Well, I have to say that this makes me a little more sad than mad because I've always had the utmost respect for Ed Griffin. This is an 'unfortunate' example of how things are going as money and power rule common sense. I honestly don't think he was bought off…but who knows. This is why I wrote an article on Disinformation and misinformation which can be read here http://www.lotusguide.com/disinformation-and-misinformation/ I've said it before and I'll say it again…"Sometimes I don't know how you do it Dane, but I'm so glad you are out there exposing all of this." Take care, Rahasya Poe
ron hall says:
Dane, echoing Rahasya, it is sad to see an old man(85) with zero serious science credentials whatsoever utter such glaring babble. Ironically his book re: the federal reserve system was a powerful expose for the 1st couple of hundred pages, then he wandered off topic and started a critique of the Fabian society and showed love of strange attraction to endless secret societies, etc.
I am actually sad that you even have to worry about the guy. Among other things he does not "believe" in HIV/AIDS, thinks cancer is only a metabolic syndrome, worked with the John Birch Society(filled with paranoid whackos re: communism in the 50s, 60s, especially) and hangs with questionable "thinkers" who seem bat-shit nuts! I suspect he off his meds! And I would bring into question some degradation of certain neural pathways and diminishing synaptic development–a fancy way of saying the old dude has lost it!- and he will hang on to his phantasmagoric opinions no matter what! He is now obviously waaaay beyond accepting facts. Nothing behind the eyeballs there. You will be dealing with a strange faltering brain, IMO I wish you could just walk away from such creatures, but you are a warrior, my friend!
Ron, Hi, and I agree with you. Dane is forever telling us to just walk away and plant another seed when in the face of an utter denier. So? Is it warrior, or stubborness? I think Dane is one stubborn son of a gun!
Thank you so much for your tireless effort on this front. I always look forward to your emails. I live in so cal and have been an avid weather watcher my hole life. What I have seen over the past several years has killed me, probably almost literally. I have hundreds of bizarre cloud pictures. Were you aware of the recent HAARP installations off our coast from Guadeloupe island to most of the islands off our coast.
Thanx for your effort
Thank you, Dane — Excellent response! You are so very right in emphasizing the fact that “credibility is absolutely essential in the fight to expose and halt climate engineering.” While there may be many who do not understand your choice to draw such an adamantine ‘line in the sand’, I have understood from my own experiences that sorting the wheat from the chaff is an inviolable necessity. The confusion arises when the uninformed, the misinformed, perhaps innocently cling to a piece of the ‘chaff’ and run with it six-ways-from-sunday. I agree that you are right to address the cognitive disarray that pervades the plethora of anti-geoengineering groups. As witnesses, we are endeavoring to expose technologies that are essentially classified by the military – and therefore our position must be grounded in as much scientific data as possible. This is why I have chosen to support your relentless Herculean efforts. Already you are perceived and quoted as the one reliable source for real information in this fight — and as you say, this will allow for the serious professionals in academia, science and hopefully the military to eventually come forward when they understand the full terrible consequences of geoengineering. And I have no doubt that we are in this fight for our very lives and our planet.
Susan: Very well stated!
It has been my experience that most if not all 'hoax' spokesmen all use 1998 as their end point for 'previous climate history' and 1998 to present as 'current climate history'. 1998 is key. Only by carefully picking this as an endpoint can they skew their data to meet their pseudo-scientific conclusions.
Industries with a point to prove all design their studies to reach a certain conclusion. The oil industry is no different. I'm sure that you, Dane, have noted and pointed out this already, but it is important to emphasize their dishonesty and how they do it.
Grant Jones says:
Dane, Once again I thank you for representing unbiased truth without attaching any "Spin" whatsoever. Relating facts and issues rather than unprovable Belief. No politics, no Religion, no Personal Attacks, Just facts and issues. Watching Kevin Shipp again. Thanks to all who are representing Truth. G
brian girard says:
HI DANE MY FRIEND, I am writing from VENTURA CA , I was wondering what kind of false flag or false flags do the GLOBAL ELITE have in store for us before now and JAN 20TH 2017 . It looks like the race wars to cause mass chaos in order to disarm the nation or EMP. I dont know there are so many cards these evil scum can play on us. I respect and love your opinion that why i was wondering what you think may occur .
So what other thinks can we do for action besides talking and passing out flyers to prevent or put a stop to being sprayed day and night
Hello GM, if we are to be successful in the battle to expose and halt climate engineering, we must reach a critical mass of awareness with the population. FYI https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/how-do-we-stop-climate-engineering-only-way-forward/
Kimberli M says:
http://www.alternativenewsnetwork.net/nasa-confessess-dosing-americans-air-borne-lithium-chemicals/
They have sprayed us pretty much daily, since July here in the Knoxville, TN region. Different sprays and patterns and vehicles are used, with different results on the weather.
J. Lee says:
Lets ALL call Mr. Griffin and tell him how we feel about his anti GE efforts.
how about a phone campaign to Griffith?
Mr. Griffin at 805-497-0685.
Email joanhunter@verizon.net this is the person who answered his phone call and wanted an email sent to her in regards to his target against Dane. I'm w you Dane!! James White Blackstone MA
I called and spoke to Joan. I am sending an email detailing my experience of climate change in my area. I have invited Ed and company to tour my area and visually witness and document what has happened. Sounds to me like they are saying there is only climate change because of chemtrailing, (their words.) Climate is changed… how has it happened is another question. We have to agree on the change part in order to be part of a solution. ..(hearing us Trump?) Hard to believe people will pay to listen to this kind of backassward thinking.
Hello LS, just to be clear, Griffin is not saying that the climate is changing only due to “chemtrailing” (which would also, of course, be incorrect as there are many anthropogenic factors effecting the climate). What Griffin and his “experts” are saying is this, “global warming is a hoax” and “global warming is a myth”. And this also must be remembered, his top two “experts” have both competely denied the climate engineering issue on the record. How can Mr. Griffin claim to be fighting against climate engineering when he is pushing a message from “experts” that completely discredit this very cause?
About “Lord Monckton”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPpuxOXAYEc
About Tim Ball
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/09/02/chemtrails-or-contrails-another-alarmist-issue-without-scientific-context/
Myron Ebell? Really? Steve Bannon, Sarah Palin, Reince Priebus, Michael Bolton? Really, really?? It is exactly as if there is a scriptwriter, a team of soulless "social engineers" who are orchestrating this assemblage of candidates for maximum social volatility. It is almost too perfect to be real. No matter. This "scary clown show" will not escape the leveling of the playing field that the coming years will initiate. ALL of this political drama, ALL….of it, will pale to nothingness as the truths so eloquently detailed by Geoengineeringwatch.org begin to inescapably dominate the world's consciousness. Alot of smiles are going to be wiped off the faces of folks, no matter where on the spectrum of ideology one happens to be, as the gravity of our planet's failing health becomes all too obvious.
Dane, I confronted Joan with this absurdity. I said what you said, and she says, " don't you think chemtrailing is doing this"? "Doing what, I said, this is a conference on climate change being a hoax" (sounded like a "whose on first skit) I didn't flinch and she ended up agreeing with me and asking me not to repeat that. So there you have it. He is a whack job and even people in his employ admit it. Thanks for all you do. I'm not emailing him now that I've spilled the beans on his assistants position on this. I will keep inviting these posers to my area for a tour. I take on deniers.
W.C. says:
Marc and All, while personally I have no left/right or Dem/Rep side to be on, this article taken from a book by the late Michael Collins Piper regarding "Who Towers behind Trump" leads me to believe that those who are looking for a 'Swamp Draining' any time soon are likely going to be very disappointed. Everyone I guess deserves a chance, but I certainly suggest everyone have a plan B (and C and D…) at the very least. From the Contrail:
http://thecontrail.com/forum/topics/who-towers-behind-trump-from-the-archives
frank reps says:
Not that may years ago ; Flouride was touted as a wonderful cavity preventer. Aftert belatedly being recognized as a substance that reduces cognitive ability ; is has been rmoved " in caoital letters " from the label of the toothpaste tube ; and hidden in fine print in the list of ingredients on the content section of the label of the tube. Our entire country is losing it's abolity to think , The false labeling of the Climate manipulation apologists is no different from the Flouride scam. Use baking soda if you cant find flouride free toothpaste. Avoid any media source or publication or sponsor of the publication that promotes this scheisse. I am not kidding about flouride. Nazi's and Gulags put it in the water for their captives to keep them stupid.
The idiots who go along with the fluoride LIE quite mistakenly think/believe that you have to INGEST the fluoride (drink it) as part of your WATER TREATMENT PROTOCOL for it to do it's anti-cavity work– never mind you can BUY fluoride-treatment anti-cavity products and they work topically–!!!!
Well, and, so then, please tell me, whatever happened to EDUCATION and PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY, hmmm??? We have here the exact SAME THINKING, the SAME THING as the Big Pharma Approach to Everything Related to Health and Welfare (just make sure this isn't you, somewhere, deep deep down inside…): "I don't give a flying rat's a$$, I. DO. NOT. HAVE. PROBLEMS and I'M NOT GETTING OFF THIS COUCH to so much as lift a finger to solve my own problems– why should I care about yours??"
Ya know, folks, it's HARD to have something called "The Common Good" when you live in your own individual little pink-and-fuzzy climate-controlled BUBBLE, where nothing will come to "disturb" you– EVER– HMMMFF!!!!!
m.foster says:
I'm confused…I've heard you say it yourself in the many Videos I've watched Dane Wigington that the Geo-engineering is causing the Global Warming…It makes total since w/ the aluminum blanket it imposes on the earth and just like all you have to do is look up and see that's not normal you can also feel it when it's a nice cool day and they start spraying that crap a few hours later it get's so hot and humid ….It surely doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out and to feel…what they sprayed a few hours ago has heated up the earth! Thus doesn't that prove right there that the culprit of this is Geo-engineering It surely does make a significant change in temperature…Please explain I'm very confused because like I've said I've heard you admit that it is causing GW…
Hello M. yes, under some geoengineering scenarios immediate warming is created. This occurs in conjunction with the creation of high pressure zones that are utilized to steer the jet stream. Under many other scenarios, short term toxic cool-downs are engineered with chemical ice nucleation. Overall, climate engineering is absolutely contributing to the warming of the planet. This being said, as I have stated on the record countless times, the equation related to our rapidly warming planet is not a “this or that” scenario, but rather a “this AND that” equation. There countless forms of anthropogenic damage to the planet, and countless forms of anthropogenic damage to the climate system, all of them must be remembered and considered.
As always, thank you so much Dane Wigington for keeping us updated on Geoengineering, and the glorbal warming. They WILL BE sorry. They are totally blinded and refuse to own up to the truth. BUT, one day soon, 'Lord willing, they will reap what they are sowing." ~~
Sharing with Russ Tanner's Orbis Vitae. Blessings on you, Dane and your family. Sincerely, God bless you all.
slick upside-down PR video featuring David Keith
See water car inventor murdered after turning down a billion dollars to sell patent at: https://youtu.be/4zMpM-jAnFs and then watch "Official Stanley Meyer Autopsy Report" on YouTube. Some of the comments were saying that the tank to hold the water would have to be too big, but it seemed legit to me, and hey, they murdered him for it so it must have been good. And now they want to blame us for what they have created, and blame us for having to drive cars that burn fossil fuels, but now that I think of it, that is standard psycho operating procedure. (I've known lots of psychos so I know whereof I speak!)
Hello Elena.
This "guys" don't have Moral Conscience, of course, neither Intellectual Honesty. They attribute their GUILT over the victims of their actions, that by the way are the ones who make them to have huge profits, with the paradigm of the oil centered economy which was created by them; the builders of this abominable system. Pollution and the loss of Biodiversity ( caused by them, principally ) is just one pretext for the mass depopulation, for the global altar of sacrifice "they" want to have for their ridiculous little and CRIMINAL cult of death in which they "believe".
David former Navy Aerographers Mate Weather Observer/Forecaster says:
I would think Ed Griffin would take the time to do his own research, as to why land is sinking. Griffin, Lord Monckton and Tim Ball should be real men, by trying to associate themselves with the real data and facts of what is taking place with the planet, rather than just denying and repelling the truth!
David, there is an interview on Gaia TV (subscription only) on George Noory's "Beyond Belief" show with Tim Ball as guest. So much of Tim Ball's rap is bullshit, I don't even know where to start. But what is equally disturbing is how Noory caves to alot of what Tim says. Yes, I know he's just doing his job but I've been a COAST TO COAST listener for a long time and I also notice a palpable DILUTION and softening of George Noory's lines of questioning. He seems to be manipulated from behind the scenes. Sad but true.
Well, "they're" at it again, fightin' the Injuns, turning the dogs and the mace and the tear gas and the bullets once again on the poor First Nations peoples, totally not caring WHY the people are against the pipeline, about the only thing the ones pulling the strings of the "law enforcement" fighting the Indians care about is their almighty "god," Money. Who cares about NO environment when you have plenty of money in the bank?
The Bioneers Conference is an annual event designed to pull in the next generation of forward-thinking young people who want to save the world. At this year's conference held at the Marin County, CA civic center, the main speaker was Bill McKibben. The event was covered in one and a half pages by our local weekly, The Pacific Sun. McKibben spoke passionately about making the move to using 100% renewable energy, putting solar panels on every rooftop, and what might have happened had it not been for the oil companies' drowning out of any discussion of the reality of global warming and "climate change," twenty-five years ago and more. Not once did he mention one thing about ge-oengineering, solar radiation management or SGM at any time. That's our controlled media.
Hello Dennie, McKibben recieves funding from the Rockefeller foundation, that is the bottom line. He will never tell the truth about climate engineering.
Every time I learn an organization is funded by mainstream foundation money, from my perspective their creditably is coopted and suspect. One good example is National Public Radio. It really is a smooze operation, and has so many people tuned in and turned on. I don't get it, but many seem to. NPR's list of foundation support is the who's who of the Matrix.
Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald's, gave NPR $200 million. They were crowing about that today. Now, what's THAT doing? Kroc himself said that his REAL business is real estate: http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/03/06/mcdonalds-corporation-a-real-estate-empire-finance.aspx
Here is more on Bill McKibben and 350.org.
http://business.financialpost.com/fp-comment/rockefellers-behind-scruffy-little-outfit
Yes, in the interest of fairness and transparency, McKibben really should publish the sources of 350.org's funding.
keith crawford says:
dane , i just must say a hugh thankyou for all you do. you are a true example of a hero. much love and respect. keith crawford
On the topic of interesting/ or unexplained sounds. Such as the Taos Hum. About 5 years ago. I too could hear a strange hum, where I live. Like a very large amplifier at a concert, when on. But not being used, type of sound. I went around my house, unplugged everything. I could still hear it.
So sorry for the life in the ocean. Whales beach themselves, to try to get away from it.
This story is about a ping, that is driving wildlife away.
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/blogs/mysterious-ping-arctic-ocean
A good article. I must thank who ever here in this group, had shared this website on health. I signed up for it. This article gives VAXXED credit.
http://healthimpactnews.com/2016/a-new-paradigm-for-diagnosis-and-treatment-of-modern-chronic-illnesses/
If I were sovereign King of Earth's fine dominion
I would reclaim every aircraft and space craft ever made
I'd would create an enormous and imposing aluminum tree
With gleaming magnesium apples
Majestic at every branch
– Paul Vonharnish –
Paul, You are here! Waxing poetic! yet. Stunning fantasy. But I can't help but think of the shadow it would cast!
When I see the cloud cover broken into what I call a "monkey bread" pattern (which I see very frequently), what technology is it that does that? I haven't had the time (nor do I feel I have the brainpower at this point to understand and retain) all the differences between HAARP, RF, microwave, etc. (or are they all different words for the same thing?) Some ppl on this site understand this stuff a lot better (I just understand and can see crap being sprayed and spreading, lol) than I do and can maybe answer in a sentence or two. Is it the same or different technology than causes rippled clouds?
Hello Jenny, radio frequencies and microwave signals are in the same catagory. The HAARP facility in Alaska is one of many such frequency transmitters. The transmissions from these facilitys are the primary causal factor behind the uniform rippled cloud patters. The atmospheric saturation of electrically conductive heavy metals is also a part of the equation.
Thank you. Although I'm not sure if you understood what I meant by monkey bread. I should have thought to explain myself. The clouds often look like monkey bread…broken into irregularly shaped pieces which fit together like a puzzle. When you google monkey bread images, some of them look like this type of cloud cover.
Our society is disintegrating , we have more and more problems every day and we are fixing/curing less and less. We have so many ban influences on TV , music industry,movie industry and more infact many many big influences are the epitome of insanity. We overall don't practice good and or righteousness I believe we are going through the great delusion if not we are going to go into the great delusion we have so many people believe lies and so mortality corrupt I think our behavior towards our problems for example it's all in bigger hands is not only irresponsible but also very bad and can lead to big consequences the world is ending as we know it. I am at least trying to wake people up ,take the demons or deception and confusion and corrupt morals or deception out of there minds I am trying to clear the lense ,clean the mind and heart .
Here in Southwest, New Mexico with awesome blue skies this morning 11-4-16 and rain clouds as well. These punk lowlifes spray their SAG/SRM-aka CHEMTRAILS over them and the winds are coming as always with their HAARP. One can hear the humming like never before, more intense sorry lowlifes, and the real clouds look like an atom bomb like explosion hit them (mushroom form). For the observant of one's surroundings it does not take a big brain and open mind to see the atrocities associated with these evil works from these scum 2 legged jackasses. The winds are not normal for the season (or) seasons we now experience. I'm appalled by Dr. Tim Ball's association with the lowlifes, I really thought he had character, I'm blown away with him, what a puke I'm sorry to say…..
This kind of stuff only works on the uneducated. That means a vast majority of people in this country. The Federal Government has a vested interest in keeping the populace uneducated. Its ok to go conquer the worlds resources, but to hell with funding education. The imbalance of what we spend overseas compared to what we invest in our own education system is embarrassing.
tom liccione says:
Mario, America resembles more and more the Catholic (Universal) Church. She kept people in the dark, the every day folks could not own a Bible, she was the king maker, she persecuted the "heretics", she had many lovers despite her rottenness. Thank God for the whistle blowers, America's "heretics"! At the pinnacle of decadence, money could buy a cardinalship and soon you could be a Pope. Similarly, money could fast track anyone to the American presidency, Lastly, the Church pretended to save the world while in fact they were after power and riches. And so does America!
The Military-Industrial-Surveillance-Prison Complex has sucked up the vast majority of the credit card monies. And this spawn of the Devil wants more. Insatiable, it is an addict for money and power. This is why it attacks social programs, and is against a guaranteed health care and education system for all. It attacks the Europen models unjustly for fear we might cast our eyes in that direction for a redress of a grievance. We have become the captives of a deep state police apparati. Frankly, the drift reminds me of what occurred in Weimar Germany that facilitated the advent of the very psychotic NAZI participants.
Hey Dane, another great article. Just a heads up on the ice extent measures: It is possible that we are going to see another very rapid increase in the extent measure simply due to the fact that despite the temperature anomalies, the threshold for those areas of the ocean to freeze will at some point be crossed this winter. When that happens it is likely that due to the record area of open water, there will also be a very large/fast extent increase once the temperature threshold of saltwater freezing (-1.8C) is breached in these bodies of water.
This is not to be denialist, quite the contrary. The volume is going to be rather pathetic in all likelihood come the maximum in march. Just making the point that even with the huge anomalies, these areas are likely to at least produce a very thin layer of ice at some point this winter due to the 24 hour polar night. Deniers will likely cling to that and make a point of talking up the extent increases when this happens. Again, the volume will be poor, but even with the anomalies it is likely to get cold enough in the next 4 months for these peripheral seas to freeze and bump the extent quite a bit.
Hello Sean, yes, your point has validity. The variables are the sea temperatures (which are astoundingly high), and the exponential methane buildup (which is building by the day). Given the extremely non-linear nature of the equation, it will be ever more difficult to predict. Given that the statistical data surrounding the Arctic sea ice is being manipulated, who can say what the real scenario is. When official sources consider any section of ocean with at least 15% surface slush to be “ice pack” (which would still be 85% open ocean), the truth is no longer part of the equation. We are very near to a “blue ocean” event. FYI http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2016/10/blue-ocean-event-september-2017.html
This is the same Edward Griffin that did the movie What in the World r they Spraying w Michael Murphy. I wonder if he really is against geoengineering since now he believes the planet is cooling– makes no sense.
Hello Joseph, yes, Griffin was a part of the WITWATS films, and he also wanted and made profit on the films. I actually purchased the first hard drives for these films out of my own pocket, paid for many other expenses for Michael Murphy, including supplying him tickets to Belgium and paying for auditoriums, rental cars etc. I never asked for or wanted a cent from the films, but what I did insist on (if I was to be involved) was that the films were not discredited with the "global warming is a hoax" false mantra. This is the reason the films did not go down that road. Michael's films did a great deal of good. It should be mentioned that the producer and editor of the films, Barry Kolskey, deserves a great deal of credit also, which he never really got.
Greg Dane says:
Mr Griffin laid out a challenge to you to debate him at his conference. What better way for you to prove YOUR points and provide documentation to that effect than to take up the challenge and refute his claims. This would put to bed any disinformation and set the record straight!
Hello Greg, if you perhaps did not hear it in my public response, I made it clear I would gladly debate Mr. Griffin, “Lord Monckton”, or Tim Ball, anytime. Tim Ball has long since refused an equal time debate with me on air, which well known radio host Vinny Eastwood tried to arrange.
paul fowler says:
Lord Monckton is full of bunk man . This guy looks like a cross between Marty Feldman and Jimmy Saville and is obviously as slippery as an eal dipped in cod liver oil . When some pop eyed purp sits there and tells me there is nothing in the air out of the ordinary , my blood starts to boil . I can see it with my own eyes , it is an insult to anyone that has a grasp of the obvious . A couple of evenings ago we had what looked like two suns , there was that much heavy metal particulate in the air . Clouds do not reflect light as intense as the sun , should not happen . Perhaps this is how the shadows cast in two different directions in the famous Japanese pilots photo op. with Jehadi John .
Deb Buckler says:
SO much going on these days! The situation at Standing Rock is just devastating while these brave people try to stave off yet another nail in our collective coffin…the massive oil pipeline. I just watched Leonardo DiCaprios new movie…bless his heart, he put it on YOUTUBE and has had over 7 million views in just a few days. That HAS to be good news. At least 7 million people are getting SO motvation to wake the hell up. Sadly no mention of the Chemtrails but he really covered alot of bases anyway. Here's the link if you haven't seen it yet:https://youtu.be/90CkXVF-Q8M
Hello Deb, yes, DeCaprio did cover some important data, unfortunately he of course completely ommitted the largest single climate disrupting factor of all, climate engineering. In addition, DeCaprio (like so many other environmentalists and organizations) gave the false impression that some sort of magical technology will fix all the damage that has already been done. This notion is simply more delusion and is in many ways hampering the full wake up that must happen if the human race is to truly change course and survive.
Global warming policy is being used to suppress us and all that dark evil stuff however that doesn't mean the planet is not warming.
Louise Neufeld says:
This week I attended, along with my mother, a supposedly informative session on "Climate Change" in Winnipeg which was directed at seniors. The retired meteorologist discussed global warming/change and how it has been actually happening for thousands of years and tried to explain it away with useless graphs and colourful charts. He also told us we are in an actual cooling trend and that the amount of CO2 produced today is very low, a mere trace gas. This went on and on until I could contain myself no longer and asked him about SRM, etc. Those are only contrails that are blown around by the wind he explained and he was dead set against this kind of pollution himself. My mother and I argued with him for a while until he insisted that we carry on following a "put a cork in it" comment from a rude man in the crowd. Unbelievable. I was able to introduce your site, Dane to a few of the women in this case who seemed somewhat interested. As usual, the vehemence expressed by non believers is shocking.
The worst part was that this "meteorologist" refused to talk about anything related to geoengineering. He ignored the questions, brushed them away and remained eerily silent. His last power point stated:
Can we save ourselves?
-will power
-fusion power
-Alternate Energy Sources
-Substantial Population Decrease
I kid you not! Even the local retired meteorologist has a diabolical agenda.
Many thanks to you Dane for your tireless efforts and devotion to the cause. Let's hope the world wakes up soon!
Next time some speaker tries that during a lecture, someone in the audience should pipe up, "I volunteer YOU to be decreased"!
Was this guy paid to do the presentation, and if so, by whom?
Hi Louise – Unbelievable is right. Too bad there are no corks the size of this meteorologists mouth. By the way roses are blooming in the back of my apartment block in Winnipeg.
Edward Palys says:
The biggest culprit in global warming seems to be CO2. Please consider the following calculation: One gallon of gas, no matter where it's used, produces 19.4 pounds of CO2. One gallon of diesel produces 22.2 pounds of CO2. Now, look up at the air traffic above us 24/7 and consider how much our air travel produces daily, keeping in mind that jet fuel is basically diesel fuel. It is estimated that the US military in total produces some 48 BILLION TONS of CO2 annually! And we are concerned about outo pollution???? In my previous statement I declare that man's progress may be the biggest problem of global warming in this nutshell alone.
Hello Edward, your points are all valid, and an inarguable part of the equation. This being said, the negative climate impact of the climate engineering particulates and microwave transmissions are immense. How much has climate engineering fueled the Co2 and methane loading of the climate due to the shredded ozone layer, the protracted global droughts, and the burning forests, all of which are a direct result of climate engineering? So many factors to remember and consider. All of this being considered, the single greatest leap we could collectively make in the right direction would be to fully expose and halt the climate engineering insanity.
Hello Dane, I do agree with what you're saying just that my point is focused on the common perception that CO2 is the main culprit.The powers are using that as an excuse to levy a carbon tax on all people who depend to auto transport to make a living and survive. t imagine the billions of tons of CO2 emitted every year for how many years now? One would think that the earth would have "burned" out of existence by now. My own thinking on nature is akin to our bodies being fed artificial, man-made goods, like GMOs and any synthetic material that is NOT meant for our bodies to accept. Similarly, the geaoengineering factor is something that nature cannot tolerate too long. Nature has a way to adjust to natural changes, but cannot correct artificial disturbances such as deliberate geoengineering.
Hello Edward, yes, the planet would have done exponentially more to respond to the damage done if not for being completely hampered by the climate engineering insanity. This being said, we must remember that there are still limits to what the planet and atmosphere can handle. The degree of anthropogenic damage that has been inflicted on the planet from countless sources is truly beyond comprehinsion. Many things must change if anyone is to survive. As I have stated so many times, the greatest first leap we can make in the right direction is to fully expose the climate engineering assault to the masses, and then stop the geoengineering nightmare. This would allow the planet to respond to the damage done on its own.
Hello Edward Palys.
Trees feed on CO2. Massive Forests must grow again.
The destruction of the Ozone layer is deliberated, as we Know Sr.
They spray in the Stratosphere ( without needing – if climate engineering was a benign "science". And if this was the case, stopping ALL aerospace activity would be a good 1st measure for a conscientious and BENIGN – in this way yes : SCIENCE ), and in second hand "they" have the super dangerous HAARP toys, to make sure that depletion is TOTAL ( among other F little things ).
More; because this ""science"" IS NOT BENIGN, but instead – CRIMINAL -, the MFs spray on Us with aluminum, lead, arsenic, and the rest of the POISONS that we ALL know. Only lead can be game over for ALL Humanity.
Without the Ozone, GW will Rise and is RISING exponentially.
Because of this Very important Point, will will stay dependent in one way or another ( while we wait by the Ozone reposition ), for some level of spraying.
For "them", this is only business.
Larry Charles says:
I'm a bit confused, maybe you can help me out. A gallon of gasoline weighs 6.183 pounds in liquid form. I'm having difficulty understanding that: after the liquid has gone through the engine, and the resultant exhausts are emitted into the atmosphere…..how the carbon di oxide (CO2) portion of that exhaust can weigh 19.4 pounds, which is nearly three times what the gasoline weighed to begin with?
Hello Larry, perhaps I can supply the information you are looking for. FYI https://micpohling.wordpress.com/2007/05/08/math-how-much-co2-released-by-aeroplane/
Hi Larry,
I get your confusion – it looks like the law of conservation of matter is being violated, eh? But there is a lot of oxygen being added in during combustion, so the gasoline doesn't account for the entire mass of the output. Still surprising that so much CO2 could come out of one gallon of gas. What idiots we humans are! There were people warning, from the very dawn of the industrial age, about the damage we would wreak, but did we listen? I'll bet Chief Seattle's tears alone could end California's drought…
ooooooooh boy that ice extent graph looks bad…..
Dr Tim Ball. I had, by chance, contacted Dr Tim Ball after searching through the internet on another subject. At the time I was unaware of Ball's real agenda as he was represented as a professional weather man highly respected in the academia. I wrote him an email questioning those "trails" of "smoke" behind so many planes. I noted that these "trails" stay up without disappearing as a contrail normally would. He sent me back a lengthy report saying that those were, in fact, all contrails of water vapor. Along in his response he gave me a lecture on a few cloud formations which had nothing to do with the subject of my concern. I've had a similar response from Environment Canada before. Needless to say, I got so upset that I wrote back a rather nasty reply and never heard from him again.
Edward Payls: I commiserated with a regional weather-person a few years ago about the same. Somehow he managed to turn the conversation into the topic of "cloud theory." I suppose no matter how freakish the cloud, or how bizarre the behavior, there is a canopy of cloud theories and new cloud names to cover their arses. By the way, Ketchian, Alaska reported that the month of October is the record holder for the driest rainfall totals ever recorded for that region.
Hello Dane and friends, thank you for your Work.
Mr Dane Wigington, amazing work, your Work is vital and All People will start listening soon, that is my conviction.
About the ball thing n1 and n2, their hands are made of blood.
When all the Ice vanish, persons will ask;
Cori Gunnells says:
Nothing makes me angrier than the ignorance and denial that people display regarding this very subject – the unfolding runaway warming situation/predicament that wil literally end life on Earth… very soon. It's now very visible, if you care to look. You should envision holding the Earth in your hands with the same responsibility you would if you held a dying infant. No tolerance of denial campaigns, myths, ideologies, sarcasm, memes… will do. Only truth, the serious search to understand what is happening, and the best and most accurate advocacy you can offer. It's that serious. This isn't a time for laziness, for popularity (herd mentality), for hiding/ignoring/denying, or supporting or repeating/sharing disinformation… The planet's systems are interrelated. One thing affects another. It's not just this, or that, it's all of what human civilization has done that has upset the balance of climate. It's not just geoengineering, it's not just emissions, or deforestation, or paving the planet in concrete – it's all of it. It's a closed system – negative effects do not just go away, float off, vanish – they stay and they build (toxins, greenhouse effect). You should care enough to look past your own backyard. Look at the poles – they are both melting at unprecedented rates. Doubt, uncertainty and 'denial' were cleverly crafted and propagated and are still maintained by big gas and oil. Exxon was once the pinnacle of climate research – they knew exactly what would happen, and they intentionally decided to fund denial campaigns to steer policy, manipulate and gag truth, and form your narrative and beliefs to support their interests (power, control and profit), not the 'viability' (the ability of a thing, a living organism… to maintain itself or recover it's potentialities) of the planet. Look at the poles (daily), look at the heat and acidification (CO2) of the oceans, look at the numerous countries (Kiribati, Marshall Islands, W. coast of Africa, Bangladesh…) and areas that are already inundated by sea-level rise, losing crops, losing fresh water, and are now climate refugees. This is happening in the USA also – Louisiana, Inuit villages in Alaska, Miami, coastal areas of the NE… There will be more to come. See their faces in your mind's eye if you doubt this is real. Big gas and oil lied to you, and continues to lie to you. I find it pathetic that most people are impassioned by the NoDAPL protests (big oil), but somehow forget or never care about the others, or the end result for all – the entire planet. Truth is truth. To be an activist for anti-geoengineering, you must understand it all, and stand for all. You must strive for credibility. You must guard the truth and facts like you would if you were holding a dying infant. You are holding a dying planet. If you don't, if you skip facts and evidence… you blow the credibility of our important issue and movement. Understand the interrelated whole, which includes all the negative effects of our civilization as it relates to climate. And… have the courage to face the opposition of those who continue to spew lies and disinformation – that includes damaging and ridiculous climate change (warming) denial. You might lose friends who refuse to see the truth. You have a mirror to face each and every day. Humans are responsible for this extinction event. All humans. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22102015/Exxon-Sowed-Doubt-about-Climate-Science-for-Decades-by-Stressing-Uncertainty
Gori, you point out worthy criticisms. fossil fuels and big oil is the result of human progress. The best solution to save the planet in our age would be to go to medieval times where humanity didn't depend on fossil fuels. Of course, big oil will continue to praise fossil fuels for as long as they can. What other solutions can we invent? There are activists who blame all this on capitalism, which is nonsense. The world went through ages of discoveries and inventions because of man's progress. Maybe it is that progress that is truly destroying our earth.
Jill M. Clarkson says:
Cory, that was FABULOUS,…every word. I'm not blowing smoke either!
Edward Payls: the Industrial Age is the main cause for the disintegration of the family farm. And that includes the many the new regulations forced upon family agriculture to the monopolistic achievements that benefit agri-gro corporations. The requirements for stainless steel this and that, and other expenses and regulations slowly destroyed a rural America. The giant corporate operations took over. The Industrial Age also produced the many philosophical, political, and social terminologies we are taught in school, two juxtaposed trouble-making ideologies being Marxism and Capitalism. Human "progress" has exterminated whole tribes and cultures, murdered hundreds of millions of people directly and indirectly, and we need look no further for the symptom of the "disease" than the current state of affairs in the middle-east, and the mess in Europe, that has quagmired America the Babylon. It's non-ending. Civilization has never been civil. Yes, "progress" is nothing but driven by a profit motive. And that is, imho, the absolute opposite of what ought to inspire human progress. And I would suggest that given the many inventions derived from military/warfare needs, such as this spyware upon which I type this missive, I submit the very foundation for our ephemeral culture will at some point dissolve and disappear. Sadly, those still standing will have their work cut out for them.
One thing I have noticed. Which is not good. Is that people are having these mini strokes. We had the microwave skies over the month of October. Last month. Both my neighbors were hauled off in an ambulance to the ER. Within a couple of weeks of each other . Both on a Saturday. I find this to be really odd.???? Both came home soon after the ER visit, such as the same day. They wander about as if nothing happened. Story goes they just stopped. Lost all their energy. Then someone called 911. One of these people is just 43 years of age. The other one is older. They both do spend much time outside.
MS P: Thanks for the warning. Most of my waking hours are outdoors. Indeed, being outside and observing the sky finally woke me up to the Geoengineering operation going on in "plane" sight. I should wear a "life alert" that says "poisoned by nano-particulates."
I try my best not to stare at the nano particles/chem clouds. They are highly reflective. Worse than staring at the sun. It can burn your eyesight. The particles are too small, to see the reflections. Sure I see them. I just try not to stare at it. I'm guessing eyesight is also a health issue these days. More so than ever. Looking at the chem clouds, does hurt my eyes. I'll come back into my house, on a white out day. My eyes are like I starred at the sun, until the readjust. Even when I take photos. I feel it. Sun rise sun set can be very bad for one's eyesight. Sadly. It's come down to that. Someone I know who had cataracts, said the DR said something to the tune of. There is more cases these days than ever. Go figure.
Might be what caused the people near me to short out? My other guesses would be they live near the smart meters. I do not. The boxes are here, but right next to the house next door to me. There is 3 boxes there. Grouped together. The cell tower nearby, was also being worked about the same time. I saw the crane there, last month. I did not pay attention enough to say for sure, the tower was being worked on @ the same time these 2 people got hauled away in an ambulance. So I have no real explanation. Just that there is a lot wrong these days.
Ron Marr says:
It is hard to be surprised these days. I am a little surprised that Mr. Griffin is on the other side of the geo-engineering issue. What else would he lie about?!
I wonder the same. I really like some of his ideas on political solutions to our current squalor and he does acknowledge Geoengineering is going on. But if he denies the signs of SRM, how exactly is he acknowledging Geoengineering? I will keep a watch on the 3rd Congress he is helping to convene in order to find that out. This creates a conundrum and cognitive dissonance for me as I really do (largely) respect and admire him, but how he can argue against the abundantly evident global warming and apparent SRM signatures overhead I am not at all sure. I will weigh it up for myself.
Greg O. says:
Thanks Dane for your tireless efforts in this most crucial issue! I am still amazed at the amount of delusion, distraction and denial fueled by disinformation, but onward we go in this march against psychopathic insanity. Greg O.
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Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research have shown in zebrafish that visual movement stimuli are processed in the animals’ visual system by two types of direction-sensitive neurons located in spatially separate circuits. Different directions of movement are represented in different layers.
Zebra fish larva, around 4 mm long. © Bollmann, MPImF
The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is one of the most popular model organisms in biological research: it is small, robust, has a short generation time and can be kept and bred in large quantities and at relatively low cost. The zebrafish genome has already been decoded, and efficient methods for producing and screening for mutations have been established. As a vertebrate, the zebrafish is much closer to humans than flies or threadworms, and many genetic, developmental and physiological findings gained from zebrafish research can be transferred to the situation in humans. The fact that embryonic development takes place outside the female body, alongside the possibility to investigate the transparent embryos and early larval stages under the light microscope, is an enormous advantage in experimental terms.
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Partly embedded larva observing virtual prey on a small screen. © Bollmann, MPImF
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research (MPImF) in Heidelberg make use of the favourable properties of zebrafish larvae for neurobiological research. They are aiming to achieve an understanding of what happens in the eyes and the visual centre of the zebrafish brain as the animals perceive movements. When they are seven days old, zebrafish larvae are around four millimeters long and their brain is less than 0.5 mm thick.
As the larvae have transparent skin, “virtually all brain areas can be examined using multiphoton fluorescence microscopy that enables us to study live cells,” said Dr. Johann Bollmann of the research group "Neural Circuits and Behaviour" in the MPImF's Department of Biomedical Optics. As tiny as they are, the principle structure of the eyes and visual centre in the mid-brain of zebrafish larvae is extremely similar to that of mammals. Zebrafish larvae, which display a very clear prey capture behaviour, use this well-developed visual system to hunt for ciliates and other single-celled organisms in the water. The Max Planck scientists hope that the analysis of the larvae’s targeted movements and the electrical signals that are produced in the brain will provide them with better insights into how neurons interact in intact brains.
Eyes and a projection running from the retina to the tectum (dorsal region of the mid-brain) in a 3-day-old zebrafish. The structures are stained with an anti-ath5-GDP antibody. © Bollmann, MPImF
The scientists used high-speed video recordings to study the natural swimming behaviour of the larvae and derive information in order to create a “virtual reality” where the small fish were presented virtual prey consisting of computer-controlled images that were projected onto a small screen. As the larvae were temporarily fixed onto a small gel strip they were able to execute typical prey capture sequences with their eyes and tails without actually moving. Bollmann and his team were therefore able to specifically alter the movements of the virtual paramecia and study the reactions of the animals’ visual system and the resulting movements in relation to the processing of visual stimuli. Optophysiological approaches involving transgenic fish larvae and fluorescence microscopes enabled the scientists to study the resulting electrical signals in the brain.
Identification of direction-sensitive neurons
The scientists from Heidelberg used zebrafish larvae in which the molecular marker GFP (green fluorescent protein) was expressed in a specific cell type in the dorsal region (tectum) of the mid-brain. Working with the MPImF’s “Developmental Genetics of the Nervous System” research group headed up by Soojin Ryu, the researchers also introduced the calcium-sensitive GCaMP3 gene into the animals in such a way that it was only expressed in specific neurons and made them glow only when in the presence of calcium.
Dual staining of the retina of a zebrafish larva. Green: temporal retina with a projection that runs (to the left) towards the tectum. Red: nasal retina. © Bollmann, MPImF
Special neurons, which react specifically to visual motion, are involved in the perception of movement stimuli and their processing in the visual system of vertebrates. Such direction-sensitive neurons (DS neurons), which react specifically to opposing directions of movement, are found in the retina of eyes as well as in the brain cortex and the mid-brain tectum. The retina is directly connected with the tectum by way of projection neurons whose inputs are arranged such that spatially adjacent optical stimuli activate spatially adjacent regions on the surface of the tectum. The sensory neurons are connected in circuits with motor neurons located in deeper tectum layers that can trigger eye and head movements. The existence of these circuits has principally been shown in experiments involving other animal models in which individual neurons were activated and visualised using fine electrodes.
Spatial arrangement of the movement circuits
Dr. Johann H. Bollmann, Biomedical Optics, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research. © MPImF
Using new fluorescence microscopy techniques such as multiphoton microscopy, it is possible to study the spatial and temporal distribution of neural activity patterns. Using these techniques, the Max Planck researchers from Heidelberg have discovered a circuit in the tectum of zebrafish larvae that is involved in the processing of movement directions in the visual system. Multiphoton microscopy was also used to determine the direction sensitivity of neurons containing the GCaMP3 gene. Using very fine glass pipettes, the scientists injected a red fluorescent dye into the cell body of these neurons, which then spread into the finely branched dendrites within a few minutes. These experiments enabled the scientists to identify two types of DS neurons that react specifically to opposing directions of movement. The scientists made the unexpected discovery that the dendrites of the two different types of neurons were located in different layers of the tectum.
Further experiments revealed that the direction-sensitive signals of the projection neurons that come from the retina also arrived in specific tectum layers. It appears that different directions of motion are processed in different layers of the tectum. With this discovery, the scientists from Heidelberg were the first to localise the circuits that are responsible for the processing of visual motion signals in the brain. Bollmann highlighted that these new findings are basically due to the favourable properties of zebrafish larvae that make them particularly suitable for such types of investigations: the larvae are transparent, have a compact build, can be easily manipulated genetically and they use information from the visual system for the execution of movements when reacting to the movements of prey.
Gabriel JP, Trivedi CA, Maurer CM, Ryo S, Bollmann JH: Layer-specific targeting of direction-selective neurons in the zebrafish optic tectum. Neuron 76, 1147-1160, December 20, 2012
Trivedi CA, Bollmann JH: Visually-driven chaining of elementary swim patterns into a goal-directed motor sequence: a virtual reality study of zebrafish prey capture. Frontiers in Neural Circuits 7 (86): 1-18, 2013
Dr. Johann H. Bollmann
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E-mail: johann.bollmann(at)mpimf-heidelberg.mpg.de
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Power Missiøn
Is it “Power Mission” or “Power Missiøn”? This forgotten release provided a pretty decent portable war gaming experience. It would be eclipsed by better-known games within a matter of months.
Japanese Title: パワーミッション
Developer: Graphic Research
Publisher: VAP [JP] NTVIC [U.S.]
Release date: 8.24.1990 [JP]
Genre: Strategy (Turn-based, Military)
Super Game Boy: No enhancements
Previous in series: None
Next in series: None
Similar titles: Battleship [Use/Mindscape, 1989], Radar Mission [Nintendo, 1990]
Back in July 1990, Nintendo Power featured a small promo for a game called Power Mission. Bearing a remarkable resemblance to Mega Man, Power Mission was to feature platforming action and colorful graphics — surely a fine NES game in the making. Eventually, it was renamed Power Blazer for Japan and Power Blade for America, and it was indeed pretty good.
This, however, is not that game. Unfortunately. While I’m marvelously suited to weigh in on the merits of Mega Man-esque action games from the 8-bit era, I’m less adroit when it comes to releases like the Game Boy title that actually did come out bearing the name “Power Missiøn” (note the diacritic in the ø — perhaps to differentiate it from Taito’s original solicitation for Power Blade?).
Hailing from none other than VAP, the infamous creators of worst-Famicom-game-ever Super Monkey Daibouken (see Chrontendo episode 12 or Retronauts episode 80 for all you need to know about that one), Power Missiøn is a turn-based strategy game in the classic style. I am absolutely terrible at games like this, and Power Missiøn is no different. That being said, this failing seems to be more an issue with myself, not the game. Despite the presence of the name VAP on the title screen, though, Power Missiøn doesn’t appear to be particularly terrible. It’s a by-the-numbers war simulation, basically taking Battleship a step further by allowing players to move around the map rather than simply sit stationary and launch missiles.
It’s definitely not a game you want to play solo, however. Power Missiøn is designed for head-to-head play, and that’s the way to approach it. Playing solo proves to be an exercise in tedium and failure, involving a great deal of watching a static screen as the computer plays out its action with unfailing efficiency. Another player could never be so cannily accurate at hunting down your fleet as the computer, because another player would be bound by the same fog-of-war as you are — a limitation the CPU doesn’t seem to concern itself with.
Each session of Power Missiøn begins with players choosing from one of several different fleet configurations. You have about half a dozen different vehicles of war at your disposal — a carrier, jets, submarines, destroyers, etc. — each with different hit point values and a different weapons load out, and you can choose from a small selection of predetermined ship combinations. Once you’ve done so, you place your individual ships and jets within a limited range at your own end of the map. You can only scan so far ahead on the map, so at the beginning of the battle you won’t be able to see your enemy’s fleet, which is arranged at the opposite end of the battlefield, out of your visual range.
Play proceeds by rounds in a fashion that should feel familiar to anyone who has ever played a war strategy game: You take a turn moving all your ships around, then your opponent gets a turn. Each ship or jet is allowed a few actions per round: A radar scan to explore the map, moving a set number of map grids, or attacking within that unit’s range from a palette of different offensive options. Each vessel has its own specific set of weapons: A range of surface-to-surface, surface-to-air, air-to-air, or air-to-surface offensive capabilities, determined by the nature of the unit in question. Assuming you select the correct type of assault — definitely something you’ll need the game’s manual for, since all weapons icons look almost indistinguishable from one another and bear no in-game description of their capabilities or even their names — you’ll inflict some damage on your target, and once the target’s hit points have been wiped out it’s removed from combat.
Your ultimate goal in each battle is to take out the enemy’s flagship while protecting your own. Flagships are quite durable, but their offensive capabilities are fairly limited, so it’s important to set up a defensive screen around it to take out inbound attackers. Naturally, much of the challenge of Power Missiøn is finding and homing in on your opponent’s flagship… a difficulty that, again, doesn’t seem to affect the CPU. In every round I’ve played, the computer always seems to home right in on my flagship at the outset.
Aside from that one major annoyance, though, Power Missiøn doesn’t seem like too bad a game. Nevertheless, it remains painfully obscure, with complete copies proving quite scarce (huge thanks to Armen Ashiekan for lending his complete copy to the cause). This seems to be, to some degree, a function of timing: In the year following Power Missiøn’s Japanese debute, Nintendo would publish two different takes on military combat, Radar Mission and Game Boy Wars — yes, as in Advance Wars. Later in 1990, Koei would release Nobunaga’s Ambition, and Navy Blue ’90 (a greatly expanded Japan-only sequel to Battleship) would arrive soon as well. Although Power Missiøn beat all these games to market, and two of them didn’t even ship in the U.S., the game ultimately arrived just a bit too early to a genre that was about to explode on Game Boy, and perhaps that explains its obscurity.
And I do mean obscure. Normally whenever I encounter a game I’m poorly suited to analyze, I do considerable research around the web. Power Missiøn, however, doesn’t seem to have inspired a single living person to have published a review online — not even someone dragging the game in GameFAQs’ user reviews. It’s just another forgotten release from VAP and its sister corporation NTVIC: Ultimately little more than detritus from the ’80s Famicom boom from a publisher that would soon bow out of the biz.
VAP and NTVIC (which appear to have been sibling divisions of a single corporation, much as with Pony Canyon and FCI) may not have been long for the world, but developer Graphic Research was just getting started on Game Boy. This was Graphic Research’s first Game Boy creation, and they’d be around for more than a decade following this, publishing dozens of games that… well, frankly, no one remembers. Aside from contributing to a handful of games that saw Western release, including a Digimon game, Graphic Research’s c.v. is an arm-long list of Japanese licensed titles and other niche titles doomed to languish, unknown, in Japan, forgotten even by the Japanese.
So in that sense, Power Missiøn feels like a perfect summation of its own provenance: Decent, unremarkable, obscure, forgotten, quickly overshadowed by better and more famous games that outperformed it both in terms of design and sales. But hey, even forgotten obscurities need love, too. War game fans could probably do worse than hunting down a couple of copies of Power Missiøn to play with a fellow enthusiast. They could do better, too, but sometimes there’s merit in muddling through the middle.
You can download the complete manual scan as a high-resolution PDF here.
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A Farewell Letter: 8 Best PS4 Games
Marko Medakovic
With the new Playstation being released in 2020, we have decided to take a step back and make our list of best PS4 games. Come with us as we reminisce about games which made us fall in love with Sony’s last console.
1. Bloodborne
For the uninitiated, Bloodborne is a spiritual successor to infamous Dark Souls trilogy. It not only combined the best elements of the series but also managed to outshine it. This is an action-horror RPG in which you take the role of a Hunter roaming the streets of the gothic-inspired cities. Bloodborne is a notoriously hard game that will punish your every wrong move, but when you finally get it right, the satisfaction is immense. Visually, the game is as stylistic as they come and features many unforgettable boss battles that will test your nerves. With this one, FromSoftware hit it out of the park. If you are looking for something similar, take a look at their newest game called Sekiro.
Architecture in this game is other-worldly
2. Devil May Cry 5
The latest entry in this badass action series is one of its strongest. We are back in the boots of demon hunter Dante in the latest sequel that delivers a mesmerizing mix of silliness and epicness. Although combat is never lacking, in DMC 5 it has finally realized its full potential and rekindled our love for action games. Sure, you can just start mashing buttons and it may work, but you can choose to explore the intricate fighting system. Aside from Dante, you can also play as Nero and V, both of which have a totally unique playstyle and a story that could easily stand on its own. All of these features make it one of the best PS4 games.
DMC 5 delivers the best fighting mechanics in the series
3. Marvel’s Spider-Man
True, the market has been oversaturated with Spider-Man games, but this one had heart and quality like no other. With it, Marvel has decided to take a chance and offer an alternative take on the popular superhero. We still vividly remember the excellent gameplay mechanic which made swinging through the Manhattan skyline so damn satisfying. The open-ended nature of the game is still incredibly mesmerizing, and can easily occupy you for hours. It is definitely one of the best games in the whole series.
4. God Of War
The expectations were incredibly high, and Sony has managed to surpass them all. We once more play as Kratos, and although he is as pissed as ever, we now see another side of him that added the depth to the series. Of course, the game still offered plenty of violence for the fans who didn’t want to get mushy over the father-son story. Additionally, God of War offered a huge world for us to explore, filled with many secrets and fights that feel like you are watching the best movie ever. Instead, you are playing it. Go figure.
With a long and engaging story, Sony has managed to sharpen all the edges of the game, which certainly wasn’t an easy task. Ultimately, the God of War may very well be the best PS4 game ever, but we will let you be the judge.
God of War had everything: good story, great fights, and breathtaking graphics
5. Horizon Zero Dawn
Horizon Zero Dawn is an epic action RPG that offers plenty of techniques and skills to master. You play as Aloy, in a post-apocalyptic world where humans have switched back to tribal societies. The Earth is now populated with various mechanical creatures, and not all of them will enjoy your presence. Zero Dawn impressed us with a huge open-world that looks and feels alive and rich with things to explore. With a consistently engaging story and a bow-and-arrow playstyle that works excellently, it earned a place in our heart as one of the best PS4 games.
Rich lore of the Horizon Zero Dawn elevates already good game to a whole different level
6. Persona 5
Persona is what happens when you take stylishness of DMC series, sprinkle it with Anime, and add a dose of intricate combat mechanics. You’re once again put in boots of high school students with the power to enter Metaverse, a hidden shadow world, where they steal the hearts of the wicked. Aside from battling, you will also need to develop and grow new relationships and do various interesting tasks between exploring the dungeons filled with bizarre-looking characters.
Watch out though, as Persona 5 is a notoriously long game that might take over 100+ hours to finish. If you don’t mind that, you will be greeted by a weird, trippy world that will continue surprising you every step of the way.
Persona 5 is a truly unique experience
It might have had a rocky start but after few expansions and some major changes, Destiny 2 has finally delivered what we knew it could: interesting quests, challenging raids, and badass boss fights. Bungie has managed to nail the rhythm of the game so that you always have something new to do all year round. The arsenal of weapons is nothing short of amazing, and shooting of the waves of Thralls, Acolytes, and Goblins never gets tedious.
Season of Dawn just came out, so this is a great opportunity to dive deep into the world of Bungie’s amazing multiplayer sci-fi FPS.
With Season of Dawn out, Destiny 2 is at its strongest
8. GTA 5
GTA 5 was released over 6 years ago, and it still hasn’t left the console of many players. The whole series is consistently amazing, but this sequel delivered on a whole another level. We played as multiple characters through a 30-hour campaign that slowly unfolded in a damn good story. Rockstar decided to deliver a story in an episodic structure, and it paid out. Furthermore, developers managed to create a living San Andreas, where anything could happen at any given moment. Compared to its predecessor, nearly every aspect of the game has been improved.
Putting great singleplayer experience aside, we also need to mention a multiplayer aspect, which is still evolving. Challenging other players while building your own criminal empire has never been so fun. We have only one question, “When the hell is the sequel coming out?”.
What more needs to be said about this classic?
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Twitch Rivals finally came out with the list of top-level players that will compete on the Fortnite Streamer Bowl. They will play alongside some of the most popular NFL players in these weekend duos tournament.
Streamer Bowl will be happening in Miami on January 30, right before the Super Bowl kicks off. In total, 16 duos will be fighting for the $ 500, 000, which will go to the charity of their choice.
Streamer Bowl Teams
Fortnite World Cup Winner Bugha will be playing with JuJu Smith-Schuster from Pittsburgh Steelers
LosPollosTV is going to team up with Jamal Adams from New York Jets
Fan-favorite Turner “Tfue” Tenney will partner with Kyler Murray from Arizona Cardinals
TimTheTatman’s back is gonna be covered by Jonathan Abram from Oakland Raiders
Symfuhny and D.K. Metcalf from Seattle Seahawks will do their best to secure the prize
NICKMERCS is practicing with Mike Evans from Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Popular Twitch streamer DrLupo will take his chances with Keenan Allen from L.A. Chargers
Fellow Canadian NickEh30 is teaming up with David Morgan from Minnesota Vikings
Tarik Cohen from Chicago Bears is going for the Victory Royale with Clix
Chap’s partner in crime is Kyle Van Noy coming from the New England Patriots
Reverse2k is going all-in with Baker Mayfield from the Cleveland Browns
BrookeAB, the only female streamer on the list, is partnering up with Eric Ebron from Indianapolis Colts
Aydan is gonna be playing with Kurt Benkert from Atlanta Falcons
UnknownxArmy will do his best with the help of Avonte Maddox of Philadelphia Eagles
Elded will be playing with Arizona Cardinals representative, Kenyan Drake
Lastly, we have NateHill and Eddie Vanderdoes, coming from Houston Texans
You can watch the whole tournament live from the official page. The event will be promoted via Purple Zone video series that will include the hottest Twitch streamers (Tfue, NickEh30, DrLupo, and Mike Evans) and NFL players (DK, Mike Evans, JuJu, and Jamal Adams).
The format of the tournament is still unknown, but Streamer Bowl will start at 3 pm PT on 30th January.
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Tyler “Ninja” Blevins will have his own skin in Fortnite. The streamer made the announcement on Wednesday morning (15) on a broadcast on his Mixer channel. The item is part of the Icon Series, which already has the Marshmello and Major Lazer skins. According to the player, the news comes to the game on Thursday (16), along with the 11.4 update, the first of 2020 at Epic Games Battle Royale. Nevertheless, the skin is only available for three days, leaving the game catalog as early as the 19th.
Skin will be available in update 11.4, which will be released this Thursday (16). (Image: Epic Games)
The character’s look was praised by the streamer. The skin features spiky hair, a blue jacket and hood, and black pants. “(The skin) looks like me,” commented Ninja during the broadcast. Other news involving the player has also come to Battle Royale: an emote, a blingback and a pick are available to the player who purchases the item. You can even vary between four skin customizations.
The title developer plans to release more such items, bringing real-world personalities into the game. Loserfruit and TheGrefg, for example, are also confirmed by Epic Games.
We're bringing the artistic vision, personality and attitude of our top creators to Fortnite with the Icon series, starting with @Ninja!
This is just the beginning of gaming, music, film, and fashion colliding in Fortnite.
Read more here: https://t.co/iIV9SHq3zM
— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) January 15, 2020
Fortnite Update 11.4 also features a new weapon side rank feature. In non-competitive matches, the player may “set aside” the assault rifle as a heavy assault rifle, which returns in this patch. Now it will also be possible to upgrade the rarity of weapons early in the game. New items have also been added, such as the Flint-Knock pistol and the Shockwave and Impulse grenades.
Funds are already nearing the end of Fortnite’s first season, Chapter 2, which began in October last year. The next one is scheduled to start in February, and should bring news such as map changes, battle pass and new item releases.
How to get Ninja skin in Fortnite?
Ninja’s skin will be in store for a limited time, however, and availability will cease once it is removed. The skin will be removed three days later, on January 19.
Ninja’s partnership is part of a new Icons series in which Epic Games collaborates with musicians, artists, movies, fashion and more to bring themed experiences to Fortnite. Past collaborations included Marshmello and Major Lazer. Epic has also confirmed that YouTube creators Loserfruit and The Grefg are future collaborations of the Icons series.
PUBG Season 6 update will soon hit the streets, and with it, we will get a brand new map called Karakin. Here’s all that we know about the upcoming season.
New Desert Map
Karakin didn’t come out of the blue. The devs have already teased us via social media before giving us this badass reveal trailer. Karakin is a desert map set somewhere in North Africa. This will be games 5th map, along with Miramar, Vikendi, Sanhok, and Erangel. Karakin is 2 x 2 km in size, which means it is much smaller than other maps and perfect for fast-paced games. It has also been confirmed that Vikendi will not be available in season 6, but will definitely reappear in the later seasons. However, custom matches in Vikendi will still be available.
Karakin is a 64-player map that will look different every time you play it (Source: PUBG)
If you just can’t wait for it, you can already check Karakin out on a test server. Aside from 5 villages on the shores, much of the map is an open mountainous area, which will be perfect for sniping practice. There are claustrophobic underground bunkers spread throughout the map.
PUBG Season 6 Mechanic: Black Zone
Karakin also comes with a twist – a new mechanic called Black Zone that will completely transform the area inside it. The buildings inside it will sustain big damage or be completely destroyed, so you will have to constantly be on your feet. Devs have developed it to prevent excessive camping and we highly welcome it. Black Zone will also evolve in real-time throughout the match, so a house that was there just a minute ago may become totally flattened. Buildings that get destroyed will be represented with X on the minimap. It will also be totally random, resulting in a different experience every time you play. Watch out for the sound of a siren and quickly evacuate if you are inside the purple circle.
With Black Zone, thinking on your feet will definitely be rewarded in Kakarin (Source: PUBG)
Sticky Bombs And Penetrable Walls
Karakin will also have one unique weapon – Sticky Bombs. You will use them on various Breach points, like weak walls and floors, to create new paths. This will definitely add a new tactical element in the game, as you now have the option to attack enemies from various unexpected angles. Sticky Bombs will also uncover various secret areas that might contain useful loot, so keep your eyes open.
Devs have also decided to add bullet penetration, which will work on the weakest walls in Karakin. Lastly, the new flying vehicle called Motor Glider will also be available in Karakin. The vehicle has 2 seats, making it easy for your teammate to spread fire on enemies below. There are dozens of small things added and you can see full patch notes here.
PUBG Is Here To Stay
PUBG is still very much in race with other Battle Royale games like Apex Legends and Fortnite. Remember, Season 5 was launched in October of 2019, and we’ve already got a new one. Season 6 is coming out at the end of the month, on January 25th.
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Popsicle Sticks
By Garrett Boon on June 13, 2007 -- Modified on October 4, 2016
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Not all popsicle sticks are equal
If you have been given a project of building a popsicle stick bridge, there is something you should know. Probably one half of the popsicle sticks that come from Wal-Mart or other store are bent, twisted, or otherwise deformed. And obviously deformed popsicle sticks won’t be as strong as straight ones. If you don’t pay attention to what popsicle sticks you are putting on your bridge, you could end up with a weak bridge.
Examine the popsicle sticks
Simply looking at the popsicle sticks will give you a good idea on which ones are good and bad. I normally start sorting the popsicle sticks into two piles. All the popsicle sticks I definitely will not use go into one pile, and the better ones into another pile.
You want to eliminate popsicle sticks that are bent, twisted, or have knots. Twisted popsicle sticks are a big problem because they don’t glue flat to each other. This creates a much weaker joint. Some popsicle sticks are shaped in a “U” down their entire length. It could be said these popsicle sticks are shaped like a trough. These are almost as bad as twisted popsicle sticks for the same reason.
Bad Characteristics:
Bad grain structure
Sorting the popsicle sticks
I mentioned above that I make two piles of popsicle sticks: a “bad” pile and a “good” pile. And if I want the bridge to be extremely strong, I split the “good” pile into two new piles. In this second round of sorting, I will examine the grain structure of each popsicle stick, and make sure that each one is perfectly straight. The extra time taken ensures I will have the best of the best popsicle sticks.
Grain Structure
The grain structure on popsicle sticks can be hard to see. But if you really want the absolute best sticks, you need to consider the grain. You want the grain to be parallel to the stick, and not on a diagonal. This is especially important for popsicle sticks that will be in tension.
Good grain structure
Weak grain structure
Bad curve in grain structure
How much does a popsicle stick weigh?
I found the average weight of a popsicle stick to be 1.49 grams. To find this average, I weighed 71 popsicle sticks picked randomly from my box of 1000 and weighed them with my gram scale.
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23 thoughts on “Popsicle Sticks”
What are good qualities of a Popsicle truss bridge?
By Legend -- November 1, 2017
How much is the width of the popsicle stick? Well, if you dont know the answer, could you tell me how much popsicle sticks that I need if I am going to glue on a 30×30 cm cardboard?
By Kei -- April 12, 2017
Have you ever made a bridge that you put under a car of a tire because that’s my Science Project
By Brandon -- January 7, 2014
i am making a popsicle bridge in class we are tring to make it have 199 lb.
By Faith Oostra -- September 20, 2011
thank you so much my bridge got 93 pounds before collapsing
By Josh -- April 10, 2011
Please Help Me, its Urgent!!!
I am building a popsicle stick bridge for a science fair. Requirements: The bridge must be 90 cm long, 7-9 cm wide, and no taller than 15 cm. It also needs to be less than 200 grams. What design would you recommend for this bridge? I’ve tried some but they don’t seem to be strong enough to hold 100 lbs or more. I would really appreciate your help, thanks.
By Sherri -- April 5, 2011
If you use a basic truss, such as the Warren, Pratt or Howe, you will be set up for success. The next key is figuring out where you need to reinforce the bridge in order to hold that weight. If you plug your design into the Bridge Designer (http://www.jhu.edu/virtlab/bridge/truss.htm) it will help you see which parts of the bridge will be holding the most weight.
By Garrett Boon -- April 6, 2011
hi the bridge designer website you mentioned above is no avaliable any more can you direct me to another one please.
thanks heaps
By Alec -- August 25, 2011
Alec, sorry there was a typo. Try the link again and it should work.
By Garrett Boon -- August 28, 2011
The link to the virtual bridge builder has an unsupported plug-in. Is there an up-to-date virtual bridge builder you recommend? I will be working with students on Chromebooks to design popsicle bridges in a couple of weeks.
By Katrina Clark -- August 28, 2019
Katrina,
Yes, the old Bridge Designer no longer works. However, there is a new version called Bridge Simulator, also hosted by Johns Hopkins. It is more complex, but also more powerful than the old version:
https://ei.jhu.edu/truss-simulator/
By Joshua -- April 4, 2011
That’s a hard design. Here is a bridge I built using only 40 popsicle sticks. But it was only 13 inches long, and held 90 pounds over a span of 12 inches. You could use a similar design but make it slightly longer.
I need a good desing to hold 50-100lbs with 40 sticks
By Josh -- April 3, 2011
Josh, how long does your bridge need to be?
I need help thinking of a good design for a bridge with a maximum of 500 sticks that can carry close to 300lbs.
By lyla -- January 13, 2011
Lyla, for design ideas check out my truss design page.
300lbs is 300 pounds dont you mean 300 grams
By william -- May 2, 2015
i need blueprints that i can print out or something cause i have a school project and it has to be 14 inches and can suport up to 110 pounds help please
By jordan -- September 7, 2010
Hey Jordan, check out my blueprints here:
http://www.garrettsbridges.com/store#ecwid:category=277341&mode=product&product=264910
As a parent whose kid doesn’t remember or take notes on “the” project your website was a life saver!!! The classroom instructions had the basics but I needed much more information
I find out today how well our bridge went.
Thank you for putting the information on the internet.
By Jane Ellis -- February 24, 2010
Dr. Kumar, you might want to check out my 5 Steps to Building a Model Bridge ebook on this page:
http://www.garrettsbridges.com/design/5steps/
By Garrett Boon -- July 31, 2008
Hi.. there…
We are planning to organize a students’ activity program related to Civil Engineering.
Could you please, send us some useful materials for organizing “brifge models”? We expect tips to build ‘model bridges, residentials buildings etc”.
Thank you for your valuable help.
Dr P R Kumar
Department of Civil Engineeirng
Kanjirappally, Koovappally
Kerala – 686518
Web: http://dr.prkumar.googlepages.com
By Dr P R Kumar -- July 29, 2008
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Ideal for those days when it's not too hot, the Waffel oder Becher on Berlin-Mitte's Spandauer Straße serves a very nice warm waffle with a whole host of choice for toppings, including various homemade sauces or an ice cream scoop. Crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, these freshly-made waffles are pretty much perfect, as well as an eye-treat – and thus an extra point for those Instagram fans. If you lean more towards cakes, don't miss out on trying the cheesecake. There's also a great selection of coffees, teas, hot chocolates and fruity shakes.
On warm days, their artisan ice cream – creamy and full of flavor – is worth a trip from anywhere! Standouts among the more quirky flavors are the "Maracuja Mascarpone" or the vegan "Mandarine with Thai Basil and Ginger".
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Time continues to run out for some shelter animals
'Shelter Me' filmmaker works to find homes for pets
Time continues to run out for some shelter animals 'Shelter Me' filmmaker works to find homes for pets Check out this story on greenbaypressgazette.com: http://gbpg.net/1tNlXiS
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Aimee Sadler teaches animal shelters how to do play groups with their dogs in the PBS series "Shelter Me.” Instead of keeping the dogs isolated in kennels, the dogs get to play and learn from each other.(Photo: AP)
Any animal can end up at a public shelter, but most of them won't stay long. There, millions of dogs and cats face euthanasia, driving one filmmaker to turn his camera into a lifesaver.
Workers at several of the shelters, where no animal is turned away, say pets have a champion in Steven Latham, who directs and produces a PBS series called "Shelter Me," featuring animals that are running out of time. Seeing the urgency, he took his efforts a step further, starting a website, helping set up adoption events and coordinating flights full of pooches to cities able to get them adopted.
"The pets at open admission shelters need our help the most," said Latham, who has made other documentary films and series for PBS and Netflix.
With thousands of public shelters nationwide and just as many no-kill rescues and other animal welfare groups, finding loving homes for pets has become a battleground. Latham believes pets at public shelters should get priority, underscoring the intense competition that exists between the no-kill movement and shelters that euthanize.
Latham's "Shelter Me" series, presented by Ellen DeGeneres' natural pet food company — Halo, Purely for Pets — has filmed several shelter animals that became service, therapy and search-and-rescue dogs, or just good pets. Each documentary episode tells two or three stories.
In this March 25, 2014 photo provided by Shelter Me, Bill Andeson kisses his dog, Hitch, formerly named Knuckles. Hitch was flown from the Downey Animal Shelter in Los Angeles in March to Northern Idaho where he was adopted in two days.This dog was on an air transport that flew shelter pets from overcrowded shelters to the northwest in "Shelter Me: New Beginnings." (Photo: AP)
Episode 4, "Shelter Me: New Beginnings," is scheduled to premiere in Los Angeles on Oct. 8 and features volunteers in Idaho welcoming a plane packed with shelter dogs from Southern California. It also shows a trainer teaching shelters how to hold play groups for pooches. The next episode is tentatively set for February 2015 and will highlight how East Coast police departments turn shelter dogs into K-9s.
Before the first episode of the series aired in March 2012, Latham spent a year visiting shelters around the country. Last year, he started ShelterMe.com, where people can find pets facing euthanasia.
Twenty-five shelters in California, Idaho, New York, Massachusetts and North Carolina post photos, videos and stories about animals that need homes. Thousands of pets have been featured on the site, and most of them were adopted or taken in by a rescue, Latham said.
He has given a leg up to Animal Care Services of Long Beach, California, which was nearly full last week with 112 dogs, 138 cats, and some rabbits and turtles, said Kelly Miott, the shelter's outreach coordinator.
"We have really limited space here," she said. "That's why Steven supports us. Euthanasia is a fact of life. We are what the no-kill people are trying to get rid of."
Miott said she tried for years to get dogs from Long Beach on airlifts to other cities without success, but Latham made it possible. He also connected her to a store where she could hold weekend adoption fairs.
Members of the no-kill movement are "scaring volunteers away because they are making it very clear that animals are dying at our shelter. We don't try to hide that," Miott said.
Francis Battista, co-founder of Best Friends Animal Society, a leading no-kill organization based in Utah, said finger-pointing won't help animals.
"The no-kill movement seeks to collaborate with and support open admission shelters that are committed to do whatever it takes to end the killing of healthy, treatable shelter pets," Battista said.
Latham's website helped Alexandra Spinner of Los Angeles find a perfect feline companion last year.
"It wasn't just a one-sided picture of a cat, but an interactive opportunity to know the animal more intimately," she said. "I wanted a lap cat, and she was sitting there in a bright room, being petted. Had I not seen that video, I might have passed her by."
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Colonel Dhoni to carry out patrolling, post duty in Kashmir
MS Dhoni with his army colleagues during a training session. File
India cricket legend M.S. Dhoni is to go on a tour of duty in Indian Kashmir after skipping a tour of the West Indies with the national team to join his regiment, a military source said on Thursday.
The 38-year-old Dhoni, an honorary lieutenant colonel in a reserve force, will go on patrols with the 106 Para TA Battalion during his stint in the troubled region where tens of thousands have died since an insurgency erupted three decades ago.
"Mahendra Singh Dhoni will be deployed in Kashmir with his regiment between July 31 and Aug.15," an army source told AFP on condition of anonymity.
"He will be doing patrols, guard and post duties," the source added. Dhoni is to spend two months with the military in all.
The honour was accorded to him by the Indian Army in 2011. Dhoni was given this honour along with Abhinav Bindra and Deepak Rao.
In 2015, the Ranchi lad became a qualified paratrooper after having completed five parachute training jumps from Indian Army aircrafts in the Agra training camp.
Dhoni, who led India to their 2011 World Cup triumph, got into trouble during the World Cup in England for having his regiment's insignia on his wicketkeeper's gloves.
When he opted out of the West Indies series, that starts August 3, speculation mounted that he may retire.
The wicketkeeper-batsman gave up Test cricket in 2014 but remained India's mainstay in limited-overs and is often seen as a key aide to skipper Virat Kohli.
His uneven form at the World Cup set off talk of retirement even though the country's chief selector said the board would not tell any individual when to quit.
India, who lost their World Cup semi-final to New Zealand, have been grooming Rishabh Pant to take over as number one wicketkeeper.
India and West Indies will play three Twenty20 internationals, three one-day matches and two Tests.
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Editor's comment: I welcome licensing of landlords
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Grim conditions at a private rented home in Hackney. Picture: HACKNEY COUNCIL
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Vishal Vora is right: the penalties in Hackney's rogue landlord scheme are pretty harsh.
But here’s the thing: I don’t think I know anyone who hasn’t had a nightmare experience at the hands of a private landlord.
The point isn’t actually to enact the penalties but to encourage people to do the right thing so they don’t get punished at all.
The surge in private renting is the flip side of the bottom falling out of social housing over the last 30 or 40 years. At the end of 2017, Inside Housing magazine revealed that at least 40 per cent of homes sold under Right to Buy were now in the hands of private landlords.
And with that have come, in many cases, spiralling, unpredictable rents, unstable and even illegal tenancies, and very little anyone can do if their toilet breaks and their ceiling collapses.
Sure, these things happen in council properties too, and a cash-strapped local authority at times seems hopelessly underequipped to deal with them, especially when they are endemic – hence, perhaps, the decision to offload so much stock onto housing associations. But there is an ombudsman; there are complaints procedures; there are standing orders; and the rent is very unlikely to double overnight in a council house.
From my experience, the rot sets in with private renting when relationships between landlords and tenants are obscured by economies of scale: by landlords having not one house that their parents died in to let out, but an entire portfolio; when estate agents are the exclusive intermediaries between the two, making conversations longer, costlier and more fractious.
If you have more property than you can look after without hiring a business whose purpose is to extract more money from the financially precarious, you probably own too many houses. The council being willing to fight their corner is no bad thing.
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Edinburgh explains decision to stick with Brill over Sargeant in FA Trophy
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Leyton Orient head coach Justin Edinburgh and coach Danny Webb (right) look on from the touchline against Beaconsfield Town (pic: Simon O'Connor).
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The O's head coach opted against giving youngster Sam Sargeant an opportunity against Beaconsfield Town
Leyton Orient defender Jayden Sweeney looks for an option against Beaconsfield Town (pic: Simon O'Connor).
Justin Edinburgh has admitted Leyton Orient goalkeeper Sam Sargeant may feature in the second round of the FA Trophy despite first-choice Dean Brill starting the 4-0 win over Beaconsfield Town on Saturday.
The clash in E10 against the Southern League Premier Division South club seemed a good chance to give 21-year-old Sargeant a first competitive appearance since the 3-0 loss at Torquay United on November 25 2017 in the National League.
However, after making seven changes elsewhere, Edinburgh decided to stick with his number one Brill, who has played every single minute since the O’s head coach took charge over a year ago.
He said: “The second round could possibly be a chance for Sam. There is a chance for everyone and it is just what I feel at the time.
“It is not anything other than the fact we needed to not make too many changes and I think that was one (position) we felt we should stick with.”
Edinburgh continued: “There was that thought (about starting Sargeant), but it is an important position and with so many changes I didn’t want to unbalance the team too much, especially with young Jayden Sweeney in there.
“I thought Jayden was excellent, especially given he turned 17 last week. He put in a quite incredible performance and he is another who will have a big future in front of him.”
The Orient youth-teamer took his opportunity on the left side of an O’s back four, which was much-changed to the defence Edinburgh normally selects in the league.
At the heart of it were Dan Happe and George Elokobi with the latter captaining the team which hosted Beaconsfield.
Orient’s stand-in skipper made the breakthrough in the 17th minute when defensive partner Happe had been denied following a free kick.
It took until the 54th minute for the hosts to double their advantage, but it eventually arrived when Craig Clay found James Brophy and he drilled in at the near post.
Further strikes by Clay and Gorman added gloss to the scoreline as O’s made it into the second round with no scares.
The performance of Sweeney was a real highlight from the day with the first-year scholar producing an accomplished display with his assured first touch in particular standing out.
Edinburgh added: “Jayden has earned the right. He has been training with the first-team group for a while now and I have seen him develop very quickly.
“He only left school in the summer, but he has huge potential and a big future in front of him and he showed that with an assured performance.”
One player who was missing was James Dayton after he underwent surgery last week to repair a tear in his cartilage in his knee.
It looks set to keep him out for around 12 weeks and will force Orient to be active in the transfer market.
Director of football Martin Ling has been looking for options along with chief scout Steve Foster and a discussion with owners Nigel Travis and Kent Teague will take place at some point this week.
“They (Travis and Teague) are in a different country, so myself and Martin Ling have had discussions and we will have a board call this week and see where we can look to improve,” Edinburgh concluded.
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New Apple iPad 3 [Full Review & Pictures]
March 10th, 2012 Waqas Android, Apple News, iPad, News, Technology News 0 comments
Apple has been progressing by leaps and bounds. It has recently announced Apple iPad 3 Wi-Fi+4G. It was announced this month, i.e. March, 2012 and has to be on the rampage soon.
This sleek apple design will support GSM 850, 900, 1800, 1900 on 2G network, HSDPA 850, 1800, 1900, 900 and CDMA 2000 2xEVDO (Verizon package) in 3G network and will support LTE 700 MHz class 13 for Verizon, class 17, and 2100 for AT&T.
It weighs about 660 grams and its dimension is 9.50×7.31 inches (lxb) and its depth is just 0.37 inches. Its screen size is 9.8 inches, 1536×2048 pixels (264 pixels per inch pixel density). It supports multi-touch and one of the many best things is its Scratch-resistant glass which is covered with aloephobic coating. Moreover, this elegant Apple iPad 3 is capacitive touch-screen with 16M colors and LED-backlit IPS TFT screen.
The internal memory of this impressive gadget is 16.32 or 64 GB and has a loudspeaker with 3.5 mm audio jack for ear phones. Along with these the other attractive features of iPad 3 are GPRS, EDGE technology, 802.11 Wi-Fi, A2DP version 4 Bluetooth and version 2 USB. In HSDPA, the speed of the iPAD 3 is 21Mbps, in LTE it is 73 Mbps, in REV.A, it is up to 3.2 Mbps and in HSUPA the speed is 5.76 Mbps.
Both the primary and secondary cameras are available and primary camera is 5 mega pixels with touch focus, face detection, high dynamic range and geo-tagging features. Secondary camera is VGA which is only for video calling through Wi-Fi so it can be managed. It also records video at 1080 pixels at 30 frames per second.
The heart of any phone or any machine is its operating system and this time its Apple machine and has iOS 5.1 operating system and Apple A5X chipset. The general processing unit is SGX543MP4 (quad core graphics) Power VR whereas central processing unit is Cortex A-9 Dual-core 1 GHz. It also has GPD with A-GPS support and has Safari browser which is an HTML browser.
Other features of the iPAD 3 include micro SIM support, SIRI commands and dictions, twitter integrated, iBook PDF reader, Google maps, TV-Output, Picture viewer and editor, media player with MP3, MP4, AAC, WAV support, iCloud service, iMessage, IM, E-mail and Push E-mail.
The iPAD 3 is available in 2 colors black and white and ha standard Lipo battery 42.5. Moreover, its stand-by time is expected to be 750 hours and talk time is expected to me about 10-12 hours.
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H&M Is Collaborating With Moschino on Its Next Designer Collection
Jeremy Scott announced the news at Coachella.
By Amy Mackelden
Apr 15 2018, 2:23 pm EDT
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H&M has just secured its next designer collaborator. Announcing the news at Coachella, Jeremy Scott revealed that he'd be working with the high street brand on a new collection.
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Scott revealed the news at the Moschino party, by projecting a call from Gigi Hadid onto the big screens at the event.
H&M quickly confirmed the news on Instagram, revealing that the collection will launch on November 8, 2018. The brand wrote, "We told you to stand by—and now we can finally tell you. We're collaborating with fashion's most fun and charismatic brand, @MOSCHINO." Put the date in your diary, right now.
We told you to stand by — and now we can finally tell you. We're collaborating with fashion's most fun and charismatic brand, @MOSCHINO ❤️📺 To be released 8 Nov 2018. — REACT NOW at #HMOSCHINO
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According to an official press release, "H&M’s next designer collaboration is with MOSCHINO—the iconic Italian brand to which Jeremy Scott has injected a new pop energy since he became Creative Director in 2013. The collection, MOSCHINO [tv] H&M, will be available online and in select H&M stores worldwide."
Apparently the new collection, MOSCHINO [tv] H&M, is filled with "vitality, playfulness and humor," and comprises a "full range of accessories and some extra surprises too."
H&M has previously worked with designers including Balmain, Karl Lagerfeld, Stella McCartney, Alexander Wang, Versace, Erdem, and Marni, and their collaboration with Moschino is likely to sell out quickly.
Of the partnership, Scott revealed in a press release, "I am so excited about MOSCHINO [tv] H&M. My life's work has been to connect with people through fashion, and with this collaboration I’ll be able to reach more of my fans than I’ve ever had the ability to do."
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The Latest: Trump to watch military parade at Windsor Castle
BRUSSELS (AP) – The Latest on President Donald Trump's trip to Europe (all times local):
Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II will welcome President Donald Trump and his wife Melania at Windsor Castle where they will watch a military march before having tea on Friday.
The palace said Wednesday the president will be greeted by an honor guard formed of the Coldstream Guards and will receive a royal salute before the U.S. national anthem is played.
Trump and the queen will review the honor guard before watching a military parade. Trump and his wife will then have tea with the queen inside the castle.
The palace did not specify if the queen's husband Prince Philip would attend. Philip, 97, has retired from public duties but sometimes appears in public with the queen.
The visit is part of Trump's first trip to Britain since becoming president.
President Donald Trump is asserting that Germany is "totally controlled" by and "captive to Russia" over a pipeline project during a testy breakfast with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (yehnz STOHL'-tehn-burg).
Trump is taking issue with the U.S. protecting Germany when the European nation is making energy deals with Russia.
The president appeared to be refe
The president appeared to be referring to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that would double the amount of gas Russia can send directly to Germany, skirting transit countries such as Ukraine. The project is opposed by the U.S. and some other EU members.
Trump says of Germany: "We're supposed to protect you against Russia" and yet you make this deal with Russia.
Stoltenberg pushed back, stressing that NATO members have been able to work together despit
Stoltenberg pushed back, stressing that NATO members have been able to work together despite their differences.
President Donald Trump is pressing NATO allies to bolster their defense spending as he opens talks with leaders of the military alliance. Trump says the disproportionate defense spending an "unfair burden on the United States."
Trump is saying at the start of his meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg that "because of me" NATO has raised more than $40 billion in defense spending.
Trump says, "So I think the secretary general likes Trump. He may be the only one but that's OK with me."
The U.S. president has called upon NATO allies to meet commitments to spend 2 percent of their GDP on defense.
Stoltenberg says "a strong NATO is good for Europe."
President Donald Trump is meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (yehnz STOHL'-tehn-burg) at the start of a summit of the military alliance.
Trump is expected to continue questioning wary NATO allies about their military spending during talks in Brussels.
He tweeted en route from Washington that European counties "want us to happily defend them through NATO, and nicely pay for it. Just doesn't work!"
Trump's day will include a welcome ceremony, a meeting of the North Atlantic Council and a working dinner with some of the same leaders he berated over trade during his last world leaders' summit in Canada last month.
Brussels is the first stop of a week-long European tour that will include stops in the United Kingdom and a meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin.
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September-October 2019, Volume 16, Issue 5
The Bone Marrow Microenvironment in Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Laura M. Calvi, MD Dean's Professor of Medicine, Endocrine Division
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Jane L. Liesveld, MD Professor of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology Division
The bone marrow microenvironment is known to play a role in the regulation of normal hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). In recent years, many laboratories have contributed mechanistic data identifying different cellular constituents and signals that regulate not only the most primitive HSCs, but also more differentiated progenitors. From this work, we know that the bone marrow microenvironment is heterogeneous, with multiple niches likely supporting heterogeneous stem and progenitor pools. Concurrently, targeting the cancer microenvironment has revolutionized the treatment strategy for patients with solid organ tumors. However, with the notable exception of multiple myeloma, in which the role of the microenvironment has long been acknowledged and targeted, in other cancers of the hematopoietic system, current therapeutic strategies focus primarily on the diseased clone. In this Mini Review, we discuss the current understanding of the role of the bone marrow microenvironment in myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), disorders with often dismal prognosis and few approved and effective treatment modalities, with the aim of advocating for novel therapeutic opportunities targeting the microenvironment.
Conceptual and Experimental Arguments for the Role of the Microenvironment in MDS Pathogenesis
Recent work has highlighted the mutational heterogeneity of MDS. Data show that most mutations are represented in both low- and high-risk MDS, and that multiple mutations are often present in the same individual.1 While efforts should certainly be aimed at targeting the clonal mutations, focusing on the bone marrow microenvironment may provide a strategy based on stereotyped interactions of clonal cells with mesenchymal and immune cell populations2,3 in the marrow that may cooperate with individual mutations in determining disease pathology and outcomes. Such approaches could complement clone-targeted treatments. Conceptually, certain characteristics of MDS suggest a role of the microenvironment in contributing to disease pathogenesis. Most investigators support the concept that the cell of origin for MDS is within the stem cell pool — a population typically thought to be more resistant to mutations given its quiescence. Yet in MDS there is clonal expansion in the setting of mutations that ordinarily would not provide an intrinsic advantage at least in vitro, suggesting that non-cell autonomous forces may drive clonal selection in the bone marrow. Additionally, deep-sequencing studies have shown the presence of residual normal hematopoiesis in the setting of clonal disease. Based on the potential of normal HSCs to reconstitute the entire hematopoietic system, the development of marrow failure is therefore conceptually surprising and implies the inhibition of normal hematopoiesis by environmental signals. Given the complex homeostatic system known to maintain the synthetic function of the hematopoietic marrow, more functional mutational clones or nonmutated stem cells would be expected to contribute preferentially to hematopoiesis. Therefore, clonal emergence of severely dysfunctional MDS clones remains poorly unexplained without invoking contribution from the bone marrow microenvironment.
In addition to these conceptual arguments, in MDS there is abundant experimental evidence to support disruption of the normal environment and its hijacking to improve support of the malignant clone. Multiple studies have reported data showing that mesenchymal stromal cells from patients with MDS exhibit functional deficits in vitro.4 These cell populations were found to have impaired growth capacity, accelerated senescence, impaired osteogenic differentiation, and diminished capacity to support HSCs.5 Additionally, in follow up to the observation that human MDS cells engraft poorly in xenotransplantation models, studies showed that cotransplantation of MDS-derived mesenchymal stromal cells improves human MDS cell engraftment.6 Together these data suggest a model of pathogenic reciprocal interactions in the MDS microenvironment where MDS-derived signals disrupt normal HSCs and progenitor cells directly as well as through induction of a dysfunctional bone marrow microenvironment that insufficiently supports normal hematopoiesis but instead facilitates MDS clonal expansion (Figure).
Signals From MDS That Induce Microenvironmental Disruption
Not only is experimental evidence building to show disruption of the bone marrow microenvironment in the setting of MDS, but in fact, data are being used to identify dependence of bone marrow microenvironmental abnormalities on the presence of MDS stem and progenitor cells. For example, there are data showing that exposure of normal mesenchymal cells to MDS marrow could induce these cells to become supportive of MDS.6 Additionally, a large body of work is showing the importance of inflammation in MDS.7 For example, aberrancies found in MDS (5q–) and also in clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (Tet2 mutations) are capable of initiating an inflammatory program that can be acquired by normal bone marrow mesenchymal cells.6,8-11 To date, however, strategies to target these inflammatory signals have not been extensively tested in therapeutic settings.
Impact of Microenvironmental Disruption on Signals That Support HSCs
Studies of the bone marrow microenvironment have revealed a dominant role of mesenchymal-osteolineage cells in the production of critical HSC maintenance factors such as CXCL12, KIT ligand (stem cell factor), and angiopoietin-1.12-16 These signals contribute to regulation of HSC retention, proliferation, and differentiation that are necessary for maintenance of hematopoietic homeostasis. With MDS-induced dysfunction of this supportive mesenchymal cell population, decreased HSC function would be expected to follow.17 Indeed, genetically altered murine models have demonstrated that defects in mesenchymal and osteoprogenitor populations are sufficient to drive the emergence of not only MDS but also acute myeloid leukemia and myeloproliferative neoplasms.18-20 In the setting of myeloproliferative neoplasms or MDS, in murine models and human samples, the microenvironment demonstrates decreased HSC-supportive signals, including decreased CXCL12, increased stromal cell senescence, abnormal remodeling of blood vessels, osteoblastic defects, and marrow neural damage. It is also the source of disruptive inflammatory signals such as transforming growth factor β (TGFβ), the alarmins S100A9 and S100A8, interleukin-1β (IL1β). and the chemokine CCL3.19,21-29 Data have also shown that some of these inflammatory signals may be generated by the MDS clone.26,27 Therefore, numerous signals from the microenvironment have already come to light that could cooperate with clonal mutations and could represent potential therapeutic MDS targets.
Microenvironmental Targeting Strategies
Identification of the signals that govern reciprocal interactions of MDS and the bone marrow microenvironment is ongoing, and some of the recently identified targets are already being studied, often by repurposing therapies previously approved for other disorders. For example, identification of activation of the inflammasome (NLRP3) in 5q– MDS provides rationale for examining the impact of TLR/TRAF6 inhibitors, NLRP3 inhibitors and IL1 signaling inhibitors. Similarly, inhibitors are available for TGFβ and chemokines such as CCL3, making therapeutic targeting of the microenvironment feasible.
It is our opinion that several factors limit the impact of this work in MDS. First, the genetic heterogeneity of MDS and the frequent co-occurrence of mutations make MDS difficult to model in vivo. Whether different mutations or their combinations induce unique microenvironmental responses remains unknown and should continue to be an active area of research. Second, one of the key populations responsible for HSC support (mesenchymal stromal cells) are extremely rare and remain poorly defined in the human marrow, with lack of consensus as to isolation and definition of these populations. Therefore, studies identifying these populations are often difficult to compare. However, given the availability of agents to potentially target MDS–microenvironment reciprocal signals, the potential for novel therapies that could finally change MDS prognosis by rationally targeting both the MDS clone and its microenvironment should continue to drive discovery and clinical investigation.
Acknowledgements: The authors thank their laboratory members and Dr. Michael W. Becker for helpful discussion. Supported by funds from the Department of Defense, the Mangurian Foundation, the Taub Foundation, and funds from the James P. Wilmot Cancer Institute.
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New industry initiative aims to enhance transparency and drive improvements
More sustainability in the chemical supply chain
In order to enhance sustainability within the supply chain the chemical companies BASF, Bayer, Evonik Industries, Henkel, LANXESS and Solvay joined forces in the Together for Sustainability (TfS) initiative. The TfS initiative has successfully concluded its first year of piloting sustainability assessments and audits in global supply chains.
TfS aims at developing and implementing a global supplier engagement program that assesses and improves sustainability sourcing practices, including ecological and social aspects. Participating suppliers will now only have to complete one form instead of multiple questionnaires with the relevant sustainability information provided to all participating buyers who would otherwise need separate sustainability assessment or audits from these suppliers. The initiative is based on good practices and builds on established principles – such as the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) and the Responsible Care Global Charter as well as standards developed by the International Labor Organization (ILO), the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Social Accountability International (SAI) and others.
Third Party Assessments and Audits
The TfS initiative involves assessments and audits of suppliers by independent experts:
Assessments: TfS selected EcoVadis, a Paris-based rating company in sustainable supply management, as its partner for supplier sustainability scorecards. Assessment results and scorecard ratings are shared within TfS on a web-based collaborative platform.
Audits: TfS separately is working with independent audit firms to measure the supplier's sustainability performance against a pre-defined set of audit criteria tailored to the requirements of the chemical industry. They include management, environment, health & safety, labor & human rights, and governance topics. Audits comprise on-site examination covering, for example, production facilities, warehouses and office buildings.
During the initiative’s pilot phase, TfS members have initiated about 2,000 assessments and audits. In the next phase of implementation, which draws on the learnings from the successful pilot phase, TfS will increase its activities to further procurement markets and will look to continue growing by onboarding new members.
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"Creative Destruction" - Why Cabala is Satanic
Our "leaders" are all Cabalists (Freemasons)
The Cabalist dogma of "Creative Destruction"
explains why humanity seems cursed by
never-ending crises and catastrophes.
They are engineered by the Illuminati to
attack and destroy anything that smacks
of the healthy divine order -- spiritual or natural.
They must destroy the old order before they
can install their Communist tyranny.
(From Nov 25, 2015) before they can install their
by Henry Makow Ph.D
The Cabalist Doctrine of Destruction provides a key to understanding world events.
According to the Cabala, which is the secret doctrine of Judaism and Freemasonry, "Evil and catastrophe [are] endemic factors in the process of creation. Without evil there could be no good, without destruction, creation could not take place." (Kabbalah: An Introduction to Jewish Mysticism, by Byron L. Sherwin, p. 72.)
Cabalists believe the Old (Christian) Order must be ruthlessly destroyed before the New (Satanic) World Order, based on the Kabbalah, can be built.
Hence, the Illuminati motto: "Order Out of Chaos." Hence, the Communist Manifesto advocates the destruction of nation, religion, and family and the transfer of all private wealth to the Illuminati bankers, in the guise of the state.
The Doctrine of Destruction explains why war and revolution have been characterized by gratuitous genocide, terror and destruction.
It explains the banishment of God from public discourse and the widespread acceptance of obscenity, pornography, and the occult. It explains the attack on gender and the promotion of homosexuality to heterosexuals. It explains the spate of false-flag terror that is a hallmark of modern life.
The present-day Illuminati grew out of the satanic "Sabbatean-Frankist" Jewish heresy in the 17th and 18th centuries. The bankers and half the Jews of Europe adopted this pestilence and spread it to the Gentile elites through Freemasonry.
Thus, Illuminati Jews characterize the "Jewish" role in terms of the destruction of civilization.
For example, in the book "You Gentiles" (1924) Maurice Samuel writes:
"In everything, we are destroyers--even in the instruments of destruction to which we turn for relief...We Jews, we, the destroyers, will remain the destroyers forever. Nothing that you will do will meet our needs and demands. We will forever destroy because we want a world of our own." (p. 155)
In 1928, Marcus Ravage, a Jewish Rothschild biographer wrote an essay entitled, "The Real Case Against the Jews."
"You have not begun to appreciate the real depth of our guilt. We are intruders. We are disturbers. We are subverters. We have taken your natural world, your ideals, your destiny, and played havoc with them. We have been at the bottom not merely of the latest great war but of nearly all your wars, not only of the Russian but of every other major revolution in your history. We have brought discord and confusion and frustration into your personal and public life. We are still doing it. No one can tell how long we shall go on doing it."
(THE CENTURY MAGAZINE, JANUARY 1928, Vol. 115, No. 3, pp. 346-350.)
Most Jews (and liberals/leftists in general) are unaware of this cabalistic plot. They have been duped by spurious appeals to ideals of "social justice" and "equality."
WHY THE CABALA IS SATANIC
Religio means "to go within" i.e. "to know and obey" God. In any true religion, God comprises absolute spiritual ideals -- love, truth, justice, goodness, beauty, harmony -- pure and unalloyed. God is nothing if not Moral - i.e. Good.
Evil is the absence of God, just as darkness is the absence of light.
(Cabalists Trump and his dad)
The Cabala says God is unknowable and has no form. This is Satanism. You cannot obey God if you cannot know Him.
"To the Cabalist, God is an infinite Sea of Being (En Sof) without any limit; hence without any qualities, without desire or will of any kind. He is totally incomprehensible. " (Jacob Angus, The Meaning of Jewish History (1963) p. 286.
In fact, God is perfection, the form necessary for human evolution. Be ye therefore perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect. (Mathew 5-48)
True religion assumes God is present in the human soul. Obeying this voice, conscience is what makes us human.
Anyone who denies the existence of God is a Satanist, not an atheist.
The Cabala is satanic because it says evil is part of God: "God has two sides; [both] are essentially one thing; what we experience as evil is as Divine as what we experience as good."
Hence the expression gaining currency today: "It's all good."
The Cabalist exegesis continues:
"Many texts in the Kabbalah, including the Zohar, say that the task is not to destroy evil but to return it to its source -- to "include the left within the right," in the Zoharic metaphor, "to uplift the fallen sparks" in the Lurianic one. In Chabad Hasidism, it is stated that evil exists as part of the Divine revelation itself. Indeed, to think that evil really is separate from God is, itself, the essence of evil, which is precisely the illusion of separation."
"Letting go of the reality of separate evil, and really accepting that the sitra achra [impurity, occult, evil] is a side of Divinity, is easy on paper and very difficult in reality. ... Still, to the extent it is possible to do so, the notion is indeed life-changing. Everything is a flavor of Divinity."
Cabalists also believe in "redemption through sin" i.e. deliberately flaunting the Old Law by doing evil (adultery, incest, pedophilia.) The destruction of civilization (i.e. chaos) will provoke the return of the Messiah (the anti-Christ) who will rebuild the world according to Kabbalist specifications, with the Illuminati bankers playing God.
This is all Satanism. God is inherently good. In a true religion, you do not obey God by doing evil, or by pretending evil is part of God.
SATANICALLY POSSESSED
Call it illuminism, secularism, Luciferianism, humanism, paganism or the occult: It's all Kabbalah.
Modern Western civilization has no moral legitimacy (and no future) because it is based on a rebellion against God, who represents the path of our spiritual development.
Humanity had been hijacked by psychopaths intent on destroying the "old order" and building a bizarre, solipsistic, violent, depraved dystopia in its place.
These psychopaths control our government's credit and mass media. Thus, they are able to purchase our leaders and dupe society into embracing its own downfall.
Related - David Livingstone - Cabalist "Creative Destruction" Behind Syrian War
Makow - Do Cabalists Plan to Cull the Goyim?
Ex-Chabad Member Exposes Trump Family Cult
Meditation on the Jewish Revolutionary Spirit
"Liberals are Unwitting Shills for Communism, Satanism"
Zionists Take Credit for Iraq War
The Kabbala is a Hoax
Livingstone- The NWO's Satanic Bible
The Cabala paradigm permeates our lives, so it's useful to know a bit about it. We're not talking about the cult in L.A. that Madonna plays around with.
I think you encapsulated it very well a while back when you summed up Kabbalistic thought as "saying is believing " instead of "seeing is believing." That's the part that's been introduced into the way we think today. That's the hook, since it's very tempting to think "I can create reality to suit my own desires".
Some will remember "The Secret" video that came out of nowhere in 2006. The word Kabbalah isn't mentioned once in "The Secret" but it's an intro to Kabbalistic thinking.
Then there is the "Luciferic Initiation" that the New Age Theosophist David Spangler talked about in the 1970's. I've got news - everybody that watched television and movies growing up, that read comic books, that listened to rock music or pop music whatever it is, even those who played with Barbie Dolls has been through Spangler's Luciferic Initiation.
I'll make it simple; when one has no qualms to do evil for (what they think is) a "greater good", congratulations - you're initiated. This is why Americans who go to church and pray to God have no qualms about bombing people into the stone age on the other side of the world. Or the feminist social worker who talks reluctant teenage girls into getting abortions.
I prefer the Didache (the Teaching), the 1st-century seven-page document that's probably the closest thing to real Christianity that we have. It begins, \
"There are two ways, one of life and one of death, and there is a great difference between the two ways." The Didache is unambiguous. It says emphatically that we know the difference between good and evil, and when you encounter those who make good and evil ambiguous, rebuke them and walk away.
Truther Girls go to the Kabballah seminar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouf06c0-A5U
ps. Indeed. I grew up on 1950's tv shows that were pure Zohar. Like Superman, Paladin, "Checkmate", Route 66(6), and Perry MASON".
Not to mention all those Barbie doll commercials.
The source of Kabbalah saturation of the culture was the network of Freemasonry which was very strong after WW II.
Comments for " "Creative Destruction" - Why Cabala is Satanic "
JG said (April 11, 2018):
Once again another American President is being suckered by foreign fabricated intelligence with an objective none other than to push America into another possible foreign conflict to benefit and achieve a foreign objective.
The NWO oligarchs were successfully displaced from control of Russia's economy by Vladimir Putin and the NWO wants back in plain and simple. England can't make it happen but America could.
In order to achieve this goal a plan had to be developed with hopes of dragging American back into the game over an old foreign false flag trick. I don't believe that 007 tale out of England that is trying to frame Putin for something they claim he did. Where is the physical evidence and where are the witnesses and their testimonies to uphold these accusations? Again this is just another case of "trial by the MSM" with an invented script that carries no hard evidence. Putin had to be villainized and fast before America could give the legitimate process of any impartial legitimate investigations into this alleged incident.
It has worked like a charm so far with the premature ordered explosions of Russians diplomats from Washington.
Another problem for President Trump that involved another foreign "ally" was Israel.
With the recent announcement of a troop withdrawal from Syria over a week, ago made by Trump did not sit well with Netanyahu and Israel. They were about to lose their war horse in Syria and something had to be done and fast to keep American troops in Syria. Assad did not want to keep American troops in Syria and neither did Russia but Israel did.
The timing of this latest false flag claim against Assad is not surprising at all. Again, this is another case of a rush to judgment and trial by an irresponsible and unaccountable MSM to achieve a foreign objective with America holding the ball.
It's America's allies that are getting America in trouble these days and not their alleged enimies.
Larry said (November 27, 2015):
Henry, we couldn't help but wonder, what is the name of the personal God you pray to?
And if you don't pray and your God doesn't have a name, wouldn't that be no-thing-ness (En Sof)?
Can't you read Larry?
I equate God with spiritual ideals.
Peter said (November 26, 2015):
I gave up the stupid TV over 5 years ago when I could no longer stand the nonsense from the shows and the newscasters.
Your article today filled in a lot of holes that interfered with my ability to maintain Common Sense, Common Decency, etc. I was 51 years old before I actually got a Bible. However, the source was the wrong one forcing me down the wrong lane for quite a while before I “woke up” and found a better, more reliable way to deal with the world.
Then, of course, I had more light & dark crashes due to other people who didn’t seem to care when I had questions they didn’t want to deal with. It was still later before I found out that they regarded me as “politically incorrect.” Little did I know that I was being enslaved and the brainwashing was not doing its job for THEM.
Today, I am still navigating, but the article has filled a lot of those holes and my ability to “see straight” will be improved.
R said (November 26, 2015):
Morning Star, he brings false light, His only gift is endless night.
To hell with him.
To our Blessed Mother we implore that As foretold, She will crush the serpent.
The horrors that began in World War One
And on to number Two - Work of Freemasons and the Dreadful Few.
Will end now.
Venomously, the Bolsheviks to Frankfurt went to start a New World Order school.
Now their scorpions of the mind destroy,
The hapless, trusting Gentile-Goy.
Oh six million Talmudic phantoms
From 9/11 on, how you loosed your bombs
Another War, another feud - behind each ruse, a Zio-Jüde
From Khazaria to Syria, The Synagogue of Satan schemes and plots
With traitors and the Al-Saud lot.
But King Solomon’s temple will never be Rebuilt in the Holy City.
Europa now besieged and Rome itself.
Invaders swarm by land and sea
A Pharisaic plot against Christianity?
From East and West, North and South, With blessed Russia, we’ll face this test
Da Pacem Domine, for sake of all humanity.
Good Christian folk (and others too), Together we must see this through.
To prayer, to pen and mighty sword Freemen and patriots must now unite.
To end blood sacrifice and Satanic strife,
Love the Logos and choose Life.
Marco A said (November 26, 2015):
Henry, I think you are absolutely right when you write, "Anyone who denies the existence of God is a Satanist, not an atheist." When you deny God exists, you also deny God's "absolute spiritual ideals -- love, truth, justice, goodness, beauty, harmony -- pure and unalloyed."
This is common these days though, the world is full of these nihilistic God-haters.
I've recently done a few jobs for private customers who were obvious atheists. Sometimes its as easy as observing the complete lack of fire in their eyes to determine their religious beliefs (science and ego worship), and hearing them speak to determine their political views (emasculated/ snobby = leftist).
Yet, what is disturbing is that there is a common theme in their homes that I am finding - which is a mockery of God. I keep finding bobble-head Jesus's, sock puppet Jesus's, etc.
And in typical leftist fashion, the snotty Charles Dawkin's-like anti-religion books are not far away, maybe coupled with a few psychology books (because all these people are sick, maybe they try to heal themselves with endless psychology reading).
If this isn't Satanic I don't know what is. This isn't a disbelief in God, this is a cowardly rebellion against God. Out of all the things to mock, 'atheists' choose Jesus? The Son of God who died to show He loved us? What sad degenerates.
Also, they mock the One who is loved intimately and dearly by many devout people all over the world in a way which words cant describe, and they do it with a smugness and self-righteousness that lacks any scruple.
People have literally lost their souls.
Mariel said (September 25, 2012):
If today's thoughts by you (and others) are correct, then we need a guide to tell us what IS the right. Where is this guide?
I see no specific pointer to the right way. Is there a church, or other teaching body, which provides it? If we are to avoid the evil,
where do we find the teaching on what is good? People need more than being told Kabala and masonry and what they represent are evil.
They need the right way pointed out.
Can't people figure out the difference between right and wrong?
If not, I'll tell them. After all, I did invent more than 1200 moral dilemmas!
BILL said (September 25, 2012):
This is it! Bob Proctor and a host of teachers are spreading this heresy. Napoleon Hill in Think and Grow Rich. Og Mandino. What about the Landmark Education movement? So many "churches" like the Crystal Cathedral. It's all positive mental attitude stuff. Or Unity - don't look outward, look inward for God. You are God....
So many words and promises - yet no action, no fulfillment. These people are con men, liars and thieves. Actions speak louder than words. Seeing is believing.
Peter said (September 25, 2012):
Henry you have surpassed yourself with this post.
Touching on so many notable themes you have successfully described the quandary of consciousness and man.
The true nature of good and evil are only devined fully on an individual basis and introvertedly via meditation.
Those who contend they are doing the world a favor by promoting war and chaos have missed the boat in many ways and are a long way from realizing their folly.
I recommend yoga nidra for those wishing to
develop their understanding further.
Jerry said (September 25, 2012):
In my own studies, I have discovered that the Kabbalah originated with Cain and his posterity. Cain was the first human murderer who murdered his brother because he was more righteous than him. Cain built a city and named it after his son Enoch. This means that he was the first mason. Enoch means to initiate, so Cain originated the doctrine of freemasonry into which one has to be "initiated." The book of Jude laments, Woe unto them! for they have gone the way of Cain. His posterity, Tubal Cain was an artificer of things in brass and iron, implements of war. The Freemasonry dictionaries reveal that Tubal Cain became the Roman god Vulcan who was in a trinitarian relationship with Jupiter, and Hesus.
Robert said (September 25, 2012):
n the context of your article, the ending lines of Karl Marx's drama "Oulanem" acquire special significance:
If there is something which devours,
I'll leap within it, though I bring the world to ruins--
The world which bulks between me and the abyss
I will smash to pieces my enduring curses.
I'll throw my arms around its harsh reality,
Embracing me, the world will dumbly pass away,
And then sink down to utter nothingness,
Perished, with no existence - that would be really living.
Also, in his poem "The Pale Maiden" Marx wrote:
Thus heaven I've forfeited,
I know it full well.
My soul, once true to God,
Is chosen for hell.
(Source: Robert Payne's "The Unknown Karl Marx", New York University Press, 1971)
Joe said (September 24, 2012):
The world is heading into a deep unrelenting spiral that will lay waste to what we think is normal and peaceful on this planet, just so financial bigwigs can win their little game against some rogue countries that aren't afraid of the states' dollar meaning jack shit to the global markets. People idly wait for this to happen because they are nothing but cattle and replaceable, but they are the only ones that can stop it, but they live in an imaginary world, where war doesn't exist and all that matters is celebrities and products, and when the day comes hundreds of millions will die for nothing because we no longer have the instinct to live.
See you in nothingness humanity, you had a good run.
John said (April 25, 2011):
You have struck a bull’s eye Henry, on the nature of the enemy. A spiritual enemy must be battled with spiritual weapons.
(from the 4000 page dictation of Heaven to Maria Valtorta in The Poem of the Man-God, translated from the Italian)
JESUS CHRIST: Listen my brothers; nothing happens unless God permits it. Also tyranny; a misfortune without equal for a people. But if that people should examine itself in all fairness, almost always they should say that they brought on such a misfortune by their way of living, contrary to God. Remember the Prophets. How many times have they spoken about that! How often have they shown with past, present, and future events that a ruler is a punishment, the lash of chastisement on the back of an ungrateful son. And how many times have they taught how to avoid it: by going back to the Lord. Neither rebellion nor war cure wounds nor tears; neither do they undo chains. To live as a just people does all that. Then God intervenes. What can arms and armies do against the splendor of angelic cohorts fighting for a good people? Have we been struck? Let us deserve to be no longer so by living as children of God. Do not double your chains by committing new sins.
Ted said (April 25, 2011):
I can't agree with the idea that God is only "good". In fact, I don't think anyone can truly define God.
Nevertheless, it even states in the Bible that there is nothing that isn't God. Everything is a creation of God, and God eternally manifests His creation.
The world is a creation of dualities. We don't have to be told by any holy scripture that this is so because it is self evident. There has to be both light and shadow to create contrast.
How is anyone supposed to know what good is without knowing the opposite? In order to make a choice, or a value judgment, there has to be a differential. The essence of creation is that differential.
We would be unable to grow spiritually without the hard work of changing for the better. Evil is here so we have that choice.
Our free will allows us to chose whichever path we desire. By choosing the easier path of evil we inevitably experience misery. When we become disillusioned with evil, we turn back to the harder path of good.
Misery is the whip to remembrance. How many of us would turn to God if our lives were fulfilled by greed, malice and material wealth? God will not force us to choose Him; we need to make that choice willingly. Even then we have to work hard to find Him.
Dick said (April 25, 2011):
This was a very interesting and thought-provoking article. I think you hit the nail on the head by saying evil is the "absence of God" rather than some countervailing force.
This distinction goes back a long way. The Zohar is only from the 14th century, when Greek (ie Pythagorean / Platonic) philosophy had
experienced a resurgence. However, from what I can discover, Pythagoras and Plato (contrary to David Livingstone's thesis) saw things in pretty much the same way as you. Their ideas were misused
– in their own time by the gnostics, and later by the kabbalists.
(I suppose this goes even further back, but you get the idea).
There's a pretty good wikipedia article on neoplatonism and gnosticism, which (especially the sections on Plotinus' commentary)
offers some good direction on how such a philosophical schism can come about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoplatonism_and_Gnosticism
Pythagoras and Plato deal extensively with the problem of evil: if God is good, why does evil exist? Their basic conclusion, which is
fully fleshed out by later philosophers like Liebniz, is that while all things are not good, all things work toward the good. For
example, children starving is not good, but it is an invitation to practice charity, which is a test of our will, and introduces
positive good into the world.
The gnostics and kabbalists then say – well, if evil exists as an invitation for good, then extreme evil will create extreme good –
so if you want a messiah, drop a nuclear weapon. They see the world, rather than a place that can and should be improved through application of reason and free will – as a prison that can only be escaped through intensifying death-and-rebirth rituals.
As you suggest in your various articles about cultural subversion, a person could only come to such an insane conclusion if they feel
abandoned (or abused) by God. Without the unconditional love of a proper family, and without healthy spiritual and philosophical
guidance, virtue and self-sacrifice can feel meaningless and unrewarded.
It's not easy to live in this world. Even Christ on the cross thought he had been forsaken by God. It's important to see the role bad philosophy, not just bad people, makes the world worse. (If
you've killed hundreds of millions of people, and your messiah hasn't shown up yet, do you think you might be on the wrong track?)
It's also important to see how good philosophy can help make each person and the world better, and how we all need a bit of philosophy to summon the strength and will to do what's right
rather than what's profitable.
ETM said (April 25, 2011):
So well said- re 'absence of light' etc. and that one cannot serve God while giving up one's conscience.
This Levi converted' to Islam for personal benefit, and still dominates these banker cabalists circles in Europe...?
There are many kabbalahs as there are many spellings of the word; the Abes Kids website by Daniel Feldman being one, which uses the structure of the cabala tree to make the case for cross-religious analysis, re universalism. One could differentiate between the cabalism of Alestair Crowley from the cabalism of Daniel Feldman, for example. Daniel stresses meditation; Crowely stresses Crowley and went mad.
Christ was a reformer of Judaism as Buddha was a reformer of Hinduism, and their messages strike essentially similar, and so too Confucius, as a reformer of the prior Chinese religio-political culture, has essentially the same message , with all three centred around the 'golden rule' which is that spark from God that allows us to see ourselves in others and so experience empathy, altruism, etc.
The knot of psychopaths you describe find justifications in a certain kind of cabala, and it is the dichotomy between the Pharisees and Christ all over again, and then there are always to be found the Zealots as useful idiots.
As you say, 'religion' comes from a moral connection with one God, but sadly, theocratic structures in the name of religion often become instruments for power seeking and hence evil, the ego-luciferian rebellion against the golden rule of our one God.
And so, for example, there is the scandal of Madonna's cabala group run by Berg I believe, but of course one cannot know what all goes on in any group from the outside.
The ego temptations are always the same in any 'established religion' or even a small religious commune, as the '60's showed, but when you mix these 'human all too human' temptations with power backed by trillions in assets and the ability to print money and sell the paper to governments who then fleece the value out of the herd of taxpayers... well then, re the dictum 'power corrups', this degree of power leads to levels of psychopathic corruption difficult for ordinary people to imagine. And yes, they organize around free masonry and a generally discredited version of cabala.
This form of cabala provides them with a cohesion they would not otherwise have.
Dan said (April 25, 2011):
Once one understands that Kabbalah is quite simply the belief that one becomes powerful as a god by doing evil, one sees that modern society is saturated with cabalistic thinking, cabalistic 'ethics'. This Abraxian way of thinking permeates everything. We here it laced throughout everything from political speeches to popular music.
Below is the intro spoken monologue of 'Lady Gaga' which precedes her recent heavily promoted, 'Born this way'. video.
----quote----
"This is the manifesto of Mother Monster: On G.O.A.T, a Government Owned Alien Territory in space…
…a birth of magnificent and magical proportions took place. But the birth was not finite. It was infinite.
The birth of a new race, new world, new thinkers, it’s the birth of a new system of belief that cannot die, nor has an end. It is forever.
And thus began the beginning of the new race, a race within the race of humanity, a race which bares no prejudice, no judgment but boundless freedom.
But on that same day, as the eternal mother hovered in the Multiverse, another more terrifying birth took place, the birth of evil.
And as she herself split into two. Rotating in agony between two ultimate forces, the pendulum of choice began its dance. It seems easy you imagine to gravitate instantly and unwaveringly towards good. But she wondered: “How can I protect something so perfect without evil?”
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May 30, 2019 3:00pm PT by Lesley Goldberg
Larry Wilmore Exits ABC Studios Overall Deal for Four-Year Universal TV Pact
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The prolific producer returns to the studio for whom he helped launch 'The Office.'
Add Larry Wilmore to the ranks of producers who are cashing in with overall deals.
Wilmore, the former host of Comedy Central's The Nightly Show and a prolific scripted producer, has signed a sizable four-year overall deal with Universal Television. Wilmore is fresh off of a three-year pact with ABC Studios, whom sources say was among the outlets who pursued the producer and host for a new deal. Wilmore Films vp development Candace Rodney will also make the move to Universal TV.
Wilmore will create and develop new projects for the Pearlena Igbokwe-led Universal Television under his Wilmore Films umbrella. The overall brings Wilmore back to the Universal TV fold after he helped launch the studio's NBC hit The Office.
"I'm beyond thrilled to be back at Universal Television to join Pearlena and her amazing team! As a teen I actually used to sneak on the Universal lot and dream of belonging there some day. It's nice to not have to sneak on anymore. I'm living my dream!" Wilmore said Thursday in a statement.
Wilmore, an Emmy and Peabody winner, currently hosts Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air for the Ringer Podcast Network. He has played a key role in creating and launching some of television's biggest hits over his 25-year career, including The PJ's, The Bernie Mac Show, The Office, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, Black-ish, Insecure and Grown-ish. (He created or co-created four of those.)
"The number of successful shows that Larry has had a hand in launching is impressive and he shows no signs of slowing down," said UTV president Igbokwe. "I could not be more excited and consider us lucky that he has chosen to call Universal his home for the next few years."
Wilmore becomes the latest producer to make the jump to another studio as the overall deals market continues to sizzle. Phil Lord and Chris Miller departed 20th TV for a nine-figure pact with Sony, with the indie studio also handing out a significant payday to Homeland duo Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon (who also moved from the now Disney-owned 20th TV). Fresh Off the Boat's Nahnatchka Khan also moved her overall deal from 20th TV to UTV earlier this year. (UTV has not been immune from losing producers, either, as Mindy Kaling and Jason Katims departed their longtime home for a pact with Warner Bros. TV and Apple, respectively.)
At UTV, Wilmore joins a roster of producers that also includes Mike Schur (The Good Place) and Dick Wolf (Law & Order, Chicago franchises), among others.
Feeding the urgency for the frenzy of overall deals is the fact that multiple media behemoths — including Disney, NBCUniversal, WarnerMedia and Apple — are set to launch streaming platforms of their own late this year and in 2020. The ongoing feud between the Writers Guild of America and the Association of Talent Agencies over packaging fees has also made such pacts vital as studios can directly dial up their top producers for new development.
Wilmore is repped by 3 Arts and Hansen Jacobson.
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'The river is a monster'
Brazos River takes homes, roads, bridges in ever-changing path
By Emily Foxhall
River's bend
Vanishing trees
Costly repairs
Fending for themselves
Embracing change
SIMONTON - Sharon Galavitz knew the moment she drove up to the house that she had to have it. Here, 40 miles west of Houston, she could hear the birds and see the stars. She could own a horse.
She didn't care that the Brazos River would take her home piece by piece — first the driveway, then the fence, then whole sections of her yard.
"I loved the property," said Galavitz, a longtime Realtor. "When it's time for this place to go, it'll just go."
Galavitz stands little chance of stopping the mighty Brazos. Over thousands of years, the dynamic river has shifted its path by miles, carving a course of destruction that in recent decades has taken down roadways, backyards and houses.
Hurricane Harvey only made things worse. Swollen by torrential rains, the Brazos threatened hundreds of homes — even whole towns and subdivisions — in Fort Bend and Brazoria counties, changing its path once again.
"The river is a monster," said Mark Vogler, drainage district manager for Fort Bend County. "It takes a great deal of time and money to contain it."
A house that had teetered on the river's edge fell partially over the bank. Massive trees slipped down the cliffs. Bridges, roadways and rail lines took yet another beating.
Harvey added at least another $1 million to the $20 million or more in repairs already designated to protect the local infrastructure.
"That's one of the problems that you have with the Brazos River: it's going to try and move," Fort Bend County Judge Bob Hebert said.
The river, most everyone agrees, does what it wants.
One of Texas' major waterways, the Brazos River begins officially near Abilene then runs southeast past Waco, College Station and Hempstead on its way to the Gulf of Mexico.
Fort Bend County comes near the river's end. The waterway is part of the fabric of the fast-growing area, home to about 740,000 residents. Places ranging from gas stations to dentist offices to strip centers invoke the river's name. People explain locations by the side of the river on which they fall.
To the east, development is more dense. To the west, towns remain havens to those who prefer country life, such as Galavitz.
From Fort Bend, it travels through less-populated Brazoria County, another name paying homage to the river, before emptying into the Gulf near Freeport.
A look at the Jodie Stavinoha bridge over time Source: Google Earth images | Created by Rachael Gleason/Houston Chronicle
The river may appear lazy, but in recent years its force has been on fully display. The Brazos hit historic levels in 2015 and again in 2016 in Fort Bend, and rose still higher following Harvey, peaking on Sept. 1 in Richmond at 55.19 feet.
Pastures begin to flood at 45 feet. By 50 feet, homes take on water. By 55 feet, subdivisions are inundated. Erosion along the riverbanks cuts deeper into local communities.
Little stands in its way. Years ago, it gobbled up the original site of the fort in the river's bend for which the county is named.
Malcolm Gerber has been watching his property along the Brazos River in Richmond quickly disappearing in the wake of major flood events, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017. The high water levels on the Brazos after Hurricane Harvey left them with even less property behind their home.
(Mark Mulligan, Houston Chronicle | Houston Chronicle)
Malcolm and Beverly Gerber moved to the banks of the Brazos in 2015. Trees lined their picturesque backyard, complete with a pool.
Within weeks after they arrived, the Memorial Day flood hit, causing the Brazos to rise dozens of feet along the steep, rust-colored riverbank. One day, as the river began to recede, Gerber stepped out, unsuspecting, with a cup of coffee and noticed the trees had vanished.
"I looked out and said, 'Where'd everything go?'" recalled Gerber, 73.
A year later, the Brazos rose even higher, taking more of his land and leaving him in dread of the next flood. With Harvey, the Gerbers lost a segment of their fencing and another beloved, towering tree.
He isn't alone in his struggle.
Several cul-de-sacs in the area, such as Brazoswood Place and Windloch Lane, have experienced the same plight. Next door to the Gerbers, on River Forest Drive, Cheryl Scarbrough and her husband lost half an acre of their backyard, including their patio, in floods before Hurricane Harvey. They researched the river's path before buying the lot, but the river, to their horror, is now carving toward their home. A new crater formed in their yard following Harvey.
"It's very serious," said Scarbrough, 73. "I have no idea what we're going to do."
Sharon Galavitz has seen even more of her property along the Brazos River disappear in the wake of Hurricane Harvey in Simonton. Galavitz's home was also flooded during the storm.
Photo: Mark Mulligan, Houston Chronicle
One thing is clear: Nothing along the Brazos River is guaranteed to remain safe forever, not even infrastructure.
Time and again, officials have battled the waterway, scrambling to shore up river crossings after each flood.
The list of vulnerabilities is long. A turnaround under the Southwest Freeway bridge, which goes along the river, closed last year and again this year for repairs. Two lanes on the freeway settled about 2.5 inches, requiring temporary lane closures last month.
Upriver, the FM 1093 bridge closed last year and this year, too, for assessment, then reopened.
Brazos River flooding hit neighborhoods differently
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County bridges over smaller channels suffered worse fates. One lost pavement that protects against erosion. About a half-dozen more require repairs for damage caused by erosion.
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Woiwode hopes communities, where they can, will give the river its land back, allowing it to spill over its edges.
River-front parks designed to flood, such as several in Sugar Land, serve as an example of that.
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The Secret History of Shantanu, Chicago Quizbowl, and NAQT
Tell your tales of bygone days and rank historical things here.
Tees-Exe Line
Post by Tees-Exe Line » Thu Apr 03, 2014 12:47 am
Now that I'm on my way out of collegiate quizbowl, it's time to tell the full story of what went down on the Chicago quizbowl team in 2012, up to, including, and beyond Shantanu's "hinting" answers to the 2012 ICT. I should say that I believe I have a complete understanding of the events, but it's possible parts of the following are not complete. Notably, I was not directly a party to some of the key conversations between NAQT and the Chicago club's board.
Shantanu returned from his four terms of "study abroad" (i.e., academic leave) in the spring of 2011, several weeks before ACF Nationals 2011. There was an agonizing period in which Selene, Jimmy Ready, and I tried to get him to play on the team for that, and he refused to commit, essentially for no reason. In the summer of 2012, there was a lengthy (and, in retrospect, amusing) courtship during which Ike, Sam, and I tried to persuade him to edit and write for Peaceful Resolution, which he ultimately also refused to participate in with his infamous "GJR-GARCH" email. During the academic year 2011-2012, Shantanu seemed to re-involve himself in Peaceful Resolution, to the point that he promised several individual writers he would take on their assignments, only to do nothing. At Pennbowl 2012, which we played at Northwestern, he approached Ike about overthrowing me as co-editor. I finally confronted him in practice and openly accused him of lying to me about his writing progress.
Things went downhill from there. When discussing Nationals A team composition early in the year, he had said the two of us would play together and we had conducted practice on that basis, but around February, as I was up against PR and pretty much writing it full time, he started maneuvering to have me removed from the A team. I was told the board did not agree with that move, but while I was spending my umpteenth late evening in Regenstein writing questions, I received an all-club email informing me I wouldn't be part of the ACF Nationals A team lineup. I immediately flew into a rage, biked home, and told the board if that lineup prevailed, I would play neither national tournament and seriously consider walking away from PR (a tournament the club had agreed to write as part of our post-Seth-and-Selene team development, but which not one member of the proposed A team was involved in writing or editing, and which Shantanu had tried to sabotage.) Ultimately I told them I wouldn't do that only thanks to the commitment I'd made to Ike and to the rest of the community that had made plans to play it. But I told the board that would be my last involvement with Chicago quizbowl.
Following that, Tyler Smith agreed to withdraw from the A team, though he was our only science player, and the team of me, Shantanu, Daichi, and Matt Menard was agreed on. For ICT, which Shantanu was prohibited from playing thanks to prior editing commitments to NAQT, the lineup was to be me, Tyler, Daichi, and Doug. During the four weeks between Peaceful Resolution and ICT, Shantanu apparently conducted several private "practices" with what he referred to as the "Core A team," namely himself, Daichi, and Matt. The Thursday afternoon before ICT, Michael Arnold arrived in Chicago and several of us went out to an early dinner before practice. When we returned, Shantanu was in the midst of reading ICT packets to the team, and a question on the Second Vatican Council came up. After it was answered, possibly by me, Shantanu muttered something along the lines of "fuck that bullshit," to which I replied "Ohhhhhhh, that's right, you're pretending to be Catholic." Shantanu first got quiet, then became enraged at length, and after a very awkward rest of the practice multiple teammates, including Marnold, said I ought to apologize in the interest of team unity. A compromise was engineered in which he reciprocally apologized for saying that the occasion on which the Catholic Church finally abandoned the Blood Libel was bullshit, but the situation remained awkward for the next two days, to the point that we abandoned our plan to play the Guerilla tournament following ICT as a team, which was intended as practice for ACF Nationals.
This was, of course, the time during which Shantanu was looking at the ICT set repeatedly despite having nothing to do with its editing. I believe the hints he gave that were thereafter connected directly to tournament questions were all given on the morning of ICT itself, in the car he took to the tournament and during the milling-around before it began, but I strongly suspect there were other attempts by him, though perhaps not understood at the time. In my mind, there is no doubt why he did it: he wanted to establish the team's dependence on him and he wanted other players to get good buzzes thanks, they would assume, to the time they spent preparing with him.
In any case, it was clear during the prelims to the players who had ridden with him to the tournament that he had hinted directly at question lead-ins, and when they had a chance, Matt and Jimmy approached Selene and then Seth and told him of their suspicions. I'm not sure if I heard the first inklings of this before or after Selene and Seth were told, but it was sometime during tournament play. (During which Chicago A had the in-retrospect-surreal experience of winning a match against MIT by five points, due to four or five Josh Alman powers, allowing us to make the top bracket.... UPDATE 4/3/2014: I'm about 75% certain this match was moderated by Andy Watkins.)
Following the playoff rounds, Jimmy and Matt were questioned by NAQT's higher management about the specific circumstances surrounding the questions that had been hinted and told "that sounds suspicious, but we don't have any concrete evidence." The two of them reported back to the rest of the board and to me during the finals of ICT, and afterward everyone went to dinner, including Shantanu, Daichi, Marnold, David Seal, Seth, Selene, and Andrew Yaphe.
During NHB the following day, Seth emailed Jimmy that several of the clues Jimmy had given to the NAQT brass the day before did in fact turn up elsewhere in the set, and Matt provided a couple of other examples of Shantanu's hints that he'd remembered--all of them corresponded to clues in the set.
It's also slightly relevant to report that following ICT and especially NHB, Shantanu had embarked on yet another round of A-team-composition machinations. He said that Charles Tian's excellent performance at that tournament qualified him for a spot on the A team, and that Matt should be kicked off it. Needless to say, that infuriated Matt. I now think Shantanu had planned something like this since February: since Matt was the only member of the board who was also an A team candidate, he would suggest a team that included Matt and not me, and then try to have Matt kicked off later so the eventual composition would be him, Daichi, Charles, and probably Tyler. In order to put Shantanu off his impending doom, I pretended to agree in part with that plan: we should play a five-person team, and I told Daichi to suggest that solution to Matt, which he did in an email that asked Matt to consider the idea "in good faith."
Sometime during the day on Sunday, I forget precisely when, I learned from elsewhere that 1. NAQT had the capability to monitor activity in Shantanu's editing account, and 2. NAQT had in fact established that Shantanu had repeatedly accessed the set in the weeks and especially the days leading up to the tournament. As far as I and the other board members were concerned, this was a smoking gun. What followed between Sunday evening (April 1, 2012) and Tuesday evening (April 3) was an email correspondence between Jimmy, Matt, and NAQT regarding the appropriate action to be taken thenceforward. Specifically, Andrew Yaphe wrote that
1. it was "almost certain that Shantanu engaged in activities that *should* be described as cheating,"
2. it was incompetent and pointless cheating, and
3. the evidence was "scant and circumstantial" and wouldn't justify taking further action against Chicago as a team.
The board and I did not agree that the evidence was scant and circumstantial--quite the contrary. Matt and Jimmy asked NAQT if they had investigated Shantanu's account activity (without revealing that we already knew they had), and NAQT pointedly never confirmed that or denied it. In retrospect, my interpretation of NAQT's position and strategy is that they believed the Chicago board was concerned primarily with not revealing our (unwitting) complicity in cheating, and that once NAQT determined for itself the actions didn't materially affect the outcome of the tournament or the awarding of a national championship, they were offering not to reveal what had happened, thinking that is what we wanted.
I considered this chain of events frustrating and inadequate, as it seemed to me that by not admitting their direct knowledge of Shantanu's inappropriate actions and through their seeming reluctance to do anything about the situation, NAQT was just hoping it would all go away by mutual consent. Furthermore, I had a family trip to Israel starting on the evening of Wednesday, April 4. At a meeting in my apartment on the Tuesday, the board and I agreed that Shantanu's actions could not be simply ignored, that even if we'd wanted to, it was likely that thanks to the large number of people who already knew something of the story, it would eventually come out. And if that happened, it would make the Chicago team look even worse, and justifiably so.
I should say frankly: I was implicitly threatening the board that **I** would reveal Shantanu's behavior if they did not want the team to do so as such, an action I never would have taken had I not already built up the grievances I described above. In order to back up that threat, I invited Doug Graebner (who was not then a board member) to my office on that Tuesday morning and told him what was going on, because I knew that as a man of integrity he would never even think of keeping the matter secret by mutual consent, and I wanted to create a sense of urgency on the part of the board members. In my opinion, the NAQT upper management, and Andrew Yaphe specifically, were trying (rather ham-fistedly) to use their age, experience, and quizbowl standing to intimidate the younger Chicago board members into not revealing that their company's trust was grossly misplaced and their tournament's security compromised.
[EDIT 4/3/2014: I've withdrawn the accusation of intimidation by Yaphe or anyone at NAQT; see below.]
At that Tuesday night meeting, the board agreed that Jimmy and Matt would email the NAQT people saying that whatever they chose to do, Chicago would explain what had happened at ICT to the community at large and that the two of them would first confront Daichi, then Shantanu. The next day I left for Israel, and when I finally re-connected to the internet on Friday morning I had an incredulous gchat from Ike Jose and saw the two HSQB posts from NAQT and from Chicago. I don't know exactly what transpired at NAQT regarding their eventual announcement, but I heard that at Chicago's team practice on the Thursday evening, Seth, Selene, and the board drafted Chicago's response to NAQT's rather cryptic initial announcement. I also heard that when Jimmy and Matt confronted Daichi, he claimed to have had his own suspicions about Shantanu's "hints," and that when they then confronted Shantanu, he lied disgracefully and at length, with each attempted explanation vitiated by the next round of evidence Jimmy and Matt confronted him with.
Thus ends the Secret History. I'm certainly not comfortable with all of my conduct during the affair: encouraging the late A team confusion to distract Shantanu and Daichi from their larger problems, manipulating Doug as part of a plan to shake the board into siding with my way of viewing things after previous attempts to persuade them against Shantanu by more straightforward means had failed, and threatening to expose NAQT's security problems and their attempted cover-up are not actions I would have anticipated being capable of in advance, but I realized afterward I didn't regret them given the circumstances and that brought me to a place of self-knowledge that has been, oddly, a comfort ever since. Mostly because I think I was correct that the threat Shantanu posed to everything good, right, and honest justified a drastic response, and because NAQT was unjustifiably complacent about its security problems. In the aftermath of the Alman and Watkins revelations, I tried to put some of the focus on the organization because my experience as recounted above suggested a company that was defensive when its integrity was brought into question, especially since the rumors about Watkins had been circulating for years (the period of Shantanu's fall was the first time I heard them) and the "investigation" NAQT undertook was obviously inadequate. Even if the means by which Shantanu accessed tournament material were quite different than the loophole exploited by Alman and Watkins, the jump to deny and sweep under the rug rather than investigate and come clean was present in both cases.
If anyone has any questions about or corrections to what appears here, I'd be happy to answer them.
Last edited by Tees-Exe Line on Thu Apr 03, 2014 7:57 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Re: The Secret History of Shantanu, Chicago Quizbowl, and NA
For those interested in the sillier aspects of this story, I present the GJR-GARCH email:
I have little proclivity to place myself as the proximal cause of a consortio interruptus twixt this redoubtable coupling of editors. Indeed, it seems inimical to the intellectual harmony requisite for the production of a high quality tournament for me to spend the next few months plying my facility with GJR-GARCH models in liegelike service to the volatilities of mind of editors who have crystallized amenable allocations of responsibility.
Should such practical considerations seem insufficient, I shall establish my deeper misgivings. For if we defecate upon the principle of prima facie claims I know not what order might be imposed but that of vatic utterance. Gentlemen, you must therefore pardon my bafflement and my abjuration, for if a man's claim be silently usurped on the overeager velleities of a blackguard, he is surely less compromised in stupefied observation than in ductile abettings of sibilant machinators.
The excessive length of my silence is no doubt deserving of objurgation, but so far as the salient role was believed mine as recently as M. Bailey's missive of August 17, the problem of opacity now lies squarely upon you as does the burden of the impropriety I allege. It is possible I am so abhorrent, so obstinate yet erratic before the right and proper judgment of oracles whom I know not, that merely to inform me (or anyone else) of my deposition would have been vicious. But again I must beg your pardon, for I think such perfidious conduct more characteristic of some incontinent being, ranine and flatulent.
All of this is now past, and to all besides myself, irrelevant. Thus I prefer indifference; I am sure the tournament, though its genesis be too maculate for my taste, will be excellent.
Shantanu
marnold
Post by marnold » Thu Apr 03, 2014 1:13 am
Tees-Exe Line wrote: For those interested in the sillier aspects of this story, I present the GJR-GARCH email:
TEAM NAMES! GET YOUR TEAM NAMES, HERE! "RANINE AND FLATULENT" FREE TO THE FIRST TAKER!
Michael Arnold
Columbia Law 2013
2009 ACF Nats Champion
2010 ICT Champion
2010 CULT Champion
Member of Mike Cheyne's Quizbowl All-Heel Team
Fundamental Theorem of Quizbowl (Revised): Almost no one is actually good at quizbowl.
Post by The Bold Ideas of Bernie Sanders (I-VT) » Thu Apr 03, 2014 1:20 am
Apparently Shantanu wrote: I have little proclivity to place myself as the proximal cause of a consortio interruptus twixt this redoubtable coupling of editors. Indeed, it seems inimical to the intellectual harmony requisite for the production of a high quality tournament for me to spend the next few months plying my facility with GJR-GARCH models in liegelike service to the volatilities of mind of editors who have crystallized amenable allocations of responsibility.
Man, he must have wrecked the SAT verbal
Post by Auks Ran Ova » Thu Apr 03, 2014 1:55 am
Shantanu wrote: I have little proclivity to place myself as the proximal cause of a consortio interruptus twixt this redoubtable coupling of editors. Indeed, it seems inimical to the intellectual harmony requisite for the production of a high quality tournament for me to spend the next few months plying my facility with GJR-GARCH models in liegelike service to the volatilities of mind of editors who have crystallized amenable allocations of responsibility.
Ahahahahaha, oh my god, what a colossal asshole!
Dibs on "The Overeager Velleities of a Blackguard".
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Post by Skepticism and Animal Feed » Thu Apr 03, 2014 1:58 am
that has to be self-aware parody, right?
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Post by Muriel Axon » Thu Apr 03, 2014 2:21 am
marnold wrote: "RANINE AND FLATULENT" FREE TO THE FIRST TAKER!
This raises a good question: Can frogs fart?
Muriel Axon wrote:
Marshall editing Peaceful Resolution
AKKOLADE
Post by AKKOLADE » Thu Apr 03, 2014 7:10 am
Requesting that this be known as the "fun with a thesaurus so I sound so fancy" email.
Fred Morlan
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Post by Cheynem » Thu Apr 03, 2014 10:10 am
Lost in all the Shantanu assholery is Marshall's accusation that NAQT was effectively trying to sweep the Shantanu cheating thing under the rug. Does anyone from NAQT wish to comment further on this?
Post by vinteuil » Thu Apr 03, 2014 11:26 am
M. Bailey, by David Henry Shantanu
Adventure Temple Trail
Post by Adventure Temple Trail » Thu Apr 03, 2014 11:29 am
the happiest boy wrote: Requesting that this be known as the "fun with a thesaurus so I sound so fancy" email.
not uniquely identifying
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Contact Important Bird Area
Post by Important Bird Area » Thu Apr 03, 2014 11:33 am
Cheynem wrote: Lost in all the Shantanu assholery is Marshall's accusation that NAQT was effectively trying to sweep the Shantanu cheating thing under the rug. Does anyone from NAQT wish to comment further on this?
Yes, we will respond to this post. I plan on consulting the rest of NAQT's members and reviewing my email archive from April 2012 before I provide an official response.
Jeff Hoppes
President, Northern California Quiz Bowl Alliance
former HSQB Chief Admin (2012-13)
VP for Communication and history subject editor, NAQT
Editor emeritus, ACF
"I wish to make some kind of joke about Jeff's love of birds, but I always fear he'll turn them on me Hitchcock-style." -Fred
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Post by Marble-faced Bristle Tyrant » Thu Apr 03, 2014 11:56 am
Tees-Exe Line wrote: For those interested in the sillier aspects of this story, I present the GJR-GARCH email: [snip]
Yeah, wow.
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Formerly of Georgia Tech and Central High School (Macon)
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Post by grapesmoker » Thu Apr 03, 2014 12:32 pm
Quizbowl history is the gift that keeps on giving.
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Lightly Seared on the Reality Grill
Post by Lightly Seared on the Reality Grill » Thu Apr 03, 2014 1:22 pm
marnold wrote: TEAM NAMES! GET YOUR TEAM NAMES, HERE! "RANINE AND FLATULENT" FREE TO THE FIRST TAKER!
I'm fond of "Ductile Abettings of Sibilant Machinators" myself.
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Anonymous wrote: naqt is much worse than plagiarism could ever hope to be
Post by Important Bird Area » Thu Apr 03, 2014 3:29 pm
Documents and commentary about this situation follow.
1. Our response to this was handled by NAQT's officers (a group that does not include Andrew). Andrew had essentially no communication with outside parties over this issue, either as a formal representative of NAQT or informally.
Here's the full text of Andrew's email (parts of which were quoted by Marshall above).
Note that this email was sent to R., to me, and to Seth; it was in no way a public attempt to "intimidate" the Chicago club leadership. Seth asked permission to forward it to the Chicago club's officers (which Andrew granted).
On April 2, 2012 Andrew Yaphe wrote: So, here's how I would summarize my sense of the situation:
(1) I feel almost certain that Shantanu engaged in activity that should be characterized as "cheating."
(2) However, the cheating he engaged in appears to have been extremely incompetently done, not to mention somewhat pointless.
(3) In addition, the evidence we actually have of the cheating is extremely scant and circumstantial, and would not--in my view--justify taking any formal action against Chicago as a team.
In particular, I just don't see the "smoking gun" here that I would want to see -- where such a "smoking gun" would be something along the lines of Shantanu saying "remember that in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas they talk about having a car named 'Godiva'" (to take an example of a lead-in clue that appeared at the tournament, and which, to my knowledge, has not been used in quizbowl previously, insofar as I wrote the tossup directly after reading the book and without reference to any quizbowl archive). If we had evidence of such a "smoking gun," I would perhaps be inclined to reevaluate the situation.
Of course, this isn't to say that we should continue to allow Shantanu to be involved with NAQT in any way. I think we have good cause to terminate him from the organization, and to inform him that he will not be invited to any future NAQT events in an official capacity of any kind. (I don't think we can ban him from showing up to a tournament if he wants merely to spectate at one.) But I don't see good cause to take any official action in response to this stuff, at least on the basis of the present evidence. (What Chicago may choose to do internally is, in my view, their own business.)
2. Seth's communication to the Chicago club officers
On April 2, 2012 Seth Teitler wrote: [To Matt Menard and Jimmy Ready --JTH]
here's Andrew's response to the email I sent. I did mention the Dutilleux cello concerto and the "Henry thinks he may have killed a woman in the Dream Songs" bit, which seemed like the most suspicious examples to me, but Andrew knows way more than I do about music and poetry, and he doesn't seem to think there's a clear smoking gun here.
I'm pretty tired, so I'll stop here for now, but I think there are some options for a club response to this that fall short of "banning Shantanu from the club" that may be worth exploring.
(It is worth noting, in this context, that our investigation of NAQT's server logs was not completed and distributed to NAQT's membership until the morning of Tuesday, April 3rd.)
3. Here's a brief timeline of NAQT's response to the developing situation (which is worth comparing with Marshall's timeline of the Chicago club's response above). [Server log details edited after consulting with R., in response to Marshall's post below --JTH]
Saturday, March 31st (day of the ICT itself)
-Chicago players express their concern about Shantanu's behavior to Seth
-Seth reports the concern to R.
-R. briefly confers with Seth and Andrew (to verify that the material being discussed indeed appeared in the 2012 Division I ICT)
-R. consults with NAQT's officers present on site and agrees to discuss the situation with Shantanu. Preliminary review of our server logs reveals a pattern of suspicious access.
-R. asks Shantanu about the situation and receives a response that we, collectively, deemed unsatisfactory to explain the patterns reported by the rest of the Chicago team
Sunday, April 1st (one day after ICT)
-no official response from NAQT on this day (R. was driving back to the Twin Cities; I was moderating at College History Bowl)
Monday, April 2nd (two days after ICT)
-R. completes review of the NAQT server logs; Seth, Andrew, and R. exchange emails excerpted above. I spend the afternoon on a plane back to the Bay Area
Tuesday, April 3rd (three days after ICT)
-R. informs NAQT's membership about what occurred at ICT and about the results of our server log investigation (which confirm that Shantanu looked at a large number of ICT questions in the period immediately prior to ICT)
-NAQT's members reach a consensus that we should issue a public statement, but that we should not name Shantanu directly
Wednesday, April 4th (four days after ICT)
-(morning) R. agrees with the group decision that we should issue a public statement.
-(afternoon) R. drafts (and I edit) a public statement about the incident. We agree on a text that will be posted to naqt.com the following day
Thursday, April 5th (five days after ICT)
-We publish a public statement on naqt.com (the text is available here; we do not name Shantanu, but we indicate that his behavior "undermine[d] the integrity of" ICT and that his involvement in NAQT has been terminated.)
-I cross-post NAQT's statement to this forum. Matt Menard posts a statement on behalf of the Chicago club. (Like our statement, Chicago's statement does not name Shantanu.)
Our review of the situation concluded that we did not have enough evidence strong enough to justify publicly identifying the guilty party (and thus making us a target for potential legal action). The evidence in this case was qualitatively weaker than that in the cases subsequently revealed in March 2013, for which we did not hesitate to name the players involved.
Post by Tees-Exe Line » Thu Apr 03, 2014 4:07 pm
Thank you for your response and clarification, Jeff. Two immediate points come to mind:
1. This is the first I've heard, ever, that anyone at NAQT confronted Shantanu at that ICT, and I'm pretty sure the same is true of my teammates. What was Shantanu's explanation there? Why was it inadequate?
2. Regarding the timeline of the server investigation, I can say definitively that I heard about its outcome by that Sunday night because I remember telling someone else about it then. Of course, I have no primary knowledge of that investigation so it could be that I received false information about such an investigation in advance of its actually happening, but that when it did happen its outcome corresponded exactly with what I'd been told had already been done. That strikes me as far-fetched.
[Edit: see updated timeline in Jeff's post above.]
The impression I get from your email is that Andrew and the others at NAQT were of the opinion that absent the server investigation, there was not sufficient evidence to make a public statement about the matter, and that once the investigation's results were told to the other principals, their opinion changed. Is that accurate?
Last edited by Tees-Exe Line on Thu Apr 03, 2014 4:40 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Tees-Exe Line wrote: Thank you for your response and clarification, Jeff. Two immediate points come to mind:
We received conflicting and evasive answers. In our opinion, Shantanu's behavior justified the suspicion expressed to us by his teammates.
Regarding the timeline of the server investigation
I don't know exactly when we started this; R. reported the final results to NAQT's members on Tuesday morning (which is the earliest extant reference to these server logs in my email).
Edit: R. reports that we did conduct a preliminary investigation on site before discussing the matter with Shantanu; I have updated the timeline above. --JTH
Post by AKKOLADE » Thu Apr 03, 2014 4:39 pm
What role did Andrew play in all of this?
setht
Post by setht » Thu Apr 03, 2014 6:33 pm
I was the first NAQT member to whom Jimmy brought his suspicions. I went and told R., and then we asked Jimmy to come in and tell us what he'd noticed. Andrew and Jeff were there as well; I don't remember if others were also present.
Jimmy and Matt later got in touch with me to inquire after NAQT's response. As a result, I started a separate email correspondence with R., Jeff, and Andrew. It was during that internal correspondence that Andrew sent the email that Marshall mentions. With Andrew's permission, I passed that email along to Jimmy and Matt, in hopes that it would be useful to them in deciding what the Chicago club was going to do. To clarify, I think Marshall has misread Andrew's email: my take on it is that point 1 indicates personal belief, and points 2 and 3 speak to whether the tournament results were compromised, and whether there was clear evidence of complicity by players or the Chicago club. In short, "I believe Shantanu cheated, it looks like it didn't change game results, and it looks like the players and the club as a whole were innocent." I don't want to put words in Andrew's mouth—that is my take on what his email said, and it agreed with my take on the matter. I thought Andrew's email nicely summarized our thoughts (certainly my thoughts), and our likely course of action (since the official post hadn't been made yet). That's why I thought it would be useful to pass along.
Just so we are all clear on this, I want to emphasize that there was no "email correspondence between Jimmy, Matt, and NAQT" (I certainly wouldn't describe my email exchange with them in those terms). Andrew never sent them any emails (and vice versa). The one email from Andrew that Jimmy and Matt saw was the internal email that I passed along, and it clearly stated that the Chicago club was of course free to do as it saw fit. I passed on the email because Jimmy and Matt had solicited information on NAQT's take on matters. I can't imagine how this could have led Marshall to form the opinion that "the NAQT upper management, and Andrew Yaphe specifically, were trying (rather ham-fistedly) to use their age, experience, and quizbowl standing to intimidate the younger Chicago board members into not revealing that their company's trust was grossly misplaced and their tournament's security compromised." I hope that opinion will be immediately discarded, in light of what I've said.
I also want to say that while I came to believe then (and still believe) that Shantanu cheated, my standard for forming that kind of personal belief is much lower than the standard that I think NAQT has to adhere to before doing something like announcing "NAQT has determined that player X has cheated."
-Seth
Seth Teitler
Formerly UC Berkeley and U. Chicago
President and Chief Editor, NAQT
Emeritus member, ACF
the happiest boy wrote: What role did Andrew play in all of this?
Andrew made valuable contributions to internal discussions focusing solely on what NAQT should do. He also graciously allowed me to pass on one of his internal emails to Chicago club leaders because I thought it would help them out.
I am very sorry he was unfairly impugned because he helped me (and, I hope, Jimmy and Matt).
Birdofredum Sawin
Post by Birdofredum Sawin » Thu Apr 03, 2014 7:02 pm
What most amuses me about Marshall's post is its description of the "place of self-knowledge" at which he has arrived.
I didn't want to get dragged into this, but since Marshall has accused me of being personally responsible for a nefarious scheme of intimidation, I don't see how I can avoid weighing in. First, Seth's factual summary of the events of that fateful weekend is entirely correct. To be clear, the following is the entirety of my personal involvement in this situation:
(1) Seth sent an email to me, R., and Jeff outlining the concerns regarding Shantanu and asking for our take on the situation.
(2) In response, I sent the email quoted above by Jeff, in which I provided what Seth asked for--i.e., my take on the situation. This email, obviously, was purely internal to NAQT.
(3) Seth emailed to ask if I would allow him to pass my email along to some people on the Chicago team.
(4) I said yes.
In addition to not communicating with anyone on the current Chicago team about this situation, I haven't communicated with any member of the Chicago team about any aspect of the team since I decamped for law school in 2007. I barely know who the "Jimmy and Matt" discussed in this thread are; to my knowledge, I have never directly communicated with either of them about anything.
This brings me to my second-favorite sentence in Marshall's post:
In my opinion, the NAQT upper management, and Andrew Yaphe specifically, were trying (rather ham-fistedly) to use their age, experience, and quizbowl standing to intimidate the younger Chicago board members into not revealing that their company's trust was grossly misplaced and their tournament's security compromised.
The delightful irony of Marshall's post is that it so nicely illustrates the dangers of rushing off half-cocked to make false and baseless accusations. The legal term for this is "defamation." As it happens, I am an easygoing, non-litigious person who wouldn't dream of pursuing legal action against Marshall for a statement like this, even though it is completely false and is arguably defamatory. But not everyone is as easygoing as I am! This is why a company--or, dare I say, a grown-up--has to think a little more carefully before committing itself to public denunciations of any kind. It is also why--as Seth observed--there is a difference between an internal expression of personal opinion and a public declaration of fact.
As I said, I am an easygoing person and am more amused than outraged by Marshall's completely baseless allegations about me. That said, I wouldn't object if Marshall were to post a retraction and/or apology. I like to think that doing so would help to enhance the "comfort" in which, he informs us, his current state of "self-knowledge" has allowed him to luxuriate.
Ex-Virginia, Ex-Chicago, Ex-Stanford
setht wrote: II think Marshall has misread Andrew's email: my take on it is that point 1 indicates personal belief, and points 2 and 3 speak to whether the tournament results were compromised, and whether there was clear evidence of complicity by players or the Chicago club. In short, "I believe Shantanu cheated, it looks like it didn't change game results, and it looks like the players and the club as a whole were innocent." I don't want to put words in Andrew's mouth—that is my take on what his email said, and it agreed with my take on the matter. I thought Andrew's email nicely summarized our thoughts (certainly my thoughts), and our likely course of action (since the official post hadn't been made yet). That's why I thought it would be useful to pass along.
Birdofredum Sawin wrote: First, Seth's factual summary of the events of that fateful weekend is entirely correct
If this is what the author of the email says it meant, then I'll take him at his word, but that is not how the email was received by the Chicago board and by me. Most crucially, the statement "the evidence we actually have of the cheating is extremely scant and circumstantial" appeared to us to be belied by the (apparently partial) internal investigation we knew NAQT had already undertaken. When, as I understand, Jimmy and Matt questioned NAQT about that investigation, they were not answered.
When the board (and I) convened on the evening of Tuesday, April 3, it appeared to us that three days had transpired in which NAQT had 1. conducted a review of the events, and 2. determined the evidence didn't warrant taking action against Shantanu (through our apparently erroneous interpretation of Yaphe's email). We concluded that it did and that the team could not overlook it. According to Jeff's timeline, NAQT had made the decision to take action against him by the following morning, in light of the more exhaustive investigation into his activities on the server. I suppose, then, it's unfortunate the parties weren't in closer contact, but you can presumably see why, given what we'd read in your email, we had formed the conclusion NAQT did not intend to take action.
Finally, regarding the allegation of intimidation, I'll withdraw it because it was premised on the idea that NAQT wanted Chicago to agree not to take public action against Shantanu, and I see now that was not Yaphe's stated position. I was never shown the full email, and specifically not the line "What Chicago may choose to do internally is, in my view, their own business." However, I'm still puzzled by the company's actions and Yaphe's. Regarding the latter, I still don't understand how the evidence of Shantanu's cheating was "extremely scant and circumstantial" knowing what he knew when he wrote that email. And it seems to me that in this case, as in the 2013 cheating scandals, the company was more concerned with avoiding legal liability for defamation from the cheaters it stopped short of naming (in Shantanu's case) or actually accusing of cheating (as in Watkins') than it was in owning up to its security problems before the many honest quizbowlers who paid to play its tournaments (and who had previously informed them about their system's vulnerability). It may be rash to "go off half-cocked" by accusing you of intimidation, but it's also unfortunate to repeatedly find reasons not to act against that cheating and couch that inaction in legalistic prudence that borders on myopia.
Post by Birdofredum Sawin » Thu Apr 03, 2014 11:40 pm
I guess I shouldn't hold my breath until I get that "retraction and/or apology." And, since you are continuing to call me out, I will continue to respond to the parts of your posts that are directed personally to me.
I understand that you and Shantanu, like Ahriman and Ormuzd, were locked in an apocalyptic struggle to the death for the soul of the Chicago quizbowl team. We are all indebted to you for your careful recitation of the pertinent details; were it not for this kind of record, our grandchildren would never truly apprehend just how close the 2012 Chicago team came to the eternal perdition of pretentiously overwritten emails and overvaluing of Catholicism. Try to understand, however, that to an outsider like myself, it may not have been patently obvious, as an unquestionable axiom of quizbowl morality, that Shantanu was evil incarnate. To be more precise: To me, Shantanu was just some dude I barely knew. Likewise, you and everyone else on Chicago were also just some dudes I barely knew.
Thus, when I was informed by Seth of the Chicago team's suspicions, I lacked the benefit of your vantage point of knowing that Shantanu was a force of pure malevolence. Had I known that, of course, I would necessarily have come to the same conclusion you arrived at. What else could I possibly have concluded? Unfortunately, I was in a position of ignorance, and had no choice but to make my best effort to reach a fair assessment of the facts Seth presented to me. Ridiculous, I know; but, alas, the truth. On those facts--as is stated in my email--I concluded that there was simply no "smoking gun" that we could point to as clear evidence of Shantanu's transgressions. To my mind, saying things like "Dutilleux wrote a cello concerto" just didn't rise to that level--that's the kind of fact that could easily come up in some other high-level set that anyone might read in a car while driving to a tournament. Having been in many such cars, and having listened to people read many a tournament in that manner, it seemed plausible to me that such repetition of non-distinctive facts could be a coincidence. Again, I was waiting to hear that he had brought up some fact that was much more unique to that year's ICT. In particular, when you bear in mind how many of my humanities lead-ins are, as John Lawrence has recently informed us, unknown to anybody in the field, there should have been any number of unique-to-that-year's-ICT clues for Shantanu to have mentioned.
I do not expect you to accept this explanation; I only regret that we weren't much more closely in contact years ago, so I could have followed the details of your courageous battle with Shantanu as you were actually fighting the good fight. Instead, I have to live vicariously through these posts, which is a poor substitute indeed.
Post by Tees-Exe Line » Fri Apr 04, 2014 12:47 pm
You're not the first person not to realize that Shantanu was evil, but my point is that you didn't have to in order to understand that he cheated. You had my teammates' account of what happened in the car and you had your colleagues' report of his inappropriate and otherwise inexplicable use of the company's database, more of a "smoking gun" than any one clue from the tournament could ever be, which was what caused us to take action even under the false impression that NAQT wasn't planning to do anything. Maybe in your mind it's a comfort to paint me as some sort of zealot who, by implication, no "adult" would listen to. It's a common response when someone who considers himself judicious turns out to be wrong to paint those who were proven right as irrational ("you can't blame me for discounting what Marshall said--he's a raving lunatic! Not agreeing with him actually shows how thoughtful I am, even if he did happen to be correct in this one instance--it must have been a fluke.").
Furthermore, regarding this business of "intimidation," let me say you were the one "member" of NAQT who communicated with us at the time. In this thread, your email has been presented as the thought of some guy who didn't know the people involved but formed his opinion solely based on The Facts. As I've said, your opinion did not take account of all the facts, and it was all we heard from anyone seeming to speak for the organization.
Finally, since you've insisted on restricting the sphere of admissible evidence against Shantanu to clues from the tournament, according to my record one such clue was that Shantanu mentioned in the car that John Ashbery won the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1956 because Auden was giving them out, a story for which Shantanu provided hilarious fake historicity by claiming he'd heard it from Dana Gioia. The following bonus appeared in the tournament:
Packet 10 of the 2012 ICT wrote: He concluded that “Our days put on such reticence / These accents seem their own defense” in the title poem of his second collection. For 10 points each—
A. Name this man, who won the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1956 for his book Some Trees and a Pulitzer Prize for his book Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.
answer: John Ashbery
B. Ashbery wrote a thesis at Harvard on this British poet, who selected Some Trees for the Yale Younger Poets Prize. This man's works include “September 1, 1939” and “Musée des Beaux Arts.”
answer: W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden
C. Ashbery's book Other Traditions includes a section on this poet who collaborated with her lover Robert Graves on A Pamphlet Against Anthologies and A Survey of Modernist Poetry.
answer: Laura Riding (accept Laura Riding Jackson or Gottschalk or Reichenthal)
As far as I can source the controversy, it stems from an exchange in the Times Literary Supplement in 2008. Does that count as specific enough?
Post by Cheynem » Fri Apr 04, 2014 1:01 pm
You seem to be arguing at vaguely cross purposes. From what I can tell, Mr. Yaphe's e-mail reveals these points:
1. Yaphe is saying that NAQT should take no action against Chicago AS A TEAM. This is a pretty important distinction as one could conceivably argue that Shantanu may have been colluding with some non Jimmy or Matt teammates and thus Chicago should have been stripped of their wins/face sanctions/what have you. This is something that benefits Chicago as a team.
2. Yaphe seems to believe Shantanu was cheating in the sense that he believed him to be doing illegal shenanigans. However, he was also unsure (for whatever reason) that there was enough to indisputably prove this, especially in a legal sense.
3. Yaphe suggests Shantanu should be terminated from NAQT and banned from NAQT events (presumably what Marshall wanted).
4. Yaphe suggests Chicago can do whatever they want with Shantanu.
The issue here seems to be less "did Yaphe believe Marshall about Shantanu?" and more about "should this have been made public more quickly?"
Post by Birdofredum Sawin » Fri Apr 04, 2014 1:52 pm
If you don't want to be regarded as a "raving lunatic," it might be advisable to rave less, or at least to do so in a less loony manner.
The basic underlying principle of your posts is that you appear to hold me personally responsible for not having conducted the kind of inquisition you presumably would have been happy to lead, had you been in my shoes. Again, I deeply regret my failure to lead the torchbearers at the 2012 Shantanu auto-da-fe. Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa. As I have explained at great length, I was presented with a specific set of facts by Seth and asked for my opinion, which I provided him. Obviously you are unable, or unwilling, to recognize that I was working from the limited information I had available to me; you likewise appear unwilling to accept that I was acting in good faith, though what I would have had to gain by writing my email the way I did is, to put it mildly, unclear.
Correcting your blunders is becoming wearisome, but here are a couple more:
Furthermore, regarding this business of "intimidation," let me say you were the one "member" of NAQT who communicated with us at the time.
So I guess you aren't even "withdraw[ing]" this charge, as you grudgingly claimed to do in your previous post! Again, you seem not to understand what "communication" means. I communicated with Seth, who asked my permission to pass my email along to people he was speaking with on the Chicago team, which I granted him. I was not myself "communicating with you." In fact, it was Seth who was the "one 'member' of NAQT who communicated with [you] at the time." If you failed to understand that at the time, well, that would not surprise me, as you seem prone to such failures of understanding. To continue to insist on this mistaken point, despite what has been said in this thread, seems like willful ignorance.
Second, you have triumphantly adduced the following as the perfect "smoking gun" that I unaccountably overlooked:
according to my record one such clue was that Shantanu mentioned in the car that John Ashbery won the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1956 because Auden was giving them out
Again, I am devastated to have to rain on your parade of spite. Unfortunately, I have looked back at the email Seth sent to me, R., and Jeff regarding the Chicago team's suspicions, and there is no mention in it of Ashbery or this question. I do not know whether you will agree that I could not have been expected to respond to a fact of which I was unaware.
I honestly don't see the point of continuing this exchange. You seem entirely committed to believing that I wronged you personally; you seem entirely unwilling to recognize the facts that render your belief specious. Which isn't to say that I still wouldn't be open to that "retraction and/or apology" I so quixotically invited!
Post by Tees-Exe Line » Fri Apr 04, 2014 1:56 pm
I agree it's pointless to continue the argument; I'll simply close by saying that I did withdraw the charge of intimidation and not grudgingly. I returned to the matter because I wanted to give you some understanding of how your email was interpreted, even if that's not how it was intended.
EDIT: I don't think Seth was in fact a member of NAQT at that time. Again, I think your email was the only communication we received from anyone who was. It's certainly the only such communication the board and I discussed when we were making our decision.
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Post by ValenciaQBowl » Fri Apr 04, 2014 2:16 pm
according to my record one such clue was that Shantanu mentioned in the car that John Ashbery won the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1956 because Auden was giving them out,
FWIW, the anecdote of Auden's meeting with Ashbery is presented in the editor's note introducing Ashbery's fun sestina "Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape" in the text I use for Freshman Comp II (Literature: A Pocket Anthology, 5th edition, edited by RS Gwynn). I don't mean any implication regarding this discussion at hand other than to point out that the story of the meeting between Ashbery and Auden may not be so insanely obscure as to have no chance of coming up in quiz bowl talk about either of those poets.
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Post by jonpin » Fri Apr 04, 2014 2:42 pm
Birdofredum Sawin wrote: The basic underlying principle of your posts is that you appear to hold me personally responsible for not having conducted the kind of inquisition you presumably would have been happy to lead, had you been in my shoes. Again, I deeply regret my failure to lead the torchbearers at the 2012 Shantanu auto-da-fe. Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa. As I have explained at great length, I was presented with a specific set of facts by Seth and asked for my opinion, which I provided him. Obviously you are unable, or unwilling, to recognize that I was working from the limited information I had available to me; you likewise appear unwilling to accept that I was acting in good faith, though what I would have had to gain by writing my email the way I did is, to put it mildly, unclear.
I know less than very little about this whole controversy modulo what has appeared in this thread and the ones from the contemporary period, however from my perspective, Marshall isn't so much denigrating you as he is NAQT. The impression I get is "the only thing NAQT sent us is this letter from Andrew, who may not have had all the facts but who seemed to imply blah blah blah, and it's really poor form that they didn't really address this situation at all", not that "NAQT sent this on to Andrew who just said 'well who gives a shit' because he doesn't care about truth, goodness, and quiz bowl"
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Post by jready » Fri Apr 04, 2014 2:53 pm
I'll reply to these posts at length when I have some more time, but I want to clarify that what Marshall says does not reflect the views of the people (Matt and me) who were actually interacting with NAQT throughout this ordeal. I certainly never thought Andrew was trying to "intimidate" me, and I didn't think that NAQT was trying to maliciously sweep anything under the rug.
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Post by setht » Fri Apr 04, 2014 3:26 pm
A couple quick corrections:
Tees-Exe Line wrote: EDIT: I don't think Seth was in fact a member of NAQT at that time. Again, I think your email was the only communication we received from anyone who was. It's certainly the only such communication the board and I discussed when we were making our decision.
I became a member January 1, 2012, so I was a member at the time.
Tees-Exe Line wrote: I don't know exactly what transpired at NAQT regarding their eventual announcement, but I heard that at Chicago's team practice on the Thursday evening, Seth, Selene, and the board drafted Chicago's response to NAQT's rather cryptic initial announcement.
Whoever told you this was mistaken: I returned to Madison on Monday morning after the 2012 ICT, so I certainly wasn't at the Chicago team practice on Thursday.
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Post by Ike » Sat Apr 05, 2014 8:15 am
I don't know what is going on exactly in this thread anymore, but I can provide some of my experiences with Shantanu and this incident here as to get the historical record straight so that Yaphe's progeny can have a fuller picture.
1.) Shantanu does have a proclivity for sharing material that comes up in tournaments he has written with various people. Shantanu and I drove to CO 2009 together, and during the car ride there he told me the leadins to his tossups on the Apologia of Cardinal Newman, and My Name is Red for the lit tournament. I didn't know what he was doing at the time, but at the tournament, I buzzed on the first clue of the first TU, and didn't buzz until I recognized a clue from reading My Name is Rad. After the tournament, i thought it was a little strange that he would say such clues, but just assumed that he had forgotten he had written some things; I kept quiet too since the match we played didn't have a different outcome due to those buzzes.
Of course it didn't stop there. He wrote a tossup on Don Pasquale for VCU Open that same year and proceeded to tell me everything I have ever wanted to know about that opera. After playing that tossup, I talked to him later and said "what the fuck?, you have to be more careful about not compromising your questions." I don't recall how harshly I rebuked him for writing a question then feeding me a lot of info about said question, but I assumed at the time he was just being misguided toward a friend; I also concluded that as long as it didn't happen again, it wouldn't cause any more problems.
In my mind, Shantanu just doesn't know when to stop. I don't think he was trying to sabotage the UChicago team per se, but I do think that anyone whom he considered his friend on that team got unsolicited quizbowl clues they didn't want to hear until the ICT.
2.) Shantanu really did approach me that year about overthrowing Marshall Steinbaum as editor. I'm hazy as to whether he wanted me to literally topple Marshall down, or to secretly replace all of his questions - he may have suggested both plans actually, but I do remember him saying "coup d'etat." If that wasn't enough, he did promise to handle the music, and all of the lit, leading to this awkward situation in which everyone stopped writing their questions because Shantanu gave them personal reassurance that he would write it all; he then proceeded to "flake out." That meant more work for me, and I had to write a ridiculous amount of questions at a breakneck pace. I'm surprised that the tournament turned out as playable as it did in my categories, because looking back at the tournament, I don't recall writing some of these lit questions in my deliriums in the days before it.
Side Note: It seems every club has some form of drama. I've had to kick (or more accurately, have Billy Busse kick) some team members who weren't the "right fit" for our club, because we thought they were a liability and had a strong likelihood of cheating if given the opportunity if we took them to a tournament. I thought our club was bad, but nope, apparently not.
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Local campground celebrates 20 years The campground’s seasonal owners presented the owner with a plaque. Check out this story on htrnews.com: http://htrne.ws/1NuCeDs
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Despite not being there, Microsoft made its presence known at Macworld|iWorld thanks to Office for iPad
Apple hasn't participated in CES for years, but its presence looms large over the show almost every year. Sometimes Apple's influence is overt, like the vast numbers of iPhone case makers on display. Other times it's more indirect, like the number of wearables makers at this year's show, all wanting to claim their piece of the market before Apple gets there. Similarly, Microsoft no longer exhibits at Macworld|iWorld, but made its presence felt this year in a very big way thanks to Office for iPad.
As the 2014 Macworld|iWorld show opened its expo hall doors for the first time, Microsoft's newly minted CEO Satya Nadella introduced Microsoft Office for iPad to a small invite-only gathering only a few blocks away. The software is available for free download from the App Store, though you'll have to subscribe to Microsoft's Office 365 service if you want to actually create or edit documents.
This isn't the first time you've been able to run Microsoft Office on the iPad after a fashion, if you count virtualization tools. There are Office equivalents like QuickOffice. And last October Apple began including its Office equivalent apps, Pages, Numbers and Keynote, for free, giving iPad users Office import and export capabilities. Even Microsoft's own Office Mobile for Office 365 - made for the iPhone - worked on the iPad too, albeit not as a universal app.
The iPad already has a huge presence in the enterprise and educational markets. Microsoft Office's presence on the platform doesn't legitimize it, but it does simplify things for a lot of people that depend on a native Office experience to get their work done.
Perhaps because of Macworld|iWorld's increased focus on Information Technology (IT) and its MacIT conference track, a lot of people who I spoke to at the show had strong opinions of Office for iPad. Some, like me, were skeptical that the subscription model Microsoft has employed to make Office fully usable on the iPad is worth the money. Some have concerns about being tied in to Microsoft's OneDrive cloud service. Others figure it's a shoe-in to be a huge hit, whatever the challenges. And many of us had downloaded the apps before the show closed on Thursday. I'm certain if Microsoft had been there, Office for iPad would have garnered best in show nods from many of the news outlets which do such things.
The bottom line: This is the first time since the iPad was introduced in 2010 users have had a native Office workflow. Whatever you think of Office on the iPad, this is a major tectonic shift for productivity software on the iPad. Most iPad owners and most corporate IT departments don't want to futz with "almost good enough" workflows. They want the real deal.
Our own Ally Kazmucha has put Office for iPad through its paces and has come away with a positive impression. How about you? Have you tried it out, and what do you think?
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Lucy Ward, The Wild Rose of Cherokee
In 1895 E. Sterling King penned a booklet by the lengthy name of, The Wild Rose of Cherokee, Or, Nancy Ward, "The Pocahontas of the West": A Story of the Early Exploration, Occupancy and Settlement of the State of Tennessee : a Romance, Founded on and Interwoven with History. [1] The book today seems archaic, written in a flowery language. It is also racially insensitive. In this story of Nancy Ward, a heroic Cherokee woman. She is a slender, nymph-like beauty, but this is not the result of her Native American ancestry, but because 'heaven blessed her with an over portion of her mother's saxon blood.' She does not have the 'large square face' of the typical Cherokee woman, she has only the tiniest bit of Cherokee blood, which gives her a pretty complexion, a 'rose-like' tint.
Nancy who at one point in the story is about to be killed by her brother, scoffs at her attackers and declares that she is the daughter of the 'White Lilly' and Oconostota, the great Cheeratahge of the Cherokee. King writes that the mother of Nancy Ward (the White Lilly) was an English woman by the name of Lucy Ward, daughter of Edmund Ward. Her father, Oconostota traveled to London with Sir Alexander Cummings in 1730 to meet the King. He was then fifty years old and widowed. Lucy, falls immediately in love with the Noble Savage Oconostota who returns her love with all his 'wild passionate soul'. (stopping to gag)
The pair was married in Westminster Abbey, with the full blessing of King George. In broken English the wild man says his vow to his White Lilly. Lady Lucy returns with him to Chota where she is soon showing those Cherokee women a thing or two about interior decorating, her house rapidly becomes 'the pride of the nation'. With her bible in hand she sets out to teach the 'rude' people of her husbands tribe. She was the ruler of her husband and darling of the Cherokee savages whom she ruled with love and kindness. She seems to have only had the one child, Nancy Ward, she has already died when the story of Nancy begins in King's book.
So was Lucy Ward a real woman? Is any of this true? Does anyone believe it's true? The short answers to these questions are no, no and yes.
In the story Oconostota is fifty years old when he travels to London in 1730. There are two problems with this: Oconostota was born around 1710 and he never went to London. [2] In the scant writings about the man, his family is almost never mentioned, no wife is ever named. Nancy Ward was not his daughter, neither was Raven his son.
The fact that this claim is easily disproved has not stopped folks from believing the story. Even the ridiculous Don Greene has included it in his 'Every Native is a Shawnee' books. Just the fact that it's in his book should be a clue that it's not true.
The King book should be seen for what it is, a window into the racist views of turn of the century Americans who believed that the only good Indian was one with a preponderance of Anglo-Saxon blood, that all Native males were brutes and savages, in need of a sweet white gal to tame their base instincts. There is nothing romantic about this story which holds no genealogical value.
[1] E. Sterling King, "The Wild Rose of Cherokee, Or, Nancy Ward, "The Pocahontas of the West": A Story of the Early Exploration, Occupancy and Settlement of the State of Tennessee : a Romance, Founded on and Interwoven with History American Fiction, 1774-1920," Wright American Fiction, Vol. 3, The Ohio State University, University Press, 1895.
[2] Kelly, James C. “Oconostota” in Journal of Cherokee Studies, Fall, 1978 pp. 221; Hoig, Stanley, The Cherokees and Their Chiefs. University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville. 1998
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Indy officials consider deer hunting in Eagle Creek Park
Eagle Creek Park overrun with deer, study concludes, which could lead to hunting to cull herd
Indy officials consider deer hunting in Eagle Creek Park Eagle Creek Park overrun with deer, study concludes, which could lead to hunting to cull herd Check out this story on IndyStar.com: http://indy.st/1rvw66r
Ryan Sabalow, ryan.sabalow@indystar.com Published 4:00 a.m. ET July 21, 2014 | Updated 5:59 p.m. ET July 28, 2014
A deer stops to check its surroundings at Eagle Creek Park in February. It had gathered with several other deer for a morning graze.(Photo: Kelly Wilkinson/The Star)Buy Photo
Could camouflage-clad archers soon be perched in tree stands in Eagle Creek Park hunting white-tailed deer?
They very well could if city officials follow the recommendations of a Purdue University ecologist and state wildlife officials.
Michael Jenkins, a Purdue associate professor of forest ecology, recently released a study showing that 17 years of hunting in Indiana's state parks has helped restore the health of park vegetation damaged by deer populations.
Eagle Creek Park, where hunting has been discussed but never carried out, is another matter. The city's biggest park has 10 times as many deer as the state parks Jenkins and his team of researchers studied. And the voracious herbivores are changing the plant ecology by stripping the land of certain species, such as wildflowers, and leaving others such as garlic mustard and Japanese stilt grass.
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"There are some pretty obvious effects of overabundant deer down there," Jenkins said.
City officials agree with Jenkins' findings, and state wildlife officials recommend hunting as the cheapest and most effective method at culling a deer population.
And that almost certainly invites controversy.
While state parks routinely cull deer, including Fort Harrison State Park in Lawrence, animal lovers opposed hunting when the Eagle Creek deer problem was last discussed in 2012.
City officials in Bloomington have fought repeatedly over the issue. And at least one Indianapolis animals-rights group already is promising to oppose any hunting at Eagle Creek.
City staffers say they're not ready to take aim at a single solution. They're mulling options that could include hiring sharpshooters or using contraception. If hunting is ultimately chosen, said Scott Manning, a spokesman for the city's Office of Sustainability, the city will conduct "significant public outreach" for park goers and for those living nearby.
'The understory is almost nonexistent'
The city has had discussions about the problems at Eagle Creek Park for at least 10 years, said Manning, but talks have gone nowhere.
In September 2012, the Indy Parks & Recreation Board heard a presentation from the Eagle Creek Park Foundation Citizens Advisory Committee, including heated testimony from animal-lovers opposed to any hunting in the park. In May 2013, the city paid the Purdue ecologist $3,900 to complete a vegetation study as part of its five-year review of habitat in the park.
In a research paper provided to the city in October, Jenkins wrote that a survey of plants in Eagle Creek's Spring Pond and Eagle's Crest nature preserves showed severe damage caused by deer.
Jenkins found that both nature preserves were dominated by plant species that deer don't like to eat. Plus, tree and plant species deer enjoy eating, such as wild flowers, were hard to find or chewed down to nubs.
"You can see some pretty widespread areas where the understory is almost nonexistent," Manning said, referring the layer of vegetation beneath the main canopy of a forest.
Manning said any plan would need to be approved by The Indy Parks & Recreation Board. The City-County Council also would need to make an exception to an ordinance that prohibits hunting in any city park.
"Trying to satisfy a few blood-thirsty people'
White-tailed deer numbers have exploded in recent decades, particularly in urban areas and parks, where the only real predators are vehicle bumpers.
State wildlife officials say hunting is always their preferred method to thin populations. After all, you don't have to pay hunters; some are even willing to pay a small fee in exchange for the chance at a freezer full of fresh venison.
Josh Griffin, the DNR's south private lands regional supervisor, said that more expensive methods proposed by animal-rights activists — including contraception drugs and sterilization — haven't been proven effective in free-ranging deer herds, though there are ongoing research projects on the East Coast that might some day prove differently.
If hunting is officially proposed at Eagle Creek, city officials are certain to deal with push back from park users, such as Larry Peavler who lives nearby and spends dozens of days at the park each year.
He said he's vehemently opposed to killing animals that draw thousands of visitors to the park each year.
"They're trying to satisfy a few blood-thirsty people," he said. "That's all they're trying to do."
At least one animal rights group also is opposed to the idea on its face.
Joel Kerr, executive director of the Indiana Animal Rights Alliance, said he's extremely skeptical of the DNR's motives.
"The DNR has a built-in bias and a compelling reason to side with the hunters because they make money on selling the licenses," Kerr wrote in an email. "I have still not seen any valid scientific evidence of overpopulation or biodiversity issues that can be directly attributed to the deer. Their real motives of simply wanting to hunt."
Kerr said he's instantly skeptical of studies such as Jenkins' that don't actually count the number of deer but conclude they're overpopulated.
Similar arguments have erupted in Bloomington, where residents and city officials have butted heads over deer for years. Some have complained deer are so overpopulated in town that they're causing too many car accidents and destroying backyard landscaping. A vocal cadre of animal-rights activists contend the complaints are unwarranted and the deer need to be left alone.
The Bloomington City Council commissioned a deer taskforce to figure out what to do. Griffin, who sat on the taskforce, said it examined "every possible solution," including reintroduction of predators, euthanasia, contraception, trap and relocation, sharp shooting, hunting, chemical repellants and deer fences.
Griffin said the taskforce in 2012 settled on hiring sharpshooters to cull deer in Griffy Lake Nature Preserve, a popular 1,192-acre park on the outskirt of town. It also proposed archery hunts, deer euthanasia and trapping and removal in certain areas.
Two years later, the Bloomington City Council has only pushed ahead with one option: Hiring a sharpshooter to kill deer in the nature preserve.
In an example of just how politically contentious killing deer can be, this spring, Mayor Mark Kruzan, an animal-rights advocate, vetoed the council's vote on sharpshooting, but the council overturned it.
Local media outlets reported it was the first time in at least 13 years that the council had overturned a mayor's veto. Meanwhile, city officials are still working out the details of when the sharpshooters will start taking aim.
Griffin said deer can inflame passions in a way few species can, and Bloomington, a liberal college town, had more than its share of people adamantly opposed to killing their beloved deer.
"People likened them to being treated like the native Americans," Griffin said. "People compared them to soldiers; people drew a lot of conclusions that weren't exactly intuitive, but you could tell they were passionate about their beliefs."
A call for balance
Whatever the city decides is best for Eagle Creek Park, Jenkins, the Purdue ecologist, said his research speaks for itself.
Prior to Indiana allowing deer hunting in state parks in the 1990s, white-tailed deer populations in parks had so swollen that many species of native wildflowers such as trillium and lilies had largely disappeared. Oak and ash tree seedlings had given way to trees such as paw paw, which deer don't like to eat.
Jenkins said that part of the challenge of persuading urban forest users and anti-hunters that over-abundant deer are harming a park is because to an untrained-eye, a forest overbrowsed by deer looks manicured and stereotypically park-like.
Plus, deer also eat plant species that humans find unpleasant such as briars and poison ivy. But Jenkin said native wild flowers can be tough to find in these uncluttered, deer-groomed forests.
"I like deer, but I also wildflowers," Jenkins said. "I think our parks can have both."
Call Star reporter Ryan Sabalow at (317) 444-6179. Follow him on Twitter: @ryansabalow.
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Hailing from New Jersey, Infinitus Mortus breaks away from mainstream music, and delves into the darker, Classically composed Symphonic Metal made popular by European bands such as Epica, Nightwish and Dimmu Borgir. Infinitus Mortus started off as a studio project by Stephen “Stoki” Megna (Drums, Guitars, Keys) in 2008. Frustrated by being told how and what to play in multiple local bands, he decided to break off and focus his passion on writing the music that had been welling up inside of him. He found a local Operatic vocalist to work with, and “2012” was released in 2010.
Building off of the success of the first album, Steve decided to move in a new direction in 2011 with another concept album about the superficiality of love, and the anguish and heartache it brings. Joining him on this new adventure as vocalists are Vincent James “VJ” Meehan, and his sister, Caitlin. Working with lyrical ideas provided by Rebeca Pasquel, VJ molded the lyrics, and developed them into catchy melodies that compliment the music composed by Steve. “The Conspiracy of Love” takes the listener on the journey of heartache and betrayal. Caitlin’s sweet vocals contrasted by her brother’s grittier growls reflect the idea that love is sweet, but can’t be trusted.
Infinitus Mortus brings the mix of heavy driven Metal, and couples it with strong hooks and melodies that will please a wide range of music fans. We have been hitting the club scenes to bring some true heart and complex songwriting back to the music scene. Fans can look forward to hearing tracks from the latest album, favorites from the first album and well-known covers by bands of the same genre.
Please find below our social media links, video clips, a song from our latest album, sell sheet, and stage setup diagram. Thank you!
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Samsung expects a operating profit of US $ 7.28 Billion this Quarter
by Bharat NagpalOctober 5, 2012
Samsung has let the details out ahead of its earnings call for Q3 results. It’s expecting a fourth straight record quarter with overall operating profits of 8.1 trillion won ($7.28 billion), Almost double of what the company made at the same time last year.
Earnings at the mobile-phone business surged 93 percent in the quarter with the May debut of the Galaxy S III and the Note, according to a Bloomberg News survey of six analysts, helping mask a slump in profit from selling computer-memory chips. TV sales also helped Asia’s biggest consumer-electronicscompany, which lost a California patent trial in August to rival and key customer Apple.
[quote]“Smartphone sales were very solid,” Kim Young Chan, a Seoul-based analyst at Shinhan Investment Corp., said by phone today. “Smartphone shipments have increased significantly, easing concerns about marketing spending eating into profit.”[/quote]
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Samsung Electronics Announces Earnings Guidance for Third Quarter 2012
Consolidated revenues estimated at 52 trillion Korean won
Operating profit at 8.1 trillion won
SEOUL, Korea – October 5, 2012 – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced its earnings guidance for the third quarter, 2012.
Consolidated Sales : Approximately 52 trillion Korean won
(Range: 51 – 53 trillion Korean won)
Consolidated Operating Profit : Approximately 8.1 trillion Won
(Range: 7.9 – 8.3 trillion Korean won)
The above figures are consolidated earnings estimates based on K-IFRS
? ’12 2Q and ’11 3Q consolidated figures based on K-IFRS are as follows
(in trillion won)
’12 .2Q
‘11.3Q
Disclosure regulations in South Korea do not allow earnings guidance to be provided as a range, therefore the official disclosure was made based on the median value as stated above.
The guidance is provided ahead of the full announcement of quarterly earnings results for the convenience of investors and media, before our external audit on the financial results of our headquarters, subsidiaries and affiliates is completed. Therefore, the above estimate may differ from the actual results.
The full earnings for the third quarter will be disclosed following the Board of Directors’ approval of the financial statements and quarterly reports.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2011 consolidated sales of US$143.1 billion. Employing approximately 206,000 people in 197 offices across 72 countries, the company operates two separate organizations to coordinate its nine independent business units: Digital Media & Communications, comprising Visual Display, Mobile Communications, Telecommunication Systems, Digital Appliances, IT Solutions, and Digital Imaging; and Device Solutions, consisting of Memory, System LSI and LED. Recognized for its industry-leading performance across a range of economic, environmental and social criteria, Samsung Electronics was named the world’s most sustainable technology company in the 2011 Dow Jones Sustainability Index. For more information, please visit www.samsung.com.
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Luis Suarez To Hit The Knockout Stage Soon
Uruguay has been a performing team so far, especially with some of the talented players like Luis Suarez.
Although he recently had an injury, but it is not as bad as it may seem as the player is more likely to be back in no time. He would be back soon after recovery to hit the knockout stage. Besides, Uruguay has many other talents as well to reach to the top.
The Copa America match that was held last year in Chile is certainly worth remembering. Uruguay had scored only 2 goals out of the 4 games. When Suarez is playing the game, it is indeed breathtaking to watch. The match of World Cup made Suarez score goals over England. In the first games after his suspension made him score 2-2 draw against Brazil. Thereafter he helped Cavani against Peru with a match of world club qualifiers in the month of March. Well, these results have made Uruguay keep its position in tact in the qualifying table of the World Cup. The team is waiting for Suarez to return soon and praying for his speedy recovery. Read more »
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John Aldridge says that the club should consider signing a proven goalscorer
Former Liverpool star John Aldridge says that the club should consider signing a proven goalscorer in order to act as a replacement for Luis Suarez.
The inability to score goals was a major factor in the club finishing outside the top four once again last season. Even though Brendan Rodgers had brought Mario Balotelli as the replacement for Luis Suarez, the Italian international disappointed immensely after scoring only one league goal throughout the campaign. The situation became more desperate due to the injury crisis faced by striker Daniel Sturridge. Liverpool have been one of the active clubs in the summer transfer window by bringing players like Nathaniel Clyne.
However, Aldridgehas recognised a need for a top striker as the priority number one for the Reds. After scoring almost 3 goals per game during the campaign in which Luis Suarez was named as the PFA Player of the Year, the club went on to averaging only just over a goal per game against last season. They have signed defenders likeClyne while midfielders like James Milner and Firmino should provide the club with a lot of strength in depth especially considering the departure of a big name like Steven Gerrard in this position. Read more »
Tags: Enough, Goal, Liverpool, LUIS, SUAREZ
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LUIS SUAREZ – Just Can’t Get Enough – Liverpool – 2011 – HD
Suarez Video Rating: four / five
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How Does Luke Cage's Harlem Fit into the MCU?
Netflix's 'Luke Cage' will be the first time Marvel has treated Harlem as anything other than a quagmire.
By Emily Gaudette
Filed Under Comics, Luke Cage, Marvel Universe, Race & Superheroes
New York City has long been an environment explored by Marvel’s superheroes, and it’s the in-universe birthplace of characters like Captain America, Spider-Man, and Luke Cage. While Cap is from Brooklyn, and Spider-Man is from Queens, Luke Cage is Harlem’s primary hero — though Sam Wilson, aka The Falcon from Civil War, was born in Harlem, he lives wherever he needs to. Luke Cage is unique because he stuck around his hometown, and his villains are local to the same streets.
Harlem first appeared in Marvel Comics in a 1969 issue of Captain America, although the city is only in a few panels. After an adventure together, Captain America and the Falcon make a pit-stop in Harlem, just to drop Falcon off, and Cap continues on with the comic’s plot at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters. Notably, when the heroes say goodbye, Cap wishes Falcon luck in his own town, because he perceives Harlem as being especially crime-ridden. Essentially, Marvel sold Harlem back in the ‘60s as a pretty tough place to be a do-gooder.
Luke Cage’s version of Harlem, which was introduced in 1972, is marked by gang activity. His first issue’s subtitle was “Out of hell — a hero!”, because he learned the tricks of the vigilante trade as a young man in a gang called The Rivals, which also counted Willis Stryker — later known as Diamondback — as a member.
Another black superhero, T’Challa, aka Black Panther, worked a few crime-fighting stints in Harlem as a plot point in the 1970s Avengers comics. Using the pseudonym Luke Charles, T’Challa left his native Wakanda, taught at Andrew Jackson High School, and kept an eye on American kids.
Netflix’s Luke Cage will not be Harlem’s first time in the MCU, technically, as Hulk fought the Abomination in front of the Apollo Theater in the 2008 film. No cultural context was given for the fight taking place in Harlem, and there certainly weren’t any mentions of Falcon or Luke Cage stepping in.
All of the language used to describe Harlem in Netflix’s Luke Cage positions the city as this particular hero’s version of Gotham, meaning a place with a lot of social problems that’s still worth saving. This is a new development for Marvel, which has always treated Harlem like some kind of a cesspool, producing more criminals than decent people. That definition, it could be argued, was rooted in a racist understanding of New York City’s black population, given that Luke Cage comics were first published in the ‘70s.
Daredevil comics and the Netflix series refer to Hell’s Kitchen as a similarly difficult place to live with high crime rates and decaying architecture, but there’s much less attention paid to the borough’s demographics than in Luke Cage. As for the other Defenders, Jessica Jones lives in Midtown while Danny Rand shares a condo (in the comics) with Luke Cage’s on-again, off-again girlfriend Misty Knight in Harlem.
As Marvel proved with Jessica Jones, its Defenders will be aware enough of New York City’s troubles to identify a few of the Avengers, but none of them worship the big name superheroes or follow them with any dedication. Like Jessica in Midtown, Luke Cage will likely keep his career as a superhero hyper-focused to the streets of his neighborhood. His villains, luckily, aren’t the Ultron or Loki types interested in world domination or spinning sky vortexes. Cottonmouth and Diamondback are simply organized crime lords looking to make money.
Though Harlem has been a setting for superhero dramas since the 1970s, the new Luke Cage series will give the borough more unique gravity than any previous Marvel project.
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Elijah E. Cummings, a Democratic congressman from Maryland who gained national attention for his principled stands on politically charged issues in the House, his calming effect on anti-police riots in Baltimore, and his forceful opposition to the presidency of Donald Trump, died Oct. 17 at a hospice center in Baltimore.
by Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post
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For #ThetaManThursday, join us as we congratulate Brother Dr. Telpriore Greg Tucker (@stemchemist) on his receipt of a United States patent as co-inventor in the lab of Dr. Austen Angell for a novel electrolyte (separator). This separator is utilized in potential hydrogen/oxygen fuel cells for future renewable energy power generation.
Dr. Tucker is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Arizona State University in the School of Molecular Sciences.
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For #ThetaManThursday, watch our amazing Brother Christon Staples, CEO of Dunk Empire.
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Join us, as we host our 37th International Conclave! On Friday, July 26th, our keynote speaker will be Ms. Sybrina Fulton, the mother of the late Trayvon Martin. Tickets can be purchased here.
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Lawrence Thomas Wins Ed Block Courage Award
A huge congratulations to Bro. Lawrence Thomas (3-Gamma Mu-15) for receiving the Ed Block Courage Award. The 40th Ed Block Courage Awards program was held on March 10th at the Renaissance Hotel - Inner Harbor in Baltimore, MD.
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The Ed Block Courage Award Foundation, Inc. is dedicated to supporting the well-being of abused, neglected and at-risk children throughout our Courage House National Support Network for Kids. Through our partnership with the National Football League, the Foundation cultivates awareness at each Courage House and helps to raise funds for their programs and initiatives. - edblock.org
Inauguration Ceremony 2018
Join us for the inauguration of our International Grand Polaris, Bro. Andre R. Manson and International Grand Vice Polaris, Bro. Sean D. Housen!
The event will take place on Friday, January 12th, 2018 at 6:30pm at the Royal Sonesta Harbor Hotel in Baltimore, MD. The ceremony will feature founders of the Fraternity, current and former fraternal leaders, and a host of friends and associates.
Grand Council members will be duly sworn into office during this event.
I-Shield - Breaking the Silence on 10/25/17
A collaborative event with the UHD NPHC, I-Shield, and Phoenix Women's Outreach.
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The Beta Omicron Omega and Eta Nu chapters, along with the ladies of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., hosted an event for #MuchMoreThanAHashtag on Jury Selection on Founders Day, September 19th. The event's guest was Frank Walker, criminal defense attorney from Pittsburgh.
Walker is one of the most sought after criminal defense attorneys in Western Pennsylvania due to his reputation for real talk, real experience and real results.
For more information on the Beta Omicron or Eta Nu chapters, please visit ACR Iotas.
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Members of Iota Phi Theta, Sigma Gamma Rho, and Delta Sigma Theta posing after event with Attorney Frank Walker
Members of Iota Phi Theta and Sigma Gamma Rho posing at event.
Council of Presidents Response to Incident in Charlottesville, VA
The Council of Presidents stand together with our membership against the violence and protest that occurred this weekend in Charlottesville, Va. by the evil, racist, thoughtless individuals who identify themselves as white supremacist. As anti-racism organizations, we are committed to purposefully identifying and challenge issues of race and color and the impact on our members and others.
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Iota Phi Theta® to Enhance Licensing Program through Partnership with Affinity Consultants
Iota Phi Theta® Fraternity, Inc., the fifth largest predominantly African American social-service fraternity that exemplifies scholarship, leadership, citizenship, fidelity, and brotherhood among men, selected licensing market leader Affinity Consultants (GreekLicensing.com and FindGreek.com) to advance the depth and scope of its licensing program.
"The impressive licensing technology and custom approach to brand management that
Affinity brings to the table will be a game-changer for our vendors and our members," said
John Davenport, general counsel of Iota Phi Theta®. Kevin Bennett, Executive Director of
Iota Phi Theta® added, "This partnership will help us protect the strong history and
heritage of Iota Phi Theta's® property rights through fair, consistent and accessible
licensing policies and processes. Affinity's vision for continued investment in technology
that facilitates our vendors' success is both forward thinking and impressive."
Dan Shaver, president and founder of Affinity Consultants, added, "Our interest in working
with Iota Phi Theta® was driven by their inclusive and proactive vision for fraternity
leadership and commitment to the greater community. Our entire team is honored to
partner with Iota Phi Theta® to reinforce the Fraternity's brand through streamlined online
licensing processes and to deliver unmatched benefits for their licensed vendors."
Iota Phi Theta® and Affinity Consultants will formally invite all past and current vendors to
apply for a license in the coming weeks.
Iota Phi Theta® Fraternity, Inc. was established in 1963 at Morgan State College (now
Morgan State University), and is an international organization with more than 250 chapters
in 40 states, the District of Columbia and the Republic of Korea. To learn more visit
www.iotaphitheta.org
Affinity Consultants, Inc. represents the brand interests and manages the licensing
programs of more than 115 membership-based clients, including fraternities, sororities,
honorary societies, professional fraternal organizations and trade associations. To learn
more, visit www.GreekLicensing.com.
Kevin Bennett, Iota Phi Theta® Fraternity, Inc.
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Karina Shaver, Affinity Consultants
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2017 St. Jude Walk/Run to End Childhood Cancer
Carlos Maury
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GREETINGS, Iota Family and supporters,
On Saturday, September 23, 2017, Iota Teams and IOTA Family members will once again walk/run on behalf of children fighting cancer and their families. I want to extend my deepest gratitude and say THANK YOU and God Bless ALL those who supported our Fraternity and participated in Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc.'s National Fundraising drives for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital over the past 4 years of the Clark/Gilbert administration.
Our Iota Phi Theta/St. Jude partnership allows our Fraternity to show its societal relevance by serving a population of the most deserved, 'at risk' youth in our country. With over 40% of the children and families receiving the FREE treatments for the most dangerous cancers being African American, St. Jude is truly a charity worthy of our support. In the course of one day, the IOTA Family presents a unified, coordinated group that impacts children worldwide. It is an opportunity for the world to see that the Brothers of Iota and the Sweethearts of ISI, Inc. are a true 'family' that works together to improve the conditions of our people, especially our children.
Therefore, I hope that we ALL continue our tireless efforts to support St. Jude. For those of you who have visited St. Jude, you know firsthand the importance of this endeavor; for those who have never visited St. Jude, I hope you have an opportunity to do so, in the near future, to see how your efforts make a TRUE difference in the lives of the children and families St. Jude serves.
Again, THANK YOU, GOD BLESS YOU and GOOD LUCK in your St. Jude fundraising endeavors this year!
Brotherly,
Robert Clark, Grand Polaris
Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc.
"One Focus, One Direction, One Fraternity!"
St. Jude in African American History:
https://www.stjude.org/get-involved/other-ways/saving-all-kids/civil-rights-era.html
To view the agreement between St. Jude and Iota Phi Theta as a National Silver Team, click here.
To view our National Page, click here.
Joint Statement on Hazing in Response to the Movie Burning Sands
NPHC is comprised of local councils drawn from the ranks of 1.5 million college and professional members of the nine historically African-American fraternities and sororities, namely: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., and Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc., and the Council of Presidents of these member organizations who come together on issues that promote the common purposes and general good for which these organizations exist.
In 1990, the NPHC organizations issued a joint statement announcing the elimination of pledging and each has instituted within its respective organization, a revised membership development and intake process.
Each NPHC organization has instituted strong policies against hazing and has taken steps to reinforce and strengthen its stand against prohibited conduct whether it is displayed though movies, books, or any type of social media.
NPHC and its member organizations have developed and instituted policies against hazing and have taken steps to reinforce and strengthen their stand against this prohibited conduct. Equally important NPHC and its member organizations do not condone, support, or encourage the production of movies, books, or any type of social media that promote hazing.
National Pan-Hellenic Council, Inc. Council of Presidents
Dorothy Buckhanan Wilson, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
Everett B. Ward, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
Paulette Walker, Chair, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
Mary Wright, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.
Robert Clark, Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc.
Thomas L. Battles, Vice Chair, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.
Deborah Catchings-Smith, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc.
Jonathan A. Mason Sr., Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.
Antonio (Tony) Knox, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.
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Kean University Brothers of Iota Phi Theta® Fraternity Inc. bought a plot of land in Newark for $1,000. The city ran a special program on Valentine’s Day, selling couples empty lots for a cheap price if they agreed to build on the land and live there for five years.
Iota Phi Theta Centaur Walks Through the 2016 NFL Draft
The 2016 NFL Draft is in the books, and Iota Phi Theta will be represented on both sides of the football.
Bro. Shilique Calhoun (4-Gamma Mu-15), Michigan State Defensive End, was drafted to the Oakland Raiders. He was the 12th player picked in the 3rd round, making him an overall 75th draft pick.
Bro. Lawrence Thomas (3-Gamma Mu-15), Michigan State Defensive Tackle, was signed to the New York Jets as a Free Agent.
Bro. Chris King (3-Eta Nu-13), Duquesne Wide Receiver, was signed to the Arizona Cardinals as a Free Agent.
Bro. DeAnthony Arnett (1-Gamma Mu-15), Michigan State Wide Receiver, was signed to the Seattle Seahawks as a Free Agent.
Bro. RJ Williamson (2-Gamma Mu-15), Michigan State Safety, was signed to the Green Bay Packers as a Free Agent.
Congratulations to these brothers as they continue to perform their craft on the professional level.
The above photo is credited to Bro. Ted Wheat.
Grand Polaris Response to Orlando Shooting
This week, on June 17th will mark the sad 1-year anniversary of the mass shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, which left nine African American souls dead. Last night, 50 souls (and the number may rise) were lost in what is now being described as the worst mass shooting in American history.
The common denominator is not just the availability of guns, but HATE. I've been teaching ethnic relations, psychology of race and prejudice courses through my 25+ years as a college educator; I am a diversity officer with the Coast Guard Auxiliary; and, I participate in and support causes and programs that try to end hate and abuse towards all people. Yet, sometimes it feels like we (those who care about our fellow man) are trying to plug holes in a dam with our fingers and toes.
I'm not going to even try to analyze and provide solutions in this writing to the causes and reasons why our society and its people never seem to learn from such events. I will simply say that, if you're reading this, understand that we all participate in varying degrees to the continued hate in our country: When we don't address the smallest of insults/injuries to other human beings, HATE inevitably grows. From the stereotypes (FALSE images) of others, to the manifestation of derogatory slurs ("'they' are ghetto, can't drive, or look/act/smell funny, etc."), to active discriminatory actions ("I won't let/don't want 'them' to come in here, live here, shop here, join my organization …"), to worse (abuse, rape, murder, genocide …), all of these practically guarantee that hate and hate-inspired events such as this most recent will persist.
Therefore, I plan to keep 'plugging the holes in the dam' and will simply pledge to work even HARDER to treat my fellow man, regardless of race/ethnicity, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation and/or socioeconomic status, the same way I would want to be treated: with Decency, Respect and Humanity, and most importantly, with LOVE. If humanity is to have a chance, I hope more of you pledge to do so, as well.
Prayers and Blessings to ALL the souls lost to this senseless violence.
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love." - 1 John 4:18
"Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." – Reverend/Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
In sympathy,
Oakland, CA
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Brian Hayes MEP: Ireland would need special deal from EU if Britain leaves
By Ann Cahill
European Correspondent
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Ireland would need to negotiate a special deal with Brussels if Britain leaves the EU, Fine Gael MEP and director of elections Brian Hayes has told a hearing of the British House of Lords.
Britain leaving the EU would cause enormous disruption to British-Irish relations, but would also change Ireland’s relationship with Europe, he said.
A special committee of the Lords was in Brussels for a two-day visit, hearing evidence from a range of representatives from the European Commission and the parliament in the run-up to the in-out referendum in Britain.
Britain leaving would create an enormous problem for Ireland, said Mr Hayes. “The central argument is that we could only join when Britain decided to join.”
If the British vote to leave there would then be a fresh round of negotiations to agree the conditions of the split.
“Nobody knows what the terms would be and a separate set of negotiations [would be required], and we would need a special deal from the EU, because we could not be disadvantaged by their leaving,” he said.
Issues to be considered, he said, include the North, agriculture, economy, trade, and financial services. There would have to be agreement that any regulations agreed at EU level, which would also apply to Ireland, could not disadvantage the country should Britain introduce rules more advantageous to themselves.
“A special deal would have to be constructed for us, and nobody has thought what that could mean,” said Mr Hayes. “We will still be in the euro and we believe in further integration, but they need to be aware of these issues for Ireland as we are not part of their concern at the moment.”
Mr Hayes was selected by the EPP group, the largest in the parliament and of which Fine Gael is a member, to speak at the hearing and answer questions with EPP leader in the parliament, Manfred Weber.
He said negotiations between London and Brussels were moving towards an agreement at the EU leaders’ meeting on February 18 and 19.
Mr Hayes said he believes that, if there is a deal, the British referendum would be held in June rather than in September.
British prime minister David Cameron has promised a vote before the end of next year.
Mr Hayes said he considered the work of the House of Lords in setting out basic information to a British audience as a crucial part of the debate in the UK.
The House of Lords is more open to the EU and anxious to have a deal go through in February.
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Taulupe Faletau ruled of World Cup in big blow for Wales
The Lions No 8 suffered a clavicle (collar bone) injury in what has been described as “an innocuous training ground incident”
Taulupe Faletau (Image: PA)
Wales have suffered a massive blow with Taulupe Faletau being ruled out of the Rugby World Cup.
The Lions No 8 suffered a clavicle (collar bone) injury in what has been described as “an innocuous training ground incident” and will require surgery.
He suffered the damage after returning home from Wales’ training camp in Fiesch, Switzerland, where he was taking full contact.
A full prognosis and return to play time-frame will be established after the operation.
The Wales squad and management have wished the Bath back rower the very best with his recovery.
It’s the latest injury set-back for the 72-cap Faletau, who has been sidelined for much of the past couple of years.
He has only played one game for Bath since last October due to a double arm fracture and didn’t play for Wales at all during the 2018-19 campaign.
Knee and arm injuries have limited him to just six appearances for Wales in all since he took a starring role on the 2017 Lions tour of New Zealand.
He fractured his right forearm playing against Exeter last October and then suffered another hairline fracture around a screw, which had been used to attach a metal plate to the bone, while making his comeback, at home to Wasps in January.
He had another operation after seeing the surgeon who dealt with England No.8 Billy Vunipola in an effort to solve the problem.
The 28-year-old looked to be making good progress based on his full involvement in Wales’ Swiss training camp.
So the latest news is a body blow for both him and the national side.
It means Ross Moriarty will now be the firm favourite to wear the No 8 jersey for Wales at the World Cup in Japan, as he did during the Grand Slam.
The versatile Josh Navidi will provide a further option there, while Ellis Jenkins could also come into the equation for a squad spot if he can prove his fitness following knee ligament damage.
Wales will play their first World Cup warm-up match against England at Twickenham a week on Sunday.
Moriarty would be odds on to pack down at No.8, with Navidi having taken a limited part in training out in Switzerland as he recovers from a dislocated elbow.
If Wales opt to add a back rower to their training squad, the vastly experienced Dan Lydiate would be an option, along with Josh Turnbull and Thomas Young, while Cardiff Blues lock Seb Davies played Test rugby at No 8 as recently as last November.
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The Greatest Dancer
Todrick Hall confirmed for The Greatest Dancer as series two line-up unveiled
Curtis Pritchard and Todrick Hall have joined BBC's The Greatest Dancer for the second series
(Image: Instagram)
The Greatest Dancer is coming back for series two, with it revealed the show starring Cheryl, Oti Mabuse and Matthew Morrison will be back on screens in early 2020.
Auditions are already underway, while pregnant Alesha Dixon and Jordan Banjo, who very recently welcomed his second child, will both be back for hosting duties.
It's now also been confirmed by the BBC that singer, actor and choreographer Todrick Hall, a close pal of Taylor Swift , has joined the show.
Not only that, but Love Island 2019 star Curtis Pritchard will also be joining the series following his exit from the villa with girlfriend Maura Higgins.
The Greatest Dancer series two line-up has been confirmed (Image: Instagram/BBC)
The brother of Strictly Come Dancing star AJ Pritchard will be taking up residence in the reception area, welcoming the contestants.
Meanwhile, Todrick will become the fourth captain on the panel alongside Matthew, Oti and Cheryl.
Speaking of his new role, he said: "Thrilled does not even begin to explain how excited I am to be joining the cast and crew of The Greatest Dancer.
Taylor Swift's pal will be a new captain (Image: todrick/Instagram)
"As a performer who has danced my whole life and been a contestant on a reality competition show, it's wild to see my career come full circle this way.
"I'm looking forward to working with the upcoming talent and to join the BBC family for the second season of a show that has proven to be a huge, smashing success."
Cheryl also reacted to the news, saying: "I am so excited to be back, I absolutely loved it last series and this year promises to be even more amazing, especially with the addition of Todrick who I’m obsessed with!"
Love Island 2019 finalist Curtis Pritchard will be on the show (Image: Matt Frost/ITV/REX)
Oti added: "I cannot wait to get back to work on The Greatest Dancer with this fantastic team, Cheryl, Matthew, Alesha and Jordan and welcoming newest captain Todrick and receptionist Curtis to the family.
"I’m excited to see the fresh new talented dancers who are auditioning and ready to leave their hearts on the floor and see who the mirror opens for!!!
"Plus I can’t wait to see my amazing winner Ellie perform at Strictly Come Dancing, she’s such a superstar and I’m exceptionally proud of her."
The Greatest Dancer returns to BBC One for series 2 in early 2020.
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Home » Health effects of forest fires concern medical experts
Health effects of forest fires concern medical experts
Doctors have suspected for years that forest fires aggravate heart and lung diseases. A 2001 study of Montana hospital admission records by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that wood fire smoke poses a "serious public health threat," according to published news reports.
The CDC measured and compared more than 2,000 medical records for patients with heart and lung problems among those who sustained varying degrees of exposure to smoke from forest fires. The results: Increases in hospital admission for respiratory and circulatory problems among residents in counties exposed to high levels of fire smoke.
Specifically, the CDC saw increases in coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, stroke and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. These increases occurred most during the peak fire period, when pollutant levels were highest.
Medical experts say the fires themselves won't cause breathing problems, but they might reveal asthma in those previously undiagnosed, as particles and toxic gases irritate mucous membranes and cause inflammation.
Those with allergies should pay particular attention, as some allergies heighten the risk of developing asthma. "In people with allergies [the fires] could tip that over into asthma," cautions Dr. Michael Schatz, an allergist with Kaiser Permanente.
This week, the International Association of Fire Fighters worked with Senator Barbara Boxer to pass in the U.S. Senate an amendment that will require NIOSH to conduct long-term health monitoring for firefighters responding to events — such as the wildfires — that have been declared natural disasters by the Federal government.
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Health groups & experts ask Congress to support EPA regulation of global warming emissions (9/28)
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Omron collaborates with Humber student team to build Safety Trainer
by Michelle Bozzetto
The team at Omron knows that safety is important – that’s why they wanted a team of capable Humber students to help them build a portable Safety Trainer.
Electromechanical Engineering students Daniel Abisso, Kyle Nyman, and Paul Schiabel worked with Omron to program and build a machine that would be able to demonstrate industrial safety practices and ensure companies in the industry are up to date with these safety standards. The Safety Trainer cell also had to be easily transportable so the device could be used at various locations.
Designing a cell that everyone was happy with, and then getting that design ESA approved was a demanding task, but the team was up to the challenge.
“I’m not a mechanical person,” admitted Kyle Nyman. “But I helped with the mechanical building and helped to design the entire cell from the ground up, which was new for me – it was a very rewarding experience.”
The students were encouraged to connect with various Omron employees to ensure the project was designed and built in the best way possible, and Paul Schiabel noted that even after the project was completed, the team at Omron was eager to add the students on LinkedIn to see where they ended up after graduating their program. The collaboration resulted in new industry connections for everyone involved.
By working on this project with Omron, students had the ability to learn first-hand how to plan and manage a project, as well as develop their communication skills with various types of people in the industry. And from the partnership, Omron got a Safety Trainer that the company is proud to use.
“The best part was when we showed Omron the final product,” said Schiabel. “To see a world-class company give that kind of reaction to students who have no real work experience in the industrial field – to put a smile on their face – was really satisfying.”
The industry partner was so pleased with the final product, contact Christian Bidner stated that he wanted Humber to make more of the Safety Trainer cells, and Neal Mohammad – one of the faculty leads on the project – wants to see one of these cells at Humber to train students. The Omron Safety Trainer was a lot of hard work but it paid off, and the project was a huge success.
Research team:
Partner: Omron
Faculty leads: Neal Mohammed, Peter Villalta
Students: Daniel Abisso, Kyle Nyman, and Paul Schiabel
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China says developed countries lack 'political will' on climate goals
China has repeatedly argued that developed nations should lead on tackling international climate obligations.
By AFP News
Beijing on Wednesday accused developed countries including the US of doing too little to curb global warming, ahead of a UN summit discussing controversial issues including climate compensation.
China is the world's second-largest economy and the biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, but has repeatedly argued that developed nations should lead on tackling international climate obligations.
"Developed countries' insufficient political will to provide support" is the "biggest problem" currently facing international climate efforts, said Zhao Yingmin, vice-minister of ecology and environment, at a press conference Wednesday.
An environment ministry report released at the briefing also criticised the US -- currently in the process of pulling out of the 2015 Paris Agreement on global warming.
"These unilateral behaviours seriously harm the global community's willingness and trust in tackling climate change together," the report says.
The US generated more oil and gas than any other nation last year and is the world's number two coal producer after China.
Zhao called for developed countries to honour financial commitments including providing $100 billion to poorer states harmed by climate change.
The $100 billion -- which China has said it is entitled to part of -- was a nonbinding accompaniment to the Paris Agreement, and was the annual amount that rich countries pledged to muster by 2020.
The incoming European Commission chief has called for the EU to adopt a carbon border tax that would impose higher tariffs on imported goods made through greenhouse gas-intensive processes.
But China's report said carbon border taxes currently being considered by "some developed countries" would "seriously harm" the global community's willingness to tackle the issue.
Zhao was speaking a week ahead of a Madrid summit to discuss the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change -- based on the principle all nations must give proportionately to mitigate climate change.
The UN said Tuesday the world will miss its chance to avert climate disaster without an immediate and all-but-impossible fall in fossil fuel emissions.
Climate groups said Monday the US and Europe bear more than half the cost of repairing the existing environmental damage, based on their historic greenhouse gas emissions.
Beijing said Wednesday it had reduced carbon emissions intensity by 45 percent between 2005 and 2018.
But China's absolute carbon emissions have continued to rise, according to Tuesday's UN report.
A separate study earlier this month warned that Beijing's planned coal powerplants were equivalent to all of the EU's current generating capacity.
China is the world's second-largest economy and the biggest emitter of carbon dioxide. Photo: AFP / Johannes EISELE
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What's next for virtualisation?
Virtualisation is evolving so here's our rundown of the next trends for the ever-changing technology.
by: Nicole Kobie
After a week at VMworld in San Francisco earlier this month, a few trends seemed to emerge in the virtualisation world.
Here's our rundown of the top few. Make sure you're keeping an eye on these virtualisation trends so you don't get left in the virtual dust.
It'll be years before mobile phone virtualisation becomes commonplace, but VMware is already in talks with un-named manufacturers to put hypervisor onto handsets. The first round of such phones are likely to just use a virtual machine to run legacy software, but within a few years, IT administrators could be placing corporate virtual machines onto personal handsets.
Why do this? It will cut costs, as it lets employees use their phone of choice. As mobile head Srinivas Krishnamurti noted at VMworld, the types of business workers who are given courtesy phones from work tend to be able to afford their own, and want to use just one across both work and play.
It also lets IT admins manage corporate handsets a bit more easily, in the same way they would any other client device.
Virtualisation is already showing up in some novel ways on phones. There are already a few apps for the iPhone that allow access to virtualsed environments, to let admins restart servers from their handset, while others bring desktops to the phone.
In fact, handset makers might want to offer virtualisation so their own devices can access Apple's App Store, to keep people from buying an iPhone just for the applications.
"From a consumer standpoint, when you buy a [handset], you're stuck on an island of apps," said Krishnamurti.
Although, as VMware admitted, Apple might not be too happy about that.
Greener IT has always been a selling point of virtualisation, mostly because it cuts down on servers and other hardware being used, and the power and cooling associated with them.
While that's no small saving, taking virtualisation deeper and automating management tools means at slower times workloads can be consolidated onto fewer servers, letting unused ones be powered down.
This can only happen if you're entirely sure what each virtual machine is doing, so decent management software will be required...
Data control and compliance
So you want to move data to the cloud, but you don't want to risk a data breach or break any local regulations. New management tools mean policies can be applied to virtual machines and the data inside them, telling them to be held under specific security ratings or be kept in certain geographies.
This will help keep data safe and in the right spot, while letting other data move to possibly cheaper clouds overseas. As more and more data is virtualised and moves to the cloud, keeping track of exactly where it is will become increasingly important.
"Many companies are bound not by tech constraints, but by regulatory constraints," said Paul Maritz, VMware's president and chief executive. "Many regulations change more quickly than technology."
Mobile, global working
People move, companies spread. Neither of those events are new to business, nor are the challenges of keeping workers online and hooked into corporate systems regardless of where they travel to.
Virtual desktops are one way of dealing with this. Each worker has a desktop they can access, on a thin client terminal, thick client like a laptop, or even on a mobile phone or other smaller client device.
It can also let admins keep a tighter watch of what users are doing on their desktops. "The one I like is you can self-destruct [a VM] if you don't like someone's behaviour on the desktop," said chief technology officer Stephen Herrod.
Thick clients
On the other hand, why do we need to be jet-setting around the globe to use the technology at hand?
Virtual desktops could be one way to give into the consumerisation of corporate IT, by using virtualisation on thick clients like laptops instead of just thin client terminals. Workers show up wanting to use their MacBook instead of the standard Dell, while others want to access work from the desktop at their home.
By deploying virtual desktops, IT departments can effectively let their firm's workers choose their device, then give them access to their work materials via a virtual machine.
"IT would like to get out of the business of owning IT," said Herrod. "Users want to use something personal to them."
Indeed, while a desktop over a network may work for many, it won't work for all and others will want to take full advantage of their shiny new laptops multimedia features.
For this, admins can use offline modes, sending all the applications and files associated with the virtual machine to live on the computer, and updating them when the computer connects to a network.
On top of that, it lets users store some data on their hardware, which also makes sense for businesses. As Maritz noted, you don't want to go from the cheap storage on laptops to the most expensive that found in a data centre.
So really, adding virtualisation to thick clients could offer the best of both worlds for many businesses so expect to hear more about it.
Because virtual machines are trackable, it's easy to see exactly how much money each bit of IT costs. That new marketing project? HR's new system? It's easier now to see the costs associated with each how much licences will cost, how much the energy bill will total and so on.
Why this can lead to utility computing, with IT charging other departments for what they use, it can also help give business leaders more clarity on how much new projects will really cost before the project's finished, instead of after.
You may have heard of cloud computing? It's this small trend that's been creeping into IT... while there's been lots of hype, it hasn't yet taken off for most companies.
Indeed, moving to the cloud isn't easy if your systems are sitting on virtual servers. It may be easy enough to run development and new projects in the cloud, but everything that's sitting on hardware is going to take some work before it can move off-site.
But virtualised systems are already in a nice little bubble and they're already used to being moved around. The cloud is just another place to move to.
"Virtualisation is one of the few technologies the only technology which can really provide the evolutionary path to that change," said Martiz, speaking at the conference.
Interoperability and open source
VMware acquired SpringSource earlier this year, and plans to keep it focused on open source. Maritz et al also frequently reference the song Hotel California although they often get the title and lyrics incorrect noting the "you can check out any time you want, but you can never leave" is the exact opposite of what companies want to do with their data.
"We think there's a distant and growing role for open source," according to Martiz, who suggested that most companies use a hybrid of open source and proprietary software.
He predicted that the elements of virtualisation most directly facing developers will stay or become open source.
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ITTF Challenge
2017 ITTF Challenge, Slovenian Open
First round upsets, Laura Gasnier sets the standard
A qualification stage exit earlier in the year in Belarus, Laura Gasnier of France was the player to cause the biggest surprise as proceedings commenced in the opening round of the Women’s Singles event at the 2017 ITTF Challenge Slovenia Open in Otocec.
On the morning of Friday 28th April, the 23 year old recovered from a two games to nil deficit to beat the Czech Republic’s Iveta Vacenovska, the no.10 seed (9-11, 10-12, 11-5, 11-5, 11-6, 11-7).
Laura Gasnier, ever improving (Photo: Rémy Gros)
by Ian Marshall, ITTF Publications Editor
It was a most creditable performance against an opponent of considerably greater experience; now 31 years old, most creditably Iveta Vacenovska reached the quarter-final stage of the Women’s Singles event at H.I.S. 2009 World Championships in Yokohama.
Impressive from Laura Gasnier, it was the same from Puerto Rico’s Melanie Diaz, Korea’s Lee Eunhye and India’s Madhurika Patkar; all players who like Laura Gasnier had been required to compete in the qualification tournament.
Melanie Diaz, who had caused a surprise of note by beating Russia’s Ekaterina Guseva to book her main draw place, continued her quite astounding run of form.
Never previously beyond the qualification phase at either an ITTF World Tour or ITTF Challenge tournament, she accounted for Austria’s Amelie Solja, the no.20 seed and listed at no.94 on the current Men’s World Rankings (12-14, 12-10, 11-6, 11-6, 11-7), a player who has caused more than one adversary consternation with her close to the table blocking style of play.
The combination racket with one side long pimpled rubber has disturbed the rhythm of many an opponent; not Melanie who perhaps had an antidote. She uses short pimpled rubber on the forehand, smooth reversed rubber on the back; she is similar the China’s Cao Lisi, the player who completed a clean sweep of titles at the 2008 World Junior Championships and to the now retired Singaporean, Li Jiawei.
“I am so happy to be able to maintain the performance of yesterday, now, winning against a top 100 World ranked player is the best win from my entire career! I was very confident and relaxed I didn´t even look for the opponent for next match.” Melanie Diaz
Success against expectations for Melanie Diaz; it was the same from Lee Eunhye and Madhurika Patkar. Lee Eunhye beat Switzerland’s Rachel Moret, the no.27 seed (11-7, 9-11, 11-7, 11-8, 12-10); Madhurika Patkar defeated the host nation’s Manca Fajmut, the no.32 seed (11-8, 11-7, 11-8, 11-6).
Surprises in the top half of the draw but not where the leading names were concerned; Japan’s Hitomi Sato, the no.1 seed, beat Krittwika Roy, like Madhurika Patkar from India (11-8, 11-5, 9-11, 11-5, 11-6), whilst Romania’s Elizabeta Samara, the no.3 seed, returning from surgery, accounted for Japan’s Miyuu Kihara.
“I felt very nervous in my opening game after a three months absence from the international stage. Also playing with a new ball doesn´t make it any easier. I am totally recovered after my knee injury but still feel I need to work more on physical matters in order to be 100 per cent fit. I hope to become better match by match and get in the best shape until the World Championships.” Elizabeta Samara
Opening round wins for Hitomi Sato and Elizabeta Samara; it was the same for Austria’s Sofia Polcanova, the no.7 seed and Thailand’s Suthasini Sawettabut, the no.8 seed.
Sofia Polcanova beat the Czech Republic’s Kristyna Stefcova (11-3, 11-9, 9-11, 11-8, 11-3); Suthasini Sawettabut overcame Daria Trigiolos of Belarus (11-7, 11-6, 11-4, 11-7).
Challenge Series 2017 Slovenian Open Melanie Diaz Lee Eunhye Madhurika Patkar Laura Gasnier
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The Doctoral Program in Operations Management (OM) at the Ivey Business School is designed to prepare students for an engaging and enriching career in conducting meaningful scholarly-based research and teaching in leading schools of business administration.
The Doctoral Program in OM at the Ivey Business School has a strong track-record of exceptional first job placements in Top business schools around the world, including Georgia Tech, IE Business School, HEC Montreal and many others.
The faculty members comprising this group include Rob Klassen, Fraser Johnson, Deishin Lee, Larry Menor, Stephan Vachon, Gal Raz, Jury Gualandris and Dave Barrett. Their work is published in the top journals in the Operations and Technology Management disciplines, including Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Supply Chain Management, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Management Science, Production and Operations Management, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Operations Research and Academy of Management Journal.
The OM group has strong, important research collaborations with top universities and researchers around the world, including MIT, Arizona State University (CASN-RA), University College Dublin, Indiana University and Erasmus RSM School of Business, among others.
OM deals with the planning, control and improvement/innovation of the operational system that transforms inputs into outputs and enables value realization for and from customers. OM also deals with the emergence and capable functioning of supply chains as complex adaptive systems that span industries and countries. As such, students will be exposed to, and critically examine, both foundational and recent scholarly developments spanning a wide array of tactical and strategic issues underlying how work gets done in the firm and across firms in order to develop their own theoretical and practical insights on relevant OM topics. While improved decision making and action based upon rigorous empirical science is the primary focus and interest of the OP discipline group's faculty, students will also be introduced to relevant analytical/axiomatic modeling approaches and interdisciplinary theorization that may be informative to the scrutiny of the OM topics.
Students take the full spectrum of Doctoral Program and OM special field offerings; on occasion, students may be encouraged to register and complete courses offered by other Ivey discipline groups and UWO faculties that may be salient to their specific program of study and individual scholarly development. For example, those courses related to advanced statistical and econometrical techniques, network analysis and any relevant other. Other aspects of the program are tailored to fit the student’s own research, teaching and professional interests and requirements.
Areas of Research Focus
Sustainable supply chain management
Managing production and service systems and technologies
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The doctoral program in Operations Management is recruiting students with the following research interests:
Sustainable Supply Chain Management:
Stakeholder empathy and collaboration along the development of sustainable supply chains (Rob Klassen)
Sustainability and Reputational Risks in Supply Chains (Stephan Vachon)
The Circular Economy and its Embedded Systems (circular products, business models and supply chains) (Jury Gualandris)
Tackling Food Waste Through Sustainable Operations (Deishin Lee)
Remanufacturing and Recycling Strategies in Competitive Settings (Gal Raz)
Operational systems design and functioning:
Big Data-enabled processing, coordinative and learning capabilities (Larry Menor)
Lean Supply Management (Fraser Johnson)
Healthcare Operations (Dave Barrett)
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Dr. Asad Shafiq (2015 PhD)
Assistant Professor, California State University
PhD Dissertation:
Supplier social engagement, reciprocity of social practices and performance in supply chains
Over the last two decades, social and environmental issues in supply chains have attracted increased scrutiny and debate. Moreover, managers are realizing that irresponsible behavior by their supply chain partners is negatively projected to their firm, with the potential for causing adverse publicity, reputational damage, and costly legal obligations. In my dissertation, I focus on supplier engagement efforts of firms aimed at encouraging suppliers to behave in a socially responsible manner... Read more
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Rob Klassen
Dr. Sara Hajmohammad (2015 PhD)
Assistant Professor, University of Manitoba
Three Essays on Sustainable Operations Management
This dissertation consists of three essays on sustainable operations management. The unifying theme in this work is the focus on sustainability-related risks originating from an organization’s internal operations or its supply chain, operational-level initiatives for managing such risks, and the determinants and subsequent outcomes of those initiatives. The first essay focuses on safety and environmental risks and looks into the role of a safety-oriented culture in effectively managing them.... Read more
Stephan Vachon
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Jury Gualandris
Jury’s research reveals insights into the complex transformations that unfold over time along the development of more sustainable supply chains. Particularly, his work has explored how firm-level resources and supply chain-level structures affect the willingness and ability of firms at multiple tiers to diminish their negative impacts on society and the natural environment. This research shows that sustainability is better conceptualized as a journey; Firms start their journey by innovating their internal production practices, which requires to learn novel technical and administrative skills. Only then sourcing practices are advanced, which requires to develop novel relational skills to transfer knowledge and change up in the chain. Jury’s research also finds that that high knowledge heterogeneity and high inter-organizational integration at a supply chain-level helps firms to achieve comparatively higher environmental and social performance and transparency. Jury has published extensively on this topic across top journals such as Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Supply Chain Management and International Journal of Operations and Production Management, among others.
Currently, Jury’s research explores the institutional, operational and economic challenges associated to the development and the capable functioning of circular supply chains. Circular SCs consist of multiple companies that go beyond recycling and reusing to collectively prioritize the reduction of products and materials in order to minimize the proportion of waste that goes to landfills. Circular SCs represent nascent, complex niches of companies that leverage economies of scope and have the potential to disrupt existing value chains.
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Adam as Israel
Adam as Israel:
Genesis 1–3 as the Introduction to the Torah and Tanakh
By Seth D. Postell
A discussion of how the links between the stories of Adam and of the people of Israel explain otherwise perplexing features of the Eden narrative.
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The story of Adam is the story of Israel writ small.
In this text-centered interpretation of Genesis 1–3, Seth Postell contends that the opening chapters of the Bible, when interpreted as a strategic literary introduction to the Torah and to the Tanakh, intentionally foreshadow Israel's failure to keep the Sinai Covenant and their exile from the Promised Land, in order to point the reader to a future work of God, whereby a king will come in "the last days" to fulfill Adam's original mandate to conquer the land (Gen 1:28). Thus Genesis 1–3, the Torah, and the Hebrew Bible as a whole have an eschatological trajectory.
2. History of Interpretation
3. Recent Studies
5. A Text-Centered Analysis of Genesis 1–3, Part 1
7. Genesis 1–3: An Introduction to the Tanakh?
Subject and Name Index
Introduction (PDF, 61 KB)
Chapter 3: Recent Studies (PDF, 139 KB)
Seth D. Postell, formerly Assistant Professor of Old Testament at the Charles L. Feinberg Center for Messianic Jewish Studies (in partnership with Talbot School of Theology), is currently Lecturer in Biblical Studies at Israel College of the Bible in Netanya, Israel.
Dr. Postell has written a brilliant treatise arguing that Genesis 1–3 serves as the literary introduction to the Pentateuch, and, indeed, the entire Tanakh. He is clearly conversant with all the relevant literature and he makes a persuasive case. This is a work that needs to be read carefully and taken seriously. David M. Howard Jr, Professor of Old Testament, Bethel University
In a stimulating study of the first three chapters of Genesis, Dr. Postell has argued convincingly that they were written as fitting prelude to and portent of the ensuing narrative. Instead of looking to presumed parallel or contrasting ancient creation accounts for its meaning, this study confirms that the opening narratives of the Pentateuch exhibit language and themes coherent with the entire narrative that follows. The persuasive argument expressed here points to the necessity of further studies of similar approach to the Hebrew Bible. Robert Cole, Associate Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
To anyone who suspects that there is a divine order behind the compilation of the Hebrew Scriptures, this excellent work by Seth Postell will confirm that suspicion. Not only has he carefully described the methodology used in evangelical canonical research of the text, he has built upon the existing evidence to further substantiate the approach. Fresh new insights are always pleasing to the theological senses! Research professors and students alike will be strengthened in their devotion to the sacred text and spurred on to answer the research questions that naturally arise from this work. Gregory Hagg, Professor of Bible Exposition/Director, The Feinberg Center for Messianic Jewish Studies, Talbot School of Theology
I would recommend this book for biblical scholars and advanced students interested to explore new avenues for theological interpretation of Genesis. Igal German, in Theological Book Review, Vol 24, No 2
Postell's Adam as Israel, filled with rich exegetical insights and engendering many suggestive 'rabbit trails' to pursue, is a solid contribution to biblical theology, joining a growing body of scholarship that, through holistic readings, marks a critically minded return to an earlier understanding of the Hebrew and Christian canons. Readers will be impressed afresh concerning the profound significance of the Eden narratives, along with the highly complex literary artistry at play within the Tanak. L. Michael Morales, in Review of Biblical Literature, October 2012
Seth Postell puts forward a convincing argument to take seriously the cohesion of the final, canonical form of the Torah and Tanakh, as well as the introductory role that Genesis 1–3 plays within that final form. ... The writing is very accessible, and would be of use to laypersons as well as academics and students of biblical studies. Matthew James Hamilton, in Reviews in Religion & Theology, Vol 20, Issue 2
Postell has provided an excellent work that is readable, interesting, and has a handful of fascinating insights that will provide scholars, pastors, and lay-readers alike good material for years to come. James A.E. Mulroney, in The Expository Times, Vol 124, No 9
... if the best books are those that spark fresh ways of thinking or reveal yet more vistas for exploration, then Postell's work had definitely hit the mark. His book is full of suggestive intertextual connections in the Hebrew Bible and readers will find a banquet of biblical-theological delicacies. Samuel Emadi, in Journal for the Evangelical Study of the Old Testament, Vol 2.1
... a very compelling and rich interpretation of the opening chapters of Genesis is that will likely prove significant for others who do choose to address the Biblical accounts compatibility with the current scientific research. ... I find Postell's conclusion on Genesis 1–3's relationship to the Torah incredibly hard to deny. His case was both persuasive and significant. ... Seth Postell has written an excellent book that deserves a wide reading. I can't recommend it more highly. Johnny Walker, at Freedom in Orthodoxy.blogspot.co.uk
Seth Postell argues that the story of the Bible's first man is an intentional introduction to the Torah and Tanakh, which foreshadows the history of Israel and its rebellion against God, leading to the exile. Adam as Israel looks at Genesis 1–3 in detail, and proposes that there is also an eschatological slant in these chapters. Church Times, 30 May 2014
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Government // Cybersecurity
GAO Faults Agencies On Cyber Incident Response
Recent GAO report finds that agencies lack consistent documented responses to cybersecurity incidents, recommends greater scrutiny of response plans.
Most federal agencies examined in a recent study by the Government Accountability Office lack a consistent, documented approach in responding to cybersecurity incidents, which it said could put government data and IT systems at greater risk.
The report studied responses by the 24 major executive branch agencies to a sample of security incidents reported in fiscal 2012. It found that "the 24 agencies did not effectively or consistently demonstrate actions taken in response to a detected incident in about 65 percent of reported incidents."
Although agencies strive to prevent security breaches in IT systems, incidents -- which can range from an alert of suspicious activity to a data breach -- are inevitable and are on the increase. There was a significant ruse in the number of incidents reported to the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) in fiscal 2013, jumping from between 34,000 to 35,000 per year for the previous three years to more than 46,000 in 2013. Agencies are required under the Federal Information Security Management Act to have plans for reporting and responding to incidents, but none of six agencies studied in depth by GAO had a complete plan in place.
[Can DOD and industry align their investment roadmaps? Read What DOD's Joint Information Environment Needs To Succeed.]
The report cites incidents of incomplete follow-up in responses and found that most agencies failed to consistently consider the potential impact of incidents.
The Homeland Security Department, responding to GAO recommendations, said it plans to strengthen its oversight of agencies' incident response practices this year.
Despite these failings, the report does not specifically fault the effectiveness of agency responses. The report addressed process rather than outcome. GAO found that agencies contained the majority of threats in the incidents studied -- about 75% -- and that they eradicated 77% of threats.
Systems were restored to operational states following an incident 81 percent of the time, but remedial actions were not consistently documented.
"Without complete policies, plans, and procedures, along with appropriate oversight of response activities, agencies face reduced assurance that they can effectively respond to cyber incidents," the report warns.
The report follows a GAO report from earlier this year that found that agency responses to breaches of personally identifiable information were inconsistent. New guidelines on handling such breaches from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) are expected to be phased in by the end of the year.
OMB has primary authority for overseeing FISMA, including incident response requirements, but much of the day-to-day responsibility has been delegated to DHS. US-CERT, a part of DHS, is the central point for agency support in incident response.
CyberStat reviews -- face-to-face meetings of DHS and administration cybersecurity officials with agency representatives to ensure accountability -- are the primary vehicle for cybersecurity oversight. The reviews do not address incident response, however, and only seven agencies received full reviews in 2013. "Further oversight, such as that provided by OMB's and DHS's CyberStat review process, may be warranted," GAO recommended.
DHS agreed that CyberStat represents an important opportunity to attain situational awareness, and said that it will assess the current state of incident response capabilities going forward.
GAO also made 25 recommendations to the six agencies studied in depth for the report (the Departments of Energy, Justice, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Veterans Affairs, and NASA), primarily calling for them to revise policies, plans and procedures to more fully document required steps and outcomes.
Find out how a government program is putting cloud computing on the fast track to better security. Also in the Cloud Security issue of InformationWeek Government: Defense CIO Teri Takai on why FedRAMP helps everyone.
William Jackson is writer with the <a href="http://www.techwritersbureau.com" target="_blank">Tech Writers Bureau</A>, with more than 35 years' experience reporting for daily, business and technical publications, including two decades covering information ... View Full Bio
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How IU can use Evan Fitzner’s floor spacing ability
The first time I touched the ball in an eighth grade basketball practice, I was terrified. As a skinny, unathletic, 5-foot-8 kid, I had been cut from the seventh grade team a year prior. A year later, however, I was a skinny, unathletic, 5-foot-9 kid and managed to claim the final spot on the eighth grade roster. I was on the team to do one thing: shoot the ball. In addition to being a defensive liability, I couldn’t handle or pass the ball, and I clearly wasn’t going to rebound. But I could shoot.
So there I stood, in the right corner, scrimmaging against the first team (every member of whom went on to play Division I sports), eager to prove myself but unsure if I really belonged. When a teammate swung me the ball, I took one dribble and kicked the ball back out to the perimeter, passing up a wide-open corner three in the process. Our coach, a fiery and stern science teacher with a penchant for calling players out, rushed onto the floor and stopped practice.
“Ladner!” he shouted, just a few inches from my face. “You’re a shooter, correct?”
“Yes sir,” I responded softly.
“Well, what good is a shooter,” he asked, “if he doesn’t shoot?”
It’s a question I’ve pondered often since that afternoon, both in playing the game myself and watching others. Could that same question be asked after 11 games of Evan Fitzner, Indiana’s floor spacing big man who has attempted 20 triples this season?
A shooter that doesn’t shoot, naturally, doesn’t score. He handicaps his own game by negating the very skill that makes him valuable. But the effects of a gun-shy marksman affect his team’s entire offense as well, cramping the operable space on the floor. Part of the value of having an elite shooter is the attention defenses must pay him and the threat of what might happen should they leave him open. That creates opportunity for other players – driving lanes unclog, post-ups draw less help, and ball screens instill greater panic when a defender can’t leave his man for even an instant.
Given the rise in three-point shooting in recent years, particularly in the NBA, those sorts of players grow more valuable by the season. A player with Fitzner’s gravity can create shots for others simply through being on the floor. He commands a defense’s respect when he stands behind the arc, stretching his man away from precious interior real estate for Juwan Morgan or De’Ron Davis. Should Fitzner’s man cheat off of him, the St. Mary’s transfer shoots warm-up jumpers:
At 6-foot-10 with a smooth post game, Fitzner’s attraction to ducking in and finding shots inside the arc is understandable to some degree. He has a knack for finding the soft spots of defenses, particularly against zones. When he cuts with purpose, he can help catalyze IU’s offense:
Thus far, Fitzner has proven reluctant to launch at times, and doesn’t always take full advantage of the luxuries he affords the Hoosiers. He tends to drift inside the arc, which infringes upon teammates’ space and muddying the offense:
Save for decisive cuts and the occasional offensive rebound attempt, Fitzner’s value decreases inside the three-point line on offense. A shooter only stretches the defense as far as he’s willing to journey from the basket. When he isn’t spacing the floor, Fitzner reduces not only the value of his own shots, but the space his teammates have to operate as well.
A Fitzner shot out of the post is worth, on average, 0.8 points per possession, well below Indiana’s team mark, per Synergy Sports. His average spot-up, however, generates over 1.3 points per possession. Despite shooting 45 percent from deep, he attempts just two triples per game. Fitzner is currently a threat, but not a weapon. If a defender knows his man won’t readily fire, closeouts become less aggressive, passing and driving lanes become slightly narrower, and the offense stalls as a result.
Fitzner is naturally twitchy – constantly seeking to create some sort of movement on offense – and part of his wandering stems from an earnest desire to spark action and keep defenses off-balance. That activity can be an asset when channeled in more useful ways. Fitzner fits the bill of an ideal pick-and-pop big, but IU has only deployed him in that role three times this season, per Synergy. Involve him in actions with one of Indiana’s dynamic ball-handlers, and Fitzner becomes markedly more dangerous:
Stationed away from the play, he can be just as effective as a catch-and-shoot finisher or a decoy that creates space for others. Watch him drag Lamar Stevens out of the play as Al Durham slips through the back door:
The possibilities a great shooter affords an offense are many, provided that player fills a role befitting his skill set. Even if his percentage dips on more difficult and more frequent looks, the value Fitzner provides merely in letting the ball fly is essential to the well-being of IU’s offense. He must prove it, however, for the Hoosiers to gain those advantages.
A shooter that doesn’t shoot, ultimately, is no shooter at all.
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Center Grove-La Lumiere matchup headlines FORUM Tipoff Classic
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Modernized, then Tolerated?
Audio recording: Do religions need reformation or do they have a history that we do not really understand?
At Petriplatz, a common prayer and study house for the three monotheistic religions Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is in the creation. It is not yet built, but has been presented at panel discussions at various locations around the city.
The history of religions is also a history of their changes. Must every belief system – caught between the preservation of traditional beliefs and the adaptation to changing social and political conditions – reinvent itself time and again?
Where, when, what?
Micha Brumlik (educationalist and journalist)
Petra Bahr (cultural representative of the Protestant Church in Germany)
Kadir Sanci (imam and board member of the of prayer and study house society)
Thomas Bauer (Islamic scholar)
Chair: Dirk Pilz (journalist www.nachtkritik.de, Berliner Zeitung, Neue Zürcher Zeitung)
Words of welcome: Cilly Kugelmann (Jewish Museum Berlin)
Common prayer and study house: The House of One
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Jewish Museum Berlin 2013
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World History in Berlin
Lectures and discussion about the Humboldt brothers and the jewish enlightenment (in German)
Antisemitism Today – A Challenge for School and Society
Talk by Juliane Wetzel as part of the symposium Actively Countering Antisemitism and Exclusion (in German)
Katharina Galor: The Temple Mount
Archaeologist Katharina Galor talks about the historical and archaeological heritage of Jerusalem’s most controversial site – the Temple Mount (Har haBait). She presents various research initiatives and highlights the role of religiously or politically motivated agendas in the research process.
Assaf Gavron:
Achtzehn Hiebe (Eighteen Blows)
Reading and Discussion
Achtzehn Hiebe is a novel of love and a detective story, a piece of contemporary history, and a journey through Israel of today. The Israeli author Assaf Gavron presents his new novel with the actor Golo Euler and the journalist Ulrich Gutmair (taz).
Stolen Judaica
Provenance Research in Israel and Germany
In this symposium, research that explores the origins of Jewish ceremonial objects exclusively in Israel and Germany, took center stage for the first time.
Rechavia – Grunewald in the Orient
Reading with Thomas Sparr on German-Jewish Jerusalem (in German)
A Canon of Jewish Renaissance
Bernhard Jensen, author of the first monograph about the Soncino Society in conversation with publisher Thedel von Wallmoden (in German)
Jerusalem for Cowards
Discussion with filmmakers Dalia Castel and Orit Nahmias following the screening of Jerusalem for Cowards (in German and English)
Who is carrying the Menorah?
Talk by Steven Fine on Jewish Counter-Histories of the Arch of Titus Spoils Panel
The Many Deaths of Jew Süss
Reading with Yair Mintzker on Joseph Süß Oppenheimer – Jew Süss
Germanija. How I Became an Adult and a Jew in Germany
Reading and discussion on Dmitrij Belkin's narrative that also throws light on immigration today.
IN-/EXCLUSIONS and Self-Empowerment in the Cultural Business
With Max Czollek, Dan Thy Nguyen, Sandrine Micossé-Aikins, and Mutlu Ergün-Hamaz (in German)
Volk, Volksgemeinschaft, AfD (People, National Community, AfD)
Book presentation and discussion with Alexander Häusler and the author Michael Wildt (in German)
Incredibly Clever
Iris Berben reads Paula Buber (in German and English)
Before the After Party
Reading and talk with the author Molly Antopol, translator Patricia Klobusiczky and actor Katharina Marie Schubert (in German and English).
Yousef Abad
Eliz Sanasarian and Elham Rokni on video art by Elham Rokni and the situation of Jews in Iran from the 1979 revolution to today.
The New Völkerwanderung
Book Presentation by Asfa Wossen Asserate
Asfa-Wossen Asserate presents his latest book Die neue Völkerwanderung (The New Völkerwanderung) on the grievances of the EU’s Africa policy.
Peter Schäfer – "Two gods in heaven. Concepts of god in the ancient Jewish world"
Peter Schäfer and Michael Wolffsohn on monotheism in Judaism and Christianity and concepts of a second god.
With Karamba to the Bundestag
My Journey from Senegal to the German Parliament
Karamba Diaby tells of his birth country Senegal, of life in the GDR, his work in the Bundestag, and of his vision of an open and future-oriented society (in German).
My Father’s Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
Reading and talk with the writer Ariel Sabar on the story of his father Yona Sabar, professor of the Neo-Aramaic language, and the Kurdish-Jewish history.
The Dress of the Unfaithful Wife
Artist Talk and Discussion on Women and Sexuality in Judaism
Talk with Andi LaVine Arnovitz, Amy K. Milligan, Professor for Jewish Studies and Women's Studies, and Emily D. Bilski, art historian, on the role of women in religious Judaism.
Israelis in Germany
Ideological Debates and Changing Identities
Talk and Slideshow with Dr. Dani Kranz and Katja Harbi from the University of Wuppertal on Israeli Jews in today's Germany (in German).
Im/Possibilities
Perspectives on Refugee Participation
Conference on the situation for refugees in Europe and Germany. Recording of the opening event with a talk by Gurminder K Bhambra, Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK, followed by a panel discussion (in German and English).
Our Father: A Sinti Family Recounts
Conversation and reading with the German-Sinti civil rights activist and author Anita Awosusi and her daughter Tayo Onutor about their family’s history (in German).
Europe Against the Jews. 1880-1945
Historian Götz Aly and Daniel Cohn-Bendit discuss antisemitism in Eastern and Western Europe from 1880 to the present (in German).
The Acid Test
How Fear of Foreigners is Threatening our Democracy
The Islamic studies and education scholar Lamya Kaddor reads from her book and discusses integration with Minister of State Aydan Özoğuz and Andreas Zick (in German).
Gottes Körper (God's Body)
Christoph Markschies in conversation with Peter Schäfer about Christian conceptions of God and their roots in other ancient religions (in German).
All Sorts of Stories
The actor Johanna Wokalek reads from Bertha Pappenheim’s German translation of the Maase book, a collection of Yiddish stories, fairy tales, and legends (in German).
Joshua Cohen:
You want a golem?
Reading and conversation with Joshua Cohen and Caspar Battegay about the golem myth in the age of automation.
A Jew in Neukölln – My Path to Coexistence of Religions
The theology student and writer Ármin Langer reads from his book and talks about Jewish life in Neukölln (in German).
The Clay Giant's Alive!
Anke Kuhl reads from her comic about two kids and their golem, with musical accompaniment by the cellist Martin Klenk (in German).
Reading with Christian Berkel: Tevye the Dairyman
To mark the 100th anniversary of Sholem Alejchem’s death, the actor Christian Berkel will read from the new translation of the book Tevye the Dairyman
Herzl reloaded – It’s No Fairytale
Staged reading. Doron Rabinovici, writer and historian, and Natan Sznaider, sociologist, have a fictional email correspondence with Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism (in German).
Ludwig Haas – A Left-liberal Campaigner for Peace and Democracy
Symposium with Evening Lecture by Gerhart Baum on the liberal Campaigner Ludwig Haas (1875-1930) and "Perspectives of Left-wing Liberalism Today".
The Holocaust and the Problem of Visual Representation
Talk with artist and exhibition curator Peter Weibel about Boris Lurie and visual representation of the Holocaust (in German).
Helga Krohn: Bruno Asch
Reading and talk with Helga Krohn on the local politician and socialist Bruno Asch.
Angst ums Abendland (Fears For the West)
Book Presentation with Daniel Bax
Talk with Daniel Bax and Gideon Botsch on Right-wing populist parties, anti-Muslim sentiments, flight and asylum (in German).
Prize for Understanding and Tolerance
Acceptance speech by the 2015 award winner: W. Michael Blumenthal, Founding Director of the Jewish Museum Berlin (in German).
Béla Guttmann - The World History of Football in one Person
The writer Detlev Claussen presents his book about the Hungarian-Jewish soccer coach Béla Guttmann (in German).
Attempts to Describe Anti-Semitism
Book presentation and discussion on the history of antisemitism research before 1944 with Hans-Joachim Hahn, Olaf Kistenmacher, Dr. Werner Treß, and Franziska Krah (in German).
From a Berlin Farce to a Story of Success
The writer Daniel Bussenius talks with Inka Bertz and Heinrich Wefing, reporter from Die Zeit, about the museum’s development from 1971 to 2001 (in German).
The Realignment of "Education after Auschwitz" in Immigration Society
Book presentation and panel discussion with the author Rosa Fava, Angela Kühner (University of Frankfurt), Selman Erkovan, history teacher in training, and Marco Kühnert, a guide at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, Hamburg (in German).
The Book of Job. Aesthetics, Ethics, Hermeneutics
The editors of a volume of essays about the Book of Job, Leora Batnitzky (Princeton) and Ilana Pardes (Jerusalem), in conversation with Vivian Liska (in German and English).
What’s your "Heimat"?
W. Michael Blumenthal, Founding Director of the Jewish Museum Berlin, and Monika Grütters, Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, talk about culture, religion, and being at home in a foreign place (in German).
Zimzum. God and the creation of the world
Author Christoph Schulte talks with Micha Brumlik and Vivian Liska about his book on the notion of zimzum (tzimtzum) in Jewish mysticism (in German).
Hebrew Worlds – On the Presence of Ancient Texts in Modern Ivrith
Anne Birkenhauer, a translator and the August Wilhelm Schlegel Guest Professor of the German Translation Fund and the FU Berlin, gives her inaugural lecture (in German).
Forgotten Soldiers?
Historian Tim Grady presents his research on the commemoration of German-Jewish soldiers from the First World War.
The pictures are among us
Presentation of a book about the treatment and business of art stolen by the Nazis and the Gurlitt case with the writer Stefan Koldehoff and Michael Naumann (in German).
Panel discussion with Micha Brumlik, Petra Bahr, Kadir Sanci, and Thomas Bauer about religion and navigating between tradition and adaptation (in German).
1933: Denial, Opposition, and Protest
Talk by Wolf Gruner about his research into German Jews’ responses to Nazi persecution (in German).
Peter Schäfer: The Origins of Jewish Mysticism
Panel discussion between the author Peter Schäfer, Christoph Markschies, and Micha Brumlik about Schäfer’s book on the history of early Jewish mysticism (in German).
The History of Jews and Dönme in Turkey
The Turkish studies scholar Corry Guttstadt and the historian Marc Baer discuss the history of Jews and Dönme (converts) in Turkey (in German).
Perrine Simon-Nahum: Jews in France Today
Talk by Perrine Simon-Nahum about her book on the circumstances of Jews in France, both past and present.
W. Michael Blumenthal: Around the World in Eighty Years. My Life
W. Michael Blumenthal, Founding Director of the Jewish Museum Berlin, presents his memoir (in German).
Jewish Youth Movement in Germany
German-language talk by Ulrike Pilarczyk and panel discussion with Micha Brumlik, Hans Jakob Ginsburg, Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, and Moshe Zuckermann about the history of the Zionist youth movement in Germany (in German).
Dialogues on Jewish Present: On the Question of Redemption – Messianism and the End of Days
Reading and discussion with Moshe Idel, Elliot R. Wolfson, and Micha Brumlik about the Messianic promise of redemption and its relevance in the twenty-first century.
Walther Rathenau's Life: Text and Context
Talk by Shulamit Volkov about the life of the writer, politician, and industrialist Walther Rathenau (in German).
Migrants Moving History
Talk by Saskia Sassen about immigration, diversity, and future prospects for dealing with history and citizenship in multiethnic societies.
Self Displaced Person. Peter Szondi's Problematic Judaism
Talk by Andreas Isenschchmid about the life and work of the literary scholar Peter Szondi (in German).
Painted in words. The portrait of a lost time
Reading and conversation with the artist Samuel Bak about his family’s story and his survival as a child in German-occupied Vilnius (in German).
A synagogue curtain at the Brandenburg Cathedral Chapter
Talk by Vera Bendt about a synagogue curtain that was discovered at the Brandenburg Cathedral Chapter, where it had been listed in records as an altar curtain (in German).
Exile in Shanghai
Conversation between W. Michael Blumenthal and Horst Eisfelder about the time they both spent in Shanghai, where 18,000 Jews from Germany had taken refuge (in German).
The place of psychoanalysis in the history of the Jews
Talk by Eli Zaretsky about the influence of psychoanalysis on Judaism and the place of psychoanalysis in Jewish history.
In conversation with Susanne Weingarten, Daniel Libeskind presents his autobiography Breaking Ground: Adventures in Life and Architecture .
The Fragile Foundation: The Quest for German-Jewish “Normalcy”
Salomon Korn reads essays from his book about Jewish life in Germany, Jewish culture and remembrance, architecture, and politics (in German).
Times of Commemoration: On Jewish Histories and Others
Book presentation by the historian Dan Diner about remembering the twentieth century as an era of violence, forced displacement, and genocide (in German).
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“To Know One Religion Is to Know None”
W. Michael Blumenthal Fellow Walid Abdelgawad talks about reflections on Islam and Judaism in the writings of German-speaking Jewish orientalists between 1833 and 1955 (in German)
Video: in German; no subtitles
Ruth Wodak:
Swing to the right?!
Ruth Wodak traces how a new “normality to the right” is establishing itself in many European countries (in German)
Do You Believe in Miracles?
Many people are skeptical of miracle stories found in Jewish and Muslim Scripture, or reject them entirely. For others, as believers, they are objective accounts of the facts and proof of God’s existence. Is it possible to believe in miracles in this day and age? A discussion with James A. Diamond, the expert in Jewish philosophy, and Umeyye Isra Yazicioglu, a scholar of religion.
Museums, Religion, and the Work of Reconciliation and Remembrance
Museums are called on to deal critically and transparently with the often invisible colonial history of their collections. The curators Jisgang Nika Collision (Haida Gwaii Museum, Haida Nation & Canada) and Léontine Meijer-van Mensch (Saxonian State Ethnographic Collections) discussed this topic.
Humanity: Between Destiny and Free Will
New findings in psychology, neurology, and genetics have been increasingly casting doubt on humans’ capacity to make conscious decisions. This comes down to whether humans are responsible for their own actions. Is our free will really just an illusion? A discussion with Alan Mittleman (Jewish Theological Seminary of America) and Martin Mahmud Kellner (Institute of Islamic Theology, Osnabrück).
Access Barriers. Critical Perspectives on Racism in Schools and Curatorial Practices
The conference explored discriminatory access barriers in schools and questioned the museum practices of collecting, organizing and exhibiting from critical perspectives on racism. In her keynote, Bonita Bennett (District Six Museum, Cape Town) considered museums as places of social change.
How Much God Is in the Holy Scriptures?
How can belief in the divine revelation of Scripture be reconciled with historical textual research? A discussion between Benjamin Sommer, an expert in modern Jewish theology, and Ghassan el Masri, researcher on the Koran in the context of the Arabic literature of his time.
God, Darwin, and Evolution
Natan Slifkin (Biblical Museum of Natural History, Israel) and Fatimah Jackson (Howard University, USA) discuss how Jewish and Islamic theologians treat evolutionary biology.
Happy Birthday, Academy Programs!
Welcoming Remarks and Introducing the Academy Programs | Discussion with Performance: Archive of Life. Memory in a Society Shaped by Migration | Panel Discussion: Jewish Fathers – Jewish Children? | Panel Discussion: A Pre-fascist Era? | Reception: 5 Years – 5 Friends – 5 Gifts
Science in the Light of Faith
Geoffrey A. Mitelman and Ahmad S. Dallal discuss how Jewish and Islamic theologians have reflected for centuries on the conflicting powers of God and his revelation and human reason.
The international conference “Living with Islamophobia” considered how cultural and religious affiliations are constructed and invited experts to enter into discussion.
Judaism and Islam – The History of Theological Relations
21 November 2019 (with video recording)
Prelude to the new lecture series Others’ Faith . Lukas Mühlethaler (Free University Berlin) and Imam Abdullah Antepli (Duke University, USA) discuss how Judaism and Islam see each other from different perspectives (in German and English)
Imported Antisemitism?
Is Antisemitism increasing with the number of refugees from Arab countries? We discuss with political, academic, and practical experts which manifestations of antisemitism among Arab migrants and Muslims in Germany exist (in German).
My God, Your God, No God
Part of our lecture Series Jewish and Islamic Perspectives on Human Rights
Ongoing Struggles. Anti-Discrimination Work during the Rise of the Far Right
Opening Session of the academic conference
Including Imani Perry's keynote »What Lies Underneath: Difficult Histories and the Resurgence of The Far Right«
Equal before God and Humans?
How Much Criticism Do Judaism and Islam Tolerate?
What is the Relationship Between Antisemitism and Islamophobia?
Lectures by David Feldman and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum
The Right to Life
Human Rights Treaties and How They are Received
Human Rights and Religions – A Contradiction?
New Judaism – Alliances in Postmigrant Society
Discussion on concepts of being Jewish within the third generation of Jews in Germany (in German and English)
People, National Community, AfD
Book presentation and discussion with the author Michael Wildt and Alexander Häusler (in German)
Audio: in German
Discussion on the Importance of Minority Perspectives for European Societies’ Commemorative Cultures
Man as Lord or Guardian of Creation?
Reading with discussion: Nawal Ammar and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Video: German and English, no subtitles
Religion. Fashion. Empowerment.
Discussion with Reina Lewis and Meriem Lebdiri (in German and English)
Audio: in English
Karamba Diaby tells of his birth country Senegal, of life in the GDR, his work in the Bundestag, and of his vision of an open and future-oriented society.
Talk and Slideshow with Dr. Dani Kranz and Katja Harbi from the University of Wuppertal on Israeli Jews in today's Germany.
Conference on the situation for refugees in Europe and Germany. Recording of the opening event with a talk by Gurminder K Bhambra, Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK, followed by a panel discussion.
Audio: in German and English
Conversation and reading with the German-Sinti civil rights activist and author Anita Awosusi and her daughter Tayo Onutor about their family’s history.
The Islamic studies and education scholar Lamya Kaddor reads from her book and discusses integration with Minister of State Aydan Özoğuz and Andreas Zick.
Jews in North Africa During the Second World War
Theme day with lectures by Michel Abitbol, Eric Salerno, Patrick Bernhard, Haim Saadoun, and panel discussion
Language: German, English, and French
The theology student and writer Ármin Langer reads from his book and talks about Jewish life in Neukölln.
Sites of Memory: Lost and Entangled Narratives
Conference with Dr. Rosa Fava, Juliane Jurewicz, Prof. Dr. Iman Attia, Olga Gerstenberger, Ozan Keskinkiliç, Anita Awosusi, Ilona Lagrene, Prof. Dr. Michael Rothberg, and Serpil Polat
Video: in German and English, no subtitles
Panel discussion with Dan Diner, Adam Michnik, Dietmar Herz, Étienne François, and Hans Kundnani
Video: in German, no subtitles
Antisemitism in the Arabic World – Facts and Myths
Panel discussion with Michael Kiefer and Omar Kamil
Talk with Daniel Bax and Gideon Botsch on Right-wing populist parties, anti-Muslim sentiments, flight and asylum.
Post-migrant Society?!
International conference, recording of the opening event
Symposium, recording of the opening event
With: Prof. Dr. Peter Schäfer and Prof. Dr. Angelika Neuwirth
Book presentation and panel discussion with the author Rosa Fava, Angela Kühner (University of Frankfurt), Selman Erkovan, history teacher in training, and Marco Kühnert, a guide at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, Hamburg.
A Shared View of Europe – Jewish and Muslim Experiences as Reflected in Public Controversies
Panel discussion with Prof. Nilüfer Göle, Shai Lavi and Gökçe Yurdakul
International conference, recording of the presentation "Future of European Jewry"
With: Dr. Karen Körber and Dr. Diana Pinto
Video: in English, no subtitles
Snip it?!
4 December 2014, 7 pm
Presentation of a study on the circumcision debate followed by a discussion as part of the Judeo-Islamic Forum.
Concepts of Citizenship and Participation in European Comparison
Symposium, recording of the keynote by Prof. Dr. Rainer Bauböck and the followed panel discussion
With: Prof. Dr. Rainer Bauböck, Dr. Manuela Bojadžijev, Josip Juratovic and Dr. Monika Lüke
Is Higher Education a Safeguard Against Racism and Antisemitism?
Presentation of a study followed by panel discussion with Wassilis Kassis, Charlotte Schallié, Iman Attia, Stefanie Schüler-Springorum and Andreas Zick
Panel discussion with Micha Brumlik, Petra Bahr, Kadir Sanci, and Thomas Bauer about religion and navigating between tradition and adaptation.
The Turkish studies scholar Corry Guttstadt and the historian Marc Baer discuss the history of Jews and Dönme (converts) in Turkey.
Academy Program on Migration and Diversity
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Knuckle-Headz: Interview with Corny Koehl & GIVEAWAY!
PlayMonster and The Orangutan Project: A Charitable Cause Collaboration
Fetching Flock: P.L.A.Y. Releases New Line of Plush Toys
Published by Meagan Meehan at August 17, 2019
Fetching Flock is a new line of bird-themed plush toys by P.L.A.Y. that features five very detailed characters.
Fetching Flock is a new line of bird-themed plush toys by P.L.A.Y. Fetching Flock is part of the brand’s new product selection releasing at SuperZoo 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The feathery toy set includes a Peacock, Eagle, Parrot, Flamingo and Toucan that are intended for dogs, but so cute and detailed that they will appeal to children as well. The toys come with alluring crinkles, numerous squeakers and satisfying crunches. The five characters in the “Fetching Flock” line are described below:
Percy the Peacock is full of color and personality, brightening up any room he struts into with his gorgeous crinkly feathers and squeaky head and body.
Edgar the Eagle may look serious, but don’t be afraid to ruffle his crinkly feathers and find out that they open up by way of Velcro! Your pup will love that his tail crinkles too and that his body comes with an exciting squeaker.
Paula the Parrot is waiting for you to say those magic words; it’s play time! Perfectly perched and ready to play, your pup will woof with excitement as they try to find this toy’s multi-squeak and crinkle features.
Flora the Flamingo is eager to show off her crinkly legs and wings while your pup searches for her enticing multiple squeakers!
Tito the Toucan can’t wait to play with your furry friend and show off his cool features. This handsome toy is filled with all of the crunch, squeaks and crinkles your pup could ask for!
All of them are hand-made with a double layer exterior and double-stitched edges ensure extra durability. They include new ChewShieldTM technology added protective lining to prevent messy cleanups after a rough play session. They are machine washable and dryer friendly. The birds will be available individually (for $12.90 or $14.90 respectively) or in a gift box set (valued at $70.50) this August in local boutiques and via the website here.
Moreover, P.L.A.Y. is a company that designs and produces stylish and eco-friendly pet bedding and toys. The brand is dedicated to creating pet products that are unique and tailored to a market that seeks out responsibly made items from both environmental and social perspectives. P.L.A.Y. is also committed to helping animals in need so 2% of the purchase price of the Fetching Flock Toy Collection will benefit the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).
To view P.L.A.Y.’s complete line of award-winning products, visit PetPLAY.com.
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Meagan Meehan
Meagan J. Meehan is a published author, poet, cartoonist, and produced playwright. She pens columns for the Great South Bay Magazine, Blasting News, and Entertainment Vine. She is also a stop-motion animator and an award-winning abstract artist. Meagan holds a BA in English Literature and a MA in Communication. She is also an animal advocate and a fledging toy and game designer.
Meagan is a contributing editor to Kidskintha writing on Toys, Games, Entertainment, and other topics that are happy and fun!
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Books by Raquel Puig Zaldívar
Released: Nov. 1, 1998
WOMEN DON'T NEED TO WRITE
by Raquel Puig Zaldívar
A sweetly affirming debut novel describing one woman's long journey to autonomy via Spain, Cuba, and the US. The saga (which serves as an unobtrusive reprise of recent Spanish and Cuban history) opens in Cuba shortly after Castro has taken over. There, Rosa Garach (living with eldest son Andres, daughter-in law Norma, and 11-year-old grandson Juan Andres) sees her grandson taken off by the security police because his parents— counterrevolutionary activities have been discovered. We then flash back to Spain, where Rosa (born in 1900) marries Juan, an ambitious farmer, and bears four sons (Andres, twins Lucas and Fermin, and Jose) and daughter Lucia. Juan abuses the illiterate Rosa simply because she's a woman (and thus inferior), but he has big dreams for himself and his sons. The boys soon move to Cuba, where opportunities in the late '20s and early '40s are better. They—re joined there by Rosa and Juan, but not for long—as Juan, concerned with Cuba's growing political instability, decides that the family should return to Spain. A fatal decision, it turns out, since civil war soon breaks out. But the four sons first, then Lucia, and finally Rosa (once Juan dies of cancer) all make it back to Cuba. They prosper until the Revolution, when they must again flee, this time to the States. As her children move about, marry, and quarrel, Rosa—always the loving mother—worries that her sons (particularly Lucas) don—t respect her not only because she's a woman but because she's an uneducated one at that. In her 90s, though, with help from Lucas's former mistress Cachita Montero, Rosa finally gets the money due her, buys a house, and learns to write and read. A birthday at the close will at last bring everybody together to acknowledge her tenacity and hard work. An unpretentious feminist tale of love and determination, refreshingly unsentimental. Read full book review >
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Treasury CS Turns Guns on Joho in New Move
By John Paul Simiyu on 28 November 2019 - 11:27 am
Mombasa Governor Ali Hassan Joho at a past event. File
Treasury CS Ukur Yattani has moved to Parliament with a view to stopping the release of funds to 15 counties for their failure to clear more than Ksh22.7 billion in debt owed to suppliers, key amongst them the Mombasa County.
In a report published by the Business Daily on Thursday, November 28, the speaker of the National Assembly asked Parliament to fast track the request to ensure that the CS' move comes into effect as from December 2019 as he had sought.
Mombasa County director of communications, Richard Chacha, informed Kenyans.co.ke that they were privy to the move by the CS to cut off funds from the county.
Treasury CS Ukur Yattani addressing delegates during the Child Protection Conference on May 31, 2019.
"It is going to adversely affect our operations because we will have a big problem with running the county and pay salaries. We have a huge wage bill, and we cannot just pay all our bills in one go. We have to do it in a step-by-step manner to ensure a healthy financial flow in the government," Chacha stated.
Chacha also revealed that they were in negotiations with the National Treasury and the affected businessmen to ensure that the looming stalemate is forestalled before it gets out of hand.
"It has not been easy to balance between development and recurrence. We have been grappling with all those challenges but we are committed to paying the suppliers," he insisted.
Yattani's decision is guided by the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act, 2012, which allows the Treasury to seek Parliament's approval before the stoppage of transfers of an equitable share of revenue to the counties.
"Where the Cabinet Secretary makes a decision to stop the transfer of funds to a state organ or public entity in accordance with the Article 225 (3) of the constitution and provisions of the Act, the CS shall stop the payment and inform the Controller of Budget," the PFM Act reads.
The Act also calls for the CS to also seek the approval of Parliament not later than seven days after the decision to stop the transfer of funds has been put into effect.
Some of the other counties targeted by the CS include Machakos, Migori, Nairobi, Vihiga, Baringo, Kirinyaga, Nandi and Kiambu counties.
The National Assembly in session. The PFM Act (2012) states that the CS should inform Parliament of the decision to stop the transfer of funds to the counties and other state organs not more than seven days after making the decision.
Narok, Tana River, Isiolo, Garissa, Tharaka Nithi and Bomet Counties are also on CS Yattani's crosshairs.
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Peter Mayhew, known as original Chewbacca in ‘Star Wars,’ dies
Updated: 7:56 PM MDT May 2, 2019
Bobby Cherry
Actor Peter Mayhew, known as the man behind the mask of Chewbacca in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, died Tuesday. He was 74.His family was by his side at his North Texas home, his family said Thursday in a news release announcing his death.The 7 foot, 3 inch Mayhew played the beloved and furry Chewbacca, sidekick to Han Solo and co-pilot of the Millennium Falcon, in the original “Star Wars” trilogy."He was the gentlest of giants," said "Star Wars" legend Mark Hamill. "A big man with an even bigger heart who never failed to make me smile & a loyal friend who I loved dearly-I'm grateful for the memories we shared & I'm a better man for just having known him. Thanks Pete."Mayhew went on to appear as the Wookiee in 2005′s “Revenge of the Sith” and shared the part in 2015′s “The Force Awakens” with actor Joonas Suotamo, who later took over the role.By that time, the actor was fighting his way to stand from being wheelchair-bound. “He put his heart and soul into the role of Chewbacca and it showed in every frame," the family said in a statement.Mayhew developed lifelong friendships with the other “Star Wars” actors and spent three decades traveling the world to meet his fans, the statement says.Mayhew's portrayal of the beloved "Star Wars" character also was integral to the trilogy's success, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy said."When I first met Peter during 'The Force Awakens,' I was immediately impressed by his kind and gentle nature," she said. "Peter was brilliantly able to express his personality through his skillful use of gesture, posture, and eyes. We all love Chewie and have Peter to thank for that enduring memory."Mayhew, a native of London, established a foundation to support "everything from individuals and families in crisis situations to food and supplies for children of Venezuela during their recent road to freedom," the family's statement says. Born and raised in England, Mayhew had appeared in just one film and was working as a hospital orderly in London when George Lucas found him and cast him in 1977′s “Star Wars.” Mayhew is survived by his wife, Angie, and three children.A memorial service for friends and family is planned for June 29.A public memorial for fans will be held in December at EmpireConLA. The "Star Wars" fans convention is set for Dec. 6-8.Instead of gifts and flowers, the family asks that donations be considered for his foundation.The Associated Press and CNN contributed to this report.
Actor Peter Mayhew, known as the man behind the mask of Chewbacca in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, died Tuesday. He was 74.
His family was by his side at his North Texas home, his family said Thursday in a news release announcing his death.
The 7 foot, 3 inch Mayhew played the beloved and furry Chewbacca, sidekick to Han Solo and co-pilot of the Millennium Falcon, in the original “Star Wars” trilogy.
"He was the gentlest of giants," said "Star Wars" legend Mark Hamill. "A big man with an even bigger heart who never failed to make me smile & a loyal friend who I loved dearly-I'm grateful for the memories we shared & I'm a better man for just having known him. Thanks Pete."
Mayhew went on to appear as the Wookiee in 2005′s “Revenge of the Sith” and shared the part in 2015′s “The Force Awakens” with actor Joonas Suotamo, who later took over the role.
By that time, the actor was fighting his way to stand from being wheelchair-bound.
“He put his heart and soul into the role of Chewbacca and it showed in every frame," the family said in a statement.
Mayhew developed lifelong friendships with the other “Star Wars” actors and spent three decades traveling the world to meet his fans, the statement says.
Mayhew's portrayal of the beloved "Star Wars" character also was integral to the trilogy's success, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy said.
"When I first met Peter during 'The Force Awakens,' I was immediately impressed by his kind and gentle nature," she said. "Peter was brilliantly able to express his personality through his skillful use of gesture, posture, and eyes. We all love Chewie and have Peter to thank for that enduring memory."
Mayhew, a native of London, established a foundation to support "everything from individuals and families in crisis situations to food and supplies for children of Venezuela during their recent road to freedom," the family's statement says.
Born and raised in England, Mayhew had appeared in just one film and was working as a hospital orderly in London when George Lucas found him and cast him in 1977′s “Star Wars.”
CBS Photo Archive/Hulton Archive via Getty Images
A promotional portrait features Carrie Fisher sitting on the lap of Peter Mayhew, in costume as Chewbacca, on set of the “Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi” on Nov. 21, 1983. Fisher, who died in 2016, is best known for portraying Princess Leia in the “Star Wars” films.
Mayhew is survived by his wife, Angie, and three children.
A memorial service for friends and family is planned for June 29.
A public memorial for fans will be held in December at EmpireConLA. The "Star Wars" fans convention is set for Dec. 6-8.
CBS via Getty Images
Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca, Aug. 23, 1978
Instead of gifts and flowers, the family asks that donations be considered for his foundation.
The family of Peter Mayhew, with deep love and sadness, regrets to share the news that Peter has passed away. He left us the evening of April 30, 2019 with his family by his side in his North Texas home. pic.twitter.com/YZ5VLyuK0u
— Peter Mayhew Foundation (@TheWookieeRoars) May 2, 2019
The Associated Press and CNN contributed to this report.
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Pelosi ally, freshmen Dem join calls for Trump impeachment
by: LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press
Posted: Jun 20, 2019 / 05:39 AM PDT / Updated: Jun 20, 2019 / 12:24 PM PDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Four Democrats have joined a slowly growing group calling for impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, including a close ally of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a Democrat who flipped a Republican district.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a congressional veteran, said in a Twitter video posted Wednesday evening that Trump “certainly has committed all kinds of offenses that meet the standard” for a formal charge by the House. Also Wednesday, Rep. Sean Casten told the Chicago Sun-Times that he wants Congress to use “every tool” to investigate Trump, even if that means paying a political price in the 2020 elections.
On Thursday, Rep. Tony Cardenas of California and Rep. Nydia Velazquez of New York tweeted separately that they had each come to the decision after studying special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.
The lawmakers’ announcements came after former White House aide Hope Hicks refused to answer House Judiciary Committee questions on Wednesday about Trump during his presidency. The new calls highlight a slowly growing chorus from almost 70 House members for an impeachment inquiry, though Democrats still oppose such a move. And Pelosi has resisted launching official proceedings without broad bipartisan support.
On Wednesday night, Schakowsky left that camp.
“The House of Representatives should begin an impeachment inquiry officially, because President Trump certainly has committed all kinds of offenses that meet the standard of impeachment,” she said in the tweeted video.
Casten on the same day set himself apart from many of the Democrats’ most vulnerable freshmen who helped flip the House from Republican control in 2018.
“I am in favor of initiating an impeachment inquiry,” he told the Chicago Sun-Times in remarks confirmed by a spokeswoman.
All of the lawmakers said launching an impeachment inquiry would give the House more legal strength to compel information from a president who has vowed not to cooperate with Democratic investigations.
“We cannot allow Trump to continue to obstruct Congress’s investigation and prevent us from getting to the truth,” Cardenas said in a statement posted on Twitter. “We have come up against a wall. It is time to break down that wall.”
Lawmakers who have been calling for an impeachment inquiry for weeks said they were pleased to see the numbers rising.
“I am cheered that more and more colleagues understand that we are in an unprecedented predicament,” said Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, a member of the House Judiciary Committee who has personally pressed Pelosi on the matter.
Still, even as the ranks have grown slowly — New York Democrat Brian Higgins also called for Trump’s impeachment this week —it’s likely to take more to push Pelosi and the House toward formal impeachment proceedings.
The investigations and hearings aren’t moving Pelosi or the public toward supporting impeachment. It was far from clear, for example, that Hicks’ closed-door testimony Wednesday revealed anything new.
Also, the political clock is ticking toward 2020, when many Democrats say it will be too late to launch impeachment proceedings.
Pelosi on Wednesday said at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast that she agreed Trump is obstructing justice by his refusal to comply with congressional requests for material. But she added that there shouldn’t be an inquiry until “you’re ready to impeach.”
At the same time, she said a less-formal censure would be letting Trump off too lightly.
“That’s a day at the beach for the president, or at his golf club or wherever he goes,” she said of censure.
Associated Press writer Mary Clare Jalonick contributed to this report.
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Acme MP-01 Media Player delivers Oscar-winning performance
Multimedia Players are the next evolutionary step in the home entertainment arena that started decades ago with the humble video player. The Acme MP-01 Portable Media Player is by all accounts an external hard drive that boosts 1TB capacity. By plugging the MP-01 into any compatible TV, you can play both films, programmes and video clips. Not only that, but it lives up to its multimedia billing allowing you to store photographs and songs as well, eliminating the need for a whole host of different devices for each.
Coming wrapped inside a smart-looking metallic silver box, the MP-01 is fully 1080p HD compliant, and boosts Dolby Surround sound for home cinema set ups. Small and slim-line in size, it measures 142.5(L) x 85(W) x 23(H) mm, and is light enough to carry around with you, which allows you to easily transfer it between your PC and TV.
No matter what format your movie comes in, you can be pretty safe in the knowledge the MO-001 will play it with every popular format supported. It couldn’t be easier to use – you simply plug it into your TV and scroll through the menu using the remote control, select the video or song that you wish to access, and away you go.
If you are looking for an all-in-one multimedia solution, then the £99 MP-01 makes for fantastic value for money. Sure, compared to some of its (far more expensive) competitors, it doesn’t come with Wi-Fi support or internet capability, but then for this price you cannot complain. It does exactly what it says on the tin, and if you are looking for an all-in-one device that will save you space and is convenient to use, then the MP-01 deserves to be high on your shopping list.
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Posted on November 26, 2011 Author Mark PilkingtonCategories Audio & Video GearTags 1080p, acme, Content, media, media player, mkv
Sony N100: Another heavyweight enters networked media player ring
Sony have become the latest tech giants to jump into the burgeoning market of internet media players. Their new N100 Network Media box combines streaming client, Wi-Fi and BRAVIA Internet Video in one sleek little package.
The player looks lovely enough, with a cool monolithic design that matches Sony’s state-of-the-art Bravia TVs. Its ultra-compact size is also a boon for minimalist fans, not least because the awkward, sticky-out bits usually featured on such players are built into the design or tucked away inside, to keep things as neat as possible.
So, all things considered, the device is definitely a winner in the style stakes, but what exactly can you do with it? Well, it’s more a case of what can’t you do?
The basis of the Network Media Player is the Bravia internet function that Sony uses on its top-edge digital TVs and has now adapted it into this standalone unit. The player makes big use of catch-up TV services, allowing easy access to BBC iPlayer and Demand Five. It also puts Hollywood blockbusters (or arty offerings, if that’s more your thing) at users’ fingertips by allowing them to order films from Lovefilm or the Qriocity-powered on-demand film service, giving instant access to an array of titles in HD or standard definition.
As for the technical stuff, the unit has 080P video output on HDMI and compatibility with the latest HD audio codecs, including dts 2.0+Digital Out and Dolby Digital Plus. It can play almost all film formats and audio tracks as well as content including DivXHD, MKV and AVCHD files locally via a front-panel USB socket. And there’s also functions allowing content to be streamed from network storage, in addition to IP Content Noise Reduction to clean up streamed video and free iPhone/iPod Touch/Android control apps.
In short, it sounds like a media-lover’s dream (and a Luddite’s worst nightmare). The unit is being touted by Sony as a simple, one-stop entertainment station that provides consumers with a full home cinema experience. With a huge array of functions and such an enticing design, it’s difficult to spot any obvious flaws with the product. The big test will be how it squares up against its rivals in such a highly competitive marketplace.
There’s no word on price yet, but the Sony N100 Network Media Player will be available to buy from October.
Posted on October 8, 2010 Author Tola OnanugaCategories Audio & Video GearTags media player, mkv, Network, Set-Top Box
Loewe’s beautiful new high-end Mediacenter
The new Mediacenter from Loewe is a monster. It sets the benchmark for any cross-media platform. It’ll play your CDs and DVDs and can receive any radio via antenna, cable, satellite or the web…are you excited already? You should be.
With this beast any precious digital files that you’ve got stored on hard drives or within your own network can be accessed, as can those from your tech soulmates the iPod or iPhone. Rather conveniently it’s also possible to control the external Blu-Ray Player via this nifty gadget – all you have to do to get the most out of your Blu is push a button on the Assist Media remote control which will also help you browse through your collection with ease. Sweet, eh?
The Mediacenter is built to connect directly to the TV set and it’ll use the screen to display all music sources (and CD / DVD artwork) on a clear interface. The center can be used with any TV supporting an HDMI connection, and so it’s not only restricted to the Loewe range. Because of this, we’ve found that the Mediacenter is simply one of the more accessible multi-room platforms about.
Indeed, one of the highlights of this beauty (apart from the high-class shiny, sexy exterior) is that all audio sources can be streamed to secondary rooms, where the Mediacenter can be operated by means of the aforementioned remote control.
We’re not done yet – the Mediacenter has three versions – the Loewe Reference Mediacenter, the Individual Mediacenter DR+ and the integrated hard drive-less Individual Mediacenter. On the first two, all of your songs can be saved centrally on two integrated hard drives totalling 320 GB while the latter model comes without that luxury. The Reference one takes around seven minutes to “rip” each CD and the name of the artist along with track information that can be altered at any time. As an additional option, music files can be copied from a PC onto the Mediacenter hard drive via the network and, as an added bonus all data is backed up on the second integrated drive (160 GB) – so the loss of special music files is near impossible.
The device is made to be hung on a wall with a slick profile of just 74 mm, including the wall mount which is supplied – a table and floor stand are also available on request. For more information visit the official Loewe website.
Posted on March 23, 2010 Author Dominic SmithCategories Audio & Video GearTags high end, loewe, luxury, media player, premium
ViewSonic’s all-in-one MovieBook VPD400 media player
An entertainment gadget that does everything. Who wouldn’t want that? With music, films, books and even HD to its name, the ViewSonic MovieBook VPD400 is an all-in-one standalone portable media player (PMP) that launched last month, promising to encase every entertainment possibility in a pocket-sized device.
To start with, the VPD400 is less expensive than its contemporaries, currently retailing at £105. For that you get a slick, light, compact, easy to use gadget that allows you to watch films, listen to music, view photo albums, read e-books or even record a voice memo – should you so wish.
The 4.3” LCD display with 800 x 480 pixel resolution is the main feature of this 4.4” x 3” x 0.5” device. With its 8GB built-in flash memory plus microSD card slot, which expands storage space to 16GB, it’s sort of like a big memory stick with an HD screen.
Don’t be disappointed by the quality of the gadget’s demo, though. Tested out on both a Mac and PC, its potential was fully realised with a HD film playing on the device within minutes of plugging it in for the first time. It’s reassuringly simple to upload files; with no software to download, you just plug-in, drag and drop – and play. It then stores files in folders, which can be navigated using up / down and enter / back buttons on the side.
The VPD400 is compatible with Windows® 98/2000/SE/ME/XP/Vista and supports multiple audio and video formats (including subtitles): MP3, WMA, FLAL, OGG, AVI, MP4, MPG, H.264, H.263, FLV as well as image files: JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, RM/RMVB and can either be hooked up to a TV via the AV-out port or watched with stereo sound using earphones (which are also provided along with a USB, AV and component cables).
Battery life isn’t bad either, providing 12 hours of audio playback and four hours of video playback (3.5 for HD-quality, 720p, video playback). In addition to all that, it has built-in microphone, voice recorder and USB 2.0 port and even ships with a dinky remote control.
Ok, it doesn’t have WiFi or Bluetooth; something that other PMPs often boast. And it also lacks touchscreen abilities. But in the attempt to have it all, the unassuming ViewSonic MovieBook VPD400 has ticked off affordability, simplicity and functionality. And you can’t argue with that.
Posted on December 15, 2009 Author Jenny WilliamsCategories Audio & Video GearTags media player, MovieBook, ViewSonic
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Title 2. Grants and Agreements
Subtitle A. Office of Management and Budget Guidance for Grants and Agreements
Chapter II. OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET GUIDANCE
Part 200. UNIFORM ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS, COST PRINCIPLES, AND AUDIT REQUIREMENTS FOR FEDERAL AWARDS
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Section 200.343. Closeout.
2 CFR § 200.343 - Closeout.
§ 200.343 Closeout.
The Federal awarding agency or pass-through entity will close-out the Federal award when it determines that all applicable administrative actions and all required work of the Federal award have been completed by the non-Federal entity. This section specifies the actions the non-Federal entity and Federal awarding agency or pass-through entity must take to complete this process at the end of the period of performance.
(a) The non-Federal entity must submit, no later than 90 calendar days after the end date of the period of performance, all financial, performance, and other reports as required by the terms and conditions of the Federal award. The Federal awarding agency or pass-through entity may approve extensions when requested by the non-Federal entity.
(b) Unless the Federal awarding agency or pass-through entity authorizes an extension, a non-Federal entity must liquidate all obligations incurred under the Federal award not later than 90 calendar days after the end date of the period of performance as specified in the terms and conditions of the Federal award.
(c) The Federal awarding agency or pass-through entity must make prompt payments to the non-Federal entity for allowable reimbursable costs under the Federal award being closed out.
(d) The non-Federal entity must promptly refund any balances of unobligated cash that the Federal awarding agency or pass-through entity paid in advance or paid and that are not authorized to be retained by the non-Federal entity for use in other projects. See OMB Circular A-129 and see § 200.345 Collection of amounts due, for requirements regarding unreturned amounts that become delinquent debts.
(e) Consistent with the terms and conditions of the Federal award, the Federal awarding agency or pass-through entity must make a settlement for any upward or downward adjustments to the Federal share of costs after closeout reports are received.
(f) The non-Federal entity must account for any real and personal property acquired with Federal funds or received from the Federal Government in accordance with §§ 200.310 Insurance coverage through 200.316 Property trust relationship and 200.329 Reporting on real property.
(g) The Federal awarding agency or pass-through entity should complete all closeout actions for Federal awards no later than one year after receipt and acceptance of all required final reports.
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By Emma Ryan|05 March 2017
A Melbourne solicitor has been banned from practising law for two years after pleading guilty to seven charges of professional misconduct brought against him by the regulator, the Victorian Legal Services Commissioner.
Nicholas Logan, who resides in the Melbourne suburb of Pascoe Vale, received the ban from the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal on 21 February after he breached an undertaking he gave to the legal regulator, a fortnight after he gave it.
According to the regulator, Mr Logan ran several law practices which dealt with matters associated with motor accident repairs.
One of his practices, Express Legal, obtained some of its clients through an association with motor vehicle repairers who encouraged owners of damaged motor vehicles to sign a repair authorisation document. Unknown to the vehicle owner, the document also included an authorisation for Express Legal to take legal action on behalf of the vehicle owner to recover any losses incurred as a result of the accident, the regulatory body stated.
In 2012, Commissioner Michael McGarvie took action against Mr Logan for acting on behalf of several clients without having first sought their instructions. At the time, Mr Logan gave Mr McGarvie undertaking that for all future matters he and his law practices would seek written instructions from his clients before acting for them.
Despite this, the VCAT heard that two weeks after giving the Commissioner the undertaking, Express Legal again acted for a client without first seeking instructions.
The Commissioner had also taken action against Mr Logan for other conduct issues in June 2014, April 2016 and November 2016.
During the case, Mr McGarvie said consumers had a right to know if legal work was being carried out in their name.
“Concerns have been expressed by car crash victims that some crash repair businesses work alongside lawyers to sue or defend suits without getting informed permission from the party involved in the crash. This is unlawful,” Mr McGarvie said.
Upon the decision being handed down, Justice Jenkins said that Mr Logan’s dishonest behaviour “demonstrated contempt for the legal regulator and that his misconduct was seriously aggravated by the fact that he had been previously dealt with for similar offending.”
Mr Logan pleaded guilty to four charges of professional misconduct for acting without authority and failing to advise his clients, one charge for making false and misleading statements and two charges of wilful failure to comply with an undertaking.
VCAT ordered Mr Logan to be suspended from legal practice for two years, after which time he may only practise as an employee under the supervision of another solicitor for a further 18 months. Mr Logan was also ordered to pay the Commissioner’s costs.
Commenting after the decision was handed down, Mr McGarvie said this matter represents a valuable lesson to legal practitioners.
“The crucial lesson from this decision is that practitioners representing the interests of a person must receive authority from that person before they can speak on their behalf or respond for them. In this case, Mr Logan had ignored this most fundamental responsibility of a lawyer,” he said.
“In Victoria we have found that of our 20,000-plus practitioners, approximately 4 per cent, account for 52 per cent of all complaints we receive.
“Where someone has made a simple, one-off mistake, we generally deal with it in a more pastoral way. However, where the practitioner demonstrates repeated violations of the profession’s own standards, as has happened in this case, we will take stronger action to protect the public and the reputation of the profession.”
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15 October 2019, 21:18 | Updated: 15 October 2019, 21:23
Nigel Farage and this caller had a fierce debate over whether an EU deal or clean-break Brexit would be better for the UK.
Raphael from Ealing said that a deal would "be the best case scenario" because "in the last three years, we've had 66 billion wiped off the UK GDP-"
Nigel interrupted, repeating: "You don't know that!"
"Standard and Poor's released a report - they are the credit rating agency and I do know that they've published that report, it is there for everyone to see."
Nigel asked: "Are they always right?"
Raphael said: "They're completely impartial and they're independent."
"I tell you what, they didn't foresee the banking collapse!" said Nigel
Raphael said the Standard and Poor's have "actually stated beyond reasonable doubt that we've lost £66 billion from the economy. So a deal obviously needs to be done as soon as possible. So the longer we leave it, the more people collect money on speculation off of the price of the pound."
EU officials want to see the basics of Boris Johnson's an agreement by midnight, so it can be signed off before Friday. Picture: PA
"That theory's back!" said Nigel.
Raphael continued: "We really need a deal done and dusted so we can stop people syphoning money off the UK economy. At this point, you know, whatever needs to be done, it needs to be done. A concession has to be made and a deal needs to be done. People like you selling the fantasy that a clean-break-"
Nigel and Raphael erupt into a shouting match with Nigel saying: "If I can't have a conversation with you there are lots and lots of people out there-", to which Raphael replied he wasn't letting him finish.
Nigel continued: "You can apply and it's very possible LBC will give you an hour's monologue every evening," to which Raphael said he just wanted Nigel to listen to him for 30 seconds.
"Enough, enough enough," said Nigel, "Standard and Poor's get things wrong as everybody else does. They didn't even manage to prophesied or even hint at the banking collapse that happened in 2008."
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New Discovery Sport honoured with prestigious Safety Award
Range Rover Sport SDV6 HSE named best large SUV for a second consecutive year and a “best buy” Price Point winner in £40,000-plus category
Range Rover Evoque sustains its award-winning pedigree as a Price Point winner among small SUVs
Range Rover 3.0 TDV6 Vogue SE claims a further Price Point commendation for Land Rover in the Luxury Car category
The New Discovery Sport leads a supreme performance by Land Rover in the What Car? Car of the Year Awards, honoured with the Safety Award for its unmatched provision of advanced systems to protect both those on board and pedestrians.
The award establishes Discovery Sport’s entry into the compact SUV segment with its ground-breaking packaging, advanced engineering and its ingenious 5+2 interior configuration within a compact vehicle footprint.
The enduring strength of the Land Rover range is reflected in the Range Rover Sport SDV6 HSE being named the best large SUV for the second year running and earning a What Car? Price Point “best buy” win in its price bracket.
A strong combination of quality and value secured a further Price Point win for the Range Rover Evoque SD4 Pure Tech in the small SUV class. The Range Rover 3.0 TDV6 Vogue SE cemented its superiority among luxury vehicles priced over £70,000.
Murray Dietsch, Director of Land Rover Programmes, said: “Winning this award provides Discovery Sport with valuable, independent validation of its exceptional quality and ability. It reflects the extreme lengths we go to, to ensure safety provisions go beyond what is required, and what customers expect.
“Safety was a fundamental priority in the development of Discovery Sport as a true family vehicle. This award rewards the no-compromise, pioneering work we have invested in the model.”
Jeremy Hicks, Jaguar Land Rover UK Managing Director, commented: “These awards further strengthen the prospects for Discovery Sport ahead of its market introduction while at the same time reinforcing the class-leading qualities presented across the Land Rover range.
“Range Rover Sport remains pre-eminent in its class and our continuous improvement of Range Rover Evoque is sustaining its award-winning quality three years on from its launch. At the top of the market, Range Rover remains a formidable performer in delivering bespoke luxury and exceptional performance capabilities.”
Discovery Sport – Safety Award
Discovery Sport’s Safety Award rewards the significant achievement Land Rover has made in delivering effective, advanced safety systems as standard. Raising the benchmark in its class, new Discovery Sport affords vehicle occupants and pedestrians exceptional protection, qualities that have already been independently recognised with a maximum five-star rating in Euro NCAP crash testing.
In its appraisal of Discovery Sport, What Car? declared: “Most impressive is how far Land Rover has gone beyond the required standards for a five-star NCAP rating. Adult protection is rated as the second highest score of the year, child and pedestrian protection are highly credible and the safety assist rating dwarfs that of rivals.”
Discovery Sport benefits from intelligent use of advanced technologies for safer driving, including the adoption of Autonomous Emergency Braking as a standard feature across the range. Using a digital stereo camera, this recognises and alerts the driver to potential collision hazards ahead, engaging emergency braking if needed to avoid or reduce the consequences of an impact. As a first-in-class feature for a small SUV, Discovery Sport is also available with a pedestrian airbag as standard, deploying automatically from the rear upper section of the bonnet.
The suite of active and passive safety systems is comprehensive, including Dynamic Stability Control, Electronic Traction Control, Roll Stability Control, Anti-lock Braking Systems, Reverse Traffic Detection, Emergency Brake Lights, Lane Departure Warning and Seatbelt Reminders.
Range Rover Sport – Best Large SUV and Price Point winner
Range Rover Sport, specifically the SDV6 HSE, has taken the title of Best Large SUV for the second year running, reaffirming its class-leading quality and performance. In making the award, What Car? said: “The Range Rover Sport may look pricey next to alternatives such as the BMW X5 and Mercedes-Benz ML, but you know the minute you get in that it utterly warrants its price. If you've got the money, the Rangie is really in a class of its own.”
It also highlighted the “sprightly acceleration” of the engine, the comprehensive specification of the HSE model and the all-round driving rewards it delivers.
For 2015, Range Rover Sport has adopted further innovations and improvements, including the introduction of All-Terrain Progress Control, a system that allows automatic vehicle speed control when negotiating steep gradients and rough or low-grip surfaces. Useful technology also extends to a new Head-Up Display which projects principal vehicle performance information on to the lower windscreen in the driver’s eyeline.
Range Rover Sport’s strong appeal is reflected in over half a million global sales since its introduction in 2005.
Range Rover Evoque – Small SUV Price Point winner
Evoque marked a watershed for Land Rover and for the SUV market when it made its market debut three years ago. Its arrival was greeted with global acclaim and awards – more than 160 to date, and counting. It has quickly progressed to become Land Rover’s biggest-selling model, its appeal strengthened with the addition of new technical features.
What Car? selected the new Pure Tech grade as the “best buy” model at a price point above £22,000, highlighting its “impressive” and “attractive” features such as such as navigation, automatic headlights, headlight power-washers, a heated windscreen, rain-sensing wipers and front parking sensors.
Key developments that have helped keep Evoque one of the most cutting-edge cars in its class – include Land Rover’s InControl Apps, providing enhanced and easy access to journey planning and information services; rear-seat entertainment systems; a world-first laser-based Head-Up Display; and a nine-speed automatic transmission.
Range Rover – Luxury Car Price Point winner
What Car? singled out the Range Rover 3.0 TDV6 Vogue SE as a “best buy” in the marketplace for luxury cars in the £70,000 to £100,000 price range. Its success is indicative of how Land Rover has kept pace with global customers’ increasingly sophisticated and diverse tastes, providing a wealth of personalisation opportunities that combine individuality with the highest quality materials and craftsmanship. All this is achieved without compromising its exceptional all-terrain performance.
What Car? considers the Range Rover to be a unique proposition, describing it as “the only luxury car with real go-anywhere potential” and a status symbol that is “at home parked up in a South Kensington side street as it is on a gravel drive of a country estate”.
While the Vogue SE provides an impressive specification, Land Rover’s attention to detail extends to even more exclusive options in the Range Rover Autobiography and Autobiography Black.
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Kristin Wong
You've been waiting at the airport for two hours, you've had your Maccas fix, and you're ready to board the plane. There's just one problem: There is no plane. We've all been there. Flight delays are a massive headache, and Google Flights just updated with some features to help ease the pain.
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Google announced a couple of new features to their Flight search tool this morning. For one, if you're in the US and flying American, Delta or United flights, you'll now be able to see what amenities aren't included in Basic Economy fare. When you search for a flight, you'll see your fare options, along with a list of what is and isn't included. It's a useful feature, considering most airlines charge you for everything short of an actual seat. No word yet if or when this feature is coming to other airlines.
You can also get information on flight delays. If you use Google Assistant, you already get notified when your flight has been delayed, but now anyone can look up their flight on Google Flights and not only see the status of the delay, but also why the flight was delayed: Weather, aircraft arriving late and so on.
Even more impressively, though, the tool actually predicts the likelihood of your flight being delayed. According to Google:
Using historic flight status data, our machine learning algorithms can predict some delays even when this information isn't available from airlines yet - and delays are only flagged when we're at least 80% confident in the prediction. We still recommend getting to the airport with enough time to spare, but hope this information helps manage expectations and prevent surprises.
To check the status, you just have to search for your flight ("American 4442") or the airline and flight route ("Air New Zealand Auckland to Singapore"), and you'll see the details in the search results. To check out the changes for yourself, head to Google Flights.
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Measures urgently required to deliver meaningful beef price increase insists MEP Matt Carthy
Matt Carthy MEP
The Sinn Féin MEP for the Midlands North West, Matt Carthy, has reiterated his party’s call for urgent measures to be put in place that will secure a meaningful price increase for Beef Farmers.
The Monaghan based representative was speaking this week as IFA protests continued at retailer & distribution centres and following the publication of figures from the Beef Price Index reveal that Irish prices are 50c/kg behind the price in Britain. Carthy also described the price increased announced by ABP last Friday as ‘minimal and wholly insufficient’.
Matt Carthy said: "I welcome the fact that the Beef Taskforce is up and running. The lifting of injunctions related to the summer beef protests is also to be welcomed but were too late in coming to secure any good will among the farming community.
"The images of further farm protests this week show that the fundamentals of the beef sector remain imbalanced and unfair, farmers continue to operate at a loss and this is entirely unsustainable. Farmers, and the communities that depend on them, need a substantial and realistic increase in the base price they receive. The small increase announced by ABP is minimal and wholly insufficient.
"The Beef Price Index has indicated that prices secured by Irish farmers are 20c/kg behind the EU average (€80 per animal) and 50c/kg behind British prices (€180 per animal). This is happening in a scenario where Irish beef is among the best in the world.
"The differences in the prices secured by Irish family farmers with their counterparts across Europe is the difference between our farmers surviving or being forced out of business.
"The price discrepancies point to margin manipulation by both factories and retailers. Big money is being made from Irish beef but it is not going to the primary producers. Instead, retailers and factories are making a killing and it is little wonder that farmers have felt that they have no choice but to take to the picket lines.
"If the Beef Task Force is to deliver then it needs to quickly ensure the removal of arbitrary rules such as the 30-month upper age limit and the four-movement restriction which simply serve to distort the position of the farmer in the market chain.
"Fundamentally, transparency throughout the supply chain is required so that the public can see directly who is making a profit from beef and who is being ripped off. That is what Sinn Féin’s Beef Price Transparency Bill seeks to deliver by providing such transparency to not only farmers but for consumers too. I am calling on both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to support our legislation to order to give farmers a level playing field.
"In the meantime Sinn Féin will continue to support those farmers who participate in protests aimed at highlighting the inequalities they face and we will join them in demanding a fair price structure for our family farmers."
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life is outside August 23, 2013 Road Trips, Road Trips From Bangalore
This route is part of our story – Best Road Trips from Bangalore. Click image below to check other routes.
Any literature dealing with a buffet of roadtrips from Bangalore has to have Mysore as the key ingredient. Mysore, which has earned the sobriquet ‘Cultural Capital of Karnataka’, in addition to deserving a visit for its history, arts and culture also happens to be the hub which spins off some of the most exciting getaways.
Travel time : 3-4 hours Road Quality : 8/10 Distance : 150 Kms
Deserving detours and pit stops –
Within an hour of leaving behind the city roads, you are tempted to enter the pit lane at Grips (10:00 – 19:00 hrs/21:00 hrs on weekends), which is an international standard karting and bowling venue. A few miles further is South India’s largest amusement park, Wonderla (11:00 – 18:00 hrs, 19:00 hrs on weekends) with over fifty dry and water rides. This however isn’t a pit stop and deserves a whole day. Next up near Bidadi town, is Innovative Film City, a multiple entertainment destination with Ripley’s museum and Louis Tussaud’s Wax museum to name a few.
For adrenaline junkies, the rock formations around Ramnagaram invite you to indulge in some rock climbing and rappelling. Professionals can venture independently while there are a host of adventure clubs in Bangalore who cater to rookies and intermediates. This town is also known for its silk; several communities undertake sericulture for livelihood.
Moving along, beginning the culture trail is an establishment called Janapada Loka (09:00 – 17:30 hrs except Tuesdays), which is a museum showcasing folk arts and crafts of Karnataka. Present right beside the popular Kamat Lokaruchi, this is part of an initiative to document, showcase, uplift and preserve rural traditions and society.
The town of Channapatna further ahead, is best known for wooden toys made in ivory, rose and sandal wood. While history claims that Persian artisans were invited during Tipu Sultan’s reign; with a Geographical Indication (GI) tag, there is enough merit in carrying back a souvenir or two for the kids.
Paddy and sugarcane fields will befriend you through Maddur and Mandya as jaggery production is primary livelihood around here. If stationary, a band of street hawkers will approach you with a typical savoury called Maddur vada, after its namesake town. This serves as a good accompaniment for tea from roadside stalls.
Upstream river Cauvery, India’s second largest waterfalls and possibly Asia’s first hydel power project, Shivanasamudra; and the legend surrounding pilgrimage site with sand-covered temples of Talakad ( 45 km before Mysore ) can be accessed; both a short drive off the highway. Srirangapatna, a town on a river island has various places of significant interest in terms of temple architecture and monuments related to Tipu Sultan’s reign of Mysore along with his summer palace.
Ranganthittu Bird Sanctuary (09:00 – 18:00 hrs), a which is a huge migration and breeding site for several species around the world is a birder’s haven. Largest of its kind in the state, it comprises a few islets between crocodile infested waters on the banks of river Cauvery.
While in Mysore –
You HAVE to do a tour of this historical and magical city with the passionate and knowledgeable folks at Royal Mysore Walks. Be it their walking tour or cycling tour or the jeep tour, they have itineraries tailored to individual interests and needs. These tours weave together the rich history, culture and legends of the city, trans-locating you to a bygone era.
Mysore is also renowned for silk sarees; gifts, souvenirs and cosmetics in sandalwood; the dessert sweet Mysore Pak just adds to the city’s importance and a glimpse in to the royal heritage that abounds.
Speaking of royalty, Amba Vilas Palace known famously as Palace of Mysore (10:00 – 17:30 hrs), is the official home of the erstwhile family of Wodeyars. This, a huge attraction, which hosts Mysore Dusshera festival annually, illuminates every Sunday night for an hour. Guided tours (10:00 – 17:30 hrs) of the opulent complex and interiors go on every day.
As a source of drinking water for Mysore and Bangalore, Krishna Raja Sagar dam across river Cauvery is vital. Located off Mysore, it hosts a water and light fountain show every evening in its ornamental Brindavan Gardens. Twenty minutes from Mysore, Chamundi hills, is one of the eight most sacred hills in South India with two temples. You may choose to climb on foot via 1000 odd staircases or drive/ride to the top. It gives a panoramic view of the city and its monuments.
Necessities:
Being a popular route, good number of fuel stations and washrooms are present all along.
Highway eats:
Tea stalls – open 24 hours, Bidadi-Ramanagaram
Hotel Guru – Bidadi
Rasta Cafe – open 24 hours, Ramnagaram
Kamat Lokruchi – next to Janapada Loka, Ramnagaram
Maddur Tiffany’s – Entrance to Maddur (best for Maddur vadas)
Cafe Coffee Day – open 24 hours, Maddur
Lalit Mahal Palace – Outskirts of Mysore
LIO tips:
Leave early in the morning to avoid highway traffic and catch the early bird breakfast.
Rural scenes will be a pleasant surprise throughout.
Best bits:
Rocks at Ramanagaram, paddy and sugarcane fields near Maddur, bird watching at Ranganthittu.
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What's Wrong with Methoprene?
by Helen Roussel
Suffolk County’s Vector Control Weakens Coastal Resiliency
What is Methoprene?
Methoprene is a slow-acting bio-chemical growth inhibitor that is used by municipalities to control mosquitoes. Brand names of pesticides containing methoprene include Altosid™, Apex™, Diacan™, Dianex™, Kabat™, Minex™, Pharorid™, ZR-515 and Precor™.
Methoprene is an endocrine disrupter used to target mosquitos and control diseases by disrupting growth hormones and development of larvae - read about it HERE [1]. Evidence indicates methoprene impacts non-target species[2].
How does methoprene impact non-target species?
Research evidence indicates that methoprene effects the development of species that share similar evolutionary traits [3]. The arthropod phylum encompasses not only mosquitos but crustaceans and all other insects. Crustaceans such as lobsters and crabs are impacted by methoprene [5]. Lobster larvae has been found to be affected even by low levels of methoprene, and studies have shown that 80% of blue crab larvae is similarly affected after 10 days. And the shells/structure of both species as adults is altered, resulting in delayed molt and death[6]. The similarity in findings does indicate that methoprene affects the development of many species of arthropods impacting their ability to survive.
A more hidden impact is the depletion of food webs [7],which impacts a wider variety of species such as birds and fish, starving them as there is less food. Loss of habitat is also a major factor. Furthermore, zooplankton (a critical source of food which almost all oceanic organisms is dependent upon) is to a large degree made up of crustaceans and therefore is impacted by methoprene [8]. Zooplankton is especially important around Long Island as zooplankton feeds on phytoplankton and is critical in retaining the balance in the marine food web (keeping levels of phytoplankton stable). An imbalance of phytoplankton is said to contribute to blue-green algae blooms [9].
Fig. 2 — Food Webs
An interactive food web showing how fish (for instance) have indirect effects on populations in and around wetlands. Nature Education (2017).
Zooplankton is critical for a healthy marine environment. NASA (2017)
What About West Nile Virus (WNV)?
Data of human cases of WNV in Suffolk County indicate that infections occur in urban and suburban areas and not in wetlands.The map below shows areas sprayed with methoprene. The map below shows 5 areas where WNV occurred, and only in the area identified as Cluster 5are there significant wetlands. WNV occurs in urban and suburban areas where American Robins (the main reservoir for WNV) and Culex pipiens mosquito (the bird to human WNV bridge) can be found. Furthermore, WNV is driven by shifts of feeding behavior that is influenced by the migratory patterns of American Robins (the preferred host for Culex pipiens) [12].
Fig. 3 — Combined map with overlays (Rochlin, 2011), (EPA, 2008).
What Can Be Done to Prevent the Spread of Mosquito-borne Disease?
As climate change continues to alter our environment, WNV and other previously unknown diseases will continue to appear. The Culex pipiens (house mosquito) lays its eggs in polluted fresh water and degraded wetland areas around homes and built-up areas. Artificial vessels and containers that are left around in people's yards collect water which becomes polluted and creates the perfect environment for the Culex pipiens to lay its eggs.
Currently educational information includes mowing wetland plants in dry basins in urban and suburban areas. However, studies in 2016 indicated that the practice actually increases the problem. Degraded urban and suburban wetland areas are turned into mosquito breeding grounds because wetland plants are mowed [13] or cut and the dead plant does not absorb water which therefore puddles. Removing plants also means there is less habitat for birds and other potential mosquito predators.
Why are wetlands being sprayed with methoprene?
Please see the 'biting mosquito, complaint map' below which, illustrates that the majority of the complaints originate from people who live or are on vacation in wetlands areas. There is some correlation between complaints and methoprene spray locations, but absolutely no correlation between WNV outbreaks and methoprene application. Tourism spending is worth $5.5 billion [14] per year and development on wetland areas continues. As a result of over-development of wetland areas, there is less and less habitat for mosquito predators and increasing water quality issues.
The quick fix of applying pesticides is a response to phone call complaints and not a response to a threat of WNV.
Compare the 'biting mosquito complaint map' to the Water Quality Impairments map (The Nature Conservancy, 2017) Figure (5) which indicates that there are multiple issues that require sustainable approaches to deal with the impact of human activity on Long Island.
Applying methoprene to degraded waterways is a poor quick-fix solution that increases the overall cost to biodiverse communities, wetland health and ultimately human health and the economy.
The funds need to be better spent; Rachel Carson once said "In nature nothing exists alone". Long Islands wetlands need a multi-faceted approach and an alternative nature-based scientific approach. Healthy wetlands are buffers that protect the mainland from sea level rise, floods and severe weather events (impacts of climate change).
Fig. 4 — Suffolk County Vector Control and Wetlands Management Plan: Biting Mosquito Complaints Map
Fig. 5 — Long Island Water Quality Impairments and 2000-2004 Cluster Hotspot Boundary and Aerial Larvicide Locations (2017).
The Social-ecosystem is Important - What is the Solution?
The health and welfare of Long Island's socio-economic systems are inextricably dependent on healthy wetlands and healthy urban and suburban environments. Healthy ecosystems provide clean water, air and food. Wetland ecosystems support a robust tourism industry as well as serving as a buffer zone between the impacts of climate change and inland areas. Wetlands and estuaries provide food and habitat for many species of marine fish. The effects of climate change will continue to yield severe floods, increased run-off, droughts and more powerful hurricanes, which will further degrade water quality and increase algae blooms and disease. It is critical to move toward he use of less chemicals and instead adopt approaches that lead to habitat restoration that will enable ecosystems to return to levels that sustain the life around them.
Wetlands:
Restoration of and more rigorous protection of dune areas and wetland areas are needed. Certain types of development (such as hardening of coastal shorelines) weakens resilience. Read about how healthy wetland areas saved more than $625 million in property damage during Hurricane Sandy [15] by absorbing flood water [16].
Predator breeding projects and habitat restoration programs for predator insects, birds and fish need to be established. This would attract more tourists, control mosquitos and improve the health of wetlands.
Disease Control:
Urban and Suburban Disease Control:
Stop the practice of cutting down wetland plants such as reeds
Increase habitat restoration in degraded urban and suburban wetland areas
Encourage predators by launching habitat gardens for degraded areas, bird, bat and dragonfly breeding and enrichment projects
Public school education programs on mosquito-borne diseases and how to prevent them as well as more public information on maintaining biodiverse gardens
Read the study [17] that demonstrates how wetland plants in urban and suburban areas should NOT be mowed as it creates the perfect habitat for mosquitos including Culex pipiens / WNV carrying mosquitoes: read an article about it [18]
Fig. 6 — Andrew Mackay (2015)
WE NEED HABITAT RESTORATION PROGRAMS
WE NEED RESILIENT INTACT COASTLINES AND DISEASE FREE ENVIRONMENTS
[1] National Pesticide Information Center (2017), ‘Methoprene’[online]. Available at:
http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/methogen.html
[2] Beyond pesticides (2017), ‘Pesticides that disrupt endocrine system are still unregulated by EPA’ [online] Available at:
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/assets/media/documents/gateway/health%20effects/endocrine%20cited.pdf
[3] Tree of Life (2017),’Arthropoda’ [online]. Available at: http://tolweb.org/Arthropoda/2469
[4] Garcia R. N., Chung K.W., Key P.B., Burnett L.E., Coen L. D., Delorenzo M.E., (2014), ‘Interactive effects of mosquito control insecticide toxicity, hypoxia, and increased carbon dioxide on larval and juvenile eastern oysters and hard clams’, Pubmed [online]. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24531857
[5] Walker A. N., Bush P., Puritz J., Wilson T., Chang E.S., Miller T., Holloway K., Horst M. N., (2005), ‘Bioaccumulation and Metabolic Effects of the Endocrine Disruptor Methoprene in the Lobster, Homarus americanus’ Pubmed [online]. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21676752
[6] Horst M.N., Walker A.N., (1999),‘Effects Effects of the Pesticide Methoprene on Morphogenesis and Shell Formation in the Blue Crab Callinectes sapidus’, JSTOR, [online]. Available at:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1549293?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
[7] Pratt S. E., (2007), ‘Are Pollutants Disrupting Marine ecosystems?’, Oceanus Magazine [online]. Available at:
http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/are-pollutants-disrupting-marine-ecosystems
[8] Olmstead A.W., LeBlanc G.L., (2001), ‘Low Exposure Concentration Effects of Methoprene on Endocrine-Regulated Processes in the Crustacean Daphnia magna’ Toxilogical Sciences [online]. Available at:
https://academic.oup.com/toxsci/article/62/2/268/1663640
[9] Suffolk County Government (2017) ‘Harmful Algae Blooms’ [online. Available at:
http://www.suffolkcountyny.gov/Departments/HealthServices/EnvironmentalQuality/Ecology/MarineWaterQualityMonitoring/HarmfulAlgalBlooms.aspx
[10] Garcia R. N., Chung K. W., Key P. B., Burnett L.E., Coen L. D., DeLorenzo M. E., (2014), ‘Interactive Effects of Mosquito Control Insecticide Toxicity, Hypoxia, and Increased Carbon Dioxide on Larval and Juvenile Eastern Oysters and Hard Clams [online]. Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00244-014-0002-1
[11] New York State Government (2017), ‘Governor Cuomo Announces $10.4 Million Effort to Improve Long Island Water Quality, Restore Shellfish Populations and Bolster Resilience of Coastal Communities’ [online]. Available at: https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-announces-104-million-effort-improve-long-island-water-quality-restore-shellfish
[12] Kilpatrick A.M., (2011),’Globalization, land use, and the invasion of West Nile virus’, PubMed [online]. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22021850
[13] Science Daily (2015), ‘Mowing dry detention basins makes mosquito problems worse’[online]. Available at:
[14] Long Island association (2016) http://www.longislandassociation.org/news/details/news-release-10-20-2016
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Epigraphs Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Chapter 37 Chapter 38 Chapter 39 Chapter 40 Chapter 41 Chapter 42 Chapter 43 Chapter 44 Chapter 45 Chapter 46 Chapter 47 Chapter 48 Chapter 49 Chapter 50 Chapter 51 Chapter 52 Chapter 53
All Themes Storytelling and Power Female Sexuality and the Nature of Women Social Class and Propriety Truth, Memory, and Madness Gender, Ownership, and Power Justice and Religion
All Characters Grace Marks Dr. Simon Jordan Mary Whitney Mr. Thomas Kinnear Nancy Montgomery James McDermott Jamie Walsh Jeremiah the peddler (aka Dr. Jerome DuPont) Grace’s Mother Grace’s Father Mr. Kenneth MacKenzie Mrs. Rachel Humphrey Major Humphrey Dora Dr. Joseph Workman Dr. Samuel Bannerling Dr. Binswanger The Governor’s Wife Miss Lydia Mrs. Constance Jordan Mrs. Susanna Moodie George Parkinson Mrs. Phelan Mrs. Burt Charley Horse Aunt Pauline Clarrie
All Symbols Clothing Windows Mouths Flowers Quilts
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Storytelling and Power
Female Sexuality and the Nature of Women
Social Class and Propriety
Truth, Memory, and Madness
Gender, Ownership, and Power
Justice and Religion
Dr. Simon Jordan
Mary Whitney
Mr. Thomas Kinnear
Nancy Montgomery
James McDermott
Jamie Walsh
Jeremiah the peddler (aka Dr. Jerome DuPont)
Grace’s Mother
Grace’s Father
Mr. Kenneth MacKenzie
Mrs. Rachel Humphrey
Major Humphrey
Dr. Joseph Workman
Dr. Samuel Bannerling
Dr. Binswanger
The Governor’s Wife
Mrs. Constance Jordan
Mrs. Susanna Moodie
George Parkinson
Mrs. Phelan
Mrs. Burt
Charley Horse
Aunt Pauline
Clarrie
Female Sexuality and the Nature of Women Theme Analysis
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A dominant question of Victorian times was whether women were, by nature, good or evil. Atwood takes up this question in the novel, arguing that this binary is not a sufficient way to understand women, just as it would be an insufficient way to understand men. Atwood takes this argument a step further by showing how society’s repression of female sexuality—and its willingness to allow, and even condone, sexual violence against women—cements this binary understanding of womanhood and negatively affects women’s self-expression by tying their worth to their sexuality.
Toward the beginning of the novel, Grace reflects on the many different characterizations of her that have appeared in print. She has been described as “an inhuman female demon,” “an innocent victim of a blackguard,” “a good girl with a pliable nature,” and “little better than an idiot,” among other things. “And I wonder,” Grace says, “how can I be all of these different things at once?” This introduces the argument Atwood will develop over the course of the novel: that to understand women categorically—as either a demon or a victim, a good girl or a bad one—robs them of their dignity and their right to have complicated identities. Atwood suggests that Grace’s confusion about how she can be “all of these different things at once” stems largely from the fact that society insists on defining her as one thing or another, rather than allowing her to be a complex individual.
Atwood expands on this theme by showing how many different characters liken women to physical objects. Mr. Kinnear tells Grace not to sit in the back of the wagon “like a piece of luggage” and the guards who regularly harass Grace when they escort her from the prison to the Governor’s house taunt her with demeaning insults such as, “you’re ripe enough to be picked, why stay on the tree untasted, you’ll just fall of and rot at the foot of it in any case.” Even women reduce other women to objects, such as when a housekeeper says of the dead Mary Whitney, “There is no sense in crying over spilt milk,” as if Mary herself, covered in blood on the bed, is the milk. Repeated images of women as objects or foodstuffs underscores Atwood’s argument that society’s insistence on defining women according to a binary ultimately leads to women being treated as less than human.
Another key component of Atwood’s argument in favor of female complexity is her description of a society that is intolerant of a woman expressing sexual desire. When Grace is explaining to Dr. Jordan why she is in the habit of always locking her bedroom door, she says, “Once you are found with a man in your room you are the guilty one, no matter how they get in.” This takes a huge toll on women, socially disempowering them and depriving them of their right to explore their sexuality, which is an important part of a person’s identity. Atwood also includes many examples of the rampant sexual violence of the Victorian era. Grace is sexually assaulted not only by prison guards, but also by medical doctors in the asylum, and she fights off McDermott when he attempts to rape her. In this, Atwood shows that violence against women as a social epidemic, fed by the concept of women as objects rather than people with their own sexual desires and boundaries.
Perhaps worst of all, Grace seems in some ways to internalize society’s attitude towards women and female sexuality, reducing herself to an object when she describes her opinion of whorehouses. She says, “I was indeed curious to see the women who made a living by selling their bodies, because I thought if worst came to worst and if starving, I would still have something to sell.” This moment exemplifies how the stifling of women’s sexuality furthers the narrative of women (and their bodies) as commodities. Atwood thus presents a powerful argument against defining women according to a binary while simultaneously depriving them the right to their own sexuality. This toxic combination can have deadly consequences, as Atwood clearly underscores in her depiction of Mary Whitney’s death due to a botched abortion.
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Female Sexuality and the Nature of Women Quotes in Alias Grace
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Chapter 3 Quotes
They are like birdcages; but what is being caged in? Legs, the legs of ladies; legs penned in so they cannot get out and go rubbing up against the gentlemen’s trousers. The Governor’s wife never says legs, although the newspapers said legs when they were talking about Nancy, with her dead legs sticking out from under the washtub.
Related Characters: Grace Marks (speaker), Nancy Montgomery, The Governor’s Wife
Related Symbols: Clothing
Page Number and Citation: 22
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All the same, Murderess is a strong word to have attached to you. It has a smell to it, that word—musky and oppressive, like dead flowers in a vase. Sometimes at night I whisper it over to myself: Murderess, Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt across the floor.
Murderer is merely brutal. It’s like a hammer, or a lump of metal. I would rather be a murderess than a murderer, if those are the only choices.
Related Characters: Grace Marks (speaker)
Related Symbols: Clothing, Flowers
Page Number and Citation: 22-23
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Chapter 13 Quotes
When I was quite young, six or seven, I put my hand on my mother’s belly, which was all round and tight, and I said What is in there, another mouth to feed, and my mother smiled sadly and said Yes I fear so, and I had a picture of an enormous mouth, on a head like the flying angel heads on the gravestones, but with teeth and all, eating away at my mother from the inside, and I began to cry because I thought it would kill her.
Related Characters: Grace Marks (speaker), Grace’s Mother
Related Symbols: Mouths
Page Number and Citation: 107
It would be helpful to me, if she were indeed mad, or at least a little madder than she appears to be; but thus far she has manifested a composure that a duchess might envy. I have never known any woman to be so thoroughly self-contained.
Related Characters: Dr. Simon Jordan (speaker), Grace Marks, Dr. Edward Murchie
And since that time I have thought, why is it that women have chosen to sew such flags, and then to lay them on the tops of beds? For they make the bed the most noticeable thing in a room. And then I have thought, it’s for a warning. Because you may think a bed is a peaceful thing, Sir, and to you it may mean rest and comfort and a good night’s sleep. But it isn’t so for everyone; and there are many dangerous things that may take place in a bed. It is where we are born, and that is our first peril in life; and it is where the women give birth, which is often their last. And it is where the act takes place between men and women […] and some call it love, and others despair, or else merely an indignity which they must suffer through.
Related Characters: Grace Marks (speaker), Dr. Simon Jordan
Related Symbols: Quilts
There were red smears afterwards, on his shirt, from where she’d started to undo his buttons; but it was the first time he’d ever kissed a woman, and he’d been embarrassed, and then alarmed, and hadn’t known what to do next. Probably she’d laughed at him.
Related Characters: Dr. Simon Jordan (speaker)
Page Number and Citation: 187-188
[…] and one day they did see a bear, and Nancy ran away screaming, and climbed a tree. Sally said the bear was more frightened than Nancy was, and Nancy said it was probably a gentleman bear and it was running away from something dangerous that it had never seen before, but might have caught a glimpse of as she climbed the tree; and they laughed very much.
Related Characters: Grace Marks (speaker), Nancy Montgomery
But is it red where it most counts, says the other, a fire in a treetop is no use at all, it must be in a fireplace to cast enough heat, in a little cookstove, you know why God made women with skirts, it’s so they can be pulled up over their heads and tied at the top, that way you don’t get so much noise out of them, I hate a screeching slut, women should be born without mouths on them, the only thing of use in them is below the waist.
Related Characters: Grace Marks (speaker), The Guards
Related Symbols: Clothing, Mouths
But he’ll pry it out of her yet. He’s got the hook in her mouth, but can he pull her out? Up, out of the abyss, up to the light. Out of the deep blue sea.
He wonders why he’s thinking in such drastic terms. He means her well, he tells himself. He thinks of it as a rescue, surely he does.
But does she? If she has anything to hide, she may want to stay in the water, in the dark, in her element. She may be afraid she won’t be able to breathe, otherwise.
Related Characters: Dr. Simon Jordan (speaker), Grace Marks
During the day, Rachel is a burden, an encumbrance, and he wishes to be rid of her; but at night she’s an altogether different person, and so is he. He too says no when he means yes. He means more, he means further, he means deeper. He would like to make an incision in her—just a small one—so he can taste her blood, which in the shadowy darkness of the bedroom seems to him like a normal wish to have.
Related Characters: Dr. Simon Jordan (speaker), Mrs. Rachel Humphrey
“You killed her,” breathes Lydia. “I always thought so.” She sounds, if anything, admiring.
“The kerchief killed her. Hands held it,” says the voice. “She had to die. The wages of sin is death. And this time the gentleman died as well, for once. Share and share alike!”
Related Characters: Grace Marks (speaker), Mary Whitney (speaker), Miss Lydia (speaker), Dr. Simon Jordan, Mr. Thomas Kinnear, Nancy Montgomery
Grimm, Alexandra. "Alias Grace Themes: Female Sexuality and the Nature of Women." LitCharts. LitCharts LLC, 7 Feb 2018. Web. 17 Jan 2020.
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The changing nature of automobile sales—the shift from diesel to other fuels and the accelerated implementation of new pollution norms—means Bosch will have to tweak its product portfolio to address changing market needs.
Can margins alone drive Bosch performance?
2 min read . Updated: 30 May 2016, 02:23 AM IST R Sreeram
Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or Ebitda, margins expanded 1.9 percentage points to 21.5% as costs softened
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Bosch Ltd surprised investors by reporting record margins for the March quarter. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (Ebitda) margins expanded 1.9 percentage points to 21.5% as costs softened. Margins are the highest in at least two years, a Motilal Oswal Securities Ltd report says.
Bosch is divesting the less profitable starter motor and generator business. The unit generates 10% of Bosch’s sales but contributes only 1% of operating profit (Ebit). So the sale can further strengthen Bosch margins. “We expect the business post the exit from the segment would get a margin boost to the extent of ~100 bps," Antique Stock Broking Ltd said in a note. One percentage point is 100 basis points.
Tracking the firm margins, some analysts have upgraded Bosch earnings for the next fiscal. But such upgrades are few. That is because of Bosch’s premium valuations and subdued revenue growth outlook.
Revenues during the last quarter grew by a healthy 14%. But the growth happened on a favourable base. In the same quarter, a year ago, revenue fell marginally. For the full fiscal year, revenue grew a little less than 10%, which is uninspiring, considering the premium valuations of the stock, which trades at about 31 times one-year-forward earnings estimate.
Exports, which are estimated to generate 13% of Bosch’s revenue, are under pressure because of weak demand in international markets. The Indian business registered impressive growth in the past quarter. But the growth is driven by replacement demand in commercial vehicles, and a favourable monsoon forecast led push to tractor sales. If replacement demand is not supplemented by a sustained pick-up in new vehicle sales, growth in the automotive segment, Bosch’s core business area, can remain subdued.
Also, the changing nature of automobile sales—the shift from diesel to other fuels and the accelerated implementation of new pollution norms—means Bosch will have to tweak its product portfolio to address changing market needs. The share of diesel units in passenger vehicle sales has begun to fall. According to Antique Stock Broking, Bosch management expects higher value vehicles to cushion the sales impact. Bosch is the market leader in diesel fuel injection technology for passenger cars and commercial vehicles in India.
The adjustments can take time. Its MNC pedigree and access to technology gives Bosch a competitive advantage. But the changing market dynamics can result in uneven growth rates. While the company did well to get a grip on margins, the premium stock valuations call for better growth visibility.
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