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Margaine-Lacroix and the dresses that shocked Paris
Published on July 12, 2013 July 19, 2013 by rbkclibraries
Next week (15 to 28 July 2013) there will be an exhibition at Chelsea Gallery (part of Chelsea Reference Library) on the forgotten designer whose figure-revealing dresses caused a sensation in 1908 and launched the slender silhouette of the twentieth century. There will also be a private view and illustrated talk on Wednesday 17 July 2013.
This is a guest blog post from Susie Ralph, curator of this exhibition. She will also be giving the talk on Wednesday – please book your free place on 020 7361 3010.
The date – Sunday 10th of May 1908, the event – The Prix du Prince de Galles at Longchamp racecourse. A fashionably dressed crowd has gathered for this important date in the Parisian social calendar. The races are the place to see and be seen, where royalty and grandes dames rub shoulders with actresses and the demi-monde, all showing off the latest couture creations. Suddenly a furore breaks out as three beautiful models enter the enclosure – for beneath their exquisite and exceptionally clinging gowns they appear to be wearing – nothing! To add to the shock value, their dresses are split to the knee, revealing a glimpse of leg, barely disguised by the lightest of muslin coverings.
The Belle Époque was an era noted for its love of sensationalism, but even Parisians were astonished at such a display, and a crowd gathered to mob the mannequins. This event generated instant and international publicity for the daring new style, which the press called “ the directoire gown.” The models were dubbed “Les Nouvelles Merveilleuses” in reference to the semi-naked beauties of the French revolutionary period. It was obvious to all who saw them that the young women were wearing neither corset, petticoat nor chemise! The most beautiful of the three mannequins “ la belle Möina” was immediately offered a contract for a fabulous sum by the director of the Moulin Rouge – but the designer of the dresses that caused all the furore – who was she? Her name went almost unrecorded.
She was Jeanne Margaine-Lacroix, a Parisian designer whose long-established couture house had been founded by her mother Madame Margaine. Margaine-Lacroix became famous for her pioneering corsets-sylphides which featured elastic material and a minimum of boning, and she had outlets in Belgium and Buenos Aires which sold these innovative foundation garments. But her daring robe-sylphide gowns brought her even greater renown. These went a step further than the corset-sylphide, for they abolished the corset altogether. They were popular with the stage stars of the day, on account of their fluid lines and exceptionally figure moulding qualities.
The first mention of the robe-sylphide appeared in L’art et la Mode in 1899, the year that Margaine-Lacroix inherited her business from her mother. Advertised as “ sans corset” or “supprimant le corset” – “without corset” or “ abolishing the corset” a glowing article advised readers that this was “truly a fairy-like invention” for the manner in which it slimmed the figure, dispensing with the need for bulky under-garments.
How was it possible at this time to wear a dress without a corset? The turn of the twentieth century was a period of great innovation in the field of underwear, as attempts were made to break away from the old, rigidly boned, stiff corset and introduce foundation garments which gave the body a softer, more natural and flexible appearance. Knitted silk fabrics with a high degree of stretch were employed by the most avant-garde corsetières and the fore-runner of the modern brassiere made its first appearance. The aim was to show off the shape of the real body beneath the dress, rather than the artificial shape of the corset.
Margaine-Lacroix was a pioneer in this field and patented several versions of her robe-sylphide and corset-sylphide. One of these, a garment made from stretchy knitted silk fabric with only the lightest boning, outlined the hips and thighs and looked much like a fore-runner of today’s stretch bodies or magic knickers. In a rare interview given to the press, just days after her dresses scandalised the crowd at Longchamp, she explained her design philosophy and the construction of the dress which was worn without a corset:
“I have been patiently at work for years, educating the public to what women’s dresses really should be …only two garments cover the body – there is first a tight elastic silk jersey ….the outer garment is made to serve as its own corset, the bodice being strengthened with a little whalebone, not enough however to destroy its suppleness.”
It is astonishing, considering how much publicity Margaine-Lacroix’s dresses generated at the time, and how much influence they exerted on the course of fashion, that their creator’s name barely receives a passing mention today. The Longchamp incident has been completely forgotten. Reports at the time claimed that: “even Parisians stared,” and photographs, cartoons and even a satyrical poem about the daring new style, appeared in the press the following week. The news spread rapidly around the world, featuring in papers as far afield as New Zealand. The New York Times reported that:
“Pictures of the young women who displayed their charming persons in so-called directoire gowns, are printed in both capitals [Paris and London] and artists and moralists, men of the world, police officers and dressmakers have been interviewed in bewildering numbers”.
The repercussions of “directoire mania” caused several incidents, reported in the press. Amongst them was a riding accident on London’s fashionable Rotten Row. According to The New York Times’ London correspondent, this was caused by: “a vaudeville artiste …. dressed in a Directoire riding costume of cream broadcloth, cut tight to the figure and slashed on the left side to the knee, showing a long, white riding boot.” Her sensational appearance caused a rider, turning around in the saddle to survey her, to come into violent collision with Winston Churchill’s horse.
The same article related that leading dressmakers in London were already busy with orders for directoire gowns, in numbers that indicated the style’s success, and that the new silhouette would be seen at Ascot: “All will be influenced by the directoire revival.” The week following the Longchamp incident, Lily Langtry was photographed “dressed in a directoire gown” strolling through the paddock at Chester races with the Duke of Westminster.
The sensational directoire style apparently caused a near riot in Chicago, when “a pushing, scrambling mob of 10,000 persons” gathered to watch a “pretty girl in a directoire gown” who had accepted a bet of $500, walk through the town clad in the new fashion! The incident may in fact have happened during the shooting of “The Directoire Gown,” a film made in Chicago in 1908 that featured a similar scene and evidently aimed to cash in on the notoriety of the new fashion.
Actress Marcelle Yrven caused her own sensation, when she appeared on stage in a robe-sylphide, and admirers were expressly banned from entering her dressing room, as “ the charming artiste had decided to wear her dress without any underwear.” It was reported that “ the dress seemed glued to her body, and all Parisiennes worthy of the name, wished to see it.”
Perhaps the most significant statement printed at the time, was this announcement from an un-named “authority.”
“To wear even a modified directoire style ….. women have had to change their figures; the hips are being reduced; the waist however is a little larger, in order to reduce the apparent size of the hips.”
Overnight it seems, thanks to the Longchamp exposure of Margaine-Lacroix’s daring gowns, a new body-ideal had established itself. What became most sort after by fashionable women everywhere was la ligne – “the line,” or new slender silhouette. La ligne sounded the death-knell for the old-fashioned ideal of tightly corseted waistline and prominent bosom. In July of 1908, Les Modes reported on the fashions worn during La Grande Semaine – the week that closed the Paris season. The journal informed its readers that the styles which had “bouleversée” or shaken up race-goers when they made their first appearance in May, were now in the process of totally shaking up fashion. They were to be seen, only slightly modified, on “ toutes les élégantes” – all the most stylish society women attending the final event of the season, the Grand Steeplechase at Auteuil.
The year 1908 marked the true turning point in fashion, when the stiffly corseted, heavy-bosomed ideal of the Fin-de-Siècle, with its attendant bulk of rustling underwear, finally became demodé – and the slender new twentieth century silhouette was launched. Margaine-Lacroix’s important rôle in bringing about this great fashion change, has long since been forgotten, in part due to the attention today accorded to Paul Poiret and the influence of the Ballets Russes. Poiret was one amongst a handful of designers who were all seeking to promote a more natural, slender, less corseted figure – an ideal that chimed with the mood of modernism taking hold in the new century. Vionnet and Lucile can both be counted amongst this number. Close study of newspapers and fashion journals for the year 1908 however, proves that it was Margaine-Lacroix’s robes-sylphides, and in particular the exaggerated versions exposed at Longchamps, that brought about the desired change. Then as now, when designers wished to state their case, they exaggerated their styles in order to achieve the maximum publicity. Vionnet has often been credited with “inventing the bias cut,” that method of draping the fabric so it clings to the body. Photographs reveal that Margaine-Lacroix was using this method for her robes-sylphide as early as 1907, if not before and employed it for the “Merveilleuse” dresses.
The explosion of the Ballets Russes onto the Parisian stage in 1909, and its perceived influence on fashion in general and Poiret in particular, has greatly coloured dress historians’ view of the late Belle Époque. Margaine-Lacroix has been forgotten, cast into shadow by the splendours of the Russian Ballet, and the exquisite illustrations of Poiret’s gowns. But influential as these were, it was Jeanne Margaine-Lacroix who brought about the general adoption of the lean, modern look. The daring dresses she exposed at Longchamp provided the catalyst needed to bring about change.
Jeanne Margaine-Lacroix deserves to be recognised as the designer who succeeded in “ bouleversant la mode” or “knocking fashion sideways” as Les Modes reported in July 1908, describing her narrow clinging style thus: “It is the dress of the moment, that which gives us the silhouette of a modern Merveilleuse.” Dedicated to her craft, but apparently not given to self-advertisement, the Longchamp incident seems to be the only occasion on which Margaine-Lacroix went out of her way to court publicity – and then for her dresses alone, not for herself. She deserves to be recognised as one of the most influential designers of the late Belle Époque. She introduced the uncorseted figure as early as 1899, and the fashion world finally set its seal of approval on her modern silhouette in 1908. Her innovative construction techniques and employment of the bias-cut, created the first modern dresses that clung to and revealed the body. In an age well before the invention of Lycra, she created the first body-con dress – the robe-sylphide.
Susie Ralph
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Adam Lid says:
Amazing story. I came across the “Les Nouvelles Merveilleuses” researching another topic and three hours later… excellent!
Reblogged this on Lily Absinthe and commented:
Here is a fascinating account of a designer who unfortunately is little know today.
banksia says:
This is a revelation,merci indeed!
Helena Worth says:
I recognised the initial image of Les Nouvelles Merveilleuses but didn’t realise its historical significance. Thank you for the enlightenment and for inspiring me to discover more.
Cassidy Zachary says:
I’ve read so much about the 1908 scandal that it is great to finally pair a photograph to the incident. I can see why people were scandalized, especially by the girl on the left. Thank you so much for sharing. I also thoroughly appreciate your research in regards to the jupe-culottes. I have also done extensive work in this era and knew that Margaine-Lacroix was a leading couturière of the day but I did not know to what extent, other than the occasional Les Modes feature. I do have to say, however, that while Margaine-Lacroix was certainly an influential and forward-thinking figure, I have to question the modernity of her dresses? Yes, they are “sans corset” but they still very much promote the S-Curve, slim and figuring hugging, corset-like silhouette. In my opinion, the truly revolutionary designs were those that promoted an entirely new silhouette, one that moved the point of emphasis away from the waist to the shoulders in the streamlined-columnar line, as promoted by Poiret and Jeanne Lanvin–a line that Lacroix would herself soon adopt. She certainly was instrumental in the adoption of the Directoire silhouette, a style that dominated fashion until at least 1912–I just question how truly modern this silhouette was when still supported by corsetry or a corset-like line.
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Margaine-Lacroix was the first designer to introduce corsetless dresses for the high-fashion market, in 1899, years ahead of Poiret.The sensation (and immediate take-up ) of her tanagréenne dresses, exhibited at Longchamp, cemented the growing trend for a more slender figure, with a larger waist and slimmer hips.This was embodied in her favourite mannequin, Möina. Innumerable international press reports for the year 1908 testify to the fact that it was Margaine-Lacroix who introduced this new ideal.This new silhouette was dubbed “la ligne”. It was Margaine-Lacroix’s popularisation of the new, small-busted, slender-hipped figure, which prepared the ground for Poiret’s straighter, less figure-moulding styles.
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Nicky De Prins says:
Hi, I was wondering what the copyright is on these images as I would love to transform these into colourised pictures.
rbkclibraries says:
Apologies for not replying sooner. These images were supplied by Susie Ralph and we don’t have her contact details I’m afraid.
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Julienne Jack says:
Margarine-Lacroix changed the world and released Women from the corset torture. Unfortunately, it took the 1920’s/post WW1 to shorten the skirts. We were free to show our legs to the world. Margarine-Lacroix is more important than Coco Chanel because society was much more millitant about dress lengths, even using shoe top hemmed skirts for nurses during WW1. Men saw ankle views as scandalous and a sign of a loose woman. Suffragettes had to get their husbands to hand crank the laces to tighten their corsets, which offtimes broke ribs, before they could march in protest for Women’s Rights. The fashion world owes Margarine-Lacroix a debt of gratitude for the first step toward fashion freedom.
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Phishing attacks Two-Factor Authentication
July 28, 2016 /in Phishing /by Robert Siciliano
Hackers bank heavily on tricking people into doing things that they shouldn’t: social engineering. A favorite social engineering ploy is the phishing e-mail.
How a hacker circumvents two-factor authentication:
First collects enough information on the victim to pull off the scam, such as obtaining information from their LinkedIn profile.
Or sends a preliminary phishing e-mail tricking the recipient into revealing login credentials for an account, such as a bank account.
The next phase is to send out a text message appearing to be from the recipient’s bank (or PayPal, Facebook, etc.).
This message tells the recipient that their account is about to be locked due to “suspicious” activity detected with it.
The hacker requests the victim to send the company (which is really the hacker) the unique 2FA code that gets texted to the accountholder upon a login attempt. The victim is to wait for this code to be sent.
Remember, the hacker already has collected enough information (password, username) to make a login attempt. Entering this data then triggers a send of the 2FA code to the victim’s phone.
The victim then texts back the code—right into the hacker’s hands. The hacker then uses it to get into the account.
The victim made the cardinal mistake of sending back a 2FA code via text, when the only place the victim is supposed to enter this code is the login field of their account when wanting to access it!
So in short, the crook somehow gets your password (easy with brute force software if you have a weak password) and username or retrieved in a data dump of some hacked site. They spoof their text message to you to make it look like it came from the company of your account.
Red flags/scams/behaviors/requests to look out for:
Pay Attention!
You are asked via phone/email/IM etc to send someone the 2FA code that is sent to your mobile (prompted by their login attempt).
If you receive the 2FA code, this means someone is trying to gain access to your account. If it’s not you, then who is it?
Never send any 2FA code out via text, e-mail or phone voice. Never. Consider any such request to be a scam.
Robert Siciliano CEO of IDTheftSecurity.com, personal security and identity theft expert and speaker is the author of 99 Things You Wish You Knew Before Your Identity Was Stolen. See him knock’em dead in this identity theft prevention video.
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Social Engineering: How to steal Brand New iPhones from Apple
July 26, 2016 /in social engineering /by Robert Siciliano
Looks like there’s some worms in Apple.
Not too long ago, dozens and dozens of iPhones were stolen from two Apple stores. How could this happen, what with Apple’s security? Simple: The thieves wore clothes similar to Apple store employees and obviously knew the innards of the stores.
They sauntered over to the drawers that held the new phones, acting nonchalant to avoid attracting attention. In fact, a new face in Apple attire at one of the stung locations wouldn’t raise eyebrows since new employees are trained there.
What mistake did Apple make to allow these robberies? The introduction of new uniforms, perhaps? They came up with the idea of “back to blue, but all new” attire. But really, that shouldn’t be so easy.
This meant no one and only uniform, but rather, a variety of options that fit within a color and style concept. This makes it easy for someone off the street to visually blend in with store employees. There are six styles of just the top alone. You can pick up a strikingly similar top, including color, at Walmart. And unlike previous attire, which changed seasonally, this new line is meant to be permanent.
Have you yourself ever been mistaken for an employee at Walmart or Target (blue shirt, red shirt), or asked someone for assistance who replied, “I don’t work here”? See how easy it is to blend in—without even trying?
The theft at the two Apple stores are believed to be related, but the thieves are not known. It’s also not known if the thief or thieves were wearing an actual Apple top or just a look-a-like.
This ruse can easily be pulled off by anyone appearing to be in their early to mid-20s, clean-cut, wearing glasses (to look geeky), and with calm, cool and collected mannerisms—and of course, a royal blue shirt.
The solution would be for Apple to require a line of tops with a very distinct color pattern, and only two choices (short and long sleeved).
The lesson here: Not everything or everyone appears to be what they actually are. Social engineering is a confidence crime. As long as the thief has your confidence either in person, over the phone or via email, you are likely to get scammed.
Always be suspect. Always challenge what’s in front of you. Never go along to get along. And put systems, checks and balances in place to prevent being scammed. In this situation, proper, secure identification and authentication with proper checks would have prevented this.
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Your Ransomware Response: Prepare for the Worst
July 22, 2016 /in Ransomware /by Robert Siciliano
A ransomware attack is when your computer gets locked down or your files become inaccessible, and you are informed that in order to regain use of your computer or to receive a cyber key to unlock your files, you must pay a ransom. Typically, cybercriminals request you pay them in bitcoins.
The attack begins when you’re lured, by a cybercriminal, into clicking a malicious link that downloads malware, such as CDT-Locker. Hackers are skilled at getting potential victims to click on these links, such as a phony e-mail, apparently from a company you do business with, luring you into clicking on a link or opening its attachment.
And if you find your computer is being held hostage:
Report it to law enforcement, although it’s unlikely they can provide help. It’s just good to have it recorded.
Disconnect your computer from its network to prevent the infection from spreading to other shared networks.
You need to remove the ransomware from your computer. Remember, removal of the ransomware won’t restore access to your files; they will still be encrypted. To remove ransomware from your computer, follow the steps provided here.
If you already had your data backed up offline, there’s no need to even consider paying the ransom. Still, you will want to remove the ransomware and make sure your backup solution was working.
But what if very important files were not backed up? Prepare to pay in bitcoins. The first step is to find out what the experts say about making payments in bitcoin.
The crook will be essentially impossible to trace. You’ll be required to make the payment over the Tor network (anonymous browsing).
Finally, don’t be shocked if the crook actually provides you the decryption key—essentially a password; ransomware thieves often follow through to maintain being taken seriously. Otherwise, nobody would ever pay them. But it would not be unprecedented to not receive the key. It’s a gamble.
The best course of action is to prevent a ransomware attack, and that means looking for all the clues to malware and phishing scams. Don’t let threatening e-mails, saying you owe back taxes or bank fees, jolt you into hastily clicking a suspicious link or attachment. If you regularly back up your data online and to an external drive, then you’ll never feel you must pay the ransom.
Robert is a security analyst, author and media personality who specializes in personal security and identity theft and appears regularly on Good Morning America, ABC News and The TODAY Show.
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32 Million Twitter Pass for sale Add two-factor NOW
July 21, 2016 /in social media privacy /by Robert Siciliano
The Dark Web, according to LeakedSource, got ahold of 33 million Twitter account details and put them up for sale. Twitter thus locked the accounts for millions of users.
Twitter, however, doesn’t believe its servers were directly attacked. So what happened? The bad guys may have created a composite of data from other breached sources. Or, they could have used malware to steal passwords off of devices.
Nevertheless, the end result meant that for many Twitter accounts, there was password exposure—leading to the lockdown of these accounts. The owners of these accounts had to reset their password after being notified of this by e-mail.
Some users who did not receive this e-mail notification will find that their accounts are locked.
An Ounce of Prevention
Go through the passwords of all of your vital accounts, and see which ones are unique, long and strong. You’ll likely need to change many passwords, as most people use simple to remember passwords that often contain keyboard sequences and/or words/names that can be found in a dictionary, such as 890Paul. These are easily cracked with a hacker’s software.
Who’d ever think that Facebook’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter account could be hacked? It was, indeed, and it’s believed this was possible due to him reusing the username of his LinkedIn account several years ago.
So it’s not just passwords that are the problem; it’s usernames. Not only should these be unique, but every single account should have a different username and password. However if a username is an email address, you can’t do much here.
Passwords and usernames should be at least eight characters long.
Use more than just letters and numbers-use characters if accepted (e.g., #, $, &).
So Paul’s new and better password might be: Luap1988($#.
Sign up with the account’s two-factor authentication. Not all accounts have this, but Twitter sure does. It makes it impossible for a crook to sign into your account unless he has your cell phone to receive the unique verification code that’s triggered with every login attempt.
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Facebook CEO Password dadada hacked
July 19, 2016 /in facebook, Facebook scams, social media privacy /by Robert Siciliano
If you’ve heard this once, you need to hear it again—and again: Never use the same password and username for more than one account!
If this got Mark Zuckerberg’s (Facebook’s chief executive). Twitter account hacked, it can get just about anybody hacked.
A report at nytimes.com says that the OurMine hacking group takes credit for busting into Zuckerberg’s accounts including LinkedIn and Pinterest. It’s possible that this breach was cultivated by a repeated password of Zuckerberg’s.
According to OurMine, Zuckerberg had been using the same password for several accounts. Not only is that asking for trouble, but the password itself is highly crackable: dadada. Don’t laugh. A hacker’s software will find this in minutes.
How to Protect Your Accounts
Change any passwords that are used more than once.
Change any passwords that contain keyboard sequences, repetitions of letters or numbers (252525 is akin to dadada), or actual words or proper nouns.
If the idea of overhauling your passwords is overwhelming, use a password manager (e.g., RoboForm). A password manager will create long, unique passwords that are different for every account, and you won’t have to remember them because the manager will issue you a master password.
See which accounts offer two-factor authentication, then sign up. This is a tremendous step towards preventing being hacked. So if an unauthorized person attempts to log into your Twitter or LinkedIn account, this will send a code to your cell phone that needs to be entered before the account is accessible. Unless the hacker has your cell phone, he won’t be getting into your account.
Some say every 90 days, or at least twice a year, change all of your passwords. I think that’s a bit much. Different and strong is what matters most.
Visit Have I Been Pwned to see if your e-mail account has been hacked. I did. 6 of my accounts showed up as being part of data dumps of sites that were hacked. Then I checked all 6 accounts, all had different passwords, but I still changed them. One was gmail, but with two factor verification/authentication, I’ve had no issue. Simply type your e-mail address into the field and click “Pwned?” If the result shows bad news, then you must immediately change your password to one that you’ve never had before—and at least eight characters and unique.
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Phone Account of FTC Chief Technologist hijacked
July 14, 2016 /in hackers /by Robert Siciliano
An impostor posed as Lorrie Cranor at a mobile phone store (in Ohio, nowhere near Cranor’s home) and obtained her number. She is the Federal Trade Commission’s chief technologist. Her impostor’s con netted two new iPhones (the priciest models—and the charges went to Cranor) with her number.
In a blog post, Cranor writes: “My phones immediately stopped receiving calls.” She was stiffed with “a large bill and the anxiety and fear of financial injury.”
Cranor was a victim of identity theft. She contacted her mobile carrier after her phone ceased working during use. The company rep said her account had been updated to include the new devices, and that her Android’s SIM cards had been disabled. The company replaced the SIM cards and restored use of her phones.
The company’s fraud department removed the charges but blamed the theft on Cranor.
So how does an impostor pull off this stunt so easily? Stores owned by the mobile carrier are required to ask for a photo ID and last four digits of the customer’s SSN. However, at a third party retailer, this requirement may not be in place. In the Cranor case, the crook used a photo ID of herself but with Cranor’s name—and was not required to reveal the victim’s SSN last four digits.
Cranor’s Actions
Changed password of online account
Added extra security PIN
Reported the theft to identitytheft.gov
Placed a fraud alert and got a free credit report
Filed a police report
Hijacking a smartphone is becoming more common, with the FTC having received over 2,600 reports just for January this year.
You may not think that this type of fraud ranks as high as other types of fraud, but it all depends on the thief and his—or her—intentions. Though the thief may only want to sell the phones for a little profit, a different kind of crook may want to hijack a phone to commit stalking or espionage. Or the thief can gain access to the victim’s text messages. If the phone is used for two factor authentication, then a thief would have access to your One Time Passwords (OTP) upon logging into a critical website. There’s all sorts of possibilities. The most important tip: add an extra security PIN to your account. This way, whether over the phone, web or in person, this “second factor” of authentication will make it harder for a thief to become you.
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Viruses as Cyberweapons for sale
July 12, 2016 /in cyber crime, cybersecurity, viruses /by Robert Siciliano
It’s all about code—the building blocks of the Internet. Software code is full of unintentional defects. Governments are paying heavy prices to skilled hackers who can unearth these vulnerabilities, says an article at nytimes.com.
In fact, the FBI director, James B. Comey, recommended that the FBI pay hackers a whopping $1.3 million to figure out how to circumvent Apple’s iPhone security.
So driven is this “bug-and-exploit trade market,” that a bug-and-exploit hacking company, Hacking Team, ended up being hacked last summer.
The software companies that create code don’t get to learn what the vulnerabilities are that the richly paid hackers discover. This has been going on for two decades-plus.
Here are some sizzling facts from nytimes.com:
Over a hundred governments have reported they have an offensive cyberwar program.
Iran boasts being in the No. 3 spot in the world for digital army size (trailing the U.S. and China), though this can’t be confirmed.
However, Iranian hackers have demonstrated their skill more than once, and it’s not pretty. For instance, they were responsible for the rash of U.S. bank hacking incidents in 2013.
Though Iran’s cyber power lags behind that of the U.S.’s, they’re steadily closing the big gap.
Most nations keep details of their cyberwar programs classified.
It has been surmised by many a security expert that WWIII will be largely digital. Imagine how crippling it would be if a nation’s grid was dismantled—affecting major networks across that country—such as healthcare, shipping and banking and other critical infrastructures such as food and water supply.
There’s not a whole ton you can do about this battle. However, you should, at a minimum, prepare your physical life for any digital disasters. Prepare the same way you would if you knew there was a severe storm coming. Store dry foods, water, extra climate appropriate clothing, and cash, preferably lots of small bills. This is just a short list. Seek out numerous resources on ready.gov to learn more.
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TeamViewer Clients Victims of other Hack Attacks
July 8, 2016 /in cybersecurity, hackers, online security, privacy /by Robert Siciliano
Get an account with TeamViewer, and you will have a software package that enables remote control, online meetings, desktop sharing and other functions between computers.
But recently, customers of TeamViewer have reported remote takedowns of their computers that resulted in different forms of monetary theft, such as bank accounts being cleaned out.
The cyber thieves controlled the victims’ computers via their TeamViewer accounts. Customers would witness their mouse arrow suddenly moving beyond their control.
The infiltration, though, did not occur on TeamViewer’s end, insists the company. Instead, the software company called users “careless” because they reused their TeamViewer passwords on other sites like LinkedIn, reports an article at theregister.co.uk. The company has since apologized. Frankly, I agree with TeamViewer. Careless password reuse is one of the main reasons why so much fraud is occurring.
The stream of support tickets from customers prompted TeamViewer to implement two new security checks which will warn customers via e-mail of suspicious login attempts to their TeamViewer account and ask their permission to allow this or not.
Another safeguard newly in place will be that of the company checking the GPS of login attempts, plus requiring a password reset when anybody tries to log in from a new location.
Some customers have been critical that the release of these new security features took too long, since the reports of the hacking began a few weeks prior to the finalization of these new features.
As mentioned, the origin of these hacks is apparently the reuse of TeamViewer passwords on other sites that were then hacked. TeamViewer managed to get ahold of the leaked passwords, and also leaked e-mail addresses, that were all the cyber crooks needed to remotely hijack the computers.
However, some victims reported that they never reused their password and even had two-factor authentication. Further, some victims are placing blame on the company for the breaches.
The company is taking the breach seriously and wants its affected customers to upload their log files. TeamViewer especially wants to hear from customers with two-factor authentication who were compromised.
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Can Two-Factor Authentication actually fail?
July 6, 2016 /in digital security, online safety, privacy /by Robert Siciliano
You’ve probably read many times that two-factor authentication is a superb extra layer of protection against a thief hacking into your accounts, because gaining access requires entering a One Time Passcode (OTP)—sent via text or voice—into a login field. In other words, no phone, no access.
But CAN a hacker get the phone? Ask Deray McKesson, an activist with Black Lives Matter. Hackers got his phone.
Now, this doesn’t mean they busted into his home while he was napping and took his phone. Rather, the thief took control of his mobile account.
The thief rerouted McKesson’s text messages – to a different SIM card that the mobile carrier, Verizon, had issued to the thief. This is how the criminal got the two-factor code. Next thing, the imposter was in McKesson’s Twitter and e-mail accounts.
So though two-factor is a pretty well-padded extra layer of protection, it can be circumvented.
“Someone called Verizon impersonating me,” tweeted McKesson on June 10. The crook got a different SIM this way. The flaw isn’t the two-factor system. In this case it was Verizon, allowing this to happen just too easily.
“Today I learned that it is rather easy for someone to call the provider & change your SIM,” says a subsequent tweet. Though Verizon does require the last four digits of the user’s SSN to get a new SIM card, this isn’t enough to filter out imposters, as we see here. McKesson further tweeted he was “not sure” how the imposter knew those last four digits, but that “they knew it.”
Verizon has since implemented additional safeguards.
So what really happened? How did someone get McKesson’s SSN? Did he reveal it somewhere where he didn’t have to? And then the wrong person saw it? Was he tricked into revealing it through a phishing e-mail?
Nevertheless, here’s what to do:
Set up a secondary code on your phone’s account.
This is a personal identification number that an imposter would have to reveal before any changes were made to the account—even if he gave out your entire SSN to the mobile company rep.
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Identity Theft getting even worse
July 1, 2016 /in Identity Theft /by Robert Siciliano
In 2015, depending on the kind and type of identity theft we are talking about, identity thieves impacted 1.5 million people or more, says the Javelin Strategy & Research report. That’s more than double than for 2014.
The move from stripe cards to chip cards has motivated crooks to fasten their seatbelts and really take off with an accelerated mode of operation. For them, your Social Security Number is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Thieves will use it to set up new accounts in the victims’ names, then go on spending sprees. This kind of identity theft is called new-account fraud.
This can go on for months or years before the victim realizes it.
Sometimes the victim never finds out.
These cases can also slip by the victim’s bank.
A favorite scam is for the thief to create a fake (partially stolen, partially faked) identity morphed from multiple pieces of real—and stolen—data. So we have not only a stolen identity but a fictitious identity—which could be created using your Social Security number and someone else’s home address and name. This is called synthetic ID, and banks see right past it.
Synthetic ID Crimes
ID manipulation: The criminal uses a stolen core identity but integrates false pieces of data to avert detection.
Quick synthetics: Data pieces from multiple, real victims are compiled into a single identity.
What can banks do?
Analyze cellphone account data to see if there’s a predictable pattern of billing details, since many thieves may use a prepaid, discardable VoIP phone.
E-mail history is also important to look at; a new e-mail for an old account should be suspicious for fraud.
Another red flag is if the e-mail address doesn’t correlate to the mobile device.
What can be done by credit card issuers?
Checking a person’s identity needs to be more thorough.
For instance, a red flag would be spotting the same address for several different names.
Repeat scoring of the applicant’s risk score, one to three days later, to see if there’s a change. A change is a red flag.
No identity theft is OK. But if synthetic identity theft happens you to, meaning some sleaze uses your SSN, but not your name, you may never know about it. And that means it may not actually affect you. But:
Check your credit reports at least annually
Consider investing in identity theft protection. Identity theft protection monitors your SSN for activity on the dark web and on most new lines of credit.
Get a credit freeze. A credit freeze locks down your credit and prevents new account fraud.
The bottom line is that banks and credit card issuers need to employ a multi-layer approach to screening and approving applicants. The more layers, the harder it will be for a fraudster to penetrate. Four layers are significantly better than two layers.
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BANIJAY RIGHTS WILL DISTRIBUTE THE MINISERIES “FLIGHT MH370”
The distributor joined forces with Alef One and France Televisions to bring to the screen the greatest aviation mystery of all time.
Banijay Rights has confirmed it will distribute the highly-anticipated, dramatic mini-series, “Flight MH370”, with France Televisions as the French broadcaster. Produced by Alef One, headed up by Nora Melhli (“The Tunnel”; “Riviera”), the drama, explores the biggest mystery in aviation history, surrounding the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which in 2014 was lost somewhere over the South China Sea carrying 239 passengers.
The show (6x52’) boasts a raft of critically acclaimed creative talent, with showrunner Gilles Bannier (“Spiral”; “Tin Star”; “The Tunnel”), writers Tim Loane (“Versailles”, “Das Boot”) and Laurent Mercier (“The Club”, “Eden”). At the helm alongside Melhli as co-executive producer is Nadine Nohr who was integral to the distribution of landmark titles "The Bridge" and "Broadchurch".
Nora Melhi, Executive Producer at Alef One, said, “Our aim is to tell a true story through the lens of an intimate and geopolitical thriller. The best way to do this story justice is to tell it as a drama and candidly delve deep into the real and imagined machinations of this tragic flight. ‘Flight MH370’ is a relatable, multi character and compelling contemporary suspense filled series about the greatest civil aviation mystery of all time. Having collaborated with Gilles Bannier on ‘The Tunnel’, I knew he was the ideal showrunner for this series.”
Nathalie Biancolli, Head of International Scripted at France Television, said “This will be a high-quality drama, interweaving the investigation, fiction and reality to create a gripping story. This tragic disappearance has shocked everyone and continues to perplex the international community. Developing ‘Flight MH370’ with Alef One and Banijay Rights is a way for France Télévisions to shine a light on the plight of Ghyslain Wattrelos. We are also excited to work with the very talented Gilles Bannier."
Caroline Torrance, Head of Scripted at Banijay Rights, comments, “This is a gripping, real-life drama that has impacted many - in Europe, Asia and the Americas - for more than five years. We are looking forward to discussing the series with leading international broadcasters who are keen to partner on a scripted production that has a truly global perspective. Created by leading talent with an award-winning track record, we believe ‘Flight MH370’ will be true event drama at its very best.”
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Shot mainly in English, the mini-series is based on the novel by Ghyslain Wattrelos, who lost his wife and two of his three children in the tragedy and the book by Florence de Changy, the journalist, who investigated the disappearance with surgical precision. Told from multiple perspectives across seven countries, FlightMH370 retraces the odyssey of Wattrelos, a man whose world was literally turned upside down overnight in a way that defies belief.
With the main characters based on real people, “Flight MH370” tells the intriguing story not only from the viewpoint of the next of kin but also that of journalists, scientists, pilots, politicians and others whose lives have been affected by this catastrophic turn of events – reliving the moment their worlds came to an abrupt halt on that fateful night. For the families of the 239 victims, this moment marked the beginning of the rest of their lives.
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ServiceChannel Completes 2017 SSAE16/SOC1 Type II Audit Review
March 6, 2017 by ServiceChannel
NEW YORK, March 6, 2017 — ServiceChannel, the leading SaaS service automation platform for facilities managers and contractors, today announced that A-Lign, an independent auditing firm, has recently completed its examination in conformity with Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) No. 16, Reporting on Controls at a Service Organization for the period of Feb. 1, 2016 through Jan. 31, 2017.
The completion of the SSAE 16 SOC1 Type II examination is an essential component of the ServiceChannel corporate compliance program. The examination included the company’s controls related to Customer Contracts, Implementations, Support and Incident Management; Transaction Processing, Invoice Creation, ACH File Processing, Computer Operations, Control Environment, Information Security, Application Change Control and Data Communications. The successful completion indicates that ServiceChannel processes, procedures and controls have been formally evaluated and tested by an independent accounting and auditing firm.
An SSAE 16 examination is widely recognized because it represents that a service organization has been through an evaluation of its control activities as they relate to an audit of the financial statements of its customers. A Type II report not only includes the service organization’s system description, but also includes detailed testing of the design and operating effectiveness of the service organization’s controls.
“We’re excited to once again achieve the highest level of SSAE 16 certification as this proves the processes and controls we employ protect our clients data.” says Brian Engler, Chief Information Officer, at ServiceChannel. “In addition, this reaffirms our commitment to providing a secure marketplace where companies can transact business in a safe and protected forum.”
SSAE 16 is designated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as an acceptable method for a user entity’s management to obtain assurance about service organization internal controls without conducting additional assessments. In addition, the requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 make SSAE 16 reports even more important to the process of reporting on effective internal controls by public companies. ServiceChannel intends to continue its annual review conducted by an independent auditor.
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What does the Bridges Restaurant in San Francisco Have to Do With Bridges?
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There is not too much room for argument that a visit to San Francisco requires some combination of visiting, traversing and viewing the spectacular Golden Gate and Bay Bridges from car, plane, boat or bike. Why not indulge all the senses by partaking in two of San Francisco’s main offerings: stunning views and stellar food? Restaurants and bars featuring dining in the shadow of the city’s bridges offer the best of both worlds.
Addressing the Elephant in the Dining Room
Gaining notoriety in the 90s hit Mrs. Doubtfire, The Bridges Restaurant and Bar makes a name for itself as a place offering incredible cuisine in a relaxed urban atmosphere. But if you’re looking for the name-implied bridge views in San Francisco, make no mistake. Although the name may be misleading, Bridges Restaurant and Bar is located about a half an hour from San Francisco in the heart of downtown Danville, out of eye-shot from any bridge view. If the bad news is the absence of a bridge view, the good news is that restaurant and bar portion is not a misnomer. The lunch, dinner, brunch and set price menu along with the full bar and happy hour offer serious satiation for any appetite.
A Dining Room with a View
Of course, there are plenty of places with spectacular bay, city light and ocean views, innovative menus and their share of award-winning and Michelin Star rated restaurants in San Francisco. Among them are Cityscape Bar and Restaurant located on the 46th floor of the Hilton Union Square. This high-rise haven features a 360-degree view from every angle, making every seat the best in the house. The menu features small plates with big, bold flavors and signature drinks until midnight. The View Lounge is another gem perched on the 39th floor of the San Francisco Marriott Marquis. This spot transforms from a casual dining destination to late night hot spot, with awe-inspiring views. The Delaney Street Restaurant is another ideal spot for both diners and bridge watchers. Opened in 1991, the restaurant features entrées for under $20, Bay Bridge view included at no extra charge.
Off the Beaten Path at a Bargain Price
San Francisco’s restaurants offering one-of-a-kind drink and dine locations are a most definite draw for anyone who enjoys great food, drink and ambience. There are popular locations where one can enjoy both, and even others where each can be savored separately. San Francisco’s Top 100 Restaurants include dining options for both.
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WHITE COLLAR Season 4 Episode 11 Review
by Jerome Wetzel
USA’s WHITE COLLAR resumes this week with “Family Business.” When we last leave our heroes (back in September’s fall finale), Peter (Tim DeKay) and Neal (Matt Bomer) are beginning to rebuild their trust, and Neal finds out that the man he believes to be named Sam is actually Neal’s father, James (Treat Williams). Plus, there’s the little matter of bringing Ellen’s killer to justice, who Neal believes to be Dennis Flynn.
WHITE COLLAR flirts with larger arcs from time to time, but mostly sticks with a case-of-the-week format. I want to complain, because I hate procedurals on principal. Yet, WHITE COLLAR manages to pull off these cases with great skill, often integrating them into the larger story, which keeps them from being dull or feeling all the same. They’ve been successfully doing so for years now, and the most recent installment is no exception.
For instance, in “Family Business,” Neal and Mozzie (Willie Garson) go undercover with the Flynn family. The duo fakes booze and special bottles for the booze to go into, with the clear understanding that the episode will end with the bad guys being arrested. This is totally in keeping with the expected formula. However, the fact that the Flynn family is very involved in Neal’s back story, and Neal is intent on pinning more than just counterfeiting on them, to Peter’s displeasure, the caper means something more than just going after a random criminal.
Now, don’t get me wrong; WHITE COLLAR knows how to make a con interesting. Even were the Flynn connection not present, I’d enjoying watching Neal and Mozzie work together, especially when getting drunk while concocting a fake whiskey. Their chemistry is highly enjoyable, and the writing for them is smart. I’m just saying, it means more when things go a little deeper.
The trust does seem to be mostly restored between Peter and Neal this week, which is a slight disappointment. Previous episodes develop a huge gap between them, their partnership badly wounded, which finally begins to heal a bit in the previous episode. This one takes place pretty much right after the last, but because of the months in between air times, the writers probably assume we’ve forgotten just how precarious the relationship is when last we see them. I have not, and I’m sure I’m not the only one.
We can tell that Peter trusts Neal again because he lets Neal go undercover, even though Peter knows Neal is too close to be at the top of his game, and the agent doesn’t automatically call things off when Neal crosses a line. Yes, Peter is ticked off, as usual. But when Peter stopped trusting Neal, he kept a tighter leash. Seeing Peter give Neal a little more slack is a sign that things are normalizing between the pair. This is what I want, what all fans are hoping for, but it comes just a little too easily.
“Family Business” addresses the bond between Neal and James. Now that James’s secrets are out in the open, the two can begin to talk honestly, and decide if they want to have a relationship. James definitely does, but Neal isn’t so sure, not in small part because he feels conned by James since James let his son believe that he was Sam.
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How James begins to make up for this, and what James reveals about the crime he is accused of, I will not spoil. Suffice it to say, this episode does have some flashbacks that satisfactorily keep James from being a total scumbag. There is a door left open that I would like to see Neal walk through that leads to a real father-son style relationship. If WHITE COLLAR chooses to go there or not, well, that remains to be seen. At least it hasn’t been shut down right out of the gate.
“Family Business” is a good way to come back, catching us up on the bigger arcs, giving some family drama and mythology to the major characters, and still delivering a fun con job that results in a bad guy being taken off the streets. That last bit isn’t a spoiler; it happens in just about every episode of the show. This is WHITE COLLAR in good form, the way it’s best enjoyed.
WHITE COLLAR airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET onUSA.
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Cervelli on catching: 'Motivation is the mask' – MLB.com
CHICAGO — Pirates catcher Francisco Cervelli wants to make one thing perfectly clear: At 33, he is excited to return to the field, and he wants to remain behind the plate.
But perhaps most importantly, for the first time in his career, he is putting his health and his family
But perhaps most importantly, for the first time in his career, he is putting his health and his family ahead of baseball.
Less than a week after a Pittsburgh media outlet reported that Cervelli said he was done catching after sustaining his sixth concussion, Cervelli said before Saturday’s game against the Cubs that he never said anything of the sort.
Early Friday evening, Cervelli posted a photo of himself in catching gear on his Instagram feed with a message calling last weekend’s report on DKPittsburghSports.com inaccurate. On Saturday, he said he posted what he did on social media to clear up speculation that he didn’t plan to catch again.
“Saying that I quit from my catcher responsibilities is inaccurate. My hope is to catch again. Not being in the catcher spot right now is part of the process of recovery from several concussions that have forced me to stop and think about my health beyond my baseball years, that have made me reflect on my health and my life in general and how my decisions affect other people that want the best for me in the long run. I keep working hard, there’s no other way for me to do things. I love baseball but I also have to take care of myself. I want to take care of myself and have quality of life now and hopefully from many more years This requires to reinvent myself, have patience and keep working In other words, to my fans, rest assured that I am working hard on my recovery and I will come back with more strength and the same passion I have always had for this sport. That, I can assure you: I have nothing other than passion, gratitude and love for what I do, for this sport. This isn’t just a job for me. This is part of my life and I can’t live my life without injecting passion and energy, heart and mind into what I do, whatever that is. ” Decir que “renuncié” a ser catcher es exagerado 😐. . Que no esté en la receptoría ahora mismo, es parte de mi proceso de recuperación de varias contusiones que me han obligado a parar y pensar en mí mismo más allá de mi carrera; que me han hecho reflexionar sobre mi salud y mi vida, y que involucra a muchas personas que quieren lo mejor para mí 🙂. . Yo, por mi parte, sigo trabajando duro, no puedo hacerlo de otra forma. Amo el beisbol, pero también quiero cuidarme y vivir una vida de calidad ⚾. . Eso implica reinventarme, tener paciencia y seguir trabajando. . Así que tranquilos, que me estoy recuperando y regresaré con más fuerza 💪🏽 y las mismas ganas de siempre, porque eso sí tengo yo: ganas, pasión y amor por lo que hago 🤛🏼. Esto no es un simple trabajo para mí, esto es parte de mi vida y yo no puedo vivir mi vida de otra manera que no sea poniéndole el corazón y pasión a lo que hago, sea lo que sea.
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Cervelli said Saturday that he has begun working with a new doctor, Dr. Michael “Micky” Collins, who specializes in sports concussions in Pittsburgh. Despite the difficulty of his current workouts and therapy sessions, he is motivated to start catching again when he is able.
“The most important thing here is to feel normal as a human being,” Cervelli said. “I haven’t been feeling normal in a long time — I probably don’t know what’s normal. I’m not saying I feel bad … I can be better than this.
He added: “I see my family suffering for this thing and people around me who love me they suffer a lot because they see me every day the way I wake up and the way I behave myself — it’s not normal. So, I’m going to do this to improve and have a quality life with them. That’s the most important thing.”
Cervelli hasn’t played since May 25, when he sustained a concussion after being hit in the chin by a broken bat against the Dodgers. Since then, he has been working at multiple positions in case a change in position was needed. Cervelli worked out in right field Saturday morning but afterward insisted he is intent on returning to the field as a catcher.
“I don’t know how long it’s going to take, but when everything goes well, I’m going to do what I like,” Cervelli said. “… I want to play and I’m hoping to catch.”
Before Cervelli spoke with reporters, manager Clint Hurdle said that Cervelli had not informed him or team officials that he is done catching. On Friday, Hurdle said that whether or not Cervelli catches is up to the veteran but that nothing was definitive. Hurdle had a conversation with Cervelli on Saturday that he said indicated that he is indeed not done catching. Hurdle said he was made aware of Cervelli’s social media post by team director of sports medicine Todd Tomczyk on Saturday.
“What I believe he shared [on Instagram] last evening is very accurate and it backs up the conversation I had with him earlier and the comments I shared with you yesterday,” Hurdle said.
Cervelli said everyone, including Hurdle and general manager Neal Huntington is on the same page. Cervelli, who is hitting .193 in 34 games this season, said he wants to contribute to the team but that everything has to be in line before he feels like he is ready to do that. For now, his focus remains on his health.
“It’s easier just to throw in the towel and say, ‘Let me rest and one day, I’ll be good,’” Cervelli said. “No, I want to work [on] this thing, I want to face it and I want to fight against it, because it’s been with me for a long, long, long time. It doesn’t belong in my body or in my brain and so it’s going to go out.
“But the motivation is the mask and the catching gear. That’s the motivation because there’s nothing more than I love more than catching. That’s the truth.”
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Sarah’s current and past collaborative projects affiliate with promising public humanities approaches. Grounded in sustained partnerships with diverse stakeholders, these programs have supported community building while creatively countering divisive trends in society today. Examples spotlighted below share information about initiatives where Sarah has served in a major leadership role.
Writing Home
How can we promote a shared sense of community through conversations grounded in social issues associated with our own homeplaces? Writing Home brings together leaders from multiple American community settings to carry out theme-based inquiry on the personal and site-based histories in a particular homeplace. Blending research-based study of a homeplace’s history with writing and dialogue, Writing Home capitalizes on the energy, vision, and expertise of educators affiliated with the National Writing Project.
How can we foster intercultural skills among today’s university students? Living in an increasingly globalized society—yet also regularly encountering negative messages about people with backgrounds different from their own—undergraduates need learning opportunities that help them develop sustained relationships with peers from around the world while they explore global issues together. GlobalEX, a co-curricular program for which Sarah has served as the founding faculty advisor, cultivates collaborative learning through a three-stage experience of EXplore, EXchange, and EXtend. GlobalEX draws on the benefit of having many international students attending US universities today and the eagerness of their counterparts from around the US to learn about diverse cultures while sharing knowledge about their own communities too.
MLA Committee on K-16 Alliances
How can we develop meaningful connections across all stages of learning about modern languages, writing, and literature? The Modern Language Association (MLA), a major academic professional organization for teacher-scholars in these fields, is committed to supporting initiatives to build such connections. Through its committee on K-16 Alliances (which Sarah is chairing for 2017-20), the MLA is developing partnerships and programming to support teaching, learning, and informed advocacy around important educational issues today. One way to track the work of the MLA is to join the MLA Commons. To tap into resources created by the working group that led to formation of the K-16 committee, visit their archive in the commons.
Teaching Transatlanticism
How can faculty members and students link their study of transatlantic culture in the long nineteenth century to generative trends in this burgeoning academic field? Sarah has been collaborating with a number of teacher-scholars to explore this question through shared learning in seminar offerings and publication of both print and online resources. Currently, Sarah is working with co-editors Andrew Taylor and Linda Hughes, as well as associate editors Heidi Hakimi-Hood and Adam Nemmers, on a new anthology of primary texts, tentatively entitled Transatlantic Anglophone Literatures, 1776-1920.
Keeping and Creating American Communities (KCAC)
How can inquiry-based study of the places where we live enhance our capacities for interdisciplinary learning and active citizenship? Keeping and Creating American Communities, a multi-year program funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Writing Project, nurtured the civic engagement abilities of teachers and their students in a range of classroom settings across northwest Georgia while providing models for adaptation in other regions. Using five thematic strands, KCAC first enabled teams of teachers to create new curriculum along with their students and then sponsored community events and programs to extend that new knowledge to diverse audiences. Teachers affiliated with the KCAC initiative published two books about their work: Writing America and Writing Our Communities.
Women’s Work in the Long Nineteenth Century
How can we draw on the power of visual culture to learn about American women’s work in the long nineteenth century? Beginning in the late 1990s and then moving into the early 2000s, Sarah collaborated with historian Ann Pullen to teach a series of courses on the differing kinds of “work” experiences among US women living in that prior era. Ann and Sarah capitalized on funding from several sources to gather together an archive of images depicting women’s labor—ranging from then-sanctioned domestic labor across varying social classes to more radical attempts by women to use collaborative work for political intervention, as in the temperance movement. Undergraduate students enrolled in these courses collaborated with Sarah and Ann to create curricular materials that invite website visitors to do historically informed rhetorical analysis of images from this Women’s Work archive.
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Moreno Exposes Ex-Devotees Shocking Photo Attacks Against Sathya Sai Baba
Moreno’s Definitive Guide To Photo Attacks Against Sathya Sai Baba
ROBERT PRIDDY (a laughable critic and defamer of Sathya Sai Baba) had the audacity to criticize Gerald Joe Moreno for “manipulating” images of Ex-Devotees and creating images of a “pornographic kind”. Robert Priddy clearly contrasted himself as an ethical and moral individual who does not support or endorse “manipulated” images or other images of a “pornographic kind”. As a matter of fact, pseudo-moralist Robert Priddy said about Gerald Joe Moreno:
Robert Priddy: “The impostor Gerald Moreno, who actually writes under the name of sathyasaibaba on his wordpress blog, himself manipulates images (here is his most vulgar masterpiece where he hides behind the names Equalizer and Premaperme) and distorting people’s faces!”
Robert Priddy: “Last but far from least, he posts photos of critics of Sai Baba with distorted faces and added bodies of a pornographic kind!”
BARRY PITTARD (another laughable critic and defamer of Sathya Sai Baba) similarly criticized Gerald Joe Moreno for “photo attacks” and “diabolizing photo alterations” against Ex-Devotees. Barry Pittard clearly contrasted himself as an ethical and moral individual who does not support or endorse “photo attacks” and “diabolizing photo alterations” against others.
This article will conclusively prove that Barry Pittard and Robert Priddy are self-serving hypocrites who not only fully endorse other’s “photo attacks”, “diabolizing photo alterations”, “manipulated images” and “images of a pornographic kind” against Sathya Sai Baba, they themselves create, disperse and publish “photo attacks”, “diabolizing photo alterations” and “manipulated images” against Sathya Sai Baba and others as well. (Reference)
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Mass wedding on May 16th, 50 couples to tie knot
Posted on April 7, 2010 by sathyasaibaba
Sathya Sai Baba
The Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisation, Pune, will organise a mass wedding on May 16, the birth anniversary of Sathya Sai Baba, at Phulgaon village in Pune.
“We have booked 50 couples, which include some Muslim and Buddhist couples, who have agreed to get married on the appointed day,’’ said, Venkatesh Jalgi, district co-ordinator Pune, Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisation.
The couples have been chosen from different rural areas of Pune and are not able to afford marriages. “The couples have been drawn from diverse backgrounds and they came forward for the marriage, which is being held free of cost. We are providing utensils and clothes to the couples,’’ Jalgi said.
The marriages are being held in an austere setting without any pomp and show and the estimated expenditure incurred by the organisation on each marriage is between Rs 10,000 and 15,000, he said.
“Some of the couples are from slum areas and some belong to families of farmers. We took the initiative as in villages such as Phulgaon, couples have been running into debt and cannot afford weddings,’’ Jalgi said.
The organisation looks into the area of socio-economic development of the people from the rural backgrounds of Pune, and it is for the first time that it is organising the marriages on such a large scale.
“We are targeting the solemnisation of around 85 marriages on Sathya Sai Baba’s 85th birth anniversary. This is being held on the auspicious occasion of Akshaya Tritiya,’’ added Jalgi.
The Sathya Seva Organisation plans to keep the event sombre. He said the organisation booked the marriage offers through its Grameen Seva Kendra at Phulgaon village and has collected donations for the event.
“We have a well-established network of philanthropists, who have come forward to fund the event. We are doing this as there are hardly any organizations that work towards helping people conduct marriages, thus laying the base for the basic social unit of the society,’’ said Jalgi.
He added that most of the couples who have come forward have got their respective matches arranged by their parents.
Indian Express Reference
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Harmonise your spiritual peace at the Harmony Centre in Bundanoon
Posted on March 31, 2010 by sathyasaibaba
JACKIE MEYERS
29 Mar, 2010 09:21 AM
A NEW spirit has come to the Southern Highlands with the opening of the Harmony Centre Bundanoon.
Located on the former Quest for Life property, the Harmony Centre is a spiritually based wellness charity open to anyone seeking a space to heal their body, calm their mind and nurture their soul.
The centre, which opened last September, is the third life enrichment facility established by spiritual teacher Shakti Durga and her partner Hugh Keller.
Other centres have been established at Cooranbong on the NSW Central Coast and in Camperdown, Sydney.
Ms Durga was a barrister for 16 years before “giving it all up” to focus full time on teaching and developing the not-for-profit centres.
“As a barrister I naturally came into contact with people dealing with conflict, turmoil and often profound suffering,” she said.
“But it was my own experience of a painful divorce and personal crisis that first propelled me to believe there must be a better way. That’s how my spiritual journey started.”
It was a journey that led her to train under some of the world’s leading spiritual teachers including master Chao Kok Sui in the Philippines, Sri Jaya Shakti in Bali and Sathya Sai Baba in India.
Ms Durga said she learnt about healing the human body and spirit through master Chao and was helped to better understand and experience self-realisation through Sri Jaya.
She said Satya Sai Baba was her inspiration for the Harmony Centres, which she began establishing in Australia in 2004.
“Sai Baba ran centres of spiritual study in India as well as schools, hospitals and programs for feeding the poor,” she said.
“He inspired me to think about how we could bring about positive change through love by bringing together like-minded people. I was inspired by his humanitarian work and while they are still in their infancy I hope the Harmony Centres will achieve something similar. I’m keen to contribute to a healthy community and I believe the Harmony Centres are a different way of having an impact. The centres have become a hub where people can express their beliefs, meet like-minded people and take part in stimulating discussions about the meaning of life and why we are here.”
Ms Durga said her centres catered for any person who would like to improve their health and well-being and get more meaning out of life, regardless of religious affiliation or belief.
She said seminars, which developed life skills in a supportive environment, as well as cleansing and uplifting meditation and chanting practices, were a key part of the spiritual program.
“The programs help people discover how to have more joy and happiness, well being and peace in their lives,” she said.
“A key to this is a form of meditation called Ignite Your Spirit, which releases blockages to peace and harmony.”
Visit The Harmony Centre Foundation Website
Highland News Reference
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FBISD Earns Seven State Awards For Partnership Programs
By: FortBendNow Staff on Fri, Feb 5, 2010
The Texas Association of Partners in Education recognized the Fort Bend Independent School District for seven outstanding partnerships at its 2010 Education Partnership Awards Luncheon, held Jan. 26 in Austin.
The TAPE Partnership Awards Program recognizes exemplary educational partners and partnership programs from across the state and FBISD earned seven awards: four crystal (awarded to best of category winners) and three gold (awarded to the second highest scoring nominees).
The 2010 TAPE award winners for FBISD include:
Crystal Award Winners
Barbara Adcock (TAPE Individual Partnership Award, Role Model) – As curator of the Colony Meadows Elementary School Guided Reading Library, Adcock has been involved with the guided reading library since its inception five years ago. The program began with 25 sets of books, and now contains 2,180 sets of books. Adcock developed a library system that not only lists the books, but cross references the books by reading level, title, and genre. She also implemented a computerized system for checking books in and out of the library.
Bobbie Steinert (TAPE Individual Partnership Award, Partnership Advocate) – Steinert has been the FBISD Shared Dreams Program full-time facilitator for the past five years. She works closely with all campus nurses, social workers, counselors and volunteers to help provide clothing and school supplies to children in need of assistance. With the help of volunteers, she opens the Shared Dreams facility three days a week to parents and guardians who qualify to participate in the program.
Briana Gifford (TAPE Individual Partnership Award, Youth Leadership) – While a senior at Kempner High School, Gifford is an active member of several service organizations including the Sugar Land Mayor’s Youth Advisory Council, the Keep Sugar Land Beautiful Youth Board and the Fort Bend ISD Youth Advisory Board. In her advisory capacity for these organizations, Briana helps keep the organizations informed about student concerns and issues, and provides important insight in sharing ways to impact on the community.
CVS Pharmacy (TAPE Business Partnership Award, Career Education) – CVS opens doorways to learning for students across the Fort Bend ISD community. Through its internship program, CVS provides hands-on experiences for students, employment opportunities, funding for scholarships and continuing education for interns and pharmacy technicians who want to complete a six-year pharmacy program.
Gold Award Winners
Don McGinty (TAPE Individual Partnership Award, Wisdom) – A retired Shell employee, McGinty, recognizes the need for mentors in Fort Bend ISD not only for at-risk students, but also for those who are academically able. He eagerly volunteers to mentor at his neighborhood school, Quail Valley Elementary. Last year, he mentored three children and visited their school once a week, spending approximately 40 minutes with each child. McGinty gladly provided a positive male role-model for each of these students.
Rolls-Royce Energy Systems, Inc. and Optimized Systems & Solutions (OS&O) (TAPE Business Partnership Award, Academic Impact) – Rolls-Royce Energy Systems, Inc. and OS&S “adopted” Blue Ridge Elementary School and regularly provide numerous levels of support to the students and teachers. Employees from both companies assist the school by providing mentors and volunteers for school-wide programs, especially those geared toward learning science and math concepts. They also provide financial and in-kind donations to the school.
The Saturday Math and Science Workshop – The Satya Sai Organization and Elkins High School(TAPE Community Partnership Award, Academic Impact) – The Sathya Sai Organization partnered with Elkins High School to provide tutorials to students in math and science. The organization provides more than 20 adult tutors (among them are teachers, lawyers, business professionals, college students and a retired surgeon), who work with nearly 90 Elkins students for two hours each Saturday.
Fort Bend Now Reference
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Fraud Godman Sex Scandal Racket Shiv Murat Dwivedi Was NOT A Sathya Sai Baba Devotee
Shiv Murat Dwivedi (alias “Ichchadhari Sant Swami Bhimanandji Maharaj Chitrakootwale” alias “Rajiv Ranjan Dwivedi” alias “Karan Kumar Dwivedi”) received world-wide attention for a sex scandal racket in India that has been widely broadcast through international television, newspapers, magazines, online news sites and YouTube. The “fraud Godman” Dwivedi was accused of being a prostitution ring leader who used the name, form and fame of Shirdi Sai Baba to bolster his pseudo-guru reputation.
Although numerous media broadcasts correctly stated that Shiv Murat Dwivedi claimed to be a devotee of Shirdi Sai Baba, some unscrupulous journalists and writers have erroneously and falsely published that Shiv Murat Dwivedi was a devotee of Sathya Sai Baba. Shiv Murat Dwivedi was NOT a devotee of Sathya Sai Baba, nor did Shiv Murat Dwivedi ever claim to be a devotee of Sathya Sai Baba.
The following two articles are sleazy media publications that falsely claimed that Shiva Murat Dwivedi was a devotee of Sathya Sai Baba:
Parikshit Luthra – CNN-IBN Sleaze Journalist Falsely Claimed Shiv Murat Dwivedi Was A Devotee Of Sathya Sai Baba
Sleazy godman under police net worth Rs 500 cr
Parikshit Luthra / CNN-IBN
Delhi: The latest godman in the Delhi police net, Swami Bhimanand, is worth almost Rs 500 crore and used to cater to high end clients.
The long, divine sounding name Ichchadhari Sant Bhimanand Ji Maharaj could not even save the godman from the long arm of the law.
Swami Bhimanand professed to be a devotee of Satya Sai Baba and among his thousands of followers boasted prominent politicians and bureaucrats. But on the side, he was running a sex racket for 10 years which the Delhi police busted last week.
“We will be booking him under MCOCA as his past has all the necessary ingredients,” said Delhi Police Commissioner HGS Dhaliwal.
The 39-year-old Swamin Bhimanand, whose real name is Shreemurath Dwivedi, started work in Delhi as a security guard in 1988. In 1997 he was arrested for managing a prostitution ring. When he got out of jail, he took up religion simply as a front to his sleazy dealings.
He used to supply women, including air hostesses, to high end clients all across Delhi and used to earn approximately Rs 2.5 lakh everyday.
When produced in court on Wednestday, the godman of course denied all these charges.
“I have been framed. All allegations against me are false,” the swami said.
But police have recovered five diaries from him which have the names, phone numbers and even rates of certain prostitutes.
Sources say Swami Bhimanand had a very wide network of pimps and prostitutes and was worth more than Rs 300 crore. The police now wants to take him on remand to know more about his dealings and also about the politicians whose patronage he always enjoyed.
(Reference)
Neal Ungerleider – Shabby Researcher Who Cannot Get His Facts Right About Shiv Murat Dwivedi & Sathya Sai Baba
Hindu ‘God-Man’ in British Airways prostitution scandal
Neal Ungerleider
A Hindu clergyman and self-styled “god-man” with over 100,000 reputed followers in India has been caught running a US$10 million high-end prostitution racket involving British Airways hostesses.
Shiv Myra Dwivedi, aka Ichchadhari Sant Swami Bhimanand Ji Maharaj Chitrakoot Wale, 39, claims to be a follower of the legendary Sathya Sai Baba. Dwivedi was allgedly using his Sai Baba Temple in Khanpur, South Delhi as a front for an operation that employed somewhere between 60 and 200 prostitutes across India. Also found inside Dwivedi’s temple were drug and pornography caches on an epic scale. Adding to the fun, it appears that phone records found inside the temple link the prostitution operation to prominent Delhi cops, Indian television stars and politicians.
The Indian press is already calling Dwivedi the “pimp guru.”
The operation of the “pimp guru” employed mainly students and air hostesses, including British Airways and Jagson employees. Dwivedi was arrested over the weekend by Delhi police while conducting a deal with another (alleged) pimp behind a cinema in the city’s Saket neighborhood. A police team sent to raid Dwivedi’s temple subsequently found a labyrinth of hidden tunnels and rooms that contained personal diaries, cash, financial records for the operation and healthy supplies of pornography and undisclosed illegal drugs. According to Delhi authorities, the Swami hid the entrance to the secret tunnels in a meditation room.
The “pimp guru” also runs a 200-bed hospital and has several power political patrons in the Samajwadi Party and reportedly has several well-known politicians among his clients.
But for all of Dwivedi’s religious trappings, his pimp skills seem defiantly old-school:
“He used the guise of spirituality to run an organised prostitution racket since 1999 and has made billions of rupees by supplying women to his high-profile clients,” said a police officer, refusing to be named.
“He would force young women to join the sex racket, offered them money, expensive gifts and had even provided them with cars.”
Apart from the Delhi temple, the prostitution operation also rented out of several rented houses in Delhi and in the state of Uttar Pradesh. According to Indian sources, his non-Indian prostitutes would dress only in saffron clothes in public to avoid suspicion.
Dwivedi, a native of Uttar Pradesh, worked his way up from a security guard at a massage parlor in the 1990s to become a prominent guru. But he had trouble along the way: Dwivedi was previously arrested in 2000 for running a prostitution ring centered around yoga and meditation workshops.Strangest of all, reports indicate that Dwivedi’s father and brother were previously arrested on unrelated murder allegations in his hometown of Chitrakoot.
British Airways is investigating the allegations.
Needless to say, there are several YouTube videos that provide actual footage of Shiv Murat Dwivedi posing in front of pictures of Shirdi Sai Baba, NOT Sathya Sai Baba. See for yourself:
In the following YouTube video, one can see Shiva Murat Dwivedi performing his “snake dance” in front of a Shirdi Sai Baba picture. The news broadcast also stated that the fraud Godman Shiv Murat Dwivedi pretended to be a devotee of the Sai Baba of Shirdi. Dwivedi also sold CDs and DVDs of himself in direct association with Shirdi Sai Baba.
The following YouTube video shows the sex-scandal-imbroiled Shiva Murat Dwivedi doing his “snake dance” in front of a picture of Shirdi Sai Baba. The YouTube video exposes the Fraud Godman’s sex racket & sex scandal.
When news broadcasts stated that Shiva Murat Dwivedi claimed to be a devotee of Shirdi Sai Baba, people dismissed Dwivedi as a fraud with no suspicions of impropriety against Shirdi Sai Baba. However, when news broadcasts incorrectly and falsely stated that Shiva Murat Dwivedi claimed to be a devotee of Sathya Sai Baba, people suggested and implied impropriety against Sathya Sai Baba!
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Rich haul of Padma Awards for State
Posted on February 2, 2010 by sathyasaibaba
A.V.S. Raju
V.P. Dimri
Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana
Shoba Raju
HYDERABAD: Andhra Pradesh has reaped a rich haul of Padma Awards, the country’s highest civilian awards, announced by the Government of India on Monday.
Two distinguished Telugus—former Governor of RBI Yaga Venugopal Reddy (Public Affairs) and Apollo Hospitals Chairman Prathap C. Reddy (Trade & Industry) have been conferred Padma Vibhushan, though the latter falls in the Tamil Nadu category.
Carnatic vocal maestro Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana (art) has been conferred the prestigious Padma Bhushan award while NGRI Director V.P. Dimri (science & engineering), Annamacharya Bhavana Vahini founder and vocalist Shoba Raju (art), industrialist A.V.S. Raju (trade & industry) besides badminton ace Saina Nehwal (sports)were awarded the Padma Sri on Monday.
Prof. Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana (87), started his illustrious journey in Carnatic music as a violinist at the age of 13 under Mangalampalli Pattabhi Ramaiah, father of M. Balamurali Krishna.
After his foray into Carnatic vocal under the mentoring of the likes of Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu and Sripada Pinakapani, Prof. Satyanarayana never looked back in a career spanning over seven decades. A recipient of several awards including the Central Sangeet Natak Academy award and Sangita Kalacharya award of Madras Music Academy, Prof. Satyanarayana gave concerts in the United States, Canada Malaysia, Ireland and other countries.
Dr. Dimri expressed happiness upon receiving Padma Sri and described it as “recognition” of the contribution made by the entire NGRI staff. “Its great news” he told The Hindu here on Monday.
The NGRI staff did a lot of good work in the fields of earth sciences, energy security, water-related problems, environmental studies and natural disasters like earthquakes and tsunamis.
The conferment of Padma Sri thrust greater responsibility and the institute would focus on future challenges relating to climate change, natural hazards and hydro-carbon resources, among others. “I can be called as ‘Junior Padma Sri’ if someone feels I am too young to receive the prestigious award,” exclaimed Saina Nehwal.
“This award betters the Arjuna Award that I had got last year,” said a delighted Ms. Saina. Chief national coach Gopi Chand remarked: “I don’t think that she is too young for this Award. I also wish Saina will continue to hog the limelight at the highest level.”
Saina was the first Indian woman badminton player to reach the singles quarterfinals in the Olympics, first Indian to win the World Junior Badminton Championships and first Indian to win a Super Series tournament.
Born in Antervedipalem village of East Godavari district, Dr. Raju (73) took the plunge into business in 1956, but not before experiencing the rigours of working in agriculture, construction and other activities.
The founder chairman of Nagarjuna Construction Company Limited, a leading construction firm, Dr. Raju started several industries in diversified areas including Nagarjuna Steels Ltd, AVS Containers, NCC Finance and Deccan Cements limited, providing employment to over 4,500 people.
A poet with 24,000 poems to his credit and author of several works, Dr. Raju had entered the Guinness Book of Records for penning the largest single volume biography of Sri Sathya Sai Baba of Puttaparthy.
The Hindu Reference
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Recent Events At Prashanti Nilayam – Sathya Sai Baba Ashram
Posted on January 17, 2009 by sathyasaibaba
– Curtesty Sri Sathya Sai Sadhana Trust:
Skits by University Students, 13 & 14 Jan 2009 (Pictures)
Makara Sankranthi 2009 – A Report
Sports & Cultural Meet – 2009 – A Report
Choir by Devotees from New Zealand, 07 Jan 2009 (Pictures)
Cultural Program by Youth from Maharashtra and Goa, 02-04 Jan 2009 (Pictures)
New Year Celebrations, 01Jan 2009 (Pictures)
– In The News:
Satyasai Sports Meet begins in Puttaparthi
Express News Service First Published : 12 Jan 2009 04:10:00 AM ISTLast Updated : 12 Jan 2009 11:36:49 AM ISTANANTAPUR: Satyasai Sports Meet began at Hill View Stadium in Puttaparthi on Sunday. Students of Satyasai educational institutions are participating in the sports meet, which will conclude on January 14. Sri Satyasaibaba released pigeons marking the inauguration of the sports event. Prizes will be distributed to the winners on January 15. Earlier, the students accorded a warm welcome to Sri Saibaba when he arrived at the stadium to inaugurate the event. (ExpressBuzz Reference)
It ends with character, not knowledge
IN RESPONSE to your editorial Dealing With Violence In Schools in your January 12 edition, I wish to share a concept worth considering, particularly as education is provided free from primary to tertiary level.
The following is a pledge required of each student at the Sai Institute in India, where education at all levels is provided free of charge, like in Barbados.
I hereby solemnly declare and promise that, if admitted to the degree for which I have been duly recommended, I will, in my daily life and conversation and in thought, word and deed, conduct myself as befits a member of Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning; that I will, to the utmost of my capacity and opportunity, support the cause of sound learning, humanity, morality and spirituality; and that, as far as lies in me, I shall uphold and advance the social and, indeed all round welfare of my countrymen and fellow men.
The aim is to have students transformed both into academic, as well as community heroes, since, as Sai Baba says, “the end of education is not knowledge, but character”.
– LALU N. VASWANI, Chairman, Sai Institute of Education, WI (NationNews Reference)
– Curtesty RadioSai:
This evening was the last session for all the students of the Sai Educational Institutions to gather together in this Sankranti season. Bhagawan arrived at 5.30, and after a round of the hall as the Bhajans went on, sat onstage till He accepted Arati. The ‘Birthday boys’ were blessed for the last twenty minutes onstage before Swami accepted Arati after the 75 minute Bhajan session.
The prize distribution function marking the end of the Annual Sports and Cultural Meet of the Sri Sathya Sai Educational Institutions was held this Sankaranthi morning in the Sai Kulwant Hall. After Bhagawan arrived and completed a round of the Hall seated in His special raised golden chair, the proceedings onstage got underway at 9.35 am. The girl student from the Sri Sathya Sai Higher Secondary School who secured all India rank in the XII class examination conducted by the CBSE was called onstage and felicitated. The medals and trophies of each of the campuses were then blessed by Bhagawan and the captains and vice-captains of each of the campuses came up to receive them. The distribution was followed by Bhagawan’s Divine Discourse. A couple of Bhajans followed, and the University brass band played a piece before Bhagawan accepted Arati and returned to His residence at 11.30 am.
In the evening, the Prasanthi Nilayam campus of the University presented a drama entitled ‘Sri Krishna Tatwa Darsanam’ in the Sai Kulwant Hall. Swami arrived at 5.15 for darshan and went to the Bhajan Hall for ten minutes of interaction with the students in costumes gathered there, following which the drama commenced at 5.30 pm. The 75 minute presentation brought out the message of the Krishna avatar to humanity through a series of episodes where He protected the Pandavas. Bhagawan came down from the stage and blessed the participants with group photographs after the moving drama. He then accepted Arati onstage and returned to His residence at 7.10 pm.
After a day’s rest, the presentations by the students continued with a drama by the Brindavan campus this evening. Bhagawan arrived at five o’clock and after a round of the Kulwant Hall in the car, came to the Bhajan hall where the actors were ready in costumes. He interacted with them for 10 minutes, asking after many of the characters. The drama ‘Bhaktha Pothana’ got underway at 5.20 once Swami came onstage. The 70 minute extravaganza was filled with songs, dances and famous stanzas of Pothana and was embellished with a magnificient temple backdrop. Bhagawan was very pleased with their efforts and called them up for group photographs. Bhajans commenced and prasadam was distribued, and after a couple of bhajans Swami called up the Brindavan Warden and asked him to tell the students that He would soon come to Brindavan and make all of them happy. After one more photo session, Bhagawan accepted Arati at 7 o’clock before retiring for the day.
Bhagawan had come to the stadium in the mornings and in the evenings over the last few days, and had seen all the items to be presented by the students on the Sports Festival today. The morning programme commenced in the Vidyagiri stadium with Bhagawan arriving in a white robe just before 8.30 am. As He was escorted to the stage by the slow-march contingent, brass bands from Anantapur and Prasanthi Nilayam played marching music. This morning, the march-past of the Sai educational institutions with the torch-lighting ceremony was completed by 9.15 am. The torch was carried up the Hanuman hill by this year’s torch vehicle in the shape of a majestic Lion. The Prasanthi Nilayam, Anantapur and Brindavan campuses then completed their presentations in rapid succession by 11 o’clock, when Bhagawan accepted Arati and returned to His residence.
The evening presentation was by the Sri Sathya Sai Primary school, and Bhagawan arrived at the stadium by 4.15 pm. Swami was escorted into the Shanti Vedika stage by young cartwheeling gymnasts and their hour-long performance commenced with gusto. The younger children and the girls presented colourful mass items, and the boys presented gymnastics and roller-blading events. Bhagawan was very pleased with their presentation and blessed everyone profusely while returning to His residence after Arati at 5.20 pm.
Bhagawan went to the stadium both in the morning and in the evening yesterday, witnessing the students’ rehearsals there. As per His instructions, the Bhajans were held in the Sai Kulwant Hall instead of inside the Bhajan hall in the evenings. This evening, devotees from New Zealand presented a musical programme. The group of around a hundred performers were seated on either side of the stage. Bhagawan came for darshan at 4.50 pm and went into the interview room. He emerged at 5.10, and moving to the stage, moved down from the centre ramp to take a round of the ladies’ side in His chair interacting with many devotees. At 5.20, He came onstage to begin the musical programme. The first half of the programme consisted of Maori action songs. Most of the other songs were in English, with the last song being in Hindi and English. Bhagawan interacted with the lady who lead the Maori chants and blessed her with a chain at the end of the programme. Clothes were distributed to all the performers, and Bhagawan interacted with them for nearly twenty minutes before Bhajans commenced. Prasadam was distributed, and Swami accepted Arati at 6.20 pm before returning to His residence.
This evening, Bhagawan went to the stadium and watched the rehearsals of the students for the annual Sports and Cultural Meet events to be held on January 11. Seated on a raised platform near the front of Shanthi Vedika, Swami saw one hour of the practice session, seeing all except a couple of events and giving feedback on them. After He returned to the Mandir at 5.50, He sat in the Bhajan Hall for a couple of Bhajans before accepting Arati and returning to His residence.
The Maharashtra youth were ready with a programme of songs this evening. Bhagawan came for darshan in the chair at 4.15 pm, and after a full round of Sai Kulwant Hall, sat onstage for a while before He went into the interview room to emerge at five o’clock for the programme. The ladies and gents sang half an hour respectively, with more than fifty singers in each group. The ladies’ songs were themed on the ideal ladies mentioned by Bhagawan in His Discourses, and during each song, children came up to present brief tableaux right in front of Swami. The gents sang Abhangs and also songs composed and sung by Bhagawan in the early days. After the programme, Swami came down from the stage and distributed clothes to some of the performers. He also sat among them for group photographs. After He came onstage, clothes were distributed to all, and the lady singers led bhajans as prasadam was distributed. Swami accepted Arati and returned to His residence after 6.30 pm.
Today, the Maharashtra youth presented the second day of their programmes, with a sitar concert by Sri Neeladri Kumar and party. Bhagawan arrived for evening darshan and went into the interview room, emerging at 5.15 to commence the programme onstage. After a couple of pieces of fusion sitar music, Bhagawan blessed the artistes with clothes and the main performer with a ring. They performed one more piece including individual performances by the drumkit, tabla and mridangam artistes before Bhagawan accepted Arati at 6.10 pm.
The Sai Youth from Maharashtra are here in large numbers, seated as a group in Sai Kulwant Hall with their orange scarves. This evening, they were to present a programme of songs and a drama. Bhagawan arrived at around 5.30 pm and went into the interview room, emerging after twenty minutes to come onstage and begin the programme. The Maharashtra youth first brought up a series of lamps lit from various districts and offered them to Swami to the accompaniment of a song. Next was a 45 minute play on Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. Bhagawan blessed the participants with group photographs after the programme with the backdrop of the Red Fort and a huge tri-colour. Twenty minutes of Bhajans followed, led first by the Maharashtra youth and later by the students, while prasadam was distributed. It was 7.30 when Bhagawan accepted Arati and returned to His residence.
The Sai Students – alumni of Prasanthi Nilayam and Brindavan – were ready to escort Bhagawan from His residence to Sai Kulwant Hall in a procession with flag marchers and Poornakumbham with Vedam. Swami arrived just before 10 am in a dazzling white robe seated on a golden chair, granting New Year darshan to the devotees who filled and surrounded Sai Kulwant Hall. When He reached the verandah, Bhagawan blessed the cakes there and came onstage to begin the programme arranged by the Sai Students. A band programme with symphonic and vocal accompaniment was followed by songs composed for the occasion by the Sai Students. The whole programme was interspersed with short speeches by the alumni, reliving their days with Sai. A bhajan medley formed the score for a short dance programme too. Swami blessed the participants who came up to Him one by one, and after prasadam was distributed, accepted Arati at 11.35 am.
Bhagawan arrived in the evening for darshan clad in a deep red robe. When He came onstage just before 5.30 pm, He blessed the brass band of the University to perform, and they played a couple of pieces with brief introductions. Songs by the students followed. Swami called up some of the alumni singers and asked them to sing, and they sang some of the group songs which used to be sung by the students in the mid-90s. After 45 minutes of music, Bhagawan delivered His Divine Message. Bhagawan’s emphasised the message of Advaita, stressing the point that there is nothing in this world which is not divine, and that we should conduct ourselves bearing this in mind. After speaking for more than 70 minutes, Bhagawan asked for Bhajans to begin at 7.25 pm. Prasadam was distributed, and Swami accepted Arati at 7.45 before returning to His residence.
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Ribble Life Together – The Launch
Posted on July 12, 2017 July 12, 2017 / By Catherine Jaggs
The Ribble Life Together project is officially underway!
Last week’s project launch event at Brockholes Nature Reserve was a huge success! The event celebrated securing £1.6 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund with a fun-filled, activity packed day which was supported by catchment partners and staff.
We’ve been developing the Ribble Life Together project for the past two years in collaboration with our catchment partners. The £3.2 million project will now be delivered until 2020 thanks to funding from our partners and other sources.
The launch welcomed many guests, including representatives from the Heritage Lottery Fund, The Rivers Trust, Environment Agency, United Utilities, Woodland Trust, Forestry Commission, Wildlife Trust, Yorkshire Dales National Park, and local community groups.
Also in attendance were the Horse and Bamboo Theatre Company, the project’s artistic partners, with a display featuring a range of their wonderful puppets and sensory art works. Esther Ferry Kerrington, Executive Director at Horse and Bamboo, was kind enough to speak at the event, delivering an insight into the world of Horse and Bamboo and the importance art can have in raising awareness of issues that affect our natural heritage.
Photos: Chris Bull for Creative Concern
The teachers and students from Sir Tom Finney Community High School, Preston, also attended the event. Ribble Trust works in partnership with schools to educate and engage young people and the students demonstrated their knowledge of all things river to the other attendees! Find out more about our programme for schools here: http://ribblelifetogether.org/learn/river-in-the-classroom
In the afternoon, speakers included Lorraine Ritchen-Stones, one of the Ribble Trust’s volunteers. Lorraine delivered a presentation which told the story of her journey into a conservation career, which was kick started thanks to her volunteering at the Ribble Trust!
Throughout the day a range of interesting, innovative and fun activities were on show in the reception area. These ranged from Virtual Reality Rivers which immerse users in the world of rivers using specialist software, headsets, and headphones, to the river simulator which provides a visual insight into the geomorphology of rivers.
Other activities included guided nature walks, riverfly displays, trout tanks, short film screenings, capturing sound bites, and woodlands, wetlands and fish pass displays.
A huge thank you to all the guests and speakers at the launch event, Brockholes Nature Reserve who hosted us, all the project funders, and everyone who has helped us on the Ribble Life Together journey so far!
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Generator Performance Standards review – information paper on C-FCAS
Utilities Commission publishes its inaugural Northern Territory Electricity Retail Review (NTERR).
Generator Performance Standards
Australia’s Largest Rollout of Solar Power in Remote Communities
Electricity Market Reform
Revised Power and Water System Control Charges
Publications released by the NT Utilities Commission
NT Solar Resource Online Database Now Live
Utilities Commission publish submissions received on the Issues Paper for the Electricity Ring-fencing and Guidelines Review
Intyalheme Centre for Future Energy publish Off-Grid Guide
Intyalheme Centre for Future Energy launches new website
Roadmap to Renewables Report
Market and Governance Framework
Industry and Community Participation
Demand and Consumption
Desert Knowledge Australia - Intyalheme Centre for Future Energy
Environment Centre NT - COOLmob Program
Centre for Appropriate Technology
ARENA - Solar Energy Transformation Program (SETuP)
Electricity Tariff Review
The Northern Territory Government is supporting the Charles Darwin University to carry out research related to renewable energy. The Government has funded three research projects with Charles Darwin University:
Cost effective maintenance of remote hybrid mini‐grid systems
Modelling future solar energy production from households and businesses in the Greater Darwin Area
Bioenergy for PV hybrid electricity generation.
Cost effective maintenance of remote hybrid mini-grid systems
For remote communities in the Northern Territory, access to reliable power supply is critical for their economic and social development. While diesel fuel continues to play a fundamental role in providing reliable power supply, there is a push for increasing solar/diesel/battery hybrid mini‐grids in order to maximise use of renewables and reduce cost. In spite of the increasing usage of hybrid mini‐grids in remote regions, sustainability of these systems depends on the cost of maintenance over the lifetime of these systems. Servicing and maintenance of such systems is difficult and has been one of the major problems for widespread implementation. Significant opportunities exist for improving operational and maintenance costs through better monitoring of systems.
This project will consider the development of predictive maintenance (PM) technology for optimising maintenance and procurement activities for remote hybrid mini‐grids. Predictive models (based on machine‐learning algorithms) aim to assess future outcomes based on analysis of past and present data. Predictive maintenance would allow for greater information about mini‐grids that can help head off the chances of major equipment faults and the subsequent costs incurred. It would also increase the quality of services with the aim of keeping the asset fully functioning for its lifetime. Using predictive models allows real‐time fault identification, remote assessment and troubleshooting of problems and maintenance of remote mini‐grids in a cost effective way. Data gathered remotely will inform investment planning in system upgrades. The web‐based technology will also support a standardised system for maintenance, management and procurement of components for the mini‐grids.
Three hybrid mini‐grid systems owned by NT Parks and Wildlife, situated at Ormiston Gorge, Watarrka (Kings Canyon) and Palm Valley in Central Australia, will be used to develop and test the predictive maintenance technology developed by Charles Darwin University.
There are hundreds of remote mini‐grids in the Northern Territory, on communities, outstations, parks, and pastoral sites. This research project aims to make installation of hybrid mini-grids a more attractive proposition and help support existing systems through lower operational and maintenance costs.
The main aims of the project are:
to increase monitoring capabilities for remote hybrid mini‐grids
to develop predictive algorithms to detect and forecast failures before they occur
to overcome the high maintenance costs of remote mini‐grids through predictive maintenance
to increase the life span of the assets
to improve the quality and reliability of service provided by mini‐grid systems
to measure economic savings achieved by remote predictive maintenance of small solar PV mini‐grid systems as compared to regular maintenance.
Although the uptake of rooftop solar panels on residential and commercial dwellings is rising in the Greater Darwin Area, the uptake is still amongst the lowest in Australia. This is despite highly favourable conditions both in terms of the daily sun hours and generous financial incentives such as the 1:1 feed-in tariff.
As most dwellings in Darwin are not yet using rooftop PV, there is huge potential for an increase in the residential and business sectors. Understanding how best and most cost-effectively to achieve an increase in the adoption of rooftop PV will be essential if the target of 50% renewables is to be met by 2030. However, in order to increase the rate of PV adoption, better knowledge about motivations and barriers to adoption is needed.
Understanding householder and business behaviour around PV uptake will allow the implementation of the policy settings most likely to lead to an increase in households and businesses taking up PV.
Scenarios that might affect the diffusion of PV in Darwin will be developed in collaboration with the Northern Territory Government, the Northern Territory Business Council, real estate agencies, demographers, solar energy retailers and other stakeholders who can inform the research. The scenarios can include changes in existing market stimuli (incentives, rebates, feed-in-tariff), changes in availability and costs of associated technologies (e.g. storage), changes in markets and retail policies and changes in the Darwin population. The scenarios will be underpinned by the uniqueness of the Northern Territory in terms of its transient population, low home ownership and energy consumption patterns, all factors that need to be understood in relation to PV uptake for making more realistic predictions.
Knowing the future demand for and uptake of PV is required for predicting future grid requirements and the contribution behind the meter renewable energy will likely make towards the Territory’s renewable energy target. Once complete, this research will help the government target the policy and programs best placed to deliver the optimal levels of behind the meter renewable energy to meet the target by 2030.
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This project will investigate the use of biofuel as part of a hybrid power generation system. The power generated using biofuel will be used as a supplement to stabilize the power supply during weather events and operate when the sun is not shining leading to a constant output. The project will create the knowledge that can lead to the development of commercial small-scale waste-to-biofuel technology in the Territory.
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Promo: FUEL FOR FIRE by JULIE ANN WALKER
New York Times and USA Today bestseller Julie Ann Walker delivers red-hot romantic suspense in Fuel for Fire!
Dagan Zoelner has always had his eye on spunky CIA agent Chelsea Duvall. When a mission throws them together, this could be his only chance to win her heart for good.
Dagan Zoelner has made three huge mistakes
The first two left blood on his hands.
The third left him wondering…what if?
What if he had told the woman of his dreams how he felt before his world fell apart?
Spitfire CIA agent Chelsea Duvall has always had a thing for bossy, brooding Dagan. It’s just as well that he’s never given her a second look, since she carries a combustible secret about his past that threatens to torch their lives...
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Tell us!” Surry demanded again, giving her head a hard shake. Her brain banged around inside her skull, making her see stars. Since she was tied with a length of electrical cord to one of the chairs in front of Morrison’s desk, her hands duct-taped behind her back, there was little she could do to defend herself.
Then again, she still had her smart mouth. “Screw you, buddy,” she snarled. Those three words were all she allowed herself before she clenched her teeth and sealed her lips shut.
The violence that clouded Surry’s face and glinted in his hell-black eyes made her want to curl into a protective ball. He leaned down so that his nose was an inch from hers. His hot breath smelled of coffee and buttered croissants, and the thought of him actually eating struck her as weird. She had assumed he sustained himself by devouring the souls of Morrison’s enemies.
“You will bloody well tell us what we want to know, Miss Duvall.” When he spoke all low and menacing in that thick English accent, she got the unsettling feeling that something dark moved in the shadows just out of sight. “Or I will jab this letter opener into your carotid.” He pulled back to wield the weapon he had taken from Morrison’s desktop. The sterling-silver letter opener glinted in the golden glow cast by the overhead chandelier.
Releasing her face, Surry cocked his head. “So, what shall it be? The truth? Or the knife? The choice is yours.” There was an emptiness in his voice when he asked the questions. Like he didn’t really care what the answers would be. Like he was tired or bored or maybe…resigned?
Oh, that doesn’t bode well.
Of course, the truth was out of the question. She would never rat on the Black Knights. No telling what Morrison, a.k.a Spider, with all his power and connections, could do with that information. So that left…the knife.
But there’s still so much I want to do!
She had never learned to make her mother’s she-crab soup. She had never tried her hand at writing fiction like that of Tolkien or Rowling or Martin. She had never married the love of her life and given him two bouncing, chubby-cheeked babies.
A cold finger of terror dragged up her spine, and for a second she considered spilling her guts and saving her hide. But then, from somewhere deep inside, a well of strength erupted, filling her with determination and the will to do what must be done.
Her mind briefly touched on her mother, and a great sadness weighed down her heart. Grace Duvall would be devastated by the death of her only child. But Chelsea took comfort—cold comfort, but comfort all the same—in knowing that her life insurance policy would be enough to pay her mother’s debts. That was something. Something to hold on to.
“Well?” Surry demanded. “What will it be?”
Chelsea licked her lips. Fear was a living thing inside her, crawling through her chest like a centipede on prickly legs. She squashed it and sealed her own fate. “Do your worst, you sorry, low-life sonofagun!”
Surry’s beard-stubbled chin jerked back as if he couldn’t believe the choice she’d made. Then his eyes narrowed, and grim determination transformed his face.
Closing her eyes, Chelsea waited on the inevitable. That centipede was going crazy inside her, making her chest ache and raising the hair on her head. She braced herself for the deathblow as a million regrets, a million joys, a million memories flittered through her brain.
Funny how many of those regrets and joys and memories feature Dagan.
She held her breath, savoring it, knowing it was her last and—
“Drop. The. Knife.”
With a cry, she blinked open her eyes and craned her head around to see three figures dressed from head to toe in black. Each of them wielded a weapon as if it were an extension of himself.
The Black Knights…
Even had Dagan not spoken the three most beautiful words she’d ever heard in that smooth moonshine voice, she would have known the trio anywhere. There was no mistaking those broad shoulders or those defiant, cocksure stances.
Her eyes homed in on Dagan. He was in the middle and slightly forward of the other two. It wasn’t his height or carriage that gave him away. It was his stillness. Ace and Christian seemed to vibrate with barely leashed power. But Dagan was a statue. Not a muscle quivered. Not a tendon or ligament cracked. Chelsea was reminded of a pair of tectonic plates under intense pressure. She knew what came next. The earth would rip open, and hell would spew forth.
Surry must have felt the doom behind Dagan’s stillness, because his voice sounded wheezy when he demanded, “And who the fuck are you?”
“Worry less about who we are,” Dagan snarled, “and more about what we’ll do if you don’t drop the knife.”
Proving he had more balls than brains, Surry spun Chelsea’s chair around and palmed her forehead to wrench her head back. The sharp tip of the letter opener nicked at the skin pulsing over the large vein in her neck. She hadn’t had time to scream, and now she didn’t dare breathe.
“Ring up the police, sir,” Surry said. From the corner of her eye, Chelsea saw Morrison/Spider make a move toward the desk.
“Take one step in the direction of that phone, and you’ll be eating a bullet for breakfast.” There was no mistaking Dagan’s words or his tone. He meant what he said.
Morrison must have come to the same realization. The old man stopped in his tracks.
“Good man,” Dagan acknowledged. “Now, there’s one thing you both need to understand. We’re leaving here with Chelsea. That can be over your dead bodies or your live ones.” Even though his words were calm and his body as motionless as a mountain, rage burned inside him. It was there in his eyes, glowing red like the fires of Mordor. “So what will it be? The choice is yours.”
It was the same option Surry had given her, spoken in the same words. How long had the three of them been outside listening?
“You have no bloody idea who you’re fucking with,” Morrison snarled, his chest heaving with every furious breath. “I have—”
That’s all he managed. In a flash, the statue, a.k.a. Dagan Zoelner, came to life. He moved faster than the human eye could follow, certainly faster than Chelsea could track with her head angled back in Surry’s grip. One second he was staring at her and Surry, and the next he aimed at Morrison and pulled his trigger.
The gunshot was oddly muffled and Morrison stumbled back, hitting his hip on the edge of the desk. Surry bellowed his outrage and released her head. Free from his brutal grip, she turned to Morrison and understood the strangeness of the weapon’s sound.
It wasn’t a bullet that had exploded from the end of Dagan’s gun. It was a dart. She had just enough time to catch a glimpse of the fuzzy yellow end protruding from the center of Morrison’s chest before Dagan fired again. This time the dart whizzed over her head. Surry made an awful gurgling noise. When she pulled her chin back, she saw the projectile sticking from his neck.
He reached for the dart, stumbling into her chair. His hand hit the back of her head, looking for leverage and forcing her chin into her chest as every vertebra in her neck threatened to crack under the pressure. She couldn’t see what happened next. But she heard it. Heard the boots that pounded against the tiles as the Black Knights raced into the room.
Surry released her head when Christian tackled him. From the corner of her eye, she watched Ace catch Morrison right before the old man toppled face-first onto the floor. And Dagan? Well, Dagan knelt in front of her.
She gasped when his big, warm hands cupped her cheeks, gently lifting her head. Her neck ached, but it wasn’t broken. All her fingers and toes still worked when she gave them an experimental wiggle.
“Chels… Christ. Are you okay?” His stormy eyes searched her face.
She nodded her head. That’s all she could manage because a giant lump was centered in her throat. She had put on a brave face throughout the entire ordeal, but now that it looked like she was saved, all her shock and terror rose to the surface, crumbling her mask of courage.
“Thank God.” He wrapped his arms around her, pulling her close.
It was the first time he had hugged her. The first time she had been in his arms. Oh, how she wanted to hold him tight in return. But with her hands still trapped behind her back, the only thing she could do was turn her face into his warm neck and breathe him in.
She had always loved the way he smelled. A mixture of worn leather, dryer sheets, and shampoo. All clean and healthy and…male.
“I was afraid m-maybe I didn’t press the button long enough to send out the Mayday,” she said in a rush, her lips moving against the rough fabric of his ski mask. “And th-then they found the thumb drive. But they were so quick to stop questioning me and…and…” She had to stop. “Thank you. Thank you for coming for me.”
His wide palm cupped the back of her head, holding her close. Was it trembling? “Always, Chels. Never doubt it.”
Oh great. Now the lump in her throat had grown to the size of a Carolina pine.
She wanted the moment to last forever, to stay just like this, safe in his arms. But all too soon, he pulled back. “What were you thinking, telling them to do their worst? You were baiting them, egging them on. You stupid, stubborn, self-sacrificing fool.”
And just like that, happiness and relief morphed into incredulity that slid quick as a whistle into anger. Seriously? He was going to stand there—er, squat there—and call her names?
He may be hotter than the door handles of hell, but when he gets all Me Tarzan, You Jane, I want to dump his limp body in the River Thames and feed him to the fishes. After she’d killed him with mind-blowing sex and multiple orgasms, natch. And she could probably cop to his last two accusations. She was stubborn, and in that instant she had been willing to sacrifice herself. But the first one?
“S-stupid?” she sputtered. And good news! The lump in her throat vanished. “Screw you, Dagan! In case you’ve forgotten, I pulled off this op w-with…”
She stumbled to a stop because he’d ripped off his mask. And there it was. The Beard.
Looking at him dressed all in black, shoulders as broad as the Lowcountry, she couldn’t help but think he resembled a god. One of the mythical beings she read about in her fantasy novels. Formidable. Powerful. Gorgeous.
And here I am, a mere mortal.
The look he pinned on her was one she recognized. She liked to call it his Clint Eastwood gunfighter squint. He tended to whip it out right before he laid into her for something. She braced herself, mentally running through her standard list of comebacks. But he didn’t give her a tongue-lashing. At least not a verbal one. Instead, he took her face in his hands and sealed his lips to hers.
She was so surprised that her mouth formed a startled O. Dagan took advantage, his tongue surging between her teeth. His lips were firm yet amazingly soft, and his beard abraded the tender flesh of her cheeks.
Holy mother! Dagan Zoelner was…kissing her!
Oh. My!
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Promo: CALL TO ENGAGE by TAWNY WEBER
The Poseidon team are hard-bodied, fiercely competitive Navy SEALs. But when a sensitive mission goes disastrously wrong, three of the team's finest will have to trust their hearts and instincts to uncover the truth…CALL TO ENGAGE will delight fans of UNDER PRESSURE by Lori Foster and A SEAL’S PLEDGE by Cora Seton!
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Title: Call To Engage
Author: Tawny Weber
Publisher: Harlequin
Series: Team Poseidon
Genres: Contemporary Romance/Romantic Suspense/Military Romance
ISBN: (Digital) 9781460397886
ISBN: (Print) 9780373801961
Lieutenant Elijah Prescott should be spending his precious leave somewhere with sun, surf and scantily clad women. Instead, he's heading home with two goals in mind. Figure out exactly how his last assignment went to hell and almost killed him—and reconnect with the woman who might offer salvation.
Ava Monroe has streamlined her life, eliminating every source of pain—including a marriage touched by tragedy. One glimpse of her ex and those good intentions turn to bad-girl desires. Her strategy: get over Elijah by getting under him again, sating herself until she can finally let go. But as betrayal within the rank of the SEALs turns deadly, there's no denying that her heart and her life are on the line. Elijah is the only man who can protect both…
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An excerpt from CALL TO ENGAGE
Copyright © Tawny Weber 2017
That was the only word in his head as the aftershocks trembled through their bodies.
And then he came down.
Not in a nice, slow, gentle descent, either.
Nope, he crashed like a plane plummeting from the sky to ram into a mountainside.
He’d just had sex.
With Ava.
His ex-wife. The only woman he’d ever loved. The only one he’d ever wanted to love. The one who’d broken his heart into tiny little pieces and tossed them aside.
His body still slick with sweat, the scent of Ava wrapped around him like a second skin, Elijah wondered if she realized that while extracting her promise of no regrets, he hadn’t offered the same.
After all, Elijah knew just how pointless promises could be. Especially the ones between him and Ava.
His body spent, his mind worn, he couldn’t find anything left to offer up on the altar of past regrets, though. He wrapped his arm tighter around her shoulders. Ava responded by snuggling closer, her thigh nestled between his as she shifted her chin into the indention where his shoulder met his chest. Her breath fluttered over his throat, soft and easy in sleep.
Regret?
Oh yeah, he knew he’d regret this in the morning. Hell—he glanced out the window, gauging the time from the angle of the moon—it was nearing dawn and the regret was already winding through him. Shoving aside pleasure, easing out satisfaction.
Closing his eyes against it, he drifted into sleep with her hand entwined with his, the twisted band of her ring rubbing gently between his fingers.
And he knew it for the talisman it was, the hope that lifted him from his nightmares.
If only for tonight.
Because nobody knew better than Elijah that tonight was all they had.
About Tawny Weber:
New York Times and USA TODAY Bestselling author of more than forty books, Tawny Weber loves writing about sexy heroes, most notably her popular Navy SEALs series. Her sassy, emotional romances are filled with men dedicated to being the best—and women determined to have the best. Tawny credits her ex-military alpha husband for inspiration in her writing, and in her life. The recipient of numerous writing accolades, including Romantic Times Reviewers Choice and in addition to the NY Times and USA Today bestseller lists, Tawny has also hit the number one spot on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
A homeschooling mom, Tawny enjoys scrapbooking, gardening and spending time with her family and dogs in her Northern California home.
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Promo: STORMING THE CASTLE by ARIANNA HART
Meet the Author:
Arianna Hart enjoys spending time with her family, reading anything she can get her hands on, and of course writing! She’d love to spend her days on a beach with a drink in one hand and a book in the other, but until she wins the lottery she’ll just have to settle for chasing her girls around the pool.
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Sam Castleton has fame, houses all over the world, and one really big problem—he’s got an album due and he can’t write. All he wants is a quiet place to get his head straight. Dale, Georgia, seems like the perfect quiet spot to try to hear the music again and get some lyrics down on paper.
With her daughter’s paternal grandparents making a sudden appearance and the difficulties of running her own lodge and being a single mom, Faith Adams doesn’t have the time to worry about the mysterious stranger staying in one of her cottages, no matter how sexy he is.
Her newest guest may be surly, but his money is good, so she’s willing to overlook his surly nature. If only she could ignore the way he awakens a searing hunger in her...
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Excerpt #1
“Knock-knock. Sam?” Faith called in through the door as she opened it. It was the first time she’d been in the blue cottage since the night she’d shown it to him. The flowers she’d left for him were dead, and he had two full bags of garbage tied up and set near the door, but other than that, the place didn’t look half bad. Clean dishes rested on a drying board next to the sink, some pencils and paper were on the coffee table, and a half-full bottle of Gatorade was on the kitchen counter. Considering she hadn’t been in to tidy up, it was a pleasant surprise.
“I’ll be down in a second,” he answered from the loft.
She could smell soap and steam and figured he must have just taken a shower. Don’t think about him walking around up there naked.
“I can leave the laundry basket and come back if you’d like.”
“No, it’s—shit—fine.”
“Not wrong, just irritating. I waited too long to do laundry and now I only have one pair of clean jeans left.”
“I can take care of that in no time.”
“I mean, that’s all I have left. One pair of jeans. All my shirts and stuff are nasty.”
“Oh.” Faith’s face got hot as she realized what he wasn’t saying. His bare feet appeared on the steps and she tried not to look at the front of his jeans and imagine him going commando underneath.
Thank God, the pile of laundry he carried blocked his view of her, because she was sure she was staring. A thin line of dark hair trailed from his belly button down to the waistband of his low slung jeans and a few drops of water sparkled in the light.
For the last two weeks, every time she’d seen Sam, he’d been in running shorts and a T-shirt. Seeing him shirtless sent her blood pressure through the roof. Her mouth watered and she imagined capturing those droplets with her tongue as she followed the path to what waited behind the fly.
“I think this is all of it,” he said, dropping the pile of laundry on the couch.
“Did you remember your towels? I brought you some new ones.” Her voice was thick and raspy, and she tried to discreetly clear her throat while looking anywhere but at his naked chest.
“Yeah, they’re in the pile.”
“Good. Great. I’ll just strip the…ah, the bed and put on the new sheets.” She scooped the clean linen out of the laundry basket and bolted for the stairs. “Just put your laundry in the basket, and I’ll bring it with me when I go back to the house.”
If her face got any hotter, she’d burst into flame.
Cover Reveal: ADDICTED TO RHAPSODY by SELENA LAURENCE
Guilt is the hardest habit to kick.
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Title: Addicted to Rhapsody
Author: Selena Laurence
Series: Rhapsody #4
Genre: Contemporary Rockstar Romance
Garrett Jakes is the sexy and sex-addicted lead singer of Rhapsody. Now in recovery, trying to clean up his act and atone for his mistakes, he's decided to stay in Portland, Oregon where he went to rehab, and more importantly, where his bandmate's sister-in-law lives. The only problem is, he can't stop the guilt he feels whenever he looks at Savvy, and he's not sure if he's helping or hurting when he sticks to her like glue.
Savvy O'Roark is a widow and a mom at twenty-eight. She watched as her husband was murdered in their pub one night while he fought to protect her. Now she's alone with her young son, struggling to keep her husband's business and his memory alive. The only problem is, she can't stop the guilt she feels whenever she looks at her brother-in-law's bandmate, and she's not sure if Garrett's helping or hurting when he stays in Portland, in her bar, and in her life.
As Savvy and Garrett struggle to overcome their demons, they must also face the one thing neither of them can take back, while learning how to honor and forgive, love and let go. Can something that started in the wrong end up so right? Or will guilt be the one habit they simply can't kick?
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Selena Laurence is a USA Today Bestselling author who loves Putting the Heat in Happily Ever After. In 2014 she was awarded the Reader’s Crown Award for Contemporary Romance of the Year. In 2015 her rock star romance A Lush Betrayal was a finalist in three national contests. Selena lives in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains with her kids, Mr. L, “Goldendoodle” and “Demon Cat.” When she’s not writing she can be found at soccer games and tennis matches, or one of her favorite coffee shops.
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Promo: LUCA by SARAH CASTILLE
1. Tell us about your release.
Luca is the second book in a full-length standalone mafia romance series set in the glitz and glam of Las Vegas. Betrayed by his wife and father, mafia boss, Luca Rizzoli has dedicated himself to a life of crime when he meets police detective Gabrielle Fawkes who is on a mission to avenge her husband's death. Sparks fly, and their explosive chemistry draws them together even as their worlds try to force them apart.
2. Without giving away any spoilers, give us a hint about a favorite scene.
One of my favourite scenes is when Luca first meets Gabrielle in the hospital:
Luca’s gaze drifted over his new companion. She had turned to face him in her sleep and the thin blanket dipped into her narrow waist and up over the curve of her hip. Her features were delicate, her cheekbones high, and her nose slightly turned-up at the tip. She was the opposite of everything that attracted him to a woman: blonde instead of brunette, curvy instead of slim, soft instead of hardened by the years of rough living that made it easy for him to limit his encounters with his escort companions to just one night.
Angelo. For the last four years, he had been lost. Now, he was found.
“You’re staring.”
Her warm, rich voice slid through him like a smooth Canadian whiskey that finished the palate with a whisper of heat.
“I was just wondering, bella.” He lifted his gaze to soft blue eyes framed in thick golden lashes. “Who would shoot an angel?”
I realized I wanted to be a writer in Grade 3 when our public library held a story writing contest and my mother encouraged me to enter. I still remember the thrill of writing that story and how exciting it was to put the images in my mind on paper.
4. What is a typical writing day like?
I never have a typical writing day. I've got three kids all under 13 so I have to grab snippets of time where I can. My fantasy holiday would be one week of uninterrupted writing time in a fabulous location.
5. Do you have an interesting writing quirk or habit?
I drink my coffee every day out of an owl-shaped mug, but that's about it.
6. What has been one of the most surprising things you’ve learned as a published author?
I was surprised at how friendly and supportive the romance writing community has been. Coming from a legal background, I had expected a lot of competitiveness but everyone is so willing to share and support each other, it has been a great experience.
I joined the Calgary Romance Writer's Association when I first started writing romance and the women in that group were incredible. They were knowledgeable, supportive and helpful and I honestly don't think I would have had the courage to submit my work if not for them.
I think they enjoy having an author in the family, although my husband has yet to read one of my books!
Camping, hiking, reading (of course), travelling, and I've just started gardening (so far so good!).
I am re-releasing my Legal Heat romantic suspense series with updated content and some fancy new covers, as well as a series of erotic short stories. After that, will be book 3 of the Ruin & Revenge series, Rocco!
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The mafia men of New York Times bestselling author Sarah Castille’s Ruin & Revenge series are hard, hot, and ruthless. They show no weakness and take no prisoners. But the right woman can soften their stone cold hearts and make them come alive with dark desire.
Luca Rizzoli was nearly destroyed by a brutal betrayal that cost him his family. Now a ruthless crime boss in Las Vegas, he lets nothing touch his frozen heart...until a smoldering encounter with a beautiful stranger ignites his passion. One night isn’t enough for a man who takes what he wants―and Luca will do whatever he can to possess his mysterious temptress...
Police detective Gabrielle Fawkes lives for revenge. She lost everything at the hands of an unforgiving ruler of the Vegas underworld. Now she wants to see him six feet under. But when a near-fatal attack leads her into Luca’s arms, what was meant to be one night of unbridled passion becomes something forbiddingly more. Luca has his own agenda, but when strong, determined, kick-ass detective Gaby sets her sights on her target, Luca feels compelled to stand by her side and protect her at all costs. However, pursuing danger comes at a high price―and both Gaby and Luca must work together in order to eliminate the dark enterprise that threatens them, in Luca by Sarah Castille.
Promo: ON THE PLUS SIZE by ALISON BLISS
Title: ON THE PLUS SIDE
Author: Alison Bliss
Series: A Perfect Fit, #2
On Sale: June 27, 2017
Publisher: Forever
Mass Market: $7.99 USD
eBook: $5.99 USD
Audio: $22.98
Big girls don't cry. They go after what they want.
Thanks to her bangin' curves, Valerie Carmichael has always turned heads-with the exception of seriously sexy Logan Mathis. Just Valerie's luck that the object of her lust-filled affection is also best friends with her overprotective brother. But Valerie's determined to get Logan's attention…even if it means telling a teeny little lie to get a job at his new bar.
Logan can't remember a time when Valerie didn't secretly fuel all his hottest fantasies. Now the curvaceous she-devil is working behind his bar, tempting him every damn night. It's only when he finds Valerie's naughty things-to-do list that Logan decides to break every rule in the book-by making each red-hot deed a reality.
No one warned them that they were going to fall this hard. And no one warned them that sometimes the smallest secrets can have the biggest consequences.
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THE A PERFECT FIT SERIES
SIZE MATTERS, #1
ON THE PLUS SIDE, #2
MORE TO LOVE, #3
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Alison Bliss grew up in Small Town, Texas, but currently resides in the Midwest with her husband and two sons. With so much testosterone in her home, it's no wonder she writes "girl books." She believes the best way to know if someone is your soul mate is by canoeing with them because if you both make it back alive, it's obviously meant to be. Alison pens the type of books she loves to read most: fun, steamy love stories with heart, heat, laughter, and usually a cowboy or two. As she calls it, "Romance...with a sense of humor."
Valerie Carmichael needed a drink. A strong one. Because it was the only way she envisioned herself getting through the night.
An elbow nudged into her side, bringing her thoughts back to the crowded bar. “I can’t see anything through all of these people,” Brett said, scanning the room with his eyes. “Come on, let’s go to the other side so I can get a better view.”
Sighing, Valerie trudged behind him without a word.
When Brett had asked her to attend the grand opening of Bottoms Up, a new bar in their hometown of Granite, Texas, she’d hesitated to say yes. Sure, she was curious what the inside of the recently remodeled bar looked like and had no doubt the place would be jam-packed with handsome, available men. But it was still the last place on earth she wanted to be.
She knew better than to hang out in bars with her older and only—thank God—brother. Every time she’d done so in the past, the nights had always ended the same way. Brett would spend the entire evening hovering over her like a rabid pit bull, daring any single guy with a glint in his eye to look her way. Because Valerie turned heads. She always had.
Oh, she wasn’t silly enough to believe she looked like some gorgeous supermodel with a lean, trim figure or anything. She definitely didn’t. But she had a pretty face, banging plus-size curves, and a lively personality. And that was good enough for her. Valerie was just…Valerie. And damn proud of it.
Across the room, Sam and Leah emerged from the dense crowd, with a beer bottle for him and a glass of water for her. Apparently, Leah was still on that damn diet and counting calories so she would fit into her wedding dress. Though why she didn’t just buy the dress in a larger size was beyond Valerie.
Leah blinked at the sight of her. “Val? What are you doing here? You said you weren’t coming.”
Valerie shrugged. “I changed my mind.”
“Are you feeling okay?”
“Yeah, sure. Why?”
“When you said you didn’t want to go out, I assumed you were sick. You never turn down a night out.” Leah placed her palm lightly against Valerie’s forehead. “You sure you don’t have the flu or something?”
Valerie laughed and pushed her friend’s hand away. “Oh, stop it. I just didn’t feel like getting dressed up. I’m getting tired of the whole bar scene.”
Then Valerie’s heart stopped, along with her lips. Oh God.
Brett stood there talking to a tall, dark-haired man who had one thumb hooked in the front pocket of his jeans while he leaned comfortably against the wall with his right shoulder. She couldn’t see the other guy’s face, but she didn’t need to. Valerie recognized all six feet, two inches of him. Logan Mathis.
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Read about how Technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, IoT, Augmented Reality, Blockchain, and Quantum Computing impact Society, from The Sociable.
Apple’s ‘pseudo-holographic’ display patent revealed
Darren McCarra 9 years ago
According to a recently granted Apple patent, the computer electronics and software giant are working on a screen technology that produces a special type of ‘pseudo-holographic’ or 3D image. The technology could eventually be used to produce 3D TVs and devices that don’t require viewers to wear special glasses.
Irish Rail to introduce free Wi-Fi on Dublin-Cork route
Piers Dillon Scott 9 years ago
Irish rail is to introduce free Wi-Fi on all Dublin-Cork services, the company announced today. The company tested a limited free Wi-Fi service on the Dublin-Cork route in 2010 of which it described the uptake as “enthusiastic”.
NASA satellite photograph shows snow covered New York
NASA has released a new high resolution satellite image of the North Eastern region of the United States covered in over 80cm of snow. NASA has already released satellite imagery of the continent blanketed in snow. You can see the accumulation of snow in this time lapse video.
NASA issues satellite image of storm battered USA, New York and Canada
Winter stores have abated in Ireland, the UK and Northern Europe but Canada and the North Eastern United States, especially New York and New England, are currently being battered with over 29 inches (73CM) of snow.
Is the Android Market suffering downtime because of Christmas? Archos users badly affected
Some Android users are finding it difficult to connect to the Android app store today. New and old Android users are finding it difficult to connected to the market, probably as result of the number of Android devices gifted during the Christmas period. The downtime seems to be intermittent but users who can connect are finding apps slow to download.
Google sends Android Nexus S phones into space
Google’s PR department showed some genuine blue sky thinking this week when they sent an few Android Nexus S phones into space. Using a weather balloon, a parachute and a polystyrien box Google floated Android dolls into the lower atmosphere this week, and recorded the entire 30Km (100,000 ft) trek using Samsung Nexus S phones attached to each box.
Skype’s global VOIP network is down, ‘software bug’ to blame
Skype, the world’s largest VOIP network, has been brought down due to an apparent software bug. The bug has been preventing the many of the service’s 42 million active members from connecting to the network. Skype first reported the downtime at 5 o’clock GMT (midday EST), four hours ago. According to the company the software bug is preventing Skype applications from routing calls to correct locations through what they call “supernodes.”
Ireland receives high resolution satellite imagery update in Google Earth
Ireland, among other countries, has received further high resolution satellite imagery updates in Google Earth. This follows a similar imagery release by Google last month
Sony upgrades SDHC memory card range with 3D cameras in mind
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Is the iPad 2 set for post-Christmas launch?
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Amazon to demo Kindle for the web later today
Things may be set to get very interesting in the world of e-book wars as Amazon is set to demo its Kindle for the web product later today. Google announced the launch of Google eBookstore yesterday, now Amazon is set to demo new competitive features to its Kindle product today.
UK one step closer to changing time
A bill, known as the Daylight Saving Bill, has been provisionally approved by British MPs today, with 92 to 10 voting in favour of its implementation. The bill proposes that the UK should stay on Western European Summer Time all year round, effectively shifting the clocks forward by one hour for the entire year.
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NASA scientists have discovered a second genesis of life on earth, the US space agency announced today.
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Google have updated their Android platform versions chart with Android 2.2 (Froyo) overtaking Android 2.1 (Eclair) for the first time. In fact, 83% of Android phones are now 2.1 or above, showing a welcome further decline in the fragmentation that once plagued the platform.
Fascinating BBC documentary on statistics and data visualisation
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Google Earth 6 beta available for download
In an official blog post Google Earth product manager, Peter Birch, has announced the availability of Google Earth 6. This latest version of Google Earth introduces integrated Street View, 3D tress, and easier-to-use historical imagery.
New HYLAS 1 satellite to bring broadband to rural Ireland
A new satellite, known as HYLAS 1, is due to launch later this evening and promises to bring broadband to many rural locations in Ireland for the first time. HYLAS 1 is the first dedicated satellite to deliver high speed, two-way data services across Europe.
How one Irish company uses animation to explain complex topics like NAMA
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Gardaí release Google Map of Ireland’s accident blackspots
The Gardaí are continuing their push into digital media with the release of a Google Map and Google Earth addon showing the most dangerous roads for speeding accidents in Ireland.
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Identifying Leaks Stopping Water Damage in Its Tracks
By Mike Odenthal 2017 April Maintenance Exterior
Despite rain being essential to life on Earth, the consensus is that it’s mostly a bummer. And the only thing worse than rain outdoors is when it gets indoors. In a multifamily condo or co-op property especially, where one leak can affect the daily life of an entire community, waterproofing a building or complex is paramount. Water infiltration can lead to structural damage, a multitude of safety hazards, or the buildup of mold and mildew, which in turn can cause illness.
Leaks can stem from a wide array of sources, from the roof to the plumbing to the foundation to the exterior envelope, so not only can identifying the root cause be difficult, but deciding what type of qualified professional is best-suited to handle solving the problem can be daunting as well. Also, materials and manufacturers vary widely, both in regard to how buildings are constructed and to how they’re fixed. A smart, proactive board should have a number of trusted consultants to which it can turn both before a leak happens – to ensure that the property is adequately resistant – and after, to guarantee that the issue gets taken care of immediately and thoroughly.
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The first step in leak maintenance is identifying that a property does in fact have a leak. While the indicators may seem obvious, they’re not always – and it pays to know what to look for.
Scott Baryiewski, vice president and owner of South Shore Construction in Woodbridge, New Jersey, observes that water will often stain the surroundings of windows or ceilings. “And look for efflorescence on the outside of bricks,” he notes. Efflorescence is the migration of salt to the surface of a porous material, where it forms a whitish or greyish, powdery stain.
“If something’s leaking, the residents are going to see it,” says Chris Heintz, co-owner of Atlas Restoration in Franklin Park, Illinois. “Let’s take a finished drywall for example; you’re going to have moldy smells emanating from behind it, and it will appear to change color. In regard to the foundation, water may pool on the outside. If gutters haven’t been functioning properly, you should check inside, as they may be causing infiltration at those problem spots. A lot of waterproofing is actually just mitigating water.”
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1/16/2020 "Catastrophic Volumes of Noise": Downtown Miami Residents Sue the City Over Ultra Music Festival
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Luxury home prices in some of South Florida’s most affluent enclaves continued to grow in the fourth quarter of 2019, as they become hotbeds of high-end investment, according to a report Thursday from Douglas Elliman.
1/15/2020 New luxury condo 57 Ocean in Miami Beach nears 50% in pre-sales—Miami Herald
What’s the trendy real estate neighborhood drawing millionaires? Mid-Beach.
1/14/2020 Legendary Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula buys beachfront condo for $5.5M—South Florida Business Journal
A company tied to former Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula, a member of the NFL Hall of Fame, paid $5.53 million for a condo in the Four Seasons Residences at the Surf Club in Surfside.
1/14/2020 Chinese investors are buying real estate in Miami. Here are the stats to prove it—Miami Herald
For years, Miami’s residential real estate professionals waited for Chinese investors. And, finally, they are here.
1/14/2020 South Florida Market Sees Continued Demand in Single and Multifamily—Builder Online
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1/13/2020 Lake Park OKs $180 million waterfront development with luxury condos, shops and restaurants—Palm Beach Post
Luxury condos, shops and restaurants are coming to the Lake Park waterfront as part of a $180 million project recently approved by the town commission.
1/10/2020 Group P6 launches sales of new luxury condo project in Boca Raton—The Real Deal South Florida
A new luxury condo development will soon be rising near downtown Boca Raton amid a limited supply of high-end projects. Group P6 launched sales for Royal Palm Residences, a 48-unit condominium with three nine-story buildings at the corner of Fifth Avenue and East Royal Palm Road. Royal Palm Residences will have three- to five-bedroom units ranging from 2,425 square feet to 7,168 square feet. Prices for the units range from $1.75 million to $3.9 million.
1/10/2020 Contractor defrauds Miami contractor of over $30K for roof replacement to South Beach condo—WSVN News
We have all heard the stories about a homeowner getting ripped off by a shady contractor, but here’s a twist: A Miami general contractor said she fell victim to another contractor, and a South Beach condo is stuck in the middle. The Nightteam’s Kevin Ozebek investigates.
1/10/2020 High on his own supply: The Bristol developer buys a unit at his condo tower—The Real Deal South Florida
Developer Al Adelson liked The Bristol so much that he bought himself a unit there. Property records show Al and Linda Adelson paid $5.7 million for unit 1604 in the luxury condo tower at 1100 South Flagler Drive in West Palm Beach. Flagler Investors LLC, led by Adelson, sold the condo.
1/10/2020 Multiplan launches sales of boutique luxury condo project on Ocean Drive—The Real Deal
Multiplan Real Estate Management, the developer of 57 Ocean in Miami Beach, is now betting on a boutique luxury condo project on Ocean Drive in the South-of-Fifth neighborhood.
1/9/2020 ‘We Are Miccosukee’ Miami murals honor tribes and wow the public—Indian Country Today
The Miccosukee and Seminole have been in Florida longer than the millions of tourists flocking to see murals in Wynwood, a relatively new neighborhood in west Miami filled with painting covered walls, galleries, and new condo developments. To acknowledge the tribes, two new artworks have been commissioned to honor the tribes.
1/9/2020 Online ticketing mogul sells Oceana Bal Harbour condo at a loss—The Real Deal South Florida
The co-founder of a popular online ticketing marketplace sold his Bal Harbour condo for $9 million, a loss from its previous sale in 2018. Property records show Vivid Seats co-founder Jerry Bednyak sold Oceana Bal Harbour units 2102S and 2102S to 2018 West Churchill Trust, managed by David J. Ferry, managing director of Delaware law firm Ferry Joseph. The trust closed on a $9 million loan.
12/20/2019 Miami Condo Sales Increase in November; Eight Consecutive Years of Price Appreciation in Miami—Yahoo! Finance
Miami-Dade County existing condominium sales, including $1-million-and-up transactions, increased year-over-year in November 2019, according to the MIAMI Association of Realtors (MIAMI) and the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) system.
12/20/2019 Condé Nast scion drops $6M on Miami Beach condo—The Real Deal South Florida
A member of the billionaire family that owns Condé Nast paid $6.2 million for a luxury condo in North Beach.
12/20/2019 Precedent-Breaking Vote in Miami Beach Was "Gift to a Powerful Developer," City Says—Miami New Times
Bill Clinton argued about the meaning of "is." The Kardashian clan argues about what it means to be a "self-made" billionaire. And Miami Beach argues about the definition of a floor so a developer can get a bigger skyscraper.
12/17/2019 Hockey Great Petr Nedved Selling Stylish $3M Miami Beach Penthouse—Realtor.com
High-rise condo life is the pinnacle of stylish Miami living: Owners have access to primo views, awesome amenities, and the bustle by the beach. Hockey great Petr Nedved took a stylish shot when he purchased a Miami condo in 2014.
12/17/2019 Campbell Property Management hosting complimentary “Construction & Maintaining Your Common Elements” course for Condo Board Members—Miami's Community Newspapers
This two-part course will help condo board members learn to navigate construction projects at their property and go over maintaining the common elements.
12/17/2019 How a little bank from Little Rock took over Miami real estate—Miami Herald
When looking back at the great South Florida condo boom of the past decade, one financial institution is likely to stand out from the rest. And it came from Little Rock, Ark.
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Description: played on harmonica by John Lozier and accomponied by JP Fraley on fiddle, recorded at the Mountain Heritage Festival in Carter County, Kentucky 1971
Description: Harmonica music played by John Lozier during the Celebration of Traditional Music at Berea College 10/31/81
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JANO 2014 Wrap-Up
NaNo (National Novel Writing Month) is great, but if you’re a writer and you’re not doing Sleuths’ Ink Mystery Writers’ JANO writing challenge, you’re missing out. It’s not just for mystery writers, or just for people who live near Springfield, Missouri, or just for people who want to write a novel in a month. It’s for anyone who wants to be challenged to push themselves while enjoying the camaraderie of other authors. And prizes. Did I mention prizes?
A fabulous prize basket including V. J. Schultz’s book, DEATH OF BIGFOOT.
I had been hoping to have book two fully researched and plotted and be ready to dig into the first draft during JANO. Instead, I was still finishing revisions on book one and just beginning to plot book two. It worked out, though. One of the great things about JANO this year was the ability to include more than one work in progress, so my efforts on both books counted toward the 12,000 words I collected.
That was enough to allow me to join the reindeer games at the wrap-up party last weekend. I love the fun contest categories the organizers of JANO come up with—best title, most unusual setting, most unique character name, etc. I took home prizes for best blurb, author’s favorite line and best cliffhanger sentence. I still need to dig into those prize baskets and see what all is in there. I know I have two bottles of wine, lots of chocolate and, to mitigate the damage, a workout video. Plus some great books to relax with.
My haul from the JANO 2014 wrap-up party.
Like last year (see post here), I once again “lost” JANO, yet made good progress and had a great time. That’s a win in my book!
This entry was posted in JANO, NaNoWriMo, Woohoo and tagged Death of Bigfoot, JANO, NaNoWriMo, S. D. Keeling, Sleuths' Ink Mystery Writers, The Amulet of Isis, V. J. Schultz, Writing on February 10, 2014 by S. D. Keeling.
Slaying the Demons
January’s over, and so is the JANO 2013 Writing Challenge sponsored by Sleuths’ Ink Mystery Writers. How did I do? Well, that’s a matter of perspective. Isn’t it always?
I wrote more than 20,000 new words—my biggest writing month ever, by far.
I worked through a sticky plot problem, researched the Egyptian underworld, outlined a whole series of new obstacles for my young heroes and spent a lot of time imagining scenes for the final act—all necessary steps for me before I’m ready to actually write.
Since JANO wanted us to submit our first pages, I faced my fear of coming up with a compelling opening and wrote a first page—which placed third in the Best First Page competition.
I also wrote a 100-word story description that won the prize for Best Blurb.
All in all, I’d say January was an outstanding month for my writing. And yet, technically, I failed.
Like National Novel Writing Month, NaNo for short, the goal of JANO was to produce 50,000 words in one month. As the challenge began, people offered advice on how to produce so many words so quickly—don’t think, don’t edit, don’t research, just write something even if it’s bad, use more words than you need to beef up your word count, etc.
Now there are as many ways to produce a manuscript as there are writers, and I know this method works beautifully for many people. This is the antithesis of how I write, however. I plot everything out carefully ahead of time. I research during every stage of my story planning, then research some more. I don’t begin writing until the scene is playing out in vivid detail in my head. I edit as I write, removing unnecessary words when I spot them. You get the idea.
So does a speed-writing challenge like JANO have any value for a slow-and-careful writer like myself? You bet! True, I will probably never “win” NaNo or JANO, but who cares? I’m 20,000 words closer to my goal of producing a publication-worthy manuscript. JANO helped me do that by giving me ammunition against my twin demons of Perfectionism and Procrastination.
Every writer—every human, for that matter—has their demons, and right now, those are mine. Don’t get me wrong, I procrastinated plenty. (Just look at my Twitter following—it ballooned from under a hundred to more than eight hundred in January. Not a terrible use of time, but writing my book would have been better.) But JANO gave me a reason to write the best story I’m capable of, even if it’s not perfect, and to do it right now. That was enough to help me have my best writing month ever.
So now that JANO’s over, how do I use these lessons moving forward? Obviously, I need deadlines and accountability—those are the weapons I need to fight my demons. JANO provided that for a few weeks, but what now? Oh, lovely critique partners, I think I have a job for you!
This entry was posted in JANO, NaNoWriMo, Perfectionism, Procrastination, Writing and tagged First draft, Goals, JANO, NaNoWriMo, Perfectionism, Procrastination, S. D. Keeling, Sleuths' Ink, Writing on February 5, 2013 by S. D. Keeling.
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1871-2004, bulk 1910s-1980s
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The papers of Spanish-born sculptor and educator José de Creeft measure 28.1 linear feet and date from 1871 to 2004 with the bulk of the material dating from the 1910s to the 1980s. Found are biographical materials, correspondence, fifty diaries, writings, subject files, personal business records, printed materials, twenty-seven photo albums and other photographs, scrapbooks, and scattered sketches.
Anton Refregier papers
Refregier, Anton, 1905-
circa 1900-circa 1990
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The papers of Woodstock area painter, muralist, and designer, Anton Refregier (1905-1979) date from circa 1900 to circa 1990 and measure 35.9 linear feet. The collection records Refregier's early commercial work and murals for the Works Progress Adminstration (WPA) and documents his career through to the 1970s with records of commissions for many public and private buildings, exhibitions in the United States and abroad, teaching positions, essays and publications, and extensive travel, particularly to the Soviet Union and Mexico. The collection contains scattered biographical material, personal and business correspondence, notes and writings, 15 diaries and journals, mural and tapestry files, exhibition files, personal business records, printed material, 10 scrapbooks, artwork including sketches and cartoons for murals, and photographs of Refregier, his friends, family and travels.
Art Changes Things: the Art and Activism of Georgette Seabrooke Powell Exhibition Records
Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum
2.42 Linear feet (3 boxes, 1 binder)
An exhibition on selected works created by Georgette Seabrooke Powell. The show was curated by Michelle Black Smith, and exhibited at the Anacostia Museum of the Smithsonian Institution from March 4, 1995 to May 28, 1995. These records document the planning, organizing, execution, and promotion of the exhibition. Materials include correspondence, research files, exhibit scripts, administrative records, brochures, education packets, floor plans, audiovisual materials and catalogues.
Building Files
Smithsonian Institution. Office of Architectural History and Historic Preservation
59 cu. ft. (59 record storage boxes) (10 oversize folders)
This accession consists of information files, original reports and correspondence, papers and articles, and other background material on Smithsonian buildings. These records were compiled by the Office of Architectural History and Historic Preservation (OAHP), research associates, and volunteers. Items in brackets describe cross-references ...
Peter and Rose Krasnow papers
Krasnow, Peter, 1886-1979
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The papers of painter, printmaker, and sculptor Peter Krasnow (1886-1979) and his wife, writer Rose Krasnow (1885-1984), measures 6.9 linear feet and date from 1914 to 1984. Papers include biographical materials, a sound recording, correspondence, essays, poetry, short stories, notes, transcripts of lectures and radio talks, five diaries of Peter Krasnow, personal business records, exhibition catalogs and announcements, clippings, magazines, five sketchbooks, sketches and drawings in multiple media, prints, and photographs.
Michael Mazur papers
Mazur, Michael, 1935-2009
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The papers of artist Michael Mazur measure 22.2 linear feet and 22.83 gigabytes, and date from circa 1936 to 2016, documenting a studio and exhibition practice in addition to teaching and activism activities in both paper and digital formats in the following series: biographical materials, correspondence, studio records, gallery records, project records, affiliations, exhibition records, writings, printed materials, photographic materials, and artwork.
Remington Kellogg Papers
Kellogg, Remington, 1892-1969
circa 1903-1969, with related papers to 1982
9.35 cu. ft. (7 record storage boxes) (1 half document box) (3 16x20 boxes) (1 oversize folder)
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“Dangerous gaps in NZ’s company registration system exploited” says Oxfam – Stuff News
Arms traders exploiting NZ laws – Oxfam. Stuff News Michael Field 19/10/10
Dangerous gaps in New Zealand’s company registration system are being exploited by arms brokers, aid organisation Oxfam says.
“Controls around company registration in New Zealand need to be tightened to prevent New Zealand businesses from unwittingly or deliberately facilitating illicit arms transfers,” the group says in a report today.
Oxfam’s “Brokers without Borders” examined the way a New Zealand company, SP Trading Ltd, smuggled arms out of North Korea late last year for an unknown destination.
Oxfam noted that nobody in New Zealand has been prosecuted for the arms trading despite it breaking United Nations sanctions and New Zealand law.
For more go to: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/4247254/Arms-traders-exploiting-NZ-laws-Oxfam
The 35 tonnes of arms were discovered in Bangkok, aboard an Ilyushin-76 cargo jet, on December 11.
Their destination was never clear although Oxfam says they believe they were bound for Somalia.
Commerce Minister Simon Power has, since the incident, made changes to the company registration system after complaints it was too easy for anybody to register a company online here.
The so-called “shell companies” have single public directors who are used to hide the beneficiary owners of the firms.
SP Trading turned out to be one of hundreds of companies created out of a single address in Queen Street, Auckland.
Oxfam says in its report that a “higher level of crosschecked documentation should be required for company registration in New Zealand.
“Additionally, increasing the legal obligations of the true beneficial owner will contribute to New Zealand’s ability to identify and prosecute arms dealers operating behind shell companies.”
Oxfam said the changes proposed by Mr Power did not go far enough.
They also said that an investigation should be launched into SP Trading’s violations of UN and New Zealand law.
They would “serve as a strong deterrent to illicit arms brokers considering using New Zealand shell companies for their activities in the future”.
The sole director of SP Trading at the time, New Zealand woman Lu Zhang, is currently before the courts for providing incorrect information on registration details. She is not facing charges related to the arms trading.
SP Trading is still registered but with a director and shareholder listed in Vanuatu.
Filed Under: Other Tagged With: arms trading, Commerce Minister, company registration system, Lu Zhang, Oxfam, shell companies, Simon Power, smuggled arms, SP Trading Ltd, Vanuatu
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49ers QB Jimmy Garoppolo 'balling' to quiet critics, Jeff Garcia says
Dalton Johnson
December 9, 2019, 1:25 AM UTC
Jeff Garcia took the road less traveled to the NFL before finding himself atop 49ers record books. After going undrafted out of San Jose State University, the quarterback who was considered too small had to become a star in the Canadian Football League before getting a shot from the 49ers in 1999.
Throughout his NFL career, Garcia dealt with the naysayers. He always found ways to quiet his critics, however, becoming a four-time Pro Bowl QB. Year later, he's watching Jimmy Garoppolo hush his haters while leading the 49ers.
"I mean, you have three division leaders who you're going up against, and you're balling," Garcia said to NBC Sports Bay Area when asked about Garoppolo's performance in the 49ers' 48-46 win on Sunday over the Saints. "You're doing what you need to do to stay in the game, to give your team a chance to win the game.
"People who don't know the quarterback position are going to constantly question it."
The past three weeks, the 49ers have faced three division leaders in the Packers (NFC North), Ravens (AFC North) and Saints (NFC South). San Francisco went 2-1 in those three tough contests after Sunday's last-second win, and Garoppolo has continued to look impressive.
Sunday might have been Jimmy G's best game since the 49ers acquired him in 2017. He completed 26 of his 35 pass attempts for 349 yards, four touchdowns and one interception that bounced off wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders' hands. The last three weeks, he has completed 72.4 percent of his passes for seven touchdowns and one interception.
"His overall play the last few weeks has been impressive," Garcia said. "I think he's really beginning to show a command of the offense -- excellent decision making, accuracy, getting the ball out on time, giving his players opportunities to make plays."
Garcia says you can see Garoppolo's confidence growing as he grasps Kyle Shanahan's complex offense, and has a full, healthy season in the system. He also pointed to the 49ers now having a set trio of receivers with veteran Sanders, rookie Deebo Samuel and second-year pro Kendrick Bourne.
Having a star tight end like George Kittle doesn't hurt, too.
Garoppolo joined Garcia and Steve Young as the only quarterbacks in 49ers history to have at least three games of four passing touchdowns in a single season, according to ESPN Stats and Info. Garcia last accomplished the feat in 2000, nearly two decades ago.
"They're really starting to gel from an offensive standpoint with what [Garoppolo's] doing at quarterback," Garcia said. "For me to be among those stat lines ... we were definitely clicking on all cylinders, and you can't do it alone. Obviously it's everybody standing up and doing their job. Offensive line doing a great job protection wise. You need everybody to step up when you have games like that, four-touchdown type games.
[RELATED: How 49ers' offense remained calm on game-winning drive]
"Everybody is stepping up and being a playmaker, and you're just giving them the opportunity to make a play."
Garcia enjoyed his first Pro Bowl season 19 years ago when he became San Francisco's full-time starting QB. He was balling then, just like Jimmy G is now.
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Pellegrini dismisses suggestions Perez refused to play
Lucas Perez cut a frustrated figure on West Ham's bench in the second half, but Manuel Pellegrini denied that he refused to come on.
Ryan Benson
17 September, 2018 00:41 IST
West Ham striker Lucas Perez was engaged in what appeared to be a heated debate with a member of Pellegrini's coaching staff. GETTY IMAGES - Getty Images
West Ham manager Manuel Pellegrini denied suggestions Lucas Perez refused to come on as a substitute in Sunday's 3-1 win at Everton.
The victory was West Ham's first in the Premier League under the Chilean, but it also saw Marko Arnautovic suffer an injury and Perez attract attention on the bench.
Shortly after scoring West Ham's third goal, Arnautovic was forced off with a knee problem and Michail Antonio took his place.
Television cameras then picked up an angry-looking Perez engaging in what appeared to be a heated debate with a member of Pellegrini's coaching staff, leading to speculation the Spaniard refused to come on.
But Pellegrini explained that, while he planned to bring Perez on, he changed his mind once he saw Antonio standing ready to enter.
"It is very simple; when Marko had a problem with his knee, I wanted to put Lucas on," said Pellegrini.
"I thought he was ready to come on, but he was sitting on the bench. Antonio was ready so we were not delayed, so I put Antonio on.
"I didn't have to [explain the situation to Perez], I don't have to explain anyway, especially during the game, I can do that during the week.
"Antonio had to come in to help us win the game and he was the change."
Arnautovic's admission that he was in "a lot" of pain following his knee injury will have worried West Ham supporters, and Pellegrini was unable to reassure them.
"We'll see, I can't tell you know if it is [serious] or it's not," Pellegrini, who turned 65 on Sunday, added.
"It's behind his left knee, he felt something. Tomorrow [Monday] we have a recovery day and we will see what happens after that."
Marko Arnautovic
Lucas Perez
Hockey Pro League: India begins campaign with 5-2 win over Netherlands
Mourinho: Goal-line technology doesn't make mistakes like VAR
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Fun with students of SMS
The students of EMBL Australia node of Single Molecule Science (SEAMS) Local and international students from SMS have formed a society to stay socially connected and to support each other in and...
Insights from the Korean-German Science Innovation Conference
Kat Gaus tells us a little about her experience at the Korean‐German Conference and the usefulness of useless knowledge. 1. You recently spoke at the 7th Joint Korean‐German Conference 2015 on...
Dean acknowledges high achievers from SMS
Dr Liz Hinde, from the Gaus lab, has been named one of the Dean’s Rising Stars. And Eunice Tan—Research Support Officer—receives the Dean's Award for Professional and Technical Staff. For...
Calling all single molecule enthusiasts
We are delighted to announce the first meeting of the Single Molecule Discussion Club! The idea behind the club is to connect researchers in the region with an interest in single molecule approaches...
Grant success for SMS
Today the NHMRC announced the outcomes of funding over $670 million from the 2015 round of applications, and Single Molecule Science have plenty to celebrate. Researchers at SMS are thrilled after...
Published: 9 November 2015
Trading hedge funds for single molecules
Andrew Nakhla helps the team at SMS with administration, and data management and analysis. He was recruited to SMS in August and his role is constantly evolving. “He clearly had the right experience...
Everyone’s been excited about National Science Week
This week SMS researchers invited their young neighbours–from Tigger’s Honeypot Childcare Centre–to visit and show them just how fun science and discovery are. The scientists didn’t have to do much...
Introducing EMBL Australia International PhD Scholarships
Single Molecule Science at UNSW is seeking talented and motivated PhD students–nationally and internationally–to be part of the EMBL Australia International PhD Program. The EMBL International PhD...
Inspiring the next generation of female scientists
“Every day, every second our immune cells make decisions to activate or not active, every time they make a decision the outcome is life or death”. “We are investigating the molecular switch that...
Learning from nature’s machines
Can we re-create natural motors 1,000,000 times smaller than a grain of sand and five times faster than a F1 engine? Ask Matt Baker. Dr Matt Baker, a postdoc in Lawrence Lee’s lab at the Victor...
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Announcing the Digital Discovery
Following the success of Analog Discovery 2, an all-in-one USB instrument for education, Digilent is pleased to announce the release of the Digital Discovery. Designed to be the ultimate embedded development companion for professionals, the Digital Discovery is a combined logic analyzer, pattern generator, and protocol analyzer instrument. With the release of this instrument, Digilent makes high-speed digital analysis portable. The small form factor facilitates easy storage and provides a whole suite of advanced features to allow you to debug, visualize, and simulate digital signals for most embedded projects.
Users control the logic analyzer, pattern generator, and protocol analyzer with WaveForms 2015, a free software toolset compatible with Mac, Linux, and Windows. With the ability to change the sample rate, number of channels, logic level, and output drive, the Digital Discovery is Digilent’s most configurable instrumentation tool to date.
Variable sample rate logic analyzer capable of decoding SPI, UART, CAN, I2C, and more.
Up to 800 MS/s at 8 channels
Up to 400 MS/s at 16 channels
100 MS/s, 16-channel pattern generator
Protocol analyzer capable of SPI, I2C, and UART
16-channel digital IO, including virtual LEDs, buttons, switches, and displays
1.2 - 3.3 V, up to 100mA power supply
Script editor for complex or automated test
The Digital Discovery starts at $199 and can be purchased at https://store.digilentinc.com/. Releasing along with the Digital Discovery is an expansive set of resources: a getting started guide, tool tutorials, community projects, and FAQ, which can be found at: https://reference.digilentinc.com/reference/instrumentation/digital-discovery/start.
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簡歷 影音 展覽 最新消息 藝術博覽會 相關報導 出版品
幻燈片 縮圖
Still from The Piano Player, 2002
digital beta, pal DVD, d.a.8 audio master, 7 minutes
Still from Radio Piece (Hong Kong), 2015
single channel video projection, color, binaural sound over headphones, 12 minutes
edition of 7 with 1 AP and 1 AC
Still from Breathing Bird, 2012
two channel video on flatscreens (19 inch), color, silent
Still from Olympia (The real time disintegration into ruins of the Berlin Olympic stadium
over the course of a thousand years), 2016
two channel video installation, color, stereo sound, HD animation, 1000 years
Still from KING (after Alfred Wertheimer's 1956 picture of a young man named Elvis Presley), 2015-2016
single channel video projection, HD animation, black & white, silent, 10 minutes
Still from Highway Wreck, 2013
single channel video, HD animation, black & white, silent, 15 minute 35 seconds, looped
Still from Sunrise, 2009
single channel video projection, color, stereo sound, ca 18 minutes
Olympia (Januari 2018 -4°), 2017
inkjet print, collage, tape, washed ink, acrylic paint, felt pen and pencil on cardboard
image: 16 1/2 x 22 7/16 inches (42 x 57 cm)
paper: 23 5/8 x 31 1/2 inches (60 x 80 cm)
framed: 25 3/4 x 33 5/8 x 1 3/4 inches (65.4 x 85.4 x 4.4 cm)
KING Drawing (Nuclear King), 2015
washed ink, felt pen, acrylic pen and pencil on paper
paper: 24 x 36 1/4 inches (61 x 92 cm)
KING (King's Nephews), 2015
paper: 18 1/8 x 24 inches (46 x 61 cm)
KING (Elvis at 21), 2014
washed ink, felt pen, acrylic pen, and pencil on paper
framed: 21 x 26 7/8 x 1 3/4 inches (53.3 x 68.3 x 4.4 cm)
King (skin + carpet), 2015
washed ink, felt pen and pencil on paper
18 1/8 x 24 inches (46 x 61 cm) each
36 1/4 x 24 inches (92 x 61 cm) overall
Two Friends, 2015
washed ink and felt pen on paper
Photo by Diego Franssens
Throughout his career, the Belgian artist David Claerbout has investigated the conceptual impact of the passage of time through his use of video and digital photography. As scholar David Green has explained, “Claerbout’s work subtly proposes a relationship of similitude between film and the objective world that lies outside and beyond the narrative space of cinema. In doing so he poses a set of questions about how we experience film and about the nature of the medium itself.”
Specifically, Claerbout manipulates both moving and still imagery to suggest an otherworldly level of existence, something that might refer to a specific place or event, but the timeline of which is not clear, oscillating between both past and present. The element of sound is critical in many of the works, often used as either a narrative device or a “guide” for the viewer to navigate the architectural space in the film. Claerbout’s oeuvre is characterized by a meticulous attention to production details, painstakingly created often over a period of years. The resultant works are immersive environments in which the viewer is invited to engage both philosophically and aesthetically.
Claerbout studied at the Nationaal Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp from 1992 to 1995 and participated in the DAAD: Berlin Artists-in-Residence program from 2002 to 2003. Claerbout’s work is included in major public collections worldwide, including: Centre Georges Pompidou Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and many others. He has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions internationally, including: Schaulager, Basel; MNAC, Barcelona (2017); Städel Museum, Frankfurt; KINDL, Berlin (2016), Marabouparken Konsthall, Sundbybert, Sweden (2015); Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (2014); Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany (2013); Secession, Vienna, Austria (2012); Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Istrael (2012); SFMOMA, San Francisco (2011); WIELS, Brussels, Belgium (2011); De Pont museum of contemporary art, Tilburg, The Netherlands (2009); Pompidou Center, Paris, France (2007); Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland (2008); and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (2005).
David Claerbout lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium and Berlin, Germany.
EYE Filmmuseum Amsterdam: Mastertalk: David Claerbout - Dark Optics, November 24, 2018.
David Claerbout : Six Major Works from arts-news on Vimeo.
Arts News video featuring David Claerbout.
Interview with David Claerbout regarding his newest film, Die reine Notwendigkeit, presented at Städel Garden at the Städel Museum, Frankfurt, 2016
LIGHT/WORK at Sean Kelly, New York, 2016
The pure necessityOpening Reception, October 26th, 6-8 pm October 27 – December 16, 2017
LIGHT/WORK March 19 – April 30, 2016
David Claerbout in The Pure Necessity presented by Parasol unit foundation
Solo/Screening, Chapel of San Bastiaun, Zuoz, Switzerland
December 22, 2019 – March 7, 2020, Preview: Saturday December 21, 4-7 pm
The Armory Show 2019
Booth 501 March 7 – 10, 2019
Art 49 Basel 2018
Three GenerationsHall 2.1 - Booth R2 June 14 – 17, 2018
Pier 94 - Booth 501 March 8 – 11, 2018
Art Basel Miami Beach 2017
Booth D14 December 7 – 10, 2017
Hall 2.1, Booth R2 June 15 – 18, 2017
Art Basel Unlimited 2017
Booth U72 June 15 – 18, 2017
Pier 94 - Booth 501 March 2 – 5, 2017
Pier 94, Booth 501 March 3 – 6, 2016
Back to the dark: David Claerbout about a future without light
Leipziger Volkszeitung, January 18, 2019
Our rapid image culture is frightening, says the important media artist David Claerbout – and is looking for a new relationship between life and time
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, September 19, 2018
David Claerbout. Humanizing the moving image
Domus, August 8, 2018
David Claerbout: the Nazi Olympics in ruins
The Art Newspaper, June 16, 2017
10 Must-See Works at Art Basel Unlimited
Artsy, June 12, 2017
David Claerbout on His Time Based 'Olympia' Installation
Sleek, January, 2017
Countering the Classic, Cheeky David Claerbout
DAMn Magazine, December 2016
Uncanny photography at Parasol Unit, tree peeing and porn at National Gallery, plus the rest of this week's top London shows
The Art Newspaper, May 14, 2016
David Claerbout: I sculpt duration
Studio International, May 5, 2016
Review: David Claerbout's Video Art via Video Games
The New York Times, April 28, 2016
David Claerbout at Sean Kelly
Artcritical, April 7, 2016
Interview with Video Artist David Claerbout
Aesthetica, March 24, 2016
Art in America March 25, 2016
David Claerbout Stages a 1,000-Year Battle between Architecture and Time
Artsy, March 23, 2016
Fresh takes on Stephen Shore's gas station
The Irish Times, September 2015
Interview with David Claerbout, Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venezia
ATP Diary, June 7, 2015
'Days of Endless Time' at the Hirshhorn Delivers an Antidote to Information Overload
Mutual Art, November 5, 2014
David Claerbout Joins Sean Kelly Stable
Artinfo, June 3, 2014
Giving Away Time: On David Claerbout’s Shadow Piece
Esse Magazine, June 2014
Obscurity and Stillness: Potentially in the Moving
Art Journal, Spring 2013
David Claerbout’s Indecisive Moments
Afterall, Spring 2013
Adrian Searle encounters...a teacup falling 70 times in a 14-hour film
It has not been–it is. The signaletic transformation of photography
Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, Vol. 4, 2012
The Photographic Now: David Claerbout’s Vietnam
Intermédialités, Spring 2011
Modern Time: Revisiting the Tableau
Time and Photography, 2010
David Claerbout: The Incredible essence of Time
Drome Magazine, 2010
David Claerbout Extrasensorial
Art in America, June - July 2009
Ori Gersht puts five questions to David Claerbout
Modern Painters, May 2009
David Claerbout: Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
Art Forum, November 2008
Drawings and Studies
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25 / April
SSI2 update its only a flesh wound
Ms Moses
Hello tournament fans,
Following on from our announcement last week we wish to bring you a further update on the progression of the tournament and it’s future schedule.
We would like to thank CCP for taking the time to get the tool to a point where we can run competitive matches on Thunderdome.
After an evaluation of the tool performed over the past few days, we have come to the conclusion in cooperation with the teams that running a tournament will be possible. However, due to technical limitations, we no longer believe that a live stream would be of the quality we wish to provide to our audience.
We know that many of you were looking forward to seeing this event play out live, so this news will be a disappointment. In lieu of this we are intending to provide a series of recordings showcasing the matches that were able to take place, including commentary from the broadcast talent within a few weeks.
Unfortunately, this deviation from the original plan has led to a reduction in the number of participants. We would like to thank them for the hard work they spent getting to this point, and understand their reasons and support them in their decision.
Your continued interest in the tournament is appreciated, and would like to thank the EVE community for their support during this time. We hope you enjoy the videos when they’re available.
Fly safe,
The Organisation and The Production Team
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Home | News Tuesday 29 November 2005
Deby lobs fresh ’destabilisation’ charges at Sudan
Nov 28, 2005 (NDJAMENA) — Sudan continues to provide arms and logistical support to Chadian rebels, despite several appeals by the Chadian government, President Idriss Deby said on Monday.
Idriss Deby
"We have proof. The Sudanese government has armed [rebels], put vehicles at their disposal, given them logistics and communications materials," Deby told Radio France Internationale.
"The Sudanese government is complicit."
Deby said a group of Chadian rebels is based inside Sudan, about 200 kilometres from the border.
"We have officially requested of the Sudanese government the right [to pursue the rebels]. The government refused."
Deby, an army officer turned president, has long faced dissension within his armed forces.
In October he overhauled his presidential guard days after an undetermined number of soldiers deserted their posts in the capital, N’djamena, and fled to the volatile east. And earlier this month Deby reshuffled officers in top military posts.
Deby said on Monday that some of the deserters - calling themselves SCUD for ’Platform for Change, National Unity and Democracy’ - were involved in a plot to topple him in May 2004.
But he dismissed SCUD as an insignificant movement.
"It’s a short-lived venture - a minor group," Deby said.
SCUD’s self-proclaimed leader, Yaya Dilo Djerou, has said the group numbers over 700.
Deby said any effort to undermine the government would be put down.
"Any action that would threaten the country’s institutions would be fought off in the strongest manner possible."
Earlier this year Deby accused Sudan of supporting a 3000-strong rebel force.
The Sudanese embassy in N’djamena could not be reached for comment on Deby’s latest claims as Monday was a national holiday.
Eastern Chad abuts Sudan’s troubled Darfur region. The two year-old Darfur conflict has often spilled over into Chad and has Deby in a thorny position.
Deby initially took power in 1990 with Sudan’s backing, later winning presidential elections in 1996 and 2001. A member of the Zaghawa ethnic group, he has often come under attack from Chadian soldiers of the same group for not doing more to help their Sudanese kinsmen fight government forces and allied militia in Darfur.
Last week the Sudanese government accused Chad of supporting rebels in Darfur.
Deby on Monday denied the charge, saying, "We have never taken any action to destabilise Sudan. On the other hand, I have asked [Sudanese president] General el-Bashir directly to do everything possible to avoid destabilising Chad."
Deby’s remarks to RFI come two days after the Chadian government reportedly issued then withdrew a communique about an attack by rebels in eastern Chad. The government said rebels attacked near the town of Guereda and stole a vehicle and some arms, media sources said.
But Communications Minister Moussa Hourmadji Doumgor told IRIN on Monday there had been no attack or communique.
"Nothing at all happened," he said. "There has been no communique by the government."
An opposition website ran a story on 27 November apparently quoting a SCUD statement, saying that deserters had attacked government forces in Guereda at the weekend, with "considerable human and material loss," but offering no precise numbers.
Deby put the yoke of responsibility on Sudan, closing his remarks to RFI with, "I hope that in the framework of a dialogue between neighbours, of the African Union, we find a solution by which Sudan spares Chad destabilisation."
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Shraddha Saibaba
Graced by Bhagavan Shri Sathya Sai Baba, Puttaparthi
“Take one step towards me and I will take a hundred steps towards you. Shed one tear for me and I will wipe away a thousand.” – Bhagavan
Quite symbolically, it seems that Shraddha has played a pivotal role in Sudha’s life right from a tender age. Having virtually lost life during a journey with her parents, she was rejuvenated by none other than Sri Jodi Adipalli Somappa, an incarnation of Bhagwan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. The Shraddha of her parents, their conviction that the Lord is always there to protect and guide the family, is what has resulted in their experiencing the miracle of life. This divine incident has gone down in the annals of history and is featured in the Sai Satcharitha.
It is always with moist eyes that Sudha speaks of the miracle by Bhagwan in His incarnation of Sri Jodi Adipalli Somappa, where she was too young to understand or experience the magnitude of this divine intervention. She could only revel upon it when it was retold by her parents many years later, when they felt their child would be able to comprehend it in the manner it was meant to be.
Details of this divine miracle can be viewed in the following link.
www.sathyasaibaba.wordpress.com
Sudha performed at Prashanthi Nilayam during the occasion of the Bheema Ratha Shanthi ritual on 10th February 2005. She was blessed abundantly by Swami. She regaled the gathering with selections of Sriman Narayana, Brochevaarevarura, Sita Kalyana Vaibhogame, Jagadodarana, Korai Onrum Illai, Pyare Darsana Deejo, Bho Shambho Shiva Shambho Svayam Bho, More To Giridhara Gopala Dusaro Na Koi and Man Ki Ankhein Kholo Sairam.
“When she sang songs 4 and 6, it was wonderful to see Swami also singing along with her. In fact, song 6 which is a Meera Bhajan was very lucky to have the Lord singing it fully line after line! The song on Swami, praying Him to open the eyes of our minds was a befitting close to the day’s program. For was this not the true purpose of all our endeavors in life? The song ended with fast beats that found all the devotees clapping along with the song. Swami stood up and was swaying to the beat. Our hearts too were swaying to the melodious rhythm and beat.” …an excerpt from the Sai News.
www.saibabaofindia.com
Sudha was fortunate and blessed to sing on the occasion of the 85th birthday of Bhagavan at Puttaparthi. Her concert was on 19th November, singing at his feet and blessed generously.
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Village of Belle Terre v. Boraas
Citation: 416 U.S. 1
Court: US Supreme Court
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California Bankers Assn. v. Shultz
Citation: 416 U.S. 21
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Mahon v. Stowers
Citation: 416 U.S. 100
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Super Tire Engineering Co. v. McCorkle
Arnett v. Kennedy
Scheuer v. Rhodes
Shea v. Vialpando
NLRB v. Bell Aerospace Co.
DeFunis v. Odegaard
Kahn v. Shevin
Pernell v. Southall Realty
Lehman Brothers v. Schein
Procunier v. Martinez
Gooding v. United States
Kewanee Oil Co. v. Bicron Corp.
Snow v. Commissioner
United States v. Giordano
United States v. Chavez
U.S. v. CHAVEZ
Mitchell v. W. T. Grant Co.
Donnelly v. DeChristoforo
Beasley v. Food Fair of North Carolina, Inc.
Calero-Toledo v. Pearson Yacht Leasing Co.
Bradley v. School Bd. of Richmond
Bob Jones Univ. v. Simon
Alexander v. "Americans United," Inc.
Dillard v. Industrial Comm'n of Virginia
Allee v. Medrano
Air Pollution Variance Bd. v. Western Alfalfa
ERCKMAN v. U.S
LUCAS v. ARKANSAS
KARLAN v. CITY OF CINCINNATI
MEYERS v. PENNSYLVANIA
CALIFORNIA v. BROWN
CIUZIO v. U.S
WALLACE v. SCHULIMSON
Citation: 416 U.S. 1000
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Les Bêtises et Les Vaches:
Two French Brands Use Humor To Engage Consumers in Sustainability
Mathieu Jahnich
Published 6 years ago. About a 5 minute read.
French consumers want to know more about where their products come from to make more sustainable choices. Besides, trust in business is higher when brands take action for sustainability, demonstrate their achievements and communicate well. Here are two great examples from France of brands doing just that: Camif (home furniture retailer) and Stonyfield France (organic yogurt brand nicknamed “The Two Cows”).
Camif — Don’t be preachy
“Our position is to provide transparent information to consumers,” explains Anne Breuille, Camif’s marketing manager. This is reflected through an interactive map named “consum’localization” and video testimonials of French suppliers on the brand's website.
The manufacturers’ map was established in June 2012: “It locates all of our French suppliers. If the consumer wants to choose a product based on its geographical origin, the information is available.” The vast majority of the products offered are manufactured in France. Thus, it’s possible for the consumer to include geographical origin (local or national) in his search for a product and favor local economy and reduced greenhouse-gas emissions. This is an interesting innovation for a retail website of this size.
Moreover, videos posted on the website allow consumers to look behind the scenes of French manufacturing. “The goal is to enable our suppliers to enhance their approach to local manufacturing, quality approach, sustainability engagements related to a single product or their overall business,” Breuille says. This initiative recreates the link between consumers and manufacturers and this is all the more important when the purchase is made via the Internet. “Camif is the only brand to do this. Our suppliers are very proud to show their commitment. And it’s very well received by our consumers, too.”
Camif’s commitment to transparent information was relayed through a press advertising campaign between October 2012 and February 2013. The idea was to highlight the contrast between an average product, most probably manufactured in a faraway country, and a product selected by Camif, made in France by an industry with a strong commitment to quality and/or sustainability. For example, one of the ads reads: “A bed sheet which takes 8,232 km to get home is a stupid thing. A bed sheet which comes from Cambrai is not even a silly thing” and, written in small: “If you want more good reasons to buy this bed sheet, know that you’ll support a French company established in Cambrai for over 50 years that received in 2009 the label named “Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant.” This label rewards the French companies that excel in traditional and industrial know-how.
Breuille explains: “The goal is to provide objective information, without taking ourselves seriously, without being preachy.” In the previous example, It’s a simple pun: “Les bêtises (silly thing) de Cambrai” is the name of a candy from the city of Cambrai. “The campaign has been well-received from our partners and suppliers. They were surprised and pleased to see that we could communicate this way. Camif is a growing success story, the figures are looking good. This campaign certainly played a part,” concludes Breuille.
Stonyfield France — Be educational and playful
According to general manager Daniel Tirat, Stonyfield France’s mission is “to move society towards another food system, towards more sense and pleasure.” Its aim is twofold: make a business success and generate new food practices.
Animal welfare is one of the sustainability challenges facing Stonyfield. They are partnering with Compassion in World Farming (CIWF), an organization campaigning to end cruel factory farming. “We spent a year and a half to build specifications (with eight criteria, easy to explain to consumers) and to put in place on-farm welfare audits.” The aim is both to encourage initiatives that help farmers improve their animals’ well-being and to educate French consumers on this issue.
In 2012, the brand launched an advertising campaign about animal welfare, featuring two characters, now well known in France: Clever (a serious cow, in charge of educating consumers about organic farming and the environment) and Chatterbox (a more frivolous cow, which rarely misses an opportunity to make a joke). “For your eggs, you prefer them from happy outdoor chickens. And for your yoghurts, do you mind about dairy cattle welfare? We, The Two Cows, let the herd out as soon as the weather is good, because we think it is better for our cows, better for our milk, and probably also for our yoghurts.” This topic is rarely addressed in advertising. Comparing dairy cattle with laying hen welfare is pretty relevant in France as more and more consumers are paying attention to the welfare of laying hens.
Tirat explains, “Pedagogy is one of the pillars of the brand: We must be able to explain whatever initiative we undertake. Not too soon, only when we’re ready. We don’t have to be ashamed about our engagements. Consumers can understand that it’s not perfect, as it is in their everyday lives. But they will not forgive a dishonest brand.”
In terms of communication strategy, since its creation in 2006, the brand decided to put all the marketing tools at the service of its mission: “bring consumers to organic yoghurts in being educational and playful instead of austere and moralistic.” Seven years later, The Two Cows is a successful brand. “The results are highly positive: + 30% growth in 2011, 20% in 2012.”
These two examples show that brands can distinguish themselves from their competitors and attract consumers, in meeting their expectations and awareness, by communicating relevant and proved commitments to sustainability. The touch of humor is useful to avoid guilt and to install an emotional complicity between the brands and their customers.
Published Apr 11, 2013 4pm EDT / 1pm PDT / 9pm BST / 10pm CEST
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Malta: Test for von der Leyen – Commission must launch investigation for rule of law procedure
At the end of the two-day ad-hoc mission of a delegation of the European Parliament to Malta, Sven Giegold, financial and economic policy spokesperson of the Greens/EFA group commented:
“We have seen progress in Malta in the investigation of the Galizia murder, but no improvement when it comes to corruption and financial crime. There is still a culture of impunity for corruption and money laundering. There are hardly any police investigations or even convictions – even if there are convincing indications in the public domain. A gateway to corruption is the sale of EU passports. The worrying state of the rule of law in Malta requires action by the EU Commission. Corruption and financial crime are a first test case for Ursula von der Leyen and her Commission’s stance on the rule of law. She has put this issue at the centre of her agenda and now she has to deliver. The announcements at her first press conference in the new office were vague and therefore disappointing.
The European Commission should open an investigation into the rule of law. Preparations must now be made for Article 7 proceedings against Malta. The EU Commission must also no longer tolerate the breach of agreements reached between Malta and the EU on the sale of passports by Malta. EU passports may only be issued to people who live in a country or have a genuine link with that country. The German government must use the EU summit next week to call on the EU Commission to act consistently.
There have to be direct consequences for Malta: Maltese citizens rightly demand the immediate resignation of Muscat. He should resign sooner rather than later. I do not agree with him staying in office for weeks. Given the many indications of corruption in his surroundings, he should not have the opportunity to leave his office in order.
The rule of law remains under pressure in Malta in other areas too. The Maltese islands are being concreted over and over. Conflicts of interest and corruption play an important role – to the detriment of nature and the environment.
Journalists face increased hostility. Malta needs media laws that weaken the influence of political parties and protect journalists from libel claim that threaten their very existence”.
Note for journalists:
I cordially invite all journalists to my telephone press conference on Thursday, 5 December at 9:30 a.m., at which I will report on the Malta mission.
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The Sacking of Coruscant. It was the crowning achievement of the Sith Empire’s ambitious military strategy and the moment that changed the history of the Old Republic forever. You may have read about it before, but our first cinematic trailer captures this event with breathtaking action and beautiful detail.
Republic leaders have traveled to Alderaan to engage in promised peace talks with the Sith Empire. The most powerful Jedi have accompanied them to safeguard against an Imperial deception. The Empire’s real motive, however, was simply to lure the Republic’s strongest defenders away from Coruscant and set the stage for an audacious attack. Under the command of Lord Angral, the Sith fleet approaches the Republic’s capital planet for the first time in centuries. In advance of the fleet, the strongest Sith Warriors have flown a stolen Republic ship into Coruscant’s orbit. Their mission is critical – to destroy the planet’s defense grid mainframe hidden in the heart of the Jedi Temple.
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Where Do Probiotics Come From?
Oct 11, 2019 | Syndication Cloud
Originally posted on https://blog.probaclac.ca/where-do-probiotics-come-from/
A clear probiotic definition
The probiotics market is booming and all the – often contradictory – information available can rapidly overwhelm consumers. Such a commercial wave should not deter you from navigating the ocean of probiotics, as long as you consider some key elements of their formulation. The term “probiotic” entails it’s a product that contains adequate doses of active bacteria that are beneficial to the health of the host1. Be careful not to confuse probiotics and prebiotics; the latter fuel the former. By undergoing their fermentation in the colon, prebiotics feed the probiotics of the body.
The origin of the bacterial species of a specific formula will determine the beneficial properties of the probiotic2. Fortunately, you do not need to guess which species form your probiotic … In the current regulations, a probiotic supplement must indicate the kind of bacteria offered as well as species (such as Lactobacilli) and strains (Lactobacillus rhamnosus or others) that are present in the product. Kefir fermented yogurt, which is becoming increasingly popular, contains Lactobacillus strains (L. lactis, L. rhamnosus, L. plantarum, L. casei, L. acidophilus, L. reuteri, etc.) and Bifidobacteria (B. longum). , B. Breve and B. lactis, among others) 3. Probiotic supplements available at drugstores contain human cells of a variety of species (Lactobacilli, Bifidobacteria, Streptococci and Saccharomyces) and a wide variety of strains.
The origin of bacterial species
A probiotic can be drawn from a human source (cultivated from human intestines or colostrum contained in breast milk), from an animal or dairy source (obtained via the manufacture of yogurt and cheese), or (in fermented vegetables and certain grains such as sauerkraut, kimchi and sourdough bread) and, more rarely, directly from the ground (in agricultural land) 4. The vast majority of probiotic cells belong to the group of lactic acid bacteria, that is, those derived from milk5. In addition, these cells may not appeal to some people with dietary restrictions, these milk strains are transient and do not adhere to the intestinal receptors, which limits their lifespan in the body to a maximum of 24 hours before they are eliminated4 . For this and other reasons, human strains are considered to be the most useful from a therapeutic standpoint4. Bacteria isolated from the human microbiota are more likely to permanently colonize (for several weeks) our intestinal tract. For example, the majority of strains used in a brand like Probaclac were isolated from humans (L acidophilus, L rhamnosus and all our Bifidobacterial strains) and then produced in fermentors.
Several criteria are required for a probiotic to be beneficial. At first glance, the strains must be able to maintain the balance of the intestinal flora1. In addition, bacteria must survive the passage from the mouth to the intestines and therefore resist the acidity of the stomach2. Then, it is expected that these probiotic microorganisms can adhere to the intestinal cells for the beneficial effect to be obtained6. Scientists agree that “native” strains isolated from human hosts give a clear advantage at all these levels6. Although it is suggested that probiotics of human origin be administered to small and large mammals, some dairy and plant strains may also provide benefits in certain cases (such as Lactobacillus plantarum strain from kimchi, which is found in travelers probiotic, ideal for protection against foreign bacteria). Let it be said: not all probiotics are equal!
1Sanders ME. Probiotics: definition, sources, selection, and uses. Clin Infect Dis. 2008; 46 (Suppl 2): S58-61.
2Kang HJ et Im SH. Probiotics as an Immune Modulator. J Nutr Sci Vitaminol (Tokyo). 2015; 61 Suppl: S103-105.
3Islam SU. Clinical Uses of Probiotics. Medicine (Baltimore). 2016; 95 (5): e2658.
4Natural Factors Education Online. [Site web]. Consulté le 29 mai 2018. https://nfed.naturalfactors.com
5Haghshenas B, Nami Y, Haghshenas M, Abdullah N, Rosli R, Radiah D et Khosroushani AY. Bioactivity characterization of Lactobacillus strains isolated from dairy products. Microbiology Open. 2015; 4 (5): 803-813.
6Conway PL. Selection criteria for probiotic microorganisms. Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 1996; 5 (1): 10-14.
7Grimm V, Westermann C et Riedel CU. Bifidobacteria-host interactions – an update on colonization factors. Biomed Res Int. 2014; 2014: 960826.
8Scourboutakos MJ, Franco-Arellano B, Murphy SA, Norsen S, Comelli EM et L’Abbé MR. Mismatch between Probiotic Benefits in Trials versus Food Products. Nutrients. 2017; 9 (4) : e400 [e-publication].
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Center Innovation Fund: JSC CIF
Regenerative Gas Dryer for Integrated ISRU Systems
Rocket propellant can be produced anywhere that water is found by splitting it into hydrogen and oxygen, potentially saving several tons of mass per mission and enabling the long term presence of humans in space beyond LEO. When water is split into hydrogen and oxygen, the gaseous products can be very humid (several thousand ppm). Propellant-grade gases need to be extremely dry before being converted into cryogenic liquids. The primary objective of this project is to design, build and test a regenerative gas drying system that can take humid gas from a water electrolysis system and provide dry gas to the inlet of a liquefaction system for long durations. State of the art work in this area attempted to use vacuum as a means to regenerate desiccant, but it was observed that water would migrate to the dry zone without a sweep gas present to direct the desorbed vapor. Further work attempted to use CO2 as a sweep gas, but this resulted in a corrosive carbonic acid. In order for in-situ propellant production to work, we need a way to continuously dry humid gas that addresses these issues.
The objective of this effort is to design, build, test and evaluate a method of gas drying that can be used for in-situ propellant production. Test data from this project will be used in models to help predict the total mass, power, and volumes associated with various ISRU applications and architectures. The final product will be a fully functional system that will be integrated into an end-to-end ISRU propellant production demonstration.
Johnson Space Center (JSC) Lead Organization NASA Center Houston, TX
Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Supporting Organization NASA Center Kennedy Space Center, FL
Project Closeout
Testing of the canister design verified that the product gas was below the dryness required (26 ppmv) after 4 hours of continuous use. The canister was designed to operate on a 4 hour regeneration cycle. Visual observation of the desiccant (indicating drierite) after 4 hours shows that approximately half of the desiccant became saturated. After four hours of operation, the water content at the outlet of the canister was 15 ppmv. This test validated the design of the canister, where the residence time of the gas is a
function of the canister diameter.
Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Christopher Culbert
Aaron J Paz
TA7 Human Exploration Destination Systems
TA7.1 In-Situ Resource Utilization
TA7.1.3 Processing and Production
TA6.1 Environmental Control and Life Support Systems and Habitation Systems
TA6.1.1 Air Revitalization
TA6.1.2 Water Recovery and Management
The Moon, Mars
Supported Mission Type
Projected Mission (Pull)
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digital dividend
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FCC anticipates major role for 600 MHz spectrum in 5G
Tom Wheeler, Chairman of US telecoms regulator the FCC, has offered an update on his views regarding 5G and spectrum.
France launches 4G auction while Russia announced 1800 MHz sale
France has officially launched its auction of 4G spectrum in the 700 MHz band and Russia will be offering spectrum in the 1800 MHz band in September.
FCC delays US broadcast spectrum auction
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had revealed it expects the reallocation, via auction, of broadcast spectrum for mobile use will be delayed until early 2016. The FCC had originally hoped to conduct the auctions in mid-2015, but pointed to uncertainty generated by court challenges to the rules of the auctions from some broadcasters as a reason for the delay.
UMTS Forum urges LatAm regulators to speed up release of 700Mhz band
The UMTS Forum has urged regulators in Latin America to speed up the release of digital dividend spectrum in the 700MHz band to mobile operators.
DTV interference could cost UK LTE operators £100m
Winners of the 800MHz digital dividend spectrum in the UK could have to shoulder the £100m cost of ensuring that signals do not interfere with digital terrestrial TV.
European giants call for 1800MHz device support for LTE
In a major shift in operator preferences for LTE spectrum, three of Europe’s most influential carriers have joined together to encourage vendor support for LTE devices operating in the 1800MHz spectrum. Making their announcement at the LTE World Summit in Amsterdam, Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom and TeliaSonera earmarked the soon-to-be-re-farmed 1800MHz spectrum as their preferred choice for rolling out LTE networks.
VIPnet to demonstrate LTE network this weekend
Croatian operator VIPnet has announced the completion of a successful LTE trial in the 800MHz “digital dividend” band freed up by the migration to digital television. The trial, which began in October last year, took place in Zagreb, and achieved data speeds of up to 150Mbps download and 50Mbps upload.
UK outlines plans to auction 4G spectrum
UK communications regulator Ofcom has finally been given the go ahead to move forward with the auctioning of 4G spectrum, as well as the refarming of 2G spectrum so it can be used for 3G services. However, ongoing delays have put the country behind other parts of Western Europe and operators are unlikely to get their hands on the attractive 2.6GHz band before 2012.
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by Lisa Taddeo
Edition Later Printing
Author Lisa Taddeo
Publisher Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster (on 2019-07-09)
Binding Type Hardcover
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 INDIE NEXT PICK
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“THIS IS THE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR. This is it. This is the one...It blew the top of my head off and I haven’t been able to stop thinking or talking about it since.” —Elizabeth Gilbert
“Taddeo spent eight years reporting this groundbreaking book...Breathtaking...Staggeringly intimate.” —Entertainment Weekly
“A breathtaking and important book…What a fine thing it is to be enthralled by another writer’s sentences. To be stunned by her intellect and heart.” —Cheryl Strayed
A riveting true story about the sex lives of three real American women, based on nearly a decade of reporting.
Hailed as “a dazzling achievement” (Los Angeles Times) and “riveting page-turner that explores desire, heartbreak, and infatuation in all its messy, complicated nuance” (The Washington Post), Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women has captivated readers, booksellers, and critics—and topped bestseller lists—worldwide.
In suburban Indiana we meet Lina, a homemaker and mother of two whose marriage, after a decade, has lost its passion. Starved for affection, Lina battles daily panic attacks and, after reconnecting with an old flame through social media, embarks on an affair that quickly becomes all-consuming. In North Dakota we meet Maggie, a seventeen-year-old high school student who allegedly has a clandestine physical relationship with her handsome, married English teacher; the ensuing criminal trial will turn their quiet community upside down. Finally, in an exclusive enclave of the Northeast, we meet Sloane—a gorgeous, successful, and refined restaurant owner—who is happily married to a man who likes to watch her have sex with other men and women.
Based on years of immersive reporting and told with astonishing frankness and immediacy, Three Women is both a feat of journalism and a triumph of storytelling, brimming with nuance and empathy. “A work of deep observation, long conversations, and a kind of journalistic alchemy” (Kate Tuttle, NPR), Three Women introduces us to three unforgettable women—and one remarkable writer—whose experiences remind us that we are not alone.
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Archive for March 23rd, 2007
‘Dark’ films: Sadness & Indie flicks
Published March 23, 2007 Movies , Thoughts Closed
I don’t know who thought it was a good idea – but somehow last night my girlfriend, five friends and I ended up sitting in the living room, sipping hot chocolate and beer, while watching one of the most depressing films ever made.
Dancer in the Dark (2000) is the story of a Czech immigrant named Selma (played by singer Bjork – whose voice I still can’t decide whether to love or hate) who has pulled all short straws in life.
Set in Washington state in 1964, Selma is a factory worker who is slowly going blind, and who saves every penny she can in hopes of affording an operation for her son so that he will avoid the same dark fate.
Her escape from this dreary reality is an active imagination that transforms tragedy into scenes befitting musicals; but her daydreams are repeatedly yanked back down to earth as she faces a series of soul crushing events.
I can’t say that I liked the movie – I think my mind tends to reject films that are oppressively sad – but I suppose I can appreciate some of the cinematic aspects. The ‘musical’ scenes were imaginitive, surprising and fresh, and flushed with vivid colors. I respect the filmmaker for being brave enough to portray such a heartbreaking tale in full force, but all in all I think I’m somewhat exhausted with depressing indie films.
Not long ago I also saw Dark (2003) – which enticed (and misled) me because the main character is a bicycle messenger (it turned out to be a very small theme).
But again, after watching, I felt a mix of confusion and depression – despite what seemed to be the film’s (spoiler warning) superficially positive ending. I understand that the point of independent film is to break the god-awful mold of hollywood film – and surely Dark did that. But the absolute sadness of Dark’s life (the main character’s name is Dark Freeman) seemed to dillute any message that might have been conveyed through the story.
And beyond that, I generally despise the use of inner monologue in film.
Among these films with “dark” themes, one uniquely dark movie stands out to me as having conveyed something other than the utter sadness of human life.
A Scanner Darkly (2006) succeeded in my eyes because it brought out a subtle idea of hope and human resilience. Though I initially felt thoroughly bummed out after watching, further reflection led me to see the more positive aspects.
Contrary to my former comments, I enjoyed the inner monologue in Darkly because it felt poetic – it added something to the film rather than supplementing for an aspect that fails to be portrayed visually, as Dark does.
True, the twisted plot and mind-warping visual twitch even the most stone-faced viewer out – but Darkly subtley and beautifully painted the human struggle to cope with the (can I resist?) dark aspects of life as a battle than can be won – perhaps breaking this new “indie film” mold of sadness.
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The season’s GreenMarket is kicking off: It’s bigger and better than ever
More of a good thing: That’s what’s in store for fans of West Palm Beach’s waterfront GreenMarket, which is set to debut for the season this weekend.
Baked goods at the West Palm Beach GreenMarket, which kicks off Oct. 7; above, a produce vendor at the GreenMarket (courtesy photos)
Market-goers will discover some 15 new vendors—offering everything from produce to orchids, organic dog food and Hawaiian poke bowls—among the event’s 90-plus longtime regular vendors.
The 2017-2018 season of West Palm’s GreenMarket—marking the event’s 23rd consecutive year—kicks off Saturday (Oct. 7), 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Located along downtown’s Waterfront Commons flanking Flagler Drive to the east, the market will continue each Saturday (except March 24, 2018) through April 21.
In addition to vendors’ fresh produce, plants and flowers, herbs and spices, baked goods, gourmet and specialty foods, coffee and teas, pet goods and more, the GreenMarket features live music, free activities for kids, and plenty of green space and seating areas.
Back by popular demand: historical walking tours, beginning at 10 a.m. Lasting about 1 ½ hours, the $10-a-person tours are led by architect/historian Rick Gonzalez and benefit the Historical Society of Palm Beach County (for tour info and tickets, see www.hspbc.org/events/#historytours or call 832.4164 ext. 2.)
According to Mary Pinak, community events manager for the City of West Palm Beach Department of Parks and Recreation, this season’s GreenMarket includes “our largest selection of vendors yet…As we near 25 years (of the GreenMarket), we’re pleased with the continued growth and additional layers of activity the GreenMarket provides.”
GreenMarket parking on Saturdays is free in two of the city’s garages on the corners of Banyan and Evernia streets and Olive Avenue. Boaters can also take advantage of the city’s free public docks.
For more information about the West Palm Beach GreenMarket, see wpb.org/events or call 822-1515.
Author M.M. CloutierPosted on October 3, 2017 October 3, 2017 Categories green markets, Produce, UncategorizedTags baked goods, docks, Flagler Drive, Hawaiian poke, historic walking tours, Historical Society of Palm Beach County, life, Mary Pinak, newsfeed, orchids, pet food, produce, Rick Gonzales, Waterfront Commons, West Palm Beach GreenMarketLeave a comment on The season’s GreenMarket is kicking off: It’s bigger and better than ever
Coming to Palm Beach: Indian cuisine by an insider-chef
The use of the word rare isn’t uncommon at Meat Market—after all, steak-lovers often like their beef cooked `rare’ (or some degree thereof)—but an upcoming dinner event at the Palm Beach restaurant is all the more rare in another way.
Meat Market, 191 Bradley Place
Chef Pushkar Marathe/courtesy photos
That’s because in Palm Beach, a restaurant meal of Indian cuisine is indeed rare—as in not occurring often; the island isn’t home to an Indian dining establishment—and Meat Market, 191 Bradley Place, soon will offer one with an authenticity promised by the chef executing the dinner event.
Meat Market is featuring a four-course Indian dinner on June 14. The wine-paired repast has been conceived by and will be prepared under the direction of Meat Market’s chef de cuisine Pushkar Marathe, who was born and raised in Mumbai and began his culinary career in India.
The special June 14 dinner starts at 7:30 p.m., but a taste of Marathe’s Indian cuisine begins at the 7 p.m. reception, when wine-paired hors d’oeuvres are set to include gobi pakora (cauliflower fritters with mint-cilantro chutney) and Malai chicken tikka (chicken kebab), among other things.
During the dinner, $95 a person, four wine-paired courses are slated to include Kerala beef curry (paired with a 2014 Gerard Bertrand, Chateau L’Hospitalet, Coteaux du Languedoc, France) and mango falooda (2015 Duckhorn Vineyards, Late Harvest Sauvignon Blanc, Knights Valley, Cal.).
To make reservations (seating is limited for the dinner), call 900-6001 or e-mail elumb@meatmarket.net.
Author M.M. CloutierPosted on June 8, 2017 June 8, 2017 Categories Dining events, Palm Beach chefs, Palm Beach restaurants, Uncategorized, wine dinnersTags Bradley Place, cauliflower fritters, chicken tikka, gobi pahora, Indian cuisine, kebab, Kerala beef, life, mango falooda, Meat Market, newsfeed, Pushkar Marathe, rare meat, wine pairingsLeave a comment on Coming to Palm Beach: Indian cuisine by an insider-chef
Between lunch and dinner, a special menu at Palm Beach’s Costa tempts
For some restaurants in town, that couple of hours between lunch and dinner service is understandably somewhat of a no-man’s land for nibble-seeking drop-in guests, but there is, of course, such a thing as an in-between scene in this regard.
David Valencia, executive chef at Costa in the Esplanade.
Costa’s branzino (courtesy photos)
And among those eateries offering a between-meal option: Costa, the new Mediterranean restaurant, with cuisine helmed by executive chef David Valencia, that opened earlier this season on the second level of the Esplanade, 150 Worth Ave.
Between Costa’s lunch and dinner services—featuring fare ranging from Nicoise salad to salt-baked branzino—there’s a mid-day menu available from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
The mid-day menu offers small plates starting at around $13 and desserts for $10. Items include, among other things, east and west coast oysters, jumbo shrimp cocktail, calamari, Greek or Turkish mezze plates, and roasted artichoke with parmesan and harissa-cilantro aioli.
Among desserts offered on Costa’s mid-day menu: brown-butter honey cake and baklava.
The mid-day menu also happens to fall within Costa’s 3-7 p.m. happy hour, when cocktails are half off.
For more information, call Costa at 429-8456 or see www.costapb.com
Author M.M. CloutierPosted on March 27, 2017 March 27, 2017 Categories Palm Beach chefs, Palm Beach restaurants, small plates, UncategorizedTags 150 WORTH, brown butter honey cake, calamari, Costa, David Valencia, Esplanade, life, Mediterranean, mezze, mid day menu, newsfeed, oysters, roasted artichoke, shrimp cocktailLeave a comment on Between lunch and dinner, a special menu at Palm Beach’s Costa tempts
If spring calls for a picnic, downtown’s Pistache has what you need
Yesterday was the first official day of spring, and if there’s one quintessential way of celebrating that, it’s with a picnic.
Just in time for spring: Downtown’s Pistache launches picnic-package specials.
Now that you’re armed with that idea, consider leaving the rest up to Pistache French Bistro.
Here’s why: The restaurant now features picnic baskets-to-go, complete with nearly everything you need—from eats to utensils and more—for a picnic at your favorite spot, whether it’s at the beach or a park or even your backyard or loggia.
Picnic packages now offered by downtown West Palm Beach’s Pistache, 101 N. Clematis St., include basket, tablecloth, utensils, napkins and plates (or a board), plus a choice of three dishes to share.
The fare for a $55 basket includes a choice of a cheese or charcuterie selection; a choice of salad (lentil, arugula-and-parmesan, cauliflower-tabouleh, winter squash or baby greens); and a choice of salmon tartare, tuna crudo, steak tartare or smoked salmon.
Pistache’s picnic packages can be customized; fees vary.
For more information, call Pistache at 833-5090 or see www.pistachewpb.com.
Author M.M. CloutierPosted on March 21, 2017 March 21, 2017 Categories Downtown West Palm Beach Restaurants, lunch, salads, UncategorizedTags " Clematis Street, charcuterie, life, newsfeed, picnic, Pistache, salad, snoked salmon, spring, tartareLeave a comment on If spring calls for a picnic, downtown’s Pistache has what you need
Age of Aquarius: Spirit of once-iconic party to be revived at Meat Market
Time was when, in annual recaps of Palm Beach social events, the honors for “wildest and craziest fun-loving crowd” went to fellow February birthday revelers who partied and seemed to spring up from the Age of Aquarius.
Pop goes the party: Palm Beach Aquarians and friends set to revive iconic shindig at Meat Market.
Meat Market, 191 Bradley Place.
They’re back.
And they’re back in yet another revival, which leaves one wondering if their heyday really was in the late 1980s and 1990s, as some remember, or whether their spirit is always just simmering and ready to burst onto the scene.
The Palm Beach Aquarians—a group of core-and-newcomer folks who share the same astrological sign and a hankering for good times with fellow Aquarians and others—is “reviving” the once-iconic `Aquarius Parties’ with an upcoming shindig (and you don’t have to be an Aquarius to attend).
One of the last revivals, in 2014 at West Palm Beach’s Café Sapori, draw around 120 people.
This time around, the party is set to take place Feb. 16 at Palm Beach’s Meat Market, 191 Bradley Place.
The 6-8 p.m. fest is slated to feature complimentary hors d’oeuvres and happy-house drink specials galore.
None to few Aquarians—and their significant others and friends—should be there, including a boldface name or two. Or three or more.
And if they’re all true to the island’s Aquarius-party tradition, the celebration will extend well past 8 p.m., even if it’s just to dig into Meat Market’s succulent tomahawk steaks or to down some more oysters and champagne.
To register/RSVP for the Feb. 16 event at Meat Market, click here
For more information, call 833-8283.
Author M.M. CloutierPosted on February 11, 2017 February 12, 2017 Categories Cocktail-hour events, Palm Beach restaurants, parties, UncategorizedTags Aquarius, Bradley Place, complimentary hors d'oeuvres, life, Meat Market Aquarian Party, newsfeed, oysters, tomahoawk steakLeave a comment on Age of Aquarius: Spirit of once-iconic party to be revived at Meat Market
New Mediterranean restaurant Costa to debut for dinner Tuesday in the Esplanade
Costa Palm Beach is set to open to the public for dinner on Tuesday (Jan. 17).
Costa’s executive chef, David Valencia/photos courtesy Experimar.
After completing its interior design in the Esplanade and readying its staff, Costa, a new Mediterranean restaurant owned by a local restaurateur, is set to debut to the public tomorrow for dinner.
Restaurateur Sascha Bennemann and his team have lightened and brightened a 5,200-square-foot space on the second floor of the Esplanade, 150 Worth Ave., and they’ll introduce Costa’s seasonal menu inspired by, among other things, classic dishes of the Mediterranean region.
The restaurant is located in the space formerly occupied in recent years by short-lived Gigi’s Tap & Table and Cha Cha’s Latin Kitchen.
Bennemann, who co-owns Costa with his wife, Danielle, said in a news release, “We can’t wait to show the community what we’ve been working on.” Bennemann, who worked closely with Thierry Beaud at PB Catch in Palm Beach and Pistache French Bistro in West Palm Beach, cited his Costa team’s “passion for food” and “personalized service.”
The newly designed space for Costa, which seats 151, features white walls and finishes; various shades of blue; and contemporary photography. Along with a dining room, there’s outdoor seating, a contemporary bar, a private dining space and more.
Costa’s menu is inspired by the Mediterranean cuisines of Spain, France, Morocco, Italy, Greece and Turkey.
The restaurant’s executive chef, David Valencia, hails most recently from Caviar Russe in Miami. Before that, he was chef de cuisine at Meat Market Palm Beach.
Valencia trained years ago under Michelin-starred chef Alain Ducasse and later worked in New York and Florida with Top Chef winner Hung Huynh.
Costa’s menu, with everything from tapas, salads and crudos to main courses, currently includes such items as charred Spanish octopus, roasted chicken in a tagine, and salt-baked branzino plated with an arugula emulsion, grilled lemon and olive-caper tomato relish.
Plans call for Costa to be open at first for dinner only; lunch and brunch service are slated to be added in the future.
For more information or to make reservations, call Costa at 429–8456 or see www.costapb.com.
Author M.M. CloutierPosted on January 16, 2017 January 16, 2017 Categories New restaurants/openings, Palm Beach chefs, Palm Beach restaurants, UncategorizedTags 150 Worth Ave., chicken tagine, Costa, crudos, David Valencia, life, Mediterranean, newsfeed, salt-baked branzino, Sascha Bennemann, tapas, The EsplanadeLeave a comment on New Mediterranean restaurant Costa to debut for dinner Tuesday in the Esplanade
For some island restaurants, one particular drink is a New Year’s Day brunch must
New Year’s Day brunch at Eau Palm Beach Resort includes a Bloody Mary bar for customizing your drink.
The Bloody Mary at the Four Seasons’ AB&G./courtesy photos
Among this weekend’s de rigueur elements besides Champagne and hearing a rendition of Auld Lang Syne: New Year’s Day brunch.
And wherever you enjoy it—most restaurants in town open during the daytime Sunday are featuring brunch-related specials—a key component for post-New Year’s Eve revelers is the proverbial hair of the dog.
Their drink of choice? The venerable Bloody Mary is a good bet.
That tomato-y brunch drink is emphasized at many island eateries, ranging from Nick & Johnnie’s and Café Boulud to Charlie’s Crab and Ta-boo, which, according to local lore, is where the Bloody Mary debuted decades ago when a socialite asked for a hangover cure.
Some restaurants take pride in their proprietary Bloody Mary mixes.
Others put out a spread of items—bacon strips, pickled vegetables and more—so guests can customize their brunch-time Bloody Marys.
Take Eau Palm Beach (100 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan). The resort’s executive assistant food-and-beverage manager, Tito Rodriguez-Torres, says, “Our over-the-top Bloody Mary bar options set us apart. We offer house-made pickles and more than 50 other garnishes, sauces and rim salts to choose from, so you can custom-craft your Bloody Mary.”
Eau’s Bloody Mary bar is available to diners who upgrade (for an additional $22) their New Year’s Day brunch at the resort’s Temple Orange Mediterranean Bistro. Bloody Marys also will be available during New Year’s Day brunch at Eau’s Breeze Ocean Kitchen.
Among other stand-out Bloody Marys on the island for New Year’s Day brunch:
The “BB Mary” at the Four Seasons’ oceanfront and al fresco AB&G (2800 S. Ocean Blvd.): It features bacon-infused Grey Goose vodka blended with a house-made Bloody Mary mix and garnished with a blackened shrimp, celery, green olive and lemon wedge. On New Year’s Day, AB&G also will offer a kimchee Bloody Mary.
The “Queen Mary” at The Chesterfield’s Leopard Lounge (363 Cocoanut Row): It include vodka, fresh lime juice, Tabasco-brand Bloody Mary mix and a chilled-shrimp garnish, but what gives it a singular taste is a sweet smidge of Harvey Bristol Cream.
Over the bridge in downtown West Palm Beach, PB Catch’s sister restaurants Pistache (101 N. Clematis St.) and The Regional at CityPlace offer signature Bloody Marys. The Bloody Mary at Pistache includes Dixie Black Pepper Vodka and a blue cheese-stuffed olive. At The Regional, Palm Beach chef Lindsay Autry has perfected a housemade sauce that’s a finishing touch to the restaurant’s Bloody Mary mix.
Author M.M. CloutierPosted on December 29, 2016 Categories brunch, CityPlace, Clematis Street, New Year's, Palm Beach resort dining, Palm Beach restaurants, UncategorizedTags AB&G, Bloody Mary, Breeze Ocean Kitchen, Eau Palm Beach, Leopard Lounge, life, Lindsay Autry, New Year's Day brunch, newsfeed, PB Catch, Pistache, Temple Orange Medierranean Bistro, The Chesterfield, The Four Seasons, The RegionalLeave a comment on For some island restaurants, one particular drink is a New Year’s Day brunch must
Four Seasons’ Tory Martindale: Expect fun, surprises with Dec. 8-11’s food/wine fest
The Four Seasons’ executive chef Tory Martindale
The Four Seasons Palm Beach/courtesy photos
There are a variety of restaurants and other venues where Dec. 8-11’s Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival events are set to unfold this week, but of all them, one is a nerve center: the Four Seasons.
The resort, 2800 S. Ocean Blvd., has been the Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival’s host-hotel since 2011.
That means it’s not only center stage for a handful of the festival’s 12-plus events, but it’s also home base for the festival’s visiting enthusiasts and chef-participants, several of whom hail from food TV shows and acclaimed restaurants around the country.
Tory Martindale better have his act together—and, of course, he does.
The Four Seasons’ executive chef starts readying for each year’s Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival—now in its 10th year, with chief organizer and mastermind David Sabin at the helm—the moment one ends and the next is 364 days away.
Martindale is a 20-year veteran of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts worldwide, and at Four Seasons Palm Beach, he oversees several restaurants and other food-service operations. Martindale recently dished about the 10th annual Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival, which kicks off Thursday.
What are you busy with in these final days of prep for the festival?
In recent days, says Martindale, prep has included everything from finalizing delivery schedules for ingredients and extra event equipment (fryers, griddles, etc.) to putting finishing touches on inside/outdoor décor. “Now we’re also readying welcome amenities for visiting festival chefs and working with local culinary students who help…” The logistics go on and on. “When we hit the day of the festival, our most important objective is to ensure our guest-chefs are enjoying themselves and that the (other) guests are having an authentic culinary and overall-wonderful experience.”
What are you looking forward to most in this year’s festival?
“My favorite part is always the interaction between chefs, and between chefs and guests. Since some of the events we host at Four Seasons Resort Palm Beach are more intimate, we as chefs have the opportunity to communicate with each other, collaborate and share some of the trials and tribulations and highlights encountered over the last year. Chefs also get to interact with guests and find out which their favorite dishes of the day are.”
Do you have any particular surprises up your sleeve for this year’s festival?
“There will be a number of surprises and special treats and I don’t want to give them all away. However, I will hint at some…For Saturday night’s Street Food event, we are preparing a unique take on a Japanese dish and putting our own Palm Beach flare on it. My team has been practicing the dish for a month now, so I’m elated to present it. Additionally, we strive to create a fun and unique welcome amenity that tops the previous years. I’m going to keep most if a secret…but it will include red-hot pickled sausage and Oreo cookies, among other snacks.”
Author M.M. CloutierPosted on December 3, 2016 December 3, 2016 Categories Palm Beach chefs, Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival, Palm Beach resort dining, UncategorizedTags 10th anniversary, newsfeed, Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival, The Four Seasons, Tory MartindaleLeave a comment on Four Seasons’ Tory Martindale: Expect fun, surprises with Dec. 8-11’s food/wine fest
After spicing summer dining with savings, it’s last call for limited-time deals
Chez L’Epicier, 288 S. County Road
Ta-boo, 221 Worth Ave./courtesy photos
Among dining deals announced in June in Palm Beach, who could forget Bice’s 50 percent off everything on its food menu from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.?
Well, remember it now: It’s last call for that summer deal, which expires after dinner service Sunday (Oct. 30).
Elsewhere in town, a handful of other summer dining deals remain in play.
The restaurants where you’ll find them say they’ll keep the bargains (relative to high season) on the books through Oct. 31, at which time they may consider briefly extending them.
So what are some examples of dining deals available through Oct. 31?
See below (NOTE: Restaurant plans can and do change, so wherever you plan to dine, call ahead).
Early birds:
From 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Chez L’Epicier, all entrees are 50 percent off;
As aforementioned, Bice, is offering half off everything on its summer menu from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Prix-fixe dinner menus:
For $30, Chez L’Epicier offers a three-course menu with choices per course;
Ta-boo still features a $35 three-course dinner menu;
The Breakers’ Italian Restaurant has a three-course menu for $35, too;
For Asian fare, try Echo’s three-course menu for $40;
Café L’Europe’s still is highlighting its three-course $49.50 dinner-menu deal.
Other dining-deal examples:
Steaks denoted as “signature” on Meat Market’s menu are 50 percent off on Sundays; normally, signature steaks are around $25-$55;
Ta-boo offers 25 percent off regular dinner menu entrees if you present a coupon printable from the restaurant’s web site;
There’s no corkage fee at Café Boulud if you bring your own bottle of wine on Mondays, Tuesdays and/or Wednesdays;
At PB Catch, smaller portions of certain entrees are available for half off.
Author M.M. CloutierPosted on October 27, 2016 Categories Dining deals, Palm Beach restaurants, UncategorizedTags Bice, Café L’Europe, Cafe Boulud, Chez L'Epicier, Echo, Meat Market, newsfeed, PB Catch, Ta-boo, The BreakersLeave a comment on After spicing summer dining with savings, it’s last call for limited-time deals
After a `light and bright’ makeover, The Colony’s Café 155 has re-opened
Café 155 at The Colony, 155 Hammon Ave., has re-opened after a Carleton Varney renovation.
The Colony/photos courtesy hotel
Good news for fans of a popular breakfast and lunch spot at the southeast nexus of Worth Avenue and South County Road: The Colony’s Café 155 re-opened today—and with a new interior look thanks to a renovation executed by the Carleton Varney Design Group.
Café 155 re-opened this morning, replete with new sky-blue wallcoverings printed with white cloud images.
“It certainly reminds you of a day at the beach with the blue and the clouds and the beach-wood finish to the furnishings,” said Marta Weinstein, The Colony’s public relations and marketing director. “It’s very light and bright.”
Café 155 closed in early September for renovations, which involved replacing the cafe’s flooring, equipment and furniture, among other things.
Now that Café 155 has re-re-opened, goers once again can partake of the daily made breakfast and lunch items prepared by the kitchen team at The Colony, 155 Hammon Ave.
In addition to the café’s breakfast fare, soups, salads, sandwiches, panini, desserts, snacks and more, offerings now include soft-serve ice cream.
And after the Thanksgiving holiday, plans call for Café 155 to also offer dinners-to-go for folks who are “too tired or busy to cook on a weekday,” according to Weinstein.
For more information, call The Colony at 655-5430 or see www.thecolonypalmbeach.com
Author M.M. CloutierPosted on October 17, 2016 October 23, 2016 Categories Palm Beach restaurants, Renovations, reopenings, UncategorizedTags breakfast, Cafe 155, Carleton Varney, lunch, Marta Weinstein, newsfeed, renovation, sandwiches, soft serve ice cream dinners to go, soups, The Colony, Worth AvenueLeave a comment on After a `light and bright’ makeover, The Colony’s Café 155 has re-opened
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Fine Art & Custom Framing
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WINTER HIATUS: January 15 – March 6 (Gallery is CLOSED).
Normal business hours resume March 8 with a new exhibit!
PLEASE NOTE: We will still be available for private consultations and framing during this time.
Please call or email us to schedule a time that is most convenient for you.
The Laffer Gallery Presents: “A Delicate Balance”
Featuring Ann Larsen, James Sankowski, Mark Tougias, and George Van Hook
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 19, 5-8pm
The Laffer Gallery today announced the date for its upcoming “A Delicate Balance” art exhibition. Featuring artists Ann Larsen, James Sankowski, Mark Tougias and George Van Hook, the exhibit will open Wednesday, September 16, and run through Sunday, October 18. An opening reception will be held Saturday, September 19.
“Each of the artists in this show thrive in the natural environment,” said Erik Laffer, gallery owner. “Whether they work on canvas or shape clay with their hands, they are inspired by nature, which is evident by how well their works complement one another.”
Ann Larsen is an accomplished oil painter who received the 2014 Award of Excellence at the Paso Robles Invitational. She has been featured as an “Artist to Watch” by Southwest Art Magazine and is a signature member and past president of American Women Artists. She is also a member of American Impressionist Society, Outdoor Painters Society, Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters, Oil Painters of America and Laguna Plein Air Painters Association.
James Sankowskie is a potter from Ballston Lake. His pots create a balance between form and design to yield pottery that is both durable and functional. Sankowskie has exhibited work in numerous regional, state, and national shows and art fairs, and his pottery has appeared in such publications as Studio Potter, Ceramic Monthly, and The Art of Contemporary American Pottery.
Mark Tougias is a self-taught artist whose inspiration comes from his immediate surroundings in Vermont and upstate New York. His work is defined by the use of light, tonality, atmosphere and composition to depict the poetic and spiritual qualities of place rather than an exact rendering of location. Tougias has exhibited in more than 40 galleries and has had more than 25 one-man shows.
George Van Hook has been exhibiting his paintings for more than 35 years throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. Van Hook’s painterly style follows in the tradition of the impressionists. Inspired by both a love of nature fostered by long hours painting “en plein air,” he paints with gusto and passion, bringing freshness and immediacy to the rural scenes where he lives in upstate New York. His work has been featured in En Plein Aire Magazine and he has twice been featured in American Artist Magazine.
About the Laffer Gallery
Located at 96 Broad Street in Schuylerville, The Laffer Gallery is open Wednesday through Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. and by appointment. For more information call 518-695-3181 or visit thelaffergallery.com.
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United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA): September 28, 2013 “The Skeptics™” Burzynski discussion: By Bob Blaskiewicz – 2:19:51
BB – “Ummm, o-kay”
“Uh, I want to turn this over to the people who are watching”
“Um, I want to give them a a chance to address you as well”
“Uhmmm, hi everyone”
BB – “A every time that I and and and and, and David (James @StortSkeptic the Skeptic Canary) points this out, that um, you you know you’re not going to speculate about the the FDA but then at every turn you’re invoking the FDA as being obstructionist“
BB – “I, I just find that to be contradictory and and self-defeating“
DJT – Bob, exactly where did I invoke “the FDA as being obstructionist” ?
BB – “Um, it’s it’s it’s not the FDA’s, but you understand it’s not the FDA’s job to tell someone that their drug doesn’t work“
BB – “it’s it’s it’s up to Burzynski“
“It’s up to Burzynski to show that his drug does work”
“And it’s always been his burden of proof“
“He’s the one that’s been claiming this miracle cancer cure, forever”
DJT – Bob, Burzynski showed and proved what he needed to prove to the FDA in order to do phase 2 clinical trials, 9/3/2004 – FDA granted “orphan drug designation” (“ODD”) for Antineoplastons (A10 & AS2-1 Antineoplaston) for treatment of patients with brain stem glioma, .10/30/2008 – FDA granted “orphan drug designation” (“ODD”) for Antineoplastons (A10 and AS2-1 Antineoplaston) for treatment of gliomas, and FDA approved phase 3 [1-2]
Oh, and Bob, exactly when did Burzynski 1st claim “this miracle cancer cure” ?
BB – “Um, that we’d love to see, however we can’t see, however we can’t see it because of proti protri proprietary uh protections that the FDA is giving to Burzynski, right ?”
“They’re not sharing his trial designs because they are his trial designs, right ?”
“That the makeup of his drug that he’s distributing are his, uh design, and his intellectual property“
“So the FDA is protecting him, uh from outside scrutiny“
DJT – Bob, you make it sound like it’s part of some grand “conspiracy” between Burzynski and the FDA to keep information from “The Skeptics™” [3]
21CFR601
Subpart F–Confidentiality of Information
Sec. 601.50
Confidentiality of data and information in an investigational new drug notice for a biological product
(a) The existence of an IND notice for a biological product will not be disclosed by the Food and Drug Administration unless it has previously been publicly disclosed or acknowledged
BB – “While you may imagine that that, that that the FDA is is somehow antagonistic toward him“
“They’ve given him every opportunity, over 60 opportunities to prove himself worth uh their confidence and hasn’t“
DJT – Bob, that certainly explains the 9/3/2004 and .10/30/2008 ODD’s and phase 3 clinical trial approvals by the FDA – NOT [1-2]
BB – “I don’t, the thing is though that, that that’s a inver, shifting the burden of proof off of Burzynski”
“Burzynski has to prove them wrong, has to prove him right”
“The FDA is not there to say this doesn’t work”
DJT – Bob, who initiated and put into place the clinical trial hold ?
Burzynski ?
FDA ?
Both ?
BB – “So, I mean, honestly, um, saying “Well, when the F, FDA tells you that it doesn’t work, the FDA’s never gonna say that because that’s not their job“
BB – “That’s not an option, because they’re never gonna do it“
“They relinquish, a lot of authority, over to Burzynski, and his Institutional Review Board, which, I would mention, has failed 3 reviews in a row”
Bob, where are the “final reports” for those “3 reviews” ?
BB – “Right ?”
“It is Burzynski’s job to be convincing”
“It is not our uh, uh, it it it he hasn’t produced in decades“
“In decades”
“In hundreds and hundreds of patients, who’ve payed to be on this”
“Hell, we’d we’d we’d like a prelim, well when you’re talking about something that is so difficult as brainstem glioma, that type of thing gets, really does in the publishing stream get fast-tracked there”
DJT – Bob, Burzynski has provided numerous phase 2 clinical trial preliminary reports, which our #fave oncologist has chosen to ignore [4]
BB – “they test it”
“Yeah, and they they they want uh, that was evidence of fast-tracking is what, that rejection was uh e was very quickly“
DJT – Bob, have you checked The Lancet Oncology [5] to see what was so much more important than Burzynski’s “phase 2 clinical trial Progression-Free Survival (PFS) and Overall Survival (OS) re patients 8 – 16 years after diagnosis, results” [6] and the Japanese antineoplaston study ? [7]
BB – “So, how long will it be before Burzynski doesn’t publish, that you decide that uh perhaps he’s he‘s, doesn’t have the goods ?“
“Um, so, uh, uh again, the FDA is not the arbiter of this“
“It’s ultimately Burzynski”
“You’ve been speculating about what the FDA’s motivation are like crazy”
“Why not speculate about Burzynski a little bit”
DJT – Well, how have I been speculating ?
BB – “Well actually I’m not even asking you to speculate about Burzynski, I’m only asking you to tell me, how long would it take, uh how, for him to go unpublished like this, um, for this long, before you would doubt it ?”
DJT – Note how, above, without proving it, Bob claimed “at every turn you’re invoking the FDA as being obstructionist”, and now, directly above, again, without proving it, Bob claims “You’ve been speculating about what the FDA’s motivation are like crazy”
DJT – what the journals keep saying, in response
BB – “What ?”
DJT – You know, are they going to give The Lancet response, like they did in 2 hours and such, saying, “Well, we think your message would be best heard elsewhere,” or they gonna gonna give The Lancet response of, “Well, we don’t have room in our publication this time, well, because we’re full up, so, try and pick another place” ?
BB – “But these but but but that doesn’t have any bearing on“
“That doesn’t”
“Oh I’m not asking you how long, how long, would it take you for you to start doubting whether or not he has the goods ?“
“How long would it take ?”
“It’s a it’s a it’s a question that should be answered by a number uh uh months ?“
“Years ?”
“How long ?”
“It’s been 15 years already”
DJT – Well, you like to jump up and down with the “15 year” quote, but then again I always get back to, Hey, it’s when, when the report, when the clinical trial is done
DJT – Not that he’s been practicing medicine medicine for 36 years, or whatever, it’s when the clin, clinical trial was done
BB – “I could push it back to 36 years”
“He hasn’t shown that it works for 36 years”
“I can do that”
“I was being nice”
DJT – Note how Bob acts like he’s been hit with “The Stupid Stick”
If he wants to go back “36 years”, I can refer back to 1991 (11/15/1991) – Michael J. Hawkins, M.D., Chief, Investigational Drug Branch, Department of Health &Human Services (HHS), Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute (NCI), sent a 1 page Memorandum Re:
Antineoplaston to Decision Network, which advised, in part:
“It was the opinion of the site visit team that antitumor activity was documented in this best case series and that the conduct of Phase II trials was indicated to determine the response rate” [8]
DJT – The FDA A believes there is evidence of efficacy
BB – “Perhaps based on bad phase 2”
DJT – Well, we don’t know that
We don’t have the Freedom of Information Act information
DJT – Remember, Bob is the one who told me during the 9/28/2013 Google+ Burzynski Discussion Hangout:
“You’re you’re you’re assuming”
“You’re you’re you’re assuming that”
“You’re assuming that”
“Um, I’m not assuming that”
“There is a correct answer here”
“You don’t know”
“You need to look into it”
“Alright ?”
“Before you dismiss it you have to look into it”
“Everytime somebody throws uh uh something to me,
I have to look into it”
“That’s just, it’s my responsibility as a reader”
“T t and what I would honestly expect and hope, is that you would be honest about this, to yourself, and and and that’s the thing we don’t, we often don’t realize that we’re not being honest with ourself“
“I try to fight against it, constantly”
Bob just ASSUMED that the FDA approved phase 3 clinical trials for Burzynski “Perhaps based on bad phase 2”, but tells me NOT to ASSUME ?
BB – “He withdrew”
“He withdrew the the phase 3 clinical trial”
“I that before recruiting,
although I’ve seen lots of people say they were on a phase 3 clinical trial“
“I wonder how that happened”
DJT – Well, we know what happened in the movie because Eric particularly covered that when they tried to get what, what, was it 200 or 300 something institutions to take on a phase 3, and they refused
BB – “Uh did do do you think that if they thought that he was a real doctor that they all would have refused like that ?“
DJT – Well, Eric gave the reasons that they said they would not take a particular uh phase 3
And so using that excuse that you you just gave there, I’m not even gonna buy that one, because that’s not one of the reasons
Note how Bob pulls out the old “if they thought that he was a real doctor” line ?
Is Bob now claiming that Burzynski is NOT even a “real doctor” ?
BB – “He’s changed things”
DJT – Eric said they gave
BB – “That The Lancet is a top-tier journal like New England Journal of Medicine“
“It’s basically be, besieged by uh 100′s of people submitting their, their, their reports”
“Um, it’s just, you know, let’s say he, someone has such a thin publishing record as Burzynski does, do you think that it’s likely that he will ever get in a top-tier journal ?“
“What about the the Public Library of Science?”
“It’s not the only journal there”
“What about BMC Cancer ?”
“There’s lots of places that he can go”
DJT – We’ll I’m
BB – “Um, and he doesn’t seem to to have evailed himself of that, as far as I can tell“
“And I would know because he’d get rejected, or he’d be crowing, you know”
BB – “Either way, he’s gonna tell us what happens”
“He told us what happened with The Lancet, you know”
“I don’t have any evidence that suggests to me that he’s even trying”
Note how Bob refers to Burzynski’s numerous publications as “such a thin publishing record”
Bob, do I need to count all of these for you ? [9]
DJT – Well, I’m, I’m sure that they’re going to keep you appraised just like they have in the past, just like Eric has done in the past
I mean, we’ll see what happens with the Japanese study [7]
BB – “So let’s go back to this”
“How long will it take ?”
“How long will it take before you, the Japanese study’s interesting too because we should be able to find that in the Japanese science databases, and we can find, we can’t find it at all“
“We can’t find it anywhere”
“And, and those are in English, so it’s not a language problem“
“We can’t find that anywhere”
“We’ve asked”
“We asked Rick Schiff, for, for that study”
“And, and it hasn’t come to us“
“He is now I believe on the Board of Directors, over there”
BB – “He should have access to this”
“We can’t get it”
Bob, did you ask:
1. Annals of Oncology 2010;21:viii221 ?
2. European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), Colorectal cancer, Abstract: 3558, May 17, 2010 ?
3. Colorectal Cancer Association of Canada, COLORECTAL CANCER RESEARCH, Month Ending June 19, 2009
11. Antineoplaston Therapy Doubles 5-Year Survival Rate Following Curative Resection of Hepatic Mets (May 27/09) pg. 5 of 20 ?
4. Kurume University School of Medicine (Japan) Department of Surgery ?
5. Hideaki Tsuda ? [7]
BB – “How how long will it take before you recognize that, nothing is forthcoming ?”
“How long would that take ?”
DJT – Well that’s like me asking “How long is it going to take for y’all’s, y’all‘s Skeptics to respond to my questions ?”
Because y’all haven’t been forthcoming
BB – “Well, I mean, were talking about a blog here“
“We’re talking about life”
“No, we’re talking about a blogger’s feelings in that case“
“In in this case we’re talking about, 1,000′s of patients, over the course of of of generations, you know”
“This is important stuff”
“This is not eh eh equating what’s happening to to patients with what’s happening to you is is completely off-kilter as far as I can tell“
“It’s nothing”
“It’s nothing like you not getting to say something on my web-site”
“This is they they have thrown in with Burzynski, and they’ve trusted him, and he’s produced nothing“
“Nothing of substance”
BB – “Nothing that that has made all of that um, uh, n nothing th th th that uh his peers would take seriously”
“The other thing that that that strikes me now is that, you know, you you you you keep saying that, well Eric is going to to share things with you”
“Does it ever concern you eh uh eh occur to you that Eric might not be reliable ?”
Bob, do you want to have a contest to determine which of you is more “reliable” ?
DJT – Well, he gave you The Lancet information and he posted the e-mail in the movie, and Josephine Jones posted a copy of it [6]
BB – “He then, and then he”
“And then he he, you know, the the the the dialogue that sprung up around that was, well see, he’s never going to get to get published”
“Well you’re just setting yourself up for wish fulfillment”
“You want him to be, persecuted, so you are ecstatic when he doesn’t get to publish, which is unfortunate for all the cancer patients, who really thought that one day, all the studies were going to be published”
DJT – Well, y’all are free to, you know, claim that all you want, because I don’t always agree with Eric, and uh, he’s free to express his opinion
BB – “Where has Eric been wrong ?”
DJT – Well I don’t necessarily believe, what Eric would say about, you know, The Lancet that refused to publish the 2nd one, for the reasons he stated, and which y’all have commented on, including Gorski
You know, I don’t necessarily agree with that
I am more agreeable to y’all, saying that, you know, they’re busy, they’ve got other things to do, but I’m kind of still laughing at their 1st response which he showed in the movie about how they felt about, you know his results would be better in some other publication
I thought that was kind of a ridiculous response to give someone
BB – “It’s it’s it’s it’s a form letter“
“They’re just saying, “No thanks””
““Thanks, but no thanks” is what they were saying, in the most generic way possible”
“Like I said, they’re besieged by researchers trying to publish“
DJT – Well you would think that if its a form letter they would use the same form that they used the 2nd time
You know, they didn’t use the same wording that they used the 1st time
I would have think that, you know, their 2nd comment
BB – “So, so, possibly”
“So possibly what you are saying is that they in fact have read it, and after having read it they’ve rejected it”
“Is that what you’re saying ?”
“Because that’s what peer-review is”
DJT – Nah, I’m not saying that they did that all
I’m just sayin’, you know, that they gave, 2 different responses, and I would think that the 2nd one they gave
BB – “Do you know it was the same editor, that it came from the same desk ?”
“You can’t make that assumption that that the form letter will be the same form letter every time”
“I mean you just can’t“
“I mean in in some ways we have a lot of non-information that you’re filling in, with what you expect, as as opposed to what’s actually really there, and I I I just think you’re putting too much uh stock in one uh, uh, in in in in this uh the publication kerfuffle“
BB – “Um”
DJT – Well I find it funny, something along the lines of, you know, “We believe your message would be received better elsewhere, you know
I don’t see that as a normal response, a scientific publication would send to someone trying to publish something
I mean, to me that sounds, like, if you’re doing that, and you’re The Lancet Oncology, maybe you need to set some different procedures in place, ‘cuz you would think that with such a great scientific peer-reviewed magazine, that they would have structured things in as far as how they do their operations
BB – “Well, not necessarily“
“I’ve been in any # of professional groups where the organization is just not optimal, and publications certainly th there are all sorts of pressures from all sorts of different places”
BB – “I I have no problems whatsoever with seeing that this might not be completely uh um uh streamlining uniform processes as possible“
“The fact that it’s not uniform, doesn’t have anything to do with Burzynski not publishing, not producing good data”
“Not just going to a, you know, god, even if, even if, let’s put it this way, even if he went to a pay to play type publication where you have to pay in order to get your manuscript accepted; and he has the money to do this, it wouldn’t take that much, and he were to put out a good protocol, and he were to show us his data, and he would make his, his his stuff accessible to us, then we could validate it, then we could look at it and say, “Yeah, this is good,” or “No, this is the problem, you have to go back and you have to fix this””
“So we really, every time we talk about the letter that he got, yeah that doesn’t have much to do with anything, really”
BB – “We wanna see the frickin’ data”
“And if he had a cure for some cancers that otherwise don’t have reliable treatments, he has an obligation to get that out there anyway he can“
“And if if peer-review doesn’t, you know, play a, if peer-review can’t do it, you know, isn’t fast enough for him, then he should take it to the web, and he should send copies out to every pediatric, uh, you know, oncologist that there is“
“That’s the way to do it”
DJT – Well, I’m sure, I’m sure Gorski would have a comment about that, as he’s commented previously about how he thinks uh Burzynskishould publish
BB – “It’s the, it’s the data itself“
“If if Burzynski is is, is confident in his data, he will put it out there“
“One way or the other”
DJT – Like I said before
Like I said before on my blog, you know, even if Burzynski publishes his phase 2 information, Gorski can just jump up and down and say, “Well, that just shows evidence of efficacy, you know, it’s not phase 3,
so it doesn’t really prove it”
DJT – So then he can go on, you know, for however many years he wants to
BB – “Um, almost no treatment goes out without trials“
“Massive amounts of data are required”
Bob, do you think that’s the 2.5 million pages of clinical trial data that Fabio said Burzynski sent to the FDA ? [10]
BB – “Uh, in in in that sense, you know, uh all the the the, you know, kind of back-peddling and and and trying to defend him is is going to, not going to help his case at all“
Bob, exactly where did I exhibit any “kind of back-peddling” ?
BB – “You are, honestly as far as I can tell you are doing the um, you know, you’re you’re ah throwing up uh, uh, uh, you’re giving me another uh invisible dragon in the garage, um”
DJT – Well y’all, y’all can call things what y’all want
I mean, y’all can give these, fallacy arguments and all that garbage that y’all like, because that’s what y’all like to talk about instead of dealing with the issues
I mean, Gorski doesn’t want to deal with the issues
BB – “Okay, so”
“What you’re telling me is that you trust the FDA to to be able to tell you when he’s not doing, good science, but also that you don’t trust the FDA”
“Do you see an inherent conflict there ?”
DJT – How did I say I, I didn’t trust them ?
BB – “Well, when I, whenever I would ask about, like, why would these trials aren’t happening uh and, you know, you say well the the FDA’s arranged it“
“The FDA’s in control”
“They sign off on these things”
“But they’re they’re they’re they’re at the same that they’re, they’re trustworthy they’re also not trustworthy depending on what you need for the particular argument at the time“
BB – “You’re suggesting that they’re untrustworthy”
DJT – No, I’m just sayin’ that I’ve raised questions and none of The Skeptics wanna to uh talk about ‘em [11]
BB – “Do you know that the FDA pulled out of the prosecution ?”
“Did you know that the FDA pulled out of the prosecution um of his criminal case, because they were backing a researcher ?”
Bob, would that “researcher” be Dvorit D. Samid, who was in Burzynski: Cancer is Serious Business (Part I) ?
DJT – Well, we know a lot stuff they did, but that still doesn’t impress me that they pulled out of the prosecution
BB – “Yeah, the the the it wasn’t the FDA who was pressing charges, it was a Federal prosecutor“
DJT – Right
BB – “Right”
“And and, they declined to provide information that the prosecution needed“
“That’s important”
“That that that’s really important“
“That he has been given the benefit of the doubt, and he has come up wanting, for decades now”
DJT – Well I find it interesting a lot of this uh, a lot of these letters that were provided between, you know, the government and Burzynski, when the uh phase 2 study was going on, at the behest of the NCI
You know, anybody who reads that stuff knows, that when you just ignore the person that’s been doing, do treating their patients for 20 something years, or close to 20 years, and you change the protocol without his approval, and you don’t use the drugs in the manner that he knows works
BB – “One of the interesting things about Doubting Thomas that I think you should definitely consider for yourself, is that at some point, when faced with the real opportunity to prove or disprove his assertions, he doubted himself”
“And that’s important”
“And that’s where you’re falling short in the analogy”
DJT – Well, I think The Skeptics, Skeptics are falling short because, you know, they don’t own up to
BB – “I’ve laid out exactly what it would take for me to turn on a fucking dime”
“I have, I have made it abundantly clear what I need“
“Gorski has made it abundantly clear”
“Everybody else, Guy, and David, and Josephine Jones, uh, the Morgans, all of them have made it abundantly clear, what it would take to change our minds, and you’ve never done that”
BB – “And even in this, this was an opportunity to do that“
“To come up with a basis for understanding, where it’s like, you know what, If we can show this, you know, if we can show a this guy, that, that, there, that his standards are not being met, then, you know, we could possibly have some sort of ongoing dialogue after this”
DJT – So I can say that since the Mayo Clinic (Correction: M.D. Anderson) finished their study in 2006, and it took them until 2013, to actually publish it, then I can say, well, Burzynski finished his in 2009, which was 3 years later, which would give Burzynski until 2016
BB – “Why wasn’t that study”
DJT – for me to make up my mind (laughing)
BB – “Why wasn’t that, that that that, still . . again, it it doesn’t seem really to to approach the the the, main question here“
“You know, um . . what are the standards that you have that it isn’t, what are your standards to show that it isn’t efficacious ?“
DJT – Well I can say, well I’m going to have to wait, the same amount of time I had to wait for Mayo (Correction: M.D. Anderson) to publish their study; which was from 2006 to 2013
BB – “Why was the Mayo”
“Why was the Mayo (Correction: M.D. Anderson) study delayed ?”
Note how Bob ASSUMES that the publishing of the final results of the M.D. Anderson study were delayed
DJT – How do you know it was delayed ?
BB – “Well you said you had so many years before you finish it and go in”
DJT – I mean, has anybody
BB – “Why, why did it take so long ?“
DJT – done a review of when a clinical trial is studied, and completed, and how long it took the people to publish it ?
If they could point to me a study that’s done that, and say, well here’s the high end, here’s the low end of the spectrum, here’s the middle
BB – “I have something for you, okay ?”
“Send me that”
“Could you send me that study the way that it was published because um, just just send me the final study, um, to my e-mail address”
DJT – Sure
BB – “Um, because, I can ask that question of those researchers, why was this study in this time, and what happened in-between”
BB – “Why did it take so long for it, for it to come out”
DJT – Sure, but that’s not gonna, you know like, answer an overall question of, you know, somebody did a comparative study of all clinical trials, and, when they were finished, and at, and when the study was actually published afterwards
You know, that’s only gonna be one, particular clinical study
“Um, but it it would, perhaps, answer the question; because you’re using it as an example on the basis of which to dismiss criticism, whether or not, uh, it is the standard, and therefor you’re allowed to accept that Burzynski hasn’t published until 2016, or, um, it’s an anomaly, which is also a possibility, that most stuff comes out more quickly“
DJT – Well, we know that the Declaration of Helsinki doesn’t even give a standard saying, “You must publish within x amount of years,” you know ?
So, I’ve yet to find a Skeptic who posted something that said, “Here are the standards, published here”
BB – “I I, yeah, the other thing that David James points out is you know, why 2016 when he’s had 36 years already ?“
DJT – Again, we get back to, when the clinical trial is finished, not when Burzynski started
BB – “Treating people”
DJT – I mean, you would expect to find a results to be published after, the final results are in
BB – “You would expect the Burzynski Patient Group to be a lot bigger after 36 years, and in fact is
DJT – You would expect some people would want to have confidentiality, and maybe not want to be included
BB – “So, if you’re unsure about this stuff, if you’re unsure about the the time to publication, why are you defending it so hard, other than saying, “I don’t know, I really need to”
DJT – Why am I unsure ?
BB – “Uh about the
DJT – (laughing) I just gave you an example
BB – “The reasons, the reasons for which that he’s, no, why are you defending him so hard, when you’re unsure ?
DJT – Oh, who said I was unsure ?
I just gave you an example
Note how Bob ASSUMES that I’m “unsure” when I had the same answer since 0:32:07 [12]
Bob, who approves “Accelerated Approval” ?
1. FDA ?
2. A peer-reviewed scientific journal ?
3. The Skeptics™ ?
Bob, It’s your unlucky [13]
[2] – FDA grants Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) for A10 and AS2-1:
http://www.burzynskiresearch.com/assets/PressRelease_12022008_BZYR(2).pdf
josephinejones (@_JosephineJones), D Nile ist http://josephinejones.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/happy-birthday-dr-burzynski-and-goodbye-antineoplastons/comment-page-1/#comment-8921
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/josephinejones-_josephinejones-d-nile-ist-httpjosephinejones-wordpress-com20130123happy-birthday-dr-burzynski-and-goodbye-antineoplastonscomment-page-1comment-8921/
[3] – The Skeptics @Majikthyse reveals madjik research skilz:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/09/26/the-skeptics-majikthyse-reveals-madjik-research-skilz/
[4] – Critiquing David H. Gorski, MD, PhD, FACS http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/editorial-staff/david-h-gorski-md-phd-managing-editor/
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/critiquing-david-h-gorski-md-phd-facs-www-sciencebasedmedicine-orgeditorial-staffdavid-h-gorski-md-phd-managing-editor/
[5] – The Lancet Oncology
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/onlinefirst
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/issue/current
[6] – FINALLY, one of “The Skeptics™” has the “Balls” to do what even Dr. David H. “Orac” Gorski would NOT do:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/09/12/finally-one-of-the-skeptics-has-the-balls-to-do-what-even-dr-david-h-orac-gorski-would-not-do/
[7] – Burzynski – The Antineoplaston Randomized Japan Phase II Clinical Trial Study:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/burzynski-the-antineoplaston-randomized-japan-phase-ii-clinical-trial-study/
[8] – Critiquing: National Cancer Institute (NCI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) CancerNet “fact sheet”:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/09/19/critiquing-national-cancer-institute-nci-at-the-national-institutes-of-health-nih-cancernet/
[9] – Stanislaw Rajmund Burzynski Publications:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/03/16/stanislaw-rajmund-burzynski-publications/
[10] – Critiquing: In which the latest movie about Stanislaw Burzynski “cancer cure” is reviewed…with Insolence:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/07/18/critiquing-in-which-the-latest-movie-about-stanislaw-burzynski-cancer-cure-is-reviewed-with-insolence-2/
[11] – QUESTIONS the Critics and Cynics, “The Skeptics™” do NOT want to ANSWER:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/06/23/questions-the-critics-and-cynics-the-skeptics-do-not-want-to-answer/
[12] – The Biggest Loser: “The Skeptics™” Guy Chapman (guychapman @vGuyUK @SceptiGuy) http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk/blahg/ – September 28, 2013 “The Skeptics™” Burzynski discussion: By Bob Blaskiewicz – 2:19:51
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/10/18/the-biggest-loser-the-skeptics-guy-chapman-guychapman-vguyuk-sceptiguy-httpwww-chapmancentral-co-ukblahg-september-28-2013-the-skeptics/
[13] – Burzynski: Why has the FDA NOT granted Accelerated Approval for Antineoplastons A10 (Atengenal) and AS2-1 (Astugenal) ?:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/07/28/burzynski-why-has-the-fda-not-granted-accelerated-approval-for-antineoplastons-a10-astengenal-and-as2-1-astugenal/
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September 28, 2013 “The Skeptics™” Burzynski discussion: By Bob Blaskiewicz – 2:19:51
Posted on October 4, 2013 by didymusjudasthomas
All comments by Professor Robert J. (Bob) Blaskiewicz of University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire “fame” should be considered as likely LIES until such time as he keeps his word to respond on this blog, to criticism of him on this blog
“I hope somebody is writing all this down out there, so that we can go back and look at these claims later, right ?”
Seriously, Bob ?
Do you really think one of “The Skeptics™” was going to write all this down, when none of them showed that they had written down much of anything of much note about Burzynski 2 when they attended the screenings ? 🙂
*Some words may or may not be missing, but it doesn’t take away from the final result
I will be adding separate critiques that break this down into manageable parts, but wanted to have entire video comments altogether here
(0:04:38)
Are you there ?
Okay, we might as well get started if were going to do this
Alright, so ummm I guess we can start with uhhh bit of a conversation [0]
You’ve been on the Burzynski Hashtag for a long time – what’s you’re motivation ?
Well as I put in my about page, I agreed with the juror that he was neither guilty or innocent [8]
So, so since I see all this opposition by these Skeptics, and I see that the they’re getting all of their facts straight
(Freudian sarcasm slip)
I decided to take the position of being a Skeptic Skeptic
In other words I am skeptical of Skeptics who do not fact-check their information before they post it on social media
And since I see ahhh y’all pretty much trying to take over the net with y’all’s information I decided to come back and correct all the false information that was being put out by other Skeptics
So what information have Skeptics posted that they uhhh that they missed that demonstrates that Burzynski’s uhhh treatments are effective ?
What, what have we missed ?
Well the major issue is that the FDA’s own information says if phase 3 trials are approved – phase 2 trials is to see if there’s evidence of effectiveness
And so if phase 3 trials are approved, that means you’ve provided evidence of effectiveness
That’s the FDA’s own information – I have that clearly on my blog [9]
Also the FDA has given Burzynski uhhh Orphan Drug Designation in 2004 for uhhh brainstem glioma and then in 2009 for all gliomas [10]
So that must mean that there is evidence of effectiveness, otherwise I don’t think they would be doing that
Well okay, uh one of the issues that Skeptics have with Burzynski is that in order to, let’s say, elevate uh the profile of his drug, in order to make sure that everybody who needs it can get, is to complete a phase 3 uh trial uh he started uh I believe was it just the one, right ?
Uhmmm, and that’s gone nowhere
In fact, it was withdrawn this I think within the last week
It doesn’t look like its going to happen, and this is, you know, for all the the phase 1 and phase 2 trials, those are very preliminary trials
Uhmmm, the phase 3 is is will be the gold standard, and also the bare minimum that that the larger medical community will accept uhhh as evidence, so it’s like you’ve lowered the bar for for evidence in a way that that you know oncologists don’t
Well the issue is he was given 2 phase 3 trials that we know of
One was on uh Clinical Trials . gov – the one about eye cancer
The vision cancer
And then the other one was not posted on there, but then again the FDA has said, and I posted this on my blog because I specifically contacted and asked them and they said we don’t post all clinical trials on our web-site [11]
(Correction: NCI)
And so he obviously had that other one about brainstem glioma, that he was trying to get started [12]
But the other issue is that Skeptics have posted on there that he could not get that accelerated approval until he had published a phase 2 trial and that is exactly not the case because other drugs have been given accelerated approval before their results were published in phase 2 clinical trial publications, cuz, so that question remains as well [13]
So, do you think that there is a uh uh conspiracy to keep Burzynski from publishing ?
Well, what we do know is that in the movie, Merola showed that one page rejection from The Lancet
where Burzynski was trying to show his results from like 8 to 16 years, and they said we think your uh publication would be seen best elsewhere, or some ridiculous statement like that
And so, I thought that funny of The Lancet [14]
Of course, I understand their 2nd response, which came out, which Eric posted on his Facebook page, y’all, that y’all have talked about – that, you know, they’re busy, they get a lot of
I understand that, so obviously he would have to look for a different publication for both of those, things he’s trying to get published
Clarification: Burzynski and Tsuda
So, uhmmm, as far as I understand it The Lancet, uhhh the the question of The Lancet publication ehhh is par for the course, that most people are, when they get a speedy rejection from a uh uh, uh journal, are actually uh grateful, because that means there allowed to go ahead and submit their material to another journal more quickly and get it out there
Uhm, but the reaction that we saw on the side of the Burzynski camp was that, see, they’ll never publish us
Uhm, which is, eg, taken as far as I can tell as evidence of a conspiracy or that his name is is poison uh I mean, I think it is, but uhmmm, that wasn’t indicated in the in the rejection letter in order to uh claim that it is is to go beyond the evidence which again we’re not really willing to do
So, uhmmm what is the the ration the the something that I think a lot of of a lot of The Skeptics have been curious about when it comes to your your your blog and your behavior on-line uhhh is that that that, that the format of your blog does not make sense to us, we don’t understand exactly what you’re trying to do with it
Could you kind of clarify that for us because it’s uhhh long and it’s it’s intense and there’s a lot of emotion behind it but we don’t understand exactly, what it’s supposed to mean
Well a lot of the time I’m making fun of y’all’s favorite oncologist, the way he words his blogs, and uhmmm I cite specifically from the FDA, from from the National Cancer Institute, from these other scientific sources, from scientific publications
I give people specific information so they can fact-check me, unlike a lot of The Skeptics who just go out there and say things and publish things on social media, they provide no back-up for their uhhh sayings
And so when I critique an oncologist or any other Skeptic I always provide source material so people can always fact-check me and I specifically said that people should fact-check everything ummm that the oncologist should say because he has, I’ve proven him to be frequently incorrect about his information and misleading
And so I’ve tried to add those things and allow people to search, on specific things like publications, or what I posted about The Lancet, or specifically about The Skeptics, or specifically about the oncologist
So whenever I see something posted new on Twitter, by y’all, sometimes I’ll check it out and sometimes I won’t, and sometimes I’ll comment on it
Alright, ah have you read The Other Burzynski Patient Group ?
I was, on there just yesterday to see some more of your post on there [15]
So, ahmmm what is your response say to the story of Amelia Saunders ?
Well the thing is, when you accepted this hangout, I published my newest blog article and I specifically listed all the information I had critiqued from you previously including Amelia, and I posted the specific Twitter responses by BurzynskiMovie; which is probably Eric, to your issues with Amelia, and he disagrees with what the oncologist posted, and so I pretty much let his Twitter responses stand to what the oncologist said [2]
Okay, what part of, what did I get wrong ?
Well I also did a critique of the newspaper story that was put out about Amelia in the U.K. [16]
And they had 2, 2 patients that were dealt with
Uh was that Amelia and Luna ?
I believe, yes
Luna was the other one, correct [17]
And one of the patients, Burzynski has specifically published in one of his scientific publications that maximum dosage is not reached for a month
So if someone, so if someone only goes in there and has treatment for a month, they’re not even, you know, they’re finally going to reach the uh maximum dosage [18]
And I think that was maybe the case with Luna, I think she was only there for a month
Oh, I, you’re talking, oh this is one of the very 1st ones that we did on the, on the site
Uhmmm, oh, her name is, her name escapes me at the moment
Um, but she wasn’t there for for very long but uh her condition deteriorated very rapidly
Uhmmm, and one of the questions that we had, we raised, is is, you know, you you don’t need to reach full dosage ’cause the the full dosage for these ANP seem to be pretty high, at least the sodium load that that that patients are asked to to carry, or required to carry if they they go on it
And we wondered if the sodium load was ah to great for someone who has a brain tumor, I mean uh, you know uh sodium load will increase your blood pressure, and these people have extra things in their brains that probably won’t react well to swelling, right, and and wont react well to pressure, so we were wondering, if in fact you don’t have to reach the full dosage in order to have uh severe side effects
Ummm, you know maybe you haven’t reached a therapeutic dose level, but that doesn’t mean that it didn’t have an effect on her
And you can clearly tell, that, you know in the videos, well at least the videos before the family took it down, that she was lethargic and a little bit out of it, she uh the the difference in her conscious state was no noticeable for anyone to see
Ummm, to, you know where she had been up and about to in her bed kind of slurring and and, and and and, in fact just disoriented, just looked like someone had taken the piss out of her
I mean, ummm, so that’s, that one, ummm, you know the critique that, reaching therapeutic levels and having a biological effect on someone are are clearly different things in her case
Uhmmm, now I never went on you know on to say ummm that uh she had uh reached therapeutic levels
Uhmmm, I I think as far as I went was that she went, she paid her $30,000 dollars and then she died
Uhmmm, and and and what part of that’s not true
Well my only thing is, uh, we know that sometimes he will go to a maximum dosage, or you know, the suggested dosage, but he will back down off it, in fact in the uh adverse effects you mentioned those are specifically adverse effects mentioned in his publications, and when that happens normally they will subside within 24 to 48 hours is what it says once you take them off the treatment and let, you know, those conditions take care of themselves, and then you will slowly raise the medication again [19]
So, you know, it just didn’t tell, if only one month of treatment was enough to even start to do anything for her [20]
Okay, so, um, going back to Amelia, um, some of the the most um I think the most serious charges is that we see a uh repeatedly in his uh uh stories of his patients, um those are all cited, those are all backed uh by, you know, um at least as good as anything the Burzynski Patient Group has ever done
Uhmmm, something that we see over and over are patients reporting over and over that signs of getting worse are signs if getting better
Um, in particular a, uh report that’s very common from from patients is that the center of their solid tumors are breaking up
One of the problems that we we we see is that that is more frequently a sign of ischemic necrosis that the tumor has outgrown its blood supply and that it’s dying on the inside
And when you see something like a 5th of the patients who we’ve been able to to document, reporting this excitedly, we get extremely concerned about what’s happening
Uhmmm, what part of that is not absolutely terrifying to you
Well the thing is, the FDA has approved phase 3 <strong[12]and also given them the Orphan Drug Designation, which means they should have some knowledge about what’s going on, I would think [10]
Plus we don’t know for sure, we’ve heard about, ummm, some of the things supposedly the oncologist has talked about, which is cutting off the blood flow, to the tumor, which is something that some uhhh drugs can do, and I think that’s one of the things Burzynski has tried to do, ah he’s specifically mentioned it in his personalized treatment
But I don’t know for sure if it’s also something that’s done with the ANP’s in just the clinical trials environment
So, that could be a possibility
Well, the the yeah I’ve never seen anyone say that the purpose of the antineoplastons is to cause uhhh, you know, to restrict the blood flow to the tumor and and and uh cause it to die that way, which is certainly one therapeutic approach that’s been, that’s been floated and research has been done on uh and might even be promising and uh what he’s saying is that cancer is caused by a lack of antineoplastons in the system and that basically what he is doing is antineoplaston uh uh supplement therapy uh rath, what’s the word I’m looking for, uhm uh, replacement therapy
Uh and there isn’t a doctor on the planet, uh not a medical specialist on the planet, who, I, who has identified at at as a contributing factor as a contributor to cancer or antineo or lack of antineoplastons
Why isn’t he, you know, you understand that these doctors, ummm like nothing is true or false because a doctor says it is true or false
Uhmmm it’s it’s it but when the entire medical community uhhh who are des are desperately are are every bit as tired of seeing patients die uhmmm and seeing patients suffer or as anyone else’s families are you you imagine what an oncologist sees in that office over the course of of a year and there’s going to be unimaginable suffering
I’m sure that they’re tired of that
And that they would, you know, that if there was the slightest hint that antineoplaston deficiency was a cause of cancer that it would make it into the literature, with or without Burzynski
Uhhh ummm, why should we trust him when he has uh the sole uh the only person who had identified antineoplastons as a contributor to cancer when he is the sole manufacturer of the of the therapy uh when he is the uh sole prescriber of the therapy and when he is, where the sole distributor of the therapy from his pharmacy
Well what I find interesting about these other doctors is like like the doctors mentioned in the movie and BBC Panorama’s report and in some of these newspaper articles where they are mentioned again is that these doctors never do a review of Burzynski’s scientific publications and including our favorite oncologist who refuses to do so [20]
Uhhh [21]
He’s read everything
Oh yeah he says he’s read everything but uh you know he claims that he’s uhmmm reviewed, reviewed uh Burzynski’s personalized gene targeted therapy but he, but then just a few months ago he admitted, you know, I don’t know where Burzynski says which genes are targeted by antineoplastons [22]
And I pointed out which specific publications that Burzynski published, publications which specifically mention which genes are targeted by antineoplastons, and I said how can you claim that you’ve read and reviewed every Burzynski publication and you didn’t know which genes are targeted by antineoplastons when that’s specifically in the publications ? [10]
To me that tells me that you do not know how antineoplastons work be because you just admitted you don’t know which genes Burzynski talks about
I mean that’s just funny as heck to me that he would say that
Can you go ahead and send me that link that that I saw in the chat that you had uh posted a couple of times in the chat
Could you send me that link, to that publication
I can give you a minute to to go find it if that’s
Well I’ve, I’ve got it on my blog
I mean I can forward it to you at some point
That would be good
But I agree with you about I don’t remember seeing anything about antineoplastons cutting off the blood flow to the, you know the blood brain barrier for sure either
Well, yeah that’s a, that’s you know one of the major problems that this this cancer has is the location is such a pain to get to
Uhm, and often when we are talking about these cancers, the thing that gets me over and over and over, and this is something that I’ve learned from from working uh with others on the Burzynski Patient Group is what’s it like to be a cancer patient, only by proxy, man I couldn’t imagine really going through this myself, and, you know I’d hate to see my family go through this
That these people are at what could be described as a low point, they’re um uhhh, you get a diagnosis of uh brainstem glioma the prognosis is very bad
Uhmmm, there are only a few cases of people recovering from that, I mean they’re there uhm uhhh but, you know that it’s an, it’s an extremely grim prognosis
Uhhh and I worry that when they’re in that desperate state and especially let’s talk about the children, you have these kids who are uh you know 2 and 3 and have had this, you know uh awful diagnosis and the parents are willing to do literally anything to keep their kids alive
What protections are in place for patients as far as that these kids are and and their parents are protected
Well I think i know the point that you’re getting at uhhh about the IRB’s and all that good stuff
All I can say is that, you know the FDA can come in with any amount of investigators and say that you did this or that but you have the opportunity to respond, and so they can pretty much say anything, it’s only when the final report comes out that you can take that to the bank
And so all this speculation about what a investigative team may say about the clinic is, to me just like someone going into a lawsuit and saying so-and-so did this, you know, can you prove that, you know, did so-and-so do that [23]
So it’s the same thing with the FDA, these um little reports, the final report is what counts, and so, also what I find interesting is some of Burzynski’s publications specifically said, you know this particular uh clinical trial, the IRB was agreed upon by the FDA [24]
Well if if the FDA agreed upon it, you know, then some questions should arise about exactly what did the FDA agree upon
What would we find out from a Freedom of Information Act request on that ?
And, and what I also found interesting is when I did research on other clinical trials for brainstem glioma I found, you know, all these other science based medicine studies where 374 children had died in their studies [25]
And what I found interesting is back in 1999, they reported on a clinical trial, they had better results then all these clinical trials afterwards [18]
Who had the better results ?
Well, I would have to find you one, there were like 3
There were like 3 major ones that Burzynski has mentioned in his publications to cross-reference his trials versus their trials as far as the results
And so, I, there was one back in 1999 that had better results than a lot of these clinical trials that come afterwards
So when we talk about, you know, what’s really right for the patients well we can see that the drug companies want to test their drugs through clinical trials and, you know, and if your kid dies, well, unfortunately the kid dies
Even though we showed better results in 1999 with a different type of treatment, you would have thought that maybe they would have poured more investment into that particular treatment but that’s not necessarily how the clinical trial system works
Hmmm, yeah, the, Guy Chapman has just um uh tossed in a a, a comment
I guess uh that there are a lot of people who wanna talk to you (laughter)
Uh, Guy Chapman has just jumped in and said it looks like you forgot the phase 3 trial is withdrawn and none of the phase 2 trials were published
Uhmmm, this, this is not a minor thing for for for Skeptics
This, this is exactly what will convince us to get on board the Burzynski train is the publication of these trials
But even the preliminary trials, one has been finished, and none has been published in its entirety for over 15 years
When you consider that this is a, as you just pointed out, this is a a cancer, the, especially the brainstem gliomas
That these cancers uh the cases resolved fairly quickly, we know what the outcome are fairly quickly
Ummm, do you have any sense of when these trials are going to be published ?
Well here’s my point, I mean, y’all probably get a better sense from, ummm, Hymas, about what’s going on with that
From Laura ?
From her uh fiancé, or husband, whatever his status happens to be right now (laugh)
And uh also from Ric, uh they’re more closer to Burzynski than I am, because I have never met Burzynski, I have never e-mailed Burzynski, uhmmm never talked to Burzynski, never met him, blah blah blah
Uh, my sense is that since 1996 when the FDA talked about antineoplastons, that specific FDA Commissioner that was in charge at the time, he set out 7 major points about how there was going to be less people required and there was going to be less paperwork, there was going to be less stringent things about Partial Response [26]
And so, to me, the FDA is the final source to go to when people want to complain about how long their trials have lasted uh because the FDA is bottom line, you know, in charge of that
When you, when you think about a major, sorry, go ahead
And my other point is that, uhmmm, when these trials finish, as I’ve pointed out on my blog, M.D. Anderson finished a trial in 2006 and didn’t publish the results electronically until January of this year [27]
So, just think
Burzynski’s 1st trial we know that finished in 2009
So we would still have more years to go before he caught up to M.D. Anderson as far as publishing
So for him to actually be trying to publish stuff now and The Lancet not publishing because they have other stuff to do, put in there, that’s understandable
So, we know that he’s trying to publish, uh but they’re going to keep it close to the vest obviously, from, from how they do their things, and where they’re trying to publish
And plus, like I’ve said before
Yeah, right, uh
We’ve still got the accelerated approval thing that’s out there, you know, like the FDA’s given Temodar and, and Avastin, and another drug, whereas they’re not doing the same thing for antineoplastons, eve even though for all intents and purposes from what we know, antineoplastons have had better success rates than Temodar and Avastin when they were approved [13]
Antineoplastons has a better rate ?
Well from the information that’s been published in certain um publications
And in, and in not only Burzynski’s but elsewhere in, in newspapers or articles, or such like that
Right, one of the things that that there there are 2 points to be made here
Uhm, the 1st one is that major pharmaceutical companies that are getting this accelerated approval have a track record of producing results which Burzynski does not have
Secondly, when it comes to ummm the rates of antineoplastons, how can we possibly say without a single published trial he, that he has an improved rate over Temodar or anything like that, and that’s exactly what would show to us whether or not his rate is better, the the types of publications that he’s done, that look really good on paper, ummm, to the to the, the common persons eye are these case series where he goes through and picks out people who have happened to have survived
But what that doesn’t tell us is whether or not the antineoplaston had anything to do with it
What you need to do is go and separate the background noise, the random weird rare but very real survive, unexpected survivals that occur, and separate those, uhhh, from any effect of antineoplaston, he’s never done that
Well what I found interesting is when the FDA approved these other 1 or 2 drugs, some of them specifically said that, uhhh, some of these drugs had, you know, better survivability or they showed no better rate than any previous treatment but we’re approving it anyway [13]
Basically that’s what the publication said and I published this on my blog in an article specifically about, you know, those 2 or 3 drugs that the FDA approved for brainstem or brain related cancers [28]
And so, you know, I’m not going to buy that argument about that, about that specific thing
But if you think about that, I mean that if it does have a a an improvement rate above uh other treatments
That still has an improvement rate, you know, that, that would give another option to people, ummm, even if in the aggregate their rates aren’t better
It might work on some individuals tumors rather than on, you know, you you it it is it taken as a, as a lump but extend life by uh quality of life for 3 months or something um in some cases but, you know, it it still has an effect, a real effect, and deserves to be out there
Well one of these newspaper articles specifically said, you know, Avastin would maybe keep you alive for maybe 4 more months
So, you know, take that [2]
That’s a long time when someone is dying
Well, we can wonder if some of Burzynski’s results are the same, otherwise why would the FDA say, you know, give the ODD [10], why would the FDA give the phase 3 approval [12]
Plus I don’t buy some of these doctors coming out and saying stuff, they have the opportunity just like the other doctors in Egypt [29], in Russia [30], in Germany, in, in Poland [31], in China [32 – 33], in Taiwan [34] that have done antineoplaston studies, I’m like, these people can do antineoplaston studies so what’s the excuse for all these other doctors who say that they supposedly can’t do them
You know, the information’s out there and
Well, one of
and like these other doctors can do it
One of the problems that that doctors have in in this country when it comes to doing ummm antineoplastons studies to verify any any effect that uh Burzynski has uhhh I i think back to the one where people say well that the FDA sabotaged his trials, and
Well, we kind of know that that’s a fact [35]
Clarification: NIH, NCI, and the Investigators
Well, if if you think about it though, um, the, the proposed action as I understand it of the antineoplaston is that it’s a deacetylase inhibitor, which slightly unspools DNA, that allows uh, which would allow uh proteins to get into a pair of damaged DNA
And we have drugs that do that which carry a much lower sodium load
Uh, um, it, that would have a therapeutic effect on and that the risks outweigh the possible benefits of using this one particular drug
Um, I’ve seen any number of people looking at um, if you look at the Luna ah Pettiguine uh uh story on The Other Burzynski Patient Group um you see that the doctor is absolutely horrified by the insane sodium load that that Burzynski’s patients are carrying
Um in in some ways that that sodium load is uh leading people to constantly drinking up to I’ve seen 12 liters of water a day
That’s not necessary for other deacetylase inhibitors
Um the, why would you prefer that to to another drug if it did essentially the same thing, that didnt have this massive side effect ?
Well what we know from 1996 from Burzynski’s own information that he’s published, is that not only does he have the original parent antineoplastons, but he’s developed 2nd and 3rd generations, but he can’t just stop in the middle of his clinical trial and use the 2nd and 3rd generations which may be better [36]
(Clarification: 1997)
He can't uh use these other types of um antineoplastons that other researchers, researchers like Egypt [29], or Japan [37] have found um that may be better because he can’t just switch in the middle of the clinical trial
Now if he, if the FDA approves his product, well then, maybe he can roll out the 2nd and 3rd generation and these other types of antineoplastons that may be less harsh, but that’s all he’s got to work on and that takes us back to the FDA, having control over the entire process, as far as the paperwork, how many people are in the trials, etcetera
Well that sss I believe that that’s proposed by the researchers, the design trial, you know they they sign off on it but that is is, is up to uh Burzynski uh my uh David James @StortSkeptic on the [38]
ah he has asked everything that Burzynski does looks sort of like the behaviors of pseudo-science
So what we’re saying uhhh he does uh uhhh Burzynski like for instance like I said he has vertically integrated, ah, he controls all parts from identification to the creation of the drug uh to the diagnosing uh well he doesn’t do the diagnosing but he does um um prescribe and distribute, he does all that vertically, which is actually something that snake oil salesmen do
Another thing that that’s a red flag in Skeptic circles is that his one compound seems to be a sort of panacea for all sorts of different types of, of of cancers, um where we know that cancer has a a varied uh, uh, ideology and and the uh panaceas are are are to be and a variety of different types of causes um, in fact in any one tumor you would, you could say that these, these tumors are are completely uh heterogenous
The idea that there’s gonna be one knockout, it seems rather unrealistic
Um, additionally he charges immense amounts of money for this drug, um, even though the components cost pennies
Um, on top of that, um, there’s something that he asks for a a huge payment up front
That’s something that’s been warned against for generations of uh by anti-quack um uh crusaders if if they’re asking for everything up front, then be afraid
Ummm, another thing is that uh the kind of cult that’s sprung up around Burzynski, uh, one that is immune to uh criticism, reason, and pits people who are doing standard cancer research, as enemies, um, creating a black and white version of the world where there are good people and there are bad people
There are people who are fighting the disease, and then there are people who are really helping the disease
I mean, if you look at the, the new web-site by the Burzynski patients fighting back group, they say support the cure not the cancer
That’s a manikin world-view of black and white
Um, these are all huge red flags, that you’re dealing with a quack
Um, why hasn’t Burzynski done anything to change that ?
Well I find it interesting that you talk about the cost, because I’ve done a lot of research about the cost, and I was just looking at the cost again this morning, and put it into that particular blog article I was talking about, that I did for this particular program [39]
And, um
The thing that’s funny is that people can say, ohhh Burzynski charges a lot, but the fact is, so does chemo, radiation, and some of these newspaper articles that have been published, and specifically in the movie, Burzynski 2, one of the people mentioned how much someone was paying for standard treatment
And I noticed our
favorite oncologist didn’t comment about that in his movie review [40]
Well, there, this is important
This is really important though
Wha, when she’s talking about, that’s Luna Pettiguine’s mother, is is talking about the costs there
Uhmmm, you, when someone is not insured in in this country,
Ahm, the, the the base cost that that’s calculated is, is the hospital only expects to get a fraction, a tiny fraction of that back from the insurance companies, and that’s why the costs are so inflated
Um, usually, when a patient is self-pay there is a self-pay price which is a more reasonable price
Additionally, all of those therapies, have demonstrated efficacy, and if Burzynski were to demonstrate his efficacy, $30,000 dollars to start on a life-saving treatment for a child would be a steal, and he would earn every nickel of it
Um, so, those arguments hold very little weight with us
Well what I find interesting, you know, I’m not sure how people think he’s supposed to pay for the clinical trials, you know, if he’s supposed to go into debt, millions of dollars
He has a a an enormous house that’s valued in the tens of millions of dollars, he could do that if if the other, the other thing he could do, and this, we would love to see him do this, wousa, would be apply to Federal grant
That, that would be amazing, if he could get a grant to study this stuff
But, you know, um, I I don’t think he’d be able to get one, I don’t think he’s shown uh that he can carry off a uh a research program responsibly
I find that funny considering the FDA approved phase 3, has given him ODD for brainstem glioma and also also all gliomas [12]
You know, that’s kind of ridiculous [10]
And the people
gettin’ off about his house, well who cares ?
They don’t know where his money came for that particular source
(Clarification: “They don’t know the particular source where his money came from for that house”)
Oh he, have you noticed the the, the thing on his web-site where if you make a donation to the clinic it goes directly to him ?
Well, you know, when you have good tax lawyers your tax lawyers will tell you how to structure things, and everybody in America has the right to structure their taxes in a manner that effectively serves them according to our Supreme Court
So, if you have a tax lawyer who tells you, hey this is the best way to do it, to save money, well, you may do that uh based upon your lawyer’s advice
So, maybe Burzynski has taken his tax lawyers advice, just like I’m sure he’s taken Richard Jaffe’s ad advice (laugh), which has proved well, for him
You know, you know
That’s another thing
Ummm, o-kay
Uhmmm, so, um, let’s, let’s wait for for that to roll in, and I do wait to go back to the, the the, the and let’s be very specific about this, the the things that you see on The Other Burzynski Patent Group, a patient reporting that um uh getting worse is getting better
How do you explain that ?
Well I guess we could ask, you know, Ben and Laura Hymas [41]
What was their experience, you know ?
Did they have, did she have to drink uh a lot of water because she was thirsty ?
You know, did she have to drink a lot of water due to the high sodium ?
Well that’s just a known side-effect, your going to know that going in, but we actually have people say
So I would ask her about her personal experience instead of saying, you know, instead of quoting some of these other people
Are there, why why why not, these people, see this is the thing though
The reason that site was started was because the people that don’t make it don’t have a voice
And when you, when you whittle away, when you only look at the at the, the positive outcomes, which is exactly in Burzynski’s favor to only look at the positive outcomes, and to have no sense of how other people’s diseases progressed, right, you’re gonna get a skewed and inaccurate version of the efficacy of this particular drug
Now lets lets lets go back and not talk about Laura, lets talk about these patients who report symptoms of getting worse, as if they were signs of getting better
Some people say that oh it’s a healing crisis or it’s progression of the disease
Or other people say it’s breaking up in the middle, hurrah
No, it’s actually a tumor that’s growing
That record there, that’s being left by patients, whose stories are every bit as important as the as the stories of the patients who have lived, are painting a completely different picture
Well we all know the FDA is in charge of this, and so hopefully they know what’s going on
Are they feeding these people their stories ?
Are they feeding these people their stories
No, I’m sure the FDA can look at the records because Burzynski sent them 2.5 million pages according to our friend Fabio [42]
And uh, you know just something the doctors who came in and did the little ol’ one day, 6 patient records, where they reviewed all the records and slides, and MRI’s, etcetera, you know they can do the same thing, the FDA can do the same thing with all these patients [35]
(Clarification: 7)
And see the same MRI’s and scans, etcetera
I mean, we, we know that with all these 374 children I mentioned dying in other science-based medicine clinical trials [25]
I mean, they, FDA probably went through all their records
And, so, all these people didn’t look good either but, you know, the FDA still gave approval to Avastin and Te Temodar even though a lot of people died in their clinical trials [25]
Okay I’m going to go back, I want to point something else out to you
Um, I have to, I don’t remember the exact patient so I have to go back to my web-site to take a look at it
Because we are, because we’re on a Google+ stream that that’s a lot of data it takes awhile to bring up my, my site
Let me
I mean, we could agree that since Burzynski’s publication says that it’s going to take a month to get up to required dosage, and so we know, the tumor can still grow, like he said, up to 50%, he specifically acknowledges that in his publication, so, we know that can happen [43]
Well, that seems to give him an instant out, no matter what happens
That turns his claims into something that’s unfalsifiable
If I could give you an example of what unfalsifiable is
Um, and I’ll I’ll draw an uh, uh, case, uh hypothetical case of um uh proposed by Carl Sagan as the invisible dragon in your garage
If you say you have have a dragon in your garage, um, you know, you should be able to go over and verify that there’s a dragon in the garage
So let’s say we go over to Carl Sagan’s garage and, you know
Well, I don’t see anything
Well it’s an invisible dragon
Well okay, well then, let’s uh spray paint it
Well, it’s incorporeal
Well, uh, let’s measure for the heat of the breath
Well it’s heatless flame that it breathes
And, you know, okay, well then we’ll put flour down on the ground to see that it’s it it’s standing there
And, oh no it’s ah it’s floating
Well, you know, at some point, when you can’t falsify something
When you cannot, even in principle, prove something false, it’s indistinguishable from something that’s not there
And that kind of out, that oh well the tumor can keep on growing
Th (laugh) that that that’s an invisible dragon, as far as I can tell
Well we know from his own publications, he says he can’t just go in and start giving the maximum dose, or recommended dose right off the bat because a particular condition will occur, and he specifically mentions, in the publications what that condition is, I don’t remember it right off the top of my head [20]
But then again, his 2nd generation, his 3rd generation, his other form of antineoplastons that may work in the future, if approved, well those could possibly (not) have the same uh adverse effects that the current parent generation have [36]
But we don’t know, and like I said the FDA I’m sure knows because they have all the records, we don’t have them, and so unlike our favorite oncologist I’m not going to speculate, about what the FDA knows and I do not know
A every time that I and and and and , and David points this out, that um, you you know your not going to speculate about the the FDA but then at every turn your invoking the FDA as being obstructionist
I, I just find that to be contradictory and and self-defeating
Um, let me see
Well we know they stopped this particular trial, supposedly because a patient died
So what’s the hold-up ?
I mean, hopefully they’ve done an autopsy
What was found
Well, that’s not necessarily true
I mean uh when it when it comes to the case um I’ve i’ve talked to oncologists about this
And when it comes to uh for instance in in this case it sounds like it was a pediatric patient who was dying, ummm, who had died, ummm, the,
the 1st inclination is to ascribe the death to, um, to the tumor, which actually, would be to Burzynski’s benefit if there were other cases, I’m not saying there were, but if there were other cases where this type of complication arose, and it was ascribed to the tumor they might well not do it, uh, do an autopsy
Um, it’s ah as you could imagine it could be very difficult for the families to do that especially when they have ooh ah, a possibility of what, you know, led to the ultimate demise, that didn’t involve them ultimately somehow being responsible for it, right?
So, it it it doesn’t seem to me that necessarily an autopsy would be um a a done deal
And we don’t have a final report from the FDA on what the findings were
No we don’t and it would be irresponsible to completely speculate on on, on, the outcome of that uh, uh, uh, individual patient, I am still scrolling through looking for this story that I wanted to talk about
Uh, and, I guess I’ll
It should be in Amelia’s I I, I packed Amelia’s story with all the stories, um, that I could find um in what we’d written up already
Hold on a sec
She is a cute kid though
Um, alright
Now, our favorite oncologist (laugh), as you keep putting it, um, uh, with with the Amelia story, um, uh, was able to correctly determine that the Saunders family, had a, did not understand the significance of this cyst that had opened up in, uh, that had opened up in the center of the tumor, in fact they were ecstatic
They were delighted
Um, the family, of Haley, um, S, also
Uh, the the family of Haley S., also, had the same reading given to them
Um, the same diagnosis uh same prognosis was to, was given to Justin B in 2006
A similar cyst in Lesley S’s story uh ah, was in 2006
Um, and that kept her on uh treatment for a a another month so that could be another $7,000 some odd dollars
We same thing in the, in the case of, uh, Samantha T in 2005
We see it again as far back as 1994, in Cody G’s story
And then lastly and and the worst uh thing that we’ve seen, the patients report that Burzynski himself told Chase uh Sammut
The exact same thing
Um, and that was a
Have you read Chase’s story
I don’t remember specifically
Possibly not
It would stick with you, because that case is grotesque
The parents, uh, there was even a uh, uh, a fight over whether or not the parents should be allowed to continue treating this kid
He was basically lying, uh, in a uh uh brain dead uh for all intents and purposes, uh, in a in a coma uh without possibility of reversal, in his parents living room for months
Um, eh, all the while, he’s still on the, uh, we’ll I don’t actually, I can’t say that, I don’t exactly know if he was on the treatment the whole time
Um, but, we do have this pattern, that is there, of people believing, that this particular pattern is, uh, progress, a a is not progression of disease but is is inducement to to stay on, um, eh, and this has been going on for decades
Eh, eh just based on what we’ve been able to find that patients have been reporting this for decades
At some point, you would think that a doctor would realize that perhaps what these patients are walking away with is inaccurate
Why hasn’t that changed ?
Well he’s using the same 1st generation drug
E wel that that that that’s not it
This is this is like the 2nd day of oncology class, that that’s what the tumor looks like
People are reporting that the tumor is no longer growing, um, or that the growing has slowed after they’ve started
Well, okay
There, there is an explanation for that, and why you can’t take that as necessarily being evidence of efficacy
Ah, the tumor grows exponentially while the resources are available to it, but then it reaches a point where it’s a self-limited growth, so it, the time between uh doublings in size decreases logarithmically
Um, so this is, this is like basic tumor physiology that we’re talking about, and his patients don’t leave his office, knowing these facts, for decades
This doesn’t have anything to do with the, do with the drug
This this
Well I’m sure a lot of people leave the doctors office not knowing things (laugh), for decades
But, but when it’s, this treatment is working or this is not evidence that the treatment is working
That’s pretty basic
I mean we’re not, we’re not talking about deacetylase inhibitors or anything like that were you’d really need to know something about
This is, whether or not, you’re getting the outcome that you want
This is the whole reason for going
And it has nothing to do with the with the with the drugs
Well we know the contin, the tumors can uh continue to grow for awhile, at least, and certain effects that they probably would
Which is, which is like which we just pointed out was a was an invisible dragon
Well I’m sure, I mean, it’s going to continue to grow, in any other clinical trial too, for a certain awhile
I mean like
Well we know that all these other kids died in these science-based medicine trials, and, you know, we can assume that that was the case there too [25]
Ultimately it would, but whether or not it it it had a genuine therapeutic effect is a different matter all together
Um, this, what would, what would convince you that you’re wrong
The FDA not giving him phase 3 approval [12], the FDA not giving him ODD designation [10]
So you’re saying because the Orphan Drug Designation and the face that there’s a phase 3, therefor it works ?
And showing that, and showing the FDA that there’s evidence of effectiveness [11]
So what you’re saying is there’s nothing that would convince you now, that it doesn’t work
Not until the FDA says it doesn’t work
O-kay
Um, it’s it’s it’s not the FDA’s, but you understand it’s not the FDA’s job to tell someone that their drug doesn’t work
Well they seem to be doing a good job of it
it’s it’s it’s up to Burzynski
Well I’m sure, I’m sure they wouldn’t have done things if they didn’t see some evidence that it was working
Um, I don’t know if you’ve read Jaffe’s book
No I haven’t read it [44]
There seems to have been a lot going on there you really should look at it because it’s it’s it’s kind of revealing
Um, that that that it seems that there was a lot of political pressure applied to the FDA which may have been, uh, uh, have influenced the way in which these these trials were approved
I I would say that it is a genuine con uh uh bit of confusion on the parts of Skeptics
We don’t know why the phase 3 trial was approved
I don’t know that we’ve seen even the phase 1 trials, we don’t know why he’s getting a phase 3
And there’s a real story in that, we think
Um, that we’d love to see, however we can’t see, however we can’t see it because of proti protri proprietary uh protections that the FDA is giving to Burzynski, right ?
They’re not sharing his trial designs because they are his trial designs, right?
While you may imagine that that, that that the FDA is is somehow antagonistic toward him
Um, but I definitely recommend that you look at Jaffe’s book and you will see, I think, um that um it’s called um, uh Galileo’s
I know what it’s called [44]
You know what it’s called, okay, yeah
Um, definitely look at that
Um, you, you will see, the ways in which, the way that we got to this point, isn’t necessarily having anything to do with the efficacy of the drug
That comes across very clearly
Um, you, you mentioned it yourself, he he’s done well to listen to Jaffe’s advice, right ?
So, there there’s a lot to that
Um, uh, but yeah, let me go back to the Twitter feed
Well I’m just gonna say, you know, the F, the FDA doing what they’ve done, since they approved those 72 initial trials, pretty much speaks for itself [45]
I mean they’ve had every opportunity to shut this down, since then
Well it sounds to me like they’re they’re not um, the the the you know, they’ve put the clinical hold on now because they now have evidence that somebody may have died because of the treatment
Um, I don’t know what the state of that is right now
Um, uh, oh my gosh, um, let me see
Someone has just sent me a, a ah a link to, are you following the Hashtag, as this is going on
No, I’m just concentrating on what we’re doing
I’m doing, I’m doing the 2 things at once and it’s um, ok ok well it’s well ok I can’t I can’t go in and read that right now
Um, I would, ok let me tell you exactly what it will take, for me to come around and promote Burzynski
Um, for me, he needs to get a publication in a uh, yeah, uh uh uh publication in a peer-reviewed journal, a respected peer-reviewed journal, not like the the Journal of Medical Hypothesis or things we just made up
Um, something, you know, a a good, respectable journal that oncologists would read, that research oncologists would read
I would need an completely independent group to replicate his findings, and then I’d be all for it
I would say that right now, the business model that the Burzynski Clinic seems to depend on, as best as I can tell from an outsider, that, um, uh, that it depends on people paying money up front
It doesn’t depend on him developing and taking away a viable drug, that he can market to the entire world
His business model as best I can tell, is to keep it in house
That seems, if it works, if his drug genuinely works, and he hasn’t sent it along to mass approval, where he gets, for a couple of years at least, you know, exclusive rights to produce and sell this stuff, for one of the most intractable diseases, uh that man eh can can can, you know, can get, um, that suggests to me that there’s something else going on here
Now, someone has just sent a a note, uh that he has failed 3 different Institutional Review Board audits; this is Guy Chapman (@SceptiGuy), uh no other institution has a 3 for 3 fail, according to to Guy iye he knows no other one
Um, that 45% of phase 3 clinical trials fail due to deficient phase 2 design
Um, he has an approved phase 3, but phase 2 was deficient so phase 3 fails
Do you think that that could possibly have anything to do with why we’re not seeing the phase 3 advance
Well #1 I don’t think the one with brainstem glioma where they wanted to use radiation with ANP was really the right way to go, I mean he’s already proven that uh he seems to have better results without [12]
He’s claimed
first starting radiation [20]
That’s a different thing altogether
And in fact
Yeah but the thing is radi, I, the FDA was not saying, ok, one study, one side of the study we’re only going to use ANP, in the other side of the study we’re going to use radiation and and ANP like like they would normally do
No, they wanted to make him use radiation in both sides of the study [20]
Well, you understand why they do that, because in order to, it’s
They don’t do that with other drugs [13]
No, they do do this with other drugs, well, it depends on the type
Some drugs it’s ethical to give something completely questionable, what they want to make sure that they at least get the standard care, you know which includes radiation
Um, and radiation does seem to extend life, reduce the size of some tumors some times
Um, do you concede, that in order to have a phase 3, you do not need to have a successful phase 2 ?
When 45% of phase 3 fail because they have a deficient phase 2 design, do you concede that ?
Well I don’t buy anything Guy Chapman sells, considering his past record [46]
Well, ok
It doesn’t matter where
It doesn’t matter where it comes from uh, um
Well his theories are suspect, anything he hands out, let me tell ya [47]
So-kay, um that would be shooting the messenger as opposed to dealing with the question, but
But the question may be bogus, because of where the messenger has been bogus a lot of times before (laugh) [48]
the idea, the best, well, the best, well in that case the best response is “I don’t know”
Well I’m just gonna say what I think about Chapman because he’s proven himself, many times to be questionable
I don’t see him on my blog responding to my criticism [7]
There’s something that that we don’t know, you’re coming, honestly we didn’t know what to expect when we talked to you
We, were looking at the design, of your web-site and wondering whether or not we would be able to get a a coherent sentence out of you, because the web-site is disorganized, uh
Um, at at at at least it’s the organization is not apparent to the readers
Um, and um according to
That’s like, that’s like saying that Gorski’s web-site is disorganized, his blog is like anti vaccine one day, Burzynski the next, blah blah blah
No, that is tied together
But let me, we know that that the the, the central concern is Burzynski
Ah, the source of this ah of of those #’s that I just gave you, Chapman has just updated me and he says um that it is, and I’ll go back to the, the ADR research . com issues in clinical research, so it’s the question, Bay Clinical uh Research and Clinical Development,a white paper called “Why do so many phase 3 clinical trials fail ?”
Uh, it’s prepared by Anistazios Retzios, Ph.D
Is Anistazios Retzios reliable ?
There is a correct here
Well how would I know ?
I don’t have
That’s the right answer
Everytime somebody throws uh uh something to me, I have to look into it
Well you didn’t when I tried to get you to do stuff the 1st time, did ya ? [2]
What, what stuff would you like
What stuff would you like me to do ?
I generally, I don’t read your blog
Well I, the most, the mostly, excuse me, the most recent article I posted on there is the one about this particular conversation, where I went through all your comments that you had posted, and my response to them
And so I tried to consolidate everything into one, particular article
Uh um, alright
And that’s the newest article [2]
Okay, I’ll look at that, and I will respond to it once I’ve taken a look at that, okay ?
Um, and I’ll respond on your web-site
Um, seems only fair
Um, one question I’d wondered, what is the Didymus Judas Thomas reference to
Well I thought that was pretty funny because doing biblical research, you come upon, Didymus Judas Thomas, or he’s all, also known by other names
He’s basically The Skeptic
And so, like I said, I consider myself to be Skeptic of The Skeptics
Oh, so this is the Doubting Thomas
I thought it was apropos
This is the Doubting Thomas
I’m doubting The Skeptics
Okay, so this is the one, you show me the, you put your your, the, your hand inside the wound
You know, Jesus says, basically, ok, bring it on, check me out, right ?
That that, I didn’t, I didn’t realize that he was also, that that was the same guy
So, it’s it’s the Doubting Thomas
Um, what we would say, um, is that if Burzynski is the savior that he claims to be, that he should, open up his trials, he should open up his uh research uh protocols um and just say, “Look, bring it on”
Check out these wounds
But he’s never done that
Instead he he he wants us to just take the words of of of of his apostles
I don’t necessarily trust his apostles
I don’t think that they’re unbiased
I wanna see the data
I wanna see the the wounds in his hands and the the mark on his side
Well I like how The Skeptics say, you know, all of Burzynski’s successes over the years are anecdotal and uh I consider on the same way that everything negative about Burzynski is anecdotal
Oh, hey when when we talk about The Other Burzynski Patient Group, I don’t make any pretensions to make that my site proves anything
I I I really don’t
It’s not my job to prove anything
It’s Burzynski’s job
It is a researchers job to prove these things
Well my point is he’s proven them to the FDA because they’re the ones
But we just pointed out, we just pointed out, that the FDA, often approves, phase 3 trials, based on flawed phase 2 clinical trials
That is therefor a real possibility in this case
Could be, but I would have to read, read the
Yes you would
But, um, uh but the way that you’d earlier phrased your uh your response to “could you possibly be proved wrong ?”, . . really did exclude other possibilities of of of of yourself being wrong
So if the FDA
Well when it comes to Guy Chapman, yeah
Well I’m not talking about the Guy Chapman
What you off, when I asked you, yourself, you know, what would prove you wrong, you said that the FDA hasn’t approved a phase 3
Let’s let’s back, let’s back up
What would the FDA, what happens if the FDA occasionally op op opposes, approves uh phase 3 trials, based on bad phase 2 trials
Would that be, would that cause any doubt in your mind ?
About the efficacy of ANP
You still there ?
Yeah, hello, yeah, you’re back
Yeah, something cut off there for awhile
Yeah Google+ is a little wonky sometimes
But, would, does, if you were to learn, that sometimes phase 3 trials, uh, are approved, and failed, based on flawed phase 2, would, would that make you reconsider your position of the phase 3 being evidence that it works
Well I would certainly look at that, but then again I would also look at the FDA granting him Orphan Drug Designation [10]
Uh um could you send me that link, the, the, um . me see
I’m just looking at other things that are coming in on the Hashtag right now
Um, so the ANP is Orphan Drug status but is it Orphan Drug for glioma ?
Orphan Drug for brainstem glioma and all gliomas [10]
Is it sodium phenylbutyrate or is it the the versions of the drug, the AS10 stuff or A1 or whatever it’s called ?
Right, it’s both AS10 AS2-1 and AS
Clarification: A10 and AS2-1
Okay, that’s what has Orphan Drug status
Alright, I’ll look into that
So, oh, um
Do you have any questions for me ?
I’ve spent a lot of times asking questions of you
Well not really, since you mentioned that you’d go in and look at my most recent article, anything you show in there or any reply you give is going to cover, what we’ve gone over
And so we can re debate it there
Guy Chapman, throws up the the, the comment, permission to investigate is not evidence of anything other than evidence of a valid protocol, not a uh, evidence of efficacy, in and of itself
That’s another comment
Um, alright then, this is your chance t, there are lots of people have lots of questions about me out there
Uh, about what my motivations are and such
I might as well put that out on the table just so it’s on the record, is that I am taking exactly no money from anyone for this, and have gotten nothin’ but grief from a lot of people, even people who (laugh), even people who support me have given me grief for this
Um, just so that you know, um, there have been, some of the things that have happened, oh, this is an important point too
Um, that when we have criticized this, uh, a # of us, especially Gorski, uh myself, uh Rhys Morgan, uh, um, and and uh Popehat, the the lawyer, blog, uh, um, who else was on there, um, oh, the Merritts, uh, t, uh Wayne Merritt, and his family, people have been critical of of of Burzynski have faced retaliation for opposing him ah and intimidation, and including, um, I had my uh a couple weeks before Christmas my, my, the Chancellor of my University was contacted via e-mail, and uh Eric Merola said that I had been um, uh, been spreading mis truths about Burzynski, that I had been a be, on my my show um had said things that were demonstratively untrue, and he also said that the drug was FDA approved, which it, you know, that’s not right
But um, he said that he was gonna do, talk about me in his new movie, in, uh, relat, in millions of homes, um, and he wanted to get a statement from the University
The University of course ignored him, and immediately let me know that I was going to get smeared
Um, I consulted my lawyer and uh uh, you know, the best course of action was figured out, and um uh a Gorski has had his accreditation board contacted, he’s had his bosses contacted, Rhys Morgan received threats of liable suits from somebody who had been hired, by the clinic, to clean up his on-line reputation if he didn’t take down his on-line review of Burzynski, uh, had his a picture of his house sent to him, clearly the message being, “We know where you live kid,” uh, Wayne Merritt; a pancreatic cancer patient, this is something that, that people generally, do not recover from, like generally, die from, received phone calls at home, from, this individual, threatening him with lawsuits; he doesn’t have a law degree so he’s misrepresenting himself
Um, but all of this, was done, to critics
Do you think that is deserved ?
Do you think that that is right ?
Well I’ve specifically stated on my blog that Marc Stephens uh obviously didn’t know what he was doing and went about it the wrong way
My position was he should of bou, got around it, gone about it the way I did, which is, I blog, and show where Rhys is wrong [49], I blog and show where Gorski is wrong [40], I blog and show where you are wrong [2], or Josephine Jones [50], or Guy Chapman [7], etcetera
And, eh, y’all have every opportunity to come on my blog, and I’ve had very few takers, uh, one claiming to be from Wikipedia, who I shot down [51]
And hasn’t come back
So, you know, I am welcome to anybody trying to come on my blog, and prove what I posted is wrong, and debate anything
Unlike some of The Skeptics I don’t block people on my blog
I don’t give lame reasons for blocking people on my blog because I’m an American and I actually believe in “Free Speech”
Well to be fair
Well to me it is when Forbes removes all my comments, in response to Skeptics some, and I showed this from screen-shots
You know, stuff like that [52]
Was it down-voted ?
It wasn’t down-voted
They, I mean I’ve got screen-shots of where my comments were there, between other people’s comments, and uh, and they just decided to remove all my comments, and I blogged specifically about, you know, what they did and, uh, Gorski’s good friend and pal who authored that particular article
So I, I like how The Skeptics run things, you know
Well we do have for for for for one thing, um, I guess to understand is that we are uh motivated by um uh a respect, this is the one thing that that all Skeptics I think um are uh respect critical thinking, um, and um respect scientific uh a we we’re mostly scientific enthusiasts, there’s some Skeptics who are not um, uh, you know oh u space nerds, or whatever who are um just sc scholars and the humanities but for the most part we all respect scientific consensus and we respect scientific method and have an enthusiasm for living in the real world, this is something that like all of us us are about
And to that end, sometimes that influence is how we run, is how we decide to run our personal web-sites
Um, uh, that whether or not we want our, to give a platform to people who disagree with us, um, you know, uh, when we do, uh . . it it is our sandbox, you know, right ?
This, this (laughter), we’re allowed to to let whoever we want into our sandbox if we, you know, uh if we want
Well I think that people who really believe in “Free Speech,” and when it’s done rationally, I mean, Gorski would never, really respond to any of my questions, so I [53]
Did he, did he leave them up ?
Did he leave them up ?
Well I know that he specifically removed a review I did uh of his review of Burzynski I on his web, on his blog
But he’s pretty much left a lot of my comments up that I’ve seen
Uh, but he never really responded to my questions about, what he based his beliefs upon
Right, um, do you think that he is required to answer you
Well I would think, if you’re going to base your position on a certain thing, and then you can’t back it up with scientific literature, uh, you should answer, maybe not specifically to me, but answer the question
Answer to your readers
You know, I can tell his readers come on my blog because it shows that they come on my blog
Um so a a question uh why were why do you have so many Twitter and Wikipedia sock-puppets
Well the reason I have so many Twitter things is because, obviously, some of The Skeptics will be on there lying about some tweet I sent, and so Wikipedia, excuse me Twitter will do a little ol’, do their little, hey we’re going to block your account while we do blah blah blah, and I’m not gonna waste my time, going through their little review process, I’ll just create another uh Twitter address because, like, you know, if you read the Twitter information you can have a ridiculous amount of uh Twitter I.D.’s, and I’ll just use another Twitter I.D. and continue on
And so Wikipedia can say what they want, because I’ve only ever used one I.P., I’ve only got on there during one time, and when they finally said hey, you know, we’re not gonna uh grant your appeal, I completely left their web-site alone, so all that stuff [54]
You left Wikipedia
that they post [55]
Yep [56]
So all that garbage that they posted about me, about how I supposedly got on-line, on these other articles is just entirely B.S. [57]
Um a
And if they can prove otherwise, I’d sure like to see it [58]
Uh We have uh a response from David James, everyone uh gave you a fair shout
You were a spammer plain and simple
You couldn’t, you couldn’t
work out your questions
But that’s what y’all always say
That’s what y’all like to say, about everything
Twitter does not
Twitter does not block people for for arguing
Only for spamming and policy violations
Yeah I’m sure that’s what they like to say
I mean, you can report an e-mail, or report a twit, and they’ll block it
But um they’ll never come back and say, and this is why we blocked you, for this particular twit, for this particular reason
Each new account was blocked for additional violations of policies
Um, this is a uh uh referring to the Wikipedia rules too
Um, so
Wikipedia is a joke [59]
Um, Wikipedia, do you know why um they’ve locked the Burzynski page ?
Oh sure, I’m sure, that’s no problem [60]
I don’t have any problem with them locking that [61]
You know, I could tell when I was on there, and when Merola was on there, because he had a different I.P. address than me, I could tell they were his questions because of the way they were formed [62]
So I said, well they’re not answering his questions, I’ll just take on that role, and uh ask his questions and ask further questions, and they didn’t wanna deal with it, you know [63]
Did you notice the part where he threatened, did you notice the part where he threatened to expose Wikipedia
Expose them for what ?
For doing what they do, which is basically provide false information and one-sided information ? [64]
We have to, well, they they uh are looking that it’s not one-sided information they want to show
Like they discuss, there is controversy about this guy
Oh, please
They get on there and they say hey, Lola Quinlan filed a lawsuit, but they don’t tell you anything else
They don’t tell you, you know, Jaffe’s side of the story, and her lawyer’s side of the story
Yeah, Jaffe’s on there
Jaffe’s on there
Oh Jaffe’s on there but on that specific article about Lola, they didn’t say, here’s the article that was posted on uh Lola’s attorney’s web-site that, that mentions both his responses and Jaffe’s responses, to the uh lawsuit
uh well you could add that if you hadn’t gotten blocked
Uh, trust me, I tried to add that and they wouldn’t add it
Um, so, who are you
You know, The Skeptics like to be nasty, and so, I’ve been like Josephine Jones (@_JosephineJones)
If she wants to play anonymous, I’ll play anonymous [65]
She’s gotten threats
Well, I don’t threaten people
I don’t threaten Gorski
I don’t send letters to people’s employers
I deal with them directly, and, you know, if if they won’t answer questions, then, you know, I’ll just post them on my blog for other people to see, and question uh themselves
So we don’t know who you are
Like I said, I’m going to be like Josephine Jones [66]
Like, she has suffered at the hands of some really mess, and she’s also, you have to realize she’s in the U.K, where libel laws are very lax at this point
That’s changing, ah, but uh, the the legitimate criticism, there is a big case last, me maybe 2 years ago of Simon Singh, talking about an alternative therapy, and, um, he was just saying that there’s no evidence for it but it’s promoted by um chiropractors, or something, or something like that
And he got slapped with a libel suit that cost him several years of his life and a lot of money
Um, so, there are several reasons why someone in the U.K. might uh be uh reticent to use their real name um, uh, and legitimate reasons
Um, in the U.S., I’m not sure that there is
I’ve been using my real name for a long time now
Um, you know, Gorski blogs under his real name, and is critical of uh, uh, also, let’s face it, everyone know, knows who “Orac” is
Um, how do we know that you don’t work for the clinic ?
Because I’ve said so
I’m not even in Texas
I was born in Texas, but I don’t live in Texas
I don’t even, didn’t even, uh live in Houston
Wasn’t even close to Houston
Well see, one of the the problems is, Ju, I don’t know if you were around for the BurzynskiSaves thing
Did you ever see that account ?
Oh, of course, I, I’ve seen a lot of stuff goes on Twitter [67]
I’ve see y’all saying “Oh, we’re “The Skeptics” and y’all know are names,” but, there’s a lot of Skeptics that post on there with pseudonyms, also [68]
Oh no, I mean you have a right to do that but but I I’ve found that posting under a pseudonym diminishes my credibility
Um, so, . . the quote was uh um, uh, “Happily promotes bogus therapies,” was Simon Singh’s quote that got him sued
Um, but Josephine Jones does it to, quote “protect her family”
So there’s that
Um, are you afraid for you’re family ?
Well, I’m just not sure how some of these uh Skeptics will react considering their past behavior [69]
I mean, when Skeptics refuse to, I mean they block you on your blogs [70]
They block your comments [71]
You know, they decide, “Well, I’m maybe going to accept one comment from you, but I won’t accept anymore [72]
You know, to me that’s just ridiculous [73]
Uh, the action on Forbes that happened, the action on The Guardian that happened, where, you know, you had someone on Gorski’s blog basically lie to the Gua, to The Guardian to get them to get them to uh block my comment [74]
So, you know, I’m Skeptical of The Skeptics and their uh and what they would do [75]
Um, you don’t see that there would be anything to gain from, from going on-record ?
Not really [76]
I like my anonymity just like Josephine Jones likes hers [77]
I mean, I will read her stuff and reply to it and treat it seriously jus, just like any other blogger [78]
Um I I haven’t, I’ve never, honestly, I’ve never seen a Skeptic actually go after a person individually
Um, you know, uh, you, unless they were doing colossal harm to people
Um, to to focus on an, uh, let’s say, call someone’s work for um, yeah
Cite one example, of a Skeptic making shit for a Burzynski shill or anyone else in real life
That’s a quote
That’s, that’s something coming in from, from Guy
Well the thing is, some of these Skeptics use names, and they’re not necessarily their real names
So, you know, I’ve seen
Like had anyone ever contacted Sheila Herron, or has anyone to to um, go after her job, or go after um, you know, my brother has gotten stuff from people
He didn’t tell me because he didn’t want to upset me, but my brother gets things from Burzynski supporters that are violent and threatening
I get letters telling me that I suck cancer’s dick
Um, I I’ve all sorts of things um, and I just, I’ve never seen that, that intrusion into real life on the part of uh, um, uh, Skeptics
I’ve never seen them doing that type of of of stuff
I’ve never seen them threatening bogus lawsuits
Um, and I I I wonder there, if there is some sort of, what do you think accounts for that, that difference?
Well I think that some people just have bad manners
I mean see, I’ve seen Skeptics on Twitter basically harass someone pro-Burzynski and keep sending them tweets, and that person specifically send them a tweet saying please keep, stop sending me tweets
You know, they didn’t go in and ask Twitter to block the, that particular person
That person just kept sending them tweets
So, you know, I’ve seen that stuff before
I’ve I’ve I’ve shown up on, you know, as you, as you might, I imagine you moni, you monitor the Hashtag, right ?
Yeah, I’ll look at it, and if you notice, I don’t uh, I usually don’t reply to Skeptics individually because I pretty much figure that y’all are gonna try and get my next account blocked whenever I do that kind of junk, so, well, you know, I just post what I want to post, under the Hashtag
Um, which is, which is your right
Um, uh, but every so often I jump in and say, you know, this movie has some flaws in it
You know, that’s something I say rather frequently
Um, and I invite people, if they’re interested, to take a look at a couple of links
I don’t, I, you’ll notice that I no longer force people to like, “Well how do you explain this ?,” because that doesn’t seem to be very persuasive, or work at all
Ah, only people who are open minded to having their mind changed, those are the only ones I want to talk to
So I give them a choice
Kind of like Morpheus in The Matrix really
Um, b, that was a joke for me
Um (laugh), um anyway
Um, but, it it I, honestly, I would encourage you to go on-record, um, but I have, less than nothing invested in that, so, um
(Why would I want to reveal my identity, when David H. Gorski, M.D., Ph.D., FACS, a/k/a “Orac” claimed that he was pretty certain he knew who I was ?
Just Bring it, Gorski)
Uh, what’s next for you
Well I’ll just keep reviewing the, any inaccurate statements I see posted
You know, it depends on if it’s Gorski, you know
Gorski’s gone on there and posted inaccurate stuff, and I call him out, you know he’s basically said on his blog, you know, if I do something inaccurate, you know, I’ll ‘fess up to it
Well, I’ve pointed out where he’s done that and said “Hey, you said you were gonna ‘fess up to it”
If I said on my blog that I was going to ‘fess up to doing something wrong, and you caught me, well, then I should, come out and say, “Okay, you got me”
But Gorski won’t even do that, you know, he just continues to go on down the road, as if
Well what happens
Well what happens if he doesn’t understand what you’re saying ?
I mean one of the
I mean seriously
Well, one of the problems I think that a lot of Skeptics have had, in in back channel discussions about this is that we don’t understand exactly what you’re saying
We certainly don’t understand why you’re so attached to him if you’ve never had any uh, you know, close dealing with uh, uh, with Burzynski
We don’t really understand that
I find, I find
Actually, especially when you consider, that all the information that we’ve put forward, that we’ve backed up with statements from uh, you know, uh, it, it, the statements that we have from from patients saying that you know, we’ve we’ve, we were told that, no that’s not exactly, they put it usually that but that that we believe that getting worse is getting better
Like how could someone continue to defend someone, when we pile up all of these different, you know, sources, saying the same thing ?
It it is, it is beyond us and we wonder if there’s absolutely anything that we could say that would convince you otherwise
You know, I’m just going to let the FDA do their job, and let y’all speculate all y’all want
Uh, I mean (laugh)
But, I mean, but that means
See, I’m here for full discussion
And y’all don’t seem to want to discuss, after y’all just go out there and spam the Internet with garbage, that you don’t back-up with citations and references and links
Everything on The Other Other Burzynski Patient Group is referenced
It goes
But some of your other stuff that you tweeted that you haven’t backed up with links, and some of the stuff on thehoustoncancerquack isn’t backed-up with links, and Gorski’s stuff
There’s very little on
thehoustoncancerquack
thehoustoncancerquack in the 1st place
Well, that and the anp4all one
isn’t backed up
Eh, right
The they both go to the same place
Uh un but, you know, we, the thing that that totally befuddles us, and is just endlessly frustrating, is like how many more examples, of patients believing that getting worse is getting better, and it’s not us saying it, it’s the patients saying it
And how many more of those patients do we need to to give you before you will like reconsider that perhaps you might be wrong ?
When the FDA says he’s wrong
I mean, I’m not, I’m not just gonna accept your story
I don’t, the thing is though that, that that’s a inver, shifting the burden of proof off of Burzynski
Burzynski provides the FDA with the evidence, and the FDA makes the
The evidence would be
the FDA doesn’t approve a drug
if something’s not proved
The evidence would be phase 2 trials
And ev the evidence would be a completed and published phase 3 trial
That’s not forthcoming
The phase 3
Well you know that he’s trying
I mean, y’all can sit there and jump up and down all you want
You don’t know that he’s trying
He’d start completing these trials
And he would, he would be soliciting um, uh, lots of um, uh, you know, you know he’d be putting out papers constantly um and if the the British Medical Journal example’s anything uh representative of how Burzynski works, he’d immediately tell everyone that his he’s being . . blackballed by the, by the journal, even when it’s just a courtesy that he gets a a rejection
So, I mean, honestly, um, saying “Well, when the F, FDA tells you that it doesn’t work, the FDA’s never gonna say that because that’s not their job
So, given that what would, how many more patients do we have to show you before you consider that you may be wrong ?
Well, I’m gonna go with what the FDA is gonna do still because they’re running the show
That’s not an option, because they’re never gonna do it
What I find funny is that y’all complain, “Well, he hasn’t published, uh a final report”
Well his 1st final, was completed in 2009, and like I said, the M.D. Anderson 2006 study wasn’t published until 2, 2013
I mean, so y’all can jump up and down all you want
Y’all want a final report
Well, the final report will be done when the clinical trial is over
Well, unless you’re The Lancet, I guess
they test it
So, how long will it be before Burzynski doesn’t publish, that you decide that uh perhaps he’s he’s, doesn’t have the goods ?
Well, I’m not gonna get into speculation, I’m just going to wait and see
Well, how have I been speculating ?
Well actually I’m not even asking you to speculate about Burzynski, I’m only asking you to tell me, how long would it take, uh how, for him to go unpublished like this, um, for this long, before you would doubt it ?
what the journals keep saying, in response
You know, are they going to give The Lancet response, like they did in 2 hours and such, saying, “Well, we think your message would be best heard elsewhere,” or they gonna gonna give The Lancet response of, “Well, we don’t have room in our publication this time, well, because we’re full up, so, try and pick another place
But these but but but that doesn’t have any bearing on
Well, you like to jump up and down with the 15 year quote, but then again I always get back to, Hey, it’s when, when the report, when the clinical trial is done
Not that he’s been practicing medicine medicine for 36 years, or whatever, it’s when the clin, clinical trial was done
I could push it back to 36 years
The FDA A believes there is evidence of efficacy
Perhaps based on bad phase 2
Well, we don’t know that
He withdrew
Well, we know what happened in the movie because Eric particularly covered that when they tried to get what, what, was it 200 or 300 something institutions to take on a phase 3, and they refused
Uh did do do you think that if they thought that he was a real doctor that they all would have refused like that ?
Well, Eric gave the reasons that they said they would not take a particular uh phase 3
He’s changed things
Eric said they gave
That The Lancet is a top-tier journal like New England Journal of Medicine
It’s basically be, besieged by uh 100’s of people submitting their, their, their reports
What about the the Public Library of Science ?
We’ll I’m
Um, and he doesn’t seem to to have evailed himself of that, as far as I can tell
Either way, he’s gonna tell us what happens
Well, I’m, I’m sure that they’re going to keep you appraised just like they have in the past, just like Eric has done in the past
I mean, we’ll see what happens with the Japanese study
So let’s go back to this
He should have access to this
How how long will it take before you recognize that, nothing is forthcoming ?
Well that’s like me asking “How long is it going to take for y’all’s, y’all’s Skeptics to respond to my questions ?”
Well, I mean, were talking about a blog here
In in this case we’re talking about, 1,000’s of patients, over the course of of of generations, you know
Nothing thas that has made all of that um, uh, n nothing th th th that uh his peers would take seriously
Well, he gave you The Lancet information and he posted the e-mail in the movie, and Josephine Jones posted a copy of it
He then, and then he
Well, y’all are free to, you know, claim that all you want, because I don’t always agree with Eric, and uh, he’s free to express his opinion
Where has Eric been wrong ?
Well I don’t necessarily believe, what Eric would say about, you know, The Lancet that refused to publish the 2nd one, for the reasons he stated, and which y’all have commented on, including Gorski
It’s it’s it’s it’s a form letter
Well you would think that if its a form letter they would use the same form that they used the 2nd time
So, so, possibly
Nah, I’m not saying that they did that all
Do you know it was the same editor, that it came from the same desk ?
Well I find it funny, something along the lines of, you know, “We believe your message would be received better elsewhere, you know
Well, not necessarily
I I have no problems whatsoever with seeing that this might not be completely uh um uh streamlining uniform processes as possible
We wanna see the frickin’ data
Well, I’m sure, I’m sure Gorski would have a comment about that, as he’s commented previously about how he thinks uh Burzynski should publish
Oh I, I I I certainly don’t think that he would put a lot of stock in it, but I, I, I know Dave Gorski enough, he wants this to work
He has patients who are dying, you know
And if if if let’s say that that Burzynski could get ah his gene-targeted therapy to work on breast cancer patients in in a reliable way, that would be, such a help to these people, that that Gorski’s trying to help
And, it it it doesn’t make sense, I mean, there, some of the best um, one of the the most important developments in medical history, was the development of of just washing your hands uh uh before uh uh going in and delivering a baby
The guy who did it, was a colossal jerk, but it still worked and it’s the standard now
Um, yea, it doesn’t matter now whether or not Burz, whether or not Gorski agrees with how Burzynski publishes
It’s the, it’s the data itself
Like I said before
Like I said before on my blog, you know, even if Burzynski publishes his phase 2 information, Gorski can just jump up and down and say, “Well, that just shows evidence of efficacy, you know, it’s not phase 3, so it doesn’t really prove it”
So then he can go on, you know, for however many years he wants to
This is, this is a guy who must phone it in because, he went in there and posted the old Josephine Jones response that, you know, no drugs had been approved by the FDA without their final phase 2 publication 1st being published, which was not a factual statement, and you’ve made the same statement
So I, I’m thinking that Gorski just bought her statement and took it and ran with it, and before he fact-checked it, and what, what happened, it was wrong
I mean, Gorski needs to stop phoning stuff in, and check his sources before he posts stuff, because I’ve found many cases where, he hasn’t seemed to do that, and that’s why I question him
Well what about all the other physicians, um, going back long before the Burzynski thing broke on-line
Of all these patients, with whom they have long-established relationships, and then doctors essentially after years, of treating these patients, basically saying, “I can’t work with you anymore if you go to Burzynski”
What about that ?
Di, are all of these doctors just as biased ?
Well, I found it interesting that uh the one on the, Burzynski 2, you know he gave his ex excuses for not, working with uh, that patient, and, but yet, he was the same doctor that treated a another Burzynski patient, according to the movie
I mean, so what does he do ?
Pick and choose ?
Or do doctors pick and choose over there in Britain ?
Did he get burned at some point ?
Well, the movie didn’t say anything
We don’t know
Yeah, well, you wouldn’t expect Eric Merola to say that he got, that a doctor got burned
Well, I fail to see these doctors on there, providing any factual information, anywhere on the Internet about, uh their disagreements, in a serious way, instead of just making these over-broad statements, you know, “He hasn’t published anything in the blah blah blah,” and
But he, he doesn’t have, he hasn’t given us his data
Well, he’s provided some data, and specifically 4 publications
He’s given, he’s given, he’s given case studies
He’s given more than the case studies
He’s done
He’s done more than the case studies
He’s specifically given uh, almost all the information om an oncologist would want
And Gorski, and Gorski
Except for a ph, completed phase 3 clinical trial
I mean, I love Gorski, but he comes up with these stupid excuses like, “Well, Burzynski is not an oncologist”
Well, Gorski doesn’t go go in there and look at his other, his phase 2 clinical trial publications, as far as the preliminary reports, and look at the co-authors, and see if any of those guys are oncologists, and that they’re working with Gorski, I mean they’re working with Burzynski
I find that ridiculous
One of the things, one of the things that I’ve noticed going through these um, well, well there there is that
Uh, Guy Chapman, “It’s a blog, not a peer-reviewed publication” [79]
Um, almost no treatment goes out without trials
Um, so, it it is kind of, slightly disingenuous to hold uh Gorski to the same . . standard that you would, it on his blog
I think that professionally he would make, he he he would follow-up on these things, but u what I’ve noticed when you you mention these other people who are working with with Burzynski as co-investigators, the co- investigators don’t seem to have access to these, to these records
Um, you know, when they have to, when a patient has to, and often you have someone like a pediatrician, uh, signing on um uh to eh eh to work with with, uh and arrange care for patients when they’re out of state, away from Burzynski
Um, it’s it’s it’s often not an oncologist
It’s accurate to say that B Burzynski is not a board s uh certified oncologist
It’s accurate to say that no trial has been completed and fully published
Um, yeah it’s um, it it it if, all of the arguing on behalf of Burzynski doesn’t give him a single phase 3
It doesn’t give him um a uh uh of of a completed and and published phase 2
Uh, in in in that sense, you know, uh all the the the, you know, kind of back-peddling and and and trying to defend him is is going to, not going to help his case at all
You are, honestly as far as I can tell you are doing the um, you know, you’re you’re ah throwing up uh, uh, uh, you’re giving me another uh invisible dragon in the garage, um
Well y’all, y’all can call things what y’all want
What is the issue were not talking about
Hey, I’ve said it to Gorski
He liked to back his stuff up on the Mayo study, yet he wouldn’t, he wouldn’t uh debate about the Mayo study
He likes to say, “Well, Burzynski is not an oncologist,” but he won’t, say Hey, look at the publications, are any of the guys on the publications oncologists ?
We know that Gorski, we know that Burzynski works with oncologists in his practice
So, just because Burzynski himself is not an an oncologist, does not necessarily mean anything
Do we need to go out, onto PubMed, and, and review every particular person that’s published something about cancer and see if they’re all oncologists ?
I mean, Gorski will just
Yeah, but they
post a lot of stuff without backing it up
But they have track records that support the idea that you should trust them
Well, (laughing), I, you know, that’s up to someone’s opinion, considering some of the information that’s that the FDA has accepted, as far as giving these guys approval
Okay, so
How did I say I, I didn’t trust them ?
Well, when I, whenever I would ask about, like, why would these trials aren’t happening uh and, you know, you say well the the FDA’s arranged it
Well, I didn’t say that they weren’t trustworthy, I just raised questions that no one wants to answer about ’em
You’re suggesting that they’re untrustworthy
No, I’m just sayin’ that I’ve raised questions and none of The Skeptics wanna to uh talk about ’em
I I would say that the the FDA has given Burzynski every opportunity for decades
Every opportunity
When he didn’t have r r really, he got special treatment as far as I can tell
Uh, the, I’m rather stunned every morning I wake up and don’t see in the paper, that that place has has been closed down
I, I really am
Uh, so, you know,that one doesn’t really fly with me either
Well, to me the FDA owes Burzynski for a lot of the garbage they pulled off against him (laugh), not to say, you know, they owe him in that way, but they owed him
Do you know that the FDA pulled out of the prosecution ?
Well, we know a lot stuff they did, but that still doesn’t impress me that they pulled out of the prosecution
Yeah, the the the it wasn’t the FDA who was pressing charges, it was a Federal prosecutor
Well I find it interesting a lot of this uh, a lot of these letters that were provided between, you know, the government and Burzynski, when the uh phase 2 study was going on, at the behest of the NCI
You know, anybody who reads that stuff knows, that when just ignore the person that’s been doing, do treating their patients for 20 something years, or close to 20 years, and you change the protocol without his approval, and you don’t use the drugs in the manner that he knows works
The, no, claims works
He claims works
Well, he says they work together and they’re not going to work if you don’t use them that way
One of the things I think
One of the things that I think is happening here
One of the things I think is happening here, is that lots of people have worked with Burzynski and then have stopped working with B Burzynski
Uh, you know, uh lots of uh uh uh these partnerships do not seem to work out in the end
I often wonder, if the uh, the way that these things are, are are playing out, because it’s s so reliable that they’re, that these partnerships are going to fail, I I wonder if th they are designed in such a way, that for instance, um a, uh, a a partner would be uncomfortable working with him
Or um or that the specifications for what it takes to enter one of these trials is so high, that nobody will ever enter the trials
I mean, I wonder if they are, what, especially, like why hasn’t Burzynski left the country ?
That’s what I want to know
Why would he leave the country ?
I think he’s made it clear
If he was so, if he was s so persecuted and really cares about getting his treatment out to the world, why wouldn’t he ?
They’re, they’re lots of things going on here
David James has pointed this out, that a lot of questions I’m asking are not going answered
“I still don’t know how long it would take before you would have any doubts about Burzynski”
“I still have no idea, how often we can see patients reporting that signs of getting worse are getting better, before you would change your mind”
I’ve made it very clear that he just needs to have a completed study published and replicated before I support his right to go out and charge people what he’s charging for these, for these drugs, and I’m I’m just not seeing that here with you, and I I wonder what could come from, and don’t worry I will go to your site and I will comment on on on what you’ve run
Um, but, you know, I I I I it’s hard for Skeptics to imagine, what could be gained from engaging with you, if there seems to be no conceivable way, that we can, one, get a straight answer for, how many patients will have to report that getting worse is getting better before you starting doubting your opinion, or, uh, how many uh, uh, how many years does this have to go on before you decide that, “No, we probably just can’t produce the goods”
One of the interesting things about Doubting Thomas that I think you should definitely consider for yourself, is that at some point, when faced with the real opportunity to prove or disprove his assertions, he doubted himself
Well, I think The Skeptics, Skeptics are falling short because, you know, they don’t own up to
I’ve laid out exactly what it would take for me to turn on a fucking dime
And even in this, this was an opportunity to do that
So I can say that since the Mayo Clinic finished their study in 2006, and it took them until 2013, to actually publish it, then I can say, well, Burzynski finished his in 2009, which was 3 years later, which would give Burzynski until 2016
Correction: M.D. Anderson
Why wasn’t that study
for me to make up my mind (laughing)
Why wasn’t that , that that that, still . . again, it it doesn’t seem really to to approach the the the, main question here
Well I can say, well I’m going to have to wait, the same amount of time I had to wait for Mayo to publish their study; which was from 2006 to 2013
Clarification: M.D. Anderson
Why was the Mayo
Why was the Mayo study delayed ?
How do you know it was delayed ?
Well you said you had so many years before you finish it and go in
I mean, has anybody
Why, why did it take so long ?
done a review of when a clinical trial is studied, and completed, and how long it took the people to publish it ?
I have something for you, okay ?
Um, because, I can ask that question of those researchers, why was this study in this time, and what happened in-between
Why did it take so long for it, for it to come out
Sure, but that’s not gonna, you know like, answer an overall question of, you know, somebody did a comparative study of all clinical trials, and, when they were finished, and at, and when the study was actually published afterwards
Well, we know that the Declaration of Helsinki doesn’t even give a standard saying, “You must publish within x amount of years,” you know ?
I I, yeah, the other thing that David James points out is, you know, why 2016 when he’s had 36 years already ?
Again, we get back to, when the clinical trial is finished, not when Burzynski started
Treating people
I mean, you would expect to find a results to be published after, the final results are in
You would expect the Burzynski Patient Group to be a lot bigger after 36 years, and in fact is
You would expect some people would want to have confidentiality, and maybe not want to be included
So, if you’re unsure about this stuff, if you’re unsure about the the time to publication, why are you defending it so hard, other than saying, “I don’t know, I really need to”
Why am I unsure ?
Uh about the
(laughing) I just gave you an example
The reasons, the reasons for which that he’s, no, why are you defending him so hard, when you’re unsure ?
Oh, who said I was unsure ?
I mean, I’m just, I believe in free and open debate
I mean, I believe, if y’all are gonna spam the Internet, the Internet with garbage that y’all do not back-up, with specific
I’ve backed-up everything that
Every time that I’ve tried
and then other people
Like your tweet that said uh, “antineoplastons is uron, is Unicorn pee,” right ?
Way back
It is about
It is about as efficacious
We have the same
“Burzynski is a vampire”
Good one (laughing)
Yeah, I’ve, and and I based that on a a a that type of thing
He sucks their blood out of ’em right ?
Yeah (laughing)
Okay, I understand humor
You, you, you can read that how you want, right ?
He does have the accent though
No (laugh)
Well, that’s because he’s Polish
No, but listen, like, it it it’s not, it, we we don’t understand why you defend himself so hard, when there is such a paucity of of of information out there
What I defend, is that, y’all post stuff, a lot of Skeptics post stuff, including Gorski, and they do not back it up, with references, citations, or links
Gorski will just post stuff, like he did about saying, you know, the FDA would not approve, uh, accelerated approval, without a final phase 2 clinical trial being published, which was an incorrect statement, he did not provide any link
Even if it’s true or false you, honestly though
We know it’s false
Even if it’s true or false, in in that particular instance, you know, eh let’s just say that you’re right
Gorski gets that point completely wrong
It has no bearing on whether or not, ANP works
Well, I’m just
That’s a Red Herring
I’m just
You’re just focusing on this, on this little niggly stuff, where the real question, is does it work ?
Are patients getting better at a better rate then not
or otherwise ?
Well, that is just lame
Y’all, Skeptics, like to sh spam Twitter, and social media, with all this negative stuff about Burzynski, but then when I ask you to back it up, you can’t back it up, and then, and then on this conversation you want to come down and pinhole it, to a specific subject, you know, the nitty-gritty
Well, if y’all were only debating the nitty-gritty, we would only be d debating the nitty-gritty, but that’s not what y’all do
We’re were talking about whether or not there’s evidence to suggest it works
Well, we know the FDA’s said there is
The FDA, see that’s the thing
You, the FDA are are, you know, you invest them with, we’re just, we’re just circling around again
Well, this has gone on for rather a, longer than I thought it would
Um, I, uh, wanna thank you for coming on here
I wasn’t sure that you would actually do it
Um, I’m glad that you did
I’m glad that we talked
Um, I will look at your web-site, and we will, uh, we, uh, you, oh make sure that I I go to your blog and and I talk there
And I’ll give you those links that I told you I would give you
And I will look at those
Maybe not in the next few days; I’ve got a lot going on but
Yeah, that’s fine
Well, I thought it was productive too
You know, I don’t see why Gorski is afraid of debating issues
I don’t think he is
on the Internet, on his blog
I don’t think he’s afraid
I just think he’s got a lot going on
He is act, a full-time surgical oncologist and researcher
He does have insane am, he has to pick and choose his battles
And if, if if he saw that we were going to ultimately be circling around our same arguments again and again; kind of like we’ve done here, um, he uh, you, he doesn’t have time for that, I don’t think
Hey, he has time to post about, “Hey, uh, Burzynski got a Catholic award from somebody,” which, has nothing to do with antineoplastons, whatsoever
So, you know, he’s not focusing just in on, “Do antineoplastons work, yes or no?,” “When will Burzynski publish ?,” yes or no ?
You know, he’s putting all this ridiculous side junk, you know
So, I am not going to take that seriously
I I would ask that you to to go back over The The Other Burzynski Patient Group and take their stories seriously, because they deserve at least the same amount of consideration that the survivors do
That’s my
That’s my kids, okay
Well, Thanks for much for talking
I greatly appreciate it
You bet
I thought that this was very productive, because it proved that Randy Hinton was correct when he commented on #Forbes:
“[Y]ou people always control the conversation“
[0] – Bobby Blaskiewicz Bows Up ‘Bout Burzynski:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/bobby-blaskiewicz-bows-up-bout-burzynski/
[1] – 9/28/2013 – Burzynski discussion: By Bob Blaskiewicz – 2:19:51
http://m.youtube.com/?client=mv-google#/watch?v=pa97hXMbUL0
[2] – The Skeptics™” Robert J. (don’t call me “Bobby”) Blaskiewicz wants to Debate:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/09/27/the-skeptics-robert-j-dont-call-me-bobby-blaskiewicz-wants-to-debate/
[3] – “The Skeptics” are “debatable”:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/09/29/the-skeptics-are-debatable/
[4] – Bob Burzynski Skeptic Sez Multiforme Manuscript Meme Message Memorable:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/bob-burzynski-skeptic-sez-multiforme-manuscript-meme-message-memorable/
[5] – What to do when a Burzynski Skeptic suggests you not do it:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/10/01/what-to-do-when-a-burzynski-skeptic-suggests-you-not-do-it/
[6] – “The Skeptics™” Definition of “Debate”
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/10/03/the-skeptics-definition-of-debate/
[7] – A Message to Guy “Can’t Git-R-Done” Chapman:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/10/03/a-message-to-guy-cant-git-r-done-chapman/
[8] – About | Didymus Judas Thomas’ Hipocritical Oath Blog
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/about/
[9] – Burzynski: The FDA’s Drug Review Process: Ensuring Drugs Are Safe and Effective:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/burzynski-the-fdas-drug-review-process-ensuring-drugs-are-safe-and-effective/
[10] – Critiquing: The Institute of Medicine report on cancer care: Is the system “in crisis”?:
[11] – Burzynski: Not every cancer clinical trial taking place in the United States is listed on our NCI clinical trials database:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/burzynski-not-every-cancer-clinical-trial-taking-place-in-the-united-states-is-listed-on-our-nci-clinical-trials-database/
[12] – Burzynski Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Links:
http://www.itnonline.com/article/fda-approves-trial-radiation-therapy-brain-stem-glioma
[14] – FINALLY, one of “The Skeptics™” has the “Balls” to do what even Dr. David H. “Orac” Gorski would NOT do:
[15] – The Guardian: Censorship and Bias – Six stubborn myths about cancer:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/08/31/the-guardian-censorship-and-bias-six-stubborn-myths-about-cancer/
[16] – Critiquing: Amelia’s family ‘mislead by cancer clinic’:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/critiquing-amelias-family-mislead-by-cancer-clinic/
[17] – Critiquing: Watford Observer – ‘He said he hoped to cure my daughter’:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/09/22/critiquing-watford-observer-he-said-he-hoped-to-cure-my-daughter/
[18] – Review Articles on Clinical Trials:
1. 3/2004 – The Present State of Antineoplaston Research
Integrative Cancer Therapies 2004;3:47-58
Volume 3, No. 1, March 2004
DOI: 10.1177/1534735-403261964
Volume 3 Number 1.March.2004
http://www.burzynskiclinic.com/images/stories/Publications/994.pdf
[19] – Antineoplastons: Adverse Effects:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/antineoplastons-adverse-effects/
[20] – Critiquing David H. Gorski, MD, PhD, FACS http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/editorial-staff/david-h-gorski-md-phd-managing-editor/
[21] – Critiquing: Dr. David H. “Orac” Gorski, M.D., Ph.D, LIAR: Stanislaw Burzynski versus the BBC:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/08/04/critiquing-dr-david-h-orac-gorski-m-d-ph-d-liar-stanislaw-burzynski-versus-the-bbc/
[22] – Critiquing: Dr. David H.
“Orac”Gorski, M.D., Ph.D, L.I.A.R.:
[23] – My Critique of Bob Blaskiewicz (Colorado Public Television – PBS CPT12):
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/my-critique-of-bob-blaskiewicz-colorado-public-television-pbs-cpt12/
[24] – Burzynski: Institutional Review Board (IRB):
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/burzynski-institutional-review-board-irb/
[25] – Critiquing https://theotherburzynskipatientgroup.wordpress.com
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/08/24/critiquing-httpstheotherburzynskipatientgroup-wordpress-com/
[26] – WHAT IS MISDIRECTION? Critiquing
“Antineoplastons: Has the FDA kept its promise to the American people ?”
[27] – Burzynski: HYPERNATREMIA:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/burzynski-hypernatremia/
[28] – Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, quickly realized that David H. Gorski, MD, PhD, FACS is NOT doing something wrong when he LIES about Burzynski:
[29] – Burzynski: Egypt antineoplaston publications:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/burzynski-egypt-antineoplaston-publication/
[30] – Burzynski: Russia antineoplaston publications:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/burzynski-russia-antineoplaston-publications/
[31] – Burzynski: Poland antineoplaston publications:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/burzynski-poland-antineoplaston-publications/
[32] – Burzynski: China antineoplaston publications:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/burzynski-china-antineoplaston-publications/
[33] – Burzynski and China / Taiwan, ROC:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/burzynski-china-taiwan-roc/
[34] – Burzynski and Taiwan, ROC:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/burzynski-taiwan-roc/
[35] – Critiquing: Dr. Michael A. Friedman, Dr. Mark G. Malkin, Dr. Mario Sznol, Robert B. Lanman, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Mayo Clinic, Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), Public Health Service, Quality Assurance and Compliance Section, Regulatory Affairs Branch (RAB), Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program (CTEP), Division of Cancer Treatment (DCT), National Cancer Center (NCI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Stanislaw Burzynski: On the arrogance of ignorance about cancer and targeted therapies:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/09/08/critiquing-stanislaw-burzynski-on-the-arrogance-of-ignorance-about-cancer-and-targeted-therapies/
[37] – Burzynski: Japan antineoplaston publications:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/burzynski-japan/
[38] – Critiquing the #SkepticCanary: “The Skeptics™” (SkeptiCowards©) Bob Blatherskitewicz and the so-called, self-proclaimed “Cancer Researcher“:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/critiquing-the-skepticcanary-the-skeptics-skepticowards-bob-blatherskitewicz-and-the-so-called-self-proclaimed-cancer-researcher/
[39] – September 28, 2013 “The Skeptics™” Burzynski discussion: By Bob Blaskiewicz – 2:19:51:
[41] – What to do when a Burzynski Skeptic suggests you not do it:
[42] – Critiquing “When is a skeptic not a skeptic”:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/05/26/critiquing-when-is-a-skeptic-not-a-skeptic/
[43] – Critiquing: In which Orac does Stanislaw Burzynski propagandist Eric Merola a favor…:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/critiquing-in-which-orac-does-stanislaw-burzynski-propagandist-eric-merola-a-favor/
[44] – Galileo’s Lawyer
http://www.richardjaffe.com/jaffe/
[45] – Burzynski: The Original 72 Phase II Clinical Trials:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/burzynski-the-original-72-phase-ii-clinical-trials/
[46] – Critiquing “Burzynski: Another fact-blind troll, who predicted that?”:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/03/24/critiquing-burzynski-another-fact-blind-troll-who-predicted-that/
[47] – My review of “Burzynski: A note to the PBS ombudsman”:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/my-review-of-burzynski-a-note-to-the-pbs-ombudsman/
[48] – guychapman (Guy Chapman) Critiquing “The Skeptic” Burzynski Critics: A Film Producer, A Cancer Doctor, And Their Critics (page 9):
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/guychapman-guy-chapman-critiquing-the-skeptic-burzynski-critics-a-film-producer-a-cancer-doctor-and-their-critics-page-9/
[49] – I find Rhys Morgan abnormally prehensile:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/i-find-rhys-morgan-abnormally-prehensile/
[50] – josephinejones (@_JosephineJones), D Nile ist
http://josephinejones.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/happy-birthday-dr-burzynski-and-goodbye-antineoplastons/comment-page-1/#comment-8921
[51] – I show JzG what a
“FACT” is: Burzynski: FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions): Clinical Trial Results:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/i-show-jzg-what-a-fact-is-burzynski-faq-frequently-asked-questions-clinical-trial-results/
[52] – Dr. Peter A. Lipson (and / or his Censor(s)) is a Coward: Critiquing “A Film Producer, A Cancer Doctor, And Their Critics”:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/dr-peter-a-lipson-and-or-his-censors-is-a-coward-critiquing-a-film-producer-a-cancer-doctor-and-their-critics/
[53] – IMPORTANT: The live “debate” that wasn’t-A Film Producer, A Cancer Doctor, And Their Critics:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/important-the-live-debate-that-wasnt-a-film-producer-a-cancer-doctor-and-their-critics/
[54] – “The Skeptics:” Your problem is, Wikipedia IS censored:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/the-skeptics-your-problem-is-wikipedia-is-censored/
[55] – Wikipedia, what’s your motivation?:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/wikipedia-whats-your-motivation/
[56] – WikipediA or WikipediAin’t ?:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/wikipedia-or-wikipediaint/
[57] – Wikipedia, your Burzynski BIAS is showing:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/wikipedia-your-burzynski-bias-is-showing/
[58] – Wikipedia, you’ve sprung a Wiki Leak:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/wikipedia-youve-sprung-a-wiki-leak/
[59] – On the 6th day, HE created WIKIPEDIA, and on the 7th, WikipedBiaS:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/on-the-6th-day-he-created-wikipedia-and-on-the-7th-day-wikipedbias/
[60] – Wikipedia, do you serve up Mud Pies with your Wikipedia Lies ?:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/wikipedia-do-you-serve-up-mud-pies-with-your-wikipedia-lies/
[61] – Critiquing: Wikipedia – Burzynski Clinic:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/critiquing-wikipedia-burzynski-clinic/
[62] – Critiquing Wikipedia: Burzynski Clinic, Colorado Public Television (CPT12), and Public Broadcasting System (PBS)
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/09/12/critiquing-wikipedia-burzynski-clinic-colorado-public-television-cpt12-and-public-broadcasting-system-pbs/
[63] – A Critical Analysis of Wikipedia’s “Failure to Communicate”
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/a-critical-analysis-of-wikipedias-failure-to-communicate/
[64] – Critiquing Wikipedia: Burzynski Clinic – 2013 BBC documentary, Curing cancer or ‘selling hope’ to the vulnerable?
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/09/22/critiquing-wikipedia-burzynski-clinic-2013-bbc-documentary-curing-cancer-or-selling-hope-to-the-vulnerable/
[65] – Josephine Jones and the Cult of Misinformation:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/josephine-jones-and-the-cult-of-misinformation/
[66] – The Burzynski Skeptics:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/08/18/the-burzynski-skeptics/
[67] – “The Skeptics” (Burzynski: Cancer is Serious Business, Part II) |:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/03/24/the-skeptics/
[68] – Critiquing the Skeptics re “Funny how you never see Orac and this person in the same place at the same time”:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/critiquing-the-skeptics-re-funny-how-you-never-see-orac-and-this-person-in-the-same-place-at-the-same-time/
[69] – “The Skeptics”-Tracking the Twits that Tweet:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/the-skeptics-tracking-the-twits-that-tweet/
[70] – Shall We Play A Game? “The Skeptics” (SkeptiCowards) vs. “The Skeptics’” Critics #Burzynski The 1st ever “LIE OFF”:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/shall-we-play-a-game-the-skeptics-skepticowards-vs-the-skeptics-critics-burzynski-the-1st-ever-lie-off/
[71] – “The Skeptics” Theme Song:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/05/25/the-skeptics-theme-song/
[72] – Thawing out “The Skeptics” @FrozenWarning (FrozenBoring):
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/06/01/thawing-out-the-skeptics-frozenwarning-frozenboring/
[73] – “The Skeptics™” Doctor David H. Gorski is one of the “SkeptiCowards©” (I kid you not): Houston, We Have a Problem:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/06/02/the-skeptics-doctor-david-h-gorski-is-one-of-the-skepticowards-i-kid-you-not-houston-we-have-a-problem/
[76] – Critiquing: Stanislaw Burzynski comments on new cancer science, hilarity ensues because of The Skeptics™ comments:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/09/11/critiquing-stanislaw-burzynski-comments-on-new-cancer-science-hilarity-ensues-because-of-the-skeptics-comments/
[78] – The Skeptics @Majikthyse reveals madjik research skilz:
[79] – The dishonesty of Guy Chapman, “The Skeptics” shill:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/the-dishonesty-of-guy-chapman-the-skeptics-shill/
[80] –
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Publications TMI Magazine TMI 209 > Global Growth Generators: A New Economic Picture for 2050
Global Growth Generators: A New Economic Picture for 2050 Helen Sanders, Editor, TMI The Editor discusses the latest reports on globalisation and provides a valuable summary of the opportunities provided by the world's fastest growing economies, featuring expert comment from HSBC's Head of Global Payments and Cash Management.
Global Growth Generators:
A New Economic Picture for 2050
by Helen Sanders, Editor
In February 2011, Citigroup’s Chief Economist, Willem H. Buiter and Ebrahim Rahbari published a ground-breaking report that argued that the ‘BRIC’ countries, and subsequent groupings of emerging economies had become obsolete. Instead, they aimed to identify the generators of global growth (known as ‘3Gs’) and profitable investment opportunities for the next 40 years, with globalisation as a key catalyst for change.
Globalisation, a trend that the authors identify as starting in the 1950s,
“was driven by technology (improvements in information, communication and transportation technology) and by the deliberate removal of man-made obstacles to cross-border movements of goods, services, capital, people, business and ideas. Globalisation went hand-in-hand with the adoption of some form of market economy in many countries where markets had hitherto been suppressed, supplanted with various forms of central planning, or over-regulated.”
They continue,
“One key insight was the distinction between growth at the technology frontier and catch-up or convergence growth.”
In other words, how long does it take for less developed economies to ‘catch up’ with those that demonstrate the most advanced technology, education and market infrastructure? While the most advanced countries typically demonstrate only modest growth, convergent growth can be much faster, as the fortunes of China over recent years have demonstrated. While globalisation is a catalyst for less-developed countries to catch up with the so-called frontier countries, this advancement process is not guaranteed. The authors argue that countries will remain economically backward unless there is a change in the causes of this backwardness,
“The causes of economic backwardness are bad luck, bad institutions, and/or bad policies. Bad luck includes such factors as geography, climate, unfriendly neighbours (and associated wars and other cross-border conflicts), and natural disasters, including pandemics.
Bad institutions can be institutions that were supportive of reasonable or even good economic performance at some earlier stage of technological, social, political, cultural and economic development but have become economically dysfunctional as these evolved. Slavery, serfdom, indentured labour, the caste system, guilds, feudalism and central planning all fit that bill.
The damage done by bad policies, including populist assaults on the incentives to work, save and invest, macroeconomic mismanagement leading to serial sovereign debt default and hyperinflations, ill-designed tax, public spending and regulatory policies that cause damaging internal conflict, are well-known.”
With these issues in mind, Buiter and Rahbari then constructed an index that ranked countries globally according to a number of measures, and concluded that the following countries will demonstrate the greatest growth and profitable investment potential in the coming years Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Mongolia, Nigeria, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. Of these, Vietnam has the greatest potential, followed by China.
Published Oct-2012
Helen Sanders
Editorial Consultant, TMI
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Trupanion celebrates its Canadian roots through Canada 150 and record $150M in Canadian claims
Vancouver, B.C. founded company Trupanion, Inc. (Nasdaq: TRUP) is celebrating paying more than $150M CAD in medical claims throughout its history. This milestone comes as Canadians celebrate Canada 150, the country's sesquicentennial anniversary.
Trupanion was founded by Darryl Rawlings, chief executive officer, from humble beginnings on a boat moored at Vancouver's Granville Island. The first year Trupanion provided coverage for just 19 pets, but finished 2016 with a total of 74,492 Canadian dogs and cats. Trupanion, one of the fastest growing providers of medical insurance ended last year with 343,649 enrolled pets throughout North America.
"We love pets and providing access to the best care is our goal," said Rawlings. "We are proud to hit this claims milestone as Canada celebrates its 150th birthday. But we have more work to do. We want to remove the need for pet owners to have to make a financially based decision when it comes to the health of their pet. $150M CAD is just the start. We genuinely look forward to increasing this ten-fold and helping more dogs and cats receive the care they need."
In addition, Trupanion's Canadian policyholders have contributed more than $235,000 over the last several years to several Canadian pet non-profit organizations, including the BC SPCA Biscuit Fund, The Farley Foundation and Speaking of Dogs Rescue, among others. Recently, employees at Trupanion's North Vancouver office also donated more than 300 pounds of pet food to the Dhana Metta Rescue Society.
In honor of Canada's 150th birthday, here are some curiously common breeds and pet names by province:
Signature Breed: Devon Rex
Signature Name: Molson
Signature Breed: Formosan Mountain Dog
Signature Name: Hamish
Signature Breed: Lowchen
Signature Name: Misha
Signature Breed: Goldendoodle
Signature Name: Miley
Signature Breed: English Setter
Signature Name: Sailor
Signature Breed: Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever
Signature Name: Kitten
Signature Breed: Olde English Bulldogge
Signature Name: BB
Signature Breed: Yorkshire Terrier
Signature Name: Leela
Signature Breed: Ganaraskan
Signature Name: Toffee
Signature Breed: Cairn Terrier
Signature Name: Ted
Signature Breed: Sphynx
Signature Name: Keira
Signature Breed: Icelandic Sheepdog
Signature Name: Gunnar
Signature Breed: Canadian Eskimo/Inuit
Signature Name: Laika
Trupanion is a leading provider of medical insurance for cats and dogs throughout the United States and Canada. For almost two decades, Trupanion has given pet owners peace of mind so they can focus on their pet's recovery, not financial stress. Trupanion is committed to providing pet owners with the highest value in pet medical insurance. Trupanion is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol "TRUP". The company was founded in Vancouver BC, Canada in 2000 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA. Trupanion policies are issued, in the United States, by its wholly owned insurance entity American Pet Insurance Company and, in Canada, by Omega General Insurance Company. For more information, please visit trupanion.com.
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We have used the Living Planet Index approach. The Living Planet Index was designed by the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London. The index tracks changes in global vertebrate biodiversity through time and is used to report against international targets such as those of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
The Living Planet Index compiles data from published scientific literature and accessible reports and web pages to track the population abundance of thousands of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians around the world.
This research is the first endeavour to bring together all of the monitoring data on threatened species in Australia. This data often only exist in a raw form on people’s computers, in reports of recovery teams or in State and Territory repositories. We have signed agreements for data sharing of datasets which were never available to the public before. Data were received from over 130 individuals from about 70 organisations. The present Threatened Species Index is based on 57 Australian threatened and Near Threatened bird species and subspecies. An automated scientific workflow was created to streamline all data processing steps and calculations once data are uploaded to the database. This has been essential as large volumes of data are involved. So far, the index combines data from 350,000 individual surveys on threatened and Near Threatened birds from over 10,000 locations in across Australia.
The overall multi-species index was calculated as a geometric mean over many single-species trends combining them into a composite index. Each index produced can be drilled down to produce reports tailored to the particular needs of the user based on region (e.g. Queensland), species group (e.g. shorebirds), or a combination thereof (Queensland shorebirds). Each index comes with diagnostic tool which allow for an assessment of how representative the trend is based on the species/subspecies included and the spatial representativeness of the data. The cloud around each index shows the range of trends for the individual species that make up the overall multi-species index. It can be seen as the variability between single-species trends that build the composite.
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The Treasure of San Teresa (1959)
Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Alvin Rakoff
Eddie Constantine, Dawn Addams, Marius Goring, Christopher Lee, Nadine Tallier, Walter Gotell
Not Much of a Treasure
Having served during WWII Larry Brennan (Eddie Constantine) returns to Czechoslovakia once the war is over to seek out a hidden a consignment of jewels stashed there during the war. He ends up joining forces with Hedi von Hartmann (Dawn Addams) but is unsure whether he can trust her or not as is the case of everyone as Larry begins to realise he is being double crossed.
"The Treasure of San Teresa" is the sort of movie which unless you have a real interest in any of its stars will be a struggle to watch thanks to a clunky script, performances and editing. Yet in a way being clunky may have helped because it causes your mind to drift where as when you concentrate on "The Treasure of San Teresa" is when the gaping plot holes appear.
Being clunky and being riddled with plot holes is not its only issue as all the dark mystery as we watch Larry Brennan try to track down the hidden jewels and having to deal with danger and double crosses is all incredibly ordinary. Other than a scene featuring Nadine Tallier as a woman called Zizi being playful in a bath and then walking across a room in a towel which barely covers her there is absolutely nothing memorable about what happens in "The Treasure of San Teresa".
Not memorable is how the acting ends up with Eddie Constantine delivering a solid but uninteresting performance as Larry. Little better is Dawn Addams as Hedi with in truth the sexier Nadine Tallier making a bigger impression as Zizi thanks to the bath towel scene.
What this all boils down to is that "The Treasure of San Teresa" is quite simply a forgettable, clunky and uninspired thriller from 1959. It is basically now one of those movies you would watch only to complete a collection if you follow one of its various stars.
In the Arms of a Killer (1992)
Maria Quinn (Jaclyn Smith - Kaleidoscope) is new as a detective in Manhattan and finds herself partnered up with veteran detective and self appointed top cop Vincent Cusack (John Spencer - Presumed Innocent) whose constant cigar smo ...
A Strange Affair (1996)
After 23 years of marriage to Eric (Jay Thomas) Lisa McKeever (Judith Light - My Boyfriend's Back) has had enough of her husband's gambling and lying and when he steals money from her own personal account to pay his bookie she decid ...
Another Woman's Husband (2000)
Psychologist Laurel McArthur (Lisa Rinna) believes she has finally found Mr. Right, the charming Jake Miller (Dale Midkiff - Face Value) who asks her to go to the Bahamas on holiday with him. But ever since witnessing her brother dr ...
The Stranger Beside Me (1995)
Jennifer (Tiffani Thiessen - The Ladies' Man) has for a long time been dedicated to her wheelchair bound boss Dave (Gerald McRaney - Deadly Vows) but in truth is using it as an excuse not to go out and date as two years earlier she ...
Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story (1993)
Lawyer Shari Karney (Melissa Gilbert - Forbidden Nights) is good at her job but she has always managed to stay away from cases of child abuse. That is until she is persuaded to help a girl and in doing so unlocks repressed memories ...
SHARK MOVIES ON THE MOVIE SCENE
Jaws (1975)
Bait (2012)
Sharknado (2013)
Deep Blue Sea (1999)
Shark Zone (2003)
Super Shark (2011)
Malibu Shark Attack (2009)
3 Headed Shark Attack (2015)
Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark (2014)
Uncle Buck (1989)
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Grizzly experts want research into emaciated bears photographed on B.C. coast
Nick Eagland More from Nick Eagland
Updated: October 9, 2019 8:52 AM PDT
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Starving bear walks along the riverside in Thompson Sound on the west coast. Photo: Rolf Hicker. Rolf Hicker / PNG
Photos of bears concerned scientists, who said they could be suffering due to a poor salmon return. There could be other explanations.
Grizzly experts disturbed by photos of emaciated bears in Knight Inlet are calling for research to determine why they are suffering.
Photos of a sow and two cubs taken by wildlife photographer and tour guide Rolf Hicker raised alarms for some scientists, who said the bears were likely suffering due to an abysmal Pacific salmon return this year. Federal fisheries experts have pointed to climate change as the main reason for the poor return, and salmon are crucial to coastal grizzly bears’ diets.
Longtime grizzly researchers say a salmon shortage is the most obvious explanation for why the bears in Hickers’ photos are suffering, but said there could be other factors.
Dr. Ken Macquisten, a wildlife veterinarian and managing director for the Grouse Mountain wildlife refuge, said he was shocked by the photos. Had only a single bear been suffering, he would have questioned whether it had broken teeth or an intestinal blockage.
“But multiple bears would tend to point to some common reason, and a lack of food would be top of the suspect list, in my mind,” said Macquisten, who is a director for the Grizzly Bear Foundation.
Starving grizzly bear in Hoeya Sound. Photo: Rolf Hicker Rolf Hicker / PNG
Macquisten said grizzly bear researchers are concerned about B.C.’s salmon supply. The fish are crucial to west coast bears during their hyperphagic stage before hibernation, when an adult will eat 50,000-60,000 calories of food and gain three to four pounds each day. They are omnivores and also typically eat whitebark pine nuts, insects and berries.
But if they don’t eat enough before hibernation, they will wake up early and be forced to search for food during winter when it is scarce, he said. They could die of starvation.
“Because they can range over large areas, typically the bears will be able to go to somewhere else where the food is, so it’s a bit surprising why these (photographed) bears are in such a state,” he said. “Either they haven’t been able to find food over a wide area or they haven’t been moving.”
But Macquisten urged caution before drawing the conclusion that a salmon shortage is to blame, and said he hopes someone will locate one of the suffering grizzly bears to determine the exact cause.
The Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development said provincial biologists can’t confirm why the sow in Hicker’s photo appears to be in such poor shape.
The biologists don’t know its history and whether age, dental issues, injuries, or providing for cubs contributed to its state, the ministry said in an emailed reply to questions.
“The number of bears on the coast are stable to increasing and this often means more competition for resources,” the ministry said. “If salmon runs in the area are lower than expected, this will have an added effect and bears may have to travel further to find food.”
Government representatives are working with the Mamalilikulla First Nation to monitor the welfare of wildlife in the area.
The B.C. government has estimated 15,000 grizzly bears are in the province and said roughly 340 die each year of human-related causes. Of the 56 grizzly populations in B.C., nine are classified as threatened.
Dr. Cole Burton, an associate professor in the Department of Forest Resources Management at the University of B.C., also called for research into whether a poor salmon return and climate change are impacting the wellbeing of some bear populations.
“If we’re concerned about grizzly bears and how they might be responding to these changes, then we should try and support some more study on that, some more monitoring that’s tied to our management actions,” Burton said.
He wouldn’t jump to the conclusion, from the photos, that the suffering grizzly bears represent more widespread suffering, he said.
“It’s certainly consistent with these ideas around a reduction in salmon,” said Burton, who is the Canada Research Chair in Terrestrial Mammal Conservation. “But on its own, I don’t think it provides much evidence of the bigger-picture trends.”
Burton said that grizzly bear populations in B.C. are generally doing okay, but not thriving, mainly due to habitat loss caused by development and roadbuilding.
The government’s ban on grizzly bear trophy hunting in 2017 may have increased the number of bears’ competing for food, Burton said. Prior to the ban, an average of 297 grizzly bears were legally killed by hunters annually, according to provincial data.
“I’m not saying that that’s what we’re seeing here, but certainly we would want to know about the population,” Burton said.
Clayton Lamb, a PhD candidate and Vanier Scholar at the University of Alberta, has been working with grizzly bears for six years and is currently researching their population dynamics.
A poor salmon run is a “reasonable” explanation for the sow to be malnourished, Lamb said. But when salmon populations are low, grizzlies tend to move elsewhere in search of berries, and he wondered whether the bears in the photographs have that option.
“I think a couple of pictures don’t give us that larger population context,” he said.
Lamb said climate models for grizzly populations in B.C.’s Interior suggest that berries and other diet staples could, in fact, become more abundant as the climate changes.
“As far as food and climate change for bears, it’s not immediately concerning,” he said. “There’s undoubtedly going to be winners and losers in climate change, and I think it just so happens that some of those key berry species are going to be winners.”
Bryce Casavant, a former conservation officer who is now conservation policy analyst with non-profit conservation organization Pacific Wild, said Hicker’s photos serves as a reminder that human behaviour can have an impact on wildlife.
“What we do know is there is food scarcity, currently, within the Great Bear Rainforest and coastal regions of B.C., which is causing problems for grizzly bears,” said Casavant, a PhD candidate at Royal Roads University.
“Salmon runs have declined, their ability to access natural food sources has decline. Habitat loss is a serious contributing factor to grizzly bear population recovery and stability.”
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Editorial: Give animals a chance
Kamloops cowboy was corralling horses in distress when he was struck by a train
Big Bar landslide: Work contract awarded while there is low flow on Fraser River
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The iPad's first iAd: Revolutionary?
The Week Staff
The "Tron: Legacy" video promo is the first iPad-specific advertisement. YouTube
The video: When the iPad debuted in April, it was touted as a renaissance gadget: Simultaneously, the newspaper of the future, a novel platform for video, and a whole new way for advertisers to sell their wares. Now Apple has unveiled the first-ever commercial specific to the iPad — a video-based promo for the Disney film Tron: Legacy. (View below.) The Tron "iAd" "will serve as a preview of a broader rollout of the iAd advertising network on the iPad next year," all part of Apple's attempt to compete with Google, the current king of mobile advertising.
The reaction: These commercials, or something like them, "are the way of the future," says Pascal Emmanuel-Gobry at Business Insider. It's key that Apple has added social-media touches — letting viewers send an email from inside the ad, for instance — since "one of the big pluses of gorgeous, immersive ads is that they make you want to share them." Unfortunately, says The Financial Times, enthusiasm for Apple's iAd network has "waned amid high prices for ads, a slow production process and client withdrawals." One quoted executive says that "clients don’t really take [the new ad model] that seriously yet. It goes in the experimental category, along with most of the rest of mobile advertising." Watch the Tron iPad ad:
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Night Flight to Norway
IN APRIL 1945 a Halifax aircraft of the Royal Air Force was shot down over Norway, while on a secret mission in support of the Norwegian Resistance. All save one of the crew were killed. The aircraft plunged into Lake Mjøsa, one of the deepest lakes in Europe, if not in the world. For fifty years she lay there almost forgotten, until a group of Canadian Air Force veterans came seeking a memorial to their comrades who had died in the Second World War. They heard of the Halifax down in the lake, raised her, and restored her until she was again pristine in every detail.
Night Flight to Norway takes you through the incredible journey of Halifax Aircraft NA 337, from the developments leading to its construction, to its disappearance and discovery, learn about this iconic Canadian memorial from the people who rebuilt it.
Nine years after the plane’s discovery in 1986, by Tose Marsoe and Rolf Lieberg, it was finally recovered from the depths of Lake Mjøsa. 100 individuals known as the Halifax Restoration Team began restoring the NA 337 back to its former glory. After ten years their exhaustive efforts were complete and on November 5, 2005 the finished plane was unveiled.
Night Flight to Norway combines history, archaeology, and art to tell the story of Canadian War Veterans during World War II and their efforts to restore the Halifax Aircraft NA 337 and preserve its related legacies.
Introduction: A Canadian Memorial
A Tribute to the R.C.A.F. and an Outline of the Historical Background
Chapter One: The Overture
Handley Page, the First World War and the Beginning of Civil Aviation
Chapter Two: The Norwegian Campaign
From Earliest Encounters to the Final Outcome
Chapter Three: The Clang of Sword and Shield
From Great Expectations to the Blunt Reality
Chapter Four: Target for Tonight
High Command, a Man of his Time, and Strategic Bombing
Chapter Five: Diversity, Partnership, and Secrecy
The Workhorse, Six Group, S.O.E. and the Secret War
Chapter Six: Fortress Norway
Quisling, the Occupation, and the Norwegian Resistance
Chapter Seven: R.A.F. Special Squadrons 153
‘They Flew by Moonlight’
Chapter Eight: ‘One of our aircraft is Missing’
The Night Flight to Norway
Chapter Nine: Research and Recovery
NA 337 is Raised from Lake Mjøsa, After 50 years Down in the Deep
Chapter Ten: Restoration and Completion
A Full Account, with Photographs to Cover Every Stage
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Five Reasons I am Grateful for the Reign of Narendra Modi
The reign of Modi has been a difficult one for India. It has cost us dearly in terms of our national well-being. But seeing some positives in the negatives may be what we need to overcome the ruptures in society.
In an attempt to mock Rahul Gandhi, Narendra Modi ended up ridiculing those with dyslexia. Credit: Adnan Abidi/File Photo/ Reuters
As per the lexicon, I am a secular liberal. I am amongst those who believe the Constitution of India should be followed in letter and in spirit, and that no ideology or religion should get special backing from the government, least of all one that is bent on whipping up communal passions. I am also amongst those who believe that dialogue, debate and dissent are good for a democracy. I am not amongst those who believe that Narendra Modi and the BJP have been good for India.
And yet, looking back over the last four-and-a-half turbulent years, there are at least five reasons why I am, in a manner of speaking, grateful for the reign of Modi. I am acutely aware of the damage the last few years have done to the social fabric of the country and to its economic well-being. But the ability to see the positives in a negative situation is often exactly what makes us feel less helpless in the face of grave difficulties, and do something about them.
Modi’s reign has turned detached bystanders into active students of Indian politics.
I never followed Indian politics closely. Sure, I’ve kept up with major political events over the decades but they never gave me much to pause for (except for maybe the demolition of the Babri Masjid and the assassinations of two prime ministers). That changed when Modi became prime minister of India in 2014.
Wasn’t this the man who had been banned from entering the US because of his alleged complicity in the Gujarat pogrom of 2002? Wasn’t this the chief minister who had made inflammatory speeches against Muslims calling relief camps ‘baby-producing factories’? Was public memory so amnesiac that a self-declared adherent of Hindutva – who had been condemned by the national and international media – had just become India’s prime minister?
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My reading preferences changed overnight. I found myself buying books I would never pick up before. Manoj Mitta’s Fiction of Fact-Finding pointed out huge loopholes in the SIT investigation that Modi had faced. It took a second read to understand not just the whole sequence of events that led to the Gujarat genocide of 2002, but also how the state machinery was suspended just long enough to let the dance of death claim over 1,000 lives.
Gas Wars by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, former editor of the Economic and Political Weekly, and a Feast of Vultures by journalist Josy Joseph highlighted in chilling detail – the inordinate influence major business houses exert on Indian governments. Suffice to say, I got a crash course on the unholy nexus between business, politics and the media.
Former bureaucrat and activist Harsh Mander educated me on the history of communalism and the stark inequalities of India in his precise and evocative book, Looking Away. I even started reading Noam Chomsky and understanding how Manufacturing Consent is the method of choice for most governments to keep their citizens toeing line.
Modi’s reign has given rise to a new generation of youth leaders.
When Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested and Jawaharlal Nehru University was declared a hotbed of ‘anti-national activities’ in early 2016, the students and faculty immediately organised a series of open lectures on nationalism every evening for a week. I attended the very first one fully expecting to see a bunch of wild-eyed radicals raising anti-establishment slogans. What I saw instead was a thousand-strong crowd of students listening quietly and keenly to a professor speak on theories of nationalism.
I was taken aback by the contrast between how JNU students were actually like and the way they were portrayed by many news channels. I decided to spend the rest of the evening chatting with as many scholars as I could. Far from finding a ‘tukde-tukde gang’, I discovered intelligent and nuanced young people studying the intricacies of Indian society, culture and politics in an attempt to better understand and hopefully find solutions to India’s many complex problems.
Over the next few months I met several student leaders like Kanhaiya Kumar, Shehla Rashid and Umar Khalid and found myself inspired by their levels of intelligence, courage and ability to effectively challenge the government’s narrative.
Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattachary. Credit: PTI
Modi’s reign has galvanised us into facing our fears and finding our voice.
The best way to overcome fear is to do the thing we are afraid of. Courage is contagious, and seeing students – twenty years or so younger than me speaking out against tyranny has helped me face my fear of ‘getting in trouble’, and instead, speak out – in person, on social media and in articles for news websites.
There has been a conspiracy of silence for the longest time, especially in middle class India. An unspoken understanding of sorts that one must keep one’s head low and not criticise the powers that be, lest one suddenly find oneself afoul of them.
Ravish Kumar’s book, The Free Voice, is a marvellous treatise on finding courage in these fear-inducing times. I have also discovered the connection between truth and courage. The more you focus on facts, the more courage you have to go against the tide and voice an unpopular opinion.
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Modi’s reign has brought the misuse of national media by the state into sharp focus.
The last few years have helped me discern the difference between news and propaganda. I, who used to read the news without thinking pre-2014 now find myself shunning most national dailies and news channels (the Cobrapost revelations ensured that). I now choose my sources of news carefully. I am also learning to see the difference between real issues and contrived ones. The Ayodhya crisis, for example, is a contrived issue. The farmer crisis is a real one. Sites like altnews.in, indiaspend.com, modireportcard.com, and wadanatodo.net have done yeoman service in calling out the untruths peddled almost daily by many mainstream media channels.
I have learned, most of all, that eternal vigilance really is the price of freedom.
This has been a tough lesson. Democracy is a fragile thing and can be hijacked easily. The only thing that will keep it safe is the alertness of its citizens. It is easy to get swayed by an inflammatory WhatsApp message. It is difficult to pause and question it. It is easy to get swept along with stirring speeches and simplistic slogans. It is, however, difficult to step back and take a critical look at the messages being fed to us daily. It is imperative to stay alert and informed at all times, because otherwise it is very easy to mistake a demagogue for a messiah.
The reign of Modi has been a difficult one for India. It has cost us dearly in terms of our national well-being. It has laid bare the ruptures in Indian society and unleashed from within them – violence and hatred. But we can be thankful that it has also given us the opportunity to learn certain invaluable lessons as individuals and as a nation.
The question remains – will we?
Rohit Kumar is an educator with a background in positive psychology and psychometrics. He works with high school students on emotional intelligence and adolescence issues to help make schools bullying-free zones.
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‘Take, Lord, and receive’: Nostalgia, truthful memory and the Great War
Posted on: 11th July 2014 |
Author: Nathan Koblintz
Category: Faith and culture
Tags: poetry, First World War, remembrance, Edward Thomas, Suscipe, Spiritual Exercises
Photo by antgirl at flickr.com
‘Before we embark on this showcase of memory at this centenary of appalling violence, it is a good thing to ask: What are we about to do? What is a correct orientation to all of this?’ Nathan Koblintz uses the poetry of Edward Thomas, who wrote during, but rarely about, the First World War, to think critically about the act of remembrance. The words of an Ignatian prayer offer us a spiritual ideal for remembering the War – how does Thomas’s poetry come close to this ideal?
I have very clear memories of the First World War. Poppies, trenches, sacrifice, machine guns, aristocratic incompetence, the first lines of ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’: the images have been lined up since I was 12, supplemented here and there by a fact plucked from the hedgerows of The History Channel or one of the more serious pub quizzes. I suspect that my memories of 100 years ago are fairly representative of those of any non-specialist born in the second half of the 20th century.
Over the next four years it will be hard to avoid taking part in at least a few public remembrances of the War. You can attend concerts of sensitively selected music, switch off your lights or light candles at designated times, discuss with colleagues the contents of documentaries and dramas. It will almost be odd to commemorate the war in private. This is likely to be only the beginning – a child born in 2000 faces what is potentially a lifetime of centenaries, the beacons of 20th century history stretching out ahead of her.
It is easy to feel that these public performances of memory are asking us to subscribe to a particular brand of sentimentality, and it is tempting to respond with a humbug-cynicism.[1] The First World War clearly ‘matters’, although in a very different way than our personal life-stories matter to us. There is good historical argument for this: the great historian Eric Hobsbawm used 1914 as the signpost for the end of the ‘long 19th century’ and the beginning of the ‘short 20th century’, an economic, psychological and political pivot-point in world history that marked the end of British dominance.
The war was a turning point too, for the word ‘nostalgia’, something to which this essay will return. It is only in 1920 that the word took on its modern meaning of a ‘wistful longing for the past’[2]. That 14-year-old child who is writing letters to the Unknown Soldier in her history class is growing up in an age saturated with nostalgia: from the instant sepia of Instagram to pop culture’s quick churn of yesterday’s fashions, nostalgia is a particularly marketable form of memory. (To find out quite how addictive an act of memory it can be, watch how a few minutes turns into a few hours on Southampton University’s musical nostalgia page).
Nostalgia has its own language, its own codes: that word ‘redolent’ reeks of it. It strengthens memory’s tendency towards symbolism at the expense of detail. Instead of remembering the ‘thing as it was’ – with all the nuances, context, extraneous details – a nostalgic act of memory focusses on a few sensations: a piece of music, a type of clothing, a single event. Symbolic acts of remembrance such as those for centenaries are prone to this – symbols are powerful because they focus multiple perspectives and experiences into a single object or act, but there is always the risk that the symbol becomes more important than the reality it represents. Perhaps Catholics should know this best of all.
So before we embark on this showcase of memory at this centenary of appalling violence, it is a good thing to ask: What are we about to do? What is a correct orientation to all of this? Roger Dawson wrote in these pages on Remembrance Day last year about the spiritual necessity of ‘dangerous remembrance’ – how, if we want to draw on the strength of memory and tradition, to determine God’s hand in history, we must remember as accurately and fully as possible. This is quite a task. How are we to begin?
An answer is found in the first words of the Suscipe, one of the prayers of the Spiritual Exercises:
Take Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding…
A paradox, perhaps – it demands we give up control over memory and understanding; and yet to have ‘dangerous’, not ‘nostalgic’, memories, requires an intense effort. The Suscipe presents a spiritual ideal for our remembering of the war. I would like to offer a route towards this through the companionship of a poet, Edward Thomas, who died in the battle of Arras in 1917.
Why poetry, and why Edward Thomas? The first is easier to answer: poetry and public remembrance have always been inextricably linked, and capturing what was lost or passing is pretty much the Primum Mobile for sitting down and writing a poem. But as well as being recruited for public statements, poetry at its best has an internal swerve towards honesty, towards nuance, towards getting the thing down right. Uncritical nostalgia in poetry is simply bad poetry.
But why Thomas? Despite the fact that his entire poetic output took place between December 1914 and January 1917 (he was already an established prose writer in his mid-thirties when he began), he is rarely read as a ‘War Poet’.[3] The years around the First World War have been bookmarked as a turning point in literary history – the canonisation and then the resultant swing away from writers like Rupert Brooke towards the ‘war realism’ of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, followed by the modernists like Hilda Doolittle, T.S. Eliot and James Joyce. Thomas drowns in all of this categorisation: he is a poet of the English countryside and thus hard to award the badge of modernism, even though in his clarity of feeling and expression the voice of future poets like Philip Larkin is clearly distinguishable; he is a poet who volunteered and died in the war but rarely took it as a central theme.
Perhaps it is precisely this oblique yet central relationship to the war which suggests Thomas as an excellent guide to how to remember it. He was writing at a time when the rural England he adored was already under threat, and the war was simply another event which came in a succession of attacks on the livelihoods, fauna and people, that he had spent his professional career describing in prose. The war began – and ended – his poetry, but it never dominates it.
If there is a typical ‘Thomas poem’ it is one in which the poetic voice – precise, clear, unsentimental – experiences itself moving amongst the weather, the seasons, the trees and words of southern England (in particular, Kent, Hampshire and Gloucestershire):
The shell of a little snail bleached
In the grass; chip of flint, and mite
Of chalk; and the small birds’ dung
In splashes of purest white:
All the white things a man mistakes
For the earliest violets
Who seeks through Winter’s ruins
Something to pay Winter’s debts
(‘But these things also’)
You can track Thomas’s interests by listing his poem titles: ‘February Afternoon’, ‘March’, ‘March the Third’, ‘April,’ ‘May 23’, ‘July’, ‘October’, ‘November’. Rain features heavily (this is England, after all), as do traders, tramps, inn-keepers and their voices, leaves and folk-tales. His love of the countryside entwines with his love of its language (man’s only – and one-sided – gift to nature): moneywort, toadflax, harebell, meadowsweet, dog’s-mercury and missel-thrush – plant names that a hundred years ago were already fading, grow in his verses.
His poetic voice is clear, but never simplistic: his emotions receive the same critical eye that he had trained on his many walks through forests and fields:
One thing I know, that love with chance
And use and time and necessity
Will grow
(‘When first’)
I never would acknowledge my own glee
Because it was less mighty than my mind
Had dreamed of. Since I could not boast of strength
Great as I wished, weakness was all my boast.
(‘There was a time’)
The war is there, but generally in the background – the farmer in ‘As the team’s head-brass’ tells the narrator, ‘One of my mates is dead. The second day / In France they killed him.’ Thomas had the opportunity to join his friend Robert Frost in America, but after much deliberation, signed up with the Artists’ Rifles in 1915 (before conscription), and then volunteered for service overseas with the Royal Artillery in December 1916. This decision underscores that sense of a closing door in many of his poems, but the war is by no means the only cause of impending loss. Throughout all of his poems is the sense of haste – not rush, but of a finite amount of time available to him and that which he loved. The countryside in 1914 was threatened not only by war but by the economic and demographic shifts that were emptying fields and filling the cities. Thomas’s choice of subjects in 1914 were already partly archaic – to place it into context, whilst Thomas was meeting the ancient genius loci in Wiltshire (‘All he said was: ‘Nobody can’t stop ‘ee. It’s / A footpath, right enough.’), J. Alfred Prufrock was watching ‘the smoke that rises from the pipes / Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows’ and measuring out his life with coffee spoons.
Poetry for Thomas was a way of remembering that which he loved. But he was no sentimentalist. His poems bear the record of the limits of memory and poetry’s ability to preserve against time: ‘There are so many things I have forgot, / That once were much to me, … / But lesser things there are, remembered yet’ (‘The Word’). This might be a cry many of us recognise as we search for a name, but all we can recall is the colour of the tie he wore, or the fact that her ill-fitting shoes burst a strap on the way back from the cinema one time. Everything that lives, lives in the present only: even when we are remembering, we are stationary:
The Past is a strange land, most strange.
Wind blows not there, nor does rain fall:
If they do, they cannot hurt at all.
…Remembered joy and misery
Bring joy to the joyous equally;
Both sadden the sad.
(‘Parting’)
Thomas knows the love he feels for the countryside is one-way traffic. The pearls that he forms out of this love, his poems, survive because they are beautiful and have form – but the form that they have is their own, not the rain’s, the flowers’, or the sparrows’. The poems are objects that contain something of the past which he loves; but like clumsy symbols, they are as much about themselves as they are about their subjects
Let us return to why this matters:
But memory is part of our faith. For Catholics, tradition is very important, and we cannot have tradition without memory. … ‘Eucharist’ means ‘thanksgiving’, which is why at the start of Mass it is important to call to mind (remember) not just our sins, but that for which we are grateful. And all of the Eucharistic prayers are peppered with ‘remember’, ‘in memory’, ‘recall’, ‘in remembrance’. ‘Anamnesis’ is the Greek word meaning ‘reminiscence’ or ‘memorial sacrifice’, and refers to both the memorial character of the Eucharist, and the Passion, Resurrection and Ascension of Christ.
(Roger Dawson, ‘Dangerous Remembrances’, http://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/20131111_1.htm)
Sentimentality and nostalgia are not merely poor taste, they are spiritual traps. For Catholics, truthful memory connects us to the historical presence of God in the exact circumstances of our lives (and thus the confidence in His current and future presence). For Thomas, truthful memory was the only tool he had by which to preserve the objects of his love. What links his poems to the act of memory in the Eucharist, and distinguishes them both from nostalgia and sentimentality, is their call to action. Nostalgia is essentially passive: you put on your headphones or settle back in the audience and enjoy the sensations. A loving memory is tied with up questions that demand action: what was it really like? What was the true reality? These are the motivating and energising questions of many a spiritual search.[4]
So a healthy, loving act of memory takes place with energy and a desire to ‘see the thing as it is’. It is ambitious, not satisfied with the most obvious recollections, suspicious of simplicity. And ultimately it is aware of its limitations – no picture can capture the face of the beloved, and no poem can hold the world.
To return to the Suscipe:
What does it mean to give total control over one’s memory and understanding to the Lord? To paraphrase C.S. Lewis, if I had got further with this myself, I could probably tell you more about it.[5] But Thomas’s poems show us an attitude from where this might begin. Poems written during his army training to his two daughters and wife, find him searching for the gifts he can offer to them:
If I should ever by chance grow rich
I’ll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,
Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,
And let them all to my elder daughter.
The rent I shall ask of her will be only
Each year’s first violets
(‘If I should ever by chance’)
What shall I give my daughter the younger
More than will keep her from cold and hunger?
I will not give her anything. …
Her small hands I would not cumber
With so many acres and their lumber,
But leave her Steep and her own world
And her spectacled self with hair uncurled
(‘What shall I give?’)
And to his wife, Helen:
And you, Helen, what should I give you?
…If I could choose
Freely in that great treasure-house
Anything from any shelf
I would give you back yourself
(‘And you, Helen’)
In these poems, we hear the sound of Thomas ceding up control. The war was closing in on him, and the semi-jovial rhymed couplets of these poems are a gentle mockery of the part he is playing – the well-to-do benefactor bequeathing his riches to his family. Instead each of these poems finds him owning nothing – that which he loves is not his to give. It is a realisation of powerlessness akin to humility: ‘When I look back I am like the moon, sparrow and mouse / That witnessed what they could never understand’ (‘The long small room’).
This is what is so difficult about praying the Suscipe in a time of nostalgia: my memories are mine, are me, and every delicious or bittersweet daydream addicts me further to their taste. Centenaries are those daydreams on a national scale. Thomas’s love and honesty leads him close to the attitude of the Suscipe: ‘It is plain / That they will do without me as the rain / Can do without the flowers and the grass’ (‘What will they do?’). This release of ownership is the more touching that it comes at the end of such loving efforts to remember and preserve.
Thomas is not an advanced spiritual guide – his poems record the lack of solace he found. In this way, they are ‘dangerous remembrances’; dangerous too, as we prepare ourselves for a flurry of centenaries, because they highlight the self-confidence and desire for ownership in big acts of memory. Nostalgia and centenaries encourage us to treat memory as a product – to control and seal it, and by doing so, to render it no longer dangerous. We are told: Never Forget, and it is unlikely we ever will. But it is worth asking ourselves over the coming months what we are able to mean by this. What kind of control are we exerting over the past? How loving is our understanding of it?
The wish to understand the war and to pass judgement – to praise that which should be praised, and to condemn that which should be condemned – is natural and in many ways healthy. To not do so would be to close our eyes to an event that unleashed a century of suffering. But there are risks in doing this, a historical smugness that comes with distance – which has not only political ramifications (European countries promising each other ‘Never Again’, whilst they harden borders against those fleeing from wars fought with European weapons), but spiritual risks too. If our memories become less dangerous, less nuanced and true, we are closing our eyes to the hand of God.
The Suscipe acts as the soil in which we can plant our memories. It is not a call to passivity – we hear the opposite in it. It combines a love that seeks to see God in history and reality, with a humility that realises it does not own or fully comprehend that which it seeks to understand.
Edward Thomas asks the same questions in his poetry: What is the use of human memory? What is real love? These are permanent question no centenary answers.
Nathan Koblintz is a former member of the Thinking Faith Editorial Board.
[1] Particularly when faced with the trumpeting of the English Premier League regarding its creation of a “3G pitch in Ypres” – which “represents a fantastic opportunity to continue the messages of peace and understanding associated with the original Christmas Truce match of 1914.”
[2] Nostalgia was originally a medical issue for Swiss émigrés in the 17th century, curable by leeches, opium, and of course, a trip to the Swiss alps. Interestingly, in light of its shift in meaning after the first world war, Swiss soldiers were seen as being particularly prone to it: http://www.iasc-culture.org/eNews/2007_10/9.2CBoym.pdf
[3] References to poems come from The Annotated Collected Poems, (Tarset, 2008), ed. Edna Longley.
[4] And not just mental action: as Roger Dawson stresses, true memory cannot but result in ‘the radical action of Christian discipleship’.
[5] ‘I wish I had got a bit further with humility myself: if I had, I could probably tell you more about the relief, the comfort, of taking the fancy-dress off – getting rid of the false self, with all its ‘Look at me’ and ‘Aren’t I a good boy?’ and all its posing and posturing. To get even near it, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.’ Mere Christianity (London, 1952), p.112
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December 28, 2014 /0 Comments/in Creative, News /by Thom
Accounting and reflecting are two important year-end activities that small business owners all across the world engage in. I’m no exception!
As I tidied my house this year, sorting through old programs and ticket stubs and finding shards of broken plates all over the place, I thought about the year’s happenings and started gathering data. Not one to throw away frivolous year-end statistics, I’ve compiled it all here for your enjoyment!
Here you are, friends! Here’s my 2014, by the numbers.
I visited six countries this year – the USA, Canada, Ethiopia, China, New Zealand, and Fiji.
Fiji was a kind of happy accident – their national airline has an “unlimited layover” policy that afforded me a little vacation on my way home from New Zealand. No shows there, but I sure did juggle on the beach!
I juggled in eleven states this year, too. That was Oregon, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire.
The folks in New Hampshire went crazy when I announced it was my Granite State debut that night. “Live free or die! Don’t tread on me!” they shouted. They also went crazy when I announced my box of “guns with tiny American flags on them” during my rat-hoop act. (That one worried me a little.)
I traveled a total of 65,404 miles traveled for shows in 2014.
(That’s enough juggling to circle the globe two and a half times!)
Eight stagings of “The ‘Dinner and a Show’ Show” in four states, winning one award, getting three lovely newspaper reviews, and a dozens upon dozens of audience comment cards (including three crayon drawings of Claude the lobster, and four phone numbers.)
Two wonderful pop-up shows for patients at the Hamlin Fistula Hospital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Catherine Hamlin, the woman three to my left, is working to eradicate obstetric fistula in Ethiopia. She’s doing an incredible job, too, with a network of hospitals all across the country. She was a Nobel Peace Prize nominee in 2014!
Four stagings of “Joan and the Gentleman Juggler” – a new production with my friends Gabi Sinclair and Ric Walker. I learned one new stunt for this show – a version of Cinquevalli’s famous pool cue and sherry glass balance.
Despite the trick collapsing a half dozen times when I was learning it, I only ever got hit on the head once! And never got a black eye! Small victories.
Two nice newspaper articles about me and my work with nonprofits! (Brattleboro Reformer & New Hampshire Union Leader)
Fourteen incredible hamburgers on the road. (Most memorable? The “Tom Selleck” burger at the Elbow Room Cafe in Vancouver, BC. Hamburger, bacon, brie, banana, pineapple, and peach with a chipotle aeoli. What?!)
See for yourself – follow #hamburgersIhaveknown or @thomwalljuggler on Instagram! (Six-hundred and nine others already are!)
Three killer benefit shows for the New England Center for Circus Arts. Two were in the Latchis Theater in downtown Brattleboro. (Who could resist performing on that stage! Did you see the archways? Did you see the constellations?!)
The third show was at Dixon Place on Manhattan’s Lower East Side – the kickoff show for NECCA’s capital campaign. They’re raising money to build a new circus school building from the ground up. (How cool is that?!)
Three cities in six months with the largest circus company in the history of the world! Easily the most stressful contract I’ve been on, but also one of the most rewarding. Over the course of this contract, I performed for around 200,000 people.
Nearly one-hundred pre-shows with four animators and one lizard puppet.
From an email with my dad:
“Before the show, I do animation/walkaround through the audience as they’re waiting and getting seated. I’m dressed as the scientist, but with a giant lizard puppet under an arm that I use to surprise people with. He’s got this fantastic tongue that shoots out quickly – good for startling people and getting a rise out of groups of people who watch. At the show two nights ago, I was walking around the seats near center stage and got a big reaction from the crowd. When I got backstage, I learned that I’d attacked the prime minister of New Zealand with my puppet?”
Three days at a booking convention in Colombia, Missouri in January. (The number of stories from this convention? Dozens. “You ain’t never been to a tractor pull, son?” “Oh, my wife and I really have fun, if you know what I mean.” “Who wants to buy this quarter hog?”)
One new acrobatics partner. (One hundred and sixty pounds on my head.)
Two-thousand, two-hundred – The number of seats at the Auckland Circus Convention’s gala show.
One – The number of drunk guys who decided to try and steal a ball from center stage during my act.
“One hundred percent!” – The amount of focus to put on a balanced object, in order to balance and juggle (as chanted in meditation by my dedicated students!)
Twenty-five plates were smashed in the initial devising process for “The ‘Dinner and a Show’ Show.” One part enthusiasm, one part polished cement stage.
Thirty-six statues of Snoopy in front of my stage in Hong Kong. Six statues of Snoopy on my stage in Hong Kong. Seven stories of people watching me from above, in the atrium of the mall.
I packed 16 backup plates for these 10 shows, just in case some broke in transit or on stage… but not a single one did!
One new leopard-print suit. The Hopeless Throwmantics are going jungle-casual in 2015.
One IJA medal. (For my mouthstick act! The first medal awarded to a mouthstick routine in the IJA’s sixty-seven year history.)
…all in all, a tremendous 2014! Where will 2015 take me? I’ve got a few interesting leads already, but I’m not about to spill the beans quite yet. Stay tuned, friends! Wishing you all a successful year ahead, and I hope all of the seeds you plant come to bloom!
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Topic: News releases
Vancouver, BC – To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, University Canada West has announced a reduction in domestic MBA tuition fees for 2017. This will benefit Canadians and permanent residents enrolling in the MBA Foundation Program and the MBA Program, with additional discounts available to Canadian Armed Forces members. The lower fees will apply from the winter term, starting with the January 2017 intake. This gives students the opportunity to access UCW’s graduate program and save more than 25% on the total cost.
Domestic students will pay $5,100 for the MBA Foundation instead of $6,900, while the MBA Program will be reduced to $24,960 from the previous $34,560. Fees for individual courses will be discounted to align with the new pricing. Costs for international students remain unchanged, but members and veterans of the Canadian Armed Forces will benefit from an additional 10% discount on any program (including online courses) to reach out to those serving the country.
“2017 marks a true milestone in the history of Canada. We’re looking forward to making our own contribution to this anniversary by making graduate education more affordable. We’ve been offering quality business education since 2004, and we want to open the doors of our MBA courses to even more Canadian students. At a time when most other institutions are contemplating tuition increases, we’re trying to make education more affordable,” said Dr Arthur Coren, President and Vice Chancellor of University Canada West.
The reduced tuition fees will apply for all intakes in 2017. Dr Coren added: “Access to higher education and qualifications is a key element in the social and economic development of every country. We want to ensure even more Canadians have that opportunity.”
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UCW delivers programs that provide students with the applied and theoretical basis for success in the workplace and future academic endeavours. Established in 2004 by former University of Victoria president David Strong, UCW offers quality education with courses that transfer broadly into the public education system. Courses are offered at UCW’s downtown Vancouver campus and online. For more information visit www.ucanwest.ca.
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CBS, Viacom complete merger in a win for Shari Redstone
Reuters 4 December 2019
The CBS television network logo is seen outside their offices on 6th avenue in New York
(Reuters) - CBS Corp and Viacom Inc completed their merger on Wednesday, reuniting media mogul Sumner Redstone's U.S. entertainment empire.
The combined entity, ViacomCBS Inc <VIACA.O> <VIAC.O>, is controlled by National Amusements Inc, the holding company owned by billionaire Sumner Redstone and his daughter, Shari.
The third attempt at a merger since 2016 is a decisive win for Shari Redstone, whose father built the companies through a series of mergers and then broke them apart 13 years ago.
The recombination comes amid an increasingly competitive media landscape dominated by Disney <DIS.N> and Netflix <NFLX.O>, prompting Redstone to pursue a merger.
The deal combines the CBS television network, CBS News, Showtime cable networks with MTV Networks, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and the Paramount movie studios.
Together, they will own more than 140,000 TV episodes and 3,600 film titles. Annually, it is estimated to generate about $28 billion (£21.82 billion) in revenue.
The company said it will account for 22% of TV viewership in the U.S. and hold the highest share of broadcast and cable viewing across key audience demographics.
Class A and Class B shares of the combined company will begin trading on the Nasdaq on Dec. 5, ViacomCBS said.
(Reporting by Sanjana Shivdas in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva)
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Embattled Patisserie Valerie says 'devastating fraud' far more extensive than first thought
Senior City Correspondent, Yahoo Finance UK
Yahoo Finance UK 16 January 2019
Pedestrians walk past a Patisserie Valerie cake store. Photo: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Bakery and cafe chain Patisserie Valerie (CAKE.L) said late on Wednesday that the multimillion fraud on its books discovered last year is far more significant than first thought, involving “thousands of false entries into the Company’s ledgers.”
The company said in an update to shareholders on Wednesday afternoon that forensic accountants had discovered “the misstatement of its accounts was extensive, involving very significant manipulation of the balance sheet and profit and loss accounts.”
“It will take some time before a reliable trading outlook can be completed,” it said.
Patisserie Valerie said cashflow and profitability had been misstated in the past and “is materially below” what the market was told on 12 October, shortly after the accounting errors were first discovered. The company has appointed RSM as its new auditors but said it “will be some time to complete a restatement of the Company’s accounts.”
KPMG has also been appointed to “assist in carrying out a review of all options available to it in order to recover from the devastating effects of the fraud, and to preserve value for its stakeholders going forward.”
Patisserie Valerie first told the market it had discovered accounting irregularities in October. The bakery chain, which is owned by prominent entrepreneur Luke Johnson, has been battling for survival ever since. Johnson gave the chain an emergency £10m bridging loan to help ensure its survival.
Patisserie Valerie said Wednesday that it was in talks with banks about extending a freeze on its banking facilities beyond January 18. The size of these facilities was not disclosed and a spokesperson declined to give figures.
The company added that it has carried out wholesale management change since the scandal was uncovered.
“The Company has appointed a new CEO, a new interim CFO, a new non-executive director, a new commercial director and a new production director, as well as other management appointments,” it said.
Chris Marsh, the company’s former chief financial officer, was arrested and bailed shortly after the fraud was uncovered. The Serious Fraud Office is also investigating. The Times reported the accounting blackhole could be as big as £40m ($51.4).
Patisserie Valerie shares have been suspended since the fraud was first uncovered in October.
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Kerala government withdraws security cover for Justice B Kemal Pasha
TNN | Updated: Dec 8, 2019, 8:14 IST
Justice B Kemal Pasha
KOCHI: The state home department has withdrawn security cover provided to retired judge of the high court, Justice B Kemal Pasha. The security review committee, headed by home secretary noted that there is no need of security cover for him.
Justice Pasha said withdrawal of security cover is in retaliation to his criticism of the LDF government over a slew of recent developments. “The security staff relieved today following the decision of the review committee. It was the state government which provided me four armed police personnel, citing threat to my life from IS operative in Kerala two years ago. But the government now felt that there was no need for a security cover for me,” said Pasha.
“My recent criticism of the police on various issues seems to have irked the Police Association. I had come out strongly against the police in the Walayar case, the killing of Maoists in Palakkad and the arrest of two youths alleging Maoist link in Kozhikode,” he said.
DGP’s spokesperson said the government had issued the order on September 30 on people who have been provided security . The order, in which Pasha’s name was not included, was issued after the security review committee meeting.
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Magic mushrooms’ psychedelic ingredient could help treat people with severe depression
Trials of psilocybin blocked by drugs law red tape, says Professor David Nutt of Imperial College London
psilocybin had a profound effect on making volunteers feel happier weeks after they had taken the drug
Prof David Nutt says that because magic mushrooms are rated as a class-A drug, their active chemical ingredient cannot be manufactured unless a special license is granted. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi for the Guardian
Robin McKie, science editor
Saturday 6 April 2013 19.04 EDT Last modified on Wednesday 10 February 2016 11.01 EST
Drugs derived from magic mushrooms could help treat people with severe depression. Scientists believe the chemical psilocybin, the psychedelic ingredient in magic mushrooms, can turn down parts of the brain that are overactive in severely depressive patients. The drug appears to stop patients dwelling on themselves and their own perceived inadequacies.
However, a bid by British scientists to carry out trials of psilocybin on patients in order to assess its full medical potential has been blocked by red tape relating to Britain’s strict drugs laws. Professor David Nutt, professor of neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London, will tell a conference today that because magic mushrooms are rated as a class-A drug, their active chemical ingredient cannot be manufactured unless a special licence is granted.
“We haven’t started the study because finding companies that could manufacture the drug and who are prepared to go through the regulatory hoops to get the license is proving very difficult,” said Nutt. “The whole field is so bedeviled by primitive old-fashioned attitudes. Even if you have a good idea, you may never get it into the clinic, it seems.”
Research by Nutt has found that psilocybin switches off part of the brain called the anterior cingulate cortex.]
It was known that this area is overactive in individuals suffering from depression.
In his tests on healthy individuals, it was found that psilocybin had a profound effect on making these volunteers feel happier weeks after they had taken the drug, said Nutt
– who was sacked as the chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs in 2009 after repeatedly clashing with government ministers about the dangers and classification of illicit drugs.
Nutt’s team also discovered that another section of the brain known as the default mode network was also influenced by psilocybin.
“People with depression have overactive default mode networks and so ruminate on themselves, on their inadequacies, on their badness, that they are worthless, that they have failed – to an extent that is sometimes delusional.
Again psilo-cybin appears to block that activity and stops this obsessive rumination.”
To determine if psilocybin could be used as a treatment to help patients, Nutt and his team were given £550,000 by the Medical Research Council to begin a three-year project to test the drug on people with depression. Patients who had failed to respond to two previous treatments would be selected. The aim was to test 30 with the drug and 30 with a placebo.
However, the group has found its path blocked by bureaucracy. So difficult has the government and the EU made it for companies to manufacture the active ingredients of Class A drugs that price tags of around £100,000 were given by chemical companies.
“We only need a relatively small amount of the drug, an order worth only a few hundred pounds,” said Nutt, who is set to describe his work with psilocybin at the UK Festival of Neuroscience conference in London today. “If we have to pay £100,000 we simply cannot afford to carry out the rest of the study. We have not given up but it is proving very difficult,” he said.
“Depression is now the largest cause of disability in Europe. There are many effective treatments but only about a third of individuals respond fully. At least 10% fail to respond to three different treatments. We badly need more types of treatment but we cannot pursue these because the government is denying scientists access to powerful tools that could help people in need. The regulations that govern researchers access to Class A drugs are totally inappropriate and harmful.”
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1 Response to Magic mushrooms’ psychedelic ingredient could help treat people with severe depression
Madam Mortified says:
Every single person who suffers from any type of DEPRESSION, MANIC DEPRESSION (aka BI POLAR) SCHIZOPHRENIA, whether they are TARGETED with PSYCHOTRONIC WEAPONS and these are INDUCED, or otherwise, READON.
ANY and ALL pharmikeah, I.e. DRUGS, whether big pharma lab or street, especially psychedelic aka hallucinogenic drugs, INCLUDING MARIJUANA, all of which are currently being touted as the magic bullet for “Mental Illness,” BEWARE!!!!!!
Each and every one of these drugs can and DO open up PORTALS to other realms, other dimensions and other ENTITIES!!!! THIS IS NO JOKE because these OTHER ENTITIES are NOT OUR “FRIENDS!!!!!” THEY ARE DEMONS!!!! And they can trick you!!!!!! They are VERY CLEVER. AND IF YOU SMOKE OR EAT THAT STUFF, YOU DO IN FACT and IN DEED invite DEMONIC ENTITIES to enter your body, your mind, your spirit, your soul. YOU CAN AND WILL BECOME DEMON-POSSESSED!!!!
STOP MESSING AROUND!!!!
JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY WAY!!!!
PRAY WHILE YOU STILL HAVE TIME!!
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"A picture is worth a thousand words," and Toledo's Attic contains over 3,500 images in collections developed since 1995. New media is crucial to digital history, but cannot be separated from the historical context and the narrative representations of that history. The early Toledo's Attic projects have utilized interactive panoramas featuring Ohio Historical Markers in Toledo, and with time Flash and slide presentations were added. Toledo's Broadcasting Service, WGTE, has produced several videos under the Toledo Stories series title, providing yet another rich collection of educational materials.
Toledo History on Map - Explore Toledo history in geographical space
Ohio Historical Markers (index)
Ohio historical markers throughout Toledo speak to the remarkable events and institutions that shaped the community since its foundation. While the buildings (and the people and organizations who built them) may no longer be there, markers stand as remendes to current and future generations. This exhibit features Toledo historical markers through photos and interactive panoramic views allowing views to look around the spot. Included with this collection of monuments and descriptions is an essay written by Dr. Timothy Messer-Kruse.
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Maumee Valley Country Day School: Tradition and Transformation
Watch this WGTE Video production on the 125-year-old Maumee Valley Country Day School. "For more than 125 years, Maumee Valley Country Day School has pushed the boundaries of education to provide students with a remarkable learning experience. It is fiercely loved by its alumni, most of whom consider their years at the school as a gift and a privilege and the most important time in their lives...."
These slideshows feature the images collections in Toledo's Attic, and aree accessible by all desktop, laptop, and mobile devices.
Toledo Stories from WGTE Public Media
WGTE has produced many documentaries about Toledo's past. These videos are available online and can be accessed here or on the WGTE Website:
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In addition to these documentaries, WGTE also produces KnowledgeStream, collection of lectures and presentations by local scholars. Related recordings:
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PCMag UK | Feature
Prepay Three Months of DirecTV Now, Get a Free 4K Apple TV
By Grant Brunner
26 Mar 2018, 5:30 p.m.
With that DirecTV Now subscription, you'll have plenty to watch on your new Apple TV.
Want to upgrade to the latest 4K-capable Apple TV? For a limited time, DirecTV Now is offering up a free Apple TV 4K when you agree to prepay for three months of the streaming service for as low as $35 per month.
Normally priced at $179, the Apple TV 4K is an impressive little device. It includes 32GB of internal storage, runs on Apple's own A10X Fusion chip, supports 802.11b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0, and gigabit ethernet. It can also output at up to 2160p with HDR10 over the built-in HDMI 2.0a port.
Perhaps just as nifty as the set-top box itself, the included Siri remote is quite a step up from remotes of the past. The dual-microphones allow you to search with your voice, while the accelerometer, gyroscope, and touchpad make interacting with games and apps a breeze.
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And of course, having a subscription to DirecTV Now gives you something to watch on your shiny new Apple TV right away. You won't get 4K content with this subscription, but you will have access to dozens of live channels, on-demand content, and the ability to upgrade to premium channels like HBO or Showtime.
The cheapest package is just $35 per month, and that gives you more than 60 channels. The $50 package bumps your channel selection to more than 80, the $60 "Go Big" bundle offers more than 100, and the top-end $70 "Gotta Have It" plan has 120.
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Senegal rape law offers hope after years of silence
DAKAR (Reuters) - A new law in Senegal that criminalises rape has come too late for one young woman. She was raped last year and is now trying to put her life back together with a baby.
But the legislation brings hope to women who campaigned to force the West African nation to accept that rape must stop.
The young woman fled a violent husband and went to live with her sister. But a family friend gained her trust and raped her.
“It’s really hard to suffer a sexual assault but it is even harder to suffer a sexual assault that ends up in a pregnancy, I was really traumatised, I did not want to live anymore,” she told Reuters Television.
After trying to abort her baby and kill herself, the woman ended up in hospital. She was transferred to the Maison Rose, where she gave birth last year.
The Maison Rose, or the Pink House, in a suburb of Dakar, offers women support that had been lacking in a country where rape was a misdemeanour and not a crime.
“For some years now I feel women have wanted to stand up to say stop,” said Maison Rose founder Mona Chasserio.
“Women said it needed to stop. They all said ‘Stop!’,” said member of parliament Awa Gueye.
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Widely publicised cases of rape in Senegal paved the way for the change in the law. Women who had kept silent began to campaign to give a voice to rape victims, drawing confidence from the #MeToo movement in the United States.
After a unanimous vote in parliament to criminalise rape, President Macky Sall signed the decree into law on Jan. 10. Previously, rape drew a maximum prison sentence of 10 years and campaigners say convictions were rare. The new law sets a minimum of 10 years and a maximum of life.
At the Maison Rose, the young victim is glad the law has changed and says the challenge now is to apply it.
Reporting by Christophe Van Der Perre, Yvonne Bell, Estelle Ndjandjo and Anna Pujol-Mazzini; Writing by Giles Elgood; Editing by Janet Lawrence
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Design Notes- Tal of Jova
Tal of Jova is one of the top members in the Eternals. A Guild that exists throughout Zeratal and was built specifically to help the world through its constant era of war and strife. Though he came from the peaceful hot spring village of Jova, peace wasn’t meant for Tal who eventually would go on to become a ninja assassin. Tal is a 23-year-old Trelza, a species of humanoids with catlike traits and features. Namely gaining a tail, ears, clawed nails, fangs, night vision, a naturally strong and flexible bone structure, and pads on the bottom of their feet and underside of their hands. The ears in particular lay near the top of their heads above their normal human pair of ears, though the cat ears are naturally mobile. Tal has dark skin and jet black fur on his ears and tail. The fur on both being smooth and straight giving it a nice sheen. His tail reaching down to the floor easily. The hair on his head was similarly straight and was tied back in a ponytail. Like many Trelza, he has an athletic but somewhat slim frame and heterochromia. An eye condition that causes him to have a blue colored right eye and a red colored left eye.
Being primarily a Ninja Assassin, Tal wears a traditional black hood with a Plating Mouth Guard to keep his identity mostly concealed. A matching black Obi or belt holds up his Hakama. Plated black shin guards adding a level of protection while keeping the hakama held down. The Armbands cover the entirety of his arms and are fastened by a thin cord connecting around his neck. Leaving his entire torso exposed. While this would normally be problematic, due to his naturally dark skin he is still able to remain hidden in the dead of night. The plating on his mouth guard, shin guards, and arm guards are made of black dyed Crystavo plating. Armor made from the hard shells of a species of massive crabs indigenous to the oceans of Zeratal. On the back of the Obi are two razor-sharp boomerangs with jet black blades. Though Tal has been known to switch outfits as the needs arose, this is his most common and standard wardrobe of choice.
As a Trelza, Tal is a human-cat hybrid. Each sharing traits with a particular non-humanoid cat. Tal being modeled after a Panther. His skin, hair, fur, and overall clothing choice serving to improve his stealth capabilities. As a character, Tal was inspired by my Final Fantasy 14 character of the same name who, before becoming a Red Mage, was a Ninja.
Original inspiration for Tal’s hairstyle
Original inspiration for Tal
Original inspiration for Tal (Close-up)
While he is a ninja, I decided to forego the classical shuriken and kunai special for more unique bladed boomerangs. A dangerous and high skill weapon. Being able to fly silently to their target, end their lives, and return leaving no evidence it was ever there. Even being usable at close-range as handheld sickle-like blades should the need arise. Allowing for a range of options in battle, especially when combined with his Ambience, better known as Ninjutsu. Something I think would be very interesting to see for the traditionally up close and personal Ninjas…or you know…the Ninja Wizards who just spam Ninjutsu all day long.
Tal is probably the closest character in personality to myself and many of his interactions with other characters were inspired or based on my time with the real-life Eternals Guild. He’s a quiet but somewhat snarky person. Being more expressive when with people he knows or trusts. While he does skills and talents that help him excel in areas, he has an almost non-existent self-esteem and is consistently depressed. Never seeing himself or his efforts as good enough and easily putting himself down. Openly displaying his chest being both in his nature as a Trelza and subtle overcompensation. He is probably the least confident and stable person I’ve made who also isn’t insane. But despite it all, he does try his best. Even if he doesn’t allow himself to take a win and can’t show himself any mercy when he makes a perceived mistake.
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Yakuza Weapon
Working as a hard-to-kill mercenary in South America, ex-yakuza Shozo Iwaki (Tak Sakaguchi) is informed of the death of his gang boss father, Kenzo (Akaji Maro). Returning home after four years, Shozo discovers that his father’s number-one man, Kurawaki (Shingo Tsurumi), has double-crossed and assassinated Kenzo, leaving Shozo not only in charge of what little remains of the Iwaki Family, but also burning with the desire for vengeance. After a titanic battle in which an entire building is levelled, both Shozo and Kurawaki are left barely alive, Shozo missing an arm and a leg.
Despite his debilitating wounds, the nearly superhuman Shozo clings to life, and wakes up in a mysterious medical facility with an M61 Vulcan cannon in place of his right arm, and a rocket launcher where his left leg used to be! Although confused by his new body and tormented by the pain it brings him, Shozo quickly learns to love his weaponized frame, and makes himself ready for a rematch with Kurawaki, who also has some mechanical improvements of his own.
But before that, Shozo must also deal with Tetsuo (Jun Murakami), his former best friend who’s fallen into drugs and hard times, and has been coerced by the Kurawaki gang to find and kill Shozo! Nearly a match for Shozo’s strength and fighting ability, Tetsuo also has a mechanical secret: his younger sister Sumire (Cay Izumi), who’s been transformed into a naked weapon, using the same technology that gave Shozo his arm and leg! But can Shozo bring himself to destroy his own best friend, the only thing standing between him and final vengeance?
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“Orange Is the New Black” has nabbed a whopping three-season renewal from Netflix.
The deal includes a commitment from showrunner Jenji Kohan to remain at the helm of Netflix’s most-watched series through seasons five, six and seven. Season four of the Lionsgate TV-produced ensembler set in a woman’s prison bows June 17.
“Three more years! Not quite a political term, but still plenty of time to do some interesting things. In some cultures, ‘May you lead an interesting life,’ is a curse, but I don’t live in those cultures,” said Kohan. “Here’s to keeping it interesting. Thanks Netflix! Both thanks and you’re welcome Lionsgate! And kudos and gratitude to the stellar cast and crew and writers and producers and editors and musicians and mixers and shleppers… with whom I have the pride and honor of crafting this show. Three more years! Three more years!”
The renewal comes on the heels of “OITNB’s” strong showing at Saturday’s SAG Awards, where the show took the comedy ensemble award for the second year in a row and the comedy actress trophy for star Uzo Abdua for the second straight year.
Netflix is famously tight-fisted when it comes to offering up viewership data about its original series. But execs with the streaming giant have repeatedly confirmed that “OITNB” is its most-watched original series. That has been backed up by the efforts of outside measurement companies to track viewing in the Netflix eco-system.
“Jenji and her team have produced a phenomenal and impactful series that is both funny and dramatic, outrageous and heartfelt. Audiences around the world have come to love the ladies and men of ‘Orange Is the New Black,’ and we are eager to see where three more seasons will take them,” said Cindy Holland, Netflix’s VP of original content.
Kohan’s commitment to the show for another three seasons is a significant investment for the seasoned writer-producer, who is much in demand by other outlets thanks to the groundbreaking work she’s achieved with “OITNB.”
“Jenji’s brilliant creative vision and a truly amazing cast have catapulted ‘Orange Is the New Black’ to the forefront of the platinum age of television, and we’re pleased that ‘Orange’ fans around the world will be rewarded with another three seasons,” said Lionsgate TV Group chairman Kevin Beggs.
With the renewal — the longest commitment for any TV series in recent memory — attention for Kohan and Lionsgate is likely to turn to setting new pacts with key members of the show’s sprawling ensemble. The core “OITNB” troupers for season four are Taylor Schilling, Uzo Aduba, Kate Mulgrew, Laura Prepon, Laverne Cox, Dascha Polanco, Danielle Brooks, Selenis Leyva, Samira Wiley, Taryn Manning, Yael Stone, Jackie Cruz, Lea DeLaria, Adrienne C. Moore and Elizabeth Rodriguez Michael Harney and Nick Sandow.
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Lifetime has officially ordered the four-hour documentary series “Surviving Jeffrey Epstein.” The announcement was made at the Television Critics Association winter press tour on Saturday. The series was originally announced as in development last summer and is expected to air this summer on Lifetime. Hailing from Emmy-winner Robert Friedman’s Bungalow Media + Entertainment, Anne Sundberg [...]
Lorena Bobbitt’s story is getting the biopic treatment. Lifetime has greenlit “I Was Lorena Bobbitt,” a feature about the woman who became a household name and made tabloid headlines when she cut off her husband’s penis with a knife in 1993 after years of abuse. Bobbitt was the subject of a Jordan Peele-produced Amazon docuseries [...]
‘The Batman’: Zoe Kravitz Will Bring ‘Strong Femininity’ to Catwoman, Inspired By Michelle Pfeiffer
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Work permit for foreigners granted online
A foreign teacher teaching English in Việt Nam. — VNA/VNS Photo Minh Quyết
HÀ NỘI — Companies in Việt Nam who wish to employ foreign employees can now apply for work permits online.
The Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs started this from Monday via an electronic network.
Applicants can access dvc.vieclamvietnam.gov.vn to apply for a work permit.
According to a new decree issued by the ministry, concerning the approval of the demand for using foreign workers, employers must fill in a declaration form and submit a report on demand of using foreign workers at least 20 days prior to the day they expect to employ foreign workers.
The time period has been cut down to 20 days from the previous 30 days.
Twelve days after the report is received, employers can expect a reply via email.
With regard to granting permits, employers must fill in the declaration form and submit a work permit to the relevant agencies via the web portal, at least seven days prior to the date of foreign employees joining work.
A reply will be sent via email to applicants within five working days. — VNS
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Fase Faro 70-G Desk Lamp in the 1974 catalogue
Lamps in the movies!
A black Fase Faro 70-G desk lamp was used as a prop in the 1975 comedy film The Return Of The Pink Panther with famous actor Peter Sellers as inspector Clouseau.
Many thanks to Lluís from Eclectique Vintage for the photos and the enthusiasm.
(Anti Spam) Which is bigger, 2 or 8?
Fase Faro 70-G Desk Lamp
Materials: Round red painted metal base (iron). Chromed metal adjustable rod, also made in iron. Red painted aluminium round perforated lampshade, white painted on the inside. Bakelite socket.
Height: 52 cm / 20.47”
Lampshade: ∅ 22 cm / 8.66”
Base: ∅ 15 cm / 5.90”
Electricity: 1 bulb E27, 1 x 60 watt maximum, 110/220 volt.
Any type of light bulb can be used, not a specific one preferred.
Period: 1970s – Mid-Century Modern.
Designer: To be appraised.
Manufacturer: Fase, Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain.
Other versions: Made with a different base and produced in several colours. Also made as an architect desk lamp, model 67-G (de Luxe) and a clamp lamp, model 67 F-1 (de Luxe). An architect trypod floor lamp on wheels, model 67 Pie was also made. Probably also made in some other models.
Faro: Lighthouse, beacon, headlight, light, lamp, lantern.
The Fase company was founded by self-made man Pedro Martin and designer Luis Pérez de la Oliva in 1964, some sources say 1966. The Boomerang lamp was one of their first designs. Initially they sold their self-produced lamps to the markets in and around the capital Madrid before successfully opening a factory in Torrejón de Ardoz on the outskirts of the city.
They produced mainly lamps, but also ashtrays and other products such as office bins and coat racks.
Fase supplied many lamps to the offices of General Franco‘s dictatorial government and the Guardia Civil, some sort of military police. From 1975 on, after the death of Franco and the end of the regime, Fase started with Italian Modern and Bauhaus-inspired designs. The Spaniards were unfamiliar with this design because of the Franco regime that ruled the country with an iron fist and allowed few foreign influences.
During the 70s Fase exported lamps to Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Great Britain, Norway, France, Italy, Germany, Portugal, United Arab Emirates, Japan, Hong Kong, Morocco, the United States and Canada. In total in more than 32 countries.
In the 1980s Fase jumped on the bandwagon of the halogen lighting. The break with tradition proved unsuccessful and ultimately contributed to the end of the business. A large fine of the Treasury in the early nineties for tax irregularities was the end for Fase. The company was officially dissolved in 1996.
Drowned, the company sold its manufacturing license to a German brand, Ma-Of, which slightly modified the original design by adding more chrome. Before these final death rattles, the partners had already separated. Luis Pérez de la Oliva had created his own brand Lupela, another flagship of Spanish design. GEI (Gabinete Estudios Industriales – Cabinet Industrial Studies) was another company that sold similar lamps. Also Massive from Belgium produced a few lamps in this style.
When the company stopped producing them abruptly, there was a lot of ‘stock’ available in the warehouses. That’s why you find relatively many lamps with a label attached. Many lamps are sold new and never used in the box (NOS – New Old Stock).
Designers who have worked for the company include: Gabriel Teixidó. He designed the Iberia and Meca series and Tomás Díaz Magro, responsible for the Apolo, Minifase and Impala lamps. The most productive was Luis Pérez de la Oliva, who designed the majority of the Fase lamps.
Fase also sold lamps made by others such as the Yamada Shomei ‘Manon’ table lamp from Japan. You can find it over here on Vintageinfo. The Prisma table lamp was produced in Italy by F.A.A.I. Arredo. Also the Sinus stacking ashtray made by Helit from Germany. A design by Walter Zeischegg from 1967. You can find it here in the MoMA, New York. The also sold lamps from other companies.
Links (external links open in a new window)
Torrejón de Ardoz – Wikipedia
Francisco Franco – Wikipedia
Guardia Civil – Civil Guard – Wikipedia
The Return of the Pink Panther – Wikipedia
The Return of the Pink Panther – IMDb
Vintageinfo
Tharsis table lamp
Apolo desk lamp
Black floor lamp
Spiral table lamp
President S/C desk lamp
Architect clamp lamp
Boomerang 2000 desk lamp
Model 520-C desk lamp
Prisma table lamps
Other Fase lamps
Fase Faro 67 G de Luxe Desk Lamp in the 1974 catalogue
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Janet Jackson’s Unbreakable World Tour & New Album
Jazzy T
Janet Jackson Rhythm Nation Records
One month ago Janet Jackson made a major announcement of an upcoming new album and a world tour via #ConversationsInACafe . Although no details were given at the time, I have everything you need to know right here!
We thought we lost Janet Jackson forever when she got married and moved to Saudi Arabia with her billionaire husband a couple years ago. But now she's back with a new album set to be released on her own Rhythm Nation Records and the Unbreakable World Tour this Fall.
You can pre-order the untitled CD with the Vinyl package that comes with VIP seating at www.JanetJackson.com now.
Tickets to the concert go on sale Monday, June 22nd at the same website.
The closest she's coming to Buffalo is Toronto on Sept.15, 2015, at the Air Canada Center.
She's avoiding the northeast part of the U.S. altogether. Check out the complete list of dates.
Aug. 31, 2015 Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena, Vancouver, BC
Sept. 2, 2015 Scotiabank Saddledome, Calgary, AB
Sept. 4, 2015 Rexall Place Edmonton, AB
Sept. 5, 2015 Revolution Place Grande Prairie, AB
Sept. 7, 2015 SaskTel Centre Saskatoon, SK
Sept. 8, 2015 MTS Centre Winnipeg, MB
Sept. 11, 2015 Van Andel Arena Grand Rapids, MI
Sept. 12, 2015 PNC Pavilion at Riverbend Music Center Cincinnati
Sept. 15, 2015 Air Canada Centre Toronto
Sept. 17, 2015 Walnut Creek Amphitheatre Raleigh, NC
Sept. 18, 2015 PNC Music Pavilion Charlotte, NC
Sept. 20, 2015 American Airlines Arena Miami
Sept. 23, 2015 Amway Arena Orlando
Sept. 24, 2015 Amalie Arena Tampa, FL
Sept. 26, 2015 Chastain Park Amphitheatre Atlanta, GA
Sept. 27, 2015 Ascend Amphitheater Nashville
Sept. 29, 2015 Fedex Forum Memphis, TN
Sept. 30, 2015 Smoothie King Center New Orleans, LA
Oct. 9, 2015 Axis @ Planet Hollywood Las Vegas
Oct. 10, 2015 Axis @ Planet Hollywood Las Vegas
Oct. 13, 2015 Bill Graham Civic Auditorium San Francisco
Oct. 16, 2015 The Forum Los Angeles
Oct. 17, 2015 Viejas Arena San Diego
Oct. 19, 2015 Comerica Theatre Phoenix
Oct. 21, 2015 Santa Barbara Bowl Santa Barbara, CA
Oct. 24, 2015 Energy Solutions Arena Salt Lake City, UT
Oct. 25, 2015 Pepsi Center Denver, CO
Oct. 27, 2015 Sprint Center Kansas City, MO
Oct. 29, 2015 Chaifetz Arena St. Louis, MO
Oct. 30, 2015 CenturyLink Center Omaha, NE
Nov. 1, 2015 Target Center Minneapolis
Nov. 3, 2015 Chicago Theatre Chicago
Nov. 12, 2015 Neal S. Blaisdell Center Arena Honolulu, HI
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Sergeant (Army)
User-created position
This page contains elements/concepts/ideas which are NOT part of eRepublik features.
Common Military Ranks
OF-11 Admiral of the Fleet General of the Army /
Field Marshal Marshal of the Air Force
OF-10 Admiral General Air Chief Marshal
OF-9 Vice Admiral Lieutenant General Air Marshal
OF-8 Rear Admiral Major General Air Vice Marshal
OF-7 Commodore Brigadier /
(Brigadier General) Air Commodore
OF-6 Captain Colonel Group Captain
OF-5 Commander Lt. Colonel Wing Commander
OF-4 Lieutenant-Commander Major Squadron Leader
OF-3 Lieutenant Captain Flight Lieutenant
OF-2 Sub-Lieutenant Lieutenant Flying Officer
OF-1 Ensign 2nd Lieutenant Officer Cadet
OR-7/8 or W-1/5 Warrant Officer
OR-5/6 Leading Rate Sergeant Sergeant
OR-3/4 Able Rate Corporal Corporal
OR-1/2 Seaman Private Airman
1 What are ranks in eRepublik?
2 Useage in Organized Militaries
2.1 South Africa
2.2 United Kingdom
What are ranks in eRepublik?
In national organized militaries, such as the British Army or the United States Armed Forces, citizens who are members are given a rank, which displays their level of importance, responsibility and skill in the national military. This rank is not related to the damage ranks that every citizen in eRepublik has.
For more information on the ingame eRepublik damage ranks, see here.
Useage in Organized Militaries
A Sergeant has varying roles in organized militaries that bases their structure on a land army. In some militaries, soldiers with the rank of Sergeant command a small group of soldiers, such as a squad. In other militaries, it is used as a reward for soldiers who show increased activeness, game knowledge and dedication; as proof of this, a soldier or corporal will be promoted to Sergeant by ranking second in the leaderboard of his military unit, either Damage or Opponents Defeated count.
In the South African Armed Forces, the rank of Sergeant is awarded to the second-in-command of a platoon.
Sergeant in the SAAF, signified by three up-turned chevrons.
In the British Army, the rank of Sergeant was awarded to a commander of a squad in The Royal Guard
In the United States Armed Forces, a Sergeant (SGT) wears three up-turned chevron. The rank of Sergeant has multiple uses throughout the different branches of the US Military, although the rank is classed as a soldier's rank. In the United States Army, a Sergeant is a supply non-commissioned officer, whilst in Mobile Infantry it is used for the platoon executive officer. In most other branches, the rank of Sergeant is purely for recognition of activity & dedication.
Sergeant rank, signified by three up-turned chevrons.
Ranks of the British Armed Forces
Ranks of the United States Armed Forces
Ranks of the South African Armed Forces
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Do We Still Need Buffy?
Twenty years ago, Buffy the Vampire Slayer premiered. A blond assassin of the undead, an older white guy who wasn’t in charge, crushes, bullying, inter-species romance. Buffy had it all. Two decades on, the show is still a go-to reference when you find yourself looking around at the intersection of feminism and pop culture.
Today’s young girls, a full generation behind the vampire slayer’s fans, have grown up in a post-Buffy world. A world in which the Hell Mouth is sealed and all the demons are safely tucked away in their graves.
So twenty years on, do we still need Buffy?
I was an adult when the series premiered back in 1997, well past the age of breakouts and quarterback crushes, yet I loved it from the start. It was clever and bitingly funny. Many of the issues tackled were problems which follow you from the hell of high school hallways right into the abyss of adulthood. Plus, you know, Angel was a good looking guy. And if nothing else, I’m a sucker for a slayer-vampire Romeo and Juliet story arc.
The show blew a Buffy shaped hole in pop culture and through that opening, a slew of female protagonists marched. Xena, Katniss, Tris, Rey, Jin. Today’s girls have grown up never questioning strong female protagonists–slayers of the undead, leaders of rebellions, warrior princesses. Today’s girls are living in a post-Buffy bubble.
But that bubble? It’s in a world which is most decidedly not post-Buffy.
Girls may take strong female leads for granted nowadays. Princesses who insist upon saving themselves. Star Wars heroines who tell the guy to let go of her hand. Teenagers like Buffy and Katniss who are doing the saving, the sacrifice, and still finding time to fall in love on the side. A steady diet of girl power, fed to them by mothers who have often witnessed the double standards women face in the world themselves and are determined to show their daughters something different, and by fathers who are woke enough to realize how much representation matters.
But I worry that some of these young women, many of whom have yet to face workplace discrimination, the unfair burden that parenthood places on one parent, the systematic drip-drip of micro-aggressions that eventually wear a groove in your soul–those young women may think they are living in a world in which all the problems of sexism have already been slayed with a sharpened stake and biting wit. A world in which the Hell Mouth stays sealed and life is sunny in Sunny Dale once again.
But just because there was a Buffy doesn’t mean all the monsters are gone. All those nasties? They are still sulking around just under the surface. The vampires? It’s things like harassment, all the indignities which can suck the life out of many working women, everything from being overlooked for promotions, to being groped at the water cooler, to being talked over and interrupted. The demons? There’s the motherhood penalty, in which even women who aren’t mothers often make less money than their male peers, regardless of the male’s parenthood status. The Gentlemen? Well, several of them occupy the current White House administration. The ghouls and devils and masters? Double standards, double binds, the lock-step of a patriarchal system.
A sharp stick is only going to go so far. A biting wit is great for Facebook, but it’s not going to do much to slay years of ingrained attitude. We still need Buffy, or the idea of her anyway. We still need someone to show us how to slay the monsters with a roundhouse kick and a chair leg, how to be vulnerable but not allow that vulnerability to get in the way of taking action when action is needed. What we really need is a whole generation of Buffys. Forget the ‘into every generation a slayer is born’ stuff. Right now, the Hell Mouth is yawning and the Capitol from the Hunger Games is staring up at us.
I don’t know what’s coming, but I can tell you that in my many years, I’ve never seen so much focus on women, women’s lives, and women’s issues as I have in the last year. I’ve never seen the coordinated resistance, the anger and organization, the push back–from women–that I’m seeing now. And if something big is in the air, a seismic cultural shift, we’re going to need all the Buffys we can get.
The show may have ended thirteen years ago, but the need for a slayer never really goes away. Not really.
So, do we still need Buffy?
Hell Mouth yeah.
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24 thoughts on “Do We Still Need Buffy?”
Vic Crain says:
In some respects, Buffy was simplistic. In a more complex age, we need someone wiser and more sophisticated. We haven’t seen that character yet.
tomc49 says:
We have Hillary.
Dina Honour says:
I’m not sure I’m ever going to fully get over November, 2016….
Interesting–I never saw it (the show or the character) as simplistic. There were a lot of layers woven through, pop culture, mythology, psychology, race, gender–but if you mean someone who can do more than drive a stake through a heart? Oh, if only it were that simple ;-).
I loved Buffy. Missing her today.
I know they continually refer to the post-Sopranos era as the Golden Age of tv, but man, give me some Buffy and some West Wing, a little X File and I’m good for a while.
RasheenaB. says:
I love Buffy and the crew. Buffy had no fear at a young age. Children today need shows like that more innocent. Too much sex and violence for them to watch now.
I just started rematching it from the beginning. I’m trying to convince my 12 y/o son to join me, but so far, no luck… 😉
Gina Earle says:
Buffy is so cool Bring her back I saw. I especially like the movie. It came out in 1992. I miss the 90s haha. Weird but good times. I like your style though addressing someone like Buffy really has me thinking.
Sorry it’s taken me so long to respond to you! I’ve only seen the movie once, but I was a die hard follower of the series, and in fact, just recently started watching it from the start again. More fodder for thinking, I hope.
TheChattyIntrovert says:
you’ve got a great point–we’re awash in “strong female” pop culture, but no real direction as to how to get there. I mean, you don’t see the evolution of the character into a strong woman, what she faced or how she lived that allowed that to happen…at least, not very often in a way that teaches women how to be that way. And because these women come off as such bad-asses, you don’t see as much if any discrimination against them that a normal lady would find for herself, or if there is and they’re practically supernatural, a couple of hits and the “bad guys’ are down for the count. Yeah, I like seeing that, I admit, but dealing with more normal forms of violence or discrimination is something I’d like to see, too. I’m half-asleep so sorry if I’m not making much sense, but the best I can think to say about it is it feels like there’s a few chapters missing in the biography.
South of the Strait says:
What just happened? I having my morning coffee, watching CBS Sunday Morning, and I see there’s going to be a piece on Denmark so I’m paying close attention and suddenly you’re on my television! How did that happen? Pretty awesome.
Surprise! All part of my plan for eventual global domination…
A CBS news crew came out last summer looking for Americans in Copenhagen, they ended up coming and interviewing us–for about two hours!!–and that boiled down to about a minute of air time it would seem. But we didn’t know it was airing today–to be honest, it was so long ago, I’d almost forgotten about it–until we started getting messages from people that we were on television.
It’s all very funny!
Brandilyn Gilbert says:
In an era where Bella from Twilight is showing teenaged girls it’s romantic to have a boy fighting the urge to attack you and to put oneself in dangerous situations so a boy will notice…yeah, I think we definitely need Buffy. I’d argue we haven’t reached an era with consistently complex, strong female characters to get behind. The female superheroes all the the same personality, if it can be called that, and seem to exist as fantasies rather than complicated people. Films and TV that are led by female leads or have multiple female characters with a variety of personalities and character arcs are usually dismissed as “chick” cinema. We do have some gems out there, but it still feels like we’ve got a long way to go.
So yes, I agree. I’m rewatching Buffy and missing it dearly, and wanting to tell young girls that instead of waiting for a very special boy to choose them, to become a kick-ass, special girl all for themselves.
I worry that we ‘lost’ a generation of young women. My generation will still fighting for things, and the one coming up now is being hit full in the face with the casual misogyny and sexism that are still in place, but there was a generation of girls who came of age when things were looking pretty good, when it looked like the heaviest of the ‘fighting’ was over. Those young women were able to take those reproductive freedoms and laws protecting them for granted, because they’d been there for their whole lives. It’s hard to imagine something you’ve never lived without going away, and I do worry the is a sense of complacency. And complacency is dangerous.
Someone else here mentioned we need to see what Buffy was like as a woman–I’m intrigued by the idea. Balancing a family with slaying demons? Working a day job AND a night job? It’s an interesting premise for sure.
I can see that fear. I think a lot of those people, and I may be in that generation, have hopefully been knocked out of complacency by recent current events. It seems like there’s a generation now trying to figure out how to get involved in activism when they’ve never had to before. That said, I do worry that so many girls seem to recoil at the idea of being called a “feminist,” as though terrified it might make them less approachable to boys. I don’t know about a lost generation, but I do think the fight still needs to be fought. And I love that Buffy was so multi-dimensional. Haha, one of my favorite episodes is when she’s trying to get a loan to take care of the house and the Scoobies debate whether she could charge for slaying. Watching that again during a time when I’m trying to support myself leaves me with a whole new sense of appreciation for that season.
drkottaway says:
I searched on “male vulnerability” and your article is one that came up….I’ve just been noticing that many of the images of depression or vulnerability in drawings STILL are just young women. Men don’t show up there. Older women, well, no, mostly not them either….why aren’t there vulnerable images of males in tears, with colors dripping from their eyes?
That’s interesting that this particular post would come up for that search term–but you raise a good point. I remember years ago learning or reading somewhere that ‘anger’ as an emotion is generally internalized in women, tending toward depression, while in men it’s often externalized, tending toward rage. I think we’ve moved beyond that gross generalization and are able to recognize signs of depression for what they are, in both men and women–yet it would seem that we still equate depression with ‘tears’ and ‘crying’. Both of which are generally associated with the feminine–. I hope all of it changes. I hope boys are taught that it’s ok to show emotion. I hope girls are taught it’s ok to be angry. I hope someday we are all allowed to just simply BE.
Me, too. I don’t think that emotions should be assumed or prescribed for any race or gender.
unsupermoms says:
I love your writing and your insights! Almost every post I’ve read has had me nodding, grunting in agreement, and giggling. Thanks for writing and putting so many of my thoughts and views into beautiful words!
Thank you for the enormously gracious compliment–whenever I think about packing it all in I receive a comment or an email like that and it makes it all seem worthwhile. Thank you again.
Don’t pack it in!
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bigbrainsmallheart says:
I love this. The tv show was absolutely brilliant. And so was this post. I think girl power has definitely increased over the past years and our generation of “Buffys” are slowly coming together.
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“There is no one better at investigating the fascinating stories hiding in plain sight than Susan Orlean. The vivid descriptions of the fire that engulfed the Los Angeles Central Library in 1986 are burnished by the meticulous research she did on the history of libraries and on the shocking event that resulted in the destruction and damage of over one million books. The mystery of who would start such a fire is woven between stories of eccentric librarians and the transformation of Los Angeles in the 20th century. From memories of the blissful hours spent in the library of her youth to the historical significance of these repositories of our past, Orlean has crafted a love letter to the importance of the written word and those who devote their lives to its preservation.”
— Luisa Smith, Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA
Susan Orlean’s bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is “a sheer delight…as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library” (USA TODAY)—a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries. “Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book” (The Washington Post).
On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. The fire was disastrous: it reached two thousand degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who?
Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a “delightful…reflection on the past, present, and future of libraries in America” (New York magazine) that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before.
In the “exquisitely written, consistently entertaining” (The New York Times) The Library Book, Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries; brings each department of the library to vivid life; studies arson and attempts to burn a copy of a book herself; and reexamines the case of Harry Peak, the blond-haired actor long suspected of setting fire to the LAPL more than thirty years ago.
“A book lover’s dream…an ambitiously researched, elegantly written book that serves as a portal into a place of history, drama, culture, and stories” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis), Susan Orlean’s thrilling journey through the stacks reveals how these beloved institutions provide much more than just books—and why they remain an essential part of the heart, mind, and soul of our country.
Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. She is the author of seven books, including Rin Tin Tin, Saturday Night, and The Orchid Thief, which was made into the Academy Award–winning film Adaptation. She lives with her family and her animals in upstate New York and may be reached at SusanOrlean.com and Twitter.com/SusanOrlean.
“Moving . . . A constant pleasure to read . . . Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book. . . . Orlean, a longtime New Yorker writer, has been captivating us with human stories for decades, and her latest book is a wide-ranging, deeply personal, and terrifically engaging investigation of humanity’s bulwark against oblivion: the library. . . . As a narrator, Orlean moves like fire herself, with a pyrotechnic style that smolders for a time over some ancient bibliographic tragedy, leaps to the latest technique in book restoration, and then illuminates the story of a wildly eccentric librarian. Along the way, we learn how libraries have evolved, responded to depressions and wars, and generally thrived despite a constant struggle for funds. Over the holidays, every booklover in America is going to give or get this book. . . . You can’t help but finish The Library Book and feel grateful that these marvelous places belong to us all.”
—Ron Charles, The Washington Post
“A sheer delight. . . . Orlean has created a book as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library.”
—Chris Woodyard, USA Today
“Exquisitely written, consistently entertaining . . . A loving tribute not just to a place or an institution but to an idea . . . What makes The Library Book so enjoyable is the sense of discovery that propels it, the buoyancy when Orlean is surprised or moved by what she finds. . . . Her depiction of the Central Library fire on April 29, 1986, is so rich with specifics that it’s like a blast of heat erupting from the page. . . . The Library Book is about the fire and the mystery of how it started—but in some ways that’s the least of it. It’s also a history of libraries, and of a particular library, as well as the personal story of Orlean and her mother, who was losing her memory to dementia while Orlean was retrieving her own memories by writing this book.”
—Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times
“Captivating . . . A delightful love letter to public libraries . . . In telling the story of this one library, Orlean reminds readers of the spirit of them all, their mission to welcome and equalize and inform, the wonderful depths and potential that they—and maybe all of us, as well—contain. . . . In other hands the book would have been a notebook dump, packed with random facts that weren’t germane but felt too hard-won or remarkable to omit. Orlean’s lapidary skills include both unearthing the data and carving a storyline out of the sprawl, piling up such copious and relevant details that I wondered how many mountains of research she discarded for each page of jewels.”
—Rebekah Denn, Christian Science Monitor
“A flitting and meandering masterpiece . . . Compelling and undeniably riveting . . . This is a joyful book, and among its many pleasures is the reader’s ability to palpate the author’s thrill as she zooms down from stratospheric viewings of history, to viscerally detailed observations of events and people, and finally to the kind of irresistibly offbeat facts that create an equally irresistible portrait of the author herself.”
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“Vivid . . . Compelling . . . Ms. Orlean interweaves a memoir of her life in books, a whodunit, a history of Los Angeles, and a meditation on the rise and fall and rise of civic life in the United States. . . . By turns taut and sinuous, intimate and epic, Ms. Orlean’s account evokes the rhythms of a life spent in libraries . . . bringing to life a place and an institution that represents the very best of America: capacious, chaotic, tolerant and even hopeful, with faith in mobility of every kind, even, or perhaps especially, in the face of adversity.”
—Jane Kamenski, The Wall Street Journal
“A lovely book . . . Susan Orlean has once again found rich material where no one else has bothered to look for it. . . . Once again, she’s demonstrated that the feelings of a writer, if that writer is sufficiently talented and her feelings sufficiently strong, can supply her own drama. You really never know how seriously interesting a subject might be until such a person takes a serious interest in it.”
—Michael Lewis, New York Times Book Review
“A book lover’s dream . . . This is an ambitiously researched, elegantly written book that serves as a portal into a place of history, drama, culture, and stories.”
—Jeffrey Ann Goudie, Minneapolis Star Tribune
“When Susan Orlean fishes for a story, she reels in a hidden world. And so the latest delightful trawl from the author of Rin Tin Tin and The Orchid Thief starts with the tale of the 1986 fire that damaged or destroyed 700,000 books in the Los Angeles Central Library. But The Library Book pans out quickly to the fractious, eccentric history of the institution and then, almost inevitably, a reflection on the past, present, and future of libraries in America. Orlean follows the narrative in all directions, juxtaposing the hunt for the library arsonist—possibly a frustrated actor—with a philosophical treatise on why and how libraries became the closest thing many of us experience to a town hall.”
—Hillary Kelly, New York Magazine
“Like an amble through the rooms and the stacks of a library, where something unexpected and interesting can be discovered on any page.”
—Scott Simon, NPR’s Weekend Edition
“Mesmerizing . . . A riveting mix of true crime, history, biography, and immersion journalism. . . . Probing, prismatic, witty, dramatic, and deeply appreciative, Orlean’s chronicle celebrates libraries as sanctuaries, community centers, and open universities run by people of commitment, compassion, creativity, and resilience.”
—Booklist (starred review)
“Engaging . . . Bibliophiles will love this fact-filled, bookish journey.”
“Of course, I will always read anything that Susan Orlean writes—and I would encourage you to do the same, regardless of the topic, because she’s always brilliant. But The Library Book is a particularly beautiful and soul-expanding book—even by Orleanean standards. You’re going to hear a lot about how important this story is, for shining a spotlight on libraries and the heroic people who run them. That’s all true, but there’s an even better reason to read it—because it will keep you spellbound from first page to last. Don’t miss out on this one, people!" —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love and Big Magic
“This is a book only Susan Orlean could have written. Somehow she manages to transform the story of a library fire into the story of literacy, civil service, municipal infighting and vision, public spaces in an era of increasingly privatization and social isolation, the transformation of Los Angeles from small provincial hamlet to innovative collossus and model of civic engagement—and the central role libraries have always and will always play in the life and health of a bustling democracy. Beyond all that, like any good library, it’s bursting with incredible tales and characters. There could be no better book for the bookish.”
—Dave Eggers, author of The Circle and The Monk of Mokha
“Susan Orlean has long been one of our finest storytellers, and she proves it again with The Library Book. A beautifully written and richly reported account, it sheds new light on a thirty-year-old mystery—and, what’s more, offers a moving tribute to the invaluableness of libraries.”
—David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z
“After reading Susan Orlean’s The Library Book, I’m quite sure I’ll never look at libraries, or librarians, the same way again. This is classic Orlean—an exploration of a devastating fire becomes a journey through a world of infinite richness, populated with unexpected characters doing unexpected things, with unexpected passion.”
—Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City, In the Garden of Beasts, and Dead Wake
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Elecampane, stately and striking
By Tom Seymour | Aug 30, 2019
Photo by: Tom Seymour Elecampane flowers have wiry petals.
Here’s a plant that has several uses. First, elecampane, Inula helenium, ranks high as an accent plant. Elecampane also has a long bloom time, adding to its visual appeal.
Next, elecampane has a long history of medical uses and was used for both human and animal ailments. In fact a common name, “horseheal,” alludes to its use on equine skin problems. The Spanish also used it in surgical dressings. In England, confections of elecampane were considered special treats for children. The list of this magnificent plant’s uses is extensive.
Elecampane was revered as a beneficial medicinal plant in ancient times and Pliny said, “Let no day pass without eating some of the roots or elecampane condited [pickled], to help digestion, to expel melancholy and sorrow and to cause mirth.”
Elecampane was first brought to America by early settlers as a home remedy for a number of complaints, and science has since validated the plant’s use as a healer. Elecampane has since escaped cultivation in many parts of the country and is now an established part of America’s flora.
Elecampane features
Most of us will never use elecampane medicinally, although there is no reason why we shouldn’t. But many will instead turn to elecampane as a plant of great beauty, something to marvel at and to astound visitors.
Elecampane, a relative of daisies, grows up to 6 feet tall. Basal, or bottom, leaves grow to 24 inches long and 12 inches wide. Leaves gradually diminish in size from bottom to top of stem. Also, some basal leaves may appear to grow separate from the stem. Except for these “separate” leaves, leaves lack their own stem and so clasp the main stem. Leaf margins, or edges, are coarsely toothed and the bottom of the leaf has a velvety feel.
The flowers have wiry, irregular petals, with a fuzzy central disc. Beginning a bit more than halfway up the main stem, flowers grow on their own stems, either singly or in groups of two or three. Toward the end of the bloom cycle, flowers produce seeds that are borne on white, fuzzy, “parachutes,” much the same as dandelions.
Once established, elecampane readily self-seeds when wind disperses the seeds. In the case of my property, elecampane sometimes pops up, unbidden and of its own volition. But that’s never a problem, since all we need to do to dispose of any unwanted plants is simply to pull them up. Do this as soon as you see the young plants in early spring, while the ground is loose. Otherwise, you’ll need the help of a trowel.
Using elecampane
Elecampane has a place in any garden plan, but often as not, it serves us better as a standalone planting, rather than at the back of the perennial border. My idea of a perfect way to employ elecampane is to place it in a situation where it draws attention to itself. However, this doesn’t necessarily mean it must be totally conspicuous, but rather, in a place that would not otherwise attract the viewer’s attention.
For instance, I have several groups of elecampane growing alongside a trail through an area with tall grass on both sides. The elecampane highlights the trail, turning it into something quite attractive, rather than just a simple path through a small, unmown field.
Also, while a single plant can create an interesting effect, it is better to grow it in loosely related groupings of three or four or even more. This enhances the overall effect. However, even a single elecampane plant will eventually become one of many, since just shaking the plant even a little bit can cause ripe seeds to drift down near the base, where some of them will germinate.
Elecampane is a perennial with a long lifespan. Just how long it can live is debatable. I’ve had it growing in the same place for close to 30 years and it hasn’t begun to die out yet. Which points out the importance of properly siting your plant or plants, since if left undisturbed, they can remain in place for a very long time. So if you are seeking something special for that special place, consider elecampane. It may become your favorite plant.
Tom’s tips
Garlic leaves are turning yellow, signaling that it’s time to harvest your bulbs. When doing so, remember to add compost or other fertilizer to the planting area. Then, come planting time in mid-October, the ground will be fully prepared to begin growing next year’s crop.
Elecampane is a perennial that, once seeded, easily reseeds itself. (Photo by: Tom Seymour)
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By Dorothy Read
Can you imagine a world without music?
I think it would be like being deaf to the most magical parts of our lives on this earth. Throughout this journey of life, music is present, from our mothers first singing us a lullaby, through all our important passages and events, to the last hymn at a life celebration, there is music. A constant and most welcome companion.
The music is in us. Listening to music, singing, leading others in singing, composing, performing, all these actions help us to understand ourselves and our relationships, whether calming us, exciting us, entertaining us, explaining us, teaching us, inspiring us, grounding us, or sheltering us.
It puts us firmly in the present moment, the way few other things can. We hum, we’re here. We sing, we’re here.
Whether from meditation or insight, music can also help us answer the basic question of who we are and what we stand for. It could be a gentle hymn to a spiritual god, a thoughtful love song, a joyful jig at a barn dance, or a protest song to inspire the masses.
Music is in us and it is everywhere! I pop in a CD as soon as I start cooking, it adds a layer of flavor to my food, I’m sure. I can’t cook without it, wouldn’t want to. When I am writing, there is music playing in the background, and I don’t know if I could write without it. As I wrote these words, I listened to a record by local jazz and blues singer Samirah Evans. It brought me to a mellow place before I started writing, and as I continued writing, her music provided a backdrop to my day.
The music is in us. We go to concerts, we play instruments, and the soundtrack to our lives changes with each moment whether it is birds singing at 4 a.m., the radio in the car, background music as we shop or watch a movie, or, get placed on musical hold.
It is built into the melodies of our children’s toys. It is also built into our children. Where does the music come from?
A little while ago, my newest granddaughter Leola started swaying back and forth as soon as she heard music playing. It was instinct. She kept time at her own pace, and she always had a smile on her face when she did this, we noticed. Pure delight. She has added a kind of singing coo now, which is quite enchanting, and which obviously gives her great joy. The music is in her.
The music was in Ray Charles as well. He said, quote, “I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.”
The music is in us. Where did this come from?
As Thomas Trotter noted in the earlier reading, the “music of the spheres” was thought to be the sounds created when the concentric spheres of the Universe rubbed each other. What an incredible thought. Was it a Big Bang echo, or more accurately an extremely Big Band at the beginning of it all that still resonates? Did it sound like an explosion, or a rhapsody? I’m visualizing rings of sound streaming off from tuning forks, bumping into each other and creating all the chaos and matter that followed! Well, at least as much as the limits of my mind can comprehend.
Steven Fischbacker in his paper entitled ‘Music and Spirituality’ states: “When you hear a certain piece of music your mind is often transported very vividly to a place or a memory that means something to you. Like the sense of smell, songs are highly evocative and can bring back memories of significant times, places and people.
Research shows that when you join up words and music, information is moved from the left side of the brain over to the right where long time memories are stored.”
That is very interesting to think about. You hear Bridge over Troubled Waters and suddenly it is 1970 and you just broke up with your first crush. Carly Simon sings “You’re so Vain” and you are dancing around your yard with your baby son over 35 years ago, U2 tells you It’s a Beautiful Day and the twin towers just collapsed.
Transcending time, all is as fresh in the mind as the day it happened.
The transcendental power of music can also heal and calm, reach to our innermost being, move us, change us, make us better. More aware.
Music provides important opportunities for spiritual development. Almost every organized form of religion uses music as part of its structure, whether singing or playing, chanting, drumming, or even simply calling a worship service to order.
When words fail us, there is always music to aid in our expression, to free our minds from the limits of speech and bring us to another realm of emotion, rhythm, and images.
I’ve sat at an opera and started to cry even though I do not speak Italian and had no idea what actual words were being said, the music itself was enough to bring me to tears. There have been many times in this very sanctuary when I’ve also been brought to tears through a musical experience, whether Marcia’s exquisite compositions, Antonia’s incredible voice, the children singing at Christmas Eve, or our entire congregation engaged in a compelling Taize chant.
Music communicates emotion, thoughts and inspiration transcending race, religion and culture, playing an integral role in the spiritual and emotional well being of our lives.
Individuals do not always respond in the same way to a piece of music or a song; it depends on their experience of life, the environment and their personal beliefs and their personal preference. It depends on where we are at the moment of our own personal journey.
As Bhakthi Sankeertan wrote in his book “Healing through Music,” ‘From ancient times, music is something that has put people in touch with their innermost feelings. Different kinds of music works upon different emotions of an individual and releases the various incomplete emotions leading towards a healing of body and mind.’
So put put your feet up, open the window, put on a record, close your eyes, drift away or stay put. Let the music lead you to your own heart’s desire, let it lead you on a journey of cleansing, self-exploration and fulfillment. It’s all good.
And perhaps, think about how exquisite the circle; the music is not just in us, we are in the music!
May it be so. Blessed be. Amen.
Responsive Reading: The Gift of Music is in us
And we are in the music
Music is healing
Music can calm and heal, music is a gift
Music is sanctuary
We feel the music wrap around us and are protected. Music is a gift.
Music is meditation
We stop, we clear our minds, we fall into the music. Music is a gift.
We express ourselves in the language of the human heart. Music is a gift.
Music is Joy
Listen to the bird singing to the rising sun, listen to our own voices. Music is a gift.
Music is passion
The deepest of human emotions are mirrored in the notes of our songs. Music is a gift.
It transforms our moods, our relationships, our attitudes, and our fortunes. Music is a gift.
The gift of music is in us
And we are in the music!
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Can Phoebe Complete This Sibset?
Posted by A.O. in Naming Assistance
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Siobhan and her husband are expecting their third child in a few weeks, who will be a sister to their son Douglas and daughter Lucinda (often called Doug and Lulu).
Their front runner is the name Phoebe. It has a sentimental connection, as Siobhan’s mother is named Fiona, so both names have a similar sound, and the nickname Fi can be used for either name.
Although Siobhan isn’t sure that anything will be better than Phoebe, she is still looking as this is their last child, and would like a great sibset. Siobhan loves sibsets that have a “matchy yet mismatched” sort of feel – ones that go together well, without seeming too obviously a set.
She likes names that are familiar but underused or have a slightly dated feel, and a cute nickname is a bonus. If the baby had been a boy, he would have been named Montgomery and nicknamed Monty.
Other names that are still on the list are Eva, Edith, and Cecilia, and Siobhan has no idea what the middle name will be at this point.
Siobhan welcomes people’s input and ideas.
I know what you mean about those matchy-yet-not-matchy sibsets – I like them too, as they can be charming and unexpected. To me Douglas and Lucinda seem slightly hipster and vaguely Scottish, and Phoebe does fit in with this, as it’s something of a favourite in Scottish songs and ballads.
The names all have quite different popularity profiles: Douglas is a classic which peaked in the 1920s and is now in limited use; Lucinda is a modern classic which has never been popular but is fairly well used; while Phoebe is a retro name which has been popular since the 1990s, but never reached the Top 50. I guess you could say all of them are under-used in some sense.
What makes Phoebe special for you is that you connect it with your mother, and I don’t think you can go past a name that has some kind of meaning or positive association for you. It sounds as if it is the FEE in the name, or the potential to use Fi or Fee as the nickname, which is the main drawcard. There are other names which could give you the same sound and nickname, but perhaps you have already considered and rejected them.
Felicity can also have Fee has the nickname, and it doesn’t seem wildly different from Fiona. Like Fiona it peaked in the 1970s, but never became very popular, making its profile similar to Lucinda – a modern classic which is underused, but remains in reasonable use. It somehow reminded me a little of Montgomery, too.
Another one is Josephine – the original long form for the French nickname Fifi. Josephine is a classic which peaked in the 1910s, so quite similar to Douglas. It hasn’t been popular for many decades, yet has remained in constant steady use, so is very similar in popularity to Lucinda.
A third one that occurs me, and is perhaps something of a stretch, is Daphne. It’s a Greek name like Phoebe with a strong PH in it ending in an EE sound, and it peaked in the 1920s like Douglas. Like Phoebe, it’s a retro name as it has recently come back into fashion but is still underused and has a similar popularity level to Douglas. Fee seems like a cute nickname for it, and more modern than Daph and Daffy.
When you are completely stuck for a middle name and literally have no ideas, then family names can be a good option – although as you are already using a spin on a family name upfront, you might find this a bit much. If so, the unused names on your baby name list can be a go-to resource. It’s especially safe for you as you are not planning on another child and don’t have to worry that you might be “name stealing” from a future daughter.
From your list, I think Phoebe Cecilia is very elegant. I admit that I’m probably very biased though, as I have Cecilia as a middle name on my own name list! I think I would prefer it matched with a longer name like Cordelia or Vivienne, but something short like Phoebe Jane or Phoebe Kate would also work well.
To recap, I think Phoebe makes a great addition to your family and has a wonderful association for you. It’s not the only name you could use that fits the bill, but I think Phoebe is probably where your heart lies. I don’t think you would have any serious problem finding a middle name to go with Phoebe.
Good luck with your name search, and do let us know what name you eventually use!
90% of people approved of the sibset Douglas, Lucinda and Phoebe, with 39% thinking it was great, 27% thinking it was nice, and 25% thinking it was fine. 10% of people weren’t fans. 32% of people thought this sibset was better than any other suggested – 10% more than the next choice, which was Douglas, Lucinda and Josephine.
Baby, How Did You Get That Name?
Posted by A.O. in Names Spotted at Home and Abroad
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These are name stories from The Best Gift of Life website, as mothers interviewed are asked how they chose their childrens’ names. There are so many places to find a great name, from books you disliked, movies you didn’t watch, and baby name phone apps you hated!
Many of these names have been featured in the Birth Announcements section of the blog, so may seem familiar.
Australian/Canadian couple Meagan and Brad have four children: North, aged 7, Indigo, aged 5, Juniper, aged 3, and Sage, aged 1. North was named in honour of Canada, while Indigo’s name was inspired by the Third Eye chakra. Although Juniper and Sage’s names aren’t explained the family love the outdoors, so nature names seem in line with their interests.
Jessie and Adrian from Tasmania have two children named Liffey, aged 2, and Jarvis, aged 7 months. Liffey’s name was chosen before she was even born, as Adrian and Jessie had visited local landmark Liffey Falls and loved their serenity; they agreed Liffey would be a sweet name for a girl if they ever had a daughter. Jarvis was named after Jessie’s dad’s home town – Jervis Bay is in the coastal region of the Australian Capital Territory, and pronounced JAR-vis.
Leah and Colin had a little girl named Eva James at the start of the year. Eva is named after Leah’s grandmother that she had a special bond with, while the middle name James is after her father.
Lucy and Hayden live in New Zealand, but their son Mickey Memphis, aged 2, was born when they lived in Australia. Mickey was the name they were always going to use, regardless of their child’s gender, and Memphis is due to Colin’s love of blues music. During labour Lucy was listening to the radio, and the song Hey Mickey came on, which seemed like a thumbs up to their choice.
Jaimi and Jarrud have two sons named Ziggy, aged 4, and Jango Sting, aged 1. Ziggy’s name came from watching the TV series The Wire, which has a character named Chester “Ziggy” Zobotka. The suggestion started as a joke, but soon they agreed it was the perfect name. Jango’s name was inspired by bounty hunter Jango Fett from the Star Wars franchise, while his middle name Sting was after the rock star (Sting was considered too harsh-sounding to be a first name).
Chenoa and her husband have two children named Baylee and Isla [pictured]. Because their surname begins with M, they wanted their first child’s initials to spell BAM, as their “womb name” was Bamba. In a tragic twist, Chenoa learned her father only had a few weeks to live just weeks before the baby was due. Chenoa’s dad Allan had a vivid dream of a boy in the family named Baylee, so that was the name they chose; Allan is Baylee’s middle name, spelling BAM. (Baylee was induced early so that he could meet his grandfather). Isla was named with the idea of isle, island, and as they often call Baylee Bay, they have two water-inspired names for their children.
Kate and Lachie are from Sydney, but live in the Cayman Islands. They have two daughters named Olivia, aged 5, and Eadie, aged 3. They loved the elegance of the name Olivia, while Eadie was named after seeing Sienna Miller portray the actress/model Edie Sedgwick in the film Factory Girl.
Amber and Johnny have two sons named Franklin Ray, aged 3, and Hugo John Austin, aged 1. When pregnant with their first child, Amber was at the movies with Johnny and a trailer for the movie The Watch came on, with Jonah Hill portraying a character named Franklin. That reminded them they loved the name Franklin, and Ray is after Johnny’s father. The second time around names were harder. Johnny suggested Hugo after he had been using a baby name app, and John was in the middle in honour of Johnny himself. The second middle name Austin was Amber’s brother Jesse’s middle name – Jesse died not long before Hugo was born.
Adele and Matthew have three children named Ryland, aged 6, Reid Alex, aged 4, and Pearl Lavender, aged 1. Matt chose Ryland’s name as Adele was too much in shock over not having a girl to think of anything. Reid was the only boy name they agreed on for their second child, and the middle name Alex was after Ryland’s imaginary friend. Pearl was the girl’s name Adele always wanted, but it took until the third child to convince Matt. The middle name Lavender was a suggestion by Ryland, who was keen to have a sister since he already had a brother. His suggestion for a boy was Shame, as he thought it would be a shame to have a third boy!
Holly and her best friend Chase became parents to Otto Henry Rowu last year. Holly had a baby name app on her phone which she was going to delete as it kept suggesting names she hated such as Laddie Boy and Paulina. Then it suddenly came up with Otto, which she unexpectedly loved. Henry is after a family friend who passed away. The second middle name Rowu is an Aboriginal word, pronounced like roar-war. It’s the name of a native flower which grows in the sand, and was chosen by a family friend who is Yolngu. Holly is raising her toddler nephew Theodore, and by chance Theodore and Otto sound like a perfectly matched sibset.
Danielle and Chris have two sons named Emmett and Myles. Danielle read Twilight, and although she wasn’t a fan of the book, did love the name of the character Emmett. Meanwhile Chris loved Dr Emmett Brown from Back to the Future, so readily agreed. The second time around was harder, as their chosen name Peyton didn’t match well with their surname. They saw Myles in the credits of a movie, and both loved it immediately, so the decision was made.
Name Update: Welcome Twins!
Posted by A.O. in Name Updates
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Rachel and Nicholas were expecting twins, siblings for their first child. They wanted names that fitted in with contemporary trends without being too popular. They picked out names for two girls fairly easily, but later scans revealed that they were having a boy and a girl.
Rae and Nick’s twins arrived safely in July, and their names are
CHARLOTTE MAE and BENNETT GEORGE,
a sister and brother for Mason.
Rae and Nick had a long list of “name rules”, which was making it hard for them to decide on names they really loved. The names they ended up choosing break several of their rules, but sound so lovely together that you can see they did the right thing by picking them.
It’s good to have rules, but always remember – they are your rules, and it’s for you to decide whether you want to follow them.
Celebrity Baby News: Radio Babies
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Mark “Soda” Soderstrom and his wife Kate welcomed their third child on September 16, and have named their son Otis. Otis joins siblings Felix, age 3, and Sienna, age 1. Mark is co-host of The Breakfast Show on Mix 102.3, and his radio partner Jodie Oddy queried the choice of the name Otis (in a way which implied a name like Otis needs some explanation). Mark revealed that he had seen the name Otis while getting into a lift: Otis are an American company well known for manufacturing elevators.
Alison “Ali” Hill and her husband Brandon welcomed their third child on August 8, and have named their son Seth Alexander [pictured]. Seth joins siblings Samuel, age 10, and Hannah, age 20. Alison is a singer and actress who is a radio presenter on 97.3 Coast FM in Mandurah.
Name Update: Lovely Ivy
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Anne and Kenneth were expecting their second child, a baby girl. They had only agreed on two possible names, but they still had to agree on middle names, and possible nicknames.
Anne and Kenneth’s little girl recently celebrated her second birthday, and her name is
IVY ELIZABETH,
sister to Will.
They didn’t choose the name until after Ivy was born. Ivy was Anne’s favourite name for a girl, while Elizabeth honoured the baby’s aunt. Anne and Kenneth are really happy with the name they picked out, and feel that it’s a name which suits their cute and lively daughter very well.
Ivy Elizabeth was a real favourite with readers, so I’m expecting a lot of support for Anne and Kenneth’s choice.
A Sister for a Stylish Sibset
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Alexandra is expecting her fourth child in a few weeks, a sister for her sons Rafferty and Owen and her daughter Sibella.
Alexandra’s main issues are that many of her favourite names for a girl sound quite a bit like Sibella, and she also loves English-style flower names, but to her these are a mis-match with Sibella. She would prefer something with a European/French/Latin feel to go with Sibella.
Alexandra has noticed she tends to like names that start with A, E, or L such as Aveline, Evangeline, and Luella; she loves romantic, feminine names and prefers ones that aren’t on the current popularity lists.
Her current front runner is Estelle. She loves the meaning, the sound of it, and its French origin. She isn’t sure whether it’s too much having sisters both with an ELL in their name, but she thinks Sibella and Estelle sound pretty together. She wonders how Estelle would be shortened – Stel? Elle? She would consider Estee or Essie, but isn’t convinced by either option.
Earlier in the pregnancy she considered the name Primrose, with Posy as the nickname, which she adores. However she started to think the name was too popular, and didn’t really go with the other children’s names. She also considered Evangeline and Clementine, but can’t quite get behind either.
The middle name would probably be Delphine, a French name she loves that seems a bit different from any of her other favourites.
Alexandra would like to know others’ thoughts on the name Estelle, and if there are any other names that go well with her children’s names (especially with Sibella) she may have missed?
Goodness, this is the second enquiry about Estelle I’ve received this week! It’s clearly the name of the moment. There’s already a quick poll on Estelle, and so far around two-thirds of people are in favour of using the name Estelle, with just under one-third loving the name. That seems like a good amount of people liking the name, and not an inconveniently high number loving it and therefore likely to use it.
Estelle seems as if it fits in fine with Rafferty, Owen, and Sibella – they all have their own vibe, yet are enough alike in style to rub together well enough. To me Sibella is Australian more than anything else: Sibella is a name more often used here than in any European country, although ultimately from Greek.
I’d probably use a vintage-style nickname like Etty or Essie for Estelle, but I have seen people use the name Star as a nickname for Estelle. There’s something modern, yet rather charming and storybook about that idea. Ellie also seems perfectly reasonable.
I am very surprised that you consider Primrose too popular to use. Even in the UK Primrose is barely in the Top 500, and it’s probably lower than that here. Sometimes people think when a name is fashionable it must be popular because there’s such a buzz around it, forgetting there can be quite a gap between a name suddenly coming into use again, and becoming popular. Estelle is far more popular a name, and that isn’t popular either.
Of course, Primrose might be quite common in your social circle, so if you already know three little girls named Primrose born in the past year, you’re rightfully going to disagree with mere statistics!
Primrose actually seems like a great fit with Rafferty, Owen, and Sibella, as they are all British names. Rafferty is Irish, Owen is Welsh, and Sibella is English. I rather love Primrose with Posy as the nickname.
Evangeline and Clementine would have been fine too, but the middle name Delphine would probably be a little too much in these cases.
Estelle seems like a good match with your chosen middle name, and as a sister to Rafferty, Owen, and Sibella. It’s a pretty, stylish name back in fashion, yet not overly common.
Other feminine names you might like: Lucinda, Evelina, Vivienne, Liliana, Eleanora, Genevieve, and Isadora.
88% of people generally approved of the name Estelle Delphine as sister to Rafferty, Owen and Sibella. 26% thought it was great, 31% thought it was good, and 28% thought it was okay. 12% were not convinced.
What Name For Olive’s Brother or Sister?
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Josephine and Stephen are expecting their second child later this year, a brother or sister for their daughter Olive. They picked Olive’s name out years in advance of her conception, so didn’t have to think of any other girls’ names. They never managed to agree on a boy’s name during the first pregnancy, so it really does feel as if it’s back-the-drawing-board time!
Josephine and Steve prefer classic-sounding names with an old-fashioned feel, but don’t want anything too popular. Josephine believes that Steve’s tastes in names is more conventional than hers as many of her name suggestions are rejected for being “too weird”.
The family surname is similar to Harley. They don’t mind names that start with H, but aren’t keen on ones that end with an EE sound in case it sounds too rhymey. They aren’t fussed about the meaning of the name, unless it means something completely appalling.
Names that have been discussed:
Cora – Steve’s favourite name, and Josephine likes it more and more as time goes by. This is probably their front runner at the moment.
Nell – it’s the name of an elderly dog owned by one of their parents. Josephine doesn’t think this is a problem, Steve isn’t so sure.
Harriet and Agnes – rejected by Steve
There will be two middle names, which is a family tradition. Possible middle names: Nell, Cora, Harriet, Agnes, Ivy, Maggie, Mabel, Adelaide, Poppy. The middle names just have to be ones they like which flow well together when matched with the first name.
Felix – this is probably their current front-runner.
Henry – they both love this name, but is Henry Harley too much? Also a good friend just had a boy named Henry.
Angus, called Gus – Steve isn’t keen.
Mack – Josephine really liked this name, but feels less and less certain about it. She liked that it was a nod to her surname, which starts with Mac, but wonders if it is too casual and nicknamey? Is it too aggressive, like a Mack truck? Steve is neutral.
Rupert – Josephine’s favourite boy’s name, and her choice for Olive if she had been a boy. Loves the nicknames Ru and Bear. Steve cannot be persuaded.
Joe, Fletcher, Ned, Hugh and Jock – rejected by Steve.
Again, two middle names. Possible middles: Felix, Henry, Angus, Mack, Rupert, Joe, Fletcher, Ned, Hugh, Jock, Chester, August, Winter (a family name).
Josephine wonders what people think of their name list, and if there are any other names in their style they might like.
Josephine, I have had a few parents write in when looking for a name for a second child after the first was utterly stress-free. They may have had a favourite name picked out for years, like you did, or both immediately loved the first name either one of them suggested. Then the second baby is due, and there’s a real feeling of “What do we do now?”.
In a way you are almost first-time baby namers again. Everything was already decided before Olive was even thought of, and now you’re stuck doing the hard yards of thinking up names, discussing them, crossing them off, starting again, and so on.
Perhaps this process even feels awkward or unnatural to you, but it’s actually completely normal and you are in fact doing great. I know you are going to pick a name just as good as Olive’s for your second child even if it takes more effort.
I love Steve’s suggestion of Cora! It’s strong yet feminine, and Olive and Cora sound adorable together. I don’t really think Steve’s taste is overly conventional – Cora doesn’t seem more conventional than Harriet, for example. I think some men just say names are “weird” when they mean they don’t like them.
I’m glad you are warming to Cora. I think it would work well with the style of middle names you have picked out, such as Cora Mabel Poppy or Cora Nell Adelaide.
Nell is sweet, and Olive and Nell are lovely. I’m with you – I don’t see much of an issue with the dog, especially as it’s a very old one. However, some people feel as if once a name is given to a pet, that makes it a “dog name” forevermore. If Steve remains hesitant, Nell could always be a middle name.
I think maybe Henry Harley is a little too much for me. It’s not only that the names begin and end with the name sound and have the same number of syllables, which is rather nursery rhyme character in sound, but that Harley is sometimes given as a first name, and Henry is occasionally a surname.
Like Rowan Regan and Libby Lacey, a name like this is perhaps too whimsical for me, although I’m sure some others would really like it. Henry would, however, make a fantastic middle name.
I like the idea of Mack honouring your surname. I notice you have selected several nicknamey names for boys, like Joe and Ned, but Steve rejected them. He also rejected or hasn’t committed to names which you planned to use a nickname for, such as Angus “Gus” and Rupert “Bear”.
Is it possible that Steve just isn’t as keen on nicknames? (Come to think, he hasn’t committed to Nell either). He’s remained neutral on Mack, and I wonder if that’s because he doesn’t want to hurt your feelings by rejecting a name honouring your surname.
If both of you are hesitating over it, perhaps Mack could be one of the middle names? Or maybe you could pick a boy’s name that has the letters MAC in it, like Cormac or Malcolm, or the same sound, like Maxwell? (sounds like Mack’s well).
That leaves you with Felix, which fortunately is great! Felix would be a wonderful choice with your surname, and as a brother to Olive. It could also work well with your chosen middle names, such as Felix Henry Mack or Felix Winter August.
I know you’ve really only agreed on one name for each sex so far, but one name is all you need, and Cora and Felix are both brilliant choices.
Other names that seem to be in your style might be Clara, Ada, Nora, Iris, or Hazel for a girl, and Jasper, Leo, Finlay, Griffin or Lewis for boy. But I actually like Cora and Felix better than all these names.
Good luck with your name search Josephine and Steve – I think you’re going to be fine. You already picked out one nice baby name, and I’m sure you’ll be able to do it again.
People’s choice for a sister for Olive was Cora, with 71% of the vote. Their choice for a brother for Olive was Felix, with 59% of the vote.
82% of people were not in favour of using the name Henry Harley, with 61% thinking it was a little too much, and 21% thinking it was completely over the top. 14% of people thought it was fine, and 4% actually loved the idea.
57% of people didn’t see a problem with Mack, with 29% thinking it was fine and 28% thinking it was great. A sizeable minority of 43% were not in favour. 30% thought it was too casual and nicknamey, and 13% that it was too rough and aggressive.
Name Update: The Name Sharing Sisters
Jenny and Sam were expecting a brother or sister for their son and daughter, and not only considering different names, but also thinking of how to co-ordinate two middle names if it was a girl.
Jenny and Sam recently welcomed their second daughter and have named her
SAFFY ISABEL LYNDA,
baby sister to Tillie and Texas.
Saffy was their front-runner for a girl, while Lynda honours the memory of a beloved family member. In the end, Jenny and Sam chose Isabel as the first middle name because it is also one of Tillie’s middle names. Not only does Isabel sound good, but it provides a link with Saffy’s big sister.
Congratulations to Jenny and Sam on the birth of their third child! They have chosen a very sweet and pretty name with a meaningful name story.
Name Update: The Birthstone Baby
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Brooke and Ryan were expecting their third child in June. They had a few ideas in mind for a boy, and quite a few possibilities for girls – enough that it was hard to choose. Brooke wanted a traditional vintage-style that wasn’t too popular.
Brooke and Ryan welcomed their daughter late last month, and named her
PEARL FLORENCE,
a sister for big brothers Alexander and Charlie.
Pearl is the birth stone for June, while Florence is a family name. Brooke is very happy with the name they have chosen for their daughter, and absolutely loves it.
Congratulations to Brooke and Ryan on the birth of their daughter! What a beautiful meaningful name, and everything they hoped for.
Celebrity Baby News: International Celebrity Babies
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American reality TV star Audrina Partridge, and her fiance, Australian dirt bike rider Corey Bohan, welcomed their first child on June 25 and have named their daughter Kirra Max. Audrina starred in the MTV reality TV series The Hills, and briefly had her own spin-off show, Audrina; she now hosts a late-night travel show. Corey has been a professional BMX dirt bike rider since 2002 and was the first athlete to win in three consecutive years at the X Games – in 2004, 2005, and 2006. He took part in one episode of The Hills, and met Audrina during filming. Kirra is a beach from Corey’s home state of Queensland, while Max is the current unisex darling for celebrities to choose for daughters.
Balinese actor Kadek Mahardika and his Australian wife Laura recently welcomed their second child and have named their son Lenny, a brother for Mila [pictured]. When he was born they couldn’t decide between Jordy and Lenny so they chose the name using the “rock scissors paper” method – apparently Laura’s choice won. Kadek is best known for his role of Ketut, Rhonda’s Balinese holiday romance in the popular “Rhonda and Ketut” series of advertisements for AAMI car insurance.
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Out of a Far Country
A Gay Son's Journey to God. A Broken Mother's Search for Hope.
Christopher Yuan & Angela Yuan
Category: Social IssuesSexuality
May 3, 2011 | 240 Pages
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About Out of a Far Country
Over 100,000 copies sold!
Coming Out, Then Coming Home
Christopher Yuan, the son of Chinese immigrants, discovered at an early age that he was different. He was attracted to other boys. As he grew into adulthood, his mother, Angela, hoped to control the situation. Instead, she found that her son and her life were spiraling out of control—and her own personal demons were determined to defeat her.
Years of heartbreak, confusion, and prayer followed before the Yuans found a place of complete surrender, which is God’s desire for all families. Their amazing story, told from the perspectives of both mother and son, offers hope for anyone affected by homosexuality.
God calls all who are lost to come home to him. Casting a compelling vision for holy sexuality, Out of a Far Country speaks to prodigals, parents of prodigals, and those wanting to minister to the gay community.
“But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.” - Luke 15:20
Includes a discussion guide for personal reflection and group use.
Praise for Out of a Far Country
“Christopher Yuan and Angela Yuan have told the story of their miraculous journey from broken lives, relationships, and dreams to a place of hope and healing. Out of a Far Country brings home the living truth that in the midst of a broken and hurting world, God is at work to redeem, renew, and reconcile his beloved. I’m particularly happy to endorse this book because Christopher, like myself, was broken in prison and redeemed by Christ.”
—Chuck Colson, founder of Prison Fellowship and the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview
“Out of a Far Country reads like a modern rendition of the prodigal son parable, only it is more gripping. The journey taken by Christopher Yuan is rarely documented. Be prepared, for the raw emotions of both mother and son authentically mark every page. The spiritual lessons to be gained from this book are many. May it gain a vast audience!”
—J. Paul Nyquist, PhD, president of Moody Bible Institute
“This is a moving account of how an Asian mother’s fragile love turns into a prayerful, patient, and tenacious force of forgiveness. It is also a gripping narrative of a son’s search for belonging and meaning. Out of a Far Country breeds hope in every despairing heart.”
—Lisa Espineli Chinn, director of International Student Ministries for InterVarsity/USA
“The Good Shepherd knows his sheep and calls them by name. Christopher Yuan, trapped in a life of drugs and sexual addiction, heard that call and rose to follow Jesus. His and his mother’s account of that rising is a profound story of redemption that all of us in this broken generation need to hear.”
—Duane Litfin, president emeritus of Wheaton College in Illinois
“Relevant, courageous, fascinating, and much more. I have known the Yuans for many years, and their walk is in line with their talk. This important and needed story goes against the wind, but it is one hundred percent in the right direction.”
—Dr. George Verwer, founder and former international director of Operation Mobilisation
“Out of a Far Country is a true-life parable of saving grace for a prodigal mother and a wayward son who needed God’s forgiveness. Their story will warm the heart and lift the spirit of every parent who prays for a wandering child and every believer who needs to be reminded why the gospel is good news.”
—Dr. Philip G. Ryken, president of Wheaton College in Illinois
“At one point, Angela and Christopher were living worlds apart. I have heard their story countless times, and it never grows old. I know you will be amazed by the God who did the impossible to bring this mother and son back together.”
—Alan Chambers, president of Exodus International
“This is the story of God’s persistent chase of a wayward son through the prayers and love of a determined mother. But even more, it is a testimony to the fact that loving God is a far more satisfying pursuit than following our own desires. I am thankful that Christopher and Angela are willing to be so transparent about their journey. Christopher’s desire to follow Christ regardless of the struggle stands as a model for all who desire to love God with all their heart.”
—Dr. Joseph M. Stowell, president of Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, Michigan
“God snatched Christopher Yuan from a desperately empty life and offered him the hope of Jesus Christ. This is a story of God’s redemption, love, and mercy in the midst of overwhelming sin and a heart that was far from God. Get two copies of this book—you will want to give one to a friend who needs Jesus.”
—Dr. James MacDonald, senior pastor of Harvest Bible Chapel in Rolling Meadows, Illinois
“The story of Angela Yuan and Christopher Yuan, Out of a Far Country, will minister rich grace and hope to mothers who are praying for the return of a prodigal, to the prodigals they love, and to anyone battling a sinful addiction that seems impossible to overcome. This is a deeply moving account of God’s amazing power and love.”
—Nancy Leigh DeMoss, best-selling author, host of the Revive Our Hearts radio program
About Christopher Yuan
CHRISTOPHER YUAN, DMin, has taught at the Moody Bible Institute for over ten years and his speaking ministry on faith and sexuality has reached five continents. He speaks at conferences, on college campuses, and in churches. He co-authored with his mother, Angela, their memoir (now in seven languages), Out of a Far Country: A Gay Son's Journey to God, A Broken Mother's Search for Hope. He is also the author of Giving a Voice to the Voiceless. Dr. Yuan holds degrees from Moody Bible Institute, Wheaton College, and Bethel Seminary.
About Angela Yuan
Christopher Yuan and Angela Yuan travel nationally and internationally to speak at churches, conferences, youth conventions, and colleges about God’s desire for prodigals of all types to return to him. Angela is a businesswoman and advocate for Chinese-American cultural causes. Christopher teaches at Moody Bible Institute (MBI). He holds a bachelor's degree from MBI and an master's degree in biblical exegesis from Wheaton College Graduate School. He is currently pursuing a doctorate of ministry from Bethel Seminary.
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Click here to download chapter one of Out of a Far Country.
Out of a Far Country reminds us that God calls all of us, whether we have heterosexual feelings or homosexual feelings, to a life of holy sexuality as we embrace our true identity in Christ.
NEWS: “Out of A Far Country” Author Featured in The Christian Post
Speaking at the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission’s National Conference about his own experience of becoming a Christian as a same-sex attracted man, Moody Bible Professor Christopher Yuan and author of Out of A Far Country, urged Christian parents to love their lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual children and lead them back to the Gospel.
“Parents, love your LGBT or same-sex attracted children and point them to a life of costly discipleship following Jesus,” states Yuan.
NEWS: “Out of A Far Country” Author Featured on The Christian Post
Out of A Far Country author Christopher Yuan responds on The Christian Post, to Exodus International President Alan Chamber’s apology.
Click here to read the article at The Christian Post.
To read Yuan’s full response, visit his FaceBook page here.
NEWS: “Out of A Far Country” Chosen #2 in Top 2011 Picks
Out of A Far Country by Christopher Yuan and Angela Yuan has been chosen by The Parchment Girl as one of her “Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2011.”
Ranking #2 on the list, mother and son share their amazing story of the power of Gods love and what prayer can do
along with the redemption and restoration of a family in crisis. Out of a Far Country is a real-life story of what happens when God calls the lost to come home to Him.
NEWS: Focus on the Family’s CITIZENLINK Interviews Christopher Yuan
Out of A Far Country co-author Christopher Yuan’s interview with Focus on the Family’s CITIZENLINK Magazine is availalbe online. Once a convicted drug dealer serving time in prison, Yuan now teaches at Moody Bible Institute. To read about his journey out of homosexuality, click here.
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AUTOMATED IMPACT MAP SENT 120HRS BEFORE TYPHOON KAMMURI ARRIVES
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On November 29th The Philippine Red Cross FBF team received the first Automated impact map from the 510 team. This was 120hrs before expected landfall of Typhoon Kammuri/Tisoy.
The FbF project in the Philippines used impact-based forecasting – overlaying the wind speed forecast with data on indicators such as building types, poverty and past impact of typhoons – to identify those municipalities, for which the most severe impact is predicted. 510 initially used to do calculations and create the maps when needed but now have started to automate the outputs with updates tracking 120/81/21 hours before landfall. The impact-based forecasting model used in the automated maps was also developed with support of 510.
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This automated map allows the aid workers on the ground to act and warn potentiality affected districts about the typhoon. With the maps information and support of German Red Cross, volunteers and the staff of the Philippines Red Cross are carrying out the following early actions: (taken from https://www.forecast-based-financing.org/2019/12/02/typhoon-tisoy/)
In Camarines Norte, houses in two communities were strengthened, e.g. by tying down roofs. Shelter strengthening kits and instruction materials specifically for this purpose had been developed earlier this year in collaboration with construction experts.
In Catanduanes, early harvesting of Abaca trees in five communities was supported, employing more than 100 community members. This will ensure that vulnerable farm workers have income for the coming months when processing the fibers. In past storms, when Abaca trees were destroyed this not only meant significant losses for farmers, but also a continuous lack of income for those workers normally employed for processing the trees.
In Camarines Norte, PRC and GRC are supporting the evacuation of livestock in two communities. Communities were chosen that had already lost large parts of their livestock during Typhoon Usman just one year ago. The FbF team has identified a central elevated site (200m from the shelter for the population) and employed 17 community members to fence the area. The livestock evacuation is being carried out in close collaboration with the provincial DRM authorities, which will be providing trucks.
The Philippines Red Cross FBF team has been working together with the German Red Cross and Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre on FBF and 510 has been working on the automated maps & impact models for FBF.
Read more here about how 510 works with the IBF & FBF stakeholders.
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Learn to Cook with the Famous Local Black Beans from the Picturesque Town of Sango in Nara Prefecture! [PR]
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Nara Prefecture is a popular travel destination thanks to its many tourist spots like the World Heritage Sites “Todai-ji Temple” and “Kasuga Grand Shrine”. It’s also where you’ll find the town of Sango, which boasts a strong connection to history with its ancient roads and places of worship, as well as beautiful nature scenery that you can enjoy all year round. Now you can also learn how to cook a product of that wonderful nature: Sango’s famous black beans! In this article, we’ll discuss the details of this black bean culinary class as well as can’t-miss tourist spots around Sango, a relatively unknown area that’s ready to make you fall in love with it.
Enjoy Fascinating History and Nature in Sango, Nara
Must-See Tourist Spots in Sango
A Lavish Union of Sweet and Savory Flavors! Learn to Cook Sango’s Delicious Black Beans!
Nara Prefecture is located in the western part of Japan known as “Kansai.” As it used to be the site of Japan’s old capital, you’ll find many historic shrines and temples like the famous Todai-ji Temple or the Kashihara Shrine. The area also boasts popular cherry blossom spots like Mt. Odaigahara and Mt. Yoshino, as well as beautiful natural scenery, which have made it a popular travel destination among Japanese and foreign tourists. Nara can be easily reached in 1.5 hours by bus or train from the Kansai International Airport, which takes in direct flights from all over the world, making it especially accessible to people traveling from abroad.
Sango: Where History and Nature Meet
Sango lies in the northwest of Nara Prefecture. It measures 5.6km from east to west and 3.5km from north to south, for a total area of 8.79 sq.km. It’s a very compact town, but it is blessed by the beautiful splendor of nature thanks to the Kongo-Ikoma-Kisen Quasi-National Park and Mt. Shigi, which always offer visitors something different depending on the season.
There are also many traditional Japanese poems associated with Sango found in the Man’yoshu anthology of Japanese waka poetry, which was compiled between the late 7th and late 8th centuries. It mentions spots in Sango, such as its famous Tatsuta Road or Mt. Mimuro, a famous cherry blossom site. The town is also home to many precious cultural assets like Tatsuta Shrine or Heiryu-ji Temple.
Sango boasts beautiful and historic nature scenery like the one above. It’s also located just a 30-minute train ride from Osaka, making it a great place to visit during a trip to the city.
A map of Sango can be found here
1. Ancient Tatsuta Road
The Ancient Tatsuta Road connected Heijo-kyo (former capital of Japan in Nara) and Osaka during the Nara period (710 – 794). It served as the gateway to Yamato (the old name for Japan) and was used by the Emperor during imperial visits as well as by Japanese envoys to Tang China or Silla. Some consider it the first official state road, and many poems about the Ancient Tatsuta Road have been written by poets traversing it. You can read those poems today in the Man’yoshu anthology, which shows just how important this road used to be to people of the past. Many temples were built along the Ancient Tatsuta Road and you can now admire these historic buildings among the splendor of nature.
Name: Ancient Tatsuta Road
Website: https://www.town.sango.nara.jp/kensetsukeizai/tatutakodoupurojekuto.html
Address: Tatsuno, Sango-cho, Ikoma-gun, Nara
Access: Around an 8-minute walk from Sango Station on the JR Yamatoji Line
2. Tatsuta Shrine
This shrine venerates the deity of wind known as Tatsuta Fujin. Legend goes that 2,100 years ago, after a long period of bad crops and plagues devastated the nation, the Emperor was visited in his dreams by a supreme being that told him to “venerate the two deities, Amenomihashira-no-Mikoto and Kuninomihashira-no-Mikoto, at Mt. Tatsuta.” After construction on the shrine began, the crops became bountiful and the plagues vanished from the land, and that’s how Tatsuta Shrine came into being. Most current visitors to Tatsuta pray for protection from the wind or safe passages on ships or airplanes. Every year, on the first Sunday of July, the shrine holds the Fuchin Festival during which participants can enjoy Kagura music and dance, Fuchin taiko drum performances, and an exciting handheld firework show. If you’re ever in Kansai during this time, make sure to check the festival out.
Name: Tatsuta Shrine
Website: http://www.tatsutataisha.jp/index.php
Opening hours: Worship: 24/7, Office and souvenir store: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (prayer registration: until 4:00 pm)
Address: 1-29-1 Tatsuno-minami, Sango-cho, Ikoma-gun, Nara
Access: Around a 5-minute walk from Sango Station on the JR Yamatoji Line
3. Mt. Tatsuta
Mt. Tatsuta lies in the southernmost part of the Ikoma Mountains in Nara Prefecture. Located in the basin of Tatsuta River, the name “Mt. Tatsuta” actually refers to a chain of mountains at the north bank of the Yamato River, which runs south off Mt. Shigi. During autumn, the mountain becomes a popular travel destination because of its beautiful foliage. There are many poems about Mt. Tatsuta in the Man’yoshu, meaning that this beautiful land and its seasonal natural views have been fascinating people for more than 2,000 years.
Name: Mt. Tatsuta
4. Heiryu-ji Temple
Heiryu-ji Temple, also known as Serokuon Temple or Heguri Temple, was one of the 46 places of worship founded by Prince Shotoku, the famed politician and member of the imperial family from the Asuka period (538 - 710). The temple is located in the Sango region of Seya, famous for the kilns that produced roof tiles for the Heiryu-ji and Horyu-ji temples, as well as the keyhole-shaped tombs from the early 6th century. For those reasons, the Heiryu-ji Temple area has been designated as a historic landmark. The modern Heiryu-ji building is a product of the modern age, but the remains of the historic temple are still there, resting peacefully below the ground.
Name: Heiryu-ji Temple
Website: https://www.town.sango.nara.jp/shogaigakusyu/kanko/spot/heryuji.html
Opening hours: Worship: 24/7
Address: 2-11-60 Seya-higashi, Sango-cho, Ikoma-gun
Access: Around a 10-minute walk from Seya-Kitaguchi Station on the Kintetsu Ikoma Line
5. Mt. Shigi
One of the 100 best mountains to visit for an excursion in Nara (as designated by Nara Prefecture), Mt. Shigi stands tall at an impressive 437m. One of the area’s biggest attractions is the Shigi Ikoma Skyline, a scenic toll road connecting the ridge of Mt. Shigi with Mt. Ikoma on the border of Nara Prefecture and Osaka Prefecture. In spring, the road comes to life with cherry blossoms, and in autumn, it becomes a popular and colorful foliage viewing spot. It’s also beautiful in winter for its snow scenery, making the entire area popular with both locals and tourists. The road also offers panoramic night views of Nara and Osaka, so if you have the chance, visit it in the evening hours.
Another place worth mentioning is the Kaiun Bridge, a registered tangible cultural property and the only place in Kansai where you can enjoy bungee jumping. If you’ve ever wanted to dive off a 30m-tall bridge while surrounded by gorgeous nature, this is the place for you.
Name: Mt. Shigi
Address: Shigisan-nishi, Sango-cho, Ikoma-gun, Nara
Access: Around a 5-minute walk from the Shigi Ohashi bus stop after a 22-minute bus ride from Oji Eki Kitaguchi (Oji Station North Exit) via the Nara Kotsu Bus Line heading towards Shigisanmon. To catch the bus, get off at Oji Station on the JR Yamatoji or Kintetsu Ikoma Line.
Name: Kaiun Bungy
Website: http://www.bungyjapan.com/kaiun/?lang=en
Opening hours: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (registration finishes at 4:30 pm)
Holidays: Wednesday and Thursday. Also closed in the event of typhoon, lightning, or heavy snowfall.
Price: One jump: 9,000 JPY, second jump on same day: 5,000 JPY, all subsequent jumps: 7,000 JPY (certification and ID required)
* Note: Starting on January 1st, 2020, the prices will be revised to:
One jump: 10,000 JPY, second jump on same day: 6,000 JPY, all subsequent jumps: 8,000 JPY (certification and ID required)
Address: 1190-20 Shigisan-nishi, Sango-cho, Ikoma-gun, Nara
These beans pack a lot of nutrients and flavor!
Black beans have a lot of health benefits. For example, they have high levels of antioxidizing polyphenols, prevent high blood pressure or the hardening of arteries, improve blood glucose levels, and have a general antiaging effect on the body. Because of this, black beans have long had their place on the Japanese dining table.
The beans cultivated at Sango are sundried for 1 month to bring out their sweet and savory flavor. This process doesn’t affect their high nutritional value.
Learn to Cook Sango’s Delicious Black Beans!
Eating local specialties is one of the best parts of any trip, which is why we recommend the Sango black bean cooking class hosted by the popular ABC Cooking program.
During it, you will be making three dishes with Sango black beans: Brazilian Feijoada stew with beans and pork (or beef), cream soup, and rum balls with jam or condensed milk inside a cake or biscuit dough. The class takes place at the easily accessible JR Tennoji Station, which can be reached in 20 minutes from JR Shin-Osaka Station, or in 30 minutes from JR Nara Station. The instructors speak English, so even foreigners who don’t speak Japanese can participate in the class!
Let’s enjoy making delicious dishes which bring out the best flavors of local Nara ingredients harvested from the very heart of Sango’s nature!
- Black bean and pork Feijoada-style stew, with rice
- Black bean cream soup
- Rum balls
An apron, hand towel (guests without an apron will be able to buy one for 100 yen)
Venue: Abeno and Studio (Google Maps)
Address: Abeno and 4F, 2-1-40 Abenosuji, Abeno-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka
December 20 (Fri), 2019
January 14 (Tue) and 30 (Thu), 2020
February 10 (Mon) and 26 (Wed), 2020
March 9 (Mon), 2020
Lesson duration: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm (one lesson is around two hours)
Access: Around a 5-minute walk from JR Tennoji Station
Languages: Japanese, English
We hope you’ve enjoyed reading about the magic of Sango. If you ever get the chance, please enjoy local Sango specialties and the beautiful scenery in this land of history and nature!
*Please note that the information in this article is from the time of writing or publication and may differ from the latest information.
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Family: Gnaphosidae / Genus: Haplodrassus
Haplodrassus invalidus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)
Described:
LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027339]
Distribution: Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, Azerbaijan
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Taxonomic references
Drassus invalidus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872: 237, pl. 15, f. 14 (Dm).
Drassus invalidus Simon, 1878a: 135 (Df).
Haplodrassus invalidus Roewer, 1955c: 399.
Haplodrassus invalidus Levy, 2004: 31, f. 70-73 (mf, S of H. vignai, rejected by Bosmans et al., 2018: 54, see H. macellinus).
Haplodrassus invalidus Kovblyuk, Kastrygina & Omelko, 2012: 68, f. 32-34 (m).
Haplodrassus invalidus Bosmans et al., 2018: 54, f. 223-231 (mf).
Haplodrassus invalidus Chatzaki & Van Keer, 2019: 443, f. 21-22 (f).
Bosmans, R., Kherbouche-Abrous, O., Benhalima, S. & Hervé, C. (2018). The genus Haplodrassus Chamberlin, 1922 in the Mediterranean and the Maghreb in particular (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Zootaxa 4451(1): 1-67. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4451.1.1 -- Show included taxa
Chatzaki, M. & Van Keer, J. (2019). Ground spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae, Liocranidae, Prodidomidae) from the Greek islands Rodos, Symi and Karpathos, with the description of new species. Zootaxa 4646(3): 434-460. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4646.3.2 -- Show included taxa
Kovblyuk, M. M., Kastrygina, Z. A. & Omelko, M. M. (2012). A review of the spider genus Haplodrassus Chamberlin, 1922 in Crimea (Ukraine) and adjacent areas (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). ZooKeys 205: 59-89. doi:10.3897/zookeys.205.3491 -- Show included taxa
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Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1872). General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 40(1): 212-354, pl. 13-16. -- Show included taxa
Roewer, C. F. (1955c). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1751 pp. -- Show included taxa
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2019-07-25 New taxonomic reference entry Chatzaki & Van Keer, 2019 n/a
2019-07-25 Species distribution update Chatzaki & Van Keer, 2019 n/a (Old value)
2018-08-05 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Haplodrassus macellinus (Thorell, 1871)
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Wanis Kabbaj: How nationalism and globalism can coexist
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Jan Rader: In the opioid crisis, here's what it takes to save a life
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Yuval Noah Harari: Why fascism is so tempting -- and how your data could power it
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Jennifer Wilcox: A new way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere
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Angel Hsu: How China is (and isn't) fighting pollution and climate change
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Gary Liu: The rapid growth of the Chinese internet -- and where it's headed
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Finn Myrstad: How tech companies deceive you into giving up your data and privacy
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Lýdia Machová: The secrets of learning a new language
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Pierre Barreau: How AI could compose a personalized soundtrack to your life
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Cecile Richards: The political progress women have made -- and what's next
Women have made enormous progress over the last century — challenging the status quo, busting old taboos and changing business from the inside out. But when it comes to political representation, there's still a long way to go, says activist Cecile Richards. In this visionary talk, Richards calls for a global political revolution for women's equality and offers her ideas for how we can build it.
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Poppy Crum: Technology that knows what you're feeling
What happens when technology knows more about us than we do? Poppy Crum studies how we express emotions — and she suggests the end of the poker face is near, as new tech makes it easy to see the signals that give away how we're feeling. In a talk and demo, she shows how "empathetic technology" can read physical signals like body temperature and the chemical composition of our breath to inform on our emotional state. For better or for worse. "If we recognize the power of...
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Dan Clay: Why you should bring your whole self to work
Dan Clay was worried about being dismissed as "too gay" at work, so he dialed down his personality. But then his alter ego, Carrie Dragshaw, went viral online. Here's what happened next.
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Dan Gibson: How to build synthetic DNA and send it across the internet
Biologist Dan Gibson edits and programs DNA, just like coders program a computer. But his "code" creates life, giving scientists the power to convert digital information into biological material like proteins and vaccines. Now he's on to a new project: "biological transportation," which holds the promise of beaming new medicines across the globe over the internet. Learn more about how this technology could change the way we respond to disease outbreaks and enable us to...
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Priyanka Jain: How to make applying for jobs less painful
Finding a job used to start with submitting your résumé to a million listings and never hearing back from most of them. But more and more companies are using tech-forward methods to identify candidates. If AI is the future of hiring, what does that mean for you? Technologist Priyanka Jain gives a look at this new hiring landscape.
Topics: Tedtalks, TED, Talks, business, work, personal growth, work-life balance, TED2017, 2018
Laura L. Dunn: It's time for the law to protect victims of gender violence
To make accountability the norm after gender violence in the United States, we need to change tactics, says victims' rights attorney and TED Fellow Laura L. Dunn. Instead of going institution by institution, fighting for reform, we need to go to the Constitution and finally pass the Equal Rights Amendment, which would require states to address gender inequality and violence. By ushering in sweeping change, Dunn says, "our legal system can become a system of justice, and #MeToo can finally...
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Luke Sital-Singh: "Afterneath" / "Killing Me"
Luke Sital-Singh sings songs of love, longing and grief in this stirring performance of "Afterneath" and "Killing Me." "These are the songs I just never tire of hearing and I never tire of writing, because they make me feel less alone," Sital-Singh says.
Topics: Tedtalks, TED, Talks, piano, music, singer, live music, performance, TED2017, 2018
Robin Steinberg: What if we ended the injustice of bail?
On any given night, more than 450,000 people in the United States are locked up in jail simply because they don't have enough money to pay bail. The sums in question are often around $500: easy for some to pay, impossible for others. This has real human consequences — people lose jobs, homes and lives, and it drives racial disparities in the legal system. Robin Steinberg has a bold idea to change this. In this powerful talk, she outlines the plan for The Bail Project — an unprecedented...
Topics: Tedtalks, TED, Talks, United States, activism, community, inequality, justice system, law,...
Débora Mesa Molina: Stunning buildings made from raw, imperfect materials
What would it take to reimagine the limits of architecture? Débora Mesa Molina offers some answers in this breathtaking, visual tour of her work, showing how structures can be made with overlooked materials and unconventional methods — or even extracted from the guts of the earth. "The world around us is an infinite source of inspiration if we are curious enough to see beneath the surface of things," she says.
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Darrick Hamilton: How "baby bonds" could help close the wealth gap
Hard work, resilience and grit lead to success, right? This narrative pervades the way we think, says economist Darrick Hamilton, but the truth is that our chances at economic security have less to do with what we do and more to do with the wealth position we're born into. Enter "baby bonds": trust accounts of up to $60,000 for every newborn, calibrated to the wealth of their family. Learn how this bold proposal could help us reduce inequality — and give every child personal seed...
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Jonathan Wilker: What sticky sea creatures can teach us about making glue
What if we could harness the sticking powers of sea creatures like mussels, oysters and barnacles, which refuse to budge even on wet, stormy coastlines? Dive into the wonderful world of animals that make their own glue and cement with scientist Jonathan Wilker — and preview some of the amazing things we can learn from how they do it.
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Steve Boyes: How we're saving one of Earth's last wild places
Navigating territorial hippos and active minefields, TED Fellow Steve Boyes and a team of scientists have been traveling through the Okavango Delta, Africa's largest remaining wetland wilderness, to explore and protect this near-pristine habitat against the rising threat of development. In this awe-inspiring talk packed with images, he shares his work doing detailed scientific surveys in the hopes of protecting this enormous, fragile wilderness.
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Olga Yurkova: Inside the fight against Russia's fake news empire
When facts are false, decisions are wrong, says editor and TED Fellow Olga Yurkova. To stop the spread of fake news, she and a group of journalists launched StopFake.org, which exposes biased or inaccurate reporting in order to rebuild the trust we've lost in our journalists, leaders and institutions. Learn more about the fight against misinformation as well as two critical ways we can ensure we're not reading (or sharing) fake news.
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Jessica Pryce: To transform child welfare, take race out of the equation
In this eye-opening talk about the impact of race and neighborhood on foster-care decisions, social worker Jessica Pryce shares a promising solution to help child welfare agencies make bias-free assessments about when to remove children from their families. "Let's work together to build a system that wants to make families stronger instead of pulling them apart," Pryce says.
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Tiana Epps-Johnson: What's needed to bring the US voting system into the 21st century
The American election system is complicated, to say the least — but voting is one of the most tangible ways that each of us can shape our communities. How can we make the system more modern, inclusive and secure? Civil engagement champion Tiana Epps-Johnson shares what's needed to bring voting in the US into the 21st century — and to get every person to the polls.
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Tamekia MizLadi Smith: How to train employees to have difficult conversations
It's time to invest in face-to-face training that empowers employees to have difficult conversations, says Tamekia MizLadi Smith. In a witty, provocative talk, Smith shares a workplace training program called "I'm G.R.A.C.E.D." that will inspire bosses and employees alike to communicate with compassion and respect. Bottom line: always let people know why their work matters.
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The Soul Rebels: "Rebelosis" / "Rebel Rock" / "Rebel on That Level"
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Elizabeth Lyle: How to break bad management habits before they reach the next generation of leaders
Companies are counting on their future leaders to manage with more speed, flexibility and trust than ever before. But how can middle managers climb the corporate ladder while also challenging the way things have always been done? Leadership expert Elizabeth Lyle offers a new approach to breaking the rules while you're on your way up, sharing creative ways organizations can give middle managers the space and coaching they need to start leading differently.
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Yasin Kakande: What's missing in the global debate over refugees
In the ongoing debate over refugees, we hear from everyone — from politicians who pledge border controls to citizens who fear they'll lose their jobs — everyone, that is, except migrants themselves. Why are they coming? Journalist and TED Fellow Yasin Kakande explains what compelled him and many others to flee their homelands, urging a more open discussion and a new perspective. Because humanity's story, he reminds us, is a story of migration: "There are no restrictions that could ever...
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Soraya Chemaly: The power of women's anger
Anger is a powerful emotion — it warns us of threat, insult, indignity and harm. But across the world, girls and women are taught that their anger is better left unvoiced, says author Soraya Chemaly. Why is that, and what might we lose in this silence? In a provocative, thoughtful talk, Chemaly explores the dangerous lie that anger isn't feminine, showing how women's rage is justified, healthy and a potential catalyst for change.
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Nora Atkinson: Why art thrives at Burning Man
Craft curator Nora Atkinson takes us on a trip to Nevada's Black Rock Desert to see the beautifully designed and participatory art of Burning Man, revealing how she discovered there what's often missing from museums: curiosity and engagement. "What is art for in our contemporary world if not this?" she asks.
Topics: Tedtalks, TED, Talks, art, community, creativity, culture, museums, society, TED2017, 2018
Amy Nicole Baker: 7 common questions about workplace romance
Should you date your coworker? Should workplace couples keep their relationships secret? And why are coworkers so often attracted to each other? Organizational psychologist Amy Nicole Baker shares the real answers to commonly asked questions about romance at the office.
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Amy Herman: A lesson on looking
Are you looking closely? Visual educator Amy Herman explains how to use art to enhance your powers of perception and find connections where they may not be apparent. Learn the techniques Herman uses to train Navy SEALs, doctors and crime scene investigators to convert observable details into actionable knowledge with this insightful talk.
Topics: Tedtalks, TED, Talks, art, intelligence, memory, teaching, museums, TED2017, 2018
Dolly Chugh: How to let go of being a "good" person -- and become a better person
What if your attachment to being a "good" person is holding you back from actually becoming a better person? In this accessible talk, social psychologist Dolly Chugh explains the puzzling psychology of ethical behavior — like why it's hard to spot your biases and acknowledge mistakes — and shows how the path to becoming better starts with owning your mistakes. "In every other part of our lives, we give ourselves room to grow — except in this one, where it matters...
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Yelle: "Interpassion" / "Ba$$in"
Yelle and GrandMarnier bring their danceable electropop hits to the TED stage in an energizing performance of two songs, "Interpassion" and "Ba$$in."
Topics: Tedtalks, TED, Talks, live music, music, performance, performance art, dance, singer, TED2017, 2018
David Cage: How video games turn players into storytellers
Have you ever watched a film or read a novel, wishing that you could change the narrative to save your favorite character? Game designer David Cage allows you do just that in his video games, where players make decisions that shape an ever-changing plot. In a talk and live demo, Cage presents a scene from his new project, letting the audience control a character's decisions. "Interactive storytelling can be what cinema was in the 20th century: an art that deeply changes its time,"...
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Kate Raworth: A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow
What would a sustainable, universally beneficial economy look like? "Like a doughnut," says Oxford economist Kate Raworth. In a stellar, eye-opening talk, she explains how we can move countries out of the hole — where people are falling short on life's essentials — and create regenerative, distributive economies that work within the planet's ecological limits.
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Caroline Weaver: Why the pencil is perfect
Why are pencils shaped like hexagons, and how did they get their iconic yellow color? Pencil shop owner Caroline Weaver takes us inside the fascinating history of the pencil.
Topics: Tedtalks, TED, Talks, design, history, industrial design, writing, TED2017, 2018
Jaron Lanier: How we need to remake the internet
In the early days of digital culture, Jaron Lanier helped craft a vision for the internet as public commons where humanity could share its knowledge — but even then, this vision was haunted by the dark side of how it could turn out: with personal devices that control our lives, monitor our data and feed us stimuli. (Sound familiar?) In this visionary talk, Lanier reflects on a "globally tragic, astoundingly ridiculous mistake" companies like Google and Facebook made at the...
Topics: Tedtalks, TED, Talks, Internet, big problems, communication, computers, culture, future, humanity,...
Tracee Ellis Ross: A woman's fury holds lifetimes of wisdom
The global collection of women's experiences can no longer be ignored, says actress and activist Tracee Ellis Ross. In a candid, fearless talk, she delivers invitations to a better future to both men and women.
Topics: Tedtalks, TED, Talks, activism, feminism, humanity, inequality, leadership, personal growth, social...
LADAMA: How music crosses cultures and empowers communities
Singing in Spanish, Portuguese and English, LADAMA brings a vibrant, energizing and utterly danceable musical set to the TED stage. In between performances of their songs "Night Traveler" and "Porro Maracatu," they discuss how cross-cultural musical collaboration can empower communities.
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Monique W. Morris: Why black girls are targeted for punishment at school -- and how to change that
Around the world, black girls are being pushed out of schools because of policies that target them for punishment, says author and social justice scholar Monique W. Morris. The result: countless girls are forced into unsafe futures with restricted opportunities. How can we put an end to this crisis? In an impassioned talk, Morris uncovers the causes of "pushout" and shows how we can work to turn all schools into spaces where black girls can heal and thrive.
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Martin Danoesastro: What are you willing to give up to change the way we work?
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Prosanta Chakrabarty: Four billion years of evolution in six minutes
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Mai Lan: "Autopilote" / "Pumper"
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Paula Stone Williams and Jonathan Williams: The story of a parent's transition and a son's redemption
Paula Stone Williams knew from a young age that she was transgender. But as she became a parent and prominent evangelical pastor, she feared that coming out would mean losing everything. In this moving, deeply personal talk, Paula and her son Jonathan Williams share what Paula's transition meant for their family — and reflect on their path to redemption. As Jonathan says: "I cannot ask my father to be anything other than her true self."
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Christina Wallace: How to stop swiping and find your person on dating apps
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Nita Farahany: When technology can read minds, how will we protect our privacy?
Tech that can decode your brain activity and reveal what you're thinking and feeling is on the horizon, says legal scholar and ethicist Nita Farahany. What will it mean for our already violated sense of privacy? In a cautionary talk, Farahany warns of a society where people are arrested for merely thinking about committing a crime (like in "Minority Report") and private interests sell our brain data — and makes the case for a right to cognitive liberty that protects our freedom of...
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Hugh Herr: How we'll become cyborgs and extend human potential
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Paola Antonelli: The 3,000-year history of the hoodie
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Kotchakorn Voraakhom: How to transform sinking cities into landscapes that fight floods
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Rebecca Onie: What Americans agree on when it comes to health
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J. Marshall Shepherd: 3 kinds of bias that shape your worldview
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Ian Firth: Bridges should be beautiful
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10 Interesting Facts about Hammerhead Sharks
April 7, 2017 · by Agustina · 0
A group of shark in the family Sphyrnidae is explained on Facts about Hammerhead Sharks. The shark earns the unique name due to the presence of special structure on the head. This hammer shaped structure is known as a cephalofoil. It has a number of functions such as for manipulating prey, maneuvering and sensory reception. Their primary habitat is located in the continental shelves and coastlines. They prefer to live in warm waters. Check other interesting facts about hammerhead sharks below:
Facts about Hammerhead Sharks 1: the lifestyle
When the night comes, hammerhead sharks will become a solitary hunter. During the day, they will gather in a school just like other sharks.
Facts about Hammerhead Sharks 2: the schools of hammerhead sharks
The school of hammerhead sharks can be found living in Cocos Islands of Costa Rica, Malpelo Island of Colombia and Molokai of Hawaii. The eastern and southern Africa also has large schools of hammerhead sharks.
Facts about Hammerhead Sharks
Facts about Hammerhead Sharks 3: the diet
The primary diet of hammerhead sharks includes octopus, squid, fish, sharks and crustaceans. The favorite one for them is stingrays.
Facts about Hammerhead Sharks 4: the bottom of the ocean
Hammerhead sharks will stalk their prey by spending the time at the ocean bottom. They hunt down the prey using the unique head. It is used as a weapon. When the stingrays are in the state of shock and weakness, the hammerhead sharks will eat it.
Facts about Hammerhead Sharks 5: the great hammerhead sharks
The great hammerhead sharks are stronger, more aggressive and larger. Cannibalism is common among this species. They will eat their own young and other hammerhead sharks.
Facts about Hammerhead Sharks 6: the dangerous species of hammerhead sharks
The dangerous species of hammerhead sharks include the smooth, great and scalloped hammerheads.
Hammerhead Sharks Facts
Facts about Hammerhead Sharks 7: the endangered species
The endangered species of hammerhead sharks include scalloped and great hammerheads. Both of them are often hunted by human beings due to the expensive delicacy, high demands of their fins and overfishing.
Facts about Hammerhead Sharks 8: the risk of extinction
The risk of extinction is higher on many hammerhead sharks because of overfishing in some countries in Asia.
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Facts about Hammerhead Sharks 9: finning
Finning is a practice, which cuts off the fins of sharks and put them back to ocean.
Facts about Hammerhead Sharks 10: in Hawaii
The Hawaiian people consider the hammerhead sharks as the respected sharks of the oceans.
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Does this look right? Working within the collaborative frame.
Moore, Samantha
Ehrlich, Nea
The first scholarly text to explore the expanding field of animated documentary filmmaking Drawn from Life, a multidisciplinary anthology, introduces readers to a diverse range of filmmakers past and present who use the animated image as a documentary tool. In doing so, it explores a range of questions that preoccupy twenty-first-century film artists and audiences alike: Why use animation to document? How do such images reflect and influence our understanding and experience of ‘reality’? From early cinema to present-day scientific research, military uses, digital art and gaming, Drawn from Life casts new light on the capacity of the moving image to act as a record of the world around us.
In: Johnny Murray & Nea Elrich, ed; Drawn from Life Issues and Themes in Animated Documentary Cinema,
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Conference: Women’s Liberation 2020
A record of Woman’s Place UK meetings
Our Demands
Our 5 Demands
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Press Rebuttals
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Lobby your MP
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The Irish Question
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Sex is a protected characteristic
Socialist Feminist Network articles
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Response to Scottish Review of the GRA
Mixed sex toilets in schools
© 2020 Woman's Place UK. All rights reserved.
Woman’s Place & Bristol University
In an open letter to Hugh Brady, signatories make unfounded slurs against Woman’s Place UK which we write now to refute and rebut.
Who are Woman’s Place UK?
We are a campaign group run by working women on a voluntary basis. We are from a range of backgrounds including trade unions, women’s organisations, academia and the NHS. We are united by our belief that women’s hard won rights must be defended.
We are against all forms of discrimination. We believe in the right of everyone to live their lives free from discrimination and harassment. Women face both endemic structural and personal inequality. This is reflected, for example, in the high levels of sexual harassment and violence against women and girls; the gender pay gap; discrimination at work. This is why sex is a protected characteristic in the Equality Act (2010) which we believe must be defended.
Accusations in the letter
The open letter calls us an ‘anti-Trans’ organisation. This is not true.
We are not anti-Trans and we do not campaign against Trans rights. We campaign for women’s rights as they exist under the law, and with an expectation that any proposed change to the law must take women’s rights into account.
We work with a number of Trans people: Trans women who support our campaign have spoken from the platform and Trans people, as well as those who have detransitioned, have attended in the audience and spoken both from the platform and as part of Q&A sections of our meetings.
The signatories assert their right to ‘openly express their principled opposition to bigotry and discrimination’
The implication is that Woman’s Place UK is behaving in a bigoted and discriminatory way. There is no evidence given for this because it simply isn’t true.
“We further insist that Shall’s letter did not contain false information in stating that “A Women’s Place” provide a platform for hate speech.”
The accusation that Woman’s Place UK provides a platform for hate speech is also entirely without substance and we believe to be defamatory.
We do not tolerate hate speech.
This can be demonstrated from the films of speakers which we publish on our website and by over 1000 attendees at our many public meetings that have been held across the UK. Our meetings are live-tweeted at #WPUK.
One example given in the linked source was not a meeting organised by Woman’s Place UK.
Journalists have attended our meetings including Gaby Hinsliff who wrote about our Oxford meeting and Vonny LeClerc who wrote about our Edinburgh meeting.
We have had support for our demands from Jess Phillips MP. Sophie Walker of The Women’s Equality Party attended our London meeting and met with us afterwards. We have met with Lord Brian Paddick who found nothing we said was ‘anti-trans rights’.
We have also had private meetings with other significant political individuals.
The signatories of this letter offer no evidence to support their slurs.
The signatories claim “[Woman’s Place UK] is committed solely to campaigning against trans rights, as enshrined in legislation such as the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and the Equality Act 2010.
This is demonstrably untrue. Not only is it not our sole campaign demand, it isn’t even one of our campaign demands.
From our inception in September 2017, our campaign has focussed entirely on women’s rights and our five demands have remained unchanged. They are:
Respectful and evidence-based discussion about the impact of the proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act to be allowed to take place and for women’s voices to be heard.
The principle of women-only spaces to be upheld – and where necessary extended.
A review of how the exemptions in the Equality Act which allow or single sex services or requirements that only a woman can apply for a job (such as in a domestic violence refuge) are being applied in practice.
Government to consult with women’s organisations on how self-declaration would impact on women-only services and spaces.
Government to consult on how self-declaration will impact upon data gathering – such as crime, employment, pay and health statistics – and monitoring of sex-based discrimination such as the gender pay gap.
Our demands are here.
Speakers at events hosted by “A Women’s Place” have propagated ignorant and harmful narratives through the use of offensive stereotypes, drawing a false dichotomy between trans rights and women’s rights, and misrepresenting both empirical research and current laws.
Again, this just isn’t true. No evidence is provided by the signatories.
“The group has thereby played a role in creating moral panic about trans people’s role in public life, and contributed to atmosphere of fear and shame among trans people.”
This is a logical fallacy of the weakest kind. The signatories have made serious allegations that we have created a moral panic without providing any evidence that we have done this and then cited articles to prove there is a moral panic by people who think there is one.
Two of the sources cited as evidence for this make no mention of Woman’s Place UK at all. The only article which directly references us is an article written by Roz Kaveney and published in Red Pepper Magazine which is full of inaccuracies and falsehoods. At the time of publication, we wrote several times to Red Pepper to demand a right of reply. Shamefully, they refused to give it to us.
This refusal reflects a general failure by left and liberal media platforms to facilitate an open and honest debate. If anything has contributed to a moral panic it is that.
We are glad the signatories recognise the duty that Bristol University has to uphold the Equality Act (2010) and the Public Sector Equality Duty. This equality legislation entirely upholds the protected characteristics of women as a sex and our campaign is situated, and pursued, entirely within the law.
We have been shocked and depressed at the keen enthusiasm with which so many people are content to see women demonised, harassed, abused, threatened and assaulted simply for asking questions or asserting their rights.
Sadly, Woman’s Place UK members have become used to being misrepresented and slurred. At times, we have to had to seek legal advice and take legal action in defence of our reputations. It shouldn’t be this way.
We are extremely grateful for the academic signatories who have written to you publicly to counter the misrepresentation of Woman’s Place UK especially as to do so will undoubtedly expose them to the kind of harassment and threat to which we have been subjected.
Women have a right to speak out, to organise and to campaign for their rights. That is all Woman’s Place UK has been doing.
And, regardless of the slurs and hate directed at us, we intend to carry on.
WPUK submission to UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
Sex-based discrimination: an interview with Scottish parliamentarian Joan McAlpine
Sex-based discrimination: an interview with Dominican feminists Michelle Morales and Violeta Jimenez
Misogyny and anti-intellectualism in academia: Raquel Rosario Sanchez
Sex-based discrimination: an interview with British Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies
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Distributed computing in the human-centered economy
CHALLENGES MEET SOLUTIONS
The shared economy will become an increasingly fundamental part of global commerce over the next decade.
In the shared economy, access to assets is more important than ownership. Individuals and businesses are compelled to, for example, share vehicles via transportation services like Zipcar and Uber, or share the use of their homes via Airbnb.
This is only possible—or, at least, practical—thanks to digital technology. But for all the benefits, myriad risks and challenges arise.
The solutions to these challenges will be technology driven, and fortunately, the technology is rapidly evolving to provide the security and trust consumers demand.
Accenture Labs’ sees distributed computing at the heart of these solutions. Learn how.
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SOLUTION 1: DISTRIBUTED LEDGERS
Distributed ledger technology—blockchain being the most prominent example—has huge potential across numerous domains.
Indeed, it might represent a paradigm shift in sharing data with security and trust and developing new business models within a collaborative economy.
In this kind of data structure, there is no central administrator or centralized data storage to provide a single point of security vulnerability. Rather, data is replicated in multiple databases across a network of actors using consensus algorithms.
By preventing retrospective changes to registered transactions, and thus eliminating fraud and facilitating efficient and secure transactions for all participants, blockchain is set to be a foundational technology for maintaining trust in the shared economy.
SOLUTION 2: PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS
A peer-to-peer network is a form of distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers within a network.
Each peer is an equally privileged, equally powerful participant—or node. In practice, this helps reduce the processing or computing time of the whole network.
It also means there is very little restriction on any participant accessing information from anywhere across the network, meaning data can be queried quickly at a lower cost.
Participants are also able to join the network easily and experience near-zero downtime.
In combining the best of these distributed ledger and peer-to-peer technologies, the future shared economy will offer instant, seamless, cheaper services to its participants.
PUTTING HUMANS AT THE CENTER
Blockchain and peer-to-peer technology could reshape a number of industries and fields—from banking to child care to book-selling—offering instant, seamless, secure transactions.
As the role of trusted third parties grows, the quality of products and services bought and sold within these networks will increase, because identities of participants are permanently stored and can be accessed publicly, and previous activities are logged with associated reviews and reputation scores.
As the shared economy expands, and as fast and easy access to reliable shared data becomes the cornerstone of collaborative consumption, this technology offers nothing short of a revolution.
Discover five tech trends and innovations essential to business success.
Learn how the era of human technology will transform both business and society.
What every CEO should know about blockchain.
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Acting Tips Never Taught in Drama Class
by Ruth Kulerman
Tips to help you better read and perform from a written script.
The following five and a half acting tips are the result of working with actors, both as a fellow cast member and as a coach, actors who graduated from the best acting schools in America. Perhaps you have already discovered some of these tips on your own. If so, excellent! Continue your pursuit for more powerful skills sadly overlooked in drama school.
Short story: When my dear British acting coach came to my first production, his comment was, "At least you didn't lean on the furniture." Not much of a compliment. But even he had never mentioned the forbidden furniture-leaning rule and I certainly had never thought of it. It was pure dumb luck I hadn't propped myself up on the sofa back or leaned on the end table. My aim here is to bring to your attention some of the unmentioned--perhaps unknown--rules of acting.
1. The Ubiquitous Omnipotnet Comma. (Dethrone Immediately.)
Contrary to actors' beliefs, commas did not descend from Mount Sinai, written on stone tablets. Commas are the domain of a reader, not a speaker. Commas replace the missing human voice whose intonation helps decode written language and make it comprehensible -- a fancy way of saying, ignore commas when you act.
They belong on a page, not in a spoken line. Replace commas, not with pauses, but with vocal variety--or ignore the squiggly critters completely. Do not pause when commas cross your path. Slide right across them. We don't talk in commas, so don't act in commas either.
My slogan as the comma cop is DOWN WITH PAUSES CAUSED BY COMMAS!
1.5 The Pause the Exhausts. (Verbal exercise: stretch or leap.)
There used to be a slogan for one of the soft drinks: "The pause that refreshes." And yet in acting I have heard eighteen billion pauses, mistakenly believed to be dramatic or pregnant or sensitive or something. ("We find the defendant pause pause pause pause not guilty.") London taught me: "You have to earn a pause." Otherwise they are self-indulgent, mistakenly thought to reveal a deep and powerful soul. NOT SO.
There are lots of ways to replace pauses with interesting acting moments. To mention a couple: Stretch out the vowel in the word before and after the place you would normally pause. Ignore the pause. Stretch the vowels. Listen to a master do it, Richard Burton.
Another "pause" substitute is to leap over the pause as if you are a verbal kangaroo. Raise the pitch and leap into the word that follows the ignored pause. You can discover many other ways to lead the pause to the slaughter. Do it.
2. The Invasion of the Valley Girl Question (No Admission. Scat!)
Maybe "Valley Girl" isn't a clear description. It refers to the dreadful habit of ending every sentence with a question mark in the voice: I went to the movies? I stood in line around the block? And in the speech of Olympic offenders, the middle of each sentence is also raised into that dratted question mark. The only thing missing is gum popping "Like, you know."
This Valley Girl inflection creeps not merely into ordinary speech but also into many line readings. The astounding thing is that not one teacher mentions it. An actor I worked with inserted the Valley Girl question mark not only at the end of every sentence but also at the end of every phrase in every sentence. He repeated this monotony eternally. It is irritating. It is distracting.
Unfortunately the omni-present question mark did not stop at the California state line. It has crept into people from Illinois, Maryland, New Mexico, Canada, Connecticut and South Korea--and that's in my studio alone! Multiply that by the hundreds of studios and schools and it becomes an epidemic.
The Valley Girl inflection knows no gender lines. It is a pattern in actors on national TV shows. When it hits our great dramatic actors, we will admit defeat and the contagious Valley Girl question mark will, like the cockroach, survive forever. Horrors!
Chase it with whatever weapon you have. Especially become aware of the habit in your own speech pattern. Rid yourself of it before it takes over and becomes "To be or not? to be. Like you know? Like huh." (And "know" has a meow in the long O.)
Which leads directly into the next unrecognized line disease.
3. Conquering the Question Mark (How to ask without asking.)
In normal American speech we ask a question in several ways: (1) The subject and verb are reversed: He is here --> Is he here? (2) Certain words often imply a question: who, where, why, when, what, how. (3) Most actors see a question mark and head for the lifted sentence ending. That way lies guaranteed monotony. (Its opposite, the dreaded ever-present drop at the end of each sentence, is equally as tedious.)
Let's consider making that question into a statement, especially if the words of the sentence are obviously written to produce a question; that is, if the sentence uses one of the "question" words or reverses the subject-verb order.
So instead of going up or raising the pitch at the end of a sentence, deliver the sentence as if it were making a statement (that is, the pitch remain exactly the same as its preceding few words or the pitch lowers a half tone). Try it out. It creates interest, adds variety, and avoids the expected delivery (always a goal to be aimed for). And don't run out of energy as you finish a line, whatever pitch you select.
4. Moxie. A Pox on Modesty (Moxie: The great unacknowledged star maker.)
MOXIE defined: 1. Energy, pep. 2. Courage, determination. 3. Know-how, expertise.
I have almost shouted from the Empire State Building that talent is not all. Yes, talent counts greatly. But it is not the final decision maker in casting or star-making.
A Verifiable Case of Moxie Casting:
A discouraged singer appeared on my horizon last November, to coach her songs and to work on acting. She sang opera but also happened to have a stunning voice for Broadway musicals and a drop dead Broadway Belt, not the usual equipment for a legit lyric soprano.
We tugged, yanked, pulled, threatened and scolded her out of the traditional opera hold-your-hands-in-front-of-you and stand-like-a-tree-trunk making beautiful music. We worked on how to enter the audition room, how to smile, what to wear, how to deliver a song by relating to the words. We selected songs for auditioning. "But I love that song." "It's too long, too slow, starts with poor me and ends with boo hoo. You have to grab them in five seconds." "But that's not the way this song was done on Broadway." "Tough. The words allow for drama. The music allows for drama. Dare to try drama. Relate to the words." Since then, she has booked four paying jobs in three months. And as of this writing, has two major callbacks. But...
A few days ago she had a Broadway audition. On the floor where she was to audition was an announcement board indicating that another invited audition was being held in another studio. Our once shy opera lass asked the director when he popped out of the room if she could sing for him. "I know XYZ," naming the most famous song from the musical. "Sure, why not. Wait around." Two hours later she auditioned. Two days later she landed the role. And...
When the Production Director called with the job, I mentioned her talent and her looks. "But," he replied, "there are lots of pretty, talented singers. What got her cast was her energy, her moxie, her personality and her sassiness. She has what it takes."
Notice, he mentioned talent--in passing. But talent did not land the job. The first thing he listed was energy; the second was moxie. Moral: Talent is seldom the final word in casting. Moxie is. Energy is. They work! When was the last time you saw MOXIE 101 on a college syllabus?
The truly astounding thing is the courage she had to ask firmly and charmingly if she could crash an invited audition. Now that took moxie. And that is what it takes. Seeing and then seizing an opportunity.
And the last thing you may never have learned in drama class:
5. Semaphore Acting. (Forget their heads! Off with their arms/hands.)
Statement: But I'm Italian, Greek, Martian. I have to use my arms. Response: You don't fling them around when you talk. Why do it when you act?
A true story: The instructor in one of my London classes saw me fling out an arm for some reason (or, more likely, for no reason). She slapped my arm as hard as she could. "You are allowed one arm gesture per act. Make it count."
The red mark on my arm faded. The lesson has lasted my career. She continued, "Act with your voice, your eyes, and slightly with your face. Do not wag your head. Keep it straight. Sit as the character. Walk as the character. Be in the character's body. But do not fling your arms around. Be still. The energy must be used to enhance, not to detract."
I cannot say it better.
There they are: Commas, Pauses, Question Marks, Moxie, and Semaphores. Five tips which, if used, will not only polish your acting but will help you stand heads above your competition, even if you're 4'8". So here's to high heads! And here's to moxie without pauses!
Ruth Kulerman is an actress and coach, known for "The Off Season," "A Walk in the Dark," and "Satan Hates You." Her series of articles for "Actor Tips" is copyright by Chad Gracia and ActorTips.com, Inc. All rights reserved. For more articles on acting, as well as free monologues and acting supplies, visit www.actortips.com.
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US Gives ISIS 45 Minute Warning Before Bombs, “Runs Out Of Ammo” Against ISIS Targets
TOPICS:Brandon TurbevilleISIS
By Brandon Turbeville
Ever since the Russians began dropping real bombs on real ISIS targets in Syria, the United States and NATO have been forced to engage in a two-sided propaganda campaign that swears opposition to ISIS while simultaneously doing everything it can to facilitate and protect ISIS forces on the ground. It has also found itself in the bizarre position of trying to facilitate the death squad army while, at the same time, attempting to play catch-up to the Russians in at least the appearance of bombing ISIS.
Thus, when Russian forces truly hit at one of the sources of ISIS funding – the captured oil being shipped from Syria and Iraq to Turkey where it is purchased by Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan’s son, Bilal – the United States must then engage in its own faux bombing campaign against ISIS oil trucks.
Yet, instead of actually bombing the trucks – drivers and all – and putting them out of commission permanently, the U.S. bombing campaign takes the form of a laughable formality that involves a 45-minute warning to the oil convoys that a U.S. bombing campaign is about to take place. The warning involves an airdrop of leaflets to the tankers that read “Get out of your trucks now, and run away from them. Warning: air strikes are coming. Oil trucks will be destroyed. Get away from your oil trucks immediately. Do not risk your life.”
The justification is that the drivers of the tankers might be civilians and not actual ISIS members.
Of course, there is no mention of the fact that, in any other context, an individual who renders “material support to terrorists,” particularly in the form of driving tankers of stolen oil in a war zone that will be used to fund the terrorist organization would killed without question under that designation.
There is also no mention as to why these “potential civilians” received ample warning but true civilians receive no such courtesy. It is truly a pity that the U.S. did not drop leaflets to the million Iraqis it has killed over the last decade or the thousands of Libyans that died at the hands of NATO.
Still, one need only look at the numbers of destroyed oil tankers racked up by the U.S. in comparison to the Russians to see a distinct difference. The United States, according to Col. Steve Warren, has taken out only 116 tankers since the bombing campaign began while the Russians have eliminated over 1,000 in five days. Remember, until the Russians began bombing the oil tankers, the United States had yet to launch an attack on them.
Even more laughable was the response that came when the U.S. military was questioned as to why they were unable to destroy more trucks than they did after such a highly publicized strategy. According to Army Co. Steve Warren, the American jets simply “ran out of ammo” in the process. “The goal was to destroy every truck there. They ran out of ammunition before they were able to do that. But the desire was to destroy every single truck there,” he said.
Even with the new attempt to be seen as truly aimed at fighting ISIS in the eyes of the gullible American public, the U.S. has been forced to use videos and photographs from Russian bombings to purvey across the mainstream media due to the fact that American strikes on ISIS oil trucks are so rare.
The pathetic propaganda fail by the United States military now stands as yet one more example of how the United States is not at all interested in defeating ISIS but instead on defeating Assad, Iran, and the Russians.
Indeed, American foreign policy propaganda would be greeted as much needed comic relief if it were not so tragic and potentially dangerous to the rest of the world.
Brandon Turbeville – article archive here – is an author out of Florence, South Carolina. He has a Bachelor’s Degree from Francis Marion University and is the author of six books, Codex Alimentarius — The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies, Five Sense Solutions and Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1 and volume 2, The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria, and The Difference it Makes: 36 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Should Never Be President. Turbeville has published over 500 articles dealing on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties. Brandon Turbeville’s podcast Truth on The Tracks can be found every Monday night 9 pm EST at UCYTV. He is available for radio and TV interviews. Please contact activistpost (at) gmail.com.
11 Comments on "US Gives ISIS 45 Minute Warning Before Bombs, “Runs Out Of Ammo” Against ISIS Targets"
chilller | December 2, 2015 at 10:17 am | Reply
Aiding and abetting the terrorist enemy. Treason in the first degree.
Edgardo Pere-De Leon | December 3, 2015 at 5:31 pm | Reply
Let us impeach Obama and prosecute Erdogan.
rhondareichel | December 2, 2015 at 11:21 am | Reply
Many American’s cheer Russia destroying ISIS…..Obama, not so much
Quintin Phillips | December 2, 2015 at 2:26 pm | Reply
Washington is sending troupes into Syria. They will be bombed and Russia will be blamed to cause the next false flag!
Edgardo Perez-De Leon | December 3, 2015 at 5:33 pm | Reply
&Unfortunately the WW III
barbarakelly | December 2, 2015 at 2:29 pm | Reply
How can we fight the enemy when obama is giving them warnings. obama is defeating us not the enemy. When is congress do the right thing for the american people.
JPR224 | December 3, 2015 at 4:43 pm | Reply
Don’t say The United States- THIS IS OBAMINATIONS’ DOING.
is misguided if not delusional because there is no intent for US destroy ISIS. The solution to the ISIS problem only
will take only 2 weeks without removing Assad, after the deployment of
ground troops to encircle ISIS from all flanks without the assistance of
Al Nursa, the Turkmen and the other terrorist groups supported by
Turkey. Quartar, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia, if indeed they exist
different than ISIS collaborators disguised as moderates (yes, now Al
Queda of Syria are moderates. What convenient is for Kerry!). The
ground troops are not going to be only Arabs and Syrians, because the
Kurds and the Iranians are not Arabs, as are not the Turks, either. It
is needed to create or expand refugees camps at all borders of the ISIS
controlled territories (Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Turkey) before
starting the campaign, with the main refugee camp at the Turkish border
with Syria — ten miles wide– under the supervision of Germany and
China on behalf of the UNO. Then spread by air leaflets asking the civil
population to leave the area immediately –no warning to the truck drivers– inviting them to the refugees
camps, screening all military age men going into the refugee camps and
preventively place them under arrest assuming that they are ISIS
operatives. No need for torture. No weapons allowed.Stop all commerce at
the borders. Create a demilitarized zone at the Turkish-Syrian border
and interrupt all commerce. Launch an initial limited EMP weapon attack
(the Russians know how) to fry the circuits of all ISIS electronics and
destroy all electronic driven infrastructure, even for water
distribution. Then be ready to close the circle. The Russians and the
Syrian armies at the west. Hezbollah at the south. The Shia Iranians and
Iraquis at the east and the Kurds at the north with the support of
ground troops from whoever wants to assist them but no Turks allowed
because they do not get along and risk exists that will be stabbed the
Kurds in the back by the Turks. The Jordanian army should be deployed at
its border with Syria ready to kill escaping ISIS soldiers, unless they
want to be part of the ground troops for the invasion. Close the circle
and annihilate ISIS at the ground and from the air (if need). No more
ISIS as state and send the Syrian refugees back from the refugee camps,
from Europe, and from US. Let US solve the problem created in Libya and
Nigeria (Boko Haram) by Clinton and Obama before interfering in Syria
politics again. If is proven, actually confirmed, that Turkey is ISIS
take it out from NATO, block its entry to the EU and prosecute Erdogan
for war crimes and crimes against the humanity, including, but not
limited, the downing of the Russian fighter and the civilian jet downed
in Egipt. Erdogan must be accountable for ISIS. Spear his head, but not
his neck.
Kevin Nicholson | December 3, 2015 at 10:44 pm | Reply
Good plan, then go after Saudi Arabia (ISIS incubator). Also deport all political Islamists from the USA. Then impeach Obama for treason. Godspeed to patriots.
Bruce | December 6, 2015 at 4:29 pm | Reply
Zer0bama’s $chlock und EU ! The definition of ISIS : US (CIA) and the rest of the burning Bush PNAC Attackers (especially, Billary)!!
graybuffalo | December 26, 2015 at 6:46 am | Reply
Obama just HAS to be impeached!
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Unlike the PC world where the majority of ad spend is happening domestically, 79% of mobile ad spend is happening on a global level, which is estimated to be a $20.6 billion market by 2015, compared to that of North America's mobile spend, estimated at $5.8 billion by 2015. It is no wonder that publishers are actively seeking a holistic strategy around global ad monetization.
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How food waste disposers can benefit cities
Food waste disposers can help municipalities significantly reduce the volume of food waste being disposed of in their landfills and reduce the amount of trash put out on city streets. That’s what happened in Philadelphia after InSinkErator, in a partnership with the city, installed 175 food waste disposers into the kitchen sinks of homes in two Philadelphia neighborhoods. Residents soon reported putting out an average of one fewer bag of trash each week. They also reported reduced odors and problems with rodents and other pests as the average volume of trash they put out each week fell by 35 percent.
InSinkErator, an AHAM member and manufacturer of food waste disposers, established similar partnerships with four other cities—Chicago, Boston, Milwaukee and Tacoma, Wash.—to assess the impact of the use of food disposers on food waste management
After having disposers installed in their homes, some project participants reported throwing out less trash. The average reduction in trash volume for each city, according to AHAM member InSinkErator, was as follows:
Philadelphia: 1.4 pounds
Milwaukee: 3.3 pounds
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The InSinkErator - Philadelphia partnership was so successful in reducing food waste that the city changed its building code to require the installation of food waste disposers into new residential construction in the city.
Food waste is the single biggest contributor to solid waste in municipal landfills. In 2015, discarded food made up about 21 percent of all waste sent to landfills or incinerators. Food waste is also a major cost for American families. Various studies have estimated that food waste costs families around $600 a year. But the costs are more than financial. Most of what is wasted ends up in municipal landfills, where it is the largest single contributor to solid waste. It also creates an environmental hazard. As it breaks down, it releases the methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming.
Food waste that is put through food waste disposers is sent to wastewater treatment plants, not landfills. At the plants, the methane the waste produces can be captured. Many wastewater treatment plants use the captured methane to help power their facilities. Use of food waste disposers may also significantly reduce overall trash volumes, resulting in less trash being kept in homes prior to pickup and fewer bags being put out for pickup on narrow and crowded city streets.
There are opportunities across the country to increase the use of household food waste disposers. AHAM research shows that food waste disposers are currently installed in slightly fewer than half of all households.
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“The Food Waste Disposer as a Municipal Tool for Waste Diversion: An Evaluation in Five Cities.”
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The Trump doctrine: Tariffs first, negotiate later
Who benefits as the global economy slows? We examine the effect of Trump's trade wars.
08 Jun 2019 13:08 GMT Business & Economy, United States, Trade War, Donald Trump, US-Mexico border
The direct impact of the US-China trade war has yet to materialise. The global economic slowdown started long before the opening shots were fired in this bitter battle.
Central banks are getting ready to cut interest rates, if they haven't already started, to support growth.
All this to mitigate the fallout from US President Donald Trump's doctrine of tariffs first, negotiate later.
Trade talks with China have broken down; Huawei can't buy US goods; Trump has threatened tariffs on imported cars from Europe and Japan.
Sanctions against Cuba, Iran and Venezuela have yet to yield any benefits.
And in his latest move, he has decided Mexico needs to do more to stop immigration. If it doesn't, there will be tariffs for Mexico as well - a move that's rattled global markets.
Trump keeps saying other countries are paying the tariffs - but they're not. In fact, US importers are, and at some point consumers will pick up the tab.
Mexico is the US's biggest trading partner, exporting $347bn to the US in 2018. A 25 percent tariff would cost about $86bn a year.
With many US and international car makers located south of the US border, the auto industry would be the hardest hit. Deutsche Bank estimates vehicle prices could rise on average $1,300 - if tariffs hit 25 percent.
While Trump wants automakers to move back to the US - which is highly unlikely - this could have a devastating impact in Mexico where 839,571 people are employed in the car industry.
According to economic consultancy Perryman Group, more than 400,000 US jobs could be lost if the US imposed the 5 percent levy; the net loss to the economy could be $41bn; and the state that's most dependent on Mexico, Texas, stands to lose more than 100,000 jobs and $7bn in income.
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"There are two major risks today. The first is the uncertainty that he is creating. I always say uncertainty can kill an elephant. Uncertainty is very bad for business," Gambardella told Counting the Cost.
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According to Gambardella, "Huawei is only the tip of the iceberg ... this debate is beyond one single company. China, six months ago, already started research for 6G ... We have to understand that what matters today is less trade and more technology ... The new land is technology."
"We should consider trade as evolving. Today, goods are less important that services ... And the new game is more linked to the technology; the digital transformation, the capacity to invest in research, and because technology is also changing the trade, ...the system of logistics ... and the industrial production. "
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Fiat Chrysler's ambitious $35bn plan to merge with France's Renault - a combination that would have created the world's third-biggest automaker - fell apart last week. But what went wrong?
Felipe Munoz, global automotive analyst at Jato Dynamics, told Al Jazeera the story "hasn't finished yet" and maybe the withdrawal of Fiat Chrysler was part of the game to become the world's largest SUV maker.
"I think the strong presence of the government had a big thing to do with this end and especially in southern Europe, governments instead of enabling business, they are making things difficult to these kinds of operations."
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"You need to find other solutions to make profits, and the best way is by doing these kinds of operations," he said.
"Renault may be using this merger proposal to send a message to Nissan, who has been its partner for 20 years and which should be its natural partner to merge with."
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A SLUMBERING GIANT OF THE PAST. Fort Jefferson, U.S.A. in the Dry Tortugas
By: Bethel, Rodman
91 pages, approx. 7" w. by 10" h., softcover. Includes many black and white photo repros., Very Good condition. "Fort Jefferson was the largest Civil War fortification in the United States and was the key to the Gulf, the life line to the east, and at the end of the Florida Keys' chain. It is 68 miles due west of Key West ." 020207A View more info
SAM HILDEBRAND GUERILLA.
By: Breihan, Carl W.
Publisher: Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, Leather Stocking Books: (c. 1984)
Trade paperback, 184 pages. Black and white illustrations. Two-inch tear at top of rear cover. 061507E "This book tells the heart-stopping true story of guerilla warfare on American soil, with a cast of characters that includes Jesse James and the infamous Quantrill's raiders. With as many as 100 armed men in his remote mountain hideouts, Sam Hildebrand fought injustice like a latter day Robin Hood, striiking fast and vanishing." -- from the back cover. Set mainly in Missouri. View more info
GRANT'S STRATEGY IN VIRGINIA. A speech delivered at the Washington Civil War Round Table Gold Medal Award Dinner, April 13, 1967.
By: Catton, Bruce
Publisher: Carbondale IL, The Ulysses S. Grant Association: 1967
A speech delivered by Catton and published in The Ulysses S. Grant Association Newsletter, Vol. IV Number 4, July, 1967. This is the entire newsletter; the speech takes up the bulk of the newsletter, pages 23-35, with about one page of Association news at the end.T ypescript, doubled-sided and stapled 8 1/2" by 11" sheets. The Association's officers were: Ralph G. Newman, President; Allan Nevins, Chairman Editorial Board; John Y. Simon, Managing Editor. The Association was based at the Morris Library, Southern Illinois University. 021210C View more info
DOCTORS IN GRAY. The Confederate Medical Service
By: Cunningham, H.H
Publisher: Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press: 1958
xii + 339 pages, octavo, hardcover. Includes bibliography, index. Book is in near Fine condition; dust jacket is slightly chipped, soil on rear panel, spine sunned, Good 041407A View more info
AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT. Chance and Coincidence in the Civil War
By: Eisenschiml, Otto and E. B. Long
Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Co.: 1948
285 pages, octavo. Maps by Barbara Long. Includes bibliography. Book and dust jacket are in Very Good condition. 091306A View more info
A. P. Hill. Lee's Forgotten General.
By: Hassler, William Woods.
Publisher: Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press: (1984)
Edition: reprint or revised edition
Octavo, gray cloth covers, xiv [2] 249 pages. Includes black and white illustrations and maps, and index. Map covering the campaigns of A. P. Hill's Commands 1861-1865 on endpapers. Dust jacket has a couple of closed tears, rear panel sunned. View more info
By: Herdegen, Lance J., and William J. K. Beaudot.
Publisher: Dayton, Morningside: 1990
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Octavo, black cloth spine over black boards, xxi, 22-389 pages. Includes maps, black and white illustrations, bibliography, and index. "The 'Calico boys' of the 6th Wisconsin Volunteers went to Gettysburg in 1863 and fought in the epic battle of the Civil War. In the very opening of the infantry fighting, the regiment--detached from its famous 'Iron Brigade' --ran more than a half mile to charge a Confederate brigade in an unfinished railroad cut. The successful attack played a key role in the outcome of the battle." --from the dust jacket. 090617A View more info
ON THE TRAIL OF GRANT AND LEE. A Narrative History of the Boyhood and Manhood of Two Great Americans, Based Upon Their own Writings, Official Records, and Other Authoritative Information.
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton-Century Co.: 1942
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Tabular Statements Showing the Names of Commanders of Army Corps. Divisions, and Brigades United States Army, during the War of 1861-1865. Compiled from Data on Record in the Office of Quartermaster-General of the Army, 1887. Bound with: Flags of the Army of the United States Carried During the War of the rebellion 1861-1865, to designate the headquarters of the different Armies. Army Corps, divisions and Brigades. Compiled under direction of the Quartermaster General U.S. Army 1887
By: Quartermaster-General of the Army (Brigadier General S. B. Holabird)
Publisher: Philadelphia, Burk & McFetridge: 1887
On top cover title reads: Military Commanders and Designating Flags of the United States Army 1861 - 1865. The spine titles read: Flags of the United States Army. Folio, approx. 15 3/8" tall by 11 5/8" wide, pebbled brown cloth with brown leather spine and corners. Marbled endpapers. Gilt titles and rules. Two title pages; one for the "Tabular Statements" and one for the "Flags."Contains charts of command for every United States Army corps, including division and brigade commanders along with the dates of service. 89 color lithographs of flags (including two frontispie... View more info
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Olly is one of those people who showed great promise at many sports at school, was predicted to achieve great things, and failed to deliver in dramatic fashion!
But after turning potential sporting talent into nothing in reality he's focused his love of sport on writing and talking about it.
He spends a lot of time "Aussie bashing" but secretly loves both the country and the people - just ask his Australian wife! Having lived in Melbourne for a number of years he's one of the few Brits who actually understands AFL (kinda).
He loves a bit of everything with his favourite teams including Wasps, Arsenal, Hampshire CCC, NSW Origin, Rabbitohs, Geelong Cats, Patriots, Bruins, Celtics and Red Soxs.
Olly (far right) and mates set a new World Record for the longest non stop darts match ever - 50 hours! Why? No one really knows.
Born in South Africa, being outdoors and playing sport was part of everyday life. He landed on the British shores the day England won the world cup and has called England his home ever since.
His late twenties he discovered that his semi talented sporting abilities were far eclipsed by his less than talented drinking beer while watching and talking about sport abilities and bowed of the sporting world apart from the odd cameo appearance.
He supports Manchester Albion (United/Brighton) in the football world, loves the Springboks and is a massive test cricket fan and when he gets the chance he also loves to swing the old golf clubs.
Gareth (in red top) shares a cheeky beer with the surprisingly tall Keaton Jennings - taken moments before "push up gate".
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Major Scale
01 The Staff
02 Music Notation
03 clef symbols
04 ledger lines
05 g clef
06 read treble clef
07 f clef
08 read bass clef
09 grand staff
10 c clef
11 alto clef
12 staff paper
Clef Symbols
What are clef symbols, and why are they the first symbol placed on a staff?
In the first lesson of this section, we learned that a musical staff consists of five lines and four spaces, and that each line or space corresponds to a musical note. What we didn’t discuss yet is which notes the various lines and spaces correspond to.
And there is a fantastic reason for that – it’s impossible to determine which note is represented by each line/space until we place a clef symbol at the beginning of the staff.
This is the purpose of clef symbols, to tell us which notes are associated with each line or space. Here are some examples of what clef symbols look like (shown in the shaded areas):
The “Infinite Staff”
Imagine for a moment a musical staff that, instead of having just five lines, had a never-ending amount of lines extending upward and downward. These lines, and the spaces in between them, would represent every musical note in existence. The higher up the staff, the higher the note, the lower down the staff, the lower the note. It’s really not such a crazy idea, since musical notes really do go on forever and ever in both directions (even though at some point we can’t hear them anymore). Here’s what this “infinite staff” might look like:
Hmm, we can probably spot a major problem right away, though. If we place a note on one of the lines or spaces on this “infinite staff”, how in the world are we going to be able to figure out which note it is, at a glance!?
There are just way too many lines and spaces! When we’re reading and writing music, we don’t have time to count the number of lines and spaces. We need a system that makes it possible to identify what line or space a note is on just by looking. So instead, our musical staff is limited (thankfully!) to just five lines, plus the four spaces in between:
The Range Game
Now, even though clearly the infinite staff thing didn’t work, the truth is that it’s really still there, just we can’t see it. In other words, the five lines and four spaces of the staff don’t exist on their own. They are really nothing more than a specific 5-line section of the giant, “infinite staff.” All the other lines are still there, just they’re invisible, or hidden. A staff just highlights a specific set of five lines, and leaves the other lines to the imagination:
The question is, which five lines are being highlighted? It’s possible to move the highlighted area (in the picture above) higher or lower, anywhere we want on the infinite staff (kind of like the Range Game from the Price Is Right.) This is where clef symbols come in. Clef symbols determine which five lines from the “infinite staff” are currently being highlighted, or focused on.
Commonly Used Clef Symbols
In the coming lessons, we’re going to learn about the different kinds of clef symbols in much more detail. For now, though, let’s introduce ourselves to some of the most common clefs. By far, the two most common are the treble clef and the bass clef. Here’s what they look like:
Not quite as common, but still very important, are the alto and tenor clefs:
These are the 4 main clefs used nowadays (not including percussion instruments).
Different Clefs For Different Folks
What’s the point of having a bunch of clefs to choose from? What makes us choose one over another in a given situation? Let’s say we’re writing for a specific instrument. Every instrument has a certain range, as we learned. That obviously means we have to restrict all the notes we write to be within that range. Otherwise, when the musician tries to read the music, he/she will not be able to play certain note(s), because it’s impossible (or extremely difficult) on that instrument! In choosing the best clef symbol, it makes sense to use one that focuses the musical staff on as similar an area as possible to the range of the instrument we’re writing for. This way, the notes will mostly be in the center of the staff, not way up high or down low. This is why there are several clef symbols to choose from. Some focus the musical staff up in a higher octave register, some place it lower down, some in the middle. We can choose the one that fits best for each situation.
Sometimes it’s possible to guess what instrument is being written for, just by looking at the clef. For example, an alto clef on a staff of a musical score (music written for multiple instruments to play all together, like a symphony for example), is nearly always for the viola (an instrument in the violin family). Alto clef fits the range of a viola just right, so that’s the “clef of choice” for viola players.
Clef Symbol Placement
Clef symbols are placed at the beginning of a line of music, on the left side of the staff. They should be indented a tiny bit, as we can see below:
The clef is usually repeated on every single line of the music (except in certain styles). This way, the player never has to think about which clef they’re reading from, because it’s always right there in front of them.
Same Position, Totally Different Note
Without clef symbols, we would have absolutely no way of knowing which note was associated with which line or space. For example, what note is the lowest of the 5 lines on the staff?
The answer depends completely on which clef we’re using. In treble clef, it’s the note E4, in bass clef it’s G2, in alto clef it’s F3, and in tenor clef it’s D3.
So you can see that until we determine which clef we’re in, the lines and spaces are meaningless! That’s why they’re the very first symbol on the staff. Once we put a clef symbol at the beginning of the staff, immediately each line and space becomes associated with a specific note. Now we’re in business.
Clef Symbols Quiz
Test your knowledge of this lesson with the following quiz:
Where would you find a clef symbol on a piece of music?
At the beginning of the staff
In the middle of the staff
At the end of the staff
On top of the staff
What’s the point of a clef symbol?
To indicate which lines and spaces are associated with which notes
To indicate the key that the music is in
To indicate the rhythmic meter of the music
To indicate what level performer the music is written for
Which of the following are commonly used clefs nowadays? (Check all that apply)
French violin clef
Which clef is the viola known for?
Alto clef
Tenor clef
Treble clef
Do any music symbols appear earlier on the staff (to the left) than a clef symbol?
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Distribution and accumulation of heavy metals in sediments of the northern part of mangrove in Hara Biosphere Reserve, Qeshm Island (Persian Gulf)
R. ZareZadeh, P. Rezaee, R. Lak, M. Masoodi, M. Ghorbani
https://doi.org/10.17221/16/2016-SWRCitation:ZareZadeh R., Rezaee P., Lak R., Masoodi M., Ghorbani M. (2017): Distribution and accumulation of heavy metals in sediments of the northern part of mangrove in Hara Biosphere Reserve, Qeshm Island (Persian Gulf). Soil & Water Res., 12: 86-95.
The mangrove of Hara Biosphere Reserve, stretching over 100 thousand hectares in the southern coast of Iran and in the northwest of Qeshm Island, belongs to the most important and largest mangroves in the Middle East. Twenty sedimentary samples were collected and concentrations of seven heavy metals were investigated in order to assess the extent of pollution distribution in this area and to discuss the origin of these contaminants in sediments. The mean heavy metal concentrations followed the scheme: Fe > Cr > Ni > Zn > Cu > Pb > Cd. Based on the geo-accumulation index, the Fe, Pb, Zn, and Cu levels were graded as non-contamination, the levels of Cr and Ni as non-contamination to moderate contamination, while those of Cd as moderate contamination to moderate to heavy contamination. According to the enrichment factor and quantification of contamination calculations, Cu, Pb, and Zn were derived mainly from natural processes and exposure of material from the Earth’s crust, while the increased values of Cd, Ni, and Cr were ascribed to anthropogenic activities. The ecological risk of heavy metals was moderate, largely due to Cd contamination. The elevated values identified for Cd, Ni, and Cr are supposingly associated with activities including human refuse, shipping, transportation, fuel smuggling, and industrial wastewater discharges from factories located around Hara Biosphere Reserve (e.g. Al-Mahdi aluminum factory, lead and zinc Qeshm factory, and Hormozgan cement factory).
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Growing a Healthy Children’s Market
Fight sedentary lifestyles and poor nutrition.
Lisa Schofield
If you’re of a certain age, you likely remember those metallic-yet-sweet-flavored Flintstones vitamins, as they were pretty much the only children’s multi available. And for the most part, moms didn’t feel we needed anything more — other than making sure we didn’t leave the table without eating our veggies before heading outdoors to run around the neighborhood.
It’s a different world today, and several pertinent issues currently face our babies and children. One is the childhood obesity epidemic.
It is a complex challenge, noted Audrey Ross, ND, western region educator of Hauppauge, NY-based Country Life Vitamins. Beyond nutrition, Ross says contributing factors include “a lack of opportunities for physical activity in schools, escalating food costs, less time for meal preparation, and leisure time being spent more sedentary with video games or television watching.”
The National Institutes of Health says that childhood obesity, defined as those with a body mass index of 30 or higher, may lead to early development of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and depression and related psychological challenges, as well as higher risk in adulthood of developing arthritis, cardiovascular disease or cancer.
Bryan See, regional product manager, ExcelVite Inc., Edison, NJ, also believes childhood obesity is the most pertinent issue facing children today. He ascribes this top concern to several factors. One is parental misconceptions about their young offspring, believing that perhaps the child is too light or thin, and feeding them more. He also points to the abundance of junk food still chosen by families to eat, combined with a much more sedentary lifestyle led by children. “Obese or overweight children have a higher chance of staying obese or overweight when they grow up,” he says.
Time Pressure Leads to Poor Choices
Another factor is that children tend to be picky eaters, and overcoming this with the goal of teaching healthy and clean eating is “quite the dilemma in our country,” observes Alyson Eberle, CEO of Austin, TX-based Pure Spoon. The challenge is that many parents who are busier than ever just tend to select the quick, more widely available, less expensive nutrient-empty foods and snacks for their brood — despite their knowledge of, desire and demand for much healthier options overall.
Malnutrition in modern American children, clarifies Trisha Sugarek MacDonald, BS, MS, senior director of research and development/national educator, Bluebonnet Nutrition Corp., Sugar Land, TX, typically occurs not because of the lack of food, since more than a third of American kids are overweight, but because of the lack of balanced nutritional foods, portion sizes and the overconsumption of processed/fast foods. “The most common nutrient deficiencies seen today are calcium, fiber, folate, iron, magnesium, potassium and vitamin E, and their potential consequences range if depletion is ongoing. For example, calcium, magnesium and vitamin D3 are essential for bone health; iron and folate (plus, B12) are necessary to reduce the chance for various anemias; and fiber is vital for gut health,” she explains.
Parents are also becoming more frustrated in “maneuvering the minefields” to provide their children with optimal health options in foods every day, says Murray Clarke, ND, president, founder and formulator of ChildLife Essentials, Culver City, CA. He points to the lack of nutrients supporting the growth and development in babies, infants and children caused primarily by soil that is nutrient depleted, as well as poor absorption and utilization of the nutrients that are available, higher stress levels, environmental pollutions and toxins, lack of sunshine and fresh air that all impact children’s health today.
Our Children’s Lifestyle
A key reason for low levels of exercise and lack of sunshine and fresh air is the almost obsessive use of electronic and digital devices (e.g., laptop, tablet, smart phone, TV). “One of the fastest-growing and under-the-radar issues is how technology could be harming children physically,” says James Johnson, brand manager Twinlab VMS, Twinlab Consolidated Corp., Boca Raton, FL.
These devices expose children’s eyes to intense concentrations of high-energy blue light, which is a very high frequency range of the visual light spectrum that damages the eyes over long durations of exposure; and exposure durations are getting longer. In adults, damage begins at approximately two hours; but it takes less time in children whose eye lenses have not yet developed a yellow film that helps adults filter out some of the blue light.
“Children and adults do have an additional layer of protection,” says Johnson. “A nutritional shield within our eyes helps filter high-energy blue light to protect the macula from damage. This shield, consisting of lutein and zeaxanthin, is worn away by our digital device usage at a much faster rate than our diets can provide these needed nutrients. Computer Vision Syndrome, the name given to these symptoms caused by long-term blue light exposure, has become the ‘tax’ paid for our modern lifestyle.”
For this reason, products that contain lutein and zeaxanthin have gained a surge of popularity. Twinlab, for example, offers a chewable (Ocuguard Blutein Chewables) that contains 10 mg of lutein and 2 mg of zeaxanthin, which Johnson says should become a major part of a child’s health routine because they spend, on average, 6.5 hours per day in front of digital devices.
Before Baby: AMA Supports Higher Choline Doses
When customers are thinking of starting or expanding their families, they do know about taking specific amounts of folic acid and Omega-3 DHA and EPA, thanks to years of mass media education and physician recommendation.
Choline, though known to be necessary for healthy fetal development, had no universally recommended minimum effective dose. That changed in late June when delegates of the American Medical Association (AMA) passed a resolution at their 2017 Annual Meeting to increase the amount of choline pregnant women should obtain via their pre-natal supplements. Research has shown that women are just not getting enough, especially when pregnant.
The Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) for choline, established in 1998, is 450 mg for pregnant women. Recent research found that out of 25 pre-natal vitamins, only eight contained choline, and zero of those eight had more than a paltry 55 mg (12% DRI) daily dose. Further, data from the most recent National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) indicates that women aged 20 and older typically consume approximately 280 mg of choline from both food and supplements.
Tom Druke, Director of VitaCholine Brand Development, New Hampton, NY-based Balchem Human Nutrition and Pharma says. “We believe this will help raise awareness among consumers about choline in general, because until recently it was assumed people’s food intake provided enough of this essential nutrient. We now know it does not, which is likely why in July 2016 the FDA established a Reference Daily Intake (RDI) of 550 mg, providing for labeling of choline content and the associated % Daily Value (DV) on both Supplement and Nutrition Facts panels.”
The active ingredient, he explains futher (Lutemax 2020 by Omniactive Health Technologies) is a non-GMO marigold extract, backed by research. Over 300 individuals in a double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial showed that it has a statistically significant impact on reducing the short-term issues of prolonged exposure to blue light, such as eye strain and fatigue, headaches and dry eye. “This ingredient was also found to increase visual reaction time and mental processing speed after three months,” Johnson adds.
It also appears childhood conditions such as asthma, eczema and hay fever are on the rise, along with autism spectrum disorders as well as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and even childhood depression, observes Claire Barnes, technical advisor, Bio-Kult, (Protexin, Inc) Miami, FL.
Although Barnes says the reasons are not clear from evidence-based studies, strong anecdotal evidence does suggest a lack of microbial exposure from birth could be driving these conditions later in childhood. The increase in caesarean birth, bottle-feeding, antibiotic use, processed foods in the diet and reduction in outdoor activities may collectively impact a child’s microbiome and corresponding immune system development. “Strong links are being made in studies between the gut microbiome and brain health,” Barnes says. “For example, a recent study has linked autism and the fetus’ environment during pregnancy.”
Further, as these topics gain more visibility, more parents are seeking out products and foods to help their children optimize immune function and digestion, she adds.
Danny Curtin, vice president at Arthur Andrew Medical, Scottsdale, AZ, says common issues affecting children, such as irritable bowel syndrome, acne, acid reflux, fungal issues, allergies, learning disabilities, and even depression, may be caused or exacerbated by increased environmental toxins entering the body.
“Every one of these issues can be addressed by ensuring that the digestive system is in working order,” he says. “When toxins, including food that can’t be broken down, enter these young sensitive systems, their immune function overreacts and an onslaught of symptoms begin. To make matters worse, pharmaceuticals are often prescribed for symptom relief without dealing with the underlying cause. Fortunately, by supporting children with the proper amounts of healthy probiotic bacteria and immune-supporting vitamins, many of these chronic issues may be thwarted.”
Who Had Peanut Allergies?
When discussing current common health issues and concerns our youngsters face today, it also behooves retailers to understand how things were different when they and their parents were children — and quite a few things have changed rather dramatically, it seems.
According to Clarke, in 1974 the number of babies and children with chronic medical conditions was one in 50, today the number is one in five children. Similarly, autism, ADD, and ADHD have risen from one in 5,000 to one in 50 kids, he says. “Some of the issues I see in my clinic range from severe allergies, autism, autoimmune, ADD/ADHD, ear and upper respiratory, stomach, digestion, constipation and immune deficiencies,” Clarke adds.
Chris Speed, VP of sales, Wiley’s Finest Fish Oil, Coshocton, OH, points out that in general, our food system 20 years ago was more nutrient-dense than it is now. The increased availability of processed foods of convenience has depleted a lot of the food supply of key vitamins and minerals that should be obtained naturally in daily diets, therefore making supplementation that much more critical, especially in children.
Indeed, emphasizes Curtin, even 20 years ago, most children did not eat as many toxins as conventional foods contain today. Parents enjoyed produce with more natural probiotics, antioxidants, trace minerals and fiber. “Naturally-occurring probiotics are affected by pesticides the most,” he points out.
Additionally, the percentage of children who are obese has more than tripled since the 1970s says Ross, and about one in five children and teens between six and 19 years old are classified as obese. See blames this squarely on the “the introduction of high carbohydrate foods and trans-fat (in place of oils and fats — such as butter).”
When today’s parents were kids, they spent much more time being active outdoors, but, as mentioned, with the advent of computerized technology, a majority of that time has been diverted to being sedentary. “WHO (World Health Organization) data says that ‘only 25% of boys and 15% of girls managed to adhere to the recommended 60 minutes moderate intensity activity every day,’” See says.
The expanded number of obese kids has brought up health issues that were not seen before, according to Barnes. Chiefly, diabetes type 2 and cardiovascular disease are now being seen in kids as young as 14. In addition, she highlights, childhood obesity may also be responsible in significant part to reaching puberty at an earlier age. Other factors for early puberty include xenoestrogens and other chemicals in the food supply.
Considering the level of awareness now being raised about these issues, those kids of recent yore who are now in the midst of raising their own families have much higher standards than their parents had. Says Eberle, “There is more focus on fresh and organic. Parents want access to less processed food — but still want convenience. Additionally, with all the information available at their fingertips via the internet, parents are more educated and less accepting of what’s written (or left off) a product’s label.”
This creates much more opportunity for natural products retailers because demand for their products continues to grow and new innovative products are coming out every day to meet these new standards of natural, organic and non-GMO products.
Some of these modern parents are even taking matters into their own hands. Eberle for example created her products because she could not readily find what she was seeking for her baby. “I wanted to create a product line that would offer parents like me the freshest, most nutritious and yet convenient meals possible,” she explains. “Pure Spoon’s foods feature fresh, organic whole fruits and veggies; our ingredients do not arrive to our kitchen pre-made and our ingredients remain raw or lightly steamed.” Technology makes such product formulations possible. Pure Spoon in this case utilizes High Pressure Pasteurization, which uses intense pressure instead of high heat to retain nutrition, flavor and freshness.
Starting off newborns and infants correctly with nutrient-dense foods the way Mother Nature intended is a sensible start in a current world flush with toxins. Probiotics make sense to add, too, sources say. “The microbiome has been clinically shown to be essential in maintaining not only digestive health, but also immune and mood function,” says Curtin. “L rhamnosus GG is one of the most widely clinically studied strains, proven to provide maximum probiotic support.”
Syntol Kids from Arthur Andrew Medical, for example, combines two “highly effective” probiotic strains, a prebiotic, and two immune boosting vitamins into an instantly dissolving product that makes it easier for children to consume.
Some formulations are even specifically designed for infants. In one such formulation (Bio-Kult Infantis), the seven probiotic strains and prebiotics have been used in clinical studies with children and have shown significant benefits in colic, diarrhea, constipation and eczema, explains Barnes. This formula includes the two most predominant infant specific strains Bifidobacterium breve and Bifidobacterium infantis.
Sky Garmon, marketing associate, Jarrow Formulas Inc., Los Angeles, CA, says the company also offers probiotics for kids, which span different age groups. Another infant-specific formulation (Jarro-Dophilus Infant Drops) features B. longum subsp. Infantis M-63 in a base of MCT oil, to help newborns develop a healthy microbiota by supplying what she says is the most prevalent strain associated with breastfed newborns. After about six months, Garmon advises, the infant can move on to a probiotic powder that features four strains and a mix of Bifidobacterium and Lactobacilli (Jarro-Dophilus Baby). For the older child, Jarrow also makes a chewable probiotic tablet featuring a combination of Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterum strains (Yum-Yum Dophilus).
“The December 2016 issue of Pediatrics reported probiotics shortened the duration of diarrhea from stomach viruses and antibiotic use,” says Ross. “There is an array of research substantiating the importance of strong probiotic colonies in the gut to support the immune system as well as maintaining overall health and digestive health.”
As important as bacteria, Ross adds, are digestive enzymes, which have been incorporated into Country Life Kids Care Digestive Support in the form of chewable wafers.
Developing bodies can also benefit tremendously with omega-3 and vitamin supplementation. For example, Wiley’s Finest Fish Oil recently updated its children’s fish oil formula (Beginner’s DHA ) to incorporate vitamin K2 (as MenaQ7). It offers 400 mg EPA and 250 mg DHA per serving with vitamin K2 and D3 to help support healthy immune, brain, eye and bone development.
Speed points to research showing that children have pronounced K2 deficiency, and that even in healthy pre-pubertal children, research shows that just 45 mcg of K2 improves K2 status, thus increasing the activation of osteocalcin, the vitamin K-dependent protein responsible for binding calcium to the bone mineral matrix, therefore improving bone health. “Further, our instinct to include vitamin K2 in our children’s formula was confirmed by another paper that was just presented, showing a link between low vitamin K2 status putting children at a greater risk of fracture,” he adds.
Low vitamin D levels are commonly seen in children during their first two years and it is critical to ensure infants get enough, says Barnes, because “Vitamin D has an important role in directing the immune system towards greater tolerance, thus potentially preventing the development of autoimmune diseases in infants such as type 1 diabetes.”
Clarke agrees with the importance of D3 and K2 for infants, toddlers and children, adding that American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) advises a dose of 400 IU per day. “An AAP study showed epidemic levels of depleted vitamin D in kids,” he explains. “They found that seven out of 10 kids were deficient in vitamin D. The other vitamin which has been brought to the forefront is vitamin K2, which is critical for healthy development in babies, infants and children and also is currently registering at unhealthy levels. Both vitamin D3 and vitamin K2 support healthy immune function and solid bone structure, the very foundation of the body.”
Another important mineral seems to be more MIA than ever — magnesium, found in organic green leafy vegetables and whole grains. Again, diet is the culprit; children are not eating enough of these and are not getting enough magnesium to fulfill their health needs, says Dr. Carolyn Dean, Nutritional Magnesium Association Board Member. “Magnesium is necessary for the proper function of 700-800 enzyme processes in the body. It catalyzes most of the chemical reactions in the body. The RDA for children is set very low and some magnesium experts say that an active adolescent requires 7-10 mg/kg per day. With this recommendation, a 40 kg child would need 400 mg of magnesium,” she explains. At six months of age, Clarke recommends parents add his firm’s liquid calcium with magnesium in citrate form to the daily routine, then vitamin D3 and vitamin K for bone support. “We have added vitamin D3 to the calcium and in a perfect world that might be enough, and we recommend taking the organic vitamin D3 and vitamin K2 all together,” he comments.
Bluebonnet Nutrition’s line of chewable supplements (Super Earth Rainforest Animalz) includes a multiple, as well as calcium magnesium plus vitamin D3, and standalone vitamin C and DHA products. This line of dietary supplements for children (preschoolers to teens), says MacDonald, “provides all of the necessary vitamins, minerals and whole food nutrients that are required for proper growth and development.”
As obesity in children is a growing issue many parents want to avoid, a complex of carotenoids from palm (EVTene) that contains alpha-carotene, beta-carotene and gamma-carotene may be a useful adjunct to diet and exercise, especially for pre-pubertal children. It contains high levels of alpha-carotene, beta-carotene, gamma-carotene and lycopene. See describes a recent randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled intervention trial in which 20 children with simple obesity at a mean age of 10.5 years were given either 2 tablets of mixed carotenoid supplement (CarotenALL containing EVTene by Jarrow Formulas) or placebo for six months. “At the end of the study, the supplement group exhibited better overall improvement than placebo group in body mass index, waist circumference, waist to height ratio, visceral adipose tissue and subcutaneous adipose tissue,” he says.
Other nutrients children may benefit from, especially for energy and focus, are magnesium and vitamins B12 and B6, according to Andreas Koch, director of PR and partnership of Austin, TX-based Natural Vitality. The company’s new Calm Specifics Kids is, he describes, a “natural fizzy-berry flavor calm-focus formula.” Along with the benefits children get from magnesium, it also provides additional soothing effects from Suntheanine, choline to support brain development, an easily absorbable form of B12 to support energy, B6 to help support mood and D3 to promote healthy bones and teeth. The 4-oz. powder mixes conveniently with water or a child’s favorite beverage.
Targeting Moms
Parents, typically moms, still do most if not all of the family shopping, and today’s young mothers are really different when it comes to purchasing products than their mothers were. For starters, their mothers did not have cell phones or information-at-your-fingertips devices; when they were curious about an ingredient in a product, there wasn’t much to do except call the company and ask.
However, there are cautions. Says Ross, “The internet provides a vast amount of information that is often difficult to navigate as well as difficult to determine what is actually true and what is just promotion. ‘Mommy blogs’ can be helpful or confusing but there are lists of different blogs for different needs. Most of all, always be diligent in reading the supplement facts labels to get the whole story.”
Eberle’s sentiments are similar, if a bit more intense: “I am sick over how much information parents are fed is purposefully misleading. The longer I am in this business, the more I see this.” She advises parents to trust their instincts and to not hesitate to ask important questions such as how is this food processed, and how does it stay good for a year on the shelf? As retailers, repeating the message that you, your staff and your brands have the answers — and are willing to spend the time — will go a long way to developing the trust, and honing the parents’ instincts based on proper, correct information.
A tip from Barnes is to use the word “nutrition” rather than “healthy” in searches. She cautions that, especially with recipe searches, many claim the dishes are healthy and low in fat, which can be detrimental as they often omit the beneficial fats children need — such as those found in avocados, nuts and seeds.
See believes that retailers should encourage parents to spend up to a half-hour researching products before purchasing. Encourage parents to read labels and understand them, especially the multiple terms used to describe elements such as salt (“sodium chloride”) and sugar (“evaporated pure cane juice”).
Get Creative at Retail
Retailers can also be very creative in promotions for this sector. Think about activities that parents can bring their children to. Dr. Clarke’s idea is to hold a gardening class for kids, who can learn how and why to grow their own vegetables and herbs. Then offer cooking classes on how to use them.
Of course, in-store demos are always recommended and several of our sources are at the ready for you to make your appointments. Bio-Kult, says Barnes, can participate in making smoothies with fruits, vegetables, nut butters and probiotics. Also, she recommends, “Fermenting food demonstrations, such as making sauerkraut, which is super easy for children to get involved in making, also helps them develop their understanding of healthy bacteria.”
Retailers, See offers, could arrange for weekend activities inviting parents and children to participate. Create a spin-to-win type game where children who answer a question correctly can spin the wheel to win a prize — a vitamin supplement, logoed item, or healthy treat. Contact an advertising specialty professional to find fun and useful items you can put your logo on, and give away. It’s perfect timing to think about this for back-to-school season.
Try to partner with local YMCAs and other venues where kids can run around and burn calories.
Garmon encourages continued emphasis on product categories that parents and children can take together, such as probiotics, antioxidants, organic in-season produce, etc. “If a child sees a parent being proactive in their health, such as taking supplements, it may encourage the child to ask questions and ultimately engage in healthy habits as he or she begins to make more decisions independently.” WF
Published in WholeFoods Magazine August 2017
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A.V. Club Talks to Cast, Crew; Uproxx Thrilled by Tulip
Posted by Carolyn Koo
This week, A.V. Club talks to several members of the cast and crew, while Uproxx is thrilled by Tulip. Plus, /film shares what it learned from the pilot’s directors’ commentary. Read on for more:
• A.V. Club interviews Sam Catlin, Garth Ennis and three of Preacher‘s actors and the responses “touched on Preacher’s cinematic and comedic inspirations, the series’ anything-goes setup, and the fierce go-karting rivalry among the cast members.”
• Uproxx explains why Tulip is “nothing at all like other female characters on TV.”
• /film posts Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s commentary for “the series’ excellent pilot” and shares some of the facts it learned.
• Screen Crush talks to Sam Catlin, who says Preacher has “a lot of comedy, like really broad silly characters and sort of Monty Python-type absurdity. But there’s also this Tarantino stuff and there’s David Lynch stuff.”
• Vulture provides a transcript for an onstage talk with the people behind Preacher, who “discussed everything from choreographing brutal fights in cramped vehicles to a possible [Seth] Rogen cameo and the challenges of acting alongside a man whose face looks like an anus.”
• HitFix speaks with Garth Ennis, who says, “I quite like the new iteration of Tulip, where instead of being an incredibly reasonable person, polite and good-natured, who accelerates to attack speed when the fun and games begin, she’s actually more uniformly like that.”
• “Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s long storied passion for the project and love of the property comes through the screen in every moment, even as they expand on the story and reinvent it in subtle and not so subtle ways,” The Jersey Journal enthuses.
• Den of Geek learns from Dominic Cooper that Jesse is “the hardest character I’ve ever had to play.”
• UPI talks to Ian Colletti, who says of Preacher, “It’s so complicated. It’s just a lot of crazy characters in a very crazy universe. It’s not like anything else.”
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Paying Foreign Contractors: New Rules Companies Should Know
By Karen Lynch
When it comes to international payments and other Cross-border financial flows, the US government and its counterparts around the world are increasingly focused on exactly who is paying what to whom. Their aim is to fight global financial crime, tax evasion and the financing of terrorism.
Governments have recently increased efforts to eradicate illicit shell corporations by driving transparency down to the level of shareholders and other individuals who have effective control of companies involved in international commercial payments and flows. While the US government or the European Commission may not come knocking on your company’s door to ask for this “beneficial ownership” information, it has directed banks to begin collecting it from business account holders.
Specifically, in May 2016, the US Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued rules strengthening customer due diligence requirements. To date, US banks and other financial services companies have not been required to know the identity of individuals with significant equity ownership or management control of companies holding business accounts. “This enables criminals, kleptocrats and others looking to hide ill-gotten proceeds to access the financial system anonymously,” according to FinCEN.1 Now, banks have until May 2018 to begin collecting this beneficial ownership information for new business accounts.
Similarly, a European Commission proposal of July 2016 seeks to establish public registries of such information.2 And from one country to the next, the specific information to be collected varies. For example, the US rules will only apply when a new business bank account is opened, whereas existing accounts would also be subject to Europe’s proposed rules.
Expectations Changing for Bank Accounts and Foreign Contractor Payments
Many banks already collect some beneficial ownership information on their own initiative, but inconsistently.3 With the requirements changing and being overseen more rigorously by regulators, companies outside of the financial services industry need to be aware of what will be expected of them and their contractors when conducting bank business to make international commercial payments. A first principle of avoiding regulatory risk is knowing how the landscape is shifting and taking proactive measures to avoid missteps and potentially costly bureaucratic delays.
Consider, as well, that in the US information gathered about a customer is to be used by banks to develop a baseline profile. Subsequent international commercial payments activity inconsistent with a customer’s baseline could trigger a “suspicious activity report” from a bank’s automated monitoring system. Suspicious activity reports are filed with US government authorities, unless evaluated and cleared by the bank. FinCEN cites, as suspicious examples, “executing cross-border wire transfers for no apparent reason or a significant change in the volume of activity without explanation.”
Imperative Comes from the Top
As technical as beneficial ownership may sound, it has captured enough of the world’s attention to be included in the communique from the Group of 20 (G20) Summit in September 2016 in Hangzhou, China. There, world leaders declared that: “Financial transparency and effective implementation of the standards on transparency by all, in particular with regard to the beneficial ownership of legal persons and legal arrangements, is vital to protecting the integrity of the international financial system.”4
Some of the drive for greater transparency when paying foreign contractors has come from recently leaked revelations of questionable offshore banking practices in the so-called Panama Papers. In an official statement responding to the May 2016 leaks, Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, said: “The OECD has been leading a global crackdown on these practices since 2009, working hand-in-hand with the G20. Establishing global standards and making commitments are just the start. Effective implementation is the key to lifting the veil of secrecy once and for all.”5
In the US, the overarching policy is a legislative framework known as the Bank Secrecy Act, under which authorities have required banks to keep various records and reports over the years for anti-money laundering purposes. These requirements are now being strengthened under the new regulations, and (with various exceptions) individuals owning 25 percent or more of a business account holder must be disclosed to banks – as must senior managers or executive officers, if wielding control over a company. The Treasury Department has also drafted pending legislation that would require companies to report beneficial ownership information to the government at the time of corporate formation, while also clarifying FinCEN’s ability to collect bank wire transfer information and other data about international payments.6
Don’t Forget the IRS When Paying Foreign Contractors
A more basic type of beneficial ownership information is also required by the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS), when American companies are paying foreign contractors. Companies are used to keeping W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E forms7 on file when the international commercial payments are for services performed overseas, mainly to confirm that the work is not performed in the US. But the information on the form is not at the level of detail sought by FinCEN.
Generally, no IRS reporting of the compensation or tax withholding is required in these circumstances. However, companies need to be careful if any portion of the services is performed in the US or by a US citizen abroad. In such cases, the IRS’ “US Withholding Agent Frequently Asked Questions” should be consulted, as should any relevant tax treaties, because withholding could be required.8
The location of the services should be noted in any agreement, according to Thomson Reuters, which suggests withholding in the event of any uncertainty, since liability for the tax, penalties and interest would otherwise fall on the company contracting the services.9
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Takeaway:
The US government and its counterparts around the world are tightening requirements on banks to better understand the identities of their business account holders – down to the level of significant shareholders and even including some senior managers. Companies paying foreign contractors need to familiarize themselves and their business partners with these new beneficial ownership rules and be prepared as their banks come into compliance with them.
Karen Lynch is a journalist who has covered global business, technology and policy in New York, Paris and Washington, DC, for more than 30 years. Karen also is a principal at Content Marketing Partners.
1. “Customer Due Diligence Requirements for Financial Institutions,” Federal Register; https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/05/11/2016-10567/customer-due-diligence-requirements-for-financial-institutions
2. “Commission strengthens transparency rules to tackle terrorism financing, tax avoidance and money laundering,” European Commission Press Release; http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-2380_en.htm
3. “INDUSTRY ADVISORY: FinCEN Issues Final Rules on Customer Due Diligence Requirements for Financial Institutions,” Treliant Risk Advisors; http://treliant.com/News-and-Events/Announcements-and-Releases/Announcements-Details/ArticleID/27017/INDUSTRY-ADVISORY-FinCEN-Issues-Final-Rules-on-Customer-Due-Diligence-Requirements-for-Financial-Institutions
4. “G20 Leaders' Communique Hangzhou Summit,” G20.org; http://www.g20.org/English/Documents/Current/201609/t20160906_3395.html
5. “OECD reaction to the ‘Panama Papers,’” OECD; http://oecdinsights.org/2016/04/05/oecd-reaction-to-the-panama-papers/
6. “Treasury Announces Key Regulations and Legislation to Counter Money Laundering and Corruption, Combat Tax Evasion,” US Department of the Treasury; https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/jl0451.aspx
7. Form W-8BEN-E, US Internal Revenue Service; https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw8bene.pdf
8. “US Withholding Agent Frequently Asked Questions,” US Internal Revenue Service; https://www.irs.gov/businesses/international-businesses/u-s-withholding-agent-frequently-asked-question
9. NRA Withholding and Reporting on Payments to Foreign Nationals, Thomson Reuters;1. https://tax.thomsonreuters.com/wp-content/pdf/nra-tax/NRA_Withholding_Reporting_WP.pdf
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The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is one of the city’s most iconic sights and is filled with history, culture and art.
While an art museum may not be first on your Amsterdam travel plans - a visit to the famous Rijksmuseum should be included on your itinerary. This Dutch national museum is dedicated to the arts and history of Amsterdam. Displaying over 8000 artefacts, paintings and sculptures from their total collection of over 1 million objects from 1200 - 2000 including masterpieces by Rembrandt, Frans Hals and Vermeer, find out what you can expect with a visit to the Rijksmuseum with our comprehensive travel guide below.
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam: What is it?
Originally founded in The Hague in 1800, the Rijksmuseum is one of the Netherland’s national museum. Curating the country’s largest collection of art, the Rijksmuseum’s current housing is situated just outside the city’s canal ring in a building that was constructed in 1885.
The eclectic collection on offer isn’t just revered Dutch painters like Rembrandt and Bruegel but also showcasing over 800 years of history. Everything from archaeological artefacts to more contemporary items of cultural significance, the Rijksmuseum is the best place to go if you want to learn more about the Netherlands.
If you’re a fan of architecture too, the building itself is a masterpiece built by Pierre Cuypers in an amazing neo-Renaissance style. Adding to the overall grandeur is the noticeable neo-Gothic details.
What to see at the Rijksmuseum?
With new exhibitions also scheduled for the institution, the Rijksmuseum will always have something interesting on. However, its permanent on-display collection of 8000 items means that even if you miss out on an exhibition you will see something special.
The Rijksmuseum’s splendour goes beyond its decorative walls into the building’s marvellous gardens which have been landscaped as recently as 2013. Filled with sculptures of its own, the garden also plays host to its exhibitions, although these are usually temporary and are only held from spring to autumn.
When it comes to seeing the entirety of the Rijksmuseum, you can spend all day there from the minute the doors open at 9am to when they close at 5pm. However, a good amount of time to give yourself to see this amazing collection of paintings and artefacts would be three to four hours. If you know what you want to see, you can easily give yourself two hours and if you want to see every last thing, five may be closer to a correct estimate.
Iconic works at the Rijksmuseum
The museum is home to some special masterpieces including Rembrandt’s most famous painting, The Night Watch, which was painted in 1642 at the peak of the Netherland’s Golden Age.
Famed for its mammoth size (it’s nearly 12ft/3.6m tall) and spectacular use of light, the painting’s title is actually a common mistake with viewers wrongly assuming the scene is at night.
It also houses masterpieces such as Johannes Vermeer’s The Milkmaid which shows a housemaid entirely absorbed in her work. The painting’s depiction of light in a host of tiny dots, gives the 45cm tall painting a smooth gradient on skin tones and her clothing.
Works from Frans Hals, Pieter Brugel, and Vincent Van Gogh also make their way into the esteemed collection too.
Only a fraction of the 1.2 million items in the museum’s collection is on display, showcasing history from the year 1200 to 2000.
The Museum’s main building recently finished a ten-year renovation in 2013 that cost €375 million.
The Rijkmuseum was created after Dutch officials marvelled at The Louvre in France.
How to get to the Rijksmuseum
Situated on Museumplein, the Rijksmuseum is at the head of a cultural focal point for the city sitting alongside the Van Gogh Museum and Amsterdam’s concert hall, the Concertgebouw.
To get there from the Central station you will need to jump on Tram 2 or Tram 12 and alight at the Rijkmuseum tram stop. If you’re heading from the south Zuid station you’ll need to look for Tram 5.
If you’re coming from Sloterdijk statin you’ll want to get on board Tram 19 and jump off at Spielgelgracht tram stop. Coming from Amstel station, you’ll need to board Tram 12 or if you are coming via the metro go to Weesperplein then board either trams 1, 7 or 19 and alight at Spielgelgraht tram stop.
Rijksmuseum opening hours
The museum is one of the few sights in Amsterdam that is open 365 day at year, including Christmas Day, Boxing Day and News Years Eve.
Everyday the doors open at 9am and close at 5pm with the Café and Garden staying open until 6pm. The Café and Garden also do not require tickets to enter unlike the main Rijksmuseum building.
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Anavex Life Sciences Announces Publication of Foundational Data for ANAVEX®2-73 (blarcamesine) in Rett Syndrome
Published in Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, Results Highlight Improvements in Multiple Motor, Sensory, and Autonomic Phenotypes Associated with Rett Syndrome
Study Provided Proof-of-Concept for Ongoing ANAVEX®2-73 (blarcamesine) Phase 2 Trials
NEW YORK – November 6, 2019 – Anavex Life Sciences Corp. (“Anavex” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: AVXL), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing differentiated therapeutics for the treatment of neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Rett syndrome and other central nervous system (CNS) diseases, today announced that preclinical data of ANAVEX®2-73 (blarcamesine) in Rett syndrome were published in the peer-reviewed journal, Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior.
Rett syndrome, a rare genetic neurological disorder that afflicts mostly girls, is caused by a genetic defect associated with severe physical and cognitive impairments. The study evaluated doses of ANAVEX®2-73 (blarcamesine) in heterozygous MECP2 mice, a validated animal model for the disease, which resulted in improvements in motor, sensory, and autonomic phenotypes related to the disease. These included motor coordination and balance, acoustic and visual responses, and other improvements. ANAVEX®2-73 (blarcamesine) also showed a good safety profile.
“Testing novel drugs that can safely improve the symptoms of Rett syndrome is a high priority,” said Walter E Kaufmann, M.D., Chief Medical Officer of Anavex and corresponding author of the paper. “ANAVEX®2-73 (blarcamesine) is a sigma-1 receptor agonist and muscarinic receptor modulator with a strong safety record. The drug’s ability to enhance calcium homeostasis and improve the mitochondrial and cellular functions that underlie pathological processes and compensatory mechanisms in Rett syndrome, make ANAVEX®2-73 (blarcamesine) a promising candidate.”
The study, “ANAVEX®2-73 (blarcamesine), a Sigma-1 receptor agonist, ameliorates neurologic impairments in a mouse model of Rett syndrome,” served as a proof-of-concept for the ongoing Phase 2 ANAVEX2-73-RS-001 study (NCT03758924) as well as for upcoming pediatric studies. Preliminary results from the first cohort of this study were recently presented at the 6th Annual European Rett Syndrome Conference. The data described significant improvements in the two global efficacy endpoints: the Rett Syndrome Behaviour Questionnaire (RSBQ) Total score and the Clinical Global Impression – Improvement (CGI-I); as well as in the RSBQ Hand Behaviours and the RSBQ Breathing Abnormalities subscale scores. Efficacy signals on both caregiver- and clinician-based measures of severity also correlated with plasma changes of key biomarkers related to disease pathogenesis.
“We look forward to completing the double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2 ANAVEX2-73-RS-001 study, followed by the double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2 ANAVEX2-73-RS-002 (AVATAR) study,” said Christopher U. Missling, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of Anavex. “We also expect to initiate the double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial, ANAVEX2-73-RS-003 (EXCELLENCE) in pediatric patients with Rett syndrome. Anavex is excited about our progress to date, as well as our pursuit of a much-needed treatment option for patients with Rett syndrome.”
The full paper can be accessed online at: (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091305719302515).
About Rett Syndrome
Rett syndrome is a devastating, non-inherited genetic post-natal progressive neurodevelopmental disorder that occurs almost exclusively in girls and leads to severe impairments, affecting nearly every aspect of the child’s life: their ability to speak, walk, eat and easily breathe. The hallmark of Rett syndrome is near constant repetitive hand movements while awake. The disease is characterized by normal early growth and development (6 to 18 months) followed by a slowing of development, loss of purposeful use of the hands, distinctive hand movements, autistic features, slowed brain and head growth, ataxia, seizures and intellectual disability.
Rett syndrome is caused by mutations in the MECP2 gene and strikes all racial and ethnic groups. The disease occurs worldwide in approximately one in every 10,000 to 15,000 live births. There is currently no cure for Rett syndrome.
Anavex Life Sciences Corp. (Nasdaq: AVXL) is a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of differentiated therapeutics for the treatment of neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Rett syndrome and other central nervous system (CNS) diseases, pain and various types of cancer. Anavex’s lead drug candidate, ANAVEX®2-73 (blarcamesine), recently completed a successful Phase 2a clinical trial for Alzheimer’s disease. ANAVEX®2-73 (blarcamesine) is an orally available drug candidate that restores cellular homeostasis by targeting sigma-1 and muscarinic receptors. Preclinical studies demonstrated its potential to halt and/or reverse the course of Alzheimer’s disease. ANAVEX®2-73 (blarcamesine) also exhibited anticonvulsant, anti-amnesic, neuroprotective and anti-depressant properties in animal models, indicating its potential to treat additional CNS disorders, including epilepsy. The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research previously awarded Anavex a research grant, which fully funded a preclinical study to develop ANAVEX®2-73 (blarcamesine) for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. ANAVEX®3-71, which targets sigma-1 and muscarinic receptors, is a promising preclinical drug candidate demonstrating disease-modifying activity against the major hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease in transgenic (3xTg-AD) mice, including cognitive deficits, amyloid and tau pathologies. In preclinical trials, ANAVEX®3-71 has shown beneficial effects on mitochondrial dysfunction and neuroinflammation. Further information is available at www.anavex.com. You can also connect with the company on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
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