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Treatment of osteoporosis
Recently, this term is often heard on television, mentioned on the pages of publications about health, talking about it and doctors. Why is it important and what is osteoporosis?
Under understand osteoporosis decrease in bone mineral density and disruption of its structure.
A bit of anatomy
Bone consists of a protein framework which skillfully woven mineral substance - calcium and phosphorus in the form gidroksiappatita and little magnesium, copper, silicon, fluorine, manganese.
It is a dynamic system that is constantlyupdated due to special cells: osteoclasts destroying old bone, and osteoblasts, synthesizing new. Full upgrade our skeleton is carried out in about 10 years.
Calcium - is a basic element of givinghardness and strength of the bones. Because of this, our skeleton is able to withstand not only the weight of his own body, but also a lot of stress on the tensile deformation, compression, for example, when moving heavy loads or falling. In osteoporosis imbalance between the destruction of old bone and synthesis of new, washed calcium, "support" becomes brittle.
Thus, the main risk of osteoporosis -it fractures that occur without a cause or a minor injury, such as falling from a height less than its growth. The most common fractures in osteoporosis - fracture of the radius in the "typical place" (wrist); hip, especially the femoral neck; vertebrae in the lumbar and thoracic spine. If the fracture of the radius is not so terrible condition, fractures of the spine or hip - lead to the loss of the ability to move independently in the long term, and in old age can be disastrous. they are very difficult to heal.
First of all - women after menopause.
On the structure and strength of bone big impactIt has the function of sexual glands, especially in women. Estrogens have a protective, tonic effect on the bone. With a decrease in their number (menopause) there is a progressive loss of minerals and change microarchitectonics skeleton, leading to increased fragility and risk of fractures. Extinction androgen in men function operates similarly, but to a lesser degree.
According to statistics, about 35% of women and 24% of men over age 50 have osteoporosis (called the primary).
The earlier menopause, the soonerIt starts to decrease bone strength. If the operation is the removal of appendages at a young age was carried out due to illness, osteoporosis will be developed with the youth.
The second most common group of reasonsosteoporosis (the so-called secondary) - presence of disease, leading to bone structure of a breach or require serious treatment to certain drugs. Here are some of these states:
Hypogonadism (hypoplasia and / or reduced function of sexual glands).
Syndrome and disease Cushing's (excessive production of its own steroid hormones).
Hyperparathyroidism (increased parathyroid function).
Connective tissue diseases: rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, etc. The disease often has a bad effect on bone strength, and in addition, these patients are often forced to take steroids, one of the side effects of which -. osteoporosis.
Chronic renal failure.
Diseases of the blood (lymphomas, leukemia, multiple myeloma) and cytostatic therapy.
Still, most doctors and patientsdeal with the primary, "age" osteoporosis. However, it is developing it not at all. Why does one person have a tendency to fracture and the other will live to a ripe old age "whole"? How to determine whether it is necessary for you to take measures of protection and prevention?
Factors that trigger the development of osteoporosis
In principle, yes, but the changes on the radiographappear rather late when lost 20% of bone mass or more, i.e. for early diagnosis and prevention of this method is not very suitable. On the X-ray visible consequences of osteoporosis: changing the shape of the vertebrae, fractures, strains and fractures themselves.
Thus, to diagnose and monitor osteoporosis treatment efficacy necessary by specific methods.
Is osteoporosis manifests itself clinically, what some symptoms?
Unfortunately, the early symptoms of osteoporosis exist. Basically symptoms appear late when complications arise.
The pain is often accompanied by osteoporosis, it arises when the deformation of the vertebral bodies, reducing their height when the vertebrae and their processes begin poddavlivat nerve roots, and of course, fracture. In this case, so-called characteristicCompression fractures in the vertebra when appears the transverse line breaking under the weight of the weight of it pressed, sags, acquiring a wedge shape. Pain in this case can be quite stubborn. The spinal cord is usually not damaged.
When thus deformed morethe vertebrae, the height is reduced, mitigated the waist, the back becomes round, edges closer to the pelvic bones. In severe cases, forming a hump.
The pain is accompanied by neurological disorders: paresthesia, numbness of the skin, convulsions.
The most serious complication of osteoporosis - fracturehip. The femur along with the spine carries most of the load weight and, in addition, the movement is impossible without it. Older people should try to avoid such an injury, leading to disability.
Treatment and prevention of osteoporosis
First, all people should try to collect at a young age the maximum bone mass, so it was enough for active longevity. For this purpose it is necessary to avoid the risk factors for osteoporosis (see. Above).
However, proper nutrition, rational exercise, a healthy lifestyle are relevant at any age. It is not only preventive measures, but also the key to successful treatment of osteoporosis.
The daily requirement for calcium - 1000-1500 mgday. Such an amount it contains about 6 cups of milk or fermented milk products (fermented baked milk, yogurt), 1.5 kg of cottage cheese, 200 g of solid cheese. In fish, nuts, color and sea kale also have calcium, but less digestible and he of them more difficult than from milk.
Not all people carry the milk in suchquantity or like cottage cheese. Therefore it is necessary to make up a deficiency of this important element of the reception of the drugs, particularly effective combination of calcium and vitamin D (calcium-D3 Nycomed, komplivit calcium-D3).
It should be borne in mind that a loved calcium gluconate very low digestibility, multivitamins are not suitable (the concentration there is too small for the prophylactic and therapeutic effect).
In addition, the treatment of osteoporosis musttaking and other means, directly retard bone destruction and improving its synthesis. Currently, there are quite a lot of the drugs, the different mechanism of action, cost, reception multiplicity. All are sufficiently safe and effective. What medicine is necessary for you, the doctor must decide!
Groups of drugs for the treatment of osteoporosis
Bisphosphonates:
Alendronate (Fosamax, ostalon, osterepar, tevanat, foroza);
Ibandronate (Bonviva, bondronat);
risedronate (Actonel);
zolendrovaya acid (blaztera);
They slow resorption (resorption) bones have lasting effect even after treatment discontinuation.
Strontium renelat (Bivalos).
It increases bone formation and prevents its destruction.
Calcitonin: synthetic salmon calcitonin (Miakaltsik, boar).
It prevents bone resorption, has a good analgesic effect.
Parathyroid hormone (forsteo).
It stimulates bone formation.
Denosumab (shed, eksdzhiva).
It inhibits bone resorption.
Estrogenic substances (hormones do not!), Raloxifene (Evista).
In some cases the use of hormone replacement therapy (in young women with early, including surgical, menopause).
Numerous studies in our country and abroadIt shows that antiresorptive therapy significantly increases bone mineral density at the 12.3% in the different parts of the skeleton, which is accompanied by a decrease in the frequency of fractures at 37-49%. However, to achieve such a good result you need to carefully follow the doctor's recommendations for dosage of multiplicity, duration of admission. Separate dose reduction, taking a day, etc. - Reduces the effect of the drug to zero. Our website recommends - to tune in the long-term treatment. The result - your courage, young posture, activity and longevity!
Be healthy!
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We were delighted to be invited to sing at the Alzheimer's Society Christmas Carol Concert on 10th December in the beautiful Sheffield Cathedral
Minerva sang a selection of Christmas songs for the sell out audience. Check out our Facebook page to see videos of this event. Minerva Chorus on Facebook
Concert at Storrs Road Methodist Church 16th November with Katy Strudwick's young musicians
Successful World Record Attempt for Children in Need 7th November at Crucible Theatre Sheffield
Concert with Ireland Colliery Band at St John's Church Walton 5th October
Singing in Chesterfield Library 29th June
Concert 16th June at Chesterfield Library as part of the Andrew Marples lunchtime concert programme.
Saturday 23rd March - Concert with Minerva Chorus and Katy Strudwick Flute Ensemble.
Saturday 9th March 2019 at Elder Yard Unitarian Chapel as part of the Andrew Marples lunchtime concert programme.
Minerva performed some of their new repertoire items - Danny Boy, 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) and Scarborough Fair to a very appreciative audience.
Saturday 8th December - Rose Hill URC Chesterfield - with Phoenix Concert Band
Saturday November 17th - Chesterfield Library with Finest Hour and 4 on Demand
Saturday October 20th– Staveley Speedwell Rooms – 7.30pm Concert with Ireland Colliery Chesterfield Brass Band and Bella Siempre - listen to our ensemble performance of Danny Boy click here
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16th June 2018 Spring Concert at St John's Church, Walton Back Lane along with students of Katie Strudwick to raise funds for the Friends of Somersall Park
24th March 2018 a concert at Holymoorside URC Church
17 March 2018 Concert at Elder Yard Unitarian Chapel in Chesterfield
On 3rd December 2017 we performed a medley of winter songs, and a few Christmas carols with family, friends and invited guests at the Staveley Centre.
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11th November 2017 concert at St Peter's Church, Holymoorside 'A Time to Remember', an evening of reflections and remembrance celebrated in word and song.
2nd July 2017 we sang for family, friends and invited guests at Holymoorside Village Hall
26th November 2016 Winter Mixture, a concert of seasonal songs and readings, as part of Holymoorside Arts Festival.
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Celebration and renewal - a letter from Andrew Marples
Since 1990 anyone has been able to come along and listen to a high-quality Saturday lunchtime concert in Chesterfield Library Theatre. I co-founded them to provide musical performances that were free of charge and at a time of day when transport wouldn't be an issue. All the concerts are organised voluntarily and they run solely on audience donations. No funding of any sort is received. They are well-supported with an average of 100 people coming along each week. I organise 16 concerts a year and have done this for 30 years. To celebrate this, and to ensure the series can continue well into the future, I am raising £9,000 to buy a replacement for the worn-out grand piano in the Theatre.
The piano is used in 80% all of the lunchtime concerts and is a vital community resource - many other groups use it for their events too. Over the years I estimate almost 450 Saturday lunchtime concerts have been performed of every style (classical recitals, choir concerts, jazz sessions, folk groups, orchestras, young performers platforms, etc) using over 5,000 musicians and listened to by close to 50,000 people. They are truly community events and a cultural lifeline for so many people and especially the older generation. Most of the performers are local (within 50 miles) and many have been several times, as they enjoy the experience so much. I have personally performed as pianist, singer or conductor in at least 120 concerts as well as dealing with all the administration and attending physically running every concert. The piano is the centre-piece of the concerts and we can only continue if we have a new instrument. The funds have to be raised by public donations. Please donate to this appeal and secure free music for the future - come to a concert if you are in the area and see what it's all about. Find details of the concerts in Chesterfield library or online at: www.visitchesterfield.info
We are officially Guinness World Record holders!
Caroline, Sue, Linda, Anne, Lynne and Catherine took part in the Guinness World record attempt at relay singing, on 7th November at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield.
Along with 384 Sheffield schoolchildren and other local choirs we successfully set the world record for the number of people in a singing relay (one word each person, singing four songs).
All in aid of Children in Need.
£1,070 raised for Derbyshire Stroke Centre
Some members of Minerva Chorus and Ireland Colliery Chesterfield Brass Band presenting a cheque for £1,070 to the Derbyshire Stroke Centre.
Vacancy - Musical Director
Sadly Nigel Williams our much loved Musical Director has left us recently.
We are now on the search to find someone to fill his shoes.
If you or anyone you know is passionate about a capella, with experience of directing a chorus and looking for a new challenge please get in touch via our website or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
We are delighted to welcome new Chorus Members Mandy, Gilly, Bec and Helen
We have added some new audio clips of our reportoire onto the About Us page here's a taster -
We are currently welcoming applications from potential new members, however successful applicants may be placed on a waiting list if we have enough people already singing in that voice part.
Please complete the form on the Contact Us page if you would like to join, or ask us anything about our chorus.
The inaugural rehearsal of Minerva Chorus took place at Wadshelf Village Hall in September 2015.
See our calendar pages for details of our forthcoming concerts in 2020
Welcome to the Minerva Website
We are a small, friendly group of women who love close harmony unaccompanied singing. We rehearse in Walton, Chesterfield, on Monday evenings and sing a mix of songs from a variety of eras and genres. We are committed to working together to improve our vocal techniques and produce a quality sound.
We aim to perform several times a year in the North Derbyshire and South Yorkshire area, including at least one performance to support a charity or community group of our choice. Please see our Events Page for more information on our recent and planned performances, and if you are interested in inviting us to sing at your event please contact us
We are open to applications from women who wish to join our chorus - from all voice parts, Soprano 1, Soprano 2, Alto 1 and Alto 2. There is no requirement to read music as we provide tracks to help learn the songs. Please see our How to Join Us us page for more information.
Under the inspiring direction of our Director of Music, Nigel Williams, and Chorus Director, Janeen Parker, we take on some challenging repertoire and set ourselves the highest standards of performance. Please see our About Us page for more information.
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Day 13-15
There's so much going on, I just can't keep up with writing about all of it. If I'm going to bother writing at all, I want it to be a decent read, though every once in a while I'm tempted to go the route of, 'Went to mountain. Baron found boar. I shot boar. We ate boar.'
Anyway, day 13 was January 3rd, first hunt of the year. A friend of mine who also hunts, wanted to tag along, and bring some of his son's friends. They work in a restaurant that has wild game meat on the menu, and were interested in seeing how that meat ends up on the table. I'm always getting requests nowadays to do the guided mountain tour, and I'm usually happy to oblige them, but less happy once we start walking together. Everyone has trouble keeping up, and we probably sound like a marching band moving through the mountain. Baron got on a boar pretty early on, had it bayed for just a little bit, I ran up just as the boar charged him, then wheeled and took off. Baron ran to avoid the charge, and I saw the puzzled look in his face when he turned around and there was no boar left.
Momo, an adult Kishu female I used to own, had a nice trick in her bag where she'd run to avoid the charge, but not in a straight line. She'd run in a circle, always looking back at the boar. As soon as the boar stopped, she'd go back after it.
So this first boar got away, and a second small runner was all we bumped into after that.
The next day, number 14 of the Baron boarfest, I headed out with my brother, pushing further back into the area we've been focusing on this year. This was the first time I've hunted this part of the area, but we found a nice trail to walk. Around 30 minutes in, Baron moved downhill, and I heard the tell tale sound of a boar busting through the undergrowth. This one was a runner as well, and I was a bit pissed because we were just walking above a small hamlet, and the boar was running straight down to it. We ended up having to do a forced run at full speed 1.5km downhill in full gear, only to get to a bamboo thicket above a stream, where we found Baron had lost the boar. It was a hot, long, sweaty march back uphill.
Once back up at the top, we started on our merry way away from civilization, and around 5 minutes in, we could see Baron had picked up scent. We were on a trail, with around 80 meters of slope below us, a bit of underbrush growing up through a thicket of pines. Baron moved slowly and carefully, around 15 meters below us, while we moved quietly, waiting for the inevitable bay. When it came, we experienced a repeat of the boar orchestra. The deafeningly loud sounds of an angry herd of boar is awe inspiring. I moved lower, Baron slightly in front of me, baying the biggest of the bunch.
I stopped 10 meters above and behind him, and suddenly 3 little boar ran up toward me and froze 3 meters away. The boar were all glued on Baron, and absolutely oblivious to me. I asked my brother above me whether he wanted a little one or a big one. He wanted the big one. So, I waited for a shot, trying to line up the large female. The boar charged once, then moved back, trees were in my way. Baron got a bit close, and she came after him, barreling past me, but too close behind Baron to take a safe shot. Baron moved downhill, the sow after him, and he got barreled over, after which the boar decided she'd had enough and made her getaway downhill. Baron chased the boar for a bit, and while my brother and I were planning our move to cut off the herd, he came back.
By this time we assumed all the boar were gone, but Baron moved behind us, uphill around 5 meters, and started baying. My bro thought that he was just reacting to the fresh scent still lingering, but I reloaded, and moved around below Baron. Sure enough, a nice little boar was in some underbrush. I popped off a round, the boar dropped downhill, injured, and Baron caught it. While I wanted to take the second shot, they were moving around a bit much, and since the boar was small I told my brother to grab it. Not so cool since he ended up not grabbing the back legs, he tried to pin the boar down, and Baron adjusting to get hold of the boar better ended up nipping his hand. I have to admit that this kind of happened because I was again trying to break out the camera, doh. Anyway, we got the boar, around 30kg of him.
The next day, day 15, my friend came out again. His bike broke down on his way over, so I hunted with Baron in the morning, going after the herd. We didn't get to them, as we hit deer first. I've never seen deer in this part of the prefecture before, but we found some large beds, prints, markings, and droppings. Of course, Baron then inevitably found something (I assume the deer), gave chase, and ended up 2km downstream. I kept fairly close for just under a km, but then gave up and waited for him to come back. We trudged out of the mountain together to pick up my friend, and together we hunted the rest of the mountain. After around an hour, Baron moved downhill and started running. While I never got a look, following his track later we found a couple mouthfuls of deer fur. Seems Baron got pretty close. At least he came back quickly this time, after around 200 meters.
We were running out of time, so started heading off the path and through some heavy undergrowth on the most direct route to the mountain road we could walk back on. I ended up guiding us into the wrong ravine, but as luck would have it, we were in the right place. Climbing out we had bamboo all up the right slope, but moving past it we found a spot to climb out. Baron moved past us, and into the bamboo we had just walked underneath. I whistled my command to tell him we were going the other way, and while he acknowledged me, he disobeyed and headed into the bamboo. Sure enough seconds later there were fireworks set off in the thicket, with Baron flying off after a fast moving large boar. I heard Baron get charged around 50 meters away, and he came running back to get us. As much as going into the bamboo is a pain, I trusted him, and followed, and moments later Baron wheeled below and behind us to flush a smaller boar. It ran directly toward my friend and I, and we fired at exactly the same moment, and the boar rolled. It was 4pm, and we had our boar. Carrying it out of there was not exactly fun, but that's all part of the hunt. The larger boar was still moving around nearby, but we were out of daylight to go after it.
So that brings us to 9 boar in 15 outings this season.
Dude you're killing me! Can you send some live うりぼうto me so I can get the population up in my neck of the woods? Good job to Baron and you bro. You guys are doing a killer job on those hogs.
Kato January 18, 2013 at 1:13 PM
You need some 里山 over there, your population would explode! Can't wait till you move over here!
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Emanuel Miller Receives Release From Virginia Tech, Best Available Canadian
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Emanuel Miller’s phone, and those in his circle will need to have their battery charged at 100% as his recruitment re-opens. He has officially received the release from Virginia Tech and will be exploring options for next season.
Before Buzz Williams accepted the job at Texas A&M, Miller was committed to Virginia Tech. He brings the type of aggression, tenacity and motor that a coach like Williams can rock with.
“I’m still in contact with Coach Williams, we still have a great relationship, but there’s no harm in seeing what’s out there for me. It’s a big decision.”
Illinois, Oklahoma, St. Bonaventure, Pitt, and a slew more had offered the high motor wing prior to his commitment to Virginia Tech.
During this year’s season at Prolific (Golden State Prep) he has tremendously improved his three point shooting, making him a threat from all angles. He attacks hard and with a quick first step on close outs and can finish above the rim.
On the other end, he’s a pest defensively and can lock up on multiple positions. When we use the term motor to describe a player, this is where its best suited, Miller has a motor.
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Do Not Be Fooled by Government
Don't fall for legalities. Understand the deceptions.
Documentary Essays, Articles, Studies and Books by Steven D. Miller
If Government controls every aspect of your life, learn about freedom.
Learn to recognize the lies that enslave you —
Overcome the obstacles —
Map your plan to escape —
You can be easily tricked out of your rights.
Most people are deceived out of their rights by bullies that impose cleverly written laws that appear to apply to everyone* — but which only apply to a few government granted privileges. Learn their dirty tricks and avoid enslavement.
The US Supreme Court tells us that there are three reasons that you are tricked: “an official command, … has some coercive tendency, either because of ignorance of their rights on the part of those whom it purports to command or their natural respect for what appears to be an official command, or because of their reluctance to test the … validity by litigation.” — We will study these later.
You are under strong delusion.
The lessons presented here will expose lies of “the powers that be” — “the system” — the hidden “they” — “the shadow government” — that control all branches of government.
Understand the deceptions. Repent — turn around — go back to traditional values. Stand fast in the liberty that was bestowed on America, and be not enslaved again by bondage. — The truth shall set you free — But don’t blame the Globalist agenda.
Globalists have a one-world government. Their first agenda is to destroy all existing governments. They infiltrate all levels of governments to create chaos and social unrest. Just look at the facts:
The U.S. health care system IS NOT ABOUT health care.
American’s life expectancy is 31st in the world.
America’s infant survival rate is 34th in the world (38th on the UN list). Perhaps there is a reason.
And Childbirth deaths of American moms have reduced our maternal survival rate to 46th in the world.
U.S. Child Autism rates are skyrocketing. One in 2,500 in 1975. One in 250 by 1995. One in 150 in 2007. One in 40 in 2016. Spot the trend.
U.S. Child Asthma rates are skyrocketing since 1975 despite much cleaner air. Perhaps there is a reason.
FOR CHILDREN UNDER 5 years old: one-in-25 had chronic illness in 1972. This is now one-in-six. FOR CHILDREN 6 TO 15 years old: one-in-32 had chronic illness in 1972. This is now one-in-five. Perhaps there is a reason.
Here are my studies on Health Care:
Socialized health care,
Regulations of prescription medications: are they Constitutional?
Child Vaccinations: Mandatory or Voluntary?
The U.S. education system IS NOT ABOUT education.
In standardized tests of 15 year old’s, the U.S. ranks 17th in reading, 23rd in science and 31st in math. Yet the U.S. spends more per pupil than any other country.
Average childhood IQ rankings now make America 26th in the world. Perhaps there is a reason.
Public Education is the tenth plank of The Communist Manifesto. Collectivism cannot recognize individual rights, but this is the culture that your children learn.
The U.S. Supreme Court keeps ruling over, and over and over again that it is the parents’ duty to educate their children.
Bullies run the schools. The worst bullying occurs in schools with anti-bullying policies.My essay Public Education of Children contains fundamentals for all homeschoolers.
The court system IS NOT ABOUT justice. Perhaps there is a reason.
America’s Lost Liberty is my essay is about the injustice of Judicial activism.
The U.S. welfare system IS NOT ABOUT welfare. It is administered in a way that weakens the poor.
The UN Poverty Index lists U.S. poverty at 17th.
OECD ranks the U.S. poverty rate as the lowest in the developed world. Perhaps there is a reason.
Here is my essay on Welfare. I provide ample proofs that the U.S. Constitution does not allow for individual welfare.
Forced charity is NOT charity. It is socialism. Socialism cannot recognize individual rights. State violence is the inevitable result of ever increasing tax collection. Welfare encourages single parent families.
The U.S. banking system IS NOT ABOUT banking. It has nothing to do with capitalism. Perhaps there is a reason.
American private banks disappeared in 1869 after the Supreme Court impaired the obligation of contracts with a 10% tax, in their decision Veazie Bank v. Fenno, 75 US 533. This paved the way for the Federal Reserve Bank.
A central bank is the fifth plank of the Communist Manifesto. Communism cannot recognize individual rights, not even in America.
Inflation eats away our savings in a nation where Congress HAS the duty to regulate the value of money (Article 1, section 8) — but the Federal Reserve Bank has NO authority to manipulate the value of money. So why does inflation continue to shrink the value of a dollar ?
Here is my essay on banking: Banks are the enemy of Capitalism.
The regulated U.S. food industry IS NOT ABOUT providing you with wholesome foods. Perhaps there is a reason.
The U.S. FDA allows 1,452 food additives and an additional 47 color additives. Not including the USDA additives. While the European Union allows only 12 additives. If you eat the typical American diet, you will die a typical American death. Read my blog about the Food Disparagement Laws.
I don’t have an essay on Genetically Modified food, but here is a movie that explains the controversy. Here.
Lawyers ARE NOT ABOUT counseling people who are in trouble, or defending rights. They are destroying us. The U.S. has four percent of the world’s population and 80% of the world’s lawyers. Lawsuits increase the price of every industry they touch because consumer costs must share in the cost of litigation. This was a 2012 article — it is much worse now. Back in 1978 we had a chance to eliminate this plague. U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice warned that 50% of American Trial Lawyers are too incompetent to represent anyone.
TIME Magazine April 10, 1978 quotes Chief Justice Warren Burger warning us: “We may well be on our way to a society overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated.” The same TIME article also tells us: “a former president of the American Bar Association, said that he would not trust 20% to 25% of all lawyers.”
And now there is talk about using asset forfeiture laws to seize and sell automobiles for going 5 MPH over the speed limit. Welcome to your Novus Ordo Seclorum New World Order.
Here is my article on lawyers; Can you trust your lawyer?
Consumer Protection laws ARE NOT ABOUT protecting the consumer. Prices are outrageous. Prices of health care, education, food, housing, and even death, are all driven up by regulations. City Planners are always specifying the best products and best features and latest construction practices for all new buildings. Price is not a consideration — They made your decision for you. Same thing with health care — the “standard of care” requires the medical community to order tests for rare conditions or risk being sued by lawyers gone wild.
The same globalists that infiltrate all levels of all governments (except for a few like China, Iran, Vatican) also dominate large multi-national corporations (WTO, mainstream media, IMF, Federal Reserve, etc) to prevent sovereign nations from exerting even the meekest attempt to remain independent. Our anti-trust function of the Department of Justice is helpless to control them.
If our decay just doesn’t make sense to you, find out the reasons why.
Join me in pondering the lies that enslave us.
The Word Deceptions.
Ever since the Garden of Eden, those who play god speak with forked tongue. But just as Eve was sentenced to death for being deceived, universal laws still apply to us today. In 1770 we were warned that If you don’t wise up you “will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
You can often avoid enslavement by understanding the government’s meaning of their word “Must“
Law Dictionary definitions are very different from English Dictionary definitions. Even legislated terms can be different than law dictionary terms.
Do not be fooled by the lawyer’s term “persons“. And understand why corporations are persons.
The consequences of remaining silent.
Persons, people, resident, inhabitant, citizen and denizen. These changing definitions mean different things to different people.
Don’t confess to a legal status that you don’t understand. Starting in ancient law there is a push to change your status to a presumed contract. Here is my essay on Presumed contracts that ensnare you.
Beware of legal lingo.
Don’t be fooled. Learn how to read legal statutes. They use language tricks to trap you. The word must means may. The word shall sometimes means may. Sometimes may means must. The word or means and. The definition of regulate keeps changing. The word Required does not mean mandatory. Laws are merely directory if they try to regulate a right.
Democracy. There is a reason that this word does not appear in the U.S. Constitution.
And an essay on how lawyers keep changing the definition of the word license. Here.
The Authority Deceptions
Throughout the history of mankind, usurpers of legitimate governments bestow themselves with power. Learn to confront their mutiny.
A counterfeit is a close copy of an original. Learn to recognize the original if you see it. But don’t fall for counterfeit government, credentials, laws, or judicial process.
CIVICS is no longer taught in public schools. We have been deceived about our civic duties ever since 1787.
Here is a civics course in five pages. A must-read for homeschoolers near age 18.
After more than two centuries of deception, we now have no concept of our responsibility to control our civil servants. And our duty to avoid deception.
The Constitution requires a balanced budget.
This essay explains the forgotten history of direct taxes.
The Constitution does not change.
The U.S. Constitution is not a living document.
Here is my full explanation of why we cannot vote to change a Constitutionally limited government. First, it is because congress cannot vote to commit mutiny. Secondly, all laws repugnant to the Constitution are null and void from their inception.
Police Powers of the State
Why do States exist?
The Myth of Government Benefits
Ever since the Garden of Eden, false authorities offer benefits to seduce those who want to be like gods.
You still have no right to covet your neighbor’s wealth in order to live more comfortably.
No one can force you to be free — but anyone can entice you to be a dependent. The received law of the land in America: “a state of dependence will inevitably oblige the inferior to take the will of him, on whom he depends, …”
Every Law Dictionary will tell you “The civil laws reduce an ungrateful freedman to his original slavery” — Taking benefits is the same as asking for slavery.
Things government forgot to tell you about the Social Security System. You did not want to take care of your own old age planning. Enslavement is what you asked for. You got what you wanted.
SSNs: Mandatory or Voluntary?
Getting a Social Security Number is always voluntary. (More… and More… and More… ).
And here is my SSN-Not-Required PowerPoint presentation.
My essay on Welfare is linked above.
You lost your rights when you voluntarily confessed, that you are an ungrateful socialist who needs government help to manage your life. Applying for benefits is a confession that you are too irresponsible to manage your own affairs. You become a permanent ward of the federal government.
Liberty and Justice for all who can qualify.
Most people disqualified themselves from both freedom and justice. They waived their rights. Find out why. 6 pages.
America will not become the Land Of The Free until we are once again The Home Of the Brave.
Hearty individuals need to restore our ethics to traditional values. Timid submissive wimps needed not apply. Find out more about your opportunity to restore your birthright.
The Myth of License.
License is for licentiousness.
Driver’s License: Mandatory or Voluntary? Is “driving” a right or a government granted privilege? This is my second most popular essay.
Who owns your car? Here is proof that the government owns “your” car. This is my most popular essay.
Pet licensing: Mandatory or Voluntary?
How the Lawyers changed marriage.
The lawyers have destroyed marriage, and now anything goes.
According to the U.S. Supreme Court, marriage is a relation for life .
Adultery was once a felony that was also the greatest of civil damages. Now it appears as a protected right.
Find out more about the planned destruction of America.
Did you waive your right to earn wages, thereby making your wages taxable?
People are deceived out of their rights by legalities they did not understand.
A forced signature is not a signature. It is a crime to force a signature.
What did you voluntarily sign, under penalty of perjury, on a permanent irrevocable federal document, that tricked you out of your rights?
How do you know if you have waived your rights?
Rights only come with responsibilities. If you cannot be responsible enough to manage yourself, then DO NOT seek help from the last resort — government “safety-net”.
If you volunteer into the federal government, by availing yourself of federal benefits, you confess that you are ungrateful for your freedoms.
The courts agree that “A citizen of the United States is a citizen of the federal government”– Kitchens v. Steel, 112 F.Supp 383
Civil Law in the U.S.
Here are maxims of law enforced by every court, to explain why we must be controlled.
When a government is overthrown, the over-throwers do not demand allegiance from the people. Children at government schools must be indoctrinated to violate their parents’ culture. The next generations will be ignorant of traditional values.
Now that everyone was taught to automatically worship an artificial entity, the Real ID laws can demand allegiance. Even though the U.S. Supreme Court once declared that forced allegiance is always abhorrent in the U.S.
Wake up and notice the boot on your head
All your life, you have been taught to resist Truth.
AMERICA HELD CAPTIVE — Part 1 — How to recognize freedom if you see it
And don’t miss topic #15 What about Jury Duty?
AMERICA HELD CAPTIVE — Part 2 — How to recognize authority when you see it
AMERICA HELD CAPTIVE — Part 3 — How to recognize your slavery when you see it.
Every Law Dictionary will tell you “The civil laws reduce an ungrateful freedman to his original slavery”
AMERICA HELD CAPTIVE — Part 4 — How to recognize oppression when you see it
AMERICA HELD CAPTIVE — Part 5 — How to recognize conspiracy when you see it
AMERICA HELD CAPTIVE — Part 6 — How to recognize martial law when you see it
AMERICA HELD CAPTIVE — Part 7 — How to recognize tyranny when you see it
Is there an honest lawyer?
Attorneys must attorn. If you hire an attorney, you have confessed allegiance to their system.
They cannot help you attack the feudal barbarism that enslaves you.
Are you an enemy of the State?
The Social Compact Theory of government is the theory that you agreed to submit to government. It did not exist under the U.S. Constitution.
People are deceived out of their rights** by legalities they did not understand.
If you don’t know your rights, you will lose them. If you don’t know how to defend your rights in their courts, you will lose them.
You cannot overcome your slave attitude until you understand your rights. You cannot set yourself free until you know why you were trapped.
Selective Service Registration: Mandatory or Voluntary?
Income Tax: Mandatory or Voluntary?
Graduated Income Tax is the second plank of the Communist Manifesto. Communism cannot recognize individual rights, not even in America.
And don’t be fooled by Government intrusion into your private life. Here is my essay on Privacy Issues in American History.
Knowledge leads to Wisdom
Learn to recognize government deception. Learn to stand up to government bullies and lawyers.
Water rights.
The official “explanation” why all water belongs to the State.
What is wrong with socialism?: Part one. Two millennia of moral ethics reject socialism.
What is wrong with socialism?: Part two. Why Social justice hypocrites must deny that we are all created equal. Even though it is their major premise.
Something is fishy in the United States. Environmentalists have destroyed the fishing industry. Special court rules prevent them from redress of grievance.
From whom do the kings of the earth exact tribute?
Understand that direct taxation of citizens throughout history has always been prohibited since Biblical times. And proof that the IRS is not an agency of the U.S. government.
An Easter Quiz to introduce you to my free PDF download on the only divine credential of Christ.
We were born free with The three rights of all mankind.
Here is the understanding of our rights under the original meaning of the U.S. Constitution.
Governments are instituted among men to secure Creator-endowed unalienable rights. You had a God-given right to free-will. The received-law-of-the-land recognized your right to free-will.
It is because you had an unalienable right to free-will that governments would protect you from all known methods of compulsion.
We are all created equal. Freedom in America
No equal would ever salute another equal. One only salutes superiors. Equals will not consent to be governed.
This is a short essay to prove that you waived your rights, even your religious liberty.
You were free from federal laws until you volunteered.
You volunteered by applying for federal benefits.
Rights only come with responsibilities. Government encourages us to be irresponsible. The civil laws reduce an ungrateful freeman to slavery. Since you confessed that you are ungrateful for your freedom, the civil law in America has a right to control you.
eBooks by Steven D. Miller
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Family Rights. The State owns your children. Find out why. $6.99, 92 pages.
The Citizen Cannot Complain. Why have Americans lost “the rights of all mankind”? $4.50
Oaths. Christ told Christians to never swear. The United States Supreme Court keeps ruling that forced oaths are abhorrent. $4.50
Unlicensed Marriage. Christian weddings were never solemnized prior to the year 1536. They were not licensed in the U.S. until the 1820’s. $6.99,
Census. They have used Census data against us in the past. A court once ruled that: “Right to be free from compelled disclosure of names of household members is within right of privacy protected by Constitution.” $9, 118 pages.
You are our only hope.
Think before you Speak — Read before you Think.
Insightful Quotes
\"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
— Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1782
\"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
\"Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so!”
— October 27, 1964 Ronald Reagan speech on television “A Time for Choosing”.
[Ronald Reagan was a former Democrat]
\"Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. … The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing. ”
— JOHN ADAMS, Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law No. 3, Boston Gazette, 30 Sept. 1765
\"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. ”
— Albert Einstein, letter to Jost Winteler, 1901.
\"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. ”
— Benjamin Disraeli, Contarini Fleming – A Psychological Romance, Part 6, Chapter 3
-- Benjamin Franklin, November 11, 1755; Reply to the Governor.
“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”
-- Thomas Sowell, August 18, 2000 column
“Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.”
The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
— Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, Roman Senator, circa 100 AD, Annals of Tacitus, Book III, page 27.
“The giver of the law most owes the law allegiance. He of all beings should behave as if the law compels him. But it is the universal failing of mankind that what we are given to administer, we promptly presume we own.”
-- H.G. Wells, OUTLINE OF HISTORY, 1920, speaking to the excesses of the Popes during the Dark Ages
\"None are so hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. ”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities, 1809
\"The tax collector is never esteemed a lovable man. His methods are too blunt and his powers too obnoxious.\"
-- attributed to President Woodrow Wilson, Seattle Times, August 16, 1981, page H1
\"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.\"
-- Abraham Lincoln
\"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing\"
-- Edmund Burke, April 23, 1770
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.”
-- Patrick Henry, June 5, 1788 quoted in Elliot’s Debates Vol 3, page 45
\"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he breaks, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime.\" -- John Philpot Curran, July 10, 1790
\"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.\" -- Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)
\"Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trampling on the rights of others you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.\" -- Abraham Lincoln, September 11, 1858
\"It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.\"
-- Horace Greeley
[Stop getting your religion from people who want to enslave you.]
“Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C.
“No man survives when freedom fails, ...
And those who cry ‘appease, appease’ Are hanged by those they tried to please.”
-- Hiram Mann
\"in questions of power then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.\"
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, 17 November 1798
\"To violate man\'s rights means to compel him to act against his own judgment... there is only one way to do it: by the use of physical force. There are two potential violators of man’s rights: the criminals and the government. The great achievement of the United States was to draw a distinction between these two — by forbidding to the second the legalized version of the activities of the first.\"
-- Ayn Rand essay \"Man\'s Rights\", April 1963 issue of The Objectivist Newsletter
“Timid men ... prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.”
-- Thomas Jefferson, April 24, 1796, Letter to Phillip Mazzei
\"Waivers of Constitutional rights not only must be voluntary, but must be knowing, intelligent acts done with sufficient awareness of the relevant circumstances and likely consequences\"
-- U.S. Supreme Court in Brady v. United States, 397 U.S. 742
Maxim of Law:
\"The civil laws reduce an ungrateful freedman to his original slavery\"
Libertinum ingratum leges civiles in pristinam servitutem redigunt.
\"Those who already walk submissively will say there is no cause for alarm. But submissiveness is not our heritage. The First Amendment was designed to allow rebellion to remain as our heritage.\"
-- US Supreme Court, Laird v. Tatum, 408 US 1, page 28
“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish ... the diffusion of knowledge among the people is to be the instrument by which it is to be effected.”
-- Thomas Jefferson wrote to Pierre S. Dupond de Nemours on April 24, 1816
\"...but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he already knows ... what is laid before him.”
-- attributed to Leo Tolstoy, 1894\"
\"The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been
introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a
philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.\"
-- attributed to J Edgar Hoover in The Elks Magazine issue of August 1956
\"Where-ever law ends, tyranny begins, ... whosoever in authority ... makes use of the force he has under his command ... which the law allows not, ceases in that to be a magistrate; and, acting without authority, may be opposed, as any other man, who by force invades the right of another.\"
-- John Locke\'s Second Treatise of Government, Sec. 202.
\"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. \"
-- Samuel Adams, speech at the Pennsylvania State House, 1 August 1776
\"I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.\"
-- Thomas Jefferson letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush - Sep. 23, 1800
“...and Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They [socialists] always run out of other people’s money. It’s quite a characteristic of them.”
-- British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher BBC interview, Feb. 5, 1976
\" The individual may stand upon his constitutional rights as a citizen. . . . He owes nothing to the public so long as he does not trespass upon their rights... An individual may lawfully refuse to answer incriminating questions unless protected by an immunity statute.\"
-- U.S. Supreme Court, Hale v. Henkel, 201 US 43, at page 74
\"But should the People of America, ...while it is practicing Iniquity and Extravagance; ...while it is rioting in rapine and Insolence: this Country will be the most miserable Habitation in the World.\"
-- John Adams letter to Massachusetts Militia, 11 October 1798
\"We have no Government ... capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition, Revenge or Galantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution .... Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.\"
\"But freedoms of speech and of press, of assembly, and of worship may not be infringed on such slender grounds. They are susceptible of restriction only to prevent grave and immediate danger to interests which the State may lawfully protect.\"
-- U.S. Supreme Court in WV Board of Education v. Barnetee, 319 U.S. 624 (1943)
\"The privilege against self-incrimination is neither accorded to the passive resistant, nor the person who is ignorant of his rights, nor to one indifferent therein. …. It cannot be claimed by attorney … It is valid only when insisted upon by a belligerent claimant in person.\"
-- US v. Johnson 76 FSupp 538
‘Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.’
-- John Webbe, in an essay published in Ben Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette on April 1, 1736.
“A nation of well-informed men, who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them, cannot be enslaved.”
-- Henry Stuber biography of Ben Franklin in the 1793 edition of Franklin’s autobiography.
“If Virtue and Knowledge are diffused among the People, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great Security\" --Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, quoted in Our Sacred Honor, Bennett, page 217, 1779
\"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.”
-- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 19, 1787.
“While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.”
-- Samuel Adams letter to James Warren quoted in The Writings of Samuel Adams, Cushing, ed., vol. 4, page 124, 1779
Edmond Pendleton, speech in Virginia Ratifying Convention June 5, 1788 debated Patrick Henry in his opposition to the phrase “We the People”: “Permit me to ask the gentleman who made this objection, who but the people can delegate powers? Who but the people have the right to form government?”
“It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.”
-- Richard Henry Lee letter to Colonel Martin Pickett, quoted in The Letters of Richard Henry Lee, Ballagh, ed., vol. 2, p.411, 1786
“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.”
-- Thomas Paine, Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.38
\"... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? ... Let them take arms...\"
-- Thomas Jefferson on November 13, 1787 letter to future Congressman William S. Smith
[Those were not the words of an angry young radical fighting in the Revolutionary War. This was the former Governor of Virginia, and Ambassador to France, the man who proposed the Bill of Rights.]
5G radiation Dangers. The Cooking of Humanity.
* Laws that are promulgated ONLY to specific persons who are performing government granted privileges. If you are not performing a privilege, you are tricked into volunteering. You were ensnared into legalities by your respect for what appears to be authority. Learn the rules of Statute construction and find out why.
** Many people think that rights come from government. They have been fooled. Rights do NOT come from government. Government can only take away rights. The Bill of Rights DOES NOT grant any rights. The Bill of Rights adds further restrictions on government. The bill itself (Link) stipulates its purpose:
in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added”.
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Islam and Spiritualism (12 Jun 2019 NewAgeIslam.Com)
Islam as a Charter of Life: Signs and Quality of a Believer - X
By Sirajuddin Aziz
FEAR is a feeling or trait that co-exists with courage in the psyche of a human being. Fear has many facets and it manifests itself in various formats, at various stages of man’s growth and maturity. A child ordinarily is fearsome of darkness; an adult might fear the unknown. To attain spiritual maturity it is necessary to overcome fear of such nature. However, a true believer is devoid of fear, barring the fear of Allah Subhanahu.
‘O ye who believe, Fear Allah as He should be feared…” (III: 102).
This verse firmly establishes the first and foremost virtue of a believer, that he only fears Allah.
Believer(s) are expected to remain firm and united. They are to be a homogenous community, with aims of common good. “Hold fast, all together by the Rope, which Allah stretches out for you, and be not divided among yourselves; and remember with gratitude Allah’s favour on you, for ye were enemies and He joined your hearts in love, so that by His Grace ye became brethren..”. It follows therefore that a believer cannot sow seeds of discord amongst men; on the contrary, he has to display with conviction and faith, feelings of love towards his fellow men. Believers, when glued together will always remain, a force to reckon with; in supple words, Holy Quran guides that believers must know that there is only strength in unity.
It is incumbent for believers to strive towards upholding of what is good for society and what is not!
“let there arise out of you, a band of people, inviting to all that is good, enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong; they (believers) are the ones to attain felicity (III:104).
It is significant to remember here that the ‘invitation to good’ and ‘abhorrence to wrong’ is to be exercised within the ambit of the methodology employed by the Holy Prophet (PBUH) in the propagation of Islam. The merciful prophet invited by highest standards of personal excellence of character, we must remain cognizant of the fact that prophet acquired from the ‘Makkans’ the title of Al Amin and Al Sadiq; much before he proclaimed being a messenger. Hence for furthering a righteous society, believers within the meaning of this verse cannot resort to force; they are first and foremost called upon to use the power of inspiration, through their own good conduct and behaviour.
For such believers, Allah says,
“on the day when some faces will be lit up with white” (III: 106) they will be in the light of Allah’s mercy…” (III: 107).
Believers are assured of receiving His mercy, only if their character pronounces the attributes of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) in their everyday life. At another place in the Holy Quran, believers are mentioned as,
‘in the case of those who say, ‘our lord is Allah,’ and further “stand straight and steadfast, the angels descend on them..” (XLI: 30).
The angels give the believers glad tidings of the Garden of Bliss and they (angels) say,
“We are your protectors, in this life and in the Hereafter, therein they shall have, all that your souls shall desire...” (XII: 31),
the later verse XII: 32 confirms,
“A hospitable gift from One oft forgiving , Most Merciful.”
Believers are expected to disassociate and distinguish themselves from those who sit and ridicule religion, through unwarranted discussions.
“When thou seest men engaged in vain discourse about our signs, turn away from them unless they turn to a different theme” (VI: 68).
This is an ordinance and duty is of immense significance, since the verse goes further to say,
“…if Satan ever makes thee forget, then after recollections, sit not there in the company of those who do wrong” (VI: 68).
This commandment is straight and clear, believers must only choose the company of those who do and enjoin only that which is right.
“To those who believe and do deeds of righteousness, hath Allah promised forgiveness and a great reward…” (V:9).
For those believers who may have sinned, Allah assures them of forgiveness,
‘O ye who believe turn to Allah with sincere repentance, in the hope that your Lord will remove your ills and admit you to the Garden…” (IXVI: 8).
Another major characteristic of a true believer is his Taqwa (Piety) or fear of Allah. The Quran mentions
“for believers are those who when Allah is mentioned, feel a tremor in their hearts”. (VIII: 2).
Such believers are regular in their prayers they spend freely from the bounties and gifts bestowed by Allah and put their entire trust in their Lord Almighty-
“such in truth are the believers, they have grades of dignity with their Lord and forgiveness.. (VIII: 4).
Amongst the believers, the Prophet established a code of brotherhood; this concept was of critical value in holding subordinate every mark of distinction relating to race, colour, creed etc. for it established that none is superior to other except on the basis of piety and God fearing element.
The Prophetic traditions and sayings relating to superior qualities of believers are several. In response to a question the Holy Prophet (PBUH) remarked, “That you (a believer) provide food and extend greetings to one whom you know or do not know”. The Prophetic sayings are: “He (believer) will not enter paradise, whose neighbour is not secure from his wrongful conduct”; “the believer is the one from whose tongue and hands the believers are safe” and most significantly “none of you believes truly till one likes for his brother that which he loves for himself” and “he is not perfect believer, who goes to bed full and knows that is neighbour is hungry.”
Allah and His Messenger, have put upon us, to imbibe and infuse within our personalities, such traits of honour and nobility. Today and now, why is it that our hearts do not tremble and why is it that it does not bleed on seeing the distortion and distance between holding such values and practicing them. From the shores of Atlantic to Indonesia society, where ‘believers’ abound possessing the ‘quality’ that Allah and His Messenger have set! O! Allah guide us towards correction and rectitude!
Sirajuddin Aziz is a senior banker with interest in Religion.
Source: Pak Observer
URL: http://www.newageislam.com/islam-and-spiritualism/sirajuddin-aziz/islam-as-a-charter-of-life--signs-and-quality-of-a-believer/d/118858
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Constitutional Rights of Nature
In September 2008 Ecuador became the first country in the world to declare constitutional rights to nature, thus codifying a new system of environmental protection.
Reflecting the beliefs and traditions of the indigenous peoples of Ecuador, the constitution declares that nature “has the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles, structure, functions and its processes in evolution.” This right, the constitution states, “is independent of the obligation on natural and juridical persons or the State to indemnify the people that depend on the natural systems.”
The new constitution redefines people’s relationship with nature by asserting that nature is not just an object to be appropriated and exploited by people, but is rather a rights-bearing entity that should be treated with parity under the law.
Mari Margil, Associate Director of the Environmental Legal Defense Fund, worked closely over the past year with members of Ecuador’s constitutional assembly on drafting legally enforceable Rights of Nature, which mark a watershed in the trajectory of environmental law.
Ecuador’s leadership on this issue may have a global domino effect. Margil says that her organization is busy fielding calls from interested countries, such as Nepal, which is currently writing its first constitution.
For all of the hope and tangible progress the Rights of Nature articles in Ecuador’s constitution represent, however, there are shortcomings and contradictions with the laws and the political reality on the ground. A fundamental flaw in the constitution also exists due to Correa’s refusal to include a clause mandating free, prior, and informed consent by communities for development project that would affect their local ecosystems.
“I expect them [the multinational extractive industries] to fight it,” says Margil. “Their bread and butter is based on being able to treat countries and ecosystems like cheap hotels. Multinational corporations are dependent on ravaging the planet in order to increase their bottom line.”
The new Mining Law, introduced by Ecuador’s own President Rafael Correa and backed by Canadian companies, which hold the majority of mining concessions in Ecuador, is a testament to Margil’s forecast. The Mining Law would allow for large-scale, open pit metal mining in pristine Andean highlands and Amazon rainforest. Major nationwide demonstrations are being held in protest, with groups accusing Correa of inviting social and environmental disaster by selling out to mining interests.
Carlos Zorrilla, executive director of Defensa y Conservación Ecológica de Intag, who has been a tireless defender of the environment against transnational mining companies, says that while the new constitution looks good on paper, “in practice governments like Correa’s will argue that funding his political project, which will bring ‘well being and relieve poverty,’ overrules the rights of nature.”
Yet even as Ecuadoran President Correa embraces the extractive economic model of development, the inclusion of the rights of nature in a national constitution sets inspiring and revolutionary precedent. If history is any indicator, Ecuadorians will successfully fight for the Rights of Nature, with or without their president.
Update by Cyril Mychalejko
When Ecuadorians drafted and passed a new constitution, which gave nature inalienable rights, the US media largely ignored this historic development. In the case of the Los Angeles Times, one of the few mainstream outlets to cover the story, the newspaper’s editorial board trivialized the development (“Putting Nature in Ecuador’s Constitution,” September 2, 2008) by suggesting it sounded “like a stunt by the San Francisco City Council” and that it seemed “crazy.”
“As ecological systems around the world collapse, we need to fundamentally change our relationship with nature. This requires changes in both law and culture, and ultimately our behavior as part of nature,” said Mari Margil, Associate Director of the Defense Fund, who is disappointed in how the US media largely ignored the story.
In Ecuador, at the time of the constitutional vote, the optimism over how the “Rights of Nature” clauses would translate into policy was guarded.
“As exciting as these developments are, it was also inevitable that the people in power would, and will, find ways to circumvent, undermine, and ignore those rights,” said Carlos Zorrilla, executive director of Defensa y Conservación Ecológica de Intag.
According to Zorrilla, a major disappointment has been President Rafael Correa’s new mining law.
“The law takes rights-to-nature loopholes and widens them so that giant dirt movers could easily drive through them,” said Zorrilla, who has been working with communities of Ecuador’s Intag region to resist mining and promote sustainable development. “To mention a couple of examples, the law does not prohibit large-scale mining in habitats harboring endangered species, nor the dumping of heavy metals in rivers and streams.”
Indigenous leaders responded by filing a lawsuit before Ecuador’s Constitutional Court in March 2009, seeking to overturn the mining law, which they believe is unconstitutional. Article 1 of the “Rights of Nature” clauses states: “Every person, people, community or nationality, will be able to demand the recognitions of rights for nature before the public organisms. The application and interpretation of these rights will follow the related principles established in the Constitution.”
Regardless of the ongoing struggles to ensure that the true meaning and scope of the constitution is upheld, Dr. Mario Melo, a lawyer specializing in Environmental Law and Human Rights and an advisor to Fundación Pachamama-Ecuador, believes that the nature clauses which reflect the traditions of indigenous peoples could offer a path to an ecologically sustainable future.
“I consider that the recognition of the ‘Rights to Nature’ as a progress on a global scale and one that deserves to be globally broadcast and commented on as a contribution from Ecuador towards the search of new ways of facing the environmental crisis due to climate change.”
The struggles of Ecuadorian social movements and the Ecuadorian government to uphold the “Rights of Nature” and to create a new development model that places human beings as interdependent parts of nature, rather than dominant exploiters of nature, is something we should continue to monitor and learn from.
Source: Upside Down World, September 25, 2008
Title: “Ecuador’s Constitution Gives Rights to Nature”
Author: Cyril Mychalejko
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With an exciting ceremony and music from Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Plovdiv passed on the title of European Capital of Culture to Galway / Ireland / and Rijeka / Croatia /. The event at the Boris Hristov House of Culture was attended by partners, representatives of the executive and local authorities, the diplomatic corps, guests from the family of European capitals and part of the teams that worked on the project over the years. The Minister of Culture Boil Banov also attended the event. The ceremony was broadcast in real time via platforms on the Internet and social networks and was watched by thousands of viewers.
The preparation of the spectacle was entrusted to the team of the State Opera - Plovdiv. Specially for the ceremony in her home country, virtuoso violinist Liya Petrova returned - an international artist, glorifying Bulgaria around the world, winner of the first prize at the prestigious Karl Nielsen Competition in Denmark, playing with the unique Italian violin Matteo Goffriller from 1690, provided by the Queen Elizabeth Music Chapel. The Chamber Choir of the Plovdiv Opera, under maestro Dian Chobanov, performed with the concertmaster Vieslav Novak, Academic Folk Choir of Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts “Prof. Assen Diamandiev” with conductor Prof. Kostadin Buradzhiev, soloists Svetlana Ivanova, Vera Girginova and Dimitar Panayotov - trumpet, young violinist from the "Dobrin Petkov" Music School Viktor Vasilev, ballet dancers Petya Koleva and Stefan Vouchkov. The set design was entrusted to Nikolina Kostova-Bogdanova.
Exactly 365 days after the official opening of the first European Capital of Culture in Bulgaria, we recalled some of the greatest moments and major events for the city. The projects, audiences, participants and the overall emotion of the exciting year were recounted by presenters - Lily Burzeva, who officially opened the European Capital of Culture one year ago from the 30-meter stage and a favourite of the Plovdiv audience - opera singer Mark Fowler, Australia. Guests reminisced of the most exciting moments of the iconic festivals - Opera open, Plovdiv Jazz Fest, Hills of Rock, Summer cinema in the park, Festival of lights, as well as initiatives to create the first urban font, work with community centers, international exhibitions, celebrating the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and hundreds of other events that will remain in the city's cultural history. The motto "together" was recreated on stage in memory of all that.
Plovdiv delivered its message to the 2020 titleholders in the form of plastic art pieces that join the Plovdiv 2019 motto and read: "LET'S STAY TOGETHER". The two symbols were made from a piece of syenite rock by the Plovdiv artist Atanas Hranov and were presented at the end of the event by the mayor of the town Zdravko Dimitrov and deputy mayor for culture Plamen Panov. „The legacy of the European Capital of Culture initiative is even more important today than the program in the title year itself, because the city has received enormous energy, visibility, opportunities that will continue to have a positive effect for many years after the title.“, Plovdiv Mayor Zdravko Dimitrov said in his speech. He stressed that in the coming years Plovdiv will continue to invest in culture to make the city one of the centers of arts in Europe.
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By PMarvelOn 26th October 2016 26th October 2016 In News
Kim Kardashian is building panic room inside her Bel-Air mansion
Following ‘severe trauma’ caused by Paris robbery, Kim feels unsafe even in her home.
The reality star struggles to recover from her trauma after being held at gunpoint by robbers in Paris on 3rd October, and she’s is taking greater measures to safeguard herself and her family.
Kim and Kanye West enlisted top level security following the ordeal, the best money can buy. Kanye has hired a company that protects government officials in war-torn countries with security team watching over Kim as well as her children North (aged three) and Saint (10 months) day and night. They are also building a $100,000 panic room in their LA home. The Daily Mail reported:
The panic room will have a large room, a bathroom and cameras. ‘It will be made to withstand a fire of over 1,000 degrees and a 7.0 earthquake,’ said an insider.
The construction will begin immediately. The cost could run as high as $100,000 depending on how much security she has installed.
Meanwhile, Kim (36) has been seeking the support of a therapist, who is reportedly on call 24 hours a day as Kim suffers panic attacks and flashbacks. “Kim can reach out any time, day or night,’ said the source. ‘It’s been very comforting for her. She’s not well. It’s worse than anyone knows. She’s been suffering severe panic attacks and refuses to be alone. She’s been having flashbacks and nightmares. She’s a nervous wreck. She gets especially anxious late at night. “When the kids are sleeping she has time to think and she just replays that dreadful night over and over. Kim’s ordeal is far from behind her.”
Kim’s mother Kris Jenner opened up about the star’s condition, telling E! News: “One day at a time. It’s a process.”
Kim and husband faced criticism for the lack of security afforded to the global star who was alone in her luxury Paris apartment with thousands of pounds of jewellery when the attackers struck. The family are now reviewing their social media presence following the robbery during Paris Fashion Week.
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Bronx morticians cope with humor
By Meredith Bennett-Smith on October 6, 2010 at 2:23 pm
Morticians who work for the Bronx medical examiner's office say they cope with the stress of their jobs by maintaining a good sense of humor. Photo by Meredith Bennet-Smith
When Gwen Coffiel gets behind at her job in the Bronx, her supervisor reminds her she’s “not sewing pants, the stitches don’t have to be perfect.”
Coffiel works in the medical examiner’s office, and her supervisor is certainly right about the pants – part of Coffiel’s job is working in the morgue, sewing up bodies after they’ve been autopsied.
It is this sort of gallows humor that helps keep the tight-knit bunch of mortician technicians sane in their workplace, the gray, eight-story Bronx morgue building, located on the outskirts of the sprawling Jacobi Medical Center in the East Bronx. Theirs is a sense of humor that can make a decapitated head rolling over your foot sound like a punch line, or compare an autopsy examination to a sewing workshop.
But there is a central theme. When you work everyday with remains, many of which would not be out of place on a slasher film set, they stop being people and become more like objects – objects to be examined and and toe-tagged before being sent on the next leg of their journey.
The Office of the Medical Examiner autopsies about 5,000 bodies each year across its five borough branches. The number of bodies per day varies, with as few as zero or as many as 20 needing attention. The medical examiner does not examine all deaths, however – only those that are unusual, unexpected or suspicious, said Ellen Borakove, an OCME spokesperson. If it is determined the death was caused in some way by another person, it is classified a homicide and the findings are handed over to the authorities. Police then make the decision whether to open a murder investigation.
Contrary to popular public perception, a homicide and a murder are not the same thing.
“A homicide means the actions of one person caused the death of another person,” Borakove said. “Did they (mean) to do it, or was it an accident? That’s something for the courts to decide. We don’t make judgments.”
But often cases are far from black and white.
Renay Schleretch had flaming auburn hair and a penchant for horror movies when she joined the OCME out of high school. One day, a boy came in with a hatchet stuck in his skull. The father claimed he had been trying to scare his son, to teach him a lesson, and the blade had just slipped.
The blade was embedded so deeply in the boy’s skull, however, that Scheleretch said she had to use all of her strength to pry it out.
“I’m strong, but it took a couple of minutes (to remove),” she said.
The sound the metal made as it was wrenched from the bone stuck with her for days, she said.
The City of New York offers counseling services for employees emotionally traumatized in the workplace. But Schleretech said she has never utilized them, preferring her own brand of release – her mortician’s sense of humor mixed with some very important alone time.
“Some guys will go bowling, go to bars,” Schleretch said. “I just go home, crack a beer and sit real quiet.”
Like many offices, the staff in the Bronx loves a good co-worker prank. A favorite form of veteran-rookie teasing is to wait until a new tech goes into the freezer, where all the bodies are kept, and then turn the lights off.
Eventually, you either find a way to cope or you find a different line of work, workers said.
Coffiel, who tried her hand as a former funeral director and preschool teacher before joining the OCME, said she thought about quitting on several occasions. And she’s blunt about what keeps her pulling on her scrubs again each morning – it’s a job.
During her first week with the OCME, Coffiel said she vomited every day. She and a co-worker took turns examining the body and running for the sink.
“I was like, I’m never going to eat again,” she said. “But then I got hungry.”
For former technician Hector Sotomayor, the job ultimately wasn’t enough. Sotomayor now works at a Jacobi Medical Center loading dock, within view of his old building. He said he transferred departments after waking up one day and realizing that “psyching himself out” everyday wasn’t working anymore. The OCME is not for everyone.
“You see a lot of depressing stuff,” Sotomayor said. “One time I had this kid who looked exactly like my son. I couldn’t handle it; I just started crying. (Another time) I had to assist on someone I knew. So I took wet tissue paper and put it on his face.”
On a recent afternoon, Coffiel and Schleretch sat in the medical examiner’s parking lot, swapping Marlboros and war stories. A driver casually pushing two gurneys passed not six feet from the joking pair, who never even looked up. The man loaded his maroon-swaddled charges into the back of a shabby hearse, pushed a black suitcase in after the corpses, slammed his doors and drove away.
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Author: Meredith Bennett-Smith
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History Aspects of my family history and related material.
RMS Orvieto The story of a steamship
"RMS Orvieto"
History of the Orvieto A brief history of the Royal Mail Ship Orvieto.
A postcard from the past A message sent on the brink of war, August 1914.
War-time actions A list of naval engagements in which she took part.
A partial list of the officers, December 1916 Some of the ship's officers identified.
Technical data and description Facts and figures about the ship.
RMS Orvieto miscellany Accumulated data from various sources.
Diary of Alfred John Hotton Extracts from a war-time diary.
Personal Log of Arthur Read A steward's diary from the troopship convoy of 1914.
Letter from Charles Peckham A letter written from the Orvieto in 1922.
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Mark Wagstaff has kindly provided me with this photograph of a certificate relating to the service of his great-grandfather, Bertram Ewart Randle, an Ordinary Seaman aboard the Orvieto.
It is dated 11th February 1919, signed by Randle, whose address is shown as 125 Princess Street, Foleshill, Coventry, and counter-signed by Ignatius J Hayes (Lieutenant Commander), whose signature can also be recognised on the silver tray presented to my grand-parents by the officers of the ship.
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The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan: 07/03/13
The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan by Nancy Springer is the fourth of the Enola Holmes series. It's a follow up to The Case of Left-Handed Lady.
Enola while on an investigation happens to meet up with Lady Cecily. With the help of a cheap pink fan, Cecily begs Enola for help. It doesn't take her long to figure out that Lady Cecily is being kept prisoner somewhere and needs her help again.
The color pink in a Sherlock Holmes adaptation, homage or spinoff is usually a nod to the first of the stories, A Study in Scarlet. Now usually these mysteries focus on the murder with the scrawled message, RACHE. Springer, though, takes the other half of the original as her inspiration — keeping her focus on feminism in the Victorian era — namely the forced marriage of a young woman.
On the personal front, Enola seems to be gaining ground with Sherlock. There's a great scene where Enola has to come to her brother's rescue. While he doesn't completely capitulate to her demands, he does silently agree to be her ally.
It's a short enjoyable edition to the series. It has the usual fun stuff of cyphers, disguises, and secret forms of communication.
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What are the problems?
What has been done?
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Hunting of marine mammals
Download8 Use of Living Marine Resources
Mariculture is a growing activity with potential to cause substantial environmental damage if not properly managed. OSPAR Contracting Parties should cooperate to keep broader scale effects under review as the industry develops.
Key OSPAR assessment
Environmental impact of mariculture
Mariculture is the cultivation of marine organisms such as fish and shellfish for food and other products. In 2006, almost 1.5 million tonnes of farmed fish and shellfish were produced in the OSPAR area representing 4.2% of world mariculture production Figure 8.7. Since 1998, production of finfish in the OSPAR area has increased by 57% mainly due to increased production in Regions I and II Figure 8.8. Shellfish farming, which is most intensive to the south of Region II and in Region IV, remained stable over the same period.
There are many concerns linked to mariculture, both in relation to rearing practices and to the widespread exchange and movement of eggs, embryos and seed, especially when different eco-regions are involved. Examples of these concerns include genetic interaction between farmed fish and wild stocks, transfer of parasites and diseases, spread of non-indigenous species, and dependence on industrial catches of wild fish to feed fish in mariculture. There are also concerns over a number of site-specific impacts from mariculture facilities, including:
Eutrophication as a result of nutrient enrichment from feeds and effluents.
Competition between escaped farmed fish and wild stocks for spawning grounds in freshwater habitats.
Release of chemicals used to prevent fouling of equipment or to treat parasites and diseases.
Displacement of bird and seal populations as a result of the use of scaring devices to discourage predation of farmed fish.
Impacts from the harvesting of shellfish and from seed collection for mussel farming.
Measures are in place to reduce impacts
OSPAR recommends best environmental practice (BEP) to reduce inputs of potentially toxic chemicals from aquaculture use. In addition, measures under OSPAR’s Eutrophication, Hazardous Substances and Biodiversity and Ecosystems Strategies provide a means to monitor, assess and regulate the impacts of mariculture. Various national and EU measures address the pollution and biodiversity impacts of mariculture. There are also international risk assessment protocols developed by ICES for assessing the risks of using non-indigenous species in aquaculture.
Use of hazardous substances has been reduced
Although OSPAR’s recommendations on BEP for the reduction of inputs of potentially toxic chemicals from aquaculture use are not fully implemented in national legislation, the aims do seem to have been taken up by national or EU legislation. Increased use and development of vaccines has considerably reduced the application of antibiotics in mariculture. Tributyltin (TBT) in anti-fouling agents for mariculture equipment has been replaced by copper-based substances. Concern has been raised about possible increases in the release of copper, especially in Regions I and II. It is likely, however, that apparent increases are actually an artefact of better monitoring and reporting and that the actual usage of copper may have even reduced.
Effects on wild populations need better understanding
Lice from farmed salmon have been linked to the decline in wild salmon and sea trout near salmon farms, but further evidence is needed to make a direct association. In 2007, the contribution of escaped salmon from mariculture to national catches in the North-East Atlantic was around 15% in Norway, but less than 2% in most other OSPAR countries. The main risks associated with escape of farmed fish are the displacement of wild fish and genetic interactions. An expansion of mariculture with a focus on carnivorous fish species is likely to increase demand for feed derived from industrial fishing of wild stocks. These issues show the need for a better understanding of interactions between fish farming and wild fish stocks.
Climate change may increase introduction of non-indigenous species
Increased sea temperatures have the potential to change the areas where introduced species can become established. Pacific oysters, introduced into the OSPAR area as a mariculture species, have established wild populations in France and as far north as Denmark and Sweden – areas previously thought too cold for them to reproduce. These introductions can lead to displacement of indigenous species with consequences for associated fauna.
Wider impacts should be kept under review
Mariculture activities are very diverse and impacts are site-specific. Regulation and control therefore need to be focused on a case-by-case approach. OSPAR countries should continue to implement the measures that are already in place to mitigate impacts from mariculture. OSPAR needs to keep under review the wider impacts, such as non-indigenous species, impacts of sea lice, escaped fish and increased demand for industrial fisheries, especially in the event of substantial increases in mariculture activities. If necessary, coordinated management may then be required. The need to adapt mariculture management approaches to climate change should also be reviewed.
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Steve Brill, whose last NYT article detailed why executives should make more money than g-d, has laid out the new education plan. Millions of dollars are to be paid out to develop data systems that will never affect the education of one child in this country. We old spinster teachers are wisely going along. We’ve made our case for years that these data systems are unworkable; that education is more complicated than that. But we are not stupid. We are not going to stand in the way of great gobs of money flowing into the coffers of the grand state of New York.
Brill claims that by last March, Duncan had forced more school reform that the country had seen in decades-without spending a nickel. Standing around some state rotunda hearing a few education bureaucrats say, “Sure, Arne. We can do that,” does not qualify as reform.
But Brill insists there are important forces at work; typified by Jon Schnur’s who heads the Manhattan based New Leaders for New Schools and the author of the RTTT spin. Ever heard of him? Me neither. These forces are blogging and emailing one another [so are the aficionados of Mary Kay cosmetics-doesn’t mean they are a force]. These forces went to an Ivy League school, taught for two years as TFA and have moved up the ranks and now run city or state systems.
Who, the gentle reader might ask. Michelle Rhee, who can’t figure out a budget? Joel Klein, who can’t figure out how to get the yellow buses to the kids on time? Oh, those guys, yeah. That’s a rock solid education group.
The second force at work, according to Brill, is a new crop of Democratic politicians--including Obama--who seem to be willing to challenge the teachers unions. Who wouldn’t? Have you taken a look at the bump in the polls every time a politician intones the words ‘bad teachers’? If I were running for office I’d blame the teachers for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Third, there are the powerful money interests like Bill Gates. Bill, at one time, didn’t think poor people needed computers, but learned very quickly that there is a lot of money to be shaken from that tree.
And finally there is the charter school movement--an educational prairie fire that educates less that 5% of the children in this country and is rarely monitored except when something really bad happens.
There is much ado about the sausage making going on and it pains Brill to report that the UFT and AFT want a fair process in place. Frankly it doesn’t pain me at all to write that American teachers insist on being treated fairly even if it gives the education industrialists heartburn.
Had Brill stopped there, it would have been enough. But that’s not Brill’s style. He compared two schools in NYC; one public, one charter, both in the same building. The charter school was lovely and the public school was not. Brill failed to note fundamental differences between the two school populations, and certainly every NYC public school puts its best foot forward when the NY Times comes to call. Assuming Brill is writing the truth, he slipped in unannounced. This makes him an intruder. I’m sure he wouldn’t see it that way. I’m sure he sees himself as a nice guy who would hurt another person. But if he doesn’t even understand what unlawful public school intruders represent he's utterly unqualified to comment on the work of teachers.
So, a plan will be created. Why? Because the Kid in Chief, Obama, and his basketball buddy, Duncan, love it. And the education bosses love it. And Jon Schnur’s parents love it because now he’ll move into his own apartment and start picking up the tab on his college loans because he is going to be making buckets of money.
And public school children are left behind yet again.
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For many people in this world music is a part of life but the choice of music you listen to might be different. For me, I have been hearing my father play his favorite Nepalese and Hindi songs on the mouth harmonica since childhood.
At my early childhood, to listen to music we had only radio and we used to hear only one station, Radio Nepal. Till that time there were no FM stations in Nepal. It was around the year 1991 that my father got a cassette player for the first time and from here my journey into western music started. It is not that I had not heard western music before that. There was some program run on Saturday afternoon in radio Nepal where they used to play English songs. Here I have to admit that the first English song which I memorized was WHAM’s “Last Christmas”. Later my source for English music was a program run by Mr. Bhusan Dahal on Nepal Television “Sunday Pop” and it was an entry point to another level of english songs as I was able to see my stars on television.
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These were just the early days of how I got attracted to western music, now when I talk about Heavy Metal, it is totally a different story. I had my cousin Mr. Deepak Joshi who used to listen to some heavy metal at that time and once when I visited his house I saw some of his collection. I borrowed one of the cassettes which had collection of various bands. In this particular collection I was first attracted by the names of the bands like “Twisted Sisters”, “Ratt”, “Mothley Crue” and the song that caught my ear was Twisted Sisters’s “I wanna Rock”. I think at that time I was in Grade 6. After this collection album I did not have any other taste of heavy metal music.
I never had any other source to explore the heavy metal music. That time I used to hear some elder people saying that we should not hear to them as they were bad boys of music with long hairs, explicit and anti-social lyrics. Even Nepal police used to force the people to cut their long hairs and not to dress up like them (I still remember then Kathmandu police chief Mr. Achyut Krishna Kharel terrorizing the youths of Kathmandu by cutting theirs hairs and cutting pointed dingo shoes).
When I was in class 8 which was around 1994, I had my class mates who were listening to some heavy metals bands like Metallica and. In one of the school picnic my friends Mr. Sashikant Nepal, Mr. Biraj Lama, Mr. Madhur Bista, Mr. Bikram Bista were singing GN’R version of knocking on heaven doors and the chorus caught me at once and the next moment I was sinning that song in chorus with my friends, and I think this is the moment that I turned into a Metal Fan.
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Few days after this incident I was so eager to know about this song that I started asking my friend all details about it. The next day Mr. Madhur Bista got me 2 cassette one was best collection of Metallica and the other was Guns N’ Roses. At first when I listened to GN’R first few songs were totally noise for me. I could not understand any vocal nor the music was pleasing for my ears. But when Knocking on heavens door was played, I was in love with this band. I could sing few line with AXL Rose’s voice already and Sweet Child o’ mine was another song that adds spice to my music choice. Yeah about the Metallica’s cassette I think I gave him back the other day as for me they were too fast and I could not understand anything what they are singing.
Now I wanted to explore the world of Heavy Metal and after the early taste of GN’R there are few people who helped me to explore the depth of heavy metal.I had one of my cousin’s friend, Mr. Sudeep. I used to meet him frequently and once when he visited my house he had cassette of Scorpions’ “crazy world” and I borrowed it from him to listen, Guess what? Man I was in total love with Scorpions now “Wind of Change”, “Send me an angel” and “Don’t Believe her” what a collection it was. The next time when I met Mr. Sudeep, I asked where could I buy cassette, he suggested me to go a shop named “Katshop” at Pako, New Road.
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This was the shop from where I explored more of Heavy Metal. There were two guys Dinesh dai and Sudeep dai who were supplying western music to all Nepalese fan. On my first visit I asked them to make me a record of mix collection of good rock music. They introduced me with bands like Bon Jovi, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Rolling Stones and so on.
There was a book store near my house where I used to spend some time reading newspapers and magazine. One day I saw a magazine called RSJ (Rock Street Journal). It is an Indian magazine with all the information and story about rock music. This magazine had been the best of all sources which helped me to explore more of the world of Heavy metal. I read all stories about the bands. From here my real Journey into Heavy Metal started. I used to write down some songs mentioned in that magazine and make atleast 15 songs list and go to Katshop to make a collection.
Meanwhile I was more attracted by the story of OZZY and became a big fan of him. I bought all of his albums. I nicked name myself as SAZZY which sound similar to ozzy, later I named my first pet dog name as OZZY.
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There were some songs like Highway Star, Smoke on the water and Black night made me follow Deep Purple. Paranoid and iron man from Black Sabbath was another song that tagged me as a metal fan and above all Led Zeppelin’s Black dog, All of my love, Stair way to heaven and rock and roll came in my list of the best songs that every metal fans have to hear.
In one of the issue of RSJ, I read about Judas Priest and it forced me to buy two set of their best collections. I found their sound more pleasing to my ear and they were more fast and heavy than Deep purple, Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. By this time I was totally into heavy metal. I started listening to Iron Maiden and once rejected band and the great of the greatest Metallica.
My Source to Heavy Metal Music
In recent years, my love to heavy metal is getting more deep with the help of my friend Mr. Ashish Thapa. He is helping me to know how music is created and all the story behind music and lyrics. With his help I explored some metals bands like Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax and Manowar which I did not listen to before.
Now with the help of fast internet and Youtube, I have explored more depth of heavy metal music and its history. It helped me to find out that Am I Evil was not Metallica’s original; it also gave me information about some pioneering heavy metal bands like Saxon, Motorhead and Diamond head which I had never heard before.
Some other bands who I listen to and for me they sound heavy and not mentioned above are Def Leppard, Alice Cooper, AC/DC, Aerosmith and Nazareth.
To listen to heavy metal there is no age barrier. I still love to do air guitar and bang my head when I listen to them. Heavy Metal will always be in my blood.
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5 Responses to “My journey into Heavy Metal”
Biplav Says:
Good stuff! You might try to find “That Metal Show” on VH1 (old episodes are on the website). You’ll love the show, topics and guests.
Saw Megadeth many years back at Ozzfest. Great show.
sangesh Says:
all about british heavy metal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBk95Lfgb_A
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Is Biraj Lama you mentioned from Boudha? wondering if the person you are talking about is someone I know. He lets me borrow his collection. 🙂
uday, yeah i think he is the one as my friend biraj is also from boudha and i heard he used to do Dj-ing somewhere @ thamel
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Cultural values creating strong leaders
Tongan women are using their cultural values and upbringing as a framework to build strong leadership in their workplaces, according to a new study from Massey University.
Master of Business Studies graduate Seluvaia Malua-Paea interviewed women working in a variety of organisations and in varied leadership roles.
“It was mind-blowing to see how these strong women succeed in New Zealand organisations but, at the same time, still carry with them their values acquired during their upbringing, their cultural identities.”
Mrs Malua-Paea found that Tongan women offered strong leadership even in male-dominated organisations using their cultural values to counter some of the challenges they faced.
For example, women who were leading teams with older men used traditional attitudes of respect for elders, often treating the men as they would uncles or father figures.
“So rather than trying to dominate or push them around, they used respectful ways to communicate with them and that encouraged the men to give them respect in return and complete the tasks given to them.”
The study found the importance of humility in the Pasifika context also came into play with Tongan women remaining humble despite their job titles or positions.
While these traditional virtues may seem out of step with modern thinking, Mrs Malua-Paea found the women in her study were still able to provide strong leadership.
Mrs Malua-Paea hopes to publish parts of the study to help organisations better understand their staff members and to encourage the best from them.
Originally from Nukunuku in Tonga, she is a Pasifika Learning Consultant at Massey University working with Pasifika students.
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In a scripture called Srimad Bhagwat we come across a story of Ajamil, the great sinner who got redemption after witnessing his brief death and then surviving for another year. The story goes like this: Ajamil was very pious and a learned scholar in his youth. While collecting flowers in the garden for the worship by his father he happened to look at a prostitute and a man, both drunk and enjoying themselves ina lonely place. Immediately his mind got corrupted and he too started going to prostitutes. After some time he left his family abandoning his duties towards his family and settled with a prostitute. He adopted such occupations as gambling, drinking, stealing, etcetera. He had several children with her, and he named his last son Narayan (a name of God). At last he was on his death-bed and was about to die. As he was a great sinner the messenger of the Lord of Death (Yama)approached him to collect his spirit to be taken to hell. Seeing their dreadful faces he called out his youngest son, Narayan. Suddenly there appeared angels, too, with shining bodies and soft faces. The angels stopped the messengers of the Lord of Death from collecting Ajamil’s soul as he called out the name of God. The messengers were helpless before the angels and went away. The angels, too, didn’t take up his soul and after some time Ajamil regained his senses and thought overthe incident. He broke all his ties with kith and kin and slashed all his worldly attachments and left to a holy place where for one year he developed total devotion to God and earned salvation.
It is clear from the above story that merely a glance at the copulation of a couple can bring the downfall of a pious person such as Ajamil. Though in the end he called out his son by the name Narayan, not God, as such he was not fit for salvation. It is only through seeing his brief death and his survival thereafter, and seeing the angels and the messengers of the Lord of Death, that he became wise. Thus, he achieved his salvation.
There is another story of a deluded Yogi who was the priest of a temple at the out-skirts of a village, devoted to the Supreme Goddess.There he was appointed by his spiritual teacher. Soon he got attracted to an unmarried cow-maid who came around the temple to let her cattle graze. In due course she got pregnant and when it became a visible case, she was asked by her parents about the person responsible for her pregnancy. She named the priest. Sensing the trouble the priest cut off his organ. After several days when the family of the girl approached him along with the villagers and asked the confirmation by the priest, he denied it and told that he had sacrificed his manhood to the deity long back. But afraid of further problems and insult he left the village and settled in a far away village. There he became a famous saint and people started coming to seek his blessings. A childless married lady while touching his feet in reverence murmured that she will come that night to meet him. As night fell, the fellow who saw her approaching jumped in the pond and drowned. Hopefully, he has taken better care in his next life.
I, too, had fallen from my ideals notionally for about 3-4 months before the enlightenment on 4 July 1977. A brief death of about 4-5 minutes, witnessed by me on 20 August 1977 at the age of 32, made me wise enough to entrust myself (surrender) to God and to save me from worldly illusions. Now I don’t want redemption of my soul from God,but how best I can serve Him vis-à-vis the whole of mankind, because he is residing in the heart of each one of us. Moreover, for my awakening I shall remain ever grateful the God and indebted to His(incredible) compassion.
On the internet there are many cases of survival after clinical death and doctors asking the survivors their experiences of death and their feelings. Usually their descriptions are vivid according to their concepts of life after death. Certainly those who experienced brief death and survived, started leading a different life and remain in a cheerful mood afterwards.
Similarly a deluded Yogi (an aspirant of spirituality) observing a life of celibacy may be attracted to immoral acts temporarily. He may be corrected by destiny in the same life or in his next life.
Such a brief fall from ideals is most welcome when it results in deep and total faith in the Supreme Power, God, and His compassionate nature.
Originally Authored By S.P. Sharma
About the Spiritual Author
Debolina Choudhury
S.P.Sharma was born on 8 December 1945 and had self-realisation on 20 August
1977 at the age of 32. Thereafter he automatically shifted to the
devotion path and a sort of relationship developed with God. Starting
as a servant to God, then friendliness with God and then started
liking God in child form. There is nothing left except to enjoy divine
love and feel his presence in the whole world.
e-mail : swamiprasad.sharma@gmail.com
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INTERPLAY BETWEEN COMBINATIONS & COMPETITION WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO NON-COMPETE AGREEMENTS
INTERPLAY BETWEEN COMBINATIONS &
COMPETITION WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO
RESEARCH PAPER SUBMITTED TO COMPETITION
COMMISSION OF INDIA
Under the Guidance of Ms Neeru Sharma,
Deputy Director (Combinations)
SUBMITTED BY: Ajay Kalra1
National Law University, Jodhpur
Ajay Kalra, MBA-LLM (Finance and Business Laws), National Law University, Jodhpur. E-mail:
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“A mind troubled by doubt
Cannot focus on the course to victory”
I would like to thank the staff and members of the Competition Commission of India without
whose help the Report would have been extremely tough to be completed. I would like to thank
Ms. Neeru Sharma, my supervisor and guide in helping me throughout the duration of my
internship. My gratitude also extends towards the library staff of the Competition Commission
of India. Finally I would like to thank my co-interns who were always there to support me.
Ajay Kalra
Non Compete Agreements
Position under Indian Laws
Indian Contract act, 1872
SEBI (Substantial Acquisition Of Shares
& Takeovers) Regulations, 1997
Interaction between Contract and Competition Laws
Combinations:
Overview of laws in European Union and USA
Ancillary Restraints Doctrine
Position in European Union:
Evolution of Doctrine
Merger Control Regulation
Ancillary Restraint Notice
Scope of Ancillary Restraints
Criteria for permissibility of Restraints
Treatment of Non Ancillary restraints.
Position in United States:
Judicial Instances of Permissible restraints in Joint
Venture.
Position in India
In connection with a merger or a joint venture, the parties often enter into contractual
arrangements that limit their freedom of action in the market, but are essential to guarantee the
economic success of the transaction. These restrictions may be necessary to facilitate the buyer
to reap full benefits of the purchase but at the same time these restrictions may be anticompetitive which raises concerns for competition authorities.
The Non Compete agreements capture a broad set of arrangements i.e. they may be
supplementary, ancillary, collateral (so called under European and US Competition
Jurisprudence) to the combination transaction. The position regarding treatment of the NonCompete agreements, forming part of combination transactions and other restructuring
transactions, under the Competition Act, 2002 is not settled. This poses significant challenge for
the Competition Commission of India (CCI), the business community and their advisors.
The situation becomes more complex in cases where the jurisdictional thresholds are not met and
thus the question arises in these cases that whether the restrictive clauses are susceptible to
continual challenge under Section 3 of the Act.
Currently, the CCI has insufficient decisional practice or case law on which it can issue
guidance. Therefore, an insight into the foreign jurisdictions is required to give clarity to some of
the controversial aspects to raise the level of regulatory certainty for the business community.
This article briefly discusses the status of Non Compete agreements under India Contract Act,
1872 and other laws and describes how Non Compete Agreements related to combinations and
other transactions have been and are currently subject to the competition regime in the European
Union (EU) and other international jurisdictions.
Introduction: Non Compete agreements
The best economic and social results are achieved in an environment of free competition.
Accordingly, competition laws prohibit unreasonable restraints on competition and acts of
monopolization.
When a parent company sells a subsidiary to a rival as a means of exiting the market in which
the subsidiary trade, there may well be included in the sale agreement a clause preventing the old
parent from engaging in any rival business for a fixed period of time and within a fixed
geographical area. For the purchaser such clauses are material in that they are guarantees that the
full commercial value of the business has been properly transferred. The interest of the
competition authorities lies in ensuring that the old parent is not unduly restricted from possible
re-entry to the market. While re-entry might never actually occur there remains a valid interest in
ensuring that it is at least a possibility2.
Non Competition clauses may take different forms including restrictions on the amount of time
during which the vendor is precluded from competing with the buyer; restrictions on the territory
the vendor may recomplete in; restrictions on disclosing information obtained during the running
of the transferred business; restrictions on the scope of activities the vendor may engage in; and
restrictions on the solicitation or purchasers employers3.
The „Law of Contract4‟ after replying on Connors Bros. Ltd & Ors. v. Connors5 succinctly states
the law governing Non Compete agreements as under:
“A person who sells shares in a company which he controls may covenant not to
compete in respect of the business carried on by the company. Such a covenant may
be valid if it was in substance the seller who, through his control of the company,
carried on the business”.
NICHOLAS GREEN & AIDAN ROBERTSON, COMMERCIAL AGREEMENTS & COMPETITION LAW:
PRACTICE & PROCEDURE IN UK & EU,693/Para 11.92, London, Kluver 1997.
Id., at 694 Para 11.95
TREITEL, LAW OF CONTRACT, 455, SWEET & MAXWELL, 11 th Edition.
[1940] 4 All ER 179
In Herbert Morris Ltd v. Saxelby 6 , Lord Shaw while addressing an argument relating to
restrictive covenants in relation to the sale of a business observed:
“When a business is sold, the vendor, who, it may be, has inherited it or built it up,
seeks to realize this piece of property, and obtains a purchaser upon a condition
without which the whole transaction would be valueless. He sells, he himself
agreeing not to compete; and the law upholds such a bargain, and declines to permit
a vendor to derogate from his own grant. Public interest cannot be invoked to render
such a bargain nugatory: to do so would be to use public interest for the destruction
of property. Nothing could be more sure deterrent to commercial energy and activity
than a principle that its accumulated results could not be transferred save under
conditions which would make its buyer insecure”.
Non Compete Agreements: Position under Indian Laws
Indian Contract Act, 1872:
The law has, as a matter of public policy, always opposed any interference with the freedom to
contract and restraints on the liberty of an individual, unless injurious to the interests of the state.
An agreement in restraint of trade has been defined as “one in which a party agrees with any
other party to restrict his liberty in the future to carry on trade with other persons who are not
parties to the contract in such a manner as he chooses7”
Section 278 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 stipulates that an agreement, which restrains anyone
from carrying on a lawful profession, trade or business, is void to that extent. The reasoning
behind this section is that agreements of restraint are unfair, as they impose an undue restriction
on the personal freedom of a contracting party. However, as an exception, if a party sells his
[1916] AC 688
Petrofina (Great Britain) Ltd. v. Martin, (1966) Ch. 146 as cited in, Pollock & Mulla, Indian Contract and Specific
Relief Acts, 794, Lexis Nexis Butterworth, Vol. I,12th Edition.
S. 27: (1) Every agreement by which any one is restrained from exercising a lawful profession, trade or business of
any kind, is to that extent void.
Exception 1: Saving of agreement not to carry on business of which good-will is sold. One who sells the good- will
of a business may agree with the buyer to refrain from carrying on a similar business, within specified local limits;
so long as the buyer, or any person deriving title to the good-will from him, carries on a like business therein,
provided that such limits appear to the Court reasonable, regard being had to the nature of the business.”
goodwill to another he can agree with the buyer that he will not carry on a similar business
within the specified local limits.
The most celebrated interpretation of section 27 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872, is that all
restraints of trade, howsoever reasonable are void i.e. the reasonableness inquiry is beyond the
scope of this section. However a closer scrutiny of the jurisprudence developed concerning
requirement of reasonableness in deciding upon the “restraints” indicates otherwise9. The present
issue transpired in the year 1967 when the Supreme Court for the first time discussed the same in
Niranjan Shankar Golikari case. 10 It has to be noted that the decision restricted itself to the
statement that post contractual restraints are to be treated differently from restraints during
subsistence of contracts. The court was silent on when the post contractual restraints are valid.
Later on in Krishan Murgai case11, the above issue was discussed and it was held that section 27
bars all contractual restraints, and does-not permit reasonableness inquiry.
The apex court decision in Gujarat Bottling12 marked a substantial departure from the previous
case laws and probably points to the future. The court stressed upon the need of differentiating
between the contracts facilitating trade and those restraining trade by referring to the following
statement of Lord Pearce in Esso Petroleum Case13:
“Somewhere there must be a line between those contracts which are in restraint of
trade and whose reasonableness can, therefore, be considered by the courts and those
contracts which merely regulate the normal commercial relations between the parties
and are, therefore, free from doctrine”.
In present case the court had to deal with facts to which the obvious and legislated exceptions to
Section 27 did not apply. Here, Coca Cola had licensed Gujarat Bottling Co. to bottle and sell the
beverage, subject to restriction that Gujarat Bottling could not manufacture, sell, deal or
A detailed analysis of relevant judgments dealing with Section 27 is beyond the scope of this paper. However a
summary analysis of the same has been done.
Niranjan Niranjan Shankar Golikari v. Century Spinning and Manufacturing Co., AIR 1967 SC 1098.
Superintendence Co. v. Krishan Murgai, AIR 1980 SC 1717: Hereinafter referred to as Murgai. Minority
judgment pronounced by Justice A.P. Sen decided upon this issue, while the majority refrained from commenting on
the issue as the appeal was capable of being disposed off on other issues. It is worthwhile to mention that Supreme
Court has refrained from approving these obiter observations of Justice Sen in subsequent cases.
Gujarat Bottling v. Coca Cola Company, AIR 1995 SC 2372
Esso Petroleum v. Harper’s Garage, [1968] A.C. 269
otherwise associate with competing products. When Gujarat Bottling breached the covenant, the
matter went up to the Supreme Court, which held that “a negative covenant that the employee
would not engage himself in a trade or business or would not get himself employed by any other
master for whom he would perform similar or substantially similar duties, is not therefore a
restraint of trade unless the contract as aforesaid is unconscionable or excessively harsh or
unreasonable or one sided….”
However, the court has not commented on the issues of post contractual restraints. It is also
pertinent to note that inspite of Justice Sen‟s opinion in Murgai being before it, the Court chose
not to comment on it at all.
This decision represented a substantial departure from previous case law and probably points to
the future. Naturally, reasonableness must be judged from case to case but guidance comes from
a succession of decisions on what constitutes reasonableness. Illustratively, restraints were
upheld by the Delhi High Court in Modern Food Industries14., which has held that the validity of
a restraint will generally depend on (a) the proprietary interest sought to be protected; (b) the
restriction;
interest.
In conclusion, it is clear that in the years to come, non-compete clauses are likely to be upheld
even if they kick in after contractual relation ends.
Issue of Non-Compete Fee: Take-Over Code
Non-Compete Fee is the fee that is paid to the selling promoter(s) so that they do not re-enter the
same business and pose a threat to the acquired company. The logic for the non-compete fee is
that the promoter has certain unique skills and possesses industry knowledge, and if he were to
start the same business again, he could become a formidable competitor and hence buyer would
not be able to reap full benefits of the purchase.
Legality of Non-Compete Fee:
The recommendations made by Bhagwati committee15 recognize the legitimacy of non-compete
fees payable to outgoing seller. The recommendations of the committee were accepted by SEBI
Modern Food Industries India Pvt. Ltd. v Shri Krishna Bottlers Pvt. Ltd ,AIR 1984 Del 119
The takeover code, as originally framed did not contain any provision governing the payment of non-compete fee
by the acquirers. The matter was referred to committee under chairmanship of Justice P.N.Bhagwati. The
and accordingly Regulation 20(8)16 was inserted which puts a cap on non-compete fee that can
legitimately be paid to promoters/seller.
Later on, in order to review the takeover regulations, SEBI constituted the Takeover Regulations
Advisory Committee in September, 2009 under chairmanship of Mr C. Achuthan. The
committee felt that there was a strong merit in the view that non-compete fee, if any, should
accrue to the company and not to one group of shareholders as this is in the nature of
compensation for the loss of potential value on account of opportunity scarified. The committee
accordingly concluded that in keeping with the spirit of equal treatment for all shareholders, and
the scope for abuse of non-compete payments, the Takeover Regulations ought to be explicit that
consideration paid for the shares in any form to the selling shareholder and his affiliates,
concurrent with the purchase of shares, whether termed as control premium, or non-compete
fees or otherwise must be added to the negotiated price per share for the purpose of determining
open offer pricing.
Judicial Response to Non-Compete Fee:
The regulator of Stock Markets, SEBI, is increasingly frowning upon the practice of NonCompete fees in takeovers. The Tata Tea Case17 is notable for some interesting observations of
the tribunal on the issues on Non Compete fee and matters of restraint of trade with respect to
Section 27. The Appellate tribunal observed:
“When an acquirer takes over a business from the outgoing seller(s), it is obvious that
the seller(s) have specific knowledge of that business and have access to and are in
possession of crucial trade secrets of the target company which if disclosed or
misused would be detrimental to and could cause irreparable harm to the target
company and its continuing shareholders and by virtue of their association with that
business, they (outgoing sellers) are capable of offering competition to the business
being taken over. In such cases, it would be legitimate for the acquirer to enter into a
recommendations of committees were accepted by board and Regulation 20 of the code was recast in September
2002 providing, interalia, for a regulatory framework for payment of non-compete fee.
Regulation 20(8): Any payment made to the persons other than the target company in respect of non-compete
agreement in excess of twenty five percent of the offer price arrived at under sub-regulation (4) or (5) or (6) shall be
added to offer price.
Tata Tea Ltd. vs. Securities and Exchange Board of India and anr., [2010] 103 SCL 140.
non-compete agreement with the promoter sellers if he feels threatened by a lurking
fear of competition from them.
An acquirer has a right to protect his investment/business from competition by a
seller of the business and this right is a long standing customary element in business
sale transactions and is even recognised by law. Section 27 of the Contract Act
recognizes that non-compete agreements are not in restraint of trade if the restrictions
placed are reasonable”.
The court further noted that, when examining the validity of the non-compete fee, the question to
be addressed is whether the outgoing sellers are capable of providing competition to the business
alone or in association with third parties and not whether the business was dependent on the
outgoing sellers. The decision of the tribunal has been affirmed in E-Land Fashion China
Holdings Limited18.
The Interaction between Contract and Competition Law
When compared to contract law, competition law is a relatively recent discipline with a much
shorter duration. Competition as a distinct discipline as we know it today emerged at the end of
twentieth century, when the landmark Monopolies and Restrictive trade Practices Act, 1969 was
enacted in India. The last decades have unfolded the loopholes in the existing law, and have
therefore brought about big changes for competition law regime & by now new law has been
established which provides a fresh normative framework for development of competition
jurisprudence.
That competition law interacts with economics is a natural consequence of its nature and its close
links with industrial organization. For similar reasons, frictions between contract law and
competition in the context of Non Compete agreements are frequent since both „have used the
competitive process as a focal point. While the former typically regulates the relation between
the contracting parties and the reasonableness of agreements, the latter regulates the possible
external effects of those same contracts. The effect of the later has to be on the market as a whole
for the non-compete agreement to be declared anticompetitive as against an effect on the
E-Land Fashion China Holdings Limited v Securities and Exchange Board of India, [2011] 107 SCL 406
competitors under Contract Act. A non-compete agreement can therefore can be unreasonable
between the parties but may still be declared to be valid under Competition Act.
Effect of a Restrictive Covenant: A covenant or clause restraining a person from carrying any
lawful profession, trade, profession or business is void „to that extent‟. The court will not enforce
it. But if the parties wish to implement it, they would not be acting illegally, and the court cannot
intervene to prevent them from doing so19. Practices falling within the definition of „restrictive
trade practices‟ under The Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1969 can be
challenged under that law20. Thus it can be inferred from the above discussion that an agreement
in restraint of trade under Indian Contract Act, 1872 may be implemented by parties if they
desire so, however parties to an agreement in restraint of trade, which has an appreciable adverse
effect on competition within the meaning of the Competition Act, may not be allowed to
implement it and commission is likely to intervene to prevent the parties from enforcing it.
Boddington v Lawton, [1994] ICR 478
POLLOCK & MULLA, INDIAN CONTRACT AND SPECIFIC RELIEF ACTS, 831/Vol. 1,Lexis Nexis
Butterworth, 13th ed., 2006, Reprint 2010.
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Introduction to Combinations:
“If you think you can go it alone in today’s global economy, you are highly mistaken”
...Jack Welch
The air over corporate India is thick with the heady scent of mergers and acquisitions (M&A‟s).
In an economy, long suppressed by the license and control regime, this is an entirely new
experience and has been accompanied with a sense of nationalistic euphoria. Undoubtedly, many
of these mergers present much for the country to be proud of.
In the western economies, M&A‟s are commonplace, being a normal feature of a vibrant
economy. Firms may grow organically or they may choose the M&A route. M&A‟s are
undertaken by firms to achieve economies of scale and accompanying efficiencies, gain entry to
new markets, or access to new technologies. But unfortunately, sometimes the motivation may
be less driven by economics and more by personal ambition, as achieving a big presence over a
market can be very ego-massaging21.
Therefore relevant provisions have been provided in Competition Act 2002 in order to curb these
Anti-Competitive practices. The Competition Act, 2002 regulates combinations that consist of
mergers, amalgamations and acquisitions22 with a view to ensure that there is no appreciable
adverse effect on competition in India. The provisions of Section 5 of the Act have been sought
to check concentration of economic power. Even the erstwhile MRTP Act (Monopolies and
Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1969) regulated mergers, amalgamations and takeovers by
providing for their approval by Central Government. An acquisition where the acquirer is
acquiring control, shares, voting rights or assets of the enterprise will be considered as a
combination23. If such a combination meets the specified threshold levels under section 5 (a), it
is subject to regulation by the Competition Commission of India. An acquisition of control by a
person over an enterprise when such a person has already direct or indirect control over another
enterprise engaged in production, distribution or trading of a similar or substitutable goods or
VINOD DHALL, ESSAYS ON COMPETITION LAWS AND POLICY 26, Available at
http://cci.gov.in/images/media/articles/essay_articles_compilation_text29042008new_20080714135044.pdf
(Last
accessed on February 8th, 2012)
The Competition Act, 2002, Sec. 5
The Competition Act, 2002, Sec. 5(a)(i)
service is also considered to be a combination24, if the same meets the requisite threshold level
under section 5 (b). Further, every enterprise created by way of merger or amalgamation that
meets the requisite threshold level stipulated under section 5 (c), shall also be considered to be a
combination that shall be regulated by the Commission. Provisions of Section 5 of the
Competition Act, 2002 (as amended by 2007 Amendment Act) makes the pre-combination
notification to the commission mandatory.
Therefore in India, for the merger regulation to be attracted, the transaction must qualify the
thresholds as stated under section 5 of the Act. Section 6 of the Act seeks to regulate
combinations covered by Section 5. Under sub-sections (1) to (3), any person or enterprise which
proposes to enter into a combination has to approach the commission, by giving notice in the
prescribed form with fee, for seeking its approval.
Agreement causing Appreciable Adverse Effect on Competition:
Section 3 of the Act provides that no enterprise or association of enterprises or person or
association of persons shall enter into any agreement which causes “appreciable adverse effect”
on competition in India and any such agreement would be declared void25. On the parallel lines
Section 6 of the act dealing with regulation of Combinations stated that no person or enterprise
shall enter into a combination which causes or is likely to cause an “appreciable adverse effect
on competition within relevant market in India”.
The above expression can be broken into three components, viz., (i) adverse affect of
competition should be within India; (2) affect should be appreciable, and (3) it should actually
effect or is expected to affect competition. The affect on the competition should be the result of
the agreement, as defined. The consequential effect may even be unintentional26.
The starting point of the inquiry into appreciable adverse effect on competition calls for
determination of the market where the competition complained of as having been adversely
effected. The relevant market again has to be divided into relevant product market and relevant
geographic market relating to the product or the service supplied. One thing that merits
consideration is that there is no uniformity in the act, while Section 3(1) and 3(4) use the phrase
The Competition Act, 2002, Sec. 5(b)(i)
Section 3(1) and 3(2) Competition Act, 2002
S. M. DUGAR, COMMENTARY ON THE MRTP LAW, COMPETITION LAW AND CONSUMER
PROTECTION LAW, 688/Vol. 1, LexisNexis Butterworth, 4th ed., 2006, Reprint 2009.
„appreciable adverse effect on competition in India‟, sub-section (3) simply refers to „appreciable
adverse effect on competition' and Section 6(1) refers to „an appreciable adverse effect within
relevant market in India‟. It is axiomatic that any examination of the effect on competition of any
practice is always with reference to a market for a product or a service, the said market being
further sub-divided into a product market and geographical market 27. Thus it flows from the
above discussion that while scrutinizing an agreement, combination etc., the relevant market
determined would be same for purposes of either section 3 or section 6.
The term “appreciable adverse effect” has not been defined in the act. The word „appreciable has
been defined in Law Lexicon as capable of being estimated, weighted, judged of or recognized
by the mind which is „perceptible but not a synonym of substantial‟. According to author T.
Ramappa in order to be “appreciable”, the effect has to be substantial28. The determination of
„appreciable effect‟ depends on facts and circumstances of each case and is therefore a subjective
Section 19(3)29 of the Act requires the Commission to have due regard to the various factors
specified therein in clauses (a) to (f) to determine „appreciable effect‟ within meaning of section
3(3). Similarly Section 20(4)30 lays down various factors that are to be taken into consideration
T.RAMAPPA, COMPETITION LAW IN INDIA-POLICY, ISSUES AND DEVELOPMENT, 71 Oxford India
Paperbacks,2nd Ed,2009
S. 19(4) (4) The Commission shall, while inquiring whether an enterprise enjoys a dominant position or not under
section 4, have due regard to all or any of the following factors, namely:—
(a) market share of the enterprise;
(b) size and resources of the enterprise;
(c) size and importance of the competitors;
(d) economic power of the enterprise including commercial advantages over competitors;
(e) vertical integration of the enterprises or sale or service network of such enterprises;
(f) dependence of consumers on the enterprise;
(g) monopoly or dominant position whether acquired as a result of any statute or by virtue of being a Government
company or a public sector undertaking or otherwise;
(h) entry barriers including barriers such as regulatory barriers, financial risk, high capital cost of entry, marketing
entry barriers, technical entry barriers, economies of scale, high cost of substitutable goods or service for consumers;
(i) countervailing buying power;
(j) market structure and size of market;
(k) social obligations and social costs;
(/) relative advantage, by way of the contribution to the economic development, by the enterprise enjoying a
dominant position having or likely to have an appreciable adverse effect on competition;
(m) any other factor which the Commission may consider relevant for the inquiry.
S. 20(4) (4) For the purposes of determining whether a combination would have the effect of or is likely to have
an appreciable adverse effect on competition in the relevant market, the Commission shall have due regard to all or
any of the following factors, namely:—
by the commission to determine whether a combination would have effect of or is likely to have
an appreciable adverse effect on competition in the relevant market.
Overview of EU and US Competition Laws:
In the European Union, Article 101(1) 31 (formerly Article 81(1)) European Commission 32
prohibits all agreements or understandings which have as their object or effect the prevention,
restriction or distortion of competition. In the United States, Section 133 of the Sherman Act,
1890 prohibits contracts, combinations or conspiracies that unreasonably restrain trade.
Restraints of competition under Article 101 (1) (formerly Article 81) EC are divided into two
types: Vertical and Horizontal restraints. The United States does not specifically differentiate
(a) actual and potential level of competition through imports in the market;
(b) extent of barriers to entry into the market;
(c) level of combination in the market;
(d) degree of countervailing power in the market;
(e) likelihood that the combination would result in the parties to the combination being able to significantly and
sustainably increase prices or profit margins;
(f) extent of effective competition likely to sustain in a market;
(g) extent to which substitutes are available or arc likely to be available in the market;
(h) market share, in the relevant market, of the persons or enterprise in a combination, individually and as a
combination;
(i) likelihood that the combination would result in the removal of a vigorous and effective competitor or competitors
in the market;
(j) nature and extent of vertical integration in the market;
(k) possibility of a failing business;
(/) nature and extent of innovation;
(m) relative advantage, by way of the contribution to the economic development, by any combination having or
likely to have appreciable adverse effect on competition;
(n) whether the benefits of the combination outweigh the adverse impact of the combination, if any.
Article 101(1)The following shall be prohibited as incompatible with the internal market all agreements between
undertakings, decisions by associations of undertakings and concerted practices which may affect trade between
Member States and which have as their object or effect the prevention, restriction or distortion of competition within
the internal market, and in particular those which:
(a) directly or indirectly fix purchase or selling prices or any other trading conditions;
(b) limit or control production, markets, technical development, or investment;
(c) share markets or sources of supply;
(d) apply dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading parties, thereby placing them at a
competitive disadvantage;
(e) make the conclusion of contracts subject to acceptance by the other parties of supplementary obligations which,
by their nature or according to commercial usage, have no connection with the subject of such contracts***
EU equivalent rules to Section 3 of the Competition Act, 2002 dealing with Anti-Competitive agreements.
Hereinafter referred to as EC
S. 1 Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce
among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal. Every person who shall make any
contract or engage in any combination or conspiracy hereby declared to be illegal shall be deemed guilty of a
felony*** (US equivalent rules to Section 3 of the Competition Act, 2002 dealing with anti-competitive
agreements)
between horizontal and vertical restraints in its statutes, but both types of conduct could violate
US Antitrust Law.
In the EC, horizontal restraints refer to agreements or coordinated practices between companies
acting on the same level of trade, e.g. relationships between actual or potential competitors
which restrict the competition freedom of the partners or third companies.
Vertical restraints refer to agreements or coordinated practices restricting competition between
companies acting on different levels of trade, e.g. relationships with distributors and customers,
licensees, suppliers or licensors that restrict the competition freedom of the partners or third
Ancillary Restraints
Evolution of the Doctrine:
One of the early decisions where European Commission developed its position with regard to
ancillary restraints is Reuter/BASF34, related precisely to the sale of a business. Given the role
this case played in subsequent jurisprudence on restraint of trade clauses, it merits a detailed
examination.
This case concerned the non-competition clauses imposed on Dr. Reuter by BASF upon the
transfer of assets, know-how and technology in the relevant field from Dr. Reuter to BASF. First,
Reuter was prevented from engaging directly or indirectly in any activity in relevant field in
Germany or elsewhere for eight years, except for some limited activities. Second, for eight years,
Reuter was required not to divulge any protected or unprotected know-how and experience in the
relevant field and he was also prevented from carrying out research in the relevant field.
The Commission found that the non-competition clauses eliminated Reuter as BASF‟s
competitor in the relevant field, reasoning that, but for the clauses, Reuter's personal and
technical knowledge and experience would have enabled him to engage in activity in all the
relevant fields covered by the noncompetition clauses.
Since Reuter/ BASF represents the first significant occasion on which the Commission had the
opportunity to decide on this issue, it is worth quoting from the Commission's opinion:
“It is recognized that it may be necessary in certain cases to provide safeguards to
ensure the effective performance of an agreement. These may take the form of a
contractual noncompetition clause in cases where not only the material assets of an
undertaking but also its commercial goodwill, including relations with customers,
are to be transferred to the purchaser. In such cases it is essential to prevent a seller
from reacquiring his old customers either- directly or indirectly through cooperation
with the purchaser's competitors in the period immediately following the transfer.
Compliance by the seller with such a non-competition clause means no more than
that he must respect his obligation under the agreement to transfer the full value of
Commission Decision No. 76/743/EEC, O.J. L 254/40 (1976) (Hereinafter Reuter/BASF)
the undertaking. Application of Article 85(1)35 to such a non-competition clause in
an agreement can be excluded in such cases, since it would make more difficult or
even impossible, transactions which are generally recognized as legitimate”.
However, the protection afforded to a purchaser must be limited to the period required by an
active competitive purchaser to take over the undertaking's market position such as it was at the
time of transfer. In cases of transfer of know-how, technology, the protection afforded to the
transferee should be limited in time, since the transfer of legally unprotected know-how confers
no exclusive rights on the purchaser.
Likewise in respect of geographical extent, the non-competition clause must in normal
circumstances be confined to those markets in which the undertaking was active before its sale,
or in which it may be regarded as a potential competitor on the basis of its relevant and
demonstrable activity.
Thus the commission in present case narrowed down the scope of Art. 85 by enabling a
purchaser to fully replace the seller on its market position prior to the acquisition. It is important
to note that the Commission reached this conclusion without examining the impact on
competition of Reuter's elimination as a competitive force. Thus, the legality of the noncompetition clauses in Reuter/BASF did not rest on their impact on market conditions but rather
on their ability to bring about the transfer of value in terms of goodwill and know-how.
Accordingly, in narrowing the application of Article 85, the Commission articulated a version of
the ancillary restraints doctrine, according to which, the legality of some restrictions depended
exclusively on their connection to the main transaction and not on their independent impact on
In the Nutricia36 decision, the commission while following the Reuter/BASF decision noted that
the level of protection accorded to the purchaser must be limited to what is objectively necessary
for the purchaser to assume, by active competitive behavior, the place in the market previously
occupied by the seller.
Test Articulated:
Regarding the applicability of Article 85(1) to noncompetition clauses in the context of the sale
of a business, the Court stated that in order to determine whether or not such clauses fall within
Now Article 101 of EC.
Commission Decision No. 83/670/EEC, O.J. L 376/22 (1983), [1984] 2 C.M.L.R. 165.
the prohibition in Article 85 (1) it is necessary to examine the competitive environment as if
those clauses did not exist. If, in the absence of such clauses, the vendor and the purchaser would
have remained competitors after the transfer, the agreement for the transfer of the undertaking
could not have been given effect. The vendor, with his particularly detailed knowledge of the
transferred undertaking, would still be in a position to win back his former customers
immediately after the transfer and thereby drive the undertaking out of business. As a result, noncompetition clauses incorporated in an agreement for the transfer of an undertaking, in principle,
have the merit of ensuring that the transfer has the effect intended.
As a result, non-competition clauses incorporated in an agreement for the transfer of an
undertaking, in principle, have the merit of ensuring that the transfer has the effect intended.
In order to be ancillary, restrictions must have a direct link to the creation of the joint
venture/combination, be subordinate to theirs‟ main object, be necessary and be proportionate to
what joint venture requires37
Merger Regulation in European Union:
The European Commission Merger Regulation (hereinafter ECMR) was enforced in September,
1990 to govern large scale mergers in the European Union. The Regulations provide for various
control and mechanisms to ensure no anti-competitive activities are caused due to mergers.
Since its inception in 1990, the merger review system introduced by the European Merger
Control Regulation38 (“ECMR” or “Merger Regulation”) has rapidly matured and continuously
grown in complexity. The Merger Regulation was substantially amended on March 1, 1998 and
May 1, 2004. The Merger regulation applies to all concentrations having a community
dimension39.
The Merger Regulation recognizes the need of treating the consequential Non Compete
restrictions along with main transaction and accordingly provides: “A decision declaring the
concentration compatible shall be deemed to cover restrictions directly related and necessary to
the implementation of the concentration” (ECMR Article 6(1)(b) sub-para. (2); Article 8(1) subpara. (2) & Article 8(2) sub-para. (3).
MARTIN MANKABADY, JOINT VENTURES IN EUROPE 91/Para 6.4, Tottel Publishing, 3rd Edition, 2008
Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 of 20 January 2004 on the control of concentrations between undertakings
(The EC Merger Regulation)
Article 1(1), Article 1(2), Article 1(3)
The Commission makes an assessment of restrictions only if a case presents a “novel and
unresolved question giving rise to genuine uncertainty”, i.e., if the question is not covered by the
Ancillary Restraints Notice40 or a published Commission decision41. The Ancillary notice is the
Commission‟s 2004 notice on “restrictions directly related and necessary to concentrations”. It
states the interpretation to be given to "restrictions directly related and necessary to the
implementation of the concentration" both in general terms and to specific clauses, including:
non-competition covenants, licenses of industrial and commercial property rights and know-how,
and purchase and supply agreements usually included in the different types of transactions
covered by the regulation, such as transfers of undertakings, joint ventures, and joint
acquisitions.
Three pronged test for permissible restraints:
Under the Ancillary Restraints Notice, a restrictive arrangement must meet the following criteria
in order to be considered “directly related and necessary to” the concentration:
Restriction “directly related” to concentration: The restrictive arrangement must have a
direct link to the concentration and be subordinate in importance to the main object of the
concentration. The mere fact that it is included in the same context or agreement as the
concentration, or is entered into at the same time, is not in itself sufficient to find a direct
link42.
Restriction “necessary” to implementation of concentration: The restriction must be
objectively necessary to the implementation of the concentration, i.e., without such a
restriction, the concentration could not be successfully implemented. A restriction
satisfies this condition if it ensures the implementation of a concentration, or minimizes
the uncertainty, cost, or completion time of the transaction43.
Commission Notice, 0J. C 203/05 (1990) [hereinafter Ancillary Notice]
Recital 21 ECMR: The Ancillary Restraints Notice (para. 5, footnote 2) indicates that for the purpose of this
Notice, “a decision is considered to be published when it is published in the Official Journal of the European Union
or when it is made available to the public on the Commission‟s website”.
See Ancillary Restraints Notice, para. 12)
See Ancillary Restraints Notice, para. 13( Agreements that protect the value transferred, maintain the continuity of
supply after the breakup of a former economic entity or enable the start-up of a new entity are often believed
necessary to implementation of the transaction).
The mere fact that the parties claim that they would not have entered into the transaction unless
certain restrictions were attached to it does not automatically make these restrictions necessary to
the implementation of the concentration.
Rule of Proportionality: The third limb of the test is the most important in practice.
Building on precedents of the European Court of Justice, the Commission applies a “rule
of proportionality”, under which the restriction‟s duration, subject-matter and geographic
field of application may not exceed what is necessary to implement the concentration
successfully. If alternatives are available, the parties must choose the one that is least
restrictive of competition44.
Scope of Ancillary Restraints in the 2004 Notice:
According the provisions of Ancillary Notice, to be deemed “directly related and necessary to
the concentration”, a noncompetition, non-solicitation or confidentiality clause must satisfy
several conditions:
The transferred business must involve know-how and/or goodwill, not mere physical assets
or exclusive industrial and commercial property rights45.
The seller may bind itself, its subsidiaries, and its commercial agents, but not third parties,
such as resellers or users46.
The clause must be limited to products and services that form the economic activity of the
undertaking transferred47.
The clause must be geographically limited to the areas where the seller has sold goods or
performed services in the past48.
The clause must be of limited duration. The Commission‟s “rule of thumb” is that a threeyear period will be acceptable when both goodwill and know-how are transferred. A twoyear period will be acceptable when the transfer involves only goodwill. The Commission
may accept longer periods in exceptional circumstances49.
The Commission stresses that only the buyer requires the assurance of a non-compete clause,
so that it will be able to recoup its investment. Restrictions that benefit the vendor are
See Ancillary Restraints Notice, para. 21.
generally deemed not directly related and necessary to the concentration and, when they do
meet that standard, are unlikely to need to be as extensive in scope or duration as those that
would benefit the buyer50.
Treatment of Non Ancillary Restraints:
As a general rule decision declaring the concentration compatible shall be deemed to cover
restrictions directly related and necessary to the implementation of the concentration. However
in case the restrictions which cannot be regarded as directly related and necessary to the
implementation of the concentration continue to be governed by Article 81 and 82 of EC Treaty
and other relevant competition rules and notices51.
Position in USA:
Emergence of Doctrine of Ancillary Restraints
The concept of ancillary restraints is developed by Common Law. Ancillary restraints are those
restraints which are reasonably necessary to the functioning of an otherwise lawful joint venture
or other combination52. The concept was imported into Sherman Act jurisprudence by Judge
Taft's 1898 Addyston Pipe53 opinion, wherein it was stated that:
"No conventional restraint of trade can be enforced unless the covenant
embodying it is merely ancillary to the main purpose of a lawful contract, and
necessary to protect the covenantee in the full enjoyment of the legitimate fruits
of the contract, or to protect him from the dangers of an unjust use of those fruits
by the other party."
Recital 7 of Ancillary Restraint Notice: To the extent that restrictions are directly related and necessary to the
implementation of the concentration, Article 21(1) of the Merger Regulation provides that this Regulation alone
applies, to the exclusion of Council Regulations (EC) No 1/2003 (1), (EEC) No 1017/68 (2) and (EEC) No 4056/86
(3). By contrast, for restrictions that cannot be regarded as directly related and necessary to the implementation of
the concentration, Articles 81 and 82 of the EC Treaty remain potentially applicable. However, the mere fact that an
agreement or arrangement is not deemed to be ancillary to a concentration is not, as such, prejudicial to the legal
status thereof. Such agreements or arrangements are to be assessed in accordance with Article 81 and 82 of the EC
Treaty and the related regulatory texts and notices (4). They may also be subject to any applicable national
competition rules.
JOINT VENTURES: ANTI TRUST ANALYSIS OF COLLABORATIONS AMONG COMPETITORS, ABA
Publishing, 2006
United States v. Addyston Pipe & Steel Co., 85 F. 271 (6th Cir. 1898), aff'd as modified, 175 U.S. 211 (1899).
(Judge Taft's opinion is often cited for his colorful rejection of consideration of the reasonableness of non-ancillary
restraints).
Robert Bork explained in 1959 that, in the context of joint ventures, an "agreement not to compete
may be necessary in order that each participant may be safe in contributing his best efforts and his
resources to the joint enterprise”54
In its 1978 decision in Professional Engineers55, the Supreme Court of United states cited Judge
Taft's opinion for the proposition that the rule of reason 56 is the "standard for testing the
enforceability of covenants in restraint of trade which are ancillary to a legitimate transaction."
The Supreme Court commented in Business Electronics57 that an ancillary restraint in the common
law "enhances the value of the contract, or permits the 'enjoyment of its fruits." The Ninth Circuit
observed that the "proper function of ancillarity in antitrust analysis is to remove in some instances
the per se label from restraints otherwise falling within the category”58.
Collateral Restraints:
A collateral restraint is ancillary if, and only if, it is reasonably necessary to make the venture operate
more efficiently or effectively at the time the restraint was entered into. The more important of the
two words in "reasonably necessary" is the first. Defendants are required to show only that the
ability of their legitimate joint venture to function efficiently or effectively was compromised in a
significant way that was sensibly addressed by the restraint59.
Restraints collateral to the formation of a legitimate joint venture is "ancillary" only if it has an
"organic connection60" to the venture's operations and serves to make the venture operate more
efficiently or effectively. The effectiveness of a joint venture may be enhanced by restraints that
reduce the incentive or opportunity for participants in the venture to expropriate or undermine its
ROBERT H. BORK, ANCILLARY RESTRAINTS AND THE SHERMAN ACT.
National Society of Professional Engineers v. United States, 435 U.S. 679 (1978)
The Rule of reason is a legal approach by competition authorities or the courts where an attempt is made to
evaluate the pro-competitive features of a restrictive business practice against its anticompetitive effects in order to
decide whether or not the practice should be prohibited. (OECD Glossary of Statistical Terms, Available at
http://stats.oecd.org/glossary/detail.asp?ID=3305, Last Accessed on February 16, 2012.)
Business Electronics v. Sharp Electronics, 485 U.S. 717 (1988)
Aydin Corp. v. Loral Corp., 718 F.2d 897,901 (9th Cir.) 1983.
GREGORY J. WERDEN, ANCILLARY RESTRAINTS DOCTRINE 15, http://apps.americanbar.org/antitrust/atcommittees/at-s1/pdf/spring-materials/2006/werden06.pdf (Last Accessed on February 12, 2012)
A corollary of the necessity of an "organic connection" is an insight in Chief Judge Ginsburg's opinion in
PolyGram Holding, Inc. v. FTC, 416 F.3d 29,31-32 (D.C. Cir. 2005): "A restraint cannot be justified solely on the
ground that it increases the profitability of the enterprise….". For instance, the price fixing, by Joint Venture
participants, in unrelated products may make the joint venture profitable when it otherwise would not be, but that
does not make the price fixing ancillary.
Whether a collateral restraint is ancillary, depends on the particular circumstances faced by the
participants in the joint venture. Consider two scenarios in which participants in joint ventures
adopt restraints eliminating price competition. First, suppose joint venture participants sell
competing differentiated consumer products marketed primarily through the Internet, and that the
venture owns and operates a facilities for taking, processing, and fulfilling orders. An agreement
between the participants to sell their competing products at the same price probably is not
ancillary because the benefits of sharing on-line sales functions probably do not depend on
collective pricing.
Second, suppose joint venture participants sell a liquid chemical dispensed to customers by a
tank, the venture built and operates. An agreement between the participants to sell their
competing products at the same price probably is ancillary because they could not charge two
different prices for the same thing at the same place at the same time61.
Agreements Not to Compete: Judicial Instances
The most popular kinds of Non-Compete agreements usually adopted along with a joint venture
or other combination transaction are discussed below:
Participants‟ Agreements Not to compete with the joint venture:
Participants in a valid, pro competitive joint venture generally may agree not to compete with
the venture. It was stated in United States v. Addyston Pipe & steel Co62., agreements by the
participants not to compete with the venture should be upheld as ancillary where they are made
“with a view of securing each partner’s entire effort in the common enterprise”. Even if the
restraints are imposed on the parties to joint venture later on, they are upheld, if it appears
reasonably necessary to promote the effectiveness of the venture63.
Agreements Restricting Competition Between Joint Venture Participants in Markets
Outside the Joint Venture:
Agreements that the participants will not compete outside the market in which the joint venture
participates generally are invalidated as naked restraints. Courts are far less likely to find that a
GREGORY, Supra Note 59, at 11
Supra Note 53
Rothery Storage & Van Co. v. Atlas Van Lines, Inc. 792 F.2d 210 (D.C. Cir. 1986)
challenged restraint is ancillary when it goes beyond the defined scope and purpose of the joint
venture agreement64.
Competition among the Joint Ventures and its Participants:
Situations in which the participants in a joint venture are permitted to compete with joint venture
are not free from potential challenge. Although allowing the collaboration and its parents to
compete may enhance competition, competition among the parents and the joint venture also
could result in collusion. Consequently, it is important to built safeguards against coordination
into the joint venture agreement itself65.
Position in India:
The position regarding treatment of Non-Compete agreements forming part of combination
transactions and other restructuring transactions under the Competition Act, 2002 is not settled.
In India, there is no classification of restraints which may be regarded as ancillary or non
ancillary restraints. Consequently, restraint clauses in a combination transaction which have
appreciable adverse effect on competition are likely to be scrutinized under Section 3 of the
Competition Act, 2002 read along with Section 19(3).
Alternatively Non Compete agreements forming part of Combination transaction may be
scrutinized along with the transaction under Section 6 read along with Section 20(4).
From both the procedural and substantive standpoint, it makes little sense to assess these
restrictions separately from rest of the transaction and subject them to different rules.
Furthermore, Non Compete agreements, in transactions which does not qualify the thresholds
specified in Section 5 of the Act would be susceptible to continual challenge by Commission, in
cases they cause or are likely to cause appreciable adverse effect on competition in relevant
Timken Roller Bearing Co. v United States, 341 U.S. 593 (1951), Supreme Court struck down a joint venture in
which the parents of the venture allocated territories outside the scope of the venture.
In Re General Motors Corp. 103 F.T.C. 374 (1984), the commission while approving a joint venture for the
manufacture of subcompact automobiles between the first and the fourth largest automobiles manufactures in the
United States, required a consent order prohibiting the exchange of certain types of information and imposed other
requirements to ensure that joint venture was not used to facilitate the exchange of competitively sensitive
information like marketing plans, production plans etc., unnecessary to its operation.
CONCLUSION: THE WAY FORWARD
To air differences and still remain friends, the essence of civilized existence, don’t you think?
...Lan McEwan
The merger control law in India has all the elements of a progressive law and has imbibed
several practices from the EU and US competition regimes. Despite its nascent existence, it has
achieved tremendous success. However, there are certain factors which need to be deliberated
upon and need further skilled escalation.
The non-compete agreements related to combinations/ transactions are yet to be scrutinized by
Commission. While there exists a merit in allowing non- compete agreements in order to enable
the purchaser to enjoy the full commercial value of the business transferred, there exists a
significant risk that transferor may be unduly restricted from possible re-entry to the market.
International regimes can be of some assistance for the purpose of serving a broad guideline or a
roadmap. However precise routes taken by Europe and US need not be necessarily adopted as the
standards of reasonableness of restrictions vary according to socio-economic scenario of a
As discussed above that the concept of Ancillary Restraints has been evolved in foreign
jurisdictions to deal with cases of Non Compete agreements forming part of combination
transactions. The practical "effect of a finding of ancillary is to 'remove the per se label from
restraints otherwise falling within that category.”66 Indeed, Professor Hovenkamp has suggested
that "the most frequent application of the rule of reason involves restraints that are 'ancillary' to
some underlying productive joint venture"67.
The competition jurisprudence in India is indeed in nascent stage and there is benefit in ensuring
that the regime is not so out of sync with the competition principles and practices around the
world. The doctrine analogous to ancillary restraints, as followed in European Union and United
States, may be applied in India by the commission while dealing with Non Compete Agreements.
For this, the Competition Commission of India ought to establish an exhaustive framework for
Los Angeles Mem'1 Coliseum Comm'n v. NFL, 726 F.2d 1381, 1395 (9th Cir. 1984)
HERBERT HOVENKAMP, ANTI-TRUSTLAW 322, 2nd Edition 2005.
treatment of Non Compete agreements in due course of time. This would help a great deal
especially in cases where the jurisdictional thresholds are not met i.e. where the restrictive
clauses are susceptible to continual challenge under Section 3 of the act. Existence of detailed
guidelines to determine the reasonableness of restraints will allow the parties to transaction to
structure their deals in a better way and thus providing a welcome safe harbor of regulatory
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By Angie M. Rosales and Virgilio J. Bugaoisan 07/06/2011
Despite the frequent breast-beating of President Aquino about what he claimed as numerous anomalies that took place during the term of his predecessor President Arroyo, a senator noticed yesterday the slow pace that his administration is taking to do something about such allegations or to “walk the talk” so to speak.
Senate Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano scored what he noted as slow pace of Palace action on alleged irregularities committed by the previous administration.
But even as he aired his displeasure on the Aquino administration, Cayetano is urging Malacañang to conduct a parallel probe into the alleged misuse of Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) funds which the two Houses of Congress are now poised to investigate.... MORE
Noy: RP-China conflict Gloria’s fault By Virgilio J. Bugaoisan and Michaela P. del Callar 07/06/2011
AQUINO’S BLAME GAME ESCALATES
Noy: RP-China conflict Gloria’s fault
By Virgilio J. Bugaoisan and Michaela P. del Callar 07/06/2011
The blame Gloria game has become much too ridiculous.
Except perhaps for the devastation caused by typhoons that regularly visit the Philippines, especially at this time of the year, the rest of the country’s problems — past and present — are all caused by former President Arroyo in the eyes of President Aquino as he blamed her again, this time for causing the diplomatic row between the Philippines and China.
In his speech during the 113th Anniversary of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), Aquino singled out the Arroyo administration as being responsible for aggravating the disagreement between China and the
Philippines in relation to each country’s claims in the Spratlys group of Islands.
Aquino accused Arroyo of approving the inclusion of Manila-claimed territories, such as the Reed Bank near Palawan, in a joint oil exploration in 2005 between the Philippines and rival claimants China and Vietnam..... MORE
Davao mayor accountable for beating Sheriff By Gerry Baldo 07/06/2011
Davao mayor accountable for beating Sheriff
The Department of Interior and Local Governments (DILG) should act on the beating incident involving Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio.
House Deputy Minority Leader and Zambales Rep. Ma. Milagros “Mitos” Magsaysay said sanctions should be meted to Duterte-Carpio even if court Sheriff Abe Andres decided not to press for charges because it will set a precedent.
“Dapat parusahan siya (Duterte-Carpio), inaantay ko kung ano ang magiging desisyon ng DILG dito because this will be a precedent,” Magsaysay said yesterday.
Diwa party-list Rep. Emmeline Aglipay agreed with Magsaysay, saying the DILG should at least investigate Duterte-Carpio administratively..... MORE
Death toll from landslides in Bukidnon reaches 7 By Mario J. Mallari 07/06/2011
Death toll from landslides in Bukidnon reaches 7
Two more children have died after a third landslide hit in Valencia City, Bukidnon, bringing to seven the death toll from the disaster spawned by continuous heavy rains in the province for several days now.
National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (NDRRMC) executive director Undersecretary Benito Ramos confirmed that the third landslide that struck in Barangay Tongan Tongan buried two children, whose identities were not immediately available.
Last Monday, two landslides hit Barangay Lumbayao also in Valencia City killing at least five people while several others remained missing..... MORE
BI men at NAIA tightly screen Pinoy tourists bound for Bahrain 07/06/2011
BI men at NAIA tightly screen Pinoy tourists bound for Bahrain
Immigration officers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport have been ordered to tightly screen Filipino tourists bound for Bahrain following reports that many of them ended up becoming undocumented contract workers in the Middle East country.
Immigration Commissioner Ricardo David Jr. issued the order after the Philippine Embassy in Bahrain alerted the bureau about the practice of many overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who travel to the kingdom on visitor’s visas but later convert them to work visas once they find an employer.
At the same time, David assured Ma. Corazon Yap-Bahjin, Philippine ambassador to Bahrain, that airport immigration officers are continuously exercising vigilance and thoroughly screening Filipino tourists bound for Bahrain and other countries known to be favored destination of OFWs..... MORE
2 nursing board execs fired for exam leakage By Arlie O. Calalo 07/06/2011
2 nursing board execs fired for exam leakage
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Two members of the Board of Nursing of the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) were found guilty of leaking the questionnaires for the board exams in 2006, the Office of the Ombudsman said yesterday.
Ordered dismissed from the service were Anesia Buenafe-Dionisio and Virginia Diolola-Madeja, acting Ombudsman Orlando Casimiro said. Dionisio was assigned to Psychiatric Nursing while Madeja was examiner in Medical Surgery Nursing.
In the 32-page decision, the anti-graft office established that majority of Dionisio’s test questions had reached the reviewees of the RA Gapuz Review Center in Baguio City and Institute for Review and Special Studies in Manila..... MORE
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‘Migrante’ portrays dreams, harrowing tales of OFWs
MANILA – A few years ago, renowned director Joel Lamangan and Palanca-awardee scriptwriter Bonifacio Ilagan teamed up with Ricky Lee to film the Flor Contemplacion Story, a movie based on the life of an overseas Filipino worker who was sentenced to die in Singapore. Her death amplified the costs of labor migration.
Yet recently, Lamangan and Ilagan teamed up again to film another gripping portrayal of the continuing poor working conditions of overseas Filipino workers.
“Flor’s story was a film on one individual’s life. But now, (in this film) you will see the bigger problem. It also focuses on how groups like Migrante are helping OFWs in other countries,” Lamangan told Bulatlat.com. The film, he added, is “telling the truth of how our local embassies in other countries are not helping that much.”
‘Migrante (The Filipino Diaspora)’ is a film that portrays the many faces of being an overseas Filipino worker. The fates of the OFWs in the film were intertwined by the tragic incident that has befallen Frida (Jody Sta. Maria) and her family. It also highlighted the role of people’s organizations such as Migrante International, which, in real life, have been at the forefront of helping fellow Filipino migrants workers in need.
“One of our inspirations in making this film is the accumulating number of cases of OFWs being maltreated. The number of reported incidents have increased tremendously that people think that it is just an ordinary case,” Ilagan said.
Leaving the country
Frida’s children tries to convince her not to leave (Photo courtesy of Migrante (The Filipino Diaspora) Facebook account)
The scenes leading to Frida’s departure to Israel is all too familiar since many Filipinos, including this writer, have relatives working abroad. But it is an entirely new experience when viewing it from a different perspective.
One could almost sense the pain that characters were feeling as Frida’s departure neared, most especially when the children were begging desperately for their mother not to leave. Even Jody Sta. Maria, who played Frida, told Bulatlat.com that it is one of the scenes that struck her.
“If they had a choice, who would want to go out of this country to work? Knowing our Filipino culture for strong family ties, no one would,” Sta. Maria said..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/07/20/%E2%80%98migrante%E2%80%99-portrays-dreams-harrowing-tales-of-ofws/
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Charlottesville (Studio)
song name Charlottesville
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Also known as "Starr Hill Music Hall" in the original concert setlist.
The venue song for Starr Hill Music Hall in Charlottesville, VA.
Official Starr Hill webpage: http://www.starrhill.com/.
There is no keyboard in the beginning; JL adds "Yeah!" occasionally, "car" and "house" are switched, and the ending is slower.
The line "Sell the house, sell the car, sell the kids" is a reference to the film Apocalypse Now.
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‘Everyone Is Scared Of The Naxals’
Ajit Sahi
You were tough against the Naxals but your tenure also saw a rise in Naxalism.
Arjun Munda, Madhu Koda and Shibu Soren who followed me as CM all played a negative role and diluted the fight against the Naxals. I invited the Naxals to join the mainstream but also punished those who refused the offer. Many Naxals surrendered in the Bokaro and Giridih districts. There were many encounters and Naxals were on the run then. I also started development activities. In the worst affected districts of Palamu and Chatra, the farmers came back to their farms.
So why has Naxal activity shot up?
Because the politicians are all scared of the Naxals. Everyone demands that [Parliament attack convict] Afzal Guru be hanged but no one dares to speak against the Naxals. I had arrested many Naxals under POTA. But the then Union Home Minister LK Advani called me and said, “Why are you doing this? I have to answer for it in Parliament.”
Do you think the CRPF killed Naxals or innocent villagers on April 15 in Latehar?
See, often the Naxals threaten to kill innocent villagers if they don’t do their bidding. In my own village in the Giridih district, the Naxals put pressure on villagers to not sell their timber to the neighbouring villages of Bihar. I asked the police also to threaten the villagers to sell timber in Bihar, so that one threat cancels out the other. What does one do? How else does one counter the fear created by the Naxals? But, yes, as for the April 15 incident, the government must order an inquiry, as the villagers have demanded.
Does the train hijack mean the government has lost out to the Naxals?
Jharkhand is a small state and the government has enough muscle.
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram says the Naxals are bandits bereft of ideology.
So who is ideologically driven in all these big parties? Even amongst the Naxals, few are ideologically driven and only two or three are ideologically inspired and they use people who’ve gone astray to do their bidding.
It is also alleged that the Naxals take hefty cuts from public funds.
Obviously, there is no straight way, so they take the way of “levy”.
I had arrested many Naxals under Pota. But Advani called me and said,‘why are you doing this?’
Do you see a role for the Centre in fighting the Maoist insurgency?
The Centre’s role can only be limited. They can give money. But only the state police and administration can bring a resolution.
Do you think Naxalism can be eliminated in Jharkhand?
Positively. It will take two years to eliminate it, provided the governments of Bihar and Jharkhand work in unison.
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There’s going to be a third issue of our fanzine soon – coming out in mid-September – so to celebrate, we’re posting a few selected items from the previous two issues. Events have taken over some of the things we wrote about a year ago. Our discussion of the club’s decision not to try for Category 1 status for the Academy under EPPP and frustrations with ITFC’s communications seems to have been addressed and Simon Clegg has departed (although he may make a brief comeback via this site). This article by Mullet, who isn’t a member of our collective but kindly wrote for issue 1 of Turnstile Blues, is still a good read though.
If you’re reading this you probably have one distinctive thing in common with me and everyone else involved in this publication, as fans of Ipswich Town F.C. we all know the belle époque expected under the charge of Marcus Evans hasn’t quite materialised. What has happened since our salvation from CVAs and asset strippers is a sea change in the game with massive trickledown effects for everyone including you, me and the various supporters’ groups affiliated and unaffiliated to ITFC.
If we look at the top of the English game there are many common themes – exponential increases in ‘wealth’, massive expansion in the media and a sense that ‘real fans’ are rarer than hens’ teeth the higher up the pyramid you go. The relationship between football success and authenticity amongst the fan base are two strong, yet fluid perceptions which dominate and colour many discussions about supporting our club. Oddly there seems to be a direct contradiction between the desires for footballing success whilst shunning the ‘modern’ aspects of being a big club.
The influx of Sky money; American models of fandom, the all-seater stadiums, decline of the working man in favour of more family based ‘fun’ at games are all common bugbears and phenomena I’ve seen and heard, as reasons for fans falling out of love with the game, throughout my years as a Town fan. They are also things which have crept in. The game didn’t change overnight and as fans we’ve seen some changes happen quicker than others. Moreover, ultimately both the club and the fans have had to evolve and endure.
Just as when the offside law changes clubs must adapt and grow that little bit stronger, they must also do this when the implicit ‘rules’ which govern attendances and cash flow change too. With fresh investment in this season’s rivals, Town have announced lucrative sponsorship from one of the few admirable sources possible in the Co-operative. It might be time we not only take their cash but some of their better ideas of business too.
This summer has seen both Manchester United and Barcelona launch vast multimedia assaults to recruit and retain fans. Both are clubs that count fans in their millions. Way beyond the capacity of their huge arenas whilst cornering the wealth and numbers across global markets is possibly way beyond the realms of Town now or for the foreseeable. However I think lessons can be learned and applied to us at Ipswich without introducing an ITTV channel, especially as the concept is over a decade old.
The club has a strong and very dedicated fan base which has been shown in these leaner, recession hit years to be as resilient as any. For a town as small and geographically isolated as Ipswich is, to have competition from half a dozen or so clubs and still maintain reasonable levels of support is admirable. But there are fans out there like me, who have migrated across the country, there is a staunch generation across Scandinavia, Northern Europe and the Netherlands who still count amongst the faithful and have had sons and daughters to pass the mantle on and these fans should be integrated as fully as possible.
In this digital age the rise of social media in the short timeframe since MEG took over at Portman road is a trick I feel the club really misses all too often. As a community we have so much to be proud of. Our charitable trust, the junior blues, our players who appear so often at community events all contribute to a sense of pride and belonging which as separate threads could be drawn together into stronger ties for all fans.
There has been in the past season heavy, and justified criticism of the official supporters’ club. This conflict became a starting point for many of my own pieces on the matter of supporters’ groups at ITFC. Their ill-judged address to fans soured the views of many who felt ‘attacked’ and this spilled over in turn to much unjustified criticism. However, it highlighted clearly how the effort and hard work of a few can be seen, scrutinised and discarded by the many all too often.
There are still a handful of supporters’ clubs both sanctioned and non-affiliated to the club. As someone who grew up with the Halesworth branch now chaired by my Dad; and run by a small band of people I’ve known all my life, it is a vehicle of support I hold dearly but fear for. Where other branches have come and gone, the Halesworth lot are steadfast but steadily declining. The halcyon days of two coaches to every home game during the Premiership and previous nearly-Premiership seasons are long gone. The fans that had once filled those seats are too, on the buses and at Portman Road.
Like Town’s support as a whole, the Branch’s numbers are made up of the older Town fans that still turn out day in day out as it were to follow the club. While they are not likely to be interested in a Facebook group or in need of cut price tickets due to existing discounts, there is a whole range of fans being glossed over or forgotten about in my opinion. Games where numbers are down such as night games could be the perfect opportunity to welcome local amateur sides who sacrifice watching Town at the expense of keeping up the game they love could be invited in with group discounts. Likewise so could other community groups with an interest enjoy a night out under the floodlights and enjoy the hospitality of the club.
As with the foreign fans mentioned earlier there are fans with different levels of involvement, interest and ultimately cash which can be channelled towards the club – the use of supporters groups to provide an intermediate between the club and these people is something I truly believe in. This process can only be started through as many points of exposure as possible.
These days the role and remit of fans over consumers, is getting harder to separate. Semantics can be thrown around all you like, but at the end of the day we all pay lots of money for 90 mins of football per week, per month, per year. That comes in addition to paying for everything from polyester shirts to insulate the beer guts of some of us, right through to maintaining them with our award winning pies (despite a lack of celebrity chef types at the club).
How can we incentivise those too young, too old, and too immobile to join in if they can’t get to games in the first place? How do we sucker them with their generational equivalent of worshipping a Chris Kiwomya, John Wark, Treacle or Guus Uhlenbeek as ITFC did to me all those years ago if they can’t get to games? The club does a sterling job of laying on Galloways coaches to away games but they leave to and from Portman Road in the bottom corner of a vast and rural part of the country. What if these coaches ran through and picked up fans in the larger towns of the region en route? I’ve driven down from Halesworth to Ipswich and back either side of an away day and adding two hours to the day and not being able to indulge in a drink does take the edge off it for me. I doubt I’m the only one.
If the emerging generation fans now are savvy on the internet, why not signpost more fan stuff there? I used to love events where we played footy, pool, darts, cricket etc against other branches for fun and had a few beers to fill the void between seasons. Why not organise events between fans that are more likely to check their Facebook feed, retweet it and then plan tactics via BBM rather than wait for someone else to arrange it all and give them a lift on the day?
Membership to the official supporters’ club is automatic when you buy a season ticket. This is both wrong and counterproductive. Until the infamous half time address most people didn’t really know they were a member. It excludes those who live away and by excluding them presents a barrier between them and the club. These little sticking points can soon become the pebble which starts an avalanche of reasons to walk away from Town for good. Driving through Halesworth this weekend on a visit back home I spotted a kid crossing in front of me wearing a Chelsea shirt. In all honesty I was tempted to flick on my wipers and ignore the red light.
I implore the club to rethink how it engages with fans. How it can take what it does and turn it from excellent to the model which all other clubs follow. Innovative practice doesn’t have to be expensive it just has to satisfy fans’ desire to be heard and valued. If the Official Supporters club went out and met with fans, invited them and shared ideas it could be the sounding board, the liaison and the voice for so much and so many more, with a sense of justified authority and influence through real representation.
By supporting those already out there working hard just so they and others can enjoy ITFC the club could do and be so much more. With small, but smart investments in the right areas, by raising awareness and cultivating links the club has the tools to produce some amazing results through their fans. We all know the lottery of looking for success on the field in football. We shouldn’t resign ourselves to the same mindset when it comes to coming together.
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Bitcoin bomb threat goes global as scam expands to Canada
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Calgary police received multiple threats Thursday afternoon, but said investigators did not believe any were credible.
Police in Toronto, Calgary, Ottawa and Winnipeg, as well as RCMP detachments in B.C. and Manitoba, are all investigating multiple threats.
In order to "call off my man", a payment of $20,000 in bitcoin must be made to an address listed in the message. They responded to 15 incidents, but believe there are many more who received threats.
The NYPD investigated several locations receiving a threat, as did the police in Oklahoma City, Washington, D.C., and locations in Texas, Pennsylvania, Florida, Idaho, and Maryland.
A bomb threat in the area of Toronto's King subway station caused officials to evacuate passengers just before 3:30 p.m. on Thursday.
Police departments in several Canadian and USA cities said on Twitter that the threats include a demand for payment in bitcoin currency.
All of Thursday's e-mails demand bitcoin payments, but police say all threats have been deemed unfounded.
Per Wired, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is "working with United States law enforcement" on the case, with Oklahoma police stating, on Twitter that "no credible threat [has been] found at this point". Given the mass distribution of these bomb threats, that's likely to mean a lot of incoming calls and messages. People in the center self-evacuated so quickly that some had to jump out of the swimming pool and spend the better part of two hours waiting nearby in bathrobes.
"The thing to remember is, if you receive an email like this, if they give no specifics, nothing that actually convinces you, no credibility, then it's a scam", Hamer said.
Local police also reported bomb threats made to several businesses in Regina and Saskatoon.
Some of the emails have the subject line "Think Twice".
The Vermont State Police and local police departments have responded to the locations "by doing what is necessary to make sure no device is going off", Silverman said.
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I do wish he hadn't done that
"I think this should have been done long ago. Because a president has to put his public responsibilities before his pride and his privacy. That's the price of the job - to defuse or debunk conspiracy theorists or just skeptics with all the relevant information you have." — Andrew Sullivan*
I disagree. Firstly, it's been enormous fun to see the GOP self-destruct over the last few weeks. Trump is an enduring comic creation, worthy of Swift. Secondly: the same degree of proof that suffices for caucasians should suffice for African-Americans. Essentially, Obama has been forced to show his papers. Thirdly, I've just seen Trump on TV, crowing over the power he's just been handed ("I'm proud of myself"). For a brief second, he seemed less a figure of fun and more an actual living, breathing candidate. I'm sure it will pass but still. Lastly, nothing will see the end to this issue.
*For what it's worth I think the only reason Sullivan is taking this position is to reverse-engineer the legitimacy of his position re Trig Palin
You iz smart. :-)
Amir April 27, 2011 at 9:39 PM
This one paragraph you've written is the best thing I've read in a long time.
Your second point is actually so incredibly true and heartbreaking. It's such a disgrace that a troll like Trump can say something like "Today I'm incredibly proud of myself" because he made the persident "essentially show his papers".
I have no word other than disgrace to describe this.
The Siren April 27, 2011 at 11:03 PM
Jolly as it has been to watch this crowd do a passing imitation of the stateroom scene in A Night at the Opera, I believe Obama when he says that he wants to focus on our problems and not "sideshows and carnival barkers." I'm sure the president perceives the racism in the demand, so I can only conclude that he's bucking the precedents set from 2001-2009 and doing something for the good of the country. Obama is also canny enough to perceive that they'll continue to make fools of themselves. As for Trump, oy, so he thinks he's a statesman. I once worked with a guy who believed he was the reincarnation of Edie Sedgwick. Get a few drinks in him and he'd tell you all about which outfits he wore to The Factory. The only ones who are going to fall for Trump are the same yokels who tune into "The Apprentice" believing him to be a figure with some sort of stature in the business world. Chico Marx could show up Trump in a heartbeat; "You can't fool me. There ain't no sanity clause!"
David Edelstein April 28, 2011 at 3:40 AM
You are totally right about Sullivan--the last statement in his post is all but a restatement of the call he has made a million times already. But you know what? I want to see Trig's birth certificate, too. I want him to be our first U.S. president with Downs Syndrome, and showing the birth certificate now would spare us all that unpleasantness down the road.
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Update on Vance DNA Group 2
For those of you who follow the DNA testing, the last blog update we had on Vance DNA Group 2 was this post from November 2015.
Vance DNA Group 2, if you recall, comprises a group of about 8-10 immigrant Vance lines from Ireland into the US between about 1730 and 1840, and one line surnamed Whalen who emigrated to Canada. Notable descendants include Abner Vance of Abingdon, VA and Jim Vance of Hatfield/McCoy feud fame.
At the time of that last post, SNPs Z23507, Z23506, and Z23516 had been identified as major signposts within Group 2, and the descendant picture looked like this:
After another year and a half's worth of further testing, the picture has changed somewhat although the major SNP signposts still remain. The following chart summaries the group's SNP signposts in yellow, with major STR mutations shown in red boxes along the various descendant lines:
You'll see the major SNPs that mark Group 2's branches marked in bright yellow above - first, SNP L513 which is the "major subclade" formed about 4000 years ago. Group 2 is identified by SNP Z23507 which occurred about 2800 years later. Groups 2a and 2b split off from each other about 1300-1400AD (give or take), and Group 2b (the green boxes in the chart) does not have any defining SNPs identified for it yet (there surely ARE some, there just hasn't been enough testing in Group 2b yet to tell).
Group 2a splits into three major branches. The branch that split off first includes the lines of Robert Vance of Mifflin Co, VA and George Vance of Bloomsburg, PA (the rose boxes in the chart) - this branch split off about 1500-1650AD. Then at some point later along the other subbranch, SNP 23516 formed, and after that the line of Matthew Vance of Pittsylvania split off from the others (the purple boxes in the chart). Matthew's line continued with John Vance of Burke Co, Abner Vance of Abingdon, VA, and Matthew Vance of Greenville's lines. The other Vance lines continued as shown in blue in the chart.
The chart also shows (in the red circled area) the generations that lived in Ireland. How do we know this? Well, each of the major branches (green, rose, purple, or blue boxes) have immigrants that are known to have either been born or lived in Ireland. For all those immigrants to have come from the same location, it is reasonable to assume that the major lines continued to live in that location.
The STRs are marked in the chart above so that male descendants of these Vance lines can look for these STR mutations in their own Y-DNA tests. Or, if you are a male Vance who has had their Y-DNA tested, you can check your own STRs and see if any of these mutations exist in your own DNA - which would mark you as a descendant of that particular Vance line.
While the chart above is useful it is really a simplified version of the full "mutation history tree", which you can see in the chart below (click on it to expand it for readability).
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Fishing Vancouver Island CentralDonald Lovegrove2019-01-14T23:41:54-08:00
Fishing Guides: Central Vancouver Island
In Nanaimo and the Cowichan Valley, anglers seek out the good fishing locations mentioned below. Quamichan Lake east of Duncan in the Cowichan Valley has good trout fishing. You can launch a car-top boat at Art Mann Park on Quamichan Lake. To reach the park, follow Trunk Road east of downtown Duncan to Tzouhalem Road, then Maple Bay Road to Indian Road, which leads to the park. Quennell Lake near South Wellington is known for its good smallmouth bass and trout fishing, as is Holden Lake (launch at Hemer Provincial Park) near Yellow Point.
Long Lake and Brannen Lake are situated 3 miles (5 km) north of Nanaimo centre. They’re both easy to locate on opposite sides of Hwy 19. Follow Norwell Drive east of the highway to Louden Park on Long Lake, or Dunster Road west of the Nanaimo Parkway to Brannen Lake. There are trout and smallmouth bass at Long Lake; cutthroat and rainbow trout at Brannen Lake.
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There’s excellent bank casting for rainbow and cutthroat trout on the Englishman River, either near the river mouth on the Strait of Georgia near Parksville, or in Englishman River Falls Provincial Park. There is also a steelhead run in the Englishman River. Unfortunately, a decline in salmon stocks has forced closures on fishing for a number of species, so be sure to check in advance with the Wildlife Conservation Officer in Port Alberni, 250-724-9290.
Over the past century, brown trout have been successfully introduced to a number of Vancouver Island rivers, such as the Cowichan River and the Little Qualicum River. The best access to the river for bank casting is at Little Qualicum Falls Provincial Park. You’ll also find good trolling and boat casting in Cameron Lake, part of which also lies within the park. There’s a boat launch at the picnic grounds on Cameron Lake.
The annual fall salmon run at the mouth of French Creek as it enters the Strait of Georgia, 3 miles (5 km) north of Parksville, attracts anglers to the French Creek Marina and the public boat launch adjacent to the federal dock and the Lasqueti Island ferry. The community of French Creek is located on Hwy 19A, and is well marked.
Spider Lake Provincial Park northwest of Qualicum Beach is renown locally for its smallmouth-bass and trout fishing. The lake is stocked regularly, so for best results come in early spring before it warms up, or wait until fall to try your luck once temperatures begin to drop. No motorized boats are allowed on the lake. Launch car-top boats from the beach beside the parking lot. Follow the signs west of Hwy 19A on Horne Lake Road to reach Spider Lake Provincial Park. After passing Spider Lake, the road follows the shoreline of Horne Lake to the headwaters of the Qualicum River. The lake is 5 miles (8 km) long and about 1 mile (1.5 km) wide, and features good boat fishing year round for cutthroat, rainbow, and kokanee trout.
North of Qualicum Beach is the small oceanside community of Deep Bay, a town seemingly devoted to angling. Mapleguard Point is the elbow of an arm and spit that protect Deep Bay’s natural harbour beside much larger Qualicum Bay. Rich salmon grounds lie in the bay near the Norris Rocks, Chrome Island, and Eagle Rock. Chinook salmon in the 20-pound range top the scales each year in these waters. Just north of Deep Bay on Hwy 19 you’ll find Rosewall Creek Provincial Park, a small roadside park devoted to riverbank casting at the entrance to Qualicum Bay.
Comox Lake, west of Cumberland on Comox Lake Road, has good freshwater fishing for trout and char year round. Boaters must be aware of the strong winds that rise in the afternoon on the large, dammed lake. You’ll find a boat launch at the west end of Comox Lake Road.
Some of the best saltwater fishing on Vancouver Island, particularly for salmon, can be found in the waters of the Strait of Georgia north of the Puntledge River Estuary, between Courtenay and Comox, and also off Cape Lazo, King Coho, and Bates Beach, just north of Comox. Because of its sheltered location and an absence of dangerous currents, the shoreline around Comox is well suited for rod fishing in a small boat. If the weather does change, you can see it coming and quickly make for shore. Shore angling for salmon is popular in Comox Bay from August to November.
The closer you get to Campbell River, the better the salmon fishing becomes. Tidal flows in Discovery Passage churn up clouds of nutrients that sustain a complex food chain, which includes tasty salmon near the top.
You’ll find a boat launch at the marina at Pacific Playgrounds Resort on Clarkson Drive in Saratoga Beach in the town of Black Creek, 10.5 miles (17 km) north of Courtenay on Hwy 19, and another at aptly named Salmon Point in Black Creek.
Fly fish for coho in September at the mouth of Black Creek, which flows through Miracle Beach Provincial Park into the Strait of Georgia, as well as farther north at Oyster River on Hwy 19.
Campbell River bills itself as the Salmon Capital of the World. Located halfway up the east coast of Vancouver Island, Campbell River is a friendly community situated in the middle of some of the best fishing grounds on Vancouver Island. One of the four main fishing centres on Vancouver Island, the city is internationally famous for both its ocean and freshwater fishing. Along with great salmon fishing, there is also a wide variety of other fishing opportunities. Campbell River is hard to beat for fishing action and diversity, as it is within 15-40 minutes of some of the hottest fishing spots along the Inside Passage, and central to several river systems that are home to steelhead, trout and salmon.
Salmon fishing is a year-round activity in Campbell River. With resident winter chinook salmon present through the winter months, fisherman head out on the quiet waters for great winter fishing and prawning. In mid June, the annual runs of transient chinook start arriving, joined in mid July by large runs of migrating pink, coho and sockeye salmon. This is the fishery that has made Campbell River famous. In late September, large numbers of chum salmon start to dominate the waters. With the strength of a chinook, and the acrobatics of a coho, the chum salmon put up a fight to remember! Bottom fish such as ling cod, rock cod, snapper and halibut are also found in local waters.
The twice-yearly steelhead runs on the Quinsam River and Campbell River are as well known as the run on the Cowichan River, while the year-round salmon fishing in Discovery Passage is unmatched. The Quinsam flows into the Campbell just inland from the Strait of Georgia. As it meets the ocean at the north end of town, the Campbell broadens into an intertidal estuary. The fishing calendar here has a summer steelhead run scheduled from June to October, with a winter run between November and April. Chinook (king) salmon are in residence year round in Discovery Passage, which also hosts successive runs of coho (June to September), tyee (July to September), sockeye (August), pink (August and September), and finally chum (September to November).
For the freshwater fisherman, there are also year round fishing opportunities. Steelhead are present year round, with both summer runs and winter runs moving through the local rivers. These fantastic fighters will take on a fly, spoon, or artificial egg pattern, and put on a terrific display, taking long runs and making spectacular jumps. There are also trout present in the local rivers year round, as well as seasonal runs of salmon. With pinks, chinooks, coho and chums packing the local rivers in the fall, the fishing action is non stop.
The wealth of the salmon fishery in Discovery Passage between Campbell River and Quadra Island is so legendary that a special ritual has grown up around it over the past century. Called tyee fishing, this method has stringent requirements, but success buys instant membership in the exclusive Tyee Club of BC, the oldest fishing club in BC. Tyee is the appellation given a chinook (king) salmon when its weight exceeds 30 pounds (13.5 kg). Anglers must abide by regulations that stipulate a minimum catch weight of 30 pounds, hooked with an artificial single-hook lure fastened to a maximum 20-pound (9-kg) test line. Oh, and you have to be in a rowboat. Considering the size of an average tyee, make sure it’s a big rowboat! The official weigh-in station is at the Tyee Club House beside the boat launch on Tyee Spit, east of Hwy 19 on Spit Road in Campbell River. The rowing season is open between August 15 and September 15, and at first light and last light the Tyee Pool is filled with rowboats quietly stalking the prized Tyee.
The waterfront in Campbell River appears to be one massive marina. In fact, there are three saltwater marinas, as well as a freshwater marina at the mouth of the Campbell River. Government Marina and Discovery Pier are located at the south end of the harbour on South Island Hwy (Hwy 19). Almost as many salmon are caught off this pier that juts out into Discovery Passage as farther offshore. Local ritual requires that at the cry of ‘fish on,’ all other anglers reel in and stand aside as the lucky soul manoeuvres the (unlucky) salmon ashore.
Saltwater fly fishing is becoming popular once again, and it is not hard to understand why. Imagine holding your breath as you watch a giant chinook salmon rise through crystal-clear shallows to take your fly. Or visualize a picture taken on a boat of you and your favourite fly rod with a glistening coho about to be released. Unforgettable!
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1. Adler, Sara
Widerström, Micael
Umeå universitet, Medicinska fakulteten, Institutionen för klinisk mikrobiologi.
Lindh, Johan
Lilja, Mikael
Umeå universitet, Medicinska fakulteten, Institutionen för folkhälsa och klinisk medicin, Allmänmedicin.
Symptoms and risk factors of Cryptosporidium hominis infection in children: data from a large waterborne outbreak in Sweden2017Inngår i: Parasitology Research, ISSN 0932-0113, E-ISSN 1432-1955, Vol. 116, nr 10, s. 2613-2618Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Cryptosporidium is a major cause of diarrheal disease worldwide. In developing countries, this infection is endemic and in children, associated with growth faltering and cognitive function deficits, with the most severe impact on those aged <2 years. Little has been reported about symptoms and risk factors for children in industrialized countries, although the disease incidence is increasing in such regions. In November 2010, a large waterborne outbreak of C. hominis occurred in the city of Östersund in Sweden. Approximately 27,000 of the 60,000 inhabitants were symptomatic. We aimed to describe duration of symptoms and the risk factors for infection with C. hominis in children aged <15 years in a Western setting. Within 2 months after a boil water advisory, a questionnaire was sent to randomly selected inhabitants of all ages, including 753 children aged <15 years. Those with ≥3 loose stools/day were defined as cases of diarrhoea. The response rate was 70.3%, and 211 children (39.9%) fulfilled the case definition. Mean duration of diarrhoea was 7.5 days (median 6, range 1-80 days). Recurrence, defined as a new episode of diarrhoea after ≥2 days of normal stools, occurred in 52.5% of the cases. Significant risk factors for infection, besides living within the distribution area of the contaminated water plant, included a high level of water consumption, male sex, and a previous history of loose stools. The outbreak was characterized by high attack and recurrence rates, emphasizing the necessity of water surveillance to prevent future outbreaks.
Andersson, T
Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University, Sweden and Swedish Institute for National Food Agency (SLV), Sweden and Communicable Disease Control (SMI), Solna, Sweden.
Bjelkmar, P
Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control (SMI), Solna, Sweden, and Inera AB, Sweden.
Hulth, A
Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control (SMI), Solna, Sweden.
Lindh, J
Department of Microbiology, Tumour and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden and Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control (SMI), Solna, Sweden.
Stenmark, Stephan
Umeå universitet, Medicinska fakulteten, Institutionen för klinisk mikrobiologi, Infektionssjukdomar. County Medical Officer, Västerbotten, Sweden.
Umeå universitet, Medicinska fakulteten, Institutionen för klinisk mikrobiologi, Klinisk bakteriologi. Umeå universitet, Medicinska fakulteten, Institutionen för klinisk mikrobiologi, Infektionssjukdomar.
Syndromic surveillance for local outbreak detection and awareness: evaluating outbreak signals of acute gastroenteritis in telephone triage, web-based queries and over-the-counter pharmacy sales2014Inngår i: Epidemiology and Infection, ISSN 0950-2688, E-ISSN 1469-4409, Vol. 142, nr 2, s. 303-313Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
For the purpose of developing a national system for outbreak surveillance, local outbreak signals were compared in three sources of syndromic data - telephone triage of acute gastroenteritis, web queries about symptoms of gastrointestinal illness, and over-the-counter (OTC) pharmacy sales of antidiarrhoeal medication. The data sources were compared against nine known waterborne and foodborne outbreaks in Sweden in 2007-2011. Outbreak signals were identified for the four largest outbreaks in the telephone triage data and the two largest outbreaks in the data on OTC sales of antidiarrhoeal medication. No signals could be identified in the data on web queries. The signal magnitude for the fourth largest outbreak indicated a tenfold larger outbreak than officially reported, supporting the use of telephone triage data for situational awareness. For the two largest outbreaks, telephone triage data on adult diarrhoea provided outbreak signals at an early stage, weeks and months in advance, respectively, potentially serving the purpose of early event detection. In conclusion, telephone triage data provided the most promising source for surveillance of point-source outbreaks.
3. Gherasim, Alin
Hjertqvist, Marika
Lundkvist, Åke
Kühlmann-Berenzon, Sharon
Verner Carlson, Jenny
Widerström, Mikael
Umeå universitet, Medicinska fakulteten, Institutionen för klinisk mikrobiologi. Department of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Jämtland County Council, Östersund, Sweden.
Österlund, Anders
Boman, Hans
Ahlm, Clas
Umeå universitet, Medicinska fakulteten, Institutionen för klinisk mikrobiologi, Infektionssjukdomar.
Wallensten, Anders
Risk factors and potential preventive measures for nephropatia epidemica in Sweden 2011-2012: a case-control study2015Inngår i: Infection Ecology & Epidemiology, ISSN 2000-8686, E-ISSN 2000-8686, Vol. 5, artikkel-id 27698 Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
INTRODUCTION: Nephropatia epidemica (NE), a relatively mild form of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome caused by the Puumala virus (PUUV), is endemic in northern Sweden. We aim to study the risk factors associated with NE in this region.
METHODS: We conducted a matched case-control study between June 2011 and July 2012. We compared confirmed NE cases with randomly selected controls, matched by age, sex, and place of infection or residence. We analyzed the association between NE and several occupational, environmental, and behavioral exposures using conditional logistic regression.
RESULTS: We included in the final analysis 114 cases and 300 controls, forming 246 case-control pairs. Living in a house with an open space beneath, making house repairs, living less than 50 m from the forest, seeing rodents, and smoking were significantly associated with NE.
CONCLUSION: Our results could orient public health policies targeting these risk factors and subsequently reduce the NE burden in the region.
4. Hedin, G
Endocarditis due to Staphylococcus sciuri.1998Inngår i: European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, ISSN 0934-9723, E-ISSN 1435-4373, Vol. 17, nr 9, s. 673-5Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Hulterström, Anna Karin
Umeå universitet, Medicinska fakulteten, Institutionen för odontologi, Tandteknikerutbildning.
Sellin, Mats
Monsen, Tor
Gurram, Bharath Kumar
Berggren, Diana
Umeå universitet, Medicinska fakulteten, Institutionen för klinisk vetenskap, Öron- näs- och halssjukdomar.
Bacterial flora and the epidemiology of staphylococcus aureus in the nose among patients with symptomatic nasal septal perforations2016Inngår i: Acta Oto-Laryngologica, ISSN 0001-6489, E-ISSN 1651-2251, Vol. 136, nr 6, s. 620-625Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Conclusions Patients with symptomatic perforations of the nasal septum had a high prevalence of S. aureus in the nasal mucosa. Pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) analysis revealed a high genetic heterogeneity of S. aureus among both patients and controls. This indicates that presence of different strains of S. aureus can maintain a chronic inflammation in symptomatic nasal septal perforations. Objective The purpose of this study was to investigate the microbial flora around nasal septal perforations in patients having severe symptoms regarding bleeding, obstruction, and crustation associated with their perforation. Methods Twenty-five patients with untreated symptomatic nasal septal perforations were included. For culture, swabs around the perforations were collected. Bacteria were identified with standard laboratory techniques including a MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer. Epidemiological analysis was done using PFGE protocols. Bacteriological data were compared with data from a healthy control group. Results Staphylococcus aureus was present in the mucosa surrounding the nasal perforation significantly more often (p < 0.0001) in the patients (88%) compared to a control group (13%). Corynebacterium spp. and Propionibacterium spp. were significantly more frequently identified in the control group. The PFGE analysis of S. aureus strains revealed a high genetic heterogeneity and no specific S. aureus genotypes were associated with septal perforation.
Johansson, Anders
Umeå universitet, Medicinska fakulteten, Institutionen för klinisk mikrobiologi. Umeå universitet, Medicinska fakulteten, Molekylär Infektionsmedicin, Sverige (MIMS).
Lärkeryd, Adrian
Umeå universitet, Medicinska fakulteten, Institutionen för klinisk mikrobiologi, Klinisk bakteriologi.
Mörtberg, Sara
Myrtännäs, Kerstin
Ohrman, Caroline
Birdsell, Dawn
Keim, Paul
Wagner, David M
Forsman, Mats
Larsson, Pär
An outbreak of respiratory tularemia caused by diverse clones of Francisella tularensis2014Inngår i: Clinical Infectious Diseases, ISSN 1058-4838, E-ISSN 1537-6591, Vol. 59, nr 11, s. 1546-53Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
BACKGROUND: The bacterium Francisella tularensis is recognized for its virulence, infectivity, genetic homogeneity, and potential as a bioterrorism agent. Outbreaks of respiratory tularemia, caused by inhalation of this bacterium, are poorly understood. Such outbreaks are exceedingly rare, and F. tularensis is seldom recovered from clinical specimens.
METHODS: A localized outbreak of tularemia in Sweden was investigated. Sixty-seven humans contracted laboratory-verified respiratory tularemia. F. tularensis subspecies holarctica was isolated from the blood or pleural fluid of 10 individuals from July to September 2010. Using whole-genome sequencing and analysis of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), outbreak isolates were compared with 110 archived global isolates.
RESULTS: There were 757 SNPs among the genomes of the 10 outbreak isolates and the 25 most closely related archival isolates (all from Sweden/Finland). Whole genomes of outbreak isolates were >99.9% similar at the nucleotide level and clustered into 3 distinct genetic clades. Unexpectedly, high-sequence similarity grouped some outbreak and archival isolates that originated from patients from different geographic regions and up to 10 years apart. Outbreak and archival genomes frequently differed by only 1-3 of 1 585 229 examined nucleotides.
CONCLUSIONS: The outbreak was caused by diverse clones of F. tularensis that occurred concomitantly, were widespread, and apparently persisted in the environment. Multiple independent acquisitions of F. tularensis from the environment over a short time period suggest that natural outbreaks of respiratory tularemia are triggered by environmental cues. The findings additionally caution against interpreting genome sequence identity for this pathogen as proof of a direct epidemiological link.
Persisting post-infection symptoms 2 years after a large waterborne outbreak of Cryptosporidium hominis in northern Sweden2018Inngår i: BMC Research Notes, ISSN 1756-0500, E-ISSN 1756-0500, Vol. 11, nr 1, artikkel-id 625 Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Objectives: In 2010–2011, a large waterborne outbreak of Cryptosporidium hominis affected the city of Östersund in Sweden. Previous findings had suggested that gastrointestinal symptoms can persist for up to 11 months after the initial infection. Here we investigated whether the parasite could cause sequelae in infected individuals up to 28 months after the outbreak. We compared cases linked to the outbreak and the previous follow-up study with non-cases regarding symptoms present up to 28 months after the initial infection. We investigated whether cases were more likely to report a list of symptoms at follow-up compared to non-cases, calculating odds ratio and 95% confidence interval obtained through logistic regression.
Results: A total of 559 individuals (215 cases) were included in the study. Forty-eight percent of the outbreak cases reported symptoms at follow-up. Compared to non-cases, cases were more likely to report watery diarrhea, diarrhea, abdominal pain, fatigue, nausea, headache, or joint stiffness/pain/discomfort at follow-up after adjusting for age and sex. Our findings suggest that gastrointestinal symptoms and joint pain can persist several years after the initial Cryptosporidium infection and should be regarded as a potential cause of unexplained gastrointestinal symptoms or joint pain in people who have had this infection.
Lövgren, Elisabeth
Wallinder, Lars
Umeå universitet, Medicinska fakulteten, Institutionen för kirurgisk och perioperativ vetenskap, Ortopedi.
In vitro effect of ultrasound on bacteria and suggested protocol for sonication and diagnosis of prosthetic infections2009Inngår i: Journal of Clinical Microbiology, ISSN 0095-1137, E-ISSN 1098-660X, Vol. 47, nr 8, s. 2496-2501Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Sonication of implants has been shown to be a promising method for diagnosis of prosthetic infections due to its improved sensitivity, simplicity, and low cost. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effects of ultrasound performed under different conditions regarding temperature, duration, and composition of sonication tubes on bacterial species often associated with prosthetic infections. We found that ultrasound had an inhibitory effect on bacteria, of which gram-negative bacteria, in particular Escherichia coli, were almost eradicated after 5 min of sonication at 35 degrees C. Gram-positive bacteria were found to be resistant to the effect of ultrasound. Four factors were important for the inhibitory effect of sonication: the type of microorganism, the temperature of the sonication buffer, the duration of exposure to ultrasound (minutes), and the material and composition of the sonication tube in which sonication is performed. On the basis of the results from the present study, we propose a protocol for sonication and recovery of bacteria associated with biofilm on infected implants prior to conventional culture. From the present protocol, we recommend sonication for 7 min at 22 degrees C at the maximum effect which permits survival of gram-negative bacteria.
9. Rehn, Moa
Grunewald, Maria
Kark, Malin
Post-infection symptoms following two large waterborne outbreaks of Cryptosporidium hominis in Northern Sweden, 2010-20112015Inngår i: BMC Public Health, ISSN 1471-2458, E-ISSN 1471-2458, Vol. 15, artikkel-id 529 Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Background: In 2010-2011, two large waterborne outbreaks caused by Cryptosporidium hominis affected two cities in Sweden, Ostersund and Skelleftea. We investigated potential post-infection health consequences in people who had reported symptoms compatible with cryptosporidiosis during the outbreaks using questionnaires. Methods: We compared cases linked to these outbreaks with non-cases in terms of symptoms present up to eleven months after the initial infection. We examined if cases were more likely to report a list of symptoms at follow-up than non-cases, calculating odds ratios (OR) and 95 % confidence intervals (CI) obtained through logistic regression. Results: A total of 872 (310 cases) and 743 (149 cases) individuals responded to the follow-up questionnaires in Ostersund and Skelleftea respectively. Outbreak cases were more likely to report diarrhea (Ostersund OR: 3.3, CI: 2.0-5.3. Skelleftea OR: 3.6, CI: 2.0-6.6), watery diarrhea (Ostersund OR: 3.4, CI: 1.9-6.3. Skelleftea OR: 2.8, CI: 1.5-5.1) abdominal pain (Ostersund OR: 2.1, CI: 1.4-3.3, Skelleftea OR: 2.7, CI: 1.5-4.6) and joint pain (Ostersund OR: 2.0, CI: 1.2-3.3, Skelleftea OR: 2.0, CI: 1.1-3.6) at follow-up compared to non-cases. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that gastrointestinal-and joint symptoms can persist several months after the initial infection with Cryptosporidium and should be regarded as a potential cause of unexplained symptoms in people who have suffered from the infection.
10. Ridderstedt, Frida
Umeå universitet, Medicinska fakulteten, Institutionen för klinisk mikrobiologi, Klinisk bakteriologi. Unit of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention – Östersund.
Umeå universitet, Medicinska fakulteten, Institutionen för folkhälsa och klinisk medicin, Allmänmedicin. Unit of Clinical Research Center – Östersund.
Sick leave due to diarrhea caused by contamination of drinking water supply with Cryptosporidium hominis in Sweden: a retrospective study2018Inngår i: Journal of Water and Health, ISSN 1477-8920, E-ISSN 1996-7829, Vol. 16, nr 5, s. 704-710Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
We investigated sick leave from work, studies, preschool, and kindergarten occurring between 1 November 2010 and 31 January 2011 and associated with a waterborne outbreak of diarrhea caused by Cryptosporidium hominis in late November 2010 in Östersund, Sweden with 45.2% of 60,000 residents being symptomatic. A questionnaire defining acute watery diarrhoea and/or ≥3 diarrhea episodes/day as cryptosporidiosis was sent to 1,508 residents in late January 2011 (response rate 69.2%). Among adults aged 18–60 years, 24.0% took sick leave for a mean of 4.6 (SD ± 4.0) days due to cryptosporidiosis, and an additional 10.6% were absent from work a mean of 4.0 (±2.2) days to care for symptomatic children. Among children (aged ≤17 years), 35.0% stayed home sick from kindergarten/preschool or school/university for a mean of 5.2 (±3.8) days resulting in 5.1 (±4.4) days of absence from work per sick child shared between parents/guardians. The estimated total number of sick leave days was 50,000 for adults and 20,700 for children, with an estimated direct cost of €7 million for employers. The potential impact on society of sick leave caused by waterborne diseases must be considered in decisions regarding the quality of drinking water.
11. Saffari, Fereshteh
Karmostaji, Afsaneh
Azimabad, Fahimeh Bahadori
Significant spread of extensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii genotypes of clonal complex 92 among intensive care unit patients in a university hospital in southern Iran2017Inngår i: Journal of Medical Microbiology, ISSN 0022-2615, E-ISSN 1473-5644, Vol. 66, nr 11, s. 1656-1662Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Purpose: Infections associated with Acinetobacter baumannii represent an increasing threat in healthcare settings. Therefore, we investigated the epidemiological relationship between clinical isolates of A. baumannii obtained from patients in a university hospital in Bandar Abbas in southern Iran.
Methodology: Sixty-four consecutive non-duplicate clinical isolates collected during 2014–2015 were subjected to susceptibility testing, clonal relationship analysis using PFGE, multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA) and multilocus sequence typing (MLST), and examined for the presence of carbapenemases and integrons.
Results: Almost all A. baumannii isolates were extensively drug-resistant (XDR; 98 %) and carried an OXA carbapenemase gene (bla OXA-23-like; 98 %) and class 1 integrons (48 %). PFGE and MLST analysis identified three major genotypes, all belonging to clonal complex 92 (CC92): sequence type 848 (ST848) (n=23), ST451 (n=16) and ST195 (n=8). CC92 has previously been documented in the hospital setting in northern Iran, and ST195 has been reported in Arab States of the Persian Gulf. These data suggest national and global transmission of A. baumannii CC92.
Conclusion: This report demonstrates the occurrence and potential spread of closely related XDR genotypes of A. baumannii CC92 within a university hospital in southern Iran. These genotypes were found in the majority of the investigated isolates, showed high prevalence of blaOXA-23 and integron class 1, and were associated with stay in the intensive care unit. Very few treatment options remain for healthcare-adapted XDR A. baumannii, and hence effective measures are desperately needed to reduce the spread of these strains and resultant infections in the healthcare setting.
Gurram, Bharat Kumar
Edebro, Helen
Hojabri, Zoya
Molecular and Phenotypic Characterization of Multidrug-Resistant Clones of Staphylococcus epidermidis in Iranian Hospitals: Clonal Relatedness to Healthcare-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Isolates in Northern Europe2016Inngår i: Microbial Drug Resistance, ISSN 1076-6294, E-ISSN 1931-8448, Vol. 22, nr 7, s. 570-577Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
The aim of the study was to investigate the molecular epidemiology of Staphylococcus epidermidis in Iranian hospitals and to compare the genotypes with a previously characterized collection of >1,300 S. epidermidis isolates of nosocomial and community origin from Northern Europe, Australia, and USA. In total, 82 clinical S. epidermidis isolates from three Iranian hospitals were examined by multilocus sequence typing, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) typing. In addition, antimicrobial susceptibility, the presence of the ica operon, and the predilection to biofilm formation were assessed. Three predominant PFGE clones were found. The PFGE patterns of the most common sequence type (PFGE type 040-ST2) showed 80% similarity to multidrug-resistant S. epidermidis (MDRSE) clinical isolates from eight hospitals in Northern Europe. The second most common (PFGE 024-ST22) showed an unique PFGE pattern, whereas the third most predominant genotype (PFGE 011-ST5) proved indistinguishable to the PFGE Co-ST5 identified in five hospitals in Northern Europe. In conclusion, the study documented the dissemination of three MDRSE clones within and between hospitals in Iran and revealed an intercontinental spread of two clonal multidrug-resistant lineages (ST2 and ST5) in the hospital environment. Isolates of the predominant clones were significantly more frequently associated with multidrug-resistance and biofilm formation compared to nonclonal isolates. Further studies are needed to explore and characterize the genetic traits that enable these successful MDRSE clones to persist and disseminate worldwide in the healthcare settings.
13. Sane, Jussi
Sorvari, Tiina
Kauma, Heikki
Kaukoniemi, Ulla
Tarkka, Eveliina
Puumalainen, Taneli
Kuusi, Markku
Salminen, Mika
Lyytikäinen, Outi
Respiratory diphtheria in an asylum seeker from Afghanistan arriving to Finland via Sweden, December 20152016Inngår i: Eurosurveillance, ISSN 1025-496X, E-ISSN 1560-7917, Vol. 21, nr 2 Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
In December 2015, an asylum seeker originating from Afghanistan was diagnosed with respiratory diphtheria in Finland. He arrived in Finland from Sweden where he had already been clinically suspected and tested for diphtheria. Corynebacterium diphtheriae was confirmed in Sweden and shown to be genotypically and phenotypically toxigenic. The event highlights the importance of early case detection, rapid communication within the country and internationally as well as preparedness plans of diphtheria antitoxin availability.
14. Sendi, P
Christensson, B
Uçkay, I
Trampuz, A
Achermann, Y
Boggian, K
Svensson, D
Department of Infectious Diseases, Östersund Hospital, Östersund, Sweden.
Zimmerli, W
Group B streptococcus in prosthetic hip and knee joint-associated infections2011Inngår i: Journal of Hospital Infection, ISSN 0195-6701, E-ISSN 1532-2939, Vol. 79, nr 1, s. 64-69Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
The incidence of invasive group B streptococcus (GBS) infections in non-pregnant adults is increasing. Little is known about GBS in periprosthetic joint infections (PJIs). We aimed to analyse the clinical presentation of GBS PJI and its treatment in association with the outcome. The characteristics of 36 GBS PJIs collected from 10 centres were investigated. In 34 episodes, follow-up examination of ≥ 2 years was available, allowing treatment and outcome analysis. Most infections (75%) occurred ≥ 3 months after implantation. Most patients (91%) had at least one comorbidity; 69% presented with acute symptoms and 83% with damaged periprosthetic soft tissue. In 20 of 34 episodes debridement and retention of implant was attempted, but in five of these the prosthesis was ultimately removed. Hence, in 19 (56%) episodes, the implant was removed, including 14 immediate removals. In four episodes the removal was permanent. Penicillin derivatives and clindamycin were the most common antimicrobials administered (68%). In 94% the infection was cured, and in 82% functional mobility preserved. Debridement with implant retention was successful if the duration of symptoms was short, the prosthesis stable, and the tissue damage minor (10/10 vs 3/10 episodes, P = 0.003). Surgery that complied with a published algorithm was associated with a favourable outcome (P = 0.049).
15. Sharma, Sumit
Hagbom, Marie
Carlsson, Beatrice
Ohd, Joanna Nederby
Insulander, Mona
Eriksson, Ronnie
Simonsson, Magnus
Umeå universitet, Medicinska fakulteten, Institutionen för klinisk mikrobiologi. Department of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Stockholm County Council, Stockholm, Sweden.
Nordgren, Johan
Secretor Status is Associated with Susceptibility to Disease in a Large GII.6 Norovirus Foodborne Outbreak2019Inngår i: Food and Environmnetal Virology, ISSN 1867-0334, E-ISSN 1867-0342Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Norovirus is commonly associated with food and waterborne outbreaks. Genetic susceptibility to norovirus is largely dependent on presence of histo-blood group antigens (HBGA), specifically ABO, secretor, and Lewis phenotypes. The aim of the study was to determine the association between HBGAs to norovirus susceptibility during a large norovirus foodborne outbreak linked to genotype GII.6 in an office-based company in Stockholm, Sweden, 2015. A two-episode outbreak with symptoms of diarrhea and vomiting occurred in 2015. An online questionnaire was sent to all 1109 employees that had worked during the first outbreak episode. Food and water samples were collected from in-house restaurant and tested for bacterial and viral pathogens. In addition, fecal samples were collected from 8 employees that had diarrhea. To investigate genetic susceptibility during the outbreak, 98 saliva samples were analyzed for ABO, secretor, and Lewis phenotypes using ELISA. A total of 542 of 1109 (49%) employees reported gastrointestinal symptoms. All 8 fecal samples tested positive for GII norovirus, which was also detected in coleslaw collected from the in-house restaurant. Eating at the in-house restaurant was significantly associated with risk of symptom development. Nucleotide sequencing was successful for 5/8 fecal samples and all belonged to the GII.6 genotype. HBGA characterization showed a strong secretor association to norovirus-related symptoms (P = 0.014). No association between norovirus disease and ABO phenotypes was observed. The result of this study shows that non-secretors were significantly less likely to report symptoms in a large foodborne outbreak linked to the emerging GII.6 norovirus strain.
16. Smith-Palmer, Alison
Oates, Ken
Webster, Diana
Taylor, Sarah
Scott, Kevin J
Smith, Gemma
Parcell, Benjamin
Lindstrand, Ann
Fredlund, Hans
McMenamin, Jim
Outbreak of Neisseria meningitidis capsular group W among scouts returning from the World Scout Jamboree, Japan, 20152016Inngår i: Eurosurveillance, ISSN 1025-496X, E-ISSN 1560-7917, Vol. 21, nr 45 Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
The 23rd World Scout Jamboree was held in Japan from 28 July to 8 August 2015 and was attended by over 33,000 scouts from 162 countries. An outbreak of invasive meningococcal disease capsular group W was investigated among participants, with four confirmed cases identified in Scotland, who were all associated with one particular scout unit, and two confirmed cases in Sweden; molecular testing showed the same strain to be responsible for illness in both countries. The report describes the public health action taken to prevent further cases and the different decisions reached with respect to how wide to extend the offer of chemoprophylaxis in the two countries; in Scotland, chemoprophylaxis was offered to the unit of 40 participants to which the four cases belonged and to other close contacts of cases, while in Sweden chemoprophylaxis was offered to all those returning from the Jamboree. The report also describes the international collaboration and communication required to investigate and manage such multinational outbreaks in a timely manner.
Widerstrom, Micael
Wistrom, Johan
Sjöstedt, Anders
Coagulase-negative staphylococci: update on the molecular epidemiology and clinical presentation, with a focus on Staphylococcus epidermidis and Staphylococcus saprophyticus2012Inngår i: European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, ISSN 0934-9723, E-ISSN 1435-4373, Vol. 31, nr 1, s. 7-20Artikkel, forskningsoversikt (Fagfellevurdert)
Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS), originally described as ubiquitous commensals of the healthy human skin and mucosa, have emerged as important opportunistic pathogens primarily causing healthcare-associated infections in patients with indwelling medical devices. Recent studies, utilizing new molecular typing methods, particularly on Staphylococcus epidermidis, have increased our understanding of the mechanisms that contribute to the evolutionary success of these extremely versatile microorganisms. In the following mini-review, we summarize recent research in this area focusing on the molecular methods and epidemiology of S. epidermidis and S. saprophyticus.
Molecular epidemiology of coagulase-negative staphylococci in hospitals and in the community2010Doktoravhandling, med artikler (Annet vitenskapelig)
Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) and in particular Staphylococcus epidermidis have emerged as major pathogens primarily causing nosocomial infections in patients with indwelling medical devices. These infections are often caused by multidrug-resistant strains of S. epidermidis (MDRSE). Other clinical entities due to CoNS are lower urinary tract infections (UTI) in women and native valve endocarditis. The purpose of this work was to investigate the frequency of antibiotic resistance and the molecular epidemiology of both hospital and community-associated isolates of S. epidermidis in order to examine if certain clones are related to MDRSE infections. Furthermore, we aimed to explore if specific clones of S. saprophyticus are associated with UTI in women.
A total of 359 hospital-associated methicillin-resistant isolates of CoNS obtained from 11 hospitals in northern Europe and 223 community-associated staphylococcal isolates were examined. Furthermore, 126 isolates of S. saprophyticus isolated from women with uncomplicated UTI from five different locations in northern Europe were analyzed. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) was used for genotyping. Additionally, some of the S. epidermidis isolates were analyzed with multilocus sequence typing (MLST). Antibiotic susceptibility was determined for all isolates by the disc diffusion test.
293 of the 359 (82%) hospital-associated and 124 of the 223 (56%) community-associated isolates belonged to the species S. epidermidis. Among the hospital-associated S. epidermidis isolates, two dominating PFGE types (type A and B) were distinguished, comprising 78 (27%) and 51 (17%) isolates, respectively. Type A, which was detected in a Norwegian and eight Swedish hospitals, corresponded with a novel sequence type (ST215). Type B was discovered in a German, a Danish and seven Swedish hospitals and corresponded with ST2. In contrast, community-associated isolates of S. epidermidis were genetically extremely diverse with no predominating genotype, and showed a low rate of antibiotic resistance; only two (1.6%) methicillin-resistant strains were detected.
Among 126 analyzed isolates of S. saprophyticus, 47 different PFGE profiles were identified. Several clusters of genetically highly related isolates were detected among isolates obtained from different locations and periods of time.
We have demonstrated the occurrence, persistence and potential dissemination of two multidrug-resistant S. epidermidis (MDRSE) genotypes, including a novel sequence type (ST215), within hospitals in northern Europe. Community-associated isolates of S. epidermidis showed a low rate of methicillin-resistance and were genetically heterogeneous. These results indicate that MDRSE by large are confined to the hospital setting in our region. Moreover, although the S. saprophyticus population was quite heterogeneous, indistinguishable isolates of S. saprophyticus causing lower UTI in women were identified in different countries 11 years apart, indicating the persistence and geographical spread of some clones of S. saprophyticus.
Significance of Staphylococcus epidermidis in Health Care-Associated Infections, from Contaminant to Clinically Relevant Pathogen: This Is a Wake-Up Call!2016Inngår i: Journal of Clinical Microbiology, ISSN 0095-1137, E-ISSN 1098-660X, Vol. 54, nr 7, s. 1679-1681Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Coagulase-negative staphylococci, particularly Staphylococcus epidermidis, have been recognized as an important cause of health care-associated infections. Concurrently, S. epidermidis is a common contaminant in clinical cultures, which poses a diagnostic challenge. An article in this issue of Journal of Clinical Microbiology ( I. Tolo, J. C. Thomas, R. S. B. Fischer, E. L. Brown, B. M. Gray, and D. A. Robinson, J Clin Microbiol 54: 1711-1719, 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.03345-15) describes a rapid single nucleotide polymorphism-based assay for distinguishing between S. epidermidis isolates from hospital and nonhospital sources, which represents an important contribution to the characterization and understanding of S. epidermidis health care-associated infections.
Umeå universitet, Medicinska fakulteten, Institutionen för klinisk mikrobiologi, Infektionssjukdomar. Umeå universitet, Medicinska fakulteten, Institutionen för klinisk mikrobiologi, Klinisk bakteriologi.
McCullough, Cheryll A.
Coombs, Geoffrey W.
Christiansen, Keryn J.
A Multidrug-Resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis Clone (ST2) Is an Ongoing Cause of Hospital-Acquired Infection in a Western Australian Hospital2012Inngår i: Journal of Clinical Microbiology, ISSN 0095-1137, E-ISSN 1098-660X, Vol. 50, nr 6, s. 2147-2151Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
We report the molecular epidemiology of 27 clinical multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis (MDRSE) isolates collected between 2003 and 2007 in an Australian teaching hospital. The dominant genotype (sequence type 2 [ST2]) accounted for 85% of the isolates tested and was indistinguishable from an MDRSE genotype identified in European hospitals, which may indicate that highly adaptable health care-associated genotypes of S. epidermidis have emerged and disseminated worldwide in the health care setting.
Karlsson, Carina
Edebro, Helén
Wiström, Johan
Clonality among multidrug-resistant hospital-associated Staphylococcus epidermidis in northern Europe2009Inngår i: Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, ISSN 0036-5548, E-ISSN 1651-1980, Vol. 41, nr 9, s. 642-649Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) we have previously described the occurrence and possible dissemination of a clone of multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis (MDRSE) in 2 hospitals in northern Sweden during 2001-2003. The aims of the present study were to investigate if this clone still persisted, 7 y later, in these 2 hospitals and whether this specific clone was detectable among clinical isolates from 9 other hospitals, 6 Swedish as well as a Norwegian, Danish and a German hospital. In total, 173 clinical isolates of MDRSE isolated during 2003 to 2008 were analysed using PFGE, of which 22 isolates were also characterized by multilocus sequence typing (MLST). Two dominating PFGE types (types A and B) were identified, consisting of 56 (32%) and 38 (22%) isolates, respectively. Type A, which was detected in the Norwegian and all Swedish hospitals, proved indistinguishable to the clone previously identified in 2001-2003 and corresponded with a novel sequence type (ST215). Type B was discovered in the German, Danish and in 7 Swedish hospitals and corresponded with ST2. In conclusion, we have demonstrated the occurrence, persistence and potential dissemination of 2 MDRSE genotypes, including a novel sequence type (ST215), within hospitals in northern Europe.
Molecular epidemiology of meticillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci in a Swedish county hospital: evidence of intra- and interhospital clonal spread2006Inngår i: Journal of Hospital Infection, ISSN 0195-6701, E-ISSN 1532-2939, Vol. 64, nr 2, s. 177-183Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
During a 10-month period in 2003, consecutive routine clinical cultures from patients treated in 15 different ward units in a Swedish county hospital were screened for the presence of meticillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS). Genetic similarity between isolates was analysed using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). The results were compared with multi-drug-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis isolated previously at the tertiary referral hospital. In total, 428 isolates of CNS were identified, of which 188 (44%) were meticillin resistant. Three clusters (Groups A, B and C) of S. epidermidis, each consisting of more than 10 isolates, with a PFGE-DNA similarity of >90% were identified. The strains in Groups A and B (N=15 and N=13, respectively), which were generally resistant to gentamicin, co-trimoxazole and clindamycin, originated from 24 patients, of whom 21 had been treated in the intensive care unit (ICU) before sampling. The third cluster, Group C, involved 14 isolates from 14 patients. Only two of these patients had stayed at the ICU, and all for less than one day. Isolates in Group C were less resistant than those in Groups A and B. Isolates belonging to Group A showed an identical PFGE profile compared with multi-drug-resistant S. epidermidis isolated from patients at the referral hospital. This study demonstrated the persistence and spread of meticillin-resistant clones of CNS within the county hospital, especially in the ICU, and possible interhospital spread of a multi-drug-resistant clone between the county and referral hospitals.
Umeå universitet, Medicinska fakulteten, Institutionen för klinisk mikrobiologi, Infektionssjukdomar. Jämtland Cty Council, Östersund, Sweden.
Schönning, Caroline
Lebbad, Marianne
Ljung, Thomas
Allestam, Görel
Ferm, Martin
Björkholm, Britta
Hansen, Anette
Hiltula, Jan I.
Långmark, Jonas
Löfdahl, Margareta
Omberg, Maria
Reuterwall, Christina
Umeå universitet, Medicinska fakulteten, Institutionen för folkhälsa och klinisk medicin, Yrkes- och miljömedicin.
Samuelsson, Eva
Widgren, Katarina
Large outbreak of cryptosporidium hominis infection transmitted through the public water supply, Sweden2014Inngår i: Emerging Infectious Diseases, ISSN 1080-6040, E-ISSN 1080-6059, Vol. 20, nr 4, s. 581-589 Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
In November 2010, approximate to 27,000 (approximate to 45%) inhabitants of Östersund, Sweden, were affected by a waterborne outbreak of cryptosporidiosis. The outbreak was characterized by a rapid onset and high attack rate, especially among young and middle-aged persons. Young age, number of infected family members, amount of water consumed daily, and gluten intolerance were identified as risk factors for acquiring cryptosporidiosis. Also, chronic intestinal disease and young age were significantly associated with prolonged diarrhea. Identification of Ctyptosporidium hominis subtype lbA10G2 in human and environmental samples and consistently low numbers of oocysts in drinking water confirmed insufficient reduction of parasites by the municipal water treatment plant. The current outbreak shows that use of inadequate microbial barriers at water treatment plants can have serious consequences for public health. This risk can be minimized by optimizing control of raw water quality and employing multiple barriers that remove or inactivate all groups of pathogens.
Marklund, Elisabeth
Backman, Mattias
Umeå universitet, Medicinska fakulteten, Institutionen för kirurgisk och perioperativ vetenskap, Anestesiologi och intensivvård.
Colonization of patients, healthcare workers, and the environment with healthcare-associated Staphylococcus epidermidis genotypes in an intensive care unit: a prospective observational cohort study2016Inngår i: BMC Infectious Diseases, ISSN 1471-2334, E-ISSN 1471-2334, Vol. 16, artikkel-id 743 Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Background: During the last decades, healthcare-associated genotypes of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis (HA-MRSE) have been established as important opportunistic pathogens. However, data on potential reservoirs on HA-MRSE is limited. The aim of the present study was to investigate the dynamics and to which extent HA-MRSE genotypes colonize patients, healthcare workers (HCWs) and the environment in an intensive care unit (ICU).
Methods: Over 12 months in 2006-2007, swab samples were obtained from patients admitted directly from the community to the ICU and patients transferred from a referral hospital, as well as from HCWs, and the ICU environment. Patients were sampled every third day during hospitalization. Antibiotic susceptibility testing was performed according to EUCAST guidelines. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and multilocus sequence typing were used to determine the genetic relatedness of a subset of MRSE isolates.
Results: We identified 620 MRSE isolates from 570 cultures obtained from 37 HCWs, 14 patients, and 14 environmental surfaces in the ICU. HA-MRSE genotypes were identified at admission in only one of the nine patients admitted directly from the community, of which the majority subsequently were colonized by HA-MRSE genotypes within 3 days during hospitalization. Almost all (89%) of HCWs were nasal carriers of HA-MRSE genotypes. Similarly, a significant proportion of patients transferred from the referral hospital and fomites in the ICU were widely colonized with HA-MRSE genotypes.
Conclusions: Patients transferred from a referral hospital, HCWs, and the hospital environment serve as important reservoirs for HA-MRSE. These observations highlight the need for implementation of effective infection prevention and control measures aiming at reducing HA-MRSE transmission in the healthcare setting.
Ek, Elin
Near absence of methicillin-resistance and pronounced genetic diversity among Staphylococcus epidermidis isolated from healthy persons in northern Sweden2011Inngår i: Acta Pathologica, Microbiologica et Immunologica Scandinavica (APMIS), ISSN 0903-4641, E-ISSN 1600-0463, Vol. 119, nr 8, s. 505-512Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
The main aim of the study was to examine if hospital-associated clones of multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis (MDRSE), commonly identified in hospitals in our region, also are spread among healthy persons in the community. A total of 124 isolates of S. epidermidis sampled from subjects attending a Travel health clinic, Umeå, Sweden during 2008 were examined with antibiotic susceptibility testing and pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) analysis.
Resistance to methicillin or any antibiotic was detected in two and 26 of the isolates, respectively. PFGE analysis showed an extensive genetic diversity with 86 different PFGE types, of whom 62 were singletons. No isolates belonged to the previously described hospital-associated MDRSE genotypes, indicating that MDRSE by large are confined to the hospital setting in our region. In conclusion, community-associated isolates of S. epidermidis showed a low level of methicillin-resistance and were genetically extremely diverse with no predominating genotype.
Ferry, Sven
Umeå universitet, Medicinska fakulteten, Institutionen för klinisk mikrobiologi. Umeå universitet, Medicinska fakulteten, Institutionen för klinisk mikrobiologi, Klinisk bakteriologi.
Molecular epidemiology of Staphylococcus saprophyticus isolated from women with uncomplicated community-acquired urinary tract infection2007Inngår i: Journal of Clinical Microbiology, ISSN 0095-1137, E-ISSN 1098-660X, Vol. 45, nr 5, s. 1561-1564Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Staphylococcus saprophyticus is a common cause of urinary tract infections (UTIs) in women. Little is known about the molecular epidemiology of S. saprophyticus UTIs. In the current study, we compared 76 isolates of S. saprophyticus prospectively isolated from women with uncomplicated UTI participating in a randomized placebo-controlled treatment trial performed in northern Sweden from 1995 to 1997 with 50 strains obtained in 2006 from five different locations in northern Europe with pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). The aim was to elucidate the molecular epidemiology of this uropathogenic species and to investigate whether specific clones are associated with UTI in women. A total of 47 different PFGE profiles were detected among the 126 analyzed isolates. Ten clusters consisting of 5 to 12 isolates each showing PFGE DNA similarity of >85% were identified. Several clusters of genetically highly related isolates were detected in the original trial as well as among isolates obtained during 2006 from different locations. In the original trial, clonal persistence was found among 16 of 21 (76%) patients examined in the placebo group at follow-up 8 to 10 days after inclusion, indicating a low spontaneous short-time bacteriological cure rate. We conclude that multiple clones of S. saprophyticus were causing lower UTIs in women. The result suggests that some human-pathogenic clones of S. saprophyticus are spread over large geographical distances and that such clones may persist over long periods of time.
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Magnusson, M
Hagstam, P
Department of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention Jämtland County, Östersund, Sweden.
Örtqvist, Åke
Einemo, Im
Follin, P
Lindblom, A
Mäkitalo, S
Wik, O
Österlund, A
Grünewald, M
Uhnoo, Ingrid
Linde, A
Prevailing effectiveness of the 2009 influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 vaccine during the 2010/11 season in Sweden2013Inngår i: Eurosurveillance, ISSN 1025-496X, E-ISSN 1560-7917, Vol. 18, nr 15, s. Article 5- Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Sixty per cent of the Swedish population received the monovalent AS03-adjuvanted pandemic influenza vaccine in the autumn of 2009. We assessed the age-specific effectiveness of this pandemic vaccine against hospitalisation with laboratory-confirmed influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 during the season 2010/11, in the age group from six months to 64 years in Sweden. The screening method was applied to available surveillance data. Our results suggest a prevailing effectiveness of 72% (95% confidence interval (CI): 63–80%) with the highest effectiveness among children, six months to nine years-old (92%, 95%CI: 80–97%). However, there were limitations in data quality and study design due to the lack of systematic recording of administered vaccinations, which underline the importance of preparing for an evaluation when planning for large public health actions. Despite these limitations, we believe the results reflect true, high prevailing vaccine effectiveness. Indeed, there were fewer deaths caused by influenza and the impact of influenza on intensive care units was less severe during the 2010/11 season in Sweden than in countries with lower pandemic vaccination coverage. The association between the pandemic vaccine and narcolepsy has increased the importance of assessing the risks and benefits of the vaccination; studies on the effectiveness and the duration of protection are needed for this.
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375 Stan Efferding - Strongest Bodybuilder in the World
After heavy squatting the night before and completing the annual Memorial Day "Murph" at CrossFit Malibu Stan came over to Eddie's mountain lair to discuss all things diet. Stan is the creator of "the Vertical Diet." Stan's background is as an American professional bodybuilder, powerlifter, and entrepreneur. Due to his enormous strength and size, Stan is often called the “world’s strongest bodybuilder,” and “The White Rhino.” He holds several world-records in powerlifting, including the all-time raw world record of 2,226.6 lbs. You can find Stan on Instagram at @stanefferding
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Dan was a contestant on the 9th season of the Bachelorette and the spinoff Bachelor in Paradise. He is a crossfitter and accomplished triathlete.. He also is the owner of a number of supplement companies. We geek out on lactate thresh hold testing, endurance training, nutrition and shark attacks. Check out Dan at @danielgcox on Instagram.
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It's a brand new PTR build and as Stan digs through all the data and details added we have a general overview directly from Blizzard. The big focus this time around is the Essence system, with Rank 3 becoming available. There's also the usual continued testing on the zones, dungeons and systems, with Mythic+ updates and the Heroic Stromgarde Warfront ahead.
That's not to say that everyone has an unrealistic vision of what vanilla WoW was like. There were already plenty of people on the WoW Classic forums pointing out that perceived bugs are just recreations of the original game. And as noted before, a flaw to one player is a key component of the original positive experience to another. WoW Classic will surely please plenty of purists in spades. But this goes to show that it won't be for everyone who has fond memories of the game circa 2006.
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Although we’re loyal to the Soccer Power Index (SPI), the system we use to produce FiveThirtyEight’s World Cup projections, we’re also big fans of the World Football Elo Ratings.Unfortunately, the Elo ratings website has not been updated since the World Cup began. So we followed their instructions for calculating their ratings and ran the numbers ourselves:Brazil, as before, ranks as the world’s best team per Elo. But the Netherlands has made huge gains and now ranks No. 2, just ahead of Germany. Spain’s rating has fallen the most, 116 points, taking the team from second to sixth.Elo and SPI are highly correlated and they’ve fared well against other methods of predicting World Cup results so far, including betting lines.
Eagles QB Michael Vick Likely Done for Rest ofEagles QB Michael Vick Likely Done for Rest of
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick is likely done for the remainder of the preseason after being knocked out of his second game in as many weeks.Coach Andy Reid intimated Tuesday that it was unlikely that the three-time Pro Bowler would take another snap prior to the team’s season opener at Cleveland on Sept. 9.“I’m just going to play it by ear,” Reid told reporters following practice. “I’m not going to say anything about where we’re at with that right now.”Vick left Monday night’s win at New England just six plays into the game after being leveled by Patriots linebacker Jermaine Cunningham and hurting his ribs. Vick lasted just six plays before injuring his thumb against Pittsburgh the week before.X-Rays taken at the stadium showed no broken bones or fractured cartilage, as were the MRI and CT scan he underwent on Tuesday. Vick, instead, bruised his ribs and the soft tissue surrounding it. He also needed X-Rays on his thumb, which were also negative.Vick, 32, has completed just one full season (2006) over his 11-year NFL career, leading some to question whether he will have to alter his style of play to stay healthy. Rib injuries have sidelined him for three games in each of the past two seasons.Philadelphia, which is expected to be a strong NFC contender this year, plays at Cleveland this Friday before hosting the Jets on Aug. 30 to wrap up the preseason. They’ll likely do so without their star quarterback.Not that Vick couldn’t use the work. He led Philadelphia’s first-team offense to just one first down in the 12 plays he managed over the two preseason games.“If he didn’t play again (in the preseason), then he’d be OK,” Reid said. “I would tell you I’d probably like to see him play a little bit more, but he’s got enough experience. We’re not talking about a rookie. I think he’ll probably be OK.”Rookie Nick Foles, a third-round pick out of Arizona, is the Eagles’ No. 2 quarterback. read more
One Way James Hardens Scoring Streak Is More Impressive Than WiltsOne Way James Hardens Scoring Streak Is More Impressive Than Wilts
Houston Rockets guard James Harden has been busy this season redefining just how much offense a single player can create. As we near the NBA All-Star break, Harden has scored at least 30 points in an absurd 30 consecutive games and counting, which, according to Basketball-Reference.com, is the second-longest streak in league history. Harden’s streak trails only Wilt Chamberlain’s 65-game run from the 1961-62 season — a season in which Wilt happened to set the NBA record by scoring 50.4 points per game. The way Harden has been filling up the scoresheet, Chamberlain comes up as a frequent comparison, continually amazing for those of us who never thought we’d get to see numbers like Wilt’s in today’s game. But what might be most remarkable about Harden is the way he’s different from Chamberlain — specifically, how his one-man show has changed his team’s offense.A big reason that Chamberlain keeps popping up is that it’s difficult to find a modern analogue for what Harden is doing. Harden currently has a usage rate of 40.2 percent, meaning he has taken a shot (or turned the ball over) on roughly two out of every five Houston plays when he’s on the court. And when he isn’t trying to score himself, Harden has also assisted on 40.3 percent of teammate baskets. The only other qualified season in NBA history to break those 40/40 thresholds belonged to Russell Westbrook in 2016-17 — and Westbrook was much less efficient that season than Harden has been this year, averaging 6.8 fewer points per 100 possessions on plays he had a hand in ending.To get a sense of just how far Harden is pushing the boundaries of productivity, here’s a breakdown of all qualified seasons since 1976-77 by possession rate1The share of total on-court team possessions a player had a hand in ending, via shots, turnovers, assists and rebounds. versus offensive efficiency. (The outermost points up and to the right are the best combinations of workload and efficiency.) With 118.6 points produced per 100 possessions on a possession rate of 40.5 percent, Harden is currently having the greatest high-usage offensive season in modern history. From a team perspective, those numbers mean that Houston is funneling nearly half of its possessions through a player who is personally averaging nearly 2 more points per 100 possessions than the league’s most efficient team (the Warriors, at 117.0). So in theory, this should be a very good thing for his team’s scoring rate, which in turn should lead to more and more wins.And in Harden’s case, that appears to be true. Since Harden’s streak began, he is averaging 122 points per 100 possessions with a usage rate of 42.8 percent, both numbers up from the 114 and 37.3 percent marks he had before the streak, respectively. And over the same span, Houston’s teamwide offensive efficiency has zoomed up from 111.2 points per 100 before the streak (sixth-best in the NBA) to 116.9 (second-best) ever since, with his Rockets’ on/off-court offensive efficiency split (+5.8 points per 100) staying roughly the same before the streak and after. Houston is also 21-9 over the streak, after starting the season 12-14. Of course, the recent return of former All-Star point guard Chris Paul, who missed 18 games during Harden’s streak, has buoyed the Rockets as well — but in general it’s safe to say that Harden’s tear has had a very positive effect on Houston’s efficiency and overall record.Why is that notable, though? Isn’t that simply the logical result of having a highly efficient player dominate his team’s possessions? You might think so, but in a dynamic sport such as basketball, things are often more complicated than they may appear. And the best example of this could be Chamberlain.Chamberlain’s career was unwittingly one of history’s most fascinating laboratories for basketball experimentation, in large part because he was the NBA’s most extreme statistical outlier ever. Wilt led the league in scoring in each of his first six seasons, with a staggering scoring average of 40.6 points per game over that span; he also led the league in field goal percentage in three of those campaigns, making 50.7 percent of his shots in total (at a time when the NBA average was around 42 percent). With such a high volume of efficient shots, you might expect that Wilt was like Harden, leading his teams to tremendously efficient offensive performances.But you’d be wrong. Shockingly, Chamberlain’s Warriors struggled to even break league average in efficiency during his seasons with the club, despite the enormous amount of high-percentage scoring Chamberlain did by himself. It wasn’t until Chamberlain switched teams and started scoring less — passing to his teammates more — that his clubs began breaking offensive records.To better understand the sometimes-counterintuitive effect a single scorer can have on his team’s offense, I reached out to Ben Taylor, author of the book “Thinking Basketball,” who was one of the first researchers to notice this phenomenon in Chamberlain’s numbers. “The arc of [Wilt’s] career is very, very unique,” he said. “Not only do some people consider him the best player ever precisely because of these raw stats, but he goes through many different coaches, they put him in many different situations, and specifically Alex Hannum comes along with this great idea — like, ‘Hey, Wilt, what if you just didn’t shoot that much anymore?’ — and he does this, and the team becomes incredible.”Chamberlain’s 1965-66 and 1966-67 seasons with Philadelphia present the most fascinating test case. According to Taylor’s research, Chamberlain’s own personal scoring attempts in 1966 were much more efficient (averaging about 1.09 points per possession) than those of his teammates when they tried to score (0.94), and the 76ers had a mediocre offense with Chamberlain scoring 33.5 points per game. If anything, that makes it sound like Chamberlain should have shot the ball even more — but instead, Hannum persuaded Chamberlain to spread the ball around the following season. His teammates, basically the same cast of characters, averaged more points per attempt (1.01) on more shots per game, while Wilt himself was far more efficient (1.27 points per attempt!) when scoring “only” 24.1 points per game. The result was a championship for Philadelphia and one of history’s greatest offenses.Chamberlain’s less-is-more experience is indicative of other one-man shows from throughout NBA history, Taylor said. “You can see it with other high-usage players in a modern setting. I think the classic examples are 1987 [Michael] Jordan, 2006 Kobe [Bryant], guys like that — they’re doing a similar thing, and again you don’t have anywhere near a top-shelf offense.”But Harden has been able to break that mold by playing differently than other one-man offenses from the past. “Harden’s not the best example of one of these high-usage all time scorers,” Taylor said. “He’s a little weird in that he’s more like Steve Nash — he’s passing and dominating the offense to also set up teammates, and so you have a huge ‘creation’ player. … The stark difference between [Harden and Wilt] is that Wilt, when he was scoring, was more like a black hole, and Harden is just running everything.”The idea that Harden is what Taylor called a “Scoring Nash” is eye-opening. Playing in a similar (if not exactly identical) system to the one Nash orchestrated for four years under coach Mike D’Antoni, Harden has evolved the role of distributor to include an even greater level of player choice. If one of Nash’s great strengths was drawing defensive attention as a means of setting others up for easy shots, Harden can also use the threat of the pass as a means of giving himself more space to shoot. As a result, Harden has an “offensive load” — Taylor’s metric for measuring direct involvement via scoring or passing within an offense — of 66 percent, compared with Nash’s single-season high of 51 percent under D’Antoni in 2007.Pass-heavy initiators like Harden don’t always elevate otherwise mediocre offenses to greatness. For instance, Westbrook — who in 2017 set the NBA record for single-season usage rate (just ahead of Harden’s rate this year) — was the centerpiece of a barely average scoring attack that year, despite his record offensive load of 74 percent. But a disproportionate share of history’s greatest offenses were led by players such as Harden, Nash, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and even Golden State’s Stephen Curry — players who stretched defenses into oblivion with the interplay between their passing and scoring.That’s why Harden’s admittedly impressive scoring streak is only one part of the puzzle that has helped vault the Rockets back near the top of the Western Conference’s contender list. By playing more like the Chamberlain of 1967 than 1962, Harden isn’t just helping the team with his own statistics — he’s also making the players around him better.Check out our latest NBA predictions. read more
Kristaps Porzingis Is A Freak — And Potentially A SuperstarKristaps Porzingis Is A Freak — And Potentially A Superstar
15Kwame Brown40Marvin Williams 2Joe Smith27Cliff Robinson 16Michael Beasley41Jared Sullinger 19Anthony Davis44Thaddeus Young If those assumptions hold, the Knicks have a hell of a prospect on their hands. The NBA is a tough league for rookies, so merely staying in a team’s rotation at age 20 is often a sign of a bright future. So far, however, Porzingis has not just been a rotation player but an above-average one4According to the blend of Box Plus/Minus and Real Plus-Minus that we use as part of CARMELO — usually a sign of superstar potential. In fact, Porzingis’s long-term upside score, based on his wins above replacement projection from 2016-17 through 2021-22, is 36.3. That’s very good; at the start of this season, it would have made Porzingis the 17th-most-valuable franchise player in the league, in the same vicinity as Giannis Antetokounmpo, John Wall and Jimmy Butler.But Porzingis’s projection also involves tremendous uncertainty. In 2018-19, for example, his 90th percentile projection5According to CARMELO, Porzingis has a 10 percent chance of achieving a WAR at or above his 90th percentile projection. is 13.3 WAR, good enough to put him on the fringes of the MVP discussion. Meanwhile, his 10th percentile projection is just 0.0 WAR (exactly replacement level), or roughly the same range as Quincy Acy. The error bars around CARMELO’s forecasts for young players are often wide, but these are especially so.OK, but is he Dirk?What gives? Part of it is the problem we alluded to before. CARMELO works by identifying comparable players, and Porzingis is a hard guy for which to find historical precedents. Only one player, Brook Lopez, achieves a similarity score of 50 or higher with Porzingis6A score of 50 is the point at which we consider a player to be “extremely similar.” — and if we’re being frank, the Lopez-Porzingis connection doesn’t have the “eye test” appeal that CARMELO comparisons often do.But faced with unusual players like Porzingis, CARMELO has to make some sacrifices. In the case of Lopez, it ignores the fact that Lopez almost never shoots from behind the arc (although he does have a decent midrange game). In the case of Kevin Love, Porzingis’s No. 4 comparable, it finds another big man with a good outside shot and strong rebounding numbers — but ignores that Love is shaped much differently than Porzingis, 5 inches shorter but quite a bit bulkier, especially in his youth. And since CARMELO relies on metrics that utilize box score stats, it can be difficult to translate calling-card traits like “quick feet in defensive transition” to on-the-stat-sheet comps, which in turn means the model may promote the formal similarity of Porzingis’s defensive numbers to those of Shawn Kemp, when he’s closer to Andrei Kirilenko stylistically.You can get a fuller sense for the range of possibilities when sorting through Porzingis’s top 50 CARMELO comparables, a list that includes everyone from Shaquille O’Neal to Darko Milicic. There’s also a cameo appearance from Porzingis’s idol, Dirk Nowitzki, who checks in at No. 17. Why doesn’t he rank higher? Because, as Nowitzki correctly points out, Porzingis has been considerably better so far at age 20 than Nowitzki was at the same age. CARMELO “thinks” the Porzingis-Nowitzki comparison is unflattering — to Porzingis.The 50 NBA players most comparable to Porzingis 22Tyson Chandler47Shaquille O’Neal 4Kevin Love29Derrick Williams 9Yi Jianlian34Serge Ibaka 18Shareef Abdur-Rahim43Chris Webber RANKPLAYERRANKPLAYER The New York Knicks’ future once looked very dismal indeed. It looked that way for a very long time, for a great many reasons — but that was before the arrival of the Great Latvian Hope. Kristaps Porzingis, the 7-foot-3 rookie whose selection was resoundingly booed at this summer’s draft, has instead very quickly become the most popular athlete at Madison Square Garden1Sorry, Carmelo Anthony and Henrik Lundqvist. after barely more than a month on the job.Porzingis detonated onto the NBA landscape with a series of putback dunks in his first handful of games; more importantly for Knicks fans, he’s since maintained a level of play that’s ranged between solid and spectacular. On the season, Porzingis is averaging 17.9 points, 11.0 rebounds and 2.4 blocks per 36 minutes and draining threes at a rate that would make fellow Giant Baltic Person Arvydas Sabonis proud.2Porzingis has made the typically painful adjustment to NBA 3-point range rapidly, raising his percentage to 35.4 after early season struggles. No player in NBA history, in fact, has possessed quite this combination of youth, height, quickness and outside shooting skills. Porzingis’s play has been so strong and so dazzling that he’s that rare rookie on whom airy basketball aesthetes and turgid statistical fundamentalists can agree: This kid is the real deal.The Porzingis projectionSo what does his future hold? We have a (probabilistic) basketball-shaped crystal ball called CARMELO,3No relation to Carmelo Anthony, although we took some inspiration from him. our NBA projection system. Before the season began, we ran CARMELO projections for more than 500 players; this included rookie projections for players such as Karl-Anthony Towns, the No. 1 overall pick and Porzingis’s opponent Wednesday night, based on their college statistics. But we didn’t run one for Porzingis or other international draft picks who didn’t play NCAA ball. Let’s fix that!Below, you’ll see a CARMELO projection for Porzingis based on his first 25 NBA games. It makes one heroic assumption: extrapolating out that 25-game performance to a full 82-game season. In other words, it assumes not only that what Knicks fans have seen from Porzingis so far is about what they’ll get from the rest of the year, but also that he’ll stay healthy. But Porzingis’s offensive approach does bear some resemblance to today’s Dirk Nowitzki. Porzingis is frequently compared to Jahlil Okafor and Towns, and that’s unsurprising considering that they play the same position and were all drafted so high. However, Porzingis is the only one in that trio who, like Nowitzki, has 21st-century range. In fact, his basic spatial shooting distribution closely mirrors that of the NBA itself as about a quarter of his shots come from downtown, a third come in the midrange and the rest come near the basket. 10Shawn Kemp35Zaza Pachulia 11Rudy Gay36Darius Miles 14Lamar Odom39Antoine Walker 3Derrick Favors28Al Jefferson 1Brook Lopez26Ryan Anderson 23Chris Bosh48Darko Milicic 6Amar’e Stoudemire31Jonas Valanciunas 17Dirk Nowitzki42Harrison Barnes 8Tobias Harris33Tracy McGrady 5Anthony Randolph30Tim Thomas 12Elton Brand37Greg Monroe 24Luol Deng49Nene 20Josh Smith45Paul George 7Spencer Hawes32Rashard Lewis 13DeMarcus Cousins38Andrei Kirilenko 21Kevin Garnett46Eddy Curry 25Enes Kanter50Al-Farouq Aminu The diversity of Porzingis’s scoring portfolio is also an encouraging sign for his development. Although he converts his shots at just average rates from virtually every spot he shoots from, the fact that he can do that as a 20-year-old 7-foot-plusser is remarkable. While the league is full of bigs who can shoot the ball, it’s rare for a rookie to enter the league as such a competent shooter. Shooting was the Achilles heel of young bigs like Anthony Davis and Blake Griffin, who have since developed range out to the 3-point line.The good news extends to the defensive side of the ball as well; Porzingis is already an effective rim protector. Considering that many were worried that he was “soft” entering the league, these numbers, perhaps more than his offensive ones, should put the doubters to bed. He blocks multiple shots per game, opponents shoot just 47 percent near the basket when he is present, and he is a big part of why the Knicks are among the most efficient rim-protecting teams in the NBA right now. The Knicks!Then again: The Knicks! A franchise whose glory days are more than 40 years behind it, and which has squandered more than a few good opportunities in the past. What could go wrong this time around?A strictly limited run?The one looming issue could be Porzingis’s durability. Among his top 50 comparables, about 20 percent7Excluding very recent comparables who haven’t had time to complete six full seasons. played fewer than 1,000 minutes (or were out of the league entirely) by their sixth NBA season. Usually, this is a sign of a serious injury. Furthermore, among his comparables, there was an inverse correlation between height and durability: The tallest players on Porzingis’s list were more injury-prone.That’s a potential problem because Porzingis isn’t just tall but gigantic: one of only 25 players ever to play in the NBA at 7-foot-3 or taller. That produces some cool factoids — among players 7-foot-3 or taller, Porzingis has already drained the fourth-most 3-pointers in league history (behind Sabonis, Manute Bol and Zydrunas Ilgauskas) — along with some worrying trends. For instance: no player 7-foot-3 or taller has ever made it to his 1,000th NBA game. (Mark Eaton, with 875 career games, came closest.)Is there really such a thing as being too tall for the NBA, as Phil Jackson asserted when he drafted Porzingis? Well … maybe. The chart below tracks the height distribution of NBA players since the NBA-ABA merger in 1976, weighted by minutes played, and compares it against a normal distribution. There are some interesting discrepancies: the most conspicuous is that there are far fewer players listed at exactly 6-foot-4 or 6-foot-5 than you’d expect from a normal distribution. That could reflect the fact that such players are “tweeners” — too small to play forward, but not necessarily fleet or agile enough to play guard — or that their heights are exaggerated upward to avoid the tweener label. Charles Barkley, officially listed at 6-foot-6, was probably more like 6-foot-4 or 6-foot-5 instead, for example.There is also a comparative absence of players listed at 7-foot-1 or taller. Based on the normal distribution, you’d expect about 6 percent of NBA minutes to be played by these supergiant players; instead, about 3 percent of them have been. There are lots of plausible explanations for this — for instance, there may be diminishing returns to height beyond about 7 feet, and some very tall players may actually round their heights down instead of up. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, one of the most durable players in league history, was listed at 7-foot-2, and opponents swore up and down that even that number was missing an inch or two. Still, looking at the broader trends, perhaps there is some reason to be concerned about players carrying such large frames.But having “some reason to be concerned” is unavoidable in neurotic New York — and a heck of a lot better than the state of absolute despair that preceded it. And the upside is having a player who, like Anthony Davis, has a chance to redefine his position. Porzingis! is the most exciting show to hit the Knicks since Linsanity.Read more:CARMELO NBA Player Projections2015-16 NBA Predictions read more
Five takeaways Mike Weber is a workhorse Silver Bullets too aggressive andFive takeaways Mike Weber is a workhorse Silver Bullets too aggressive and
OSU freshman running back Mike Weber (25) outruns two MSU players during their game on Nov. 19, 2016 at Spartan Stadium. The Buckeyes won 17-16. Credit: Mason Swires | Assistant Photo EditorEAST LANSING, Michigan — A score of 17-16 pretty much sums up the No.2 Ohio State and Michigan State game on Saturday. It was chippy at times, and ugly at others, but the Buckeyes prevailed over a three-win Spartans team looking to salvage what it can from a disappointing season.OSU coach Urban Meyer and his players all agreed Mark Dantonio’s team is far better than the credit received from fans and analysts this year. To be fair, most of the team did say this during the entire week leading up to the game.It took some gutsy running by redshirt freshman Mike Weber and a few defensive stands by the secondary to find a way to win, but that’s the point of having quality players at every positions. The term dogfight was thrown around once again in postgame interviews, and most of the players were far from overjoyed with the team’s performance.Be that as it may, the Buckeyes are now 10-1, and are 7-1 in the Big Ten, with time to prepare for The Game against Michigan on Nov. 26. And as of right now, it looks like it’s going to be No. 2 versus No. 3. Here are five takeaways from OSU’s nail-biter in East Lansing.Barrett needs to run as much as possibleRedshirt junior quarterback J.T. Barrett has been a playmaker ever since he traveled all the way from Wichita Falls, Texas, to Columbus. One of the biggest threats he presents is the ability to tuck it and run when the defense has the pass covered, or whenever he feels like he has a crease.Even with that ability, Meyer said he needed to cut down on the amount of carries his quarterback has in a game to ensure he can keep Barrett healthy. A quick glance at the box score would make it seems as though the Buckeyes’ coach forgot his earlier statement.Barrett had 24 carries Saturday — two more runs than passes. In his second most carries in a game this season, Barrett had his second highest rushing yardage total, but failed to locate the end zone. When asked about how a scrappy game against a sneaky-good opponent leads to this kind of game for Barrett, Meyer shrugged his shoulder and nodded his head in agreement.“The way it goes,” he said.It’s doubtful Barrett gets over 20 carries next week against a hard-hitting Michigan defense.Buckeyes defense a little too aggressiveA defense that jumps the ball and can read plays to blow up runs in the backfield is valuable. A defense that over-pursues plays and gives up big plays is not. Even though OSU’s defense is about as good as it gets at the Division I level, the Buckeyes have a severe problem with over running plays.For example, redshirt junior linebacker Chris Worley said the team had some breakdowns and lack of edge containment. On one play in the second half, redshirt sophomore running back L.J. Scott broke free down the right side of the field. After breaking off the edge, there wasn’t a Buckeye within 10 yards of him. On the play, a motion by the wide receiver caused sophomore cornerback Denzel Ward to shift from the right side of the offensive line to the left. The Buckeyes defense, including redshirt junior defensive end Tyquan Lewis and sophomore linebacker Jerome Baker, pushed to the left side of the offense on the snap and were totally fooled by the end-around.Although the play didn’t hurt down the road, this kind of over-aggressiveness has caused some big plays against OSU, and Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh will be looking to capitalize next week. Weber picking up steam at the right timeAs a Detroit native, facing Michigan State in Spartan Stadium is pretty close to a homecoming for redshirt freshman running back Mike Weber. On Saturday, he was a big factor in OSU’s win with 111 yards and a game winning touchdown.With the final regular season showdown less than a week away, OSU will need the services of Weber if it hopes to knock off the Wolverines. His touchdown Saturday was his first away from Ohio Stadium this season, and ended up being the decisive score. Standing at just 5-foot-9, Weber has the stature of a power back with a low center of gravity, but flashed some speed on a 52-yard dash down the sideline that eventually set up his touchdown run.And with Michigan up next, Weber is all business.“Right now, we’re looking at it as a national championship,” he said. “That’s how we’re supposed to look at it. Go out all week, get a good game plan and work hard at it and try to execute the game plan. Now it’s really personal.”Who did OSU play again?Michigan State, at least according to the Buckeyes, is a quality opponent. OSU struggled with a team that has just three wins, and had to depend on late-game heroics from redshirt junior cornerback Gareon Conley to seal the deal with an interception.This game will easily be forgotten in the weeks to come, and the College Football Playoff committee will most likely follow suit. It was a tough game that OSU earned the W in. Games like these are never a large downfall of a team. The Buckeyes, along with Clemson (defeated Troy 30-24) and Michigan (loss to Iowa and won 20-10 over Indiana) have been in close games against mediocre teams.The important thing to remember is regardless of the outcome from this game, all eyes from the committee will be on Ohio Stadium next week. Whoever wins should find themselves in a playoff spot.Michigan and De’Veon Smith the ultimate testL.J. Scott had a monster day against the Buckeyes, compiling 236 yards total and crossing the goal line twice. Although he has the reputation of being a pretty good every-down back, there were some pretty uncharacteristic mistakes by the Buckeyes’ defense. So many in fact, that Urban Meyer doesn’t see a win for his team if they play in a similar fashion next week.“That’s very true,” Lewis said. “Come out next week kind of flat, you obviously won’t win the game. Give credit to Michigan State, they played a very good game, very physical thing. Just got to correct the little things — stopping the run.”Michigan senior running back De’Veon Smith is about as easy to stop as a runaway train. The mistakes made by the Silver Bullets against Michigan State cannot be made against a team as dangerous as Michigan. In the Wolverines’ lone loss this season, Iowa shut down Smith for just 28 yards on 12 carries. In Saturday’s win over Indiana, he had 158 yards and a pair of touchdowns. There seems to be a trend of good performances for Smith and a Michigan win.It’s Michigan week for OSU, and the assignment at hand for the Buckeyes could not be more difficult. Kickoff is set for noon. read more
Mens hockey Ohio State fails to secure weekend sweep tie Arizona StateMens hockey Ohio State fails to secure weekend sweep tie Arizona State
OSU sophomore forward John Wiitala passes the puck along the boards against an Arizona State defender. Credit: Courtesy of Ric Kruszynski/OSU AthleticsThere’s always a reason as to why the game is played. The No. 10 Ohio State men’s hockey team found that out the hard way on Saturday afternoon.Despite being heavy favorites following a 6-1 victory on Friday, the Buckeyes (11-4-5) tied Arizona State 2-2 in the weekend finale at the Schottenstein Center.The Sun Devils (7-17-2) tied the game with an extra skater with 26 seconds left in the third period on a goal from freshman forward Tyler Busch. OSU junior forward Kevin Miller and sophomore forward Mason Jobst scored to take the team’s only lead late in the second period. This result marks the fourth tie of the season for OSU, all coming to non-conference opponents.The teams could not decide a winner after an overtime period and the game officially ended in a tie, but Arizona State won the ensuing shootout 1-0. “We just got to keep getting better. Every time you lace it up, you’ve got to compete at the highest level,” coach Steve Rohlik said. “That’s a good hockey team. To have the lead right to the end, you’ve got to find a way to win that game, and to walk away with a tie leaves a little bitter taste in your mouth for sure.”Hard hits and bodies on the ice were present from the opening faceoff in this matchup. Both the Buckeyes and the Sun Devils produced a number of dangerous chances in front of net throughout the first period, including a power play for each team.Despite these factors, both squads entered the first intermission scoreless.Arizona State opened the game’s scoring on the power play with 10:20 left in the second period. Junior right winger Wade Murphy ripped a slapshot from the blueline that found its way through traffic, and into the back of the net.However, the Buckeyes responded strongly with just under three minutes to play in the period.Miller finished his fifth goal of the season from just out in front of the crease to tie the game at one, with assists coming from freshman forward Ronnie Hein and senior defender Drew Brevig. Less than a minute later, after OSU received a penalty for too many men on the ice, Jobst skated with speed past the Sun Devils’ defense and netted a shorthanded wrister senior goalie Robert Levin to take the lead into intermission.The Speedway, Indiana, native has now recorded 12 points in his last six games, but he said that his team needs to create more scoring opportunities for themselves moving forward in order to win games. “(We need) more shots,” Jobst said. “I think we had 24, and that’s just not enough. We’ve got to shoot the puck more.”During the third period, the Buckeyes had a chance to add insurance with a little over four minutes left when sophomore forward John Wiitala poked away a Sun Devil pass to go on the breakaway — but after a series of dekes, he saw his shot kicked away by Levin.This chance would come back to haunt Rohlik’s side, Busch found the back of the net to force overtime, and eventually won in a shootout.The deadlock lasted through the end of overtime into an eventual shoot-out, which concluded with the Sun Devils on top, but Rohlik said that his team needs to get better this next week headed back into conference play.“Our message is we’re going to Penn State, a great environment, obviously a very good hockey team, and we’ve got to be prepared this week and ready to go,” he said.Ohio State is back in action next weekend, as it travels College Park, Pennsylvania, for two conference clashes with the No. 4 Nittany Lions. Both Friday and Saturday’s puck drops are set for 7 p.m. read more
Hall seizes opportunity to play with Pryor a second timeHall seizes opportunity to play with Pryor a second time
Freshman running back Jordan Hall is trying to prove he isn’t just “the guy who played at the same school as Terrelle Pryor.”Hall’s high school career in Jeannette, Pa., was mostly spent as the secondary playmaker on offense to Pryor. The backfield duo brought the Jeannette Jayhawks their first football state title during Pryor’s senior and Hall’s junior season. As an encore, they followed it up a few months later with a matching state championship as starters on their high school’s basketball team. After his quarterback left for Ohio State, Hall didn’t waste much time deciding where he wanted to attend college. “I knew I was going to be a Buckeye,” Hall said after OSU’s win on Saturday, in which he led the team with 90 yards rushing. “I just got that gut feeling coming up here for junior day, the Spring Game. I just had that gut feeling and so far it’s working out.”The freshman has made an early impact and given a depleted running back squad some consistency on the depth chart. Sophomore Dan “Boom” Herron and junior Brandon Saine have battled injuries recently, and Hall has taken the opportunity to prove that he is more than just “Pryor’s old teammate.”Coming out of high school, Hall was not seen as a player who could make an impact right away. Recruiting experts thought it would be Jaamal Berry or Carlos Hyde who would be making their names known early, but things haven’t gone as planned for the two highly touted backs. Berry’s injuries and Hyde’s inability to qualify academically have left Hall to carry the load. “I knew I was coming in with two other really good running backs,” Hall said. “So it was kind of like motivation for me, but we’re all working hard. Jaamal is working hard too, but his injuries aren’t allowing him to play.”Hall believed the low expectations placed on him would give him a chance early in his career to surprise some people. “I definitely took it as a challenge, and I worked real hard in the offseason because I knew I was kind of an underdog coming in, so it motivated me,” Hall said. “Coming out of high school, everyone thought since Jeannette was such a small school, that we wouldn’t be ready to play college football, but it shows that if you’re an athlete, you’re an athlete and you can play.”Hall has 231 yards rushing this season and one touchdown. His most impressive stat, however, is his average of 5.1 yards per carry, more than either Herron or Saine. His running style gives OSU something different than “Boom” and “Zoom,” especially while the two are plagued with injuries. “I always had a belief and confidence in myself, but the injuries are allowing me to make plays so I’m just trying to take full advantage of it,” Hall said. “It’s funny, coming in we were like, we got five good running backs that could run, and we were all doing pretty good, then two go down. So everyone has to step up, you can never take a week off in practice, because you never know what can happen to the running back in front of you.”Being from the same high school as Pryor might cause any player to feel overshadowed, but not Hall. He has nothing but admiration for the Buckeye quarterback and believes all the attention is warranted. Pryor’s commitment to OSU also made Hall feel more comfortable with his own decision.“He deserves it. He works hard and he’s a leader,” Hall said. “I’m just playing, and I’ve never felt overshadowed. It was a reason that I came, but it wasn’t the main reason. Knowing I had someone I could ask questions to that helped my decision.”While Hall continues to surprise people, he hasn’t surprised himself. “I don’t know how people really felt about me, but I know how I felt about myself,” he said. “So I’m not really surprising myself, but I’m just trying to take full advantage when I’m in the game.” read more
No 14 Ohio State womens gymnastics defends its honor to the lastNo 14 Ohio State womens gymnastics defends its honor to the last
Ohio State women’s gymnastics coach Carey Fagan stopped short of calling this Friday’s contest against Kent State revenge. But, neither she nor her team has forgotten about a one-tenth-point loss to the Golden Flashes in last year’s regional qualifier that knocked them out of the NCAA Championships. “That stung, and I know it’s been on the minds of the girls for almost a whole year,” Fagan said. Almost a year later, a similar feeling still resonates with the team. The No. 14-ranked Buckeyes, though, have harvested that disappointment into this season’s rallying cry: “Our honor defend to the last tenth.” And it has been the driving force behind a year that Fagan and her team have condensed into a single word — consistent. “I think one of the best things we’ve done is we’ve been really consistent — we haven’t had to count a fall in several meets,” she said. “For us, all our scores have been right in that low 196, high 195 range.” Sophomore Sarah Miller echoed her coach’s sentiments. “I think that, overall, we’ve been really consistent throughout our entire season,” said Miller, who earned Big Ten Gymnast of the Week honors this week. “Generally, all of our scores have pretty much reflected our season.” OSU, which hasn’t posted a score lower than 195.175 this year, set a school record for their 197.625 team score against Denver Feb. 18. Fagan said she thinks her team’s consistent and sometimes dominating performance is a combination of senior leadership and the strong sophomore class that includes Miller. “I think (the seniors are) coming upon the end of their gymnastics career, and I think they’re really doing a good job kind of motivating some of the younger kids,” she said. Fagan said her seniors’ lead-by-example approach has been different compared to past seasons. “I think the best leadership comes from when they’re performing well and they have the confidence,” she said. “It’s harder if you’re not doing well to kind of step up and be like, ‘Come on guys,’ if you’re not taking care of your own business.” “So the fact that our seniors are doing a good job, they sort of have that confidence and that backing.” Fresh off a 196.025-195.000 win against No. 10 Penn State, the Buckeyes look to put it all together Friday night. “Vault and floor, in general, are strong events for us,” Fagan said. “But if we can hit bars and beam really well in one night, I think it’ll be a good score for us.” In some ways, much of OSU’s season has led up to their rematch with Kent State. But, junior Colleen Dean said the Buckeyes need to approach Friday with the same mentality they took on against Penn State last weekend. “We all kind of have that feeling of a little animosity towards Kent State,” Dean said. “But like Penn State, we don’t want to focus on beating this team or like, the other team, because that’s something we can’t control. But we can control our routines and what we do with them.” Fagan said, for the most part, mental toughness isn’t an issue for OSU. “This group of athletes is pretty confident, and so they don’t need the constant repetition like some other teams that I’ve coached,” she said. “To me, I know walking into the meet on Friday, if they feel physically good, we’re going to be in good shape.” Miller said she knows how much a win would mean for her team. “We definitely want this,” she said. “It was just little things that happened at regionals, tenths here and there, and we definitely want this really bad.” read more
Football Ohio State retains No 2 ranking in AP PollFootball Ohio State retains No 2 ranking in AP Poll
J.T. Barrett broke the school’s total offense record against Indiana. Credit: Edward Sutelan | Assistant Sports EditorThe first Associated Press Top 25 Poll of the regular season was released Tuesday, and Ohio State remained behind just Alabama in the No. 2 spot. No. 3 Clemson, No. 4 Penn State and No. 5 Oklahoma round out the top five. Ohio State received just one first place vote after receiving three in the preseason poll.Ohio State did enough to maintain its grasp on the second spot in the rankings after coming away with a victory against Indiana, 49-21. Though they started off slow and trailed the Hoosiers by one at the half, the Buckeyes outscored Indiana 36-7 in the second half of the game to seal the Week 1 victory.In total, the Big Ten saw four teams listed in the Top 25. After Ohio State and Penn State, Michigan was ranked at No. 8 and Wisconsin sat at No. 9.Kickoff for Ohio State’s game this Saturday against Oklahoma is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. ET at Ohio Stadium.AP Poll1. Alabama (60)2. Ohio State (1)3. Clemson4. Penn State5. Oklahoma6. USC7. Washington8. Michigan9. Wisconsin10. Florida State11. Oklahoma State12. LSU13. Auburn14. Stanford15. Georgia16. Miami (Fl.)17. Louisville18. Virginia Tech19. Kansas State20. Washington State21. South Florida22. Florida23. TCU24. Notre Dame25. Tennessee read more
Track and Field Ohio State sending nine athletes to NCAA indoor nationalTrack and Field Ohio State sending nine athletes to NCAA indoor national
Ohio State redshirt sophomore sprinter Kendall Sheffield (middle) competes in the 60m with teammates Nick Gray (right) and senior Zack Bazile (left) during a meet in the French Field House on Feb. 16. Credit: Ethan Clewell | Lantern ReporterThe Ohio State track and field teams will send nine athletes will be starting spring break early with a trip to College Station, Texas, for the NCAA indoor national championship Friday. Senior Zack Bazile currently has the farthest long jump in the country at 8.14 meters. Bazile is the only athlete in the NCAA to jump farther than eight meters twice.This is Bazile’s first time going to the indoor national championship. Bazile has gone to the NCAA outdoor championship every season of his collegiate career.Senior Nicholas Demaline will be return to the NCAA indoor championships in shot put. Last season Demaline finished sixth at this meet. This year, he is coming in with the fifth-farthest throw in the NCAA at 20.24 meters.Junior Nick Gray is tied for the second-fastest collegiate time in the 200-meter dash at 20.45 seconds. Gray is tied with South Carolina’s senior Ncincilili Titi.Junior Sade Olatoye qualified with the fourth best weight throw in the NCAA at 23.84 meters and has faced off against the top three weight throwers in the country at least once. Olatoye finished fourth last year and will be facing off against the defending national champion, Cincinnati’s Annette Echikunwoke.Olatoye also qualified in shot put as the top-ranked Big Ten thrower.The Ohio State men’s 4×400-meter-relay team made up of sophomore Asa Burke, Gray, senior Drelan Bramwell and freshman Andre Jeff will also make the trip to Texas. The team broke the school record with a time of 3:05.09 at the Big Ten Championship meet. Senior Maggie Berrie qualified in the 400-meter dash with a time of 52.82 seconds and also grabbed a spot down at College Station. She qualified by a very thin margin, while Tennessee Tech’s D’Airrien Jackson did not qualify with a time of 52.84 seconds. Senior Cole Gorski qualified in pole vault with a jump of 5.47 meters, set at the Music City Challenge earlier this month. Gorski was tied for 16th place, the last spot to qualify. Junior Coty Cobb was just one spot below Gorski and barely missed the cut. read more
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==Platform Differences==
===What is the difference between the versions?===
===What is the difference between different platforms?===
The PC version has some extra features, mainly the ability to automatically save and play back replays in game, and frame advance. Much of the Skullgirls online community is on PC as well, since when the game was receiving updates, the PC version got to play the updates while they were in development on a beta version.
PC cannot play against console.
===What is the amount of input delay between versions?===
===What is the amount of input delay between different platforms?===
There is a significant amount of additional delay on the PS4 version compared to the PC version. Below are some tests:
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1 Beginner Questions
1.1 I want to learn Skullgirls, where do I start?
1.2 I'm stuck on the tutorial, do I need to finish all of it?
1.3 How come it seems like the opponent can keep on hitting me until I die?
1.4 What is Double?
1.5 What is the difference between Filia and Fukua?
1.6 As a new player, what team size should I play?
1.7 Are solos viable?
1.8 Who are the best and worst characters?
1.9 What makes a good team in Skullgirls?
1.10 How many frames of delay should I use online?
1.11 I keep losing online, how do I improve?
2 Controllers
2.1 Do I need an arcade stick to play this game?
2.2 I'm playing on keyboard, what button config should I use?
2.3 How do I map player 2 controls on keyboard?
2.4 Skullgirls won’t recognize my controller, how do I fix this?
3 DLC
3.1 Will there be any more updates or DLC?
3.2 What is 2nd Encore?
3.3 What’s the 2/4-pack listed on Steam? Does that include the DLC?
3.4 Do I need the DLC? Which ones should I buy?
4 Platform Differences
4.1 What is the difference between different platforms?
4.2 Is there cross-platform multiplayer?
4.3 What is the amount of input delay between different platforms?
5 Miscellaneous
5.1 How do I save and view replays on the PC version?
5.2 What are the tournament rules for Skullgirls?
5.3 How do I easily invite someone to my lobby on PC if I'm not friends with them on Steam?
I want to learn Skullgirls, where do I start?
Start by playing through the tutorial if you haven't already. It's excellent for getting you up to speed with the game, for people with or without previous fighting game experience. Be sure to find players around your skill level by getting involved with the Skullgirls community.
I'm stuck on the tutorial, do I need to finish all of it?
Some of the later tutorial lessons ask you to perform combos which some new players may not be ready to execute in order to demonstrate some concept (such as lesson 4-7). If these lessons become more about struggling to perform the combo than understanding the concept, it may save you some frustration if you just come back to them later, or not at all if you feel you understand the concept.
How come it seems like the opponent can keep on hitting me until I die?
The opponent cannot hit you once and kill you in this game under normal circumstances. You most likely got hit by a reset, which means to drop the combo intentionally (therefore giving you a chance to defend) and perform a mixup. Resets are extremely important for maintaining momentum in Skullgirls and is unlike most other fighting games in that sense. Resets are supposed to be quick and hard to see, doubly so if you are a new player. A way to tell for sure if one happened is if the combo counter got reset back to zero. Usually a reset is done with some kind of overhead attack, a throw, or a crossup. Be sure to watch this video for a more in depth explanation.
What is Double?
Double is a character who fights by turning into other characters during her attacks. Her normals borrow animations from other characters, but their properties are usually different and their uses are recontextualized by belonging to a different character. Her luger, flying butt, and slide special moves are unused animations from Parasoul, Cerebella, and Filia. Double appears as a blob figure when she's not attacking, and takes the form of a nun during her intro and win poses.
What is the difference between Filia and Fukua?
Filia and Fukua are two different characters who share many of the same animations. The way they play and the properties of their moves are completely different. Filia has an air dash and can travel across the air by turning into a ball. Fukua has a double jump and attacks with fireballs and clones of herself. To further visually differentiate herself, she also has floating orbs surrounding her at all times. If all else fails, the character portraits will spell out which character is which.
As a new player, what team size should I play?
There's no right answer. Some people find it easier to start with solos to familiarize themselves with the game, then move on to playing a team, or just continue to play solo. If you feel overwhelmed by learning multiple characters, it’s OK to start with solos. If you feel confident and want to start playing with a team’s benefits right away, you can start with a team, too.
Are solos viable?
The answer may depend on who you ask, but there were two exclusively solo players in the top 8 of Combo Breaker 2017, the largest Skullgirls tournament of that year, and there are several other strong players who play solo. While not having access to some of the game's main mechanics, such as assists, hinder them, once they get an opening they do an absurd amount of damage.
Who are the best and worst characters?
The final patch for Skullgirls was released in April of 2017. At the time of writing, there hasn't been enough time to reach a community wide consensus. However, we do know that the gap between tiers is very small, and every character is seen at high level competition.
Newbies worried about picking a good / bad character should instead worry about constructing a good team. Since there is custom assist, and characters have multiple supers to DHC to, it's not hard to craft a workable team using most combinations of characters, especially at a low or mid level of skill.
What makes a good team in Skullgirls?
Characters in this game are very versatile, and can be played in most team positions in most team combinations. But it all depends on what other characters and assists you built the team around on.
Figure out what character(s) you want to play, then you figure out what position on the team you’d like for them to be in, and finally add in other characters or choose assists that benefit the team from there.
Team positions for trio teams are as follows: point character, middle (or mid) character, and anchor character. For duo teams, it is just point and anchor characters.
Point position characters typically are characters who either need or strongly prefer assists to back them up. Choose a point character on your team as a character that you think benefits the most from having assists. Also consider characters that make for a good 'battery', a character which can build a lot of meter, such as Peacock or Ms. Fortune.
Mid position characters typically have either good DHCs from the point, good supers to use on incoming in case the point character dies, or more simply just benefits more from having an assist than the anchor character would.
Anchor characters typically are characters that you, as a player, should either feel more comfortable playing as a solo character, or if you feel that their assist is strong enough to benefit both the point and mid characters.
Be warned that sometimes your team order can get changed, such as from using DHCs, tagging in, or from being snapped by the opponent. Be ready for when your team order has changed to not get blindsided by unexpected situations, or use this to your advantage when you think about team crafting.
For more information on assists, click here. Some assists can fill multiple roles. Some characters can benefit from one type of assist more than others. Or sometimes, your own playstyle can prefer to use one type of assist over others. Choose wisely what you think most benefits how you want to play.
How many frames of delay should I use online?
Start by setting it to 0 and only increase it on really bad connections where the rollback jumps are noticeable. The in game estimates are a bit generous, some use 'one frame for every 100ms' as a rule of thumb.
I keep losing online, how do I improve?
Take comfort in the fact that every single fighting game player knows your pain. Fighting games are a genre where you will get beat up a lot before you get any bearing on what is going on. Even the best players all started at this skill level. It's worth emphasizing: when you are new to fighting games, you will lose a lot. If you can accept this, then you can really start to enjoy and explore fighting games. The key is that losing doesn't have to be a frustrating experience all the time.
First of all, don't limit yourself to just playing faceless strangers on quick match. Fighting games are perhaps the most fun when you have a group of people of similar skill level to play and talk with, so check out the community page to find out how to get involved with the Skullgirls community.
A great thing to do as a beginner is to focus on one concept at a time. There's a lot to unravel when it comes to fighting games, and if you try to understand it all at once it will quickly get overwhelming. Pick one thing to work on, and play with just that thing in mind. Don't concern yourself about anything else going on during the match, just focus on that one thing. It's important to have some kind of goal or thing to think about while you're playing, since you can start to see small improvements in your play. Having the goal "use pushblock in a match" is realistically achievable against a more skilled opponent, and it helps you piece together how you are supposed to use the concept in a real match.
Here's some ideas of things to work on when you're first learning Skullgirls. Be sure to also watch videos of other people playing to see how the different concepts are used in matches. Doing each of these things right will take time, and you will lose a lot at first trying to implement these things. Try to have an experimental attitude about it and you'll find yourself learning a lot! Improvement comes through lots of failure and trial and error, so don't be afraid to lose and don't give up!
Focus on applying the concepts taught in the tutorial in real matches. The tutorial doesn't necessarily prepare you to play other players. It does a good job of explaining the mechanics of the game, but applying the concepts in matches is much harder than just understanding them. The defense mechanics are especially important since you'll be on defense the majority of your time as a new player. Two important ones would be pushblocking and using your character's reversals, which can be found under the basics section on the character pages. Don't get discouraged when you get opened up. Skullgirls mixups are brutal and even the best players can't block everything - it happens. Taking a look at what options you have can give you more chances to play.
Become comfortable with your character's important moves, and get an idea of how they're used in a match to achieve your game plan. If you can do that, learn how to maximize your reward off those moves, whether it be a combo or a knockdown. The character pages can give you ideas for these.
Practice a combo that you can execute in matches. Even if it's a very short combo, a combo you can pull off 95% of the time you try it is always better than a better combo you drop the majority of the time. A good goal to work towards is being able to do a combo with a restand, which allows for an easy reset point. Check out the combo sections on the character pages for ideas. Also familiarize yourself with the concept of hit confirming, which in simple terms is recognizing if your move was blocked or hit. If it hit you want to perform your combo. If not, you will want to change your response.
Familiarize yourself with how frame data works. You don't need to understand it all at first. Here's a useful challenge that, if you can figure it out, you will understand all you need to know about frame data for now: learn about block advantage (listed under "on block" on a move's frame data) and why some moves can be challenged or even guaranteed to be punished if you block them.
The reality is even if you do implement all of these you still may not be a "good" or even "average" player. Whether someone is "good" or not is subjective anyway, so it's up to you to figure out how you want to enjoy Skullgirls or any other fighting game. Some people get a lot of fulfillment out of the self improvement aspect and competing. Some have fun simply from playing with their friends. Others find the most enjoyment in labbing out the game to find cool tech and combos. There's no one right way to play the game, but as long as you are having fun with the game that is what really matters.
As for how to improve in a more general sense, one of the most valuable habits to pick up to improve at fighting games is to think critically about your losses and to focus on learning instead of winning. This isn't easy as a new player since your ability to analyze and think about the game isn't there yet, but it's a good goal to work towards. After playing a lot of games, take some time to reflect on what went wrong and what problems you encountered. Viewing your own matches is essential to figuring this out. The PC version can save replays in game, and the PS4 lets you save recordings with the share button. After you identify one major problem, think of an idea for a solution. Training mode is especially useful for this. If you are having trouble, watch videos of other people playing your character for ideas. Then, next time you play, try it out and see what happens. Even if you lose, you can still learn something new and apply it next time. Winning against players who usually beat you won't happen overnight - much of the joy of fighting games comes from the process of learning, applying new strategies, and seeing small improvements over time.
Lastly, don't hesitate to ask questions if you don't understand something. Many people online are experienced and are happy to help new players. In fact, coming up with questions to ask more skilled players can be one of the best ways to gain more insight on a topic. The more specific question you can ask, the more the other person can understand what you're asking and give you a detailed, helpful response.
Do I need an arcade stick to play this game?
No. Anything works as long as you're comfortable with it. The only caveat is if you are a PC player and want to play on a PS4 at events, you will need an input device that works with it. The most common controllers are arcade sticks, gamepads (such as a DualShock 4), and hitboxes.
I'm playing on keyboard, what button config should I use?
Most importantly, for whichever layout you choose, make sure your keyboard is able to handle ghosting appropriately.
If you are seeking an alternative to the default layout, the hitbox style layout is worth trying. It emulates the layout of a hitbox controller, and allows all your fingers to rest on each of the four directions at once. Another benefit is it allows keyboard players to smoothly transition to playing on a hitbox, which is a good option for a controller when playing on PS4 that is similar to a keyboard. An example of this layout is pictured here.
Be aware that on an actual hitbox controller, holding up and down at the same time will result in an up input, making jumping and flash kick inputs easier.
How do I map player 2 controls on keyboard?
Bring up the button config menu, then the backslash key '\' is default for a button on the player 2 side, which will select 'config all' on P2 side and let you map buttons.
Skullgirls won’t recognize my controller, how do I fix this?
First, try opening Steam Big Picture Mode and setting up a controller configuration there. That will usually get SG to pick up on it afterwards. (Mac/Linux users) If the above doesn’t work, you’ll have to manually define it in gamecontrollerdb.txt. Find this file by right-clicking SG in your Steam library and going to Properties -> Local Files -> Browse Local Files and then use SDL2 Gamepad Tool to create an entry that should be pasted into this file.
Will there be any more updates or DLC?
No. The game is done, physical copies with the final patch have shipped, and Lab Zero has begun working on their next project, Indivisible.
What is 2nd Encore?
Confusingly, Second Encore can refer to three different things:
The previous balance patch, free on all platforms. There have been two more free balance patches after this: 2nd Encore+ and one more, small, final patch.
The PS4/Vita rerelease, which bundled all past DLC plus some new singleplayer extras:
Full voice acting for all of Story Mode.
Challenges: Various fights against the AI with unusual conditions or restrictions. The last few involve a playable Marie!
Trials: Four useful sample combos for each character.
Survival mode: Beat as many AI teams as you can with limited health.
These extras are not available on PS3 or 360.
The Steam DLC pack which brought the aforementioned extras back to PC. Buying this pack also gets you all previous DLC.
What’s the 2/4-pack listed on Steam? Does that include the DLC?
Those simply give you 2 or 4 copies of the base game, one for yourself and the rest to share with friends. No DLC is included.
Do I need the DLC? Which ones should I buy?
Nothing is required, you can even play online against people who have it (you just won’t be able to select DLC characters yourself). But obviously it’s nice to have the full roster at least. It’s a little cheaper to get the characters alone than buy the whole 2E pack, so if you don’t care about the bonus content you could skip it. Though personally I quite like the voice acting and would recommend it if you’re into that. Considering how often the game and DLC go on sale for dirt cheap, you might as well get everything.
What is the difference between different platforms?
The PS4 version is what is played at events, and there is an online community for this version as well.
There is an Xbox 360 version, but it should be avoided as it's not updated to the latest version.
Is there cross-platform multiplayer?
Windows, Mac, and Linux can all play against each other. PS3, PS4, and Vita can all play against each other. PC cannot play against console.
What is the amount of input delay between different platforms?
https://twitter.com/noodalls/status/961933608922460160
Note: there is no difference between 720p and 1080p. Additional confirmation: https://twitter.com/WydD/status/1053002939143467010
https://twitter.com/WydD/status/1054151440212652033
https://youtu.be/kYCW0Dfixv4?t=8m48s
How do I save and view replays on the PC version?
What are the tournament rules for Skullgirls?
PS4 is the platform used for tournaments (note for tournament organizers: the PS4 version comes with all the DLC)
3/5 games for every match
Loser may change teams on character select
Winner may change their team order, but not assists (such as via the loading screen shortcuts)
Any variation of the Robo-Fortune magnet timer scam is banned.
Random stage, unless both players agree on a stage
Default settings for time limit and number of rounds (99 seconds, 1 round for teams, 3 rounds for solos)
Tournament mode is highly recommended for convenience, but it doesn't affect the gameplay so it's not a requirement.
Be sure to disconnect all unused Bluetooth devices before playing, since it can cause extra input delay. (PS4 home button → press up → Settings → Devices → Bluetooth Devices → for each one, select it with X, then press Options and select 'Forget Device')
How do I easily invite someone to my lobby on PC if I'm not friends with them on Steam?
You can create a link which will direct Steam to join your lobby when you click on it. Create a lobby, then use shift+tab to bring up the Steam overlay. Click on your Steam avatar in the bottom right corner to open up your profile. Right click on the green 'Join Game' button and 'Copy Link Address'. Then share that link with who you want to play with.
SGLobbyLink is a program written by Mr. Peck which will automatically copy the link to the clipboard for you. There is also a Discord bot version.
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Fifty-year-old Alice Howland is a wife, mother of three, and world-renowned psychology professor at Harvard. Her seemingly perfect life is turned upside down by a diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer's. Julianne Moore is nominated for "Best Actress in a Leading Role" for the adaptation of Lisa Genova's novel. Request this item from the NYPL Catalog.
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Genus Atopostipes
For a detailed description of this taxon see Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (BMSAB).
Atopostipes Cotta et al. 2004, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Atopostipes suicloacalis corrig. Cotta et al. 2004.
Etymology: Gr. adj. atopos, out of place, out of the way, strange; L. masc. n. stipes, a log, stump, trunk of a tree, a branch and, in bacteriology, a rod; N.L. masc. n. atopostipes, a strange rod.
Valid publication: Validation List no. 99. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2004, 54, 1425-1426.
Effective publication: COTTA (M.A.), WHITEHEAD (T.R.), COLLINS (M.D.) and LAWSON (P.A.): Atopostipes suicloacale gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from an underground swine manure storage pit. Anaerobe, 2004, 10, 191-195.
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Atopostipes suicloacalis corrig. Cotta et al. 2004, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) PPC79 = DSM 15692 = NRRL 23919.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: AF445248.
Etymology: L. n. sus, a pig; L. adj. cloacalis -e, pertaining to a cloaca (manure sewer); N.L. masc. adj. suicloacalis, pertaining to swine manure.
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1 The original spelling, Atopostipes suicloacale (sic), has been corrected on validation according to Rule 61.
Reference: LISTS EDITOR, IJSEM: Validation List no. 99 (footnote ‡). Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2004, 54, 1425-1426.
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2 In the protologue, the strain DSM 15692 is cited as DSMZ15692 (sic).
Reference: LISTS EDITOR, IJSEM: Validation List no. 99 (footnote §). Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2004, 54, 1425-1426.
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Alcester, Warwickshire. This small town lies 8 miles west of Stratford-upon-Avon at the confluence of the Rivers Arrow and Alne and the junction of the A422, originally a Roman road, and Ryknild Street (the A435). These routes and the town's name (pronounced Olster) suggest Roman occupation and excavations have confirmed this.
Particularly attractive is the narrow Butter Street, off the High Street, with its jumble of ancient roofs. Just at the top is the 17th-century, three-bayed, brick Churchill House with some fascinating carved friezes. Henley Street has among its features a timber-framed house with an overhang on carved supports. Church Street has remarkably unspoilt Georgian houses. Two of them at one time formed a single coaching inn which lost its clientele with the coming of the railways. Lovers of Victoriana will like The Priory, once the site of a Benedictine Abbey, where there is a house with a perfectly proportioned Doric porch, to which has been added a fantastic Victorian neo-Gothic folly. The oldest Alcester house stands in Malt Hill Lane off Church Street. This is a two-gabled, half-timbered building called the Old Malt House, built in 1500. The Classical Town Hall was built in 1618, a gift of Sir Fulke Greville.
Only the late l3th-century tower and 15th-century door witness to the early foundation of the Church of St Nicholas. The exterior is mostly restored Victorian Gothic, though the simple Classical interior designed by Thomas and Edward Woodward in 1729 is relieved by the rather grand altartomb of Sir Fulke Greville.
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Saturday’s game against Swansea is a massive one – it’s a ‘must not lose’ game rather than a ‘must win’ one. However, a win would almost certainly see us safe for another year. Of our four remaining fixtures, I believe this weekend’s one is probably our best chance of picking up three points. You could argue that Hull at home a week later is but, let’s face it, the Tigers will be well drilled and we are notorious for failing to unlock stubborn defences at Villa Park. Indeed, failing to unlock defences has been a problem all season and Benteke’s strike at home to Stoke a month ago was the last goal we scored from open play: our last two goals have been an Ashley Westwood free kick and a Grant Holt header from a corner. These are desperate times in front of goal.
I feel it’s time to try something different.
Step forward Callum Robinson.
People argue that the heat of a relegation battle is not the time to throw a youngster lacking experience into the fray but if he isn’t getting a game now, when will he? We are in desperate need of someone who can put the ball in the net. Robinson has been doing that all season, albeit for the under-21s, so he’s earned an opportunity. In addition, our two main central strikers are on the treatment table so there is definitely a case emerging for giving Robinson a chance. It was great to see Robinson’s cameo on Saturday, however brief. I don’t like to focus negatively on individuals but Weimann is currently a shadow of the player he was last season and this has been the case for 80% of the season. It’s fair to say that we have really missed the Weimann of last term: his goals have dried up but his all round game is also not on a par with last season. Weimann’s a terrific player and next season will be the true measure of him. Many players go through “second season syndrome”. It’s the third season that defines careers. When Saturday comes, I would be starting Callum Robinson over Andi Weimann. Andi has looked most lively recently when coming off the bench, forcing great saves away at Cardiff and Palace.
Robinson will look back on this season with a real sense of achievement. He made his Villa début in September, his England under 19 debut in November, when he also scored, and he’s now made his first appearance for us in the Premier League. He has also been a consistent goalscorer for the under-21s.
Agbonlahor and Weimann have each scored three goals in the Premier League this campaign, which is not a great return. I’d imagine the Swans will have a plan to deal with them but the opposition won’t know as much about Robinson and that could prove advantageous. The movement in the final third has not been good enough. I’d argue that El Ahmadi from deep has been one of the more effective players off the ball. We need more. Robinson’s confidence must be sky high after the reception he got on Saturday. The writers for the official website have been talking him up again and it must help having Cowans working closely with him and the first team.
I don’t think we lose anything by starting him at the Liberty Stadium: we aren’t banging the goals in and the Swansea defence has shipped fifty-one goals this season. Robinson is supposed to be a very good finisher and this could be a game where we get chances. The pace of Robinson and Agbonlahor could cause Ashley Williams et al problems.
What do you think? Is it time to try something else? Does Robinson deserve a go? Share your thoughts by leaving a comment.
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My name's Dan Bardell. I'm 29 and I sit in the Upper Holte with my dad. This is our 22nd year as season ticket holders. My favourite ever players are Ian Taylor, Thomas Hitzlsperger, Gareth Barry, Olof Mellberg, Martin Laursen and Stan Petrov. My current favorites are Westwood, Clark and Grealish. Feel free to comment or follow me on twitter: @danbardell
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Sarvesh April 23, 2014 At 17:06
Yes he does deserve a chance.
I have seen many of his U21 goals, and they tell of maturity and talent.I think we have a real talent in our hands, and when all the other options are either backfiring or injured, then why not?
My only other question would be , what is Helenius doing at Villa? He’s the only other striker who is not injured, and the team will need him after all the injuries to and lack of form of the other forwards. Will Lambert just let him go? I don’t think so. I hope Helenius stays and bangs in some good goals later on in the year. At the same time, I think bringing in Kozak and Helenius the same year when you have Robinson on your hands was a bit odd.
So I give my thumbs up to Robinson, but hope that Helenius gets to prove his worth more than Robinson.
Colin Gale April 23, 2014 At 17:23
A good call on Robinson Dan , it’s time for a change & I’m hearing that rumoured dispute between Sid & Culverhouse was down to the lack of thought on the integration of some of the 1st team squad . I agree also on your thoughts on KEA & think that too many focus on what he does wrong & totally ignore what he brings to the team . And whilest our attack is a problem much more attention should be paid to what our midfield does & more particularly does not do . All too often the impetus is to pass the ball around in midfield or back to the defence rather than play it forward . That might be down to our ex coaches but Delph despite being the hero of many for taking the ball forward is frequently also the cheif culprit for losing the ball & not playing others in . How soon it will be before changes in midfield occur remain to be seen, but I also heard that Sid is also a fan of our U21 captain Johnson,whose name I also heard mentioned in connection with the rumoured dispute involving Sid
poppycockavfc April 23, 2014 At 17:25
I also would like to see Robinson start but a part of me worries that if things go wrong and the fans start booing that isn’t going to do much for his confidence
But Helenius has been out injured , & in any case he’s more of a support striker which was more the role he played for the U21’s in the last Villa game he played in
I also agree about Robinson & boos but @ some point the risk of that happening has to be taken . And even Lambert has suggested that as a reason for not using the U21’s
mrvilla April 23, 2014 At 18:14
My worry is that he’s hardly setting the world on fire in terms of goals at lower levels.
I expect big grant Holt will start and CR may get the last 15 mins from the bench. Our management track record is very conservative.
Gary Clark April 23, 2014 At 22:30
Callum Robinson is not the answer. I’ve seen him a lot at under 21 level and yes, he looks a potentially half decent finisher at the lower level, but he is a million miles away from what we need right now.
Given time he might make it at the premier league level, he might not.
At this moment in time we need Agbonlahor, Weimann and co to step up to the plate and contribute to the cause. Their failings are contributing heavily to our sad demise.
Ben April 24, 2014 At 07:02
I certainly wouldn’t start him this season. it’s too much pressure for a young lad like him. Holt will start, and then a 15 minute cameo will probably be the most action Callum gets, depending on how the game is progressing.
Barry'sboots April 24, 2014 At 10:04
Interesting point in Daniel Johnson. He was on the edges of the squad a few seasons back and continues to get strong reviews for reserve performances but has not been anywhere near the first team OR given the opportunity of a good loan. Must be really frustrating for the kid. I can’t imagine he would be any worse than Bertrand or Bennett in midfield?
richrvillian April 24, 2014 At 14:13
From what we’ve seen from Holt, gabby and Weimann so far I think he should get a run out. I don’t know much about him TBH but if he’s even half decent he can’t be any worse at finishing than the three supposed strikers playing at the moment
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By A Vintage Nerd At March 30, 2014 5
If you find yourself a fan of vintage most likely you love the history, the times, the lifestyles of the past. I think we can easily forget the struggles (and the triumphs) of the past if we solely focus on the glamour of the times. And boy there are enough beautiful things that have happened in history to last us for eons. But there were also times that tried humanity and justice and the story of the Loving family is one of those.
Richard and Mildred Loving were married in June 1958 in Washington, D.C. and moved back to their hometown of Caroline County, Viriginia. One month later they were arrested and put in jail because interracial marriage was illegal. They were forced to move to Washington, D.C. away from their families and friends. The town they came from was small and both black and whites worked together and mixed agreeably. They didn't think anything of it when they met and fell in love. Such a simply act between two consenting adults, but it wasn't so simple back then.
This documentary tells the story of their struggle and their personal victory. They share photos and lots of actual video of the couple as well as the lawyers. Included are also interviews with some town people but you should be aware that what they saw may sound shocking. It was for me. I was just sitting and watching the film saying, "Wow. wow." over and over.
This is the last photo I could find with the Loving family altogether sans Richard who was killed by a drunk driver in 1975. This photo was taken in 1979 with Mildred and her children-Sidney, Donald, and Peggy (with her eldest child). Mildred is holding a photo of Richard when he was just a young boy.
The last information I found out about them is that Mildred passed on in 2008 at the age of 68, she never remarried. Both her sons passed on and you can read more about Sidney HERE and Donald passed on in 2000. Peggy is the only child still with us and the Loving's became great and grand parents to a wonderful slew of children.
Little did the Loving's know that they would embark on a journey that would change the course of America. There are a few articles out there in internetland but not enough photos and can you believe no one has written a book on them!!! I sure hope their daughter does. I am grateful though that this documentary was made and for the Loving's willingness to fight for equality.
If you would like to read more about the Loving's, I found a few really good articles but I highly recommend watching this documentary!
Photos of the Loving family
Loving vs. Virginia
Mildred Loving (which includes a video with her daughter Peggy)
Chronically Vintage March 31, 2014
I really, really want to see this doc. I keep hearing what a powerful, compelling piece it is and can't wait until Netflix.ca (hopefully) brings it in.
Porcelina March 31, 2014
I would love to see this too - thank you for bringing it to my attention! It does sound like a book or even a film could come of the story? x
tubby3pug March 31, 2014
It sounds like a good documentary I hipe they get it on Netflix
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A Vintage Nerd March 31, 2014
Hope you gals get to see it. Its a simple but beautiful story!!! xox
I have heard about this family before. Our world has changed so much in so many ways, And still sometimes, I think it hasn't changed at all. :(
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The highly endangered Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) has seen a small but significant rise in numbers, according to a new census by World Wildlife Fund. Despite the effects of poaching and habitat and prey loss from commercial logging, the latest count by WWF found that the rare cats’ population has risen from just 30 in
2007 to 57 in Land of the Leopard National Park, located west of Vladivostok in the Russian Far East. Another eight to 12 of the animals live in China. The population increase is attributed to better habitat management and protection in Russia and China. According to WWF, a hoped-for next step would be the establishment of a nature reserve that spans both countries.
“Such a strong rebound in Amur leopard numbers is further proof that even the most critically endangered big cats can recover if we protect their habitat and work together on conservation efforts,” said Dr. Barney Long, who leads Asian species conservation for WWF in the U.S. “There’s still a lot of work to be done in order to secure a safe future for the Amur leopard, but these numbers demonstrate that things are moving in the right direction.”
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Acquisition strengthens Cushman & Wakefield’s Project & Development Services (PDS) capabilities in Germany
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Global real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield has continued its expansion in Germany with the acquisition of independent Berlin consultancy acht+.
The strategic acquisition complements and strengthens Cushman & Wakefield’s business in Germany. Founded in 2010, acht+ specialises in project management, technical due diligence, project general planning and cost management. The addition of these investor-focused services means Cushman & Wakefield can provide clients in Germany with a fully in-house solution for complex building projects.
acht+ will be integrated into the firm’s Project & Development Services (PDS) business which provides services including design + build, building consultancy, building engineering and cost consultancy. With more than 50 employees, it will double the size of Cushman & Wakefield’s German PDS business.
The client and geographical profiles of the two businesses complement each other. Cushman & Wakefield’s existing German PDS team, headed by Frank D. Masuhr, works primarily with corporate occupiers in the Berlin, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main and Munich markets. In contrast, acht+’s nationwide client portfolio comprises landlords and institutional investors.
Yvo Postleb, Head of Germany at Cushman & Wakefield, said: “The acquisition of acht+ is another important milestone for our expansion plans in Germany and is consistent with our strategy to support clients through the entire life cycle of a property. Combining with acht+ significantly enhances our Project & Development Services team and allows us to offer a comprehensive range of services to both occupier and investor clients.”
Frank D. Masuhr, Cushman & Wakefield’s Head of Project & Development Services for the D-A-CH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) region, said: “acht+’s established investor relationships and networks means we can service new sectors as we develop Project & Development Services into one of the main sales drivers for Cushman & Wakefield Germany.”
The experienced founders and managing partners of acht+, Axel Funke and Oliver Mai, remain on board as managing directors.
Axel Funke said: “We are delighted to join forces with Cushman & Wakefield which gives us a strong partner and access to new clients and projects through its global platform. Cushman & Wakefield’s local office network and wide range of complementary services also allows us to better service our existing clients in Berlin, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main and Munich. As such, this mutually-beneficial opportunity continues the success of our journey so far.”
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COALspot.com - Indonesia shipped 28.27 Million tons of coal in June 2011, a 2.3 percent lesser than May export of about 28.962 million tons, Indonesian coal industry sources said.
Indonesian coal producers have shipped approximately 8.236 million tons of coal to China in June, which was 0.24 percent higher than May 2011 exports. However, Indonesian producers failed to push more coal to India in June.
Indian importers have imported 2.63 percent lesser coal compared to May Imports. India has imported only around 6.20 million tons, which were around 21.95 percent of Indoneisan total coal exports in June. In the meantime, India has imported approximately 36.033 million tons coal, which was slightly lesser than Chinese's imports of 36.071 million tons, during first half this year.
India was the largest Indonesian coal importer since January 2011 until April 2011, until China becomes the largest importer of Indonesian coal since May 2011.
According to the coal minister of India, India's coal imports may be at 250 million tons per annum by 2016. Coal imports are an unavoidable options for Indian utilities due to non availability of economically viable coal from domestic mines. However, according to Indian UMPPs, due to Indonesian government regulation that forces all coal producers must sell coal at government declared monthly prices, would cost them at least US$ 30 per ton higher than they previously budgeted.
According to Indian power industry sources opined that Indian UMPPs ( ultra-mega power project) suddenly caught in between as the concept of UMPP was implemented 4 to 5 years back. The large scale industrial houses in India have bided and secured UMPP licenses based on the open market prices /long term coal contracts from Indonesian producers (I.e., pre regulated Indonesian market). Now that Indonesian coal reference price mechanism is in place all the UMPP's are seeking Indian government’s assistance in revising the Power Tariff of UMPP.
There are mixed of reactions from Indian mine investors in Indonesia related to government regualtion on coal referance price. Indian power plants are must focus on the fuel security than price advantages out of Indonesian coal mine operations. Mine investments in Indonesia will definitely a good option for power producers of India to secure fuel for their plants, according to an Indian power producer who had invested coal mine in Indonesia.
Meantime, another investor opined that, more and more of Indian lenders are concerned with the sourcing of coal from Indonesia for their power generating plants after reported backing out of Reliance Power from their proposed 4000 MW UMMP in Krishnapatnam port zone due to higher cost for coal imports from Indonesia.
Indonesia has introduced bench mark pricing mechanism for its coal since February 2010, and it has implemented for the domestic supplies as well the export market. The pricing was done on the transparent way using four internationally acceptable coal indices to generate monthly Indonesian coal reference prices for about 62 types of coal, including 8 types of bench mark qualities.
The regulation also requires miners to report sales volumes, prices, and buyers every month to the government, allowing it to ensure that the rules are being followed. Violations can lead to revocation of mining permits. The price benchmark aims to prevent firms selling coal to affiliates at low prices to avoid taxes that hurts Indonesia's efforts to collect revenues from its massive commodity exports.
Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of Indonesia has set the July 2011 Indonesian Coal Reference Price for thermal coal at US$ 118.24 per ton per ton, which was 0.66 percent lesser than June 2011 price. Assessment basis of coal price reference was calculated considering coal with GCV (GAR) 6,322 kcal/kg, Total Moisture (arb) 8.00%, Total Sulphur (arb) 0.8%, Ash Content (arb) 15.00% and delivery free on Board (FOB) Vessel basis and applicable for spot contract, delivery between 1 – 31 July 2011.
Indonesian government is currently drafting a new regulation that could ban the export of low-grade coal by January 12, 2014. This is likely to apply to coal below 5100 kilocalories (on air dried basis) in value.
Indonesian large-scale producers were offering bituminous coal of 5,500 kcal/kg NAR at around $ 108 a ton, FOB vessel basis, and the price was almost flat since last week, buyers said.
79.77 percent of total coal exports in June shipped to China, India, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan respectively.
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The Initiation by Nikki Sloane
No one knows how new members are selected to the board of Hale Banking and Holding. But there are rumors of a sordid rite of initiation.
Whispers how one woman and nine men disappear into a boardroom.
This time, that woman will be me.
The Hale family owns everything—the eighth largest bank in the world, everyone in our town, even the mortgage on my parents’ mansion. And now Royce Hale wants to own me.
He is charming. Seductive. Ruthless. But above all, he’s the prince of lies. My body may tighten with white-hot desire under his penetrating gaze, but I refuse to enjoy it.
I’ll make a deal with the devil to save my family and sell myself to the Hales. But Royce will never own my heart.
Trouble at Brayshaw High by Meagan Brandy
“You don’t belong.”
No words whispered in anger have ever rung more true.
They’re the Kings of Brayshaw with the world at their feet, destined for greatness and in need of control.
I’m the girl from the ghetto with nothing to offer and as defiant as they come.
They say it doesn’t matter, that I’m one of them now, and nothing could ever change that. Not even me, should I dare try.
But they’re wrong.
They underestimate how far I’ll go to protect them.
Trouble is coming...and they have no idea.
Jackson: Reed Security by Guilia Lagomarsino
Jackson Lewis saved Raegan Cartwright from a terrible situation and has been keeping her and her parents safe. Raegan knows she can trust the sexy man she's staying with, but her confidence has taken a beating. Still, she refuses to be the wilting flower that everyone expects of her. If only she could get Jackson to see that. He sees only what he wants to, sure that her refusal to talk about what happened as a sign she couldn't move on. But when all hell breaks loose at Reed Security, Raegan is pulled into one dangerous situation after another. When it is discovered that Raegan isn't just an innocent bystander but directly linked to Reed Security's current situation, she finds herself even more intertwined and is fully prepared to face her issues head-on. But this is more than just an abusive ex. This is something that involves innocent people and deadly consequences. But Reed Security is relying on her and she won't let them down.
Written With Regret by Aly Martinez
Every little girl dreams of the fairytale. The one where the white knight rushes in to save her from the clutches of evil. They fall in love, have babies, and live happily ever after.
By that definition, my life should have been a fairytale too.
When I was eight years old, Caven Hunt saved me from the worst kind of evil to walk the Earth. It didn’t matter that I was a kid. I fell in love with him all the same.
But that was where my fairytale ended.
Years later, a one-night stand during the darkest time imaginable gave us a little girl. It was nothing compared to the pitch black that consumed me when I was forced to leave her with Caven for good.
At the end of every fairytale, the happily-ever-after is the one thing that remains consistent. It wasn’t going to be mine, but there hadn’t been a night that passed where I hadn’t prayed that it would be hers.
I owed Caven my life.
However, I owed that innocent child more.
And that included ripping the heart from my chest and facing her father again.
Falling For You by Jennifer Van Wyk
Fake it ‘til you make it has been the motto I live by since my mother died.
I’m also doing a really bad job at the making it part.
The night we met, I was at my lowest.
But you gave me a reason to feel happy again.
For the first time in over a year, I feel optimistic.
You and I? We’re the same.
Don’t form attachments. Follow the rules. Don’t dream of a future.
Too bad our hearts wouldn’t listen.
And this storm we’re going through?
The one that threatens to rip us apart?
It doesn’t care that I’m falling for you.
Falling For You is a different kind of brother’s best friend romance and is as emotional as it is sizzling.
Disgraceful by Autumn Grey
I knew falling for him was wrong. I did it anyway, his half smiles and blue eyes pulling me deeper. Blue eyes that made me soar. He wasn’t mine to keep, though. And like all good and rare things, it came to an end.
Then he strolls into my life, armed with dimples and gray eyes. Gray eyes that ground me. He smashes through my defenses, stealing what is left of my heart.
Now my heart is a war zone, past and present battling for my forever.
They say lightning doesn’t strike the same place twice. I call bullshit on that theory.
The Billionaire Boss Next Door by Max Monroe
My new boss has it all. In spades.
Gorgeous green eyes? Check.Hard-and-sexy body? Check.
Intelligence? Check.
Success? A big fat billionaire… Check.
Too bad I haven’t started out on the best foot.
My big mouth has already turned him against me, and tempting good looks and success aside, Trent Turner is no peach either. He’s stubborn and thick-headed, and son of a fruitcake, he thinks he knows everything there is to know about the hotel business.
With him running the development of the new Vanderturn New Orleans Hotel and me doing the design, our work relationship is far too intimate for two people who absolutely despise one another.
See, he isn’t just my billionaire boss from hell. He’s my new neighbor, too.
Same city.
Same building.
Same floor.
Trent Turner is my billionaire boss next door.
Holy moly, let’s hope my career--and hormones—can survive.
Disclaimer: If you generally love to suffer, hate fun of any kind, and are allergic to laughter, this book is not for you.
Broken Beats by D. Kelly
Darren –
Three things I never thought I’d be by thirty, yet all my daily reality.
This is not the life I would have chosen, but it’s the hand I’ve been dealt.
I love my daughter.
I loved Belle.
I’m not interested in more heartache.
Relationships are a thing of the past.
Until I meet her -
She’s the awakening I desperately need, but one I’m not sure I deserve.
Haddie –
Time heals all wounds.
You’re too young to give up on love.
They say that, but they’re wrong.
My world crumbled forever when my fiancé died.
Then I met him –
He’s flawed in the same ways.
Broken in the same places.
Scared of the same things.
He looks at me like I’m his salvation.
And I want to be, but an open heart means risking a broken one.
Payback by Amy Daws
ALLIE HARRIS WANTS PAYBACK.
Her cheating ex deserves to see her living her best life; a one-night-stand with a hot South African soccer player would be the perfect revenge. Right?
Wrong. Allie is so, so wrong.
ROAN DEWALT HAS ALL THE MOVES.
On and off the field he’s at the top of his game. Roan respects hard-work, dedication—and follow through. He’s not a one and done kind of man, and he’s far from being done with Allie Harris.
One sexy night and two years later, Allie’s job brings her back to town. An opportunity for the perfect replay Roan has been fantasizing about since they slept together.
Allie Harris has a secret; one she’s been keeping from Roan all this time. Video proof of their one night together—taken without his consent.
Will Allie’s payback plan come back to bite them both? Or can she erase her past mistake and embrace a new future with Roan?
A Five-Minute Life by Emma Scott
Thea Hughes has five minutes to live.
A car accident stole her parents and left her with the second-worst documented case of amnesia in the world. She now has only minutes of experiences, of consciousness, of life…before her memory is wiped clean. The once effervescent artist with a promising future is reduced to scribbling with pens and paper, living an empty, quiet life, three hundred seconds at a time.
Jim Whelan is on autopilot.
A foster kid shuffled around the system since birth, he’s lived his entire life without knowing love…and it’s taken its toll—until he learned to fight back, carry his armor, and keep his head down.
Working as an orderly in the Blue Ridge Sanitarium, deep in Virginia countryside, Jim looked up…and found Thea.
When Thea has the chance to break free of her five-minute prison with a risky, experimental surgery, it could lead them both to an epic love they never thought possible… or one that could require the ultimate sacrifice.
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Something must be done – II
The moral of the story in my previous post about cars being preceded by men carrying red flags is that fear of the new often leads to unnecessary regulation. For this reason, in the context of the internet, we need to be careful about over-reaction and over-regulation. In particular, we now have, in Ireland, a multiplicity of red-flags around the internet, and I wonder whether they are all really necessary.
In November 1999 – arising out of the public debates surrounding the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act, 1998 (also here) and the publication of the Report of the Working Group on the Illegal and Harmful Use of the Internet in July 1998 – the Internet Service Providers Association of Ireland (ISPAI) established the Internet Child Pornography Hotline. It is now part of InHope (the International Association of Internet Hotlines) and of InS@fe, a europe-wide network of internet safety awareness bodies funded by the EU, which organises for example an annual Safer Internet Day (this year, it was 12 February last).
Soon thereafter, the Internet Advisory Board (IAB) was established by the Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform in February 2000, with a general remit to supervise a system of self regulation by the Irish ISP industry and to pomote awareness of internet safety, particularly with regard to children. It has an independent chairperson and its members include representatives from the ISPAI, the GardaÃ, children’s bodies, Government departments and public bodies. The IAB and the ISPAI agreed a Code of Practice and Ethics for the Irish internet industry, which the ISPAI published in January 2002 (pdf, analysed here by Tarlach McGonagle). More recently, it has published a series of Get with IT guides for parents to new media, filtering technologies, and social-networking sites. At last September’s launch of the first two (new media, filtering technologies), Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Brian Lenihan, trailed an announcement of an Office for Internet Safety (OIS). Then, at last month’s launch of the third and final guide (social-networking sites), he announced the appointment of Mr John Laffan as the Director of the OIS. This announcement garnered a lot of coverage (Breaking News on Ireland.com | BreakingNews.ie | Connect | Eircom.net | ENN | IAB press release | Irish Independent | NCC | RTÉ | Security Watch | Silicon Republic) but I haven’t been able to find a website for the OIS yet!
The second-best reaction to the announcement was Tom Raftery’s:
I read in the Irish Independent this morning that the Irish Govt has appointed an “Internet Czarâ€? … With any luck they will soon appoint a Book Czar to make books safe for us too.
The best reaction was a comment by Conor McCabe to Tom’s post:
I thought the government was already keeping us safe from the internet by making sure that most of us can’t get broadband.
One of the first things that the OIS will do is draw up proposals for an Internet Safety Advisory Council (ISAC – again, no website yet) as a successor for the IAB. The ISAC will be as broadly-based as the IAB, and it will support the work of the OIS, but the OIS will take over responsibilities for child internet safety, the hotline, awareness campaigns, and monitoring compliance with the ISP code of practice. It will also, presumably, become the focus for implementing relevant EU initiatives in Ireland. For example, the week after the Minister announced Laffan’s appointment, the EU announced the 2009-2013 phase of its Safer Internet Programme. However, according to the Irish Independent report, although the OIS will not in the first instance have power
power to fine internet service providers, Mr Lenihan said that he would not hesitate to provide the OIS with “legislative teeth” if necessary.
This is meant to be reassuring but I find it anything but. In fact, I find the trend here to be very disquieting. There is a trajectory here from self-regulation via co-regulation towards external regulation – from the ISPAI’s self-regulation by the hotline and the IAB, via co-regulation agreed between the industry and the Department by the ISAC and OIS, towards external regulation threatened to be imposed by the Minister – and once we reach the destination of external regulation, there will be nothing to stop yet more regulation. Of course, some regulation is necessary (especially for children; see webwise.ie and Media Forum); but we must be wary of relying exclusively on it; it can go too far; and we should embrace other strategies, such as those suggested in the Byron review (the subject of my previous post; see also Media Forum).
The Minister’s announcement came during the fortnight of this year’s makeITsecure internet security awareness campaign, an important if worthy and dull initiative. And therein lies its weakness. But it is a weakness endemic in all government safety campaigns (consider this: when was the last time you saw a road safety or drugs awareness advertisment that was other than important, worthy and dull). The campaign ended with a seminar for parents on social networking (on which there is excellent coverage by Cathy on the ever-excellent Rumble Strips here and here; other coverage here and here). The advance publicity for the seminar was a touch sensationalist; the Irish Times (sub req’d) reported on a survey compiled by iReach consultants that found that most parents know little about social networking:
Seven out of 10 young Irish teenagers use social networking sites such as Bebo and MySpace. But most parents have little understanding of the phenomenon including the dangers associated with it, Government- commissioned research released today indicates.
Social networking sites have become a for much misinformed commentary, even hysteria. In a wry and darkly comic observation on this phenomenon, in an insightful post entitled The internet is for suicide, Andres Guadamuz concludes
However, I am waiting for the first politician to call for regulation of social networking sites.
If the trend towards imposed regulation continues, that development cannot be too far away.
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Interview with Live Music News and Review
Recently LMNR caught-up with the Charlie Wheeler Band. The blues rock trio delivers rippin’ guitar jams that make their bad-ass live shows a high energy experience where fans party hard all night long. Hailing from a small town called Ridgway, PA, the Charlie Wheeler Band exudes a toughness that can only be cultivated in the working class environs from which they’ve emerged. The band’s hard-driving brand of blues-infused Rock and Roll is reminiscent of the Black Crowes and The Allman Brothers Band, coupled with the blunt force of Pearl Jam. With lyrics that can at times be light, heavy, deep, and even funny, the band’s songs tell stories of life, love, and living life on the edge.
LMNR: How did the band come to be?
CWB: Originally, back in ’08, I thought I had some decent tunes written. I decided I wanted to make a proper album and I hooked up with Graphite Studios in Warren, PA. I wasn’t singing much at the time so we enlisted a great friend and conspirator, Greek Cheronis to sing on the first 2 albums and play harmonica. The band took a break and when we restarted, we pared down to a three piece. It felt like a more natural fit. So the band was born out of the studio and started morphing into a more open style.
LMNR: Is this the original line-up?
CWB: This is not the original lineup, but with Dave Fink on Bass and Rad Akers on Drums, it’s definitely the most aggressive and adventurous combo. They’ll try anything once. It’s really fun because when we try something and it works, it goes right into the repertoire.
LMNR: Can you give a brief description of what your music is like?
CWB: We are a Jam Band, wrapped around a Blues Band, surrounded by a funk band, infused with strong songs and solid lyrical content. I like melody and I like lyrics that make sense to the listener. I try to write lyrics that a listener can dig, understand and sing along to.
LMNR: How does living in PA influence your lyrics and music?
CWB: Well, first of all, we are from western, PA. It has it’s own culture in Pittsburgh, it’s like living in a bubble. It exudes a real, tangible blue collar essence. It’s where people make forgings and steel. It is cold in the winter. It has an edge that is tough and can be quite unforgiving at times. But it also makes the people here a family. If you can survive here, you can survive anywhere.
LMNR: And what about touring? Has touring made an impact on your style and music?
CWB: Touring has certainly made us a better, tighter band. We show up to our gigs and whether it is 100 or 1000 people, we try to leave an indelible mark on people with our show. We don’t ever hold back. Not one bit.
LMNR: What makes your music/band unique?
CWB: I think it’s the songs and the intensity of our live performance. The people who follow us and love us know every word. They sing along. They holler out requests. And then its an interesting blend of musicians, from Dave on the bass who plays everything from his church band to jam band, to Rad on drums who played in JamGrass band Big Leg Emma (but his first love is progressive rock) to myself, Charlie, who is always starting with the blues and then has lyrical influences of everyone from Robert Hunter, Bob Dylan, Springsteen and Neil Young. As a kid, one of my early memories is watching Springsteen do Rosalita live, maybe at No Nukes or one of those big shows. His commitment, passion was so inspiring to me. Sometimes I feel that overcome while in performance, but the knee slides he does? Sorry, I can’t pull those off.
LMNR: Tell us about your latest album. How did it come about? How is this album different from your others?
CWB: The latest album is due to be released this summer some time. I went through a terrible writer’s block in 2014. It was really hard. I had to really simplify certain aspects of my life. Then this great flood rushed out and onto paper. We’ve recorded some great stuff. The difference between Highway Run and Line Em Up (the first two albums) and Rewind and the new album, (which will be called Blues, Karma and the Kitchen Sink), is night and day. Vocally the last two have CW on vocals, we are a three piece and we tried to stay as close to a 3 piece as we could.
LMNR: What does your creative process look like?
CWB: The creative force always seems to start with a really solid vocal hook. I don’t think a song fits my band and my life really, unless there is a story to be told. I like telling stories about smoky bar rooms at closing time, about the human toll after a natural disaster, or the human inclination to sin. Rarely do I wax on about a personal experience. But it has to have that lyrical line that people hear and want to sing.
LMNR: How did recording go?
CWB: As always, Anthony Brown at Graphite Studios (master engineer and co-producer) and I clicked in the studio. We are great, great friends and we can almost read each others minds in the studio. We do have different taste in music, and I think that actually helps. Four albums later, we are still cranking out some really great quality recordings.
LMNR: If you had one original song to choose for new listeners to get into your music, what would it be?
CWB: I would have to say Love Letter, the opening song on Rewind Why? It’s just a fun song and it tells a lot about our life band’s performance. It’s not the most advanced lyrically, but it is a smokin groove and a tale of love lost. Who can’t relate to that?
LMNR: What artists or bands have inspired you guys?
CWB: Other than the lyrical guys mentioned earlier, we really vibe on bands like the Allman Brothers, Gov’t Mule, Trucks Tedeschi because of their intensity and their thoughtful lyrics.
LMNR: Do you have a favorite musician or band that you like to cover?
CWB: It seems like we cover a lot of CSNY. I don’t know why but we take their beautiful writing and arranging and “Wheelify” it.
LMNR: How do you make the covers more your own style?
CWB: In a word, we add tension to the song. We’ll take CSNY’s Almost Cut My Hair and just rock the snot out of it.
LMNR: How is the tour going?
CWB: All of this playing is making us connect as a band on a cellular level. So the touring has been really fun. We get along so well with the band and crew that we just crack ourselves up on the ride between shows.
LMNR: Any particular shows you are looking forward to playing? Why?
CWB: We are pumped for the Navy Pier on August 20th in Chicago. We’ve never been in Chicago to play. The last time I was there was for the Grateful Dead Fare Thee Well shows. The city is just full of possibilities. And I’m sure that the blues crowd in Chicago will dig us.
LMNR: What are your fans like? How do they influence your music?
CWB: Our fans are educated music listeners. They don’t take there taste in music lightly. It’s not background music. They listen to Phish, the Dead, Widespread Panic and bands like that. They have discerning taste. They influence us because we have a strict “no filler” policy on our albums. Nobody likes an album where the fist 3 tunes crush and the rest of it makes you apathetically shrug your shoulders. I really make an effort to keep the quality consistent throughout each album.
LMNR: Any last thoughts you’d like to add?
CWB: Dave, Rad and I would like to see you at a show and would love to meet you online or in person. This band is based in keeping things as real as possible. Being present in the moment. Keeping grounded. The people who help us do that are our fans.
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Home>>News>>Adriaan den Heijer Appointed EVP of Air France-KLM Cargo
Adriaan den Heijer Appointed EVP of Air France-KLM Cargo
China Aviation Daily | Dec. 09, 2019
Effective 1 January 2020, Adriaan den Heijer is appointed executive vice president of Air France-KLM Cargo and managing director of Martinair Holland NV.
He succeeds Marcel de Nooijer, who will join Transavia as CEO on 1 January.
Adriaan has held various commercial, operational and management posts at KLM, Air France KLM, and Cargo since 1995. In 2016, he was appointed senior vice president of Pricing & Revenue Management for Air France-KLM.
Pieter Elbers: "I'm pleased that Adriaan den Heijer has been appointed executive vice president of Air France-KLM Cargo. His experience in Passenger and Cargo, combined with his commercial and operational background at KLM and Air France, makes him a worthy successor to Marcel de Nooijer. I am fully confident that Adriaan will further polish the high standards of service that Marcel and his team have put in place in Amsterdam and Paris. I'm also glad that Marcel will remain within the KLM Group as CEO of Transavia. I wish both Marcel and Adriaan the best of success in their new jobs."
Adriaan den Heijer: "I am very enthusiastic about my appointment as executive vice president of Air France-KLM Cargo. AFKL Cargo is a global player with a proven track record of delivering innovative solutions and service excellence. I'm looking forward to joining the engaging spirit of the cargo teams in preparing our cargo business for the future."
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Adventures in motion pictures. Frozen fire
Kerry William Purcell
‘It’s like a game of rock-paper-scissors, in which the flicker of film melts the frozen photograph.’
If, as the critic Peter Wollen famously said, film is like fire and photography like ice, what happens when technological developments force an elision between the still and moving image and how does this affect the content of the picture? The development of new cameras that enable photographers to shoot high quality video has seen many moving effortlessly between the two mediums. Also, many editors and art directors are simply grabbing stills from HD video and using these as a photograph, making the unique vision of a photographer progressively more redundant. Echoing the 1960s argument that television would kill the traditional role of the documentary photographer, some are now arguing that the ability to shoot moving image on still cameras will eventually sound the death knell for photography as we know it.
Traditional print outlets for still imagery are going through a period of deep crisis; add motion to this mix and you have a situation in which the future looks uncertain.
There is also an uncanny resemblence between the manner in which photographs are (increasingly) plucked from movie footage, and the way we experience images via the internet and associated devices. When you visit many websites today, the first thing that greets you is a video grab. Clicking on this allows you to watch the film. In such moments, the image we first see is just movement in posse, a congealed form of energy waiting to be unleashed by the viewer. These ‘images’ are snatched from a flow of information and circulate the Web, only to vanish in the digital torrent. What happens when a decisive moment simply becomes a precursor to a cinematic one? It appears to be an elaborate game of rock-paper-scissors, in which what Wollen calls the ‘light and shadow, incessant motion, transience, flicker’ of film melts the ‘motionless and frozen’ photograph.
The way images are positioned or cropped in a monograph, magazine or gallery wall, has long drawn on the cinematic techniques of montage. It is a delicate balancing act that, if done right, can create a unique and original narrative that gives the viewer time and space to roam and reflect on the story being told. As the American photographer Minor White once said, ‘a sequence of photographs is like a cinema of stills. The time and space between photographs is filled by the beholder, first of all from himself, then from what he can read in the implications of design, the suggestions springing from treatment, and any symbolism that might grow from within the subject itself.’
We only have to look to the work of pioneer photographer-film-makers such as Paul Strand, Helen Levitt, William Klein, Robert Frank, Hollis Frampton and, most famously, Chris Marker, to see how the dichotomy commonly set up between the still and moving image is misleading. Through their work, the questions of how stills interact with (or become) the moving image have given rise to creations of profound intelligence and beauty. Their work reveals the potential of a ‘cinema of stills’ to both arrest movement and be its springboard, creating a space for the viewer’s imagination.
With the widespread use of touch screen mobile devices such as the iPhone and iPad (and their associated apps) the traditional format of the slideshow is once again offering photographers one way to bridge the realms of still and moving image production.
There seems something particularly apt about the way this traditional way of presenting images is finding a renewed lease of life with these new technologies. Unlike many other ways of viewing photographs, the slideshow’s flow of imagery (especially when accompanied by music or voice-over) can create narratives of stark contrast, poetic associations, and evoke the ephemeral quality of a forgotten moment. The slideshow links the still and moving image in a way similar to the act of memory itself. When we recall an event it is, as photographer-film-maker Stephen Gordon said, ‘as if we were focusing a camera. However, each time we focus we can only capture fragments, as the past we are trying to recollect is in movement.’
Unlike the traditional slideshow experience, when all would gather around to bear witness to someone’s holiday pictures, swiping images across a screen on a small handheld device is often a solitary and intimate experience. In such moments, our physical engagement with the images reveals, as Gordon implied, how movement is more about the relationship of images to each other. Like memory itself, we are swiping across both time and space in a way that can be profoundly moving. One thinks of Don Draper’s presentation to Kodak in the tv series Mad Men (season 1, episode 13). In his pitch he proposes they change the title of the device for showing images from ‘the wheel’ to ‘the carousel’. Clicking through images of his own life – at a time when it is slowly falling apart – he says: ‘This device isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine … And it takes us to a place where we ache to go again … It’s called The Carousel ... It lets us travel the way a child travels … Around and around and back home again … A place where we know we are loved.’
In 1971, Hollis Frampton said, ‘a still photograph is simply an isolated frame taken out of the infinite cinema.’ As more and more photographers simply select those stills that meet their requirements from HD streams, this idea appears remarkably prescient. Yet, to choose pictures in such a way is to turn away from the rich seam of possibilities that exist on the cusp of the still and moving image. Fortunately, the same technology that is obscuring the line that divides the production of film and photography is also producing devices and applications that enable another way to experience the still in movement.
In truth, the single photograph has never existed. In our encounters and memories, it is always part of a continuum of stills. Although speaking in a pre-digital age (and more concerned with the idea of the religious power of the single image), Minor White accurately summarised this deep truth about photography when he said: ‘Amid the static its name lies in the images that have an affinity for one another. Many readings flicker until suddenly one reading is unequivocal – frozen fire.’
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Mid-Term Elections
What has struck me most about mid-term elections is how predictably cyclical they have become. Invariably, when our nation decides that a sitting president deserves a second term they will vote in an oppositional legislative branch two years later. This happened to Reagan, Clinton, Bush, and now Obama.
The speeches are the same. The newly-empowered party will announce the mid-term victories as a repudiation of both the sitting president’s policies and party by the American people. This momentum will last for a few years until the pendulum of popular opinion swings back the other direction and we decide that we were better off with whatever we had before. The minority party will then be dissected by political commentators as “out of touch” until the majority party makes enough mistakes to disgust a sizable portion of the electorate.
Even as partisan as our world has become, it still seems as though we are scared of letting either party hold the reigns for too long. Perhaps we theorize that a lengthy Republican rule would lead to compulsory gun ownership and pre-marital abstinence while a lengthy Democratic regime would transform the populace into lazy pot-heads who exist on government subsidies. The truth is that many people find moderates to be attractive candidates because we don’t like extremes.
We find the idea of “convenience” late-term abortions repulsive, but aren’t heartless enough to pretend that a mother of two choosing between cancer treatment for herself and the life of her fetus fall into the same category.
We support the idea of gun-ownership, but don’t believe the second amendment allows Uncle Cooter to purchase anti-aircraft rockets at a flea market.
We yearn for peace, but are not naive enough to believe all manifestations of tyranny can be stopped by economic sanctions and symbolic resolutions.
We believe that there should be consequences for your actions, but find it untenable when those consequences are proportional to your socioeconomic class.
We agree that our immigration system is broken, but haven’t forgotten that much of our nation’s strength derives from cultural and ethnic diversity of its people.
We want our government to provide the services it is tasked with (infrastructure, defense, and regulation) but we are tired of seeing our tax dollars squandered away on Congressional pet-projects and studies on hamster migration.
Even my own state ratified a paradoxical mix of moral imperatives. We further restricted abortions while expanding the availability of gambling and alcohol. One might even argue that making it more convenient to procure wine and less convenient to deal with unwanted pregnancy borders on entrapment.
The fact that all of these measures enjoyed popular support on the same ballot was somewhat bewildering to me. Voters wish to see more libations and roulette wheels but less abortion clinics. I say that not because they are necessarily related, but because such a mixture would be unthinkable as a single candidate’s platform.
Can you imagine running as the staunchly “pro-life, pro-liquor, and pro-let it ride” nominee? It would be excruciating just to decide where to hold you rallies. You would probably offend half your supporters just by showing up to events. There you are, apologizing to the Nevada gaming commission because the altar-call ran long at the Southern Baptist pro-life conference. Thus is the life of a politician I guess. I am still trying to find a representative willing to deport Honey Boo-Boo as a cultural-terrorist.
I hold all the views you mentioned but I'm not running for office. I absolutely see the humor in the seeming dichotomy. However, being pro life for babies and pro choice on things that only affect an individual, shouldn't really be that hard for people to understand. People won't agree but they should be able to grasp understanding. Good post, it made me laugh, but I hope this gives people understanding too.
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Scott Porter’s Chadds Ford Estate Reflects Equestrian Tradition
As founder of Porter Construction, Porter’s marriage of thoroughbred racing and home design is as seamless as it is gorgeous.
Eileen Smith Dallabrida // Photos by Ron Dubick
The country home Scott Porter built for his wife and young twins is only a year old, yet it is steeped in history.
His architectural inspiration was the stately homes of Britain, which artfully combine soaring expanses with cozy niches. The estate, on a sylvan swath in Chadds Ford, is sited on property once owned by his brother, Cory. It is across the road from the home of their father, ardent thoroughbred owner Rick Porter.
“We are crazy about horses and racing and that shows in our home,” he says.
Indeed. Vintage renderings of the Sport of Kings hang in the clubby, paneled first-floor study. Above the built-in bar in the expansive foyer is a portrait of jockey Ramon Dominguez, wearing the red-and-white silks of Rick Porter’s Fox Hill Farm, which has raced such stellar steeds as Hard Spun and Eight Belles, both Kentucky Derby runners-up, and Havre de Grace, 2011 Horse of the Year.
Scott is the founder of Porter Construction, a custom home building and renovation firm. He has an innate talent for design, for creating houses that are both lovely and livable.
“When I was a boy, I would draw little houses,” he recalls. “I would doodle rooflines.”
The house where his brother once lived was heavily damaged by fire years ago. But the eight-acre parcel surrounding it offered such impressive infrastructure as a bridge over a rushing stream. A spring house provides irrigation for the grounds, including a three-hole golf course. A second spring house is sited beside a swimming pool with a rock waterfall. A large reflecting pond in front of the house mirrors trees and skies.
So when Scott was looking for a place for his own growing family, the location was a natural fit.
The original house had to be razed. The new owner retained what he could, maintaining the foundation and its footprint. Kitchen cabinets that had been spared from the flames were repainted and repurposed in the laundry room, which also features reclaimed Chicago bricks set in a herringbone pattern. Stone from the facade was salvaged and integrated into chimneys and exterior walls.
“We chisled the mortar out of it and put it back up,” he says. “We didn’t want to waste anything.”
Workers started building on Sept. 9, 2011, and completed the job on June 2, 2012, in a nine-month whirlwind. “From soup to nuts, done,” he says. “It shouldn’t take years to build a custom home. If you have your plans and materials in place, the work moves quickly.”
The result is an elegant, two-story stone house, trimmed with antique brick and timber beams. A cedar shake roof is punctuated by a series of smaller rooflines. An arched eyebrow roof over the front door is a tribute to craftsmanship, pieced together from mahogany planks banded with copper.
The house is large, 5,600 square feet, not counting the finished lower level. Ceiling heights are 10 feet on the first floor and nine feet on the second floor. Scott drew the plans, then took his ideas to architect Richard Buchanan of Archer & Buchanan in West Chester.
Even with room to spare, he was intent on achieving a layout in which each square foot is put to its highest and best use. Witness the foyer, which provides a grand entrance, as well as space for entertaining. Passageways on either side are outfitted for storage. Cupboards for china and glassware serve both the foyer and the adjacent dining room. On the opposite side, between the foyer and the family room, there is built-in, climate-controlled wine storage.
In every space, Scott sweated the details. He chose white oak, quarter sawn in planks 11 inches wide, for the flooring. He turned to Michael Saienni of Newark to build a staircase with a gracefully arched gooseneck bannister—“very tricky to make but I had to have it,” he says. The size and scope of the dining room was dictated by a round, flame mahogany table that seats 10 guests.
For casual meals, the family gathers around a rustic wood table in the sun room. The rattan settee and chairs were made in the 1950s and are outfitted with such retro features as drink holders and cubbies for magazines. The vintage pieces and an antique marble-top French butcher’s table were gifts from Betsy Porter, Scott’s mom.
“She has great taste and is a wonderful decorator,” he says.
The Italian limestone tiles on the floor are antiqued and pillowed, a technique in which the pavers are slightly raised in the center, rather than flat. A water heating system ensures the tiles are warm and toasty underfoot.
Scott’s plan called for other niceties and conveniences that make life pleasant for a family with two small children and two large dogs. A home theater is furnished with an oversized sectional sofa that can accommodate a crowd on race day. An open pet shower in the mudroom makes it easy to hose down the pooches after a romp outdoors. Woodburning fireplaces are equipped with gas lines that make lighting a blaze a simple task.
“Hit the button. The gas ignites the wood and you have a fire going,” Scott says.
In decorating the house, he and his wife, Inci, took a fresh, hip approach to tradition, mixing such elements as formal, five-piece crown moldings and tufted leather seating with contemporary grasscloth wall coverings. The effect is relaxed and welcoming.
“Inci and I have very similar tastes,” he says. “We love to drive around and look at houses.”
Her favorite spot is the kitchen. A massive island combines natural walnut cabinetry topped with creamy Calcutta gold marble. Zinc-and-glass lanterns provide task lighting. Upper and lower cupboards are painted white and accented with solid brass handles and drawer pulls.
Upholstered counter stools at the island are accented in nailhead trim. That classic motif is repeated in the adjacent family room, where a pair of tailored sofas flank the fireplace.
The Porters loved the look of an Italian fireplace mantel carved from limestone, but not its $35,000 price tag. So, they emailed an image of the mantel to a fabricator in the United States, who crafted a piece from Indiana limestone for a fraction of the price.
A Country House
On the second floor, hip roofs are reflected in clipped, angular ceiling lines that evoke the feeling of a centuries-oldcountry house. “Those rooflines make it feel more cottagy,” he says.
The Porter twins, Jack and Ainsley, share a nursery for now. Their father built a wing of bedrooms and baths that brother and sister will move into, designed to take them from toddlers to teens.
All the second-floor baths are done in a timeless palette, with Calcutta marble floors, countertops and shower surrounds, gray walls and polished nickle fixtures andlighting sconces.
“It’s a combination you never get tired of looking at,” Scott says.
Yet each space is unique, displaying a variation on the theme. In one bath, floors are finished in square matte tiles, while the next is paved in small, hexagonal tiles. Sconces range from trim torches with crisp white shades to exuberant sunbursts mounted directly on the mirror over the sink. Walls are in varying shades, from pewter to charcoal.
In the master bath, polished mosaic marble is set in a rectangle on the floor, surrounded with large tiles of honed stone to create the effect of a sparkling carpet.
Throughout the house, there are one-of-a-kind touches. Scott found the weathered wood he integrated into a powder room vanity when he was working on a barn for his father. The antique, leaded glass doors on the bar came from his parents’ summer home in Maine. The posts and beam that define an archway in the lower-level gathering space came from the set of “The Village,” the 2004 thriller by M. Night Shyamalan filmed in Chadds Ford.
“It’s fun and interesting to take things from different times and places and come up with ways to bring them together,” he says. “That is what gives a house a sense of history.”
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French 'yellow vests' shut down top Paris department store
By Robin LEGRAND and Clare BYRNE (AFP) Nov 17, 2019 in World
French "yellow vest" demonstrators occupied a top Parisian department store on Sunday, a day after clashes in the capital on the first anniversary of the protest movement.
The glitzy Galeries Lafayette store in the Opera shopping district was evacuated after dozens of protesters chanting anti-capitalist and anti-government slogans took over the third floor.
"(President Emmanuel) Macron is destroying France and your rights, don't criticise us" We're here for you," one placard read.
The protesters were expelled shortly afterwards by security staff.
The store -- one of the top destinations in Paris for moneyed foreign tourists, which was targeted by the demonstrators as a "consumerist temple" -- said it would remain closed for the rest of the day.
There have been 'yellow vest' protests across France this weekend
CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU, AFP
The protest came on a second day of demonstrations to mark the anniversary of a leaderless revolt that badly rattled President Emmanuel Macron's centrist government.
Twenty people were arrested Sunday in Paris but in most places the protests were peaceful.
On Saturday, police in Paris had battled rioters for hours around the southeastern Place d'Italie square, where a yellow vest march was shut down by the authorities after turning violent.
Several cars were overturned or set alight, bus shelters were smashed and a monument to a World War II hero Marshal Alphonse Juin was defaced by demonstrators dressed in black, who wore masks to hide their faces.
- 'Thugs' and 'brutes' -
Police checked thousands of demonstrators over the weekend. On Sunday, prosecutors said 169 were held in custody including eight minors.
Castaner claimed that there were "few demonstrators" among at the protesters in Paris, who he said were mainly "thugs, brutes who came to fight the security forces and prevent the emergency services from doing their work".
Around 60 people paid tribute to Chantal Mazet, a yellow vest supporter who died on the first day of the protests, a year ago
ROMAIN LAFABREGUE, AFP
But leftist TV historian Mathilde Larrere wrote on Twitter that she and two friends were prevented from leaving the protest after the clashes began because of police crowd control tactics.
She accused the police of tactics "unworthy of a democratic state", citing "the repeated teargassing and (stun) grenades going off everywhere".
In rural France, by contrast, the mood of the anniversary was more festive. Many yellow vests returned to the traffic roundabouts they occupied last year when they began rebelling against Macron's economic policies.
But at the town of Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin in the southeast Savoie region, around 60 people paid tribute to a yellow vest protester who died a year ago. Chantal Mazet was knocked over by a car at a roundabout on the first day of the protests.
The interior ministry put the number of demonstrators on Saturday at 28,600 nationwide but the organisers said nearly 40,000 people had rallied -- a far cry from the estimated 282,000 who took part in the first big day of protests on November 17, 2018.
The yellow vests, who accuse Macron of ruling on behalf of the urban elite -- the spark for the protests was a series of fuel price hikes that squeezed car-dependent rural-dwellers -- are adamant that they have not gone away.
They are now looking to join forces with the trade union movement, which is planning a major transport strike over pension reforms starting on December 5.
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Preview: USMNT Resumes Qualifying in Guatemala City
By Deny Gallagher on 03/25/2016@deny_gallagher
by DENY GALLAGHER
On Friday night, the United States Men’s National Team will finally be back in action when it kick off in Guatemala City in the first World Cup Qualifier of 2016.
Know the Enemy: Guatemala
By no stretch of the imagination will Friday night be easy for the Americans. The Stars and Stripes history against Guatemala has been well documented in the lead up to this match, especially the 2000 World Cup Qualifier in Mazatenango.
The only player from that 1-1 draw 16 years ago that will be on the field on Friday night is Carlos Ruiz. The lone goal scorer for the hosts that afternoon is set to make his 127th cap for his country. At the moment, the Guatemalan captain has 59 career goals on the international level.
In addition, the side will feature a few names recognizable to MLS. fans The most notable of these is Colorado Rapids midfielder Marco Pappa. Moises Hernandez of FC Dallas is also likely to see time for the hosts. The 24 year old is looking to earn his 13th career cap on Friday night.
La Furia Azul come into the contest on a great run of form. In their only other contest in 2016, they were able to knockoff Central American counterpart Honduras 3-1 in a friendly in Guatemala City. Over the last six month, the side has only lost a single match. During that stretch, Guatemala was able to come away with a pair of draws last October against El Salvador and Honduras. More recently they closed out 2015 with a 4-0 win in a World Cup Qualifier on the road at St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
One thing is for certain whenever the U.S. travels to Central America; any advantage the hosts can possibly get, they will have. Many former USMNTers have told stories of the locals blaring music all night long outside of the team hotel, unfathomable temperatures, and spotty officiating.
Another aspect covered earlier this week is the absence of Fabian Johnson. The German-American is having a career year on the club level, but recent injury has forced him out of U.S. camp. This will open the door to Gyasi Zardes to make an impact in a crucial match.
Fortunately for Klinsmann and company, adversity is nothing new to the USMNT. Most the guys in the starting XI have experience in hostile environments like the one expected at Estadio Mateo Flores on Friday, facing stiff challenges on both the club and international level. A budding Bobby Wood will be of interest as he looks to carry his club form to the international stage as well.
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We’re down to the final four teams on the road to Miami. And a marquee match-up between Aaron Rodgers and Patrick Mahomes is on the cards
What the Titans need to do to win: Ummm, avoid blowing a 24-0 lead? The Titans should bear in mind that, despite Patrick Mahomes’ heroic performance during last Sunday’s destruction of the Houston Texans, Ryan Tannehill and co are more than capable of beating the Chiefs. In fact, they did so in November, and that was with Mahomes playing at the height of his considerable powers. Back then Tennessee won the day by doing the simple things well: Tannehill was interception-free, special teams chipped in with a blocked field goal in the 35-32 victory and Brett Kern pinned the Chiefs back in their own territory with a 51.0-yard punting average. And then of course there was Derrick Henry, who ran for 188 yards, with the Titans outrushing the Chiefs by 225 yards to 97. Side note: Andy Reid is 1-8 all time against the Titans.
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The NFL star was celebrating with members of the LSU Tigers in their locker room on Monday night after they beat Clemson to capture the college football national championship. A video has since emerged of Beckham apparently slapping the security guard, who has filed a complaint. Beckham played for the Tigers before joining the professional ranks in 2014.
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Wed, 15 Jan 2020 17:51:23 +0000: The brilliant Luke Kuechly gave us a searing image of brain trauma - NFL | The Guardian
The abrupt retirement of the magnificently talented Carolina Panthers linebacker serves as a reminder we are all complicit in the trauma that football inflicts on players
Luke Kuechly, the magnificently talented Carolina Panthers linebacker who has announced his retirement at the age of 28, gave fans much to savour in his shortened career. It often seemed he was covering the entire field on his own, popping up everywhere to smother a running back or chase down the opposition’s star quarterback. If he wasn’t the best linebacker of his generation, he was close enough that it didn’t matter and the dizzying list of accomplishments during his shortened career speaks for itself: 2012 defensive rookie of the year, 2013 defensive player of the year, five All-Pro first teams, seven Pro Bowls, a Super Bowl appearance, league leading tackler twice, the leading overall tackler in the NFL since his debut for the Panthers nearly eight years ago. By all accounts, he was a gentleman off the field too, and the warm tributes of those who played with him, and against him, are a testament to that.
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Wed, 15 Jan 2020 08:15:07 +0000: The reborn Packers no longer need to rely on Aaron Rodgers' brilliance | Oliver Connolly - NFL | The Guardian
For years Green Bay depended on their quarterback hauling them to victory but head coach Matt LeFleur has changed that
The Green Bay Packers no longer need Aaron Rodgers to be Aaron Rodgers, and that has made them more dangerous than at any point since their last Super Bowl run in 2010.
The arrival of head coach Matt LeFleur has reconfigured the entire offense and the organization with it. Things still run through Rodgers, because he’s Rodgers. But the system is less reliant on his individual brilliance.
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Gator in your garage? Sounds like a great video
Tim Schmitt · November 18, 2016
Tim Schmitt 2016-11-18
When an alligator started rummaging through a garage near the small town of Havelock, North Carolina, Havelock News reporter Drew C. Wilson hustled to the scene with his trusty smartphone.
What he produced was viewed more than 49,000 times.
Not bad for a small weekly paper with one reporter and an editor that’s splitting time between Havelock and multiple locations.
Editor Ken Buday, who oversees other publications, offered this insight into the gator video.
“We are at just about the northern edge of alligator habitat, so they are rare around here. In that video, he interviewed a little girl who lives at the house as well as the wildlife agents who had to capture the gator and relocate it,” Buday wrote in an email. “He mixed in video of the capture of the alligator, including the sounds of that capture with the alligator flipping and rolling on the ground. That video got more than 49,000 views on Facebook, which for a paper our size with a circulation of about 900, is really something.”
And it’s not the first time the small newsroom has produced a small clip that’s been a huge draw.
In fact, a number of the small paper’s videos have produced big returns in terms of analytics. Wilson has become adept at producing the pieces, which Buday said takes a little planning.
“(Wilson) uses his cell phone, which of course is a pretty high-quality cell phone. He will sometimes shoot the one-minute video, but for other events, he will actually shoot various clips and return to the office to process the video using Moviemaker and then upload. When he produces one of these higher-quality videos, he focuses on making sure he gets audio, an interview of some type, so that he can then use B-roll from the event,” Buday said.
“As for the high-quality videos, it depends on how long they are and how complicated the cuts are. Drew has gotten pretty quick at doing them, so I would say maybe an hour or so, and then probably another 15 minutes to upload them and get them out there on the website. I’m not sure how long the gator video took.”
Buday insisted the long-form videos have had an impact in the community.
“We’re a weekly and we have been used to telling stories and features with our reporting, so to translate that type of story-telling to video just seemed natural for us. The bottom line is the videos resonate with our viewers online,” Buday said.
“We’re a weekly with about 900 subscribers and around 20,000 to 25,000 unique visitors to the website every month. However, these videos can help get the Havelock News name out there because they can get shared and passed around online.
“A recent video on the Havelock principal of the year got more than 5,300 views in just a couple of days on Facebook, so in a way, these videos are our own marketing effort. Not only can we tell a story, but also we can get the Havelock News name out there and build readership, which we hope pays dividends down the line.”
Tim Schmitt
Tim has spent decades in various newsrooms — some print, and some broadcast. He was a sports reporter, news reporter, and then managing editor of his hometown paper, the Tonawanda (N.Y.) News, where he led an award-winning editorial page. He's worked as an editor, staffer or longtime contributor with the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff, the Mesa Tribune, the Arizona Republic, the alt-weekly Buffalo Current, and the Niagara Falls Gazette, where he was executive sports editor over four dailies — spearheading coverage of the Buffalo Bills and Sabres. He also worked as a weekend anchor and reporter at Buffalo's ABC-TV affiliate, WKBW, and was the news director of WLVL-AM in the Buffalo market, where he hosted a daily two-hour talk show covering local politics and current events. He moved to Austin to join GateHouse in early 2015.
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The flavorful Lake Whitefish is a valued fish at the heart of the Great Lakes commercial fishery - past and present.
A Fish at the Heart of the Great Lakes Fishery
Lake Whitefish, a native of the Great Lakes, could be considered the unsung hero of the Great Lakes fishery. Lake Whitefish have served as an important and popular commercial fish (and occasionally as recreationally caught fish) throughout time, and still today. Today’s Great Lakes commercial fisheries harvest around eight million pounds of Great Lakes whitefish annually. Comprising nearly a quarter of the total Great Lakes commercial harvest – these flavorful fish are valued as a locally and sustainably harvested food source that is both high in nutrition (packed with Omega-3 fatty acids) and economically valuable for fishermen, fish markets and restaurants, and coastal communities across the region.
The Lake Whitefish
Lake Whitefish are related to salmon, trout and char, as they are part of the Salmonidae family. Not as flashy or revered as their salmon and trout cousins, whitefish are silvery with a pale green-brown back are characterized by a small head with a blunt snout overhanging the lower jaw. Older fish often develop a fleshy bump at the shoulders, which makes the small head look even smaller. They are a benthic, cool water fish that feed primarily on Diporeia, other invertebrates, and some small fish and fish eggs. Whitefish spawn in November and December usually in the shallows. As the water temperatures rise, Lake Whitefish school up and swim in the company of fellow whitefish in the dark, cool depths of the Great Lakes, sometimes retreating as deep as 200 feet.
The humble, silvery-brown fish has quietly sustained people in the Great Lakes for thousands of years — and continues to. Early Native Americans would make a powder of smoked Great Lakes Whitefish for use in stew, soups and fish pies; they would also mix the powder with fresh blueberries. The Ojibwe word for Great Lakes Whitefish is Atikamig.
Early Explorers were introduced to the whitefish and lauded it as a great food source. Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac wrote (circa 1695): “Moreover, better fish can not be eaten, and they are bathed and nourished in the purest water, the clearest and the most pellucid you could see anywhere. That is the most delicate fish of the lake.” — The Indians of the Western Great Lakes 1615-1760 by Vernon Kinietz (University of Michigan Press, 1940)
Commercial and Sport Fishing
Whitefish generate the greatest income for Great Lakes commercial fisheries in United States and Canada. Commercial fishing, for the most part, is carried out by means of trapnets and gillnets set during the open water season. Today's commercial fishery sustainably harvests more than eight million pounds of Lake Whitefish annually.
The average-sized whitefish in the commercial catch measure 17 to 22 inches in length and weigh 1.5 to 4 lbs. The largest individual on record was more than 42 pounds and was harvested from Lake Superior in 1918. While not typically noted as a game fish, in recent years the Lake Whitefish has been the object of an active sport fishery in many parts of its range. Anglers catch it on a small hook usually baited with a fish egg.
Michigan Sea Grant has worked with the commercial whitefish fisheries throughout the Great Lakes to help promote the native species. To learn more, see the Marketing Great Lakes Whitefish (PDF) article.
Table Fare
Just as it was in the early days, Lake Whitefish is excellent to eat. It has a sweet, light flavor that many who “don’t like fish” can appreciate. Its mildness suits a variety of dishes, while it also adapts to almost any method of cooking. Great Lakes Whitefish contains more omega-3 fatty acids than pink and sockeye salmon. Check out the Michigan Sea Grant Whitefish Cookbook Wild Caught and Close to Home: Selecting and Preparing Great Lakes Whitefish available through the bookstore.
Fresh fish to smoked fish from the local fish market, whitefish dip appetizers to whitefish dinners at your favorite restaurant, and recipes for a family-fun home cooked meal. Explore this map and list of resources to find fish markets, restaurants, and recipes for buying, preparing, and enjoying Great Lakes whitefish.
Source: adapted from Michigan Sea Grant website, Lake Whitefish fish profile
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Power Exchange Complaints Heat Up as Prices Soar Energy: Sempra chairman calls on regulators to scrap 'broken' system. August figures quadrupled from year ago.
By CHRIS KRAUL, Times Staff Writer
Wholesale energy prices on the California Power Exchange continued to soar in August, pushing the state's utilities more than $3 billion into a financial hole and adding to calls for dismantling the state's deregulated power market.
The chairman of Sempra Energy, parent of San Diego Gas & Electric, called on federal regulators Friday to scrap the power exchange as unworkable and suggested a new system of price controls, generation incentives and mandatory metering. "I'm not confident that the current regulatory framework will work," said Stephen L. Baum. "The wholesale market is broken, malfunctioning, and prices have no relation to the cost of producing energy. The market is going to have to be changed." Edison International Chairman John Bryson has also described the PX as broken. Joining several state probes, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has launched an investigation of the California market and will open hearings Tuesday in San Diego. An indication of the market's problems was the price of 18.4 cents for a kilowatt hour of wholesale electricity purchased over the California PX in August, more than four times the 4 cents paid a year ago and 12% higher than the previous record set in June.
With Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric and SDG&E frozen at less than 9.4 cents per kilowatt hour, the utilities are racking up huge sums of "undercollections": the difference between what they can bill ratepayers and the spiraling wholesale prices they are paying on the state market.
The price spikes, experts agree, bear little correlation to the underlying rise in fuel costs, causing Baum, Bryson and others to declare the power exchange out of whack and unworkable. Price hikes have been blamed on a variety of factors, including shortages of California generating capacity and of hydroelectric power from the Northwest. Overloaded gas and electric transmission lines are also at fault. Moreover, generators are incurring higher prices to purchase the air pollution credits they need to keep California power plants running. Increasingly desperate utilities are clamoring for relief from the state to somehow unfreeze rates, a move that's being opposed by consumer groups.
For PG&E, the total of undercollections was about $2 billion at the end of August. SCE would not release up-to-date figures but said the total through July was $1.1 billion. SDG&E's stood at $185 million. PG&E spokesman Ron Low said Friday it is discussing ways with the state to recover its costs--which in practical terms would mean a lifting of the residential rate freeze--without causing the kind of shock that SDG&E customers got over the summer when rates spiked up. As the first fully deregulated utility, SDG&E passed along wholesale price rises to its customers until the Legislature capped them this month. Baum signaled that Sempra will go to court if necessary to recover the undercollections from customers, whose electric bills have been frozen by the state. "They can't take our property, our electricity. It's a legal and constitutional issue," Baum said. But consumer advocacy groups including The Utility Reform Network of San Francisco oppose such recoveries. Spokeswoman Mindy Spatt said it would be "bailing utilities out of a failed experiment." Baum said the FERC should impose regulated returns for generators at least until additional power-generating capacity is built and market balance is restored.
* * * Times staff writer Nancy Rivera Brooks contributed to this report
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/natpol/20000909/t000084659.html
-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), September 09, 2000
$3 billion in regulated losses imposed on the utilities cannot last for long. PG & E lost $900 million in the month of August alone from these state-imposed rates. How long can this kind of thing go on?
-- Billiver (billliver@aol.com), September 09, 2000.
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NW Region on edge of energy crisis
Region on edge of energy crisis
Power outage, cold snap could overload utilities
JOHN DODGE, THE OLYMPIAN
OLYMPIA -- Pray for rain.
That was one of the messages delivered to the state Senate Environment, Energy and Water Committee on Monday in a briefing dubbed "Energy 101."
Senators were briefed on how the region got into the energy mess it's in and some short- and long-term solutions out of the chaos.
Tight energy supplies and higher than normal costs are expected through the winter and beyond, said Dick Watson, director of the power division of the Northwest Power Planning Council.
"If nothing goes wrong we're OK," Watson said of the region's utilities ability to keep the lights on this winter.
However, colder than normal weather, an unscheduled power plant outage or a transmission line failure could leave the Pacific Northwest short of electricity.
And without more rain, the reservoirs that supply the region's hydropower system will be in poor shape to meet summer power demands, Watson said.
Gov. Gary Locke has called on state residents and businesses to conserve up to 10 percent of their typical energy consumption, an ambitious but achievable goal, the governor's energy policy adviser, Dave Danner, said.
In addition, the governor will be releasing a legislative package to encourage new generation and conservation within the next 10 days, Danner said.
The governor also will meet with California Gov. Gray Davis this week or next with ideas on how California can regain control of the topsy-turvy wholesale power market there that has contributed to soaring power prices up and down the West Coast.
Utilities and businesses buying power on the open market, rather than through fixed-rate power contracts, are in deep financial trouble, Tacoma Power Superintendent Steve Klein testified.
In recent weeks, the Tacoma city utility has spent $2 million to $5 million per day, but recoups only $450,000 a day in electricity fees charged customers.
He said the state should declare an emergency to allow the city and others to use air-polluting diesel generators to produce power until the prices drop.
In the long run, several things must happen to restore some sanity to the region's power picture, Watson said. They include:
-Reducing the region's reliance on spot market power purchases through use of longer-term power purchase contracts.
-Reinvigorating energy conservation programs that could supply the equivalent of 2,000 megawatts of electricity -- more than enough to serve two Seattle-sized cities.
-Correcting the California power market, which was deregulated in 1998, but has performed in recent months in a dysfunctional way.
-Building new power plants.
In Washington alone, gas-fired combustion turbines capable of supplying 2,700 megawatts of electricity are permitted and ready for construction, noted Dave Warren, assistant director for energy at the state Office of Trade and Economic Development.
John Dodge covers the environment for The Olympian. He can be reached at 754-5444.
http://news.theolympian.com/stories/20010110/HomePageStories/171051.shtml
-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 10, 2001
Sounds like the situation in Washington state is nearly as bad as in California.
-- Buck (bigbuck@trailways.net), January 10, 2001.
Yes Buck, it is bad in the Northwest, and they are understating the problem (probably to not create panic). The real concern is the dilemma the controlling agencies are facing. Without the reservoirs refilling it may come down to, do you use the water for electrical generation or for drinking, sewage treatment, industrial, farming, and ecological? With the abundant rainfall here, we have never really considered the shortage of potable water supplies, but the reservoirs are refilled primarily by snow melt and snow levels are very low (Mt. Baker, normal snow base 160 inches - this year 45 to 50 inches). Y2K supplies are a good thing. May the Lord have mercy.
-- Phil Maley (maley@cnw.com), January 11, 2001.
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Songs you forgot you knew by heart
There are days when I love, love, love the music-finding abilities inherent inside the Internet (thanks, Al Gore!). There are all these songs which I listened to in early high school on mix tapes that I have subsequently totally forgotten about — lost into wherever high school memorabilia goes — and then I find them and 1994 glows in my memory. It is a beautiful thing.
“Purple Haze” – The Cure (Hendrix cover)
This is another one where I think I heard the cover BEFORE I ever really heard the Hendrix original. I know, I keep getting it backwards. It was on a compilation CD Stone Free: A Tribute To Jimi Hendrix. This is a sublime version of this song, all lush and gothy.
“Just Like Honey” – Jesus & Mary Chain
Thank you Live 105 when you were cool. Also notably used recently (and perfectly) in the movie Lost in Translation.
“If I Only Had A Brain”
(link fixed 4/10/06)
- MC 900 Ft. Jesus
From a mix tape my friend Shannon made me from the bowels of the KSCU radio station, deep in the basement of Swig. She was a DJ, I was her accomplice in a totally unofficial way. She did this the “Shanny-edit” way and bleeped out the profanity. Because we were such wholesome & unspoilt girls. Photographic evidence on the right.
Oh, and I think this song may actually suck, but my judgment is clouded by youthful memories of merrymaking to this tune.
“Your Ghost” – Kirsten Hersh & Michael Stipe
Also on a mix tape that a friend made for me; I love the harmonies and I always sang Michael Stipe’s part when I sang along. Usually in the car, 1987 red Nissan Sentra style.
“Natural One” – Folk Implosion
Used in the gritty movie Kids, about 13 and 14 year olds running amok and having unprotected sex and what have you. This was a world I knew nothing about, but I liked this song, specifically the thumping beat.
“Euro-Trash Girl” – Cracker
Cracker w/ Counting Crows was the first real concert I saw, my freshman year with my friend Shannon (aforementioned DJ), and I remember singing along to this song at the top of my lungs. I wince as I remember that I think I even crowd-surfed to it. Yeah. Hurts to admit it in a public forum. But it seemed really, uh, punk rock at the time? Come on, I was 14.
“Money (That’s What I Want)” – Flying Lizards (Beatles cover)
From the soundtrack of the oft-watched Empire Records, notably, played especially for thieving employee Lucas. Such a weird and quirky version that it is almost cool. It’s Rex Manning Day!
“Detachable Penis” – King Missile
Yeah, I put this one up and can’t believe I did because, well seriously. What’s going on in this song? Gotta love King Missile. “I asked them to check the medicine cabinet, because, for some reason, I leave it there sometimes.” You’ll either laugh if you remember this song, or else ask yourself what, exactly, Heather is smoking.
“Twiggy, Twiggy” – Pizzicato 5
Japanese girl-rock meets game-show music accompaniment in this guilty little piece of fluff.
“Feed The Tree” – Belly
This was a great album (Star). Uber-lovely chick band rock. Check out other favorite tracks on the album “Gepetto” and “Slow Dog.” Yeah, the lyrics could arguably make more sense, but that never stopped R.E.M. Listening to Belly always reminds of my Amanda, back when we were both rockin’ the braces and/or foxy retainers. Do you think I should do my bangs like that again? Yeah, probably:
You are hereby released into this weekend, so that you can party like it’s 1994. Godspeed.
thanks for the post. very nice blast from the past
Mike — April 7, 2006 @ 4:51 pm
as i understand it the flying lizards used no instruments in recording money, i have an EP of this that i bought back in 1977 or 1978 i believe… the B side is summertime blues, cool stuff. thanks
jules — April 7, 2006 @ 6:57 pm
Indeed, a wonderfully eclectic and bouncy selekshun. “Twiggy Twiggy” always makes me prance about like a mad fool… As for the Flying Lizards, well, have you heard their cover of James Brown’s “Sex Machine”? It’s a scream!!!
Anonymous — April 7, 2006 @ 7:38 pm
Detachable Penis…who I miss that song. Loved the video too. Brings back great college memories…thanks Heather.
Jason — April 7, 2006 @ 10:48 pm
Oops. Sorry, Heather, but you STILL have it backwards.
The Flying Lizards may have been covering The Beatles, but The Beatles were also doing a cover — the original version of “Money (That’s What I Want)” was done by Barrett Strong in 1960.
Still…great choices on the covers, though!
Cleggy — April 8, 2006 @ 12:34 pm
thank heather – whenever emusic down is, which seems more often lately, i always take a spin over to your site to find some jems. cheers.
daviso — April 9, 2006 @ 4:56 pm
Here is a review of the new PJ wanted to make sure you saw it.
http://archive73.blogspot.com/2006/03/pearl-jam-album-review-well-even.html
JMK — April 9, 2006 @ 9:27 pm
Thank you Cleggy for trying to set me straight! it is an endless process, right?
heather — April 10, 2006 @ 8:25 am
Regarding The Cure’s Jimi Hendrix cover, the band also recorded a more “faithful” version of Purple Haze, but it’s not nearly as common. It’s available on the rarities boxset that came out a year or two ago.
The Trick — April 10, 2006 @ 12:12 pm
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Home Research > Constituencies > 1790-1820 > Bishop's castle
19 June 1790 WILLIAM CLIVE
HENRY STRACHEY
19 July 1794 STRACHEY re-elected after appointment to office
30 May 1796 WILLIAM CLIVE
12 July 1802 WILLIAM CLIVE 85
JOHN ROBINSON II 70
Richard Bateman Robson 59
John Charlton Kinchant 44
31 Oct. 1806 WILLIAM CLIVE
JOHN ROBINSON II
6 May 1807 WILLIAM CLIVE
6 Oct. 1812 WILLIAM CLIVE
19 June 1818 WILLIAM CLIVE 106
Hon. Douglas James William Kinnaird 64
Sir William Francis Eliott, Bt. 57
10 July 1819 HON. DOUGLAS JAMES WILLIAM KINNAIRD vice Robinson, deceased 87
George Arthur Annesley, Visct. Valentia 83
Bishop’s Castle was the only pocket borough in Shropshire where the patron’s hold was effectively challenged and, briefly, undermined in this period. Since 1768 it had been in the pocket of the Clive family, the principal proprietors in the borough; and the Treasury classed it as a ‘close’ borough in 1795 (though not in 1788). In 1790 Edward, Lord Clive* again returned his uncle and former mentor, William Clive of Styche, with Henry Strachey, another old friend and connexion of the family. This arrangement was not challenged until 1802, when Clive was absent in India and there was a general attack on his boroughs.
Early in 1802 a dissident group in the borough led by Samuel and Robert Griffiths (agent to John Charlton Kinchant of Park Hall), Robert Oakeley, Alderman Bird and a curate, Rev. Taylor, agreed ‘to make the most of their franchise as they thought the favours they had received heretofore were not equal to what they deserved’. Taylor was credited with procuring them a candidate in Thomas Clarke of Peplow Hall, high sheriff the year before, ‘lately a slave dealer’ in Liverpool and even more recently winner of £6,000 in the lottery: but the real sponsor was Kinchant, who owned much of the land adjoining the borough and whose father had made it a merit to support the Clive interest, with the reward of situations in India. Clarke offered £1,500 security for the payment of £25 to each supporter: the usual douceur at Bishop’s Castle was 20 guineas. He canvassed on 26 Mar. and alarmed Lord Clive’s managers, his uncle William Clive the Member, his estate agent John Probert of Copthorne and his lawyer Thomas Ryder of Lincoln’s Inn.1 Henry Strachey wrote to Lord Clive, 15 Apr.:
They could not venture to assail both the seats. Therefore I am the stalking horse—and when Mr W. Clive went down, the opposition had got to such a height, that there was no chance of carrying the second seat, unless a near relation of your own should start ... They had a delicacy about my feelings upon the occasion. I had none that should interfere with your interest. My declared opinion was, without hesitation, that I ought to be put out of the question at Bishop’s Castle, for that the securing of the borough to Lord Clive, ought to be the only object. In consequence, Col. Robinson was instantly dispatched, to join your uncle, and I hope they will succeed against Clarke, who is treating away, and holding forth great promises of money. ... I attribute all the mischief to those in the country, who have not kept a sharp look out—otherwise they might have discovered the plot in time to have defeated it and W.C. and I might have gone down months ago, and canvassed the town as usual. The cry of Clarke and his crew is that Lord Clive shall not name both Members. But, of course, they allow you to have your uncle, and not the master of H.M.’s household. As affairs now stand, even if Robinson is carried, your exclusive power in the borough will be considered as sapped, for it is not your own, when you cannot successfully recommend two.
Robinson, Lord Clive’s brother-in-law, joined William Clive on 5 Apr. and Probert began ‘to have a much better opinion of our cause than we had yesterday’. Strachey was given to understand that Robinson was introduced ‘upon the express condition of his relinquishing when required’, that is in his favour; but he did not realize how unpopular he was when he suggested that he should be substituted for Robinson at the dissolution, or that his hope that Lord Clive would return to England before then and put matters right would not be fulfilled.2
At the dissolution Clarke withdrew his candidature: his indiscreet largesse would have ensured a petition against his return. Kinchant turned elsewhere and Richard Bateman Robson*, whose associate in Parliament John Nicholls was thought to be challenging the Clive interest at Ludlow simultaneously, was substituted for Clarke. Kinchant joined him ‘merely to take the second votes of the electors’. The Clive interest won back at least ten electors who had been engaged to Clarke. On the second day of Robson’s canvass, 30 June 1802, a Clive agent reported: ‘we are now enabled to see a little into Mr Robson’s intended ground, which is likely to give much trouble, and render the assistance of counsel more necessary’. Robson had chosen the qualification for residence of the freemen as his ‘intended ground’, but the challenge misfired. Kinchant petitioned, 1 Dec. 1802, alleging partiality, illegal voting, bribery, corruption and intimidation by Clive tenants ‘armed with bludgeons’.3 This petition was given up and rejected as frivolous, 13 May 1803. Thomas Jones reported, 18 Apr. 1804, that the sitting Members ‘bought off Kinchant with the means to return to India, which he has since done’.4 But a group of burgesses supporting Robson tried to promote another petition, against a ‘system of corrupt management’ in the borough, and to get opposition ‘to bring Bishop’s Castle before the House’. They also fostered actions for bribery. While this caused considerable embarrassment to the Clives, who contemplated counteraction, in November 1803, as they wished to make ‘certain payments’ to secure their interest at the next election, by July 1804 nothing had transpired and, with the return of Lord Clive from India, the borough calmed down.5
In 1806 opposition was ineffective. A Clive agent reported, 24 Nov.:6
A brother of Lord Anson and the elder son of Sir [William] Wolseley [Charles Wolseley7] with their counsellor actually arrived at Bishop’s Castle very early on the morning of the election—they made a slight attempt at a canvass but found it would not do—they attended the election, then left the town not a little disappointed. Mr Jennings [a local attorney] and two candidates came as far as Worcester on their way to Bishop’s Castle where they were told the election was over the day before. It is clear to me that Robert Oakeley [a leading burgess] kept up a correspondence with Clifford [? a lawyer kinsman of Wolseley’s, Henry Clifford of Tixall] and Jennings separately and disappointed both.
Before the election of 1807, Lady Griselda Tekell wrote to Lord Grenville informing him that her husband had been offered a seat for Bishop’s Castle on advantageous terms by ‘a Mr Jennings a lawyer, who depends partly on a Mr Kinchant’s support’. She asked Lord Grenville what Tekell’s prospects would be if he challenged the Clive interest. Lord Grenville, in reply, said he knew nothing of Bishop’s Castle and, although he had reason to fear that Lord Powis (as Lord Clive now was) disagreed with him politically, he had ‘feelings of personal regard towards Lord Powis which would not permit him to take any steps adverse to his interests’.8 In the event, the challenge came from the same quarter as in 1806: Charles Wolseley, an advanced Whig, and Lord Anson’s brother again canvassed in April, but the Clive agents were confident that ‘in point of numbers, we have at least eight to one’, though they feared that the Whigs would ‘stand a poll and expose the secrets of the borough’. The fear proved groundless, but intrigue continued: in November 1807 the town clerk, abetted by Robert Oakeley obtained leave in common hall to keep possession of the borough charter, which he had kept from the bailiff on the eve of the preceding election. The Clive agents observed that he was supported not only by ‘the former rebels’, but also by ‘some of our firmest friends’, and that Wolseley and Anson were hovering nearby ‘under pretence of ... shooting, but doubtless with the intention ... to blow up the flame and take every advantage’. The mode of payment to Clive supporters again presented a tricky problem.9
Yet there was no opposition in 1812, and in 1818 it came from a different quarter. On 8 Jan. 1818 some ‘free and independent burgesses’ of the borough met and resolved to emancipate themselves by sending to Parliament ‘one man of their own choice, unconnected with any great neighbouring family’. As a sop to the patron, they fully acquitted themselves ‘of all obligations to the family of Clive by returning for the other seat one of its nominees’. Their candidate was Douglas Kinnaird, a radical banker who was also a prospective candidate for Westminster and who in January 1818 canvassed the borough, assisted by (Sir) Francis Burdett*. Indeed it was Burdett who named Kinnaird, for on 13 Jan. the same group of burgesses met at the Guildhall and in his presence thanked him for enabling them by ‘his virtuous example and his assistance ... to throw off the yoke of an overgrown family, whose interest and endeavour it has long been to contract our rights and to make our privileges subservient to their selfish aggrandizement’. Kinnaird sought the help of John Charlton Kinchant, asking him to ‘favour this borough with a visit’ in company with Kinnaird’s friend John Cam Hobhouse†, on the grounds that Kinchant’s presence ‘may turn the election, which is now too near-run to make me at ease’. Kinnaird was strongly backed by Francis Kinchant, of the same family. Brougham reported that Kinnaird
won’t allow one to whisper a doubt of the purity and independence of the place or the certainty of his return, says it is no more a close borough than Westminster, describes the voters crying and performing all manner of scenes etc. What is very strange is that I know some very long headed people quite connected with him and even hostile to him who say the same thing.10
On 9 June Joseph Hume*, who had heard from Kinnaird that a second candidate would be nearly certain to succeed and had addressed and canvassed the borough, considering himself pledged ‘to go to the poll or provide a substitute’, announced that he had arranged for Sir William Eliot, 7th Bt., of Stobbs to step into his shoes. Eliot joined Kinnaird, 13 June, but they were defeated. Eighteen votes for them were rejected. In their farewell address they anticipated the emancipation of Bishop’s Castle from ‘a borough-mongering family’ and announced a petition, which did not materialize.11 On the death of Col. Robinson in 1819, Kinnaird returned to the fray and reported, 4 July: ‘I have a clear majority, and nothing but the roguery of the returning officer can prevent me from getting the return’. He narrowly defeated Lord Valentia (George Arthur Annesley†), who stood on the Clive interest; the latter prepared a petition, but the dissolution prevented its being heard.12 In 1820 there was a tie, but the Clive candidates were seated on petition, after a redefinition of the right of election, and the Clive hold was re-established.
Author: R. G. Thorne
1. Salop RO, Powis mss, case of Bishop’s Castle election for counsel’s opinion, Nov. 1803; Heber Letters, 118; Salopian Jnl. 7 Apr. 1802; NLW, Powis Castle mss 5242-6, 5257, 5265, 5306.
2. Powis Castle mss (Clive collection) 556, 561.
3. Powis Castle mss 5247, 5249; Salop RO, Powis mss, loc. cit.; CJ, lviii. 41, 409. Two poll books in the Bishop’s Castle corpn. mss (ex inf. Dr J. F. A. Mason) give variant poll figures, namely 84, 76, 50 and 45; and 84, 71, 57 and 47.
4. India Office Lib. mss Eur G37/71; Powis Castle mss 5511. J. C. Kinchant had a younger brother Richard (d. 1809) who was political agent to the E.I. Co. at Pondicherry. On Kinchant see Gent. Mag. (1832), i. 185.
5. Powis Castle mss 5316, 5511, 5515-19, 5528-9, 5531-8; Salop RO, Powis mss, loc. cit.
6. Powis Castle mss 5627.
7. DNB .
8. Fortescue mss, Lady G. Tekell to Grenville, 26 Apr., reply 27 Apr. 1807.
9. Powis Castle mss 5649, 5684, 5686.
10. Salopian Jnl. 7 Jan. 1818; Bishop’s Castle corpn. mss; Add. 36457, ff. 44-46; 51565, Brougham to Lady Holland, n.d. [1818].
11. Add. 36457, f. 42; Bishop’s Castle mss, addresses, 1818; The Late Elections (1818), 14; Shrewsbury Chron. 26 June 1818.
12. Add. 36457, f. 316; CJ, lxxv. 181, 316.
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Harry Davies
Councillors, ministers, unpaid council workers
A Ministry of Local Government audit that was leaked to Harare News on 4 November revealed a massive abuse of ratepayers’ money by council executives.
It was the continuation of a long tradition of council bosses ripping off the city whilst completely failing to achieve on their service delivery mandate. Also notable is that at the time of the leak, thousands of low grade council workers had gone without pay for up to seven months.
The Mayor was quick to suspend acting Town Clerk Josephine Ncube – a Zanu PF member who took over from the now disgraced Tendai Mahachi in 2015 after the first salary scandal slowly ended. Salaries were capped at $9,000 even before Mahachi left office. Nobody seemed to notice this inconvenient directive from the ministry in charge. Mahachi looted till his last day in office, and Ncube has been shoring herself up too, whilst also acting as the conduit via which the ruling party can loot the city of its money and land.
True to form, Minister Saviour Kasukuwere quickly reinstated her, and has been quoted in The Herald as being surprised by the audit findings, even though the document bears a dated stamp from his ministry indicating that they were available to him for four months prior to the leak.
Councillors were at the time divided on whether or not to sack all the recipients of bloated pay checks. Whilst the audit exposed the top brass, dozens of mid-line managers are also being overpaid, and some councillors feared that sacking them all would cripple service delivery. So far, no heads have rolled at all.
Residents were angered, and a small demo was staged at Town House. Just as the organisers were about to hand over a petition to the Mayor, riot police stepped in and arrested them.
The unpaid council workers have been very quiet on the matter. Someone with links to councillors and staff at Town House suggested that every council employee is using their position to get by, salary or otherwise. “They each have a means of making money, maybe bribes for favours, or even just Christmas box from residents, so they value their jobs, pay or no pay,” he said.
On 5 December, Kasukuwere presented the audit to a full council meeting, and rapped the councillors and the mayor for the situation.
“We have said that we need 30% to be spent on employment costs while 70% must come back to capital costs and development of our town. However, it appears that the Harare City Council has not been complying. Employment costs continue to grow way beyond our expectations…Mayor, what is glaring is your council’s inability to keep check of what was happening. You are the custodians of the City who must look after the interests of ratepayers…Salaries of top officials must be known, it must be clear what they are getting,” said Kasukuwere.
The Mayor would later tell Harare News they were not privy to the salaries of the executives.
“They [council workers] run the payroll without us. The record of executive defiance on [salaries] disclosure is well known,” said Manyenyeni.
What is clear is that the bloated salary bill that is crippling service delivery is concentrated on the top tiers at Town House. The Mayor told Harare News last month that, “Almost every job at council could be done by someone equally competent for a half, or even a third of the cost. It’s not a popular conversation though, but one that must be had.”
Given the massive salaries and exorbitant benefits going to the unquestionably bad and often corrupt managers that are spending our rates, it is a conversation that must happen soon.
See our graphic showing the extent of the salary abuses here.
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Home Business Biodiversity: study confirms global insects die
Biodiversity: study confirms global insects die
fades The diversity of insects in the world – so far, so good. However, in the current dispute between farmers and nature conservationists in Bavaria, it goes to the heart of the question: How to back up the data on insects are dying in Germany and globally? And pesticides, mono cultures, are meadows, to a little natural – and ultimately, the intensive agriculture – really mainly to blame for this?
A recent overview study, which will appear in the Journal Biological Conservation (Sánchez-Bayo/Wyckhuys, 2019) and online in advance is available, supported now just that: according to The researchers, 40 percent of the insect species show a worldwide decrease, a third of the species threatened with extinction. As the largest driver of the insects dying, they identified the loss of habitat due to intensive agriculture and increasing urbanization. Chemical pollutants such as pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, invasive species, and climate change would add, as causes.
If the insects mass take still a year to 2.5 percent, it could be gone the most species-rich class of animals in a century, warns the Team of Francisco Sánchez-Bayo, University of Sydney, created the work with Kris Wyckhuys of the Chinese Academy of agricultural science (CAAS), based in Beijing.
For their review, researchers analyzed 73 studies on the insects die, and compared the data. The results summarized them for their work. Therefore, butterflies, beetles and Hymenoptera are the country most threatened by the decline of Species affected. The Latter include also the bees. Also water-living insects have been taken into account: The four groups of dragonflies, stone flies, caddis flies and mayflies significant species showed losses.
Indispensable as pollinators and food for other animals
More than 60 percent of all known animal species are insects. They form the wide Food base for many species of amphibians, reptiles, fish and birds. And also for the people you have an existential function: they pollinate plants, fruits, vegetables, and fodder.
“If the insects can die, be not stopped, it will have disastrous consequences for the Ecosystem of the earth and the Survival of humanity,” says Francisco Sánchez-Bayo, the main author of the current study.
The world must change the way that food is produced, says Sánchez-Bayo. Particularly, the use of pesticides should be reduced. These funds are under suspicion, in particular the nervous system of bees to attack. Since 2013, the Neonicotinoids in Europe, may be not, therefore, more and more plants on which bees normally settle down. Some of the insecticides have been banned.
For a change in agriculture, the people’s desire for diversity of species in Bavaria is currently. Under the Motto “Save the bees!” do you want to obtain the ÖDP, the Green and the land Covenant for the protection of birds in Bavaria, an Amendment of the nature conservation act. They demand, among other things, an expansion of organic farming to 20 percent by 2025 and 30 percent by 2030. Currently, ten percent of the areas in Bavaria are cultivated ecologically.
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Release Date: May 10th, 2018
Player(s): Multiplayer
Rating: PEGI 7
Publisher: 505 Games
Developer: Roll7
The aim of the game is to touch posts that appear on the stage so that they turn to your colour. If an opponent comes into contact with a light of your colour then they’ll be knocked out – they can be revived, but their teammates need to be quick. It might sound plain but in motion it requires a lot of forward-thinking because you can have a bunch of ally lights set up but simply having loads of them isn’t as helpful as you’d think but, really, it’s all in the timing. The lights rotate so filling in as many gaps as you can is helpful, especially as you can run through any walls and appear on the opposite side of the stage.
There are pick-ups that reverse the flow of the game and put things in your favour, but they also work in the opposite way too. Pick up the reset item to disable all light bars and maybe your opponents will take advantage of this over your team or pick up the reverse item to change all present light bars into the opposite colour. I’ve done the latter a few times and accidentally gave the advantage to the opposing team, and it’s not something you want to pick up if you’re the dominant colour.
Laser League’s true enjoyment lies in its accessibility and ease to grasp, but teams with good communication are more likely to win as they can co-ordinate timings and pick-ups in a way that a team consisting of random people likely won’t. The tables can be turned at any time meaning that a lesser skilled team can still grasp victory if they play their cards right, but timing and reaction speeds are what’s going to pull your team to the win screen.
Laser League is a game that can be picked up and enjoyed by everyone, but it’s a shame that it seems to have died on arrival. Finding a full game seems nigh impossible unless you round a group of friends together but selling them on the idea of a game that requires 4-6 of you to be on to get the most out of is difficult too. It’s a solid game by developers Roll7 that sadly hasn’t caught fire, and if more people were willing to check this out I think they’d be pleasantly surprised just by how enjoyable it can be.
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The Jewell Bay Backcountry Campground Hike
Bow Valley Provincial Park, Kananaskis, Alberta
The hike to the Jewell Bay starts by going south on Highway #40 into Kananaskis. Within 10 minutes or so you'll a sign for the Barrier Dam Day Use Area on your right, pull in and find a parking spot to begin the hike. The hike takes you along the shoreline of Barrier Lake for most of the way, giving you great views of the Kananaskis mountains. The trail remains mostly flat the entire way, with the elevation gain under 100 meters. It's also worth noting that Jewell Bay is home to a backcountry campground. The campground is open year round except from April 15 - June 15 for spring elk movement.
The trail starts by hiking on a service road for a station at the dam, so you're hiking on a flat gravel road for the first half kilometer or so. This area is wide open too, with no trees or shade, so it could make for a hot day if done in the summer.
You'll come to a trail junction after hiking a total of 1.1 kilometers, and to get to Jewell Bay go left. Right would take you up to the Barrier Lake Fire Lookout, but that's another hike for another time. This part of the trail will take you through a forest with both pine trees and deciduous, which let you know that you're really only just barely inside the mountains.
As the trail gets closer to the lake again, there'll come a time where it starts to head back up towards the forest. You can opt to take a trail marked by a sign that follows the lake shore. I like to do this because the views by the lake are excellent.
Once you re-link back up with the main trail, Jewell Bay isn't much further. You'll go up a slight incline, and then you'll see a bridge. This bridge means the entrance to the backcountry campground at Jewell Bay is only 100 meters or so. The entrance to the campground takes you down to the lake, and Jewell Bay. To obtain a permit from Alberta Parks to camp at Jewell Bay, click HERE.
While in the campground you can opt to have a picnic, snack, or relax. Remember to pack out all garbage and leave no trace.
Once you're ready, head back the way you came. When you arrive back at the Barrier Dam, you've completed the hike! This hike is great to do with your family, and I'd say it's also good for kids as well.
Watch a video of the hike below!
Want more hiking guides from the Kananaskis area? Click HERE!
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In literature, a kenning is a compound poetic phrase substituted for the usual name of a person or thing. For example the sea in Old English could be called seġl-rād 'sail-road', swan-rād 'swan-road', b��-weġ 'bath-way' or hw�l-weġ 'whale-way'. In line 10 of the epic Beowulf the sea is called the hronrāde or 'whale-road'.
The word is derived from the Old Norse phrase kenna eitt vi�, "to express a thing in terms of another", and is prevalent throughout Norse, Anglo-Saxon literature and Celtic literature. Kennings are especially associated with the practice of alliterative verse, where they tend to become traditional fixed formulas.
A good knowledge of mythology was necessary in order to understand the kennings, which is one of the reasons why Snorri Sturluson composed the Younger Edda as a work of reference for aspiring poets. Here is an example of how important this knowledge was. It was composed by the Norwegian skald Eyvind Finnson (d. ca 990), and he compares the greed of king Harald Gr�fell to the generosity of his predecessor Haakon the Good:
B�rum Ullr, of alla
�munlauks, � hauka
fj�llum Fyrisvalla
fr� H�konar �vi;
n� hefr f�lkstr��ir Fr��a
f�gl�ja�ra ��ja
meldr � m��ur holdi
mellu dolgs of folginn
Translation in prose: Ullr, the onion of war! We carried the seeds of the Fyrisvellir on the mountains of the hawks during all of Hakon's life; now the enemy of the people has hidden the flour of Fr�di's hapless slaves in the flesh of the mother of the enemy of the giantesses.
Onion of war is a kenning for "sword" and names for gods were often used as base word in kennings for men and women. Ullr, the onion of war means "warrior" and refers to king Harald. The seeds of the Fyrisvellir means "gold" and refers to Hr�lf Kraki's saga and it was the stolen gold that Hr�lf's men spread on the wolds (vellir) south of Gamla Uppsala fleeing the Swedish king Adils in order to make the king's men dismount and collect the gold. The mountains of the hawks is based to the knowledge that royalty often had tame falcons and hawks that they carried on their arms, and means "arms". In the second part the flour of Fr�di's hapless slaves means "gold" and in order to understand the kenning, we need to know Grottis�ng and the legend of the Danish king Fr�di. In Sweden, he bought the giantesses Fenja and Menja whom he had grind a mill that produced gold as if it were flour. The two giantesses were hapless because Fr�di never let them rest and in revenge they finally produced bad luck and war until the mill broke down and Fr�di's hall burnt. The flesh of the mother of the enemy of the giantesses refers to the Earth (J�rd), as she was the mother of Thor, the enemy of the Jotuns.
A notable peculiarity of kennings is the possibility of constructing complicated kenning strings by means of consecutive substitution. For example, those who are keen in kenning readily know that slaughter dew worm dance is battle, since slaughter dew is blood, blood worm is sword, and sword dance is battle.
Another kind of wordplay is based on the inversion of kennings. For example, if sword dance is battle and spear-din is another kenning for battle, then sword may easily become "spear-din dancer".
The root "ken" is still used in Scandinavian (k�nna) and in German (kennen) whereas its English use is restricted to Scots and the North of England. In northern Britain it is used in describing what a person knows about something or what they see, especially when seafaring. For instance, if somebody queries the happenings of the North Sea, of a lighthouse resident, the watcher would say they are kenning this or that - "D'ye ken what a kenning is?". The root was applied to the "k" rune, pronounced similarly.
Modern kennings
Despite the archaic connotations of the term, many kennings exist in the modern lexis:
"The devil's dandruff" - cocaine.
"Falling over juice" - alcohol.
"The Game of Kings" - various sports, primarily tennis.
"The Beautiful Game" - football.
"wood-pusher" - skateboarder
J�rmungrund: Lexicon of Kennings � The Domain of Battle
Poetry Guide Home | Up | Accent | Anacrusis | Assonance | C�sura | Dissonance | Kennings | Meter | Rhyme | Stichomythia | Structural elements
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His Worship the Mayor of Colombo - Uvais the trishaw driver
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Post subject: His Worship the Mayor of Colombo - Uvais the trishaw driver
Colombo voted for the faceless names
Mr. Uvais Mohamed Imthiyaz, a three-wheel driver, whose wife is a housemaid in Saudi Arabia, has been picked to be the youngest mayor of Colombo. His Worship the Mayor of Colombo Imthiyaz celebrated his 22nd birthday yesterday at his home in Modera, Colombo North is virtually in hiding to avoid pressure from various sections.
@ ST / 28May2006
Rotational mayors as Colombo gets trishaw driver as her 1st citizen
The controversy over substituting the winning independent group candidates with UNP members in the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) is likely to end up in a legal battle as a 22-year-old trishaw driver was set to be sworn in as Colombo’s new mayor.
True to form, the leader of the independent group that won the Colombo municipality elections with the backing of the UNP has nominated his brother-in-law Uvais Mohamed Imthiyaz, hailing from Modera and Kankanamge Chandrasena, 65, as mayor and deputy mayor. The names are due to be gazetted by the Elections Department next week.
Mr. Imthiyaz, brother-in-law of independent group leader Annapillai Rajendran and his deputy will be sworn in soon after the gazette notification is issued. Thereafter they are expected to tender their resignation enabling the UNP members to replace them in the council.
However until the resignations are given, Mr. Imthiyaz and Mr. Chandrasena will serve as mayor and deputy mayor. The battle between the UNP and the UPFA over the controversy of replacing the winning candidates has already begun with the UPFA’s unsuccessful mayoral candidate, Vasudeva Nanayakkara, declaring that the UNP will not be able to make substitutions.
He said the Commissioner of Elections would have to decide whether the substitutions were legally valid, but as far as the UPFA was concerned it was against such a move as it was against the law.
“A special commissioner may have to be appointed if a complicated situation arises and the Minister of Local Government believes that the council cannot carry on with its functions,” Mr. Nanayakkara said.
But, UNP’s Assistant General Secretary Tissa Attanayake told The Sunday Times the UPFA should allow the will of the people to prevail and it was clear the people had elected the independent group backed by the UNP.
“The UPFA, before the elections made a series of attempts to scuttle our victory and now it should not try to prevent the UNP from taking over the council as the people of the city want the UNP to run the council,” he said.
Independent group leader Rajendran told The Sunday Times all his party members, except two had agreed to resign and UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe would have the authority to name replacements.
“It is very clear that it is because of the backing of the UNP that our members were elected. Therefore the opposition must respect the will of the people and allow the UNP to take office in the council,” he said.
The Sunday Times learns Mr. Rajendran, Mr. Imthiyaz and other members of the independent group are virtually in hiding to avoid pressure from various sections including the UPFA to change their position.
Colombo voted for these faceless names
By Kumudu Amarasingham
@ SL/28May2006
Sometimes genies disguise themselves as real people. They're not always spirits out of enchanted lamps. They're humans who wade into lives, wave a wand, and voila! Magic happens. Sadness, poverty and want disappear; and indeed dreams come true.
For Anthonypillai Harischandra, U.K Chandrasena and Uvais Mohamed Imtiaz, this magic happened. For them however the genie was neither a man nor a ghost.
It came in the form of an elephant. Though of course, the messenger for the elephant was a man, named Anna Pillai K.N.S Rajendran.
Independent Group 3
Rajendran was the leader of the independent group symbolised by the spectacles, which was fielded by the UNP at the just concluded Municipal Council elections in Colombo. He designated seven people in place of the candidates in the rejected UNP list, from his group.
Among those selected was Harischandra whose number was one, in place of UNP MP Sirisena Cooray, who received the highest preferential votes at the last election.
A painter by profession, 21-year-old Anthonypillai Harischandra was just going about his usual business when Rajendran walked into his home and asked him to 'contest.' "I have never contested before," he told us. He received 31,775 votes. "I took part because the leader wanted me to," he said. A simple man with simple dreams, he has no political aspirations for himself.
"My mother and siblings don't like me being in politics, they think I should just do what I'm doing and be happy with it," Harischandra said.
Contended man
A man from Colombo, he knows something of the problems faced by his people and in his simple way, hopes he could help. Harischandra studied at the Mutwal Hindu College. His grasp of politics is by no means wide however, and neither does he seem to want it to be. If ever there was a contended man with little or no ambition, Harischandra is the one. He flows with the tide, and is generally happy with where it takes him.
U. K Chandrasena on the other hand is very passionate about his politics. "I will do anything for the UNP," he emphatically stated, looking both grand and uncomfortable in a costume befitting his new status as deputy mayor (designate) of Colombo. He is a retired kankani (supervisor) at the harbour, and was once vice president of the Jathika Sevaka Sangamaya (JSS).
"I joined politics in 1960 and helped former President Ranasinghe Premadasa with his first election when I was just 20 years old," Chandrasena said. Since then, Chandrasena has worked tirelessly for the UNP, and says he will as long as there is any life left in him. "I felt president Premadasa served the country well, and I took part in this election hoping to do the same," Chandrasena said.
Thanks UNP
He said he was happy to win 'for the sake of the party,' and thanked everyone who voted for him. A widower with seven children, Chandrasena's offsprings are very happy with their father's success. "They told me I got this because I help other people as much as I can," Chandrasena said. He thanked UNP member Ranjit Seneviratne, for whose seat he had contested. "We will go from house to house and see the problems people have and help solve with the help ofSirisena Cooray," Chandrasena excitedly declared.
There was no doubt winning the election and becoming deputy mayor, even if for a brief period, was the most exciting thing that had happened in the life of this elderly man. Twenty-six-year-old Uvais Mohamed Imtiaz, the mayor designate of Colombo, was in contrast about as calm as he possibly could be given his new responsibilities. Whatever he may be, Imtiaz is no talker. Then again, those who talk less do more. He polled 30,308 votes.
"There were threats before the election, but none of us got scared," Imtiaz said. He too, like Chandrasena, intends to find out what the people need, what their problems are, and help solve them "with the help of Sirisena Cooray."
Favourite politician
His favourite politician is Sirisena Cooray because he said Cooray had "done a lot for the people of Colombo." Imtiaz too is from Colombo. He studied at the Al Nazar Maha Vidyalaya in Mutwal.
A three-wheel driver by profession, he is the father of one little girl. Imtiaz' wife is abroad and so far, does not know of her husband's dalliance in politics. His parents however were very happy with his new role.
The new mayor is Rajendran's nephew. "I am a little nervous about my duties, but also confidant that with Sirisena Cooray's help I can do it," he said. He has no big hopes or dreams and said he lives for the day and leaves all things to chance. His political affiliations have always been with the UNP because 'they're for the people' he said. Imtiaz ended with a heartfelt thank you to all those who voted for him.
These, in brief, were the faceless names for which the people of Colombo voted, without question. Common sense must decree whom they really put their trust in, and which party they voted for.
These people, who have so far had to fight for the most basic facilities and 'conveniences,' were from the point of assuming duties entitled to all the services and perks that go with their posts, including the mayor's bungalow and brand new chauffeur driven limousines. Yet, Harischandra, Chandrasena and Imtiaz seemed by and large, unmoved.
Know the people's pulse
All these three individuals are people who had truly known the pulse of life in the heart of Colombo, where the masses live. None of them had big dreams. They were not strategists, and while their knowledge of life may be noteworthy, they obviously did not have much notion of what it was to taste power, or solve big problems.
If they were to stay in their posts in the council, they would evidently need much guidance and advice in their work.
None of them wanted to stay however. They were all more than willing to resign, to give up the borrowed glory that, for some moments in time, had entered their otherwise extremely normal, perhaps even dreary, existences.
To them, contesting the election was just a duty they had willingly done for the sake of something, or someone, they believed in.
Post subject: Horoscope prediction came true
Mayor’s mother happy son’s horoscope prediction came true
by Nilanyha Ilangamuwa Chamilla Karawita and Jayantha de Silva
@ The Island / 05June2006
The jubilant mother of the newly appointed Mayor of Colombo Uvais Mohamed Imtiyas said her son’s horoscope predicted that one day he would become a person to reckon with.
Mohamed Sally Warsana, the Mayor’s mother, who lives in Modera Ekamuthupura Kadiranawatte popularly known as Kumbi Kelle declared to the Island. I have two children, my daughter is Fatima Ayesha and my son is Imitiyas who is 24 years old the eldest. My husband is an employee of the Colombo Municipal Council.
Imtiyas studied at Al Nasar and at St. Mary’s Colleges. He studied upto Grade 9. Though we urged him to study further, he did not listen. Imtiyas is married and is a father of a child. I bought him five three wheelers which are parked at the Crow Islandthree wheeler park, Before his name was nominated for the recent local government elections the political party with the spectacle symbol told him that he would be offered a job. The residents of Kumbikelle too are happy about Imtiya’s appointment as the Mayor. Frequently we have to answer telephone calls inquiring whether the Mayor is at home. If he is the Mayor for even one day we will be very happy. Although he is the Mayor, we live in fear. Sirisena Cooray will protect us, she concluded.
Post subject: Imtiyaz at Town Hall: Waiting or going
Imtiyaz at Town Hall: Waiting or going
By Yohan Perera
@ DM / 23June2006
Ending weeks of spectacular confusion and speculation, Colombo’s newly elected Mayor Mohammed U. Imtiyaz assumed duties amidst a large gathering at the Town Hall yesterday.
Mr. Imtiyaz - the youngest City Father in the history of the CMC - clad in a plain white shirt instead of the traditional Mayoral robe came to the Town Hall with a large number of former UNP Municipal councillors and several others including his family members.
Having placed his signature in the traditional Golden Book at the CMC, Mr. Imtiyaz later told journalists that he was seeking the support of the CMC staff since he was new to the job but pledged to work for the betterment of the city.
He said his office would be open for the people and invited the people of Colombo to come to him with their problems.
Mr. Imtiyaz also thanked President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe and UNP Mayoral candidate Sirisena Cooray for providing him the opportunity to work for the people.
Mr. Imtiyaz later visited his official residence on Marcus Fernando Mawatha where he would be moving into soon.
However there was speculation over the undated letter of resignation given by Mr. Imtiyaz to the Independent Group 3 leader while sources close to the Spectacle group said Mr. Imtiyaz was likely to serve the full term.
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Adrien Silvas Camp Blast Leicester City for Lack of Respect to Midfielder
An individual supposedly in the 'camp' of Adrien Silva has publicly criticised Leicester City for their handling of the midfielder.
Silva joined Leicester 14 seconds after the transfer deadline of 31 August 2017 and couldn't make his debut for the Foxes for another half season until the window for player registration re-opened.
A fraught start to his life as a Leicester player did not improve much. He made just 21 appearances in all competitions in a year before being loaned out to Monaco, as Youri Tielemans move in the opposite direction to the King Power Stadium.
Both loan moves proved successful, with Monaco and Leicester now keen on permanent deals.
Nevertheless, a member of Silva's entourage is apparently less than pleased with Leicester's 'lack of respect' towards the star in the negotiations.
As reported by FootMercato, the source said: ''Talking about him [Silva] as a bargaining chip is a lack of respect for a recognised professional who had a major stake in the Euro 2016 title with Portugal just three years ago.
''Adrien has a contract with Leicester for two years. He is expected to resume training. We have not heard from the club, but we are respectful of our commitments so we are waiting to talk to them about their position on Adrien.
''We remain attentive to possible proposals, but we had no contact with any club.''
While it is unclear from FootMercato's piece just who the source is, subsequent reports (including LeicestershireLive) cite the comments generically as coming from Silva's 'camp'.
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Sturgeon lives in Thessalon where he owns a home.
Sturgeon said the country needs a Conservative majority government so proposed legislation is passed. The Conservative plan includes corporate tax cuts, which, he applauds. And even the Liberals supported such measures in the past, he added.
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"Small businesses can generate more jobs because of lower taxes," Sturgeon said, adding over the last two years, the Liberals voted in favour of reducing corporate taxes from 18% to 16.5%, and on Jan. 1, 2012 to 15%
"It is our belief that (Liberal Leader Michael) Ignatieff and the other parties will work toward a coalition.
Ray Sturgeon says he opted to run for the Conservatives in Algoma Manitoulin Kapuskasing because the riding needs "a member of Parliament who is part of government and who can deal with the issues that AMK is faced with."
He quit school in Grade 9 and began working on Coca Cola trucks in Sault Ste. Marie.
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Kam's Kapsules:
Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun
by Kam Williams
For movies opening April 1, 2016
BIG BUDGET FILMS
Collide (PG-13 for violence, profanity, sexuality and drug use) Action thriller about a couple of American tourists (Nicholas Hoult and Felicity Jones) backpacking across Europe who end up on the run from drug smugglers in Germany. With Anthony Hopkins, Ben Kingsley and Nadia Hilker.
Meet the Blacks (R for sexuality, violence, drug use and pervasive profanity) Horror parody of The Purge revolving around a nouveau riche family which unwittingly moves from the ghetto to Beverly Hills on the annual holiday when crime is legal. Ensemble cast includes Mike Epps, Zulay Henao, Mike Tyson, George Lopez, DeRay Davis, Charlie Murphy and Perez Hilton and Paul Mooney.
Miles Ahead (R for drug use, nudity, sexuality, brief violence and pervasive profanity) Don Cheadle produced, directed, co-wrote and stars as Miles Davis in this impressionistic biopic chronicling the highs and lows of the legendary jazz trumpeter's troubled life and checkered career. With Ewan McGregor, Michael Stuhlbarg, Keith Stanfield and Emayatzy Corinealdi.
INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS
Catching the Sun (Unrated) Green economy documentary extolling the efforts of entrepreneurs in the U.S. and China to capitalize on the race to solar energy
Francofonia (Unrated) World War II drama giving a cinematic tour of the Louvre while explaining how the museum managed to prevent plunder of its collection during the Nazi occupation of France. Co-starring Vincent Nemeth, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing and Benjamin Utzerath. (In French, German, Russian and English with subtitles)
God's Not Dead 2 (PG for mature themes) Courtroom drama revolving around a public high school teacher's (Melissa Joan Hart) fight for her career and her First Amendment rights after being suspended for having a classroom discussion of Jesus. With Jesse Metcalfe, Robin Givens, Ernie Hudson, Pat Boone and Senator Fred Thompson.
Marinoni: The Fire in the Flame (Unrated) Reverential documentary chronicling the career of champion cyclist-turned-master bike maker Giuseppe Marinoni.(In English, French and Italian with subtitles)
Natural Born Pranksters (R for crude humor, dangerous stunts, and for pervasive profanity and sexuality) Practical joke comedy highlighting the work of such Youtube sensations as Roman Atwood, Vitaly Z and Dennis Roady.
Pandemic (Unrated) Sci-fi thriller revolving around a research doctor (Rachel Nichols) who represents the last hope for a cure after a virus wipes out New York City and threatens to decimate what's left of humanity. With Mekhi Phifer, Missi Pyle and Alfie Allen.
Sold (Unrated) Adaptation of Patricia McCormick's best seller of the same name chronicling the real-life ordeal of a 13 year-old Nepalese peasant (Niyar Saikia) sold to Indian sex traffickers. Supporting cast includes Gillian Anderson, David Arquette and Seema Biswas.
Standing Tall (R for profanity and some sexuality) Coming-of-age drama about a juvenile court judge (Catherine Deneuve) and a special ed teacher (Benoit Magimel) who join forces to rehabilitate a teen (Rod Paradot) in trouble with the law since being abandoned by his mother at the age of 6. With Sara Forestier, Diane Rouxel and Elisabeth Mazev. (In French with subtitles)
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LAW4535 - International and comparative trade mark law
Term 2 2016 (Day)
This unit will provide an overview of the obligations under international law to provide protection to trade marks and a comparison of selected, key aspects of trade mark protection in Australia, the United States and the EU. Consequently, in relation to international law, it will examine the trade mark aspects of the TRIPS agreement (including consideration of geographical indications) and the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy of ICANN relating to domain names. To a lesser extent, deal with the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property and the Madrid Protocol relating to multiple filings of trade mark applications. Selected, key aspects of comparison will include issues such as jurisdiction specific approaches to ownership, the requirements for registrability of trade marks such as shape trade marks and the different approaches to infringement, including dilution of trade marks and parallel importing. Other topics may include the registration and control of domain names. It is likely that, in light of Australian legislation and WTO challenges, the unit will also critically examine the arguments of the tobacco industry that international trade mark obligations prevent the implementation of plain packaging of cigarettes.
Students will be able to
Describe and identify key obligations in respect of international law to protect trademarks and geographical indications.
Comprehend and interpret those obligations.
Recognise and differentiate the means by which obligations are transposed into domestic law in different jurisdictions such as Australia, the US and the EU.
Demonstrate intellectual and practical skills needed to form legal conclusions such as the eligibility for registration of particular trademarks.
Apply legal reasoning to identify similarities and differences in response to similar and significant legal scenarios concerning trademarks in the relevant jurisdictions
Critically analyse and interpret the potential clash between regulation of trademarks and trademarked products on the one hand and the property interests of trademark owners as set out in international treaties.
Attendance requirement: Students who fail to attend at least 80% of the classes in this unit (ie who miss 3 or more classes) will receive a result of 0 N for the unit. Students who are unable to meet this requirement due to severe illness or other exceptional circumstances must make an application for in-semester special consideration with supporting documentation.
Class participation: 10%; Written paper outlining class presentation (500 words): 10%; Take home exam: 80%
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. The unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
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OBERLEUTNANT BIEBER - SCOURGE OF SOUTH DEVON SHIPP...
THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY of MAIDENCOMBE'S WAR
Nestled unobtrusively in a sheltered combe between Torquay and Teignmouth, the then undeveloped and mainly farming community of Maidencombe would have been expected to avoid the heavy punishment meted out by the Luftwaffe in World War two. And, to a large extent, it did but the tiny hamlet did have a few isolated occasions to remind the residents that the war was never that far away.
It may come as a surprise to residents today that the only time that Maidencombe was intentionally attacked was by two marauding Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter bombers on Tuesday November 3rd 1942. Documentation is sparse, but by cross referencing various snippets of military sources, the event can, for the first time, be more precisely recorded.
Terrorangriff raid
Four Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Würger fighter bombers from unit 8/ZG 2 set off on November 3rd 1942 to bomb Newton Abbot. Each aircraft carried a 500 kg bomb slung beneath the fuselage. The flight plan was recorded as a Terrorangriff (terrorist attack) against Newton Abbot.
However, for various reasons (visibility, fuel, navigational error, wind direction etc) but most probably poor visibility as weather reports for the day indicate that it was raining,* Teignmouth was targeted by the four 'Butcher Birds' with all 500 kg bombs being dropped on the Salcombe and Park Street area at 1249 hrs. Six people were killed and four injured.
The flight then separated with two aircraft heading out to sea and the other two peeling off in the direction of Torquay. This Rotte (two aircraft - tactical formation), flying at low level, proceeded to strafe the built up area of Maidencombe at approximately five minutes to one in the afternoon. It would have all been over in a few seconds before the pilots veered off seawards to join up with the other Fw 190s. There are no recorded casualties or damage sustained in the 'fly past' attack, but this was to be Maidencombe's war and only recorded deliberate attack upon the sleepy hamlet in WW2.**
Fw 190 approaching head on.
Unfortunately for the adventure seeking pilots - who were often given free rein to roam and strafe after dropping their lethal cargoes - fuel permitting, retribution was about to catch up with them in the form of two Hawker Typhoon interceptor fighters stationed at RAF Bolt Head (one mile southwest of Salcombe) and about twenty five miles from Maidencombe.
The two Typhoons of 257 Squadron, piloted by Flying officer Geoffrey Ball and Pilot officer Pete Scotchmer had been on a status of "readiness" (ready to take off within two minutes) and had been scrambled to intercept the Tip and Run raiders.
The Typhoons were given an intercept vector heading of 120 degrees but even with their superior maximum speed (Fw 190 408 mph and Typhoon 417 mph) it would have been touch and go whether they would have been able to overhaul the fleeing 190s before they reached the safety of the French coast.
Eight minutes after take-off, the four Fw 190s (now together) were spotted by the Typhoons which were at 1000 feet altitude, flying in wide line abreast at sea level about three to four miles distant. A six minute chase ensued until the Typhoons were in range to engage. Each Typhoon pilot destroyed a Fw 190 with one flying out of range and the other hidden in cloud. Lt Hermann Kenneweg and Uffz Johann Hannig were both killed in the engagement.
The RAF intercept route of Luftwaffe flight 8/ZG2
(map fragment by Google maps)
On this occasion, the act of bravado by the two predatory Luftwaffe pilots may have been the reason for the fatal conclusion to the flight, with half the unit destroyed. Even the few seconds of delayed flying time as the other two planes reduced their air speed to allow them to rejoin the formation could well have been crucial.
*Official meteorological records for November 1942: 'On the 2nd and 3rd (November) a depression over the Bay of Biscay moved quickly north-east and caused further rain, particularly in England.'
**On May 4th 1941 a bomb/bombs was dropped in Horton's field, Maidencombe (about 200 yards up from Maidencombe cross towards Shaldon) but was probably jettisoned as the plane(s) turned for home. The Teignmouth road, immediately adjacent to the field was badly damaged and was closed off for some time to traffic.
**On May 30th 1943, a Fw 190 hit by flak on Babbacombe Downs after participating in the Tip and Run raid on St Marychurch, crashed into the sea off Maidencombe beach. It was witnessed by resident Alan Hunt and has been documented in another posting.
**The 40mm bofors gun, positioned in Tiddly Pinch field to the south of the village, engaged Tip and Run aircraft as they flew across Babbacombe Bay.
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TS EAMCET Hall Ticket 2015
With no consensus emerging on the Eamcet exam row, the Telangana government came out with a schedule of its own on Jan 19th, Monday. According to the schedule released by the Telangana State Council of Higher Education (TSCHE), the exam for admissions to engineering, medicine, agriculture and pharmacy courses in the state would be held on May 14.The Jawaharlal Ne hru Technological University (JNTU), Hyderabad, which has been conducting the exam for over a decade, will be con ducting the test this year as well.
Papi Reddy , chairman of TSCHE, also announced a schedule for other common entrance tests (CET), including Icet, Lawcet and PG Lawcet, Ecet, EdCet, PECET and PGECET at a media conference held in his chambers. As per the schedule, Kakatiya University (KU) will conduct Icet, which is the eligibility examination for admissions to MBA and MCA colleges, on May 22. KU will conduct Lawcet and PG Lawcet for admissions to law colleges on May 19.
The engineering Cet (Ecet) will be conducted by JNTU-H on May 21. Osmania University (OU) will conduct EdCet for admissions to B Ed colleges on June 6. Physical Education Cet (PECET) will be conducted by OU on May 25 and PG Engineering Cet (PGECET) will be conducted on June 4.
At the press meet, Papi Reddy said the Telangana government had informed the Andhra Pradesh government that TSCHE could conduct common exams in both the states. “On January 8 we wrote to the AP government to nominate a member to the Cet committee so that TSCHE could conduct the examination in both the states. As the letter elicited no reply, we believe that AP does not want to join us in conducting a common exam for students of both the states,“ Reddy said.
He said that students who want to take admission in colleges located in Telangana will have to write Cets conducted by TSCHE.“Under article 371 D of the country's constitution, we will allow AP students to compete for admissions in 15 per cent of seats available in Telangana colleges. However, to be eligible to apply students will have to appear for the Cets conducted by Telangana,“ Reddy confirmed.
Officials predicted that at least 20,000 students, who belong to both the states, might have to write Cets conducted by both governments.“The Cet dates are different in the twin states so that students can write any number of entrance tests they want,“ an official said. A total of 38,000 students from AP are currently studying in T colleges even as 18,000 students from Telangana are studying in colleges in AP .
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New Jersey: Lawsuits aimed at halting award of new medical marijuana licenses get new life
by Sean Hocking
http://www.marijuanadrugfacts.com/marijuana-laws/new-jersey-lawsuits-aimed-at-halting-award-of-new-medical-marijuana-licenses-get-new-life
NJ .com reports
The New Jersey state Department of Health must halt its review of nearly 150 applicants to operate new medical marijuana businesses after denying some licenses due to a technical application issue.
A two-judge panel granted the a motion for a stay in the review process Monday, after attorney Joshua Bauchner filed on behalf of five groups last week. He has said a glitch that rendered the Health Department unable to open all the file attachments with their applications may have affected as many as two dozen rejected applicants.
“It’s a big win,” Bauchner said. “We’re very pleased that the court is staying issuance of the licenses pending our appeal in the hopes that it will allow for a merit-based review, so the best applicants are awarded licenses to serve the patient population.”
He will now begin working on an appeal and is awaiting an order from the court. If a court rules in his favor upon appeal, Bauchner’s clients could resubmit their applications for review.
More than 190 groups applied in this year’s round seeking 24 medicinal marijuana licenses, but the Health Department disqualified 51 early on for reasons ranging from corrupted files to lack of local approval, lack of site control and the non-payment of fees.
Some have worried the litigation will only tie up the process, leaving patients stuck with limited access to medical marijuana. But Bauchner noted the Health Department could itself decide to go back to his clients and ask them to resubmit their applications for review, moving the process faster.
“That would short circuit the whole process in the best way possible,” he said.
Only seven dispensaries — one of which has a second location — serve the more than 60,000 patients enrolled in the program, leading to limited supply, long waits for patients and higher prices than other states. Five more dispensaries licensed in 2018 are expected to open, but have not acquired all of their permits or announced timelines to do so.
Jeff Brown, the assistant commissioner of the Health Department who oversees the medical marijuana program, declined to comment on pending litigation.
https://www.nj.com/marijuana/2019/12/court-puts-new-medical-marijuana-licenses-on-hold-after-nj-denied-some-on-technical-issue.html
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Marianna Venekei / Tennessee Williams / László Dés
Ballet version of the play of the same title by Tennessee Williams
Dance-drama in two acts
Presented by special arrangement with The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire: Copyright © 1947, 1953 renewed 1975, 1981 The University of the South.
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A Streetcar Named Desire is Marianna Venekei's first full-length choreography. The project, lovingly nurtured for many years, is a collaboration between her and composer-saxophonist László Dés. Using the means of modern ballet, its creators evoke the atmosphere, sights and music of the New Orleans of the 1940s, the time and setting of Tennessee Williams's original work, in a production driven by the sheer variety of the musical and dance motifs, and the unique personalities of the characters. The story of the fall of Blanche DuBois is a drama of family bonds, unrequited love, acceptance and physical force that never loses its relevance.
The permission of the copyright-holder was obtained through the intermediation of Hofra Kft. (www.hofra.hu)
“A world première and Venekei's first full-length work for the Hungarian National Ballet, this close adaptation of William’s 1947 work, is a pearl not to be missed.” (Katja Vaghi, Bachtrack)
As a nursery tune softly plays, two little girls play on the empty stage.
The vision-like image is broken by a figure emerging from the darkness: It is Blanche, looking uncertain as she arrives in the vibrantly bustling – and steamy – city of New Orleans with a suitcase in her hand. As she reaches her sister's building, the noise from the street subsides.
Stella's flat. Blanche waits alone for a little while – taking the occasional drink to settle her nerves – before the two sisters meet for the first time in many years: they regard each other happily, examining how much the other has changed. Blanche is unable to conceal her disdain for the shabbiness of Stella's home. Stella reassures her sister; the pas de deux danced by the two women embodies their sisterly bond, and also brings the past to life around them: their home, a house named Belle Reve, and all of its horrors. The deceased family members who – nursed through their long suffering by Blanche alone – left no bequest behind – even the house had to be auctioned off. Overcome with feelings of guilt, Stella eventually flees from the terrible scene. Blanche remains alone.
Stella's husband, Stanley, approaches in the cheerful company of two friends. Arriving home, he finds Blanche in his house: two great characters have met...
The days pass with the two avoiding each other in the narrow confines of the flat and the tension between Stanley and his sister-in-law growing ever greater. Blanche's long baths to “soothe her nerves” aggravate him, as does the constant smell of her perfume in his home, and her fine and expensive clothes too. In one taut moment he can stand it no longer and tears through Blanche's suitcase, rummaging through the furs and tiaras to find the papers that will establish at last what happened to the inheritance due from the sale of Belle Reve. It turns out that not a single penny was left from the house. Stanley informs Blanche that Stella is going to have a baby; Blanche greets the news with exaggerated joy, and the two sisters go out to have fun.
Stanley's friends come over to play poker. The game is still going when the women come home. To Stanley's displeasure, one of the men, Mitch, takes note of the attractive Blanche. Blanche turns on the radio, and the women get into a pillow fight in the next room. Deciding he's had enough of the uproar, Stanley storms into the other room and smashes the radio. He starts menacingly toward Blanche, and when Stella blocks his path, he delivers his wife a tremendous slap on the face. As the other men restrain the raging Stanley, the two women flee to the protection of their upstairs neighbour. After Stanley calms down, he calls out despairingly for his wife, who eventually returns home to him. From above, Blanche watches them embrace lovingly.
Memories return to the lonesome woman in a flood: she thinks of her own late husband, Allan. One evening at a ball, she discovered that he was in love with another man. He killed himself later that same night. Blanche gradually returns to reality, and Stella also awakes from the sleep that followed the night of passion. Blanche tries as hard as she can to convince her sister to leave Stanley, but Stella won't hear of it. After secretly observing the two women for a while, Stanley emerges. Stella thinks for a moment and chooses her husband, leaving Blanche alone with her impotent rage.
It's raining. Blanche nervously gets herself ready to go out. Mitch appears with a bouquet of flowers, kissing her awkwardly before the two leave together for a night spot. They, they start dancing light-heartedly, but Blanche suddenly thinks she sees her dead husband and his lover amidst the swirling crowd as she relives that horrible night at the ball when Allan shot himself in the head. Gradually, however, the dance music dies down, leaving Mitch and Blanche alone on the dance floor. Bidding farewell at last, Blanche departs.
Stanley appears suddenly and angrily tells Mitch what he has just learned about Blanche: back in the town of Laurel, she had prostituted herself to soldiers. It also emerges that when Blanche was a teacher, she had seduced one of her pupils. Astonished by what he's heard and overcome by despair, Mitch attempts to argue with the imperious Stanley, and then rushes off in anguish. Stanley returns home to find Stella getting ready for her sister's birthday party, which throws him into yet another rage. He doesn't think that this loose woman deserves any kind of celebration. Suddenly Blanche arrives. An awkward silence falls as they sit at the table.
The fourth chair – Mitch's – is empty. Since it's Blanche's birthday, Stanley asks her for a dance, which she accepts gladly. Later during the party, however, Stanley grabs Blanche's suitcase and tosses it out of the flat. Stella is upset at her husband's conduct, but Stanley just treats her rudely too. Stella starts to feel ill. Her husband grabs her and races her to the hospital.
Mitch arrives and angrily demands for Blanche to tell the truth about her past. Uncomprehendingly, Blanche attempts to defend herself against the increasingly violent man until finally managing to scare him off.
Blanche takes some medicine and starts drinking. After she puts on her old evening gown, the deceased Allan appears to her and places a tiara on his wife's forehead. One by one, a procession of men dance with Blanche, who is increasingly losing touch with reality. Stanley returns home: the two of them eye each other with just as much hostility as during their first meeting. Stanley's behaviour toward Blanche is increasingly vulgar and menacing. When she tries to flee, he blocks her path. Finally, after turning the flat upside down chasing after her, he wrestles her to the ground and rapes her repeatedly.
Blanche lies motionless on the floor. Finally, she drags herself to her feet and escapes to the bathtub. Madness is already evident in her eyes. Characters from the past and present perform a mighty dance macabre. The dance of death gradually abates, leaving Blanche curled up in the tub.
Eiffel Art Studios – Bánffy Stage
Allan's friend
The original play was written by
László Dés
László Dés / Péter Erdélyi
Péter Erdélyi
Libretto after the play of the same name by Tennessee Williams
László Dés / Marianna Venekei
Gergely Zöldy Z
Imelda Jeremias Bianca
Balázs Csontos
Assistant choreographer
Ágnes Sárközy Holler
Company répétiteur
Ágnes Sárközy-Holler / Marianna Venekei
the students of the Hungarian National Ballet Institute
Photo gallery of A Streetcar Named Desire
A vágy villamosa I A Streetcar Named Desire
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The two features on this Blu-ray publication honor the extraordinary lives of filmmaking team Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
THIS IS CINERAMA
Digital premier of THIS IS CINERAMA in celebration of the 60th anniversary of its theatrical release.
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LANDMARKS OF EARLY SOVIET UNION
Collection featuring eight seminal films from the Soviet silent era! More info...
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A documentary about one of the great, unfinished works in film history, Inferno, by Henri-Georges Clouzot. More info...
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1929's epically scaled Norwegian feature comes from Danish-German director and noted cinematographer George Schnéevoigt . More info...
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Charles Chaplin came to Mack Sennett’s Keystone Studios late in 1913 as a little-known British vaudevillian. More info...
Like the musical Chicago, this original 1927 version descends from a 1926 hit Broadway play by Maurine Watkins. More info...
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Miss Mend, a 1926 three-part serial / adventure film from Soviet directors Boris Barnet and Fedor Ozep. More info...
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Two riveting and important social dramas of the American silent screen from the earliest years of feature-length cinema. More info...
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Never before released in the United States, this monumental French film is one of the most extraordinary achievements in the whole history of cinema. More info...
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A unique and wonderful collection of 54 rare and restored short films from the inflammable years of cinema. More info...
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Valentino is the definitive Rudolph Valentino DVD compilation featuring digital reconstructions of four previously unavailable films. More info...
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Phantom marked a major turning point in the influential career and the groundbreaking style of cinema poet F.W. Murnau. More info...
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Politics leads to split vote over PFAS chemicals
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Cash distribution announced by Alliance Resource Partners LP
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Blueknight Energy to release quarterly report August 1
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Oklahoma AG says Texas regulators made right call in rejecting Wind Catcher
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Nominee to run Superfund cleanup draws intense scrutiny over his past
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Abrar Shahin
This Stylish Muslim Student Is Shattering Stereotypes With Her 'Best Dressed' Win
Get it, girl.
Joseph Lamour RococoCocoa 07/22/2015
When Abrar Shahin was awarded best dressed by her New Jersey high school, she was shocked. Though if you take a look at the street style of the future Rutgers student, the honor comes as no surprise.
"My fashion inspiration is definitely Queen Rania of Jordan," Shahin, who wears a hijab as part of her Muslim faith, told MTV News in an email. "She keeps up with all the fashion trends while looking elegant and modest! My other fashion inspirations are the hijabi fashionistas on Instagram."
The 18-year-old's love of fashion came at an early age, growing up making clothes for her dolls as a kid. Once she started wearing a hijab, that interest didn’t fade. "My hijab is my crown. While wearing it, I feel safe and confident with myself. I have the power to let people see who I truly am." And see her they did when Shahin's Clifton High School classmates voted the fashionista "Best Dressed."
"I am honored to come from a generation that is accepting. My sister, who went to Clifton High School 10 years ago, said she would never have imagined a hijabi winning this award," Shahin said in an interview with TODAY.com.
Shahin says that "as a young Muslim-American woman, I just want to let every girl out there know that they should not be afraid to express themselves through their style! Growing up in this society can be difficult, but the only way to advance and break stereotypes is to stay true to ourselves and beliefs."
Shahin is surely leading by example.
H/T Seventeen
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Ongaku Records
Captivating scores
Symphonies - Philippe Jordan
A pleasure to see and hear
vital imagination
Henrik HELLSTENIUS
A harum-scarum springboard
Always expect the unexpected
Berg Wozzeck
This is a triumph!
Bruckner Symphony 3
Revelatory and awe-inspiring
For immediate purchase!
Sibelius 3, 6, 7 Vanska
Outstanding performances
burns with a steady, beckoning light
Vadim Gluzman - A quite extraordinarily good disc
This impressed me mightily
Shostakovich 5, 8 9
Great concentration
Let me tell you
Stratospheric Barbara Hannigan
Birmingham and BBC Proms
Berkeley - Authenticity
Highly Expressive
NØRGÅRD Stunning
Superbly played
One to treasure
One of the finest American
choral-orchestral works
inspired choice
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Roberto Alagna – Tenor! CD 1 Giacomo PUCCINI (1858–1924) La Bohème: 1. Che gelida manina [4:40] 2. O soave fanciulla [3:51] Tosca: 3. Recondita armonia [2:11] 4. E lucevan le stelle [3:09] 5. Ah! Franchiggia … O dolce mani [4:17] La rondine: 6. Ma come puoi lasciarmi [5:21] Le villi: 7. Ecco la casa … Torna ai felici di [6:02] Gianni Schicchi: 8. Firenze è come un albero fiorito [2:28] Giuseppe VERDI (1813–1901) Il trovatore: 9. Ah si, ben mio … L’onda de’ suoni mistici [5:07] 10. Di quella pira [3:11] Gaetano DONIZETTI (1797–1848) Lucie de Lammermoor: 11. C’est moi Lucie [2:18] 12. Sur la tombe de mon père [5:29] 13. Vers toi toujours s’envoler [4:01] 14. Tombes de mes aïeux [7:44] Giuseppe VERDI Don Carlos: 15. Fontainebleau! Forêt immense et solitaire [4:03] 16. Qui me rend ace mort? Ô funèbres abîmes! [4:34] 17. Dieu, tu semas dans nos âmes [4:35] CD 2 Charles GOUNOD (1818–1893) Roméo et Juliette: 1. Cavatine: L’amour … Ah! Lève-toi, soleil! [3:55] 2. Duo de la chamber: Va, je t’ai pardonné … Nuit d’hyménée … Anges du ciel [11:08] Jules MASSENET (1842–1912) Manon: 3. En fermant les yeux [3:08] 4. Je suis seul … Ah, fuyez, douce image [4:47] 5. Toi! Vous! Oui! Je fus cruelle … N’est-ce plus ma main [6:53] Werther: 6. Oui, ce qu’elle m’ordonne … Lorsque l’enfant revient [3:32] 7. Traduire … Pourquoi me reveiller, ô soufflé du printemps [3:13] 8. N’achevez pas, hélas [2:38] Georges BIZET (1838–1875) Carmen: 9. Duo: Parle-moi de ma mère [8:50] 10. Duo: Je vais danser en votre honneur … La-la-la-la … Au quartier! [4:44] 11. La fleur que tu m’avais jetée [3:37] Hector BERLIOZ (1803–1869) Te Deum: 12. Prière: Te ergo quaesumus [7:30] Giuseppe VERDI Requiem: 13. Ingemisco [3:26] Giacomo PUCCINI Messa di Gloria: 14. Et incarnatus est [2:46] Jacques OFFENBACH (1819–1880) La Belle Hélène: 15. Le jugement de Pâris: Au Mont Ida [3:18] Leonard BERNSTEIN (1918–1990) West Side Story: 16. Tonight, tonight, it all began tonight [3:49] Roberto Alagna (tenor); Leontina Vaduva (soprano) (CD1 tr. 2); Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) (CD1 tr. 5, 6, 9, 10 and CD2 tr. 2, 5, 8, 10 and 16); Natalie Dessay (soprano) (CD1 tr. 11–13), Inva Mula (soprano) (CD2 tr. 9), Thomas Hampson (baritone) (CD1 tr. 17); José Van Dam (bass) (CD1 tr. 16); Philharmonia Orchestra/Antonio Pappano (CD1 tr. 1, 2); Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Antonio Pappano (CD1 tr. 3–5)/Richard Armstrong (CD2 tr. 3–5, 15, 16); London Symphony Orchestra/Antonio Pappano (CD1 tr. 6–10; CD2 tr. 6–8, 14); Orchestre I Choeurs de l’Opera National de Lyon/Evelino Pidò (CD1 tr. 11–14); Choeur du Théâtre du Châtelet, Orchestre de Paris/Antonio Pappano (CD1 tr. 15–17); Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse/Michel Plasson (CD2 tr. 1, 2, 9–11); Choeur & Orchestre de Paris/John Nelson (CD2 tr. 12); Berliner Philharmoniker/Claudio Abbado (CD2 tr. 13) rec. published 1996–2003 EMI CLASSICS 0946 3 80793 2 3 [73:25 + 77:36][GF/RJF]
This collection from Alagna’s complete opera and other recordings from EMI show the tenor’s strengths and weaknesses. Fortunately the former predominate with some sensitive singing in the French repertoire ... see Full Review
BARGAIN OF THE MONTH Ashokan Farewell/Beautiful Dreamer: The Songs of Stephen Foster Jay UNGAR Ashokan Farewell [5:10] Molly MASON Bound for Another Harvest Home [4:05] Jay UNGAR Prairie Spring [3:42] Jay UNGAR Haymaker’s Hoedown [2:45] 15th Century German, arr. Jay UNGAR and Molly MASON Solstice Hymn [2:54] Jay UNGAR Thanksgiving Waltz [3:46] TRADITIONAL, arr. Jay UNGAR, Molly MASON & Balfa Toujours La Chanson de Mardi Gras [3:50] William STEPP/Aaron COPLAND, arr. Jay UNGAR Bonaparte’s Retreat/Hoedown [5:09] Stephen FOSTER (1826-1864), arr. Jay UNGAR and Molly MASON with David ALPHER Violin solo [0:25] Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair [4:17] Hard times, come again no more [5:13] The Voice of Bygone Days [3:56] Foster Favourites Medley [3:50] Beautiful Dreamer [3:53] That’s what’s the matter [3:18] Old Home Medley [4:56] Sweetly she sleeps, my Alice fair [3:27] My wife is a most knowing woman [3:47] Linger in blissful repose [3:07] Ah! May the red rose live alway [5:21] Jay Ungar (violin); Molly Mason (guitar); Thomas Hampson (baritone); David Alpher (piano) Balfa Toujours appear on La Chanson de Mardi Gras Nashville Chamber Orchestra/Paul Gambill, appears on Bonaparte’s Retreat/Hoedown rec. BMG Studios, New York, 8-9 April, 6 May, 8-10 July 1992; Great Hall, Glen Tonche Studios, Woodstock, New York and Austin Pea State University, Clarksville, Tennessee, 1999. DDD EMI CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE 0946 3 82225 2 1 [77:21][PG]
Rife with near-magical moments. It would be difficult to recommend an album more highly. ... see Full Review
J.S. Bach’s Earliest Autographs Dietrich BUXTEHUDE (1637-1707) Chorale Fantasie on Nun freit euch, lieben Christen [14:14] Johann PACHELBEL (1653-1706) Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit [3:21] An Wasserflüssen Babylon [4:58] Fugue in b minor [3:01] Johann Adam REINCKEN (1643-1722) Chorale Fantasie on An Wasserflüssen Babylon [19:16] Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750) Wie Schön leuchtet der Morgenstern Choralbearbeitung, BWV 731 (fragment) [1:32] Choralbearbeitung, BWV 764 [5:06] Jean-Claude Zehnder (organ) rec. Schnitger Organ, St. Jacobi’s Church, Hamburg, 27-29 August 2006. DDD CARUS 83.197 [51:30][KS]
Music from a fascinating and historically significant discovery, artfully played. A definite must for lovers of North German organ music. ... see Full Review
British Horn Concertos Gordon JACOB (1895-1984) Concerto for Horn and Strings (1950s) [20:35] Malcolm ARNOLD (1921-2006) Concerto No. 2 for Horn and Strings, Op. 58 (1956) [14:03] York BOWEN (1884-1961) Concerto for Horn, string orchestra and timpani (1956) [16:27] Ruth GIPPS (1921-1999) Horn Concerto, Op. 58 (1968) [17:11] Gilbert VINTER (1909-1969) Hunter’s Moon (1943) [6:22] David Pyatt (horn) London Philharmonic Orchestra/Nicholas Braithwaite rec. Watford Town Hall, 10-21 Jan 1994 (Jacob, Bowen, Arnold); Henry Wood Hall, London, 8-9 Feb 1994 (Gipps, Vinter). DDD LYRITA SRCD.316 [74:42] [RB]
Revel in the bloom, range, supple agility and warmth of these romantic works from British composers. Magnificent playing and recording ... see Full Review
The Busch-Serkin Duo - Unpublished Recordings Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750) Sonata No.5 for violin and keyboard BWV 1018 [21:02]Johannes BRAHMS (1833-1897) Violin Sonata No.1 in G major Op.78 (1879) [26:43] Trio in E flat major for piano, violin and horn Op.40 (1865) [29:31] Adolf Busch (violin) Rudolf Serkin (piano) Aubrey Brain (horn) rec. Library of Congress, live, March 1939 (Bach); Broadcasting House London, live October 1936 (Brahms Sonata); Studio No.3 Abbey Road, London, May and November 1933 (Brahms Horn Trio) APR 5528 [77:09] [JW]
Need I add that this is an indispensable issue for Busch and Serkin collectors? ... see Full Review
Maria Callas – The Studio Recitals CD1: Puccini Arias [45:14] CD2: Lyric and Coloratura Arias [49:00] CD3 Callas at La Scala [41:50] CD4: Verdi Arias I [49:14] CD5: Mad Scenes [47:23] CD6: Callas à Paris I [49:08] CD7: Callas á Paris II [43:04] CD8: Verdi Arias II [39:53] CD9: Mozart, Beethoven, Weber [44:23] CD10: Rossini and Donizetti Arias [39:22] CD11: Verdi Arias III [52:07] CD12: The EMI Rarities 1953–1961 [63:28] CD13: The EMI Rarities 1962–1989 [51:08] Maria Callas (soprano) EMI CLASSICS 0946 3 68033 2 6 [13 CDs: 45:14 + 49:00 + 41:50 + 49:14 + 47:23 + 49:08 + 43:04 + 39:53 + 44:23 + 39:22 + 52:07 + 63:28 + 51:08] [GF]
Every reader who still hasn’t acquired these recitals in one form or other should buy this box and gets access to one of the most fascinating voices in recorded history ... see Full Review
Ettore Causa – Romantic Transcriptions for Viola and Piano Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893) Valse sentimentale, Op. 51 No. 6 (arr. Alan Arnold) [1:46] Johannes BRAHMS (1833-1897) Scherzo, Op. Posth. [5:01] Enrique GRANADOS (1867-1916) Spanish Dance No. 2 (Orientale) (arr. Milton Katims) [2:34] Fryderyk CHOPIN (1810-1849) Etude, Op. 25 No. 7 (arr. Alexander Glazunov / Ettore Causa) [4:30] Camille SAINT-SAËNS (1835-1921) Allegro appassionato, Op. 43 (arr. Ettore Causa) [3:32] Alexander SCRIABIN (1872-1915) Prélude, Op. 9 No. 1 (arr. Wadim Borisovsky) [2:00] Sergei PROKOFIEV (1891-1953) Dance of the Knights (arr. Wadim Borisovsky) [5:25] Claude DEBUSSY (1862-1918) Romance (arr. Milton Katims) [2:04] Sergei RACHMANINOV (1873-1943) Daisies, Op. 38 No. 3 (arr. Jascha Heifetz / Ettore Causa) [2:23] Johannes BRAHMS (1833-1897) Lerchengesang, Op. 70 No. 2 (arr. Ettore Causa) [2:32] Hungarian Dance No. 1 (arr. Watson Forbes) [2:56] Robert SCHUMANN (1810-1856) Abendlied, Op. 85 No. 12 (arr. Ettore Causa) [2:28] Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893) Chanson triste, Op. 40 No. 2 (arr. Johann Palaschko) [2:43] Gabriel FAURÉ (1845-1924) Les Berceaux, Op. 23 No. 1 (arr. Ettore Causa) [2:46] Johannes BRAHMS (1833-1897) Hungarian Dance No. 3 (arr. Watson Forbes) [2:18] Fryderyk CHOPIN (1810-1849) Etude, Op. 10 No. 6 (arr. Alexander Glazunov / Ettore Causa) [3:22] Felix MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847) Song Without Words, Op. 109 (arr. Milton Katims) [3:57] Eugéne YSAŸE (1858-1931) Rêve d'enfant, Op. 14 (arr. Ettore Causa) [3:53] Ettore Causa (viola) Ulrich Stærk (piano) rec. Mantius Hall, Copenhagen, January 2005 CLAVES 50-2609 [57:23] [JW]
An enjoyable calling card for a tonally highly accomplished musician. ... see Full Review
Le Chant des Templiers - Music from the Manuscript du Saint Sépulcre de Jerusalem XII siècle, Chantilly Antiphon: Crucem sanctam [8.21]; Responsorium: Benedicat nos dues [6.12]; Responsorium: Honor virtus et potestas [5.47]; Antiphon: Te Deum patrem ingenitum/magnificat [14.01]; Antiphon: Media vita in morte sumus/Nunc dimittis [10.35]; Kyrie Eleison [7.25] Antiphon: Da Pacem domine/Psalm Fiat pax in virtute tua [7.17] Antiphon: Salve Regina [14.43] Ensemble Organum/Marcel Peres rec. Royal Abbey, Fontrevraud, December 2005 NAÏVE AMBROISIE AM 9997 [74.23][GH]
A fascinating, fulfilling and rewarding experience ... see Full Review
RECORDING OF THE MONTH The Cold Dancer – Contemporary String Quartets from Scotland Kenneth DEMPSTER (b.1962) String Quartet No.4 (The Cold Dancer) (2005) [12:22] James CLAPPERTON (b.1968) The Great Divorce for String Quartet (1990) [16:03] Judith WEIR (b.1954) String Quartet (1990) [13:23] William SWEENEY (b.1950) String Quartet No.3 (2004) [36:34] Edinburgh Quartet rec. no details DELPHIAN DCD34038 [78:24] [JW]
Wherever they were written these are fine works by four excellent composers. Not always pretty – but invariably on the money emotively. ... see Full Review
Concerti Italiani Alberto CURCI (1886-1973) Concerto Romantico Op.20 (1944) [16:17]Giuseppe TARTINI (1692-1770) Violin Concerto [15:03] Giovanni Battista VIOTTI (1755-1824) Violin Concerto No.22 in A minor (1803) [27:38]Camillo SIVORI (1815-1894) Capriccio No.5 from XII Studi-Capricci Op.25 [3:41]Pietro LOCATELLI (1695-1764) Capriccio No.18 from L’Arte del Violino (1733) [3:06]Federico FIORILLO (1753-1824) Capriccio No.28 from the Thirty-Six Capricci Op.3 [2:57] Fulvio Luciani (violin) I Pomeriggi Musicali/Carlo de Martini rec. Teatro Dal Verme di Milano, June 2006 Curci, Tartini and Viotti), Baroque Hall, SMC Ivrea, September 2006 (remainder) LA BOTTEGA DISCANTICA BDI146 [69:10] [JW]
A bit of an odd one this but I was pleased to hear the old fashioned Curci ... see Full Review
The Divine Feminine: A Musical Meditation on the Mystery and Spirit of Woman John TAVERNER (b.1944) The Last Sleep of the Virgin (excerpt) [1:17] Robert KYR (b.1952)/Hildegard of BINGEN (1098-1179) O eterne deus (excerpt) [0:47] O viridissima virga [4:15] Arvo PÄRT (b.1935)Fratres, for eight cellos (excerpt) [1:17] Tomás Luis de VICTORIA (1549-1611)O magnum mysterium (excerpt) [2:22] Alan HOVHANESS (b.1911)Alleluia and Fugue, Op.40b (excerpt) [3:12] Hector BERLIOZ (1803-1869) Le Spectre de la rose, from Les Nuits d’été, Op.7 [6:23] Ottorino RESPIGHI (1879-1936) Siciliana, from Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No.3 [3:29] Anton BRUCKNER (1824-1896) Adagio, from Symphony No.8 (excerpt) [1:37] Gustav HOLST (1874-1934) Venus, The Bringer of Peace, from The Planets [8:30] Sergei PROKOFIEV (1891-1953) Madrigal, from Romeo and Juliet, Suite No.1, Op.64A [3:20] Hector BERLIOZ (1803-1869) Love Scene, from Roméo et Juliette (excerpt) [4:30] Carl ORFF (1895-1982) In trutina, from Carmina Burana [2:13] Ralph Vaughan WILLIAMS (1872-1958) Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (excerpt) [5:57] Christopher ROUSE (b.1949) Movement V. Ànhran, from Flute Concerto (excerpt) [4:58] see review for performance details TELARC CD80689 [55:34] [GPu]
A dire compilation in the service of poorly thought out ideas, callously trivialising in its treatment of music and performers alike … see Full Review
Echo de Paris: Parisian Love Songs, 1610-1660 DE VICENT (d.1650) Le Phoenix [2:23] Pierre GUÉDRON (c.1575-c.1620) Quay, faut il donc [4:26] Aux Plaisirs [3:47] Robert BALLARD (c.1575-1650) Entrée [1:07] Angelique [2:16] Giovanni Paolo FOSCARINI (before 1621-1649) Folia [2:31] Etienne MOULINIÉ (c.1600-after 1669) O Stelle homicide [1:39] Luigi ROSSI (c.1597-1653) L’Augellino [3:23] Michel LAMBERT (1610-1696) Silvie [2:42] Francesco CORBETTA (c.1615-1681) Passacaglia [2:16] Etienne MOULINIÉ (c.1600-after 1669) Orilla del claro Tajo [1:50] Luis de BRICENO (fl. 1626) Caravanda Ciacona [1:43] Louis COUPERIN (c.1626-1661) Symphonie [3:28] Michel LAMBERT (1610-1696) Iris [2:38] Angelo Michele BARTOLOTTI (c.1615-after 1669) Prélude [1:20] Courante [1:40] Canarie [1:20] Francesco CAVALLI (1602-1676) Lamento di Apollo [7:29] Pierre GUÉDRON (c.1575-c.1620) Un jour l’amoureuse Silvie [3:33] Giovanni Paolo FOSCARINI (before 1621-1649) Zarabanda detta la favorita [2:19] Stephan van Dyck (tenor) and Private Musicke: Pierre Pitzl (5-course guitar, 4-course guitar, viola da gamba); Hugh Sandilands (5-course guitar, 4-course guitar, lute); Luciano Contini (lute, 4-course guitar); Daniel Pilz (viola da gamba, colascione); Eve Neunhäuserer (viola d gamba) rec. 16-18 February, 2006, Bischöfliches Palace, St. Pölten, Austria ACCENT ACC 24173 [53:57][GPu]
An enterprising, informative and enjoyable anthology of early baroque songs and instrumental pieces … see Full Review
Ensemble La Monica Michael de LA BARRE (c.1675-1743/44) IXe Suite Sonate L’Inconnue, for flute and basso continuo (1710) [8:12] John Ernest GALLIARD (c.1687-1749) Sonata I in A Minor, for bassoon and basso continuo (1733) [8:13] Robert de VISÉE (c.1656-c.1732) Prélude, for theorbo (1699) [1:14] Entrée d’Apollon, for theorbo (1699) [3:33] Nicola MATTEIS, the elder (d.?1707) Aria Amorosa: version for flute – originally violin – and theorbo (1685) [3:17] Luigi MERCI (c.1695-1751) Sonata IV in G Minor, for bassoon and basso continuo (1735) [9:30] Jacques-Martin HOTTETERRE (1674-1751) Suite in E Minor, for flute and basso continuo (1708) [22:15] Gilles DURANT de LA BERGERIE (1550-1605) Ma belle si ton ame (1603), version for flute and theorbo [1:08] Philipp Friedrich BÖDDECKER (1607-1683) Sonata sopra ‘La Monica’, for bassoon and basso continuo (1651) [5:24] Ensemble la Monica: Christina Sönstevold (transverse flute); Knut Sönstevold (baroque bassoon); Suzanne Persson (theorbo, baroque guitar) rec. 20-23 June, 2005 and 13 May, 2006, Gäsinge Church, Gnesta, Sweden SFZ RECORDS SFZ1012 [62:56] [GPu]
Interesting, but rather low-key interpretations, often limited by the relative insufficiency of the basso continuo support … see Full Review
RECORDING OF THE MONTH Exposed Throat Heinz Karl GRUBER (b. 1943) Exposed Throat (2000) [11:22] Daniel BÖRTZ (b. 1943) Målning (2000) [8:53] Poul RUDERS (b. 1949) Reveille-Retraite (2003) [10:04] Robert HENDERSON (b. 1948) Variations Movements (1967) Robin HOLLOWAY (b. 1943) Sonata for Solo Trumpet Op.94a (1999) [21:43] Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet) rec. Nybrokajen 11, Stockholm, Sweden, January and March 2004 BIS CD-1281 [62:00] [HC]
Hardenberger navigates fearlessly and almost effortlessly through all these demanding, but ultimately highly rewarding pieces. A magnificent release ... see Full Review
The Feast of St Edward, King and Confessor at Westminster Abbey [Matins] plainsong Laudes Regiae [04:08] William SMITH (1603-1645) The Preces [01:01] William CROTCH (1775-1847) Psalm 132 [04:28] Charles STANFORD (1852-1924) Te Deum (from Service in C, Op. 115) [08:03] Benedictus (from Service in C, Op. 115) [05:35] William SMITH and Robert STONE (1516-1613) The Responses [05:41] Henry PURCELL (1659-1695) O God, thou art my God (Z 35) [03:52] [Eucharist] Jonathan HARVEY (b1939) Missa bravis [10:52] Anton BRUCKNER (1824-1896) Os iusti meditabitur [04:39] [Evensong] William MORLEY (d1721) Psalm 99 [02:31] Henry PURCELL Magnificat (from Evening Service in g minor, Z 231) [03:28] Nunc dimittis (from Evening Service in g minor, Z 231) [03:03] Philip MOORE (b1943) The King and the Robin [09:37] Jeanne DEMESSIEUX (1921-1968) Te Deum, Op. 11 [08:51] The Choir of Westminster Abbey/James O'Donnell Robert Quinney (organ) rec. February 2006, Westminster Abbey, London, UK. DDD HYPERION CDA67586 [75:57] [JV]
An interesting and impressive programme of music in honour of Westminster Abbey's patron ... see Full Review
Aldo Ferraresi – il Gigli del violino: The Great Italian Radio Recordings Edward ELGAR (1857-1934) Violin Concerto in B minor Op.61 [41:40] Orchestra Sinfonica RAI Milan/Pietro Argento, recorded 22 March 1966 Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (1756-1791) Violin Concerto No.5 Turkish K219 [38:47] Orchestra Alessandro Scarlatti, Naples/Carlo Zecchi, recorded 21 June 1960 Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975) Violin Concerto No.1 [34:27] Orchestra Sinfonica RAI Turin/Mario Rossi, recorded 15 May 1959 Mario GUARINO (1900-1971) Violin Concerto [38:15] Orchestra Sinfonica RAI Milan/Ferruccio Scaglia, recorded 30 July 1969 William WALTON (1902-1983) Violin Concerto [29:43] Orchestra Sinfonica RAI Milan/Milton Forstat, recorded 26 May 1961 Aram KHACHATURIAN (1903-1978) Violin Concerto [34:07] Orchestra Sinfonica RAI Turin/Aram Khachaturian, recorded 12 April 1963 Salvatore ALLEGRA (1898-1993) Violinata alla luna per violino e orchestra [4:48] Il Pastore errante per violino e orchestra [4:52] Orchestra Alessandro Scarlatti, Naples/Salvatore Allegra, recorded 27 April 1973 Niccolo PAGANINI (1782-1840) Violin Concerto No.1 Op.6 [32:12] Orchestra Sinfonica RAI Rome/Ferruccio Scaglia, recorded 19 November 1966 Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893) Violin Concerto Op.35 [31:37] Orchestra Alessandro Scarlatti, Naples/Gaetano Delogu, recorded 14 July 1968 Antonin DVOŘÁK (1841-1904) Capriccio-Konzertstück [9:29] Orchestra Alessandro Scarlatti, Naples/Leopold Ludwig, recorded 1 April 1967 Niccolo PAGANINI (1782-1840) Violin Concerto No.4 [27:41] Orchestra Sinfonica RAI Milan/Franco Gallini, recorded 27 April 1963 Antonio BAZZINI (1818-1897) Violin Concerto No.4 [18:05] Orchestra Alessandro Scarlatti, Naples/Franco Gallini, recorded 13 June 1961 Carlo JACHINO (1887-1971) Sonata drammatica per violino e orchestra [20:16] Orchestra Sinfonica RAI Rome/Milton Forstat, recorded 1 July 1960 Franco MANNINO (1924-2005) Capriccio dei Capricci (da Paganini due studi per orchestra di virtuosi) Op.50 [10:47] Orchestra Sinfonica RAI Rome/Franco Mannino, recorded 19 April 1969 Mario GUARINO (1900-1973) Violin Sonata [21:53] Ernesto Galdieri (piano) recorded 12 April 1972 Franco ALFANO (1876-1954) Violin Sonata (1923) [25:58] Ernesto Galdieri (piano) recorded 10 December 1973 Joaquin TURINA (1882-1949) La Oracion del Torero for violin and piano [8:19] Ernesto Galdieri (piano) recorded 12 May 1966 El Poema de una Sanluqueña [20:11] Ernesto Galdieri (piano) recorded 12 May 1966 Richard STRAUSS (1864-1949) Violin Sonata Op.18 [28:27] Ernesto Galdieri (piano) recorded 20 November 1970 Karl HOLLER (1908-1987) Music for violin and piano Op.27 [23:55] Ernesto Galdieri (piano) recorded 11 October 1971 Gabriel FAURÉ (1845-1924) Violin Sonata No.1 [25:51] Ernesto Galdieri (piano) recorded 21 July 1965 Ludwig van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) Violin Sonata No.9 Op.47 Kreutzer [30:45] Ernesto Galdieri (piano) recorded 20 November 1970 Eugene YSAŸE (1858-1931) Poème Élégiaque Op.12 [15:40] Chant d’hiver Op.15 [10:01] Divertimento Op.24 [8:14] Ernesto Galdieri (piano) recorded 21 July 1965 Violin Concerto [9:56] Orchestra Sinfonica RAI Rome/Massimo Freccia, recorded 23 December 1964 The 78 recordings: Antonio BAZZINI (1818-1897) Le Ronde de lutins Op.25 [3:03] Prospero Ferraresi (piano) Franz LISZT (1811-1886) Liebesträume No.3 Richard STRAUSS (1864-1949) Rosenkavalier Waltzes arranged Vasa Příhoda [4:40] G Favaretto (piano) recorded 1943 Niccolo PAGANINI (1782-1840) Le Streghe [4:46 C Vidusso (piano) recorded 1929 Aldo Ferraresi (violin) with accompaniments as above COMITATO GRANDI MAESTRI [No catalogue number] [9 CDs: 70:30 + 70:28 + 73:47 + 73:25 + 66:31 + 67:19 + 71:37 + 56:43 + 61:19][JW]
Ferraresi was a rather fascinating character and these performances, even when flawed, invariably show spontaneity and excitement. ... see Full Review
Juan Diego Flórez - The Tenor Giuseppe VERDI (1813-1901) 1. La donna è mobile (Rigoletto) [2.25] Giacomo PUCCINI (1858-1924) 2. Avete torto! … Firenze è come un albero fiorito (Gianni Schicchi) [3.17] Gaetano DONIZETTI (1797-1848) 3. Una furtiva lagrima (L’elisir d’amore) [4.42] 4. Ah! Mes mais, quel jour de fête! … Pour mon âme quel destin! (La Fille du régiment) [7.00] Joseph LACALLE (1859-1937) 5. Amapola. arr. Guinovart. Daniel Binelli (bandoneon); David Galvez (guitar); Michael Shih, Adriana Voirin DeCosta (violin); Laura Bruton (viola); Karen Basrak (cello); William Clay ((bass); Shields-Collins Bray (piano) [4.24] Augustin LARA (1896–1970) 6. Granada. arr. Guinovart. Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra/Miguel Harth-Bedoya [4.16] Gioachino ROSSINI (1792-1868) 7. Che ascolto! (Otello) [6.43] Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (1756-1791) 8. Se di regnar sei vago (Mitridate) [4.15] Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset Gioachino ROSSINI (1792-1868) 9. Vieni fra queste braccia (La gazza ladra) [5.10] Christoph Willibald GLUCK (1714-1787) 10. J’ai perdu mon Euridice (Orphée et Euridice) [4.33] Gioachino ROSSINI (1792-1868) 11. La speranza più soave già quest’alma lusingava (Semiramide) [7.42] Giuseppe VERDI (1813-1901) 12. Pietoso al lungo pianto alfin m’arride amore … Deh! Lasciate a un’alma amante (Un giorno di regno) [6.30] Gaetano DONIZETTI (1797-1848) 13. Allegro io son ( Rita) [3.43] Giuseppe VERDI (1813-1901) 14. Qui tollis. [6.02] Raffaella Ciapponi (clarinet obbligato) Gioacchino ROSSINI (1792-1868) 15. Si, ritrovarla io giuro (La Cenerentola) [6.04] Juan Diego Flórez (tenor) Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano Giuseppe Verdi /Carlo Rizzi (1, 2, 10-12); Riccardo Frizza (3, 4, 13) Riccardo Chailly (7, 9, 14, 15) rec. Auditorio di Milano, Milan. July 2000 (14); May, August 2001 (7, 9, 15) September, November 2002 (3, 4, 13); March 2003 (1, 2, 10-12); Salle del Castillo, Vevey, May 1998 (8); Landreth Auditorium, Fort Worth, Texas, September-October 2004 (5, 6). DDD DECCA 475 8418 [77.42][RM]
Undiluted Flórez – greatly enjoyable. ... see Full Review
Folies Nicolas LEBÈGUE (c1631-1702) Les Cloches (arr. Susie Napper) [04:02] Marin MARAIS (1656-1728) Les Voix Humaines (arr. Susie Napper) [04:08] François COUPERIN (1668-1733) Le Dodo ou L'amour au Berçeau [03:45] Muséte de Choisi et Muséte de Taverni [03:39] Jean-Philippe RAMEAU (1683-1764) Pièces de clavecin en concert (arr. Susie Napper) La Coulicam [04:22] La Livri [03:55] La Vézinet [02:32] François COUPERIN Le Trophée [02:17] Airs pour la suite du Trophée [03:26] Le point du jour (allemande) [03:06] L'Anguille (arr. Margaret Little) [03:18] Marin MARAIS La Muzette (Margaret Little) [04:13] Les Folies d'Espagne (arr. Susie Napper) [17:25] Les Voix Humaines (Susie Napper, Margaret Little (viola da gamba)) rec. September 2000, Église Saint-Augustin, Saint-Augustin de Mirabel, Québec, Canada. DDD ATMA ACD22203 [60:09] [JV]
An interesting disc with arrangements for two gambas - not every arrangement is convincing, but the playing is of the highest calibre ... see Full Review
The Golden Age of Light Music in the 1950s Volume IV – Cornflakes rec. 1951-56 GUILD LIGHT MUSIC GLCD 5130 [78:21] [JW]
Another consistently entertaining collection as Guild cannily push to the outer reaches of the fifty-year copyright period. ... see Full Review
The Golden Age of Light Music - Light Music On The Move rec. 1947-56 GUILD LIGHT MUSIC GLCD 5131 [78:37] [JW]
The peg on which this particular Guild release is hung is movement ... see Full Review
Clytus Gottwald - Transkriptionen Maurice RAVEL (1875-1937) Soupir – Three Poems by Stéphane Mallarmé [3:53] La vallée des cloches [6:20] André CAPLET (1878-1925) Trois Fragments du Miroir de Jésus:- Présentation [3:18] Agonie au Jardin [2:19] Résurrection [3:08] Olivier MESSIAEN (1908-1992) Louange à l’Éternité de Jésus [7:34] Claude DEBUSSY (1862-1918) Soupir [3:32] Alban BERG (1885-1935) Drei Lieder aus Sieben frühe Lieder:- Die Nachtigall [2:35] Im Zimmer [1:29] Traumgekrönt [3:30] Heinz HOLLIGER (b.1939) Zwei frühe Lieder nach Texten von Christian Morgenstern:- Vöglein Schwermut [3:43] Herbst [3:14] Richard WAGNER (1813-1883) Zwei Studien zu ‘Tristan und Isolde’:- Im Treibhaus [Act III Scene I] [5:37] Träume [Act II – O sink hernieder, Nacht der liebe] [3:40] Gustav MAHLER (1860-1911) Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen [6:43] SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart/Marcus Creed rec. Villa Berg, SWR Stuttgart 2003-2006; the Mahler Live at the Evang.Kirche, Stuttgart-Gaisburg CARUS 83.181 [64:09] [JW]
Gottwald’s transcriptions for a capella choir. The source material can take the form of lieder or instrumental works. ... see Full Review
The Harp of Luduvico Alonso MUDARRA (c.1510-1580) Fantasia que contrahaze la harpa en la maniera de Luduvico [02:29] Divisions on Spagnoletta (improvisation) [02:47] Luis MILÁN (c.1500-c.1561) Fantasia de consonancias y redoubles [02:40] Divisions on the Spanish Pavan (improvisation) [02:25] Improvisations after Diego ORTIZ (c1510-c1570) Fantasia [03:00] Divisions on Paradetas [04:12] Tutte le vecchie [01:58] Giovanni DE MACQUE (c.1548/50-1614) Prime Stravaganze [02:25] Gagliarda I [00:56] Toccata a modo di trompetas [03:46] Orazio MICHI dall'arpa (1594/95-1641) Si duro tronco [03:11] I diletti di mundo [01:58] Quel signor [01:06] Girolamo FRESCOBALDI (1583-1643) Toccata X [05:20] Aria detta la Frescobalda [05:21] Toccata V [05:39] Aria detta Ballata [08:49] Ciacona [01:29] Toccata IX [05:35] Claudio MONTEVERDI (1567-1643) Vespro della Beata Vergine: Nigra sum [03:40] Andrew Lawrence-King (arpa doblada, arpa doppia) Recorded February 1991 in St Andrew's Church, Toddington, Gloucestershire, UK DDD HYPERION HELIOS CDH55264 [70:06][JV]
A ground-breaking recording of early repertoire on historical harps by one of the world's leading interpreters … and at budget price - don't miss it! ... see Full Review
Sessions - Joel Hastings Sergei RACHMANINOV (1873-1943) Oriental Sketch (1917) [1:55] Lilacs (1914 piano transcription of song Op. 21/5) [2:28] Lullaby (Transcription of Tchaikovsky's song ‘Lullaby’) [4:03] Étude-Tableau No. 1 in C minor, Op.39 No.1 (1916) [3:25] Prelude No. 12 in G-sharp minor, Op.32 No.12 (1910) [2:49] Sergei PROKOFIEV (1891-1953) Ten Pieces for Piano, Op.12 (1906-1913) March [1:39]; Gavotte [2:21]; Rigaudon [1:23]; Mazurka [1:24]; Capriccio [2:54]; Legend [2:49]; Prelude [2:11]; Allemande [2:37]; Scherzo Humoristique [2:08]; Scherzo [2:48] Felix MENDELSSOHN (1809-47) Variations Sérieuses in D minor, Op.54 (1841) [11:22] Alexander SCRIABIN (1872-1915) Sonata No.9, Op.68 ‘Black Mass’ (1912-13) [8:52] Franz LISZT (1811-1886) Totentanz (arr. Liszt 1860-65) [15:10] Joel Hastings (piano) rec. 22-23 May 2001, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Flint, Michigan, USA. DDD PRESTANT CLASSICS PR1016 [72:43]
Liszt Transcending - Joel Hastings Franz LISZT (1811-1886) Transcriptions, Paraphrases and Arrangements Concert Paraphrase of Rigoletto by Verdi (arr. Liszt 1859) [7:11] Widmung by Schumann (arr. Liszt 1848) [3:34] Das Wandern by Schubert (arr. Liszt 1846) [2:05] Der Müller und der Bach by Schubert (arr. Liszt 1846) [5:14] Auf Flügeln des Gesanges by Mendelssohn (arr. Liszt 1840) [3:28] Reminiscences of Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti (arr. Liszt 1835-36) [6:07] Isolde's Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde by Wagner (arr. Liszt 1867) [7:27] Die Forelle by Schubert (arr. Liszt 1846) [3:31] Ständchen by Schubert (arr. Liszt 1838-39) [5:34] Erlkönig by Schubert (arr. Liszt 1838) [4:39] Sarabande and Chaconne from Almira, Concert Arrangement by Handel (arr. Liszt 1879) [13:56] Melodie from Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck) (transcribed by Giovanni Sgambati) [3:57] Joel Hastings (piano) rec. live, 19 August 2005, First Baptist Church of Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. DDD PRESTANT CLASSICS PR1019 [66:53] [MC]
This is high calibre playing from Joel Hastings a pianist who is worthy of considerable attention. These two releases deserve a place in any collection of instrumental music. ... see Full Review
Songs by Michael Head and Friends Michael HEAD (1900-1976) 1. Sweet chance [2.02]; 2. O to be in England [3.44]; 3. Fox Gloves [2.25]; 4. Green Rain [3.18]; 5. A piper [1.29]; 6. A green cornfield [2.17] David BEDNALL (b. 1979) 7. England [4.10]; 8. First sight of her and after [3.33] Michael HEAD 9. Ships of Arkady [3.37]; 10. Beloved [1.51]; 11. A blackbird singing [2.35]; 12. Nocturne [4.13] Herbert HOWELLS (1892-1983) 13. King David [4.40] Michael HEAD 14. Dear delight [3.03]; 15. You shall not go a-Maying [3.19]; 16. Love’s lament for comely grace [3.11]; 17. Love me not [3.19]; 18. O let no star [2.30]; 19. The twins [2.18]; 20. A summer idyll [2.30]; 21. Slumber song of the Madonna [2.47]; 22. When sweet Ann sings [2.44] Ivor GURNEY (1890-1937) 23. Down by the Salley Gardens [2.55]; 24. Sleep [3.16] Richard Rowntree (tenor); David Bednall (piano) rec. Wells Cathedral School, 20-21 October 2004. DDD LAMMAS LAMM179D [71.55] [RM-O]
An interesting but over-indulged feast of Michael Head’s songs ... See Full Review
David Helfgott: A Musical Journey Part I – A documentary Edited and presented by Melvyn Bragg Part II – In Concert 1997, Nottingham, UK Felix MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847) Andante and Rondo Capriccioso Franz LISZT (1811-1886) Un sospiro; Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 Ludwig van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) Piano Sonata No. 23 'Appassionata' Nikolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (1844-1908) The Flight of the Bumblebee David Helfott (piano) Picture format NTSC 4:3; Region codes 2,3,4,5; Linear PCM Stereo; Subtitles : English, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano WARNER MUSIC VISION 3984 20512-2 [94:00] [PCW]
A well-balanced documentary – worth seeing if you are at all interested in what happens when potential genius and mental illness collide … see Full Review
How can I keep from Singing? Gabriel FAURÉ (1845-1924) Pie Jesu (Requiem) [3.25] John RUTTER (b. 1945) For the beauty of the earth [3.35] Hubert PARRY (1848-1918) Long since in Egypt’s plenteous land (Judith) [4.45] Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872–1958) The Call (Five Mystical Songs) [2.21] Arthur SULLIVAN (1842-1900) The Lost Chord [5.13] Stephen OLIVER (1950-1992) How blest are they [4.03] Arr. John SCOTT (b. 1956) Like a mighty river flowing [3.03] George Frideric HANDEL (1685–1759) Let the bright seraphim (Samson) [6.42] Arr. John SCOTT (b. 1956) The Ash Grove [3.12] James Leith Macbeth BAIN, arr. Gordon JACOB (1895-1984) The Lord’s my shepherd [3.45] Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872–1958), arr. Julius HARRISON (1885–1963) Linden Lea [3.07] Arr. John SCOTT (b. 1956) Annie Laurie [2.06] Robert LOWRY (1826-1899), arr. John SCOTT (b. 1956) How can I keep from singing? [4.56] Felix MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847) Lift thine eyes (Elijah) [2.19] Mark BLATCHLY (b. 1960) For the Fallen [5.13] John RUTTER (b. 1945) A Gaelic Blessing [1.47] Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet) Andrew Lucas (organ) Richard Moorhouse(organ) Choristers of St. Paul’s Cathedral City of London Sinfonia/John Scott rec. St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, CTS Studios, Wembley, 15-17 July 1996. DDD EMI CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE 0948 3 75942 2 3 [59.55][RH]
Some superb singing from one of the finest groups of trebles in the UK ... see Full Review
Il più misero amante Alessandro STRADELLA (1639-1682) Il più misero amante, Cantata for soprano and bass continuo (c.1667-77) [8:37] Pietro Antonio LOCATELLI (1695-1764) Sonata No.4 Op.2 for flute and bass continuo [9:53] Ercole BERNABEI (1622-1687) Dal regno d'amore, Cantata for soprano and bass continuo [6:52] Antonio VIVALDI (1678-1741) All'ombra di sospetto, Cantata for soprano, flute and bass continuo [10:41] Pietro NARDINI (1722-1793) Sonata in sol mag. flute and bass continuo [4:28] Giacomo CARISSIMI (1605-1674) Scrivete occhi dolenti, Cantata for soprano and bass continuo (c.1650) [8:05] Camerata Hermans; Cristina Paolucci (soprano); Fabio Ceccarelli (flute); Alessandro Montani (cello); Fabio Ciofini (harpsichord/leader) rec. January 2006, Urbino LA BOTTEGA DISCANTICA 140 [55:10][JW]
Paolucci sings with directness and great musicality. Camerata Hermans show equal distinction. Let’s hear more from this talented group. ... see Full Review
Scenes from Jewish Operas - Volume 2 David SCHIFF (b. 1945) Gimpel the Fool (1979) (excerpts): 1. Scene 10: Lullaby [3:59] 2. Scene 11: Pantomime [1:39] 3. Scene 11a: Bread Song [3:24] 4. Scene 11b: Night Music [2:41] 5. Scene 11c: Gimpel and the Goat [2:17] 6. Scene 11d: Elka’s “Gvald” [1:32] 7. Scene 11e: The Divorce [3:09] 8. Scene 11f: Gimpel’s Second Monologue [1:24] Gary Moss (baritone) – Gimpel; Megan Besley (soprano) – Elka; Alissa Mercurio (soprano) – Goat; Michael Gallant (tenor) – Apprentice; Nicholas Phan (tenor) – Rabbi; Theodore Bikel (speaker) – Badkhn University of Michigan Opera Orchestra and Chorus/Kenneth Kiesler Elie SIEGMEISTER (1909–1991) Lady of the Lake (1985) (excerpts): 9. Scene 5 [9:15] 10. Interlude [1:25] 11. Scene 6 [2:18] 12. Scene 7 [4:38] Carol Meyer (soprano) – Isabella; Robert McPherson (tenor) – Blumberg; Marcus DeLoach (baritone) – Ernesto Seattle Symphony/Gerard SchwarzHugo WEISGALL (1912–1997) Esther (1993) (excerpts): 13. Act I, Scene 8 (excerpt) [3:45] 14. Act III, Scene 2 [3:54] 15. Act III, Scene 10 [7:28] Juliana Gondek (soprano) – Esther; Ted Christopher (baritone) – Xerxes Seattle Symphony/Gerald Schwarz rec. Hill Auditorium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, January 2001 (Schiff); Batsyr University Chapel, Seattle, May 2000 (Siegmeister); Benaroya Hall, Seattle, May 1999 (Weisgall). DDD NAXOS 8.559450 [53:22] [GF]
A goldmine for everyone interested in Jewish music, and opera enthusiasts who want to widen their knowledge should give this disc a try ... see Full Review
Salomea Krushelnytska (complete recordings) & Elena Ruszkowska (selections) see review for details Piano and orchestral accompaniments, folk ensemble; Ruszkowska accompanied by an orchestra conducted by Carlos Sabajno except the Moniuszko and Chopin; the Ruszkowska Moniuszko song accompanied by an orchestra conducted by Artur Rodzinski rec. Krushelnytska 1902-12 and 1928 (folk songs); Ruszkowska 1909 and c.1921 MARSTON 52052-2 [79:05 + 79:50] [JW]
A connoisseur’s release. Transfers made with considerable care; surface noise reduced without compromising frequency range; and the voice emerges with great presence. ... see Full Review
Látigo Rafael HERNANDEZ Cachita [2:42] Armando PONTIER Milongueando en el cuarenta [2:54] Jeremy COHEN Crowdambo (c. 2004) [4:16] Armando PONTIER A los amigos (To the friends) [4:53] Enrique SABORIDO Felicia [2:40] Evan PRICE Felipe, for string quartet [4:59] Gerardo H. Matos RODRIGUEZ (1897-1948) La Cumparsita (1917) [4:18] Astor PIAZZOLLA (1921-1992) Melodía en La menor [4:41] Libertango [2:30] Chick COREA (b. 1941) Armando's Rhumba [3:23] Carlos GARDEL (1890-1935) El día que me quieras [4:41] Mariano MORES Taquito militar [4:00] Eduardo AROLAS Comme Il faut (Exactly as it should be) [2:39] Agustín BARDI (1884-1941) Gallo ciego (Blinded rooster) [4:06] Leonard BERNSTEIN (1918–1990) Cool, from musical West Side Story (1957) arranged by David Balakrishnan [4:31] Astor PIAZZOLLA (1921-1992) Nuevo Tango [5:32] Quartet San Francisco: (Jeremy Cohen (violin); Kayo Miki (violin); Emily Onderdonk (viola); Joel Cohen (cello)) John Santos, percussion (tracks 1, 3, 10) rec. 22-25 August 2005, Sound Studio, Skywalker Ranch, Nicasio, California. DDD VIOLINJAZZ RECORDINGS JCCD104 [63:26] [MC]
On this double Grammy-nominated release the Quartet San Francisco are on magnificent form with these exciting and colourful scores. ... see Full Review
Love’s Voice Ivor GURNEY (1890-1937) On Wenlock Edge (1917-18) [2:56] Bread and cherries (1921) [0:53] Down by the Salley Gardens (1910) [2:43] Ha'nacker Mill (1921) [2:09] Snow (1921) [2:39] Hawk and Buckle (1921) [1:10] John IRELAND (1879-1962) Friendship in misfortune [1:48] The Three Ravens [3:30] The trellis [3:24] The Land of Lost Content (1920-21) [11:34] Ian VENABLES (b.1955) Love's Voice – a song cycle Op.22 (1995) [15:43] Vitae summa brevis Op.3 No.3 [3:32] Flying Crooked Op.28 No.1 [1:08] At midnight Op.28 No.2 [4:08] The hippo Op.33 No.6 [1:40] Gerald FINZI (1901-1956) Oh Fair to See Op.13b [17:31] Nathan Vale (tenor) Paul Plummer (piano) rec. Potton Hall, Suffolk, February 2006 SOMMCD 063 [76:39][JW]
Somm have a knack of selecting young but highly promising artists … This is no exception. ... see Full Review
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Potential Alzheimer ' s Drug Improves Blood Flow
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The brains of Alzheimer's mice treated with the compound RU-505 showed less inflammation and improved blood flow than those of untreated mice. Without a steady supply of blood, neurons can't work. That's why one of the culprits behind Alzheimer's disease is believed to be the persistent blood clots that often form in the brains of Alzheimer's patients, contributing to the condition's hallmark memory loss, confusion and cognitive decline. New experiments in Sidney Strickland's Laboratory of Neurobiology and Genetics at Rockefeller University have identified a compound that might halt the progression of Alzheimer's by interfering with the role amyloid-β, a small protein that forms plaques in Alzheimer's brains, plays in the formation of blood clots. This work is highlighted in the July issue of Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. For more than a decade, potential Alzheimer's drugs have targeted amyloid-β, but, in clinical trials, they have either failed to slow the progression of the disease or caused serious side effects. However, by targeting the protein's ability to bind to a clotting agent in blood, the work in the Strickland lab offers a promising new strategy, according to the highlight, which will be published in print on July 1. This latest study builds on previous work in Strickland's lab showing amyloid-β can interact with fibrinogen, the clotting agent, to form difficult-to-break-down clots that alter blood flow, cause inflammation and choke neurons. "Our experiments in test tubes and in mouse models of Alzheimer's showed the compound, known as RU-505, helped restore normal clotting and cerebral blood flow. But the big pay-off came with behavioral tests in which the Alzheimer's mice treated with RU-505 exhibited better memories than their untreated counterparts," Strickland says. "These results suggest we have found a new strategy with which to treat Alzheimer's disease." RU-505 emerged from a pack of 93,716 candidates selected from libraries of compounds, the researchers write in the June issue of the Journal of Experimental Medicine. Hyung Jin Ahn, a research associate in the lab, examined these candidates with a specific goal in mind: Find one that interferes with the interaction between fibrinogen and amyloid-β. In a series of tests that began with a massive, automated screening effort at Rockefeller's High Throughput Resource Center, Ahn and colleagues winnowed the 93,000 contenders to five. Then, test tube experiments whittled the list down to one contender: RU-505, a small, synthetic compound. Because RU-505 binds to amyloid-β and only prevents abnormal blood clot formation, it does not interfere with normal clotting. It is also capable of passing through the blood-brain barrier. "We tested RU-505 in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease that over-express amyloid- β and have a relatively early onset of disease. Because Alzheimer's disease is a long-term, progressive disease, these treatments lasted for three months," Ahn says. "Afterward, we found evidence of improvement both at the cellular and the behavioral levels." The brains of the treated mice had less of the chronic and harmful inflammation associated with the disease, and blood flow in their brains was closer to normal than that of untreated Alzheimer's mice. The RU-505-treated mice also did better when placed in a maze. Mice naturally want to escape the maze, and are trained to recognize visual cues to find the exit quickly. Even after training, Alzheimer's mice have difficulty in exiting the maze. After these mice were treated with RU-505, they performed much better. "While the behavior and the brains of the Alzheimer's mice did not fully recover, the three-month treatment with RU-505 prevents much of the decline associated with the disease," Strickland says. The researchers have begun the next steps toward developing a human treatment. Refinements to the compound are being supported by the Robertson Therapeutic Development Fund and the Tri-Institutional Therapeutic Discovery Institute. As part of a goal to help bridge critical gaps in drug discovery, these initiatives support the early stages of drug development, as is being done with RU-505. "At very high doses, RU-505 is toxic to mice and even at lower doses it caused some inflammation at the injection site, so we are hoping to find ways to reduce this toxicity, while also increasing RU-505's efficacy so smaller doses can accomplish similar results," Ahn says.
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Dubai June 14
An unexpected 10 hour layover. What can I say -- the hotel is next to the gigantic Dubai Mall, where people wander around aimlessly just like in American malls. It is funny to see Arab families in full regalia eating cheese pizza next to an ice rink.
I got up and had a swim in the hotel pool, which has a view of the Burj Dubai..the world's tallest building, and the the world's largest "dancing waters" fountain, complete with heavenly chorus soundtrack
Here's a picture from the mall -- their main "waterfall" water feature
Posted by A Quinn at 9:24 AM
Addis Ababa June 13
Hectic!...It as a very long day yesterday, that ended with an unexpected diversion due to a volcanic explosion.
We woke up in Dar es Salaam, and Clinton had some final meetings including with the President Kikwete. They did a press conference at the presidential palace (see the boxed lions above)...It was kind of funny -- they had set up a normal press conference room, but reserved the front five rows for officials so the reporters were all jammed into the back. We had to shout our questions over all the official heads...silly.
Then we left for Addis. Along the way the pilots took a little diversion to give us a good view of Kilimanjaro -- snowy peak (although the snow is receding) agove a sea of clouds, with some breaks where you can see the Serengeti plan. It really was beautiful.
We arrived in Addis after a very choppy ride, and went to the hotel where Clinton changed her clothes. Then off to the AU headquarters in a huge rainstorm..everyone got "USAID" umbrellas and most of them blew out in the wind and rain, so we arrived soaking.
The AU headquarters is now an old, sort of tired building -- but next door is a brand new gleaming headquarters being built by the Chinese, topped with a huge glass dome. Hard to argue with that.
Clinton gave her speech at the AU, urging them to drop Gaddafi and promote democracy on the continent. It was a good speech, but the power cut out in the middle..leaving the hall in semi-darkness and Clinton spotlit by the small light on the podium..
Then we rushed back to the PM's office where Clinton was due to meet Meles. We were waiting around for the press conference when Philippe, Clinton's media guru, came out and told us there had been a change of plan": because of a volcanic eruption in Eritrea, we had to leave NOW to get out ahead of the volcanic ash cloud. There was a mad scramble back to the hotel, where Clinton had some rushed meetings with the Sudanese, and then back to the airport.
Weirdly, we headed for Dubai -- the plane needed to refuel, and apparently couldn't do that anywhere else. No one really understood why, but the detour took us five ours in the wrong direction. Along the way, we were told that we were then going to head to Rammstein Air Base -- and might have to hang out there for 15-24 hours because of the crew's need to get required rest. This went over like a lead balloon..we were all so tired, and the prospect of another 8 hours to Germany and then 15 hours at an air base before we could even head home was pretty grim.
We arrived in Dubai at about 3 a.m. their time, and after some persuading we got them to let us out onto the tarmac. It was hot and sweaty, but at least we could stretch our legs....but after a while we were told that, in fact, the plane had a flat tire and the spare was deep in the hold..behind all the bags. The crew would have to unpack the entire plane to get at the tire, which would take hours.
After a bit of back and forth, it was decided that we would stay in Dubai. The U.S. consulate scrambled people and they managed to book us rooms (amazing, given the hour)...and we finally checked in at around 5 a.m. I took a shower and was in bed and asleep within five minutes.
Dar es Salaam June 12-13
We flew from Lusaka to Dar on Saturday, and arrived back into sticky weather. The hotel gardens were full of cycads and my favorite Bismark Palm -- a wonderful, bluish palm tree that actually gives shade, and which we first saw on Zanzibar a few years ago. I'd love to get one for Palm Springs, but I think the climate there is too dry...too bad, because it is a lovely tree.
Anyway we had the evening off, which was welcome -- ate at the hotel restaurant (not bad) and had a beer at the rooftop bar, which has a view out over the harbor.
Sunday was a busy day, highlighting the various U.S. development projects for Africa. We got in the motorcade and set out for a drive of about an hour to a women-owned farming cooperative outside of Dar es Salaam. It always feels a little funny to be whizzing past in the tail end of Clinton's motorcade while local cops keep the regular traffic bottled up. Huge lines of trucks, busses and taxis were idling by the side of the road as we went by, people clambering out to look at the parade. If it were me I'd be irritated at such a long wait just so a VIP can get to where she wants to go ... but the government is eager to promote this kind of aid, so off we went.
To reach the farm the motorcade eventually ended up crawling over potholed dirt roads, the vans wobbling and bobing as the drivers tried to slalom around the biggest craters. When we got there, Clinton got out and took a tour with some of the women who farm there -- producing vegetables to sell at the markets in Dar, as well as some for export.
There is something hilarious and incongruous about this kind of event: Clinton, in a bright orange pant suit, chatting with women African farmers while the whole official U.S. retinue swarms around. Tanzanian military in full SWAT gear were deployed around the edges of the fields, and all of the State Dept types were in full suit-and-tie under the broiling sun, punching away at their blackberries. The cavalcade moved slowly as Clinton picked her way down a dirt path, photographers running ahead (and trampling some of the seed beds) to get the picture.
The Prime Minister introduced her to another group of women as "Mama Clinton" which seemed about right for the circumstances -- she tried to engage them in a broader conversation but there wasn't much traction, although they did repeatedly break out in high pitched ululations to show their welcome.
She gave a speech under a giant shade tree, and then the motorcade was off again..back to a suburb of the city, where she wanted to highlight a U.S.-funded energy project which involved a power plant powered by jet engines. From there it was on to a clinic, where she took in a bit of amateur theatrics illustrating the threat of "gender based violence" and encouraged more work to improve maternal health.
She is clearly in her element with these stops (which makes you wonder why, as she says, she is NOT interested in the World Bank job) and you can tell her determination to highlight the the problems and challenges faced by women and girls at every stop.
For the journalists, tho, it was a little hard to find a lead for a story. The newly announced U.S. funding was not particularly big, and we didn't really have time to explore any one of the various projects...so we were left with a lot of comments about how the U.S. is committed to doing good in Africa, but no way to assess if it is really what is needed or wanted here...You can't do a "development" story in two hours, which is frustrating both for journalists and for the officials who want to promote this stuff. But I'm trying to keep my notes in order so that I can write a broader piece about the development side of the trip...maybe on the long flight on on Tuesday.
I'm writing this fast as I've got to pack to get my luggage to the "bag drag" in 20 minutes for this morning's flight to Addis. I'll update it if I can later..
Added the picture at the the top at the last minute..our last stop in Dar was at the Presidential Palace, where they had two of these "lions in a box" at the front entrance....
Posted by A Quinn at 12:35 AM
Lusaka, June 10-11
I am still having trouble adding pictures, which isn't surprising since I've been having a lot of technical problems on this trip: blackberry doesn't work, or works intermittently, computer won't hook up to wifi, etc etc. It makes for a frustrating time...
Anyway I've got a decent picture of Zambian dancers welcoming Clinton in Lusaka on arrival. It was great to be back in Southern Africa -- sharp, clear blue sky, warm sun but cooling off quickly at sunset, just a faint hint of smoke in the air. Felt like home.
But along with the technical issues I've also had to deal with another bump: my colleague Lesley Wroughton broke the story that Clinton was interested in moving to the World Bank. This is VERY sensitive...they don't want to be seen losing a secretary of state at this juncture, and it wouldn't be for months anyway as the job doesn't become vacant until mid-2012.
They denied it on the record, and then Clinton herself denied it in a press conference here in Lusaka. We had their denials in the original story, but the drumbeat of "no!" makes for some rough going. Still, I tend to believe Lesley before I believe the Clinton crowd. It would be a perfect job for her (everything we are doing on this Africa trip centers on development/health and women, which are her obsessions). But the politics are such that it will never be formally acknowledged until the official announcement.
But that makes me the "guy from Reuters" on the trip. It is fine -- I am sure we will be shown right in the end. And people are not being nasty, just a little jumpy. But that, added too the regular exhaustion of these trips, has made this feel like a long one.
I'm going to sign off now but will try to fill this out (and add the picture!) later
(Next Day) -- up early in Dar es Salaam, and somehow the picture uploads seem to work now. The dancers really were fantastic, and Clinton clearly loves being in Africa.
At the trade conference she was attending in Lusaka she was serenaded by a chorus of African businesswomen (!) -- lovely harmonies, and she got in there to sway and clap (a little off beat) with them. Makes you think the World Bank would be such a good fit!
Lusaka looked very tidy -- they spruced up a lot for the trade meeting and for Clinton, with clean streets, and all the trees freshly painted with their white "skirts" to keep the bugs off, making it all seem very tidy. We did one stop at a new pediatric hospital which the U.S. built and has donated to Zambia as a center to combat mother-to-child transmission of HIV. The speeches went on for ever ("all protocol observed" being a favorite phrase...even Clinton used it). I was nodding off but then this lady sat down in front of me with a terrific hair-do....makes me miss Africa.
Posted by A Quinn at 4:38 PM
Abu Dhabi, June 8-9
We are back at the Emirates Palace hotel in Abu Dhabi. I've got a picture of the infamous gold-nugget dispensing ATM ("Gold to GO") on my cellphone, but for some reason the file is corrupted and I'm too tired to try to figure out how to upload it now. If you see it I've figured it out at a later date!
Clinton is back in the Emirates for another "contact group" meeting on Libya. We flew in all night/day from DC, and arrived to the usual ferocious summer heat -- must have been close to 95 degrees at midnight, and the air thick with humidity.
When you arrive in Abu Dhabi they put all your baggage thru a special scanner on arrival..not for weapons, particularly, but more for any booze or porn you might have on you! I guess they are also looking for weapons, but the warnings were all about booze (people had to leave their duty free from Shannon aboard Clinton's plane).
Then the bus ride back to this ridiculous hotel, described in earlier posts. Not much to add except that, for a "$3 billion" hotel it is absolutely the most visitor unfriendly place I have ever seen...The staff is very attentive, but the place is just too damn big and all of the marble/chandeliered hallways look exactly the same. It is easy to get mesmerized walking around..and it always feels as though you are walking down the same endless hallway. The "public spaces" are equally gaudy and equally indistinguishable..which vast cavernous lobby? All very hard to tell.
The contact group meeting was in the hotel so I can say I did not go outside ONCE today..except to look out from my balcony this morning on the very elaborate pool outside. Even then it was ferociously hot...but they still seem to get tourists, from Europe or Russia or wherever. I guess it is sort of like staying at Disney World.
Not much to say about the conference (all behind closed doors) except that they came out determined to call it a success: more support for the rebel Transitional National Council, more vows of taking it to Gaddafi. We waited and wandered, found a few Libyan exiles, watched people waiting and wandering. Then, finally, a few back to back press conferences with the hosts, Clinton and others -- and the expected vows of support/aggression for the rebels and for Gaddafi. It feels like a play (and a not very interesting one)..everything scripted, and ultimately inconsequential...I guess until Gaddafi finally DOES go.
The big quote coming into the conference was that the conflict is in "end game" and time to plan for the future. But there were very few words on what the actual plan for Libya is. You have to think they'd be on this from the minute Obama made the decision to intervene..but there's not much public sign of it. Worrying.
The subtext to the trip has been the Internet scandal involving Rep. Anthony Wiener, whose wife is one of Clinton's closest aides. Everyone felt sorry for her and..when the news came from New York, quoting "family friends", that she is pregnant, we all refused to ask about it. Maybe that's cowardly, but somehow it didn't seem appropriate or important at 2 a.m. in Abu Dhabi where the poor woman is just trying to do her job. Let Wiener talk about it.
That's it -- am tired. Will try to figure out the picture tomorrow..maybe in Zambia, which is our next stop!
Most of this is an intermittent blog from the worst seat on the U.S. Secretary of State's plane -- thanks to my former employers at Reuters
A Quinn
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A STREET BETWEEN SUNRISE AND SUNSET
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1. The Evening Wind (12:45)
2. On The Run (14:51)
3. Midnight Snow (4:59)
4. No Disgrace (5:34)
5. Not Afraid (3:55)
6. Now (10:13)
7. Fight (4:29)
8. A Street Between Sunrise & Sunset (11:18)
9. Children (3:56)
Total time:72:00
- Robert Amirian / vocals
- Sarhan Kubeisi / electric (2-6) & acoustic (7) guitars
- Mirek Gil / guitars (1,2,6-9
- Darek Lisowki / keyboards, arrangements
- Krzysiek Palczewski / keyboards (5,8), arrangements, mixing & co-producer
- Piotr Żaczek / bass guitar (1-3,6,8)
- Przemek Zawadzki / bass guitar (4,5,7,9)
- Wojtek Szadkowski / drums, arrangements & co-producer
- Maciek Meller / electric (2,8) & acoustic (2) guitars
- Michał Kirmuć / drum programming (5)
- Zbigniew Bieniak / backing vocals (2), arrangements (2,7)
Artwork: Mark Wilkinson
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Review by Greger
The bands that sound like the Fish-era Marillion are getting fewer and fewer, but now and then they're popping up. The first time I heard a band that I really thought were inspired by Marillion was when I heard Pendragon's "The World" album from 1991. Another album that I consider being a really "Marillion-clone" is La Tulipe Noire's album "Shattered Image" from 2000. Next up is Satellite's "A Street Between Sunrise And Sunset" that was released on the Metal Mind label recently.
And the reminiscence doesn't stop with the music. Mark Wilkinson, the man that did all the famous artworks for Marillion, designed the sleeve. It's a really beautiful CD-booklet, and the music is really beautiful too. Besides the Marillion influences heard on the album, there are also reminiscences to Camel and of course Collage. The band includes three ex-members of Collage, the legendary Polish progressive rock band.
Except for a few bands (Pendragon, Marillion, Pallas etc.) I think that neo-progressive rock is the least interesting sub-genre in progressive rock. Although it's just a fine line between clone or not, and considering that I'm not the biggest fan of neo-progressive rock, I have to admit that this is a really good album with complex lengthy compositions, skilled musicians and a wonderful packaging. The drummer and composer Wojtek Szadkowski is a real genius. How often do you see the drummer stands as main composer? If you're into neo-progressive rock this might be the album of the year. Recommended!
Posted Monday, December 29, 2003 | Review this album | Report (Review #11026)
Review by loserboy
SATELLITE are a fresh new "Neo-prog" band who for obvious reasons carry a very strong correlation to the music of Polish prog band COLLAGE (aka 1994's "Moonshine"). SATELLITE brings back and assembles the magic of "Moonshine" era-COLLAGE (IMHO the best album COLLAGE ever recorded) with the delicate vocals of Robert Amirian, Mirek Gil's hackettesque guitars, Krzystof Palczewski's touch of MARILLION/IQ and the percussive strokes of Wojtek Szadkowski. "A St. between Sunrise & Sunset" is a wonderful symphonic album full of great musical grandeur and excellent song writing and instrumental prowess. Fans of neo-prog like IQ will definitely love this album with their clean yet complex sound and moods created. The album also offers four long songs, over 10 min. each giving the band lots of room to work through some fine instrumentation. "A Street Between Sunrise And Sunset" is a symphonically full, richly textured, album, delivered with maturity and elegance and represents an excellent album all the way thru.
Posted Saturday, March 20, 2004 | Review this album | Report (Review #11032)
Review by Prognut
These to me sound like the natural progression from Collage...... At least three former members of that band are present, if not more in collaboration; However, Wojtek and Krzysick have taken charge in production.
The cover is Marillion-fish era, and all the composition by Mr Szadkowski. Pure Modern Symphonic bliss, soaring guitars and plenty of melodic Instrumentation.
It will not be fair IMHO to compare these guys with Pendragon/IQ, since they are making this type of music since the mid-80' too. They developed from a sound very close to Marillion-fish era then (Collage), but this time around is a bit different. Sometimes I do like comparisons and if I have to do it, I probably would have to say that musically are more close to IQ with Hackett playing with them, in other words a more melodic Genesis, a step down from Moonshine, but nevertheless a good stuff here for a solid debut. Recommended!!
Posted Monday, February 14, 2005 | Review this album | Report (Review #11045)
Review by chessman
I bought this album at the same time as I purchased 'Moonshine' by Collage, this band's predecessor. That is an excellent album...see my review for it elsewhere. This album, too, although slightly different, has the same sort of feel and tone, although, to me, the recording is brighter here. This is another wonderful, melodic release. The keyboards shine through here, especially on the first track, 'The Evening Wind'. This, and the next song, are the best two tracks on the album, in my opinion. The melody is wonderful, Robert Amirian's voice has grown on me a lot since I first heard it, and he suits this style of music well. The song sets the scene for the rest of the album. Mirek Gil already has a fine reputation in my eyes, and his playing is quite Hackett-like and melodic. The other guitarist here, Sarhan, is unknown to me, but acquits himself equally well. 'On The Run' is another superb, long track. The guitar work here is stunning in parts, with lots of solos throughout the song. In fact, the only tiny bit that stops this being a masterpiece, is right at the end, were the guitar strings are bent so far they are quite rough and out of tune. But that alone doesn't detract from the exhilarating effect this song has on me. The other tracks are shorter, and all have something to hold the listener. My favourites among them include 'Not Afraid', 'No Disgrace' and 'Now'. Ironically, for me, the weakest track is the last, 'Children'. Not that it is a bad song, but, compared to the others it lets the album down a little for an end song. One thing that has miffed me though, I notice on the track listening above that there are two tracks now added to it. Seems it has been remastered, but the original sounds great, and is only two years old, for God's sake! Unnecessary, methinks. Anyway, that niggle aside, this is worth every penny. Superb prog from Poland, infused with melody and skilled playing. Don't just sit there, go and get it!
Posted Wednesday, September 28, 2005 | Review this album | Report (Review #49054)
Review by mystic fred
i found this a very good album, the sound quality is excellent, the musicianship is superb, every song is superbly structured though unremarkable, but i felt disappointed. the overwhelming problem i found is i couldn't stop thinking of Genesis' "Selling England by the Pound", in almost all departments - this seeemed to be the overbearing influence, almost every track is riddled with instrumental effects from the aforementioned album, with a little Pallas influence thrown in, which could be expected as it is listed as Neo-Prog, i don't know if Satellite set out to be a neo-prog group, they certainly seem to fit this description. I shouldn't be too critical as Marillion did a fine job of aping Genesis but they took it much further, they had GREAT songs, their own ideas, their own themes, instead of carving lumps off Genesis, such as on this album, they only followed Genesis' style, carving a large niche in rock history in the process. Having got that not unreasonable criticism out of the way, on to the music on this particular cd. The album opens with traffic noise from, i guess, a New York street, and the first song "the evening wind", this is one of the best tracks on the album and has some nice drum rhythms and keyboard effects, the next song "on the run", starts off beautifully and builds up, and includes very good guitar solo. "Midnight Snow" is a nice song and flows along beautifully, and "No Disgrace" has an eastern influence to the song, "Not Afraid" , "Now" and "Fight" are pleasant enough but not outstanding songs. The next track "A Street Between Sunrise and Sunset" is an interesting enough piece and has some good guitar work, it is the longest track on the album at eleven minutes, with some good keyboard and guitar solos over some complex rhythm patterns. "Children" is a short, slow song which tails off to a barely audible vocal. Overall an excellent debut album, the songwriting is good but there are many other influences apparent on here. i haven't heard their later albums and possibly Satellite may have found their own identity on these. Satellite would appeal to many Neo Prog fans, especially if the group are touring, but to an old prog fan like me there is nothing really new here on this cd at all, even for a debut album. definitely not a prog masterpiece, so i would kindly rate it at 2.5 stars - a nice enough listen, though good, but not essential.
Posted Wednesday, May 24, 2006 | Review this album | Report (Review #79159)
Review by WaywardSon
This is a great album to listen to after a hard days work. Just lie back, put on some headphones and drift into a very comfortable listening experience!
"The Evening Wind" is a classic, about someone driving through heavy traffic and eventually reaching the sanctuary of his home. Wojtek Szadkowski (the drummer, music and lyrics writer) is the driving force of this band creates such comfortable music, that soon one is drawn into his pleasant world.
"On the Run" has a slow soaring guitar solo that one just ´wants to go on forever! These are fairly long songs that seem to fade into each other. The soothing voice and keyboards make this very pleasureable listening.
This feeling carries on through both "Midnight Snow and "No Disgrace"
On the next two songs "Not Afraid and "Now" the songs take on a rather commercial sound and I started having doubts about it being a five star album. These two songs are a bit weaker than the rest but can´t really be called bad songs.
During the next song "Fight" things come back together again and this leads into the title track, another classic called "A Street Between Sunrise and Sunset" Listening to "The Enening Wind" and this song I found myself marvelling at all the effort that must have gone into these songs, the keyboards, bass and all the programming sounds like the work of a damn genius!
The album closes with "Children" a song dedicated to Wojtek´s children. A nice soft song which finishes in what seems to be some kind of a Finnish children´s song. Really a great album. Four stars definitely
Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 | Review this album | Report (Review #87264)
Usually I don't like to review CDs that so many people have already said it all about it. But this was a special case in my life. I didn't know the band Collage before and I just happened to stumble on this CD in january 2004. After few seconds listening to it I bought it thinking it might be what it turned out: the album of that year and one of my all time favorites. Rarely I got a CD that captivated me this way: from beginning to end it was a pleasure to hear. 70 minutos of pure joy. No wonder Satellite became so big in such a short period of time.
Nowadays I see Satellite as natural progression of the band Collage. No wonder: 3 of the latters key members are featured in Satellite, including the genius drummer\songwriter Wojtek Szadkowski, the amazing keyboardist Krzyek Palczewski and excellent singer Robert Amirian. Also a fourth ex Collage member, guitarrist Mirek Gil, is featured on some tracks. Still the band's sound is one step ahead and it's simply fantastic how they use some dreaded (by purists progheads) sequencers and eletronic drums in the progressive context
While the music is definitly neo prog, it is also quite unique and it's hard to tell where is influncest come from (aside from the obvious Collage conection). Nevertheless is one of those rare CDs that it is at the same time accessible and inovative, original and pleasant. A classic CD that will please not only neo prog lovers, but anyone who likes good music in general. Highly recommeded!
Posted Tuesday, September 12, 2006 | Review this album | Report (Review #89490)
Review by E-Dub
Very lush melodies and soaring instrumentals, soft production and pretty close to the ves is a good way to descirbe Satellite's music. Don't get me wrong, I like both Satellite discs and the two Collage discs that I have; however, it may be bands like this that turn people away from neo progressive music as they don't take chances like neo pioneers Marillion or IQ.
The disc starts off with the 9 minute "Evening Wind" that sets the tone for the rest of the disc. Very nice production with some exquisite keyboard work towards the middle and end. Extremely nice to the ears, but somewhat tame. Drummer and main creative force, Wojtek Szadkowski, pulls off some good drum patterns as the song comes to a close. Maybe not as fluid as other drummers, but still very good.
As the disc progresses, it still maintains this same formula. It does work for me because I love melody and good music, which Satellite does very well. Case in point is the beginning of "On The Run", which blends nice orchestration in to give it a soft but pleasing sound. In keeping with the spirit of prog, however, I like to hear this band venture off into odd time signatures and change it up a bit. Good stuff, but nothing too challenging.
"Midnight Snow" takes on a soft ballad feel, complete with drum loops and fragile vocals. It's simply one of those songs that may not be taken seriously by the progressive community as a whole. It sounds a bit like smooth jazz, complete with the acoustic guitar solo; although, the electric guitar solo simply screams and adds a bit of teeth to this otherwise soft song.
"No Disgrace" starts off in an almost Asia like fashion, which electric guitar and orchestrated synths introducing to a more prog oriented song (I know some will view an Asia comparison to prog as an oxymoron, but work with me). Actually one of my favorites from this disc. Synth heavy with a nice chorus and sensitive guitar solo meticulously plotted out. Satellite need to include more songs to the mix.
Where "No Disgrace" too us on a progressive journey, "Not Afraid" takes us back a step with a very pop sound that sounds like something you'd have on the stereo while snuggling with your significant other. A song that could've been left off.
If you like the sound of Tangerine Dream, then you may like "Now", which has that same feel. Again, nothing too challenging with this piece. They do mix it up with a stern chorus and lush instrumentals; again, however, the drums feel a bit clumsy and out of place in spots. Seems Szadkowski is willing to sacrifice genuine musicality to overplayed fills.
I don't want to be redundant and say the same thing for "Fight" that I've already said; so, I'll go straight to the title (and strongest) song from this disc. This is Satellite's attempt at a progressive like song, but still falls a bit short. No real direction and nothing different from what we've already heard. The disc ends with "Children", which is a pleasant surprise. Nothing too prog about it, but a nice percussive backdrop and good lyrics.
I recall when I first got this disc at how much much I really enjoyed it. Now that I've branched out and discovered new bands, Satellite lacks a backbone (for lack of a better word) that the world of progressive music needs. I listen and I can make a list of suggestions that I would like to see this band accomplish. One of which is look for a singer who doesn't have a breathy, sugary tone to it that Robert Amirian possesses. Good singer, but just not confident it's suitable for prog. Maybe experiment with different synth sounds, as it seems to be repeated throughout the disc. Needles to say, I'm less enamoured with this disc now than when I first got it. This band is capable of so much more.
Posted Thursday, May 10, 2007 | Review this album | Report (Review #121502)
Formed out of the ashes of the greatest neo prog band of Poland,COLLAGE ,SATELLITE are the brainchild of the former's drummer Wojtek Szadkowski.He started the band around 2000 as a solo project,before recruiting Sarhan Kubeisi on guitars and Zbyszek Bieniak on vocals to record a demo.Bieniak left and two ex-COLLAGE members got on the board,Robert Amirian on vocals and bass and excellent keyboardist Krzysiek Palczewski.In 2003 their debut ''A street between sunrise and sunset'' sees the light,featuring also ex-COLLAGE guitarist Mirek Gil on most of the tracks.
Musically speaking,the album seems like the natural step after COLLAGE's disbanding,though it's less intense and more emotional and melodic,following the great results of its fantastic mix and production.Amirian's vocals are absolutely sensiotanal,presenting the public on of his best performances and Gil's guitars are immediately recognizable by his tremendous solos and floating melodies.Szadkowski delivers another technically perfect drumming,while Palczewski is propably the strongest ace of the band,playing in his familiar,ethereal style rooted both in symphonic passages and deep atmosphere.It's an album perfectly balanced between song-based parts and instrumental themes with nice harmonies,melodies and growing emotions.While neo/symphonic fans might find this one almost a masterpiece,''A street between sunrise and sunset'' could be an album of universal recognition,as it can easily be heard by anyone who just wants to come in touch with some strong,delicate and emotional music.A highly recommended release!
Review by progrules
When I found out about this band (it was actually thanks to progarchives with the great streamtrack On the Run) I was highly delighted because I was almost in mourning about the disappearance of Collage, one of my all time favourite bands. So this was their successor, apparently a split up (the other being Mr. Gil who initially played a few songs on this album).
Who cares, as long as the great music was to be continued. When I listened to On the Run, I was blown away really by the unbelievable quality of the track. I mean this was even better than Collage, which hardly seemed possible to me. I bought the album and was not really disappointed by the rest I can say. On the Run is the very highlight but playing the album it's a real treat for about 70 minutes. Just the last track Children is off the mark to me. The rest is really awesome. This is a masterpiece in my book, but then again I'm a neo prog fan of extremely melodic music. And that's what we are talking about here. So 5 stars is the only option to me.
The debut album of this revamped and updated version of COLLAGE set the bar very high. Crystalline production, strong vocals, mood shifts, nostalgic melodies, thoughtful lyrics and great playing all combine to make "Street Between.." one of the greatest neo progressive albums of all time. That they could produce such a fresh standard 20 years after Marillion's first effort is testament to the skill of Mr Szadowski and crew. My review is based on a version of the CD that does not contain "Bye Bye Bye" and "One Empty Hand".
The opener, "Evening Wind". is definitely one of the highlights, encapsulating all of the above qualities in nearly 13 glorious minutes. If there is one diversion from the standard neo prog "formula", it is Satellite's ability to shift from "down" to "up" and back again, and to contrast the busy sections with more reflective passages. Here, Satellite virtually avoids any metallic edges - there are enough bands doing that already. They coax all us fans of subtlety and sentimentality out from the shadows. The entire track is stupendous, but the keyboards shine in particular, especially the synth solos that reappear several times and bring the song to its final conclusion.
"On the Run" is another multifaceted song that is more like a suite. Sometimes the parts seem a little bit disjointed but it ultimately works, even if Sarhan first reveals his tendency to excess bravado on the guitar solo, that begins just after the 5 minute mark of this quarter hour monster. It does, however, lead into an excellent vocal section. It is true that sometimes Robert Amirian tends to breathe his words a bit too unctuously, but this is easily forgiven due to his ability to convey so much feeling with so little. The entire ensemble seems to know what it wants to achieve, and, amazingly, hit the mark far more often than not.
After two long tracks, Satellite gears down to deliver several shorter pieces beginning with the lovely ballad "Midnight Snow". The tune seems to be reminiscent of something I have heard before but I cannot remember what. This wistful quality permeates so much of Satellite's work. A sparkling lead guitar solo that unravels at the end of the song leads to the final statement by Mr Amirian, and we are led into the much more up tempo "No Disgrace". While it barely touches the fringes of metal, it manages to be energizing, and, while excellent in its own right, it seems like a mere rehearsal compared to some of the more evolved material presented on the group's follow up "Evening Games". "I'm not afraid" is one of the minor missteps on the album, as it is just a bit to cloying and mellow beyond description, even if its production values and arrangements are through the roof.
The third epic is "Now", and it is up to the challenge. The introduction unfolds craftily with an anticipatory vocal section, ambient part, and buildup before the main melody takes over on synthesizer. It definitely has a 1970s feel to it, with strong echoes of mid period Genesis, but these are woven into the mix in such a natural way that there is really no disgrace. The sinewy structure is punctuated by the insistent chorus. "Fight" is a ballad that recalls "Midnight Snow", down to the intensely beautiful lead guitar solo at its climax.
The title track is the final epic, and carries the brunt of the album's theme with purpose and confidence. It unravels a little as it rolls towards the finish line, so is probably the weakest lengthy piece overall. The album is completed by the simple nondescript ballad "Children" and it's fair to say that this one could have safely been omitted.
A few blips notwithstanding, "A Street Between.." is the logical extension of the road traveled by Collage, and in real estate it's all about location. A visit to the neighbourhood is highly recommended.
By its very label, neo-progressive rock is unashamedly derivative. This branch of prog rock, then, has more than its fair share of bands struggling to find their own voice. SATELLITE is not one of them.
Instead, this band come out of the box with a fully-formed album of very high quality. This is because SATELLITE has risen from the grave of COLLAGE, a well-regarded Polish band from the 1990s, and contains three of its members. So this is not really a debut album, and as a result the band quickly finds a voice of its own within the constricting confines of neo-prog.
Nowhere is this clearer than in the first two tracks, both neo-prog epics of the highest order. Of the two, I personally favour the bustle and keyboard lyricism of 'The Evening Wind' over the extended guitar soloing and calmer pace of 'On the Run.' Had the album kept this high standard it would be a competitor for 'best neo-prog album', but the shorter tracks, while good, do not engage the listener to the same degree. This is, it seems, a band born to the epic.
There's a very loose concept here, but the vocals are understated, rendering the concept rather innocuous. However, there are some common themes in the music, the start of the third epic 'Now' linking back to the beginning of the album. This track packs a stronger punch - not in any way hard-edged, but robust, with an excellent chorus. 'Fight' returns to the shorter song formula, a short song padded out with an extended solo, then the final epic, the overlong title track, meanders a little towards the album's close. 'Children' finishes the album on a melancholy note.
Like most neo-prog albums, this album will not satisfy the adventurous soul's quest for bleeding-edge originality. However, if you simply want an enjoyable, melodic listen, this album will fit well into your collection, and for a while may even get high rotation.
Posted Monday, April 14, 2008 | Review this album | Report (Review #166589)
I really thought I would like this band more then I do. I would describe their music as lush, melodic, pleasant, reflective and mellow. SATELLITE was born out of the ashes of COLLAGE, but nothing I have heard so far from SATELLITE measures up to COLLAGE's "Moonshine" record. Having said all that this is very enjoyable music, the kind I could see me listening to outside at night as I thought about life.
"The Evening Wind" opens with the sound of someone driving along and listening to their radio. The music arrives a minute in. Vocals follow along with a full sound. I like the vocals with strummed guitar after 4 minutes and later at 8 minutes. Some aggressive guitar 9 minutes in. "On The Run" features vocals, acoustic guitar, piano and synths. A full sound before 2 minutes. Lots of synths in this one.The guitar before 6 minutes is excellent as it goes on and on. More guitar 13 1/2 minutes in.This is such a pleasant tune. "Midnight Snow" is another laid back song that at times reminds me of George Michael. Haha. The guitar 3 1/2 minutes in is so good though.
"No Disgrace" is one of my favourites, especially the chorus. We finally get some passion on this one. Tasteful guitar and lots of synths as usual. "Not Afraid" opens with almost spoken vocals with synths. The tempo picks up before 2 minutes. This has almost a dance beat to it as guitar plays overtop. "Now" opens with spacey synths and we get some choir sections that sound like mellotron. And the vocals get unusually aggressive 3 1/2 minutes in. "Fight" has a nice beat to it with synths.This is laid back and catchy. Mirek lets it rip on guitar 3 minutes in. Nice. "A Street Between Sunrise And Sunset" has a ballad-like intro with piano. I like the guitar 5 minutes in and the guitar / drum section 10 minutes in. "Children" is pretty much percussion, piano and reserved vocals.
A "safe" album to be sure that really takes little chances. I like it.
In terms of line-up, Satellite is almost a reincarnation of Collage, the historical neo-prog Polish band. Indeed, the music is quite similar even if more recent. Still, it is with great pleasure that some great guitar parts from Mirek Gil are re-discovered. The man is really gifted.
Most of the songs are balanced between the neo and symphonic genre (the latter aspect being mostly underlined thanks to the passionate guitar). I would say that it is a fine combination for "A Street Between Sunrise And Sunset".
Melodic breaks are plenty and the emotion that emanates from most of the songs can be compared to several "Pendragon" songs. And you might know that I quite like them. This long album (which might well be the minus point), is full of harmony and fine instrumental parts; even if a song as "Not Afraid" would have been best avoided.
The whole "Satellite" project started in the mind of Wojtek Szadkowski (Collage drummer). He was responsible for all tracks (except one which is co-written). It is rather scarce that a drummer is credited for all the creative parts of a album to be underlined. Bravo Wojtek.
Most songs are really on the symphonic side and really pleasant. I would point out three of the longest tracks from this album which contains some fabulous prog parts (again, mainly guitar): "The Evening Wind", "On the Run" and "Now".
But not only those ones are intersting. The same passion is felt during the shorter "Fight" and even if the title track doesn't hold the same grandeur, Mirek is again great.
I am really charmed with this very good symph/neo prog album. Most of the tracks are well written, perfectly performed and nicely produced. This is one of the best neo-prog albums IMHHO. Four stars.
Posted Sunday, September 7, 2008 | Review this album | Report (Review #181985)
One of the better Neo-Prog albums I've heard in that Collage/Satellite's brand of Neo-Prog is highly original, highly melodic, and contains the wonderful guitar work of maestro Mirek GIL. In my humble opinion, Mr. Gil surpasses the emotional impact of the guitar player he most emulates--Mr. Steve HACKETT. Gil just takes it to another level--almost every time his solo takes the stage, not just here and there--which is astounding. Keys, drums and bass play here are great, though the sound is often of that 90s period that COLLAGE came out of, but the compositions here are great, and the vocals of Robert AMIRIAN are wonderful--really top notch! And I love the addition of the violin, but I live to hear Mirek GIL's screaming guitar. Too bad Mirek left after this one. At least he's gone on to play in other bands.
Favorite songs: the gorgeous, powerful and concise, "Not Afraid" (3:56) (10/10) and the great epic, "On the Run" (14:51) (9/10).
The prospect of a spiritual successor band to Collage, one of the absolute greats of the Polish neo-prog scene, is surely enough to make any neo fan excited. As it stands, though, Satellite's debut album shows potential but does not quite live up to it to my ears.The interesting experiment of having dance music rhythms underpin a lot of the songs (there's even a song with preprogrammed drums) with neo-progish keyboard and guitar solos over the top was probably worth a try, but here at least they don't quite mesh into a coherent whole. Still, the Mark Wilkinson cover art (which seems to be his take on the cover to Neil Young's Trans) is a nice touch.
Review by kev rowland
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Crossover Team
While Satellite may be a new name in the prog field, and 'A Street Between Sunrise And Sunset' their debut album, this is a band that have been formed out of one of Poland's most well-known and best-loved prog acts, Collage. Originally this was set to be a solo project by drummer and main Collage songwriter Wojtek Szadkowski but he gradually brought in more and more musicians, many of whom he had performed with in Collage. They are signed to Metal Mind, the most important label of it's' type in Poland, and the artwork has been provided by Mark Wilkinson of Marillion/Fish fame. In fact, if you look at the Satellite site at www.satelliteprog.com you can see the whole series of covers that he designed for this, a real work in progress.
But what about the music? The band themselves have compared it most to 'Moonshine' era Collage but how about Western proggers who may have never heard that band? In fact there is a lot going on, and while certain influences such as Genesis and Pendragon or Pink Floyd can be picked out, it is easier to say that this is easy listening prog that is thoroughly enjoyable throughout. The album is sung in English, and in fact the feel is that this is an American project and not a Polish one at all. The album starts with street noise and a snippet of a radio commentator, and the impression is a bustling American city. That is an intriguing way into the first song, "The Evening Wind", which at nearly thirteen minutes long is a great start. Of course, the guitar can't be hidden totally by the keyboards and there are some very powerful plays indeed. A particular favourite has to be "No Disgrace" which is a belting prog rock number driven along by dynamic percussion and sizzling keyboard runs.
This could easily be the most important album out of Poland this year, and the finest I have heard from that country since Quidam. Which one is the better? The jury is still out.
Originally appeared in Feedback #73, Jun 03
Review by The Crow
From the ashes of the great polish band Collage, Satellite was born back in 2003!!!
And I really don't understand why they decided to change their name, because the line-up is very similar to Collage and so is the style of their music. They still make a very sentimental and keyboard oriented neo-prog with dreamy passages and a precious fairy tale atmosphere, very unique and enchanting. Maybe they thought their success would increase changing the name of the band? I don't know...
Nevertheless, the result is better than the previous Collage's album called Safe. The production is also more competent and everything sounds more modern and actual, including some programmed rhythms and a better vocal work. Robert Amirian was not a very good singer in Collage, and in Satellite he is still weak, but at least he sounds not out of tune anymore. Thanks' God! The guitars of Gil are also more bearable than in the 90's, not so high pitched, and the rest of the instruments sounds also great, including the drums of the band's leader Wojtek Szadkowski.
The result is a very good, even excellent neo-prog album from a band which deserved more recognition!
Best Tracks: On the Run (comparable in quality to the best Collage's compositions), No Disgrace (a powerful and beautiful neo-prog track with excellent keyboards and a true marvelous guitar solo), Fight (a well written song, with a beautiful chorus and great guitars) and A Street between Sunrise and Sunset (modern and not so old fashioned, but equally interesting and with a splendid bass line)
Conclusion: Collage changed their name, but not their spirit! After the disappointing Safe, Satellite retrieved the magic of Moonshine with A Street between Sunrise and Sunset. Full with wonderful melodies, incredible keyboards and a very good work of all the members of the band this is a delicious record for all the neo-prog fans out there.
Even Robert Amirian sings better than before!
My rating: ****
Posted Monday, December 3, 2018 | Review this album | Report (Review #2080602)
After reading all the glowing reviews here, I decided to buy this ASAP, so off to amazon I went and one-clicked it. Boy, what a huge disappointment! This has got to be the most BORING neo prog album I've heard yet. First off let me say that I'm a HUGE keyboard/synth fanatic, but the way they're us ... (read more)
Report this review (#160398) | Posted by EricDraven | Friday, February 1, 2008 | Review Permanlink
In getting ready for their new release "Into the Night," I thought I would review one of my most intriguing albums, "A Street Between Sunrise and Sunset by Satellite. This is an album that exemplifies how an artist is able to create atmosphere in their music. On every listen I hear somet ... (read more)
Report this review (#156479) | Posted by cutsofmeat | Monday, December 24, 2007 | Review Permanlink
Too long, tracks with the style of Collage Safe but dilhated up to 13-14 minutes. bad album? no, of course, but it is difficult to listen to it completely in a sole time without having the need to shift to something harder! ... (read more)
Report this review (#145346) | Posted by babbus61 | Wednesday, October 17, 2007 | Review Permanlink
Setting this album on my Ipod I didn't quite know what to expect. Being new to the whole neo-prog sub-genre I find the music good but the vocals often throaty and hard to cope with. But upon listening to this album I accidently left the pod on shuffle and listened to the song 'A Street Between S ... (read more)
Report this review (#129697) | Posted by Xeroth | Saturday, July 21, 2007 | Review Permanlink
ONE OF A KIND.. This cd is outstanding.One of my five all times prefered neo prog cds,and probably the first in this top 5.The show opens with the masterpiece of this work,"the evening wind",an increbible 12 minutes suite where Wojtek Szadkowski find an excellent drumming work on the principa ... (read more)
Report this review (#116641) | Posted by Kill Fede | Thursday, March 29, 2007 | Review Permanlink
This is quite simply one of the best albums I have ever heard and though the followup to this one is even better, there is much to be mesmerized by when listening to it. This band was born from the ashes of Polish band, COLLAGE. While I did like that band I often felt they underachieved. This ... (read more)
Report this review (#82769) | Posted by Trafficdogg | Wednesday, July 5, 2006 | Review Permanlink
This is one of the best prog albums ever recorded! It is as good as Collage (another Wojtek Szadkowski's band.) If you don't know Collage, check out their album "Moonshine." I highly recommend both of those albums! Great guitar and keyboard solos, and excellent vocals (same vocalist, Robert Am ... (read more)
Report this review (#64150) | Posted by | Wednesday, January 11, 2006 | Review Permanlink
This is the best prog-CD from poland after the legendary "Collage - Moonshine" album. SATELLITE follows up COLLAGE, but in a more "modern" way. Singer Robert Amirian voice is better than ever. The CD contains the most lovely melody- lines, keyboards, guitar and drum parts since years. Wojtek Sz ... (read more)
Report this review (#44582) | Posted by Grendelbox | Sunday, August 28, 2005 | Review Permanlink
Satellite is the new born child of former Collace founder Wojtek Szadkowski. With a cover designed by Mark Wilkinson (He of Marillion fame) there can be nothing wrong. And this premiere record is a masterpiece!! The sound is beautiful..the songs lovely..the.. arragenments beautiful.....if you own ... (read more)
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With less than a year to go, Gabbitas Education was contacted by a family living abroad to help their daughter, Elizabeth, into a British boarding school to start in year 9. Whilst their daughter was a strong candidate, they had unfortunately left it quite late and had missed many of the deadlines to apply. Time was ticking and the family needed ‘boots on the ground’.
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Prospects shares exemplary careers advice with St Thomas More School and Sixth Form in Nuneaton
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UK schools have a statutory duty to provide independent careers guidance for their students. Prospects, as the largest employer of qualified careers advisers in the country can offer tailored careers guidance for young people at a schools request.
One school that has bought in expert advice from Prospects is St Thomas More School and Sixth Form in Nuneaton.
Prospects supports The Queen Elizabeth Academy
"Prospects has made our life easier."
Schools have a statutory duty to provide independent careers guidance for their students. Prospects, as the largest employer of qualified careers advisers in the country provides tailored career guidance services for schools by request. One school who buys in Prospects’ services is The Queen Elizabeth Academy (TQEA) in Warwickshire.
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Muhammed, a Year 11 student at Beckfoot Upper Heaton School in Bradford, dreamed of working in the motor industry and with Prospects help he has made his dream a reality.
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I Officially Return My Law Degree To Baylor University
As Baylor and the Agricultural College appear on ESPN this afternoon in the NCAA Softball Tournament (sheeeeesh, it's gonna be a long sports summer), I stumble across this: A drunk white guy, trying to get a bus filled with drunk black people (and 2 white very sober families with small children) to do a patented Baylor University 'Sic em Bears. YouTube clip here. (Warning: A couple of F bombs.)
Ugggghhhh!
Every major news source is reporting "Breaking News" that three men have been arrested in a "plot" to blow up fuel lines at JFK Airport in New York.
The FBI held a "major news conference" and described the group as a "sleeper terrorist cell" (get those buzz words ready), and they even (gasp) "used the Internet to obtain satellite photographs of the JFK facility." (Read: Google Earth.) The U.S. Attorney for Brooklyn stood up and said it was "one of the most chilling plots imaginable."
But, if you listen closely, al-Qaida was not involved and, more importantly, "Homeland Security sources said the airport is not under threat and that the attack as planned was 'not technically feasible.'"
Once a year (flashback), the Administration has to remind us to be afraid. Kind of hard to justify the billions on the "War on Terror" without it.
Edit: Boy, was I dead on about the "Google Earth" reference. This "shocking detail" was released on Monday.
Sounds Very Farmers Branch-ee-ee
But it's really no big story. Tarrant County did the same thing three years ago. But the headline in the Star-Telegram just kinda jumps out at you.
There was a minor scandal in New York this week when a story ran of A-Rod out on the town with a blonde stripper. Last night, the fans in Boston threw down some humor.
Depressing Saturday Morning Thoughts
I took the excerpt above (click to enlarge) from this Star-Telegram story today about the lady who hung herself and four children (one survived) in Parker County this week. The story is about poverty, and documented that she made $20,400 a year (which includes $400 a month in food stamps.) Of course, that's no reason to kill your kids. But it would be a stress level that would be unimaginable.
The excerpt shows the guidelines for what is considered "poverty" in America. And over one in 10 qualify in this country under those standards. That's insane. And I wonder if that figure includes illegal aliens?
And I never think about poverty without thinking about George Will's rules for avoiding it: "Graduate from high school, don't have a baby until you are married, don't marry while you are a teenager. Among people who obey those rules, poverty is minimal."
Hot No Matter What She Is Doing
Jessica Biel. Yep, this same one.
Hillary in Santa Clara On Friday
Look again. You'll see it.
Finally, A Little Respect
And make no mistake about it Florida, I'll mess you up.
Edit: Saturday morning I was downgraded to a Tropical Depression. Where's my paxil?
Quick observations:
- Hardly anyone dresses up any more. Heck, I even brought a blue blazer that I left in the car once I saw the crowd.
- The ceremony was long but it was streamlined about as well as it could be
- Dr. Newbury told the same story that he did in my high school graduation 27 years ago (about doing an experiment with his car lights.)
- Graduating from high school is kinda scary. It's a feeling of, "it's all up to you, now."
- It's an odd feeling when you were present at the hospital for someone's birth AND are present for their high school graduation
- A krillion pics have been uploaded here, but looking at them might cure insomnia. Even a bad case of insomnia. (I've even taken out my family pics - a family who would officially disown me if the pics were posted.)
The line . . .
. . . To get into Bridgeport's graduation.
I'm heading back to my alma mater tonight to watch my nephew graduate from Bridgeport High School. (Hopefully, I'll get some good material to write about.) But I noticed that the speaker will be Dr Don Newbury. That's weird. He was the commencement speaker at my high school graduation.
And the ceremony has been moved indoors to the gym. I predict overcrowding.
I didn't watch it, but it's all the sports boys are talking about today. Last night, in double OT, Lebron James scored 48 points. Here's the amazing part: He scored the last 25 Cleveland points in the game. I've never heard of such a thing.
The kid is 22 years old.
Last year's earnings: $30,828,089. Holy crap.
My Nominee . . .
. . . for hottest woman I've ever seen in a mask (excluding that ball mask thing like the one used in Pulp Fiction.)
Jack County Crime Wave
Crazy docket in Jack County this morning. It seemed to be of a record size: 30 defendants.
What are "my guys" accused of doing?
- Delivery of a Controlled Substance, > 4 grams < 200 grams (female)
- Possession of a Controlled Substance, > 4 grams < 200 grams (female)
- DWI - Third (male)
- Possession of a Controlled Substance, > 4 grams < 200 grams (female, and a no show)
- Indecency With A Child (male)
- Injury To A Child (male)
- DWI- Third Offense (male)
And it occurs to me how "bad" some of the titles sound until you actually see what the facts are.
Angry World
I had intended to mention this last weekend. Before my Memorial Day afternoon movie at the high tone Colleyville theater, I overheard a conversation between a waiter and the bartender. (This crazy place has waiters that patrol the theaters and even sells alcohol.) Anyway, the waiter comes back to the bar with a full bottle of wine and two glasses. "Man, do you have any traditional wine glasses?" He says to the bartender (as he looks down at glasses that had apparently been rejected by a customer.) "People get really mad when they order a bottle of wine and we don't have wine glasses." Really mad? Over glasses? Wine glasses? We have it tough in this country.
Terrorist Captured
I'm late to the party on this one. (Original pic is here.)
I'm Off To A Jack County Criminal Docket
But at least that saved me from having to watch Big And Rich on The Today Show.
Do You Think His Life Has Gone Terribly Wrong
I was watching this story on Fox 4 News last night, and apparantly the undercover cops had struck a deal with this guy to sell the (fake) child for $2,000. He didn't have the money so they agreed to payments of $100. I'll swear I saw an investigator say, "It was a rent-to-own situation." I grab the TIVO remote control and hit replay on moments like that.
I'm Sure The Cabbage Patch Is In There Somewhere
This clip isn't that remarkable other than to analyze the myriad of dance steps that this white family throws down after a San Antonio Spurs win. I think I saw the "running man" as well as a square dance break out.
When Everyone Leaves Me, I'll No Longer Post This Chart
Pamela Anderson For No Reason . . . Other Than The Obvious One
Spell "KLEH'-vihs"
That smart kid from Colleyville couldn't. I couldn't fill out the application to get in the Spelling Bee without making a spelling error.
"Mine!"
If you have any passing interest in baseball, what happened yesterday was fascinating. Yankees/Blue Jays. Pop up to Blue Jays third baseman. A-Rod running from second to third. A-Rod yells "mine" as he goes behind the third baseman causing the third baseman to give up on the ball. Ball hits ground. Cheater?
The definitive shot is about halfway through this youtube.com clip.
Kelly Brook says
"If I'm ever in Bridgeport on Thursdays, I normally drop by the City Pool."
The Preceding . . .
. . . posts were very text heavy. I had forgotten my blogging roots. I apologize to all of those that know what is really important in this world.
- I paid over $50 for a tank of gas on Monday. The first time ever.
- I've never seen a case in the last 15 years where the allegation was "the defendant sold drugs to kids."
- Whenever the police seize some drugs, I'm always skeptical when I hear the "street value was over $[insert ridiculous amount]"
- Potential Republican candidate Fred Thompson is extremely overrated - but is probably the only one who understands politics in this new age.
- President Bush will go down as the worst president in our lifetime. Moderates and liberals see him as a simpleton. Hard line conservatives shake their heads on the issues of immigration and the expanding federal budget. That leaves very few people left that respect him.
- I think dining at a restaurant is the biggest waste of money on the planet.
- I had a credit card when I was 18 years old. My dad told me not to be stupid. Not once did I get in over my head as a kid.
- Standing in front of a jury is both exhausting, painful, and exhilarating.
- Spanish will be the dominate language in Texas fifty years from now.
- I really haven't been married seven times.
- For the life of me, I cannot understand anyone who eats a meal by themselves without having something to read.
- I don't know anyone who reads editorial columns in major daily newspapers.
- I'd rather be a writer in seclusion than a lawyer.
- I think a lot of people miss the old "Skattershooting."
If This Were April, I'd Post This
Lost's Evangeline Lilly.
Awkward Moment Today
At the end of jury selection today, a prospective juror raised her hand and said, "I've observed something going on this morning that I'd like to talk privately with the judge and the lawyers about it."
That, my friends, is a Stop Down Moment.
As the rest of all the potential jurors were excused, I spoke briefly with Assistant County Attorney Thomas Aaberg about what it could possibly be. "Other than your fly being open, I'm not sure," he said. That, of course, was a joke that was even funnier when I impulsively glanced down at my groin area. All was secure.
Once in front of the judge, the potential juror (who was as sweet and honest as the day is long - as well as a former out-of-county prosecution employee) said that she felt that I had mischaracterized the prosecution and put them at a disadvantage. What had I done? I had stressed that the prosecution was, in fact, "the government", and since so many people thought negatively of the government, the rest of the jury panel had probably made the prosecution's job more difficult.
That was a new one for me. I cannot thank her enough for being honest and expressing her opinion (By the way, I used one of my free three strikes to make sure she didn't end up on the jury - I was fairly sure she hated me.) But I think she had a hard time understanding that even though County Attorney Greg Lowery is a "good ol' Paradise boy", he is, in fact, The State Of Texas when he prosecutes someone for an alleged crime. Simply put, when he goes to work, he becomes "The Government."
Sidenote #1: Everyone at the courthouse jokes about how I drop the "n" when I pronounce "government".
Sidenote #2: The picture is from my jury selection Powerpoint presentation.
Brief Recap
Normally, the cases that are tried in Judge Melton Cude's County Court at Law are DWI. I've been involved in a bunch of them and, quite frankly, I think I could try one in my sleep. (With my nightly nightmares, it would be a nice change of pace.) But today we tried something a little bit different: An "Assault - Bodily Injury - Family Violence" case. That's code for "wife beating." As mentioned earlier, it ended up in a "not guilty" verdict - which I will always attribute to the facts instead of my trial skills. (I normally tell new clients in our initial meeting that "I'm not a magician. If the facts indicate you are obviously guilty, I can can't stop a guilty verdict from happening.") Family violence cases normally drive me insane. Everyone pictures some crazed man coming home from a construction job and then beating his wife for over-frying the chicken fried steak. That is rarely the case. Women (but not all women) manipulate the system in a frightening manner. Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle was on the new Gordon Keith show about three months ago. Gordon asked him what to do if someone were to find themselves in a false domestic violence allegation. Gordon joked, "Be the first one to dial 911?" The Chief candidly admitted that's true. I can't tell you how true that is.
Did he have a life jacket on? (Story.)
Slow Posting?
I'm in the middle of a misdemeanor assault jury trial. That explains the silence. I thought about posting a picture of Jessica Alba during cross examination, but that would be inappropriate. Back to court. Lunch break over. Edit: Success for the falsely accused. (That means, a "not guilty" verdict.) More later.
Sheesh. Is This Seattle?
A Tradition Like . . . Uh, Other Traditions
The Colonial golf tourney looked like it was a beating. Constant rain. No big names. Small crowds.
But one guy confirmed it was business as usual: "It's happy hour out here at Colonial, which means it's high time for me to sample the famed Colonial Margarita. At 7 bucks a pop, they're perty [sic] potent. And you can add a shot of tequila for $2. I passed on 'the floater,' but most people don't said the gals pulling the lever on the frozen concoctions. About 75 percent of Colonial customers Super Size their Margaritas . . . " (Source.)
Olivia Wilde Says . . .
. . . "Good Wednesday morning, Cottondale!"
It's Time To Bring Them Home
From the front page of the New York Times yesterday. His story here.
You can only look at the picture and cry.
112 . . .
. . . Young Soldiers, This Month Alone, Will Not See Their Families Again
I Love "The Onion" . . .
. . . and would quit my job tomorrow to be one of its writers (if they paid, uh, money). But, man, they push the edge sometimes. (The Onion.)
Stuff I Did Not Know
In 1960. two people were killed at the Indy 500 when over 100 people decided to climb a "make shift" tower. The old time news reel footage is here.
Be Concerned . . .
. . . if your boy plays baseball for Stephen F. Austin or UT at San Antonio.
Stay Classy, Drudge
Good to see that Drudge is taking the high road with his advertising on The Drudge Report.
This Man Does Not Have Hair Problems
ESPN Classic has been replaying old "American Gladiator" episodes. But nothing will stop you down like the required double take of seeing Malibu being interviewed. And the man has the worst Spicoli impersonation in the history of ever.
I'm Off To Fort Worth - Watch The Radar
America Is Crazy
Hey, Not
Rosie talks via a webcam. (And clicking on the image won't play it.) Link is here.
I can't concentrate on what she is saying because I'm distracted by the whole crazy scene going on around her. It's just bizarre to see a celebrity look like she just got back from the dollar store.
(Star Telegram photo.)
Just heard a story on WBAP about three children and a woman being found dead in a Parker County home this morning. I also heard something about a noose.
As soon as I find a link, I'll post it.
Edit: The DMN beats the Star Telegram with the first story. And one sentence in that short story is shocking (in a story that is already shocking.)
Edit 2: The Star-Telegram wasn't far behind. (And it has this quote: "We got a mess.’’)
Edit 3: The Star-Telegram with some relevant info:
NBC 5 television reported that the bodies were those of a 23-year-old mother and her three daughters, ages 5, 3 and 2. The station reported that the mother’s sister discovered the bodies, which were hanging in a closet. The station reported that authorities had contact the woman's ex-husband.
Edit 4: It's now being called a "Triple Murder Suicide."
Random Prom Pic
Bet those boys will regret that in a few years.
Movie Going Fun
I normally like the Metro Cinema in Colleyville, but this was my first time yesterday in the "upstairs" theater. You would think seeing a movie that has been out for a couple of months would not be a cause for concern when it comes to the issue of seating.
Especially when the theater seats about 50 people (and I'm not kidding.) Here is a pic with my camera phone from my seat on the front row. Talk about the life force being sucked out of me.
Lindsay Plays Hard
Saw This On Monday
The previews for this flick have been running in theaters for months and it looked pretty good. It turned out to be, uh, ok. I'm willing to suspend belief as much as the next guy to enjoy a movie but this thing asked too much of me. Simply not believable. And, for those that have seen it, the basic legal premise that wraps the movie up in a tight little bow is, in my opinion, wrong.
And I had two power down moments when the hero uttered "I hate to lose" and "I'll see you in court" within 15 minutes of each other.
Opening Of Miss Universe Pageant
And even though I didn't see it, I just read that Tony Romo was judge. I'll say it again: The Cowboys are doomed.
Edit: Miss Japan won the thing. On Memorial Day, no less. I, for one, am not willing to forget about Pearl Harbor.
Dale Jr. on his 8th place finish yesterday at the Coca-Cola 600 (as seen on ESPN's Sports Center.):
"Had a good car so I won't be sad on Memorial Day. We'll be able to party."
Drive By It All The Time
. . . and forget how cool it really is.
I've been to that restaurant in the tower one time. And the oddest of memories: It was the night that Mike Tyson got knocked out for the first time.
Indy 500 Hotness
What does today's Indy 500 winner have in common with Ashley Judd? He's married to her. (Just learned that on Dale Hansen's Sport's Special.)
Edit: Someone has commented that this is not a picture of Ashley Judd. It's not? I just grabbed it off the first page of an Ashley Judd google image search.
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MoU Signing Ceremony between PPD and HED for Construction of 36 Community Clinics with the Financial Support of Government of India
Partners in Population and Development (PPD) and Health Engineering Department signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for Construction of 36 Community Clinics with the financial support of Government of India on 28 December 2017. The MoU signing ceremony held in the Conference Room of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of Bangladesh in the presence of H.E. Mr. Mohammed Nasim, Honorable Minister of Health and Family Welfare, H.E. Mr. Zahid Maleque, Honorable State Minister of Health and Family Welfare, MoHFW, Mr. Faiz Ahmed, Secretary, Medical Education and Family Welfare Division and Mr. Quazi AKM Mohiul Islam, Additional Secretary, and PCC of PPD, Population, Family Welfare and Law, MoHFW. MoU has been signed by Dr Md. Nazrul Islam, Director Program, PPD and Eng. Mohammad Anwar Ali, Superintendent Engineer, HED.
PPD and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Bangladesh as well as the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India have enjoyed a long standing partnership with each other as both are the PPD’s focal Ministries in the respective countries. Over the last 2 decades, many programs of cooperation have been established in the field of reproductive health, population and development through promoting south-south cooperation.
This MOU commits us to work together more closely towards our common goal, the pursuit of the internationalization of Community Clinics Experience through South South Cooperation in order to ensure more healthcare services to the community people and achieve health related sustainable development goals by 2030. Each side will pursue many significant activities, such as PPD will ensure effective implementation of 36 community clinics construction works with the financial support through High Commission of India, Government of India. PPD will work further to document the community clinic experience as good practice in Bangladesh and will exchange the practice to other member countries of PPD for its learning and replication. These are top priority items for this MoU.
HED will mobilize community people for community partnerships and ownership, ensure land donation from community people and construct the 36 clinics, health works force will be appointed to ensure the smooth operation of these clinics and ensure services to the people under the guidance of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
PPD would like to express their sincere gratitude to everyone whose dedication and efforts have contributed to the finalization of this MOU. In particular, PPD family would like to thank Honorable Minister of Health and Family Welfare His Excellency Mr. Mohammed Nasim, MP and Honorable State Minister of Health His Excellency Mr. Zahid Maleque, MP, Brigadier General M A Mohy, Chief Engineer of HED and his Team of HED; Mr. Harsh Vardhan Shringla, High Commissioner of India to Dhaka and Mr. Dibbanjan Roy, First Secretary and Railway Advisor of Indian High Commission, Government of India. Their insights, goodwill and friendship have made the signing of this MOU a reality.
PPD family would like to say that we are confident that through our efforts and commitment, we will be able to achieve more and to be able to continue to develop even stronger relationships and friendships between the people of Bangladesh and India along with people of other PPD member of countries. PPD would like to take this opportunity to assure you that the PPD will do whatever it can in order to provide a successful implementation of this MOU.
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10 Hypnotising Novels
Books,Great Storytelling
One of the truly great joys I think you can have is reading a novel, whose story is so well told, you can’t bear to put it down, you’re excited to think you’ll be back reading it later, and when you’re in the midst of it, you are almost in a trance state, so deeply are you engaged in the narrative. Of course, this doesn’t happen often, and I guess that’s part of what makes it special. Here are a gang of novels, in no particular order, that have left me spellbound and I think are pretty darn special:
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt is just an exceptional writer, sentence by sentence, page by page, which I found again when I read her latest book The Goldfinch, which was also utterly absorbing. But The Secret History remains one of my favourite novels – I remember being utterly captured by the first-person story of a young man who falls completely into the seductive world of a gang of charismatic, eccentric misfits at a fancy New England university, where mystery and adventure is key and the rules of normal society are cast aside for a superior world of ideas and experiences … until ultimately facing the dangers of crossing the boundaries of morals and laws. I remember its crisply formed ideas and gorgeous sentences blowing my mind, and whipping through the pages of its darkly thrilling story. Even now, when I see its simple black cover in a bookshop, I get a tingle of joy.
The Brothers K by David James Duncan
In what is surely one of the greatly underrated Great American Novels, the saga of a family is gorgeously captured. Compassionate, uplifting and deeply humane, it follows decades in the lives of the four boys in the Chance family, absorbing us in capturing key aspects of American life, of sport and big dreams, of religion and regret, of political upheaval and finding your own way in that huge country. Truly beautiful, its 600 pages will blaze by, and leave you with only a feeling of good soul afterwards. I still sometimes dream of setting up a baseball pitching practice area in a back yard, complete with target and a bag of stained old baseballs, like the dethumbed father of the tale.
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar by Roald Dahl
More of a novella, I adore this Roald Dahl story, and can remember being plain gobsmacked as a young lad following its incredible but so believably told story of a rich layabout who learns to count cards from a yogi master’s teachings, and then goes on to use various disguises to cheat casinos and give the money to the poor. Its intricate playing out of the learning process of magically seeing through the cards, and the sweaty drama of our protagonist’s first attempts at a card table, are all brilliantly captured in Dahl’s unmatched clear and caustic storytelling. 95% chance you will read this in one sitting.
Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
I have clear memories of being introduced to Bret Easton Ellis while at drama school, and devouring his books in the only reading time I had amidst long days and crashed-out nights – my rumbling bus journeys to and from Dublin’s city centre. I remember being aghast and utterly fascinated by his American Psycho, but in reading his Glamorama, I was genuinely hypnotised. I recall reading a 3-way sex scene that went on and on and on for pages and pages, and having to put the book down, not from arousal but just being dizzy with its imagery. And getting off the bus one day, I realized I was noting the brand labels worn by each passer-by, and rating them based on it, just like the protagonist in the story, and having to shake it off! Almost every Ellis book is like stepping into a dangerous dream – dark and absorbing and fearless and scary. But in particular, Glamorama just got into my head. Brilliant book.
The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Klay by Michael Chabon
Oh, how I love this wonderful book. The just joyous, joyous story of two scruffy New Yorkers, one a brand-new immigrant, a lucky and resourceful escapee from fascist Europe, the other a feisty Jewish boy battling his true nature, both of whom find creative bliss and magnificent purpose creating superhero comic books, in the Golden Age of Marvel and DC. This is a heart-tendering story of friendship and liberation, and of doing good in the world with the gifts you have, of simple heroism, against a background of the rattling radiators and bright lights of 40’s Manhattan, and the horrors of World War II. And if like me, you grew up on Spider-Man comics, you’ll just love how it delves into the world of classic comics bullpens. Excelsior.
Ah, Dickens. Though some may mock him as mawkish and obvious, when he is read, I dare you not to be deeply absorbed. The story of Pip and his rise through hidden benefactors to the stately London life, and how his life comes crashing down around him amidst memories of foggy moors and cobwebbed ballrooms, stays with me like a vivid dream. And I still choke up thinking of the scene where Joe comes for a visit in his patched-up Sunday best, and can’t work out where to put his hat. Magic.
I saw the film first, which I adore. But in many ways, the book is even better – even Goldman’s intro, which creates the colourful tale of how the book was “discovered” is utterly delightful. This fairy tale packed with hilarious humour, marvelous imagination and of course true love, is unputdownable, with all of its much-loved scenes even more vivid in print, with even more of a Grimm-tale dangerous darkness to fight against for our heroes (and heroine). Perfect to read to your ailing grandson.
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Steinbeck’s mighty tome is a spirit-lifting elegy for lost dreams, for surprising loyalty, for family longing, for tarnished relationships, for awful pettiness, for stubborn passion. It is full of characters in the Trask and Hamilton families that you will cry over, and its muscular storytelling is packed with wisdom, bravery and healing. Delve into it deeply, and you will come out thrilled with your journey.
Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster
I am a huge fan of Paul Auster, adoring his cleanly-written stories of chance and synchronicity, of the power of names and numbers and addresses, of movies seen in cinemas and books written in notebooks, of fallible memory, of stories within stories, of promises made and contracts entered into, of New York in all its impossibility, and of baseball games, both real and conjured. And this may well be my favourite, his tale of a twelve year old boy who learns to fly from a mysterious magician. Even when I think of it now, its last page, I get a shiver.
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Aged 21, on my first ever visit to the US, on my J-1 visa summer in Cleveland, Ohio, I can remember writing in my journal, and being asked by my room-mates and fellow travelers, sweatily bored out of their minds in our AC-less, TV-less 1-bedroom apartment, on a weeknight of hot dead air and empty pockets, what I had written. To read it aloud. (I guess I should have known I was an actor then.) I did, and I remember very clearly what I read out. How even when surrounded by the grotty urban neighbourhood we were in, of biker bars with broken windows, of snarling cars shuddering our windowframes, of screaming and shouting in the night, how in reading The English Patient, it carried me away to a world of grace and desert light and dignity and sun-sparkled beauty. And it truly did, in Ondaatje’s spellbinding tale of characters smashed by the War, filled with profundity and heat and astonishing poetry, capturing fragile human life amidst the crash of mighty metal forces. Such is the power of a truly compelling novel.
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Much The Same
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Awoken Broken
Written by: PP on 11/09/2012 02:48:08
Spinefarm Records are notorious for releasing almost exclusively quality records that each have that extra something that makes them stand out in comparison to their peers, but this is one release which I just can't get behind. It's possible that the label bosses were blinded by the prospect of combining Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith with the now-defunct, but then-incredibly hyped technical metal band SikTh vocalist Mikee Good together for a supergroup type of project and though it would be awesome without vetting the project any further than that.
But whatever the back story, one thing's for sure: "Awoken Broken" is an awful record. Not awful in terms of technical skill considering the people involved, but awful in terms of the resulting sound that comes from combining two musicians together from vastly different backgrounds. In retrospect, it should've been relatively easy to predict that "Awoken Broken" would sound like some weird, fucked up amalgamation of classic heavy metal and modern metal, but that it sometimes spills over into koRn style nu-metal and other inexplicably bad decisions is simply unacceptable. And that's not all. The record sways like a pendulum between the two styles, somethings going all-out in nu-metallish vibes such as on the album opener, and elsewhere pertaining to pure heavy metal of the most generic kind. In other words, we're dealing with an incredibly unfocused an incoherent record that is at a complete loss of an identity.
Now, that wouldn't be so bad if the songs were at least individually good, but aside from one, maybe two exceptions, "Awoken Broken" is a boring record. And sometimes, unfortunately, it's a terrible record. Some of those nu-metal style scream/shout/growl grunts are ridiculously bad, and on the other end of the spectrum, the heavy metal wails are only passable in quality. Musicianship is all over the place and never seems to follow a red thread of any sorts, resulting in songs that drag on and on despite only being around 3 minutes of length. That's never a good sign. And when there are instances where the two genres at play are combined in the worst imaginable way possible, there isn't much more left to be said about this record. Not all supergroups on paper work well in practice, and this is one dire example of that.
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Pool Cooperation under contractual arrangements between a number of shipping companies.
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Secondary Hand Buying and selling market for used vessels.
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11/9/2018 A Final Ruling on Khan Al-Ahmar: implications and next steps
11/9/2018 US Cuts Off Funding for East Jerusalem Hospitals
11/9/2018 Jerusalem Mayor Threatens to Expel UNRWA
11/9/2018 The High Holidays: Keeping a close eye on the Temple Mount
21/8/2018 Tenders published for 603 new units in Ramat Shlomo
21/8/2018 Temple Mt/Haram al Sharif: Jewish Visits - & Tensions - Increase
21/8/2018 Israeli Govt Opens Jewish “Heritage Center” in the heart of Silwan
21/8/2018 Khan Al Ahmar Update: Recent Developments
21/8/2018 Municipality Announces New Deal for 20k units in Jerusalem
17/7/2018 Major New Plans Approved for Pisgat Ze'ev
17/7/2018 Khan al-Ahmar Demolition Postponed
17/7/2018 Renewed Visits by MKs to the Temple Mt/Haram al-Sharif
17/7/2018 Continued Settler Efforts to Increase Construction in Silwan
20/6/2018 The Trump “Peace Plan” & Jerusalem
20/6/2018 The impact [so far] of the Transfer of the US embassy to Jerusalem
20/6/2018 Updates: Khan al Ahmar, Temple Mt during Ramadan, Batan al Hawa/Silwan
3/5/2018 UNESCO’s Latest Jerusalem Resolution - Delayed & Dampened, by Consensus
29/4/2018 The Changing Status Quo on the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif - Trends & Implications
29/4/2018 US Embassy Opening - Where Things Stand & Implications
23/3/2018 The Israeli Government’s Creation of a Settler Realm in and around Jerusalem’s Old City
21/2/2018 Why Is Jerusalem Municipality Targeting UN & Churches for Taxes?
21/2/2018 The Site for the New U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem: What You Need to Know (So Far)
21/2/2018 A New Neighborhood to Expand the Footprint of the settlement of Gilo
21/2/2018 New Checkpoint Cuts off Al-Walajeh from Lands & Spring
19/1/2018 Trump’s Jerusalem Decision & Its Aftermath
19/1/2018 New Law to Prevent Future Compromise on Jerusalem
19/1/2018 Pressure Mounts to Advance Greater Jerusalem bill
19/1/2018 New bill to Revoke Residency of Jerusalem Palestinians
19/1/2018 Another JNF-Linked Eviction Looms in Silwan
19/1/2018 Disney-fication proceeds: Jerusalem Cable Car and Footbridge
19/1/2018 New Jerusalem “Trump Train Station”?
19/1/2018 Demolitions in East Jerusalem
19/1/2018 More Jews Going to the Temple Mount/Haram al Sharif
14/12/2017 Trump's New Jerusalem Policy: Early Assessment
13/12/2017 Will Jerusalem Recognition Beget Sustained, Serious Violence? Too Soon to Say.
13/12/2017 Amendment to Jerusalem Basic Law Moves Forward
13/12/2017 Planned Demolitions in Kafr Aqab
13/12/2017 Historic Basin Cable Car Project Advances
13/12/2017 Another Jerusalem-Area Bedouin Community Under Threat
13/12/2017 Tightening the Noose Around Walajeh
30/10/2017 Bibi Blinks on Greater Jerusalem Bill; July 1 - Oct 30 EJ Settlements Chronology
3/10/2017 Imminent Threat: Green Light for Givat Hamatos
3/10/2017 Imminent Threat: Potential War Crime; de facto Annexation and New Settlement Construction (Ma’ale Adumim/E-1)
3/10/2017 Uptick is Settlement Displacements: Shamasneh Family Evicted
3/10/2017 Expansion of Nof Zion on the Agenda
10/8/2017 Netanyahu Unshackled: New and dangerous terms of engagement in Jerusalem
10/8/2017 The Latest Temple Mt/Haram al-Sharif Crisis: A Provisional Post-Mortem
10/8/2017 Pending Jerusalem Legislative Initiatives: Strategic Shifts in Current Status & Potential Political Future of Jerusalem
10/8/2017 East Jerusalem Settlements -- APPROVED
21/7/2017 Major New Crisis on the Temple Mount/Haram al Sharif
21/7/2017 New Life for Major Settlement Plan to Connect Adam (West Bank) to EJ's Neve Yaacov
21/7/2017 Proposed Amendment of Jerusalem Basic Law
21/7/2017 UNESCO’s Resolution on Hebron
5/7/2017 The Settlement Floodgates Have Been Opened
5/6/2017 Trump Signs Waiver, Postponing Embassy Move
5/6/2017 Trump Visit & Jerusalem Day: Before, During, & After
5/6/2017 Cabinet Approves Projects for Old City, Historic Basin, & East Jerusalem (Inside the Barrier)
5/6/2017 Jordan's Growing Discontent with Israeli Provocations Over the Temple Mount/al-Haram al-Sharif
5/6/2017 Danny Seidemann in Haaretz: Trump Exposed the Fantasy of Netanyahu's 'Undivided Jerusalem'
5/5/2017 URGENT/BREAKING NEWS: Imminent Tenders for Givat Hamatos
5/5/2017 Imminent Announcements: Atarot & Ramat Shlomo
5/5/2017 New Settler “Visitors’ Center” in Ras El Amud
5/5/2017 The New UNESCO Resolution & Jerusalem
28/3/2017 Working Toward a New US-Israel Understanding on Settlements
28/3/2017 Tensions Growing [again] Focused on Temple Mount/Haram al Sharif
28/3/2017 Palestinian Residency Rights: Important Court Ruling
24/2/2017 Limiting Settlement Construction to the "Blocs" - Implications for Jerusalem
24/2/2017 To Move, or Not to Move (the Embassy), That is the Question
24/2/2017 Paving the way for annexation?
24/2/2017 Work Starting on Eastern Ring Road?
24/1/2017 East Jerusalem Settlement Activity & the Onset of the Trump Era: What to Watch
5/1/2017 Moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem: A Hard Look at the Arguments & Implications
14/12/2016 Update on Israeli Govt-Proposed Law to Muzzle Muslim Call to Prayer
14/12/2016 Rumors & Lobbying Around Possible US Embassy Relocation to Jerusalem
14/12/2016 Netanyahu Rejects Police Recommendations to Tweak Temple Mt Status Quo
14/12/2016 Batan al-Hawa - New B'tselem Report on Settler Activities
14/12/2016 Final Approval of Gilo Expansion - 770 New Units (Mordot Gilo South)
30/11/2016 Insights/analysis on UNESCO resolutions on the Old City & its Walls
30/11/2016 Re: Reported Demolitions at Jerusalem's Bab Al-Rahma Cemetery
30/11/2016 Plan to Connect Tel Aviv to the Western Wall
30/11/2016 2016 Jewish High Holidays: Record number of Jewish visitors on Temple Mount/Haram El Sharif
28/11/2016 The American Role: Interregnum & Post-January 20, 2016
28/11/2016 Ban on Mosque Morning Call to Prayer
28/11/2016 Turning Jeruasalem Palestinians into “Human Shields” Against Outpost Evacuations
28/11/2016 Announcement of Construction Plan in Mordot Gilo
28/11/2016 OCHA report: 180 Palestinian households at risks of eviction in East Jerusalem
28/11/2016 Approval of 500 units in Ramat Shlomo
28/11/2016 State Comptroller’s Report on Elad
30/9/2016 On the Eve of the New Year – A Different & Dangerous Jerusalem
15/8/2016 Government Actively Advancing E-2
15/8/2016 Back in the Headlines: Plans for 2500 Units South of Gilo
15/8/2016 Tisha B'Av Incitement Re: The Temple Mount
15/8/2016 Deepening the Occupation in East Jerusalem
5/8/2016 Settlement Announcements - July 2016
5/8/2016 The Uptick in East Jerusalem Demolitions
5/8/2016 Israeli Govt: "The Mt of Olives will be Reinforced as a Visitors' Site"
5/8/2016 Ma'ale Adumim Annexation bill
8/7/2016 Full Analysis of the Latest East Jerusalem Announcements/Approvals
28/6/2016 A new settlement enclave in Silwan – Batan al Hawa
28/6/2016 ?The end of quiet on the Temple Mount/Haram al Sharif
28/6/2016 The Wrong Way to Divide Jerusalem
3/6/2016 Proposed Annexation of Maale Adumim
3/6/2016 East Jerusalem: Emerging Patterns
2/6/2016 Keeping a Close Eye on the Temple Mount/Haram al Sharif
22/1/2016 Church Attacked (Again) in Jerusalem
22/1/2016 Herzog proposes De-Annexing Some Parts of East Jerusalem
30/12/2015 Revealed in Newly-Released Documents: Massive Planning Advancing for Settlements
29/12/2015 Understanding "Status Quo" on the Temple Mount/Haram al Sharif
9/11/2015 What's Been Going On in Jerusalem? Danny Seidemann Analysis
9/11/2015 What's Going On? Senior IDF Officials Weigh In.
9/11/2015 Recent East Jerusalem Settlement Developments
9/11/2015 East Jerusalem Security Situation - by the numbers
9/11/2015 EJ Security Situation - Plans to Revoke Palestinians' Residency?
9/11/2015 EJ Security Situation - Security Measures on the Ground
9/11/2015 EJ Security Situation - Home Demolitions
22/9/2015 Jerusalem & the Temple Mount: A New Dangerous Escalation
13/8/2015 Imminent New Settlement Enclave in Silwan
13/8/2015 E. Jerusalem (partial) Settlement Freeze May Soon Defrost
13/8/2015 Troubling Developments on the Temple Mount/Haram al Sharif
22/5/2015 What We Can Learn from Jerusalem Day 2015
22/5/2015 Latest Settlement Tenders in East Jerusalem - Ramat Shlomo & Givat Zeev
22/5/2015 ?E-1 Looming
22/5/2015 East Jerusalem Simmers
29/4/2015 New & Recycled East Jerusalem Settlement Tenders
29/4/2015 High Court Rules on Absentee Property Law in Jerusalem
29/4/2015 Good News: IDF Colleges NOT Moving to Mount of Olives; Holy Basin Cable Car Plan Stalled
29/4/2015 Approval (but only sort of) of New Palestinian Construction in East Jerusalem
29/4/2015 Some Palestinian Cars Allowed in East Jerusalem
29/4/2015 Palestinian Security Forces (not really) allowed in East Jerusalem
14/1/2015 East Jerusalem at the Beginning of 2015: Things to Watch
3/11/2014 Attempted Assassination Raises the Stakes at the Temple Mount
3/11/2014 Reasons Behind Escalating Temple Mount Crisis
3/11/2014 Bibi's New Settlement Initiative - Ramat Shlomo & Har Homa
3/11/2014 More Settler Takeovers in Another Part of Silwan
2/10/2014 Netanyahu Cannot Evade Responsibility for Givat Hamatos Approval & Silwan Takeovers
1/10/2014 Breaking & Urgent News: Givat Hamatos Approved
30/9/2014 Major Development: In Overnight Operation, Settlers Take Over Multiple Buildings in Silwan
18/9/2014 Specter of E-1 Raised by Plan to Relocate Bedouin
18/9/2014 Looming Crisis in East Jerusalem - Givat Hamatos
17/9/2014 East Jerusalem Clashes Continue
9/9/2014 East Jerusalem Aflame
4/9/2014 The Real Story about those new units "approved" for Palestinians in East Jerusalem
26/8/2014 Gilo Tenders Awarded, but (for now) EJ Settlement Freeze Continues
19/5/2014 Jerusalem Settlements - The (Proximate, Contributing) Cause of the Collapse
19/5/2014 Post-Collapse - De Facto Freeze in East Jerusalem, But the Lull Won’t Last
19/5/2014 Are We Sliding Toward Religious War? A Brief Survey of Key Jerusalem Developments/Trends
5/3/2014 Framework Language and Jerusalem: Gimmicks Are NOT the Answer
5/3/2014 New Israeli Yeshiva Approved...in Downtown Sheikh Jarrah
5/3/2014 Playing with Fire, Part 2: Elad Set to Gain Control of Area Adjacent to the Temple Mt/Haram al Sharif
5/3/2014 Playing with Fire, Part 1: Debating the Status Quo on the Temple Mount
3/3/2014 Demolition orders in E-1
9/1/2014 New Seidemann Op-Ed in the Guardian: The myth of an undivided Jerusalem is collapsing under its own weight
12/12/2013 Danny Seidemann Injured by Stone-Thrower - Condition Update & Comment
12/12/2013 East Jerusalem Settlements since the Resumption of Talks: the Facts & their Implications
12/12/2013 The [Apparent] Re-Emergence of the “Greater Jerusalem” Gimmick
12/12/2013 Post-Script: Those Planning Tenders for 24,000 New Settlement Units
27/8/2013 Ramat Shlomo Back in the Headlines
27/8/2013 Funding Approved for Settler-Run Projects in Silwan and Jebel Mukabber
27/8/2013 Three Palestinians Killed by Israeli Forces in Qalandia RC
27/8/2013 ?Uptick in East Jerusalem Home Demolitions
19/8/2013 Pyromaniacs Target the Temple Mount
19/8/2013 Jerusalem Residency Concerns Resurface
19/8/2013 New Pro-Settlement Guidelines on Absentee Property Law
19/8/2013 A U.S. Court Rules on Jerusalem
16/8/2013 Timeline/details of Recent Jerusalem-Related Settlement Developments
16/8/2013 Bibi, Settlements & Peace Talks -- Analysis
13/6/2013 The A-Zayyem/Mount of Olives Interchange, Plan 14049
13/6/2013 Tenders Awarded for Ramot Expansion, Additional Tenders for Mordot Gilo
13/6/2013 Everything You Need to Know About Jerusalem & the Absentee Property Law
7/5/2013 The IDF Colleges on the Mt. of Olives Off the Agenda, Again
7/5/2013 Plans Published for Old City Cable Car
7/5/2013 Sharansky Plan Hits a Wall, no pun intended
7/5/2013 The Wall/Barrier vs. Cremisan & Beit Jala
5/5/2013 Spatial Shaping in J'lem Continues with Opening of Route 20
24/4/2013 Concerns about Proposed “Solution” to Women’s Prayer Issue at the Western Wall
22/4/2013 The Politics of Waste Treatment in East Jerusalem
15/4/2013 Fifty New Units in East Talpiot
14/1/2013 E-1/Bab ash-Shams: What Happened, What it Means, What Next
28/12/2012 Mordot Gilo South - APPROVED
19/12/2012 Givat Hamatos APPROVED - What it Means
17/12/2012 Breaking News - Approvals this week - Ramat Shlomo & Givat Hamatos
5/12/2012 The E-1 Crisis...This Is Not a Drill
6/11/2012 More than 1200 New Tenders Issued for Pisgat Ze'ev and Ramot
31/10/2012 New Construction Approved in Har Homa
30/10/2012 New East Jerusalem Settlement Construction Approved - East Talpiot units for Israeli Security Personnel
24/10/2012 Mordot Gilo Construction Approved
24/10/2012 Plans for IDF Colleges on Mt. of Olives Deposited for Public Review & Explanation of Location
24/10/2012 Taking the Garbage to East Jerusalem
24/10/2012 Is the Palestinian Population of East Jerusalem Becoming More Israeli -- No
24/10/2012 Pisgat Zeev in the News
18/10/2012 Crisis Brewing on the Temple Mount
17/9/2012 Jerusalem, Netanyahu and the two-state solution
16/9/2012 Issue to watch: East Jerusalem Home Demolitions
16/9/2012 Attacks on Palestinians in Jerusalem – Sign of the “Hebronization” of the City
16/9/2012 Jerusalem in the Headlines: Ras al-Amud, Temple Mount, the Barrier, Elad, & Har Homa
15/9/2012 Jerusalem: Political Football in U.S. Presidential Race
14/9/2012 In Memorium: Our Friend, Chris Stevens
2/7/2012 New Tenders Published for East Jerusalem Settlement Construction
2/7/2012 Plans for New IDF War College on the Mt. of Olives Approved for Public Review
11/6/2012 Settlement Surge Continues on Jerusalem's Southern Flank
8/5/2012 Arab VIPs Start Coming to Jerusalem
7/5/2012 Givat Hamatos – Nearing the Point-of-No-Return
7/5/2012 IDF College on the Mt. of Olives – Moving Forward
7/5/2012 Kidmat Tzion – Municipal Approval Anticipated Soon
7/5/2012 Mughrabi Ramp – Some Good News
6/5/2012 Beit Hanina Settlement Effort Continues
10/4/2012 Late Winter Freeze in East Jerusalem turns to Spring Thaw
8/4/2012 Kidmat Tziyon Settlement Scheme to be Expedited
8/4/2012 New East Jerusalem “Park” Soon to get Final Approval
8/4/2012 New Settlement in Beit Hanina?
8/4/2012 Israeli High Court Rejects Shepherd’s Hotel Appeal
14/3/2012 Will Arab & Muslim Leaders Start Coming to Jerusalem?
14/3/2012 A Major East Jerusalem Settlement Plan Comes Back to Life
14/3/2012 Spotlight on Jewish Access to the Temple Mount
14/3/2012 Volatility in Silwan: Mini-Intifada Continues, Cave-Ins, and New Settler Plans
9/1/2012 The Ongoing Settlement Surge in East Jerusalem
9/1/2012 The Mughrabi Gate Saga - Update
10/12/2011 Barkat Tries to Force Mughrabi Ramp Demolition
9/12/2011 Approval of Mount Scopus "Park" Proceeds
13/10/2011 Approval for New Israeli Settlement at Givat Hamatos Proceeds
12/10/2011 New Pisgat Ze'ev Building Permits
28/9/2011 New Settlement Approval issued for Gilo - Plan 13261
11/8/2011 More Jerusalem Settlement Approvals: Ramat Shlomo, Pisgat Zeev, Givat Hamatos
10/8/2011 Yet Another Har Homa Plan Approved (No. 12825) - Public Buildings, 50 Units
5/8/2011 Har Homa C Plan 10310 (app. 983 units) Approved
9/7/2011 Jerusalem Municipal "Approval" of Mordot Gilo Plan
9/7/2011 Meretz Rejoins Municipal Coalition - Separate Portfolios for EJ Settlers and Palestinians
20/6/2011 The Ramat Shlomo House Extension Plans
10/6/2011 Committee for Acceleration of (EJ) Construction to Convene on June 14
24/5/2011 Netanyahu Approves East Jerusalem Construction Hours Before Obama Address
24/5/2011 Barkat Trying to Force Netanyahu's Hand on Mughrabi Ramp
12/5/2011 The Non-Existent Court Decision on Bustan Demolitions
10/5/2011 New East Jerusalem Settlements Update
9/5/2011 US Supreme Court to Hear Jerusalem Status Case
21/4/2011 Is There a De Facto Settlement Freeze in East Jerusalem? The Facts
18/4/2011 April Surge in East Jerusalem Construction Plans
18/4/2011 Mount Scopus Slopes Park Approved for Public Review
16/3/2011 Permit Issued for 14 Units at Ras el Amud Police Station
16/3/2011 Permit Issued for Mughrabi Ramp
17/10/2018 Jerusalem Elections 2018 - the Palestinian Dimension
29/7/2013 A Layman's Guide to Jerusalem House Demolitions
Daniel Seidemann
29/7/2013 A Laymen's Guide to the Planning Process in Jerusalem.pdf
Daniel Seidmann
20/3/2013 "Spatial Shaping", the Ross Agenda and a Partial Settlement Freeze
10/3/2013 Spatial Shaping - Unilaterally Determining Israel’s Base-Line Border
10/9/2012 NOREF Policy Brief August 2012 | By Daniel Seidemann
30/1/2012 East Jerusalem and the Imminent Demise of the Two-State Solution
7/11/2011 East Jerusalem Developments and Trends: 2006-2011
31/10/2011 The TJ Guide to the Planning and Construction Process in East Jerusalem - Oct. 2011
15/10/2011 Givat Hamatos/Mordot Gilo: New Settlement Schemes on Jerusalem's Southern Flank
12/8/2011 U.S. (non)-Recognition of Sovereignty in Jerusalem: A Consistent Policy, 1948 - 2011
Lara Friedman
1/8/2011 Hanging On By Our Fingernails
22/2/2011 Jerusalem Challenges the API
21/2/2011 East Jerusalem settlers and Israel's never-ending War of Independence
20/2/2011 The Two Jerusalems
D. Seidemann D.Rothem
19/2/2011 Jerusalem on the Brink
19/2/2011 A barely tolerated minority
17/2/2011 Redeeming Jerusalem by truth, not hollow slogans
16/2/2011 Jerusalem, settlements, and the "everybody knows" fallacy
Lara Friedman - Daniel Seidemann
15/2/2011 Blogposts
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