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[[File:Gruppe_limonen_TUM12.jpg|200px|thumb||Responsible: Lara Kuntz and Andrea Richter]]
'''A common saying is "If life gives you lemons - make lemonade". As of iGEM it can only be "If life gives you limonene - make beer"'''.
'''A Common Saying Is "If Life Gives You Lemons - Make Lemonade". For Us It Is Rather "If Life Gives You Limonene - Make Beer"'''.
The obvious thing to do, isn't it? Beer with lemonade is a very popular beverage throughout Germany, e.g. "Radler", "Alsterwasser", "Russ'n". So why not take the shortcut and skip the intermediary?
Just think of the refreshing sensation of lemons paired with the complex richness of a <s>chilled</s> ''tepid'' brew.
'''Limonene''' is a cyclic terpene and a major constituent of several citrus oils. D-Limonene is used as a component of flavorings and fragrances since it has an orange/lemon-like odor. Limonene has been shown to inhibit rat mammary and other tumor development [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Tsuda%20limonene%202004 Tsuda et al., 2004]]. Being an excellent solvent of cholesterol, d-limonene also has been used clinically to dissolve cholesterol-containing gallstones. Because of its gastric acid neutralizing effect and its support of normal peristalsis, it has also been used for relief of heartburn [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18072821 Sun, 2007]].
D-limonene is used as a component of flavorings and fragrances since it has an orange/lemon-like odor. '''Limonene''' has been shown to inhibit rat mammary and other tumor development [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Tsuda%20limonene%202004 Tsuda et al., 2004]]. Being an excellent solvent of cholesterol, d-limonene also has been used clinically to dissolve cholesterol-containing gallstones. Because of its gastric acid neutralizing effect and its support of normal peristalsis, it has also been used for relief of heartburn [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18072821 Sun, 2007]].
Producing the flavoring substance limonene in our beer might result in a fresh, '''lemon-like taste''' on the one hand. On the other hand, we might have '''beneficial effects on health''' such as preventive activity against cancer, dissolution of gallstones and relief of heartburn.
== Background and principles ==
We have achieved our goal of a beer with limonene. We have successfully cloned (+)-limonene synthase 1 into our newly established yeast expression vector pTUM100. We transformed ''Saccharomyces cerevisiae'' with the plasmid carrying limonene synthase. We '''proved expression''' of limonene synthase via western blot. We verified the '''functionality of (+)-limonene synthase 1''' by in vitro assay with purified limonene synthase on the one hand. On the other hand, we proved functional '''limonene production in yeast cell culture''' via headspace GC-MS. Furthermore, we analyzed differences in protein expression in yeast depending on existence of the yeast '''consensus sequence'''. To survey the toxic concentration of limonene for yeast cells, a '''toxicity assay''' was performed. We showed an inhibition of growth at 1 mM and a lethal effect at 100 mM. These concentrations should not be reached by expression of limonene synthase in yeast.
Last but not least, we have been able to proof the '''production of limonene in the beers''' we brewed. Hence, we have brewed''' iGEM's first SynBio beer''' containing limonene.
Limonene is a cyclic terpene and a major constituent of several citrus oils (orange, lemon, mandarin, lime and grapefruit). It is a chiral liquid with the molecular mass of 136.24 g/mol. The (R)-enantiomer smells like oranges and is content of many fruits, while the (S)-enantionmer has a piney odor [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11605760 Fietzek et al., 2001]]. Therefore D-Limonene ((+)-Limonene, (R)-enantiomer) is used as a component of flavorings and fragrances.
Limonene is a cyclic terpene and a major constituent of several citrus oils (orange, lemon, mandarin, lime and grapefruit). It is a chiral liquid with the molecular mass of 136.24 g/mol. The (R)-enantiomer smells like oranges and is content of many fruits, while the (S)-enantionmer has a piney odor [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11605760 Fietzek et al., 2001]]. Therefore, d-limonene ((+)-limonene, (R)-enantiomer) is used as a component of flavorings and fragrances.
=== Biosynthesis ===
Limonene is produced by '''limonene synthase''' which uses geranyl pyrophosphate (GPP) as educt which is the universal precursor of monoterpenoids. (+)-limonene synthase from ''Citrus limon'' consists of 606 aminoacids (EC=4.2.3.20) and catalyzes the following reaction: '''Geranyl pyrophosphate = (+)-(4R)-limonene + diphosphate'''.
Limonene is produced by '''limonene synthase'''. Limonene synthase uses geranyl pyrophosphate (GPP), which is the universal precursor of monoterpenoids, as educt. (+)-limonene synthase from ''Citrus limon'' consists of 606 aminoacids (EC=4.2.3.20) and catalyzes the following reaction: '''Geranyl pyrophosphate = (+)-(4R)-limonene + diphosphate''' (see Fig. 1).
[[File:TUM12_ReactionLimoneneSynthase.jpg|thumb|900px|Fig. 1: Reaction catalyzed by limonene synthase.]]
''Saccharomyces cerevisiae'' produces geranyl pyrophosphate via the mevalonate pathway where it occurs exclusively as an intermediate of farnesyl pyrophosphate (FPP) synthesis [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17096665 Oswald et al., 2007]]. It has been established that S. cerevisiae has enough free GPP to be used by exogenous monoterpene synthases to produce monoterpenes under laboratory and vinification conditions [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18155949 Herrero et al., 2008]][[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17096665 Oswald et al., 2007]].
''Saccharomyces cerevisiae'' produces geranyl pyrophosphate via the mevalonate pathway (see Fig. 2). GPP occurs as an intermediate of farnesyl pyrophosphate (FPP) synthesis [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17096665 Oswald et al., 2007]]. It has been established that ''S. cerevisiae'' has enough free GPP to be used by exogenous monoterpene synthases to produce monoterpenes under laboratory and vinification conditions [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18155949 Herrero et al., 2008], [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17096665 Oswald et al., 2007]].
=== The molecular and physiological effects of limonene ===
[[File:TUM12_TerpeneSynthesis.png|thumb|900px|Fig. 2: Simplified isoprenoid pathway in ''S. cerevisiae'', including the branch point to linalool. Abbreviations: HMG-CoA, 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A; IPP, isopentenyl pyrophosphate; GPP, geranyl pyrophosphate; FPP, farnesyl pyrophosphate; DMAPP, dimethylallyl pyrophosphate; HMGR, HMG-CoA reductase; FPPS, FPP synthase; LIS, linalool synthase. [<html><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20675444">Rico et al., 2010</a></html>]]]
[[File:TUM12_TerpeneSynthesis.png|thumb|900px|Fig. 2: Simplified isoprenoid pathway in S. cerevisiae, including the branch point to linalool. Abbreviations: HMG-CoA, 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A; IPP, isopentenyl pyrophosphate; GPP, geranyl pyrophosphate; FPP, farnesyl pyrophosphate; DMAPP, dimethylallyl pyrophosphate; HMGR, HMG-CoA reductase; FPPS, FPP synthase; LIS, linalool synthase. [<html><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20675444">Rico et al., 2010</a></html>]]]
====Flavour and Aliment====
=== Molecular and Physiological Effects of Limonene ===
Because of its pleasant Citrus flavour and very low toxicity (oral LD50 for mice = 5.6 and 6.6 g/kg body weight), D-Limonene is widely used as a flavor and fragrance additive. Therefore it is listed in the Code of Federal Regulations as generally recognized as safe ('''GRAS''') [[http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Food/FoodIngredientsPackaging/GenerallyRecognizedasSafeGRAS/GRASListings/UCM264589.pdf FDA]] for a flavoring agent and can be found in common food items such as fruit juices, soft drinks, baked goods, ice cream, and pudding in typical concentrations of 50 ppm till 2,500 ppm, respectively [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18072821 Sun, 2007]]. Hence the normal daily consume of D-Limonene is 0,27 mg/kg body weight per day [[http://www.mri.bund.de/fileadmin/Institute/PBE/Sekundaere_Pflanzenstoffe/Monoterpene.pdf Watzl, 2002]]. As '''natural compound''' of Plants Limonene has practical advantages with regard to availability, suitability for oral apllication, regulatory approval and mechanisms of action and does not pose a mutagenic, carcinogenic, or nephrotoxic risk to humans [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18072821 Sun, 2007]].
====Cancer inhibition====
====Flavor and Aliment====
Monoterpenes have anti carcinogenic effects in animal experiments. It has been shown to inhibit rat mammary, gastric, lung and skin tumor development by several discussed mechanisms like apoptosis induction and modulation of oncogene signal transduction [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Tsuda%20limonene%202004 Tsuda et al., 2004]] [[http://www.mri.bund.de/fileadmin/Institute/PBE/Sekundaere_Pflanzenstoffe/Monoterpene.pdf Watzl, 2002]]. So D-limonene induces phase I and phase II carcinogen-metabolizing enzymes (cytochrome p450), which metabolize carcinogens to less toxic forms and prevent the interaction of chemical carcinogens with DNA. It also inhibits tumor cell proliferation, acceleration of the rate of tumor cell death and/or induction of tumor cell differentiation. Furthermore, D-Limonene regulate cell growth and/or transformation by inhibiting protein isoprenylation [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18072821 Sun, 2007]].
Because of its pleasant citrus flavour and very low toxicity (oral LD50 for mice = 5.6 and 6.6 g/kg body weight), d-limonene is widely used as a flavor and fragrance additive. It is listed in the Code of Federal Regulations as a generally recognized as safe ('''GRAS''') flavoring agent [[http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Food/FoodIngredientsPackaging/GenerallyRecognizedasSafeGRAS/GRASListings/UCM264589.pdf FDA]]. It can be found in common food items such as fruit juices, soft drinks, baked goods, ice cream, and pudding in typical concentrations of 50 ppm to 2,500 ppm [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18072821 Sun, 2007]]. The normal daily consume of d-limonene is 0.27 mg/kg body weight per day [[http://www.mri.bund.de/fileadmin/Institute/PBE/Sekundaere_Pflanzenstoffe/Monoterpene.pdf Watzl, 2002]]. As '''natural compound''' of plants, limonene has practical advantages with regard to availability, suitability for oral application, regulatory approval and mechanisms of action. It does not pose a mutagenic, carcinogenic or nephrotoxic risk to humans [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18072821 Sun, 2007]].
====Solvent for Gallstones====
Furthermore it is used as excellent '''solvent of cholesterol''', therefore d-limonene has been used clinically to dissolve cholesterol-containing gallstones [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18072821 Sun, 2007]]. A study with 200 patients reported a direct infusion of 20-30 ml D-Limonene (97% solution) completely or partially dissolved gallstones in 141 patients. Stones completely dissolved in 96 cases (48%); partial dissolution was observed in 29 cases (14.5%); and in 16 cases (8%) complete dissolution was achieved with the inclusion of hexamethaphosphate (HMP), a chelating agent that can dissolve bilirubin calcium stones [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1988264 Igimi et al., 1991]]. Because of its gastric acid neutralizing effect and its support of normal peristalsis, it also has been used for relief of heartburn [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18072821 Sun, 2007]].
Monoterpenes show anticarcinogenic effects in animal experiments. They have been shown to inhibit rat mammary, gastric, lung and skin tumor development by several discussed mechanisms such as apoptosis induction and modulation of oncogene signal transduction [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Tsuda%20limonene%202004 Tsuda et al., 2004], [http://www.mri.bund.de/fileadmin/Institute/PBE/Sekundaere_Pflanzenstoffe/Monoterpene.pdf Watzl, 2002]]. d-limonene induces phase I and phase II carcinogen-metabolizing enzymes such as cytochrome p450. These metabolize carcinogens into less toxic forms on the one hand. On the other hand, they prevent the interaction of chemical carcinogens with DNA. Limonene has also been shown to inhibit tumor cell proliferation, to accelerate the rate of tumor cell death and induce tumor cell differentiation. Furthermore, d-limonene regulates cell growth and/or transformation by inhibiting protein isoprenylation [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18072821 Sun, 2007]].
====Solvation of Gallstones====
d-limonene is used as excellent '''solvent of cholesterol''', therefore it has been used clinically to dissolve cholesterol-containing gallstones [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18072821 Sun, 2007]]. A study with 200 patients showed that direct infusion of 20-30 ml d-limonene (97% solution) completely or partially dissolved gallstones in 141 patients. Gallstones completely dissolved in 96 cases (48%); partial dissolution was observed in 29 cases (14.5%); and in 16 cases (8%) complete dissolution was achieved with the inclusion of hexamethaphosphate (HMP), a chelating agent that can dissolve bilirubin calcium stones [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1988264 Igimi et al., 1991]]. Because of its gastric acid neutralizing effect and its support of normal peristalsis, it has also been used for relief of heartburn [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18072821 Sun, 2007]].
===BioBricks===
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==== [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K801060 BBa_K801060] '''(+)-Limonene synthase 1''' with '''Strep-tag''' and yeast '''consensus sequence''' ====
==== [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K801060 BBa_K801060] '''(+)-Limonene synthase 1''' with '''''Strep''-tag''' and yeast '''consensus sequence''' ====
This part contains the (+)-Limonene Synthase 1 of Citrus limon. It is preceeded by the yeast consensus sequence for improved expression and carries a C-Terminal Strep-Tag for purification or detection by westernblot. It is an improved version of BBa_I742111.
This part contains (+)-limonene synthase 1 of ''Citrus limon''. It is preceeded by the yeast consensus sequence for improved expression and carries a C-Terminal ''Strep''-Tag for purification or detection by westernblot. It is an improved version of BBa_I742111.
RFC 25 compatible
==== [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K801061 BBa_K801061] '''(+)-Limonene synthase 1''' coding region from ''Citrus limon'' ====
Improved version of BBa_I742111.
Does not contain stop codon. Needs to be used with RFC 25.
Does not contain a stop codon. Needs to be used with RFC 25.
'''Further information:'''
==== [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K801062 BBa_K801062] '''(+)-limonene synthase 1 expression cassette for yeast'''====
This part can be used to express ''Citrus limon'' (+)-limonene synthase 1 in yeast. The expression is controlled by TEF1 promoter and CYC1 terminator.
==== [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K801063 BBa_K801063] '''(+)-limonene synthase 1 expression cassette for yeast''' ====
This part can be used to express ''Citrus limon'' (+)-limonene synthase 1 in yeast. The expression is controlled by yeast TEF1 promoter and yeast TEF1 terminator.
This part can be used to express ''Citrus limon'' (+)-limonene synthase 1 in yeast. The expression is controlled by yeast TEF2 promoter and yeast CYC1 terminator.
==== [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K801065 BBa_K801065] '''(+)-Limonene synthase 1''' with '''Strep-Tag''' ====
==== [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K801065 BBa_K801065] '''(+)-Limonene synthase 1''' with '''''Strep''-Tag''' ====
This part contains the coding region of (+)-limonene synthase from Citrus limon with a C-terminal Strep-tag. This part is based on BBa_K801061.
This part contains the coding region of (+)-limonene synthase from Citrus limon with a C-terminal ''Strep''-tag. This part is based on BBa_K801061.
==== [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K801066 BBa_K801066] '''(+)-Limonene synthase 1''' with yeast '''consensus sequence''' for improved expression====
This part is second version of BBa_K801060. It contains (+)-limonene synthase and the consensus sequence for enhanced expression in yeast. It does not contain a C-terminal Strep tag as BBa_K801060. The sequence does not contain a stop codon so that RFC 25 has to be used.
This part is second version of BBa_K801060. It contains (+)-limonene synthase and the consensus sequence for enhanced expression in yeast. It does not contain a C-terminal ''Strep''-tag as BBa_K801060. The sequence does not contain a stop codon so that RFC 25 has to be used.
==== Gel Picture of finished construct ====
==== Gel Picture of Finished Constructs ====
[[file:TUM12_limonenegel.png|thumb|300px|right|Fig. 3: Gel electrophoresis of [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K801060 K801060] and [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K801061 K801061] after analytical restrigtion digest with EcoR1 and Pst1.]]
(+)-Limonene synthase 1 coding region without yeast consensus sequence [[http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K801061 BBa_K801061]] in pSB1C3 is shown next to (+)-limonene synthase 1 with ''Strep''-tag and yeast consensus sequence [[http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K801060 BBa_K801060]] after restriction digest with EcoR1 and Pst1 restriction enzymes. To check success of ligation, DNA fragments were separated by agarose gel-electrophoresis using ethidium bromide as a nucleic acid stain. As expected, the 1665 bp fragment of [[http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K801061 BBa_K801061]] and the 1708 bp fragment of [[http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K801060 BBa_K801060]] were detected additionally to the pSB1C3 vector that has 2070 bp (see Fig. 3).
To compare limonene synthase expression in yeast depending on yeast consensus sequence, we produced duplicates of biobricks; one of each has the consensus sequence, the other one does not. For yeast expression experiments, the biobricks were cloned into the yeast expression vector (pTUM100) recently designed by us.
==== Investigation of the yeast consensus sequence ====
==== Investigation of Yeast Consensus Sequence ====
[[file:TUM12_consensus.png|thumb|450px|right|Fig. 4: Comparison of limonene synthase biobricks ([http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K801065 BBa_K801065] and [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K801060 BBa_K801060]) with and without yeast consensus sequence.]]
[[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC340751/ Hamilton et al., 1987]] reported of a consensus sequence upstream of the AUG start codon in yeast.
Although not as strong as the mammalian Kozak translation initiation sequence, the yeast consensus sequence is thought to have a 2–3-fold effect on the efficiency of translation initiation [[http://tools.invitrogen.com/content/sfs/manuals/pyes2_man.pdf pYES2 manual]].
We designed duplicates of limonene synthase encoding biobricks; one having the yeast consensus sequence, the other one not having the consensus sequence.
We have only been able to show slight differences in expression between the two biobricks [[http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K801065 BBa_K801065] and [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K801060 BBa_K801060]] via coomassie staining and western blot. The difficulties of showing the difference via SDS-page may result from variations in the amount of protein applied.
Our in vivo analysis strongly indicates that the consensus sequence does lead to a 2-3-fold enhanced expression in yeast, though (see Fig. 8B). This is consistent with findings of others [[http://tools.invitrogen.com/content/sfs/manuals/pyes2_man.pdf pYES2 manual]].
==== In vitro detection of limonene====
====Purification of Recombinant Limonene Synthase====
[[File:TUM12_SApurification.png|thumb|200px|left|Fig. 5: Streptavidin Affinity (SA) chromatography.]]
[[File:TUM12_gelfiltration.png|thumb|450px|right|Fig. 6: Analytical gelfiltration of limonene synthase.]]
'''Streptavidin affinity chromatography'''<br>
The yeast cell extract that was obtained by cell lysis using glass beads of 0.5 mm was centrifuged at 11000 RPM in an SLA-3000 rotor for 60 minutes and subsequently dialysed against 5 liters of 1x Streptavidin Affinity buffer (SA-buffer) over night. The cell extract was then filtrated using a syringe filter with a pore size of 0.45μm and susequently applied on an SA-column. After sample application, the column was washed with 1x SA buffer until a base line was reached. Subsequently, bound protein was eluted using 5 mM Biotin in 1x SA buffer. The chromatogram of the purification is shown on the left side.<br><br>
[[file:TUM12_limonene_invivo.png|450px|thumb|right|Fig. 5: Spectrum of in vitro detection of limonene (enzyme assay with [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K801060 BBa_K801060]) and reference spectrum.]]
'''Gel Filtration of Purified Protein'''
The protein sample obtained was concentrated using a centrifugation concentrator with a molecular size limit of 30 kDa subsequent filtration. 250μl of the solution were applied to an analytical gel filtration column Superdex 200 10/30 with 1x PBS as running buffer at a flow rate of 0.5 ml/min. In the chromatogram (shown in the figure on the right in section B), there is an aggregate peak at the exclusion limit that may be caused by the preceding concentration and a major peak at an elution volume of 13.580 ml. The calibration line that was obtained from the calibration proteins b-amylase, alcohol dehydrogenase, BSA, ovalbumine, carboanhydrase, cytochrome C and aprotinin filtrated with the same experimental setup resulted in a regression line with the formula y = -39206 x + 3.3463. Using this formula and the elution volume of the limonene synthase, an apparent molecular mass of 70.1 kDa could be determined for the produced limonene synthase. This fits quite well the theoretical molecular mass that was calculated using [http://web.expasy.org/cgi-bin/protparam/protparam ExPASy ProtParam] to be 65977.1 Da. The four kilo daltons difference could be caused by posttranslational modifications. This hypothesis should be tested using mass spectrometry.
To test the functionality of purified limonene synthase in vitro, we used an optimized protocol of an enzyme assay with extraction of limonene [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17662687 Landmann et al, 2007]]. The limonene synthase was purified via ''Strep''-tag. The enzyme assay was carried out in 25 mM Tris-HCl buffer with 5% Glycerol, 1 mM DTT and cofactors (10 mM MgCl2, 1 mg/ml BSA). 50 µM substrate (geranyl pyrophosphate) and 10 ng purified recombinant limonene synthase were added to the reaction batch. Negative controls were reaction batches without enzyme. The reaction was incubated for 15 min at room temperature. Afterwards, limonene was extracted with pentane, dried with sodiumsulfate and reduced under a stream of nitrogen. Three replicates were done of both sample and negative control.
To test functionality of purified Limonenesynthase in vitro we used an optimized protocol of an enzyme assay with previous extraction of [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17662687 Landmann et al, 2007]]. The enzyme assay was carried out in 25 mM Tris-HCl buffer with 5% Glycerol, 1mM DTT and cofactors (10 mM MgCl2, 1 mg/ml BSA). An identified amount of substrate (geranyl pyrophosphate) and purified recombinant limonene synthase. The mixture was extracted with pentane, dried with sodiumsulfate and reduced under a stream of nitrogen.
The pentane extracts were analyzed with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry ("5890 Series II GC" coupled to a "Finnigan Mat 55 S MS") to identify the enzymatically synthesized products.
All enzyme reactions (three replicates) led to the production of limonene while the negative controls did not show limonene. Therefore, we showed that our purified '''limonene synthase is functional and leads to the production of limonene'''.
==== In vivo detection of limonene====
[[file:TUM12_limoneneinvivo.png|450px|thumb|right|Fig. 6: Detection of limonene in headspace above cell culture supernatant. [A] Spectrum of limonene obtained when analyzing cell culture that was transformed with pTUM104 containing construct of [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K801060 BBa_K801060]. [B] Overview about different measurements.]]
Because limonene is volatile, we expected an arbitrarily amount of limonene in the gaseous phase above the cell culture supernatant as in the cell culture. Therefore, we measured limonene via headspace (SPME needle) GC-MS.
Because limonene is a VOC (volatile organic compound) [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15763095 Pierucci et al., 2005]], we expected limonene to be present in the gaseous phase above the cell culture as well as in the cell culture. Therefore, we measured limonene via headspace (SPME needle) GC-MS.
We showed limonene to be produced by yeast that was transformed with pTUM104 carrying limonene synthase coding regions (see [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K801061 BBa_K801061] and [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K801060 BBa_K801060]).
We showed limonene to be produced by the yeasts that were transformed with pTUM104 carrying limonene synthase coding regions (see [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K801061 BBa_K801061] and [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K801060 BBa_K801060]).
We detected a greater amount of limonene in the sample that contained limonene synthase with consensus sequence. Hence, we showed that the yeast consensus sequence might increase the expression of limonene synthase and therefore might lead to enhanced limonene production.
We detected more limonene in the sample that contained a limonene synthase with consensus sequence. Hence, we showed that the yeast consensus sequence might increase the expression of limonene synthase and therefore lead to enhanced limonene production.
Furthermore, we were not able to detect a significant difference between samples that had additional GPP (educt) versus the ones that did not. This might be due to the inability of GPP to diffuse into the cells (hydrophilic character). Since we were able to detect limonene in both samples, it implies that the GPP present in the cells is sufficient for limonene production. This is consistent with the findings of [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18155949| [Herrero et al., 2008]] that showed that ''S. cerevisiae'' cells (from laboratory and wine strains) contain enough free GPP to be catalytically transformed by monoterpene synthases into monoterpenes.
Furthermore, we could not detect a significant difference between samples that had additional GPP (educt) versus the ones that did not. This might be due to the inability of GPP to diffuse into the cells (hydrophilic character). Since we were able to detect limonene in both samples, it implies that the GPP present in the cells is sufficient for limonene production. This is consistent with the findings of [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18155949| [Herrero et al., 2008]] that showed that S. cerevisiae cells (from laboratory and wine strains) contain enough free GPP to be catalytically transformed by monoterpene synthases into monoterpenes.
==== Detection of limonene in beer====
[[File:TUM12_SPME.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Fig. 7: Preparation of sample for GC-MS with SPME.]]
[[File:TUM12_LSbeer.jpg|200px|thumb|right||Bildbeschriftung]]
[[File:TUM12_LSbeer.jpg|200px|thumb|right||Fig. 10: iGEM's first and finest SynBio Beer with limonene.]]
A first attempt to use our genetically engineered yeasts to brew a SynBio Beer were conducted using a transient transfection with a constitutive promoter. The drawback is that in the gyle the selection pressure is not preserved and the loss of the plasmid is possible.<br>
A first attempt to use our genetically engineered yeasts to brew a SynBio Beer were conducted using a transient transfection with a constitutive promoter. A drawback might be that the selection pressure might not be preserved in the gyle and hence the loss of the plasmid might be possible. Therefore, we also performed brewing experiments with yeast that carried genome integrated limonene synthase.<br>
Three liters of gyle were inoculated with 100ml of a stationary yeast culture grown in YPD that was transiently transfected with a plasmid harboring a constitutive expression cassette for the limonene synthase.
Three liters of gyle were inoculated with 100ml of a stationary yeast culture grown in YPD.
We analyzed this first beer for limonene content via headspace (SPME needle) GC-MS. Unfortunately we could not yet proof a significant difference between the beer containing limonene and the negative control beer. This might be due to a loss of the plasmid which encodes limonene synthase. We will try to integrate the limonene synthase expression cassette into the genome of yeast and afterwards we will repeat the experiment.
On the one hand, we have been able to brew a beer with a yeast strain that was transformed with a vector carrying a constitutive expression cassette for limonene. On the other hand, we brewed a beer with a yeast strain that carried limonene synthase after genome integration. We analyzed the beers for limonene content via headspace (SPME needle) GC-MS. We have been able to detect limonene to be produced in both beers.
[[file:TUM12_limonene_in_beer.png|thumb|center|600px| Fig. 11: GC spectra obtained from GC-MS analysis of brewed beer. Brown: Beer brewed with yeast that carries pTUM101 with limonene synthase. Green: Beer brewed with yeast that supposedly carries limonene synthase in genome (after genome integration).]]
To establish whether limonene has an effect on yeast cells , we inoculated three different yeast strains with different concentrations of limonene. Limonene was added to the medium and the used yeast strains were the laboratory strain INVSc1, a strain which is used for brewing beer and a strain which can be purchased in a supermarket.
To establish whether limonene has an effect on yeast cells, we inoculated three different yeast strains with different concentrations of limonene. Limonene was added to the medium. We examined the laboratory strain INVSc1, a strain which is used for brewing beer and a strain which can be purchased in grocery stores.
Limonene at high concentrations affects the growth of yeast cells. We could show an inhibition of growth at 1 mM and even a lethal effect at 100 mM. At lower concentrations (1 µM, 10 µM, 100 µM) no inhibition could be observed. The growth rates of yeast cells which were incubated with low concentrations of limonene do not show a difference compared to the negative control (incubation of analogous yeast strains with YPD without limonene).
The in vivo GCMS detection of limonene [B] displayed a concentration of 50 µM. Hence the amount of limonene we will produce with the modified yeast will not reach a toxic concentration at all.
[[File:TUM12_Toxicity_Limonene.png|800px|thumb|center|Evaluation of the Toxicity Assay for Limonene.]]
At high concentrations, limonene affects the growth of yeast cells. We could show an inhibition of growth at 1 mM and even a lethal effect at 100 mM. At lower concentrations (1 µM, 10 µM, 100 µM) no inhibition could be observed. The growth rates of yeast cells which were incubated with low concentrations of limonene do not show a difference compared to the negative control (incubation of analogous yeast strains with YPD without limonene).
[[File:TUM12_Toxicity_Limonene.png|800px|thumb|center|Fig. 12: Limonene toxicity assay evaluation.]]
*[[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11605760 Fietzek et al., 2001]] Fietzek, C., Hermle, T., Rosenstiel, W., Schurig, V. (2001) Chiral discrimination of limonene by use of beta-cyclodextrin-coated quartz-crystal-microbalances (QCMs) and data evaluation by artificial neuronal networks. ''Fresenius J Anal Chem.'', 371(1):58-63.
*[[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC340751/ Hamilton et al., 1987]] Hamilton, R., Watanabe, C. K., De Boer, A. H. (1987) Compilation and comparison of the sequence context around the AUG startcodons in ''Saccharomyces cerevisiae'' mRNAs. ''Nucleic Acids Res.'', 15(8):3581–3593.
*[[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18155949 Herrero et al., 2008]] Herrero, O., Ram ́on, D., and Orejas, M. (2008). Engineering the ''Saccharomyces cerevisiae'' isoprenoid pathway for de novo production of aromatic monoterpenes in wine. ''Metab Eng'', 10(2):78–86.
*[[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1988264 Igimi et al., 1991]] Igimi, H., Tamura, R., Toraishi, K., Yamamoto, F., Kataoka, A., Ikejiri, Y., Hisatsugu, T., Shimura, H. (1991). Medical dissolution of gallstones. Clinical experience of d-limonene as a simple, safe, and effective solvent. '''Dig Dis Sci.''', 36(2):200-8.
*[[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12084056 Lücker et al., 2002]] Lücker, J., El Tamer, M. K., Schwab, W., Verstappen, F. W. A., van der Plas, L. H. W., Bouwmeester, H. J., and Verhoeven, H. A. (2002). Monoterpene biosynthesis in lemon (''Citrus limon''). cDNA isolation and functional analysis of four monoterpene synthases. ''Eur J Biochem'', 269(13):3160–71.
*[[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17096665 Oswald et al., 2007]] Oswald, M., Fischer, M., Dirninger, N., and Karst, F. (2007). Monoterpenoid biosynthesis in ''Saccharomyces cerevisiae''. ''FEMS Yeast Res'', 7(3):413–21.
*[[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15763095 Pierucci et al., 2005]] Pierucc, P., Porazzi, E., Martinez, MP., Adani, F., Carati, C., Rubino, FM., Colombi, A., Calcaterra, E., Benfenati, E. (2005). Volatile organic compounds produced during the aerobic biological processing of municipal solid waste in a pilot plant.''' Chemosphere''', 59(3):423-30.
*[[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20675444 Rico et al., 2010]] Rico, J., Pardo, E., and Orejas, M. (2010). Enhanced production of a plant monoterpene by overexpression of the 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme a reductase catalytic domain in ''Saccharomyces cerevisiae''. ''Appl Environ Microbiol'', 76(19):6449–54.
*[[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18072821 Sun, 2007]] Sun, J. (2007). D-limonene: safety and clinical applications. ''Altern Med Rev'', 12(3):259–64.
Vector Design
Thaumatin
Constitutive Promoter
Light-Switchable Promoter
Ethanol-Inducible Promoter
Genome Integration
BioBricks
Priors
Gal1 Promoter
Yeast Growth
Human Practice
Action Day
Labjournal
1 Limonene
1.1 Background and Principles
1.1.1 Biosynthesis
1.1.2 Molecular and Physiological Effects of Limonene
1.1.2.1 Flavor and Aliment
1.1.2.2 Cancer Inhibition
1.1.2.3 Solvation of Gallstones
1.2.1 BioBricks
1.2.1.1 BBa_K801060 (+)-Limonene synthase 1 with Strep-tag and yeast consensus sequence
1.2.1.2 BBa_K801061 (+)-Limonene synthase 1 coding region from Citrus limon
1.2.1.3 BBa_K801062 (+)-Limonene synthase 1 expression cassette for yeast
1.2.1.6 BBa_K801065 (+)-Limonene synthase 1 with Strep-Tag
1.2.1.7 BBa_K801066 (+)-Limonene synthase 1 with yeast consensus sequence for improved expression
1.2.2 Characterization
1.2.2.1 Gel Picture of Finished Constructs
1.2.2.2 Investigation of Yeast Consensus Sequence
1.2.2.3 Purification of Recombinant Limonene Synthase
1.2.2.4 In Vitro Detection of Limonene
1.2.2.5 In Vivo Detection of Limonene
1.2.2.6 Detection of Limonene in Beer
1.2.2.7 Toxicity Assay
Responsible: Lara Kuntz and Andrea Richter
A Common Saying Is "If Life Gives You Lemons - Make Lemonade". For Us It Is Rather "If Life Gives You Limonene - Make Beer".
Just think of the refreshing sensation of lemons paired with the complex richness of a chilled brew.
Doesn't that make you thirsty? Then you're probably an Englishman -
Just think of the refreshing sensation of lemons paired with the complex richness of a chilled tepid brew.
D-limonene is used as a component of flavorings and fragrances since it has an orange/lemon-like odor. Limonene has been shown to inhibit rat mammary and other tumor development [Tsuda et al., 2004]. Being an excellent solvent of cholesterol, d-limonene also has been used clinically to dissolve cholesterol-containing gallstones. Because of its gastric acid neutralizing effect and its support of normal peristalsis, it has also been used for relief of heartburn [Sun, 2007].
Producing the flavoring substance limonene in our beer might result in a fresh, lemon-like taste on the one hand. On the other hand, we might have beneficial effects on health such as preventive activity against cancer, dissolution of gallstones and relief of heartburn.
We have achieved our goal of a beer with limonene. We have successfully cloned (+)-limonene synthase 1 into our newly established yeast expression vector pTUM100. We transformed Saccharomyces cerevisiae with the plasmid carrying limonene synthase. We proved expression of limonene synthase via western blot. We verified the functionality of (+)-limonene synthase 1 by in vitro assay with purified limonene synthase on the one hand. On the other hand, we proved functional limonene production in yeast cell culture via headspace GC-MS. Furthermore, we analyzed differences in protein expression in yeast depending on existence of the yeast consensus sequence. To survey the toxic concentration of limonene for yeast cells, a toxicity assay was performed. We showed an inhibition of growth at 1 mM and a lethal effect at 100 mM. These concentrations should not be reached by expression of limonene synthase in yeast.
Last but not least, we have been able to proof the production of limonene in the beers we brewed. Hence, we have brewed iGEM's first SynBio beer containing limonene.
Background and Principles
Limonene is a cyclic terpene and a major constituent of several citrus oils (orange, lemon, mandarin, lime and grapefruit). It is a chiral liquid with the molecular mass of 136.24 g/mol. The (R)-enantiomer smells like oranges and is content of many fruits, while the (S)-enantionmer has a piney odor [Fietzek et al., 2001]. Therefore, d-limonene ((+)-limonene, (R)-enantiomer) is used as a component of flavorings and fragrances.
Limonene is produced by limonene synthase. Limonene synthase uses geranyl pyrophosphate (GPP), which is the universal precursor of monoterpenoids, as educt. (+)-limonene synthase from Citrus limon consists of 606 aminoacids (EC=4.2.3.20) and catalyzes the following reaction: Geranyl pyrophosphate = (+)-(4R)-limonene + diphosphate (see Fig. 1).
Fig. 1: Reaction catalyzed by limonene synthase.
Saccharomyces cerevisiae produces geranyl pyrophosphate via the mevalonate pathway (see Fig. 2). GPP occurs as an intermediate of farnesyl pyrophosphate (FPP) synthesis [Oswald et al., 2007]. It has been established that S. cerevisiae has enough free GPP to be used by exogenous monoterpene synthases to produce monoterpenes under laboratory and vinification conditions [Herrero et al., 2008, Oswald et al., 2007].
Fig. 2: Simplified isoprenoid pathway in S. cerevisiae, including the branch point to linalool. Abbreviations: HMG-CoA, 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A; IPP, isopentenyl pyrophosphate; GPP, geranyl pyrophosphate; FPP, farnesyl pyrophosphate; DMAPP, dimethylallyl pyrophosphate; HMGR, HMG-CoA reductase; FPPS, FPP synthase; LIS, linalool synthase. [Rico et al., 2010]
Molecular and Physiological Effects of Limonene
Flavor and Aliment
Because of its pleasant citrus flavour and very low toxicity (oral LD50 for mice = 5.6 and 6.6 g/kg body weight), d-limonene is widely used as a flavor and fragrance additive. It is listed in the Code of Federal Regulations as a generally recognized as safe (GRAS) flavoring agent [FDA]. It can be found in common food items such as fruit juices, soft drinks, baked goods, ice cream, and pudding in typical concentrations of 50 ppm to 2,500 ppm [Sun, 2007]. The normal daily consume of d-limonene is 0.27 mg/kg body weight per day [Watzl, 2002]. As natural compound of plants, limonene has practical advantages with regard to availability, suitability for oral application, regulatory approval and mechanisms of action. It does not pose a mutagenic, carcinogenic or nephrotoxic risk to humans [Sun, 2007].
Cancer Inhibition
Monoterpenes show anticarcinogenic effects in animal experiments. They have been shown to inhibit rat mammary, gastric, lung and skin tumor development by several discussed mechanisms such as apoptosis induction and modulation of oncogene signal transduction [Tsuda et al., 2004, Watzl, 2002]. d-limonene induces phase I and phase II carcinogen-metabolizing enzymes such as cytochrome p450. These metabolize carcinogens into less toxic forms on the one hand. On the other hand, they prevent the interaction of chemical carcinogens with DNA. Limonene has also been shown to inhibit tumor cell proliferation, to accelerate the rate of tumor cell death and induce tumor cell differentiation. Furthermore, d-limonene regulates cell growth and/or transformation by inhibiting protein isoprenylation [Sun, 2007].
Solvation of Gallstones
d-limonene is used as excellent solvent of cholesterol, therefore it has been used clinically to dissolve cholesterol-containing gallstones [Sun, 2007]. A study with 200 patients showed that direct infusion of 20-30 ml d-limonene (97% solution) completely or partially dissolved gallstones in 141 patients. Gallstones completely dissolved in 96 cases (48%); partial dissolution was observed in 29 cases (14.5%); and in 16 cases (8%) complete dissolution was achieved with the inclusion of hexamethaphosphate (HMP), a chelating agent that can dissolve bilirubin calcium stones [Igimi et al., 1991]. Because of its gastric acid neutralizing effect and its support of normal peristalsis, it has also been used for relief of heartburn [Sun, 2007].
BBa_K801060 (+)-Limonene synthase 1 with Strep-tag and yeast consensus sequence
This part contains (+)-limonene synthase 1 of Citrus limon. It is preceeded by the yeast consensus sequence for improved expression and carries a C-Terminal Strep-Tag for purification or detection by westernblot. It is an improved version of BBa_I742111.
UniProt entry: Q8L5K3
E.C. Number: 4.2.3.20
Origin of the enzyme: Citrus limon
BBa_K801061 (+)-Limonene synthase 1 coding region from Citrus limon
BBa_K801062 (+)-Limonene synthase 1 expression cassette for yeast
This part can be used to express Citrus limon (+)-limonene synthase 1 in yeast. The expression is controlled by TEF1 promoter and CYC1 terminator.
This part can be used to express Citrus limon (+)-limonene synthase 1 in yeast. The expression is controlled by yeast TEF1 promoter and yeast TEF1 terminator.
This part can be used to express Citrus limon (+)-limonene synthase 1 in yeast. The expression is controlled by yeast TEF2 promoter and yeast CYC1 terminator.
BBa_K801065 (+)-Limonene synthase 1 with Strep-Tag
BBa_K801066 (+)-Limonene synthase 1 with yeast consensus sequence for improved expression
This part is second version of BBa_K801060. It contains (+)-limonene synthase and the consensus sequence for enhanced expression in yeast. It does not contain a C-terminal Strep-tag as BBa_K801060. The sequence does not contain a stop codon so that RFC 25 has to be used.
Gel Picture of Finished Constructs
Fig. 3: Gel electrophoresis of K801060 and K801061 after analytical restrigtion digest with EcoR1 and Pst1.
(+)-Limonene synthase 1 coding region without yeast consensus sequence [BBa_K801061] in pSB1C3 is shown next to (+)-limonene synthase 1 with Strep-tag and yeast consensus sequence [BBa_K801060] after restriction digest with EcoR1 and Pst1 restriction enzymes. To check success of ligation, DNA fragments were separated by agarose gel-electrophoresis using ethidium bromide as a nucleic acid stain. As expected, the 1665 bp fragment of [BBa_K801061] and the 1708 bp fragment of [BBa_K801060] were detected additionally to the pSB1C3 vector that has 2070 bp (see Fig. 3).
Investigation of Yeast Consensus Sequence
Fig. 4: Comparison of limonene synthase biobricks (BBa_K801065 and BBa_K801060) with and without yeast consensus sequence.
[Hamilton et al., 1987] reported of a consensus sequence upstream of the AUG start codon in yeast. Although not as strong as the mammalian Kozak translation initiation sequence, the yeast consensus sequence is thought to have a 2–3-fold effect on the efficiency of translation initiation [pYES2 manual].
We have only been able to show slight differences in expression between the two biobricks [BBa_K801065 and BBa_K801060] via coomassie staining and western blot. The difficulties of showing the difference via SDS-page may result from variations in the amount of protein applied.
Our in vivo analysis strongly indicates that the consensus sequence does lead to a 2-3-fold enhanced expression in yeast, though (see Fig. 8B). This is consistent with findings of others [pYES2 manual].
Purification of Recombinant Limonene Synthase
Fig. 5: Streptavidin Affinity (SA) chromatography.
Fig. 6: Analytical gelfiltration of limonene synthase.
Streptavidin affinity chromatography
The yeast cell extract that was obtained by cell lysis using glass beads of 0.5 mm was centrifuged at 11000 RPM in an SLA-3000 rotor for 60 minutes and subsequently dialysed against 5 liters of 1x Streptavidin Affinity buffer (SA-buffer) over night. The cell extract was then filtrated using a syringe filter with a pore size of 0.45μm and susequently applied on an SA-column. After sample application, the column was washed with 1x SA buffer until a base line was reached. Subsequently, bound protein was eluted using 5 mM Biotin in 1x SA buffer. The chromatogram of the purification is shown on the left side.
Gel Filtration of Purified Protein The protein sample obtained was concentrated using a centrifugation concentrator with a molecular size limit of 30 kDa subsequent filtration. 250μl of the solution were applied to an analytical gel filtration column Superdex 200 10/30 with 1x PBS as running buffer at a flow rate of 0.5 ml/min. In the chromatogram (shown in the figure on the right in section B), there is an aggregate peak at the exclusion limit that may be caused by the preceding concentration and a major peak at an elution volume of 13.580 ml. The calibration line that was obtained from the calibration proteins b-amylase, alcohol dehydrogenase, BSA, ovalbumine, carboanhydrase, cytochrome C and aprotinin filtrated with the same experimental setup resulted in a regression line with the formula y = -39206 x + 3.3463. Using this formula and the elution volume of the limonene synthase, an apparent molecular mass of 70.1 kDa could be determined for the produced limonene synthase. This fits quite well the theoretical molecular mass that was calculated using ExPASy ProtParam to be 65977.1 Da. The four kilo daltons difference could be caused by posttranslational modifications. This hypothesis should be tested using mass spectrometry.
In Vitro Detection of Limonene
Fig. 7: Spectrum of in vitro detection of limonene (enzyme assay with BBa_K801060) and reference spectrum.
To test the functionality of purified limonene synthase in vitro, we used an optimized protocol of an enzyme assay with extraction of limonene [Landmann et al, 2007]. The limonene synthase was purified via Strep-tag. The enzyme assay was carried out in 25 mM Tris-HCl buffer with 5% Glycerol, 1 mM DTT and cofactors (10 mM MgCl2, 1 mg/ml BSA). 50 µM substrate (geranyl pyrophosphate) and 10 ng purified recombinant limonene synthase were added to the reaction batch. Negative controls were reaction batches without enzyme. The reaction was incubated for 15 min at room temperature. Afterwards, limonene was extracted with pentane, dried with sodiumsulfate and reduced under a stream of nitrogen. Three replicates were done of both sample and negative control.
All enzyme reactions (three replicates) led to the production of limonene while the negative controls did not show limonene. Therefore, we showed that our purified limonene synthase is functional and leads to the production of limonene.
In Vivo Detection of Limonene
Fig. 8: Detection of limonene in headspace above cell culture supernatant. [A] Spectrum of limonene obtained when analyzing cell culture that was transformed with pTUM104 containing construct of BBa_K801060. [B] Overview about different measurements.
Because limonene is a VOC (volatile organic compound) [Pierucci et al., 2005], we expected limonene to be present in the gaseous phase above the cell culture as well as in the cell culture. Therefore, we measured limonene via headspace (SPME needle) GC-MS.
We showed limonene to be produced by yeast that was transformed with pTUM104 carrying limonene synthase coding regions (see BBa_K801061 and BBa_K801060).
Furthermore, we were not able to detect a significant difference between samples that had additional GPP (educt) versus the ones that did not. This might be due to the inability of GPP to diffuse into the cells (hydrophilic character). Since we were able to detect limonene in both samples, it implies that the GPP present in the cells is sufficient for limonene production. This is consistent with the findings of [Herrero et al., 2008] that showed that S. cerevisiae cells (from laboratory and wine strains) contain enough free GPP to be catalytically transformed by monoterpene synthases into monoterpenes.
Detection of Limonene in Beer
Fig. 9: Preparation of sample for GC-MS with SPME.
Fig. 10: iGEM's first and finest SynBio Beer with limonene.
A first attempt to use our genetically engineered yeasts to brew a SynBio Beer were conducted using a transient transfection with a constitutive promoter. A drawback might be that the selection pressure might not be preserved in the gyle and hence the loss of the plasmid might be possible. Therefore, we also performed brewing experiments with yeast that carried genome integrated limonene synthase.
Fig. 11: GC spectra obtained from GC-MS analysis of brewed beer. Brown: Beer brewed with yeast that carries pTUM101 with limonene synthase. Green: Beer brewed with yeast that supposedly carries limonene synthase in genome (after genome integration).
Toxicity Assay
Fig. 12: Limonene toxicity assay evaluation.
[Fietzek et al., 2001] Fietzek, C., Hermle, T., Rosenstiel, W., Schurig, V. (2001) Chiral discrimination of limonene by use of beta-cyclodextrin-coated quartz-crystal-microbalances (QCMs) and data evaluation by artificial neuronal networks. Fresenius J Anal Chem., 371(1):58-63.
[Hamilton et al., 1987] Hamilton, R., Watanabe, C. K., De Boer, A. H. (1987) Compilation and comparison of the sequence context around the AUG startcodons in Saccharomyces cerevisiae mRNAs. Nucleic Acids Res., 15(8):3581–3593.
[Herrero et al., 2008] Herrero, O., Ram ́on, D., and Orejas, M. (2008). Engineering the Saccharomyces cerevisiae isoprenoid pathway for de novo production of aromatic monoterpenes in wine. Metab Eng, 10(2):78–86.
[Igimi et al., 1991] Igimi, H., Tamura, R., Toraishi, K., Yamamoto, F., Kataoka, A., Ikejiri, Y., Hisatsugu, T., Shimura, H. (1991). Medical dissolution of gallstones. Clinical experience of d-limonene as a simple, safe, and effective solvent. Dig Dis Sci., 36(2):200-8.
[Landmann et al., 2007] Landmann, C., Fink, B., Festner, M., Dregus, M., Engel, K.-H., and Schwab, W. (2007). Cloning and functional characterization of three terpene synthases from lavender (Lavandula angustifolia). Arch Biochem Biophys, 465(2):417–29.
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[Oswald et al., 2007] Oswald, M., Fischer, M., Dirninger, N., and Karst, F. (2007). Monoterpenoid biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. FEMS Yeast Res, 7(3):413–21.
[Pierucci et al., 2005] Pierucc, P., Porazzi, E., Martinez, MP., Adani, F., Carati, C., Rubino, FM., Colombi, A., Calcaterra, E., Benfenati, E. (2005). Volatile organic compounds produced during the aerobic biological processing of municipal solid waste in a pilot plant. Chemosphere, 59(3):423-30.
[Rico et al., 2010] Rico, J., Pardo, E., and Orejas, M. (2010). Enhanced production of a plant monoterpene by overexpression of the 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme a reductase catalytic domain in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Appl Environ Microbiol, 76(19):6449–54.
[Sun, 2007] Sun, J. (2007). D-limonene: safety and clinical applications. Altern Med Rev, 12(3):259–64.
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Joan Louise Barnette
Joan Louise Barnette, 72, of Mountain View, Hawaii, a bartender, died in Hilo Medical Center. She was born in Oregon. She is survived by husband Dan, sons James and Russel Brand and Brian Bittner, six other children, 22 grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. Services at a later date.
Roy Clayton Boehm
Roy Clayton Boehm, 81, of Honolulu, a retired federal Immigration and Naturalization Service assistant district director for investigation in Los Angeles, died in Straub Clinic & Hospital. He was born in Orofine, Idaho. He is survived by wife Robyn; sons Roy L. Boehm and Jonathan K. White, daughters Julie Hess and Beurlie U. Christensen, eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Services: 11 a.m. Saturday at Scottish Rite Cathedral, 1611 Kewalo St. Call after 10 a.m. Private inurnment at National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Punchbowl. Casual attire. No flowers.
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Frank Joseph Correnty, 85, of Kihei, a retired Exxon Oil Co. vice president and Army veteran who served in World War II, died at home. He was born in New Jersey. He is survived by companion Beverly Smith, daughter Diane Tower and two grandchildren. Services: 11 a.m. Friday at Ballard Family Mortuary. Call after 9 a.m. Burial: noon at Maui Veterans Cemetery.
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Ismael Epil
Ismael Epil, also known as "Blackie" and "John," 72, of Waimanalo, a retired Army National Guard member and Castle Medical Center maintenance technician, died in Honolulu. He was born in Waimanalo. He is survived by mother, Saturnina, son Michael, daughter Joslyn Imura, brother Juanito, sister Sister Charlene and three grandchildren. Services: 11:45 a.m. Friday at St. George Catholic Church. Call after 9:30 a.m. Graveside services: 10 a.m. Tuesday at Hawaii State Veterans Cemetery, Kaneohe. Aloha attire. No flowers.
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James Ho'omaika'i Kaauwai, 67, of Honolulu, owner of Jimmy's Appliance, died in Tripler Army Medical Center. He was born in Lihue. He is survived by daughters Kuuipo Kaauwai-George, Pua Kaauwai and Jessica Yaple; brothers John, William and Bert; sisters Elizabeth Costa, Henrietta Gonsalves, Maureen Seagrove, Annette Kaauwai and Linda Iwamoto; and five grandchildren. Services: 11 a.m. Saturday at Kapaa First Hawaiian Church. Call after 9 a.m. Cremation to follow. Casual attire. Leis only.
Terry K. Kamalamalama Sr.
Terry K. Kamalamalama Sr., 51, of Makakilo, a professional musician and singer, died in Straub Clinic & Hospital. He was born in Hilo. He is survived by wife Noenoe; sons Abram R. "Keao," Terry "Kalei" Jr. and Noah; brothers George, Joseph and Bernard; and sisters Alberta and Wilhemina. Services: 4 p.m. Saturday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Makakilo Stake, 92-900 Makakilo Drive. Call after 1 p.m. Aloha attire.
Takayo Kobayashi
Takayo Kobayashi, 100, of Honolulu, a retired Japanese language school teacher, died in St. Francis-Liliha Medical Center. She was born in Hono-mu, Hawaii. She is survived by husband Torao; daughter Marjorie F.; sons Bert N., Lawrence A., Arthur T. and Gary S.; sisters Jane Nakayama, Yukie Hayashi and Sachiko Toyofuku; nine grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. Services: noon Sunday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary. Casual attire. No flowers.
Sarah Frances Gertz Marion
Sarah Frances Gertz Marion, 87, of Lanikai, an artist and teacher, died in Lanikai. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by son Gregg, daughters Ann Marion and Donna Rasmussen, 12 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Graveside services: 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Diamond Head Memorial Park.
Ben Bruce Mayes
Ben Bruce Mayes, 78, of Waianae, died in Kaiser Medical Center. He was born in Huntsville, Texas. He is survived by wife Florence M., son Chad H. Omori, daughter Lisa K. Jones and two grandchildren. Services: 4 p.m. Saturday at Mililani Mortuary-Waipio, makai chapel. Call after 3:30 p.m. Casual attire.
Joseph Albert Miller III
Joseph Albert "Milla" Miller III, 58, of Honolulu, died at home. He was born in Hono-lulu. He is survived by sisters Georgia Vager, Venus Cabinatan and Vallery Lau; brothers Edward and Rudolph Sun; hanai brother Ernest Wright; and hanai daughter Marvalee Wright Lin Kee. Visitation: 6 to 9 p.m. Monday at Hawaiian Memorial Park, 45-425 Kamehameha Highway, Kaneohe. Scattering of ashes at a later date. Leis only.
Betty Sumiko Miyamoto
Betty Sumiko Miyamoto, 84, of Honolulu, a retired Kahala Sportswear seamstress, died in Hale Ho Aloha. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by sons Calvin K., Roy S. and Eric K.; daughter Susan C. Oda, sister Dorothy Shimomaye and six grandchildren. Services: 4 p.m. Sunday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary. Call after 3 p.m. Casual attire. No flowers.
Roy Seichi Nakamoto
Roy Seichi Nakamoto, 92, of Honolulu, retired owner of Roy S. Nakamoto Plumbing, died in Hale Nani Rehabilitation and Nursing Facility. He was born in Haiku, Maui. He is survived by wife Misae, daughters Kay S. Uyeda and Shirley M. Nakamoto, and brothers Kenji and Tadashi. Services: 4 p.m. Monday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary. Casual attire. No flowers.
Neil Hiro Nakao
Neil Hiro Nakao, 47, of Pearl City, died in Aloha Nursing & Rehabilitation Centre. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by parents Yasuo and Doreen, and sisters Lori Ann Nakao-Yamada and Jani Nakao-Otaka. Services: 6:30 p.m. Friday at Mililani Mortuary-Waipio, makai chapel. Call after 6 p.m. Casual attire. No flowers. Incorrect information was published in an obituary yesterday.
Michael S. Neill
Michael S. Neill, 52, of Sonora, Calif., died in Twain-Harte, Calif. He was born in California. He is survived by father Don, mother Janice Shea and sister Jamie. Services: 9 a.m. Sunday at Kailua Middle Beach Park (across Buzz's Steak House). No flowers. Donations suggested to charity.
Edgardo Pangilinan
Edgardo Pangilinan, 64, of Koloa, Kauai, a retired Sheraton groundskeeper, died in Wilcox Memorial Hospital. He was born in Manila. He is survived by wife Raquel; son Randy; brother Nicanor; and sisters Adelina Maggay, Rosario Lacuesta, Elisa Nerida and Susuana Casi. Services: 11 a.m. Friday at Borthwick Kauai Mortuary Chapel, Koloa. Call after 9 a.m. Burial to follow at Koloa Public Cemetery. Casual attire.
Edward N. Rabot
Edward N. Rabot, 73, of Kapaa, Kauai, a retired Shimamoto Contractor carpenter, died at home. He was born in Koloa, Kauai. He is survived by sons Edward A., Edward and Jason; daughters Celestine Negley, Dawn A. Rabot and Charmaine Penney; brothers Henry N. and Francisco Jr.; sisters Cecelia Gabriel, Linda Enos and Rosalina Rabot; and eight grandchildren. Services: 11 a.m. Friday at Garden Island Mortuary Chapel. Call after 9 a.m. Burial to follow at Kauai Veterans Cemetery. Casual attire.
Georgia-Ann Lani Spencer Remmers
Georgia-Ann Lani Spencer Remmers, 51, of Pahoa, Hawaii, died in Hilo Medical Center. She was born in Hilo. She is survived by daughters Leigh-ann A.B.K. and Dayna-lyn I.K. Spencer, Rynae M. Mendes and Angela L. Kaawaloa; brothers Walter, Rudy and Bryant Spencer; sisters Lavaina Lindsey and Hawley Reese; and 12 grandchildren. A potluck memorial service will be held noon Sunday at Carvalho Park, Hilo.
Audrey Rowe
Audrey "Molly" Rowe, 83, of Lihue, an accountant, died in Wilcox Memorial Hospital. She was born in Wisconsin. She is survived by husband Bernard W., sons Dennis W. and Robert S., daughter Christine E. Taniguchi, 10 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. Services: 11 a.m. tomorrow at Lihue Lutheran Church. Call after 10 a.m. Inurnment to follow at the church cemetery. Casual attire.
Betty Sadae Tanaka Santiago
Betty Sadae Tanaka Santiago, 86, of Wahiawa, a retired Tripler Army Medical Center employee, died. She was born in Aiea. She is survived by sons Charles, Victor "Sandy," Kenneth and Randall "Randy"; daughter Susan "Sue" Sheldon; brother Thomas "Tommy" Tanaka; sister Florence "Aunty Koga" Koga; 18 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren. Services: 6:45 p.m. Sunday at Borthwick Mortuary. Call after 5 p.m. Mass: noon Monday at Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace. Call after 10 a.m. Burial: 1 p.m. at National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Punchbowl. Aloha attire.
Alice Louise Judd Simpich
Alice Louise Judd "Awee" Simpich, 87, of Kula, Maui, a sculptress and homemaker, died at home. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by daughter Louise B. "Louli" MacCluer and four grandchildren. Graveside services: 4 p.m. Friday at Makawao Cemetery. No flowers. Donations suggested to Maui Humane Society or charity.
Happy Smith
Happy Smith, 32, of Kahului, a Bradley Pacific fueler, died in Maui Memorial Medical Center. He was born in Micronesia. He is survived by fiancée Delianna Defang, son Donavon Defang, daughter Lokilani and sister Michaela. Services: 5 p.m. Saturday at Iao Congregational Church. Call after 4 p.m. Burial in Micronesia.
Ramon Soriano
Ramon Soriano, 46, of Ewa Beach, died in the Philippines. He was born in San Carlos City, Pangasinan, the Philippines. He is survived by wife Roselle; sons Ishbel, Seth and Zachary; brother Joselito; and sisters Gina Tagawa and Angie Pineda. Services: 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ewa Beach 2nd Ward. Call after 8:30 a.m. Burial: 2 p.m. at Hawaii State Veterans Cemetery, Kaneohe.
Tomiko Kapualani Tamura
Tomiko Kapualani Tamura, 64, of Ewa Beach, died in Kapiolani Medical Center, Pali Momi. She was born in Kapaa, Kauai. She is survived by husband Reginald S. "Moose," son Blaine J.K.S., daughters Diane T. Gussman and Annette S. Clark, brothers Jacob Martin Sr. and Kalani Tachibana, sisters Minerva DePonte and Dorothy Smith, four grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. Services: 11:30 a.m. Saturday at Mililani Mortuary-Waipio, mauka chapel. Call after 9 a.m. Burial: 12:30 p.m. at Mililani Memorial Park. Aloha attire.
Satoshi Tanita
Satoshi "Jimmy" Tanita, 82, of Honolulu, a retired self-employed plumber doing business as Central Plumbing, died in Kaiser Medical Center, Moanalua. He was born in Waimea, Kauai. He is survived by wife Lillian T.; sons Roddy and Russell; daughters Joyce Nakatani, Lorrie Iwanaga and Gail Pine; brothers Tamotsu and Mitsuyoshi Hiraoka; sister Koharu Kawamura; and seven grandchildren. Services: 2 p.m. Sunday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary. Call after 1 p.m. Aloha attire.
Damian Kekoa Draco Weldy
Damian Kekoa Draco Weldy, infant son of Jonathan Weldy and Tianna Moore of Waianae, died in Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center. He was born in Honolulu. He is also survived by grandparents Johnny and Pamela Weldy, and David and Lynn Moore; and great-grandparents T. & June Moore and Austin Clough. A memorial gathering will be held 10 a.m. Friday at Makua Beach Park.
You can also search the Hawaii State Library System's Hawaii Newspaper Index online for older obituaries at www.librarieshawaii.org. The index goes back several decades.
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Academic Recognition Banquet features speakers Allison and Amanda Lansell
The 18 students that make up the top ten percent of the graduating class of 2018 were honored, along with their honored educator of choice and their parents at the annual Academic Recognition Banquet on Wednesday evening.
The purpose of the Academic Recognition Day is to publicly honor the academic top ten-percent of Alliance’s graduating senior class, their parents/guardians, and the educators whom the students feel have most influenced their lives. The dinners have been an annual tradition for 31 years.
This year’s featured speakers were Allison and Amanda Lansell. The twins graduated in the Alliance High School class of 2005 and are now a lawyer and doctor, respectively.
Allison attended the University of Virginia Law School and graduated in 2012. Upon graduation she moved to Washington DC to begin her career. She is licensed to practice law in Virginia, Maryland, Washington DC, and Ohio. Her law practice has varied from civil to criminal work, including both prosecution and defense. She now advises nursing homes in a wide array of legal needs. She lives and works in the Cleveland area and has been named to Super Lawyers Rising Stars for Health Law the past two years.
Amanda graduated in 2013 from the University of Toledo College of Medicine. She completed a 3-year Pediatrics residency at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio and a 1-year Hospital Medicine fellowship at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, winning awards for her teaching at both institutions. She currently works as a pediatric hospitalist, caring for hospitalized children and delivering newborn babies at three different Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospitals in the Cleveland area.
The two spoke during the dinner at the University of Mount Union and encouraged students to press on through failure in order to find success.
“It is hard to talk about your failures. I want you to know its ok to fail. You are going to fail at some point. When you are faced with failure, let it deter you from goals or use it to motivate you even more,” Amanda said.
Both told about failures they have had in their own careers and what they had to do to keep going in order to reach success.
“How you respond to failure defines you…Sometimes we fail despite our best efforts. How you move forward is what matters,” Allison said.
Each student at the dinner received a $200 check from the Alliance Foundation for their education. Howard Frazier also received a $500 scholarship from the John and Roene Klusch Foundation for earning the top ACT score in the group.
The event is sponsored each year by the John and Roene Klusch Foundation.
John and Roene Klusch were life-long residents of Alliance, Ohio and members of the St. Paul Lutheran Church in Alliance. John was the founder of East Ohio Machinery Company, which still operates in Alliance Ohio. The couple established the Foundation to support Alliance, Ohio and Marshallville, Ohio, where Roene was raised. In addition to the Foundation, the Klusch’s were strong supporters of the Alliance High School Scholarship Fund.
The following students and educators were recognized at the banquet:
Estella Bennett
To attend The University of Mount Union and study psychology.
Kiara is a recipient of an Investment Alliance Scholarship from the University of Mount Union.
Member of National Honor Society for 2 years
Member of Stark County Teen Court for 3 years
Member of AHS Girls Soccer Team for 3 years
Member of AHS PenOhio Writing Team for 3 years
Recipient of Aultcare Team Spirit Award
Volunteer at Green Village Nursing Rehab Center for 2 years
Received the US Scholastic Excellence Award
Received the Stark County Helping Hand Award
Received the Stark County Teen Court Outstanding Overall Award
HONORED EDUCATOR:
Ms. Jennifer Avers, Art Instructor for 4 years
In art class, Ms. Avers taught me to overcome obstacles with these words that I have used for my life as well. “ In your projects you will reach a point that you are 75% of the way there. Things are going good and you will hit a wall where you will want to stop and give up. Don’t give up. If you push through, your art will be a success. You just have to keep going.” I will carry this with me forever.
Stephanie Alexi and Terry Bert
Attend the University of Mount Union and major in marketing.
Natalie has been awarded an Investment Alliance Scholarship from the University of Mount Union.
Member of National Honor Society for 1 year.
Member of AHS Girls Golf Team for 3 years.
Church Soloist at Alliance First Church of God for 8 years.
Youth Assistant for 8 years at Alliance First Church of God.
As a senior at AHS has attended the University of Mount Union full time as a college credit plus student.
Corrina Brindak, Youth Director at Alliance First Church of God
Corrina has known me since I was a child and has taught me so much out of the classroom.
Mary and Marty Cvelbar
To attend The University of Mount Union and study English and political science.
Mara is a recipient of an Investment Alliance Scholarship from the University of Mount Union.
Member of National Honor Society for 2 years.
Member of AHS Girls Varsity Soccer Team for 4 years.
Member of AHS Girls Swimming Team for 4 years.
Member of AHS Girls Softball Team for 4 years.
Member of Student Senate for 4 years; Student Senate President during senior year.
Member of Key Club for 4 years
Member of Foreign Language Club for 4 years
Vice President of the Class of 2018
Member of Marching Band and Flagline
Mrs. Deirdre Coar, Soccer Coach
I admire Mrs. Coar so much as a person, teacher and coach. She knew the needs of every individual and helped every single person while not playing favorites. She has taught me to not only work hard, but to be kind while doing so.
Lori Fountain and Ambrose Smith
To attend Kent State University in Salem to study Early Childhood Education.
Member of AHS Social Justice Team for 2 years
Member of University of Mount Union Together Initiating Excellence Program for 4 years
Member of AHS Foreign Language Club for 4 years
Member of Marching Band, Pep Band and Concert Band for 4 years
Member of AHS Peer Pilot Program for 2 years
Member of Teen Court for 2 years
Elks Teen of the Month for November, 2017
2018 President of the Band, Section Leader, Squad Leader
1st place winner of History Department Essay contest “There Ought To Be A Law”
Mrs. Renee Barnes, French Teacher
Mrs. Barnes has significantly impacted my life. She has always been kind, generous and always willing to help. I know I can go to her about anything and I am grateful for the opportunity to have her as a teacher.
Kim and John Frazier
To attend John Carroll University to major in Political Science and play football and then continuing my education in law school.
Member of Academic Challenge Team for 4 years
Member of AHS Varsity Football Team for 4 years
Member of AHS Varsity Track Team for 4 years
Sports Editor for Red & Blue Flyer for 3 years
Member of Choralaires for 3 years
Recipient of All-Star Preps Excellence in Action Award
Recipient of National Football Foundation Scholar Athlete Award
Published writer in “It’s My Alliance” Magazine
Member of Regina Coeli Catholic Church
Mr. Wilson works to foster meaningful discussion. However, he never becomes polarized himself and is accepting of everyone.
Lori and John (Buddy) Gasparik
To attend the University of Mount Union and major in Nursing.
Madison is a recipient of an Investment Alliance Scholarship from the University of Mount Union.
Member of Student Senate for 4 years
Scholar Athlete for 4 years
Elks Teen of the Month for January, 2018
Alliance Review Athlete of the Week
Received 1st Team All League in Golf during junior year
Received 1st Team NBC in Golf for junior and senior years
Member of Stark County Youth Ministry Board for 3 years
Recipient of Eagle of the Cross Award senior year
Ali Myslinski, 7
Miss Myslinski has been an inspiration to me. She believed in me, when I didn’t believe in myself, and she pushed me to be the best I could be.
Mary and Shawn Jackson
To attend Ohio University and major in Journalism.
Member of AHS Softball Team for 4 years
Member of AHS Volleyball Team for 4 years
Member of AHS Jetsetters for
Member of AHS Marching Band
Secretary for the Class of 2018
Participant at Girls State
Participant at Hugh O’Brien Youth Leadership Conference in 10
Amy Miller, Anatomy & Physiology, Medical Terminology and AP Biology Teacher
Mrs. Miller has always been the teacher that pushes me to be the best I can be. She has made me the hard-working student I am today.
Alix Kelley
Debbie and Ted Kelley
To attend the University of Mount Union with an undecided major
Alix is a recipient of an Investment Alliance Scholarship from the University of Mount Union.
4 year varsity letter winner for Girls Tennis
1st Team all NBC for Tennis senior year
2 year varsity letter for Softball
Member of Marching, Concert, Pep and Jazz Bands for 4 years.
Member of OMEA District 8 Honor Band during senior year
Volunteer at Trinity Gospel Temple
DeAnn Zavarelli, 6
Mrs. Zavarelli taught me to always stand up for my beliefs. She truly cares for and respects every one of her students, and that is something I will never forget.
Danielle and Christopher Marazza
To attend The Ohio State University and major in Accounting
Kelly Trout, Biology and Chemistry teacher
Mrs. Trout made science classes that I did not have a passion for enjoyable. She is also very easy to approach and I was never reluctant to ask for help outside of class time.
Vicki and Keith McGeehen
To attend Duke University and major in Economics or Political Science
Brendan is the recipient of the Elvin J. Wilson Scholarship to Duke University
Member of Red & Blue Flyer for 4 years, Co-Editor for 3 years
Member of Football Team for 4 years
Participant at Hugh O’Brien Youth Leadership Conference in 10Active volunteer at Alliance Food Pantry
Attended Rotary Youth Leadership Conference
Received Best in Category for Engineering at Science Alliance during junior year at AHS
Richard Morris, Grandfather and Pre-Calc Teacher
His genuine love for math rubbed off on me and pushes me to become the best math student I can be.
Teresa and Steve McMillen
To attend The University of Mount Union and NEOMED to study Pharmacy
Andrew is a recipient of an Investment Alliance Scholarship from the University of Mount Union.
Member of Student Senate for 1 year
Employed at Hartville Hardware
Active Volunteer at the Stark County Humane Society and the Salvation Army
Member of AHS Orchestra for 4 years
Received excellent and superior ratings at the OMEA State Orchestra event for 4 years
Member of Varsity Soccer Team for 3 years
Member of Varsity Tennis Team for 4 years
HONORED EDUCATOR: Thomas Wilson, High School English Teacher
Mr. Wilson truly cares about his students and their success. He has been a great role model in my life as well. Thank you for all that you do.
Kristi and Mark Moore
To attend Walsh University and major in Criminal Justice
Member of Band for 4 years
Member of Orchestra for 4 years
Member of Girls Golf Team for 3 years
First Team All Stark County Conference for Bowing for 2 years
Member of Bowling Team for 4 years
Top Female Bowler for 4 years
HONORED EDUCATOR: David Reith, Teacher in 3rd, 4
I had the opportunity to have Mr. Reith in 3rd, 4 He always encouraged me to do my best and he always made learning fun.
PARENTSS:
Teri Kirby and Joseph Novak
To attend Rochester Institute of Technology and major in photography.
President of Class of 2018 for 4 years
Seamstress at Henri’s Cloud Nine
Jamie Randolph, Middle School math teacher
Mrs. Randolph was always honest and open when it came to school and life in general.
Lexi Orzo
Erin Briggs and Brian Orzo
To attend The University of Mount Union with an undecided major.
Lexi is a recipient of an Investment Alliance Scholarship from the University of Mount Union.
Recipient of Career & Tech Home Award
Member of RAM Ministries for 3 years
Member of First Friends volleyball
Member of Regina Coeli youth group
HONORED EDUCATOR: Allison Morrison, High School Guidance Counselor
Mrs. Morrison has had a lasting impact on my education because she always encouraged me to try harder and to push myself to achieve more.
Ron Rogers
To attend The University of Mount Union and major in computer science.
Cortaise is a recipient of an Investment Alliance Scholarship from the University of Mount Union.
Member of 992016 MLK Parade King
Member of Varsity Bowling Team for 3 years
State Qualifier in Bowling in 11Ira G. Turpin Scholar in 112017/18 East-West All Star Bowling Match champion
Received Honorable Mention in bowling for 2 years
Employed as Crew Trainer at McDonalds for 2 years
Participated in National Day of Reading at Northside Intermediate for 2 years
HONORED EDUCATOR: Aaron Hill, Varsity Bowling Coach
Mr. Hill has always been more than a coach or educator. He has motivated me to be my best, even when I’m at my worst. He is truly an amazing person.
Laura and Donnell Sams
Maria is a recipient of a Founders Scholarship and a 2018 Academic Challenge Scholarship from the University of Mount Union.
President of National Honor Society senior year
Member of Girls Tennis Team for 4 years
Student Representative to the Alliance City Schools Board of Education
Delegate for Buckeye Girls State in 2017
Member of Teton Science Club
4 year Scholar Athlete
Employed at Hot Pots for 3 years
6 year active volunteer and service through RAM Ministries and Regina Coeli Youth Group
HONORED EDUCATOR: Dan Dennis, High School Health Teacher
Mr. Dennis made a lasting impact on my life through his teaching due to his excellent ability to relate real life to the subject matter. There was never a day I left his class feeling that I hadn’t learned something valuable.
Lin Wu and Liang Shi
To attend the University of Cincinnati, Conservatory of Music, with a major in ballet and minor in entrepreneurship and mathematics. She will be a member of the Darwin T. Turner Scholars Program
Erika is a recipient of a Cincinnatus Century Scholarship, the Darwin T. Turner Scholarship and Buxbaum Workum Scholarship from the University of Cincinnati
Delegate at 2017 Buckeye Girls State
Received the achievement Award for Excellence in Pre-Calculus
Received the outstanding mathematics Award for Excellence in Algebra 2 Honors.
Received Canton Ballet’s Barre Association Summer Study Scholarship
Received scholarships to the Philadelphia Dance Theatre Summer Program, Carolina Ballet Summer intensive and Joffrey New York summer intensive.
Performed as Sugar Plum Fairy, Snow Queen, Dew Drop and Lead Marzipan in the Canton Ballet’s “The Nutcracker”
Performed with the Canton Ballet for 10 years
HONORED EDUCATOR: Laura Bryan, High School Guidance Counselor
Mrs. Bryan has always been understanding of my passion and dedication to ballet. Her constant support and energy have helped me through my four years of high school and two sentences are not enough to show my gratitude and respect for her. Thank you Mrs. Bryan for shaping me into the person I am today.
NAME: Maddie Waggoner
PARENTS: Amy and Edward Waggoner
PLANS: To attend the University of Mount Union and major in Exercise Science and then obtain a Doctorate of Physical Therapy
AWARDS: Maddie is a recipient of an Investment Alliance Scholarship from the University of Mount Union.
Class Treasurer for the Class of 2018 for 3 years
Member of Marching Band for 4 years
Nominee for the 2018 US Presidential Scholar in Career & Tech
All Star Preps Best of Stark County for Softball in 2017
NET Tournament Second Doubles Champion in Tennis as an 11Member of AHS Varsity Softball Team for 4 years
Member of AHS Varsity Tennis Team for 3 years
HONORED EDUCATOR: Shaun Fontaine, Band Teacher for 7 years
Mr. Fontaine has taught me to not be afraid of failure and always pushed me to be my best, as a musician and a person. He believed in me when I didn’t believe in myself.
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Lukashenka Compromises To Gain Moscow’s Support
On December 19, ten candidates will contest the Belarusian presidency. The election has been notably open, with several opposition candidates reaching out for support from Moscow, and the European Union offering encouragement to the incumbent president conditional on some basic requirements for a democratic process. However, belatedly the president has reached a pre-election agreement with Moscow on oil and gas imports to gain qualified support, at a high price. Opinion polls suggest that although Alyaksandr Lukashenka leads his rivals, he lacks a clear majority
Lukashenka’s electoral rating two weeks before the election was between 31 and 48 percent. Indeed, Lukashenka’s closest rivals trailed: Uladzimir Nyaklayeu, leader of the “Speak the Truth” campaign on 15.1 percent to 16.8 percent, Andrei Sannikau, 8.6 percent to 10.6 percent, and Yaraslav Ramanchuk a respectable fourth (6.1 percent to 8.2 percent), with the remainder of the field well behind. According to the poll conducted by the Ukrainian agency SOCIUM, approximately one-third of voters were still undecided (http://nekliaev.org/en/news/actual/socopros-v-belorussii-lukashenko-vinoven-453-ego-prezidentskiie-reieting-314.html, www.belmy.by, December 8).
The recent rift between Belarus and Russia appeared to make Lukashenka more vulnerable. Moscow made it clear that it would not necessarily guarantee another “elegant” Lukashenka victory and last September on his video-blog, President Dmitry Medvedev commented that the Belarusian leader had broken all the rules of decency (www.rt.com, October 4). The language was ominously similar to the letter with which he severed relations last fall with former Ukrainian President, Viktor Yushchenko (Interfax, August 11).
The Belarusian authorities had to act promptly to censor several Russian television programs that attacked and ridiculed their president. However, Lukashenka received unexpected backing from the Lithuanian President, Dalia Grybauskaite (www.charter97.org, November 23), and after a November visit to Minsk, Guido Westerwelle and Radoslaw Sikorski, the Foreign Ministers of Germany and Poland respectively, informed Lukashenka that if the election was conducted fairly, they would use their influence to solicit a $3.8 billion EU loan for Belarus, with the assistance of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) (www.thenews.pl, November 22).
Thus, the election campaign for several weeks turned Belarusian politics on its head. The EU appeared to be behind Lukashenka, while the opposition candidates, particularly Sannikau and Neklyayeu appealed to Russia. However, Moscow declined to endorse any of the nine candidates, despite support for them at lower levels of the Russian hierarchy. It left the door open for negotiations in the knowledge that Lukashenka would be in Moscow in early December for talks on the introduction of a common economic space (along with Kazakhstan), as well as meetings of the Eurasian Economic Community, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the CIS (Belorusskiy Partizan, December 10).
While paying some lip service to a democratic election, the president distanced himself from “the circus.” Lukashenka informed a German audience that he expected a “landslide” victory and that the entire opposition between them could only amass about 1.5 percent (RTT News, November 15). The dismissive tone echoed his mid-September comment (a familiar one) that the Belarusian oppositionists were “enemies of the people” (RIA Novosti, September 16). Meanwhile, Lukashenka increased the average wage to $500 per month and promised it would increase to $1,000 by 2015 (SB Belarus’ Segodnya, December 7).
During the December “debate” on Belarusian Television, Lukashenka declined to appear. The program announced that the nine candidates offered identical programs –a comment repeated by Lukashenka a few days later (SB-Belarus’ Segodnya, December 8). Nyaklayeu walked out in disgust (Nasha Niva, December 4). Yet, the opposition candidates did not help their own cause. Sannikau and Statkevich appealed to viewers to gather on the “square” (Kastrichnitskaya Square in the center of Minsk) at 8.00 pm on December 19, without giving specific reasons for doing this. Despite some friendly words and cooperation between the Nyaklayeu and Sannikau camps, the opposition failed to unite behind a common candidate: personal ambitions took priority.
Lukashenka’s All-Belarusian Popular Assembly was held directly after the TV debate on December 6-7, with 2,500 selected delegates from different sectors of society, who received gifts including a watch and microwave oven, as well as having all their travel and accommodation paid at the state’s expense (Nezavisimaya Gazeta, December 6). In return, they had to endure several Lukashenka speeches based on his election platform, published in the newspaper Respublika (November 26), about the success of the economy and his future plans. Lukashenka then flew to Moscow.
Unexpectedly, a private meeting between Medvedev and Lukashenka took place immediately after the Interstate Council of the Eurasian Economic Community, during which both sides made conciliatory moves. Medvedev agreed to remove customs duties from exports of oil provided that the Belarusian side accepted the conditions of the Customs Union with Russia and Kazakhstan by January 1. Lukashenka agreed promptly to this request, which indicated his willingness to introduce the Russian ruble as the common currency once the Union comes into effect formally on January 1, 2012 (RIA Novosti, December 10). Lukashenka commented that the agreement would elevate relations with Russia to a new stage (www.telegraf.by, December 9).
The price for the latest Lukashenka victory could be a high one. Lukashenka will secure Moscow’s qualified support in the election (though Russian observers may offer some general objections to the way the campaign has been conducted) but he has effectively conceded economic sovereignty to his neighbor. Gas prices will rise in January 2011 from $185 to $225 per thousand cubic meters, and as candidate Viktar Tyarashchanka has noted, the average debt per Belarusian citizen is now $2,600 and the currency has depreciated against the US dollar by more than 4,000 times since 1994 (www.telegraf.by, November 25).
Whether Lukashenka needed to pay such a price is a moot point, but ultimately he responded to Moscow’s pressure to ensure his own immediate survival.
Belarusian Review, Vol. 22, No. 4
Copyright 2010 Belarusian Review
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Tue Apr 30, 2002 - An update - finally!
Ok, so here we are, sitting at an internet cafe in Hope, BC. Yesterday was a trying day, about 30 minutes after starting out I noticed my back tire was a little flat. Replaced the tube (lots of fun, since that required unpacking the bike, and repacking afterwards). Picked out a few pieces of rock and glass that were embedded in the tire, probably should do that each night. We got going at a nice clip for awhile, a few hills, but nothing major. Just after lunch, Jeff managed to get a flat (Just after saying that carrying 3 spare tubes was probably overkill, heh). We got going again, and not 2 minutes later we hear a loud *bang*. That was Jeff's tube bursting. I can still hear my ear ringing it was so damn loud. Ended up biking about 55km or so into Hope.
We're taking a rest day today, figured our knees and legs could use the rest. There's not much in the way of semi-large cities between here and Kamloops.
Once I have a bit more time I'll write a more detailed update :-)
Wed May 1, 2002 - Hope -> Lytton BC: 118km
Well, after a nice rest day in Hope, we felt like we could tackle a mountain, and so we did! (well, almost). Biking up the Frasier canyon is a beautiful ride, although some of the climbs are killers. Most of them we had to walk up, when you're carrying 60 pounds of gear, biking uphill for 2 or 3kms is rather difficult!
We left around 8am so it was refreshingly cold out. Nice biking temperature. It quickly became an extremely hot day though, so we took our time. Arrived in Lytton around 6pm. Today was the tunnel day, where we biked through 7 tunnels varrying from 100 metres to the longest which is around 700 metres long. There's no shoulder in the tunnels, so one option is to walk your bike along the pedestrian walkway, but that's about 3 feet wide which makes it really difficult to walk your bike. We opted to bike through most of them, and were a little worried about the longest tunnel where we wouldn't be able to see the other side to wait for a break in the traffic. As luck would have it, there was maintence work being done on the tunnels, so only one lane of traffic was being let through. We pulled up to the front of a huge line of traffic waiting at the mouth of the tunnel, and as soon as we arrived, it was the north bound lanes turn to go through! So we managed to get a head of most of the traffic going through the tunnel.
The traffic on the Trans-Canada is pretty light on this section, and the trucks are usually pretty nice to us, moving over to the oncoming lane if they can to give us more room. Luckily there's usually a lot of shoulder to ride on. At the end of the day we were pretty tired, so it was nice to set up the tent at a BC Parks campground, cook dinner (Stew, PBJ sandwhiches) and relax. The BC Parks campground was pretty empty, so we had a nice quiet evening to get lots of sleep. It's up early tomorrow to head to Cache Creek!
Thu May 2, 2002 - Lytton -> Cache Creek BC: 80km
Up early again at 6am or so, the mornings keep getting colder. Brr! The change of scenery over the span of about 20 kms is amazing, we're now entering a desert like area, very stark and barren in sections. I had no idea BC was like this!
I hit a piece of wood yesterday (was paying too much attention to the scenery, and not the road in front of me, oops!), so my back wheel needs truing. Hopefully there will be a bike store of a decent size in Kamloops. Other than that, the bikes have been amazing.
A few steep climbs today, which we once again walked up. We were up to 520 metres above sea level at one point. It's really tough to tell if you're biking uphill sometimes, since there's no good point of reference. We'll be biking along thinking it's flat and wondering why it takes so much effort! When you look back you realize that you've really been going up a slight incline all the way. There's almost no flat sections at all, either you're climbing, or going downhill. The Trans-Canada is cut into the side of the mountains at some point, a little scary! We thought we were going to get rained on, the clouds to the south looked pretty menacing, but we seem to have outrun them for now. It doesn't look like it rains much in this part of BC anyhow.
We got into Cache Creek fairly early around 2pm. There was a nice tail wind all day which helped is along, really ups the average speed quite a bit! Just a little while after setting up the tent, we look outside and see massive storm clouds rolling in. The wind was insane, almost thought the tent would be blown away! The temperature dropped about 20 degrees in a short amount of time. Well, I guess that's what you get for being in the mountains in early May!
We're off to Kamloops tomorrow, where we'll take another rest day. Getting used to carrying all our gear is taking awhile, but I think we're almost there.
Fri May 3, 2002 - Cache Creek -> Kamloops BC: 80km
Heh, they call this section of BC plateau, yeah right! There's more hills here then in the mountains! Climbed up to over 700 metres at times. We walked up more hills today then the previous two days combined! Overall a pretty good ride though. The air is slightly thinner at 700 metres then we're used to, took us awhile to figure that out, and to breath more deeply. We were wondering why we were having such a tough time of it!
We stopped for much needed food at Savona, as luck would have it there was a nice bakery so we had some sort of apple cinnamon pastry which was incredibly good! Speaking of food, almost anything tastes really good when you're hungry! The canned stew we've been eating tastes like the best stew I've ever had!
Quite a few cars (and some trucks) have been honking at us, makes us wonder if they have seen us biking on a previous day. It's a little unnerving though when a car honks right beside you, makes you lose a bit of concentration especially when you're biking uphill!
We've gone through a jar of peanut butter, and a jar of jam since Hope, so it's time to stock up again. Usually we eat about a loaf of bread a day. Plus Power bars, apples, or some sort of fruit. Subway has been a good place to eat as well :-)
The rest day in Kamloops will be much needed, it took us much longer to get anywhere today, muscles are getting a little tired :-) So far we've biked about 560kms, not bad at all!!
Sat May 4, 2002 - Kamloops - Ahhh, Rest Day!!
We're enjoying a day off in Kamloops, give our leg muscles a much needed break before the Rocky Mountain passes. Have to get my rear bike tire trued as well, and it's in the shop as I type. It was slightly bent due to that silly piece of wood on the road that I accidently biked over a few days back. It's probably a good idea to get the bikes checked out before the real mountains begin as well.
There's new pictures up as well, so have a look! Some of them turned out really good! Probably won't be able to update the site for awhile after this, the next major town is Revelstoke, and I doubt they'll have an internet cafe, so the next place is probably Calgary. Talk to y'all then! :-)
Wed May 15, 2002 - Maple Creek - Sask.
Only biked about 93km today. It was a little rainy in the morning, quite cold. Winds are still against us, we keep hoping they will change! The campground was a long way south of the Trans-Canada, and it was too late to continue on to the next town, so we found a cheap, run-down motel on the highway. At least we can catch up on the news tonight! Aparently there's a 'boil-water' advisory, so we'll have to buy some bottled water for tomorrow. (When we got to Swift Current, there really wasn't a 'boil-water' advisory, so we think the motel was just trying to sell bottled water).
The praries are quite a bit more hilly then I expected out here, although it will get flatter towards Winnipeg. Some parts are quite nice, some other parts are really dry, and they need rain badly.
Thu May 16, 2002 - Swift Current - Saskatchewan
Woke up to strong winds again, considering we have a 129km ride ahead of us, it could be a long day! After about 70km we started drafting each other, should have done this a long time ago! The first 70k were pretty hard, but the last 50k went by much much faster. Met up with the 2 cyclists we met earlier, they were a few minutes behind us. We'll probably meet them again at the camp ground in Swift Current. I think we pushed it a little too hard for the last 2 hours though, one of the muscles on my left leg is pretty sore. Nothing a rest day can't fix though!
Fri May 17, 2002 - Rest day in Swift Current - Saskatchewan
We haven't been near internet in so long, and we have only a short time at the library here, which means not much of an update. We'll update the site at the next chance we get hopefully.
Everything has been going well for the most part, the weather has been fairly cooperative, although we had a bit of rain a few days ago. The wind however is really slowing us down. Usually it blows from the west across the praries, but we've only seen crosswinds, or east winds so far. Despite that, we made it from Calgary to here in 4 days, which is about 520 kilometres. Jeff broke another spoke, and we don't have the tool to take the gears off, so we were hoping there'd be a bike shop here. Heh, yeah right, this is a pure ghetto town. The only internet cafe was shut down awhile ago, since the old folk didn't like it. There's no book stores either. Anyways, we're heading off to Moose Jaw tomorrow, about 170k away, lets hope the wind changes a bit!
Sat May 18, 2002 - Herbert Sask.
Well, we only biked 45km today, the wind was incredible! It's been blowing from the South East for quite a few days now, slowing us down quite a bit. We were pretty tired when we rolled into Herbert around 3:30pm, so we had to do some serious thinking. At this pace we wouldn't make our graduation on June 15th, so we'd have to take a bus from wherever we were at the time. The second option was to take the bus from Herbert to Winnipeg, skip about half the praries (which aren't incredibly interesting along the Trans-Canada highway anyway), which would give us more time in Northern Ontario. After much discussion, we decided to take the bus to Winnipeg. It seemed easy enough, but it proved to be quite the adventure! We intended to catch the 5:00pm bus, not realizing that our bikes would need to be in boxes before Greyhound would carry them. So missed that bus. Where does one find bike boxes in the middle of nowhere in Saskatchewan? At the gas station of course! The guys at the Co-op gas station were incredibly helpful, they managed to scrouge up some boxes which we could tape together to make a decent size bike box (Yay Duct tape!). The final result looks pretty interesting, we took a few pictures which should be up by now. The gas station even let us pitch our tent in the back to wait for the 4:15am bus. So off we went, made some dinner, and got a bit of sleep. Woke up at 3am to pack everything up. 4:15 rolls around, no bus. 4:30 - no bus. By 4:45 we were getting pretty cold, and pretty annoyed at Greyhound. Turns out somewhere they made a mistake, and there was no 4:14am bus. Oh well, what can ya do! At this point, we didn't want to set the tent back up, so we layed down the ground sheet, unrolled our sleeping bags, and slept under the stars! It was quite an experience. Thankfully, the 8:37am bus did show up, and we're on our way to Winnipeg!!
Tue May 21, 2002 - Winnipeg, woohoo!
We're here! Well, we've been here for 2 days now, getting some rest. Winnipeg is a really nice city! We're staying with my relatives, Catherine and Sid, who have been amazing! Had the whole tour of the city yesterday, and we've been doing some admistrative stuff today (fix bike, update website, etc).
Tomorrow we're heading out again, all of Northern Ontario is before us, and we're really looking forward to it! It'll be nice to see some hills again (never thought I'd hear myself say that!). We expect around 2 weeks to the Soo from here. Take a look at the pictures, some of them are pretty good! We'll be putting descriptions on all the pictures after the trip is over, we have them all written down, but no time to type them in right now.
Tue Jun 4, 2002 - Sault. Ste. Marie
While Jeff has been busy writing, I've been busy socializing, so sorry for the lack up updates!! When I get back to Pickering I'll have lots of time to write everything down. For now Jeff's journal will have to do . We're heading out tomorrow for Iron Bridge, taking the Manitoulin island route to southern Ontario.
After a rest day here we're feeling quite a bit more rested. We've biked 1400km from Winnipeg with only 1 rest day in between, so it was quite the ride! Only a week or so until we're back home, it'll be nice to sleep in a real bed again! Biking through northern Ontario wasn't nearly as bad as I imagined, although some of the hills were defintely challenging. The scenery is wonderful, especially through Lake Superior provincial park. Saw quite a few moose through that area, something I hadn't seen before.
This is the first major city where we haven't had to visit a bike shop. The bikes are holding up extremely well, and we're quite happy with them. We're especially happy with the tires, I haven't had a flat since before Calgary, and Jeff hasn't had one since before Hope BC. That's awesome for road tires!
Look back for updates in a week and a half or so! I promise I'll make time to get everything written down
Sun Jun 23, 2002 - The wheels on the bike go round and round....
Yes, Jeff and I are heading out bright and early tomorrow morning. We're well fed and rested after our 2 week vacation, so we're looking forward to getting back into the swing of things!!
These past 2 weeks have been pretty busy, visited Waterloo for a bit, saw some friends from Pickering that I hadn't seen in ages, and somewhere in there I graduated. Whew! All in all a fun time. But it'll be nice to get back on the road for a couple more weeks! We'll keep you posted on all our adventures, so stay tuned!!
Thu Jun 27, 2002 - Ottawa (167km)
Our longest day yet! We left Virgina's around 8:15 or so, hoping to avoid the heat of the day. Environment Canada was calling for Thunderstorms later in the afternoon, and while we welcome the rain to cool us off, lightning is not something we want be around. Many rest stops were needed to cool off, and to refil our water supply. Today was the first day I actually need to use the water in my canteen to refill my water bottles.
We stopped around noon for half an hour or so, but decided to keep biking. Not soon after we found some shade beside a church, so we stopped for some PBJ sandwhiches. While we were stopped however, a thunderstorm had sneaked up behind us, so we had to get moving! The wind for once was behind us, pushing us along at 35km/h. Amazing! We got rained on a bit, which was even better. We kept that pace up for about 20k or so, managing to get to Smith Falls ahead of the storm. Hid out in the local Tim Hortons for the storm to pass, which it did quite quickly. By this point it was about 3 o'clock, and we were just over halfway to Ottawa.
That last stretch of the ride was grueling, we're still not back into the shape we were before arriving in Toronto, but the thought of an air-conditioned apartment kept us going . Just outside of Smith Falls, a dog decided to make our day a little more interesting. It came out of nowhere, snarling and growling. I didn't see it at first, since most dogs bark well before they get near you. This dog was intent on biting our legs though, and I had to remove my foot from the toe-clip so I could kick it if it came any nearer (at that point it was running alongside about 3 feet away). We quickly outran it though, leaving us with a rush of adrenaline which lasted about 10k. Too bad I didn't get a chance to use the bear spray on it .
After that we had an uneventful finish to the day, traffic was fairly light except for a few sections nearer towards Ottawa.
Route: Hwy 15 to Smith Falls, then the 4, to the 6 to the 73 up to Ottawa.
Sat Jul 6, 2002 - St. Barthelemy (128k)
We got off to a slow start today, taking a 10k dead end. Well, we thought we could take a highway that cyclists were not allowed on, oops! So we backtracked and followed the Tour du Canada route once again. It seems every time we detour from their route, something goes wrong, so we've learned to stick to it .
We followed the Richelieu river almost all the way from Montreal to Sorel which is right on the St. Lawrence river. The entire length of the Richelieu is lined with houses, and boats were out on the river enjoying the afternoon. We stopped for a break in a small town where an art exhibit was taking place. A little while later in another town, we had a "conversation" with another cyclist, although he seemed to be speaking Italian, and of course, we only speak english! We compared our bike computers to see how far we'd gone, he was around 3500k, so pretty impressive! We crossed the St. Lawrence on a ferry at Sorel, picked up some dinner in the town immediatly across the river, and made our way to the campground. What we didn't realize was the campground was 8k off the highway! It turned out to be a decent campground, more of a resort really. They had lots of "social" events for familes, and so on. There was another cyclist staying at the campground, heading east towards Quebec as we are. We didn't catch her name though, so we arbitrarily named her Anne.
Sun Jul 7, 2002 - Portneuf (130k)
A pretty uneventful day. Anne (see previous entry) left an hour before us, but we caught up to her fairly quickly. A helpful west wind was pushing us along at about 30km/h. Arrived at another "resort" campground. The guy next to us insisted on playing his music quite loudly, and we were woken up by noisy children the next morning. It'll be nice to go to some quieter campgrounds!
Mon Jul 8, 2002 - Quebec (60k)
One of our shortest days yet, but there's too much smoke in the air to make it worth biking. You can barely see across the St. Lawrence! Combine that with some nasty allergies, and we didn't feel too good.
We're staying at Laval University residences, which is a welcome change over our tent. A good nights rest is in order! Quebec City has a fairly extensive bike path network, once again proving that Toronto really needs to work on their bike paths!
Tue Jul 9, 2002 - Quebec City
I woke up this morning quite refreshed! Both of us needed a good sleep after the past few days. Allergies combined with not so comfortable bumpy ground has prevented us from sleeping very well. On the agenda today was tour around Old Quebec, update the website, and do a bit of maintenance on our bikes.
Quebec is blanketed in smoke from the fires burning north of Montreal. At times visibility is a couple kilometers at most, you can barely see across the St. Lawrence river from the boardwalk in front of Chateau Frontenac. The smoke appeared a few days ago, which at first we thought was smog due to humidity. We didn't find out it was a fire until later on when reading a newspaper (which was in french, so we only had a rough idea of what was going on).
Wed Jul 10, 2002 - St. Jean - Port Joli (118k)
This was by far our strangest day yet! First off we had to figure out how to cross the St. Lawrence. With only 2 bridges, one of which we can bike on, you'd think it would be easy, right? Nope! It wasn't well marked, so it took us a while to figure out where to go. The bridge is huge steel monstrousity that doesn't feel safe at all. In fact the middle section has fallen out once before. The pedestrian walkway was just wide enough to allow for a single bike. Once on the south shore, we pointed our bikes east, and started cycling. We didn't get very far before we witnessed the first car accident of the trip, indirectly caused by us! Here's the scoop: We were biking through an intersection on a green light. An oncoming truck was making a left-hand turn across our path, but he ran a red light making that turn. Halfway through the intersection, he noticed us, and stopped. A few seconds later, a white Honda Civic heading the same direction as us plowed into the side of the truck. There wasn't much damage, the truck was unharmed, and the Civic had it's left headlight taken out. What we can't figure out was how the Civic didn't notice the truck sitting in the middle of the intersection! Obviously the driver wasn't paying attention to the road in front of him. We ate a bit of lunch while we waited for the police to show up. When the officer finally got around to talking to us, our statement consisted of "The light was green". By this time it was 2pm, and we're barely out of Quebec City, so we had to get a move on!
About 4:30 we met a guy walking from Ottawa to the East coast, so we chatted to him for a bit. Jeff just checked his website though, and he appears to be way ahead of us, so he must have cheated a bit and hitched a ride somewhere.
Arrived at the campground quite late, just as it was getting dark. This is by far the most beautiful camp site yet! It's right on the St. Lawrence, which at this point is probably at least 5 or 10k across. Very nice view of the mountains on the other side.
Thu Jul 11, 2002 - Riviere-Du-Loup (95k)
Riviere-Du-Loup means River of the Wolf or so I'm told. Thankfully we didn't see any wolves though! This was an incredibly scenic day! The highway runs right along the St. Lawrence, giving us an awesome view of the mountains on the other side. This side of the river is gentle rolling hills, mostly farmland in-between forests. The weather couldn't be any better, a mix of sun and cloud, and a perfect temperature for biking.
We met up with 2 other pairs of cyclists at the campground, so it was nice to chat for a bit, and compare stories. One of the pair was from Montreal, and the other was from somewhere in North Eastern Quebec (can't rememeber exactly where at the moment). We saw another pair of cyclists earlier in the day, but they didn't stay at this campground.
Fri Jul 12, 2002 - Saybec (190k)
Yes, that's really a 190 up there! Our longest day yet by far. We had a strong west wind to help us along, crusing usually over 30kph. I broke my max speed for the trip, hitting 77kph down a hill. Biking at that speed is incredible! The roads however, leave much to be desired. Sometimes there's a shoulder to ride on, more often there's not. A lot of the time the road is riddled with pot-holes, and we have no choice but to ride through them. My back rim took quite a beating, and needs to be trued badly, or else rebuilt with new spokes.
We saw the pair of cyclists from yesterday (the ones who didn't stay at our campground). We caught up to them, passed them, and they caught up to us a couple times when we stopped for a break. Nothing like some friendly competition to keep us going <grin>. We arrived in Mont. Joli in mid-afternoon, not bad for 140k. I was quite prepared to call it a day, but Jeff had energy to burn, and so did I as it turned out, so we continued on. A few km's down the road, we looked back to see huge black rain clouds blowing in from the north. The race was on! Unfortunately we lost, and got rather soaked. The terrain changed from almost perfectly flat to extremely hilly, making the last 50k to Saybec quite difficult. Our tent site for the night was quite silly. It was a patch of freshly sodded grass so small it would barely fit our tent. Keep in mind that we have a 2 person tent which isn't large to begin with! So we weren't too happy about that, not to mention being wet and tired. Overall it was a really good day though, I doubt we'll break 190k on the rest of the trip!
Sat Jul 13, 2002 - Campbellton - NB (136k)
Our seventh province! Whoohoo! Well, after cycling 190k yesterday, we turned around and did another 130k today! Our muscles are complaining rather loudly however, and some rest is defintely in order. It rained pretty much all day, and yet it was sunny for most of the day as well, go figure. I think a rain cloud had nothing better to do except follow us around all day <grin>. We followed the Matepedia river and the landscape is quite impressive. Just like the mountains of BC, but on a much smaller scale.
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Seven things you should do before moving to NYC
If you are preparing to embark on the SIPA adventure this fall to spend the next two years of your life in New York City, here is some advice on what you should definitely try and do before boarding that plane.
I know, you are permanently moving to New York for at least the next two years, and might feel tempted to bring along those pants that you may someday want to wear, or that old lamp you love. But New York is crowded, and space is not precisely a surplus commodity. Whether you live in Columbia housing or on your own, most likely you will have a small room, and an even smaller closet.
Read a novel
For those of you who like reading novels; this will probably be one of the first pleasures cruelly swiped away from your life by grad school. There is so much to read for every class, that reading a novel simply becomes a luxury that a SIPA student cannot afford. So use this summer to indulge in those fictitious adventures, as they will be deeply missed.
New York is an amazing city, but it can also be amazingly expensive. If you want to have an occasional dinner at a nice restaurant, go to a concert, or take a taxi to avoid a 2-hour ride back from Brooklyn on a Saturday night, you should try and save some money to help you enjoy the city more.
Go see nature
You’ve heard the song. New York is indeed a unique concrete jungle where dreams are made of. But as fascinating as skyscrapers can be, they can also be overwhelming. So make sure you get a good dose of wild mountains and blue oceans before you head this way.
Get some rest
SIPA will be lots of fun, but also lots of work. You will have endless nights in our basement library, for which you will need plenty of energy to help you cope. So get some serious sleep and rest before going back to school.
Let go of your prejudices
If you are coming to SIPA, you are probably already on track, but it doesn’t hurt to think about this once in a while. New York is a truly diverse place, and that is a central part of its magic. So open your mind and be ready to learn from other worldviews, cultures, careers and human beings. The more prepared you are to learning new things, the better your experience will be.
Be ready to be merry
Grad school, for most of us, happens once. Chances are this will be the last time in your life to be a student at a formal academic institution. Be consciously grateful for the endless opportunities, experiences and freedom the next two years will give you.
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Tags : activities, events, moving to NYC, new york, preparation, summer
Journal of International Affairs
Posted by Matt Clemons
· Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
The following entry was contributed by Homa Hassan. Homa is a first-year student at SIPA and you can read her biography here. There are plenty of extracurricular opportunities for SIPA students to get involved in and one such opportunity is with the Journal of International Affairs. Homa elaborates on her experience as both an Editorial and Digital Assistant.
SIPA students are always looking for ways to get involved on campus. There is a mix of activities to take part in – there are the organizations that have to do with your particular studies, the ones that deal with your personal interests, the ones with tradition and prestige, and the ones that introduce you to new fields and new friends.
One of the projects that links new students to old and all students to alumni and global leaders is Columbia University’s Journal of International Affairs. Two volumes are produced each year comprised of essays, interviews, and book reviews written by prominent scholars of foreign policy and international affairs. The Andrew Wellington Cordier Essay contest also gives students the opportunity to have their original works published. The theme of each volume is decided on by SIPA students on the JIA Board. Our latest theme was on Innovating Development, with essays ranging from nuclear power and sustainable development to climate change technology and gender revolutions.
There are a number of different ways to get involved with the Journal as a first year student, including serving as an Editorial Assistant, Production Assistant, and/or a Digital Assistant. No experience is necessary and training is provided for each of the positions at the beginning of the semester. I served as both an Editorial Assistant and a Digital Assistant. Editorial Assistants have a demanding job. We don’t just copy edit, which of course is important, but the bigger task is to fact-check. Editorial Assistants are the first defense on the line protecting the publication’s reputation.
To begin with, each of us was given a brief summary of all of the articles and asked to rank them in the order of our interest. A few days later, we were assigned 2-3 pages in one of the essays and paired with a Lead Editor who oversaw our work. For our assigned pages, every line had to be checked and re-checked and verified by two or more sources (online or in print) to ensure the information is accurate and well-supported by substantial evidence. Any links in the article were tracked and also verified. The work is intense, but one of the most important processes of publishing the Journal.
The Production Assistants work with the layout of the publication, placing the content onto the pages, formatting and designing them to be aesthetically appealing, and finalizing the essays before they are sent out for production. When the publication is finally out, the Board hosts something akin to a release party. This year, it was a nice break from studying for final exams to listen to the speakers’ panel and join the celebrations at the subsequent reception with food, drinks, and live jazz music. The JIA Board also hosted an end-of-semester happy hour to thank all of the SIPA students who helped out.
Digital Assistants continue to work throughout the year. One of the large projects JIA has right now is uploading all previous issues of the Journal to the JIA website. This means sorting through PDF versions of old issues and uploading the content to the website so that they are accessible to the general public. The nice part about being a Digital Assistant was that I could go into the publication room between classes or after work and get my work done independently. Having worked on the production and editorial side of journalism in the past, I welcomed learning new skills by working on the digital side of things. I also now know the ins and outs of the publication online (great resource for classes!).
Working for the Journal of International Affairs has been challenging, but one of the most rewarding ways to get involved at SIPA. Its fluid structure allows you to try new things and advance with commitment. And years from now, your work is still an integral part of SIPA’s library. Working on the Journal allows you to hit the ground running and seamlessly integrates you into life at SIPA.
Categories : Meet Seeples, News, SIPA
Tags : activities, journal, publishing, research
A Day in the Shoes of a SIPA Student
· Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
What is a “typical” day like for a SIPA student? Carrie Dorn offers her perspective . . .
When I first informed my friends about my acceptance to SIPA, they gave me a lot of unsolicited advice and some of it turned out to be very useful. I was advised to pack in all of the rest and relaxation that I could get before the school year started by catching up with acquaintances and family members, organizing my house, reading some non-fiction, seeing the newest movies, and taking a vacation. Being the type of person who has always had a busy schedule, I didn’t imagine that the life of a student would be much different from my work life.
But, now that I am at SIPA, I pass this wisdom on to you. Life at SIPA is busier and more exhilarating than you can anticipate. Between classes there are lectures attend, cover letters to write, and networking to be done. At night there are socials to go to, documentaries to watch, research to gather, and group presentations to practice. The days of a student are long, the homework never-ending, and always learning opportunities not to be missed.
Here is a snapshot of what my day looked like on a fairly typical Tuesday in mid-November . . .
Wake up at 6 am and brew some coffee. Feeling awake!
Read and respond to emails and proofread a paper proposal to be handed in tomorrow. Running late!
Power walk to my 9 am class, Advanced Generalist Practice and Programming at the School of Social Work. Today’s topic is integrating qualitative and quantitative data for comprehensive asset-needs assessments. Meet with my group after class to discuss interviews and edits for our project, determining the strengths and needs of individuals reentering the East Harlem community after incarceration. So much to be done!
Report to SIPA’s Office of Admissions and Financial Aid for work at 11:15 am. Talk to prospective students on the phone and in person about the impressive work that they’re doing and their future career goals. Extraordinary applicants!
At 2 pm, meet with a fellow student and plan for our upcoming conversations with administrators about the inter-school coordination of dual degree programs. Advocating for improved processes!
Stop by the Office of Career Services to schedule an appointment to review my resume with a counselor. Find out the dates and times of upcoming New York City Career Panel sessions. Filling up my planner!
Report back to the Office of Admissions for the afternoon hours to assist in filing and answering questions about the admissions process by email.
Go to the 6th floor computer lab to print out materials for tomorrow’s classes and chat with friends.
At 8pm go to the Brazil Trip information session to find out about SIPA’s Spring Break Trip to São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Pizza dinner provided!
Get home around 9:30 pm, finish up homework and plan for tomorrow. Jump into my comfy bed at midnight and fall asleep. Dream until the alarm goes off tomorrow morning!
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Tags : activities, classes, student life
· Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Below is some evidence of the choices that SIPA students must sometimes make when it comes to how to spend their time. There always seems to be something going on at SIPA or on our campus that would be interesting to attend.
Gender-Based Violence in the Congo
International Affairs Building, Room 1501
Panel Discussion with Dr. Les Roberts, Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health; Paula Donovan, Co-Founder of AIDS-Free World; Dr. Susan Bartels, Co-Head of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; and Lisa Jackson, Writer and Director of the film “The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo.”
Debate: Nuclear Energy and Climate Change
Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, Room 106
Earth Institute
Debate with Robert Alvarez, Senior Scholar, Institute for Policy Studies, former Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of Energy; Peter Bradford, Adjunct Professor, Vermont Law School, former Commissioner, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, former Chair, New York and Maine utility regulatory commissions; Barton Cowan, Visiting Professor, West Virginia University College of Law, of counsel, Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC; Susan Eisenhower, Member, Blue Ribbon Commission for America’s Nuclear Future, Chair Emeritus, Eisenhower Institute; Michael Gerrard, Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice, Director, Columbia Center for Climate Change Law
Kazakhstan’s Refugee Crisis: Violence, Hunger and the Transformation of Broader Central Asia, 1930-1933
Harriman Institute
Lecture with Sarah Cameron , Post-Doctoral Fellow, Yale University
Japan Circa 1959 – The High-Growth Economy and the Social Effects of Television
International Affairs Building, Room 918
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Brown Bag Lecture with Yoshikuni Igarashi, Associate Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
International Affairs Building
Lecture with Sarah Cameron, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Yale
DevInfo Training
New Media Task Force
Workshop with Christina J. Irene, a representative from the joint UNICEF/DevInfo programme, along with the Fall 2010 DevInfo Interns, will present an introduction to the DevInfo data management system.
Brown Bag with Amb. Paul R. Seger, Permanent Repepresentative of Switzerland to the UN
International Organization Specialization
Brown Bag Lecture with Ambassador Paul R. Seger, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations
How Not to Help
Institute for the Study of Human Rights
Discussion with Kate Cronin-Furman and Amanda Taub from “Wronging Rights”.
Lake Baikal, Siberia: Will Industrial Development Destroy the World’s Largest, Cleanest Lake?
Czech Foreign Policy After the Fall of Communism
Lecture with Jiri Paroubek
Perspectives on Political and Economic Dynamism in Northeast Asia- Challenges of China and North Korea
Columbia Univerity Morningside Campus International Affairs Building, Room 918
Center for Korean Research
Lecture with Ambassador Young-Mok Kim,Consul General of Republic of Korea to New York. No registration is required.
Leaders in Global Energy: Dr. Fatih Birol: Critical Factors Shaping the Future Global Energy Landscape
School of International and Public Affairs and Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy
Lecture with Dr. Fatih Birol, Chief Economist, International Energy Agency
Tolerance Without Liberalism: Conflict and Coexistence in Twentieth-Century Indonesia
Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion
Lecture with CDTR Visiting Fellow, Jeremy Menchik
My Perestroika
Film Screening and Discussion with Robin Hessman. To reserve tickets in advance please follow the link: www.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/8563295. Tickets will also be available at the box office in the Lerner Hall Lobby the day of the show.
Concert Series: Italian Harpsichord Music with Andrew Appel
The Italian Academy at Columbia, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University
Concert Series with harpsichordist Andrew Appel, violinist Krista Bennion Feeney, and cellist Loretta O’Sullivan, performing the music of Boccherini, Cimarosa, and Clementi
A Conversation with Adolfo Carrion, Regional Director of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
12:00 pm- 1:30 pm
Urban and Social Policy Concentration
Conversation with Adolfo Carrion, Regional Director of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Migrations of Jewish-Hungarian Professionals through Germany to the United States, 1919-1945
East Central European Center
Discussion with Professor Tibor Frank, Eötvös Loránd University, Columbia University, regarding the impulses influencing a uniquely gifted generation of mostly Jewish Hungarian emigrants.
Biological Measures of the Standard of Living North and South of the Border –
Lecture: with Prof. Richard Steckel, Distinguished University Professor of Economics, Anthropology and History at Ohio State University.
When China Met Africa and The Colony
Studio X 180 Varick Street New York, NY 10014
Committee on Global Thought
Film screening / Discussion including two films that examine Chinese investment in Africa
Stories of Stigma, Stories of Strength: Ethnographic Oral History with Sanitation Workers in New York City
Schermerhorn, Room 754
Oral History Master of Arts Program
Lecture with Robin Nagle. She will present her ethnographic work for her forthcoming book Picking Up.
QMSS Seminar: Sexual Networks and HIV Transmission in a High-Prevalence Setting: Evidence from a Sociocentric Study
Hamilton Hall, Room 503
Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
Seminar with Stephane Helleringer, Mailman School of Public Health
Afghanistan: Prospects for Peace
Kellogg Center, International Affairs Building, Room 1501
Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
Sixth Annual Arnold A. Saltzman Forum
From a Raindrop to a Stream Pebble to a Delta: Recent Research on Predictive Modeling
Seeley W. Mudd Building, Room 833
Lecture with Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Director of the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics, University of Minnesota
Asia in Africa: New Connections in Historical Perspective
Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Center
Discussion Panel with Howard French, Deborah Brautigam, Abdoulie Janneh, and Wang Hongyi
The International Criminal Court in Motion – An Analysis of its Seven Years of Activities and Perspectives with Dr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor, International Criminal Court
International Affairs Building Room 1501
Center for International Conflict Resolution
Lecture with Dr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The talk will be followed by a discussion moderated by Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Director of the Center for International Conflict Resolution.
Toxica Simulation
CRWG and LASA
Simulation allowing participants to engage in a negotiation, observed by negotiation practitioners. Space is limited, RSVP required. Please email Toxica2010@gmail.com.
From Three-Legged to Two-Legged Races – The Emergence of Women’s Competitive Sports in Japan (1910s-20s)
Brown Bag Lecture with Robin Kietlinski, Adjunct Assistant Professor of History, Baruch College; Visiting Researcher, Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
Monday, December 6 – Distinguished Lecturer Series “Southern Buddhism: Tracing Later Buddhist Art in South India”
Knox Hall, Room 208
Southern Asian Institute
Distinguished Lecturer Series with John Guy, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Innovating for Development: A Thought Leadership Forum from the Journal of International Affairs
School of International and Public Affairs
Forum moderated by Steven Cohen, Executive Director, Earth Institute, about how innovation is driving the agenda for sustainable development, climate change, natural resource use and energy policy.
U.S. Rapprochement with Indonesia – From Problem State to Partner
Brown Bag Lecture with Ann Marie Murphy, Associate Professor, School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University; Adjunct Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict Workshop
Columbia University, Teachers College Campus, 525 West 120th Street, Grace Dodge Hall, Room 179
QMSS Seminar: Political Conditions for Diffusion? Anti-Corporate Movements and the Spread of Cooperatives in America Capitalism
Lecture with Marc Schneiberg, Queens College Department of Sociology
Post-Cancun Debriefing
The Columbia-Paris Alliance Program and the Sustainable Development Doctoral Society
Seminar on the climate change negotiations in Cancun, with Scott Barett, Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics and Laurence Tubiana, Alliance Visiting Professor at Columbia
From Wednesday, January 12, 2011 through Friday, January 14, 2011
SIPA Students Only: 35th Annual Washington, DC Career Conference
Office of Career Services, School of International and Public Affairs
35th Annual Washington, DC Career Conference, a three-day event consisting of 20 panels, employer site visits, networking reception and a day of informational interviews. For further information regarding this event, please contact Joe Musso at sipa.dc.conference@columbia.edu.
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Tags : activities, brown bag, events, lecture
Thursday Evenings at SIPA
· Thursday, December 10th, 2009
The following was contributed by Kristoffer Tangri, a second-year SIPA student from Germany pursuing a MIA degree with a concentration in International Security Policy.
Thursdays are popular for events and receptions at SIPA and sometimes it can be difficult to choose. Last Thursday was one of these days. After having listened to the insights of a respectable guest speaker from the International Peace Institute in my class on “Building Peace after Conflict”, I had a remarkable choice of public events and reception to attend at SIPA. Not always an easy choice.
Downstairs on the 4th floor, the auditorium was filling with students who were interested in hearing Noam Chomsky’s opinions on “The Unipolar Moment and the Culture of Imperialism”, while in the building next door, Robert C. Orr, Assistant Secretary-General for Planning and Policy Coordination in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General, was speaking on “The Secretary-General’s Agenda and The Challenges He Faces.”
Meanwhile, on the 15th floor, SIPA’s Energy Association was hosting a panel to discuss “the adaptation of large-scale renewable energy under a proposed cap and trade system” and on the same floor, Columbia’s Dirk Salomons was moderating a panel discussion about the international response to the ongoing crisis of childhood malnutrition with experts from the Doctors Without Borders.
After so much academic input, one feels the need to go out and socialize with fellow students – but where? Should I go to the UN Studies Christmas Party on the 9th floor, or drop by the Latin American Association’s reception? Maybe I go over to the B-School on Campus for a few hours of free drinks (paid for by the tuition of our wealthy Business School students). Later that evening, the Migration Working Group was having a fundraiser party down in the East Village, too.
One thing you can be sure of at SIPA. You will always have an amazing variety of public lectures and events to attend, both at SIPA and at the many departments around Columbia University and of course New York City itself, with the UN and Wall Street just around the corner. And in case you are worried about the living costs of New York, these events always come with free food and wine.
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airBaltic to Launch Riga – Thessaloniki, Greece
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Author: Jānis Vanags
Source: www.airbaltic.com
airBaltic, the world’s most punctual airline, will launch a new route between Riga and Thessaloniki (Greece) this summer, on June 5, 2015. The new route will add another popular summer destination for Baltic travellers, as well as connecting travellers from the south with Riga, and beyond to destinations in the Baltics, Europe, Scandinavia, CIS and the Middle East.
Christophe Viatte, Chief Commercial Officer of airBaltic: “Thessaloniki is renowned for its vibrant cultural life, its ancient history which is visible on the facades of its impressive churches, monuments and buildings, while also being on the shores of the Aegean Sea. It is an ideal holiday destination for culture lovers and sunshine seekers alike. We are delighted to be adding this destination to our route map, broadening summer holiday options for travellers from the Baltic region, and strengthening direct links between northern and southern Europe.”
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airBaltic will fly from Riga to Thessaloniki twice a week on Fridays and Sundays. Passengers will board a Boeing 737-300 aircraft for a flight that will last 2 hours and 55 minutes. The price of a one-way ticket will start at EUR 85, including airport fees and transaction costs. A full schedule of airBaltic flights can be found on the company's homepage at www.airBaltic.com.
airBaltic serves over 60 destinations from its home base in Riga, Latvia. From every one of these locations, airBaltic offers convenient connections via Riga to its network spanning Europe, Scandinavia, CIS and the Middle East.
airBaltic in brief:
AIR BALTIC CORPORATION (airBaltic) is a joint stock company that was established in 1995. Its primary shareholder is the Latvian state, which holds 99.8% of the stock. The airBaltic fleet consists of 25 aircraft – 13 Boeing 737 and 12 Bombardier Q400Next Gen. airBaltic offers nonstop flights from its hub in Riga, Latvia. airBaltic received the title of Airline of the Year 2009/2010 (Gold Award) from the European Regions Airline Association. airBaltic is the winner of Air Transport World Phoenix Award 2010 - a global recognition of excellence in restructuring business. airBaltic won a special Pacesetter Award 2010 from the Jury of the Budgies World Low Cost Airline Awards, recognizing the achievements of airBaltic as a hybrid airline. In 2012, airBaltic was ranked by Airlinetrends among the Top 10 airlines globally for innovations.
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August: Osage County, Tracy Letts’ powerful, punishing, acerbic comedy on the internal collapse of Western Civilization, received a formidable, well articulated production at the hands of Rene’ Moreno, directing at Water Tower Theatre. Pam Dougherty (as matriarch Violet Weston) leads a well-orchestrated, thirteen-member ensemble through a three hour joyride of frantic, grotesque, destructive, hysterical, rambunctious melodrama. The Westons are a white bourgeoisie clan with a Native American housekeeper, temporarily inhabiting a large house outside Pawhuska, Oklahoma. They have gathered for the funeral of patriarch Beverly Weston, a somewhat celebrated, alcoholic poet. At the opening of August, we see him interviewing Johnna, the previously mentioned domestic. He explains that he and Violet have an “arrangement” (meaning they must abuse substances to endure one another) just before he disappears. Like many tumultuous romances, apparently Beverly and Violet get along better in different rooms.
It seems pretty clear that the character of Johnna has been placed in August, for the sake of contrast. Violet, in a typical moment of nasty “truthfulness” points out that Johnna’s getting paid, when someone thanks her for cooking the meal. As if remuneration precludes appreciation. Johnna remains tranquil and resourceful even as family members try to navigate the chaos of their dysfunctional lives. Violet treats her as interloper, despite the fact that she undeniably makes things easier for all of them, and stays out of the way. When Letts raises issues like the cultural differences between Indians and Anglos, the debatable ethics of acquisition by conquest, the consumption of meat and the use of hallucinogenics, well, comparisons seem inevitable. She may not have a lot to say or more than one room to call her own, but Johnna is obviously more evolved than any of them. In a moment of crisis it is she that Violet seeks out.
You have to admire the way Letts has depicted the Westons, blameless and yet somehow tainted and pathetic. Lost and unstable, yet normal. Violet and her sister, Mattie Fae (and her husband and son) three grown daughters : one with a daughter and estranged husband, another with a fiancé, another single. Each one has their issues (as all of us do) but for some reason, when they’re all under one roof, eruptions flood like Krakatoa. Violet is addicted to prescription pills, teenaged granddaughter Jean smokes pot, Ivy Weston has fallen in love with first cousin, Little Charles. It’s not exactly like those lofty dynasties in the Greek tragedies, where crimes that would make the Manson family cringe, bring curses from Mount Olympus. But we do get the impression Letts is asking us to take a step or two back, and a long, sharp look at the failure of our culture to even gravitate towards spiritual enlightenment.
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Military History:
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
Rank: Driver
Regimental Number: 895730
Date of Enlisting: 1.11.1915
Date of death: 5.3.1950
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UK Cemetery/Memorial: St Mary’s Church Ashwell Roll of Honour
Alfred enlisted with the Royal Field Artillery Territorial Force, Regimental Number T895730, on 30th October 1915 at Hertford, Hertfordshire. He was posted to the 6C Reserve Brigade, Regimental Number 895730, on 26th February 1917 he was transferred to the 52nd Battery and on 25th May 1917 he was embarked to the Western Front, France and Flanders as a driver with the Royal Field Artillery. Alfred was demobbed on 31st August 1919.
Alfred survived the War and died at Shortstown, Bedfordshire on 5th March 1950.
Alfred was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
He is commemorated on the St Mary’s Church Ashwell Roll of Honour.
Family History:
Date of Birth: 11.12.1896
Birth Place: Ashwell, Hertfordshire
Residence: Bedford, Bedfordshire
Marriage: Single
Alfred was born at Ashwell, Hertfordshire on 11th December 1896, the second son of Arthur and Georgina (nee Gray) Westerman. He was a pupil at the Merchant Taylors School in Ashwell but left at the end of 1910 having attained exemption age. He then went to work as a bottler at the local brewery. His parents had been proprietors of various pubs including the Fox in Ashwell, and the Saracen’s Head in Bedford.
Alfred did not marry and lived with his mother and sister in Bedford, Bedfordshire. He left half his estate to his sister Alice (Soames).
Alfred died at Shortstown, Bedfordshire on 5th March 1950.
Alfred’s brother Frank emigrated to Canada in 1910. It is not known if he served in the War.
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Any of you read the Michael Moore letter to Bush?
Thread: Any of you read the Michael Moore letter to Bush?
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I am curious to hear what many of you think about what he had to say in the letter. Regardless if you think he is a liar for some of his point in Bowling for Columbine, this letter seems to be right on the money. Atleast in my opinion??
Im anxious to hear what others think from both sides. Im quite open minded to new and differnt points of view.
Here is a link if you haven't seen or heard it on TV.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php
japangreg
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``I don't remember seeing him. That does not mean he was not there,'' said Wayne Rambo, who was a first lieutenant with the 187th Supply Squadron at the time. The AP contacted more than a dozen former members of the unit on Wednesday, and none could recall ever running into Bush.
Anyone wanna argue with Rambo? Didn't think so.
Meanwhile, a retired Texas National Guard officer said Wednesday he overheard a conversation in 1997 between then-Gov. Bush's chief of staff, Joe Allbaugh, and then-Adjutant Gen. Daniel James of the Texas Air National Guard in which he contends those two men spoke about getting rid of any military records that would ``embarrass the governor.''
Retired Lt. Col. Bill Burkett told the AP that he saw documents from Bush's file discarded in a trash can a few days later at Camp Mabry in Austin, Texas. Burkett described them as performance and pay documents. He said the documents bore the header: ``Bush, George W. 1lt.'' -- meaning first lieutenant.
(both quotes from here)
Moore has moments of insight in his writing (as was shown in 'Dude, Where's my Country?') but I often find he crosses the line and starts to sound just plain whinny. He asks good questions, but the tone of his letter is a bit too confrontational for me to believe that he doesn't already have his own conclusions for this matter drawn up. In short, he isn't asking questions, he's making accusations with having to use a period.
That being said, I am not a Bush supporter; I dislike his policies, his mannerisms and his cocky sneer. I don't trust him at all, and I'll be voting against him in the elections.
I like the current pressure being put on Bush, not only from the AWOL issue but the discretionary spending issues, the pre-war intelligence failures, etc. What a change in the political climate from a year ago when criticizing the man was greeted like burning the flag while defiling mom's apple pie. It shows a recovering sense of accountability in this country that had all but vanished after 9/11.
Another good article on this issue: Yeoman of the Guard
Hush child. japangreg can do what he wants. - PAlexC
That was Zen - this is Tao.
Very well said, I can see where you're coming from. I had not read anything in regards to the NYtimes article. Atleast from the point of view that they share.
It's actually an AP piece, before someone starts bashing the Times as a liberal rag...
...would Jason Blair lie to you?
I'm the good one!
Ahh election year.....the mud slinging starts, the dirt is dug up-or made up-...I guess Bush will have to go a bit further in time than his opponent, possibly world war II since Kerry is about 63.
I mean talk about trivialities, did he serve in Alabama or not? man if thats the best they can do at this stage... Now who was it that dodged the draft---entirely??
Originally posted by XU1
Yes, election years are great; lace up those gloves, gonna be a bloody fight.
I assume you're talking about Clinton: I find this funny, seeing as it follows a comment about going back in time (Clinton isn't running again, is he? Then why bring it up?)
I think this is a very pertinent question, since Bush keeps wrapping himself in the mantle of 'war president' during interviews. How far can you really trust someone that tells you he is all about national defense when he skips out on 6-months of rather cushy duty when the nation was at war?
Now who was it that dodged the draft---entirely??
Dick Cheney?
//openedSource
Originally posted by japangreg
Because it shows that it didnt hurt Clinton at all...so the tactic is a no hoper...
also in this case the question is..."Where was he"?... the latest dental records show that he was there...I mean he could have been on light duties, or in the Kitchen...or sweeping the pavements...at least he enrolled..
Originally posted by CNO
I though it was Liza Minelli... ..but..Was this man ever president??
Not true when there is an ongoing war. Clinton wasn't hurt because the country was in a state of calm, enjoying a good economy.
Bush is in the White House during a time of domestic and international turmoil, with an open-ended, unconventional 'war' and nation building, and has sat though one of the worst economies in decades.
Clinton didn't have to have any war credentials; the country didn't need a military leader during his presidency.
If Bush is going to keep pushing the war as the main reason to keep him in office, he better be able to show that when given the light responsibility the ANG represented during Vietnam he didn't just act like a spoilt brat and drop the ball.
This AWOL issue is not a tactic to slander Bush as a whole. It is QUITE relivent today when he has sent our children and friends overseas. How many hundreds of people in the national gaurd have died in the last 9-11 months?
This is why it is important, what kind of leader is he if he cant set the example for the nation. If he doesnt have the balls to serve than why should anyone else? Its like telling your kid that swearing is bad and only to turn around spewing those same words from your mouth.
This is why it is important. In the Tim Russert interview this passed weekend, Bush acknowledged that the topic is brought up around any election he is in. However no one made it an issue before. Why you ask? BECAUSE WE WEREN'T AT WAR and at that point 600 of our kids were still breathing and enjoying there youths.
btw, it doesnt help that he has been unable to find WMD on land that we have control of. The only thing that any of us can truly proove about this war is that we captured Saddam (which I am thankfull for) and Cheney has become one hell of an oil Tycoon.
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TallGuyLittleCar
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[B]Not true when there is an ongoing war. Clinton wasn't hurt because the country was in a state of calm, enjoying a good economy.
actually we were in the same war we are now in during the clinton administration. Clinton just choose not to fight, not suprising from a man who once said he despised the military.
can't help what you inherit. I suppose by that thinking abused children are responsible for the abuse they recieved.
So the first world trade center bombing was cool? the cole was cool? the embassy bombing in africa were fine. 9-11 was no big deal?
So you think Franklin Roosevelt was the wrong guy for ww2?
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Originally posted by TallGuyLittleCar
just interested... how does that relate to the comment you quoted above it? Did I miss something?
C'mon now, all of you're responses here are aimed at bashing Clinton for not attacking Al Queda.
Neither did Bush. Not until we got hit.
And all the conservative sobbing over inheriting a bad economy doesn't excuse the problems that have occured on the Bush watch: even if we forgive him 9/11, the administration is directly responsible for the Iraqi war and the mishandling of the information. They are responsible for passing tax cuts while the nation's debt soars, underfunding their own educational programs, encouraging suspision of our intentions in Iraq by awarding no bid contracts... the list really does go on and on.
The point of this letter (remember the letter? The subject of this post? The one that doesn't mention Clinton at all?) was to ask a 'war time' president about his military service record, which appears to have several discrepancies.
You can try to blame Clinton for that all you like, but I believe he was in the UK at the time...
Originally posted by aversion
I think he's saying that we did need a war time pres during that time, to deter/prevent what happened.
Off the mark, TGLC?
said it better than i did, hence this edited post
Bush was handed a very difficult set of cards since 9/11...no one on earth could have envisioned the changing nature of terrorism, or how determined these people were/are to bring the fight to the US.
I really dont think that people will see Bush as some sort of Coward...
I just think Bush sees the world situation as it is.....I think he shows far sightedness....which means tough decisions, that are not going to be popular..
And if your going to bring the Hypocrisy issue up....does this mean that everytime a president needs to make a decision he has to stop going ahead with it because of some past mistakes or wrogdoing?
Its been a long time since he was in the service to be bringing this type of issue up...
once again at least he enrolled.
He could have been hiding behing some trees for six months..
Last edited by XU1; 02-12-2004 at 05:57 PM.
That was wierd; I went to quote something TGLC said ('...he's either doing a great job or a terrible job'... something like that), and when the form came up, it had his edited reply.
Spooked me.
I was going to say that that is true for just about everyone...
even if we forgive him 9/11,
???...Ok I give up now...I thought that some one else was responsible for 9/11...
[B]And if your going to bring the Hypocrisy issue up....doese this mean that everytime a president needs to make a decision he has to stop going ahead with it because of some past mistakes or wrogdoing?B]
Only when he makes a decision on that issue. Would you take hair care advice from a bald barber? How about being told to floss by a toothless dentist?
How does someone who ducked out of a cushy stateside post during a war where thousands of US service men are killed have the authority to ask other Guardsmen to risk and give their lives for something?
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The stubbornly dismal economy means at least one thing: an extended stay in the spotlight for a handful of star analysts whose defining characteristic is their extraordinary bearishness. And, of course, their accuracy.
There's Albert Edwards, a London-based analyst from France's Société Générale, who believes the Standard & Poor's 500 will sink to 450, a sickening 57% drop from its current level. There's David Rosenberg, chief economist at Toronto money manager Gluskin Sheff, who warns that deflation is going to pull down the U.S. economy for years.
And then there's the New York star of this gloomy show: Reggie Middleton, a Brooklyn entrepreneur who turned to analyzing global markets after a stint buying and renovating apartments in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. (See “Prophet of doom,” April 19.)
Bad as things may be for the economy, Mr. Middleton warns that they're poised to get much worse. Prices of real estate, stocks and bonds are all headed for serious falls... Wages will decrease, unemployment will increase. Fun, eh?
The culprit, Mr. Middleton says, is Washington. The bank bailouts, nationalization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and other interventions during two presidencies prevented the market from bottoming out in 2009 like it should have, he says. Now that the economy is weakening again and the heavily indebted U.S. government has fewer rescue options, the reckoning is coming. Markets of all kinds in the United States and Europe will get hit—hard.
“In my opinion, the amount of risk in the system is even higher than in 2008,” he says, adding this rare dash of hope: “2013 might be a good time to start taking a look at buying assets again.”
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dictates that I switch between extremes of bullishness and bearishness contingent upon the extreme policy errors of central bankers. As a matter of fact, I was as bullish as can be in residential real estate in NYC form 2000 to early 2004. I leveraged up on all the "in the money" distressed real estate I could find in areas of heavy gentrification, literally extracting 4 digit returns. That doesn't mean I disobeyed the laws of math though. As 2004 progressed, the writing on the wall became larger and more pronounced... Enter 2005 and math said turn bearish, common sense said turn bearish, and not to be one to look arithmetic in the face and argue, I grew bear claws and donned a ruffled brown grizzly coat! After liquidating my real estate, I took a year off and started shorting every industry that was even tangential to real assets. That was 2007. By the first quarter of 2009, I had a cumulative return in my portfolio of about 452% averaging roughly 50% cash (see Updated 2008 performance). I sensed the market was oversold, but the fundamental and macro outlooks was still quite negative, hence I pulled my profits one weekend in March (but let a few underwater positions ride). This weekend, coincidentally, happened to be the beginning of the rally that shouldn't have been, and I fought the faux bull to my detriment I got hurt in the artificially engineered, central banker and government synthesized rally of 2009, and my cumulative return was almost halved.
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The collapse of Bear Stearns in January 2008 (2 months before Bear Stearns fell, while trading in the $100s and still had buy ratings and investment grade AA or better from the ratings agencies): Is this the Breaking of the Bear? | After the collapse, a prudent bullish call as well... Joe Lewis on the Bear Stearns buyout Monday, March 17th, 2008: "The problem with the deal is that it is too low, and too favorable for Morgan. It is literally guaranteed to drive angst from the other side. Whenever you do a deal, you always make sure the other side gets to walk away with something. If you don’t you always risk the deal falling though unnecessarily. $2 is a slap in the face to employees who have lost a life savings and have the power to block the deal. At the very least, by the building at market price and get the company for free!" | BSC calls are almost free and the JP Morgan Deal is not signed in stone Monday, March 17th, 2008 | This is going to be an exciting, and scary morning Monday, March 17th, 2008 | As I anticipated, Bear Stearns is not a done deal Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 [Bear Stearns stock goes from $1 and change to $10, front month calls literally explode from pennies to several dollars]
The warning of Lehman Brothers before anyone had a clue!!! (February through May 2008): Is Lehman really a lemming in disguise? Thursday, February 21st, 2008 | Web chatter on Lehman Brothers Sunday, March 16th, 2008 (It would appear that Lehman’s hedges are paying off for them. The have the most CMBS and RMBS as a percent of tangible equity on the street following BSC. The question is, “Can they monetize those hedges?”. I’m curious to see how the options on Lehman will be priced tomorrow. I really don’t have enough. Goes to show you how stingy I am. I bought them before Lehman was on anybody’s radar and I was still to cheap to gorge. Now, all of the alarms have sounded and I’ll have to pay up to participate or go in short. There is too much attention focused on Lehman right now. ) | I just got this email on Lehman from my clearing desk Monday, March 17th, 2008 by Reggie Middleton | Lehman stock, rumors and anti-rumors that support the rumors Friday, March 28th, 2008 | It appears that I should have dug deeper into Lehman! May 2008
The fall of commercial real estate in general (September of 2007) and the collapse of General Growth Properties [nation's 2nd largest mall owner] in particular (November 2007):
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The collapse of state and municipal finances, with California in particular (May 2008): Municipal bond market and the securitization crisis – part 2
The collapse of the regional banks (32 of them, actually) in May 2008: As I see it, these 32 banks and thrifts are in deep doo-doo! as well as the fall of Countrywide and Washington Mutual
The collapse of the monoline insurers, Ambac and MBIA in late 2007 & 2008: A Super Scary Halloween Tale of 104 Basis Points Pt I & II, by Reggie Middleton, Welcome to the World of Dr. FrankenFinance! and Ambac is Effectively Insolvent & Will See More than $8 Billion of Losses with Just a $2.26 Billion
The overvaluation of Goldman Sachs from June 2008 to present): “Can You Believe There Are Still Analysts Arguing How Undervalued Goldman Sachs Is? Those July 150 Puts Say Otherwise, Let’s Take a Look”, “When the Patina Fades… The Rise and Fall of Goldman Sachs???“andReggie Middleton vs Goldman Sachs, Round 2)
The ENTIRE Pan-European Sovereign Debt Crisis (potentially soon to be the Global Sovereign Debt Crisis) starting in January of 2009 and explicit detail as of January 2010: The Pan-European Sovereign Debt Crisis
Ireland austerity and the disguised sink hole of debt and non-performing assets that is the Irish banking system: I Suggest Those That Dislike Hearing “I Told You So” Divest from Western and Southern European Debt, It’ll Get Worse Before It Get’s Better!
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The Mobile Computing and Content Wars: Part 2, the Google Response to the Paradigm Shift
This is an excerpt from part two of a multi-part series on the companies vying for dominance during the 3rd major paradigm shift in personal and enterprise technology over the last 30 years. This one will be a biggie (not smalls) and promises to create an investment behemoth out of the winner and relegate the losers to relatively niche markets. This is saying a lot considering the size of the companies participating in the battle for the pole position. I created this series to provide a truly objective, truly informed, and truly analytical (from an empirical perspective) knowledge source on this very important intersection in personal computing and distributed media. This series will end with a full BoomBustBlog style forensic report on the company we feel has the most to gain from these wars from an investor's perspective. Those who are not familiar with my hard-edged, yet objective analytical work should reference past performance and media appearances for a quick background.
It is imperative that readers first review “There Is Another Paradigm Shift Coming in Technology and Media: Apple, Microsoft and Google Know its Winner Takes All” before moving on so as to get a thorough background as to what is at stake, who the players are, and what mobile technologies are being released into the consumer and enterprise realm. This is a lengthy, meaty, objective and information packed post that was initially intended to go out to subscribers only (click here to subscribe to our research services). I welcome you to compare it to the research you find available from technology, financial and strategic advisory firms, including and particularly Goldman Sachs (click here to see what I mean, then return to this point to continue reading) and let me know whose analysis is more accurate, in depth and thorough (not to mention less expensive).
Despite an increasing proportionate share of licensing and other revenues, advertising will apparently continue to drive Google’s revenues in the medium-to-long term. The Company’s dominant share in the search engine market is expected to be maintained, with other competitors failing to gain the operative, technological and strategic influence to deter its pace of ad revenue growth. Of late, the Company has been initiating to broaden its revenue base as is evident from some of the recent and planned launches of newer products and services funded through revenues generated by its online ad programs
Google’s next major launches – Chrome web browser (production version), Google Chrome OS and Google TV – (expected by the end of 2010) are expected by analysts to fare much better than its Nexus One phone. However, uncertainties over consumer acceptance, pricing and technological edge of newer services offerings over competing products in the market are making it quite difficult to gauge the near-term financial impact of these launches. I would like to make it known that it appears nearly all of the financial analysts and many of the technology analysts fail to grasp the gist of Google’s phone strategy. The Nexus One was a proof of concept, proven in the market place by HTC’s Evo, which (one month after being released) is constantly sold out in nearly all retail outlets, Sprint stores, indirect retails stores, and the Sprint.com site itself. It is also the first phone that is widely accepted as not only being a credible threat to the IPhone but actually superior to the IPhone as well. It should not be lost on anyone that the IPhone is what has driven the stellar burst in Apple’s revenues, profits and mindshare over the last three years. To that end, the Nexus One, and more aptly the open sourced Android OS has proven to be a raging success.
There Is Another Paradigm Shift Coming in Technology and Media: Apple, Microsoft and Google Know its Winner Takes All
With the cult-like adherence to Everything Apple, cultivated by the viral marketing engine that is Apple, it is very, very difficult to get objective comparisons and reviews of practically anything in a product category that Apple is present in. Yes, even the stalwart geeky tech site's have bitten the Apple, so to speak. Cnet, Wired, etc. are so Apple biased as to be borderline embarrassing. I know they report on what (and how whatever) brings the page views, but come on fellas!!! BoomBustblog thrives because it tells the truth in the financial and economic space, not matter how unpopular or controversial. Is it time to open up a BoomBustBlog, Technology edition????
What this abject bias does, despite irritating the hell out of those of us who are not plugged into the Matrix, is mask the exciting technical revolution that is occurring due to the intense competition borne from the weakening of the Wintel hegemony, the advent of a slew of new technologies across the telecomm, media, semiconductor and software industries and the new business models cropping up as the world finally embraces the World Wide Web as an actual permanent and primary platform for basic business, social and economic transactions.
This post will surmise the qualitative aspects of the companies and products listed below. I will follow up with full forensic analyses of not only the companies, but the business model and market share potential of each, as well as a thorough valuation scenario analysis. One of these companies will probably take over portable computing, and I think it will pay to hitch onto the right one. The next Microsoft is in the making. Hey, Microsoft may even be the next Microsoft. Don't sleep on them, although it does appear that they have been asleep themselves. We won't know until the Windows Mobile 7 OS is released. I recommend all who are interested in this tech, media or investments send the link to this article around the web, for it is one of the few (if not the only) truly unbiased reviews of the products that compete with Apple in the ultra portable and handheld space.
An Overview of the New Windows to the Web
From the top left hand corner, clockwise: The Amazon Kindle 2, Asus EEE PC, Apple IPad, Archos 5 Internet tablet, HTC Touch Pro2, Apple Itouch 3rd Generation, Archos 9 Internet Tablet, Sony Vaio. The paper under the Apple product is a testament to the viral marketing ability of Apple. My son did not want his ITouch to touch the floor!!!
A New Social Networking and Community System Has Been Installed
A new community and networking system has been installed. Please take the time to go through the features and take full advantage of it. You can upload and link your own videos, files, pictures charts, microblog, comment, network, etc. Each registered member an access it from their profile, or you can go to the community link at the top menu, also available here.
Hedge Funds Paying to Follow Bloggers: The Shift in Media Influence Continues
Here is an interesting article from thecrossbordergroup.com: Data firm monitoring influential blog sites
Hedge funds are testing out a data feed produced by monitoring a group of financial commentators that includes bloggers. The trial is still at an early stage, but it shows how seriously the investment community is taking the opinions of those working outside traditional media outlets. The feed – put together by Alacra, a data aggregator – monitors the output of around 25,000 analysts by combing the web for their comments. This group contains a number of prominent bloggers, such as Barry Ritholtz, Henry Blodget, Felix Salmon and Fred Wilson.
Are Blogs Truly Competitive With the Mainstream Media in Terms of Quality of Content?
A very interesting article was published in Crain's New York this morning, both in print and online, titled Prophet of doom. The article was about blogs, and the potential for them to raise capital and compete with the mainstream media. There's also a picture of a devilishly handsome, charismatic, and outright cute blogger there as well :mrgreen:
Here are a few excerpts, combined with my usual commentary...
Mr. Middleton's Boom Bust Blog forecast with stunning accuracy the demise of such real estate bubble blowups as Bear Stearns and mall operator General Growth Properties... Now he's embarking on his next project: Turning his blogging hobby into a full-fledged investment research business, a firm where he says investors will get “realistic” insights as opposed to Wall Street puffery. Mr. Middleton plans to start petitioning venture capital firms, private equity players and established media companies in the coming weeks.
Yes, it's official. I'm going to start building the blog out into something much bigger, more in depth, and more accessible.
“His work is so detailed, so accurate, it's among the best in the world,” says Eric Sprott, CEO of Sprott Asset Management, a Toronto firm that manages about $5 billion and subscribes to Mr. Middleton's research. Well, thank you Mr. Sprott! I owe you a good bottle of wine for that one! For those that don't follow Eric Sprott's commentary (or his investment record), this accomplished man tells it like it is. He was just on CNBC and rang the closing bell last week.
Finding investors won't be easy, though. A few bloggers have landed backers recently, including Footnoted.org, acquired by investment research firm Morningstar, and Gothamist.com, by Cablevision. But most media concerns and venture capitalists have steered clear. Many blogs' revenues are scant, with few opportunities to grow and churn out the $10 million to $15 million in revenues that venture capitalists want. “The climate for blogs is almost always lousy,” says Roger Ehrenberg, founder of IA Capital Partners, which has invested in BlogTalkRadio and BusinessInsider.com.
Do Blogs Compete at a Level that Threatens Mainstream Media?
I received an email (posted below) from Aaron Krowne, a fellow independent blogger and founder of the Implode-a-Meter group of web sites. His blog has broken many stories in the banking and hedge fund sector, and has a fairly broad network of independent sources. I am not commenting on the validity of the assertions and accusations herein, but I am casting my opinion on the apparent attempt to belittle the credibility of the blogs.
I can speak first hand on this topic. The specialized financial and political blogs offer expertise, data and analysis that often rival the best think tanks, banks and research houses in the world. I am not exaggerating here. I happen to be quite proud of the stuff that is generated. I am also impressed at the speed and actual accuracy of the breaking stories. This depth, collective breadth, and reflexive responsive times available through the blogoshpere makes it not only a viable conduit for news, analysis, opinion and information, but also an apparent threat to the struggling mainstream media model. Reference the back and forth between CNBC and Zerohedge as an example.
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Design Futures, Sacred Groves
[Image: From Growing A Hidden Architecture by Christian Kerrigan].
[Nearly a decade ago, I wrote a series of blog posts as part of a Fellowship at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Those posts appear to be falling into an internet memory hole, so I thought I’d reproduce lightly edited versions of some of them here, simply for posterity.]
Toward the end of 2009, the journal Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes published an interesting paper by garden historian Patrick Bowe, called “The Sacred Groves of Ancient Greece.”
Specialized landscapes animated by very particular forms of cultural use, sacred groves “held a significant place in ancient Greek life over ten centuries,” Bowe writes. Indeed, “They formed significant landmarks in the landscape, both urban and rural.”
Geographers described them. Poets evoked them. Philosophers discussed them. In them, natural woodland was conserved and new wood planted, primarily for religious, but also for recreational, purposes. Architectural and sculptural elements were disposed. Prominent natural features were highlighted. Some individual trees, being considered sacred, were also conserved. In these various activities, the beginnings of the Western tradition of designed landscapes can be found.
Bowe’s ensuing history of sacred groves describes these “ritual zones” of the forest in terms of “the physical aspects of sacred groves, their location and size, the different kinds of trees of which they were composed, the architectural and sculptural elements that were installed in them and the adaptation for use of some of the natural features located in them.”
This has the effect, he notes, of filling a noticeable hole in historical scholarship: “No detailed description of a sacred grove survives from ancient Greek literature. However, a compilation of the many passing and diverse references in the literature, dating from the eighth century BC”—by which Bowe means Homer—“to the second century AD”—by which he means Pausanias—“may provide us with a composite picture.”
Somewhat obviously, sacred groves don’t leave much to see in the archaeological record—”archaeological evidence is sparse,” Bowe writes with understatement—as their vegetation dies, rots, spreads, or is deliberately torn up and replaced over time (all of the above, in fact, often erase Greek sacred groves from the terrestrial record).
Landscape historians are thus left searching for other sources of information about the ancient world’s enigmatic sacred land-use patterns. Interestingly, these sources include poems and even coinage—archaeology by way of numismatics. Bowe writes that “the evidence of contemporary coins” implies what these groves might have looked like, these coins’ obverse images depicting “boundary walls and entrances,” gates and artificially arranged stone features, as certain groves were shown in miniature on the backs of these moneyed pieces.
The very idea that money might serve as a useful object of study in an art historical survey of lost landscapes is inspiringly unexpected. A visual history of landscape told entirely through coins!
In any case, Bowe assembles a list of tree species most often associated with these sacred sites, including cypress, poplar, olive, oak, cedar, willow, plane, ash, apple, pine, and even palm trees. These groves were quite varied locations, botanically speaking, and they consisted of both wild and cultivated varieties of the trees at hand.
It simply wasn’t the case that a sacred grove had to be one particular type of tree, or that it had to be wild; the sacred qualities came from how the grove was treated, used, interpreted, and even deliberately rebuilt. In the latter case, adding small architectural features, including fences and gates, or even statuettes to the grove were ways of making sacred what in other circumstances might have been a mere garden.
While Bowe’s literary-numismatic archaeology of sacred groves is already fascinating, I found myself wondering what sorts of uniquely specific groves or small forests of our own time might be seen, even if only millennia from now, as “sacred” in some way or another. The “sacred grove,” seen in this light, would really be a kind of specialized forestry service, and thus something interpretatively present in a variety of surprising sites.
After all, it is distinctly possible that a landscape now retroactively seen as sacred might not have been anything of the sort; perhaps it was simply being grown for timber; perhaps it was the subject of a property dispute; perhaps it was over-run with insects for a decade or two and thus left untouched. It should always be assumed, in other words, that ancient sites we jump to call “sacred” might actually have been utterly mundane.
Accordingly, I’ve put together a short, entirely subjective, and by no means anywhere near exhaustive list of a few speculative landscape design proposals and real-life forestry sites that strike me as particularly worthy of consideration in the context of the ancient Greek sacred grove. If, in some future catalog of lost landscapes, one of the following sites was to be listed alongside the sacred groves of a forgotten civilization, how might that transform our understanding of their intended spatial role?
Consider this list nothing more than a brief conversation-starter.
The Shapely Grove
[Image: From “Atree?” by the Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design (BOARD)].
Rotterdam-based design firm Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design (BOARD) recently proposed a grove of twisted and looping arboreal forms called “Atree?”
“Imagine a project that does not need to be constructed,” they write, “because—being a tree—it grows by itself.”
Such a project only needs to be planted. Therefore the transportation of the materials for such a project is very energy efficient, because as a matter of fact, no major transportation of materials is actually necessary. The only materials to be transported are the seeds for planting. And the only energy spent is to prevent hastiness and impetuousness as such a project needs a lot of time and patience to grow.
Using clip-on bioplastic molds that “can easily be transported by bike to the site and fixed simply to the trees,” along with “a fast growing willow that reaches a height of more than two meters in only one year,” BOARD’s roller coaster of a grove would put even Axel Erlandson’s so-called tree circus to shame.
Are these formal manipulations of a traditional thicket nothing more than stylistic play—mere ornamental tweaking—or do they reveal something more fundamental about how we can relate to the growth and tending of global forests?
Further, could a grove of deliberately misshapen trees—that is, trees that have been formally remade—be archaeologically mistaken for a place of religious significance? If so, what beliefs might we assume were being celebrated in these carnivalesque examples of what Bowe would call “ritual zones”—and who might we think had constructed them? Perhaps a strange race of druidic geometers once turned their forests into prayers and diagrams.
The Moon Trees of Apollo
One of the strangest entries on this list is also very real: the so-called Moon Trees are a distributed forest of redwood, sycamore, loblolly pine, sweetgum, and douglas fir saplings grown from seeds that were taken to the moon and back as part of the Apollo space program.
Apollo 14 launched in the late afternoon of January 31, 1971 on what was to be our third trip to the lunar surface. Five days later Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell walked on the Moon while Stuart Roosa, a former U.S. Forest Service smoke jumper, orbited above in the command module. Packed in small containers in Roosa’s personal kit were hundreds of tree seeds, part of a joint NASA/USFS project. Upon return to Earth, the seeds were germinated by the Forest Service. Known as the “Moon Trees,” the resulting seedlings were planted throughout the United States (often as part of the nation’s bicentennial in 1976) and the world. They stand as a tribute to astronaut Roosa and the Apollo program.
Fantastically, grafts and seeds from the original Moon Trees have since been planted elsewhere, producing second-generation Moon Trees that grow freely in private backyards, public parks, and open forests around the planet.
Compare Moon Trees to the space seed program run by the Chinese government, “a mission that will expose 2000 seeds to cosmic radiation and microgravity.” These cosmically exposed seeds have since been planted here on earth, in the hope of producing a slightly ominous-sounding batch of “super-crops.”
But what about a super-forest—cosmically exposed Moon Trees grown on a continental scale, in a vast sacred grove shaped by radiation from deep space?
The Duplicative Forest
[Image: The Duplicative Forest—17,000 acres of identical trees—courtesy of Atlas Obscura].
I have written elsewhere about a place in Oregon called the duplicative forest, but it seems worth mentioning again in the present context. The “duplicative forest” is a 17,000-acre farm whose poplar trees are “all the same height and thickness,” we read courtesy of Atlas Obscura, as well as “evenly spaced in all directions. The effect is compounded when blasting by at 75 mph. If you look for too long the strobe effect may induce seizures.”
The discovery of an optically mesmerizing forest landscape, one with potential neurological effects on its visitors, and one that was very clearly planted according to an artificial geometric plan, will perhaps not instantly seem like a tree farm several hundred years from now; until its actual quotidian purpose is deduced, the duplicative-forest-as-sacred-grove would be a wonderfully odd thing to ponder.
Jaguar Wood
In England, the car company Jaguar has planted a forest of walnut trees, partially to offset its harvesting needs for the fine wood used in its cars’ interiors. As Jaguar themselves describe the specialty landscape:
The Jaguar Walnut Wood is located at Lount in the heart of Leicestershire, less than 50km from Jaguar’s UK HQ. It was first planted on former farmland in 2001, but there are now more than 13,000 walnut trees and 70,000 other trees in a scenic 80-hectare woodland. Within it is a 27-hectare experimental zone researching the growth of different varieties of walnut tree for use as a hardwood timber and as a source of nuts.
The mathematical logic of an “offset” landscape—something planted or maintained in one location in order to make up for the loss or insufficient quantity of something elsewhere, forming an economic chain of surrogacy and doubling—is already quite fascinating, but a forest specially cultivated by an automotive firm adds an interesting touch.
While wood from these groves does not actually make it into Jaguar cars, the “experimental zone” inside the forest might seem rather regal—or perhaps simply surreal—to anyone stumbling upon records of it in a thousand years’ time.
And who knows: perhaps we might even someday discover that a small grove of walnut trees growing on a hill in upstate New York, on a distant tributary of the Hudson, was actually planted for no other reason than to panel the interior walls of a specific skyscraper in 1950s Manhattan, a grove now derelict and teeming with weeds, its original purpose gone, the rooms it was once meant to panel now themselves long dismantled; or an entire forest somewhere north of Athens, Greece, originally planted to serve as wood stock for a Mediterranean fleet, its trunks and branches grown only for hulling warships, now lies abandoned, bearing no historical trace of that earlier purpose.
How do we account for these missing histories of specialty groves in our sense of landscape mythology?
Her Majesty’s Shipbuilding Forest
The New Forest in England was, in fact, once extensively used and harvested for the purpose of Royal shipbuilding. From the period 1685 to 1875, “timber requirements of the Navy dominate[d] the Forest,” we read in a short history of the landscape. There are even now remnant groves left over from those ship-planting days:
Admiral Nelson, ever mindful of the needs of shipbuilding, visited in 1802 and declared the “finest timber in the kingdom” had sunk to a deplorable state! So, 30 million acorns were planted across 11,000 acres. But before the oaks were half grown, they were redundant, replaced by iron and steel in the shipbuilders’ yards. Thanks to Nelson, however, the forest now contains the country’s largest area of mature oak.
In other words, scattered across an area of nearly 11,000 acres are trees that never became ships—escaping that fate in which whole forests would go to war at sea, their wood sailing into battle in the form of imperial fleets.
We might ask, then: Could a sacred grove be something in which future ships are deliberately cultivated? For me, the most interesting aspect of that question would be the idea that, hovering negatively like a ghost around a forest’s growing branches, are the devices, ships, buildings, and machines that those forests are meant to become—like wooden Transformers, whole groves will unlock their roots from shattered bedrock, clip together in filigrees of undergrowth, and assemble into some vast and fearsome battleship, which then floats out with a monstrous roar into the wine-dark sea.
Growing a Hidden Architecture
As it happens, this very idea was the premise of a fascinating graduate student project at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London several years ago.
For Growing A Hidden Architecture, Christian Kerrigan proposed an awe-inspiring series of contraptions—collars, tourniquets, hinges, corsets, and belts—that could be attached to still-growing trees, bending and shaping their growth into a functioning, sea-ready ship.
[Images: From Growing A Hidden Architecture by Christian Kerrigan].
“By controlling the manipulation of refined armatures, calibrating devices and designed corsets,” Kerrigan writes, “the system is capable of controlling the growth of a ship inside the forest. The ship will grow over a period of 200 years and will exist as a hidden architecture inside the trees. The ship growing in the forest is the ship from the ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’ a tale of man’s relationship to mortality.”
In a particularly awesome detail, “the artificial system harvests resin from the trees to measure time passing”:
Slowly growing to completion, the end of the system within the forest is signalled by the Amber Clock, the resin cycles in the trees keeping time. The armatures alter the geometries of the copse with technologies, which are spliced into the hull of the ship.
Kerrigan’s vision of a ship self-assembling through carefully restricted tree growth—and the architectural implications of such a technique—is both astonishing and powerful.
The entirety of his project is worth exploring in full.
The Grove as Growth Assembly
[Image: From Growth Assembly by Sascha Pohflepp, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and Sion Ap Tomos].
Rounding out this short list of possible “sacred groves” is a project by Sascha Pohflepp, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and illustrator Sion Ap Tomos that explored a similar idea to Kerrigan’s.
Called Growth Assembly, their project included the added splash of gene-splicing: the trio proposed a grove of genetically modified trees that could sprout machine-parts instead of fruit.
Pohflepp writes: “Coded into the DNA of a plant, product parts grow within the supporting system of the plant’s structure. When fully developed, they are stripped like a walnut from its shell or corn from its husk, ready for assembly.”
This genetic revolution in plant-based manufacturing—wherein the gears used in your car’s engine might actually be the hard fruit of modified trees—would have a corresponding effect on the world’s economic landscape:
Shops have evolved into factory farms as licensed products are grown where sold. Large items take time to grow and are more expensive while small ones are more affordable. The postal service delivers lightweight seed-packets for domestic manufacturers.
Like some Industrial Age “Jack and the Beanstalk,” you simply plant a few seeds and watch as vast, living factories soon grow.
So, with these projects in mind, and having read Bowe’s essay, what other unexpected forest landscapes might we suggest as viable candidates for inclusion in a broadened definition of the sacred grove—a new kind of sacred sci-fi, with mutated trees and fruitful juxtapositions? What is the design future of the sacred grove?
Author Geoff ManaughPosted on April 16, 2019 Categories BLDGBLOGTags Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Apollo Program, Axel Erlandson, BOARD, Botany, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Cathedrals, CCA, Christian Kerrigan, Duplicative Forest, Forestry, Greece, Groves, Homer, Jaguar, Jaguar Lount Wood, Landscape, Moon Trees, NASA, Patrick Bowe, Pausanias, Religion, Sacred Groves, Sascha Pohflepp, Trees, U.S. Forest Service2 Comments on Design Futures, Sacred Groves
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[BlogEntry] More Faked Olympics Footage
August 12th, 2008 — News, Television
Yeah, the cute girl singing the anthem? that was fake, too.
It's not so much the lipsynching that's a big deal, it's the idea that the girl who actually sang it was not cute enough. And China does not have a problem with this, publicly stating
"The audience will understand that it's in the national interest," Chen said in a video of the interview posted online Sunday night.
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[BlogEntry] History of the Muppets
July 4th, 2008 — Television
Where Did The Muppets Come From?
This article caught my interest after a coworker let me borrow his DVD of Jim Henson's early work on the Ed Sullivan Show. In it, Cookie Monster is green, has teeth, and doesn't talk. Big Bird is very similar in body but has a tiny head. And Kermit is really the exact same.
I was under the impression that Rolf the Dog was the first official "Muppet", but according to the list, Kermit was around for nearly a decade before Rolf.
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[BlogEntry] Celebrity Circus : New Summer Hit!
June 18th, 2008 — Television
When you first saw the commercials for Celebrity Circus you may have thought, as I did, "Wait…wasn't there a Circus of the Stars back in the 70's?" Yes, but this isn't even close. It has what has become the standard celebreality gameshow format – some borderline celebrities, most famous only for being on other reality shows, compete in events they don't have any experience in. Three judges give comments, then America votes them off. All standard stuff.
The big difference here is that the events are actually interesting, and hard. This is not the kind of circus with lion tamers and jugglers, this is more like the Cirque du Soleil variety, where most of the events are variations on trapeze and usually involve some level of flying/spinning. There's the hoop, the "silks", a tandem trapeze, a bungee cord thing… I quite like the silks, which basically translates to "as long as I've got a grip on this thing, I might launch into the air at any moment."
The direction is a little weak, especially when the "pros" (in this case, circus folk) have to cover for the celebrities. In any event where there's a harness involved there'll be periods where you suddenly focus on the side act for 10 seconds, and you realize there's something going on, like a person being unhooked, that you're not supposed to see. And then there's the unfortunate fact that they already, even in the first week, feel the need to pad the show out to 90 minutes by having various clips and other interview segments that really should be reserved for later in the series run.
Anyway, the celebrities are the typical assortment:
Christopher Knight – when you're still getting introduced as Peter Brady 30 years later I'm not sure if that is a bigger testament to the Brady Bunch show, or to your lack of having done anything else. But Knight is clearly the elder statesman of the group, and I hope he does well.
Wee Man – Jackass. That's not a personal comment, or maybe it is. He's from the Jackass crew. Can't stand to look at him, he's annoying. He keeps screwing up his act. If that's because he's little, fine, but why did he sign up in the first place?
Blu Cantrell – No idea what she does, she a singer? Based on her attitude the first week, she won't last a second. Lots of segments of her sitting down on the job taking a nap, and then copping attitude and saying stupid things like "When my body tells me to rest I have to rest, that doesn't tell you anything about my work ethic, you don't know me." Well yeah, we kinda do now…
Stacey Dash – Here's another one where if you're most known for something from 20 years ago (she was in Clueless), maybe your claim to celebrity is debatable.
Antonio Sabato, Jr – I'm sure I've heard the name, but I couldn't tell you what he's in. He's the most muscular of the bunch, and will surely do well in most events because of it.
Janet Evans – Olympic swimmer, does not have the body for the kinds of outfits they're putting her in. But again, professional athlete, she'll likely do very well. Her thing's gonna be "not a sexy bone in her body" apparently.
Rachel Hunter – Another one for the "famous because she's famous" category, last scene in Dancing With The Stars.
As for the judges, they fall more into the Dancing With The Stars pattern than American Idol. You've got:
Aurelia Cats – World renowned (?) trapeze artist in the Carrie Ann spot, she's the technical expert who will pick them apart on the details when she's in a bad mood.
Mitch Gaylord – I don't know if I'll call him Len Goodman, but he's the most neutral of the bunch as far as personality goes. Tries to say something nice every time, so he's more Paula Abdul in that respect.
Louie Spence – Needs to go. He's got the whole Bruno thing going, with the flare and the hands and the big personality. He's also gay as the day is long and announces it in every other word of every sentence. It's really really annoying.
This was only the second week, so it'll be interesting to see how hard / repetitive the events get. It's very much like Dancing in that they can repeat events each week but have a different celebrity do them, thus putting a new spin on it.
Blu is the first to go, which only makes sense, because she was horrible both in skill and personality. Even when she gets booted she's still complaining about the judging, suggesting the Aurelia come sing one of her songs. Here's the problem, Blu – you came on a show to compete in your ability to do the trapeze, which Aurelia is qualified to judge you on. You asked for it. Now go away. Or better, wait a week and take Wee Man with you next week.
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[BlogEntry] American Idol : Who Got Kicked Off 3/26/2008?
March 27th, 2008 — Television
As another blog just put it, "Now's the time on American Idol where it gets boring." There's a bunch of people floating around the middle that we just know aren't going to win, the question is merely which will go home first.
Personally I like David Cook, he sings in a style that I typically listen to. Of course, the downside is that what he sings every week sounds the exact same as every other week, and I expect that he will not rise to Daughtry-like heights. I bet the younger David has a stronger chance at winning it.
What was up with the country girl singing God Bless the USA and having the judges rave about the brilliance of it? Sure, it was a brilliant song in 2001 when American flags were sold out all around the country. But these days it just conjures up images of NASCAR races and guys with rifle racks and confederate flags in the back of their pickup. But I suppose that's who's doing the voting.
This week Chikezie is the first contestant in the bottom three. I thought Michael Johns or Ramiel would be next, but it's actually Syesha. This is a surprise to everybody. Personally I don't like her, just doesn't do anything for me, but I suppose she can actually sing. Last comes Jason, the dreadlock kid, who treats his place in the bottom three as a "shocker". Not really, Jason. Maybe unexpected this week, but your week is coming soon.
And then Jason's the first to sit down, leaving Syesha and Chikezie, showing that the voting clearly has nothing to do with the judges opinion as they loved Syesha and hated Chikezie. Personally I think it has to do with when the contestants open their mouth to talk back to the judges. Last week Amanda basically said "I don't care about Idol, I just want people to come see my show." And she's gone. This week it was Chikezie who, upon being called out for being cheezy, replied "But they [the audience] are who I'm singing for!"
Cheezy. And you're gone. I never liked him, because he breaks one of my standing rules for American Idol – if you start calling yourself by one name, I hate you. The only one who might have had a shot at that was Fantasia, and everybody still knows her last name is Barrino.
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[BlogEntry] American Idol : Celebrate Me Home, by Ruben Studdard
I had to go looking for that new exit song that played when David got booted. Although they said that Ruben Studdard recorded it, it appears to be originally by Kenny Loggins in 1976:
Please, celebrate me home,
Give me a number,
Please, celebrate me home
Play me one more song,
That Ill always remember,
And I can recall,
Whenever I find myself too all alone,
I can sing me home.
The lyrics to the original by Kenny Loggins can be found here.
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[BlogEntry] American Idol Results : Who Got Kicked Off Wednesday, March 12 2008?
I am way behind in my American Idol posts, so I thought I'd just do the results shows to catch up. This week was Beatles week, although technically they kept calling it Lennon/McCartney week.
Your bottom three are Syesha, David Hernandez, and Kristy Lee Cook. The most interesting thing this week is the whole gay stripper thing hanging over David's head. Sure enough, he's the one to go. Which makes the conspiracy theorists go nuts. Is it fixed? Is it a little too coincidental that the controversial contestant is gone so fast? Or is that really America showing its intolerance? Or could it just possibly be that he was the worst singer this week?
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The View From The Pier
An independent blog looking at ethical fashion, sweatshops, organics, sustainability, charity and the third sector. The world of apparel and its worldwide impact, mixed with articles about fundraising and charities. Written and produced by Rob Wickings.
Making Fair Trade Transparent With Pachacuti.
Transparency and traceability are two key ideas that help to define ethical fashion. To put it more simply, knowing how and where our clothes are made. That's pretty important if we want to be sure they're being made with the appropriate levels of respect for the environment and people who create them.
Technology is helping companies that would otherwise have little idea or control over the production process to ensure their products are being put together as they'd hope. The communication and navigation tech that we take for granted is changing the way ethical fashion gets from remote locations to your door.
We've talked in the past about Pachacuti, who work with native artisans in Ecuador to make brilliant Panama hats. Over the past three years, they've been willing partners with the EU Geo Fair Trade project in a scheme which has brought unprecedented levels of traceability to their supply chain. The aim: to provide visible accountability of sustainable provenance, both for raw materials as well as production processes.
The results have been pretty remarkable. Pachacuti hats are woven in the remote region of Azuay–an area that is largely inaccessible by road. Despite that, the project has managed to log GPS tags that shows the 154 houses in which Pachacuti hats are woven. It doesn't stop there. Data on the areas where the all-important straw is harvested and processed has also been collected–from weather patterns to the times when the roads become impassable.
Why bother with all that? Well, by tracking where materials are coming from, it's easier to open lines of communication, allowing Pachacuti to work with the Ecuadorian people to ensure their product is produced sustainably and fairly. The communities that produce the straw and hats work as collectives, protecting the land and the folks who toil upon it. Communication equals transparency, allowing both sides to deal with each other openly, honestly and most importantly, accountably.
The craft of creating a Panama hat in Ecuador is, if you'll pardon the pun, woven into the culture. It permeates so deeply into Ecuadorian life that in 2012 UNESCO put hat weaving onto their list of Intangible Cultural Heritage: knowledge, traditions and rituals which pervade the everyday life of a community, passed down through generations and forming an intrinsic part of their identity and culture. It's vital that it be both celebrated and protected.
These rural communities suffer from high rates of migration and alcoholism, which aren't helped by the unscrupulous practices of most traders who buy hats from them. Pachacuti are setting a different example, working directly with collectives to ensure high quality and a fair price. As the word gets out that there is a better way than deling with the scalpers, one that protects their rights and culture, then communities are seeing the benefits to allowing a transparent and sustainable model guide the way they do business with the West. The EU Geo Fair Trade project is a pilot, but everyone involved is highly enthusiastic about the future.
Most importantly, it dispels a well-worn myth. Panama hats aren't made in Panama at all, and now we have the data to prove it!
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Labels: environment, ethical issues, fair trade, Fashion Revolution, sustainabilty
Vivienne Westwood Vs. The World
It's been a busy old month for Pier Crush Vivienne Westwood. She's released her autobiography, of course, which should be a lock on the Christmas list of every self-respecting eco-fashionista (hint hint). It tells the story of her turbulent life as punk icon and fashion innovator.
But Westwood shows no signs of slowing down in her seventies, becoming ever more politically engaged. Her fears about climate change have energised her work over the past few years, and we're now seeing nothing less that a genuine, unstoppable force of nature.
For example, her opposition to the extension of new fracking licenses in the north of England is well-known, and has led to the birth of her Climate Revolution brand. But while most people would start a petition or write to their MPs, Vivienne went one louder. She drove a white tank through the Prime Minister's constituency of Witney in Oxfordshire, pulling up virtually at his front door in the village of Chadlington. The point was clear: how do you like the noise, mess and pollution, David?
Vivienne Westwood and the Nanas launch Talk Fracking tour from rikki on Vimeo.
Vivienne has also brought the Climate Revolution message to London Fashion Week, currently clogging the gutters of Soho in fake fur and used MAC lipsticks. She staged a noisy protest on the opening day, complete with banner-waving models marching through the streets. The "Fash Mob", conveniently scheduled before her Red Label S/S16 show, was a sharp way to show how fashion and politics have always shared DNA. The show itself featured Mad Max stylings with spray-stripe make-up, with the Fash Mob hollering their approval from the cheap seats. Part catwalk show, part protest rally, Westwood showed that not only is she still relevant, but that she's leading the pack when it comes to innovation and sheer entertainment value. Shiny and chrome.
Livia Firth Takes Over HuffPo for Sustainable Fashion Month
Livia Firth, one of our favourite eco-fashionistas, has taken over as guest editor of The Huffington Post this month–a smart move as September also sees London Fashion Week litter the streets of Soho with glitter and pouts. Putting the website's focus strongly on sustainable fashion, Livia has a lot to say on what defines the term. Her view: it's impossible.
In her opening editorial, Livia says:
"Words such as ethical, sustainable or ecological fashion have been so over used that they create more confusion than certainties.
The truth is we are in a situation today perfectly described by Carlo Petrini, founder of the Slow Food Movement when he asked a very simple question: "How did we end up in an era when we have to define and certify things that should be normal?"
To unpick that, we need to define unsustainable (and fast) fashion."
The notion of unsustainable fashion is significantly easier to quantify. In short, it's all the production methods that we have campaigned against for so long: sweatshop labour, unmonitored use of toxic chemicals, even the season model that insists we chuck out our wardrobe and start again twice a year.
But fast fashion is a whole new kind of monster, one that's ramping up the damage to almost absurd levels.
"Fast fashion is a relatively new phenomenon. One that's caught us all, as consumers, in an absurd circle of micro trends. Think about it. Around two mini seasons a week in store. Disposable clothes that stay in a woman's closet for an average of just five weeks, before being thrown out - all in the name of the democratization of fashion.
In reality, this is exploiting not just us, the "consumers", but also the planet's resources and the people who produce them. The collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh in April 2013 showed the world the true human cost of production at these volumes and prices. And don't even mention the environmental impact. It's enough to say that between 11,000 and 20,000 litres of water are needed to produce just ONE pair of jeans."
That's the bad news. The good news is that once you've identified a problem the solution becomes obvious. Fast fashion is clearly a problem. The solution is not to play the game. There's no reason to buy according to micro-trends. Show a little taste. Buy less often, but with an eye to the future, with the understanding that everything you buy is going to last you. At the same time, urge manufacturers to do their bit for their workers and the environment.
Ethical fashion is, ultimately, about common sense in the face of an industry that seems to have gone completely mad. The pushback is happening, and voices like Livia Firth's are at the front of that effort. Pay attention. It might just change your life.
I urge you to read Livia's editorial, and to keep an eye on HuffPost's sustainable fashion month.
Labels: environment, ethical issues, fashion, Fashion Revolution, fast fashion, high street, sustainabilty
UDITA!
I wouldn't call it light viewing, but a documentary released in May has come across the Pier's News Desk that I think will be of interest. Udita is a film taking on the predicament of garment workers in Bangladesh, and their struggle to organise, unionise and get a fair deal for their work.
Udita (Bangladeshi for 'arise') follows a turbulent half decade in the lives of women on the front line in the garment workers struggle. From 2010, when organising in the workplace would lead to beatings, sacking and arrests, through the tragedies of Tazreen and Rana Plaza, through to the present day, when the long fight has begun to pay dividends. We see this vital period through the eyes of union members, workers and leaders.
Udita is the work of acclaimed activist documentary film-makers Rainbow Collective. It weaves the stories of people they have followed in earlier films like 'The Machinists' and 'Tears In The Fabric' with those of new characters. The narrative they create is compelling, moving and inspiring.
There's a real upsurge in films highlighting the struggles of garment workers and ethical fashion, but Udita is one that's worth checking out for its clear vision and obvious empathy with the people portrayed. Perhaps not the most unbiased of documentaries, but a little righteous anger against injustice never hurt.
Watch Udita in full below.
Labels: cotton industry, ethical issues, fair trade, fast fashion
Keeping circuses cruelty-free with Animal Defenders
The circus. A happy place, full of fun, thrills and good clean family entertainment. Unless you're an animal that's part of the show. Then you're more likely to be spending your life in cages that are too small for your needs, subject to cruelty and mistreatment by your owners and handlers.
There's a wide consensus that circuses featuring wild animals are un-necessarily cruel. But it may surprise you to know that they haven't actually been made illegal in the UK. A ban was promised by the government in 2012. In 2013 it published draft legislation to that effect, but it has still to be passed. This is a shame, as across the globe bans are taking shape and being enforced. In Peru and Columbia, lions, tigers and bears are being rescued from their cages and rehabilitated. Although it would be great to release them back into the wild, most circus animals have been declawed and suffer from broken teeth. So they're given a forever home in a sanctuary preferably in their native habitat, or as close as rescue workers can get to that.
A lot of that essential work is being done by groups like Animal Defenders International. Founded in 1990, the charity uses video surveillance and powerful campaigns to get the message across about animal cruelty in all its forms: in entertainment, the illegal harvesting of ivory and the fur trade. It was thanks to ADI that the news first broke on Anne the Elephant and her cruel treatment at the hands of her "owners", Bobby and Moira Roberts. ADI were directly responsible for the ban on wild animals in Bolivian circuses, and continues to work on their rescue and rehabilitation.
In fact, ADI are on hand at most protests, demos and rallies where animal welfare is the primary concern. Which is where Pier32 comes in. If you've seen an Animal Defenders tee or scrub on the news, it's come from us.
Junior, getting help from a dentist after being rescued from a circus in Peru.
We're proud to be associated with a world-wide charity that's doing so much to help animals in need across the globe. Their ongoing project working with rescue circus animals in Peru is fascinating, and shows a real sea-change in the way we view the use of wild creatures in entertainment.
To find out more, visit the website: http://www.ad-international.org
Animal Defenders use our SW350 Cool Tee: http://www.pier32.co.uk/product/sw350-cool-tee/
Labels: charities, environment, our clients, our clothing products, Pier32, t-shirt decisions
Make Your Clothes Last Longer
As a writer on ethical fashion, I try to find inspration from everywhere I can. It's such an open subject, taking in aspects of the environment, worker relations and health and safety, technology, science and the arts. So I cast my net widely.
I make no apologies, then, for giving a shout-out to a recent article on BuzzFeed. Yeah, that's right, the place with all the weird quizzes and cat GIFs. The thing is, BuzzFeed is a big place, and there's a lot of smart life-hacks on there.
A hat-tip, then, to staff writer Maitland Quitmeyer (please, let that be her real name) for an aggregated piece entitled 22 Borderline Genius Ways To Make Your Clothes Last Longer. There are some genuinely valuable ideas in here, designed to give the items in your wardrobe that little extra boost. Really simple things too, like how to hang a sweater to avoid the dreaded shoulder bumps. Or a neat way to waterproof fabric shoes (like Toms, for example) using beeswax and a hairdryer.
Crucially, the last tip gives the heads-up on how long you should wear clothes between washes. One of the major ways we can cut energy use in the home is by using power-hungry appliances like washers and driers a little less. Our perception of what's dirty against the reality of everyday use is a little skewed. You can wear jeans for 10 days without needing to throw them in the washing basket. Chunky knits and sweaters, even longer. No-one's suggesting you turn your pants inside-out for that second day's wear, of course. But it's worth considering whether that t-shirt really needs to go in for a boil-wash after a single four-hour wear if you haven't done anything strenuous.
It's also worth noting that Maitland extols the use of washing lines over dryers. These have a couple of advantages. Firstly, they don't cost anything to run. Secondly, they're better for your clothes. Less agitation means less wear and tear. And sunlight has anti-bacterial properties, keeping your beloved items fresher for longer. If you're worried about fading, simply turn your clothes inside out before getting them on the line.
Being an ethical fashionista is as much about making the most of what you already have as shopping smartly. Why throw a pair of jeans out because there's a hole in them? It takes ten minutes with an iron-on patch to repair them, and you don't need any sewing skills. Unless you like holes in the knees of your trews–I see that a lot these days.
I recommend a look at the BuzzFeed list, and see how these simple tips could radically extend the life in your clothing. Haven't you heard that it's cool to be frugal?
Labels: environment, sustainabilty
Oxfam Confronts The Charity Shop Dilemma
An interesting knock-on effect of the boom in fast fashion has been the hit that charity shops have taken. Clothes from shops like Primark are simply not fit for purpose after a few washes, which means those items are going straight in the bin instead of the recycle hopper. Added to that, people are buying fewer new clothes in general, and therefore hanging onto stuff that they would normally donate. Added to that, conflict in the Ukraine, traditionally a big market in second-hand and donated clothing, has seen a significant drop in demand and a glut of material in the marketplace.
The end result? Charity chains like Oxfam have seen a 3% slide in sales. And that's a problem for a business that has over 700 stores nationwide. What sort of a message does it send when even the charity shops start closing?
The problem for retailers in general is that we consumers have become much more savvy over the past couple of decades. The massive growth in online shopping has largely passed the charity market by–how do you cost-effectively market an individual donation? Meanwhile, the boom in discount stores like Aldi and Lidl, that can offer supermarket quality at pound-shop prices (including clothing), means that the traditional charity shop model has to change to survive.
Oxfam are now trailing discount stores in six locations, setting out its mix of donated fashion and homewares as well as its range of Fairtrade goods at cheap block prices–£1, £2 and £3. By getting people through the door, the idea is that they'll be enticed by the quality on offer and add Oxfam to their usual shopping mix.
It's not all bad news for Oxfam, of course. Their specialist Book And Music stores are havens for the specialist market, gathering rare vinyl and collectable literature in welcomingly inviting spaces. And although donations fell, public fundraising was up by 2.5%. An interesting response to those who feel charities are too invasive. In all, the charity's income actually rose by £12m last year.
Oxfam are at the leading edge of charity retail, and it'll be fascinating to see if other brands respond to the challenge. The tired notion of a shabby, unwelcoming charity shop as the last resort of the desperate is falling away, as smart shoppers see the benefits in buying pre-loved wares. There's a change in attitudes, to which the sector should respond imaginatively.
Labels: charities, competition, fast fashion, high street, recycling
A Bangladeshi Ban On "Rana Plaza" Film Could Help Its Chances
September 1st was supposed to see the release in Bangladesh of a drama about one of the greatest disasters to engulf the country in recent times–the Rana Plaza collapse. The building's failure in April 2013 cost over a thousand lives, and sent shockwaves through an industry that brings £25billion into the coffers every year.
You notice that I say "supposed." Sadly the film has been banned from screenings in its native country for the next six months. The high court of Bangladesh has deemed the film unfit to play in theaters for at least that long. Meanwhile the film’s director, Nazrul Islam Khan, claims it shows hope and transparency in the controversial garment industry.
The film, also called Rana Plaza, is a lightly fictionalised account of the incredible story of Reshma Begum, who was trapped beneath the rubble of the collapsed bulding for seventeen days. She survived in a tiny space that had dried food and bottled water, keeping her alive until rescue teams could dig her out. It's a remarkable tale, and one that deserves to be shown to the widest audience.
Sadly, the garment factory owners of Bangladesh disagree. They argue that the industry has suffered enough over the past couple of years, and that Khan's film shows it in an unflinchingly negative light. The film exposes the unacceptable conditions that Bangladeshi factory workers face every day. But Rana Plaza was found by the courts to be unfit for distribution for more prosaic reasons. The High Court ruling claimed that it contained horrific scenes that could affect workers. The prime petitioner in the case is a trade union leader, but it's unclear just how much influence powerful factory owners in Bangladesh had on the decision.
However, this ruling might just backfire on them. Khan is determined that his film should be shown, and the six-month embargo ends close to the three-year anniversary of the collapse. Our View–this is a much more potent marketing opportunity, keeping the tragedy firmly in the minds of a prospective audience. That's exactly the sort of thing the factory owners who fought so hard to silence the film wanted to avoid. We'll keep you posted as to when the film gets onto the big screens. Along with The True Cost, it could be one of the must-watches of this (or next) year for fans of ethical fashion.
Labels: environment, ethical issues, fashion, fast fashion
Five Steps To An Ethical You
It's all well and good for bloggers like me to wibble on about sustainable this and ethical that and highlight a new manufacturing process that somewhere, ten years down the line might be the way towards the light. But that doesn't help you now, does it? If you want to take an ethical approach to your fashion, then you need some practical and affordable steps to guide you.
Friends, I'm here to help. Here are a few ideas that'll give you a hand.
First up, do a bit of research. Ethical fashion is a complex beast, filled with misinformation, assumptions and outright lies. Things change as well, of course, so it's worth keeping up to date with the latest news. I'd recommend the Guardian's sustainable business pages, and sites like Ecouterre. Twitter can also be an enormous help: follow key names like Livia Firth, Orsola de Castro, Carry Somers and Fashion Revolution.
Of course, I'm not going to give away all my sources...
Next up, I know it'll be expensive to replace a wardrobe full of clothes. My advice: don't. Start with the small things. Affordable accessories made from upcycled or recycled materials are a great way to get started, and you'll usually be helping small businesses or ethnic communities running their own start-ups. There are great pieces out there made from things like recycled paper fused into a kind of resin, or fabric cast-offs. Have a nose around. There's plenty to choose from.
Then, start looking at the materials that make up your clothing. Clothes made primarily from synthetics like rayon or nylon are heavy burdens on the environment, using tons of chemicals and energy to produce. They're also non biodegrable, staying in landfill for decades. If you can, stay natural, or explore more esoteric materials like hemp or even nettle. One proviso: Tencel is an engineered fabric made from tree cellolose. As I mentioned last week, it's a highly sustainable fabric and well worth looking into, especially if you're in the market for basics or sportswear. It might sound synthetic–it's nothing of the sort.
A great way to get sustainable is to dress with an eye to the future. A classic silhouette doesn't age, and remains impervious to trends. A piece bought now that still looks classy five or ten years down the line is a properly sustainable investment, and something that can team with other items you already own give you a ton more options. There's a reason that the little black dress is still popular, you know...
Lastly, take a long, hard look at your wardrobe. See if you can team items in different ways. Maybe adapt or reaccessorise a piece to give it a fresh new look. If there's something you really can't stand any more, donate or recycle it. If you have M&S gear that needs to go, you can shwop it, donating in-store or at your local Oxfam for money-off vouchers on a new treat. There are plenty of options out there that don't involve tearfully binning half your wardrobe.
Above all, have fun! Ethical fashion is an exciting, forward-facing area of the industry, full of innovation and invention. At the same time, it keys into classically frugal approaches that your grandma would recognise and approve of. Shopping and thinking ethically will save you money and have you looking good while giving the environment a hand. Why would you not want to give that a try?
Labels: ethical issues, fashion, Fashion Revolution, fast fashion, high street, recycling, sustainabilty
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Moorside
The two-part ITV drama “Moorside” follows the notorious kidnapping of nine-year-old Shannon Matthews, who disappeared from her home estate in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire in 2008. The facts of the case are familiar to many. After three weeks, the case (originally reported by Karen Matthews) escalated to a murder investigation. But Shannon is then discovered under a bed, in a nearby house owned by Karen’s friend, Michael Donovan. The masterminds allegedly conspired to stage an abduction, and to later share £50,000 reward for her safe return home.
This story does not focus on the abduction, or Shannon, or the eventual arrests, but the crusade of neighbour, Julie Bushby (Sheridan Smith.) The new angle on the controversial tale was a genius decision by writer, Neil McKay, and producer, Jeff Pope. It avoids clichés, and the risk of milking a well-known plot. Instead, it begins with a phone call that sets everything into motion.
Julie desperately attempts to show the unity of the residents. She organises a community search, rallies, involves the media, and becomes a common face on British news channels, giving multiple inspiring speeches during their hunt for Shannon.
Knowing the truth while Julie and her neighbours defend and help Karen makes it difficult viewing. But throughout the frustration, Julie’s loyalty to her friend, even after the truth unfolds, is inspiring. The obvious concern is that the entire programme depicts a scenario of group delusion, just a year after the notorious abduction of Madeline McCann.
The cast is marvellous. Sheridan Smith (“Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps”) inhabits her character, giving one of her finest performances. Sian Brooke puts the skills she learned from her brother in “Sherlock” to good use as Natalie Brown, a friend who suspects Karen’s involvement in the case. And Gemma Whelan from “Game of Thrones” shows her versatility as an actress. Gemma portrays Karen as naive and immature, the complete opposite of what we imagine at the sound of her name. The childish representation purposely leaves a lot of room to question Karen’s mental stability, presenting her as ignorant rather than evil, but be assured, her actions are not even once excused.
Although director Paul Whittington brings to life a very bleak tale, the contrasting comedy is what makes you keep watching. The new style is becoming very popular in recent entertainment, playing on the viewer’s fear and amusement. The benefit street “Moorside” explores the cramped, overcrowded semis in which the best, and the worst of human person dwell. Karen is desperate to fool the world. The community are desperate to show their worth. And Julie is desperate for a few moments of fame. But the show is still non-judgemental, allowing each viewer to make up their own mind.
To any parent, the disappearance of a child is inconceivable. For the unfortunate few, the guilt of a missing loved one is purgatory. The production is real from beginning and to end, but still remains sensitive to the victim in all of this, an eighteen year old Shannon, who is hopefully living a happy life.
Cayleigh Chan
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MYRSKY [THE TEMPEST], with music by Jean Sibelius; directed by Ville Sandqvist, conducted by Tuomas Hannikainen at the Helsinki Music Center Concert Hall, Helsinki, Finland. 21 November 2015.
Reviewed by Nely Keinänen
1 Tuomas Hannikainen as Prospero
The new concert hall in Helsinki was built for acoustics and not for ease of access: it’s approached from the top, with steep stairs leading down in various odd angles towards a central stage at the bottom: music in the round. It was a perfect setting for The Tempest with music by Jean Sibelius (op. 109). The production, part of the Sibelius 150 celebrations, brought together talented performers from the Sibelius Academy and Theater Academy, with production help from the School of Arts, Design and Architecture at Aalto University, Finland.
2. Chike Ohanwe as Prospero
As the audience took their seats, the stage was empty except for the chairs and music stands the orchestra would eventually inhabit, and a large round podium for the conductor. In walked Tuomas Hannikainen as Prospero (one of three playing the role), who started the storm with a flourish of his baton. In an absolutely brilliant piece of staging, the storm took place outside the auditorium, in the lobby which is separated by glass walls from the performance space, rather high above. Huge white sheets were shaken to form waves, and the terrified sailors and passengers ran helter-skelter in the din. Slowly they made their way down to the stage–actors, orchestra and chorus–with cries of “we’re lost, we’re lost.” Throughout the production, director Ville Sandqvist used every available space–and even some which weren’t available, as in a sequence where Caliban asked members of the audience to move over so he could take their seats and lay down under his cloak as the storm approached. Actors balanced on ledges, singers peered over balconies, and even the organ platform high above became the conspirators’ hideout. I wasn’t sure how the concert hall would work for theater, but the verdict is clear: splendidly.
3. Mari Naumala as Prospero
Sandqvist, who wrote the script based on a translation by Eeva-Liisa Manner, has a flair for the metatheatrical. Two actors were responsible for multiple speaking parts: Mari Naumala moved seamlessly between Prospero, Ariel and Miranda, while Chike Ohanwe played Prospero, Caliban and Ferdinand. Especially the shared speeches of Prospero were effective, echoing each other like musical themes moving between instruments, complementing beautifully the enormously rich textures and nuances of Sibelius’s music. This minimalist casting was balanced by maximalist casting: Ariel was played by five singers dressed like mermaids, with flowing blue-green dresses and Marilyn Monroe-like wigs. Their rendition of “Full Fathom Five” was exquisite. The same singers also doubled as the shipwrecked courtiers, sometimes comically represented by red top hats.
4 Five Ariels left to right: Hannakaisa Nyrönen, Saara Kiiveri, Laura Mäkitalo, Alina Koivula, Tuuri Viik-Dede.
Fun was had with Caliban’s conspiracy. In the longest metatheatrical insertion, Caliban the actor finds and trains Caliban the singer (played by Mikko Sateila, who has an excellent voice), then Trinculo (a very funny Jussi Vänttinen, who somehow managed to hold his body at an 80 degree angle for much of the performance). Stephano (Henri Tikkanen) had to start over his song. I felt these jokes went on for a bit long, but enjoyed the moment when Prospero/Hannikainen directed an orchestra playing silently upon their instruments. Another effective linking between music and theater was when the three conspirators were distracted from their mission by the orchestra itself, and wandered through it fondling instruments and clothing.
The masque scene, when it finally came (the Ariels went on strike first), was beautiful, both vocally and visually. Another fine moment came near the end, in the interplay between Prospero and the Ariels (here played by the actors):
Naumala: Your charm so strongly works ‘em,
That if you now beheld them, your affections
Would become tender.
Hannikainen: Dost thou think so, spirit?
Ohanwe: Mine would, sir, were I human.
Hannikainen: And mine shall.
5 stage overview
This fine and often very moving production reminded me of a Tempest I took my students to see at Shakespeare’s Globe Theater in 2005, where Alex Hassell, Edward Hogg and Mark Rylance covered the speaking roles, supplemented by dancers and singers. As I suspect happens in these sorts of productions, those who know the play well are dazzled, and those who are unfamiliar with it are a little confused (in both cases, I spent much of the intermission explaining the plot to my companions). But nevertheless, the combination here of Sibelius’s music, spectacle and farce added up to one of the most enjoyable evenings in the theater I’ve had in a long time. The only pity was that this was a one-off performance. I would have liked to see it again.
6 Conspirators planning: Jussi Vänttinen (Trinculo), Henri Tikkanen (Stephano), Mikko Sateila (Caliban) and Chike Ohanwe (Caliban/Prospero)
Photo Credit: Marko Mäkinen
Author: Nely Keinanen
Nely Keinänen is a university lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Helsinki, where she teaches Shakespeare, British Literature and Translation. Her publications include Authority of Experience in Early Modern England, co-edited with Maria Salenius, and Shakespeare Suomessa [Shakespeare in Finland] a collection of essays by translators, directors, and actors. She is currently editing George Peele’s Old Wives Tale for the Queen’s Men Editions. Nely also translates modern Finnish drama into English, including three Shakespeare spinoffs (Juha Lehtola's Spinning Othello, Jari Juutinen's Juliet, Juliet! and Lauri Sipari and Liisa Urpelainen's Romeo vs. Juliet). She is our Associate Editor for Finland.
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Wired Broadband and Related Industry Glossary of Terms with Acronyms As of 13 June 2011 Compiled By: Conrad L. Young, Director, Broadband Technical Strategy
Optical Carrier level n. The optical carrier rate of a synchronous optical network (SONET). [Arr11]
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Optical Carrier level with integer; a carrier rate specified in the SONET standard. [Fib111]
SONET/SDH Designations, including Optical Carrier Level, OC-x, and Bandwidths
SONET Optical Carrier Level
SONET Frame Format
SDH level and Frame Format
Payload bandwidth[nb 3] (Kbit/s)
Line Rate (Kbit/s)
STS-1
STM-0
STM-16
OC-192
STM-256
OC-3072
STS-3072
STM-1024
Telcordia GR-253-CORE, SONET Transport Systems: Common Generic Criteria
Telcordia GR-499-CORE, Transport Systems Generic Requirements (TSGR): Common Requirements
ANSI T1.105: SONET - Basic Description including Multiplex Structure, Rates and Formats
ANSI T1.119/ATIS PP 0900119.01.2006: SONET - Operations, Administration, Maintenance, and Provisioning (OAM&P) - Communications
ITU-T recommendation G.707: Network Node Interface for the Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)
ITU-T recommendation G.783: Characteristics of synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) equipment functional blocks
ITU-T recommendation G.803: Architecture of Transport Networks Based on the Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)
Outlet Digital Adapter [Arr11]
Optical Distribution Network; term for optical networks being developed for interactive video, audio, and data distribution. [Fib111]
ODRL
Open Digital Rights Language Initiative
Optical Electrical Converter
OEIC
Opto-Electronic Integrated Circuit; an integrated circuit that includes both optical and electrical elements. [Fib111]
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex; a digital transmission technique that uses a large number of carriers spaced apart at slightly different frequencies. First promoted in the early 1990s for wireless LANs, OFDM is used in many wireless applications including Wi-Fi, WiMAX, LTE, ultra-wideband (UMB), as well as digital radio and TV broadcasting in Europe and Japan. It is also used in land-based ADSL (see OFDMA). Although frequency division multiplexing (FDM) implies multiple data streams, orthogonal FDM carries only one data stream broken up into multiple signals. Hundreds or thousands of carriers, known as "subcarriers," are used for a single data channel. Multiple subcarriers enable the receiver to more easily detect the signals in environments with multipath and other interference. In addition, each subcarrier can transmit a lower-speed signal, all of which are aggregated at the receiving side into the original high-speed signal. Lower speed signals are also more easily deciphered at the receiving end. OFDM subcarriers can be modulated by any method, although QAM and QPSK are typically used (see QAM and PSK). Coded OFDM (COFDM) adds forward error correction. [PCm11]
OEO
Optical-Electrical-Optical
Refers to the reception of television broadcast signals transmitted over the air and received through the use of either a log-periodic or yagi type antenna. Synonymous with over-the-air. [Arr11]
Reception of a TV signal that has been broadcast through the air.
Office of Telecommunications Policy (OTP)
Division of the staff of the Executive Office of the President that advises the Executive Branch on communications policy, studies policy questions, and develops legislative proposals.
Off-Net Call
A communication connecting a PacketCable subscriber to a user on the PSTN.
The frequency separation between inbound and outbound carriers on the same communication channel. Typically 192.25 MHz. [Arr11]
OFTEL
The Office of Telecommunications of the United Kingdom government. This unit a part of the Department of Industries regulates telecommunications in the United Kingdom. [Sat07]
The standard unit of resistance, reactance and impedance. A resistant of 1 ohm will conduct 1 ampere of current when a voltage of 1 volt is placed across it.
Stated E = IR, I = E/R or R = E/I, the current I in a circuit is directly proportional to the voltage E and inversely proportional to the resistance R. [Arr11]
OID
Object Identification
OLIU
Optical Line Interface Unit. The optical transceiver. [Arr11] Also referred to as the OLT.
Optical Line Termination; optical network elements that terminate a line signal. [Fib111]
OLTS
Optical Loss Test Set; a source and optical power meter combined used to measure optical loss. [Fib111]
Optical Multiplex Section; a section of a DWDM system that incorporates an optical add/drop multiplexer (OADM). [Fib111]
On-demand Service
A type of telecommunication service in which the communication path is established almost immediately in response to a user request brought about by means of a user-network signaling.
One-way Hash
A hash function that has an insignificant number of collisions upon output.
One-Way System
The ability to receive TV programming through the broadband network. Customers wanting to order movies and other services must use traditional methods to do so rather than using the two-directional interactive capabilities offered through the Two-Way System. As the physical plant is upgraded, one-way systems will be replaced by two-way systems.
Optical Network Interface; a device used in an optical distribution network to connect two parts of that network. [Fib111]
On-Net Call
A communication placed by one customer to another customer entirely on the PacketCable Network.
Optical Network Unit; IEEE terminology for the optical network element that terminates a line signal in installations where the fiber extends into the customer premises. [Fib111] Optical Network Unit (ONU) is the generic name for a device installed at a subscriber’s premises to convert fiber access interfaces to Ethernet, plain old telephone system (POTS), and other interfaces, whether the device is serving one or more subscribers. [FTT09] In a PON the fiber link is terminated in the central office at an Optical Line Terminal or OLT. OLT devices are the semiconductors that perform that function. They interface to the fiber link connecting the central office equipment to the customer premises equipment or CPE. In the CPE, the fiber link is terminated by an Optical Network Unit, or ONU, or by an Optical Network Terminal, or ONT. These terms have the same meaning, but ONU is IEEE terminology and ONT is ITU-T terminology. The acronym R-ONU is used to describe the RF over Glass (RFoG) optical network unit in an effort to differentiate the device from those employed in other forms of passive optical networks. [SCT11]
Optical Network Termination; ITU-T terminology for a network element that is part of a fiber-in-the-loop system. [Fib111] In common usage, an Optical Network Terminal (ONT) serves a single subscriber premises such as a stand-alone house. An ONT has no need for security between its few interfaces and sells for perhaps a few hundred dollars. A typical indoor ONT is shown below. [FTT09]
ONT Photograph courtesy of FTTxtra dot com, http://www.fttxtra.com/ftth/onu-or-ont/
OOB
Out-Of-Band (OOB) Channel. The OOB receive circuit typically in use today is intended for use within cable and SATCOM-DBS industry STBs, TVs of all types except hand-held mobile devices, DOCSIS® Set-top Box Gateways (DSGs), residential gateways (RGs), some FTTx ONU/ONTs, and some CATV HE equipment, is specified via two ANSI/SCTE specifications, ANSI/SCTE 55-1 2002 and ANSI/SCTE 55-2 2002 and is referenced within Data-Over-Cable Service Interface Specifications (DOCSIS) "DOCSIS Set-top Gateway (DSG) Interface Specification, CM-SP-DSG-I14-090529. It is important to note that the ANSI/SCTE specifications are issued by a body with no legislative authority. OEMs comply with these specifications voluntarily. The ANSI/SCTE OOB specifications detail both receive (downstream, DS) and return (upstream, US) path architectures. The referenced specifications were under review and published nearly in parallel with original DOCSIS® 1.0 specifications. DOCSIS® adopted the ANSI/SCTE OOB return path specifications nearly in their entirety as the "baseline" lowest performance level and highest reliability set of upstream (US) physical (PHY) layer and RF transmission specifications. QPSK modulation, in the form described in the ANSI/SCTE OOB specifications, is employed by all DOCSIS® 1.x, 2.0, and 3.0 compliant modems when operating in its lowest performance, highest reliability mode. Fielded CPE utilizing a dedicated OOB return path is uncommon today, but will be a key component in devices within some HFC networks utilizing switched digital video (SDV) architectures and features. Cisco S-A and Big Band Networks SDV topologies rely on an OOB signalling path for critical HFC network signalling between the HE or hub and connected CPE. One would logically expect future generation Cisco S-A STBs, CMs, DSGs, RGs, and related devices to be equipped with both an OOB receive (for downstream, DS) and OOB transmit (for upstream, US) set of circuits.[CLY09]
ANSI/SCTE 55-1 2009, Digital Broadband Delivery System: Out of Band Transport Part 1: Mode A specifies the Physical Layer and the Data Link Layer (including the MAC Layer) of the Out-Of-Band (OOB) cable system transport. Section 5 describes the Physical Layer protocol. Section 6 describes the Data Link Layer protocol.
ANSI/SCTE 55-2 2008, Digital Broadband Delivery System: Out of Band Transport Part 2: Mode B specifies the OOB Physical Layer (PHY) Interface supporting transmission over radio frequency coax (up to 1GHz bandwidth). The OOB PHY Interface is referred to as the bi-directional QPSK-link on HFC (Hybrid Fiber Coax). This Physical Layer Interface describes the complete physical layer structure, i.e. framing structure, channel coding and modulation for each direction Downstream and Upstream). For the downstream, QPSK modulation channel Grade A is mandatory and Grade B is optional. For the upstream, QPSK channel Grade B is mandatory and Grades A and C are optional.
Spectrum Allocation For the Bi-directional PHY on Coax
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By Christine Ayala Posted on February 19, 2013 at 7:17 pm
Sandra Ogenche and Justin Shank will no longer be on the Student Government executive alliance ballot.
Election Supervisory Board vice-chairman Ryan Lutz said Ogenche was notified of an ineligibility problem with her filing before the candidate seminar Jan. 12, though the board and the Dean of Students gave an extension to resolve the issue. Lutz said the board decided to remove their names from the ballot Tuesday, after the alliance failed to solve the problem during the extension period.
Ogenche is a government and pre-entry public health junior and Shank is a biology senior.
“There was evidence to suggest that it was an administrative error and that it would be corrected quickly,” Lutz said. “With that knowledge in mind, the ESB and [Dean of Students Soncia Reagins-Lilly] gave her almost a day-by-day extension for her to go ahead and straighten out any issues she had.”
Because the alliance's file was pending they were asked by the Dean of Students to stop campaigning Monday night.
“She was not considered a candidate at all during that time. She was in a pending status and therefore was not eligible to campaign,” Lutz said. “Unfortunately she has just run out of time, we have to release the ballot tomorrow and it just came down to not having all the ducks in a row.”
After a closed meeting Tuesday night, the board issued a resolution stating that the alliance had not met the requirements outlined in the Student Government Constitution to participate in the election. The resolution also states the issue involves information protected by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy, so the board could not disclose specific details.
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Green Square Gunyama Park & Aquatic Centre
Aquatic Centre, Community Space, Park
Design Partner:
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Zetland, NSW
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The project addresses the dilemma of the contemporary urban condition where on the one hand, urban density and the activity of daily life is necessarily intensifying, while on the other, the need to have a counterpoint, a release or an escape, is increasingly important in finding balance.
Gunyama Park and Aquatic Centre lies within the burgeoning high density centre of Green Square as a counterpoint to the intensity of urban life.
Scale and landscape are pivotal in this objective.
To have a vastness for the eye to gaze and a restful space in which to take a breather from the urban surround are vital in satisfying this need. To have a nice place to start the day, a place with a seat in the sun, fresh air, and a park configured for promenading, playing, jogging, pramming and biking is equally important. Gunyama Park is all of this.
The park is structured as a rectangular field across the entire available area to give it vastness.
It is edged by a shaded promenade within a formal grove of trees to make an endlessly functional perimeter for walking, running, lingering and observing. The edge is anonymous yet familiar - a place for neighbourly exchanges and the strengthening of community ties. To walk here is to be immersed in the park giving everyday community users and passers-by the park experience while contributing activity and movement beyond just the destinational user.
The southern edge is fundamental in this scenario. Bathed in direct sunlight during winter and with the benefit of a car free zone edged by restaurants, shops and cafes, it will become a community hotspot, a place for markets, and a key secondary movement spine between destinations further afield. Providing both prospect & refuge, the edge sits between the everyday, and the perpetual pull of the park to come play and escape.
The park is an aberrant hybrid of artificial and natural habitats.
The main body of the park is like a rectangular transect through a native landscape terrain that is at one end a flat plane, but at the other, rolling dunes. This reinstated landscape is designed to exhibit the variety of native species that would have predominated pre-settlement with dunal characteristics of Eastern Surburb’s Banksia Shrub to the east transitioning to an integrated green roof wetland system to the west. The landscape is both resilient and functional with the wetlands filtering rejected water from the aquatic centre for greywater usages.
The sports facilities float within this fluid native landscape in contrast with the formal edges to the park. These are supported with activity spaces, barbecue areas and a playground to provide for leisure pursuits within a naturalistic setting. It’s not just a sports precinct, but an ecology of landscapes enriched by the seasons as change ebbs through the park.
A defined depression of synthetic turf cuts a crisp spectator edge against this landscape while a skateboard park is interwoven within the undulations of the dunes to the east.
The lowering of the aquatic centre within the park avoids complicating the appreciation of the landscape. There’s no fence or building, but rather a continuity of landscape and space. While the architecture and its visual presence might be recessive, the delight of swimming is amplified and celebrated.
Much like The Rink at the Rockefeller Center, the pool becomes a stage set, a spectacle within the park where the splash and joy of water activities lure passers-by to the edge.
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Lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury's experiences with mental health have been well-chronicled.
His fight to maintain his mental health, which included suicidal thoughts, played a role in Fury not boxing for more than 2 ½ years after upsetting Wladimir Klitschko to win three major titles in 2015.
The inactivity cost him the belts, but he returned to the ring in 2018, using his platform to become an outspoken advocate for mental health awareness and using his own example to help inspire people around the world.
It has resonated with some, as Fury said a few days ago he was approached by a man who wanted to take his own life and Fury helped talk him out of it.
"I had a strange experience -- very strange. I'm very humbled in one way and freaked out in another," Fury said, according to his management company MTK Global. "A random stranger came to my house and told me he was just about to commit suicide but wanted to talk to me before he did it. Me being me, I talked him out of it and took him on a three-mile run. He's left as happy as Larry and it seems to have worked.
"For all those people out there suffering with mental health problems, please do not take your own life. It will get better -- I promise you. There's help around the corner. Please seek medical advice."
England's Fury, 31, won two comeback fights in 2018 after dealing with depression and then fought to a draw challenging titleholder Deontay Wilder last December, in a fight in which Fury got up from two knockdowns, including a very heavy one in the 12th round. He has used his ability to rise from the canvas as a metaphor for people struggling to maintain their mental health.
"You can return to what you once were," Fury said. "It ain't over. It wasn't over then and it ain't over now. Come on people! Don't give up! Keep fighting. Never say die. Keep getting up like I did in the 12th round against Wilder. Keep moving forward because we never surrender."
Since the draw with Wilder, Fury (29-0-1, 20 KOs) has defended the lineal title twice more, with a second-round knockout of Tom Schwarz in June and a unanimous decision against Otto Wallin in September. He is scheduled for a much-anticipated rematch with Wilder on Feb. 22.
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While we're waiting for global markets to unravel in a paroxym of frantic official lies and flustered reassurances, let's turn to this week's chapter of my serialized comic novel "Four Bidding For Love." (Those who find absurdist humor and adult situations offensive, please read no further.)
Alexia's voice fairly exploded out of the tiny device. "What did that horrid old beggar say to you?"
"To watch out for you."
"And what's that skinny little broad demanding?"
Robin did not like his friend's tone and he lowered his own voice. "She wants a set of movie posters and the toaster."
"A set? That's insane! Absolutely not!"
"She knows you want this poster, and is driving a hard bargain."
Alexia bit back an oath. "Then just forget it. I'm not giving her three posters to get one."
Robin murmured, "Don't you have any low-value ones we could pass off as valuable?"
Kylie's eyebrows arched in bemused dismay at his suggestion as Alexia clucked, "That might work. Let me think."
"Give me a little time here to work on her," Robin said, and then rang off.
As if on cue, Kylie's phone chirped and she gave Robin a knowing grin as she answered.
"I know you're all lovey-dovey with Robin now," Ross's voice said harshly. "So what's the deal—or have you forgotten about that?"
"The deal is front and center," she answered grimly. "He'll give you the T-20, but he wants the poster and another toaster—not as good as the T-20, but a good one."
"Right. No way in Zeus's great Heaven am I giving up a Toast-o-Master and the poster. You're caving in, aren't you? I should have asked Dewey to do this."
"Just give me a little time here," Kylie muttered. "Don't you have some old thing that looks like it's valuable but isn't?"
"Ooh, I like your thinking," Ross purred. "The Acme Toastway looks very good but isn't worth more than a decent steak."
"I'm on it," Kylie said. "Now stop bugging me."
She snapped the phone closed and then turned to the waitress. "We'd like a dessert menu, please."
"The creme brulee here is wonderful," the waitress enthused, and Kylie said, "Sold." Robin chimed in, "Make it two," and the negotiators were left to gaze in amusement at the others' trickery.
"I should cut to the chase and just demand her first-born child," Kylie said, and Robin laughed. "A very fair bargain: a child for a movie poster. And I should just ask for a house in trade for this fabulous T-20Z toaster."
"I'll have to consider that very seriously," Kylie intoned, and then guffawed in a most unladylike manner.
"I would think Miss Alexia will be very grateful indeed if I get a collectible toaster out of you, and all she has to give up is a worthless movie poster or two."
"And Mr. Ross will be beside himself with relief if all he loses is the Acme Toastway and he gains two valuable film posters."
The pair shared a private enjoyment of their playful machinations, and then Robin asked, "I wonder if we should wrack them round one more agonizingly difficult negotiation, or extend it into another lunch."
At this suggestion of a follow-up date Kylie's heart missed a beat and she smiled cautiously, pleased with his offer but unsure if she should agree right away. Despite her reserve, she found herself adding, "Maybe we can find something else to negotiate."
Intended as a mild joke, the phrase came out as a risqué invitation, and she blushed. "I never would have guessed negotiating small appliances could be so fun."
"Yes, great fun," he agreed, and an awkward silence fell over their table.
The moment was broken by the arrival of the sugar-encrusted creme brulee, and a minute after that by Kylie's phone ringing.
"I told you to stop bugging me." Kylie whispered harshly, and Ross's voice was unapologetic. "There's some weird guy in an old hat following me," he said anxiously. "Does Robin have an accomplice?"
Kylie repeated his words for Robin's benefit, and commented, "Don't get too worked up. He's probably just a lonely guy who wants to ask you out."
"If he hits on me, I'll deck him and then throttle you," Ross fumed.
"For making you too attractive? Just decline in a very sweet voice."
"I should never have agreed to this," Ross muttered. "Did you get the T-20Z?"
"If you give up the Acme, we have a deal."
Ross's voice expressed relief and grudging respect. "So he bought it. Excellent."
Kylie closed the phone and then glanced askance at Robin, for the red-nosed beggar had returned to their table.
"Begging your pardon again, beautiful people, but I thought I should warn you that another sharpie has eyes for you—some old bat in a straw hat and purple scarf." Nodding slightly toward the craft fair entrance, he added helpfully, "Right over there, in big sunglasses. You have to watch out for birds like her—she'll fall right in front of you and start screaming you tripped her."
Robin and Kylie exchanged looks of suppressed amusement and Robin slipped their informant another bill in payment.
"Thank you very much," he told the beggar. "I have no idea why we're attracting so much attention today."
"Oh, I can tell you," the raspy-voiced man volunteered. "Couples in love are easy marks."
Realizing the beggar had expertly played this very phenomenon, Robin nodded in rueful acknowledgement and the beggar gave him a half-salute and a thin smile. "You two take care, and invite me to the wedding."
Kylie's blush deepened and Robin was rendered speechless for a moment. Clearing his throat, he declared, "It seems Mrs. Ross has made her interest in us a bit too apparent."
Kylie laughed, and with visible relief she said, "Let's give Mr. Alexia the glad tidings that negotiations have been settled."
Robin nodded and then added, "But we do need to arrange delivery of the goods. I insist on making the exchange with you—in person."
His pert companion squinted in mild amusement at his ploy. "You drive a hard bargain, but I accept."
Next: A Very Mutual Dismay
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8 day ago - If you enjoy reading my Spoiler-Free reviews, please follow my blog :) When it comes to the Terminator franchise, I share the same opinion as most people. The 1984’s original became a cult classic, and it’s one of the most influential sci-fi/action films of all-time. Terminator 2: Judgment Day is one of the (very) few sequels to such a beloved movie that actually improves on its predecessor, standing as the number one film of the saga, quality- and entertainment-wise. James Cameron left the franchise, and suddenly it all went down the sewer. While Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines is still tolerable, Salvation is absolutely terrible, and the reboot, Genisys, failed to change the saga’s history compellingly. So, obviously, even with the return of Cameron to the production team, my expectations were moderately low. That said, Dark Fate is the best Terminator installment since T2 … which is not saying much. The last two flicks have great casts (from Christian Bale to Emilia Clarke), but their scripts are baffling bad. This time around, the cast has amazing chemistry, and their characters have better dialogue, but it comes at a cost. The last three movies possess stories that are not as captivating or entertaining (or even rational) as the first two films. Dark Fate has a much better screenplay, but again it comes at a cost. What cost is this? Basically, it repeats the exact same bits as The Terminator. An extremely thin line exists between paying homage to a movie and blatantly copying it. Tim Miller’s team of screenwriters walk that line, stumbling to both sides several times along the way. Some scenes are indeed wonderful nods to the saga’s first two installments, but a lot of other moments (too many, to be honest) are pretty much a copy-paste version of a significant plot point or character development arc from one of those films. In case you’re wondering, this is the reason behind some of the “hate” from both critics and fans all over the world. Nowadays, people are harsher with this sort of homages, and the previously mentioned line is getting thinner and thinner. Another reason for the divisive opinions is the opening sequence. Don’t worry, I won’t spoil. They simply make a sudden and surprising narrative decision that takes some of T2’s emotional impact, at least without first clarifying why they made such a call. Therefore, I gave the movie a chance to develop its idea, but it doesn’t. It just goes with it, and it never returns to this initial moment. Having this in mind, I understand if people instantly decided to hate the film based on just that very first scene…. Because it really doesn’t have any justification besides “well, we need a story”. Dark Fate’s screenplay is emotionally resonant, and it’s also packed with (mostly) well-directed action sequences, but it resembles the 1984’s original plot too much. There’s even a direct line from Sarah Connor saying that a particular character is the equivalent of her son, John. This unnecessary and lazy exposition is surprisingly not as used as I expected it to be, but when it occurs, it’s like they chose the lamest, silliest, worse possible moments to place it. However, I can’t deny I actually had fun with the movie. With a much better script than the last films, the cast was able to not only shine in a few scenes, but their incredible chemistry allowed for outstanding moments. Seeing Linda Hamilton portray Sarah Connor once again is a delight to my eyes, and Arnold Schwarzenegger is an awesome badass with hilarious lines. These two are phenomenal! Nevertheless, Mackenzie Davis steals the show as the enhanced soldier, Grace, especially regarding the action scenes. I don’t think Natalia Reyes offered what her character needed since she’s the protagonist, after all, but she’s able to stand her ground. I did enjoy Gabriel Luna take on the Terminator Rev-9, but I wish he had a little bit of more screentime besides the action. Tim Miller brings his talented directing chops from Deadpool and applies his action techniques to deliver a lot of entertaining sequences. The VFX team provides with some impeccable CGI, but there are a couple of shots concerning a few speed bursts that should have received better treatment. All in all, Terminator: Dark Fate is the best Terminator installment since Judgment Day, but it still doesn’t even reach the latter’s heels. It boasts a fantastic cast, with Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger returning to their respective iconic roles, but Mackenzie Davis outshines both with some badass moments and great acting. Natalia Reyes, as the protagonist, is disappointingly fine. Despite the action being well-directed and the screenplay being well-written, it all comes at the cost of essentially replicating the 1984 original’s plot. Some homages are notable, but it’s so identical story-wise that it takes away any sort of surprise, severely lacking creativity. In addition to this, it makes a narrative decision in the opening sequence that removes some of T2’s emotional impact, damaging the saga’s best movie and one of the greatest sci-fi/action films of all-time. I don’t exactly recommend it, but if you’re a fan of the franchise, go see it but with moderate expectations. Rating: C
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Hepatitis E is an important zoonosis that is prevalent in China. Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a pathogen that affects humans and animals and endangers public health in China. In this study, the detection of HEV epidemics in swine in Sichuan Province, China, was carried out by nested real-time PCR. A total of 174 stool samples and 160 bile samples from swine in Sichuan Province were examined. In addition, software was used to analyse the biological evolution of HEV. The results showed that within 2 years of swine HEV (SHEV) infection in China, SHEV was first detected in Sichuan Province. HEV was endemic in Sichuan; the positive rate for pig farms was 11.1%, and the total positive sample rate was 10.5%. The age of swine with the highest positive rate (17.9%) was 5–9 weeks. The examined swine species in order of highest to lowest HEV infection rates were Chenghua pig, Large White, Duroc, Pietrain, Landrace and Hampshire. Nucleotide and amino acid sequence analysis showed that the HEV epidemic in swine in Sichuan Province was related to genotype IV, which had the highest homology to HEV in Beijing. Sichuan strains have greater variation than Chinese representative strains, which may indicate the presence of new HEV strains.
Human papillomaviruses 16 and 58 are distributed widely among women living in Shanghai, China, with high-grade, squamous intraepithelial lesions
J. Xu, Z. Xia, L. Wang, B. Yang, Y. Zhu, X. Zhu, L. Xu
The distribution of human papillomaviruses (HPVs) must be understood for the control and prevention of cervical cancer. Community-based Papanicolaou and HPV DNA tests were performed on 41 578 women. The prevalences of HPV genotypes 16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59, 66 and 68 were assessed. In total, 10% women were infected/co-infected by these HPVs. The infection rate increased from 7.1% in women aged ⩽30 years to 10.4% in those aged 50–60 years, and then decreased slightly to 9.9% in those aged >60 years. The HPV 16 and 58 positivity rates were significantly higher among women with high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSILs) than among those with cervicitis/negativity for intraepithelial lesion or malignancy (NILM) or low-grade SILs (LSILs). The HPV 18, 52 and 68 infection rates were significantly lower in women with HSILs than in those with NILM or LSILs. The proportion of women infected by multiple HPV strains was higher among those with HSILs. The proportions of the five most common genotypes, HPV 16, 18, 33, 52 and 58, increased with the number of co-infecting strains. HPV 16 and 58 were the high-risk HPVs in the Shanghai community and should be the focus in HPV screening and vaccination.
Optimal Preparation of Drosophila Brain Samples for FIB-SEM
Z. Lu, K. J. Hayworth, S. Xu, P. K. Rivlin, I. A. Meinertzhagen
Effects of constant and fluctuating temperature on the development of the oriental fruit moth, Grapholita molesta (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)
Z.-Z. Chen, L.-X. Xu, L.-L. Li, H.-B. Wu, Y.-Y. Xu
Journal: Bulletin of Entomological Research / Volume 109 / Issue 2 / April 2019
The oriental fruit moth, Grapholita molesta, is an important pest in many commercial orchards including apple, pear and peach orchards, and responsible for substantial economic losses every year. To help in attaining a comprehensive and thorough understanding of the ecological tolerances of G. molesta, we collected life history data of individuals reared on apples under different constant temperature regimes and compared the data with moths reared under a variable outdoor temperature environment. Because G. molesta individuals reared at a constant 25°C had the heaviest pupal weight, the highest survival rate from egg to adult, highest finite rate of increase, and greatest fecundity, 25°C was considered as the optimum developmental temperature. The G. molesta population reared at a constant 31°C had the shortest development time, lowest survival rate and fecundity, resulting in population parameters of r < 0, λ < 1, lead to negative population growth. The population parameters r and λ reared under fluctuating temperature were higher than that reared under constant temperatures, the mean generation time (T) was shorter than it was in all of the constant temperatures treatments. This would imply that the outdoor G. molesta population would have a higher population growth potential and faster growth rate than indoor populations raised at constant temperatures. G. molesta moths reared under fluctuating temperature also had a higher fertility than moths reared under constant temperatures (except at 25°C). Our findings indicated that the population raised under outdoor fluctuating temperature conditions had strong environment adaptiveness.
Feeding corn grain steeped in citric acid modulates rumen fermentation and inflammatory responses in dairy goats
Y. Z. Shen, L. Y. Ding, L. M. Chen, J. H. Xu, R. Zhao, W. Z. Yang, H. R. Wang, M. Z. Wang
Journal: animal / Volume 13 / Issue 2 / February 2019
Cereal grains treated with organic acids were proved to increase ruminal resistant starch and can relieve the risk of ruminal acidosis. However, previous study mainly focussed on acid-treated barley, the effects of organic acid-treated corn is still unknown. The objectives of this study were to evaluate whether feeding ground corn steeped in citric acid (CA) would affect ruminal pH and fermentation patterns, milk production and innate immunity responses in dairy goats. Eight ruminally cannulated Saanen dairy goats were used in a crossover designed experiment. Each experimental period was 21 day long including 14 days for adaption to new diet and 7 days for sampling and data collection. The goats were fed high-grain diet contained 30% hay and 70% corn-based concentrate. The corn was steeped either in water (control) or in 0.5% (wt/vol) CA solution for 48 h. Goats fed CA diet showed improved ruminal pH status with greater mean and minimum ruminal pH, and shorter (P<0.05) duration of ruminal pH<5.6 and less area of ruminal pH<5.6, 5.8 and 6.0. Concentration of total volatile fatty acid and molar proportion of propionate were less but the molar proportion of acetate was greater (P<0.05) in goats fed the CA diet than the control diet. Concentration of ruminal lipopolysaccharide (LPS) was lower (P<0.05) and that of lactic acid also tended (P<0.10) to be lower in goats fed CA than the control. Although dry matter intake, actual milk yield, yield and content of milk protein and lactose were not affected, the milk fat content and 4% fat-corrected milk tended (P<0.10) to be greater in goats fed CA diet. For the inflammatory responses, peripheral LPS did not differ, whereas the concentration of LPS binding protein and serum amyloid A tended (P<0.10) to be less in goats fed CA diet. Similarly, goats fed CA diet had less (P<0.05) concentration of haptoglobin and tumour necrosis factor. These results indicated that feeding ground corn treated with CA effectively improved ruminal pH status, thus alleviated the risk of ruminal acidosis, reduced inflammatory response, and tend to improve milk yield and milk fat test.
Effects of habitat fragmentation on the genetic diversity and differentiation of Dendrolimus punctatus (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae) in Thousand Island Lake, China, based on mitochondrial COI gene sequences
K. Lv, J.-R. Wang, T.-Q. Li, J. Zhou, J.-Q. Gu, G.-X. Zhou, Z.-H. Xu
Journal: Bulletin of Entomological Research / Volume 109 / Issue 1 / February 2019
Thousand Island Lake (TIL) is a typical fragmented landscape and an ideal model to study ecological effects of fragmentation. Partial fragments of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene of 23 island populations of Dendrolimus punctatus in TIL were sequenced, 141 haplotypes being identified. The number of haplotypes increased significantly with the increase in island area and shape index, whereas no significant correlation was detected between three island attributes (area, shape and isolation) and haplotype diversity. However, the correlation with number of haplotypes was no longer significant when the ‘outlier’ island JSD (the largest island) was not included. Additionally, we found no significant relationship between geographic distance and genetic distance. Geographic isolation did not obstruct the gene flow among D. punctatus populations, which might be because of the high dispersal capacity of this pine moth. Fragmentation resulted in the conversion of large and continuous habitats into isolated, small and insular patches, which was the primary effect on the genetic diversity of D. punctatus in TIL. The conclusion to emphasize from our research is that habitat fragmentation reduced the biological genetic diversity to some extent, further demonstrating the importance of habitat continuity in biodiversity protection.
Involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation, stigma stress and recovery: a 2-year study
Z. Xu, B. Lay, N. Oexle, T. Drack, M. Bleiker, S. Lengler, C. Blank, M. Müller, B. Mayer, W. Rössler, N. Rüsch
Journal: Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences / Volume 28 / Issue 4 / August 2019
Aims.
Compulsory admission can be experienced as devaluing and stigmatising by people with mental illness. Emotional reactions to involuntary hospitalisation and stigma-related stress may affect recovery, but longitudinal data are lacking. We, therefore, examined the impact of stigma-related emotional reactions and stigma stress on recovery over a 2-year period.
Shame and self-contempt as emotional reactions to involuntary hospitalisation, stigma stress, self-stigma and empowerment, as well as recovery were assessed among 186 individuals with serious mental illness and a history of recent involuntary hospitalisation.
More shame, self-contempt and stigma stress at baseline were correlated with increased self-stigma and reduced empowerment after 1 year. More stigma stress at baseline was associated with poor recovery after 2 years. In a longitudinal path analysis more stigma stress at baseline predicted poorer recovery after 2 years, mediated by decreased empowerment after 1 year, controlling for age, gender, symptoms and recovery at baseline.
Stigma stress may have a lasting detrimental effect on recovery among people with mental illness and a history of involuntary hospitalisation. Anti-stigma interventions that reduce stigma stress and programs that enhance empowerment could improve recovery. Future research should test the effect of such interventions on recovery.
Effect of different dietary energy and protein sources on antioxidant status, fresh yolk fatty acid profile and microstructure of salted yolks in laying ducks
D. Ruan, Y. J. Hu, A. M. Fouad, C. X. Lin, Z. P. Xu, W. Chen, Q. L. Fan, W. G. Xia, S. Wang, Y. Wang, L. Yang, C. T. Zheng
Journal: animal / Volume 12 / Issue 10 / October 2018
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2018, pp. 2205-2213
The study investigated whether different dietary energy and protein sources affect laying performance, antioxidant status, fresh yolk fatty acid profile and quality of salted yolks in laying ducks. In all, 360 19-week-old Longyan ducks were randomly assigned to four diets in a factorial arrangement (2×2). The four diets consisted of two energy sources, corn (CO) or sorghum (SO) and two protein sources, soybean meal (SM) and rapeseed meal with corn distillers dried grains with solubles (RMD), and each treatment contained six replicates of 15 birds each. The experimental diets were isocaloric (metabolizable energy, 10.84 MJ/kg) and isonitrogenous (CP, 17%). The results showed that egg production, average egg weight, egg mass and feed conversion ratio were not affected by diets (P>0.05). Plasma contents of reduced glutathione (GSH), GSH/oxidized glutathione and total antioxidant capacity were lower (P<0.05) in ducks fed the RMD diets compared with those fed SM diets with a substantial increase (P=0.006) in plasma content of malondialdehyde (MDA). Egg yolks from ducks fed SO diets had higher proportions of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) and lower saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids compared with CO diets (P<0.001). Similarly, ducks fed RMD diets had a higher content of PUFA and n-6/n-3 ratio in fresh yolks (P<0.001), and increased salted yolk MDA, carbonylated proteins content and incidence of hard salted yolks (P<0.05) compared with SM diets. Scanning electron microscopy showed that salted yolks contained rougher polyhedral granules and fewer fat droplets, and were surrounded with a layer of bunchy fibers in ducks fed SO+RMD than those fed CO+SM diet. In conclusion, the current study showed that feeding laying ducks with diets containing SO or RMD reduced antioxidant capacity and increased egg yolk concentrations of PUFA. It appeared that egg yolks from ducks fed these diets were more sensitive to lipid peroxidation and protein oxidation during salting, and reduced the quality of salted yolks.
Finite amplitude steady-state wave groups with multiple near resonances in deep water
Z. Liu, D. L. Xu, S. J. Liao
Journal: Journal of Fluid Mechanics / Volume 835 / 25 January 2018
Print publication: 25 January 2018
In this paper, finite amplitude steady-state wave groups with multiple nearly resonant interactions in deep water are investigated theoretically. The nonlinear water wave equations are solved by the homotopy analysis method (HAM), which imposes no constraint on either the number or the amplitude of the wave components, to resolve the small-divisor problems caused by near resonances. A new kind of auxiliary linear operator in the framework of the HAM is proposed to transform the small divisors associated with the non-trivial nearly resonant components to singularities associated with the exactly resonant ones. Primary components, exactly resonant components together with nearly resonant components are considered as the initial non-trivial components, since all of them are homogeneous solutions to the auxiliary linear operator. For wave groups with weak nonlinearity, the energy transfer between nearby nearly resonant components is remarkable. As the nonlinearity increases, the number of steady-state wave groups increases as more components join the near resonance. This indicates that the probability of existence of steady-state resonant waves increases with the nonlinearity of wave groups. The frequency band broadens and spectral asymmetry becomes more and more pronounced. The amplitude of each component may either increase or decrease with the nonlinearity of wave groups, while the amplitude of the whole wave group increases continuously and finite amplitude wave groups are obtained. This work shows the wide existence of steady-state waves when multiple nearly resonant interactions are considered.
New insights into mitogenomic phylogeny and copy number in eight indigenous sheep populations based on the ATP synthase and cytochrome c oxidase genes
P. Xiao, L. L. Niu, Q. J. Zhao, X. Y. Chen, L. J. Wang, L. Li, H. P. Zhang, J. Z. Guo, H. Y. Xu, T. Zhong
Journal: animal / Volume 12 / Issue 7 / July 2018
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 November 2017, pp. 1341-1349
The origins and phylogeny of different sheep breeds has been widely studied using polymorphisms within the mitochondrial hypervariable region. However, little is known about the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) content and phylogeny based on mtDNA protein-coding genes. In this study, we assessed the phylogeny and copy number of the mtDNA in eight indigenous (population size, n=184) and three introduced (n=66) sheep breeds in China based on five mitochondrial coding genes (COX1, COX2, ATP8, ATP6 and COX3). The mean haplotype and nucleotide diversities were 0.944 and 0.00322, respectively. We identified a correlation between the lineages distribution and the genetic distance, whereby Valley-type Tibetan sheep had a closer genetic relationship with introduced breeds (Dorper, Poll Dorset and Suffolk) than with other indigenous breeds. Similarly, the Median-joining profile of haplotypes revealed the distribution of clusters according to genetic differences. Moreover, copy number analysis based on the five mitochondrial coding genes was affected by the genetic distance combining with genetic phylogeny; we also identified obvious non-synonymous mutations in ATP6 between the different levels of copy number expressions. These results imply that differences in mitogenomic compositions resulting from geographical separation lead to differences in mitochondrial function.
Morphological variability and molecular characterization of Mawsonascaris australis (Johnston & Mawson, 1943) (Nematoda: Ascaridoidea: Acanthocheilidae) from the brown guitarfish Rhinobatos schlegelii Müller & Henle (Rhinopristiformes: Rhinobatidae)
W.-T. Zhao, Z. Xu, L. Li
Journal: Journal of Helminthology / Volume 92 / Issue 6 / November 2018
Print publication: November 2018
A rare ascaridoid species, Mawsonascaris australis (Johnston & Mawson, 1943), is reported from the Taiwan Strait for the first time, and the brown guitarfish Rhinobatos schlegelii Müller & Henle (Rhinopristiformes: Rhinobatidae) represents a new fish host. The detailed morphology of M. australis was studied using light and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) based on the newly collected specimens. The results revealed some important, but previously unreported or erroneous, morphological features, including the lateral alae starting well posterior to the base of the ventrolateral lips, the presence of one pair of double paracloacal papillae and a single, small precloacal median papilla on the anterior margin of the cloaca. In addition, in order to determine whether the morphometric difference in the relative lengths of the right and left spicules represents intraspecific or interspecific variation, specimens of M. australis were characterized using molecular approaches by sequencing and analysing the ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and mitochondrial cox1 genes. The results indicate that this morphometric difference represents intraspecific variability.
Influence analysis of propeller location parameters on wings using a panel/viscous vortex particle hybrid method
H.B. Wang, Z. Zhou, X.P. Xu, X.P. Zhu
Journal: The Aeronautical Journal / Volume 122 / Issue 1247 / January 2018
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 October 2017, pp. 21-41
For aircraft that employ distributed propeller propulsion systems, the distributed propeller slipstream increases the analysis complexity. The objective of this paper is to rapidly analyse the influence of propeller slipstream on a wing using a fast prediction approach to perform conceptual design studies. This fast approach is implemented through a panel/viscous vortex particle hybrid method taking into account the air viscosity effect. The parametric studies of propeller streamwise, spanwise, vertical installed position, propeller number and rotational direction are conducted for a rectangular wing platform in two different propeller-wing configurations. The results indicate that the propeller slipstream causes both the augmentations of the wing lift and drag in a traditional tractor propeller layout. For an over-the-wing propeller configuration, however, the obvious lift increase and drag decrease can be obtained. A rear propeller position relative to the wing chord leads to a beneficial increase in lift while a fore propeller location is able to decrease the wing drag. The maximum increment of the lift-to-drag ratio can be achieved by 17.6% when the propeller is located at 30% of the wing chord, which shows a considerable advantage in improving the wing aerodynamic efficiency.
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Business Strategy, The Insource / Outsource Decision, And Tesla
I have a confession -- at Harvard Business School (HBS), I loved business strategy cases. This is a confession because most ex-HBS students have at best a love-hate relationship with cases in the same way that the Band of Brothers, or the 506th PIR, had with Curahee Mountain. The first 8, 10, 12 cases were fine and you could handle them. But the problem is that they kept coming and coming, two or three a day, like a North Korean human wave attack.
There is a pretty well defined template for B-school cases, at least in my day (I love being old enough to say that). A typical example begins with the CEO-on-the-Gulfstream-jet trope, e.g.
Jessica Stevens, CEO of Acme Enterprises, leaned back in her seat on Acme's brand new Gulfstream VI corporate jet, thinking about the meeting that lay ahead of her. She was flying back to her Pittsburgh headquarters for the quarterly board of directors meeting, and the board was expecting real answers and a specific plan for how she intended to deal with Acme's mounting problems.
Over the last 3 years Acme's growth had plateaued at the same time a slew of new companies had entered its industry, putting pressure on Acme's traditionally strong margins. In addition, Acme had just lost the bidding on two critical government contracts, its largest plant had just burned down, its CFO was under SEC investigation, a strong unionization drive was in the works supported by Antifa protests outside her house, and she had damaged her favorite Chanel purse when she launched it into the face of her lying mancy VP of manufacturing who she had just caught in bed with her husband.
OK, that last sentence is probably an exaggeration (cases were not quite THAT interesting). But for me, strategy cases were like who-done-its or locked-room Agatha Christie mysteries. Would the CEO extricate herself, and if so, how? What would I do? If someone were to write business strategy mysteries I would eat them up (the closest I can think of is Clavell's Nobel House -- how would the Nobel House extricate itself -- and even despite the absolutely unrealistic Dallas and Dynasty-like portrayals of business, I love that book). It is telling that the only novel I have written (OK, more accurately, the only novel I have finished) has heavy doses of business strategy in the plot.
A lot of people write me and say, "Coyote, why the fixation on your blog and Twitter with Tesla?" Unlike what Tesla fanboys guess about me, I actually like electric cars (though I am not thrilled with my having to subsidize them, but that is not a narrow Tesla problem). I am riveted to the Tesla story because it totally feels like a great HBS case study of the future.
Long-time readers know I think that there is fraud here -- the SolarCity buyout, to my eye, was totally corrupt. But if I found fraud fascinating, I would write constantly about Enron and Theranos (heck, I worked for Jeff Skilling at McKinsey on the Enron study so I could even be quasi-insider). But fraud is only fleetingly interesting. I can think of 5 companies that I am shorting today that I think are engaged in fraud, and I can't remember mentioning one of them on Twitter or this blog. I find Theranos mildly interesting, but only because my wife is borderline diabetic and really was enthusiastic for Elizabeth Holmes's vision.
But here is the situation a couple of years ago at Tesla. Think of this as the case study introduction:
Tesla has introduced a real, desirable EV in an industry where EV's were basically crap cars no one wanted produced for PR and some regulatory reasons.
For the first time ever, Tesla has demonstrated there was a large market for luxury EV's
With the model S, Tesla had what has proved to be at least a 7 year lead over competitors (introduced in 2012 and similar products from several companies coming out in 2019)
Tesla had the Model 3 ready to be introduced, with projections of topping 10,000 per week shortly, which could be one of the largest selling sedans in the world, EV or no. Tesla had as many as 400,000 reservations already in hand for this car.
Tesla had a founder (sort of, Musk is credited as founder but really isn't) with the Midas touch, sometimes called the real world Tony Stark, with a huge legion of followers who believe that he is the smartest and most ethical (given his green vision) engineer in the world and can do no wrong.
Tesla had shareholders almost literally throwing money at the company, giving it a higher total market value than GM or Ford and with valuation metrics orders of magnitude higher than traditional car companies, based in part on visions of world-leading self-driving capabilities and comparisons to Apple. The closest thing I have ever seen to the Simpson's take my money meme.
I can imagine the case study now -- should Tesla focus on the high-end of the market now and seek an immediate profit and a potentially sustainable long-term niche? Or should it go all-out to do nothing less than become the major player in the entire worldwide automotive market, taking advantage of its high valuation to raise billions of capital to fund years of cash burn? These are super interesting questions that I will not address today. Tesla's apparent choice in this question is ... neither. It has clearly gone all in, at least in rhetoric, on dominating the automotive market and Elon Musk has announced (at least on Twitter) future new products in nearly every automotive niche. But at the same time Tesla has refused to leverage its high stock price to raise capital and actually has been cutting back on capital spending and slow-rolling expansion plans. I frankly cannot explain it, and won' try here.
What I want to discuss is the frequent comparison to Apple. Elon Musk likes to compare himself to Steve Jobs and Tesla to Apple, but I don't think the comparison is very apt. A big part of this is the differences in their in-source and out-source decisions.
As background, my thinking is shaped by several aspects of my HBS education. The first is a business strategy curriculum crafted from the very first class to make one skeptical of flashy, sexy businesses. Our first two cases in first year business strategy were an incredibly sexy electronics company, followed by a dull-as-dirt water meter company. But it turned out that the water meter company minted money, with little technology change and huge moats against competition, while the electronics company was having to invest billions every few years just to stay in the game and never really earned a return on capital.
Another factor that shapes a lot of my thinking was that in-source / out-source decisions were very much in the spotlight at HBS at the time. It was a time when the very nature of the industrial conglomerate was in question, and we were constantly made to ask whether a company really had to own function X to be profitable and successful. Over and over and over, in company after company, we were asked to think about what were the critical success factor for a business, as well as what the most profitable elements of the vertical value-delivery chain were, and to think about structuring companies solely around these key elements, and outsource everything else.
To a large extent, this has been a key to Apple's success. As I observed in comparing Tesla to Apple:
But as far as the iPhone is concerned, Apple is a design and software house. It does not build the phones, it has a partner do it for them. It does not write most of the applications, third parties do that. And (at least in the early days) it did not [sell] through its own stores, it sold through 3rd parties. An Apple-like Tesla would NOT be trying to build its own manufacturing, service, and fueling capacity -- it would leverage its designs as its unique value-add and seek others to do these other lower-margin, capital-intensive tasks.
Yes, we have Apple stores now, but this was NOT part of the initial strategy and success. The initial Apple iPod and iPhone strategy basically had Apple outsourcing everything from manufacturing to sales as non-strategic, and keeping in-house the design and software functions. As it turned out, they were right, because they certainly made much better margins than anyone else in the vertical value chain.
But for all Tesla compares itself to Apple, it has take a totally different approach. Like most manufacturers, it designs its products (which it is pretty good at). It also manufactures them (which it is not so good at). But unlike other auto makers it also owns its own sales and service network (instead of third party dealers) and it is not very good at this and this activity consumes a lot of capital. Also unlike other auto makers, it also is building out its own fueling network, something GM and Ford can rely on Exxon for. AND, Elon Musk at various times has said we would in-source building of car carrier trailers, car transportation trucking firms, and body shops. I have argued for years that one of the things that Tesla fanboys love about Tesla -- that it is so integrated vertically -- is an Achilles heel because it greatly increases the capital it needs to grow, takes it into low-margin business segments, and forces it to do highly-technical functions like auto manufacturing it does not have the skills for. If Tesla really were like Apple, it would have developed a 3rd party dealer network, it would have partnered with someone else to do the charging stations (as VW has) and it would have farmed out the actual manufacturing to an auto-equivalent of Apple's Foxcon (maybe Kia?)
I wish I had the guys name but the person in this blog said it far better than I have been able to say it to date. From "Credit Bubble Stocks"
The test of whether you are an electric vehicle “disrupter” is: how many manufacturers are licensing your battery? If you’d actually invented a better electric battery or other EV technology (battery is the only technology that matters though), you could license them and have a 10x book business. Tesla not only did not do a battery licensing model, but they effectively did the opposite. Consider the parts of the vehicle industry that they have decided to in-source versus the ones they have decided to outsource. As we know, they decided to in-source and compete head-to-head on manufacturing. The results have shown that they are worse than their more experienced competition. They decided to in-source the automotive retail, which had not been done before and was not legal in most states. (And still is not legal in eight states). This had been a huge distraction from the manufacturing side and has resulted in abysmal customer service. But of all things to outsource, they outsourced the battery production to a joint venture with Panasonic. What should be the entire premise of an electric vehicle company is not even enough of a competitive advantage to do in house.
I am not totally sure I agree -- I think Tesla would argue the key is in design and software, just like Apple. But even if that is true, why are they doing all this other stuff that they don't do very well and is a total distraction and sucks up needed capital?
Tags: Acme Enterprises, CEO, Curahee Mountain, electric cars, Elizabeth Holmes, fraud, licensing, PIR, strategy, Tony Stark
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If Feel Like I Called The Elon Musk - Popular Mechanics Love Fest
In my extended article the other day about Tesla I wrote of Elon Musk
Elon Musk is not the smartest guy in the world. He is clearly a genius at marketing and brand building. He has a creative mind -- I have said before he would have been fabulous at coming up with each issue's cover story for Popular Mechanics. A mile-long freight blimp! Trains that run in underground vacuum tubes! A colony on Mars! But he suffers, I think, from the same lack of self-awareness many people develop when they are expert or successful in one thing -- they assume they will automatically be equally as brilliant and successful in other things. Musk creates fanciful ideas that are exciting and might work technically, but will never ever pencil out as profitable business (e.g. Boring company, Hyperloop).
Seriously, go back and look at old popular mechanics covers. Here is one in my domain:
The magazine specialized in really cool ideas that 14-year-old geeky boys like me ate up in the 1970s. But most of them share in common with Elon Musk's ideas that they will never be practical. So it is not surprising that Popular Mechanics put out an absolute puff issue on Elon Musk, apparently aimed at helping the man Popular Mechanics loves rehabilitate his reputation after getting some bad press for making false promises and breaking securities laws. The piece was such a hopeless PR piece masquerading as journalism that the Atlantic felt the need to call them out for it.
Other readers, particularly journalists, were flabbergasted, including several Popular Mechanics staffers and contributors who declined to speak on the record because they feared jeopardizing their jobs. “It’s not the job of a magazine to do some PR recovery efforts for somebody exhibiting unstable behavior just because you like that he makes cool cars and rockets,” one Popular Mechanics writer said. (Disclosure: I worked at Popular Mechanics as a web intern for about a month in 2012.) For many journalists, the essay collection was a love letter bursting with unbridled, unfiltered admiration for Musk, a public figure the magazine covers, regularly and objectively. The material reads as if it came straight from the public-relations managers whose jobs are to make their boss look good.
In response to criticism the Popular Mechanics editor said:
D’Agostino said he decided to do the project after reading a slew of negative press of Musk and his properties, and, as he put it in the final collection, “myopic and small-brained” criticism. He cited as examples news coverage of the misleading tweet about Tesla, the ensuing SEC debacle, Musk’s weed experience on Joe Rogan’s podcast, and the entrepreneur’s relationship with the singer Grimes....
Musk, he said, is a good representative for the Popular Mechanics ethos. “It’s always been a magazine about what’s possible and the people who sort of tinker with things and solve problems with the aim and goal of improving human life and existence, and using technology to make things better,” he said. “When you look at someone like Elon Musk, we kind of think of him as one of us. He’s doing something very Popular Mechanics—you don’t know if it’s going to work, but he tries these things and gives it his all.”
I am perfectly willing to acknowledge Musk's good points, as I did in my long essay linked above, but in my opinion Musk is leading a lot of very naive investors over a cliff. Go read the Tesla fan boards and the $tsla tag at twitter and you will see a series of investors who have never bought a stock before talking about how they put all their savings into Tesla. Ugh. Magazines like Popular Mechanics have some responsibility not to shamelessly tout a high-risk stock to naive investors.
For those who don't want to read my whole essay, the biggest problem at Tesla is that Musk has promised a lot of things, all of which take capital which it is increasingly clear Tesla does not have. The promised Semi, pickup truck, coupe, solar shingle, China expansion, EU sales of the model 3, expansion of the sales and service network, bringing body shops in house, implementation of full self-driving -- not to mention repaying a growing accounts payable backlog and over a billion dollars in debt coming due in the next 6 months -- all will require billions of capital and Tesla is hitting bottom. Musk claims he will be able to fund this with organic cash production but this almost has to be an outright lie. He needs to raise equity, but has not done so when his stock was at all-time highs. Now that he is in trouble with the SEC, rumors swirl that he may not be able to raise new capital. If he cannot, Tesla will be bankrupt in 6 months or less. Tesla might survive if it can find a white knight (though many of the obvious candidates have turned him down) but this is a lot of risk for noob investors to take on and a lot of risk to simply IGNORE in a Popular Mechanics puff piece.
Postscript:
By the way, is the balance problem on Elon Musk coverage really a dirth of hagiography? This is the man the press explicitly calls the real life Tony Stark. If anything, he needs that guy referred to in the final seconds of the movie Patton, the person who rides with the Roman general during his Triumph and whispers in his ear that all glory is fleeting. I have no problem talking about the wonderful things Musk has helped push forward (and I do) but good God aren't you obligated to also include stuff like this, out of his own mouth?
1/ This is crazy. Either this is a total BS excuse (which his $tsla fanboys will likely swallow) or Musk is the worst CEO of a $50 billion company I have ever heard of. $tslaq @TeslaCharts https://t.co/oeTfN9UaNU
— Coyoteblog (@Coyoteblog) October 18, 2018
You can click on the tweet and see my whole response, but eschewing 3rd party dealers and having its own sales and service network has been a Musk strategic pillar for 8 years. The production ramp for the Model 3 is years behind. And the CEO just looked at the map and realized they did not have enough service locations even for their less-than-expected sales? This may be a great idea man and visionary and man who can get great efforts started, but this is not the tweet of a great, or even a good, CEO.
Tags: CEO, Coyoteblog Coyoteblog October, Elon Musk, IGNORE, Joe Rogan, Popular Mechanics, PR, risk, sec, Tony Stark
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The Good Intentions Generation
This seems to be a generation in which good intentions are enough. Actually, I am not sure this is exactly right, let me try again. This seems to be a generation in which the signaling of good intentions is enough.
I just can't understand how Elon still manages to love humanity. All I see is people failing him at every step. He so genuinely wants to take the human species forward with all his strength. And who is stopping him? The very humanity he set out to push to greater heights.
— Krishna Mohan (@p_krishna_mohan) August 19, 2018
Socialism will work because we have good intentions for it. Trade wars will work because we have good intentions. Tesla is valuable because it has good intentions.
Democratic socialism supporters don't even know what socialism is. Trump supporters don't understand squat about economics but just feel that Trump genuinely wants to help them. Tesla bulls don't even try to look at a balance sheet but just really, really love the idea of Elon Musk being a real-life but progressive Tony Stark. Not sure where I am going with this, but just frustrated this morning trying to talk policy in a world of virtue-signalling. In the last few elections I have been presented with discouraging but predictable choices. Now I am presented with a choice between two parties that have both lost their minds.
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The Dangers of Trying To Reinvent An Industry, And A Few Notes on Tesla
I am often critical of Elon Musk and Tesla, and will be again later in this post, but I wanted to start by sympathizing with Tesla's plight. As you may know, Tesla set out not only to produce a leading electric car (which it did) but also to reinvent automobile manufacturing (which it is struggling to do). One of the hard parts about reinventing an industry is being correct as to what parts to throw out and what parts to keep. Musk, I think, didn't want to be captive to a lot of traditional auto industry thinking, something anyone who has spent any time at GM would sympathize with. But it turns out that in addition to all the obsolete assumptions and not-invented-here syndrome and resistance to change and static culture in the industry, there is also a lot of valuable accumulated knowledge about how to build a reliable car efficiently. In Tesla's attempt to disrupt the industry by throwing out all the former, it may have ignored too much of the latter, and now it is having a really hard time ramping up reliable, quality production. Musk even recently admitted it may have gone overboard on factory automation.
I don't agree with all the conclusions, but I thought this was an interesting article on Tesla vs. Toyota production practices and the industry lessons Tesla may have been too quick to ignore. One quote I liked, “Machines are good for repetitive things… but they can’t improve their own efficiency or the quality of their work.” I sympathize with Musk on this one. You CAN"T upend an industry by copying everything it does -- you have to go off in a different direction, at least on some things. It may be that Musk eschewed the wrong bits of industry practice, but this is an understandable mistake.
What is not understandable is Musk's lack of transparency, his self-dealing, his wild and unfulfilled promises, and his unprofessional behavior. Some notes:
A few months ago, at the Tesla truck launch, I wrote:
But Tesla needs to stay hot. California is considering new vehicle subsidy laws that are hand-crafted to pour money mainly into Tesla's pocket. Cash is burning fast, and Musk is going to have to go back to the capital markets again, likely before the end of the year. So out came Musk yesterday to yell SQUIRREL!
Tesla's main current problem is that they cannot seem to get up to volume production of their main new offering, the Model 3. The factory appears to be in disarray and out of production and inventory space. They can't produce enough batteries yet for the cars they are already making. So what does Musk do? Announce two entirely new vehicle platforms for tiny niche markets.
I saw the truck launch as a cynical ploy to distract from Tesla's operating problems and perhaps to get a bit of financing in the form of customer deposits (a growing percentage of Tesla's available cash is from customer advance deposits). There was no way it could do anyting with this truck, given its operating problems and lack of capital. It seems that I was on target, because not even 6 months later Tesla has tired of pretending the truck is going anywhere. After Telsa did not even mention the semi in their earnings conference call, Musk said in answer to a question:
I actually don't know how many reservations we have for the Semi. About 2,000? Okay. I mean, we haven't really tried to sell the Semi. It's not like there's like an ongoing sales effort, so sales – orders for Semi are like opportunistic, really companies approaching us. Yeah, it's not something we really think about much.
Elon Musk proved himself on the same conference call to be a spoiled brat who has spent too much of his time having people kiss his feet and compare him to Tony Stark.
One week ago, Elon Musk entered the history books for his unprecedented, petulant handling of "boring, boneheaded" questions from two sellside analysts, who merely wanted more details about the company chronic cash/rollout issues. And no phrase captures Musk's descent better than "These questions are so dry. They're killing me." That's what Musk told RBC analyst Joseph Spak in response to a question about Model 3 reservations.
My older readers will know that my dad was President of Exxon from the early 70's (a few weeks before the Arab oil embargo) until the late 1980's. In that job he never had to do analyst calls, but he did about 15 annual shareholders meetings. I don't know how they run today but in those days any shareholder with a question or a rant could line up and fire away. Every person with a legitimate beef, every vocal person who hated oil companies and were pissed off about oil prices, every conspiracy theorist convinced Exxon was secretly formulating chemtrail material or whatever, and every outright crazy would buy one share of stock and show up to have their moment on stage. My dad probably fantasized about how awesome it would be to just get asked dry financial questions about cash flow. And through all the nuts and crazy questions and outright accusations that he was the most evil person on the planet, dad kept his cool and never once lost it.
If you asked him about it, he likely would not have talked about it. Dad -- who grew up dirt poor with polio in rural Depression Iowa -- was from that generation that really did not talk about their personal adversity much and certainly did not compete for victim status. He probably would just have joked that the loonies at the shareholder meeting were nothing compared to Congress. My favorite story was that Scoop Jackson once called him to testify in the Senate twice in 6 months or so. The first time, just before the embargo, he was trying to save the Alaska pipeline project and Jackson accused Exxon of being greedy and trying to produce more oil than was needed. The second time was just after the embargo, and Jackson accused Exxon of being greedy and hiding oil offshore in tankers to make sure the world had less oil than it needed.
Through all of this, the only time I ever saw him really mad was when Johnny Carson made a joke about killing the president of Exxon (he asked his audience to raise their hands if they thought they would actually get convicted for killing the president of Exxon) and over the next several days our family received hundreds of death threats. These had to be treated fairly credibly at the time because terrorists were frequently attacking, kidnapping, and bombing oil company executives and their families. We had friends whose housekeeper's hand was blown off by a letter bomb, and I was not able to travel outside of the country for many years for fear of kidnapping. (For Firefly fans, if you remember the scene of Mal always cutting his apples because he feared bombs in them from a old war experience, you might recognize how, to this day, I still open packages slowly and carefully.
This is a long way of saying that Elon Musk needs to grow the hell up.
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Tribute to Ma B... Mrs. Pat Bailey
Written by Sharon Gordon
Pat Bailey was a renaissance woman, a pioneer who blazed her way into the hearts and households of millions for nearly half a century. I am humbled to say she was a mentor to me. She along with her husband Gil were the first to put me on the air. It was sometime in 1992 and I can still hear her voice now, "Sharon Gordon, Mr Bailey and I would like to meet with you." Nervous as ever, we met and the rest as they say is history. Ms Pat and her husband took me under their wings; my mother had just passed and she became my surrogate mom. Gil and Pat taught me all I needed to know about the radio side of things.
It was the early 90's and reggae music and Jamaican culture were "crossing over." Ms Bailey taught me how to be a broadcaster; how to interact with the many small business owners like Sista Cuchy of Roots Groundation and Jennifer Ewers of Brawta Jamaican Restaurant, two of my first sponsors. Ma B would say, get them as an advertiser and then ask them to sponsor. It was Ms Pat who taught me how to go out in our community and develop relationships that have remained in place all these many years later. My weekly community round-up was just a little segment on the Gil and Pat Bailey Show but for me and my family it was huge!!!
In addition to teaching me how to sell ads, she taught me how to present music, news and interviews on air. She would caution me about the balance that was necessary to keep your audience engaged and not change the dial.
There was a time when I had to "hold the gate" or be a "gateman" for many of Gil and Pat's events. Best believe it was no easy feat, but Ma B would coach me and tell me how to deal with those who would try to "beat the gate" or not pay their admission. Yes, she was something else, strong, compassionate, and a shrewd business woman who loved her people and her culture and it was she who taught me the industry and how to survive with the sharks in these murky waters.
Mrs. Bailey and I are born a day a part she Oct 28 me Oct 27; different years of course. Let's Hear It was a segment that she conceptualized and I was elated to be invited to be a part of it in 2008, when President Barack Obama was campaigning for the presidency. Ma B and I were staunch supporters of the Obama candidacy while my sister/name sake, Sharon Goldbourne, and Bro Jose (Richards) were not. Oh, those programs were dynamic… we would review the topics for each week's program and be ready for them when they called. Oh, I learned a lot from Mrs. Bailey.
With her passing, we see the end of an institution... what Gil and Pat did was trailblazing. Because of them, we can! As trendsetters, they paved the way for many. Her legacy lives on in the work that I do as the co-founder and chair of the Coalition to Preserve Reggae Music; as a producer and host on my own Internet broadcast platform CPRLive.org; as a promoter of cultural events that highlight our heritage; as a renaissance woman who learned from the best. Yes, Pat Bailey, Ma B will always be with us and I can hear her now saying, "Mi daughter, how you be?" I am good Ma B and I know you are too. Your work here is done good and faithful servant. Rest in eternal peace.
Oh how I miss your laughter!!
Sharon Gordon
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01/16/20--11:37: Stephen Miller Liked Phyllis Schlafly's Advice To Ship Immigrants Out On Trains 'To Scare Them'
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In a bunch of emails leaked a few years ago to Breitbart, Stephen Miller (everyone's favorite reincarnated Nazi) railed against Republicans as too weak on immigration and suggested Dreamers would one day replace white Americans. But look what good Catholic Phyllis "Eva Braun" Schlafly suggested! Via Newsweek:
The Southern Poverty Law Center's "Hatewatch" section published its latest series of emails Tuesday which were leaked by an ex-Breitbart editor. The emails reveal Miller pitching white nationalist and vigilantly anti-immigrant ideas to the right-wing publication while he was a rising GOP aide to then-Senator Jeff Sessions and later a top Trump campaign policy adviser on immigration. Miller's latest leaked messages show he shared an article from far-right website WorldNetDaily with Phyllis Schlafly, who suggested the idea of shipping immigrants out of the U.S. on trains as a scare tactic and expressed fears that migrants might "replace existing demographics."
01/16/20--16:00: Rand Paul Threatens Fellow Republicans Re Witness Votes
[Above, at Trump rally in Kentucky, Rand Paul calls for illegal outing of whistleblower. Nov 2019]
Schrödinger’s Senator, the physics paradox known in this dimension as Rand Paul, a man from the multiverse where anything is possible including being elected in the 2016 Presidential Goat Rodeo and being elected to the Senate or both or neither can happen at the same time or never --
-- is making his signature power move!
Rand Paul threatens fellow Republicans with explosive witness votes
Sen. Rand Paul is waging a fierce campaign to prevent the Senate from hearing witnesses in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, vowing to force tough votes on his fellow Republicans if they break with the president or back Democrats’ demands fornew evidence…
Paul says if four or more of his GOP colleagues join with Democrats to entertain new witness testimony, he will make the Senate vote on subpoenaing the president’s preferred witnesses, including Hunter Biden and the whistleblower who revealed the Ukraine scandal — polarizing picks who moderate Republicans aren’t eager to call. So he has a simple message for his party: end the trial before witnesses are called.
01/16/20--17:00: Kellyanne Conway Flips Out On Fox News, Yes, That Fox News
White House aide Kellyanne Conway on Thursday refused to answer a straight “yes or no question” about whether Lev Parnas, a Rudy Giuliani associate, was lying when he said that President Donald Trump was aware of his actions in Ukraine.
During an interview on Fox News, Conway was repeatedly asked about an interview Parnas did on MSNBC Wednesday night.
“What is the White House’s position on his allegations?” host Bill Hemmer queried.
“Remember, people who go on TV are never under oath,” Conway said. “This is someone who didn’t come forward of his own volition. He was arrested and indicted on some pretty serious charges.”
“I understand what you’re saying,” Hemmer interrupted. “But are you saying flat-out, a hundred percent, what he alleges is not true? Yes or no?”
“When he says, the president knew all of my moves,” Conway replied, “you cannot say what somebody else knew or thought. You can’t do that. So that was a TV show, not a court of law… I think you should go by what the president himself has said.”
“Is he lying or not?” Hemmer pressed.
“Well, he’s a proven liar,” Conway scoffed. “He’s been indicted. And so, look, I’ve never heard the president mention this person to me ever a single time!”
“It’s a yes or no question,” co-host Sandra Smith observed. “Trump knew exactly what’s going on, said Lev Parnas. And we’re asking, is that statement true or false?”
01/16/20--18:00: Trump Campaign Lies About His Own Rally Goers
Kayleigh McEnany is the national press secretary for President Trump's reelection campaign. Brad Parscale is Trump's chest-thumping campaign manager. This morning, McEnany was on Twitter amplifying a message from Parscale about the rally Trump staged last night as counterprogramming to the Democratic debate:
HUGE ⬇️
💥💥 57.9% who attended the @realDonaldTrump rally in Milwaukee last night Were NOT Republicans https://t.co/ASwpneeQFJ
— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) January 15, 2020
Parscale posts one of these after every Trump rally -- a breakdown of statistics about the rallygoers (information that, of course, we can't verify). Parscale's point is always some variation on the same message: Behold the mighty power of our campaign. We're attracting independents. We're attracting Democrats. We're attracting non-whites. We're attracting new voters. We are a juggernaut, and resistance is futile.
There's just one thing about the stat McEnany highlighted:
01/16/20--20:00: Senators Have A Handy 'How To Avoid Reporters' Cheat Sheet
Holy crap, Senators have a cheat sheet on how to avoid reporters' questions.
Senators have been given a flashcard with suggested phrases to use to avoid reporters, per @caitlinconant and @Grace_Segershttps://t.co/RVocWmrgq5pic.twitter.com/1ANboUSVvB
— Melissa Quinn (@MelissaQuinn97) January 16, 2020
I guess that's better than, when faced with a boring and legitimate question about your duties, you go berserk and call the reporter a 'liberal hack' while walking away.
Open thread below...
01/16/20--20:01: C&L's Late Nite Music Club With Man
Prog-rock rambles through some psychedelic cornfield? That's one way to describe what Welsh band Man had going on with "C'mon", the lead off track from their seventh album, 1972's Be Good to Yourself at Least Once a Day.
Here they are with a '75 take of the song for German television.
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01/17/20--04:30: Susan Collins Scores Highest Disapproval Rating Of Any Senator
You know things are bad, and likely to get worse for Susan Collins, the faux moderate/rubber stamp for Trump if she doesn't vote to impeach. And she won't, because that's just how she's rolled for the last quarter-century in the U.S. Senate. With 52% of Mainers now tired of her act, and only 40% still with her (down from 67% before Trump), perhaps they'll finally rid themselves of her. Here's hoping.
Source: Bangor Daily News
AUGUSTA, Maine — A national survey released Thursday found U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine had the highest disapproval rating of any senator in 2019’s last quarter as she enters a campaign for a fifth term in which she is one of national Democrats’ top targets.
The Republican once polled as Maine’s most popular politician and won her 2014 race with more than two-thirds of votes, but her 2018 vote for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh kicked off a massive Democratic campaign against her and the news comes amid impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump that will be high-stakes for Collins.
Collins’ approval rating has sunk sharply since Trump took office in the first quarter of 2017, when the Maine senator registered a 67 percent approval rating, according to Morning Consult. In the final quarter of 2019, the firm said her rating stood at 42 percent.
01/17/20--04:30: Mike's Blog Round Up
The Rude Pundit: Trump's defenders are satisfied with the leadership of an idiot.
Hysterical Raisins: Parnas just massively ****ed the whole Trump gang.
John Fea: This is what we're up against -- some rural Evangelicals have made Trump their golden idol.
Nan's Notebook: Are there really people who hate freedom? (Discussion in the comments.)
Bonus link: Some advice for Iran.
Blog round-up by Infidel753. To recommend a post, send link to mbru [at] crooksandliars [dot] com -- I do check it!
01/17/20--04:30: Erin Burnett Illustrates Trump's 'Pattern Of Lying' With Video Montage
Watch Donald Trump deny ever knowing Lev Parnas beyond saying he was at fundraisers:
Trump denies knowing Lev Parnas 9 different times in 2 minutes:
“I don’t know him. I don’t believe I’ve ever spoken to him." pic.twitter.com/kaz31yeZJU
— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) January 16, 2020
How many times did he deny Parnas in that short clip, exactly?
Erin Burnett thought it would be helpful to illustrate Trump's "pattern of lying when it comes to who and what he knows," so she compiled a montage of some of his greatest hits: David Duke, Wikileaks, Paul Manafort, etc. etc..
And as she pointed out at the end, she could have added 4 or 8 more, including Gordon Sondland, Stormy Daniels. and others. Any time they point out something he doesn't want to admit, he goes into "lie and deny" mode instead of just admitting he knows them.
Lev Parnas, though? He might be a problem. He's vowed to release a photo every single time Trump denies knowing him.
01/17/20--04:31: Documents Corroborate Lev Parnas Account
I think it’s obvious that we should all remain skeptical of Lev Parnas as Tom counsels here. Shady operators often have good reasons for lying or embellishing when they are in the crosshairs.
The main takeaway from all this so far is that the president’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani was engaged in a sleazy operation in Ukraine that appears to be linked to a lot more shady activities in this Ukraine gambit than we knew. It’s not credible that the president wasn’t okaying it ever step of the way. If they ever arrest Rudy and he has to save himself a lot of people will undoubtedly be in big trouble. That’s what Rudy was talking about when he said he has “insurance.” If Bill Barr was involved in all this, it may explain why Rudy has so far not been indicted by SDNY.
Maybe.The good news is that there are documents that can corroborate much of what Parnas said. They are still being looked at.
Yesterday, one watchdog group took a quick look at a few and shared what they found on twitter:
American Oversight@weareoversight
We lined up the newly released Parnas messages with the records we obtained from the State Department through FOIA litigation, as well as other records and reports. The timeline is troubling.
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Chiang Khong, Chiang Rai, Huay Xai, Laos, Laos Visas, Thailand
How many people can you fit in a bus?
What-a-day.
Despite my flu symptoms, we’d made the decision to kick on to Laos today (Friday) and head for the hills – Luang Namtha, specifically. This meant uprooting ourselves from our brief home (or makeshift hospital bed, seeing as I spent the entire time there in my pyjamas trying to get better) in Chiang Rai and heading north-west to Chiang Khong, on the border of Thailand and Laos. We’d read suggestions online to take a more scenic route to Luang Prabang in Laos, rather than the slow or fast boat on the Mekong option, so we embraced the different idea and set forth at 8am from Chiang Rai’s bus terminal.
By 10.20am we were in Chiang Khong, and swapping bus seats for a tuk-tuk to travel the last few kilometres to the border crossing on the river. We exchanged some US dollars to Laos Kip (and are now 780,000 Kip richer! But don’t get excited because that’s only $100 worth…) had our passports stamped to exit Thailand and 10 minutes later, we were in Laos. Being an Australian, I found it quite surreal to be standing in one country and looking at another. Very odd.
We walked up to the Laos Visa booth and handed over our forms and passports, thinking that we’d had all the luck and missed the early morning queues. But after standing around for 20 minutes, then seeing a bunch of Norwegian hippies hand theirs over for immediate processing, we began to worry that we’d done something wrong. Not know exactly how to express our concern to Laos immigration officers that spoke no english, we resorted to glaring worriedly into their booth in the hope that they’d get around to reviewing our applications before we missed out 1pm bus to our next destination. Fortunately, the man in charge of the Visa stickers finally got around to hand writing our approvals, someone official came in to sign them off, and after paying US$30 (US$35 for Jamie, ha!) we were officially in Laos.
A sign detailed the bus timetable to our next stop, Luang Namtha. The owner of the accommodation we’d booked let us know that the bus will take about 3 hours and leaves Bokeo district at 1pm, which gave us 1 hour 15 minutes to find food… cos I was starving! But when we were offered tickets, we were told the bus was departing in 15 minutes, from the bus station 10 minutes away. Figuring this was just a gimmick to get us to buy our tickets quickly without questioning the price, we said yes anyway, and it was the wisest decision we made that day. Speeding down the ‘main street’ (read: ONLY street) in Huay Xai to the bus terminal, we were rushed out of our taxi and on to a waiting mini bus – a standard, 13 seater – where 13 people were already seated and ready to go. But there were no seats… hmm, this is interesting. Not as interesting as the fact that there were another 4 people behind us, waiting to hop on the mini bus as well. Those already seated looked on comfortably, while the rest of us anxiously looked around for a solution, before the makeshift aisle seats were pointed out and we were invited to sit down. So they stacked us in, counted heads, added one more person (a fragile looking old Laos man, who was offered the miniature seat currently used for luggage near the back) and we were away! A quick count revealed that they’d stacked 21 one of us into this mini bus – my back rest was the pile of luggage behind my seat, while Jamie’s ‘aisle’ seat was the size of a pre-schoolers chair. At least there were plenty of bodies to cushion the fall if we crash!
(Standing in Thailand, with Laos in the background over the river) (The packed bus to Luang Namtha… I’m in the back row with 3 others, and all of the luggage!)
The long and dusty road to Luang Namtha took just over 4 hours, with a ‘toilet stop’ half way. No actual toilet, mind you – the driver just ducked into nearby bushes on the busy dirt road and encouraged the rest of us to do the same. Seeing no good hiding spot to go myself, I resolved to hold off on drinking any unnecessary liquids until our final destination, and snacked on my pre-purchased emergency foods – Oreos and potato chips, with tiny sips of water – to keep off my hunger and thirst. Hunger and thirst quenched for the time being, but the headache developed immediately. Dehydration and salty/sugary foods do a headache make!
We arrived in Luang Namtha around 4:30pm, exhausted from the dusty, slow, overpacked ride from the border. No accidents though, and it could have been much worse, so we were relieved to make it there and into our accommodation by 5pm for a bath and a rest… and about 2 litres of water for me, asap.
Out again an hour or so later to check out the town, and we’d seen everything there was to see just 10 minutes later. There is not much to Luang Namtha, but we did get to drink our first BeerLao tallies at $1.20 each, and eat some yummy beef larb, morning glory and sticky rice for dinner. Just one night here for us, despite my persistent headache (curiously improved while drinking BeerLao and eating dinner, but immediately returning worse than before once we were finished) and tomorrow we take two buses totalling 7 hours to Nong Khiaw, a small village north of Luang Prabang. Here, we’ll rest and recover in riverside bungalows amongst limestone cliffs that are apparently spectacular. Hopefully the headache is gone by then.
– Em
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Any incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between those aged 16 or over who are or have been intimate partners or family members regardless of gender or sexuality.
The abuse can encompass but is not limited to:
emotional.
Controlling behaviour is a range of acts designed to make a person subordinate and/or dependent by isolating them from sources of support, exploiting their resources and capacities for personal gain, depriving them of the means needed for independence, resistance and escape and regulating their everyday behaviour.
Coercive behaviour is an act or a pattern of acts of assault, threats, humiliation and intimidation or other abuse that is used to harm, punish, or frighten their victim.
This definition includes so called ‘honour’ based violence, female genital mutilation and forced marriage, and is clear that victims are not
confined to one gender or ethnic group.
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[2] s.177(1A) Housing Act 1996.
[3] Yemshaw v Hounslow LBC [2011] UKSC 3.
[4] paras 21.3 and 21.4 Homelessness Code of Guidance, MHCLG, Feb 2018.
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U.S.' N.Korea Point Man in Beijing for Talks
By O Youn-hee, Ahn Jun-yong
U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun arrived in China on Sunday, where he was set to meet with his Chinese counterpart Kong Xuanyou.
The visit is part of Biegun's tour to discuss what to do next after the summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi collapsed last month.
Diplomatic sources say Biegun may also try to visit North Korea now that Trump has slammed the brakes on fresh sanctions against the renegade country. Trump last week tweeted he was revoking fresh Treasury Department sanctions on Chinese firms that have been helping the North dodge sanctions.
U.S. President Donald Trump (left) speaks during a meeting with senior officials including Stephen Biegun (3rd from left), the special representative for North Korea, in Washington on Aug. 24, 2018 in this photo tweeted by the White House.
Some Republican Party officials were taken aback by Trump's tweet. Senator Marco Rubio, a rival of Trump's in the presidential primaries, told NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, "I think people around the world would look at it and say from now on, when they hear about sanctions, they're going to ask for a double confirmation from the White House."
And Senator Cory Gardner, who chairs the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific and International Cybersecurity Policy, warned against a possible weakening of pressure against North Korea. "Maximum pressure means sanctioning North Korea's enablers. Treasury was right -- sanctions should be imposed... Strategic Patience failed. Don't repeat it," he tweeted.
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Mos Wanted Crew is a known dance crew who came from Los Angeles, California. This crew managed to gain many fans because of their performances in the World Of Dance. The founder of the crew Myron Marten is the current executive producer to the World Of Dance Tour. Mos Wanted Crew became famous throughout the internet from their channel on Youtube which feauture’s the group perfomances, choreographies and solos. The crew is made up of choreographers and dance instructors.
Before MWC (Mos Wanted Crew) was created, Myron Marten, who had a position at World of Dance, together with member Jun Quemado, planned to create a crew that could represent the community of dancers all over the world. Having mutual friends, also choreographers, Jun later formed up a crew that could stabilize their mission and represent dancers.
The members of the crew garnered considerable fame after posting videos online and teaching in many dance worskshops and studios. They immediately had a fanbase created by MWC fans worlwide.
To be a symbol of inspiration of dancers they decided to enter the sixth season of America’s Best Dance Crew but unfortunately was not able to enter the show. Originally 7 members, Ian Eastwood a teenage choreographer and instructor, was invited by the crew to join the team in entering the latest season of ABDC The Return Of The Superstars.
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Comeaux's Bar-B-Que
PORT ARTHUR: Comeaux's Bar-B-Que
1848 Bluebonnet Ave.
Port Arthur, TX 77640
Open Tues-Sat 2-10
It was a dark night in Port Arthur and the rain was coming down in sheets. We drove down a long street where it seemed every street lamp was out, so the tiny building with the light on out front was easy to spot off in the distance. Comeaux's is open late, so we ducked our heads and charged through the rain to the front door. Just inside the door wasn't so much a dining room as a waiting area clad in paneling with a window looking into the kitchen. Mr. Comeaux who's been running this place for greater than twenty-five years stood at the window to take our order.
Pork ribs were sold out for the night, but they still had 'pork bones' left. These are basically pig spine with tiny morsels of meat still clinging to the bones. The tiny bit of protein wasn't really worth the trouble.
Brisket slices were certainly more substantial than the pork bones, but there was something odd about them. They had a deep rosy color all the way through, and the flavor was of beef jerky. It struck me that they had been cured in some way before being smoked. The meat was chewy and incredibly salty, and not at all pleasant.
The other menu items were obligatory, since we were really here to try the spicy beef links. They were worth the trip. These all beef links had a great kick from the spice and the garlic and even had a nutty flavor to them. The tough beef casings were somewhat loosely packed to allow for easier extraction of the beefy stuffing. All-in-all these were a great example of this Southeast Texas specialty, and reason enough for me to return for another visit to Mr. Comeaux.
Willy Ray's Bar-B-Que Co.
BEAUMONT: Willy Ray's Bar-B-Que Co.
6685 Eastex Frwy
Open M-Sat 11-9, Sun 11-3
www.willyraysbbq.com
Update: Thanks to alert FCGBBQ reader @GoBearsGo95 I learned that Willy Ray's is no longer. They haven't so much CLOSED as rebranded when they widened their menu and hours last month to become Jackk's Diner. The same ownership remains.
2012: "Museum" was printed on a small sign above what looked like a closet door at the back of Willy Ray's. After seeing the sign we couldn't resist, but wondered how many hadn't even noticed the unceremonial entry. Inside the door was a long glass case and a narrow walkway along its length. Inside was a series of impressive carvings of important religious buildings in history. Along the front of the case was a series of dioramas telling the stories of the Bible. We learned from the the current owners of Willy Ray's that they all were carved and painted by a former owner of the building, and they've been preserved as the building changed hands. It was without a doubt the oddest display I'd ever seen inside a barbecue joint, but trumped a collection of old hats or license plates any day.
Unfortunatey, the diorama collection was the most memorable thing about the joint. Texas Monthly had put this place in the 2008 Top 50 BBQ Joints issue, but they must have had a different experience. The carrot souffle they loved in their review was still on the menu. It was good, and sweet enough to be considered dessert. Good thing considering the poor quality banana pudding with it's fake yellow hue and artificial banana flavoring that came out at the end of the meal.
The meats were equally inoffensive and boring. Chicken had some smoke but little other flavor. Ribs had a rub that was way too thick that hindered any development of a smoky crust. Lean brisket slices were trimmed of all fat. A good looking crust and smokering was false advertising. The meat was dry with little flavor and barely a hint of smoke. It was nothing more than mediocre roast beef, and not really worth returning for, unless of course that's the price of admission to their museum.
Sonny's Bar-B-Q II
BEAUMONT: Sonny's Bar-B-Q II
I learned about this joint from the nephew of the owner who directed me here. We met rather ironically in line at Broussard's down the street, but his family should be proud to know that we wouldn't have sought out Sonny's without his endorsement. We pulled up to a renovated house with a Grand Opening sign out front. Orders were taken at a small counter inside, and meat was sliced and plated back in the kitchen. Our small group filled the folding chairs surrounding a plastic-clad table, and our order came out quickly.
A spicy beef link made in house was similar to another in town at Patillo's, and was equally successful. The loose filling was loaded with spice and garlic and had some good smoke. The only qualm was the too-sweet sauce that didn't add much to the whole.
Brisket was well cooked, but had grown soft and a bit mushy from either wrapping during cooking or being held too long. The smoke was still there, and the little bit of fat remaining was soft, but it needed some improvement beyond more of that sauce.
The menu featured 'regulars' which are rib tips, but they were already sold out. We settled for the standard pork ribs. Good smoky pork would have been quite a bit better after another hour on the smoker. The meat was tough and the unrendered fat chewy. That sauce I didn't love at least complemented the pork, but they provided more potential than satisfaction. Regardless of the ribs and brisket, those homemade links alone are worth a special trip, just leave off the sauce.
Larkin's Bar-B-Que
JASPER: Larkin's Bar-B-Que
568 Gibson St.
Jasper, TX 75951
Open Tues-F 10-7, Sat 11-6
I hadn't heard much good feedback on the barbecue in Jasper, so we had planned to just pass through town on our way south. A fancy looking joint with fake Austin stone on the exterior proudly displayed stainless steel gasser pits on a busy corner. We passed it by, but then a red trailer tucked off the road caught my eye. The trailer along with a big steel smoker was sitting on a concrete pad under a large metal structure, and a couple of picnic tables sat outside. We ordered a combo plate of brisket, ribs and a hot link, but it's what we didn't order that was most surprising.
Owner Michael Larkin sat with us as we ate, which is a pleasant proposition if you like it all. We suffered through a few slices of spongy and overcooked brisket and a thick rib in need of salt and smoke. The pork was chewy with a thick layer of unrendered fat and the gummy exterior from a thick rub didn't help it go down any easier. What was tougher was having the owner look on as we choked down his favorite item, the ribs. Luckily the smoked beans were there to provide something worth gushing about. They were sweet, spicy and fantastic. A hot link from Zummo's in Beaumont was a good version, but nothing special.
Just as we were finishing up, Michael asked if we wanted some of the homemade sausage. Of course we would. I could hear the ding of the microwave before he came out with a balloon inside a paper boat. It was just the sausage, but the loose casing had expanded quite impressively while the filling was steaming away in the microwave. The finishing touch was a splash of straight-from-the-bottle Italian dressing. This barely looked like food at this point, but it was actually pretty good once I popped the inflated casing. The filling resembled Mexican chorizo in both texture and flavor. What tasted like smoked paprika brought in the flavors of Spanish chorizo as well and the vinegar from the dressing helped cut through the fatty filling. Is was a series of unexpected flavors in a not-so-handsome package, but it was an inventive sausage recipe that was pretty good stuff. Pair it with the beans and don't bother with the rest.
JB's BBQ
ORANGE: JB's BBQ
5750 U.S. 90 Business
Orange, TX 77630
It was the middle of a weekday afternoon and JB's was empty. Four of us walked in and order far less food than the folks manning the counter were hoping for. Brisket, ribs and sausage were piled on real china, and before I could get the words out, a ladle of sauced drowned the plate. I guess they noticed my dismay, so when I asked for a plate of the fatty end pieces of brisket without sauce, they gave it to me for no charge. Free meat is often the best, and this was no exception.
In the back dining room we were left alone to judge the meat without an audience. Slices of a peppery sausage were fine, but could have used more smoke. Large spare ribs were a bit tough but their strong smokiness made its way through the sauce. The pink cross-section of meat had good flavor, but just needed more time to cook. The gray slices of brisket at the bottom of the pile didn't have so much staying power, and we quickly descended on the pile of fatty and crispy edges of brisket on the other plate. A bit on the dry side, these burnt ends were still enjoyable with well rendered fat and the concentrated flavors of the smoker.
On the way out we noticed them slicing a ham. They cure and smoke them in house which in this world of deli hams finding their way into smokers was a welcome sight. More free meat made its way into my gut after they sliced off a few paper thin morsels of pork. The fat was nearly half the slice, but it melted away before it hit the back of my tongue. A splash of soy sauce at the suggestion of the staff was unnecessary. This was great ham and a real treat in this corner of Texas.
Hemphill Bar-B-Q
HEMPHILL: Hemphill Bar-B-Q
3285 South Bayou Rd.
Hemphill, TX 75948
Open M 11-3, Tues-Thur 11-8, F-Sat 11-9
Boudin, for the uninitiated, is a product of Louisiana Cajun cooking that takes hog casings and fills them with pork, rice, green onion and other seasonings. The links can be boiled or grilled, but when they cross the border into Texas they sometimes find their way onto a smoker. When boiled, the casings usually toughen up and aren't cooked long enough to make them comfortably edible, so the links are usually cut open or the fillings squeezed out to be eaten directly from the source making it a great road food. Here at Hemphill Bar-B-Q they smoke the boudin rendering the casings crisp. The addition of jalapeno for a clean kick made this some of the best smoked boudin to be had in East Texas.
Crispy slaw and spicy beans were great accompaniments to the boudin as well as the smoky brisket. At least the brisket crust was smoky. The slices dried out almost immediately after being sliced, but it was decent as beef goes in East Texas. Ribs were well smoked, with just a bit of chew remaining. The interior fat was rendered adequately, but the whole thing was marred by a thick rub replete with white sugar and cumin which together overpowered the meat and smoke. Thankfully, I saved a few slices of boudin to finish off the meal and get the overwhelming burnt cumin flavor out of my mouth. Stop for the boudin and get some brisket if you must, but steer clear of the ribs.
Chris Lilly at Fearing's
Last Sunday I was dining on barbecue from a television star. Chris Lilly came in from Alabama where he runs the famous Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q in Decatur. The barbecue competition champion, reality television star and cookbook author had come to help Dean Fearing celebrate the fifth anniversary of Fearing's restaurant. My wife an I were able to attend as a guest of the generous and congenial host, Fearing's GM Michael Gluckman.
Lilly was tending the pits all night on Saturday, but he had a little help from local barbecue cook, Marshall Cooper who offered the use of his Jambo pit. Marshall also convinced local barbecue champion Johnny Trigg to give up his shiny blue Jambo for the evening. They needed the smoker real estate to feed the nearly two hundred guests.
Pork shoulders were wrapped and resting in the kitchen while a few dozen spatchcocked chickens were stacked in the smoker as wisps of hickory smoke filled the air. The final step for the chickens was a dip into Chris Lilly's famous white barbecue sauce. It gave the smoky chicken a nice tangy flavor heavier on the vinegar than I was expecting.
The dining room was too dark to get any good photos of the rest of our meal, but the barbecue was phenomenal. A chunk of ultra tender and still moist pulled pork needed no sauce and thankfully received none. Corn on the cob, beans and pickled cauliflower were all great as well, but the item I couldn't get enough of were the grilled oysters on the half shell. Doused in butter, parmesan and some shredded spinach, these suckers were incredible. I had a least a half dozen and asked Chris for the recipe. He reminded me that his book ( Big Bob Gibson's BBQ Book ) has all the recipes from the evening including the oysters. Now I've got to buy it and an oyster shucking knife.
Foodways Texas at Joe T. Garcia's
Joe T. Garcia's, Fort Worth's Tex-Mex institution, originally opened as a barbecue joint back in 1935. Foodways Texas organized an event there earlier this summer where the Garcia family offered a menu showing four generations of their cooking, including way back when the pit was still smoking. The event was two months ago, but my tardiness doesn't mean these photos shouldn't be shared.
One course was from Lanny Lancarte II, the great-grandson of Joe T. It included a lamb chop, wrapped sole and some sauteed gnocchi. This was the latest dish in the family timeline.
Another plate had what you might expect if walking into Joe T. Garcia's. A cheese enchilada, chimichanga, chicken flauta with rice and beans and a healthy dose of fresh guacamole was a plate of great Tex-Mex.
A third plate inspired by Esperanza's Restaurant was more Mex-Mex with a gordita, a ceviche tostada and a thick mole among other items.
Adobo-rubbed ribs and a chile sauce over sliced brisket most certainly wasn't on that original menu at Joe. T's, but as Lanny said, they didn't write down those recipes. Lanny did his own riff, and it turned out better than I expected. The beef was tender and well smoked. The sauce wasn't sweet and worked better with the brisket than sauces I've had at many barbecue joints. The ribs weren't as successful, but the outstanding smoked corn on the cob was enough to make up for a multitude of sins. Along with a lamb chop, it was the only item I got when they called for seconds.
When dinner was over, we got a tour of the restaurant by Lanny who showed us much of the old equipment in the museum of a kitchen. The item that got my attention was the old brick and concrete smoker. It was sadly being used for storage, but the chimney had long ago been cut off and roofed over. When it was built it was outside, but it now sits right in the middle of the kitchen area. It was out of commission for good, but it was great to see what they were smoking with back in the thirties.
Samar Bengali BBQ Dinner
Jon Thompson is the current chef at Stephan Pyles' Samar and will be moving over to Stampede 66 when it opens later this year. Perhaps as part of their research of Stampede's upcoming modern Texas menu, they offered a Bengali BBQ dinner at Samar, and I got a seat a last minute seat at the bar. I'm a couple months late in describing the meal, but it was an inventive menu for the most part.
The first course was potato salad, fried chicken, shrimp, greens and cornbread, only in a much different version than you'd expect. On the plate were simple fried strips of moist chicken and well spiced shrimp along with mustard greens done like a spinach saag. Potato salad was made up of chilled potatoes and chick peas mixed with mint chutney and a cornbread version of naan was flecked with jalapeno. Pickled mango was served in the second course in place of the standard dill spears or chips. All items were inventive and proof that having more barbecue side items with an ethnic twist would be just fine by me.
The second course was all about the meat. A goat meat chili slider was well spiced and with a dollop of yogurt was the best sloppy joe I've ever had. Lamb ribs had good spice and a sweet glaze that countered the meat's gaminess well. They had only been baked without any smoke, and the meat needed a bit longer to tenderize, but the flavor itself was great. A few slices of buffalo brisket exhibited the challenge of doing honest barbecue in a fine dining setting. To be at their best, meats need to be smoked fresh and sliced to order, but getting as much accomplished in the prep kitchen helps things move more swiftly on the line. These briskets had been pre-smoked and I watched as half briskets were warmed through on a skillet over a gas burner. The texture had noticeably suffered as had the moisture level, and only the heavy masala sauce saved it. They're going to have to tweak that brisket recipe if it ever shows up down the street at Stampede 66, but I still had a great meal that challenged some of my preconceptions about the boundaries of barbecue fusion.
Dziuk's Meat Market
Castroville is a little Alsatian town just west of San Antonio. This tiny town filled with historical makers galore is just 25 miles from the Alamo, but its small town quaintness makes it seem much further. Settlers from Alsace (on the border of France and Germany) came here in 1844 to found the town. Along with them they brought Alsatian sausage which is a raw pork sausage seasoned with coriander. Locals make it in their homes for the Christmas holiday and the whole town gets together in the town square on St. Louis Day in August for a grand public sausage making festival. Dziuk's Meat Market right along Highway 90 has a fresh version in their case every day, but none available for on-site consumption.
For a road snack, you can't get much better than Dziuk's chunk style jerky. It looks daunting in the case, but they'll be happy to slice it for you at any thickness you'd prefer. The thick peppery crust wakes the tastebuds early in the morning, and the meat sliced against the grain is as tender as filet mignon. The dried sausage is also a house specialty. It's great, but doesn't hold a candle to the jerky. On the other end of the case in a mound of raw meat that looks something like meat loaf mix, but it goes by the name of parisa.
Parisa is a hyper-regional specialty of cheese, black pepper, onion, jalapeno and freshly ground raw beef. It is eaten raw by itself or on crackers, and is a heck of a lot better than you're thinking right now. The texture is tough to get used to, but is no different than the leap from grilled salmon to sushi. The meat is ground fresh every morning, and it has an obviously short shelf life. Nick and I shared a quarter pound on some crackers and it was gone in a few minutes. I've talked to a native in the area that had a pile of it at her wedding reception to separate the men from the boys.
I initially thought parisa must have been a traditional Alsatian (or possibly French or German) creation, but I wasn't able to track down any reference to it anywhere by Texas' Medina County. Locals can point to only two remaining meat markets that carry it, one of them being Dziuk's, and a few seem to agree that the dish was born in Medina County. If anyone out there knows of a different origin, I'd love to hear it.
Watts & Watts Bar-B-Que
SAN AUGUSTINE: Watts & Watts Bar-B-Que
200 N US Highway 96
San Augustine, TX 75972
Open M-Thur 11-9, F-Sat 11-11, Sun 11-6
If a barbecue joint is going to get just one menu item right, it's more common to see a decent rib than worthwhile brisket. At this East Texas joint they found a way to harness the hickory smoke to create some respectable beef, but the pork didn't fare so well.
A single thick slice from the brisket was included on the combo plate. Alone, it probably would have tipped the scales at a quarter pound. Too bad that the point and the flat were sliced together. Since the grain in the two muscles is perpendicular, half of the slice will be cut with the grain instead of against it if they aren't separated. The portion here from the flat was tender and smoky, if a bit dry. The fat was nicely rendered, but the slice through the point took some chewing to get through the grain. A link of boudin was well cooked, but it lacked the good smoke of the beef. Thick pork ribs were poorly undercooked. Layers of tough meat and unrendered fat made for some unpleasant bites, so I just moved on to the potato salad and dirty rice. Both were fine, but the brisket proved most memorable.
Bo-Bo's BBQ
SAN AUGUSTINE: Bo-Bo's BBQ
US Highway 96 south of 21
2012: Just south of San Augustine the road rises and atop the hill sits this red trailer. Even on this perch, the dirt driveway had captured plenty of the recent rains and we had to trudge through the mud just to get to the ordering window. The owner obliged with a request for a taste of the three meats and soon we had a plate of ribs, brisket and hot links on the hood of my car.
A dusting of dry rub that was mostly sugar graced the entire plate in Memphis style fashion. The hot links were the same cheap version served just down the road at San Augustine's other barbecue food truck, Cowboy Chuck Wagon (How is it that Dallas doesn't even have one?). Tender brisket was drowning in sauce, but it needed the flavor assistance. A thick spare rib had a heavy rub still clinging to half of it, the rest presumably slipping off. The meat still had some chew to it, but was white from edge to edge. There wasn't really a hint of smoke, and it tasted more like a pork chop than a rib. None of it was worth a wade through the mud.
Outlaw's Bar-B-Que
DAINGERFIELD: Outlaw's Bar-B-Que
1404 Linda Dr.
Daingerfield, TX 75638
Open M-Sat 10:30-8
It was late and we had been suffering through some bad barbecue for most of the day. I'm always willing to try one more, so when the light was on at Outlaw's there was no question we'd be stopping. It was obvious they were ready to start stacking chairs on the tables and get the hell out, but the service was friendly with a helpful attitude. The meat carver pointed to the wood-fired Bewley pit behind him when I inquired about the smoking equipment. I was impressed and soon a plate of fatty brisket and ribs sat in front of me.
A sheen covered the well developed crust on the thick St. Louis ribs. The rub was sweet without being candy-like and a pink hue went deep into the pork signifying a well smoked rib. They were tender and still moist even at this late hour. They were simply great ribs. The soggy brisket needed some work. It was really showing its age (probably coming off the smoker earlier that morning), but it was quite late. The crusty end bits held plenty of concentrated flavor and smoke, but the overdone texture was hard to savor. Still, this was far more preferable to tough dry meat. As we were finishing, one of the guys brought over a plate of turkey saying it was by far his favorite. I was thankful for the gift, but wondered how someone working at a barbecue joint could gush about processed, precooked deli turkey that is just warmed by the smoker. Stick with the ribs here, and maybe even the brisket if you get there closer to lunch.
Cowboy Chuck Wagon BBQ
SAN AUGUSTINE: Cowboy Chuck Wagon BBQ
NE Corner of 96 and 21
No Phone
2012: Food trucks are all the rage these days, and I usually have high hopes for roadside barbecue stands. Standing in a damp parking area on the corner of two state highways in San Augustine, I was wishing for the best. There hadn't been much in this part of East Texas to get excited about, but Cowboy Chuck Wagon looked like it might ease my pain. Not so much.
Luckily there was a decent link of steamed boudin (there wasn't a hint of smoke) and a nice mashed potato salad, because the rest was pretty awful. Chewy strips of undercooked beef may not have even been brisket. Several slices of bright red hot links again had no smoke and the muddy flavor of the gamey filling made us all stop eating after just a slice. This food truck needs some work.
Bar H Country Store
FANNETT: Bar H Country Store
Interstate 10 at Hwy 365
Fannett, Texas 77705
Open Daily 6am-10pm
It was pouring down rain and we were on our way to the coast. A bevy of seafood awaited, but we'd heard some promising things about this joint in the middle of our morning route from Port Arthur to Bolivar Peninsula. The interior had most of the product shelves removed that you'd expect to see inside a convenience store to make way for a dining area. Orders are given at the cashier's counter, but the meat is carved and plated in the back.
When the plate arrived it was nice to see that my request for no sauce was honored until I noticed they had pooled it on the bottom of the plate. I was able to save a rib and a slice of pork from the sauce, but all of the lean slices of brisket had been dunked. Those slices were thin and dry with no fat and little crust. Smoke flavor was hard to detect making it little more than roast beef. Ribs were better with a hefty rub and some decent smoke. The meat was tender and moist and the best meat on the plate. Dried out slices of pork had a washed out flavor and not much going for it. I was excited for the dirty rice on the side, but it was the spicy beans that were more memorable. Not a whole lot else was.
Mr. Will's Restaurant
NACOGDOCHES: Mr. Will's Restaurant
3406 Center Hwy
Nacogdoches, TX 75961
Open M-F 10-8, Sat 8-8, Sun 8-3
Maybe the addition of the fresh baked biscuit in the container of barbecue was because we were visiting in the in-between meal hour of 10:00am, or maybe they just felt bad for the inattentive service. I walked around the front counter whistling and stomping as loud as I could while peeking into the kitchen doors hoping for someone to catch a glimpse of a potential customer. A full ten minutes and time for a bathroom break elapsed before someone came out to take our order.
We took the combo plate of brisket and ribs to the car trunk where we learned the beauty of a brisket and biscuit sandwich in the morning. Without the help of the buttery bun, the brisket didn't hold up as well. In fact it didn't really hold together at all. It was smoked the day previous, and because of the well rendered fat left on the meat you could still taste that smoke. The meat itself fell into small bits that would have made for fine saucy chopped beef, but weren't great on their own. The day-old ribs didn't fare well either. The meat had decent flavor, but was dried out and still quite chewy with a poorly formed crust from a powdery rub applied too heavily. Both beef and pork may have even been good if fresh, so I'd advise coming later in the day. It may have been a filling breakfast, but that biscuit did most of the work.
Bob's Bar-B-Que
HENDERSON: Bob's Bar-B-Que
1205 Pope St.
This joint is a family affair run by the tight-lipped Bob Allen, his wife and son. A steel wood-fired pit was hidden by a fence, and they weren’t willing to give us a tour. Bob assured us that “there’s no gas up on this hill.” It’s all hickory that runs these pits. I took my order to the far end of the dining room to see just what these mystery pits might produce.
Ribs were thin and on the dry side, but not too much so. The subtle seasoning did little to hide the smoky flavor of the tender meat. The hot boudain lived up to its name with plenty of spice and good snappy casing. The last cut I tried was the brisket. It was sad uniform rectangles of gray beef with all of the fat and crust cut away. When I bit into it I was surprised by the moist meat and the hint of smoke that remained. Maybe they were holding out on me. I walked back to the counter and asked for some dark and crusty end cuts. They were happy to oblige and what I got was much improved. The fat had melted into the subtle salt rub like meat candy, and the deep black crust was smoky and crackled a bit in my teeth. I had to ask Bob why he wasn't serving this stuff to begin with, and he said the customers expect ultra-lean beef, so he gives it to him. The difference between these two briskets was incredible, and I was sad to know that the majority of people prefer the first version. Now that I knew how to order the brisket here, I grabbed a couple of pounds to go. Some friends in Nacogdoches were going to be very happy.
Wagon Wheel Smokehouse
EAGLE PASS: Wagon Wheel Smokehouse
3283 Del Rio Blvd.
Eagle Pass, TX 78852
Sitting right on the Texas/Mexico border about and hour south of Del Rio is the small town of Eagle Pass. There isn't another major stop along the border until Laredo a couple more hours to the southeast. If we were going to get a decent lunch, it was going to have to be here in Eagle Pass. A promising sight on the north side of town was a tall sign advertising the Wagon Wheel Smokehouse and an impressive mobile smoker out front. When we got out of the car there wasn't a wisp of smoke in the air and the smoker was cold.
Despite the three different "open" signs, there wasn't anyone at the ordering window outside. We strolled inside to the empty restaurant lined with mounted animal heads and dollar bills stapled to the plywood walls. A man standing near the abandoned register was waiting around for someone to come pay the beer delivery bill. I stood by the counter trying to make enough noise to stir up some service. In a few minutes a lady came from the back looking flustereded that someone was there so early (11:30) looking for barbecue, which wasn't that surprising since the joint looked like most of its action happened around midnight at the bar. She quickly took our order and went back into the kitchen for a painfully long time. Through the thin metal doors of the kitchen I could hear the hum of an electric knife and the sound of the microwave door opening and closing several times. When she finally brought out the order, it was missing the ribs. At this point the owner arrived through the front door, completed our order, and paid the beer man.
On a picnic table outside we opened a container of tepid and bone-dry brisket. Any of its other attributes were lost in the cotton-mouth it provided. It was awful.
Just one bite of the ribs showed that they had gotten the full blast of the microwave. They were searingly hot, and there wasn't much to taste beyond the sauce covering the meat. I was hoping the beans flecked with onions, tomato and cilantro would at least provide a little filler for my now hungry stomach, but they were ice cold, straight from the fridge.
Rating: No Stars
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FDA Publishes Draft Guidance for Evaluation and Labeling of Scored Tablets
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On September 1, 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released draft guidance for tablet scoring, see FDA Guidance for Industry Tablet Scoring: Nomenclature, Labeling, and Data for Evaluation. This draft guidance provides recommendations regarding “guidelines to follow, data to provide, and criteria to meet and detail in an application to approve a scored tablet,” as well as nomenclature and labeling for approved scored tablets. This draft guidance applies only to sponsors of new drug applications (NDAs) and abbreviated new drug applications (ANDAs). These guidelines are optional for currently marketed drug products.
The FDA published this draft guidance in recognition of the need for consistent scoring between a generic drug product and its reference listed drug (RLD). Insurance companies and physician sometimes recommend that patients score drug tablets to allow patients to adjust a drug dose or as a cost-saving measure. This practice, however, carries possible safety issues. The FDAs concerns with splitting a tablet include “variations in the tablet content, weight, disintegration, or dissolution,” which may affect the concentration of a drug in a split tablet and its rate of absorption. The new draft guidance aims to achieve consistency and ensure the quality of NDA and ANDA scored tablet products.
In furtherance of those goals, the FDAs draft guidance recommends criteria by which scored tablets can be evaluated and labeled by:
Providing a harmonized approach to chemistry, manufacturing, and controls reviews of scored tables;
Ensuring consistency in nomenclature and labeling; and
Providing information through product labeling or other means to healthcare professionals.
The FDA has outlined eight main guidelines and criteria by which a scored tablets characteristics will be evaluated during the review process:
The dosage amount meant to be achieved after splitting the tablet should not be below 84 the minimum therapeutic dose indicated on the approved labeling.
The scored dosage form should be safe to handle and not pose risk of unintended drug 87 exposure (e.g., teratogenic, chemotherapeutic, hormones).
Modified release products for which the control of drug release can be compromised 90 by tablet splitting (e.g., tablets controlled by an osmotic pump system or an exterior 91 film coat) should not have a scoring feature.
The split tablet, when stored in standard high-density polyethylene pharmacy bottles 94 and caps (no seal), should meet established stability requirements for a period of 90 95 days at 25º C, plus or minus 2º C/60 percent Relative Humidity (RH), plus or minus 5 96 percent RH.
The split tablet portions should meet the same finished-product testing requirements 99 as for a whole-tablet product with equivalent strength. A risk assessment should be 100 provided to justify the tests and criteria for product with the proposed functional 101 score. The resulting data should be provided to the Agency for evaluation. The 102 assessment should be undertaken on both tablets that are split nonmechanically (by 103 hand) and tablets that are split mechanically (with a tablet splitter). Any 104 recommended dissolution test data must be generated on a minimum of 12 individual 105 split tablet portions.
The scored tablet should be tested using the indicated patient population to ensure patients can split the tablet correctly, as labeled.
Scoring configuration of generic drug products should be the same as the RLD
New study data on tablet splitability should be provided during the postapproval period for an product changes at level 2 and Level 3 as defined in the Agencys Scale-up and Post-Approval changes (SUPAC) guidances.
In addition, the FDA will require new products that meet the above criteria to be labeled as having a functional score. The use of functional score is intended to indicate to healthcare professionals that the product has been evaluated against the FDAs newly established criteria. These product labels should reflect the following:
“Dosage Forms and Strength” section of the Highlights
“Dosage Forms and Strength” section of the Full Prescribing Information
“How Supplied” section of the full prescribing information
The FDA will require newly approved products to include this information in the patient package insert or medication guide. Those products that do not meet the criteria set forth in the FDAs new draft guidance, should not make reference to scoring or indicate a scoring feature in its product labeling.
Fuerst Ittleman will continue to monitor developments in the FDAs regulation of medical drugs. For more information, please contact us at contact@fidjlaw.com.
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On the 99th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution: Lenin - An Appreciation
Note: Today is the 99th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution. We are reprinting an essay written on the first anniversary of the Russian Revolution by the American Marxist, Louis C. Fraina. Fraina, who is little known today, was one of the founders of American Communism, and for a period one of its leaders, having led a left wing split from the conservative leadership of the Socialist Party. He was, (as chronicled in the recent book, Trotsky in New York 1917: A Radical on the Eve of Revolution, by Kenneth D. Ackerman), an early supporter of Trotsky who fought for a revolutionary internationalist position in the Socialist Party, opposing American entry into World War I. In later years he was known as Lewis Corey and wrote a number of books on economic theory. He was hounded out of the Communist Party in the 1920's as a result of false charges labeling him a spy planted by an FBI agent. He later worked with the CP but was disgusted with Stalinism and finally broke with them. Ironically, in the 1950s, he became a victim of the McCarthyite witch hunts and was threatened with deportation. He died in 1952 before his case was adjudicated.
Lenin — An Appreciation.
by Louis C. Fraina
Published in One Year of Revolution: Celebrating the First Anniversary of the Founding of the Russian Soviet Republic: November 7, 1918. (Brooklyn, NY: The Class Struggle, 1918), pp. 3
Marx was the master of the Revolution in theory. Lenin is the master of the Revolution in action. But as Marx, the man of theory, had great capacity for action, so Lenin, the man of action, has great capacity for theory.
In fact, the dominant form of the activity of Marx and Lenin is determined not by peculiar talent or characteristics, but by the historic milieu conditioning their activity. This is precisely the mark of the great rebel — that he concentrates upon the fundamental revolutionary task of his day.
If I were asked what particular phase of Lenin appears to me as decisive, I would answer: his dynamic capacity to unite theory and practice. This is not as simple a thing as it may appear. Usually, the Socialist is an opportunist, who casts aside every real opportunity for immediate revolutionary action, becoming an adept in bourgeois liberal activity and social reformism, accepting theory in the facile fashion of an average Christian accepting his religion — repudiating the revolutionary tasks of Socialism; or a “revolutionist” becomes an adept in using formulae, whose action is hampered by the silken cord of abstract theory, absorbed so much in the Revolution that the requirements of the immediate revolutionary struggle are allowed to pass into the years of wasted opportunity — paltering with the revolutionary tasks of Socialism. Each of these two types of Socialists evade all actual problems of the Revolution. Action must be directed by theory, and theory must become action. An uncompromising revolutionist, Lenin has an overwhelming sense of reality. The Revolution to him is not a dress parade of amicable transformation, of the pacific “penetration” of Capitalism by Socialism; nor is it the conquest of Capitalism by the formulation of “revolutionary” theory and formulae, much as a bourgeois “idealist” sees in general principles of human action the means for the emancipation of the world. No; Lenin conceives the Revolution as a series of implacable, brutal class struggles; as a process in which theory and action are inseparably united; as a dynamic movement in which every opportunity, every crisis, every strength, weakness, and peculiarity of the social alignment becomes the subject of study and appropriate action.
Let it not appear from this that Lenin is an opportunist wavering with each new shift of the social wind; Lenin has the utmost scorn, and justly, for the miserable opportunist who shifts and wavers, hesitates and compromises, and uses “reality” as a justification. Adapting one’s self to temporarily dominant facts, compromising with issues and forces fundamentally contrary to Socialism on the specious plea of “necessary action,” is not to adapt one’s self to reality, but to accept forms instead of substance, the appearance of reality for reality itself. Reality is infinitely deceptive. At the moment when the war and Tsarism constituted the “reality” in Russia, a new reality appeared and burst forth, the action of the revolutionary proletariat, the reality of revolutionary Socialism. Life is consistent in spite of apparent inconsistency. There must be consistency in theory and in action, based upon adapting each to the fundamental facts of the forces and tendency of Capitalism and the revolutionary proletariat. Consistency that is flexible, and flexibility that is consistent, are instruments of the Revolution. When the moment for “necessary action” comes — revolutionary action — the opportunist will waver and oppose this necessary revolutionary action, as did the majority Socialists in Europe, the “men of action”; while the man who was accused of not being “in action,” who rejected participation in certain action as contrary to Socialism and the class struggle, becomes the director and inspiration of the greatest of all revolutions.
It might make one cynical, if life itself didn’t suppress cynicism in the revolutionary Socialist, to consider certain reactions toward Lenin. There are many who consider Lenin a sort of bolt from the blue, a miraculous product of the Russian Revolution; there are others who bitterly attacked Lenin, now singing his praises, while they try to compress Lenin’s policy into the small space of their petty purposes and corrupt ideology; and there are still others who invoke Lenin and the proletarian revolution in Russian while pursuing the petty bourgeois, opportunistic policy of moderate Socialism which they have always pursued, and which Lenin condemned, condemns, and will continue to condemn... And Lenin serenely, uncompromisingly, adheres to the revolutionary theory and action compromising his fundamental policy for twenty years, disaster and success alike emphasizing his revolutionary energy and initiative....
During the course of years Lenin labored in comparative obscurity, forging the concepts that have become the thunderbolts of the Russian Revolution. Lenin represented the minority, that minority of revolutionary Socialism which in all nations actively represents the Revolution and is the hope of the proletariat. The world of Socialism — that is to say, the world comprised in the petty bourgeois Socialism of the Second International — rendered homage to clay idols, to Karl Kautsky, to Georgii Plekhanov, to Jules Guesde, all of whom collapsed miserably under the test of the revolutionary crisis produced by the war. The world of petty bourgeois Socialism invoked the German Social Democracy, the British Labour Party, the French Socialist Party, the dominant Socialism in Russia, while it ignored, condemned, or knew nothing of the Bolsheviki and other groups of the revolutionary minority, the policy of which conquers in Russia, and will conquer everywhere by means of the New International of the final struggle and victory. But Lenin was not swerved from his course by apparent failure, no more than he has been swerved from his course by success. In these years of preparation for the Revolution, in these bitter years of momentary triumph of a Socialism essentially counterrevolutionary, Lenin developed the fundamentals of his policy, which his revolutionary integrity and mastery of theory convinced him were in accord with the fundamental facts and tendency of Capitalism and the proletariat, and which would necessarily conquer under the impulse of the universal crisis generated by Imperialism, which introduces the new revolutionary epoch of the proletarian class struggle.
The courage and initiative of the man, his integrity and devotion to the fundamental tasks of Socialism, his refusal to temporize with revolutionary consistency, policy, and honor for the sake of meretricious popularity, are marvels of character and vision, an inspiration to the Socialist and the rebel.
It is impossible to chronicle here the achievements of Lenin. But there is one achievement, I think, which is characteristic. I was discussing Lenin with a comrade the other day, and he said: “It rather tires me to read so much in which Lenin repeatedly insists, as against Karl Kautsky, that Marx said this or meant that. A man who has accomplished what Lenin has in Russia doesn’t have to worry about Marx.” But Marxism is the theoretical instrument of the proletarian revolution; it is upon the basis of Marxism that Lenin builds. And a great achievement of Lenin is the restoration of Marxism to its real character as an instrument of revolutionary action. During the past twenty-five years, Marxism has experienced a transformation, becoming the means of interpreting history and a fetish of controversy, instead of a maker of history and an instrument of revolutionary action. This degrading conception of Marxism was dominant in the old International. The “Marxist,” instead of using Marxism to interpret new revolutionary developments, used their atrophied Marxism as a means of crushing new revolutionary ideas or compressing them into the stultifying limits of the old tactics, and justifying or explaining away every abandonment of revolutionary Socialism by the dominant petty bourgeois Socialism. Lenin used Marx against these pseudo-Marxists, insisted on making Marxism an instrument of revolutionary action, built upon the basis of Marxism and amplified its scope. Marx is again the rebel, and not the slave of the Socialist pedant. Lenin used Marxism to interpret the new social alignments of imperialism, the new forms of the class struggle, and to forge the concepts of theory and action corresponding to the new revolutionary epoch.
Lenin’s theoretical activity bulks large. His Development of Capitalism in Russia is considered a master work, as is his Agrarian Problem in Russia; his Imperialism: The Final Stage of Capitalism is a splendid analysis of the prevailing epoch, a brilliant unity of theory and action in Socialist interpretation. Then there is Lenin’s pamphlet, The State and the Revolution, a discussion of the determining problem of the proletarian revolution; and his numerous pamphlets and other works issued during the Revolution, and which are classics of the application of fundamental Socialism to the problems of immediate, dynamic action during a revolutionary crisis. This theoretical work of Lenin will yet become a source of inspiration in the coming reconstruction of Socialism, supplemented by the accomplishments of the proletarian revolution in Russia.
It is not in any sense a concession to the Carlylean theory of “the Great Man” to admit that each great epoch of history expresses itself, focuses itself, in a great individual: Marat individualized the proletarian tendency of the French Revolution, Marx individualized the theoretical coming-of-age of the revolutionary proletariat; and Lenin individualizes the proletarian revolution in Russia.
Greetings, men and women of the proletarian revolution in Russia! Greetings, Lenin, symbol of the oncoming revolutionary Socialism that will conquer in spite of all!
Louis C. Fraina.
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The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) edition of May 17 featured a hysterical diatribe against me by the leader of that organization, David North.
Here we are today, 33 years after the split with Healy. Does the fact that North was on the right side of that split confer upon him the legitimacy of a hereditary monarch? Reading North’s comments, one would think that for him the Fourth International is some kind of franchise that he alone can operate. If the continuity of the Fourth International is to have any meaning, other than a ritualistic invocation meant to shore up the flagging morale of one’s followers, it can only be in one’s adherence to the program and theoretical conceptions of the Fourth International. If we examine the political conceptions and organizational practices of the group North has led for all these years it is clear that in all respects it bears little resemblance to the organization Trotsky founded in 1938. It is in fact our exposure of the hollowness of North’s claims to be the inheritor of the mantle of Trotsky that has so infuriated him. Why else would he be spending more time writing about me and Frank Brenner, two individuals, than about the Stalinists, Pabloites and state capitalists?
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Trump and the crisis of liberalism
by Frank Brenner
It is tempting to say that 2016 marks the death of liberalism, but that's probably wishful thinking. What is dead, though, is the old 'centrist' political consensus, i.e. the pendulum swings from centre-left to centre-right that made mainstream politics in the West about as predictable (and stable) as an old grandfather clock. Now the swings are much more extreme - or rather the swings to the right are. (One might add that what led up to this was a major shift rightward of the 'center' itself from Reagan/Thatcher on – what Tariq Ali rightly dubbed the “extreme center”.
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The Crackpot Philosophy of David North
A Case Study in the Neglect of Dialectics
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Sectarianism and the Greek working class
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Battle for the referendum: Final Day
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Lecture: Dialectics of Revolutionary Strategy and Tactics
Alex Steiner gave a talk at the Locomotiva Cooperative Cafe in Athens, Greece on July 9, 2015, shortly after the historic vote for NO - OXI -in the Referendum of July 5. The event was a huge success attracting a packed audience of about 50 people. The talk was sponsored by the Workers Revolutionary Party of Greece (EEK) and was chaired by Savas Michael-Matsas. A Greek translation of this talk is now available. The translation was first published in the theoretical journal of the EEK, Revolutionary Marxist Review, in the issue of November 2015-February 2016. The translation was the work of Eve Manopoulou.
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Hungary has always marched to a different drummer – speaking a language, preparing dishes and drinking wines like no others. It’s Europe at its most exotic.
Hungary’s scenery is more gentle than striking, more pretty than stunning. But you can’t say the same thing about the built environment across the land. Architecturally Hungary is a treasure trove, with everything from Roman ruins and medieval town houses to baroque churches, neoclassical public buildings and Art Nouveau bathhouses and schools. And we’re not just talking about Budapest here; walk through Szeged or Kecskemét, Debrecen or Sopron and you’ll discover an architectural gem at virtually every turn. Some people (ourselves included) go out of their way for another glimpse of their ‘hidden’ favourites like the Reök Palace in Szeged, the buildings of Kőszeg’s Jurisics tér or the Mosque Church in Pécs. It is almost as if they’re afraid these delightful structures will crumble and disappear unless they are regularly drenched in admiring glances.
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There is a lot more to Hungarian food than goulash and it remains one of the most sophisticated styles of cooking in Europe. Magyars even go so far as to say there are three essential world cuisines: French, Chinese and their own. That may be a bit of an exaggeration but Hungary’s reputation as a food centre dates largely from the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th and, despite a fallow period during the chilly days of communism, is once again commanding attention. So too are the nation’s world-renowned wines – from the big-bodied reds of Villány and white Olazrizling from Badacsony to honey-gold Tokaj.
In Hot Water
Hungarians have been ‘taking the waters’ supplied by an estimated 300 thermal springs since togas were all the rage and Aquincum was the big Smoke. They still do – for therapeutic, medicinal and recreational purposes – but the venues have changed somewhat. Today they range from authentic bathhouses dating from the Turkish occupation and Art Nouveau palaces to clinical sanatoriums straight out of a Thomas Mann novel. This is where the older generation like to rejuvenate and catch up on the local gossip. More and more though, you’ll see clear chlorinated waters in organically-shaped pools that bubble, squirt and spurt at different rhythms and temperatures alongside the requisite wellness centre offering a myriad of treatments. Good for the kids, good for the grown-ups, good for the whole family.
Enjoy the Thermal Baths
Budapest has more than 100 thermal springs. Enjoy and relax in the hot springs, including open-air pools and baths inside atmospheric historic building.
Go to Cafes
Budapest is known for that, so taste good coffee and delicious pastries. It is not just about the food but also the beautiful interiors and experiencing the local lifestyle.
Take a Pastry Tour
Try flaky strudel with fillings like sour cherry and sweet poppy seed paste, dobos torte, a multi-layered sponge cake with chocolate buttercream or the kurtoskalacs, the cylindrical “chimney cake” that’s cooked on a wooden spindle over coals.
Take a Walk in the Buda Hills
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Spend a Night at the Opera
The Hungarian State Opera House in Budapest is one of the most celebrated opera houses in the world for its architecture, acoustics and productions.
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Between Home and Exile:Locating Memsahibs’ Texts in British India
Pujari , Jyoti Prakash (2019) Between Home and Exile:Locating Memsahibs’ Texts in British India. PhD thesis.
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During the second half of the eighteenth century the British East India Company popularised the image of India as a hub for rich and eligible bachelors and did consequential work to woo Englishwomen to the Colony. By the nineteenth century ship loads of Englishwomen who went by the cult name of ‘Fishing Fleets’ braved perilous lands and seas and started coming to India to find a ‘suitable’ husband and thereby a ‘better life’ for themselves. The White women who came to India—popularly termed as ‘memsahibs’—gradually settled all over the country and started to create a ‘home’ away from home. It was during this period of time that they started developing their own corpus of texts. This thesis reads memsahibs’ texts—primarily manuals, travelogues and popular fiction—which were published in the nineteenth century India and suggests that home and exile are recurrent themes in these texts.
This thesis argues that though the Englishwomen were primarily ‘transported’ to create and manage British households in the Colony and acted as civilizing agents of the Englishmen, the memsahibs used imperialism as a means to design their own legitimate role in developing their own literature, separate from the ‘mainstream’ English literature in India. They negotiated the societal boundaries set for them and challenged the contemporary Victorian attitude towards class and race. In short, divided into six chapters, this thesis maps home and exile, the recurrent themes, in memsahibs’ texts and explores how—negotiating race and gender—memsahibs’ narratives address the question of women emancipation.
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Reflecting: 2012
I guess this makes it a tradition now.
Celebrated New Years in Antigua Guatemala with some Quezalteca. Paid the price in the morning.
Climbed the Mayan temple of Xunantunich in San Ignacio, Belize
Waded across rivers and swam into the mouth of a cave to explore the ancient Mayan sacrifices in Actun Tunichil Muknal
Dove over 100 meters into the ancient sinkhole from the ice age at The Blue Hole in Belize
Explored one of the largest ancient Mayan civilization of Tikal in Guatemala
Bruised my face getting hit by a car while a riding bike
Visited the house where a young Martin Luther King Jr. grew up in Atlanta, Georgia
Biked through Bogoto, Colombia on a graffiti tour
Ascended over 3,000 meters while joining a pilgrimage to the top of Monserrate in Bogota
Drank an aphrodisiac milkshake made of blended (live) crabs and alcohol on the streets of Bogota
Consumed copious amounts of the most delicious Colombian exotic fruits
Partied with some of the most beautiful women on the planet in Medellin, Colombia
Scaled the crooked staircases wedged into El Peñón de Guatapé
Licked BBQ sauce off my fingers at The Salt Lick in Austin, Texas
Got my lime on in St. Kitts & Nevis
Scuba dived through the hull of a sunken ship off the coast of St. Kitts
Got blown into the ocean by the hot blast of air from a jet engine in St. Maarten
Camped in the Appalachian Mountains along the Blue Ridge Parkway from North Carolina to Virginia
Toured the house and plantation of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
Stood in the very room where U.S. Bill of Rights was ratified in Richmond Virginia
Honored the fallen heroes buried at Arlington National Cemetery
Walked up the steps of The United States Supreme Court
Toured Jefferson’s, Lincoln’s, MLKs, Roosevelt’s, The Vietnam, WWI & WWII memorials in Washington D.C.
Hung out in George Washington’s home at Mount Vernon
Saw the crack in the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia
Taste-tested no less than 5 Philly Cheesesteaks
Ran up the “Rocky Balboa” steps in Philadelphia
Set foot inside the Independence Hall where The Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution were adopted.
Imprisoned myself inside the Eastern State Penitentiary in the cell next door to Al Capone’s
Toured Ellis Island and The Statue of Liberty
Mourned at Grand Zero
Watched The Book of Mormons on Broadway
Climbed to the top of The Empire St. building in New York City
Cruised on a ferry underneath the Brooklyn Bridge to the Figment Festival on Governors Island
Partied with thousands of boricua’s in the streets of New York for the Puerto Rican Day Parade
Gawked in the Guggenheim
Relived my childhood in Bethel, CT
Swung on a bench-swing while enjoying the sunset over Lake Champlain in Burlington, Vermont
Sampled a new Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavor at their factory in Montpelier, Vermont
Heard a Who in Springfield, Massachusetts
Broke into the dome of Saint Joseph’s Oratory of Mount-Royal to catch an awesome sunset over Montreal
Talked my way into permission to take photos inside of the private library of Canada’s Parliament
Dunked my head into a quarry 200 feet below me at the end of Canada’s tallest bungee jump
Rode a bamboo bicycle through the graffiti-filled alleys of Toronto, Canada
Stood behind the roaring water falls of Niagara
Rocked out at the Rock & Roll hall of fame in Cleveland, Ohio
Milked a cow and ate dinner with an Amish family in Millersburg, Ohio
Survived a ferocious lightning/hail/wind storm in Jackson Center, Ohio
Played games at Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Machines in Detroit, Michigan
Cruised through the RV Hall of Fame in Elkhart, Indiana
Uncovered a top-secret SR-71B Blackbird jet
Urbex explored a decrepit church in Gary, Indiana
Watched the 4th of July fireworks explode over Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois
Photographed Chicago’s skyline at dusk from alongside Lake Michigan
Walked a lap in The Great Mall in Saint Paul, Minnesota
Found one of the meanings of life in the Badlands National Park in South Dakota
Laughed at the corniness of The Corn Palace in Mitchel, South Dakota
Stared up the presidents nostrils at Mount Rushmore in Keystone South Dakota
Sat in a Bison-induced traffic jam in Yellowstone National Park
Waited for The Grand Geyser to blow in Yellowstone. Totally worthy it!
Smelled sulfurous gasses spew from the bubbling mud pits in Yellowstone
Stood in the center of the universe in Wallace, Idaho
Climbed rock towers in Frenchman Coulee, Washington
Contributed my chewed gum to The Gum Wall at Pikes Market in Seattle, Washington
Landed in a sea plane in a lake on the south-side of Kodiak Island in Alaska
Played a game of chicken with a brown bear in Kodiak, Alaska. The bear won.
Crossed the Arctic Circle on the perilous Dalton Highway
Drove the Seward highway and discovered the diverse wildlife of Alaska
Rode ATV’s through Denali National Park and caught a glimpse of Mt. McKinley’s summit
Stood underneath the Alaskan pipeline
Drank an apple-tini from an ice glass at an ice bar inside an ice hotel in Chena, Alaska
Spooked a wild moose and her calf in Fairbanks, Alaska
Feed some reindeer in North Pole, Alaska
Hiked to a glacier in Juneau, Alaska
Summoned my inner Homer Simpson at an old abandoned nuclear power plant in Elma, Washington.
Watched glassmakers blow glass at the world renowned Museum of Glass on Tacoma, Washington
Zenned-out at the Japanese Garden in Portland Oregon and then porked out Voodoo Doughnuts
Hiked to the top of Multnomah, Falls in Oregon
Kite-boarded and stand-up paddle-boarded on the Hood River in Oregon
Got soaked from the spray of ocean water as it rushed into Devil’s Churn
Climbed to the top of Smith Rock in Oregon
Rafted down the Big Eddy Thriller rapids of the Deschutes River in Bend, Oregon
Stumbled my way through the pitch-dark Lava River Cave near Bend, Oregon
Hiked to the top of Watchman Peak and watched the sun rise over Crater Lake
Stood with giants at the Redwood National Park in California
Experienced an extended deja-vu in Mendocino California
Completed a 2-year 23,822-mile cross-country road-trip around North America
Watched the Space Shuttle Endeavour fly over the Golden Gate Bridge
Completed a 13-hour hike from the valley floor to the top of Half Dome and back in Yosemite National Park
Dined on a 7-course meal at one of the finest restaurants in Lima Peru and attended a beauty pageant as a VIP guest of the bathing suit designer
Scuba dove with hammer-head sharks, sea lions, octopus, sea turtles and more in The Galapagos Islands
Swam in Tortuga Bay in The Galapagos Islands
Climbed to the top of Sierra Negra and witnessed the most amazing sunset on my birthday
Straddled the two hemispheres at the center of the earth in Quito, Ecuador
Soaked in natural hot springs after experiencing the excruciating head pressure associated with altitude sickness in the mountains of Quito, Ecuador
Pulled an all-nighter in Bogota Colombia and partied with some bohemian Colombians
Relaxed with friends on the beaches of El Salvador
Attended the opening day of the Space Shuttle Endeavour exhibit at The Science Center in Los Angeles
Leapt out of an airplane all by myself and fell through a cloud.
Helped out those in need by donating some old clothes and feeding the homeless on Christmas.
Sweated profusely at my first Bikram yoga experience.
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Staring At The World Through My Rearview
“Just looking back at the world, from another level, ya know what I mean?”
Authored by: Digital Knowmadd on October 24, 2012.
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Reflecting back on 2011 here are 99 of my top memories (in chronological order). Thanks to all that shared in the experiences!
Shared life goals and dreams with great friends at the Sanctuary of Truth in Ancient Siam, Thailand
Smobbed through traffic running from the police on some janky scooters in Bali, Indonesia
Scuba diving in the Gili islands of Indonesia
Whitewater rafting down the Telaga Waja River in Bali, Indonesia
Got buzzed off Luwak coffee in the hills of Ubud, Indonesia
Listened to the chanting and watched the traditional Kecak Dance at the Uluwatu Temple in Bali, Indonesia
Bungee jumped a BMX bike off a platform into a pool below in Bali, Indonesia
Witnessed traditional Thaipusam rituals in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Smelled the Batu Caves in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Made $100,000,000,000,000 (that’s one-hundred-trillion) Zimbabwe dollars in Malaca, Malaysia
Kayaked through the waters of Halong Bay, Vietnam
Saw Ho-Chi-Minh’s body in Hanoi, Vietnam
Nearly got run over by hundreds of scooters in the street of Hanoi, Vietnam
Saw dogs heads for sale (presumably to be eaten) in Hanoi, Vietnam
Got fitted for a custom tailored suit made in Hoi An, Vietnam
Hiked through the MySon Relics of Hoi An, Vietnam
Celebrated Tet (Vietnamese Lunar New Year) with a spectacular fireworks show in Nha Trang, Vietnam
Rode a red-eye sleeper train from Nha Trang to Saigon, Vietnam
Shared beers (with dirty ice from a burlap sack) with some old Vietnamese men that didn’t speak a lick of English in the streets of Saigon, Vietnam
Crawled through the underground Cu-Chi tunnels and fired an AK47 used during the Tet Offensive in Saigon, Vietnam
Witness the effects of Agent Orange at the War Remnants Museum in Saigon, Vietnam
Hiked through Angkor Wat during sunrise in Siem Reap, Cambodia
Watched the sun fall from atop a temple in Angkor Thom in Siem Reap, Cambodia
Donated to the Cambodia Landmine Museum Relief Fund to help them remove more active landmines from the Cambodian/Thailand border
Got tickled by fish that ate the dead skin off my feet while I sipped on a glass of wine in Siem Reap, Cambodia
Road a horse through the old rice fields of Siem Reap, Cambodia
Toured the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida
Drove my RV on the famous Daytona Beach in Daytona Beach, Florida
Ate a feast at The Wilkes House in Savannah, Georgia
Peered through others peoples prayers at the smallest church in America in South Newport, Georgia
Took a bike ride around St. Simons Island, Georgia
Boated out to the start of the Civil War at Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina
Went rock climbing in Charleston, South Carolina
Relaxed in the shade of the giant 400-year old Angel Oak Tree outside of Charleston, South Carolina
Sat on “A Bench By The Road” on Sullivan Island, South Carolina
Hollered in Spivey’s Corner, the “Hollerin’ Capital of the Universe”
Deciphered the original Rosetta Stone at the British Museum in London, England
Straddled the international dateline in Greenwhich, England
Walked through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France
Climbed to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France
Listened to hymns at Notre Dame in Paris, France
Road bikes and dominated baguettes & babies in Versailles, France
Picnicked on the grounds of Marie Antoinette’s old Palace of Versailles in France
Saw Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa at Musée du Louvre in Paris, France
Avoided paying for an overpriced ticket to Moulin Rouge in Paris, France
Ingested a “Mother of Pain” currywurstspezialitäten (1,000,000 on the Scoville scale) after signing a liability waiver in Leipzig, Germany
Witnessed the atrocities of Hitler’s concentration camps in Auschwitz, Poland
Participated in a scavenger hunt through downtown San Francisco, California
Launched a new version of MFI new hobby of kiteboarding in the Outer Banks of North Carolina
Retraced the path of the Wright Brothers first 4 flights in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
Marveled at the Bodies exhibit in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Witnessed an amazing 4th of July fireworks display in Savanna, Georgia
Tried smoked rattlesnake meat in St. Augustine, Florida
Witnessed the final launch of the Space Shuttle program (STS-135) in person in Titusville, Florida
Flew my first international flight as a pilot in a Cessna 172 from Florida, USA to Freeport, Bahamas
Snorkeled in the crystal clear waters from a catamaran of Icacos, Puerto Rico
Whitewater rafting down the Pacuare River in Squires, Costa Rica
Slept in a hammock at Rockin J’s in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica
Scuba diving in Bocas del Toro, Panama
Took a private water taxi to Star Beach in Bocas del Toro, Panama
Zip-lining through the tree canopy in Red Frog Beach, Panama
Watched ocean-liners pass through the Panama Canal
Performed my first “elevator jump” bungee jump into the fog above a river near La Fortuna, Costa Rica
Soaking in the hot springs during a violent thunderstorm while lightening illuminated the silhouette of a volcano in La Fortuna, Costa Rica
Went on a nature walk and saw sloths, monkeys, toucans, frogs, lizards, and more in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica
Spent the night on a converted oil rig in the waters of Semporna Malaysia
Scuba diving in one of the Top 10 diving locations in the world in Spipidan, Malaysia
Followed a Xmas parade down the cobblestone streets to a soccer game in Antigua, Guatemala
Disconnected and relaxed along the shore of Late Atitlan, in Santa Cruz La Laguna, Guatemala
Saw the ruins of Joya de Cerén in San Salvador, El Salvador
Climbed the old Myan pyramids of Tazumal where the heads from human sacrifices used to roll down in Chalchuapa, El Salvador
Roamed the colorful streets of Grenada, Nicaragua
Hiked up and volcano-boarded down the black ash of Volcan Cerro Negro in Leon, Nicaragua
Thumbed my nose at an antiquated embargo and traveled to Cuba
Navigated precarious and unmarked roads in a rental car with a bent rim to Cienfuegos, Cuba
Lived with Cuban families in “casa particulars” and learned about life in communist Cuba
Listened to rumba music on the steps of Casa la Musica in Trinidad, Cuba
Galloped on horseback across the Cuban countryside to a waterfall up in the mountains of Trinidad, Cuba
Witness firsthand as Cubans lined up in a breadline (and milk-line) for their weekly rations in Trinidad, Cuba
Sampled Cuba’s infamous $7.00 CUP ($0.40 USD) street pizzas in Santa Clara, Cuba
Witnessed the final resting place and monument of Ernesto “Che” Guevara in Santa Clara, Cuba
Stayed in a 5-star resort and relaxed on the white sand beaches of Cayo Santa Maria, Cuba
Drank an overpriced, watered-down Mojito at La Bodeguia Del Medio in La Havana Vieja, Cuba
Sipped daiquiris at Floradita Restaraunte Bar, Earnest Hemmingway’s old watering hole in Havana, Cuba
Marveled at the communist propaganda throughout Havana, Cuba
Photographed old school cars parked outside of the Capitolo in downtown Havana, Cuba
Met the famous Cuban artist Leo D’Zázaro at his studio El Ojo Del Ciclón in Havana, Cuba
Strolled down El Malecón while sipping on Havana Club rum in Havana, Cuba
Watched kids playing stickball with a broom and bottlecap in the streets the Centro district of Havana, Cuba
Shared a Xmas eve feast — Cuban style — with my hosts in Havana, Cuba
Hitched a ride in a old “Yank Tank” with a Cuban, Mexican, and Lebanese to Playa de Este, Cuba
Ate a Xmas day pig roast on the Santa María del Mar beach in Havana, Cuba
Toured Partagas Cigar factory and bought some Cohiba cigars from shady factory workers in Havana, Cuba
Walked through Necropolis Cristóbal Colón at sundown in the Vedado area of Havana, Cuba
Swam from Playa de Cerado out to a reef and then scuba dove (because Cubans aren’t allowed on boats) in Ciamito, Cuba
Ate a $1.00 CUP ($0.04 USD) scoop of ice cream at the state-run Coppelia in Havana, Cuba
Photographed the murals and sculptures of Salvador González Escalona on Callejon De Hamel in Havanah, Cuba
Celebrated the end of the year and the start of the next on Calle del Arco in Antigua, Guatemala
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Cramming In San Salvador
It would be silly to not stop in El Salvador for at least a night, and really, that’s all it takes to get a sense for this country when you’ve got an amazing tour guide (contact Mac here if you need a guide anywhere in Central America).
For some reason this country felt a little more dangerous that most others, so one night was plenty for me. On to the next one.
Authored by: Digital Knowmadd on December 8, 2011.
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Branding Expert Daymon John- Celebrities Who Brand Themselves
Branding expert Daymond John talks a lot about the success stories of branding when it comes to products and companies. How about naming celebrities that do a great job of branding themselves?
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He continues, “Kim has become a fashion icon, a beauty icon. They can brand family, they can brand Hollywood, they can brand beauty. None of it has to be because they sing or dance or anything else.”
As John notes in his first book, “Display of Power: How FUBU Changed a World of Fashion, Branding and Lifestyle,” “We all have the same engine under the hood. It’s just that some people understand how to tap into that power.”
John is certainly tapping into his power in a major way. He’s keeping up with the demands of his own FUBU business empire while on the road promoting his powerful new “The Brand Within” book – wherein readers learn how they, too, can make hay via branding.
He expects to stay just as busy traveling, speaking, meeting and appearing for the next couple of months. He says he’ll know within six weeks what’s in store as far as the next season of his addictive ABC “Shark Tank” show, in which entrepreneurial wannabes and inventors endeavor to get John and his fellow sharks to invest in their wares.
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Since yesterday, I’ve cleaned up the site, simplifying the navigation and removing some of the gremlins from the texts. In case you’re interested, this is a Jekyll site, using the garden-variety Minima theme – changed to a serif typeface; whatever’s default on your machine – hosted locally. I’ve done something similar for my universalistchristian.org and universalistchristian.net sites. Jekyll can do much more, but I can’t – yet.
Yes, it looks awful
Well, after dragging my feet for a year and a half, I’ve put up this ugly replacement site. The same content. No comments, alas. Also the attacks (who would want to attack me?) should end, and that was the bigger risk: to be highjacked into a bot farm.
Transitioning this site to Jekyll
So, this site was hacked a couple of weeks ago, and security software installed since shows that outside forces try to log-in to the administration a few times a day.
The bit of Jewish liturgy hidden in plain sight in the red hymnal
For reasons too long to go into now, I was tracking down threads in the Classic Reform tradition of Reform Jewish liturgics a couple of weeks ago. Suffice it to say that it was in parallel with some of the liturgical developments in Unitarian churches in the late nineteenth century. There were some friendships crossing the divide, or at least cooperative parterships. It’s hard to tell how far or wide without a deep dive.
Universalist commendation for Hymns of the Spirit
I ran across the resolution of the 1937 Universalist General Convention, in Chicago, commending work and use of the Hymns of the Spirit.
Sources of prayers: Theistic Prayer Book
A single prayer in the services before Hymns of the Spirit beginning “Almighty God grant that the words” comes from a book identified in the index as the Theistic Prayer Book. What is this and where did it come from?
Sources of prayers: an English book from 1903
The services before the Hymns of the Spirit include prayers and litanies from various sources, including the 1903 Devotional Services for Public Worship, by John Hunter. He was the minister of King’s Weigh House Church, then a Congregational church, in Mayfair, London.
Shorter communion service added
After about two years, I have added a new liturgical element: the shorter communion service, meant to be used “immediately after the Order of Morning Worship” and with the unusual option for “no distribution of the elements.”
So, where do I get my own paper copy?
Hymns of the Spirit was, for the longest time, available from the Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship for the princely sum of $5. But they’re all gone.
So why did I set up the Hymns of the Spirit site?
There is no new hymnal
Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly 2013 has just ended — I watched parts of it from home — and reflected that my first General Assembly was 20 years ago, in Charlotte. One of the big accomplishments then was releasing the brand new gray hymnal, Singing the Living Tradition.
The Rev. Scott Wells
wells@universalistchristian.org
A resource site for the joint 1937 Unitarian-Universalist hymnal and service book.
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We are attempting to test a new process for determining State Championship venues. The process will now include 3 parts – a Committee nominated by members and selected by the board form those nominations, a vote of the board, and votes of the club/team members. We are using this process to determine the 2019 State Criterium Championship venue. As such we are opening up nominations for committee members. We will need enough nominations to allow us to fill the 5 positions.
All nominations must be from a ICA licensed member (if you have a 2019 USA Cycling License that is valid and in good standing and your listed address on that license is Illinois then you are automatically a member of the ICA) in good standing and the nominated individuals must be members also. Please submit your nominations to the ICA via email at ilcyclingassociation@gmail.com
Last year the ICA board voted to shift the terms of some of the officers in an effort to allow gradual change as new officers come on board instead of a completely new board after an election as has happened in the past. It can take a long time to find all of the logins, accounts, information, files, etc so it is easy to understand why that decision was made. What that means is that the election last year for Secretary, Treasurer, and Vice President were for 2 year terms and will be up for re-election next year. The position of President (currently held by Robert Curtis) was only a 1 year term. The At-Large position held by Chad Briggs was held over from the previous board and will join the President in being elected in off years.
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Title The Origin, Organization and Management of Crown Hill Cemetery with Observations on Ancient and Modern Modes of Burial, Together with a List of Officers, Corporators and Lot-holders for 1875
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Description To meet the demands of a growing city along with the burials of Union soldiers, a board of corporators was created to develop a new cemetery in Indianapolis. John Chislett Sr., a landscape architect from Pittsburgh, was hired to design Crown Hill Cemetery and it was dedicated in 1864. This book documents the origin and organization of the cemetery, along with a listing of lot holders up to the year 1875. Within the book are fourteen albumen photographs of the cemetery by photographer D. R. Clark, including several prominent monuments. Today Crown Hill serves as a chronicle of the history of Indianapolis as seen through the stories of the politicians, statesmen, authors, poets, artists, soldiers, mothers, fathers, and children buried there. The 555 acre cemetery was designated to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
Subject Crown Hill Cemetery (Indianapolis, Ind.)
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Burial--Indiana--Indianapolis
Cemeteries--Indiana
Publisher Indianapolis Journal Company
Geographic Location Indiana--Marion County--Indianapolis
Source Collection Name The Origin, Organization and Management of Crown Hill Cemetery with Observations on Ancient and Modern Modes of Burial, Together with a List of Officers, Corporators and Lot-holders for 1875
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Intro to New Media
Learning digitally
Tech news practice
Theory + History
What is new media?
How we got to now, Part I: Communication + Early Media
How we got to now, Part II: Telecommunication + Mass Media
Topics + Case Studies
Augmented / Virtual reality
AI (Artificial Intelligence) + ML (Machine Learning)
Self-driving cars, drones, + other robots
Group III
Facebook (+ social media)
Startups + Unicorns
Group IV
Amazon (+ commerce)
The cloud + big data
Voice + smart home / Internet of Things
Utopia / Dystopia Project
An online text for NMIX 2020: Introduction to New Media at The University of Georgia.
By John Weatherford.
Image via ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (Socialab, I think, but sourcing things on the internet is hard)
After completing this lesson, you’ll be able to:
Outline the major issues related to social media and messaging
Describe the current social media and messaging landscape
The first time I taught this class, these were two separate lessons. As I thought about it more, though, it made sense to combine them—messaging is huge 1, but it’s inextricably intertwined with the broader social media landscape.
Another kind-of new thing here: I’ll be sprinkling in, though not entirely relying upon, notes and ideas from the work of student groups in past semesters.
Finally, one last note: even though these are the most up-to-date sources I could find, they still feel a bit dated—that’s how fast this space in particular moves!
Required readings:
“Social media“, Wikipedia
(17,450 words / 88-95 minutes)
Spend some time starting at the graphic at the top of the article—such astounding variety. Really, though, it should be no surprise—social media and messaging are, in a sense, at the heart of nearly all new media and all computing. Tools that enable an individual to do something are amazing! But, outside of a very few odd cases, great individual efforts are ultimately shared with or performed for others. As a friend and mentor of mine once taught me, people first, then computers—or, to put it another way, computers for people—and relationships.
“The variety of stand-alone and built-in social media services currently available introduces challenges of definition.” No joke.
Time to feel like you’re getting your money’s worth out of this class. Here are some fancy college-y words for you: “Social media operate in a dialogic transmission system (many sources to many receivers). This is in contrast to traditional media that operates under a monologic transmission model (one source to many receivers).”
I really like how this article wrestles with how exactly to define social media. Reminds me a lot of our first lesson, trying to define what new media is.
I like the honeycomb framework “that defines social media by using seven functional building blocks: identity, conversations, sharing, presence, relationships, reputation, and groups.”
The list of most popular social media platforms underscores a point that I hope to make more consistently throughout this course: people outside of the United States also use computers, and—shocker—they sometimes use them differently than we do. See some of the non-required readings for more on this.
The “Criticisms” and “Negative effects” sections of this article are worth reading thoroughly and considering thoughtfully. This highlights another issue I hope to make more consistently throughout the course: the downsides / negatives of the technologies we’re talking about. My individual personality is to look at the positives and the potential good unlocked by new technologies, but it’s vitally important to think critically about potential and actual negatives and downsides of new technologies. (That said, I love that these sections are followed by “Positive effects”!)
I thought it was mentioned in this article, but it isn’t, so I’ll include it here anyway. I think the term “context collapse” as defined here is very useful:
“Context collapse is a concept used by academics writing about the effects of social media and the contexts they give rise to. The term refers to the audiences possible online as opposed to limited groups we normally interact with in face-to-face interactions. In those bounded interactions, people adjust their tone and presentation to fit social context. In context collapse, this adjusting becomes impossible.”
The various “Impacts” sections are good reading, too.
“Social Media Usage: 2005-2015” by Andrew Perrin
(1,605 words / 8-10 minutes)
A quick scan of the bolded statistics here will do. Still, very much worth reading / knowing!
“Messaging: Mobile’s killer app” by Ben Thompson
Ben Thompson is one of my favorite authors. Though I frequently disagree with him, his writing’s consistently thought-provoking and challenges me to look at the world from new perspectives.
In any case, the entire opening of the piece is worth quoting at length:
Before the Internet, the nodes of communication were houses, and the killer app was the telephone. Presuming both you and I were in our respective houses, I could dial a number, and we could talk. It was marvelous, and in retrospect, primitive; real-time is much less interesting, and much more limiting, when it’s the only means of communication.
In the late 1970s, the computer came along, and while it made us incredibly more efficient, it didn’t truly alter the definition of communication. That took the world wide web, and its killer app: the browser.
Now the nodes of communication were computers, and while real-time was still a possibility, it was passive communication that defined the web. I, along with every individual and organization on earth, could create a web page, and you could view it, at a time convenient to you. The place, though, was only at the computer.
Seven years ago, the computer became pocketable, but the original use cases were about making the passive presentation of information accessible not just at a time convenient to the viewer, but also at any place: the web was now everywhere.
Still, it’s only recently that the killer app for this era, when the nodes of communication are smartphones, has become apparent, and it is messaging. While the home telephone enabled real-time communication, and the web passive communication, messaging enables constant communication. Conversations are never ending, and friends come and go at a pace dictated not by physicality, but rather by attention. And, given that we are all humans and crave human interaction and affection, we are more than happy to give massive amounts of attention to messaging, to those who matter most to us, and who are always there in our pockets and purses.
Also worth noting is the Social / Communications map toward the end of the article:
Note especially the term “ephemeral.”
Fall 2015 Student Notes on Social Media
Intro from John: The following are notes from the Fall 2015 section of NMIX 2020. I’ve included them because they provide concise, scannable information about the history of social media. Enjoy!
Earliest forms of social media:
1979 – UseNet
1988 – Internet relay chats
1997 – Six Degrees
By 2000, around 100 million people had access to the Internet
Late 1990s – AIM, blogs, chat rooms
2002 – Friendster
May 2003 – LinkedIn
July 2003 – Myspace
February 2004 – Facebook
July 2006 – Twitter
2007 – Tumblr
March 2010 – Pinterest
October 2010 – Instagram
June 2011 – Google+
September 2011 – Snapchat
June 2012 – Vine
Fall 2015 Student Notes on Messaging
Intro from John: These notes are also from the Fall 2015 section of NMIX 2020 and provide some good quick background on the history of messaging.
Instant Messaging, also known as IM, became a more direct form of communication than previous messaging forms such as email. IM connects two people who are each online and lets them communicate in real time. Compare this to an email, which would be sent to a recipient who may be logged in or offline.
One of the earliest forms of IM was made possible by Mirabilis in November of 1996. It was called ICQ, which was short for “I seek you.”
Texting/Messaging Apps
The first text message was sent by Niel Papworth on December 3, 1992. Richard Jarvis was the recipient. It read “Merry Christmas”. Text messages are a form of asynchronous (not happening simultaneously) communication and are limited to 160 characters. This limit is based on research conducted by Friedhelm Hillebrand that argued that most messages could fit within that constraint.
In 1999, people were able to send text messages across networks. This is when texting began to gain traction.
In 2000, Americans were sending on average about 35 text messages a month.
In 2010, 6.1 trillion text messages were sent worldwide, which is about 200,000 per minute.
Non-required readings
“Teens, Social Media, and Technology Overview 2015” by Amanda Lenhart
A nice, relatively brief overview of the trends among what many would consider the most important (or at least most trend-setting) demographic for social media and messaging.
“Snapchat’s ladder” by Ben Thompson
Another great read from Ben Thompson, this time focusing on Snapchat.
Describe your typical day of social media / messaging use.
What was the first social media tool / messaging tool you used?
What are your thoughts about ephemeral messaging?
Discuss the concept of “context collapse.”
Play a little nerdy game: use the seven concepts of the honeycomb framework (“identity, conversations, sharing, presence, relationships, reputation, and groups”) to describe different social and messaging tools
Take a look at the changes coming to Messages in iOS 10—what are your thoughts?
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Writer. Creator. Large mammal.
Storytelling Lecture
02 Early Life
03 Marvel Comics
04 Storytelling Lecture
05 Secret Origins
06 VALIANT
08 Recent Work
09 Reminiscences and Tributes
12 From Storage
13 Guest Posts
16 Stuff and Nonsense
17 Freelance and Consulting
19 Defiant
20 Broadway Comics
The Secret Origin of Jim Shooter, Editor in Chief – Part 3
By Jim Shooter
In 03 Marvel Comics, 05 Secret Origins
On my first official day as Editor in Chief, Tuesday, January 3rd, 1978, I arrived at the office extra early. Normal for me was between seven and eight AM. I think I was in my chair behind my desk at five. And I had a one hour commute in those days.
I had worked all weekend editing scripts and plots and still had more to go. There wasn’t anyone to replace me as associate editor, so for the time being, I had to do my old job as well as my new one.
Shortly after nine, my phone rang. The caller identified herself as Alice Donenfeld, our in-house counsel and V.P. of Business Affairs. I hadn’t had much to do with the brass upstairs previously, so I was aware only from the interoffice phone list that there was such a person.
Alice confirmed that she had the right extension, that she was talking to the EIC, and said, “What have you done about the Copyright Law of 1976?”
Alice: “The Copyright Law of 1976. It went into effect January first (of 1978). It has new rules for work-for-hire. We need paperwork from every single writer and artist. Don’t tell me you haven’t done anything about this.”
Me: “I’ve been Editor in Chief for fifteen minutes. I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
I soon found out.
All creative work at Marvel Comics was done work-for-hire, or more accurately, as referenced in the Copyright Law, “work made for hire.” Most people just say work-for-hire, abbreviated “W4H.” There were a very few exceptions to W4H before 1978.
Before 1978, almost work done in the domestic comic book industry was done W4H, again with rare exceptions.
The new law didn’t really change work-for-hire status significantly except that it clarified some points and required that in order for a creative work to be considered W4H, the person doing the job had to agree to that in writing in advance.
The new copyright law had been enacted in 1976, but took effect in 1978, giving publishers TWO YEARS to prepare. Marvel, of course, had done NOTHING.
By contrast, DC had already incorporated W4H language into their vouchers and had entered seamlessly into the Brave New World of the 1976 law with, as Uncle Scrooge would say, “no fuss, no muss and no rough stuff.” How’s that for mixing Huxley and Barks? And DC?
Oh, and by the way, Alice was fairly new at Marvel, too. It wasn’t as if she’d let this slide and suddenly sprung it on me at the last minute.
Marvel Comics was in chaos. We had books in house that should have gone to the separators six months earlier and been on sale four months earlier. EVERYTHING was late. We had disorganization, major misunderstandings, tumult and near-rebellions—and that was just in the bullpen. We had voucher fraud and the fallout from same. Paranoia ran rampant among freelancers. We had gaping holes in the editorial staff. The books, by and large, sucked. I got letters and calls frequently from Roy, none of them of the chirpy, happy variety. Marv was deeply suspicious of me. Archie gave me the cold shoulder.
We also had the worst month of weather in history, I think—a record number of below zero days in New York, floods in the Midwest, killer frosts in Florida, mudslides on the West Coast, six feet of snow in Boston and twelve feet in Buffalo. Single-digit newsstand sales figures. It’s hard to visit your local drugstore and pick up your comics if you’re buried in snow, under water or out late every night firing up the smudge pots trying to save the oranges. The entire magazine industry—make that the entire publishing industry—was suffering.
That wasn’t nearly the end of the trouble, but you get the drift.
All that, and they just had to go and change the copyright law on me. Yes, it was done two years earlier, but….
It was the last thing I needed.
We kept publishing, or trying to, but every job that was done without an agreement with the creators was potentially in dispute, ownership-wise.
By the way, that concern didn’t extend to the contract creators’ work. Because our contracts were, in fact, employment agreements, and those creators were therefore on staff though they didn’t work in the office, their work was all automatically W4H. So, whatever was done by the Buscemas, Roy, Marv, Kirby, Sinnott, Esposito, Archie, Gene Colan and many others was covered. That still left a lot of exposure.
I spent the first month madly rushing to the hottest fire every day. Somewhere during that time, Alice arranged for me to take a three-day seminar on Copyright Law so I’d understand the issues better. As if I had three days to spare. But I did it, took my work home with me, stayed up late and slept little.
Finally, our outside counsel, Kenyon, Kenyon, Riley, Carr & Odom, came up with a W4H document which had provisions in it that covered the “exposed” work. It was three or four pages long. It was full of arcane legalese and words of art. More “Whereas/Now, therefore,” “party of the first/second part,” irrevocable this and in perpetuity that than I had ever seen in one place.
I was instructed to have EVERYONE sign them.
They were delivered to me at the end of a particularly bad day. Though it was after five, there were a lot of creators around the office for some reason. I dutifully started passing the documents out.
At a glance, everyone was appalled at the thing. Upset. Angry. And loudly so. And of course, the copyright law wasn’t to blame, Marvel Comics wasn’t to blame, it was MY fault. I was the reason they were faced with this terrifying and evil document. As I said to Alice when all this started, “What?”
Some tore the documents up and threw them on the floor. Some refused to take a copy. A few must have left the building intact, because…
…the next morning, when I came to work, the outside of 575 Madison was papered with copies of the document. The elevator lobby was papered…the elevators…the walls of the sixth floor lobby…the doors. And on each of those copies, in big red letters were the words “SIGN THIS DOCUMENT AND YOU’RE SIGNING YOUR LIFE AWAY.” That, and an invitation to join the COMIC BOOK CREATORS GUILD.
Neal Adams had started a guild. I heard that day that they were talking about going on strike against Marvel. Just Marvel. DC’s W4H, apparently was okay, or maybe the plan was to pick us off one at a time.
That was a discouraging moment, maybe the most discouraging moment I’d faced.
But not for long. Things got worse.
NEXT: The Guild, and Steve Ditko’s Declaration
Ten More Comics’ Creators’ Quips and Quotes
Thanks, Jim! It would have been sweet to see an Adams drawn X-Men GN but I never actually believed it was going to happen back then. We did get some great ones though.
AHA! It comes back to me now! Yes, we hired Neal to design a look for the graphic novel line. Yes, he was going to draw the X-Men novel — however, because it involved Marvel characters (unlike Star Slammers, for instance), there was work for hire language in the contract. Neal wanted it changed to an Independent Contractor format. I argued that the contract, albeit W4H, specified every right and benefit that there would be in an Independent Contractor agreement — royalties and participations in perpetuity, etc. There was no practical difference, and by the way, it was a VERY rich deal for the creators. However, the Marvel lawyers were immovable on the W4H language and Neal was adamantly opposed to it. The Marvel lawyers (I'm not talking about Alice Donenfeld here, by the way, who was wise and reasonable), sensitized to the W4H issue by the whole ruckus precipitated by the general W4H form, were irrationally wed to the W4H format for GN's involving Marvel characters, and honestly, how could Neal, outspoken enemy of W4H, possibly sign a W4H document without looking like a traitor to the cause?
Right guys. He drew some pages and then there was something he didn't like about the contract I guess. I also seem to recall Neal saying he helped Marvel come up with how the Marvel Graphic Novel were to look back when they were firsttalking about diving in to them, some design work. I thought the GNs were great and I'm glad Marvel published them. I'm pretty sure I bought all of them!
Bosch Fawstin
Here's a post on Neal Adams being the original artist for the X-Men graphic novel, God Loves Man Kills, along with a few of his penciled pages from it. Scroll a little down the page and you'll find it all. http://bit.ly/khKhIq
I think FrankS is refering to the God Loves Man kills GN. I think Neal Adams was supposed to draw it (I remember seeing pages of it in Comic Book Artist Collection vol.1).
Dear FrankS,
I don't remember Neal being supposed to draw an X-Men graphic novel, though I don't doubt it. I don't think he had anything to do with the start of Marvel's graphic novel line. I remember the Marvel Universe concept, but I don't recall a connection to Fanfare. However, if anybody has any bits and pieces that might jog my memory about these things….
Chris would know chapter and verse about the Neal/X-Men GN. Or Neal. Al Milgrom might remember things I don't about the origins of Fanfare.
Walt and Starlin would probably remember things about the beginnings of the graphic novel line, since they did the first two (Elric had been independently produced by Mike Friedrich). I can tell you most of it confidently.
As Mike Hobson used to say, "For the love of God, man, throw me a rope!"
Re: "Considering that EiC wasn't even an executive position until you came along"
The EIC position was a "director" level position which was the lowest rank of the executive staff. Before and after I was EIC.
Dear PC,
See my answer to Zoran.
Dear Zoran,
Marvel, the comics part, wasn't successful back then. It was breakeven and falling.
In truth, I was not aware that the copyright law had been changed. I never heard a whisper about it before. As near as I could tell, pretty much no one among the comics people knew about it, or at least, no one said anything in earshot.
Upstairs management was mostly brand new. New President, company counsel, financial officer, more. And they didn't bother much with the comics. Obviously, Alice knew about the new law.
Marvel didn't have a board. The Board I have occasionally referred to was the board of parent-conglomerate Cadence. They wouldn't have discussed the issue. They almost certainly didn't know there was an issue. In any case, it would have been something to be addressed at Marvel, not Cadence.
"The board would have asked Legal to prepare a report on how the changes would impact the business and someone – the President or the Publisher or whoever was in charge of Business Affairs – would have taken charge of implementing any necessary changes. Or, at least, they would have delegated someone to do so."
Hoo-hah! You are really picturing something much more IBM-ish than the half-assed, disorganized mess Marvel was. The bosses upstairs were not engaged with downstairs happenings. Disaffected is not a strong enough word. Things improved a bit with Galton, but not much. It took a crisis to get his attention.
There was no publisher. Stan's title was publisher, but that was ceremonial, not functional. I was the de facto publisher until Mike Hobson was brought in. I did the day to day publisher functions.
It was all thrust upon me. The wisdom offered from upstairs was "fix it." The comics were my area and my problem. Other than from Alice, I got no help. That's the way it was at Marvel.
No stockholder derivative suits likely. People owned stock in Cadence, not Marvel. Marvel was a division and not SEC-reported separately. We were buried. On purpose,as it turned out later.
The other companies besides DC were NOT buttoned up. They did A) nothing, B) foolishly relied on the back-of-the-check stamp as they always had, or C) soon went out of business. I'm telling you, with the exception of DC to some extent, it was an amateurish, half-assed, dying industry.
Leon Harvey, who ran Harvey (and was very old), called me up once about nothing, chatted with me for a while, then scolded me for calling him because he didn't have time for these chats. Get my drift?
More about Marvel's upper management, how things cahnged and how they didn't, coming up.
Jim, Zoran is right. Considering that EiC wasn't even an executive position until you came along, I don't understand why the actual executives would want you to do it right off the bat… or Archie, as would have been case if you hadn't taken the job.
Hey Jim, since Neal Adams name has come up, can you talk about the X-Men Graphic Novel he was supposed to draw and what he had to do with regarding the start of the Marvel Graphic Novel line….. and whatever happened to the proposed Marvel Universe magazine that I guess became Marvel Fanfare?
jimshooter said: I think you may be picturing a scenario that’s more like a modern, reasonably organized, reasonably adult, professional office.
Partially. I’m also trying to understand the chaos by contrasting it with a professional office. I really wonder how a company so disorganised could be so successful.
Also, I think I misinterpreted what you may have meant by “I’ve been Editor in Chief for fifteen minutes. I don’t know what you’re talking about.” That suggested that you didn’t know anything about the Copyright Act of 1976 before becoming EiC. And if you – having been Archie Goodwin’s assistant and at the heart of the Marvel offices – didn’t know, it seemed reasonable to assume that other creators wouldn’t be aware of it either. Even though it had come into effect two days before you started as EiC.
Was that response more of a “What have I done? I didn’t know it was my job to do something about it.” rather than a “What’s the Copyright Law of 1976?”?
If your response was more “I didn’t know it was my job”, I can see where you would have been coming from. Because the question that occurs to me is: Where was management during all this?
Perhaps I’m picturing a reasonably organised professional office again, but I imagine that the subject of the changes to the Copyright Act would have come up at a board meeting sometime in 1976. The board would have asked Legal to prepare a report on how the changes would impact the business and someone – the President or the Publisher or whoever was in charge of Business Affairs – would have taken charge of implementing any necessary changes. Or, at least, they would have delegated someone to do so.
While I can see that whoever was Editor-in-Chief would have been brought into the process, I don’t see that it would have been entirely the EiC’s responsibility. When you started as EiC you should have inherited whatever plan had been prepared.
However, from what you say, there was no plan. That literally nothing had been done by anyone anywhere in the organization. That it all just got dropped in your lap.
If that’s the case, then: Wow. That goes seriously beyond Romper Room on crystal meth and into genuine dereliction of duty. The sort of thing shareholders sue over.
DC managed to roll out the necessary changes with no fuss and I assume that Archie, Harvey, Warren, Gold Key, Charlton and whoever else was publishing comics at the time also managed to do so. I certainly can’t find any mention of those companies having W4H issues.
So what was going on with Marvel’s management? You’ve mentioned some of the issues and hinted at some problems, but I must admit I’m really looking forward to finding out what the story there was. It sounds like the Mother of all… ummmm… foul-ups.
jsar
went through a similar situation when I was hired as a Human Resource manager by a company with 200 employees out on Long Island, NY.
After two months of going through tons of employee files, I found out that 80 employees were missing the I-9 form.
The I-9 form is one page document that verifies your citizenship in the United States of America.
It's required by employment laws and enforced by the Department of Labor.
40 out of the 80 employees( 20 of which were managers ) refused to fill out the form, were insulted and a few of them handed a blank form back to me and dismissed me.
I was lucky to convince a senior member of that 40 bunch to help me out.
Since DC had employees sign off on the "W4H" law, i'm sure most Marvel employees knew about it.
The problem was that DC did it 2 years earlier, so time went by and Marvel employees thought they were privileged not to sign into it.
But when you take that privilege away, chaos ensues. Tough job Jim!!
Yes, I gave creators plenty of warning. I didn't just spring the document on them.
The seminar I went to was for lawyers and law students. No creator I know would have sat through ten minutes of it. It never occurred to me to have some sort of class/seminar for creators, but no one would have come anyway. No letter was sent, and none was needed. The industry was suddenly abuzz with talk of copyright issues. I explained it a thousand times.
No one was unaware of W4H and what it meant, even before 1/1/78. All that changed, essentially, was the need to sign a paper acknowledging the situation.
Stay tuned. You'll see.
I think you may be picturing a scenario that's more like a modern, reasonably organized, reasonably adult, professional office. When I said chaos, I meant it. The comics business in general, and especially Marvel, was Romper Room on crystal meth.
Defiant1
I met Neal for the first time at Dragon Con in Atlanta last year. I've exchanged a few emails with him over non-comic subjects and I have perhaps the most complete collection of Continuity imprint comics online with obscure stuff the price guides weren't even listing.
I would call him very down to Earth and shrewd with a good business sense. I had him do a sketch for me and I was stunned at the number of modern professionals at the show that looked at the sketch and scoffed at the price even though he gave me $150.00 discount over his normal rate. At some point when you reach Neal's level of accomplishment, you aren't paying the rate for the sketch, you are paying for the time he could have been doing something more profitable and lucrative. I think Neal's son Josh has inherited a lot of his sensibilities.
Mr. Shooter,
Was any attempt made to inform the creators about the issues before they were presented with the four page document? You say Alice Donenfeld arranged for you to attend a three day seminar, but were seminars (perhaps not as detailed and only running one day or half a day) organised for the creators? Was a letter sent to everyone concerned explaining the change in copyright law and why the new agreement was required?
Because, if not, then the four-page document would have come as bolt from the blue and I can fully understand why people reacted as they did.
Dear jcoville,
If Neal said that, it's true. It was his show at the time I'm talking about.
Marc Miyake
Dear czeskleba,
I had forgotten about the ACBA. Thanks for the reminder and the clarification that it was separate from the guild.
Michael Netzer has resurrected the Comic Book Creators' Guild online.
czeskleba
The organization that Neal Adams says was started by Jim Warren was the Academy of Comic Book Arts, started in 1970. That was a completely different group than the guild of which Shooter speaks above.
There was disagreement about the purpose of the ACBA… some viewed it as sort of like the Motion Picture Academy, a professional organization that would give out awards and such. Others (like Adams) felt it should be more like a trade union and lobby for creators' rights. The ACBA had gradually faded out by the late 70's.
Around that time Adams and others attempted to start a guild that would be entirely a professional union. From what I've read, they were not successful at attracting enough big names to make the thing viable. A column by Joe Brancatelli back then noted that some creators were reluctant to sign up because they were suspicious of Adams.
Last month, Jim posted that Neal was "a righter of wrongs, a bringer of change, a leader." Can't wait to learn how Jim dealt with the work-for-hire situation. I've heard the story before, but I look forward to new details like "Ditko's Declaration" and more about Alice Donenfeld.
Dear Jamie,
I didn't know Jim Warren started the Guild. I've reread your Jim Shooter interview over the years but I just found your Neal Adams interview. I'll read the latter tonight. I thank you for the former, as it was a rare glimpse at DARING Comics.
I met Neal a couple of weeks ago at the HerosCon in Charlotte.
Seemed very genuinely pleasant, and generally happy to be there meeting folks. Engaging stories and anecdotes…
Somehow smells came up… I told him that I missed the old style newsprint smell… He said "We called that stuff toilet paper"…
So I explained that I was raised in Durham NC, where they used to manufacture cigarettes.
FWIW – Curing tobacco smells nothing like the smoke. It has a sticky sweet musky smell that rides on the humidity and seeps into your pores.
Neal was like "No wonder… you cant smell anything.." Funny stuff. Seemed like a happy, nice guy.
As I stood in line I meant to ask him if he had read your blog, but I was too excited to get my GL 76 signed and fergot.
jcoville
Neal told me it was Jim/James Warren that started the Creators Guild. He eventually took it over though.
Please withhold judgment regarding Neal… he's a good guy. You'll see.
You arrived at your desk at 5 and she didn't call till 9, what on earth were you doing that whole time? Just kidding.
Gotta agree with Bosch and say that I've been enjoying the cliffhanger endings too.
Jim, the way you run this blog, the quality of your posts, your interactions with us readers…. It says a lot about you. And now you're giving us regular cliffhanger blog posts. Any other blog does that? I don't know, but I cannot Wait to read about Ditko's Declaration, etc….
Dale Bagwell
I know it's 30-plus years to late, but poor Mr.Shooter! Man am I sorry you had to go through all that, and then the creators treated you like crap for despite that whole mess not being your fault? The hell with them for acting like that. I didn't know Neal Adams was such a shit-stirrer. I think he probably started off with good intentions, but he clearly didn't get the whole story from you, or even consult with you.
Can't wait for what you have to say regarding Steve Ditko; that sounds really promising!
Jim, you are obviously better off w/o the alcohol. I love a good Grapefruit juice too.
But Gee whiz if THAT situation didn't drive you to drink, what on earth did?
Louis Porter Jr.
Jesus. That sound CRAZY!
More about Alice Donenfeld coming up.
F_C_FRANKLIN
I'm amazed you remember the freezes in Florida from 78'. I was a 14 year old kid living in Winter Haven,Fl (35 miles south of "Disney World", 10 miles west from "Cypress Gardens"),and it was the first time in my life that I had experienced any kind of snowfall. There wasn't that much that snow, however it's an experience that will live with me forever.
I can see how you earned a reputation as a "bad guy". As soon as you become EIC, you're stuck with a responsibility to implement an order from a "Higher up" that should have been in place 2 years earlier. Once the "troops" have a perception in their heads where they think you're just a power hungry "dick" implementing "new" procedures on a whim just for the hell of of it, you're always gonna be fighting a uphill battle.
Dear uncannyderek,
There were plenty of problems left to address when I left Marvel. The job was far from done.
I don't doubt that there are prevalent issues there today. Not like the ones I faced though, somewhat less dramatic I suspect.
Problems resolved since I left? Can't think of any off the top of my head, which doesn't mean there aren't any. Problems today? I'd say the biggest problem facing them today is editorial and creative. Making good comics.
Back then I drank nothing stronger than grapefruit juice, a habit I returned to some time ago.
nilskidoo
So THAT's what "baptism by fire" means. Good god.
Do you know how Alice Donenfeld came to work for Marvel? It's as if Larry Lieber had gone to work for … the other guys. And Stan … oh, wait.
I second Davis' remark about the behind-the-scenes drama. I'd like to reread Bullpen Bulletins from this period and contrast them with the apocalypse … which ultimately worked out.
You'd face even more adversity over the years, but was this moment particularly "discouraging" because this was your first management job? I'm assuming experience breeds confidence: e.g., "I was EIC of Marvel for 9 years. I founded VALIANT and made it a success. I'll rise again."
Davis Dewsbury
Wow! As a comic book fan for 20+ years, who knew there was so much drama behind the scenes?
Keep 'em coming Mr. S.
DD.
uncannyderek.com
Jeez, Jim! This is a gut-wrenching story!
I wonder if EiC's, or even Marvel still has prevalent issues like these today. I'm sure when you left Marvel there was a lot to still be sorted out and fixed.
Was there anything you were aware of that you believe to have been resolved since you left? Are there problems still with Marvel that you see today?
So Jim what was the average Alcohol tab those 1st weeks as EiC?
Sounds like cirrhosis might be a justified risk.
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Race To The Moon with Richard Furno, Part 2 (Kelso)
Follow along with Richard’s first hand narration of how historic events shaped the map, the cutting edge science involved in assembling the photographic base material, and the many explanatory notes included on the final design. The wall map is a piece of art, please enjoy
Please join me in celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Race to the Moon! Map co-author Richard Furno has allowed me to turn his keynote presentation into a post on my blog illustrating the trials and tribulations of creating this fabulous wall map for the National Geographic Society’s magazine.
This is part 2. Return to Part 1. View zoomable map at National Geographic.
Orbitor 5 Recap
Orbiters 1 through 4 had covered much of the Far Side (shown in green) but much was still missing. Orbiter 5 devoted time to photographing the rest of the unknown part of the Far Side, and as a result, nearly all of the remaining area was taken. After the mission’s success, NASA announced it had all the photos that would cover the Moon. I called NASA to see if their Far Side map was finished, since we would use it for our relief artist so he could render the relief map.
1967: NASA’S Moon Map
But, in fact, NASA had produced only a partial map of the Far Side and had no intention to finish a complete map of the Moon before our scheduled publication. What’s more, I was told that the one partial map they HAD prepared was put together very quickly and they could guarantee that the positional control of features was poor.
(Above) This is the 1976 edition of the map of that 1967 map which was probably greatly improved. It covered from 50 degrees south to 50 degrees north only. Eventually they would finish the polar maps to complete it but that didn’t happen until 1970, more than a year after we published the Moon map. This meant we would have to create our own positional control (selenodetic control) of the Moon’s Far Side features.
Selenodetic Control
Dave is adjusting the globe, I’m moving the camera box and Vic is moving the light.
So we had to come up with another answer. Actually, it was natural for me to think of a scheme to solve the selenodetic control problem. I had learned and done technical perspective drafting for my architect father and I knew picture planes, station points, vanishing points, 2 and 3-point perspective, etc. inside out. As many know, rectification of photos is an exercise in perspective. Unfortunately, I had little time to do the control and we had no rectification equipment. The photos had to be quickly prepared for Tibor to use as he was rapidly finishing his relief of the Near Side.
We needed a large globe in order to reproduce the Orbiter / Moon configurations. It needed a latitude longitude grid preferably without other obscuring information. Well, there just happened to be a one-meter globe in old Hubbard Hall. On the globe, drawn in black ink by hand, was a 5° grid and the shorelines of the earth. With that in hand, we needed a platform to mount it and a slidable camera. Dave and I came in hammers and saws and literally built this contraption, sometimes making up the design as we went
The globe was mounted on a pair of rolling pins. A plumb bob hung from overhead that pointed to a center line drawn the length of a platform and which aligned with the globe’s center. A camera was mounted on a box so its focal point was half a meter above the platform and directly over a camera swivel. It could then be pointed in different directions while keeping its position directly above the platform’s center line. The platform was long enough in scale so all pictures would be within the range of all the Orbiter photos.
The setup made it possible to roll the globe into any position. We had a hinged measuring stick in front of the globe, with a half meter tick mark so we could align three key points, 1) a designated latitude longitude point (nadir point), 2) the center of the globe and 3) the camera focal point.
Dave Cook uses proportional dividers to mark the correct latitude and longitude for the camera’s Nadir point. The point is then set on the plumb bob string.
To take a picture of the globe, we followed these steps:
Place the latitude longitude nadir point at the half meter point (by measuring stick) and in line with the tangential plumb bob.
Move the camera to the scaled distance from the plumb bob (putting it directly “above” the nadir point)
Mark the latitude longitude aiming point on the globe (we use a dark X on a piece of masking tape)
Swivel the camera to aim at the Orbiter’s aiming point
The camera recorded a large film plate for accuracy (8 x 6 inches I think) and so the aiming point was clearly visible in the back of the camera. Vic Boswell did a miraculous job of lighting so that the negatives would show the grid lines all the way around the globe. He took about 5 or 6 exposures to ensure a decent one. Vic and I yakked constantly about “foreign cars” back in the day when they were still exotic. He had restored a 1948 MG TC which he drove around on sunny days.
Tibor’s Relief
Tibor is shown working on Tsiolkovsky crater on the Far Side hemisphere.
True rectification means taking distorted photos and removing the distortion. In our case, I would take the photographed grid, draft it onto the Orbiter photo and give it Tibor. He had to rectify the 5° gridded portion of photo in is head by visually subdividing the distorted photo square and mentally transferring the terrain onto a corresponding Lambert Azimuthal square.
Some photos were quite relatively perfect but many were severely foreshortened. While we took these pictures, Tibor was busy drawing the relief for the Near Side of the Moon. I needed to start giving him source material so it would be ready when he started work on the Far Side. Tibor drafted on some sort of paper. Other plates for the map were produced on cronoflex.
Selenodetic Control II
Same photo with Tsiolkovsky crater and holding the clear gridded overlay.
After getting the developed negatives, I had to calculate the correct size for the overlay positive, a more difficult task than I expected. The Orbiter photos were pieced together in strips, often slightly off register. Trying to size by the arc radius could be a tricky affair, but that and a couple of known coordinates made it relatively straightforward.
In the photo below, the moon’s limb is in the particular Orbiter frame and could serve as a way of sizing the corresponding picture of our globe. Yet, with the strips slightly off, it was never that easy. Frames showing no edge of the moon meant aligning by known coordinate points was the only way. I had to order each negative in several different sizes and would inevitably find the one that lined up with two or more known coordinate points on the photo. And when known points were only those by extension across the far side, it meant errors could start to add up.
With the correct, registered positive in hand, I pierced through the overlay at grid intersections into the Orbiter photo. (Notice the spots on the overlay. There was a lightly inked shoreline drawn on the one-meter globe and it appeared on all photos along with the grid.)
Transfered Grid
I used “ships curves” to connect the points. The gut- killer was that there was nothing I could use to check my work. I had to work across the entire Far Side hoping everything would meet up correctly. Fortunately it did.
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
This is part 1. Skip to part 2. View zoomable map at National Geographic.
My friend and cartography colleague Richard Furno retired from The Washington Post as of January 1st, 2009. He had a long and productive career first at National Geographic Maps starting in 1963 and afterwards for the newspaper making daily, deadline driven maps for publication in the next day’s newspaper from 1978 to 2008. He was a victim of a changing media landscape and dreery economic times. Read more about Richard Furno.
Richard has been a great mentor to me and we officially honored him last week in the NewsArt department. While he was at National Geographic, Richard worked on The Moon Map and I’d like to share it’s story with everyone around the globe. Because of it’s length, this blog post will be in 2 parts.
NOTE: You may also be interested in my photo essay on Toni Mair-Terrain Artist Extraordinaire.
The remainder of this post is taken directly from Dick’s Keynote presentation. Any references to “I” are in his first person, not mine. Photo and illustrations either (c) National Geographic or variety of unnamed sources.
While I worked at the National Geographic, no map produced there was so closely tied to events occurring on the country’s and world’s political stage. With each of many developments — a new satellite, a capsule crash, an important space photo — our enthusiasm for or anticipation of actual publication of the Moon map was affected.
The principal author of the National Geographic’s Moon map was Dave Cook, not myself. The history below relates my involvement. Dave was virtually the sole designer. He was also the main researcher and writer of all the material on the map. He established contact with all the phenomenal people who took part in reviewing and editing the final map, many of whom were involved in NASA’s push to the Moon.
After the Moon map was finished, Dave went on to produce the Geographic’s Mars map showing the newly discovered topography as photographed by the spacecraft of the 1960’s and early 1970’s.
When I finished this presentation, I sent it to Dave asking for his edits and urged that he make abundant additions of his own. He said it was “great” but didn’t take the time to add details of his own. I wish he had. This story is far from complete without his part.
Dave and I have been best of friends from 1963 to today and we continue to love astronomy and all things “space-programish”.
1959: Luna 3
In 1959, the Russians sent a spacecraft called Luna 3 into space that looped around the moon and took the first pictures of the… Far Side of the Moon.
There were many Russian space mission that jolted the citizens, and politicians, of the United States from Sputnik in 1957 well into the 1960′s. The Soviets seemed to be able to do anything in space that they chose. These were truly spectacular events.
At the time, the Soviets did not reveal the results of their space missions unless the Kremlin chose to do so. Much of what happened during their space effort wasn’t learned until after 1990. Their secrecy simply enhanced the U.S. drive to beat the Russians to the Moon.
Luna 3’s Far Side Photo
But the photos Luna 3 took were extremely disappointing (above). The right hand two-thirds of the photo is the Far Side of the Moon. The Russians made detailed maps out of this and a few other comparable photos, but they were simply attempts to apply a mass of Russian names to any and all possible features that they could discern. Eventually, only two features here are somewhat clear and their names have stuck. At bottom right is a dark crater with a bright central peak. They named it Tsiolkovsky. The dark patch toward the top was named the Sea of Moscow.
1959: Mercury Program Announced
America’s rollout of its first Mercury space capsule to the launch pad was literally an afterthought. When the US had its first test launch of a Mercury capsule, NASA hadn’t thought of a way to move it to the launch pad. Someone volunteered their flat bed truck. To prevent bumps on the road from being transferred to the capsule, a mattress was placed on the truck to act as a cushion (it’s just noticeable in the picture sandwiched between the capsule platform and the flat bed). Compare this jerry-rigged contraption with…
(Preview) Dec. 16, 1969: Apollo 13 Rollout
Ten years later in 1969 rocket technology had advanced (above). But let’s get back to our story…
1961: Alan Shepard Rockets into Space (Barely)
“Why don’t you light this candle?!!” Alan Shepard on the pad, May 5, 1961
Following the Soviet Union’s dramatic, first manned orbital flight by Yuri Gagarin, the U.S. sent Alan Shepard into space. But Shepard’s flight was suborbital, far less dramatic and a month later than Gagarin’s flight. It lasted 15 minutes, traveled 116 miles high and went 298 miles downrange.
1961: Quest for the Moon
With just those 15 minutes worth of experience in space, President Kennedy made a startling announcement.
May, 1961: President Kennedy Announced We Were Going to Land on the Moon within 8 years!
America was well behind Russia in its space program. The Russians were succeeding in their space missions at an alarming yet. Yet with nothing more that 15 minutes of manned spaceflight experience, Kennedy made a speech before Congress proposing the moon landing. The speech followed this exploratory memo sent to Vice President Johnson asking if there was any kind of space effort in which the U.S could catch up and beat Russia. President Kennedy wanted to devote “maximum effort” to such a program.
After meeting with NASA administrator Jim Webb and NASA scientists, Johnson came back with their mutually agreed upon idea to go to the Moon. Kennedy then drafted his famous speech. I was still in college but I was getting interested in astronomy and this got me interested in the MOON.
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Barry: “It’s a White Thang” [Updated]
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610 WIP host Angelo Cataldi asked Obama about his Tuesday morning speech on race at the National Constitution Center in which he referenced his own white grandmother and her prejudice. Obama told Cataldi that “The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity, but that she is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know – there’s a reaction in her that’s been bred into our experiences that don’t go away and sometimes come out in the wrong way and that’s just the nature of race in our society.
That is gotta be the lamest attempt at pulling someone out of the mud after having thrown them in: “It’s not her fault; it’s the way all Whiteys roll.”
Obama on WIP: My grandmother’s a “typical white person” | Philadelphia Daily News | 03/20/2008
I like this bit, when the campaign was asked to comment on what Barry said:
“Barack Obama said specifically that he didn’t believe his grandmother harbored any racial animosity, but that her fears were understandable and typical of those often shared by her generation,” said Obama’s PA spokesman Sean Smith, who added that Grandma is 86-years-old.
Now, that kinda racial animosity is just the way all old White folk roll?
BULLSHIT. This guy Sean Smith is a goddamn idiot, or he thinks everybody else are goddamn idiots. When confronted with his Obamassiah’s own words, he tries to play a variation of the “don’t believe your lying eyes” defense.
Barry DID TOO infer his Grandma harbors “racial animosity” in The Speech, to a degree that would sometimes make him “cringe.” It was the only reason he brought her into this, fer chrissakes!
And he never, ever, so much as hinted at only speaking about members of her generation, in either The Speech or this radio interview, you schmuck. In The Speech he used her as an example from his own, bi-racial family, equivocating her attitude to his pastor/”uncle” and his ravings from the pulpit.
Barry thinks ALL white people fear the brown people as much as his Grandma, and he said it into a microphone. You ain’t spinning your way out of this one, pal.
UPDATE: Hannity just played the clip!
UPDATE DEUX: And it’s hit Memeorandum. So the chattering class isn’t gonna be able to avoid it.
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AB-947 Workers’ compensation: temporary disability payments.(2011-2012)
Steps bill has passed through in each house:
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Workers’ compensation: temporary disability payments.
31st Day in Print:
An act to amend Section 4656 of the Labor Code, relating to workers’ compensation.
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Type of Measure
Inactive Bill - Vetoed
Majority Vote Required
Non-Appropriation
Non-Fiscal Committee
Non-State-Mandated Local Program
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Non-Tax levy
Last 5 History Actions
10/07/11 Vetoed by Governor.
09/26/11 Enrolled measure version corrected.
09/22/11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:30 p.m.
09/08/11 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 49. Noes 27. Page 3135.).
09/08/11 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
Governor's Veto Message
To the Members of the California State Assembly:
I am returning Assembly Bill 947 without my signature.
This bill would extend the requirement to pay workers' compensation temporary disability payments for up to 240 weeks in cases where surgery or recovery from surgery occurs after the current 104 week temporary disability limit.
It is vital that injured workers receive adequate compensation to provide for their needs when they are unable to work due to work related injuries. Workers' compensation reforms, however, need to be addressed on a broad and balanced scale -- ensuring workers receive adequate and timely benefits and treatment, while also ensuring that the costs of the system are sustainable.
Edmund G. Brown Jr.
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William Henry Tole
Trevallyn Tasmania Australia
1. Ada Augusta Milbanke; 2. Marion Noel Milbanke
1. Ada Marion, Eileen Mildred, Eric Graeme & Elvie Ada
Wiliam Henry Tole was born 27 Jun 1860, the third child of Richard John Tole and his wife Elizabeth Southcott (c.1829-1890). He was an astute businessman, first in a roving caravan around Devonport, and then at Tullah on the West Coast.
William married Ada Augusta Milbanke in Launceston on 11 Aug 1882. The couple had four children: Ada Marion, born 13 Sep 1883 and died 19 Nov 1883; Eileen Mildred, 10 Sep 1885; Eric Graeme, 13 Jan 1889; and Elvie Ada, 15 Feb 1891. Ada died aged 35 on 29 Apr 1894 and was buried in the Scotch Cemetery. Members of the Cornwall Lodge were requested to attend the funeral.
William then married Ada's sister Marion Noel Milbanke on 14 Aug 1895 at St Oswald's Anglican Church, Trevallyn. For many years he was secretary of the Australian Natives' Association at Tullah. He died in Launceston on 5 Mar 1949 aged 88 and was cremated at Carr Villa.
Marnie Tole Jul 2006 & Marion Sargent Dec 2012
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John Taylor and Pierre Chappuis / Reading in Translation
John Taylor and Pierre Chappuis have been interviewed by Laura Marris on the website Reading in Translation about their « double book » A Notebook of Clouds & A Notebook of Ridges (Fortnightly Review). Laura Marris writes in her introduction to the interview:
« Some of us, if we are lucky enough, have witnessed it—the moment when a passing line of clouds tangles with the trees of a ridge, blurring the distinctions between branches and vapor, between landscape and sky. This thoughtful, sensitive volume offers the poetic equivalent of that process, a brush between two imaginative intentions. While John Taylor was translating Pierre Chappuis’ Notebook of Clouds, he also found himself jotting notes about ridges, responding to Chappuis’ work with fragments that would become a project of his own. The two poets ultimately decided to publish both notebooks as a collaborative volume.
Though this book presents the work of two writers, the relationship between these notebooks is not a simple parallel. By translating Chappuis’ Notebook of Clouds (originally published in French in 1988) and then creating his own Notebook of Ridges, Taylor also documents the imaginative relationship between translator and author when both are poets. Like the practices of translation and writing, these pieces are “akin” to each other, sharing a resemblance that is both formal and figurative. Placing Taylor’s notebook next to his excellent translation of Chappuis allows his translator’s practice to come full circle, to substantiate the ways that translation has sensitized him to aspects of his own creative intelligence.
Both notebooks are testaments to the imaginative power of out-on-a-limb-ness, of the tendril, the balancing act. Chappuis writes, about cloud-shapes: “Dunes as well, remote announcement of worlds in gestation// wealthy with so many kinds of absence, where are we?” This richly open-ended question has a rather cosmic scale, as things tend to do in the sky. On earth, however, there is more vertigo. Taylor writes “A single trail along the ridge. Rarely an alternative once you are running the risk.// At best, a temporary sidestep because of a stone, a mound of dirt, a clump of grass.// Insignificant veerings.” Both feelings—suspension, vertigo—reach towards one another through the images they employ. For example, we have cloud “dunes” and a ridge “trail,” a satisfying remix of what evokes earth and what evokes sky.
I began to feel, while reading this work, as if I were observing a conversation at grand scale, as if two magicians were conjuring earth and sky with their investigations. After that, I returned to a more quotidian form of dialogue—email—to conduct this interview with Pierre Chappuis and John Taylor, who also translated Chappuis’ answers here. What follows is an exchange about the creative practices that created this dual volume and how these processes operate within language, memory, and place. »
The interview follows here.
A Notebook of Clouds by Pierre Chappuis & A Notebook of Ridges by John Taylor, The Fortnightly Review, 2019
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DVD: Side by Side (2012)
Film: Excellent
DVD Transfer: Excellent
DVD Extras: Very Good
Label: New Video Group
Region: 1 (NTSC)
Released: February 5, 2013
Genre: Documentary / Film History / Cinematography
Synopsis: Timely case study of the rapid marginalizing of film stock as digital technology has overtaken the production, post-production, and exhibition of movies.
Special Features: Deleted Scenes (3 mins.) / Additional Interviews with Filmmakers (14 mins.)
Christopher Kenneally’s documentary on the film industry’s switch from film stock to digital media comes at an important time when the fate of film – in terms of stock, cameras, and modes of exhibition – has been apparently written off like the LP.
Kenneally smartly doesn’t take sides; instead we get a chronological examination of each medium’s emergence, development, and usage, after which the two threads begin to collide as interviewed cinematographers, producers, and directors begin to reveal their respective positions as favouring one, lamenting the demise of another, or outright detesting one format for reasons subjective or practical.
The funny thing about Side by Side is there’s no conclusion as to which format’s right, nor whether film is headed for outright obsolescence, and that may be the lone positive within the doc, because while film has been marginalized and portrayed as a niche format preferred by arty filmmakers stuck in a time vortex, digital is anything from perfect. The leaps that occur within a few years have ensured digital will eventually supersede film’s resolution and versatility – the fact idiot-proof consumer cameras can be used to shoot a movie is perhaps the biggest death-knell to anyone filming a low budget movie on 16mm film with its inherent rental, processing, and materials expenses – but film will probably hover as an alternative media, if not the ultimate safety master for any digital production whose master media will inevitably become obsolete.
Not dissimilar to the LP, a film need only be threaded onto a projector and its instantly viewable, whereas digital requires the machines, codecs, and un-buggered hard drives or flash cards to play back, and there are some cautionary takes within Side by Side of media which has either gone bad, or the gear required to play back the product is now an antique.
Film may ultimately survive as both an alternative capture medium, and the most reliable storage media once a digital production has been locked, but it’ll unlikely be able to retain its position as a viable, affordable, accessible media if the post-production businesses that carry a movie from lab work through editing, timing, and print manufacture shut down or wholly shift their business model towards full digital.
The choice of Keanu Reeves as interviewer / narrator / commentartor may seem a little unusual, except Reeves also co-produced the film, and as an experienced actor he helps both directors and fellow actors comment on how the shift in media has changed their jobs – namely, allowing performances uninterrupted by reel changes, , but conversely enabling directors to let takes run on longer than necessary, and editors stuck with a greater body of footage to log and sift through prior to editing scenes.
Side by Side isn’t meant to be exhausting – it can’t when the industry shift is ongoing – but it captures the stage where creative minds are either struggling with a major change, or have utterly abandoned film for reasons that reflect their own working methods. For the lovers of film, the loathers are represented by David Fincher (sharp and quite barbed in his pokes at camera manufacturers), David Lynch (enamored by the freedom to be grungy and create improvised scenes and narratives), and Steven Soderbergh (almost venal in the way he describes the bulky, costly, inconsistent quality of film gear and stock).
Interestingly, George Lucas doesn’t come off as a monster (he’s still taken to task by colleagues for claiming ‘film is dead’ when he switched to full digital using imperfect gear), but as a forceful ideological pioneer who affected the industry with his own rebellious steps in acquisition, post-production, and exhibition; the resulting films may have looked poor and been weak works, but his bullheadedness and refusal to settle for the status quo is part of the reason other creative forces adopted similar stances and ultimately affected change; Hollywood makes decisions about money, but it’s the filmmakers who agree to the changes because the curiosity and creative rewards are sufficiently magnetic.
The doc starts to slow down near the end as Kenneally’s made every point possible, but Side by Side should provoke further discussions, if not a follow-up work where the so-called demise of film is reassessed, and the impact of digital has settled down for a few years before the next, inevitable, shake-up – like maybe 3 years from the date of Kenneally’s production date.
© 2013 Mark R. Hasan
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Disarming Mental Stress, A Memory Killer
* Emotional stress, when sustained for long periods, will kill brain cells and increase the risk for dementia. The mechanisms are well-known.
* Taking PS made it easier for young volunteers to handle the stress of doing mental arithmetic without a calculator.
* PS can partially rejuvenate the stress coping mechanisms in older people.
* By taking PS and practicing total health management, it is possible to lessen the ravages of stress on the brain and likely lower the risk of dementia.
Mental ("emotional") stress could be the most underrated cause of suffering, lost productivity, and premature death in modern society. Also, solid research has shown it is an awesome destroyer of memory. Stress sustained over a long period causes chronic, abnormal elevation of circulating stress hormones that can kill off brain cells. From this negative effect of emotional stress can come increased risk for dementia.
All living things practice homeostasis--the ability to maintain the constancy of their internal environment. Homeostasis is essential to maintain life, and our brain tissue must maintain homeostasis along with all our other tissues. For our enzymes and other catalytic biomolecules to work at their best, the physical and chemical conditions must be held very close to constant.
Any agent or factor that threatens to disrupt homeostasis is called a stressor. Too much of almost anything can become a stressor. According to the now-classic understanding of stress pioneered by Professor Hans Selye,(n42) a manageable amount of challenge to homeostasis is good "practice" for stress management--this he called eustress. But stressors that are too powerful can push the system far out of balance and threaten to exceed the body's capacity to return to homeostasis. Stress to this extreme degree (distress) can trigger disease or even cause death. Common human stressors include heat, cold, dehydration, starvation, lack of sleep, toxic exposures, infections, radiation, vibration, noise, and emotional challenges of whatever sort.
Along with other higher animals, we humans have what is called The Stress Response. It helps us survive any of these stressors (or combinations of them) that seem to pose an immediate challenge to survival. It was probably very important in keeping our species around for this long. It involves a cascade of physiological adjustments that occur rapidly and on demand. This cascade is normally mediated mainly by the hormone cortisol.
The classic Stress Response develops as the brain's hypothalamus region perceives the threat, then stimulates the pituitary master gland to secrete ACTH (AdrenoCorticoTropic Hormone), which hormone in turn pushes the adrenals to secrete cortisol into the blood. These glands, acting in coordination, are called the Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal Axis, or HPAA for short.
The HPAA helps the body successfully handle a stressful incident or situation, but it was designed to be sustained only for a short time, on the order of minutes or hours or possibly days, not for weeks and months or years. Faced with sustained emotional stress, the human body will successfully adapt at first, but as time goes by, this adaptation can run out of energy. As a consequence, long-term stress of any kind is bad for our bodies, but high cortisol over a long period can have an especially bad impact on our brain cells.
Fight or Flight: Good Thing That Can Go Bad
The human Stress Response is a version of the animal Fight-or-Flight Response, a fundamental biological response to a stressful situation. It has the needed effect of activating and coordinating the body's organ systems to cope with a short-term emergency, then to return to the normal way of living as quickly as possible. But in today's chaotic world, the emergencies that confront us are too often long-term rather than immediate. This makes for a problem--when fight or flight has to be sustained, it can deplete the body's resources and move it in a frighteningly negative direction.
The human brain is a gas-guzzling organ. With only 3 percent of the body's mass, the brain at rest consumes more than 20 percent of the body's energy. With intense mental activity the brain can be using as much as 60 percent of the body's energy. The nerve cells are the body's largest cells--motor nerve cells can reach four feet long, for example. They are also our busiest cells--their constant electrical activity demands a lot of energy. This is what makes them so vulnerable to poor circulation or lack of oxygen. High cortisol in the brain from stress has this very effect.
As the body prepares for fight-or-flight, cortisol is released into the circulating blood. Cortisol increases blood flow to the muscles (to fight or flee!), and to come up with this extra blood it reduces the blood going to the brain. However, the brain has such a high demand for blood circulation to supply the nerve cells that maintaining fight-or-flight beyond a mere few minutes can threaten the brain's ability to continue to function.
The nerve cells of the hippocampus and cortex brain regions are our best and brightest cells--they initiate and consolidate experiences into memory. But they are extra vulnerable to high cortisol. Continued high levels of circulating cortisol have been shown to cause the hippocampus to shrink ("atrophy"). As this brain region loses functional circuits, so also does its owner lose the capacity to make new memories.
Emotional stress can act synergistically on the hippocampus with other stressors. The nerve cells are highly vulnerable to "free radicals" and other toxins because they carry high amounts of fats in their outer insulation (myelin). These fats are easily destroyed by mercury, lead, or other heavy metals, by solvents and other organic environmental pollutants, and by any number of other toxic substances.
The brain is equipped with antioxidant defenses to help protect against such stressors, but these can be compromised by poor eating habits, lack of exercise and poor circulation, blood sugar fluctuations, over-consumption of prescription drugs, and many other deleterious factors. All these factors are stressors that compound the damage from emotional stress.
A number of controlled trials and other human studies have been done with PS for stress. Their findings suggest that taking PS can make a real difference in our capacity to manage a stressful challenge while keeping our stress hormones from getting out of control.
PS Helps Students Manage Mental Stress
Dr. David Benton of the University of Wales is a famous researcher on nutrition and mental performance, and has published many groundbreaking studies on children and other youth. In 2001, together with colleagues, he published a double blind trial that indicated PS improved mental performance in some of his male students whom he experimentally subjected to stress.(n43)
Forty-eight male university students, average age 20.8 years, were randomly divided into a PS test group (300 mg/day) and a placebo group. Each student's "baseline" mood--how he felt over the previous week--was assessed by questionnaire, and a mood score developed from it. They also were scored for "neuroticism" and "extroversion." Blood pressure, pulse, and heart rate were recorded, then each subject was sent home with a 30-day supply of PS or placebo at three capsules per day.
After 30 days of supplementation the subjects returned to the laboratory. They reported their mood over the last week of supplementation. They then faced a standard acute stress test: a challenging mental arithmetic calculation to be done within four seconds, and without a calculator! Their heart rates increased during the test and this combined with the students' self-reports to confirm that they did find the test stressful. After the test was completed, their blood pressure was recorded and their mood assessed again.
The results showed that those students with a more "neurotic" personality experienced significantly less stress from the test, if they were on PS. Those who had been receiving only placebo reported a highly significant level of stress from the test and experienced a highly significant worsening of mood (p<0.001). Their counterparts who got PS did not deteriorate in mood.
Individuals who score high on tests for neuroticism are known to respond more poorly to stress, and typically report more distress in daily life. In this trial, the "neurotics" who took PS were not significantly stressed by the test. Their mood remained stable; they scored significantly better on feeling clear-headed, composed, and confident. Through taking PS they were better able to deal with the time-limited challenge of doing mental arithmetic the old-fashioned way.
PS Revitalizes the Stress Response in the Elderly
Other clinical research indicates PS may help revitalize fading HPAA function in the elderly, to help them cope with their perceived mental stress.
The Dexamethasone Suppression Test can be used to test how well the stress response works in an aging person. In young, healthy people 1 mg of dexamethasone (a synthetic glucocorticoid that resembles cortisol) suppresses the production of cortisol and other adrenal steroid hormones linked to the stress response. This suppression usually lasts for more than 24 hours. But many older people do not show this suppression by DEX. Called Early Cortisol Escape, this phenomenon is thought to indicate deterioration of the HPA axis in the elderly.
Dr. Dina Nerozzi and co-researchers at the University of Rome found that by giving PS supplements (at 300 mg per day) to elderly men and women for 60 days, they could restore the youthful capacity for DEX suppression.(n44) They suggested that PS was restoring faded pituitary function, either by stimulating nerve cells to organize into new networks and/or by returning brain chemical transmitter levels toward a more youthful balance.
In their study with depressed elderly patients, Rabboni's group in Milan had some patients who showed poor DEX suppression at the start.(n36) After being on PS at 400 mg per day for 60 days, all nine of these patients had their capacity for DEX suppression restored. These researchers were so impressed with PS that they commented, "Phosphatidylserine could open the way to a new therapeutic conception: the possibility of influencing the complex inter-relations between the neurological, immunological and endocrine systems."(n36)
PS Partially Rejuvenates Aging Brain Rhythms
In addition to revitalizing the aging hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, PS helps "tune up" the body's 24-hour daily "circadian" rhythms. As we age, these rhythms tend to become less synchronous, resulting in sleep problems and sometimes also hormonal imbalances. This loss of rhythm seems linked to pituitary gland decline, and probably also to decline of the brain's hypothalamus that supervises the pituitary.
Normally the "master" pituitary gland secretes a variety of hormones that coordinate these cycles by stimulating other glands to release other hormones. One important pituitary product is TSH, Thyroid Stimulating Hormone. TSH stimulates the thyroid gland to release thyroxin, which boosts metabolism. Masturzo and collaborators did a randomized, placebo-controlled trial on institutionalized elderly men with abnormally low TSH hormone secretion. (n45)
Going into the trial, these 20 elderly male patients (ages 65 to 85, average age 73.7) were secreting TSH but at lower than youthful levels, and they did not have the youthful circadian rhythm.(n45) The older they were, the more random was their pattern of TSH release. Ten (10) of these older men received PS (at 400 mg per day) for 30 days and 10 received a placebo. Another six men, ages 21-31 (average age 22.3 years), served as youthful controls and received no treatment. After 30 days, the elderly men who received PS showed a circadian rhythm of TSH secretion. Their circadian rhythm was comparable with the young male adult controls (mean age 22.3 years). Those elderly men who received only placebo showed no improvement of their random secretion.
Masturzo and her colleagues suggested that PS was working at the level of cell membranes to cause this rather remarkable benefit. As we recognize the benefits of PS for mental stress, we can recall that being an orthomolecule, PS naturally has a pro-homeostatic, anti-stress influence. Consider that PS works from the cell membrane level throughout the entire cell. Because it is naturally present in all our cells, its beneficial actions on single cells are amplified to benefit the body as a whole.
So PS can be working simultaneously in the hypothalamus, the pituitary, the adrenals, and elsewhere in the organs to keep our life processes within normal limits. Dietary supplementation with PS can help correct functions that are too low and lower them when they are too high. By these means PS can boost a weakened stress response in the elderly person and calm the tendency to exaggerated stress response in the young person.
Why Don't Zebras Get Ulcers? Or Dementia?
Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky has spent much of his career studying animals under stress in the wild. His book Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers (n30) brilliantly answers its own question.
When the zebra senses a predator, its stress response goes into action. Adrenaline and noradrenaline surge into the bloodstream. Glucose comes surging out of storage tissues into the blood, to provide instant energy. The heart beats faster, the breathing rate increases, to get more oxygen and nutrients to the tissues. Stress hormones divert blood flow away from the brain and into the muscles, to help flee the imminent danger.
For this few minutes that it takes to escape the oncoming lion, the zebra's physiology is controlled by the stress response. Its higher brain functions give way to naked instinctual behavior in order to escape this danger. Then things calm down; having outrun the lion, after just a few minutes the zebra can return to meditating as it grazes.
For humans, the situation is different. The zebra only has stress as a short-term, occasional event, while we modern humans face continual, unrelenting stress. Most of us live in a state of stress almost all the time. Unfortunately, our biological means for coping with stress have remained basically the same as the zebra's. Prof. Sapolsky asks wryly, "How many hippos worry about whether Social Security is going to last, or even what they are going to say on a first date."
The work of Sapolsky, along with that of Lupien on humans,(n29) and many other researchers, joins with Selye's to send a clear message: for humans under sustained stress, the physiological fight-or-flight response becomes pathologic. It drives the individual into disease. We become mental casualties of chronic stress.
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GhOneTV’s Eli Kharis launches new website… premieres #EarnYourCrown series
Popular media personality Ms Elinam Amenyo known in showbiz circles as Eli Kharis and host of Buzz (entertainment segment on Rhythmz Live) and Let’s Go Shopping on GHone TV,...
By LiveFMGhana Staff February 14, 2018
Popular media personality Ms Elinam Amenyo known in showbiz circles as Eli Kharis and host of Buzz (entertainment segment on Rhythmz Live) and Let’s Go Shopping on GHone TV, introduces ‘Earn Your Crown’ series on her new website http://elikharis.com/ , which launches today.
The magazine-style website has a clean uncluttered design, improved functionality and enhanced rich content that showcases Eli Kharis’s diverse talents and career, but that is also a place for her to blog and share the content that she creates. It is easy to spend a great deal of time on her website as it covers a wide range of subjects from fashion, life style, entertainment and inspiring stories.
The hugely talented and downright lovely Eli Kharis who normally uses this favorite quote “Earn Your Crown“ which mostly accompanies her captions to her posts on all her social media platforms has created a column on the website dedicated to motivate readers to make progress in every area of their lives despite the challenges. Earn Your Crown (EYC), has been a long time desire for the media personality who hopes to inspire diverse people with true life stories.
According to Eli Kharis “Earn Your Crown’ isn’t just a catchy or fancy quote but one that has an important meaning to the growth of my journey, which I think you can relate to as well. So with this column on my website I share some inspiring experiences shared by people who managed to create a goal out of that Big sacrifice/Struggle/Decision made at a point in their lives. And hoping it impacts positively in your journey.
The first person to feature on the “Earn Your Crown” column is Ms.Farida Bedwei, an award winning Entrepreneur, Writer and Disability Rights Advocate who shares a difficult moment in her life and how she was able to make the best out of it.
Ms. Farida Bedwei created her first software at the age of 19. When she was 1, she was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy – a neurological condition which affects the motor development of the affected one, caused by Jaundice. Farida uses her condition to challenge the world to do more and live their lives to the fullest.
She is currently a co-founder and Chief Technology officer of Logiciel Limited.
The website also features the “The Give Back Column” which is dedicated to celebrating individuals and organizations doing charitable works and impacting lives. ‘Ahaban GLF’ a humanitarian organization, built on a growing network of volunteers & donors. It seeks to improve education & healthcare in communities across Africa. They share their vision, missions with us and how society can help make Lives better.
Not forgetting Fashion lovers, there is the ‘Style Gist’ column which keeps you up to date with Style and Fashion tips. And our first feature is by Wendy Sangmorkuor Tetteh, an Entrepreneur and Top Image Consultant.
The new website goes live today, February 14, 2018 and is with address: http://elikharis.com/
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Bobcats hit the road for three matches this week
No. 13 UC Santa Barbara
No. 13 UC Santa Barbara (8-10, 4-9) 25 25 25 3
Lees-McRae (5-11, 3-6) 16 16 10 0
No. 8 Stanford
Lees-McRae (5-10, 3-6) 16 21 25 15 1
No. 8 Stanford (10-7, 6-5) 25 25 22 25 3
King (Tenn.)
Lees-McRae (5-10, 3-7 CC) 19 22 21 0
King (Tenn.) (14-2, 9-1 CC) 25 25 25 3
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B: Keenan Sanders - 5
D: Spencer Fredrick - 6
SA: Keenan Sanders - 5
K: John Sobel - 9
B: 2 Players (#3, #10) - 2
D: Keenan Freitas - 7
K: 2 Players (#8, #9) - 9
B: 3 Players (#7, #8, #9) - 2
D: Keenan Freitas - 11
SA: 3 Players (#3, #7, #8) - 1
K: Beatty, Eric - 10
B: Jones, Clay - 6
D: Stuebner, Jake - 7
SA: Dagostino, Kyle - 3
K: John Sobel - 10
B: 2 Players (#3, #9) - 2
K: Jeff Sprayberry - 15
B: Chris Gerber - 4
D: Jimmy Nuckolls - 10
SA: Nick Drooker - 2
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BANNER ELK, N.C. – The Lees-McRae College men's volleyball team will hit the road for three matches this week. LMC will begin the week with a match at King (Tenn.) Wednesday before traveling to Pennsylvania for a pair of matches at Penn State against Stanford Friday and UC Santa Barbara Saturday. Wednesday's match is scheduled for a 7 p.m. start time, while the matches at Penn State are both slated for 5 p.m. first serves.
Last Time Out – Lees-McRae picked up its fourth 3-0 sweep of the season Saturday when it swept North Greenville at Williams Gymnasium. With the win, the Bobcats improve to 5-9 overall and 3-6 in conference play.
Freitas among nation's leaders – Senior libero Keenan Freitas currently is second in the nation averaging 3.15 digs per set. Freitas also leads the conference in overall digs with 167.
Freshman fitting in – Freshman Reto Pfund currently is 14th nationally averaging 9.81 assists per set. Pfund is also second in the same category in the same category.
Win Stat – With the five victories so far this season, the Bobcats have already surpassed their win total from the previous two seasons combined (4).
Series Rewind – LMC will look to avenge a 3-1 loss earlier this season to King Wednesday. Additionally, the Bobcats will look for their first win over King since the 2014 season. As for the matchups against Stanford and UC Santa Barbara, it will be the first ever meetings between the Bobcats and those two schools.
For more information of Lees-McRae Athletics, follow us on our social media sites on Twitter (@LMCBobcats), Facebook (Lees-McRae Athletics) and on Instagram (leesmcraeathletics)
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The Inglorious exit of the Flying Eagles!
I recall the good old days of Academicals football in Nigeria. The secondary schools used to produce football players of quality in an endless stream. No one asked about their ages. Studentship determined and separated the boys from the men. You had to be in secondary school to qualify to play in the regional or national academicals team of those days. Football encouraged enrollment of youths into school, and scholarships for the best players were a great incentive to play and excel.
Many of the national team players came through the academicals from all parts of the country. The transition from Academicals to the Green Eagles was smooth, based purely on the merit of the performance. The public was as much a selector as the national coach in charge of the team.
I also remember the birth of the Flying Eagles with great nostalgia. They metamorphosed from the Nigeria Academicals. Both were feeder teams for the Green Eagles. That’s how some of the greatest players in Nigeria’s football history rose to the top. Their list is very long. Meanwhile, the strength of Nigerian football was in the individual skills of players honed on the rough, hard playing grounds around the country. As a result of very bad pitches, there wasn’t much emphasis on tactics. The limited knowledge and experiences of the country’s dedicated first and second generation coaches could also only produce players that could express themselves freely on the ball through dribbling, running at great speed, shooting powerfully, or making great crosses. The bottom line is that there must be something exceptional in a player for him to qualify for a place in Nigeria’s national team, beyond the common ability to kick and follow the ball.
I recall that Sam Garba, Peter Anieke, Ismaila Mabo, Babatande Nakande, Tony Igwe, all had to register as students in a secondary school in Jos, Academy Institute of Commerce, for them to be able to play their football at Academicals level from where they moved up to the senior national team. So, being in secondary school was a requirement to play in the Academicals. You could not play from outside it, and academicals football was big, very big. It was a subtle enforcer of enrollment into secondary school for those who did not ordinarily want western education. It also promoted College football as a football development module. And it worked magic in the country.
Student players and teams packed stadia. Haruna Ilerika, alone in Zumratul College Agege, Lagos, could fill the Onikan Stadium with spectators. Stephen Keshi, the Olukani brothers, Tarila Okoronwanta, and Henry Nwosu, all in both St. Gregory’s College and St. Finbarr’s College, packed stadia with fans. It was a similar story in different parts of the country.
The attraction was the artistry of the players. They could do extraordinary things with the ball at their feet. Those were the same attributes that Etim Esin, Jay Jay Okocha, Kanu Nwankwo, Victor Ikpeba, and co, inherited that separated them from the chaff, and turned them into superstars, well above their peers, and good enough to grace the football theatres of Europe.
The football field was a theatre.
On it, the players could ‘dance’ and dribble as if to the beat of some ‘invisible’ music. Every time, they put up a show, shielding and passing, sprinting down the flanks and making precision crosses, hauling long throws, driving cannon shots, and heading crosses with power and precision. That’s how the nicknames came about: headmaster, blockbuster, slow poison, switching, caterpillar, tailor, mathematical. In short, the players were technically sound and could do a whole lot of things with the ball, but often deficient in advanced understanding of tactics, discipline, systems and organized team tactics. These they needed to add to their arsenal of natural skills on the sophisticated fields of Europe in order to become the complete article.
Such breed of players was special but is now fast disappearing from the local scene. Coaches, also, of the blessed ‘old school’, unadulterated by imported foreign technicalities, are also becoming a very scarce commodity. As a deliberate strategy to improve the standards of football, and to reduce the gap between First and Third World football countries, age–group competitions were introduced by FIFA. That’s when the Nigerian Academicals became the Flying Eagles and, now, the Nigerian National Under-20 team.
The difference between the then National Academicals and the present Under-20s is the stringency in legibility. The academicals were exclusively drawn from schools (irrespective of their age), whereas the Under-20s are mostly drawn from major clubs and have to produce documents to show that they are under the age of 20. That’s the problem here – documents. In Nigeria, documentation and integrity do not go together. FIFA’s good intentions have become Nigeria’s greatest set back in football development!
The on-going FIFA Under-20 World Cup in Poland clearly shows the unintended and unwanted consequences of FIFA’s development agenda in a Third World country like Nigeria. Nigeria was ousted in the first round of the championship following one of the worst series of performances I have ever seen a Nigerian team put up. That speaks volumes.
For a country that has won the Under-17 championship three times in its history, but finds putting up a similar spirit and performance at a higher level impossible, something is definitely wrong. That wrong component is why the country has never won the Under-20 Championship as would be expected in accordance with FIFA’s good intentions, or the World Cup proper as predicted by Pele in 1989.
Pele and a few others watched Nigeria’s Under-17s in Scotland in 1989 and predicted that by the turn of the last Century, Nigeria would win the senior World Cup following what he saw of the team. It is almost 30 years since then, 19 years into a new Century. Pele has been made to eat his predictions.
This week, Nigeria’s Under-20s put up a performance that made Nigerians shut their eyes in shame and wonder what had gone wrong with the FIFA development module. The performance had nothing to show: no exceptional players; no organized play; no clear tactics; no discipline; no creativity; no artistry; no class; no style; no colour; nothing! Just a bunch of very physical, ordinary players running without a strategy whilst their hapless coach watches in total stupefaction, wondering what to do, and doing nothing.
The greatest surprise is that Nigerians are showing surprise at the turn of events. The country’s football is, of course, a reflection of the state of the country. How can a system where corruption thrives, fueled by bribery, brazen lies, cheating and falsification of documents be expected to produce a football environment that is productive? Deny it as much as Nigerians like for so-called ‘patriotic’ reasons, the truth is that at age-group competitions (every single one of them) the country cheats. We all shut our eyes to the truth and use much older players. Everyone knows it. Even the international organisers know it too in their hearts but can do nothing. I have heard as much in conversations at some high levels.
They do not punish us because there is no evidence of our actions. So, they let us burn up in our self-deceit, certain of the consequences of our short-sighted folly – heading nowhere. The lame excuse we give is that some other countries do it as well. So, it is alright to embrace corruption because others are corrupt?
So, FIFA lets us wallow in our cheating and celebration of pyrrhic and shallow ‘victories’ that are of little value, at the cost of the more lucrative, more prestigious and more glamourous championships. Nigeria also hires a coach with paper qualifications, but without the experience and pedigree to handle a national team with a goal to win the World Cup at a level, the country has never won before, and expect a miracle.
Poland 2019 has been a sad reminder of the direction Nigeria should not head. The country must go back to the era of exalted values and high morals, of good conduct and character, and perch on to a new ground where to win is not by all means, but to compete with dignity, fairness and integrity.
We were there only a few decades ago.
That’s where we must return to.
Enough of the shenanigans.
Olusegun Odegbami June 7, 2019 June 7, 2019
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Kwalmi Laurence
Well said sir and laid out. It is really unfortunate that our great nation Nigeria has degenerate to such level. I was ashamed watching the last Under 20 World cup. Old men claiming to be under 20s. So sad for the development of football in our country. There is not joy again watching any of our National team play.
Etsu Babanyara Emmanuel Nyabam
Mentor,
Nothing will top this and I will state clearly nothing better can be said about our game than you have succinctly put it sire. Many blessings
Deen Olugunna
How can what you’ve written be topped?
How is it possible for skilful football to be displayed in Nigeria these days with the level of corruption that has permeated the country’s fabric. Our senior football administrators are corrupt so it’s no surprise the industry and majority of those involved in it are so inclined. Before we see the likes of the ‘stars’ you already highlighted again would be in generations far away. However, I consider myself fortunate to have witnessed many gifted footballers display their skills when mediocrity had not set in and destroyed a past time close to the hearts of millions of Nigerians.
Chris Uwaje
My dear Mathimatical Emeritus Segun. Good morning and thank you once again for recreating soccer memories of old that makes sense out of the ordinary. Oh, Pele saw only the BALL – the positive good thing in football Nigeria, but was unschooled in the irredimable ethical blindness to Logic-of-Things (Lot) embedded in the Nigerian character of development? Indeed, how can a nation openly demarket herself by naming herself ‘Flying Eagles and Elephant’ instead of “NIGERIA”? What a brand value lost! Football is the hidden secret and ultimate tool for discovering the music for Nigeria’s nay, Africa’s greatness.
Thank you my brother. May God grant you more longer memory and invaluable life. O se pupo.
Abayomi falade
You said it all Sir,how do we get out of this wood?
Once corruption still strive we are heading no where.
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Senior Rigpa Students Ask for Sogyal Rinpoche to Be Reinstalled: Sources
Credible sources say a petition letter (copied below) is being circulated amongst the inner circles of the Rigpa International organization, and is gathering signatures of support. It has been translated into English, most likely from Dutch.
The petition letter asks for the Rigpa “Vision Board” to reinstall Sogyal Lakar (aka Sogyal Rinpoche) as the public spiritual guide for the organization.
The petition letter lists seventeen original signatories. Emails to six of these signatories requesting comment have gone unanswered. The names have been redacted in the copy below, pending a response.
A source says that most of the signatories make up part of a core practice group at Rigpa’s Lerab Ling temple, located in southern France.
Rigpa’s Vision Board took over organizational leadership in August of 2017, after Lakar was forced to retire following accusations of physical, sexual, emotional and financial abuses brought against him by eight former devotees in an open letter published a month earlier.
The petition letter asks for Lakar to be effectively reinstalled as spiritual figurehead of Rigpa. It uses the language of inclusivity to argue that Rigpa students who “don’t have a problem” with the abuse allegations against Lakar are now unfairly marginalized because of the controversy.
The petition letter rebuffs the recommendations made by a recent independent investigation into the allegations, commissioned by Rigpa. The investigation, conducted by the London law firm Lewis Silkin, confirmed that Sogyal Lakar committed “serious physical, sexual, and emotional abuse” and that for decades, senior Rigpa management enabled Lakar’s behaviors and “failed to address them, leaving others at risk.”
The first recommendation of the 50-page report was that “Sogyal Lakar should not take part in any future event organised by Rigpa or otherwise have contact with its students” and that Rigpa should “disassociate itself from Sogyal Lakar as fully as possible. Following the independent investigation, Rigpa issued a statement that said, “Rigpa commits to act upon the report’s recommendations.”
The petition letter ignores the recommendations, saying, “…we continue to have full confidence in Sogyal Rinpoche. We will always take him to be our root teacher…”
It makes no concrete suggestions as to what Lakar’s rehabilitation within the organization would look like. Lakar, 71, has recently received treatment for colon cancer.
The Dalai Lama has repeatedly spoken out in the last 18 months about Lakar’s abusive behavior and Rigpa’s exploitation of students.
The Vision Board, to whom the petition letter is addressed, is staffed by five non-Tibetan devotees, and advised by three Tibetan lamas.
One of the lamas is Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, who mocked the eight original complainants in October 2017 with a satirical “Sex Contract” that would purportedly secure consent from devotees for various sex acts with their teachers. More recently, he trolled Rohingya refugees with a rambling letter of praise for Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Another Vision Board lama is Khenchen Namdrol Rinpoche, who gave a speech at Lerab Ling in September condemning the eight letter writers, suggesting they are possessed by demonic spirits. The speech was live-translated for a cheering audience by Shambhala Publications author Sangye Khandro (Nancy Gay Gustafson).
A source says that most of the signatories are part of the “Lerab Ling Practicing Sangha.” The Practicing Sangha was formed at Lerab Ling after its founding in 1992 and are distinguished by their high degree of loyalty and devotion to Lakar.
Lerab Ling functions as the organization’s administrative and spiritual headquarters. It was home to Sogyal Lakar before he fled French authorities after accusations against him were first made public. In May 2018 French police raided Lerab Ling as part of an ongoing investigation in Lakar’s abuse. Rigpa and Lerab Ling temple were both suspended by the French Buddhist Union following the open letter by the eight original complainants.
Lerab Ling continues to host programmes for both the public and dedicated Rigpa students. The next public event, “Living in Harmony with what Really Matters”, is scheduled for over the holidays.
In the summers, the centre also hosts Buddhist camps for children and teens.
A letter to the Vision Board about our concerns regarding the current direction.
Firstly. Thank you for all you do to preserve the Dharma and Sangha. We are so happy to be part of the effort you have made so far to take care of those in the Rigpa Sangha who have been hurt. Sangha unity is foremost in our minds as advised – for us it means a Sangha where each and every member is allowed to hold views and openly practice as we believe in.
It has been more than a year of healing and the direction we now seem to be heading, is of concern to us. The profile of retreats and courses that are being promoted and views being held are of concern to us.
We now feel that slowly, the needs of those in the Sangha who don’t have a problem is perhaps being over-looked or just not highlighted. We worry that by continuing to remain quiet in order to give space to our dharma siblings who were hurt, might indeed be mis-construed to mean we hold the same views.
So this letter is to state that we continue to have full confidence in Sogyal Rinpoche. We will always take him to be our root teacher and we bring this body of students to your kind attention. We request to be provided forums where we are able to openly express our devotion and practice the lineage of which Sogyal Rinpoche is an integral part. The peaceful co-existence of these events together with the ones already taking place will make for real sangha inclusivity.
Secondly.
The question of spiritual integrity is of concern to us. No matter how noble a reason, we believe there are certain lines which cannot be crossed. Commitments and rules for students following the path of Dzogchen is one of them. What we hear to be occurring at Dzogchen retreats is of great concern to us.
In the same vein, we have full confidence that you will hold any rules and commitments that pertain all level of the spiritual path – Vinaya, Mahayana, Vajrayana – in their entirety and not make them flexible to accommodate varying views and conveniences. We will be grateful if you continue to uphold spiritual integrity above and beyond the success of an organization.
Thirdly and most importantly.
The upholding of the spiritual lineage carried through by Sogyal Rinpoche. For us, we believe what differentiates Dharma centres is their spiritual lineage. At Rigpa we had the greatest fortune to be blessed with the lineage of the unsurpassed Dzogpa-chenpo. This is our crown jewel, our greatest blessing, our glory -which sets us apart from any other centre. Most importantly it our gift to give the world, for all sentient beings and the future of Dharma. This most precious gift – the greatest of compassions – we can only give if we have it ourselves.
We believe that this is a living lineage of blessing, transmitted person to person and it is embodied in the person of Sogyal Rinpoche as an irreplaceable link in this chain. And it is simply not possible to uphold this lineage without him being squarely at the centre of it. Hence it is unclear to us how we can preserve this our most precious possession in the current direction of barely being able to say his name.
Thank you again for all you do. We hope that together we will be able to exit this period of difficulty – stronger and wiser – and continue to keep Rigpa as the gift it is to the world.
[names of 17 signatories]
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rigpa International Shambhala Publications Sogyal Lakar Sogyal Rinpoche
Judy Hollocher says:
this seems too horrible for words; and self hating toward others.
may your stupidity and karma not ripen.
Kevin Knox says:
Such a stark contrast here Matthew between the clarity and precision of your writing and the self-contradictory, grammatically-wretched obsequious haze of the letter from the old students to the so-called “vision” board.
Where to start with the contradictions? Even the head of the “Vision” board, Dzongsar Khyentse, has pointed out that Sogyal was never qualified to be a guru. There goes the “lineage” claim – as if such claims ever really mean anything or can somehow magically substitute for actual ethics and realization. Then there’s the trotting out of the old trope about honoring all of the different levels of ethical commitments from lowly HInayana vinaya to exalted Vajrayana samaya while conveniently failing to admit that the “root lama” they gush about is an utter failure at observing even the most basic and foundational of these vows.
Healing, according to these wise senior students, consists off sweeping everything under the rug, grudgingly permitting victims to “have their own views” while threatening them with vajra hell for breaking samaya and reinstalling the violent, lecherous and incompetent sexual predator who is the root cause of their root guru screw-you situation on the throne. Brilliant solution – should work like a charm,
Instead this bunch should just start their OWN organization, and I’ll even help them out by offering them a name for it, free of charge: Marigpa (Tibetan for “primordial ignorance”).
Who are the 17 signatories?
Names please.
I was a Rigpa member (until 2013) and a Dzogchen mandala ‘student’, so I’d like to know how is supporting this crap. As some of them I’d know personally and upon finding out who, wouldn’t like to anymore.
mremski says:
I’ve decided to redact the names as none have responded to request for comment. Most have been confirmed as LL members by a very credible source.
Rob Hogendoorn says:
So, apparently senior Rigpa students are lobbying for Sogyal Lakar’s reinstatement—the recommendations in British lawyer Karen Baxter’s report notwithstanding. It fits a pattern: so far, I’ve seen no indication that any attempt at reform beyond paying lip service to principles of good governance is seen among the senior Rigpa members that remain at this time.
It’s a measure of their intellectual stasis and moral inertia, I think, that senior students should persuade themselves that arguing for a reinstatement of Sogyal Lakar lies within the realm of reason.
They feel no compulsion to argue that the alleged abuses did not occur, of course. For they are true believers, who presuppose that these were mere ‘seeming abuses’. To them, Sogyal Lakar is incapable of harming others by definition. In effect, these senior students argue that he is above the law. This is not a manner of speech. These students truly believe that their own view is superior: their guru’s nemesis is no match for their personal hubris. It never is.
Not to belabour the obvious, but Sogyal’s victims would no doubt be re-traumatized if such a reinstatement occurs. Fortunately, the senior students’ ‘arguments’ are incoherent and fallacious—they will not hold up in a court of law. There’s no legal exemption for Vajrayana gurus’ supposed enlightenment. Moreover, Sogyal Lakar will likely be arrested and/or extradited upon his return to Europe or the United States. His reinstatement is a moot case: this particular ’emanation’ is not even remotely interested in ‘showing the aspect of going to prison’.
Believing that spiritual teachers are above the law has happened before, of course. Over and over again, in fact, with disastrous consequences: the history of Rigpa and Shambhala (formerly known as Vajradhatu) are a case in point.
All of this may not be these senior students’ “problem”, but it may cause concern in others. I’d suggest that those of you who are concerned about this development alert the appropriate authorities, fiscal oversight committees, and authoritative media in your home countries that Rigpa is going through a relapse into business as usual.
Yes, the only thing you can di is a process to intentions; you can bring NO fact that Rigpa actual management is not following the report recommendations. No fact.
Norbu says:
What is the source of this letter?
Multiple credible sources.
Not a valid reply. So it looks like someone either fabricated this or hacked Rigpa emails
“Hacked Rigpa emails?” And?
Pema says:
Reliable sources says that none of these belong to Rigpa Sangha, they are not in Admin&Care database and this is a fake news to undermine curent effort of all serious Rigpa Members.
it’s simply unbelievable that these belong to the ‘practicing sangha’ in Lerab Ling as they know the risk of Rigpa collapsing completely and would mean their own ruin.
Sogyal is seriously sick and unable to stand alone and in any case his retreat from the positions previously held is definite.
“Reliable sources” from within Rigpa International also condemned the open letter from the Eight as “fake news”, and did everything they could to discredit it. Not clear who “they” are in your comment, as the names were redacted. I will consider contradictory evidence sent through the contact page.
Sangye says:
Pema – be serious, they are people on the board of Rigpa. I’ve seen the letter and I know almost every name and their job, history. You are no journalist with sources, you are just trolling because you don’t like the truth coming out. It is believable because people see it as an expression of their devotion to that teacher and they don’t really care about consequences because Rigpa is not going to retaliate since it is all run by the same kinds of people. They simply don’t think it will be their ruin to just magically wait for it all to blow over.
I’ve been openly blowing the whistle on this unethical horror story for years and I saw via a different channel a copy of the same letter circulating in Rigpa centers so I can confirm it is not fake.
@Matthew By the way, Sogyal recent health condition have worsened, and your info above is out of date. Read the latest conditions on Facebook at Sogyal Rinpoche page, post of 12th November.
You do not have reliable sources to confirm that, do you?
Thanks for the update. I do not have sources to confirm it, no. One of the countless tragedies of cultic dynamics is that when an entire history is clouded by deception, one must ask whether even accounts of a leader’s terminal condition are true, or further manipulations of the emotions and finances of followers.
In the Lewis Silkin report it is aknowledged that SL was sick and could not meet the investigator and she( Karen Baxter) said she received evidence of his medical condition.
Beware of anti-cultic dynamics: I’ve never seen people so fixated and compulsive with Sogyal and Rigpa as ever before….and with no official judicial investigation or charge!
How is that those who were hurt hardly appear after they said what they had to say? ( and anonimously in the Investigation). How is that people like you and other open blogs and YouTube channel and Fb pages to continue hammering: now that Sogyal is out of reach, it is Rigpa members to be targeted. You know: thanks God Jesus came for the sinners, not for the righteous…yet you’re not christian ,are you?
By all means, if you can bear the shame, continue to comment here to show the world exactly what deflection, obfuscation, and DARVO look like.
You bear the shame of telling open lies such as in your title. Where it is asked in this letter, even if a false letter, that Sogyal be reinstalled? Where, if not in your obfuscation and deflection? Where it is said in the Report recommendation that it is prohibited to someone to hold his own view on Sogyal? The recommendation is for Rigpa not to favor PHYSICAL contact with Sogyal and students and Rigpa is keeping that, and nobody can disprove that. Learn to read, man before attempting to write anything with some sense.
^ FYI If this commenter is bound by religious commitments to view Lakar in an glorified way (as is the custom in Tantric practice) the right to defend that view begins to make more sense. The article is exposing this same view as a matter of public interest, because it is reportedly coming from inside an organization that hosts public events. If some senior students really don’t “have a problem” with Lakar, parents who send their children to summer camps at LL should know that. The commenter first doubts the letter, but is now compelled to defend it. Clearly they believe that if the letter is authentic, that would be okay, because the independent investigation is a matter of “perspective”.
This is this commenter’s last comment here.
Sangye - yes, a monk with Rigpa for 13+ years says:
Lewis Silken recommendations say
“1. Sogyal Lakar should not take part in any future event organised by Rigpa or otherwise have contact with its students;
2. Rigpa should take steps to disassociate itself from Sogyal Lakar as fully as is possible (having
regard to any legal arrangements which may for the time being connect the organisation with
him);”
So this downplay to Physical contact as some limitation is just made up nonsense.
I’ve done my own public open testimony and supported everyone. I’ve talked to victims and they are scared to talk because of shameless backlash from people like you Vera. I was in the center of the mess, i know everyone involved quite well. The Lewis Silken report had enormous amounts of evidence and recommended criminal investigation. However, people want to heal, that Lewis Silken report was actually meant to threaten people but they gave their testimony and showed it was true – almost everything claimed was upheld. Not being upheld doesn’t mean not true either – it simply means not everything was met with overwhelming testimony because there wasn’t time and money to interview all the people who could have testified. A lot of testimony is kept locked to protect the witnesses from people who are dangerous – you know, sexual predators, psychopaths, narcissists who are amoral and dangerous. This is all well known and standard practice. Are you trying to roll back women finally getting their chance to be heard. What you want witnesses to come to your place and tell you when they are never welcome in the first place – that is the epitome of ignorance.
Vera Ockenfels says:
I want to clarify that the “Vera” who wroye this is not Vera O, a former Rigpa student who stands squarely with those who were injured by Sogyal.
Adamo says:
“At Rigpa we had the greatest fortune to be blessed with the lineage of the unsurpassed Dzogpa-chenpo. This is our crown jewel, our greatest blessing, our glory -which sets us apart from any other centre. Most importantly it our gift to give the world, for all sentient beings and the future of Dharma. This most precious gift – the greatest of compassions – we can only give if we have it ourselves.”
“Which sets us apart from any other center” : What a display of arrogance that was created within Rigpa for a long time. Better than the rest of the world…..
“our gift to give the world”: What a incredible “modesty”, for those who know Rigpa well from inside , nothing new.
I remember very well, when at the time of the so called three year retreat, at the end the Rigpa spearhead communicated that those who had attended the 3y retreat would be send to different places in the world and different organisations in order to change the world, have now a real strong impact. Nothing happened of course, just another expression of megalomanic thinking as typical for the devoted followers and their chief.
Thank you for sharing this. I agree with your assessment of Vera’s motivations.
It’s important that this be shared.
https://wordpress.com/post/tibetanbuddhistmusing.music.blog/46
Link to a transcript of Khenchen Namdrol’s “teaching” since Rigpa keeps trying to bury the evidence with copyright claims to youtube
Knowonecares says:
Link to a transcript of Khenchen Namdrol’s “teaching” since Rigpa keeps trying to bury the evidence with copyright claims to youtube.
Dont’t know how long it will stay up
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She�s on a heroic mission. Her challenge is enormous�to make everyone else care about the environment and global warming as much as she does�it�s a classic noble quest framed in modern terms, but hey�not to worry�Laurie David is an epic adventurer, one part underdog, the other part wrecking machine.
It�s a precarious business�trying to see ourselves through another�s eyes�but Laurie David who has more than one trick up her sleeve, guesses that those who know her best would characterize her as being �charmingly aggressive.�
They would be talking about the all-grown-up version of David, a leading environmental activist, (www.lauriedavid.com) once described by the New-York based environmental group Riverkeeper as the �single most effective environmental voice in America.�
By contrast, the dark-haired little girl raised in the overdeveloped suburbs of Long Island was tender and earnest.
�I was kind of a do-gooder. I was very serious about my school and I used to be a very sweet kid. I used to write poems to my mom, all that kind of stuff. I think I was a pretty straight�I was an average kid.�
Seemingly average might be a more apt signifier, after all there were incipient signs of the citizen soldier to come.
�As a young girl I was obsessed with littering. I thought littering was one of the worst injustices man perpetrated on the planet. I don�t know why I felt that way but, in those days, people would smoke cigarettes in their cars�my mother was a chain smoker, so the ashtray would fill up with cigarettes and people would dump it on the side of the road and I found that appalling. People threw cups and papers and everything out their windows. There was no consciousness about it at all. It was my first battle.�
The roots of her environmental awakening don�t appear to have much of a foundation in childhood experience. Although she loved the out-of-doors as a kid, she�d never been to a national park�it wasn�t until five years ago that she finally stepped foot inside a forest�fortunately for the wider world�she loved it.
�You know it�s a clich� to talk about trees but I�m emotionally attached to trees and I don�t know where the heck that comes from�I wasn�t a country girl at all.�
She was mildly interested in politics as an adolescent, kept current by reading newspapers, always thought of herself as a Democrat and was invested enough to watch presidential debates in election years, but these were more emblematic of a lively mind rather than a committed intellect.
Even as a girl, however, David knew what she wanted.
�I remember staying up as a little kid, my parents letting me watch the Emmys and the Oscars �that was a big night in my house when I got to watch those shows. I remember thinking �wow.� I just always wanted to be in the entertainment business and everything was always driving me in that direction��
Fascinated by pop culture, she also possessed a unique instinct for sussing out the zeitgeist.
�I could read a book before anyone else read it and I could know this book is going to be a bestseller. Or I could look at a room and spot the one person in the room who had major potential as an actor. I have great instincts and I have common sense and those are the two things I�ve used to get me where I am today, wherever that may be.�
Interested in becoming a photojournalist, she studied magazine journalism in Ohio.
�My first job was at a Dodge Dart dealership, which is so ironic, I was writing television commercials for this local car dealer. �And that�s how I got started in show business right away, never knowing that many years later I�d be working on fuel emissions��
Her subsequent stint as a researcher on the David Letterman show, an experience, which she likens to attending �Comedy U�, in combination with her humor, temperamental predilections and interests, represented the beginning of her life-long love affair with comedy and comedians.
�I was surrounded by comedians, I loved to laugh. It takes such genius to be funny�that�s the hardest talent there is�to be funny, to make people laugh and that intrigued me. I was always somebody who was attracted to talent, always, and always somebody who had an eye for talent.�
Never interested in the spotlight, David excelled in the shadows. �I was the person who could make things happen. I was a manager of comedians because I could get their careers going�I always wanted to work behind the scenes.�
She became a manager, directing the careers of people like Chris Elliot and Carol Leifer�driven by the same sort of idealism that once predicted and now fuels and sustains her current social activism.
�I loved trying to make people�s dreams come true. And that�s what it is working with young undiscovered comic talent, it was about trying to make their dreams come true, turn them into stars, get them jobs on TV shows, and I just loved that, being the aggressor on behalf of someone I believed in.�
Highly ambitious but never particularly motivated by money�David was focused on becoming head of a TV network or studio and produced a number of comedy specials for HBO, Showtime, MTV and Fox. After re-locating to Los Angeles from New York, she became vice-president of comedy development for Fox Broadcasting and was in the business of developing sitcoms for Twentieth Century Television.
Married to comedian Larry David before he gained enormous success as co-creator of Seinfeld�his current HBO show, Curb Your Enthusiasm is a cultural phenomenon in its own right�David, feeling the first flutter of career disenchantment, launched a more personal and life-altering project when she became the mother of two daughters.
�Every single meeting I attended in the television business at that point� all these writers were telling me that they were going to come up with the next Seinfeld and I just thought �who is going to come up with a better show than this?� Forget it. And then I had two kids. And I thought, you know what? I�m going to take all this ambition and I�m going to take all these resources and all these contacts and I�m going to use it on behalf of something I deeply believe in and that�s environmental issues.�
Motherhood changed David in ways she hadn�t anticipated�similarly it was a meeting with environmental activists Robert F. Kennedy jr. and John Adams, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council (www.nrdc.org) that led to a remarkable metamorphosis.
�I sat there and listened to Bobby talk about the how environment was the ultimate civil rights issue, the right to clean air, clean water�this is as basic to civil rights as it comes and I can�t tell you how that impacted me. I left that breakfast and I have never been the same since.�
David began reading everything she could get her hands on concerning the environment.
�Once you have a focus then things pop up at you. You read a paper one day and you never notice certain things and then all of a sudden your focus shifts and you think, �oh my god, look at all this stuff.� Once I started educating myself, it became very clear to me very quickly that the mother of all issues is global warming and that if we don�t do something about this now�We�re basically altering life on this planet as we know it and we�re doing it consciously because now we know the truth. We�ve had scientists, a complete and total consensus of scientific study now saying the globe is warming�and 2,000 scientists from 100 countries have all said the same thing.�
The rest, as someone less imaginative than David might say, is her story. Fierce, frank and fearless, she is on an urgent mission. She�s never worked so hard in her life.
�I spend every minute of the day trying to figure out how to permeate popular culture on this issue�This is more than a job. Everything you do in your life�when you get to the point in your life and you�ve figured out where your passion is and what you�re going to do, you use everything you�ve got. So even that crazy job in Cincinnati at the Dodge dealership, working at the Letterman show, everything is coming together and I�m using it all on behalf of my issue. I�m producing a huge primetime television special, which is the first primetime cause-oriented special in over a decade and it�s called Earth to America and it�s an evening of comedy, music and message about guess what? Global warming. So this is an amazing thing from a comedy producer. I�m now going to be able to reach 90 million American homes on this issue.�
She�s also producing an HBO feature documentary scheduled to run in the spring concerning the consequences of global warming.
David, an astoundingly gifted fundraiser with a talent for twisting arms, has raised millions of dollars for various environmental and public arts causes and has also launched a year-long Stop Global Warming Virtual March on Washington, (www.stopglobalwarming.org).
�In the old days, if you wanted to build a grassroots movement you�d get people to march out on the streets but it doesn�t work anymore�you just wind up as 30 seconds on the evening news. I had this idea to do it virtually on the Internet and let�s not just do it for one day�let�s march and build this march. We�ll make it so strong that nobody can ignore it� the media and congress and the administration can no longer ignore this issue and that�s what I�m working on right now� I�ve got everyone from Walter Cronkite to Senator John McCain to a football team, and celebrities. I�m just trying to put everybody in one place so the power of the movement can be felt.�
Incredibly, she also finds time to maintain a blog on The Huffington Post, (www.huffingtonpost.com).
A founding member of the Detroit Project, (www.thedetroitproject.com) David, who lives in Pacific Palisades in California, is active in trying to educate both the public and auto-makers about the importance of better, safer and more fuel-efficient cars.
Not surprisingly, her two pre-teen daughters are very aware of who drives hybrid cars and who doesn�t.
�I think the only way to pass on morals to kids is through what they observe. They pick up everything by observation. They see everything and hopefully they absorb some of it. My kids�there�s not serious pressures on my kids�I just want them to care about their community and care about their environment and if they become adults that do that, then I will have had a huge success.�
A self-confessed party girl, David happily concedes that she likes to have fun and laugh and dress up and go out on the town.
�That�s a relief for me�I think other people would say I�m intense but I don�t think I�m intense. I can be intense but I can relax, totally relax, I can fall asleep at night, I get tired, I go to sleep, get up the next day. I enjoy life. I try to take some of the summer off and just play and I love to kayak and water ski.�
Her privilege, celebrity and glamorous connections�effortless targets for critics�aren�t always an asset.
�The bigger issue that I grapple with is the ridiculous standard that people who work on environmental issues are held to�I expect everybody to do something, not everything. We�re held to a standard that nobody can fulfill and all that does is continue to marginalize people and it�s completely wrong. For me, these issues aren�t just about the environment, these are public health issues�this is a national security issue we�re talking about. Look at these hurricanes and look at the evacuations and flooding�this is not just about the environment, it�s about public health and public safety. And I also think that it�s very easy for people to get overwhelmed��okay, if I can�t hit perfection then I�m not going to do anything.� Maybe I don� t wear hemp clothes�but I try to give 100 per cent more than I take.
�If we all did one thing we would be well on our way to a better world.�
An optimist by nature, David expresses hope and excitement for the future.
�I don�t know a single environmentalist who is isn�t an optimist. Al Gore had a great line when he said we don�t need people to go from denial to despair�for me the thing that�s so exciting about this issue is that all the solutions already exist. We don�t have to wait a decade for something to be invented. And all the things we need to be doing about global warming we should be doing anyway to ease our dependence on oil to make this country safer and more secure. This is about a new, clean, industrial revolution, and it's going to provide jobs and economic opportunity�this could be a great moment in history if we could just get the public will behind it.�
And then there�s the small matter of her marriage.
�The only thing I have to be careful of is completely destroying my marriage because I�m making my husband do so many things that he would never do except at my request. I gave his car away for an MTV contest without telling him. And there are various other things that are going on in our lives, so in that sense I�m probably on a little thin ice with him and he is a total reluctant environmentalist. He has to deal with me saying to take shorter showers... I started reading about paper and toilet paper and cutting trees down to make toilet tissue for the country and I was doing a contest with myself to see which member of my family would complain about the toilet paper first. I�m waiting� and then a day or two goes by and I�m in a theater with my husband and in the middle of the show he looks at me and says, �I can�t sit here anymore because of that toilet paper you have now� and I just started laughing hysterically.�
Ultimately, Laurie David is in an enviable position�unlike many people, she knows why she wakes up in the morning.
�I�m not searching anymore. I�m not in that stage of life where I�m searching about why I�m here and what I should be doing.�
Committed to growth and a true believer in the merit of change, David knows she�s still a work in progress and�in the words of another famously optimistic and charming powerhouse�tomorrow is another day.
�I need to become a more spiritual person�I would say that is one of my weaknesses. I�m too focused on moving forward to spend much time reflecting and that�s something I need to do�maybe that�s for when I get into my fifties, a couple of more years to go and then I�ll start on the spiritual side of it.�
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03/06/2010 | Filed under: CnP, Double standard, world and tagged with: Gaza, Israel, protest
why the fiery protests in KL against the israel attack that happened recently? why so fast… such an immeidate response to protest… without first wait first to find out further details? even the umno youth, khairy boy was leading a protest. woo! INIKAH BUDAYA MEREKA?
wah… how come the govt allow protests eh? hundreds of them and burning of flags too – and the police never stop them. say, our PAIN (penang anti isa network – or the gabungan mansuhkan ISA (GMI) group should hold our anti ISA protest soon, since the govt allows protest! BERSIH (the coalition for free and fair election), now’s your chance to start planning for a mammoth rally, since the rally against israel was permitted.
just wait for tomorrow – friday prayers time! also protest time! remember the after friday prayer protests? i bet penang also will see this after friday prayer protest against israel tomorrow and in KL… even more fiery than ever? that will be how they manage to get the crowd – after praying, come out to shout and curse. nice.
a commenter in malaysiakini said:
When tens of thousands in Darfur got killed, raped, displaced by the Sudanese army and the armed tribesmen, where were all the humanitarian activists in Malaysia? Did they go to the Sudan embassy to protest? Did they burn an effigy of President Omar Bashir? Did they step on and burn the Sudanese flag? Why? Are they not colour blind?
Are our so-called humanitarian activists practising selective discrimination? Now that it is not possible for the flotilla to reach Gaza, why not take the opportunity to divert the flotillas to Sudan?
yes indeed, i echo what he or she said above!
those of you who are on facebook, do go to my 2malaysia facebook group to discuss on this issue.
here is one facebook page worth reading… what the mainstream media won’t publish:
We Stand with Israel >>Top level Islamic extremists linked to Gaza flotilla:
dover.idf.il – The launching ceremony for the flotilla to the Gaza Strip was attended by several Islamist extremists in Istanbul.
While the flotilla organizers present themselves as human rights advocates whose sole goal is to assist the people of Gaza, a new report reveals the groups cooperation with radical human rights violators.
http://dover.idf.il/IDF/English/News/today/10/05/2701.htm
Haaretz.com – the organizers of the aid convoy were invited to unload their cargo at the Israeli port of Ashdod, where it would be transferred to Gaza following an inspection…. loaded with 10,000 tons of humanitarian aid and building materials… One of the commandos told reporters he descended by rope from a helicopter onto one of the six ships in the convoy and was immediately attacked by a group of people waiting for them. “They beat us with metal sticks and knives,” he said. “There was live fire at some point against us.”… “They jumped me, hit me with clubs and bottles and stole my rifle,” one of the commandos said. “I pulled out my pistol and had no choice but to shoot.”… The soldiers said they were forced to open fire after the activists struck one of their comrades in the head and trampled on him. A senior IDF field commander ordered the soldiers then to respond with fire, a decision which the commandos said received full backing the military echelon.
>>Freedom Flotilla’s Primary Aim is to Defame Israel: 1 ton of aid per Gaza resident in last 18 months
www.mfa.gov.il – Despite attacks by Hamas, Israel maintains an ongoing humanitarian corridor for the transfer of perishable and staple food items to Gaza. This conduit is used by internationally recognized organizations including the United Nations and the Red Cross… Well over a million tons of humanitarian supplies entered Gaza from Israel over the last 18 months equaling nearly a ton of aid for every man, woman and child in Gaza… The land crossings remain the most efficient system to transfer goods to Gaza, and the flotilla organizers are well aware of this fact… The organizers also know that since December 2008, their ships have been denied permission to land… Israel has invited the organizers of the flotilla to use the land crossings, in the same manner as all the reputable international organizations. … If the organizers were truly interesting in providing humanitarian aid – as opposed to engaging in publicity stunts – they would use the proper channels to ensure delivery of any supplies. .. Since January 2009, more than a million tons of humanitarian aid have been transferred into Gaza. In the first quarter of 2010 alone, almost 100,000 tons of supplies have been provided, including 48,000 tons of food products, approximately 550 tons of milk powder and baby food, 2700 tons of rice, 40,000 tons of wheat, 185 tons of aggregates, 2000 tons of clothing and footwear, 20 tons of iron, 25 tons of cement and more than 1000 tons of medicine and medical equipment. The fuel and electricity needs are similarly being met, and hundreds of Palestinians from Gaza come to Israel for medical treatment.
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA
>>Boarding of Flotilla Crucial to Israel National Security
The reason for the decision to deploy such a large force against the flotilla is that if the current sail were to succeed – even partially – in reaching the Gaza port or not far from the Strip’s coast, Hamas would be able to receive anything it desires, starting with Iranian money and ending with heavy rockets possesses by Hezbollah and antiaircraft missiles and weapons….
Should the Turks succeed in their efforts to open a sea line to Gaza as a result of the precedent which may be created by the current sail, the southern part of the State of Israel will be under clear and immediate danger, similar to the situation in the north…. Compared to this threat, the threat embodied in a possible clash between the sail’s passengers, some of whom belong to terror organizations and have been involved in acts of terror and in funding terroristic activities, is reduced.
Ynet.news.com
>>Days Before Flotilla Arrival Israel Aware of Possible “Hefty Price in PR Arena”
Israel Defense Forces spokespeople were also there (in Haifa harbour), to document and distribute images of the interception, since the PR battle against this particular “enemy” is as important as the actual struggle. … “The reason we are deploying such a large force and after much preparation, is to minimize the PR damage we may suffer while carrying out the main mission, which is to prevent the precedent of opening an unsupervised maritime route to Hamas in Gaza.” … we are aware that the other side will try to make us look bad. We will show restraint and not respond to provocations, we will do only what is necessary to carry out the mission, no more, but no less either.”
… The decision was made not to allow the ships to arrive in Gaza under any circumstances, even if Israel is forced to pay a hefty price in the PR arena and in the international community’s eyes.
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Evans v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction
Court of Appeals of Ohio, Tenth District
William H. Evans, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant,
Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction et al., Defendants-Appellees.
APPEAL from the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, No. 17CV-9206
On brief:
William H. Evans, Jr., pro se.
Dave Yost, Attorney General, and Andrea K. Boyd.
LUPER SCHUSTER, J.
{¶ 1} Plaintiff-appellant, William H. Evans, Jr., appeals pro se from a judgment of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas dismissing his complaint against defendants-appellees, Gary Mohr, director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction ("ODRC"), Karen Stanforth, ODRC assistant chief inspector, Mark Hooks, warden of the Ross Correctional Institution ("RCI"), and Lisa Bethel, RCI healthcare administrator (collectively "appellees"). For the following reasons, we affirm.
I. Facts and Procedural History
{¶ 2} In October 2017, Evans, an inmate at RCI, filed a pro se complaint against appellees seeking declaratory and injunctive relief. He generally alleges his constitutional rights have been violated because he has not received a colonoscopy as recommended by an RCI healthcare professional.
{¶ 3} In his complaint, Evans alleges the following facts. He is currently serving a prison sentence of 15 years to life. While incarcerated at RCI, a nurse practitioner advised Evans that he should undergo a colonoscopy due to suspected colon cancer. Evans was instructed that to undergo the procedure he would need to go to RCI's infirmary overnight. He requested that he be permitted to ingest the colon cleansing solution in his prison cell and then be taken to the infirmary for the procedure without having to stay overnight. His request was denied, and he then refused to transfer overnight to the infirmary in order to have the procedure. Evans contends that requiring him to stay overnight in the infirmary in order to have the colonoscopy violates his rights. He asserts that leaving his established prison cell for one night may result in him losing that cell and being placed with a new cellmate in a different housing unit. He further asserts that uprooting him from his established prison cell also may result in the loss or destruction of his personal property. Based on these circumstances, Evans has not undergone the colonoscopy procedure.
{¶ 4} Pursuant to Civ.R. 12(B)(6), appellees moved to dismiss Evans' complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. In December 2018, the trial court granted appellees' motion to dismiss Evans' complaint.
{¶ 5} Evans timely appeals.
II. Assignment of Error
{¶ 6} Evans assigns the following ...
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St Helens medals and awards
BRAVERY AWARDS
Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser 31 May 1906
At the St Helens Police Court yesterday Mr Edward FAIRCLOUGH, New Cross St, Mr Peter KAY, Harris St and Mr MAYLO, Hard Lane were presented with handsome silver mounted walking sticks in recognition of assistance they rendered to Police Constable JONES on the 11th, April.
Liverpool Echo, 18 August 1906
The medal of the Royal Humane Society is to be presented to a St. Helens girl, Frances Polding, aged fifteen, who went to the assistance of the police during attack on them some Militiamen
Manchester Guardian, Sept 29th 1906
Bravery awards at St Helens
Policeman saved by girl
The exceptional pluck of a 15 year old girl named Frances POLDING in helping the police has been publicly recognised at the St Helens Police Court. On August 11th, the girl saw a constable being brutally kicked by several men in Liverpool Rd. He was unconscious on the ground, and she rushed in and shielded him with her own body, and blew his whistle for assistance. But for her intervention, the Chief Constable told the magistrates, the constable would probably have been killed. Hearing ofd the case the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society awarded her a framed certificate and a silver medal, and the members of the St Helens police force subscribed for a silver watch and chain, which were given to her by the Mayor with many compliments. For assistance rendered on the same occasion the police presented silver mounted walking sticks to George HARRISON, butcher, and J. C. HODGSON, a furniture dealer, and there were other gifts for two women, Mrs GETHINS and Mrs TATLOCK.
The certificate of the Royal Humane Society signed by the Prince of Wales was granted to Constable FORSTER of the borough force, for a plucky attempt to save a boy named CONNOLLY from drowning in the canal. He was unsuccessful but for 20 minutes swam about searching in the mud at the bottom. FORSTER has been awarded three pounds by the Watch Committee.
Constable SMIRTHWAITE, who has been given the badge of merit by the Watch Committee, was presented with a gold albert subscribed for by the members of St Anns Bowling Club, for gallant conduct in tackling and arresting armed burglars on the club premises on August 29th. He was twice fired at with a revolver.
Liverpool Echo, 11th September 1915
St Helens hero jumped into foul pool after boy.
A brave man named Peter Littler, 80, Parr Stock-road, was honoured at St. Helens Police Court to-day by the presentation of the Royal Humane Society's medal and certificate for attempting to save the life of a boy. The Chief Constable said that LITTLER had already received a silver medal and certificate from the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society for having in September, 1908, descended into a well at Baxter's chemical works and rescued two men who had been overcome by poisonous fumes. In July last a boy aged nine, named Thomas SPENCER of 121 Chancery Lane fell into the reservoir at Baxter's works. The pool was very deep and the water impregnated with chemical waste, but LITTLER endeavoured until he became exhausted to find the boy, he was, however compelled to give up. The Chairman Mr B. B. GLOVER in presenting the medal, said it was pleasure to meet so brave a man, and they thanked him for his heroic conduct.
Liverpool Echo 20 September 1915
Plucky St Helens boy
A boy named Charles JERVIS of Derbyshire Hill Rd, was at St Helens Police Court today presented with the certificate of the Humane Society and 15s for rescuing a lad from drowning.
Superintendent DUNN said that on July 4th, James BRADSHAW, aged 8, fell into the canal and was in danger of drowning, when JERVIS plunged into the water and rescued him.
Liverpool Echo 05 November 1915
Reward for bravery
A monetary reward and the certificate of the Liverpool Humane Society were presented at the St Helens Police Court today to Mr Ralph W. WATKINS, Redgate, for rescuing a child from drowning in the canal, Superintendent DUNN said WATKINS acted with promptitude and courage notwithstanding that for some time he had been in poor health. On September 12th, he was asleep in his house, when his wife roused him with the news that a child had fallen into the water and was drowning. He immediately rushed out of the house and dived into the water saving the child. The Chairman Alderman FOOTE in handing over the rewards complimented WATKINS on his plucky action.
Liverpool Echo 13 July 1916
A gallant sergeant
St Helens man killed while helping comrade
Sergeant John SMALL, aged 25, of the Pals, who was reported wounded a few days ago, is now reported killed by a shell.
Sergeant SMALL whose father has had a long career in the St Helens Police force, was writing a field postcard for a man who was suffering from shell shock, when another shell killed both of them.
Sergeant SMALL was well known as an amateur entertainer.
24th July 1916,
A brave girl, child rescued from fire at St Helens
A certificate of the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society and postal order for 15s, was presented at St Helen's Police Court today to Edith PARR, aged 14, of 38 Higher Parr St for saving the life of her sister's child.
The Chief Constable said a fire occurred at the house of her sister, Mrs CRITCHLEY 11, Corporation St. The child had been put to sleep in bed upstairs, and while the fire was being put out the girl went upstairs through the dense smoke and brought the child down, undoubtedly saving its life. The girl's father T. PARR acknowledged the gift and complimented the brigade on their promptitude in dealing with the fire.
Liverpool Echo 24 August 1917
Bravery at St Helens rewarded
At St Helens Police Court today, the chairman Mr H. S. OPPENHEIM, distributed framed certificates and rewards of 15s each to Constable A. TRAIL, William HUNTER of 191 Park Rd, and Joseph JUMP OF 3 Rolling Mill Lane, for their efforts to rescue a boy from drowning, Frank FAIRCLOGH, aged 12.
The Chief Constable said although the constable had been seriously ill for some time, he ran half a mile to the place and dived into the reservoir at the Sutton Rolling Mill, and kept up his efforts until he was quite exhausted.
28th June 1918,
The bronze medal and certificate of the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society was presented at St Helen's Police Court today to Edward CHISNALL, aged 12, of 8 Hargreaves St, for rescuing from drowning Henry TRAVERS aged 12, who on May 20th, got into difficulties whilst bathing in a pool of water 9ft deep.
William BURROWS, aged 25, 50 Edge St was presented with an awards of 10s for saving the life of a boy named John TRACY, aged 6, of 65 Union St, who fell into a culvert on June 22nd.
Liverpool Echo, 7th March 1918
St Helens hero honoured
The Mayor of St Helens, Alderman BATES, yesterday at the meeting of the Town Council presented Sergeant WARING of the Cheshires [Bantams] with the Military Medal, Sergeant WARING is one of two soldier sons of Councillor R. WARING of Parr and was the first man from St Helens to enlist when the Bantams were formed. He was badly wounded twice, and from the courageous way he led his men in August last has been awarded the medal. Before joining the army Sergeant WARING had been awarded the Royal Humane Society medal and the Baden Powell medal for saving life.
Sergeant R. BRIDGE of the 15th Cheshires of 9 Francis St, Sutton, who accompanied Sergeant WARING has been awarded the Italian medal and was warmly complimented by the Mayor on his heroic conduct.
Liverpool Echo, 25th October 1918
Royal Humane Society awards.
Awards granted by the Royal Humane Society were distributed at St. Helens Police Court, to-day, to six men employed at the Sutton Heath and Lea Green Collieries. The Chief Constable said that silver medal and certificate had, been granted to Isaac KAY and bronze medals and certificates to Ellis Jones, James Ford, Richard Davies, Joseph Scragg, and William Davies for their efforts on May 23 last to rescue a fireman named Griffiths, who had been overcome by gas. Griffiths, after visiting some of the workmen entered a part, of the workings marked dangerous and was overcome. KAY went into the place and after endeavouring to bring out the man, collapsed and was over an hour in the gas but was rescued and recovered. GRIFFITHS was in the gas for some hours and was dead when brought out. All the men showed great pluck and perseverance in their rescue efforts and their conduct had been commended by the coroner, who had forwarded the circumstances to the Humane Society, with the result that they had granted the medals and certificates.
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A bronze, medal and framed certificate and 10s was awarded by Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society at St Helen's Police Court today to Frank G. BRIGGS, 92 Harrison St aged 14 in recognition of his bravery in rescuing Alfred THOMPSON, aged 5, from a brook in September last. The child fell into the brook when flooded by heavy rain and was carried through a culvert under Gilloway St, and into sluices in the Queen's recreation ground, where BRIGGS dived in and rescued him.
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OnePartner ATAC certified as the nation's first and only commercial Tier III facility
Duffield, VA - OnePartner, LLC, is pleased to announce its Advanced Technology & Application Center (ATAC), Duffield, Va., has achieved Certification as the nation's first and only commercial Tier III facility. As such, the ATAC promises to be region's premier commercial data center for colocation, hosting and disaster recovery services.
"This is a tremendous feat," says Tom Deaderick, director of OnePartner. "There is an enormous amount of work and planning that goes into designing a building system in which any one component can be removed for replacement or repair without interrupting service. From the beginning, Concurrent Maintainability with a Tier III Certification was our goal."
Julian Kudritzki, Certification manager of the Uptime Institute and ComputerSite Engineering, affirms the accomplishment.
"The OnePartner Advanced Technology & Application Center (ATAC) in Duffield, Virginia, is currently the sole US company providing outsourced commercial data center services (including colocation and disaster recovery) that has been awarded a Tier III Design Certification by the Uptime Institute," says Kudritzki.
The Uptime Institute (uptimeinstitute.com) created the Tier classification system as a benchmark for reliable data center infrastructure design.
The Uptime Institute exclusively licenses ComputerSite Engineering to perform the reviews of data center capabilities and recommend Tier levels. Upon review of the detailed building and electrical plans for the OnePartner ATAC, ComputerSite Engineering awarded the facility a Tier III Design Certification. Implementation as designed assures the achievement of Certification in the post-construction phase.
A Tier III data center, like ATAC, has multiple redundant systems, so a critical primary system fails over to secondary systems without impact on services. For instance, if the power utility fails, redundant Uninterruptible Power Systems (UPS), which are essentially gigantic batteries, would power the ATAC until redundant diesel generators start. Each of these generators are capable of supporting ATAC's electrical needs as long as necessary until the utility power is restored. Thus for a Tier III facility, like the ATAC, to experience a power, or cooling outage, multiple independent systems must fail.
Tier levels define the availability (also called "uptime") a facility's design and operation can achieve. A high availability is the primary metric in consideration of a data center for hosting, colocation or disaster recovery.
"Certification levels are important to those looking for the best possible infrastructure for a distributed environment (e.g. offices in multiple locations)," begins Deaderick
Deaderick credits the OnePartner ATAC "design team" for their foresight and diligence.
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"Our own Chip Childress, Todd Miller and Mac Scofield provided leadership that didn't falter when faced with unparalleled challenges," adds Deaderick. "This achievement would have been impossible without each of our partners.
Bank of Tennessee's Phillip B. Haumiller, senior operating office & executive vice president, says the OnePartner ATAC's impressive site design and commitment to achieving Tier III were vital in his firm's decision to establish the ATAC as its primary data center for business continuance/disaster recovery.
"After researching the possibility of building our own disaster recovery site we found it much more cost effective to utilize OnePartner ATAC as our Disaster Recovery Center," explains Haumiller.
According to Deaderick, organizations like the Bank of Tennessee, understand the value of preparedness, whether forecasting the possibility of disaster or the more probable instance of system outages.
"The Bank of Tennessee's primary concern was that of verifying that we were committed to a design that would be the best possible solution for their customers," says Deaderick.
According to Deaderick, after 9/11, companies within the World Trade Center towers that had an appropriate disaster recovery system were able to "do business almost immediately."
"We were all proud of those companies and their ingenuity. I'm sure when they were planning the infrastructure they never imagined the complete destruction we saw," says Deaderick. "There were probably people within those organizations who questioned the expense of their business continuance investment. Yet, on September 12th, only the organizations that had made the investment had a future."
Deaderick says that in much the same way that no one could predict the extent of the 9/11 catastrophe, many underestimate the more common, smaller disruptions of service (power outages, telecommunications failures, etc.) that happen much more frequently.
"At some point as your organization continues to automate, you will reach a point where you cannot risk going any further without a failsafe. When you reach that point, a disaster recovery plan is essential," says Deaderick.
For more information concerning the limited space availability within the OnePartner ATAC, please call Tom Deaderick at (888) SOS-1PARTNER (767-1727).
The 9,200 sq. ft. OnePartner ATAC will provide the high availability and security necessary to become the region's vital central information resource. The Bank of Tennessee, CareSpark (the Southwest Virginia/Northeast Tennessee Regional Health Information Organization), and Holston Medical Group (the Kingsport-based, multi-specialty practice of more than 140 providers) have chosen the OnePartner ATAC for their data hosting and disaster recovery needs.
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Home Chairperson State Counsellor holds talks with ROK President
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi held a separate talk with Mr Moon Jae-in, the visiting President of Republic of Korea, at the Envoys Hall of the Presidential Palace in Nay Pyi Taw at 4 pm yesterday.
They then attended a bilateral meeting of the two countries, which was held at the Meeting Hall at the same venue.
The meeting focused on promotion of friendly relations between the two countries, cooperation in the sectors of culture, education, trade, investment, infrastructure, energy, currency and finance, further assistance of experience and technologies in Myanmar agricultural sector, establishment of an information center to facilitate ROK’s investments in Myanmar, cooperation in conservation of environment and biodiversity, promotion of tourism, one year extension of visa exemption for the visitors from ROK, Myanmar’s active support in ASEAN-ROK and ASEAN-Mekong cooperation, state-level participation of Myanmar in the 30th anniversary of the ASEAN-ROK Dialogue Relations and the first Mekong-Korea Summit which will be held in Busan in November this year, digital display of cultural and scenic views of Bagan, which has recently been awarded UNESCO World Heritage status, at the ASEAN Culture House in Busan to create awareness about Myanmar among the Korean people, possible assistance of ROK in celebrating the 100 years anniversary of Yangon University, ROK support to the efforts of Myanmar government in Rakhine issue, ceremony to establish Korea-Myanmar Industrial Complex in Yangon, and recruitment of more Myanmar migrant workers to work in ROK.
Together with the State Counsellor, the meeting was also attended by Union Ministers U Kyaw Tint Swe, Dr Pe Myint, U Min Thu, U Thant Sin Maung, Dr Than Myint, Dr Myo Thein Gyi, U Soe Win, U Thaung Tun and U Kyaw Tin, Myanmar Ambassador to ROK U Thant Sin and ROK’s Ambassador to Myanmar Mr Lee Sang-hwa.
After the discussion, the State Counsellor and the President of ROK witnessed the signing ceremony of MoU between the two countries.
Union Minister for Investment and Foreign Economic Relations U Thaung Tun and ROK’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Ms Kang Kyung-wha signed an agreement on loan framework for cooperation in economic development from 2018 to 2022. Union Minister for Commerce Dr Than Myint and ROK’s Trade Minister Ms Yoo Myung-hee signed an MoU for the establishment of information center in Yangon to facilitate ROK’s investment in Myanmar.
Union Minister for Transport and Communications U Thant Sin Maung and ROK’s Ambassador to Myanmar Mr Lee Sang-hwa signed an MoU for cooperation in shipping line, upgrading shipyards, transport and construction and management in the docks.
Union Minister for Education Dr Myo Thein Gyi and the ROK’s Ambassador also signed an MoU for cooperation in science and technology. Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Industry U Ko Ko Lwin and the ROK Ambassador signed an MoU for cooperation in emerging businesses and innovation sector.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs of ROK handed over 60 school buses to the Union Minister for Education.
Later, the State Counsellor and the ROK President attended the press conference at the Presidential Palace.
At the Press Conference, the State Counsellor briefed on signing MoUs, visa exemption for the visitors from ROK, support of Myanmar in peacemaking efforts in the Korean peninsula and the donation of 60 school buses to Myanmar.
President Mr Moon Jae-in also said the same history of ROK and Myanmar in democracy movement, donation of rice from Myanmar to ROK after the Korean war, future support for infrastructural development of Myanmar, trade promotion between the two countries and encouragements to Korean business firms to do investment in the Korea-Myanmar Industrial Complex.
After the press conference, the State Counsellor and the ROK President observed the school buses donated to the Ministry of Education.
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Shortened ‘Arb Award’ Rejection Deadline Upheld Against Constitutional Attack – IL Appeals Court
The First District appeals court recently nixed a plaintiff’s constitutional challenge to a local rule’s arbitration rejection deadline. The opinion’s upshot is clear: when a supreme court rule conflicts with a statute, the rule wins.
The plaintiff in McBreen v. Mercedes-Benz, USA, LLC argued her equal protection and due process rights were violated when a trial court denied her attempt to tardily reject an arbitration award. The case was decided by a single arbitrator under the auspices of the Cook County Law Division Mandatory Arbitration Program (MAP), a two-year pilot program that sends commercial cases with damage claims between $50,000 and $75,00 to mandatory arbitration.
Among other things, the Law Division MAP provides for hearings before a single arbitrator and requires a losing party to reject the award within seven business days. Cook County Cir. Ct. R. 25.1, 25.5, 25.11.
After an arbitrator found for defendants, the plaintiff didn’t reject the award until 30 days later – 23 days too late. The trial court then granted defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s case and denied plaintiff’s motion to void the arbitration award or extend the rejection deadline. The trial court entered judgment on the arbitration award for defendant.
Plaintiff argued on appeal that Rule 25’s compressed rejection period violated her constitutional rights since it conflicted with the 30-day rejection deadline for Municipal Department arbitrations. (The Cook County Municipal Department hears personal injury cases and breach of contract suits where the damage claim is $30,000 or less.) The plaintiff also claimed the Law Division MAP was unconstitutional since it clashed with the “panel of three” arbitrators rule prevailing in Municipal Department arbitrations.
Affirming the trial court, the Court first considered whether the Illinois Supreme Court had power to establish the Law Division MAP program with its seven-day rejection rule.
The Law Division MAP rejection period conflicts with Cook County’s Municipal Department arbitration scheme – which has a 30-day rejection rule. (The Municipal arbitration rules, codified in Supreme Court Rules 86-95, were legislatively implemented via Code Sections 2-1001A and 1003A which, respectively, authorize the establishment of an arbitration program where a panel of three arbitrators hears cases involving less than $50,000 in damages. Rule 93(a) contains the 30-day rejection cut-off.)
The First District noted that while the Law Division MAP’s seven-day rejection period clashes with the Municipal Department’s 30-day period, Illinois courts through the decades consistently recognize the Illinois Supreme Court’s constitutional authority to make rules governing practice and procedure in the lower courts and that where a supreme court rule conflicts with a statute on a judicial procedure matter, the rule wins.
The court also notes the Illinois legislature echoed this inherent power for the Supreme Court to establish court rules in Code Section 1-104(a). In the end, the Court found that In view of the Illinois Supreme Court’s expansive power in the area of pleadings, practice and procedure, the Law Division MAP’s abbreviated rejection period trumped any conflicting, longer rejection period found in other statutes or rules. (¶¶ 17-18, 22-23).
The Court also rejected plaintiff’s equal protection argument – that the Law Division MAP program infringed the rights of Municipal court participants by shortening the rejection time span from 30 to seven days. While allowing that Law Division and Municipal litigants in the arbitration setting share the same objective of taking part in a less-costly alternative to litigation, the Court found the two Programs “qualitatively different:” the Law Division MAP is geared to those seeking damages of between $50,000 and $75,000 while the Municipal plaintiff’s damages are capped at $30,000.
According to the Court, the different damage ceilings involved in Law Division and Municipal cases meant that plaintiffs in the two court systems aren’t similarly situated under the Equal Protection clause. (¶¶ 34-35).
Plaintiff’s final argument, that the Law Division MAP’s seven-day rejection period violated her due process rights also failed. Due process requires an opportunity to be heard at a meaningful time and in a meaningful matter.
The plaintiff argued that the Law Division MAP’s seven-day rejection cut-off failed to give her a meaningful opportunity to challenge the award. The Court thought otherwise. It noted that statutes are presumed constitutional and someone challenging a statute’s constitutionality bears a heavy burden. It then cited to multiple cases across a wide strata of facts which have upheld time limits of less than 30 days.
McBreen offers a thorough, triangulated analysis of what happens when a Supreme Court Rule, a county’s local court rule and legislative enactments all speak to the same issue and appear to contradict each other. The case solidifies the proposition that the Supreme Court’s primacy in the realm of lower court procedure and pleading extends to mandatory arbitration regimes, too. While the case is silent on what constitutes a sufficient basis to extend the Law Division MAP’s seven-day rejection deadline, McBreen makes clear that a constitutional challenge will likely ring hollow.
Posted on March 15, 2018 March 15, 2018 Author PaulPCategories Civil ProcedureTags arbitration, commercial litigation, cook county, fisher kanaris, Illinois, judgment on award, Law Division, local rule 25.11, Municipal Department, P.C., rejection deadline, rejection of award
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Minimalist, but to the extreme. The Orange Crystal Hotel regards every hotel as a work of art. Named "Crystal", from the intuitive sense in line with the hotel's strong sense of design. Crystal has transparent texture and geometric prism, which is in line with the design style of Orange Crystal Hotel, which is extremely simple, modern and space-sensitive. The more pure the crystal is, the more brilliant it reflects, which in turn reflects the spirit of craftsmen that the founder concentrates on creating. Open the room, at a glance, very simple and comfortable, all items are perfectly accepted. Expanding these receipts, the room's powerful functionality is at a glance. The space volume of each room maximizes the minimalist sense of art, while its function is purified, simple, but not reduced, let alone fold the needs of residents. Every inch of design space is also the use of unimpeded living space, creating an elegant and clear modern life facade.
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Bts Reaction He Calls You Fat
The first part of the Maknae Line angst reaction. The writer and café manager went on an unremarkable date with a guy she met on Tinder. Don't call me later, call me Dad. Therefore the catalyst, at the end of the reaction, is free to act again to assist another reactant through the reaction. Our representatives work solely for AAC and will discuss whether an AAC facility may be an option for you. Despite the workload, the stress and everything else, Yoongi was very attentive towards you. He would start giggling all happily after you told him. He can tell I ain't missing no meals Come through and fuck him in my automobile Let him eat it with his grills, He keep telling me to chill He keep telling me it's real, that he love my sex appeal Because he don't like 'em boney, he want something he can grab So I pulled up in the Jag, Mayweather with the jab like Dun-d-d-dun-dun-d-d-dun-dun. Up to the minute, sport headlines, news, results, sport standings, forums and blogs. If you overfill a car's gas tank, it spills over onto the pavement. Here you'll see pictures of how a fetus develops each week, and each trimester. And this is Jimin, member of BTS's dance and vocal units, and also CRUSHER OF HEARTS AND RUINER OF LIVES. Find patient medical information for Cialis Oral on WebMD including its uses, side effects and safety, interactions, pictures, warnings and user ratings. BTS Reaction when you ignore them because you need to study. This prompts a few thoughts. Dec 01, 2019 · Hillary the Punisher: Ronan Farrow says he was cut dead from Clinton circles after he exposed Weinstein - 11/30/19 November 30, 2019 So much for #MeToo and standing up for women and all that when. He had worked on Bill's feelings so successfully as to elicit a loan of a million dollars, and was just proceeding to marry him to Elizabeth, when the cab stopped with the sudden sharpness peculiar to New York cabs, and he woke up, to find himself at his destination. Eventually, he spotted your hunched figure sitting on a park bench, face buried in your palms, and quickly made his way back to you. Then the missing person phoned them CNN 'He is one of the loves. Summer vacation is over, and that’s no laughing matter. So he decided that, as an experiment, he would invite proposals on his blog, e-PatientDave. He can tell I ain't missing no meals Come through and fuck him in my automobile Let him eat it with his grills, He keep telling me to chill He keep telling me it's real, that he love my sex appeal Because he don't like 'em boney, he want something he can grab So I pulled up in the Jag, Mayweather with the jab like Dun-d-d-dun-dun-d-d-dun-dun. EXO Reaction to Preparing to Go to the Military so You Give Them Advice From When You Were in the ROTC Wolf Pack BTS Reaction to You (S/O) Being Disappointed Because You Were Supposed to get Straight A's But You Got One B. yoongi accidentally makes you feel insecure posted 2 years ago on 27th April with 2,191 notes tags: bts texts bts fake texts bts imagines yoongi imagines bts reactions suga imagines bts scenarios yoongi i'm not good at angst i hope this was okay ???!!? i'm trying to get better dfhnhgg. Watch premium and official videos free online. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant. He would probably want to take a picture but he remembers that you woul kill him if you found out he took a picture of you while sleeping but then again, he wants a little memory and does it anyway. If you're seeing this message, it means we're. He'd pull you into a hug anyway and wrap his arms around you. Community moderated site where you can make quizzes and personality tests, ask and answer questions, create profiles, journals, forums and more. For example, some herbicides are used to block plant enzyme activity. Here are 3 potential downsides of bulletproof coffee. 16 It's a standard part of care, approved in 1985 by the FDA as an antidote for acetaminophen toxicity. Specifically, you can calculate your reaction time using our handy chart, which is based on how. Anonymous said: BTS regrets rejecting you Answer: no a/n this time. ' Growing tired of doing nothing, you decided to call Seokjin to see if there was something urgent going on and that was the reason for the lack of response from Jimin. Such assumptions do little to minimize the stakes for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Watch premium and official videos free online. "You can't do that to me, just disappear like that! I thought I lost you or you were kidnapped or something. In the past, he went by the name Rei Suzuya (鈴屋 玲, Suzuya Rei). Suga - said he likes white Australian women but due to suga being korean It would be only a sexual relationship. He has composed over 100 songs. There are few things in the world that hurt a parent more than hearing their child say “I hate you. revealed on the "Ladies Like Us" podcast that he takes his daughter, Deyjah, to the gynecologist each year to "check her hymen. Jun 13, 2017 · Bts hurting you in anger anon said: Bts/Exo reacto to them slapping you or punching you during an argument because of the anger, and then his s/o still afraid of them, I love ur blog 💖💖 and ur. You shrugged maybe they had a bad day. Mercola encourages you to make your own health care decisions based upon your research and in partnership with a qualified health care professional. but to answer your ignorant question im her boyfriend. memeorandum is an auto-generated summary of the stories that US political commentators are discussing online right now. × you overhear he calls you clingy × Angst, fluff?? Hi! Thank you for your request! So I don't do scenarios (fake texts only) but when I got your request I decided to take it as a challange. BTS reaction to another guy calling you noona This wasn't a request sent by anyone, but just an idea that popped up in my head, so I made a reaction out of it. Free science and math simulations for teaching STEM topics, including physics, chemistry, biology, and math, from University of Colorado Boulder. In depth analysis, entertaining facts & the most trending topics in the world of sports: Football, basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer, mma and much more covered on TheSportster. Then he'd hug you from behind, still wearing his cute big smile saying, "No amount of kisses or hugs in this world could add up to how much I love you baby. No phone call, and it’s already ten minutes past the time he said he would pick you up. Explore search interest by time, location and popularity on Google Trends. The child you love so much and have sacrificed for in so many ways now hates you. All 30,000+ of Trump's tweets, instantly searchable. As the elevator took forever to come to your floor, he caught up with you, his face all painted with her lipstick as he kept on apologising and saying that she started kissing him and that he was innocent. BBC Tees, the home of Neil and Amy, Mike Parr, and commentary of Middlesbrough and Hartlepool United. Global News - breaking news & current latest Canadian news headlines; national weather forecasts & predictions, local news videos, money and financial news; sports stats and scores. You can only upload videos smaller than 600 MB. Posted 3 years ago with 2765 notes Saturday, November 5th, 2016 — 12:57AM. Optimism is a strategy for making a better future--unless you believe that the future can be. By Brooke Borel. The latest entertainment news across all your favorite TV, movie, and book fandoms. ; A 4-ounce ham steak with 22 grams of protein has only 1. Calls to any general helpline (non-facility specific 1-8XX numbers) for your visit will be answered by American Addiction Centers (AAC). 'He is one of the loves of my life': Wisconsin woman offers $5K reward to bring her beloved cat home Police: Man shot dead by a booby trap he set up in his home to thwart intruders. Here are five ways to melt your face, and your body fat, at the end of any workout. They Call You Clingy (Maknae Line)(Pt. Global News - breaking news & current latest Canadian news headlines; national weather forecasts & predictions, local news videos, money and financial news; sports stats and scores. The Top Chef Who Prefers to Stay in the Kitchen. Contempt definition is - the act of despising : the state of mind of one who despises : disdain. He assumed it was a scam, however. So you waited. TRIGGER WARNINGS. You sigh, "because it's a big event for idols BTS is very popular and you know I hate being in the spotlight. I write scenarios, and reactions for GOT7, BTS, Day6, EXO and Seventeen but feel free to request other groups and I'll try my best! ~Requests ~CLOSED~. If you're interested in supporting artists, please check it out, and sign up here for occasional updates from our team. You grabbed your phone to attempt and call Jimin but none of his calls were getting through, so you decided to call the other members who were also not answering. N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) is a supplement used in cases of acetaminophen overdose. It’s the best way to get him out of your head. Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world national news, entertainment more. 'One day you're the cock of the walk, the next a feather duster’ - Margot Barber. [TWITTER] BTS Jimin direct tweeted to you. Find GIFs with the latest and newest hashtags! Search, discover and share your favorite I Love You GIFs. "Do you need some help?" He ignored you. People were starting to crowd up to see what was happening. abc or musicXML format to sheet music and tablature, to manipulate tune settings such as Key or Transpose and lets you save the tunes as PDF, Image File (PNG,SVG) and even listen to them as MIDI. The Water Cure (TWC) does not sell water or purification systems or any related products. BTS Reaction to You Insecure About Your Body. You shrugged maybe they had a bad day. Sign up here for our daily Thrillist email, and get your fix of the best in food/drink/fun. BTS reaction to their S/O (the reader) being pregnant. The World According to Hip-Pop. This particular page lists various figures of speech known as tropes, which deal with the meaning of words in contrast to those figures of speech known as schemes. In a recent video, he said, "I have a motto of my life, 'If you behave. BTS Your Ex Wants You Back When you’re on a date with them and your ex approaches you stating he wants you back. Learn more about the safety and side. A free bird leaps on the backOf the wind and floats downstream Till the current ends and dips his wing. And it’s not just with close friends, it’s also with strangers. Catch the Ghost: Episode 12 by ThoughtfulChocolate. You have a certain charm that seems unnatural and mischievous. But you couldn't help it that Taehyung was one of the most handsome men of South Korea, surrounded by pretty girls in the same industry as him who would die for a chance to be with him. Morgan Freeman Recall His Crash Landing, Gerard Butler Proclaims 50 Cent Dropped The Ball – Extra Butter – Angel Has Fallen. And you guys break up in everyones even though I might not say it. Shop our sporting goods online today!. Opensecrets. So let's get started! 1. All 30,000+ of Trump's tweets, instantly searchable. Read all the movies movie news. Can you do an exo reaction to their girlfriends having a big allergy attack or broken bone in front of them, like something dramatic or fatal. He was very pleased to help and said he’d let me know. BTS Reaction to You Roasting Them in Korean A/N: I'm sorry, I couldn't help but make this a slight!crack post, I hope you can forgive me for this. Elway - “High Drama, Low Comedy”. According to the law of conservation of mass, matter is neither created nor destroyed, but it may alter its form through chemical reaction. He came down from upstairs. By contrast, if you just cannonball in instead, you run the risk of experiencing anaphylaxis in. " - because that was basically the shade she was trying to throw. TRIGGER WARNINGS. BTS Reaction | You being scared. If you have a milk allergy, keep an epinephrine auto-injector (such as an EpiPen®, Auvi-Q™ or Adrenaclick®) with you at all times. Bambam: *He'd go mental with himself as he was so reckless and didn't think of the outcomes, also he would tell you the whole truth while having trouble to even look at you because he knows he's a disgrace. Anonymous said: Hello, how would bts react to girlfriend being scared of them when they are mad/jealous Anonymous said; BTS reaction to you flinching during an. BTS Reaction to you calling them daddy infront of the other members Rapmonster: he would be all for it…until he realizes the other members are there rapmonster: "haha thats right i'm BTS Reaction to you calling them daddy infront of. Elizabeth Warren over Twitter in response to claims he retired from Congress to collect a “fat lobbyist paycheck. you've never written one completely praising bts before. Jul 24, 2011 · He's made such a joke of himself in the process that it's easy to miss the immense balls required to do what he does in public, and get away with it. “What?” he asked when he saw your big eyes. BTS Reaction to You Roasting Them in Korean A/N: I'm sorry, I couldn't help but make this a slight!crack post, I hope you can forgive me for this. * “So, are you going to twirl for me? Please?? I have a great dinner, a great girlfriend, now I need a great show. " I don't mind being called fat or chubby. The first is the. On my penultimate night, I did, and I ended up at a birthday party he was throwing for a group of. So he needs to call first. EXO Reaction to Preparing to Go to the Military so You Give Them Advice From When You Were in the ROTC Wolf Pack BTS Reaction to You (S/O) Being Disappointed Because You Were Supposed to get Straight A's But You Got One B. BTS You're Insecure When you generally feel insecure about yourself. To whistle or yell something sexually suggestive to a stranger, usually in passing. This is way too slick for my tastes. " You are seriously missing the point. And he doesn't want you to forget to eat, either. If someone created posts/comments/accounts pretending to be you, you can tap continue and fill out the form. You gave up as it was obvious he was ignoring. Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Riverdale, The 100, and more. In the Lord of the Flies, Piggy starts off as the group's outcast and ends up smashed to an untimely death by a large rock. Video footage shows a man dressed in black opening the back door of the El Hefe bar and restaurant, in Chicago, followed by another man who appears to be holding the woman by the neck as he leads her out into the alleyway. Before Fame. He would go to the hospital where you were at, just to see if a miracle were to happen and you'd wake up. Emblazoned on the issue's cover: "LAZY BOY: Donald Trump is bored and tired. Essentially, that tells us that while we lose mass in our bodies by burning up fat, it does not just disappear. You were worried, of course, but you had heard from Namjoon that he had decided to come sleep at the dorms for once. BTS reaction - to you sitting on their lap in front of the members He would probably say something like “ owowow you’re hurting me! Don’t you have ANY fat. Tap to play or pause GIF Tap to. He, of course, needed multiple surgeries and had a very long hospital stay. Only some bickering here and there, but serious arguments are rather rare. president and Supreme Court chief. Dec 26, 2016 · Sam Champion calls it quits at The Weather Channel after joining the network from 'Good Morning America' in 2014 he returned to the show to cover his successor Ginger Zee's maternity leave. The ibiblio website is getting some updates! Over the next few months, you may notice a few changes to the site that will increase usability and reliability of the homepage. You saw Yoongi and you didn't hide your suprise. Whether you're looking for memorable gifts or everyday essentials, you can buy them here for less. Sep 16, 2019- Jin: He was complete worry, he was about to go out and look for you by himself without any of his men to help him, he didn't care anymore, but then you opened the door, shaking, crying and with. Sep 03, 2018 · Topping the scales at over 350 pounds, William Howard Taft was a true political heavyweight. He's so fat, he has the only car in town with stretch marks. Internet Resources Carefully selected links for your convenience. " "Deyjah's 18, just graduated high school now and she's attending her first year of college, figuring it out for herself," T. The World According to Hip-Pop. † Boosters not suitable for children under 15 years or pregnant women, except for chia and lucuma powder. I'll go 1D, JB, AM, then BTR. just remember that" Originally posted by hoseokwhy. The principal story takes place over a 24-hour period at a large Wall Street investment bank during the initial stages of the financial crisis of 2007–08. yoongi accidentally makes you feel insecure posted 2 years ago on 27th April with 2,191 notes tags: bts texts bts fake texts bts imagines yoongi imagines bts reactions suga imagines bts scenarios yoongi i'm not good at angst i hope this was okay ???!!? i'm trying to get better dfhnhgg. You tried to call him, but he didn’t answer your calls so you got the message that he was busy. By contrast, if you just cannonball in instead, you run the risk of experiencing anaphylaxis in. BTS Reaction | You being scared. "Y/n!", he'd call out as soon as he'd get into earshot. You are not just what you eat; you are what you drink. revealed on the "Ladies Like Us" podcast that he takes his daughter, Deyjah, to the gynecologist each year to "check her hymen. Once you reach puberty, the thymus starts to slowly shrink and become replaced by fat. Visit the new ESPN Audio player to hear your favorite shows and podcasts!. To whistle or yell something sexually suggestive to a stranger, usually in passing. SPNG Tags: Sturgeon face / Funny / Sam Winchester / I can’t even remember what the crap he’s holding. " He hurried shaking his head. BTS reaction to their S/O (the reader) being pregnant. Aquatic exercises can burn fat and they’re healing, too, easing symptoms for arthritis and fibromyalgia. " You are seriously missing the point. yoongi accidentally makes you feel insecure posted 2 years ago on 27th April with 2,191 notes tags: bts texts bts fake texts bts imagines yoongi imagines bts reactions suga imagines bts scenarios yoongi i'm not good at angst i hope this was okay ???!!? i'm trying to get better dfhnhgg. It simply changes form, like water and steam. Ketosis is when your body burns stored fat for energy instead of blood sugar. BTS reacting to you getting so angry that you cry " Anonymous said: can you please do a BTS reaction to when you get really angry you can't help but cry. Investigations, Inspiration, and Offbeat Stories & Videos from TV's Most-Honored Syndicated. You glared at him until the elevator's doors opened up and got in, him following behind, watching your every reaction. hope yall don't mind. It's tough to capture just how wildly your arms are flailing or the exact non-word sounds escaping from your mouth in your state of extreme happiness. SPNG Tags: Sturgeon face / Funny / Sam Winchester / I can’t even remember what the crap he’s holding. Nov 29, 2019 · Denver Broncos News: The official source of the latest Broncos headlines, news, roster transactions, injury updates, key matchups and more. how do i put this gently ? just a semi-functioning individual navigating higher education with a cocktail in her hand and a tendency to embarrass herself. In this case:. He has composed over 100 songs. BBC Tees, the home of Neil and Amy, Mike Parr, and commentary of Middlesbrough and Hartlepool United. The range is 12 to 18 weeks, and you can start applying in January. As the elevator took forever to come to your floor, he caught up with you, his face all painted with her lipstick as he kept on apologising and saying that she started kissing him and that he was innocent. And to show my optimistic view about this topic, I wrote something about it on Thought Catalog (This Is What You Should Consider When Someone Calls You Fat). In this reaction, baking soda acts as a base, and takes a proton from vinegar, which is an acid. Here are 3 potential downsides of bulletproof coffee. Quad-City Times obituaries and Death Notices for Davenport Iowa area. It would be as if someone unplugged one of the cords in a robot. » "You Shall Die Without A Husband" - Pastor Tells A Lady « » Ugandan Pastor Flogs Church Members For Not Attending Church Service « » Why We Can't Initiate Death Penalty For Corruption - Senate's Spokesman « » Man Shares Stories About The Kind Of Wonder Creatures Living In The Ocean «. Since more is known about verbal abuse in. [INSTAGRAM] Mochi sent you a direct message. Originally posted by taekookie-bts. to listen and not judge, because I love you. Shop Overstock. Tuan told me after each of our meetings. No matter how busy BTS's schedule was, no matter how late he worked or was at the studio, he would call you or FaceTime you. BTS reaction to a show pulling a cruel joke on you and hurting your feelings. ” “Just let me show you off Y/N,” he practically begged, “E/N always wanted me to take her out to these things. Calls to any general helpline (non-facility specific 1-8XX numbers) for your visit will be answered by American Addiction Centers (AAC). To the anon who had requested this, towards the end I realized you had put accidentally, I think how I wrote it I made it still be an accident but I’m not sure I hope you still like it though and maybe you can comment on this or contact me to let me know how I did, because I was really worried rather this is up to your expectations or not. You saw Yoongi and you didn't hide your suprise. real talk though, i can't imagine bts ever hitting their s/o. sugasyub-deactivated20170310 said: How bts react when you don't text/call them & reply them because you're crying all day and stay inside your room (they're clueless but then they decide to visit you. Sep 02, 2017 · BTS Reaction: Finding an old suicide note Anonymous said: Is it okay to request angst? If it is could I request a reaction to bts finding a suicide note their s/o wrote in the past but never used but. Online shaming is a door that swings only one way: You may have the power to open it, but you don't have the power to close it. Fetal Development. Common side effects of HUMIRA include injection site reactions (pain, redness, rash, swelling, itching, or bruising), upper respiratory infections (sinus infections), headaches, rash, and nausea. * "So, are you going to twirl for me? Please?? I have a great dinner, a great girlfriend, now I need a great show. 'One day you're the cock of the walk, the next a feather duster’ - Margot Barber. Chemical bonds hold molecules together and create temporary connections that are essential to life. Animal Gifs, Reaction Gifs, Cat Gifs, Fail Gifs, Dog Gifs, Accident Gifs, Car Gifs. Therefore the catalyst, at the end of the reaction, is free to act again to assist another reactant through the reaction. The principal story takes place over a 24-hour period at a large Wall Street investment bank during the initial stages of the financial crisis of 2007–08. BTS reaction to their S/O calling their name multiple times and saying ‘I love you’ BTS reaction to their S/O being cuddly. BTS Your Ex Wants You Back When you’re on a date with them and your ex approaches you stating he wants you back. Of these calls, more than 8,000 people were reportedly treated in health care facilities. I broke the front door angrily and tried to find him. So credits to owner of this idea n_n What would boys do if you had a huge argument and they slap you in the face (accidentally) but later when you made up already and were okay with each other when they lifted hand (just because for example to scratch head or something) you. Oct 29, 2018 · The latest Tweets from Jim Acosta (@Acosta). We offer insights and information; both free and in books that give you easy-to-understand scientific explanations on why water is vital to your well. Up to the minute, sport headlines, news, results, sport standings, forums and blogs. Investigations, Inspiration, and Offbeat Stories & Videos from TV's Most-Honored Syndicated. -Admin Germane :3 Jin: "Excuuuuse me?. Fat tissue is made up of fat cells, which are a unique type of cell. Founded in 1995, GameFAQs has over 40,000 video game FAQs, Guides and Walkthroughs, over 250,000 cheat codes, and over 100,000 reviews, all submitted by our users to help you. BTS Reaction to you fainting on them. Family calls out Chuck E. We offer insights and information; both free and in books that give you easy-to-understand scientific explanations on why water is vital to your well. Avoiding Milk. Minseok cannot get more perfect. Welcome to «Missing You Café»! BTS reactions --> see below (pls note: this is not a professional reaction blog, I just do that every once in a while when I'm bored :) that's why I also don't take requests, sorry). He loves everything about you, honestly. Observer covers the top stories and all of the latest trends in lifestyle, arts, business political, and celebrity news around the world. We wish you all the best. ‘He’s on tour,’ you told yourself, ‘of course he would be busy. J-Hope - *He'd seem and act so offended when he notices that you're pretending to be hurt and would playfully give you the silent treatment to get you back* Rap Monster - *He'd shrug it off once you tell him you were messing about and pretended to be hurt and would just laugh with you* Suga - *He wouldn't even bother talking to you. “Hi babe, how was your day?” he came to you and kissed your cheek. Since he isn't really fond of people calling him Oppa, you'd call him it just to tease. You then decide to call him and see where he is. *requested* {©texting-bangtanbts}texting-bangtanbts} #bts #bangtan #bts texts #bts group chats #bts fake texts #bangtan texts #bangtan fake texts #min yoongi #bts suga #bts rap monster #bts jin #bts jhope #bts jimin #bts v #bts jungkook #bts angst scenarios #suga texts #yoongi texts #jimin texts #jungkook texts #namjoon texts #jin texts #v texts. Oct 10, 2016 · When a lawyer facing Trump in 2011 asked for a break to pump breastmilk for her infant daughter, The Donald reacted very poorly. ” Previous Next Naturopathic Community. You saw Yoongi and you didn't hide your suprise. Usually BTS has been known to stay quiet about religion, but here's what I know from my hours spent on the boys. BTS Reaction | You being scared. He's so fat, he has the only car in town with stretch marks. You trust your partner and deep down you know that if he really loves you, he'd never do anything to hurt you or break that trust that you've established. In 2017, they became the first Kpop group to win a Billboard award. BTS when they slap you: Kim Taehyung version Sorry this took a while. He asks and you tell him it's because you are in fat a vampire. This is the Rasheed Wallace of. Sometimes, he does it on purpose to make you blush. 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Jackson of Got7 even said that JYP told him that he looked fat on screen so that he needed to. BTS reaction to their S/O's lips tasting like. Deciding that destiny is at hand, TATA summons guardian robot VAN to prepare for an interstellar journey to Earth. Your jaw dropped hearing those words come out of his mouth. BTS To Accidentally Hurting Theirs Girlfriends Feelings. You refuse to call him oppa just to annoy him (BTS Reaction) requested by @koneko14 ^_^ ~Em Jin: Jin is not okay with this. Please note that sometimes some products may not be available in all stores. Likewise, if a person eats too many calories, they "spill over" in the form of excess body fat. Oct 29, 2018 · The latest Tweets from Jim Acosta (@Acosta). He pulled you back so that he was in front of you. Even if he angers you. This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). He'd ask you as to how long you've felt that way. 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北京丽思卡尔顿酒店(华贸中心)
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HOTELS 325: Jin Jiang becomes global No. 2 hotel group, OYO ranks 8th
Between aggregators like China’s Jin Jiang International to industry unicorn Oyo Hotels & Homes, the complexion of HOTELS annual 325 is evolving at a pace not seen before.
Marriott International holds onto the top spot after what now feels like an ancient deal to acquire Starwood Hotels & Resorts. But this year Hilton dipped to No. 3 behind Chinese state-owned Jin Jiang, which leaped up the ranking after its November 2018 acquisition of Radisson Hotel Group and its almost 200,000 rooms from China’s HNA Group.
In the past four years, Jin Jiang has become a keen acquirer and was not told to sell off assets, as had been the case for some of its more leveraged Chinese contemporaries like HNA Group, Anbang and Wanda Hotels & Resorts. Instead, Jin Jiang has been on an impressive run: It acquired the 100,000-plus-room Louvre Hotels Group from France, as well as India’s Sarovar Hotels & Resorts.
Inside China it added Vienna Hotels Group, Plateno Group and 7 Days Group. Jin Jiang’s own Jin Jiang Inn brand alone accounted for another 130,000 rooms at the end of 2018. If that’s not enough, Jin Jiang is Accor’s biggest shareholder, with a nearly 12% stake. While Jin Jiang will have its hands full integrating Radisson into its system, it’s any-one’s guess where it will go next for growth, but aspiration does not appear to be lacking. In fact, China as a nation is embracing hospitality and the hotel business like no other, now with six of this year’s top 20 giants based there.
The other story emerging from this year’s ranking is, undoubtedly, Oyo, an industry disruptor with a unique model. It is taking thousands upon thousands of unbranded, shabby hotels (in many cases converted extra rooms sitting atop an industrial building) and converting them to franchises or leases with a new, standardized product rented with high occupancies at technology-optimized bargain rates.
Oyo Founder Ritesh Agarwal, at the tender age of 25, to date has recruited more than US$1.5 billion in equity from banks, venture capitalists and even Airbnb to reach a valuation north of US$5 billion. At press time, Oyo reported it had grown to more than 23,000 hotels, 850,000 rooms and 46,000 vacation rental homes across 80-plus countries, with a predominance of its inventory still in India and China. It is now making inroads in the United States, where it says it has over 50 Oyo buildings in more than 35 cities and 10 states, including popular markets like Dallas, Houston, Atlanta and Miami.
While not without its growing pains and horror stories of extremely poorly run rooms, Agarwal has gone as far as to project listing 2.5 million Oyo rooms worldwide by 2023. Oyo is not an apples-to-apples comparison versus rooms from players like Hilton and Accor, but it is breaking the mold, especially in the enormous budget segment. In India alone, Oyo expects revenue for the year ended March 31, 2019, at US$200 million, triple the previous year. But this development does show how this annual ranking might further evolve as tradition continues to get thrown out the window.
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Hartrick, James Geney
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Groves, Robert W.
Knox, Charles L.
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Shader, Jack Curtis
Parker, Eugene N.
Getoor, Ronald K.
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Muncey, Bill
Leenhouts-Hunter, Doris
Dorsey, Thomas R.
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Koledo DeAlmeida, Cynthia
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Joseph J. Fischer
Taught art for 29 years at Royal Oak and Dondero High Schools
Began 4-County art program for Chelsea Consolidated Schools
Served as a 15-year volunteer for Cranbrook Science Museum
Inductee, Royal Oak High School Hall of Fame, 1999
Joseph J. Fischer attended high school in Ann Arbor. He held two college degrees from the University of Michigan and served as a teaching fellow while enrolled in his master's program. His public school teaching career began in Chelsea, Michigan where he created an art program for the community schools. This was when the Chelsea system included four one room county schools that he visited every week. After a brief stop in Fenton, Michigan as their art supervisor, Joe became the art teacher at Royal Oak High School in 1955.
Mr. Fischer's 29 year career at Dondero was marked with energy, devotion to students and colleagues, enthusiasm and professional commitment. He was himself an accomplished artist and woodcarver. Many people enjoyed his exhibit at the Royal Oak library when he was honored as Artist of the Month. Many in the community are the proud owners of one of his beautiful bird carvings.
During his teaching career, and in retirement, Joseph Fischer was elected leader of his teacher's associations. As a member of the Dondero staff he led ecology hikes, supervised student teachers and introduced his students to a wide variety of art mediums. He encouraged individual students to develop their talents and was the proud instructor of Janet Anderson, a renowned artist who was inducted into the Royal Oak High School Hall of Fame in 1997.
Many people have a picture in their minds of Joe at YMCA programs, summer camp meetings or elementary school outdoor education presentations explaining the history, lore, costumes, jewelry and dance of Native Americans. Joe Fischer and his wife Barbara always demonstrated a willingness to help others. Many colleagues personally know how they welcomed new staff members into the Dondero community. Joe sung in the choir, painted murals, taught Sunday School and served as resident poster maker for his church. He devoted over 15 years of voluntary service to the Cranbrook Institute and Science Museum. When people visits the museum and enjoy their programs on ecology, archaeology, the making of maple sugar or the honey bee exhibit, they are benefiting form the volunteer work of Joseph J. Fischer.
Joseph Fischer was inducted into the Royal Oak High School Hall of Fame in 1999.
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Portland 100, Denver 96
When: 3:30 PM ET, Sunday, May 12, 2019
Where: Pepsi Center, Denver, Colorado
Officials: #16 David Guthrie, #24 Mike Callahan, #30 John Goble
By Field Level Media
CJ McCollum scored 37 points, including a fadeaway jumper with 11.4 seconds left, and the Portland Trail Blazers rallied to beat the host Denver Nuggets 100-96 in Game 7 of the Western Conference semifinals on Sunday.
Damian Lillard was held to 13 points on 3-of-17 shooting and added 10 rebounds and eight assists. The Trail Blazers overcame a 17-point first-half deficit to advance to the West finals for the first time since 2000.
Game 1 against Golden State is Tuesday in Oakland, Calif.
McCollum added nine rebounds and Enes Kanter had 12 points and 13 rebounds.
"This is arguably the biggest win we've had in the franchise in a long time," Portland coach Terry Stotts said. "To be a part of it and the way we did, I'm thrilled for our guys tonight.
McCollum made 17 of 29 shots from the field, none bigger than his late jumper, as he came up big when the stakes were high.
"I got enough motivation," McCollum said in a postgame television interview. "I got out of the mud. I went to Lehigh University. Nobody has ever been drafted from there before."
Nikola Jokic had 29 points and 13 rebounds and Jamal Murray scored 17 for the Nuggets.
Denver coach Michael Malone said Jokic blamed himself for the collapse.
"I hope after 14 playoff games, America, everyone around the world come to appreciate his game," Malone said. "For him to be as emotional and upset as he was speaks to his caring. He was upset because he thinks he didn't do enough for us to win tonight."
Denver, which led for most of the game, went without a field goal for 5:33 in the fourth quarter until Gary Harris hit a layup and Jokic followed with a floater to make it 94-93 with 1:43 left. McCollum's jumper in the final 12 seconds made it 98-95.
Jokic was fouled and split two free throws and Portland's Evan Turner hit two with eight seconds left to seal it.
Blazers swingman Rodney Hood, who scored 25 in Game 6, left in the third quarter with a left knee hyperextension and did not return. He had just six points.
Portland, which missed 18 of its 19 3-pointers in the first three quarters, hit two early in the fourth. Zach Collins drained one from the wing to put the Blazers ahead by two and Lillard hit another off of an offensive rebound to give Portland an 81-76 lead with 8:53 left.
The Blazers led 87-83 when Murray went up for a fast-break layup but McCollum blocked it. Turner hit two free throws to make it 89-83 with 4:26 left.
Paul Millsap hit two free throws with 3:47 left to cut it to four and Denver had a chance to get it to two, but Lillard stole an outlet pass and drained a 3-pointer to make it 92-85 with 3:09 left.
Portland trailed by nine at intermission but took its first lead at 71-70 on McCollum's jumper with 12.1 seconds left in the third.
Monte Morris hit two free throws with 3.8 seconds left to give Denver a 72-71 lead heading into the fourth.
The Nuggets were the No. 2 seed in the West after a 54-win regular season. They made it past the first round of the playoffs for the first time since 2008-09.
"Tonight is the end of our season but I'm not going to allow a Game 7 loss to take away from a magical year," Malone said. "I couldn't ask for more from our guys. The future is so bright. I love the moment, I love where we're at but more importantly I love where we're going and who we're going there with."
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Portland Denver
CJ McCollum 37 Scoring Nikola Jokic 29
Damian Lillard 8 Assists Jamal Murray 5
Enes Kanter 12 Rebounds Nikola Jokic 13
Evan Turner 8 Free Throws Made Jamal Murray 9
Damian Lillard 3 Steals Monte Morris 1
Zach Collins 4 Blocks Nikola Jokic 4
Team Stats Summary
Team Points FG% 3PM-3PA FTM-FTA Assists Rebounds Blocks Steals Turnovers
Portland 100 40.9 4-26 20-24 16 55 7 5 4
Denver 96 37.1 2-19 28-39 15 51 9 1 5
Portland will play their next game on the road against Golden State. The Trail Blazers have a W/L % of .623 after a win and .690 after a loss.
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Peaceful Bay Camping
Published: 06 February 2010 06 February 2010
In mid-January, we headed south as we did last year to camp and fish at Peaceful Bay on the coast of the Southern Ocean. We didn't have as much time to get away as we did last year, but did find about 5 days to relax with our Pastor Fulwood and his family down there. (view a map of the trip)
Since we had seen many of the local tourist sites last year, this year was more about staying around the campsite. That means we lounged around reading books and playing games. The most popular game for us currently is "Monopoly Deal". This card game, adapted from the original Monopoly board game, was actually a Christmas gift from the Fulwoods so we were able to teach to them. (You can try playing it online here, but it may not make much sense without someone to explain the rules.) We also played several rounds of the card game "Wizard".
The overnight 4WD beach fishing adventure was "on" again as it was last year. We jump in about 6 four-wheel drive trucks supplied by acquaintances through church who camp at the same caravan park every year, and then take a 4WD-only track across the dunes and onto the beach. This time we were a little better prepared for the experience including bringing warmer clothes and tents for overnight (the blokes with the 4WDs just sleep in their trucks, whilst last year I just laid out on the sand). We left at about 2pm and returned the next morning before lunch. In between it's all fishing on the beach as late into the night as you can stay awake and then up early for more. My first cast in was hit by an Australian Salmon. As I patiently tried to bring it in, it jumped fully out of the water 3 times - what a sight! I lost it just as it got close to the beach. However, we soon found that there were many more salmon in the waters that night. I ended bringing one in a few hours later (photo - maybe 5-6 pounds). Pastor Mike landed the biggest salmon amongst us with a whopping 12+ pounder. Peter was able to join us this year and was able to bring in several other fish including a silver bream and a yellow-fin whiting.
We also got Karl and Dane out fishing on the beach near our campsite one evening. Dane was thrilled with his first catch of an ocean fish - a whiting. Karl didn't bring any of his bites in, but he had caught one last year whilst there.
On the one afternoon where all of us headed out from the caravan park, we went to Mandalay Bay. This is a picturesque bay with a view of Chatham island and wide soft-sand beaches. After picnicking, the seven of us boys played a fun game of "French cricket" on the beach while Lanette and Narelle huddled against the big sea breeze.
We had beautiful weather for most of the time camping with tops in the 90s F and evenings in the 60s - though windy at times. Even in summer, the Southern Ocean is a little cool for swimming so I think only Peter got in the water. The hottest day was when we drove home whilst the thermometer topped 107°F.
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The Scientific Method involves a series of steps that are used to investigate a natural occurrence.
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Presentation on theme: "The Scientific Method involves a series of steps that are used to investigate a natural occurrence."— Presentation transcript:
3 The Scientific Method involves a series of steps that are used to investigate a natural occurrence.
4 We shall take a closer look at these steps and the terminology you will need to understand before you start a science project.
5 Question Hypothesis Experiment Interpret Data Conclusion Quickly Heather Eats Ice Cream
6 Steps of the Scientific Method Question 1. Question: Develop a question or problem that can be solved through experimentation.
7 Do you remember the next step?
8 Steps of the Scientific Method Formulate a Hypothesis 2. Formulate a Hypothesis: Predict a possible answer to the problem or question. Example: If soil temperatures rise, then plant growth will increase because plants need warm temperatures to grow.
9 Steps of the Scientific Method Experiment 3. Experiment: Develop and follow a procedure. Include a detailed materials list. The outcome must be measurable (quantifiable).
10 Steps of the Scientific Method Interpret Data 4. Interpret Data: Modify the procedure if needed. Confirm the results by retesting. Include tables, graphs, and photographs.
11 Steps of the Scientific Method Conclusion 5. Conclusion: Include a statement that accepts or rejects the hypothesis. Make recommendations for further study and possible improvements to the procedure.
12 Caution! Be careful how you use effect and affect. Effect is usually a noun and affect, a verb. “ The effect of sugar amounts on the rising of bread.” “How does sugar affect the rising of bread?”
13 Do you know the difference between the independent and dependent variables?
14 Independent Variable The independent, or manipulated variable, is a factor that’s intentionally varied by the experimenter.
15 Dependent Variable The dependent, or responding variable, is the factor that may change as a result of changes made in the independent variable..
16 Control Group In a scientific experiment, the control is the group that serves as the standard of comparison. The control group may be a “no treatment" or an “experimenter selected” group.
17 Control Group The control group is exposed to the same conditions as the experimental group, except for the variable being tested. All experiments should have a control group.
18 Constants The constants in an experiment are all the factors that the experimenter attempts to keep the same.
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MOAR Objects
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Naming Things is Hard: Finding the Right Level of Abstraction
It is said and experience has confirmed - in programming, naming things is hard. So hard in fact that it's common for programmers with years and years (and years) of experience to regularly name things poorly.
There's a number of nuances to giving something an appropriate name, but the one I'm going to talk about here is finding the right level of abstraction. Here's some simple examples:
var customerList = new List<Customer>();
var sqlServerConnection = GetDatabaseConnection();
In each of these cases, the variable name includes information about its type. Now, in a real program the lines of code following these declarations will use the variables in one way or another - customerList will have customers added to it, sqlServerConnection will be used to execute SQL queries, etc. In this way we can think of each of these variables as providing a service to the code which uses them - that code will have a certain set of interactions with them and require a certain interface to do so; it's in that interface - in the service provided by each variable to the code that consumes it - that the appropriate level of abstraction is found.
To be more specific: the code that uses customerList probably just needs to be able to put a bunch of Customer objects in a group - odds are the fact that the object fulfilling that need is a List is irrelevant, therefore 'List' doesn't need to be in the name. Further, if we change customerList to be a Collection<Customer>, the variable name is now not only exposing details about the underlying implementation - it's lying about them. We could change it to customerCollection as part of the same refactoring, or… we could just name the variable customers.
sqlServerConnection is similarly specific about the implementation the variable represents. Does it matter to the code which consumes sqlServerConnection that it's using an SQL Server database as opposed to a (e.g.) MySQL database? The method which creates the database connection is the provider-agnostic GetDatabaseConnection, so probably not. If not - and we've established in my made-up scenario that it isn't - we can just name the variable connection.
To try and summarise this in a single, pithy statement: a name with the right level of abstraction describes the role played in the code without any unnecessary details.
A More Subtle, More Real-World Example
Let's say we've got an existing application which provides car insurance quotes, and we're going to be extending it to include quotes for life insurance by integrating a WCF service from the globally-renowned Rainbow Unicorn Corporation. We can already imagine some of the objects involved in this scenario:
Something to represent an insurance quote
Something to represent a provider of insurance quotes
Something to represent a service which provides insurance quotes
Something to represent a customer on whom a quote is based
Something containing the information Rainbow Unicorn need to provide a quote
Something detailing Rainbow Unicorn's response to a quotation request
Let's name some of these objects.
At the heart of this setup is something which contains all the information common to insurance quotes we obtain, irrespective of who provided them; I suggest we call this object Quote. Hang on though - our application only deals with insurance quotes, so shouldn't it be 'InsuranceQuote'? I'd say no, because as the application only deals with insurance quotes, the context of its code is already specific to insurance - we don't need to repeatedly specify that with our object naming.
Let's name the object which represents Rainbow Unicorn themselves. They are a provider specifically of life insurance, so how about… LifeInsuranceProvider? Let's break that name down into its parts and justify each of them; Provider - yep, happy with that, they provide things. InsuranceProvider - happy with that too, but… doesn't that contradict the approach we took when we named Quote? Well, yes and no. The context of the application is insurance - which makes it unnecessary to plaster the word 'insurance' everywhere - but removing that word in this instance leaves us with Provider, which is a common term in programming; for that reason I'd vote for using 'insurance' here to differentiate the object from one which provides (e.g.) validation / data storage / logging. Finally, do we need the word 'life'? That depends. Will the object describe anything specific to life insurance providers? If so ok, we might want the 'life' prefix, if not, no - InsuranceProvider will cover all the bases.
Onto the object we use to call Rainbow Unicorn's service - what shall we name that? Let's consider what we know about it, and build the name from those details:
It's a service - let's call it Service
It provides quotes - let's call it QuotationService
It's specific to life insurance - let's call it LifeInsuranceQuotationService
It's provided by Rainbow Unicorn, and will therefore contain details specific to Rainbow Unicorn's needs - let's call it RainbowUnicornLifeInsuranceQuotationService
It operates over WCF - that's an implementation detail, so let's not include that.
So RainbowUnicornLifeInsuranceQuotationService - quite a long name, isn't it? But I'd say the sum of the parts provides just enough detail to encapsulate the service it provides, and no more.
Back to our application. To avoid unnecessary details of our new life insurance service bleeding into parts of the application which don't need to know about them, we'll create an interface for RainbowUnicornLifeInsuranceQuotationService to implement. What should we name it?
It's a service which provides quotes - let's call it IQuotationService
Our application already obtains car insurance quotes, so we'll need to differentiate our new service from any existing car insurance-specific interface - let's call it ILifeInsuranceQuotationService
It's implemented by Rainbow Unicorn - that's an implementation detail, so let's not include that.
Giving us an ILifeInsuranceQuotationService, implemented by the RainbowUnicornLifeInsuranceQuotationService . Both of these names contain enough and only the details which describe the role they play in the application.
Naming things is tricky, but I think it's something which has rules which can be applied to obtain objectively better or poorer results. I've gone through some of the processes I use to name variables and types here - hopefully it's been useful
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Ecuador Population: 16,498,502
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What is now Ecuador formed part of the northern Inca Empire until the Spanish conquest in 1533. Quito became a seat of Spanish colonial government in 1563 and part of the Viceroyalty of New Granada in 1717. The territories of the Viceroyalty - New Granada (Colombia), Venezuela, and Quito - gained their independence between 1819 and 1822 and formed a federation known as Gran Colombia. When Quito withdrew in 1830, the traditional name was changed in favor of the "Republic of the Equator." Between 1904 and 1942, Ecuador lost territories in a series of conflicts with its neighbors. A border war with Peru that flared in 1995 was resolved in 1999. Although Ecuador marked 30 years of civilian governance in 2004, the period was marred by political instability. Protests in Quito contributed to the mid-term ouster of three of Ecuador's last four democratically elected presidents. In late 2008, voters approved a new constitution, Ecuador's 20th since gaining independence. General elections were held in April 2017, and voters elected President Lenin MORENO.
Cotopaxi in Andes is highest active volcano in world
Location: Western South America, bordering the Pacific Ocean at the Equator, between Colombia and Peru
Geographic coordinates: 2 00 S, 77 30 W
water: 6,720 sq km
note: includes Galapagos Islands
Size comparison: slightly smaller than Nevada
Land Boundaries: total: 2,237 km border countries (2): Colombia 708 km, Peru 1529 km
Coastline: 2,237 km
Maritime claims: territorial sea: 200 nm
continental shelf: 200 nm note: Ecuador has declared its right to extend its continental shelf to 350nm measured from the baselines of the Galapagos Archipelago
Climate: tropical along coast, becoming cooler inland at higher elevations; tropical in Amazonian jungle lowlands
Terrain: coastal plain (costa), inter-Andean central highlands (sierra), and flat to rolling eastern jungle (oriente)
Natural resources: petroleum, fish, timber, hydropower
Irrigated land: 15,000 sq km (2012)
Natural hazards: frequent earthquakes; landslides; volcanic activity; floods; periodic droughts volcanism: volcanic activity concentrated along the Andes Mountains; Sangay (5,230 m), which erupted in 2010, is mainland Ecuador's most active volcano; other historically active volcanoes in the Andes include Antisana, Cayambe, Chacana, Cotopaxi, Guagua Pichincha, Reventador, Sumaco, and Tungurahua; Fernandina (1,476 m), a shield volcano that last erupted in 2009, is the most active of the many Galapagos volcanoes; other historically active Galapagos volcanoes include Wolf, Sierra Negra, Cerro Azul, Pinta, Marchena, and Santiago
Current Environment Issues: deforestation; soil erosion; desertification; water pollution; pollution from oil production wastes in ecologically sensitive areas of the Amazon Basin and Galapagos Islands
International Environment Agreements: party to: Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands
Nationality: noun: Ecuadorian(s)
adjective: Ecuadorian
Ethnic groups: mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 71.9%, Montubio 7.4%, Amerindian 7%, white 6.1%, Afroecuadorian 4.3%, mulatto 1.9%, black 1%, other 0.4% (2010 est.)
Languages: Spanish (Castilian) 93% (official), Quechua 4.1%, other indigenous 0.7%, foreign 2.2% (2010 est.) note: (Quechua and Shuar are official languages of intercultural relations; other indigenous languages are in official use by indigenous peoples in the areas they inhabit)
Religions: Roman Catholic 74%, Evangelical 10.4%, Jehovah's Witness 1.2%, other 6.4% (includes Mormon, Buddhist, Jewish, Spiritualist, Muslim, Hindu, indigenous, African American, Pentecostal), atheist 7.9%, agnostic 0.1% (2012 est.)
note: data represent persons at least 16 years of age from five Ecuadoran cities
Population: 16,498,502 (July 2018 est.)
65 years and over: 7.67% (male 599,221 /female 666,729) (2018 est.)
Major urban areas - population: 2.899 million Guayaquil
1.822 million QUITO (capital) (2018)
65 years and over: 0.9 male(s)/female
Maternal mortality rate: 64 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.)
Infant mortality rate: total: 15.9 deaths/1,000 live births male: 18.8 deaths/1,000 live births
Contraceptive prevalence rate: 80.1% (2007/12)
urban: 87% of population (2015 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 36,000 (2017 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths: <1000 (2017 est.)
Children under the age of 5 years underweight: 5.1% (2014)
Education expenditures: 5% of GDP (2015)
Unemployment, youth ages 15-24: total: 7.9% male: 6.4% female: 10.6% (2018 est.)
Country name: conventional long form: Republic of Ecuador
conventional short form: Ecuador
local long form: Republica del Ecuador
local short form: Ecuador
etymology: the country's position on the globe, straddling the Equator, accounts for its Spanish name
Capital: name: Quito
time difference: UTC-5 (same time as Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
etymology: named after the Quitus, a Pre-Columbian indigenous people credited with founding the city
note: Ecuador has two time zones, including the Galapagos Islands (UTC-6)
Administrative divisions: 24 provinces (provincias, singular - provincia); Azuay, Bolivar, Canar, Carchi, Chimborazo, Cotopaxi, El Oro, Esmeraldas, Galapagos, Guayas, Imbabura, Loja, Los Rios, Manabi, Morona-Santiago, Napo, Orellana, Pastaza, Pichincha, Santa Elena, Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas, Sucumbios, Tungurahua, Zamora-Chinchipe
Independence: 24 May 1822 (from Spain)
National holiday: Independence Day (independence of Quito), 10 August (1809)
Constitution: history: many previous; latest approved 20 October 2008 amendments: proposed by the president of the republic through a referendum, by public petition of at least 1% of registered voters, or by agreement of at least one-third of the National Assembly membership; passage requires two separate readings a year apart and approval by at least two-thirds majority vote of the Assembly, and approval by absolute majority in a referendum; amendments such as changes to the structure of the state, constraints on personal rights and guarantees, or constitutional amendment procedures are not allowed; amended 2011, 2015, last 2018; note - a 2015 constitutional amendment lifting presidential term limits was overturned by a February 2018 referendum (2018)
Legal system: civil law based on the Chilean civil code with modifications; traditional law in indigenous communities
Suffrage: 18-65 years of age; universal and compulsory; 16-18, over 65, and other eligible voters, voluntary
Executive branch: chief of state: President Lenin MORENO Garces (since 24 May 2017); Vice President Otto Ramon SONNENHOLZNER Sper (since 11 December 2018); note - Vice President Jorge GLAS Espinel (since 24 May 2013) was jailed for corruption and absent from office for more than 3 months, causing him to be constitutionally stripped of his office; Vice President Maria Alejandra VICUNA Munoz (since 6 January 2018) resigned from office 4 December 2018; president is both chief of state and head of government
head of government: President Lenin MORENO Garces (since 24 May 2017); Vice President Otto Ramon SONNENHOLZNER Sper (since 11 December 2018)
cabinet: Cabinet appointed by the president elections/appointments: president and vice president directly elected on the same ballot by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 4-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 19 February 2017 with a runoff on 2 April 2017 (next to be held in 2021)
election results: Lenin MORENO Garces elected president in second round; percent of vote - Lenin MORENO Garces (Alianza PAIS Movement) 51.1%, Guillermo LASSO (CREO) 48.9%
Legislative branch: description: unicameral National Assembly or Asamblea Nacional (137 seats; 116 members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by simple majority vote, 15 members directly elected in a single nationwide constituency by proportional representation vote, and 6 directly elected in multi-seat constituencies for Ecuadorians living abroad by simple majority vote; members serve 4-year terms)
elections: last held on 19 February 2017 (next to be held in 2021)
election results: percent of vote by party - PAIS 39.1%, CREO-SUMA 20.1%, PSC 15.9%, ID 3.8%, MUPP 2.7%, other 10.7; seats by party - PAIS 74, CREO-SUMA 34, PSC 15, ID 4, MUPP 4, PSP 2, Fuerza Ecuador 1, independent 3; composition - men 85, women 52, percent of women 38%; note - defections by members of National Assembly are commonplace, resulting in frequent changes in the numbers of seats held by the various parties
Judicial branch: highest courts: National Court of Justice or Corte Nacional de Justicia (consists of 21 judges, including the chief justice and organized into 5 specialized chambers); Constitutional Court or Corte Constitucional (consists of 9 judges) judge selection and term of office: justices of National Court of Justice elected by the Judiciary Council, a 9-member independent body of law professionals; judges elected for 9-year, non-renewable terms, with one-third of the membership renewed every 3 years; Constitutional Court judges appointed by the executive, legislative, and Citizen Participation branches of government; judges appointed for 9-year non-renewable terms with one-third of the membership renewed every 3 years
subordinate courts: Fiscal Tribunal; Election Dispute Settlement Courts, provincial courts (one for each province); cantonal courts
Political parties and leaders: Alianza PAIS movement [Lenin Voltaire MORENO Garces] Avanza Party or AVANZA [Ramiro GONZALEZ] Citizen Revolution Movement or MRC [Rafael CORREA] Creating Opportunities Movement or CREO [Guillermo LASSO] Democratic Left or ID Forward Ecuador Movement [Alvaro NOBOA] Fuerza Ecuador [Abdala BUCARAM] (successor to Roldosist Party) Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement or MUPP [Marlon Rene SANTI Gualinga] Patriotic Society Party or PSP [Gilmar GUTIERREZ Borbua] Popular Democracy Movement or MPD [Luis VILLACIS] Social Christian Party or PSC [Pascual DEL CIOPPO] Socialist Party [Patricio ZABRANO] Society United for More Action or SUMA [Mauricio RODAS]
International organization participation: CAN, CD, CELAC, FAO, G-11, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), LAES, LAIA, Mercosur (associate), MIGA, MINUSTAH, NAM, OAS, OPANAL, OPCW, OPEC, Pacific Alliance (observer), PCA, SICA (observer), UN, UNAMID, UNASUR, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNISFA, UNMIL, UNMISS, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
National symbol(s): Andean condor;
national colors: yellow, blue, red
National anthem: name: "Salve, Oh Patria!" (We Salute You, Our Homeland)
lyrics/music: Juan Leon MERA/Antonio NEUMANE
note: adopted 1948; Juan Leon MERA wrote the lyrics in 1865; only the chorus and second verse are sung
Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Francisco Benjamin Esteban CARRION Mena (since 24 January 2018)
chancery: 2535 15th Street NW, Washington, DC 20009
consulate(s) general: Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New Haven (CT), New Orleans, New York, Newark (NJ), Phoenix, San Francisco
Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Michael J. FITZPATRICK (since 18 June 2019)
embassy: Avenida Avigiras E12-170 y Avenida Eloy Alfaro, Quito
mailing address: Avenida Guayacanes N52-205 y Avenida Avigiras
consulate(s) general: Guayaquil
Ecuador is substantially dependent on its petroleum resources, which accounted for about a third of the country's export earnings in 2017. Remittances from overseas Ecuadorian are also important. In 1999/2000, Ecuador's economy suffered from a banking crisis that lead to some reforms, including adoption of the US dollar as legal tender. Dollarization stabilized the economy, and positive growth returned in most of the years that followed. China has become Ecuador's largest foreign lender since 2008 and now accounts for 77.7% of the Ecuador’s bilateral debt. Various economic policies under the CORREA administration, such as an announcement in 2017 that Ecuador would terminate 13 bilateral investment treaties - including one with the US, generated economic uncertainty and discouraged private investment. Faced with a 2013 trade deficit of $1.1 billion, Ecuador imposed tariff surcharges from 5% to 45% on an estimated 32% of imports. Ecuador’s economy fell into recession in 2015 and remained in recession in 2016. Declining oil prices and exports forced the CORREA administration to cut government oulays. Foreign investment in Ecuador is low as a result of the unstable regulatory environment and weak rule of law. n April of 2017, Lenin MORENO was elected President of Ecuador by popular vote. His immediate challenge was to reengage the private sector to improve cash flow in the country. Ecuador’s economy returned to positive, but sluggish, growth. In early 2018, the MORENO administration held a public referendum on seven economic and political issues in a move counter to CORREA-administration policies, reduce corruption, strengthen democracy, and revive employment and the economy. The referendum resulted in repeal of taxes associated with recovery from the earthquake of 2016, reduced restrictions on metal mining in the Yasuni Intangible Zone - a protected area, and several political reforms.
GDP (official exchange rate): $104.3 billion (2017 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 2.4% (2017 est.) -1.2% (2016 est.) 0.1% (2015 est.)
Gross national saving: 25.9% of GDP (2017 est.) 26.4% of GDP (2016 est.) 24.7% of GDP (2015 est.) GDP - composition, by end use: household consumption: 60.7% (2017 est.) government consumption: 14.4% (2017 est.) investment in fixed capital: 24.3% (2017 est.) investment in inventories: 1% (2017 est.) exports of goods and services: 20.8% (2017 est.) imports of goods and services: -21.3% (2017 est.) GDP - composition, by sector of origin: agriculture: 6.7% (2017 est.) industry: 32.9% (2017 est.) services: 60.4% (2017 est.)
Agriculture - products: bananas, coffee, cocoa, rice, potatoes, cassava (manioc, tapioca), plantains, sugarcane; cattle, sheep, pigs, beef, pork, dairy products; fish, shrimp; balsa wood
Industries: petroleum, food processing, textiles, wood products, chemicals
Industrial production growth rate: -0.6% (2017 est.) note: excludes oil refining
Labor force: 8.086 million (2017 est.)
Unemployment rate: 4.6% (2017 est.) 5.2% (2016 est.)
Population below poverty line: 21.5% (December 2017 est.)
highest 10%: 35.4% (2012 est.) note: data are for urban households only
Distribution of family income - Gini index: 45.9 (December 2017) 48.5 (December 2017) note: data are for urban households only
Taxes and other revenues: 32% (of GDP) (2017 est.) Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-): -4.5% (of GDP) (2017 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 0.4% (2017 est.) 1.7% (2016 est.)
Current account balance: -$349 million (2017 est.) $1.442 billion (2016 est.)
Exports: $19.62 billion (2017 est.) $16.8 billion (2016 est.)
Exports - commodities: petroleum, bananas, cut flowers, shrimp, cacao, coffee, wood, fish
Exports - partners: US 31.5%, Vietnam 7.6%, Peru 6.7%, Chile 6.5%, Panama 4.9%, Russia 4.4%, China 4% (2017)
Imports - commodities: industrial materials, fuels and lubricants, nondurable consumer goods
Imports - partners: US 22.8%, China 15.4%, Colombia 8.7%, Panama 6.4%, Brazil 4.4%, Peru 4.2% (2017)
Debt - external: $39.29 billion (31 December 2017 est.) $38.14 billion (31 December 2016 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad: $6.33 billion (31 December 2012 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares: $6.838 billion (31 December 2017 est.) $6.065 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $6.615 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
Exchange rates: the US dollar became Ecuador's currency in 2001
Electricity - production: 26.5 billion kWh (2016 est.)
Electricity - consumption: 22.68 billion kWh (2016 est.)
Electricity - imports: 82 million kWh (2016 est.)
Crude oil - proved reserves: 8.273 billion bbl (1 January 2018 est.)
Refined petroleum products - production: 137,400 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Refined petroleum products - consumption: 265,000 bbl/day (2016 est.)
Refined petroleum products - imports: 153,900 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Natural gas - imports: 0 cu m (2017 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves: 10.9 billion cu m (1 January 2018 est.)
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 85 (2017 est.)
Telephone system: general assessment: fixed-line service and sophisticated 4G LTE ultra-broadband network; much of the country's fixed-line structure is influenced by topographical challenges associated with the Andes Mountains; Ecuador has a small telecom market with a dominant mobile sector; the state-owned incumbent CNT dominates the fixed-line market, and therefore the DSL broadband market as well (2018)
domestic: fixed-line services with digital networks provided by multiple telecommunications operators; fixed-line teledensity stands at about 15 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular use has surged and subscribership has reached 85 per 100 persons (2018)
international: country code - 593; landing points for the PAN-AM and South America-1 submarine cables that provide links to the west coast of South America, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, and extending onward to Aruba and the US Virgin Islands in the Caribbean; in 2017, Alcatel completed a 6000km, submarine-cable system from Sarasota, Florida to Manta, Ecuador; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Broadcast media: about 60 media outlets are recognized as national; the Ecuadorian Government controls 12 national outlets and multiple radio stations; there are multiple TV networks and many local channels, as well as more than 300 radio stations; many TV and radio stations are privately owned; broadcast media is required by law to give the government free airtime to broadcast programs produced by the state; the Ecuadorian Government is the biggest advertiser and grants advertising contracts to outlets that provide favorable coverage; antimonopoly law and communication law limit ownership and investment in the media by non-media businesses (2019)
Internet country code: .ec
Airports: 432 (2013)
Airports (paved runways): total 104
1,524 to 2,437 m: 18 (2017)
914 to 1,523 m: 26 (2017)
under 914 m: 51 (2017)
Airports (unpaved runways): total 328
under 914 m: 291 (2013)
Heliports: 2 (2013)
Pipelines: 485 km extra heavy crude, 123 km gas, 2131 km oil, 1526 km refined products (2017)
note: passenger service limited to certain sections of track, mostly for tourist trains
(2015) paved: 8,161 km (2015)
Waterways: 1,500 km (most inaccessible) (2012)
Merchant marine: total 137
by type: container ship 1, general cargo 6, oil tanker 34, other 96 (2018)
Ports and terminals: major seaport(s): Esmeraldas, Manta, Puerto Bolivar container port(s) (TEUs): Guayaquil (1,871,591) (2017)
river port(s): Guayaquil (Guayas)
Military branches: Ecuadorian Armed Forces: Ecuadorian Land Force (Fuerza Terrestre Ecuatoriana, FTE), Ecuadorian Navy (Fuerza Naval del Ecuador, FNE, includes Naval Infantry, Naval Aviation, Coast Guard), Ecuadorian Air Force (Fuerza Aerea Ecuatoriana, FAE) (2012)
Military service age and obligation: 18 years of age for selective conscript military service; conscription has been suspended; 18 years of age for voluntary military service; Air Force 18-22 years of age, Ecuadorian birth requirement; 1-year service obligation (2012)
Disputes - International: organized illegal narcotics operations in Colombia penetrate across Ecuador's shared border
Refugees and internally displaced persons: refugees (country of origin): 50,532 (Colombia) (2018), 111,535 (Venezuela) (economic and political crisis; includes Venezuelans who have claimed asylum or have received alternative legal stay) (2018)
Illicit drugs: significant transit country for cocaine originating in Colombia and Peru, with much of the US-bound cocaine passing through Ecuadorian Pacific waters; importer of precursor chemicals used in production of illicit narcotics; attractive location for cash-placement by drug traffickers laundering money because of dollarization and weak anti-money-laundering regime; increased activity on the northern frontier by trafficking groups and Colombian insurgents
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The “Y Class” Press Conference was held at Regency Art Hotel on 25th May, inviting honourable guests including Ms. Vanessa Wong, Secretary-General of the Committee of Cultural Industries; Mr. Kong Ngai, Chief of Division of Continuing Education of Education and Youth Affairs Bureau; Mr. Patrick Lei, Associate Professor of School of Art of Macao Polytechnic Institute; Ms. Huang Guanghui, Associate Professor of Faculty of Humanities and Arts of Macau University of Science and Technology; Mr. Carlos Sena Caires, Assistant Professor of Faculty of Creative Industries of University of Saint Joseph; Ms. Angela Leong On Kei, Vice President of Dr. Stanley Ho Foundation; Mr. Bernard Yiu, Representative of Sociedade de Jogos de Macau, S.A.; Mr. Mike Chiu, Representative of Sociedade de Lotarias e Apostas Mútuas de Macau, Lda.; Mr. Willie Tay, Representative of Regency Art Hotel; Ms. Priscilla Leong and Ms. Anna Cheang, Representative of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Macau) Limited; Mr. Alex Yu, Representative of Macau Hong Kong Terminal Ltd.; Mr. Keith Cheong, Representative of L’Arc Macau; Mr. James Chu, Representative of Macau Designers Association; Mr. Dirco Fong, Representative of Macau Design Centre; Mr. Clement Cheng, Representative of Macau Interior Design Commercial Association; Ms. Juku Cheang, Representative of Macao International Brand Enterprise Commercial Association, together with Dr. Leung Shing On, Director of the Centre for Continuing Education of University of Macau; Ms. Sabrina Ho Chiu Yeng, Managing Director of Chiu Yeng Culture; Mr. Mann Lao, Creative Director of Chiii Design, to witness the announcement of “Y Class” Creative Design Courses.
“Y Class”, as an extended project of “Y Show”, focuses on five design categories: Product Design, Visual Arts, Spatial Design, Visual Communication Design and Multimedia Design. By inviting design specialists from Russia, Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Hong Kong and Macau as instructors, “Y Class” will enhance students’ critical thinking skills and knowledge about design through academic and practical teaching method. “Y Class” aims to expand students’ design knowledge and increase their interest and desire to learn, and to help students in acquiring creative design skills that could be applied into the design industry. Also, this fosters the development of the non-gaming sectors in Macau, promoting economic diversification, hence increases the economic competitiveness of the city. “Y Class” is not designed only for design-majors, but also everyone who is interested in creative design.
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Team Fight to Walk to host Second Annual Gala!
New York, NY (September 30, 2014) – Junior Middleweight boxer Boyd Melson and Christan Zaccagnino, founders of Team Fight to Walk, are proud to announce their organization will host the second annual “Fighting for the Cure” benefit gala Thursday, October 16 at 6:15 pm in the Beckwith Pointe in New Rochelle, NY.
Tickets and sponsorship packages to “Fighting for the Cure” are available by going to teamfighttowalk.com or calling 914-497-5727. All donations are deductable per IRS regulations.
In May 2013, Team Fight to Walk held their inaugural fundraiser at BB King Blues Club in Time Square that featured a special act by world renowned comedian Artie Lange along with heartfelt speeches from Boyd Melson, Dr. Wise Young, former Rutgers football player Eric LeGrand, Christan Zaccagnino and boxer/cancer survivor Danny Jacobs. Last year’s event raised $100,000 towards a clinical trial and research of Chronic Spinal Cord Injuries.
Since meeting at a social event in 2002 while he was at West Point, Melson’s dedicated much of his life to helping Zaccagnino. At ten years old, Zaccagnino became paralyzed from the neck down following a diving accident. Since turning pro in 2010, Melson’s donated 100% of his purses from 15 of his 16 matches towards Spinal Cord Injury Research through Justadollarplease.org and Team Fight to Walk, 501c3 charities. Melson and Zaccagnino’s story has received a significant amount of national attention, as the two have been featured on HBO Real Sports, ESPN.com, Sports Illustrated, Yahoo, NY1 and various newspapers.
They also recruited a team of boxers to support the cause either by donating or promoting. The fighters include world champion Demetrius Andrade, former titlists Steve Cunningham and Austin Trout, 2008 Olympian Shawn Estrada and contender Will Rosinsky amongst many others. Even with all of the hard work and tireless efforts, Team Fight to Walk must still raise a significant amount of money before they can move forward with the trial that could changes the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.
On the 16th, guests will get to see performances by comedians Gilbert Gottfried, Jayson Cross and Damon Rozier. Former New York Knicks star Anthony Mason, world champion boxers Danny Jacobs and Demetrius Andrade, former champion Junior Jones and unbeaten contender Frank Galarza will all be on hand throughout the evening to support the cause and spend time with ticketholders. This special event also has a blackjack table, silent auction, DJ, live music, open bar and guest speakers throughout the evening. Dave Diamante, voice of the Brooklyn Nets, will emcee the “Fighting for the Cure” gala.
“I’ve seen the way the world positively reacts to certain causes through social media and there are a lot of people out there that need help with different issues,” said Melson. “I’m calling not only on the boxing world but the general public to help in whatever way they can with Team Fight to Walk and our “Fighting for the Cure” gala. Our 2013 gala was a great success and we need to top donations in 2014 in order to potentially change the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans suffering from Chronic Spinal Cord Injuries. Christan, myself, the rest of Team Fight to Walk and our loyal supporters have put in a tremendous amount of time to assist with efforts but there’s still a lot of work left to be done. If you aren’t able to make it on the 16th, please consider making a donation of any amount or purchasing a sponsorship page if you run a business. This will go a long way and your assistance can have a major impact on the lives of others.”
In association with the 501 (C) 3 nonprofit Justadollarplease.org, Melson and his best friend Christan Zaccagnino created Team Fight to Walk, whose mission is to raise awareness within the boxing community as well as the entire nation about the importance of bringing Clinical Trials to the United States to help cure Spinal Cord Injuries. Team Fight to Walk is comprised of Melson, Zaccagnino, former Rutgers football player/ESPY honoree Eric LeGrand, two-time cruiserweight champion Steve “USS” Cunningham, Austin “No Doubt” Trout, title contender DeAndre “The Bull” Latimore, Edgar “El Chamaco” Santana, Sonya Lamonakis, Hector “Machito” Camacho Jr., WBO Junior Middleweight titlist/2008 US Olympian Demetrius “Boo” Andrade and fellow 08’ Olympian Shawn Estrada along with prospects Sid “The Messenger” El Harrak, Jeff “TNT” Spencer, Denis “Da Momma’s Boy” Douglin, Will “Power” Rosinsky, Floriano “Italiano” Pagliara, Danny “Little Mac” McDermott, Vinny “The Lion” O’Brien, Ahmed “Prince of Egypt” Samir and Delen “Sniper” Parsley.
For more information or to make a donation, go to teamfighttowalk.com or Justadollarplease.org. All specific questions about the nature of the Clinical Trial to cure Spinal Cord Injury can be sent to boydmelson@yahoo.com.
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Sookmyungians' Passion for Law School
On September 1, 2017, students who got accepted to law schools this year were invited as speakers for ‘Meeting with Students Who Passed the 2017 Law School Admissions’, held in the Veritas Building. They shared and detailed their admission stories to students who are planning to apply to law schools
ON SMU | Kim Hong Taeeun | 2017-10-15 20:06
Shape the Future in America
Neil Armstrong once said, “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” In this paper, I’d like to introduce my giant leap for my future. This past summer, Team 2017 Affective Computing Interface, travelled to the U.S. supported by the Global Exploration Program. I had the huge oppo
GLOBAL REPORT | Jeon Serin | 2017-10-12 16:23
Fashion: A Mirror of Yourself
Fashion allows one the freedom to express oneself without control and rules. It can either reflect your attractiveness and beauty or can be used to make a point. Lee Hannah in the Division of Law’ 14, said, “Other people claim my fashion statement reflects my personality and makes others comfortable
CHEONGPA RUNWAY | Kim Choi Hyojin | 2017-10-12 15:36
Growing Global Human Resources : International Exchange Program Presentation
On September 1, Sookmyungians gathered for a briefing about participating in international exchanges as a way to become global leaders. The presentation was held in the Veritas Building B101. Sookmyung Women’s University has established a number of sisterhood relationships with foreign universities
ON SMU | Kim Choi Hyojin | 2017-10-12 15:19
Dream Festival
On September 6 and 7, the Office of Employment Support hosted a special career fair for Sookmyungians. The event was aimed at helping students with job preparation. The fair ran from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. each day in square in front of Queen Sunheon Building. Despite the rain, many students participated
ON SMU | Song Yoon Heejeong | 2017-10-12 11:38
Sookmyung Women's University in the Fourth Industrial Revolution Division
During course registration, Sookmyungians received an interesting text message regarding class guidelines and an interdisciplinary program being offered this second semester of the school year by PRIME. Human and robot coexistence, three-dimensional modeling, virtual reality (VR) contents, and Fourt
SMTRACING | Choi Shin Woohyun | 2017-10-11 20:47
Innovative University Education: A Seminar on the Best Practices for University Education
On August 31, a special seminar was held on the topic of the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution and University Education’ at Veritas Building 306. It was co-hosted by the PRIME Project Group and the Education Innovation Center, and was aimed at discussing the direction of where university education shoul
ON SMU | Choi Shin Woohyun | 2017-10-11 19:32
A Style of One's Own
Have you ever wondered, “Students in arts and fashion must be fashionable?” You might have even imaged them as trendsetters wearing the latest fashion items in full picture-perfect make-up. “Not true” says Inae, student in the Department of Clothing & Textiles. “Looking good each day takes work, so
CHEONGPA RUNWAY | Kim Lee Jihyun | 2017-09-06 11:07
Make Something New out of Something Old
Sookmyungians who entered after 2015 are required to do one of the following to qualify for graduation: double major, choose a minor, take advanced major specialty courses, or enroll in special courses by the Department of Convergence. Fellow Sookmyungian has been mulling over what to do. She has co
SMTRACING | Kim Lim Minji | 2017-09-06 00:09
The Beauty of Korea Shines at the 2017 Summer Language and Culture Camp
Sookmyung Women’s University’s Global Language and Culture Institute, ‘Lingua Express’, hosted the ‘2017 Summer Language and Culture Camp’ for students aspiring to learn English and study Korean culture. One participant, Evgeniia (age 15) said, “The main reason I registered for this camp was to stud
Value Up, Come Up! : Ideas for Better a Yongmun Traditional Market
On July 27th, at the awards ceremony for the ‘Value up, Come up!’ student competition, which was held in the Campus Town Base Center, the winners for the competition were announced. The purpose of the competition was to gather student ideas on how to revitalize the Yongmun Traditional Market. 43 stu
ON SMU | Kim Lee Jihyun | 2017-09-05 16:27
My First Time to Paris France
My first trip to France was a very unique experience. It’s unlikely I would have had the same experience anywhere else. The entire experience, I mean everyone, everything, everywhere, was great. My first visit to France can only be summed up as fantastic and I can truly say Paris is a city of romanc
GLOBAL REPORT | Kim Hyemi | 2017-09-05 13:22
Universities Should Help Students Become the Main Players on Campus
On August 1, the PRIME business group hosted a special lecture entitled ‘A Study on Effective Preparation for University Structural Reform’ for Sookmyung faculty. The lecture ran from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the Veritas Building. Speaker Bae Sanghoon, a professor from Sungkyunkwan University and chief o
Successful Employment: NCS Job Competence School
On July 25, the Office of Career Development hosted the final session of its ‘2017 Summer Vacation NCS Job Competence School’ on the fifth floor of Queen Sunheon Building. The training aimed at detailing National Competency Standards (NCS) so that more students become acquainted with the agency’s op
ON SMU | Shin Choi Woohyun | 2017-09-04 20:32
May I Help You? Employment Counseling in May
On May 15, 16, and 18 the Employment Support Team at Sookmyung Women’s University’s office of Career Development hosted an intensive employment counseling program entitled ‘May I help you?’ The event ran from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. over the three days at the plaza located in front of Queen Sunheon Buildi
Making Sookmyung a Healthier Campus
On May 8, 2017, the Health Care Center at Sookmyung Women’s University hosted an event at the plaza in front of the Queen Sunheon Building. The event aimed to create a healthier campus for students. A ‘No Smoking Campaign’ ran by the Seoul Smoking Prohibition Support Center, called ‘Smoking Prohibit
Humanities Meets Scientific Technology
On May 10, Sookmyung Women’s University invited a guest speaker to discuss the ‘The Possibility of Science and Humanities Blending’ at the Suryeon Faculty Building. Although it was originally going to be held at Veritas Building, the number of advanced registration for the lecture made it necessary
Ginger-lily Memory Ball
Crack! The fragrance of ginger-lily fills the air in my room. A “Harry Potter” memory ball has been opened. The ball reminds me of my 9-day Global Exploration Project to the U. S. with its ginger-lily scent. Each memory ball stores precious moments in time and each one has a unique fragrance such as
GLOBAL REPORT | Youn Inah | 2017-06-22 20:16
Exchange Programs; Widen Your Vision With Foreign Friends
Have you ever dreamt of making lifelong foreign friends before entering university? Or how about having pen pal friends and building true friendships regardless of nationality? I’m sure a lot of you are nodding your head in agreement as you read this. Sadly, many students postpone those dreams for v
SMTRACING | Kim Seol Jieun, Han Lee Hyebin | 2017-06-22 19:50
On May 10, Sookmyung Women’s University welcomed NEXEN Heroes’ spokesperson. The title of his lecture was ‘Ladies & Baseball’, and it was aimed at providing information on the ballgame to those who had interest, but lack basic knowledge of the game. During the lecture, students learnt about the NEXE
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Love Music Hate Racism
Zak Cochrane
Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) was founded in 2002, when the British National Party had begun to make electoral gains and even produced a CD aimed at increasing their support among young people.
LMHR held many successful festivals in the early 2000s. Tens of thousands of people attended the Victoria Park carnival in 2008 and at Stoke Britannia Stadium in 2009.
LMHR is responding to the new rise of the right by launching a fortnight of anti-racist content aimed at tackling the hate filled propaganda of the far right.
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No compromise on freedom of movement
The Immigration and Social Security Bill which had its second reading last month is designed to put an end to freedom of movement after Britain leaves the EU.
It makes an entirely arbitrary distinction between “skilled” and “unskilled” migrants and imposes a 12-month limit on the latter, who would not be able to bring in their families or access public funds.
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Irish nurses picket for pay
Around 35,000 Irish health workers walked out of and picketed hospitals and clinics across the republic at the end of last month over pay and conditions.
Nurses and midwives are demanding a 12 percent increase in pay and improved conditions in a programme of action set to last two weeks.
In response, the Irish prime minister, Leo Varadkar, has claimed spending on Brexit preparations prevents him from ceding to their demands.
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation says its members are working longer hours and receiving less pay than than they were in 2008.
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Yellow Vests up the stakes
A general strike of French trade unionists alongside further Yellow Vest protests at the beginning of February was set to up the pressure on president Emmanuel Macron to stop expenditure cuts, privatisation and a tax system weighted against the poor.
The continuing movement is also demanding significant wage increases and the right to protest without the fear of police violence; a factor that has seen, since the movement began last November, the police badly injure more than 2,000 protesters.
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Resist the imperialist coup in Venezuela
Héctor Puente Sierra
The ongoing right wing offensive to oust Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro came to a head on 23 January, with National Assembly leader Juan Guaidó appointing himself as interim president in a calculated move during a massive anti-government rally.
Within hours the governments of Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro and other right wingers had issued statements recognising Guaidó as president and demanding the resignation of Maduro. Support followed from Britain, Canada, the European Union and EU countries.
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Brexit: Very little confidence in the Tories
Theresa May survived the attempt to get rid of her from within her own party in December. But it was a sign of her abject weakness that she won the no-confidence vote by promising to go before the next scheduled election.
The fact that 200 Tory MPs backed her did nothing to resolve the crisis her government, her party and the British ruling class face over Brexit. It merely ruled out a switch of Tory prime minister for at least a year, unless May is ordered out by Tory grandees, and confirmed most MPs have no stomach for Britain to leave the EU with no deal.
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Yellow vest spirit takes over France
Mike Healy and Joy Leman
The Gilets Jaunes protests in France have come from a spontaneous, grassroots movement expressing people’s frustration at low living standards, threats to pensions and tax cuts for the rich, as well as the trigger point of increased fuel tax charges.
The latter was effectively a wage cut for everyone needing to use private transport in work or to get to work. Protesters put on the yellow jackets that all motorists must keep in their cars.
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Tories can’t square the circle of Brexit
The front cover of September’s Socialist Review asked, “Are the Tories heading for the rocks?” This month came the answer: a resounding yes.
While Theresa May seems to have seen off the initial rebellion against her draft withdrawal treaty from the EU, the Tories’ decades-long row over Britain’s membership of the EU could blow up at any time over the next few weeks, toppling May and crippling the government.
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Labour should take a lead against Tories
A general election now is the best response to the Tories’ crisis, so it’s unfortunate that Jeremy Corbyn and his close allies did not clearly make that call as soon as Theresa May delivered the draft treaty.
They are entangled in a row with Labour Party right wingers and many of the country’s major trade union leaders about the EU, and the call for a “people’s vote”.
However, John McDonnell did go on to call for a general election, and socialists must get behind that call and campaign to oust the Tories.
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Aussie teachers give lesson in solidarity
Lucy Honan
On 20 November in Australia hundreds of teachers from dozens of schools across Victoria and Brisbane walked out to protest against the offshore detention of refugees.
The atmosphere was charged with excitement as teachers, plus hundreds of supporters, filled the State Library forecourt in Melbourne to demand the government bring all kids and adults off Nauru and Manus immediately.
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Cuts lead Greek Public Radio to a partial medium-wave switch-off
After a meeting on February 17, the Administrative Board of the Greek Public Broadcaster (ERT) ordered the switch-off of eleven medium wave transmitters (MW) whereas only nine medium wave transmitters with their respective programs of the Greek Public Radio will keep operating. As it can been seen in the tables and the map below, in fact it is the high-power transmitters that survive, most of which are located near the border and had been used previously for the "International Network of ERA". Additionally ERT retains the frequency of the “First Radio Service” (729) and “Filía” (666) from Attica, and also the one of ERA Sport (792) hosted by the former Voice of America transmitter that was re-installed in 2002 at Malgara. A relatively low power transmitter in Florina will also be retained, probably because of its location being nearby to the FYROM.
The switch-off includes many historical transmitters; most of them have gracefully served YENED [military radio] and [its successor] ERA since the '60s and hosted initially the tranmissions of all regional services of ERA, before FM emerged as a technology. Their FM network started being installed during the early '90s and will remain as the only broadcasting medium for the regional stations that loose their medium wave transmitters. Nevertheless, including the FM transmitters installed after 2000, it seems to cover most of the regional stations' areas of interest. Though, no survey suggesting statistics for the medium wave listenership has seen the light. Please note that due to the transmission mode, as opposed to that of FM, medium wave propagates over long distances and can "overcome" great obstacles, which is valuable in mountainous areas; but it is an old technology with poor sound quality and tends to being abandoned.
The decision of the ERT has already started being implemented. It has already been confirmed that the transmitter E.RA. Sports in Attica (erstwhile YENED historical frequency), the transmitter of 9.58 of ERT3 at Malgara (1179) and those of E.RA. Tripoli (1314) and Orestiada (1080) have been already switched off. With this decision, ERT revoked any previous decision concerning the closure of AM transmitters. The official document was posted online and archived under the topic "Culture and Leisure" (!)
In our future articles we plan to deal with any problems caused by the switch-off. As the main reason given was to save energy, we should mention that the switched off transmitters had a cumulative power of 500 KW, while the ones which remain in operation consume about 760KW.
The tables and the map indicate the stations that remain in operation according to the announcement made by ERT, and the ones which cease operation as estimated by subtraction. The last list contains probably two stations that seems to have been out of operation in recent years, due to decommissioning of obsolete equipment and lack of qualified personnel, without having been officially dismissed (probably in Larissa and Heraklion).
Greek radio mediumwave switchoff:
Map representation of the public radio transmitters affected by the latest ERT decision
Remain open:
(KHz)
Emitted
1 Boyáti Attica 729 100 EPA 1 (NET 105.8)
2 Mégara, Attica 666 100 FILÍA
3 Málgara Thessaloniki 792 100 ERA SPORT
4 Corfu 1008 100 Local Program and National Programs
5 Komotiní, Rodópi 1404 100 Local Program and National Programs
6 Chaniá 1512 100 Local Program and National Programs
7 Rhodes, Dodecanese 1494 100 Local Program and National Programs
8 Zante 927 50 Local Program and National Programs
9 Flórina 1278 10 Local Program and National Programs
Interrupt function:
1 Ioannina 765 10 1968 Local Program
2 Lárissa 945 5 1965 Local Program
3 Heraklion 954 10 1972 Local Program
4 Attica 981 200 1963 NRA Sports
5 Peréa 1044 150 1947 102FM ERT3
6 Orestiada 1080 10 1970 Local Program
7 Málgara 1179 100 1997 958FM ERT3
8 Tripolis 1314 10 1968 Local Program
9 Pyrgos 1350 3 1959 Local Program
10 Vólos 1485 1 1948 Local Program
11 Serres 1584 1 1959 Local Program
12 Kavála 1602 1 1967 Local Program
13 Kozani 1602 1 1967 Local Program
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BS Aquino III is not president? DIE HARD III Herman Tiu Laurel 12/19/2011
BS Aquino III is not president?
Just as we said that Gloria Arroyo was not president when she was declared such in 2001 by Davide and again in 2004 by Congress (in an election where the Cojuangco-Aquino clan endorsed her wholeheartedly), so it is increasingly the case with the current Malacaang occupant.
When BS Aquino III became an accidental candidate in 2009 upon the death of his mother, Cory Aquino (an event played up to launch his campaign), the election that followed was soon hounded by suspicions on the PCOS (Precinct Count Optical Scan) machines of Smartmatic and the Commission on Election (Comelec)s removal of vital voting safeguards. Many became aware that the UV light ballot authentication, the digital signature of the Boards of Election Inspectors (BEI), and the voters receipt were all done away with. Even the highly irregular recall of 76,000 CF (Compact Flash) cards just a week before the polls raised a huge red flag.
Today, many of those suspected criminal acts are now confirmed, thanks to the findings of citizens election watchdogs, CenPEG (Center for People Empowerment in Governance) and AES (Automated Election System) Watch, after year-long investigations.
The following conclusions, which I abridge below, have been borne out of the painstaking efforts of information technology (IT) academics and experts alike:
On May 10, 2010, (Comelec) made available to the public the election results by precinct, town/city, district, province, and nation (via the Web site) http://electionresults.comelec.gov.ph/. A few months later this Web site was taken down. We believe that it is governments duty to make election data from this Web site publicly and freely available, because it is THE STORY of how the Smartmatic-Comelec partnership carried out the computerization of our elections, and whether the computerization exercise was successful or not (As such) we have decided to publish our mirror of this Web site, so that the data are available even if they are not anymore available (That) Web site is: http://curry.ateneo.net/~ambo/ph2010/electionresults/...
A number of researchers have begun work on the data in this Web site (discovering) many serious errors like: 1) 371 precinct election results with 10 voters or less, when the actual number of voters is 400 to 1000 for each of those precincts, 2) 8,939 precincts with no data at all, indicating a possible failure of transmission of data from the precinct to Comelec, 3) of the 67,162 precinct election results which contain data, 25,530 precinct election results have missing data in one elective position, or two or three or more (Such) missing data in one or more elective positions is a clear indicator of the presence of serious bugs which SysTest Labs already pointed out in its certification report to Comelec, which bugs the Technical Evaluation Committee and Comelec conveniently chose to ignore.
(The researchers cannot) stand by while Comelec makes another serious mistake in re-using the Smartmatic technology. First, Smartmatic has to install a substantial number of bug fixes in their system before they can get it to work for our elections. Second, Smartmatic cannot do these bug fixes by its lonesome self, since it does not own the technology the copyright to the software is by Dominion Voting Systems of Canada, and Smartmatic is not allowed to make any changes in the source code, and must wait for Dominion to write the bug fixes in its own good time. Third, the PCOS hardware is not adequate to implement the security features required by RA 9369, like: 1) the requirement of digital signatures by the BEI and 2) the planned fingerprint/biometric reader to be installed on the PCOS.
Kudos to experts Dr. Pablo Manalastas, Dr. Felix Muga and Dr. Philip Truscott of the Ateneo de Manilas computer science and mathematics departments for trawling data originally posted on the Comelec Web site, which had been inexplicably taken down.
Out of all the major findings, the most significant centers on the missing data in 25,520 precincts, which indicates that there were at least two different canvassing programs in use during the 2010 elections, one that was used in the 41,632 precincts that had a complete set of data and another that was used in the 25,530 precincts that had missing sets of data.
So they ask: How come there was more than one program in play? The obvious answer is that the original program that was supposed to canvass votes and transmit the results from those 25,530 precincts was replaced by another program.
As a result, The only way of discovering the actual results would be to open the ballot boxes in those 25,530 precincts and count or feed them into pre-tested PCOS counting machines. The results can then be compared to the results reported by the substituted software In the set up by Smartmatic, the consolidating computers apparently had no hand-shaking protocols that would have allowed them to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate sources (which means) the canvassing computers could have added to, subtracted from, or otherwise altered election results and then transmitted bogus returns.
The late IT expert Manuel Alcuaz had repeatedly stressed in the many forums he spoke, including my TV show, that the cheating in elections is not at the precinct level, where local and party officials are focused on, but at the municipal canvassing level, where the totals are very conveniently and easily manipulated with spurious inputs. Knowing this, he was thus incensed as the precinct level computerization was a big rip-off.
Since past Comelec officials (including its then legal chief) allegedly derived pecuniary benefits from Smartmatics PCOS machines, so are the present crop of Comelec commissioners and their supposed politician-clients perceptibly pushing for this patently fraudulent automated system for 2013 and 2016.
In the meantime, the political elite and its darling chief executive are creating political circuses left and right all to divert attention from the most crucial issues, including the question, Is PeNoy simply a Hocus-PCOSed president?
(Tune in to Sulo ng Pilipino/Radyo OpinYon, Monday to Friday, 5 to 6 p.m. on 1098AM; Talk News TV with HTL, Saturday, 8:15 to 9 p.m., with replay at 11 p.m., on GNN, Destiny Cable Channel 8; visit http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com for our articles plus TV and radio archives)
US will "absolutely" continue drone war on Iran
Even with the loss of not one, but two multi-million-dollar drones in recent weeks, the head of the US Defense Department says that America will “absolutely” continue stealth jets missions over Iran.
Despite these losses, the US Department of Defense is showing no signs of retreat, even if Tehran has insisted that they are well on their well to decoding the top-secret technologies under the hood of the recovered Sentinel. Speaking to Fox News this week, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said that stealth missions into Iran will continue “absolutely,” despite ongoing opposition from overseas..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/panetta-absolutely-iran-drone-831/
Secret documents reveal truth about American massacre in Iraq
President Barack Obama may have declared the war in Iraq over, but unearthed documents thought to have been destroyed are bringing to light gruesome details from a skirmish that the military wishes hadn’t happened.
Scouring a junkyard outside of Baghdad, a reporter for The New York Times recently came across 400 pages of interrogations detailing the truth behind a massacre of dozens of Iraqi civilians that was carried out by American troops in 2005 in the town of Haditha. The documents, once under lock-and-key, were supposed to be destroyed. The reporter, however, came upon the remnants of the slightly-charred file as he picked through the debris in the dump.
According to the reporter, the junkyard attendant was using pages of the paper for kindling as he roasted a dinner of smoked carp in a trailer on the site..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/documents-american-massacre-iraq-925/
‘Blue bra girl’ atrocity: Egyptian military police more than brutal (VIDEO)
The blogosphere is boiling at the cruel beating of a female protester by Egyptian military police, who continued battling protesters in Tahrir Square on Sunday. The clashes, into their third day now, have left 10 people dead and hundreds injured.
The video uploaded on YouTube Sunday reveals the extreme cruelty of the country’s law enforcers during the crackdown.
The army soldiers in full riot gear have been savagely beating a seemingly unconscious female protester with big sticks, kicking her and stomping on her chest. .... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/egyptian-military-cruelty-beating-079/
MANILA – John Clifford Sibayan, 19, is following the footsteps of his mother who is a teacher in a public school in Pampanga.
“There is nothing like teaching,” Clifford said during an interview. They do not only teach the students their lessons, for a public school teacher like Clifford’s mother, it’s more than giving education.
From his own experience during his practicum at Araullo High School in Manila, Clifford said, being a teacher in a public school is really tiring. But leaving the country for a better pay never crossed his mind.
“I dream that one day the system of education in our country will change. And that dream still prevails.” (Photo by Anne Marxze D. Umil / bulatlat.com)
“It’s really a tiring job. My work does not end in school; I still bring my work with me at home,” he said. Preparing for his lesson plan and grades also take his time. He handled five sections with 45 to 50 students. He also dealt with the lack of classrooms, chairs and other facilities. “Because there is no proper ventilation, I bring two handkerchiefs with me because of the scorching heat.”
Clifford is a fourth year student, BSE Major in Filipino at Philippine Normal University in Manila. He may sound dismayed when he told me about his experience but when asked about his plans for the future, Clifford said, he will still continue with what he has started.
Clifford’s stories about his practicum seems endless. He related that a student stole his classmate’s cellphone; about teachers doing all kinds of sidelines just to earn an extra income because of the low salary. His experience is like scenes in a movie that come to a reality and for Clifford, it was heart breaking. “That is why I don’t go to my mother’s workplace because I don’t want to see the poor children.”.... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/11/24/passion-for-teaching/
Mothers of missing UP students call for immediate arrest of Palparan et.al
In a resolution released Dec. 15, a Department of Justice (DOJ) panel found probable cause to file charges against retired Major General Jovito Palparan and his men for the abduction of UP students Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeño, and farmer Manuel Merino.
MANILA – Teary-eyed Erlinda Cadapan, 60, said she is somehow happy to receive the news. “I’ve been waiting for that for years,” she said.
In a resolution released Dec. 15, a Department of Justice (DOJ) panel found probable cause to file charges against retired Major General Jovito Palparan and his men for the abduction of the Mrs. Cadapan’s daughter Sherlyn, her companion who is also a UP student Karen Empeño and farmer Manuel Merino.
Sherlyn and Karen, both students of the University of the Philippines (UP), were abducted on June 26, 2006 by suspected soldiers under the command of Palparan, then commanding officer of the 7th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army. Since the two have gone missing, their mothers went to courts, police stations, military camps, hospitals and morgues in searching for them.
“My happiness is not complete. Until they surface Sherlyn, until I would be able to embrace her, I would not be really happy,” Mrs. Cadapan told Bulatlat.com in an interview..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/12/16/mothers-of-missing-up-students-call-for-immediate-arrest-of-palparan-et-al/
Navy Christmas party causes furor among military men By Mario J. Mallari 12/19/2011
Navy Christmas party causes furor among military men
The Navy’s holding of a “lavish” Christmas party has caused a storm of reaction from active and retired members of the military but Navy Flag Officer in Command Vice Admiral Alexander Pama downplayed insinuations that the gathering was extravagant and runs contrary to the austerity program of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).
Pama yesterday confirmed to the Tribune the Navy’s “Christmas Ball” at the Manila Hotel last Wednesday, the same day the Navy officially commissioned its latest addition to its fleet, the Hamilton class cutter BRP Gregorio del Pilar.
The Tribune report created furor against the Navy, stressing there was no justification for such ritzy gathering amid pronouncements of austerity measures in the AFP..... MORE
‘Sendong’ death toll soars to 652; US, China offer aid By Mario J. Mallari and Michaela P. del Callar 12/19/2011
‘Sendong’ death toll soars to 652; US, China offer aid
By Mario J. Mallari and Michaela P. del Callar 12/19/2011
The death toll from tropical storm “Sendong” has climbed to 652 with 808 others missing in Northern Mindanao region, particularly the cities of Iligan and Cagayan de Oro which were hit by massive flash floods during the wee hours on Saturday triggered by heavy rains, disaster officials yesterday said.
Benito Ramos, executive director of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), said their own count stood at 516 deaths and 274 missing. But he conceded that the death toll would likely go higher.
Gwendolyn Pang, secretary general of the Philippine National Red Cross, in a statement, also warned the numbers could climb further..... MORE
No major power disruptions in Mindanao during typhoon 12/19/2011
No major power disruptions in Mindanao during typhoon
Major power transmission lines of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) remain operational even as tropical storm “Sendong” continues to batter Mindanao.
The storm made landfall Saturday afternoon in Hinatuan, Surigao del Norte.
Power transmission service provider and grid operator NGCP continues to monitor the movements of Tropical Storm “Sendong” and its effects on power transmission facilities in Mindanao.
Necessary preparations and precautions have been implemented to minimize the impact of the storm on NGCP operation and facilities..... MORE
Solons laud Hataman’s appointment as ARMM OIC By Gerry Baldo 12/19/2011
Solons laud Hataman’s appointment as ARMM OIC
By Gerry Baldo 12/19/2011
Lawmakers yesterday hailed the appointment of former Anak Mindanao party-list Rep. Mujiv Hataman to the post of officer-in-charge of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) even as they expressed hope that the appointee would be able to institute reforms in the region.
Eastern Samar Rep. Ben Evardone, Aurora Rep. Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara, Citizens Battle Against Corruption Rep. Sherwin Tugna and Cavite Rep. Joseph Emilio Aguinaldo Abaya Jr. said that Hataman’s appointment brings a ray of hope for the ARMM which has been rocked with all sorts of anomalies, including election fraud and funds misuse.
“We welcome and support his appointment. He is a very capable leader. I’m sure he will be able to institute reforms in ARMM,” Evardone said following that announcement of Hataman’s appointment..... MORE
Body on Muslim welfare vows Hajj rules review 12/19/2011
Body on Muslim welfare vows Hajj rules review
Maintaining that its handling of the just concluded Hajj (Pilgrimage to Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) for Filipino pilgrims was not a failure despite some challenges, the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF) vows to institute further measures and review its existing policies and guidelines on Hajj to ensure more responsive and efficient management and supervision of ensuing Hajj.
Lately, the NCMF has to contend with the controversy on the shortage in Hajj visas that prevented some prospective Filipino pilgrims to join the said religious exercise this year.
The NCMF contracted earlier with the Saudi Ministry of Hajj for the accommodation and issuance of corresponding number of visas to 4,000 Filipino pilgrims this year..... MORE
‘Christmas Lanes’ lessen traffic on major roads 12/19/2011
‘Christmas Lanes’ lessen traffic on major roads
With Christmas Day fast approaching, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) said over the weekend the “Christmas Lanes” were able to alleviate the volume of vehicular traffic on major thoroughfares in the metropolis, especially those leading to shopping malls and other business centers.
MMDA Traffic Engineering Center head Noemi Recio cited as an example Del Monte Ave. in Quezon City which is now serving as an alternative route for motorists instead of using Quezon Ave., one of the metropolis’ busiest thoroughfares.
Recio said their monitoring showed that 50 percent of private vehicles that normally plied Quezon Ave. are now using Del Monte Ave. as their route..... MORE
Relocate dwellers living in hazard zones — solon 12/19/2011
Relocate dwellers living in hazard zones — solon
A party-list lawmaker yesterday urged the National Housing Authority (NHA) to provide preferential resettlement to the informal dwellers around the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), in accordance with government’s strategy to give the highest priority to the relocation of underprivileged families living in so-called hazard zones.
In House Resolution 2004, LPG/MA party-list Rep. Arnel Ty pointed out that the NHA is getting an extra P1.3 billion in next year’s budget to build additional resettlement projects.
“There is ample funding for community housing to allow the orderly transfer of settlers around our busiest airport,” said Ty, a member of the House committee on housing and urban development..... MORE
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Gabriela launches petition, vows more mass actions against price increases
“I know that the government is spending so much on the impeachment case. But the government should not forget that there are also other people, mostly poor, who are in need.” – Zenaida Espiritu, vendor
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
MANILA — While Zenaida Espiritu, 49, was tending to the plastic bags she sells for a living along the busy stretch of Carriedo, she stops for a while to check on what was happening near the LRT station. A member of the women’s group Gabriela approaches her and, soon, she found herself signing a petition paper.
“I can hardly provide a decent meal to my children because of the continuing price hikes,” Espritu said, when asked why she decided to sign the petition paper.She has five children. Two are already married and one has stopped going to school. The two youngest are still studying, one in second year high school and the other in Grade 4.
Espiritu has been a vendor in Carriedo since she was 16 years old. She said her life became harder each passing year. Her capital for the products she is selling has increased through the years. “When I started selling these bags, I bought them for only $0.37. But now it increased to $0.46,” she said, “Then, people would ask for discounts.”
She goes home with only $2.79 after a day of hard work from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Her husband does not have a steady income as a construction worker. Their meager income, amid the increasing prices of staple goods and services, is not enough for her children. “That is why I signed the petition paper. I hope that my signature could reach our government and heed our call.”
Gabriela, the country’s largest women’s group, has launched Altrapresyo(n): Alerto sa Pagtaas ng Presyo Network, a consumers campaign network that aims to secure one million signature to repeal the oil deregulation law and the E-VAT on oil products and basic goods and services. The group aims to submit the petition before the House of Representatives to oblige the lawmakers to listen to their demands.
Zenaida Espiritu signs the petition paper against increasing prices (Photos by Janess Ann J. Ellao/ bulatlat.com)
“If the Aquino government cannot do anything to address the consumers’ problems regarding the increasing prices of basic goods, women would do all possible means from protesting in the streets to the Congress,” Lana Linaban, secretary general of Gabriela, said, “We would call the attention of the Aquino government because our impoverished conditions and hunger would never be acceptable.”
Signing the petition
Along with the petition signing, Gabriela also conducted a free blood pressure reading. It goes well with their campaign Altapresyon, which literally means high blood pressure.
Espritu said she often has high blood pressure whenever the increasing prices of staple food never seems to stop. “My children’s school supply, gas, sugar and rice,” she added, “Before I only spend $0.58 for a kilo of rice. But now I spend $0.88.”.... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/02/10/gabriela-launches-petition-vows-more-mass-actions-against-price-increases/
Syria would not send troops to protect protesters at OWS – envoy to UN (Video)
Syria would not send troops to protect protesters at OWS – envoy to UN
UN is applying double standards towards Syria, the country’s envoy stated while addressing the General Assembly. He said that his country, like any sovereign state, has exclusive responsibility for maintaining security on its national territory.
“Every sovereign state represented here bears an exclusive right to protect its citizens,” Bashar Ja’afari said, addressing the assembly. “We in Syria could not imagine sending soldiers to defend OWS [Occupy Wall Street] protesters. Neither we nor any other government can imagine sending troops to protect demonstrators in London or Paris.”.... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/syria-envoy-un-assembly-221/
Anonymous describes the destruction of CIA.gov (VIDEO)
Following Friday’s crippling of the CIA’s official government website, an alleged member of Anonymous has uploaded a video explaining how the collective crushed the agency’s online presence — and why the CIA should have been ready.
A distributed denial of service, or DDoS attack, brought CIA.gov down for hours late last week, in one of the longest-lasting assaults credited to the online hacktivist group Anonymous — and also an attack on perhaps the collective’s largest target yet. With a DDoS assault, a website’s server is flooded with an onslaught of requests, essentially overloading its capacity and rendering it nonoperational. In a video uploaded to YouTube over the weekend, a member claiming allegiance to the loose-knit hacktivist group explains that the assault on the CIA’s servers is now out of their control and even apologizes for the attack, but adds that the move has generated attention towards something much more serious than just the cybersecurity status of the agency..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/anonymous-attack-video-cia-219/
FBI ‘spot the saboteur’ guide: Cash, snorkel, US Constitution
Fancy a quick scuba lesson before going on a last-minute trip to Hawaii? Paying in cash for a snorkel? Just shaved mustache because it doesn’t go with a dive mask? Big Brother will spot a terrorist: “See something, say something” policy in action.
The 25 flyers issued by the FBI and the Department of Justice give no mere Orwell creeps. Every area seems to be bursting with bombers: airports, beauty shops, construction sites, banks and internet cafes. Your tattoos master meets a bunch of them every day. Terrorists have taken to your favorite shop with train models across the street – remember how you pressed your nose against the glass after school? Now press harder: see something, say something, do something for your country..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/fbi-terrorists-guide-security-171/
Danger: Democracy-builders at work AN OUTSIDERS VIEW Ken Fuller 02/14/2012
Danger: Democracy-builders at work
In late December, security forces in Cairo raided US-financed groups, including the International Republican Institute (IRI) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI). The raids were part of an investigation into illegal financing. In public, Washington made disapproving noises and, according to an administration official cited by the New York Times, issued a much stronger message through private channels.
A month later, Egypt prevented Sam LaHood, Egypt director of the IRI, from boarding a flight to Dubai. In all, five IRI employees (three of them American) and six from the NDI (including another three Americans) were prevented from leaving the country. Obama had already warned Field-Marshal Tantawi, the Egyptian leader, that military aid ($1.3 billion per year) would be at risk unless the military regime took steps to democratize the country, referring specifically to the criminal investigation into the US-funded groups. After the travel ban, this warning was made public..... MORE
SM has it all NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Reyna 02/14/2012
SM has it all
Entering Week 5 of the impeachment trial of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona, and my attention is called to an “incident” at the SM Mall in Cebu. This, amid rising talk about an impending “coup” at the Senate, which I can’t, as of this writing, comment on until, and if, it really takes place.
Anyway. Currently screening at the SM City Cebu, all the way up to Feb. 16, is the much-touted Cinema One Originals Festival. It was supposed to have been a “powerful line-up” with the multi-awarded Ang Damgo ni Eleuteria (best Asian feature film award, Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival in Indonesia; Cinemanila 2010 Best Picture, Southeast Asian Category; and 34th Gawad Urian Best Picture),” other Cebuano-made films such as ’Di Ingon ‘Nato, My Paranormal Romance, Confessional and Imburnal, yet another Visayan-dialect film, but made in Mindanao. Plus, the 2011 Cinema One Originals Festival winners Ka Oryang, Six Degrees of Separation from Lilia Cuntapay, Mga Anino sa Tanghaling Tapat, Castas de la Soledad, Sa Kanto ng Ulap at Lupa, Sa Ilalim ng Tulay and Big Boy..... MORE
Restitution VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 02/14/2012
With the reality of a good number of thieves entrusted with public offices supposedly for public service plus the fact of many racketeers, especially in the multinational corporate world, and with the well-known wealthy political dynasties, not to mention the known gambling agencies with their big-time gambler patrons, it is but right and proper not only to know, but to remember well the mandate of restitution of stolen goods — be this in kind or in cash.
And the imperative of restitution is not merely a fundamental ethical norm but also a basic moral principle. Otherwise, people would have a country and a world that would provide a haven for burglars and crooks, swindlers and racketeers — thereby making honesty a joke; integrity a farce..... MORE
CJ’s dollar records fake —PSBank’s Tiongson By Benjamin B. Pulta and Angie M. Rosales 02/14/2012
TUPAS ACCOUNT UNCOVERED, PROSECUTORS IN HOT WATER FOR BOGUS ‘EVIDENCE’
CJ’s dollar records fake —PSBank’s Tiongson
By Benjamin B. Pulta and Angie M. Rosales 02/14/2012
Annexes attached by the House prosecution panel in its request for a subpoena by the Senate Court on the Philippine Savings Bank (PSBank) as “evidence” against the head masgistrate were admitted to be fake documents by the bank’s branch manager, who said the records presented by the prosecution to obtain the subpoena of the dollar accounts allleged to be owned by Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona were not the same as the bank documents the bank has, although the numbers al-legedly corres-pond to Corona’s dollar accounts.
The illegally-obtained document which later turned out to be a fake copy of a bank paper was slipped by the House prosecution panel in its request for a subpoena from the impeachment court on the bank papers of Corona..... MORE
CJ: Noy committed impeachable offense 02/14/2012
CJ: Noy committed impeachable offense
Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona yesterday accused President Aquino of having committed impeachable offenses, as he charged, in a press statement, that the impeachable violation of the Constitution came when he came out swinging by openly urging the senator-judges to disobey the fundamental law, or the Charter, whihc the president has personally sworn to uphold.
In the same statement, the Chief Justice denied having committed any wrongdoing saying that “throughout (his) public career,” and that he has never been involved in any anomaly or scandal. “Whatever assets my wife and I have acquired are products of 45 years of toil and honest work.
My wife and I have been privileged to come from families of comfortable means. We grew up some of the best exclusive schools in the country. I went on to earn several postgraduate degrees, including a Master’s degree in Harvard Law School. Our parents provided well for our future. Family resources continue to be available to us anytime.”.... MORE
Noynoy ignores impeach rap filed against him By Fernan J. Angeles 02/14/2012
Noynoy ignores impeach rap filed against him
By Fernan J. Angeles 02/14/2012
President Aquino is not bothered about an impending impeachment bid filed against him by a “lowly citizen” in connection with what had been reported as an anomalous sale of a 3.4 hectare parcel in Baguio City to the SM Investments Corporation.
In an ambush interview with Palace reporters, Aquino cited reasons why he wouldn’t bother to think on the reported impeach bid against him by one Danilo Lihaylihay who had already asked the minority congressmen to initiate impeachment proceedings against him for culpable violation of the Constitution, high crimes, and betrayal of public trust for the alleged anomalous sale of the 3.4-hectare government property known as “Governor’s Park” along Session Road, Baguio City in September.
“Inasmuch as I wanted to, I would rather not mind it considering that this person did nothing but to press charges against practically all the people in the government,” Aquino said..... MORE
SC upholds CA ruling over SMC’s claim of Malinta Estate ownership By Benjamin B. Pulta 02/14/2012
SC upholds CA ruling over SMC’s claim of Malinta Estate ownership
A ruling by the Supreme Court (SC) has upheld the ruling of the Court of Appeals (CA) in favor of the San Miguel Corporation (SMC) over the ownership of more than 8,000 square meters in Valenzuela known as the Malinta Estate.
In its decision by Associate Justice Mariano del Castillo, the high court’s First Division upheld the CA decision of April 21, 2006 decision on the case.Chief Justice Renato Corona and Associate Justices Teresita Leonardo-de Castro, Martin Villarama, Jr. concurred.
The CA had affirmed the trial court’s judgment, which dismissed a complaint for the nullification of the title of SMC predecessor-in-interest, Ramie Textile , Inc., over Lot 1131 of the Malinta Estate and granted Ramitex’ prayer for the cancellation of petitioner Leoncio Oliveros’ title over the subject property..... MORE
Pestao lawyer disputes claim insisting on suicide angle 02/14/2012
Pestao lawyer disputes claim insisting on suicide angle
The accused in the Pestao case are trying hard to divert public attention from the murder charge filed against them by the Office of the Ombudsman for the killing of naval Ensign Philip Pestao in 1995.
There are circumstances in the killing of Pestao and certain acts that indicate not only the involvement of the accused in the murder but also in the subsequent cover-up of the crime.
Their assertion that Pestao committed suicide was belied by forensic experts local and international who were presented by the parents of the victim before various investigative agencies over the course of the last 15 years since the murder was committed..... MORE
All structures in Caloocan can withstand strong earthquake — Echiverri 02/14/2012
All structures in Caloocan can withstand strong earthquake — Echiverri
The administration of Caloocan Mayor Enrico \"Recom\" Echiverri yesterday assured the residents that it has been maximizing its resources by conducting regular inspections of all buildings and other similar structures in the city to determine if they can withstand a strong earthquake.
Echiverri issued the statement in the wake of the recent tragedy that struck the Visayan region that resulted in scores of casualties and damages to property.
Just the same, the Caloocan chief executive has directed anew the members of the City Engineering Office to make sure that all buildings in the city are thoroughly checked on their structural integrity and compliance with the building code..... MORE
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Manila gov’t stops add’l financial aid to teachers 02/14/2012
Manila gov’t stops add’l financial aid to teachers
Manila City Hall authorities yesterday clarified that the additional monthly financial assistance being given by the city government to the teachers had to be stopped after the Commission on Audit (CoA) questioned its legality.
This clarification was issued by Ric de Guzman, chief of staff and media bureau director, who cited a memorandum dated Nov. 21, 2011, questioning the grant of the said allowances to teachers and other national employees stationed in Manila which was issued by city auditor Chito Ramires.
De Guzman said that the P2,000 regular financial assistance is being given to the teachers on an updated basis and the only one was questioned by CoA was the P500 being given additionally on top of the P2,000..... MORE
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A terrible mistake EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 04/22/2012
A terrible mistake
There seems to be something terribly wrong with the policy tack Noynoy is taking on the territorial dispute with China, in that instead of the conflict calming down to a level where negotiations are possible, the situation is headed to a critical boiling point.
It is the President’s call on what moves the government will take amid the conflict which is an age-old dispute and not necessarily a source of concern, if handled intelligently and professionally.
The country also has territorial issues with neighbors other than China but it seems that Noynoy has made it among his obsessions that encompass his perceived political enemies, domestic and abroad, to take a hardline stance against China..... MORE
The mouse that roars FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 04/22/2012
The mouse that roars
Noynoy and his foreign office, along with his defense and military chiefs, are at pains to portray themselves before the Filipinos at least, that they will not take the bullying of China sitting down.
The trouble is, Noynoy and his boys are no different from the mouse that roared but that ended up being swallowed by the huge lion.
The Noynoy administration certainly knows it is no match for China even in that claimed stand-off. The truth is, the Philippines blinked some time ago during the first few days of the stand-off when, after sending its antiquated American warship that gave the Philippines the early edge in that the Philippine soldiers were able to get into the Chinese fishing boats with their illegal marine catch, blinked by quickly pulling out of Scarborough Shoal, with the lame excuse of its having to return to port to refuel..... MORE
Caught on tape: Chilling new video of US border patrol beating immigrant to death
A new video shows Anastacio Hernadez-Rojas lying on the ground in the fetal position, circled by at least a dozen federal agents as one repeatedly shocks him with an electric stun gun.
The video was shot by a passer-by and was obtained by the lawyer for the Hernandez-Rojas family as they push on with their wrongful death suit against the US government.
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) aired the video and an interview with the woman who shot it as part of a new documentary. In May 2010, Seattle resident Ashley Young was crossing a bridge from Mexico to the United States. In the "Need to Know" report, Young said that she saw the man lying on the ground was handcuffed..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/mexico-border-patrol-death-video-649/
Security Council changed prerogatives in Syrian crisis – Churkin to RT
The latest resolution on Syria, unanimously passed in the Security Council, may finally put things “on the right track” in the troubled country, Russia’s envoy to the UN exclusively told RT.
RT:The Security Council has just agreed to boost the number of observers. Do you think this time around the mission will be a success?
Vitaly Churkin: We certainly hope so. In fact we are very pleased with the outcome of today’s vote, which happened less than two hours ago. It was Russia who took the initiative in introducing the draft yesterday morning. And it took us just 26 hours to bring it to fruition, to the unanimous vote of the Security Council on a rather complex resolution, both politically and technically, no mean feat by Security Council standards, let me tell you..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/churkin-un-resolution-syria-interview-652/
UN Security Council votes to send 300 observers to Syria (w/ Video)
UN Security Council votes to send 300 observers to Syria
The UN Security Council has unanimously voted to pass a resolution increasing the number of ceasefire observers in Syria to 300. Meanwhile, the first wave of observers reached war-torn Homs.
The resolution is aimed at enforcing a truce in the conflict between the Syrian government and the opposition, which was signed last week, but has been broken numerous times since.
The final text was a compromise between two rival versions of the resolution proposed by Russia and the European Union, achieved after hours of negotiation on Friday night..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/un-security-council-monitors-syria-635/
I am the boss, not you, Filipino people NO NONSENSE Jacinto ‘Jing’ Paras 04/22/2012
I am the boss, not you, Filipino people
NO NONSENSE
Jacinto ‘Jing’ Paras
It is indeed ironic that during his oath-taking at the Luneta as President of the Republic, President BS Aquino said “You are my boss,” but at the Power Summit in Davao he told his audience, “you pay more or else there will be more blackouts in Mindanao.” This means that Mr. BS Aquino is after all not the servant of the people which he initially wanted to portray, but he is the boss and dictator as he dictates on the people of Mindanao what to do, instead of doing what the people had requested him to do which is to solve the power crisis that has gripped Mindanao.
The Power Summit which was held in Davao recently which was supposed to find solution to the power crisis in Mindanao, turned out a to be a big disappointment to the disgust of the attendees and stakeholders who expected a solution to the recurring blackouts lasting eight to 10 hours daily in Mindanao.
No less that the President was there to preside and this has provided hope to the people because the highest official was attending the summit and would provide an answer to the nagging question of how to solve the lack of electricity in their area..... MORE
Unfair to SM TABLETS OF STONE Larry Faraon, OP 04/22/2012
Unfair to SM
Poets do exaggerate. But poets need not overreact when poems “as lovely as a tree” are being “earth balled.” Obviously, the issue of SM City Baguio’s environmental “sin” has been stretched beyond poetic justice to overkill, leading to blatant injustice and unfairness to the SM conglomerate.
The environmental “messiahs,” ill-equipped with misinformation rushed too early to the streets carrying banners depicting SM as environmental fiends? Amid chants of, “we cut it all for you” and “greedy” in full media spreadsheets and screens.
The ranting caused misplaced bias and “rushed” judgments leading to the court issuance of a temporary environmental protection order (Tepo). Then surprisingly, there is the Catholic diocese of Baguio joining the fray by suspending the Eucharistic celebrations held regularly in the mall lobby as if SM is some sort of an ecclesiastical entity being slapped with church canonical sanctions..... MORE
Climate change or earth change VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 04/22/2012
Climate change or earth change
Which is what? Is it climate change that causes Earth change? Is it Earth change that affects climate change? Or is one simply giving rise to the other? Or are they in fact one and the same composite natural phenomenon?
This issue is not really unlike the interesting — and allegedly — profound century old question: Which is first, the hen or the egg? Round and round the answers go. If the chicken is first, then where is the egg it came from? If the egg is first, then where is the chicken that laid it?
The matter of climate change has been long since hogging the attention of people the world over. Foreign and local media continuously bring to focus either the great wonder of or the big fear about the changing climate all over the globe. Initiated by a known and familiar political figure in North America, he said that the ongoing change in the climate has been the origin of the large and significant movements of the soil — especially in the form of frequent strong earthquakes — not to mention the frequent deluge of water that causes frequent and destructive floods which in turn annihilates rice fields, roads, bridges and so on..... MORE
China’s PLA paper warns of armed confrontation By Rocky G. Nazareno 04/22/2012
COMMENTARY SAYS US-RP WARGAMES FAN RISKS OF CONFLICT
China’s PLA paper warns of armed confrontation
By Rocky G. Nazareno 04/22/2012
As Malacañang maintained yesterday that the government has been consistent with its position of not adding any more tension in its standoff with China over the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, a newspaper of China’s People Liberation Army (PLA) warned military exercises being held between Philippines and United States forces “have fanned risks of armed confrontation over the disputed area.”
Presidential deputy spokesman Abigail Valte, nevertheless, stressed that the Aquino administration had done its commitment to “de-escalate tension” in the area.
Valte issued the statement after the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) tagged as an “aggravation” a move by China to send a large patrol vessel to Panatag Shoal last Friday..... MORE
US forces being tapped for anti-insurgency bid 04/22/2012
US forces being tapped for anti-insurgency bid
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CCP) called President Aquino a liar as the leftist group bared the true intention of Balikatan, the joint military exercises between the US military and the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
Citing pictures taken by Reuters showing the exercises geared towards US involvement in local counter-guerrilla operations in the Philippines, the CPP said the President and his military leaders concealed the real objective of Balikatan.
“Clearly, Aquino and his military spokesmen are lying when they claim that the Balikatan exercises are only meant to boost the external defense capabilities of the Philippines,” said the CPP..... MORE
4 new purple crab species found in Palawan 04/22/2012
4 new purple crab species found in Palawan
Four new species of freshwater crab, bright purple in colour, have been discovered in the biologically diverse Philippines, by a team led by Hendrik Freitag, of Germany’s Senckenberg Museum of Zoology.
The tiny crustaceans were found in streams in remote areas of the Palawan island group.
“They are semi-aquatic and hide in burrows at the stream bank, which are usually found under boulders and roots,” Freitag said in a paper published in the latest edition of the National University of Singapore’s Raffles Bulletin of Zoology.
“Their eggs hatch directly into juvenile crabs and the creatures emerge at night to forage under water,” Freitag added..... MORE
Task Force formed to arrest Ecleo 04/22/2012
Task Force formed to arrest Ecleo
Caraga police regional director Chief Supt. Reynaldo Rafal on Saturday said the Police Regional Office-13 has formed a task force to arrest convicted killer Ruben Ecleo, Jr., Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association (PBMA) supreme leader and Dinagat Island representative.
Rafal said the Task Force was in response to Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Dir. Gen. Nicanor Bartolome’s order for Ecleo’s the immediate arrest.
“The task force will focus on the arrest of Ecleo,” Rafal told the Philippine News Agency..... MORE
House bill sets time interval before presumption of death By Charlie V. Manalo 04/22/2012
House bill sets time interval before presumption of death
By Charlie V. Manalo 04/22/2012
A lawmaker has proposed a one-year prescription for a person missing due to extraordinary forces of nature under the New Civil Code on the declaration of presumptive death needed for estate settlements.
“This bill seeks to help the victims to settle their successional rights over the estate of their departed loved ones who were declared casualties of a natural calamity without the unnecessary delay in the settlement of their estate,” said Kasangga Rep. Teodorico Haresco, author of House Bill 6015.
The bill seeks to amend Section 2, Article 391 of the New Civil Code on the Declaration on Presumptive Death..... MORE
‘Boy Bayong’ to help solve problem of plastic bags 04/22/2012
‘Boy Bayong’ to help solve problem of plastic bags
“Boy Bayong,” the EcoWaste Coalition’s favorite mascot for ecological and sustainable lifestyle, will stage a comeback amid the clamor for solutions to the plastic garbage crisis.
As part of the Earth Day 2012 festival at the Cultural Center of the Philippines today, April 22, “Boy Bayong” will greet and inspire the public to “think out of the plastic bag” and embrace eco-alternatives to the ubiquitous symbol of our throw-away culture: plastic bags.
“The fragile state of our environment requires a key revision to our inconsiderate consumption and disposal habits that tend to view Mother Earth as a boundless source of raw materials to be extracted and consumed and as a dumping ground for leftover toxics and wastes,” said Roy Alvarez, president of EcoWaste Coalition..... MORE
Higher penalty sought for theft of nat’l library, museum properties 04/22/2012
Higher penalty sought for theft of nat’l library, museum properties
Describing the penalty for robbing a national library and national museum as outdated, a solon is proposing the imposition of higher penalty for those convicted of stealing a property belonging to the two government institutions.
Marinduque Rep. Lord Allan Jay Velasco, author of House Bill 5774, justified his proposed measure, saying the accompanying fine is outdated considering the fact that the artifacts in a museum are priceless.
Under Article 311 of the Revised Penal Code (RPC), the penalty for stealing properties from the national library and national museum is arresto mayor and a fine of not more than P500..... MORE
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