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Trail cameras are worth their weight in gold SEARCH NEWS
As more trail cameras are installed by World Land Trust’s overseas partners so are we thrilled by the captivating footage of the secret life of the reserves that supporters have helped fund.
In the Cerro Candelaria Reserve, Fundacion EcoMinga’s Keepers of the Wild thought they knew the forests and all the larger mammal inhabitants pretty well. But a large herd of White-lipped Peccaries (Tayassu pecari) took them totally by surprise.
“These are the largest and most aggressive of the peccaries”, said Lou Jost, founder of Fundacion EcoMinga. “The smaller Collared Peccaries are known from cloud forests and paramos near Banos, but these White-lipped Peccaries are much more at home in rainforests, and this new record for Cerro Candelaria Reserve is near the highest elevation ever recorded for the species.
There are four members of the peccary family, a new species having recently been discovered in the Amazon Basin. They are also known as javelin or javelina, because of their spearlike canine teeth. These pig-like mammals use to occur in huge herds (known as ‘sounders’) with up to 2,000 in a group but groups usually consist of 50 – 300 individuals.
Bears are guaranteed to thrill
The only bear native to South America, the Spectacled Bear (or Andean Bear as it is sometimes called) is the largest land carnivore in the tropical Andes. Considered Vulnerable to extinction it is quite frequently recorded on Fundacion EcoMinga’s reserves. This young bear was clearly intrigued by the flash from the trail camera!
The elusive Caucasian Leopard
Trail cameras are vital in the Caucasus Wildlife Refuge (CWR) as glimpses of Armenia’s rare leopard have rarely been seen by humans. Ruben Khachatryan, Founder of FPWCA (Foundation for the Preservation Wildlife and Cultural Assets) in Armenia said “We know that the leopards are finding a safe haven in the CWR but trail camera back up is hugely reassuring. And knowing that the reserve can sustain these large carnivores means that the whole ecosystem is healthy.”
World Land Trust supports our partners with management and ongoing protection of their reserves through the Keepers of the Wild programme.
Dan Bradbury
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Mariner East pipeline system binding open season
Published by Lydia Woellwarth, Deputy Editor
World Pipelines, Monday, 03 December 2018 08:49
Energy Transfer LP has announced that its subsidiary, Sunoco Pipeline L.P., has launched a binding open season to solicit shipper commitments for transportation service of C3+ from the Marcellus/Utica play in Pennsylvania to destination facilities in Claymont, Delaware and Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, through the Mariner East pipeline system. The open season will allow Sunoco Pipeline to take advantage of new opportunities to add additional product commitments to the pipeline, which is nearing completion.
Open season process
The open season commenced at 3.00 pm (Eastern Time) on 30 November 2018.
About the Mariner East pipeline system
The Mariner East pipeline system, which went into service in 4Q14 for propane, and the 1Q16 for ethane, is a series of pipelines from the Marcellus/Utica basin with origins in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania that transport natural gas liquids through interstate and intra-state routes to destinations in Pennsylvania and Claymont, Delaware. Mariner East is operated by a wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Transfer Operating, L.P.
Read the article online at: https://www.worldpipelines.com/business-news/03122018/mariner-east-pipeline-system-binding-open-season/
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Bells of Peace
Memorial in DC
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On November 11, 2018 @ 11:00am local time...
Americans across the nation tolled bells,
in remembrance of those who served and sacrificed.
Bells of Peace: Proclamations
February 25, 2018 Theo Mayer 1201
Commission Proclamations
Bells of Peace: A World War I Remembrance - Calling for All Americans Everywhere to Toll Bells on November 11
A World War I Commemoration - Calling for All Americans to Pause and Remember their World War I Veterans
All Military Services Will Participate in Bells of Peace!
ALLNAV Order to the Navy: 100th Anniversary of the End of WWI Planning Order
Chief of Naval Operations Planning Order: 100th Anniversary of the End of World War I
ALARACT Order to the Army: Bells of Peace: A World War I Remembrance
ALCOAST Order to the Coast Guard: Paying Tribute to the 100th Anniversary of the End of World War I
American Legion Resolution
Resolution as approved at 100th Convention
State Governor Proclamations / County and City Proclamations
Send your proclamation to us at TollTheBells@worldwar1centennial.org!
Alabama / Limestone County, Alabama
Arkansas / Bentonville, Arkansas Little Rock, Arkansas
Arizona - / Prescott Valley, Arizona
California / Alameda, California Buena Park, California Diamond Bar, California
Oakley, California Oceanside, California
Perris, California Placentia, California
Pleasant Hill, California Pomona, California Rancho Palos Verdes, California Rancho Cordova, California
Riverbank, California Riverside, California Rohnert Park, California Roseville, California
Santa Clarita, California Santa Cruz, California San Dimas, California San Marcos, California
San Mateo, California Santa Monica, California Simi Valley, California Sunnyvale, California
Thousand Oaks, California Turlock, California Vacaville, California Vallejo, California
Buena Ventura, California Vista, California West Hollywood, California
Connecticut / East Hartford, Connecticut Essex, Connecticut Norwalk, Connecticut
District of Columbia / District of Columbia City Council
Florida / Aventura, Florida Bonita Springs, Florida Coconut Creek, Florida Hollywood, Florida
Jacksonville, Florida Memorial Park Association
Lake Worth, Florida Largo, Florida Melbourne, Florida Pinellas Park, Florida Titusville, Florida
Georgia /Carroll County, Georgia Douglasville, Georgia Dunwoody, Georgia
Woodstock, Georgia
Hawaii / County of Hawai'i
Idaho - / Idaho Falls, Idaho
Illinois / Bolingbrook, Illinois Evanston, Illinois Westmont, Illinois
Indiana / Carmel, Indiana
Iowa / Bettendorf, Iowa Cedar Rapids, Iowa Des Moines, Iowa
Kansas / De Soto, Kansas Lenexa, Kansas
Louisiana / New Iberia, Louisiana
Massachusetts / Plymouth, Massachusetts Springfield, Massachusetts
West Springfield, Massachusetts Weymouth, Massachusetts Worcester, Massachusetts
Michigan / Bay City, Michigan Jackson, Michigan
Minnesota / Maplewood, Minnesota
Missouri / Kansas City, Missouri O'Fallon, Missouri St. Joseph, Missouri Wentzville, Missouri
Nebraska - / Columbus, Nebraska
Nevada / Sparks, Nevada
New Jersey / Camden, New Jersey Fair Lawn, New Jersey Hoboken, New Jersey Kearney, New Jersey
Linden, New Jersey Washington TWP, New Jersey
Piscataway Township, New Jersey
New Mexico / Clovis, New Mexico
New York / Colchester, New York Huntington, New York Mount Pleasant, New York Oyster Bay, New York
Penfield, New York Rochester, New York Rome, New York
Schenectady, New York Yonkers, New York
North Carolina / Butner, North Carolina Burlington, North Carolina Franklinton, North Carolina Goldsboro, North Carolina
Huntersville, North Carolina Kinston, North Carolina Kittrell, North Carolina Oxford, North Carolina
Ohio / Canton, Ohio Cleveland, Ohio Delaware, Ohio Fayette County, Ohio
Gahanna, Ohio Highland County, Ohio Hudson, Ohio Youngstown, Ohio
Oregon / Myrtle Creek, Oregon
Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Senate Resolution 451 / Erie County, Pennsylvania York, Pennsylvania
Rhode Island / Coventry, Rhode Island
Texas / Chappell Hill, Washington County, Texas College Station, Texas Euless, Texas Hurst, Texas Irving, Texas La Porte, Texas
Utah / Clearfield City, Utah
Virginia / Chesapeake, Virginia Hampton, Virginia
Washington / Marysville, Washington
Wisconsin / Appleton, Wisconsin Green Bay, Wisconsin
Build Your Own Proclamation
Choose and copy paragraphs for your state, local government, or organization's proclamation calling for bell tolling throughout your community! Be sure to send a copy of your proclamation to TollTheBells@worldwar1centennial.org so everyone can see how your community plans to honor our World War I veterans.
Bells of Peace: A World War I Remembrance
A National Tolling of Bells to Honor Those Who Served in the Great War
WHEREAS, a century ago 4.7 million American families sent their sons and daughters off to World War I;
WHEREAS, men and women from the (state, city, community) of (.....) served selflessly and honorably in World War I;
WHEREAS, 116,516 Americans gave their lives in the war, and more than 200,000 were wounded;
WHEREAS, the tolling of bells is a traditional expression of honor and remembrance; and
WHEREAS, in November 2018 the world will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that ended the fighting in World War I at 11:00 a.m., November 11, 1918 -- the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month;
WHEREAS, on April 6, 2018, the United States World War I Centennial Commission called upon all Americans across the nation to toll bells in remembrance of those who served in World War I on Armistice Day, November 11, 2018;
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the (state, city, town, community) of (name) does hereby call upon all Americans across the nation to toll bells in remembrance of those who served in World War I at 11:00 a.m. on November 11, 2018.
for YOUR Bells of Peace Armistice Commemoration
Bells of Peace: Participate
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Bells of Peace: FAQs
Below you will find answers to the questions our participants have asked about the bell tolling. If you have a question that is not addressed here Contact Us and we will be happy to answer it!
What is the National Bell Tolling?
Bells of Peace: A National World War I Remembrance is a national tolling of bells to honor those who served in the Great War. The United States participated from April 6, 1917 to November 11, 1918.
Why should we toll the bells?
Tolling of bells is the traditional way to mark someone’s passing. On special national occasions, bells are tolled in honor of the fallen. November 11 is the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended hostilities in World War I. In the war, 116,516 Americans died and over 200,000 were wounded.
When is the National Bell Tolling?
On Sunday, November 11, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. local time across the United States and its territories.
Where will the National Bell Tolling take place?
In communities, houses of worship, cemeteries, military installations, ships at sea - anywhere that Americans gather to honor their veterans.
Who is sponsoring the National Bell Tolling?
The U.S. World War I Centennial Commission is the sponsor. The Commission was created by Act of Congress in 2013 to honor, commemorate, and educate the public about American participation in World War I. The Pritzker Military Museum and Library, our founding sponsor, also endorses this event. Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion are partners, as are the National Cathedral and the Society of the Honor Guard of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. State World War I commissions and other partners are encouraged to co-sponsor and publicize the event.
How can my community group participate?
At 11:00 a.m. on Sunday, November 11, toll your bells slowly 21 times with a five-second interval between tolls. Groups that do not have bells can render the salute by other available means such as guns, cannons, rifles, and sirens. No bell? No worries. We have a free downloadable smartphone APP that can be used privately or with public address systems. Look for "Bells of Peace" on the Apple App Store or Google Play.
How can I download and customize participation certificates for my participants?
Click here. You may distribute as many certificates as you like.
Why is it important to toll the bells 21 times? We would rather toll our bell once in honor of each of our local veterans killed in combat.
The 21 tolls of the bell symbolize the nation's highest honor. It is based on the 21-gun salute, whose origin is described here. We suggest you toll your bells 21 times, and follow that with an individual toll for each veteran you wish to honor, stating their name before each toll. The ceremony could conclude with Taps or a solemn reading.
Your logo is very attractive. Can we use it to promote our bell tolling?
Yes. You can download and use 4 types of logos at these links: Header Logo Logo in Frame Icon Choose the one that best meets your needs. Just resize it in proportion and do not distort the image!
www.ww1cc.org/bells. At this link, you will be able to find suggestions for songs, poems, and other content you can use for your community event. You can also upload photos, videos, and information about your event, and find links to education and other World War I Centennial information.
Bells of Peace: Ceremony Ideas
Here is the program for the Interfaith Sacred Service on November 11, 2018 at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
Other Ceremony Content Ideas:
Hymns: Eternal Father, Strong to Save (Navy Hymn), Battle Hymn of the Republic
Music: Loeffler’s Music for 4 Stringed Instruments : https://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.559077&catNum=559077&filetype=About%20this%20Recording&language=English#
Poems: Hymn of Dead Soldiers by Walt Whitman, The Death of a Soldier by Wallace Stevens, There was a Crimson Clash of War by Stephen Crane, Adieu to a Soldier by Walt Whitman, The Children by Rudyard Kipling, Recessional by Rudyard Kipling, Lament by F.S. Flint, The Parable of the Old Man and the Young by Wilfred Owen, Aftermath by Siegfried Sassoon, In Flanders Fields by John McCrae, And There Was a Great Calm by Thomas Hardy (On the Signing of the Armistice, 11 Nov. 1918) Grass by Carl Sandburg, Soldier’s Dream by Wilfred Owen, Perhaps by Vera Brittain, The March of the Dead by Robert William Service, Survivors by Siegfried Sassoon, Does it Matter? by Siegfried Sassoon, I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger, For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon,
Other Suggestions for Commemorative Services:
The Church of England First World War Memorial Service Suggestions
United Methodist Church: Suggestions for Observing Veterans' Day in Worship
Solemnly read the names of your community's World War I veterans
Submit your ideas to us at Tollthebells@worldwar1centennial.org and we will post them to our website
WWI Films
Bells of Peace: Films
The Big Parade (1925)
Wings (1927)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Hell’s Angels (1930)
The Grand Illusion (1937)
Dawn Patrol (1938)
The Fighting 69th (1940)
For Me and My Gal (1942)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Gallipoli (1981)
War Horse (2011)
Bells of Peace: Music Resources
WWI Era Music Sources For Your Centennial Armistice Event
Wikipedia: Over 200 World War I songs
Library of Congress: World War I Sheet Music
University of California-Santa Barbara: Cylinder Archive of World War I Music
Carillon and Tower Bell Repertoire for Armistice Day by Dr. Tiffany Ng, Assistant Professor of Carillon, University of Michigan
Bells of Peace Resources: Press Releases and Articles
Commission Press Releases
October 5, 2018: Nationwide BELLS OF PEACE project now has a free SmartPhone App: Ingenious features will help mark the 100th of WWI's end on November 11th Read Entire Release
July 3, 2018: WWI COMMISSION ANNOUNCES 'BELLS OF PEACE' ON ARMISTICE CENTENNIAL:
Nationwide Bell-Tolling on November 11, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. will honor the 116,516 American men & women
who died in WWI. Read Entire Release
Other Press Releases
Governor of New Jersey - October 10, 2018
Epiphany Chapel and Church House - the Only World War I Chapel in the United States - October 17, 2018
Bells of Peace will Ring Again - by Jim Garamone, defense.gov
Bells of Peace Campaign Honors the Centennial of WW1 Ending with a Digital Assist - connectingvets.com
Bells of Peace Expands with Mobile App - The American Legion Website
Bells of Peace to Ring Nov 11 - The American Legion Website
WW1 Commission Announces Bells of Peace on Armistice Centennial - La Grange News
World War I Commission announces 'Bells of Peace' - Americus Times Recorder, Americus, GA
Bells of Peace Partner: Washington Memorial Chapel at Valley Forge - World War I Centennial Commission Dispatch
Veteran's Day Bell Tolling Proclamation in Maryland - military.com
Bell ringers, Your Country Needs You for WW1 Centenary - Sky News
Maryland to Join in National Tolling of Bells Honoring WWI Vets - The BayNet.com
Bell Ringers Sought for WWI Centennial - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Bells in Area to Toll on Recognizing Century Since End of WW!Bells in Area to Toll on Recognizing Century Since End of WW! - Williamsport, PA Sun-Gazette
Meet the Woman Who's in Charge of Ringing the Bells at the National Cathedral - Washington Post, Feb. 10, 2017
Falls Township Adopts Bells of Peace Proclamation - Buckslocalnews.com (Pennsylvania)
Bells of Peace: Spread The Word
Ways to get the word out...
Here are some ideas for how to reach out within your state, city, town, and community so everyone learns about Bells for Peace!
Call your local Chamber of Commerce for help in finding houses of worship and other institutions in your community that have bells.
Call your local Fire Department to ask if they have bells that can be rung from the firehouse or ladder truck.
Look up military cemeteries in your area and call the superintendents to ask that they toll their bells.
Search in your browser for "Bell Towers in (your region or county) ...." and call those who have bells.
Check with your town hall, county courthouse, or state capital to find out if they have bells.
Contact universities and schools in your area that may have bells.
Contact houses of worship in your area and ask that they toll their bells.
Bells of Peace: Taps
All About Taps
Taps is played at the conclusion of military funerals, and at solemn national occasions.
How did Taps originate? (History Stories)
Score for Taps: (US Army Music)
Taps Video: (Pershing's Own US Army Band)
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Home > Blog > The Apparel Industry’s Environmental Impact in 6 Graphics
The Apparel Industry’s Environmental Impact in 6 Graphics
by Deborah Drew and Genevieve Yehounme - July 05, 2017
Fast-changing fashion trends and low prices allow people to consume more. Photo by Diego Torres Silvestre/flickr
Roughly 20 pieces of clothing per person are manufactured each year. Growth of the multi-trillion-dollar apparel industry has been fed by “fast fashion,” which makes clothing cheaply and quickly with a low price-tag. These visuals illustrate why the apparel industry must embrace a new approach to sustainably meet demand in tomorrow’s markets.
Increased Production and Consumption
Fast fashion uses innovative production and distribution models to dramatically shorten fashion cycles, sometimes getting a garment from the designer to the customer in a matter of a weeks instead of months. The number of fashion seasons has increased from two a year – spring/summer and fall/winter – to as many as 50-100 microseasons.
Fast-changing trends and low prices have allowed people to consume more. The average consumer is now purchasing 60 percent more items of clothing compared to 2000, but each garment is kept half as long.
Water Stress and Pollution
Cotton is the most common natural fiber used to make clothing, accounting for about 33 percent of all fibers found in textiles. Cotton is also a very thirsty crop, requiring 2,700 liters of water—what one person drinks in two-and-a-half years—to make one cotton shirt. In areas already facing water stress, cotton production can be particularly damaging. In Central Asia, for instance, the Aral Sea has nearly disappeared because cotton farmers draw excessively from the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers. (Check out WRI’s Aqueduct tool to see where cotton production and water risks intersect.) Cotton farming is also responsible for 24 percent of insecticides and 11 percent of pesticides despite using about 3 percent of the world’s arable land.
Water use and pollution also take place during clothing production. About 20 percent of industrial water pollution is due to garment manufacturing, while the world uses 5 trillion liters (1.3 trillion gallons) of water each year for fabric dyeing alone, enough to fill 2 million Olympic-sized swimming pools.
The carbon footprint of a garment largely depends on the material. While synthetic fibers like polyester have less impact on water and land than grown materials like cotton, they emit more greenhouse gasses per kilogram. A polyester shirt has a greater carbon footprint than a cotton shirt (5.5 kg vs. 4.3 kg, or 12.1 pounds vs 9.5 pounds). Polyester production for textiles released about 706 billion kg (1.5 trillion pounds) of greenhouse gases in 2015, the equivalent of 185 coal-fired power plants' annual emissions.
What’s apparel’s future?
Apparel spending is projected to grow tremendously. This is particularly true in Asia, as hundreds of millions of people in China and India enter the global middle class.
By 2030, there will be 5.4 billion people in the global middle class, up from 3 billion in 2015. We can expect increased demand for clothes and other goods that define middle-income lifestyles. If consumption continues at its current rate, we’ll need three times as many natural resources by 2050 compared to what we used in 2000.
Assuming infinite resources in a finite world is not a sustainable business model. Beyond environmental concerns, unchecked consumption will undermine the world’s economic and social goals. Some apparel companies will ignore those signals and continue with traditional take-make-waste business models. Others will embrace innovative new models that work within planetary boundaries and are a better fit for tomorrow’s markets.
Apparel is just one sector competing for natural resources, but it’s important that clothing makers start transforming their business models now given the industry’s strong growth trajectory. Many companies are aware of the environmental risks and are ready to act.
The first step is for companies to measure their environmental impacts and understand areas where they can improve. The Sustainable Apparel Coalition’s Higg Index lets companies measure the environmental, social and labor impacts of their products and services, and work is being done on Science Based Targets guidance for the apparel industry.
Some companies are working to improve their resource efficiency. H&M and Zara, both purveyors of fast fashion, joined 33 other fashion companies in a pledge to increase their clothing recycling by 2020 and are collecting and recycling used clothing at many of their stores. Reformation, a smaller Los Angeles-based clothing brand that is gaining popularity, claims that it produces its clothing with far less water and emissions than typical clothing companies, and even publishes the spared water and emissions quantities on each product webpage.
The next step is to recognize that companies must do more than improve efficiency to sustainably meet demand in the years ahead. They must produce less stuff. Some companies have already acknowledged this and are testing new models, though these examples are still the exception rather than the rule. Patagonia’s Worn Wear program offers a service to fix old clothes rather than only sell new ones. Companies like Mud Jeans, Rent the Runway and Gwynnie Bee are experimenting with rental models. Some companies, such as Zady’s, are calling for a return to “slow fashion,” promoting it as a key component to their business model.
To keep the apparel industry viable in tomorrow’s markets, the issue of consumption must be brought to the forefront—and it must begin now.
Editor's note 1/16/2019: The sentence "A polyester shirt has more than double the carbon footprint of a cotton shirt (5.5 kg vs. 2.1 kg, or 12.1 pounds vs 4.6 pounds)” has been changed to “A polyester shirt has more carbon footprint than a cotton shirt (5.5 kg vs. 4.3 kg, or 12.1 pounds vs. 9.5 pounds).”
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Switzerland v England Match Preview & Betting Tips
England will have to overcome Switzerland to clinch 3rd place in the UEFA Nations League. Both teams lost their Semi-Finals 3-1 to Netherlands and portugal.
England could've progressed if it wasn't for a contentious VAR decision when they thought they won the tie 2-1 with a late goal.
The match will have a very friendly feel about it and the club managers will not be happy with their star assets featuring. The players will be looking forward to a break before the start of their pre-season training.
Both teams are expected to make a few changes and learn from the mistakes made in the semi-final. We'd expect a few younger, fringe players to get a run out.
Switzerland have made the last 16 stage of the last 2 World Cups and were only knocked out this tournament to an incredible Ronaldo hatrick where 2 late goals were scored. They will be no pushovers, despite losing 6 of the last 7 games in which they have faced England.
England were knocked out to Netherlands where they conceded 3 goals that were more credited to poor defending as oppose to good play from Holland. However Southgate's men will not change the way they play as they look to play from the back. Switzerland will be aware of this and look to play of the nerves felt from the England back liner with Thursday's mistakes fresh on the mind. England will be looking to quickly bounce back and pick up confidence heading back into Euro qualifications.
Switzerland possible starting lineup:
Mvogo; Elvedi, Schar, Rodriguez; Lang, Sow, Fernandes, Moubandje; Steffen, Drmic, Zakaria
England possible starting lineup:
Butland; Alexander-Arnold, Keane, Gomez, Rose; Dier, Henderson, Alli; Lingard, Kane, Wilson
Harry Kane is desperate for a goal after 2 very disappointing Semi-Finals in recent weeks and the Semi-Final of the Euros. Therefore we think he is great value to score first at 4/1.
Our Tips & Predictions
Switzerland 1-2 England - 8/1 BetVictor
Harry Kane to Score First - 4/1 Bet365
Both Teams to Score - 4/5 Betway
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Anatomy of a Shade: Mykita & Bernhard Willhelm’s Franz
Everything you always wanted to know about sunglasses but were afraid to ask
They are instantly recognisable, celebrities’ favourite accessory, an absolute must have. But what is the story of FRANZ? Take a peek behind the scenes at MYKITA, the brand behind the cult sunglasses.
You may have already spotted FRANZ on the pages of fashion publications, movies, gossip magazines or sharp design blogs. Designed by German avant-garde fashion designer Bernard Willhelm together with eyewear brand MYKITA, FRANZ is an aviator-style, fusing the brand’s trademark feather-light sheet metal frame with dashing mirrored lenses. Here is a chance to get to know more about MYKITA’s stunning limited edition collection.
MYKITA & Bernhard Willhelm
Renowned for his colourful, high-spirited and energetic women’s and men’s collections, German designer Bernard Wilhelm is known to push boundaries and think further than just clothes. With MYKITA, we get to see more of Bernhard again.
Founded in 2003 by a group of four composed of Philipp Haffmans, Harald Gottschling, Daniel Haffmans and Moritz Krueger, Berlin-based MYKITA has continuously been raising the bar when it comes to eyewear. They have come up with a highly innovative and functional design: simple plug connections that make complex soldered joints and screw connections redundant, are paired with featherweight frames cut out of stainless sheet steel and folded into form. MYKITA’s handmade frames are state of the art sunglasses and prescription spectacles.
A chat with MYKITA
We sat down with MYKITA’s Philipp Haffmans, head of design, and Xenia Deger, Marketing & PR Director.
Bernhard Willhelm is quite the exuberant character, while MYKITA is known for their clean and crisp look. What is it that links the two of you?
Philipp Haffmans: Similar to Bernard Willhelm, our focus lies not just on the eyewear market. There is a world beyond the business, and together with people like Bernhard it is easy to cross this border. This is where the fun part starts.
How did this collaboration come about?
Xenia Deger: We actually received an e-mail from Bernhard. He was asking if we were interested in collaborating on some eyewear for his AW09 show, which was exceptionally happening in Berlin rather than Paris where it is usually hosted. Of course we were very interested in working with Bernhard, as we have great respect for his work and are big fans of the rather crazy “Bernhard Willhelm world”. When they sent us the collection moods and theme (a seventies ski-style collection), we were thrilled. It immediately made our creative juices flow. Then everything went very fast: we completed the sample collection in less than 2 months.
What was most stimulating in working with Bernhard Willhelm?
Philipp Haffmans: The work of Bernhard Willhelm and Jutta Kraus stands apart from the traditional fashion circus. In their world, the absurd is normal. This view on the world made the collaboration feel uncomplicated and easy. Endless discussions about details did not take place.
What was the inspiration for FRANZ?
FRANZ by MYKITA & Bernhard Willhelm
Philipp Haffmans: Skiing and its slalom wizardry, downhill heroics, cross-country stamina and fearless jumpers seen at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck provided the inspiration for Bernhard Willhelm’s men’s collection. The latter is not strictly speaking a skiwear collection, however, but rather what Bernhard Willhelm considers a ”striped hybrid”, boasting both: substance and style. To accompany his ski outfits, he has joined forces with us, to present three mirrored sunglasses models. The result is a trio of aviator-style sheet-metal frames: FRANZ, but also the SEPP and LUKE models. The FRANZ model was inspired by and named after legendary downhill champion Franz Klammer.
Could you tell us more about the design process for FRANZ?
Philipp Haffmans: The expansive but modest design is a conscious reference to the inadequacies of past manufacturing methods. Back in those days, precise laser cutting technology just didn’t exist. As a result, certain styles appear quite chunky. By using our production methods this look is transported into the present and through this we have created a new design language.
You got the FRANZ sun lenses from Carl Zeiss Vision. But tell us, how are the lenses part of the creative process, what is their influence on the final sunglasses? Is it a sort of a chicken and the egg thing: do you have a particular lens colour and mirror in mind for a specific model, or do you see a beautiful sun lens and think: “This is great, inspiring, it would look fantastic on a pair of sunglasses. I need to design something right now!”?
Philipp Haffmans: In this collection the choice of the lenses played a major role. Like a curtain, mirrored lenses literally close the wearer’s face. It has been the time to bring this look back on stage. At the moment when Bernard Willhelm called us, we had already been discussing that issue. And when he came up with the Olympic winter games thing, it was somehow a perfect match. The mountain issue brought other pictures to our minds, e.g. Reinhold Messner climbing up the Mount Everest. Because of the extreme light conditions up there, the mirrored lens type has been part of the protecting equipment. So, one thing led to another and in the end the bulky, mirrored aviator shapes were the result. By the way, another style ALOIS, featuring the same design language, the same use of shape and form, joined this edition. Executed in extreme colour combinations such as bright green with a green mirror on the lens, or brown with a soft brown mirror.
FRANZ has accomplished the amazing achievement to become the iconic accessory of Sex and the City 2. Among thousands of fashion items, FRANZ is the one piece we’re seeing everywhere: Sarah Jessica Parker is even wearing FRANZ on the movie poster and the trailer. How did FRANZ end up on Sarah Jessica Parker’s nose? Did Patricia Field, the movie’s costume designer get in touch with you, or was it some kind of a pleasant surprise?
Xenia Deger: We had received an email from Warner Brother’s production department, asking if we would be interested in supplying some eyewear for the set. Sarah Jessica Parker wears our HEATHER model in her private life. Well, of course we were interested! We sent them the frames that SJP wears, and actually it is also in the movie – we already spotted them in the latest trailer. In addition, during a press day at our PR agency in Paris, Patricia Field spotted the FRANZ, and requested it in all colours plus a special colour, silver. We got very excited and sent it off. On the first day of shooting, in September 09, we saw that the golden FRANZ was used in the outfit of the first scene that was shot! Bingo.
Philipp Haffmans: Building the character of Carrie for "Sex and the City 2"®, Patricia Fields had a certain picture in mind: white and gold. The white dress is accomplished with golden shoes, a golden necklace, a golden clutch by Chanel and at Mykita she found a pair of gold-golden sunglasses. I think at that moment there wasn’t any other frame like this on the market.
MYKITA has fresh and exciting collaborations going on: you have worked with e.g. designer Bent Angelo Jensen of Herr Von Eden or Marios Schwab. Is there any new project you would like to tell us about?
Xenia Deger: We like to collaborate with other designers as it broadens the mind, and new ideas come together with fun results. With Romain Kremer we just developed a frame that’s more of a helmet, the YURI. Actually, it features little peek holes instead of lenses.
Philipp Haffmans: … and when people like Lady Gaga like to disguise themselves with objects such as those mentioned above, it is even more fun.
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Teaches courses in the discipline area of law. Develops and designs curriculum plans to foster student learning, stimulate class discussions, and ensures student engagement. Provides tutoring and academic counseling to students, maintains classes related records, and assesses student coursework. Collaborates and supports colleagues regarding research interests and co-curricular activities. Typically reports to a department head. Requires a PhD or terminal degree appropriate to the field. Has considerable experience and is qualified to teach at undergraduate and graduate levels and initiates research and case studies in field of interest and may publish findings in trade journals or textbooks. Provides intellectual leadership and has made significant contributions to the field. May offer independent study opportunities and mentoring to students. Typically this individual is a leader in the field and has been published. Professor - Law Salaries in Wilmington, DE
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Professor - Mathematics Salaries in Wilmington, DE
Teaches courses in the discipline area of mathematics and statistics. Develops and designs curriculum plans to foster student learning, stimulate class discussions, and ensures student engagement. Provides tutoring and academic counseling to students, maintains classes related records, and assesses student coursework. Collaborates and supports colleagues regarding research interests and co-curricular activities. Typically reports to a department head. Requires a PhD or terminal degree appropriate to the field. Has considerable experience and is qualified to teach at undergraduate and graduate levels and initiates research and case studies in field of interest and may publish findings in trade journals or textbooks. Provides intellectual leadership and has made significant contributions to the field. May offer independent study opportunities and mentoring to students. Typically this individual is a leader in the field and has been published. Professor - Mathematics Salaries in Wilmington, DE
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Professor - Architecture Salaries in Wilmington, DE
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Teaches courses in the discipline area of chemistry. Develops and designs curriculum plans to foster student learning, stimulate class discussions, and ensures student engagement. Provides tutoring and academic counseling to students, maintains classes related records, and assesses student coursework. Collaborates and supports colleagues regarding research interests and co-curricular activities. Typically reports to a department head. Requires a PhD or terminal degree appropriate to the field. Has considerable experience and is qualified to teach at undergraduate and graduate levels and initiates research and case studies in field of interest and may publish findings in trade journals or textbooks. Provides intellectual leadership and has made significant contributions to the field. May offer independent study opportunities and mentoring to students. Typically this individual is a leader in the field and has been published. Professor - Chemistry Salaries in Wilmington, DE
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After the resignation of Emily Thornberry from the shadow cabinet yesterday evening, Rupe’s downmarket troops at the Super Soaraway Currant Bun could not let the matter drop: they had to not only get a story from the owner of the house draped in the flags of St George, but also to get him and his white van to venture to Islington to confront Ms Thornberry.
That's what I think of youse bladdy privacy, yer bladdy Labour supporting Pommie drongoes!
Was White Van Dan (for it was he) being invited by her? Well, no he wasn’t. He was also going to visit the nearby address of Mil The Younger, who had also not invited him. The Sun’s hacks did not see anything wrong in his fetching up on the doorstep of a woman politician who was already being sneered at by every right-leaning media outlet. This was, to their website man Tim Gatt, newsworthy.
It was also deemed newsworthy by the perpetually thirsty Paul Staines and his rabble at the Guido Fawkes blog, and The Great Guido wasted no time in telling his followers in slightly threatening terms “Perhaps [Emily Thornberry] should stay in one of her many other homes tonight” (Staines and his wife own at least four properties, including a flat in Parliament View, where two-bed ones go for £1.45 million).
Any suggestion that this was creepy or threatening was dismissed: typical was Mark Wallace of Conservative Home deflecting criticism from Rosie Robertson with “in no way threatening – as usual, you’re being ridiculous”. Also making light of the affair was Mid Bedfordshire’s Tory MP (yes, it’s her again) Nadine Dorries.
“I’m going to ask my (hopefully) future son in law to take a picture of his white plumber’s van outside his terraced council house” she Tweeted. But then a thought entered: Ms Dorries, with the support of the Fawkes rabble, has been pursuing a persistent critic of hers who turned up at a hustings – that would be a public meeting – in her constituency in the run-up to the 2010 General Election. He was invited by concerned residents. She smeared him as a stalker.
The Dorries campaign was still active in September of this year, when she got her story into the Mail On Sunday, although the individual could not be named for legal reasons – those reasons being that he had done nothing unlawful (minor point, eh?). But, what the heck, if turning up at the invitation of a number of concerned constituents constitutes stalking, arriving uninvited on the doorstep must be worse.
So, O Great Guido, ConHome stalwart, and assorted Murdoch poodles, pray tell us why the behaviour you have all been condoning today does not merit the same pejorative response that your pal Nadine gave to someone who was actually there by invitation. Ah, but you won’t be addressing that one.
What the Sun has been encouraging not only appears threatening, but encourages copycat behaviour and worse. That means it is bang out of order.
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One of the most powerful things I've learned in my life is the value of surrounding yourself with people who make you better.
The first time I met Kara (my wife), we actually argued. I had said interns should be paid once they were able to perform the tasks necessary, she (being a current intern at a law firm) felt as though they should be paid as soon as they started. Obviously.
Strangely, that argument made me very intrigued with her. She was smart, well spoken and way out of my league. She challenged my views without being demeaning, she was driven and she was kind. She was a whirlwind of awesomeness that just blew me away.
I think all of us have someone like that in our lives - they might be a bit different than what we're used to but in the end, we realize they're exactly what we needed. They challenge, uplift and encourage us - making us better in every way.
Whether it's a family member, good friend or significant other - With You is a celebration of the relationships that make us unstoppable. My hope for you is that this Pearl will be your daily reminder of just how awesome that person really is.
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The seas have been rather rough when it comes to the relationship between myself and jobs. Burger King, Soccer Zone, McDonalds, Brann's Steakhouse, Tumbleweed, Red Lobster, The Buckle, UPS... All before I was 20. That's not even counting all my side jobs I had like mowing lawns, shoveling driveways, painting, Cutco knives, etc.
I remember when I decided to make the move from Grand Rapids to Los Angeles - I was scared to death. The quote I put on the inside of the box is something that just stuck with me that entire time - A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
My first 'real' job when I moved to LA was a glorified assistant to this owner I later realized was basically taking advantage of realtors who didn't know how google worked. He'd tell them he'd help them be discovered on google so that when you googled your name, you'd show up (through an ad). Realtors thought this was great but didn't take time to think about the fact that if someone was googling them, they probably already knew about them to begin with. Needless to say, that company went under soon after I (and nearly everyone else) was let go.
Now that wouldn't be too big of a deal, except for the fact that I had only been here for a few months. I was living in a studio apartment with a friend from high school, my dog Kirby, ants, cockroaches and mice. Believe it or not, none of us had any savings. The pin stripe suit I had saved up to buy was going to waste and I didn't know what was going to happen next.
I was in a trough - the lowest part of a wave. I had just flown over the crest, full of excitement in a new city and found my ship heading straight down. To say I was terrified is an understatement - I was about to be homeless.
If I'm honest with myself, the hardest part of that time in my life wasn't just that I had lost my job; it's that I wasn't living up to my potential. I wasn't doing something remarkable. Like the quote I referenced earlier, it's easy to stay in the harbor and talk about how strong we are. To imagine how much we could do if we 'really' wanted to.
This month's Pearl includes two pins - a crane and a boat.
In origami, a single piece of paper is used. What's made with that piece of paper is up to the person putting in the work. A boat takes 9 steps, a crane takes 12. Both can be made from identical pieces of paper yet the crane is the most popular origami art ever created.
I like to think it's because we'd prefer to make something remarkable when it comes to art.
When it comes to our lives, however, most of us are only comfortable making boats. We don't go for the cranes because they seems too radical to dream about. We let this feeling that we're not worthy of happiness creep in and keep us frozen from making the changes we know, deep down, would bring us joy. That breaks my heart.
What I want you to remember is that it's only three steps. Three more steps to make a crane instead of a boat. Three more steps to find happiness, to find a purpose. My hope for this Pearl is that it reminds you that you're not as far away as you think. More importantly, I hope it reminds you that yes, you do deserve happiness. If you're reading this right now thinking that's probably directed at someone else then I want you to re-read it again. It was meant for you. <3
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Have you ever taken a moment to think about how powerful your words really are? To understand what they're really capable of? One of my favorite Proverbs growing up was about the power of the tongue - that through it, we have the ability to either preserve life or destroy it.
That's pretty heavy, isn't it?
I think it's especially fitting in today's times where most of what we "say" is done online. As technology continues to take over, this is something we absolutely have to be mindful of. We have to remember that what we say, no matter what method it's said though, has enormous power. It's easy to say things to people we don't see - to treat them as less of a human being because we're behind a screen rather than face to face. The danger that comes from this mentality that we've all seen spreading is what we've illustrated in this Pearl as the darkness. It's expansive and feels like it's taking over. It's easy to find yourself falling into that attitude of negativity - to complain, compare, put others down and get into a rut. I get it.
The good news is that there's a way to put a crack in that darkness - a crack that lights up everything around it with the beautiful color we long to have back in our lives. When we really recognize the power of our words, we can choose to use them for good. To lift others up rather than put them down - to tell ourselves we're worth it rather than filling our own mind with self-doubt.
Plato once said "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something."
My hope for this month's Pearl is that it'll help you to remember that what you say has tremendous power, both to others and yourself. Every time you find yourself about to speak (or type) something unkind, hurtful, negative or pessimistic - pause and reflect. How can you turn that around and use your words for good? How can you build up rather than bring down?
Together, we'll light up the world with one simple objective. To say something nice.
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Just before I was born, my parents adopted a puppy named Duke. He was a beautiful German Shepard Husky that I grew very fond of from birth. He was always by my side, protecting me from danger while being gentle with me all the same. He loved to 'assist' me in building forts, acting like we were in the army (with my broom gun and sand bucket helmet), and even cuddle with me when I got tired. Thinking back to my earliest childhood memories, Duke was always there. He was my best friend.
One of the most interesting things about Duke was the combination of his breeds - the German Shepard in him was smart and protective while the Husky in him loved to have a task to accomplish. As my Dad taught me more about Huskies, I learned that they actually love to work. The idea that such a beautiful dog would actually enjoy working is such a unique concept that I honestly felt it was the perfect symbol for this month's Pearl.
In my own life, I've found that while it's always tempting to look for the easy way out, the best things in life are never achieved through shortcuts. They take time. They take blood, sweat, tears and years to see them come to fruition. Like Duke - we have to love it. We have to appreciate the process in order to achieve goals worth setting in the first place.
Duke passed away when I was 12 years old yet I remember it like it was yesterday; it was the only time I've ever seen my dad cry. My hope for this month's Pearl is that I can pass on that lesson my best friend taught me 23 years ago - to love the work. To find joy in knowing that the hardest things to accomplish are always the most rewarding, and to remember that nothing worth having comes easy.
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"Yeah, I'm sure that will work out great" a classmate sarcastically remarked. The room roared with laughter. In his final day of high school, my brother Brandon had just revealed his plans to skip college and, instead, move to Arizona to help me with ZOX full time.
Brandon didn't tell me that story til years later - I think he used the echoes of those laughs in his mind as motivation - a burning desire to prove his classmates wrong. From my perspective, the thing I appreciate just as much as the motivation is the spirit in which he did it - it was his life, and he'd do what he believed was best.
All of us, at one point or another, have gone through times in our lives where it feels like the expectations of others are suffocating us. Rather than be happy because you are, they question how well you've thought something out that seems 'too different' to them. In my own life, I'm guilty of this - from time to time I catch myself thinking about my brothers and the decisions they make. Yes, I'm the oldest (and obviously the wisest) bro, but rather than put them down for thinking different, I try to encourage it. I let them paint their own canvas.
If I'm honest - sometimes giving them that leeway to figure things out for themselves is incredibly difficult. Experience makes it easy for us to feel like someone simply 'isn't listening' to us when we've already been through a similar situation. On the flip side - I've discovered something even more valuable - sometimes I'm wrong. Sometimes they surprise me and show me a different way of looking at something that I hadn't noticed before. That, in itself, is an incredible reward.
My hope for you in this month's Pearl is that this little hug will help you reflect on what youwant your life to be. Don't be discouraged by the opinions of others and don't take it personally if they don't understand. If life itself is a beautiful canvas, your decisions are the brushstrokes that give it value.
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About Flowers is a modern and contemporary flower shop in the centre of The Hague where we create stunning flower arrangements for individual and business to business customers, with a passion second to none. We can provide a variety of arrangements for different occasions and interiors. Besides our beautiful flowers and plants our shop displays a fine collection of ceramics, glassware and other home accessories.
Our shop is situated in a beautiful 19th century building, on the Korte Houtstraat 14 in The Hague. Opening times are from Monday to Friday from 08.00 – 18.00 hours and on Saturday from 09.30 – 16.00 hours.
My name is Susan de Vreugd, and after 25 years in paid employment in a flower shop in the Bezuidenhout district of The Hague, I decided to venture out on my own and my shop About Flowers was officially opened on 17th May 2009 by alderman Frits Huffnagel. Prior to the opening, a camera crew from the RTL4 tv show “I’m starting my own business”, constantly followed our preparations for the new shop.
I have now been the owner of About Flowers for morealmost ten years. Together with Sander Eijkelhof, we pride ourselves on our exquisite floral creations. In the meantime we have acquired a significant client base who regularly return with great satisfaction to our flower shop.
We are members of the Sustainable Florist Barometer, an independent and officially mark for a florist which demonstrates the range of flowers and plants and operations in the store are more durable. For certification a florist must meet mandatory requirements and achieve a minimum number of points through selection measures. About Flowers has achieved the highest level gold, which we are committed to sustainability in all facets. The certificate is in the shop for inspection.
About Flowers is a modern and contemporary flower shop in the centre of The Hague where we create stunning flower arrangements for individual and business to business customers, with a passion second to none.
Tel: +31 (0)70 - 3621302
Email: info@aboutflowers.nl
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A beaten and abused little girl needs a better culture, not an inquiry
In a way, you gotta hand it to the Red Indian: they never lose a chance to blame whitey for everything (and get a couple of sniveling liberals joining along for the ride).
Earlier this week news came of a horrible tragedy on the Paul Indian Reserve west of Edmonton: \
RCMP were first called to a property on the Paul First Nation at approximately 4:30 p.m. on Saturday.
Stony Plain RCMP say they found the girl suffering from “critical” and “life-threatening” injuries.
She was transported via STARS Air Ambulance to the University of Alberta Hospital, where she is now believed to be in critical but stable condition.
Police describe the incident as a “serious assault,” but would not provide details on the girl’s injuries or the circumstances surrounding the attack.
STARS Air Ambulance spokeswoman Kady Hobbins said medical crews responded to the Paul Band First Nation at about 4:15 p.m. Saturday for a call about a six-year-old girl with injuries from blunt trauma.
The girl was airlifted to hospital in Edmonton in critical condition.
The young girl was outside for “several hours” before she was found by family members, said Supt. Gary Steinke with the RCMP Serious Crimes Unit. He would not comment on whether she had suffered hypothermia, but said it was a life-and-death situation.
The girl is being treated at the Stollery Children’s Hospital for “very serious injuries she sustained during the attack,” Steinke said. He would not elaborate on what sort of injuries she sustained, but said she has not yet regained consciousness.
Charges against James Clifford Paul (no relation?) now include kidnapping, attempted murder, and sexual assault in the horrific attack. For those who hadn't already figured it out: James Paul is, like his young victim, an Indian.
Well that doesn't matter: for the "national inquiry into dead squaws" crowd you can't let something so trivial as the fact that this girl (who is neither missing nor murdered, but again I digress) was savagely attacked by her own kind (if not, as some reports are indicating, kin) get in the way. No, obviously this is a national problem that the Candian taxpayer needs to waste money on.
We've been down the road of the futility of the MMIW Inquiry ad nauseum, and nothing to happen to date has changed the 100% truth of that.
Both #IdleNoMore and #AmINext try to pretend that either we don't know the cause of the social strife afflicting the Red Indian. In the case of #IdleNoMore, it's dependence on government handouts and a culture that is inherently lazy and incapable of rousing its citizens into being productive, combined with a genetic predisposition to addiction and false mythology of history given off by the usual suspects. In the case of #AmINext, it's the violent predisposition of Indians (whether cultural, societal, or genetic doesn't really matter) combined with the promises of quick riches and attention that prostitution offers women who are poor and, let's be perfectly frank about this, typically as ugly as sin.
But this adds an extra level of ridiculous to the proceedings. When far-left PC MLA Thomas Lukaszuk did his usual suckup routine and tried explaining why we needed a national inquiry every time a savagely violent drunken Indian attacks a defenseless little girl, I seized upon another point that I don't think the proponents of these inquiries have thought much about.
What happens when the inquiry makes a report? What will they implement? If there are a list of recommendations on how to change how reservations like the Paul Reserve, will mealymouthed politicians like Lukaszuk implement them? After all, his government won't even tell Indians who are killing themselves to stop in accordance with the law. What will they do if the MMIW inquiry comes back to say that the provincial smoking ban should be enforced? Or that provincial health inspectors should have the power to randomly enter on-reserve properties and inspect the conditions children are kept in? What if squaws are to only engage in relationships with non-Indians? What if they are to be prohibited by law from becoming prostitutes? What's the point of having this damn inquiry anyways? Everybody knows that even if there is one, the Indians won't uphold their end of the bargain: they never do. Basically its a forum for Indians to complain that people sometimes point out that they become violent savage uncivilized lunatics. They don't like being exposed to the truth: the realities of how their culture is ultimately inferior at providing properity and growth to the one outside the reservations. They hate hearing that the same factors that kept them from ever discovering bronze in a land absolutely swimming with copper are the ones responsible for their reservations being lands of sloth, where a lack of innovation and committment to building a better world cause them to live in squalour and despair and death.
If the Idle No More crowd had any inkling to believe these undisputable truths would be coming out in an inquiry, and that their own sins and crimes against themselves and the rest of Canada would be the ones laid on the table to be poked and examined and disclosed: you know they'd clam up on the topic right away. But it's ultimately that conceit, that understanding that a Canadian-held inquiry would let them off with kid gloves, that spurs their call to action. The only two reasons that these people are calling for a national inquiry is that they will neither pay for it nor be given any corrective actions to undertake.
There is no reason to leave it this way though: for one thing, Harper can disable these calls quickly if he just throws on a single stipulation: DIAND will pay for the inquiry. It won't be funded by general revenues, and DIAND's budget will not be increased to cover the inquiry. If Canada's Red Indians want an inquiry, they can pay for it themselves.
I mean, ideally they'd pay for it from the revenues generated by taxing productive activity taking place on reserves.
...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oh man, that was a good one. Hold on, I've still got the giggles, give me a minute while I catch my breath and my ribcage stops hurting.
Productive activity on reserves. Oh, that was priceless. Anyways, where was I...?
Oh, right, the funding for a "Missing Murdered Indiginous Women" / "Missing Murdered Aboriginal Women" national inquiry. Well, in the absence of the hilarious option above, we can fund it from DIAND. That means that every penny that goes into this inquiry is coming directly from the pockets of people on reservations and using federal monies to attend University. We shall see in this scenario exactly how much time and resources are devoted to this issue. Hell, it might even serve as a bit of a "this is how reality works" wakeup call to the permanently aggrieved Indian class like Theresa Spence or apihtawiskawiskawiskaiskasisisisan: you live in a world of limited resources (which, thanks to cultures other than your own, is less limited that it might be) and you have to make adult decisions about where to spend your money and what is a cheap stunt that won't help save your people.
I'm not the only one calling for this, in fact: Dene Reservation Chief Bill Erasmus agrees:
Erasmus says people shouldn't have to wait around for the federal government to take action.
“By virtue of our own authority, which the supreme court of Canada calls sovereign authority, we have the authority to set up our own commission, and this issue becomes an issue that is dealt with the way we want it to be dealt with.”
Erasmus says he wants aboriginal women to be part of the process, and hopes agencies like the Native Women's Association would participate.
He says the AFN would need help, though.
Erasmus wants to ask international organizations, like the United Nations, for political and economic support.
Well, he would be asking silly people at the UN for money, but at least then it's spread through the taxpayers of the globe.
Meanwhile, violent savages on reserves will continue to hurt kids. You shouldn't need an "inquiry into root causes" when you know what the solution is: take away their children. All of them. Forever.
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Prison reforms
Prison reform has been on the national agenda for many years but regrettably no headway has been made in this respect with several governments only paying lip service to the topic. In the meantime problems associated with our prisons keep mounting with conditions in prisons further deteriorating and welfare of prisoners increasingly neglected. This may be as a result of the prejudiced mindset cultivated with regard to our prisoners considered as social outcasts warranting no special attention. If so this is a gross misconception because the attitude towards the prisoner community is changing in the present day with prisoners being viewed more sympathetically rather than being typecast as social outcasts. Therefore any prison reforms contemplated should factor in this change and make the necessary adjustments.
We say this because once again the subject of Prison Reform has come to the fore. Rehabilitation and Prison Reforms Minister D. E. W. Gunasekera was quoted in our lead story yesterday as saying that the Prisons Department will be subjected to radical reforms with immediate effect as the Department does not meet the present day requirements. The Minister could not be more accurate. Today our prisons are still administered in the style of a colonial relic with its mode of operations and many practices bordering on the primitive dating back to a bygone era. Therefore the first task of the reformers should be to pull down this colonial edifice and adapt to the modern times taking examples from other countries on how prisons are being administered.
The Minister also stated that no reforms have been carried out so far even though the Department was established in 1844 making it one of the oldest Departments in Sri Lanka. Those advocating prison reforms agree that any reform needs a holistic approach. So far what has been carried out is patchwork remedies which fail to meet the present day challenges. Our prisons are still run on archaic norms and practices at a time when the more developed countries have made great strides in the area of prison reforms.
In many countries minor offenders instead of being confined behind prison walls are made to exist in the open as far as possible in domestic settings making it a veritable home away from home. Most countries also have open air prisons where prisoners function as a community with all common amenities and recreational facilities provided together with family reunions.
Minister Gunasekera also said that a 12-member expert panel has been appointed to forward suggestions to the Ministry regarding the manner in which prison reforms should be carried out. Hopefully this panel will not go the same way as all similar bodies appointed to tackle this subject. It would be a herculean task indeed for the panel considering the myriad problems and shortcomings in our prisons. The entire prisons system, needless to say, needs a complete overhaul and the panel will have to begin work from scratch.
For starters it will have to ensure that sufficient funds are voted in the budget to carry out the intended reforms. Today the main complaint is that Prisons lack funds for even its basic functions and operations. The panel will also have to deal with seamy side within our prison walls. It will have to rip off the rotten underbelly and decay within our prisons where corruption has become institutionalized. Today it is no secret that there is a dark subterranean life that is thriving in all our prisons with a mafia controlling the operations. If not how come the killing of a well known High Court judge who sent a notorious drug lord to prison was traced to the selfsame drug lord who was languishing behind bars?
Today prisoners find it more convenient and lucrative to remain inside prisons than outside, given the thriving businesses involving drugs alcohol and even prostitution that is going on behind the cloistered walls of our prisons. These are mostly carried out with the connivance of prison officials who are being heavily bribed. Recently it was revealed how a notorious prisoner was even allowed to leave the prisons to visit his family. Most prisoners today possess mobile phones. They carry out drug deals and another business. No prison reforms can succeed if this subterranean life within our prison walls is allowed to continue. Therefore a complete clean up in the prison administration is called for.
Another priority task before the panel is to come up with a solution for overcrowding of our prisons. It is no exaggeration to say that our prisons today are bursting at the seams. The problem is exacerbated by the primitive facilities for prisoners which will make prisoners more hardened and bitter.
One solution to deal with prison overcrowding is a more lenient stance against first time offenders and those held for minor felonies. They should be given the opportunity to rehabilitate themselves by segregating them from hardcore criminals outside the confines of the prisons. As mentioned before these prisoners should be made part of our community with a proper climate created for them to pick up their lives once they leave their period of confinement. Today most overcrowding is the result of minor offenders being unable to pay their fines. The rules governing parole too should be reviewed for the early release of prisoners for good conduct.
The vocational training programs now being given to prisoners too should be updated taking into account the skills of each individual prisoner. Most of all they should be instilled with confidence to go back into society free from any sense of ostracization.
Martin Wickramasinghe
An icon of world intellectual heritage:
Way back in 1964, Joseph Needham, fellow and president of Caius College, Cambridge, writing a foreword to Martin Wickramasinghe’s ‘Buddhism and Culture’ opined thus:
The Morning Inspection
Thank you Murali for all the poetry produced with wrist and heart
It is the fifth ball of over number 54 in the first test against India at Galle. The bowler is Muttiah Muralitharan. The batsman, Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Here’s the commentary: Muralitharan to Dhoni: OUT, 86.5 kph, 794! And watta ball! Sharp turn from the rough outside off, Dhoni gets his foot across but half heartedly hangs his bat out, bowled through the gate, wasn’t expecting so much turn?
Enemy within
Crisis in transnational government of Tamil Eelam:
The Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam has already run into trouble. The post Prabhakaran Tamil Diaspora which is divided into three rival factions as Rudrakumaran’s TGTE, Eezham People’s Assembly (EPA) or Makkal Peravai of Perinbanayagam Sivaparan (Nediyavan) and Father Emmauel’s Global Tamil Forum (GTF) are at loggerheads over the nature of the TGTE and a power struggle for control of the Constituent Assembly has been going on since the inception of the TGTE Project.
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Vol. 13, Issue 255 - Thursday, September 11, 2008
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Whole Foods hosts coming-out party
A big crowd turns out to witness the opening of the national chain's first store in Hawaii
By Nina Wu
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The doors to the first Whole Foods Market in Hawaii opened at 7 a.m. yesterday at Kahala Mall to a flood of customers following a traditional bread-breaking ceremony.
"It feels great," said Michael Besancon, president of Whole Foods' Southern Pacific region as shoppers milled around him. "It's been a long journey, but seems to have been tremendously successful."
WHOLE FOODS COMMUNITY SUPPORT DAY
» When: Wednesday
» What: A day when 5 percent of Whole Foods' net sales will be donated to the Kokua Hawaii Foundation's AINA IS Program, teaching schoolchildren about nutrition and where their food comes from.
It has been more than seven years since the Texas-based natural foods retailer first eyed Hawaii as a place to expand, and more than a year since the store's Hawaiian blessing.
A group of about 150 shoppers were eagerly waiting to get in the front door, some since the break of dawn.
Dozens continued to pour in throughout the morning to sample the store's free offerings -- from coffee to gelato, pizza, cheese and smoked brisket.
The numbers swelled toward noon, creating an elbow-to- elbow crowd.
Shoppers Flock To New Market
More than 150 people rushed through the doors of the new Whole Foods Store after the breaking of the bread.
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Among the first customers in line were Whole Foods fans Christine Lecklie of Portlock and Carlene Damon of Kahala, who donned specially made hats adorned with recycled flowers and produce for the occasion.
"I've been waiting for 10 years for (Whole Foods) to come," said Damon, who has shopped at the stores in California, Texas, Florida and New York. "I stayed in hotels near Whole Foods."
Damon is a die-hard Whole Foodie, in part, because she likes healthy foods, but also because of her philosophy of supporting local and organic goods.
"On an international level, they do their best to be sustainable," she said.
Among her purchases from Whole Foods Market were a fresh cut of rainbow trout, local mangoes, Greek yogurt, pome-granate juice and homeopathic remedies for headaches.
She also received one of Whole Foods' Better Bags, a reusable tote, as a gift with her purchase.
The 28,670-square-foot Whole Foods offered a colorful display of produce -- from a wall of green lettuce to stacks of orange carrots, piles of glistening mangoes, golden papayas, lilikoi, red dragonfruit and green starfruit.
At the Whole Foods opening in Kahala yesterday, Jesus Paredes, "the pizza guy" at the store, served samples of Hawaiian Ham to Patrice Amor and daughter, Kaiana.
Near the front entrance, the gelato bar, with different flavors laid out in pre-made scoops, was a popular hit, as was the Allegro coffee bar, bakery, hot foods bar and prepared foods section.
New Markets Brings Job Opportunities
The hundreds of customers who packed Whole Food Market were not the only ones excited the organic grocery came to town.
At the back of the store, the silvery gleam of a large opah (moonfish) was on display with other catches from the ocean.
"It's just visually a wonderful presentation," said Carol Cersosimo of Ala Moana, who goes to exercise class at Kahala Mall in the mornings. "I'm thrilled with all the ready-made foods."
She said it was going to be her regular stop after class.
Marilyn Tamamoto, who drove in from Waipio Gentry at 4:30 a.m., said now she will no longer have to lug back Whole Foods goods in her luggage after trips to the mainland. In her shopping cart: fresh salmon, golden beets, Hula raw unwashed sugar (a brand she hasn't seen before), and a broccoli crunch salad from the salad bar.
"I'm waiting for them to come to Pearl City," she said.
Andy Doka, of Andy's Bueno Salsa, proudly pointed out his product on the shelf at Whole Foods Market.
"It's a pretty big deal," he said of his homemade salsa, which he sells to natural food stores and restaurants.
Christine Lecklie, left, and Carlene Damon sported vegetable-laden hats for their shopping adventure.
Next to Doka's salsa was a small story card explaining how customers still asked for it after his Mexican restaurant in Waimanalo closed several years ago.
Similar story cards on local vendors can be found throughout the store.
Besancon said about one-third of the items at Whole Foods are local, and that the store hopes to carry more as production increases.
Some producers, such as MA'O Farms of Waianae, are expanding in order to supply Whole Foods. MA'O was selling collard greens out front, which were being braised by chef Ed Kenney of the Town/Downtown restaurants.
"I like it -- it's something different," said Elizabeth Oyabu of Honolulu, a first-time shopper. "It's nice and clean, and they explain when you ask questions."
Oyabu, a regular at the Kapiolani Community College farmer's market, said she supports local produce because her father was a farmer who grew tomatoes and eggplants on the slopes of Diamond Head.
When asked whether she minded the higher prices, she said: "It has to be over the regular price because they take extra care. I don't mind."
Over at Umeke Market just down the street, however, it was very quiet yesterday morning. Only a small handful of shoppers ordered items from the deli while the rest of the store remained empty.
Many natural foods stores in Hawaii have been bracing for the impact of Whole Foods' arrival -- which they believe will initially result in a drop in sales, but also increase the overall consumer interest in organic products down the line.
Three more Whole Foods stores are planned for Hawaii over the next two years -- at Kahului, Ward and Kailua. The store hours at Kahala Mall's Whole Foods Market will be from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.
Inside | September 11
» Whole Foods hosts coming-out party
» FAO Schwarz bound for Ala Moana's Macy's
» Maui realty still cooling
» TheBuzz: Reasons to be proud of Honolulu
» Hawaii Stocks and Mutual Funds
» Lingle orders immediate cuts
» Shark alert issued for isles
» Gay & Robinson to quit sugar
» Schnabel gets 20 years
» Mayor tops in campaign spending
» Kids OK after romp in hot car
» Split experts prompt delay in Higa ruling
» Distressed by stress test
» City sues EPA over waste-water records
» State names new chief disease tracker
» Shooting suspect freed in 'ice' case
» New jewelry line represents Hawaii
» Honolulu Lite: Honolulu Lite Dept. of Huh?
» Jr. outside hitter helped put it together
» Smith faces off with former team, mentor
» Libre at full speed before Oregon trip
» Kapolei takes aim at No. 2 Leilehua
» Seven-year war on terrorism should get back on track
» Gathering Place: America can stay united
Columns | September 11
Honolulu Lite
Charles Memminger
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The Oklahoma Highway Safety Office established a partnership with Alliance to promote a motorcycle safety message at seven regional motorsports venues across the state. Premium in-venue signage and nightly public address announcements featuring the Okie Moto messaging were a source of exposure throughout the season.
Seven motorsports venues were incorporated into this marketing campaign. In each of these venues, signs were placed in high traffic locations, and public address announcements were made nightly at each event.
Premium signage opportunities were placed within each venue, providing exposure at every event during the year.
Nightly public address announcements were made prior to and during each race. These announcements provided motorcycle safety facts and information to a captive audience throughout the race season.
On-Site Engagements
Alliance staff were on-site at each venue to activate the campaign and engage fans attending the event for Okie Moto. A giant branded inflatable motorcycle was used to capture fans attention and spread the word beyond the venue through social media pictures and posts. Fans were also engaged to take motorcycle safety-focused surveys, safe driving pledges, share the motorcycle safety message at home with yard signs, and try walking the line and corn hole with the impaired vision goggles.
Designated Drivers are Legendary
The "Designated Drivers are Legendary" program was held to provide fans with the opportunity to register anytime during the season to pledge to share the road with motorcycles, drive sober, and use their seat belts.
Out of the pledges collected at the motorsports venues, one fan will be chosen and given the chance to attend an Oklahoma Sooners football game in Norman, OK with Sooner-legend and Heisman Trophy Winner Billy Sims who will serve as the Designated Driver for the evening.
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Accidents & Incidents, [2016Q2]
The following table presents a chronology for the second quarter of 2016, showing all known ‘fatal’ U.S. civil aviation accidents, as well as a few selected non-fatal accidents and incidents. Data shows date (weekends are underlined), location, number of fatalities, and a brief synopsis. Click on the blue dates to see additional info; click on red dates to see an aiREFORM Post/Analysis about the incident. For all accidents, further records are quickly found by searching for the accident date within NTSB’s Monthly Aviation Accident Database. Those accidents within the most recent two weeks may not be listed yet at NTSB; they are listed from news reports and from the quickly updated databases at Aviation-Safety Network. The following color-codes are added to aid in tracking accident trends. Midair includes NMAC’s. EMS/Commercial/Ag includes flights in-service or related to that flight function. The last color-code includes non-fully-certified aircraft such as experimental, owner-built, ultralights, paragliders, etc.: MIDAIRATCEMSFATIGUECOMMERCIALAGWXkit-exp.-(etc.)
Fatal Accidents:
Fatalities:
totals updated 10/2/2015
FATALS
Time, Details & Links
(~1930)A father and son are both injured when their Waco biplane crashes in a field, while doing aerobatics. The aircraft reportedly lost power and a forced landing was attempted to a road near the crash site.[article]
(~1143)An neighbor of the Gatlinburg-Pigeon Forge Airport [KGKT] hears a loud pop then silence, just before a Beech BE35 Bonanza crashes of the departure end of a runway and bursts into flames. The 62-yr-old male pilot is killed.[article][article]
North of Egypt (~0230)Egyptair Flight 804 disappears on a flight from Paris to Cairo, with 66 on board.[article][A-S.N]
Sheridan Lake, CO
(~0930)A Cessna Centurion crashes in Kiowa County, near the border with Kansas.[article]
Wantage, NJ
(~??)A Cessna C210 Centurion is reported missing on Tuesday. The wreckage and the pilot’s body are found two days later, in a wooded area of Sussex County.[article]
(~1830)A North American AT-6 Texan takes off as part of a flight of two, but immediately attempts a landing on a nearby street. The aircraft is destroyed by the impact and post-impact fire, killing pilot and passenger.[article]
(~0700)A Cameron A-315 balloon operated by Napa Valley Balloons Inc makes a forced landing onto a levee southwest of the Napa County Airport [KAPC]. The landing spot was surrounded by water, and 17 people were lifted by helicopter, three at a time, to a residential street 1.5-miles away.[article]
(~0834)A Beech BE35 Bonanza takes off under a high overcast layer, but crashes a half-mile north of the runway, killing four, all from Kerrville, TX. The pilot and one passenger are members of the Texas Wing Civil Air Patrol; the other two passengers are a 69-yr-old doctor and his 59-yr-old wife.[article][article]
(~0830)A Cessna C182 Skylane based in San Diego loses communications while being vectored for an approach to Santa Monica [KSMO]. The aircraft continues on its heading and crashes near Mount Wilson in the Angeles National Forest, noth of Altadena. The last radar target posted online was at 8:29am; the overdue aircraft report to the LA County Sheriff happened shortly after 9:10am.[article][FlightAware]
(~1647)A Pitts S2 crashes on airport during a two-aircraft performance at an airshow. A crossover had been performed and the Pitts pulled into a loop but impacted terrain prior to coming out of the loop, killing the pilot. A line from an AJC article read: “There was a large crowd that was still here watching the air show when this occurred, so we know this is going to be very traumatic to a lot of people who witnessed this unfortunate event.”[article][NTSB]
West, TX
(~1345)An Air Tractor AT502 operated by Gerik Ag LLC for spray applications collides with a guy wire supporting a 246-ft-tall cell tower. The crash and fire kills the 75-yr-old male pilot.[article][NTSB]
(~1413)A Cessna 208B Grand Caravan carrying 17 skydivers loses power while climbing through 1,000-ft, shortly after taking off fromm the Lodi Municipal Airport. A forced landing follows. It flies under powerlines then impacts a pickup truck before crashing in a vineyard and inverting. A 2-minute video from a helmet-camera of one of the skydivers covers the crash and escape events. A line in the LATimes article reads: “The plane is owned by Nevada-based Flanagan Enterprises Inc., according to FAA records. The company’s president listed in Nevada public records, Ian Flanagan of Alberta, Canada, could not be reached for comment.”[article][NTSB]
Lincoln County, NV
(~1030)A 58-yr-old male dies when the gyrocopter he had built and learned to fly in crashes into a dry lake bed. Reportedly, the aircraft was unregistered and NTSB did no investigating.[article]
Lyons Point, LA
(~1226)A Grumman G164 crop duster makes a forced landing to a farm field in Acadia Parish, and the pilot is uninjured.[article][A-S.N]
Portia, AR
(~0717)A Bell 47 helicopter operated by Hammock Flying Service Inc impacts a supply truck while taking off, after reloading chemicals for a rice field application. The truck driver was hit by debris thrown during the impact, and his injuries proved fatal. [NOTE: not included in the NTSB aviation accident database][article]
Rush City, MN
(~1028)A 58-yr-old male pilot dies when his ultralight crashes during takeoff at the Rush City Regional Airport [KROS].[article]
(~1655)A mechanic who is also a flight instructor is asked to complete a maintenance flight in a Beech Bonanza BE35. He elects to use the same flight to provide instruction, departing out of the Glendale Municipal Airport [KGEU]. Witnesses report seeing the flight descending over a parking lot “low, slow, and quiet.” The flight crashes onto a greenbelt area of a senior community. The mechanic was killed and the student was seriously injured.[article]
(~1855)An AS350 helicopter, operated by Temsco Helicopters to support dogsled tourism impacted terrain after dropping off a passenger and twelve dogs at a Denver Glacier camp. The accident, in low visibility conditions, killed the 59-yr-old male pilot.[article][A-S.N][NTSB]
Maxwell, CA
(~1700)A Bell UH1 helicopter doing a spray application at an orchard loses power and crashes, shortly after loading 300 gallons of chemical. The pilot is not injured.[article][NTSB]
(~1200)An Antonov AN2 operated by the Third Pursuit Squadron of the Commemorative Air Force (aka, American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum, in Upland, CA) loses power during an approach to the San Bernardino International Airport. Unable to restart the engine, the pilot makes a forced landing near homes, clips a powerline, and becomes inverted upon touching down to a field.[article][NTSB]
(~1408)A 39-yr-old male pilot is hospitalized in serious condition after his AS350 helicopter, operated by ERA Helicopters, impacts the Norris Glacier in ‘flat light’ conditions. The helicopter reportedly is used to offer local ‘flightseeing’ tourism as well as support to dog camps. Weather conditions were reportedly ‘unfavorable but not abnormal’. PAJN METAR included winds ESE 17 visibility 8 light rain& clouds FEW013 BKN039 OVC050, so it appears operations at the glacier were likely in low light, low ceiling, and low visibility. [article]
(~1331)A Cessna 310 (light twin) departs the North Little Rock Municipal Airport [KORK] on an ATP cvheckride, but loses power to the left engine. The flight examiner takes over and attempts a left turn to return and land, but the flight impacts terrain a third of a mile from the runway end. A post-crash fire erupts. The flight examiner is killed and the ATP applicant (a National Guard pilot with 950 total hours) is seriously injured.[article][NTSB]
Manitowoc County, WI
(~1000)An MD369 helicopter operated by Rotor Blade LLC in South Carolina crashes while doing support work for powerline maintenance. Witnesses report seeing the helicopter maneuver at low altitude, to face into the wind, then hearing a change in the engine sound just prior to seeing the helicopter drop and impact trees. The 61-yr-old male pilot, from Madison, was killed in the crash.[article][NTSB]
(~1539)A Beech BE35 Bonanza reportedly broke apart while at a 7,000-ft cruise altitude on a flight from South Carolina to Plainville, CT, and crashed into a wooded area near a middle school. All three occupants died.[article][FlightAware]
Jean, NV
(~1700)An Extra EA300 crashes into the desert east of I-15, killing both occupants. The aircraft was registered with Vegas Extreme Adventures, a business based in Henderson that sells aerobatic flights. The crash location, south of Las Vegas, is used for selling variopus aerial thrills; in early 2015, an 11-yr-old boy and a 55-yr-old ‘instructor’ were killed in the same area in a fatal hang glider crash.[article]
Tyrone, GA
(~1100)An Aeronca 7BCM operated by American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum had a forced landing to a field after losing power, while carrying a passenger on a paid flight.[article]
Union County, NC
(~1608)An ultrallight crashes and catches fire in a wooded area, killing the 59-yr-old male pilot. News stories inc lude that the same man had a crash near the same location in 2015.[article]
Memorial City, TX
(~1845)A Bell 206 helicopter operated by Methodist Air Care suffers an apparent loss of yaw control while taking off form a hospital. A hard landing causes the tail boom to separate, but all three crew occupants reportedly walk away.[article]
(~1300)A Piper PA32 crashes onto a golf course and erupts into flames shortly after taking off from the Boone Airport. A 69-yr-old retired state patrolman is killed; two other men, ages 43 and 68, are injured.[article]
Belton, SC
(~1745)A kitbuilt Acroduster impacts terrain while in the pattern, killing the 62-yr-old male pilot. Witnesses reported two aborted approaches and sounds of a sputtering engine.[article][NTSB]
(~1445)A Mooney M20K takes off from the narrow 1,950-ft asphalt Runway 32 at the Woodland State Airport [W27], on a flight to Renton, WA. A witness reported the aircraft climbed to no more than 4-feet above the ground before crashing beyond the runway end, killing the passenger in the rear seat, while injuring two others.[article]
(~0900)A Cessna 172 departs the Birchwood Airport and flies low on a photo mission. All four occupants die in a crash and subsequent fire, after impacting a 100-ft tall spruce tree.[article][NTSB]
Slidell, LA
(~2115)A Beech BE65 King Air used in the local Parish’s mosquito abatement program impacts a powerline while on approach to the Slidell Airport [KASD]. Both occupants die in the crash.[article]
Stevensville, MD
(~1244)A kitbuilt RV-12, reportedly rented in Delaware, crashes while on approach to the Bay Bridge Airport [W29], killing both occupants. Witnesses report the aircraft appeared unusually low.[article]
(~1910)A Cessna 172 impacts trees shortly after taking off from a runway at what appears to be the old Oneida County Airport, an airport that closed years ago. When fire erupts, two of three occupants, ages 37 and 76, are seriously injured. Both men later succumbed to their injuries.[article][NTSB]
Kilbourne, LA
(~0910)An Air Tractor AT502 operated by Pioneer Flying Service crashes while the pilot is conducting his second spray operation onto a field. The 48-yr-old male pilot is killed.[article]
(~??)An Aerospatiale AS350 helicopter operated by Air Methods makes a hard landing to a field while on approach to pick up a patient at a hospital. The tail boom separates and all four crew members walk away from the crash.[article]
Fentress, TX
(~1700)A deHavilland Twin Otter operated by Skydive San Marcos impacts trees near the Fentress Airpark [XS90], a private gravel airstrip south of Austin.[NTSB]
Taylor, TX
(~0951)A Rockwell 690 Commander (twin-prop) departs the Georgetown Airport [KGTU] and crashes ten minutes later, killing both occupants, males ages 54 and 66. The flight was reportedly a training flight to build hours for insurance. [article]
(~0850)A Mooney M20K departs Runway 36 at the Ocala International Airport [KOCF] on a flight to the Sun-n-Fun fly-in in Lakeland. Power is lost and the pilot crashes while making an emergency landing onto Runway 26. The pilot dies and his female passenger is injured.[article]
(~1502)A Bellanca 7GCBC stalls shortly after takeoff, killing the 20-yr-old male student pilot. The 70-yr-old instructor was injured and reported the elevator appeared to be jambed right after takeoff, leading to the stall.[article][NTSB]
Admiralty Island, AK
(~0912)An amphibious Cessna 206 departs Wrangell destined for Angoon, but crashes 17-miles from the detination airport, during low weather conditions. The pilot and two passengers die, but one passenger survives with injuries.[article][NTSB]
(~1610)A Bell 206 helicopter operated by Smoky Mountain Helicopters crashes and bursts into flames while performing a sightseeing tour, killing the 38-yr-old male pilot and four tourists (a 49-yr-old mother, her two children ages 22 and 18, and a 21-year-old friend. One witness, a local resident, said he was at his desk maybe 200 yards from the crash site when he heard what sounded like an autorotation just prior to the collision.[article][ASIAS][A-S.N]
(~0915)A kitbuilt Lancair IV loses power and makes a forced landing on a San Diego freeway. A 38-yr-old woman is killed and five others (2 in the plane and three in the car) are seriously injured when the plane crashes into a vehicle stopped on the shoulder of the highway.[article]
…links to aiReform’s quarterly Accident & Incident (A&I) Tables…
2012Q1 …A&I2012Q2 …A&I2012Q3 …A&I2012Q4 …A&I
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Crash of a Cessna 421 Golden Eagle in Humberside: 1 killed
Date & Time: Mar 29, 2003 at 1229 LT
Type of aircraft:
Cessna 421 Golden Eagle
Air Support Aviation Services
G-SAIR
Flight Phase:
Takeoff (climb)
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Airport (less than 10 km from airport)
Humberside-Humberside
421C-0471
YOM:
Crew on board:
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
Captain / Total flying hours:
Captain / Total hours on type:
Copilot / Total flying hours:
Copilot / Total hours on type:
About 50 minutes into the flight, the aircraft returned to Humberside circuit and was cleared by ATC
for a touch-and-go landing on Runway 21. The landing was firm but otherwise uneventful and
witnesses heard the power being applied as it accelerated for takeoff. Just before rotation two large "puffs of smoke" were seen to come from the vicinity of the mainwheels as both propellers struck the
runway. The aircraft then lifted off and almost immediately began to yaw and roll to the left. The left
bank reached an estimated maximum of 90° but reduced just before the left wing tip struck the
ground. The aircraft then cartwheeled across the grass to the south of the runway and burst into
flames. The owner in the left pilot's seat and the pilot in the right pilot's seat escaped from the
wreckage, but the flight examiner, who was occupying a seat in the passenger cabin, was unable to
vacate the aircraft and subsequently died of injuries sustained in the post impact fire.
Probable cause:
An engineering
investigation found no fault with the aircraft that might have caused the accident. The investigation
concluded that the most probable cause was an inadvertent retraction of the landing gear whilst the
aircraft was still on the ground.
The confusion over individual roles would have been resolved if the examiner had given a pre-flight
briefing in line with the guidance contained in the FAA Designated Examiners' Handbook, but both
pilots have stated that this briefing did not take place. In any event, the FAA Handbook and FARs are
unclear on who should be the commander of the flight although FAR 61.47 states the examiner is not
normally to be the Pilot in Command except by prior agreement with the applicant or other person
who would normally be acting as Pilot in Command. Nevertheless, it is clear that the instructor
should have been briefed that he was fulfilling the safety pilot role and was responsible for
"protect(ing) the overall safety of the flight to whatever extent is necessary". If the instructor had
clearly understood this responsibility, he might have monitored the owner's actions more closely
during the touch-and-go and might have intervened earlier.
Notwithstanding the confusion, the instructor took control when he considered that the owner was not
taking appropriate action to control the aircraft, although the actual moment that he took control is in
dispute. Given the owner's belief that the instructor was the commander and that the instructor was in
any case by far the more experienced pilot, it is not surprising that he relinquished control even
though, unknowingly, he had a more complete understanding of the aircraft's predicament. The flight
time from the propeller strikes to the next ground impact was only a few seconds. Once the aircraft
became airborne with a significant amount of power applied and a badly damaged left propeller, the
situation was well beyond any emergency for which either pilot might have trained. The options for
action were very limited and would have required a full appreciation of the circumstances, plus
extremely rapid analysis and reactions if those actions were to be successful.
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Posts Tagged ‘racism’
May 6th, 2009 by badgerbag in Uncategorized
Last night I read most of Dangerous Waters – it has an interesting setup, a dude sailing his ship who gets boarded by pirates in the South China Sea on his way to Singapore. He lives through this ocean mugging, and then writes a book about shipping and piracy, hitching a ride on a VLCC – I have forgotten what it stands for, but a freaking huge oil tanker. Freaking Huge Oil Tankers (or VLCCs, or FHOTs) have crews of about 17 guys and they don’t have enough people to mount effective night watches against pirates who speed-canoe up, “swarm” up the sides with bamboo poles, and attack with giant knives sharpened out of bits of old cars.
Sounds like a good book? Well up to a point, but the dude is so super racist and incoherent that I lost patience. No story is developed – it’s like reading a mishmash of magazine articles and bits of wikipedia thrown together with SENSATIONALIST STORY, then some hanging out while the author dude drools all over the sexy, lone germanic or british man in charge captain enjoying his total captain fetish (that part was amusing) and having neurotic fantasies about being raided by pirates. The whole thing would have made a fine pirate romance novel if he would have stopped trying to write it as non-fiction. In his mind, brown, barefoot men jabbering, or babbling, or prattling, in their own brown language, may be pirates or mayn’t be, but what they do is swarm up your ship like sperm looking to plonk themselves into a giant oiltanker of an egg, crack you over the head with a machete and torture you till you open the safe. Okay. His main point seems to be that there aren’t enough guards on the ships. So then he goes (mixed in and mashed up with his other Adventures in the Captain’s Mess) and drools over some soldiers of fortune and how tough they are and how scary it is when they shoot people and the bodies wash ashore and no one cares. Our author loves a badass with an AK-47 who shoots some dudes in canoes.
Homosocial bonding should bring us some prime sexism. An unpleasant book! It does not disappoint on this front. “To those who cross the seas, the ship is more than a mere universe, it becomes part of the essential core of our being, and we imbue our vessel with our own unique spiritual traits that we pray are strong enough to carry us through the worst conditions. It is why men have always called a ship “she”.
Oh is it why! Who is this we!
Grrrrrr!!!
What drivel! You really start wanting to be with the pirates, i swear!
The other book on Piracy is on Zond-7’s ipod. I will read it tomorrow – it is called The Outlaw Sea. The first chapter was FANTASTIC – serious, scholarly, sourced, actually has some arguments to develop and stories to tell along with them.
The point to take from both books is that piracy and hijacking have been on the rise since the early 90s. In the hot spots, people are horribly poor and have turned bandit. At worst, they join up with organized crime and smugging and human trafficing.
Tags: books, china, racism, reading, wikis, zines
New improved! books in the bathtub
April 21st, 2009 by badgerbag in Uncategorized
I’m reading a bunch of books at once. I finished up The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole, an autobiography by Mary Seacole which is mostly about her travels to Panama and the Crimea. In the 1850s during the Crimean War she was a nurse and kept a field hospital. She tried to join up with Florence Nightingale’s effort but was rejected for what sound like racist reasons. I enjoyed her memoirs, especially her entrepreneurial spirit. She’d go pretty much anywhere, and with a little capital would set up a boarding house or hotel and store, and would naturally turn into the community’s medical care. It is a bit awful to imagine what cholera must have been like, especially under the doctoring philosophy of being given violent emetics. Ew. I looked up cholera on Wikipedia and elsewhere to find that you can pretty much survive cholera if you just stay as hydrated as you can.
Meanwhile I read a bunch of Robin Hobb “Assassin” series books on Zond-7’s iPod Touch with the Kindle reader app. Another fantasy series about an assassin! And a bastard! I thought of the “Lens of the World” series and also of Curse of Chalion. Actually, I expected not to like the first book from its first chapter, which piled fake-medievally world stereotype upon stereotype, with characters named Verity and Chivalry and Shrewd. Then the decent writing and fast moving plot completely sucked me in. The guy who takes care of the young assassin bastard, the stable master, was just a great character, a flawed unhappy guy doing his duty… And then the assassin guy himself, who doesn’t know his own name till halfway through the book and nearly an adult, grows and changes over the course of the stories and isn’t really that much of a hero either. I have criticisms and complaints about the Plot Device magic powers but mostly I could let that go and enjoy the story. Any deeper criticism I would need to do with the book in hand & a lot of quoting from it.
Somehow, I ended up reading a book called Mulengro by Charles De Lint. How did it even get into my house? Was it a present? Did someone recommend it? It’s awfully boring. The characters bore the daylights out of me. They appear in vignettes and I utterly don’t care about them and then they get disembowelled by the Bad Super Magic Romany Dude/Spirit Who Was Traumatized By Nazis. Now it is not like I know jack about anything Romani. Other than, that I spent half a year tutoring an 8 year old kid to read somewhat against the wishes of his family – I was working as a tutor, and from what I could tell he didn’t go to school but there was some legal trouble *and* someone in the family *did* want him to learn to read and so, twice a week tutoring. We would have long discussions over why it might be pointless to learn to read (his view, reinforced by his uncles) and why it might be okay and in fact useful (my view, and his grandmother’s; but it was interesting to hear his reasons.) I’m slogging through the book to see if there is any point. So, my question is for you all, is there any point? Am I just reading the wrong De Lint novel? Should I try another one?
I really liked reading on the iPod, way more than I thought I would. Flipping pages was effortless. The reading experience was so seamless that I kept putting it down, then looking around for the physical book to pick it up again, then remembering there WAS NO BOOK.
It is easier to wash your hair while reading on an iPod than to do it while holding a regular book; just riskier. True!
I re-did my purple hair dye tonight half while not looking and reading Mulengro, which is now more like Purplengro. Then I realized that I was wearing a white shirt which I had to take off over my head. FAIL! Good thing I don’t mind.
Tags: books, hotel, library, racism, rally, reading, School, travel, wikis, Writing
Get me off this ice floe!
January 24th, 2009 by badgerbag in Uncategorized
The rain and cold are kicking my ass. Likely I am a bit physically weak from not doing much while I was sick. At least I can breathe really really well. (Yay steroids) But damn, I’m really worn down by pain, the last few days.
I can walk but it’s slow and creaky. This morning I woke up aching so hard. I moved around in all directions in bed, progressed to PT exercises, then got up and forced myself to walk around and pick things up off the floor. Unstiffening is good. Oh, for last week when the sun was out and I was full of strange vigor and I felt like being alive.
Distraction is the most helpful thing & also it passes the time so I can endure this grinding annoyance until I can legitimately be unconscious again. In short – I am cranky.
Before I got up and while doing slow leg lifts and stretches I read “Ice Drift”, a very dull book about two Inuit boys adrift on an ice floe. It’s hard to convey how dull it was for something that should be good. Plodding! Untrustworthy-feeling! Stilted As-You-Know-Bob dialogue on every single page! And pointlessness. It was like two pieces of cardboard, spouting bits of children’s encyclopedia entries to each other!
The afterword was the best bit, where the author explains that the real story that inspired him was the story of some of the crew of the ship Polaris in 1871, 19 people including 2 Inuit men 2 Inuit women, and 5 of their children, stranded on an ice floe for six months. The author read the manuscripts from the Captain and two crew members. “In the end, rather than attempt to boil down the mass of information about Tyson’s ordeal — the many characters, the murder of the Polaris master, the near mutiny, the shameful treatment of the Inuit — I decided to write a novel about two young boys who were forced to go on a similar journey.” A novel in which white people show up in their ship only to nicely give the boys a ride home and cheer for them.
There is also a bit from 3rd person omniscient focused on the kids’ mom who bravely sets out against her husband’s wishes, risking death and divorce to rescue them, but is warned by two big burly men to turn back, and then turns back. That’s after she and her husband go out to find them the first time and turn back after 1 day when they realize they were too stupid to bring any food with them. Why was that scene even necessary!
Why not write the story of the Polaris in all its complexity, from the point of view of one of the kids? I just re-read Treasure Island and was impressed with its moral complexity… and thought of how I loved it when I was little. The book I read this morning had none — zero, zilch, nada.
Also, I couldn’t get past the younger boy being named “Sulu”. Elementary school kids might not have this problem but for me it was a hurdle!
IN the book instead of being people who kill, kidnap you, and take you to be exhibited in museums, as well as setting off on polar expeditions that are complete clusterfucks because they all have their heads up their asses; instead of that, the white people on the ships are competent and benevolent – everything they do benefits the Inuit. Even the wrecked ship the Reliance is dismantled and its wood used by the Inuit to make their only “real village” of Nunatak with “even a proud community hall building, courtesy of the Reliance wood” as opposed to what they were before which was a “collection of temporary makeshift huts and iglu“. With this totally non subtle subtext like, “even the accidental garbage left over from our total failures helped immeasurably to civilize the childlike natives.”
It is a good book for this blog, American Indians in Children’s Literature, to take apart. I’m going to write to Debbie Reese and suggest it.
The best account of the actual ice floe journey that I could find:
http://www.oldnewspublishing.com/story1.htm
Doesn’t it sound like everyone on the Polaris was going mad from slow arsenic poisoning? and the Captain just got the most lethal dose?
Here’s some details about the Inuit who were on the ice floe. Unlike the Inuit in the “Ice Drift” book, these people were well acquainted with white folks. Hell, they had met Queen Victoria.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tookoolito
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebierbing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Hendrik – innnnnnteresting, Hans Hendrik wrote a book: “Memoirs of Hans Hendrik, the Arctic traveller, serving under Kane, Hayes, Hall and Nares, 1853–1876, by himself ”
Well, that’s how I spent my morning, obsessing over the ways that this type of “historical” fiction actually erases history in a way that is stupid, dull, inaccurate, simplistic, and racist, all in the guise of educating young people.
Tags: books, history, pain, racism, School, travel, wikis
Getting rid of some books, part 2
November 8th, 2008 by badgerbag in Uncategorized
Another small round of decluttering. I spent most of the day in bed reading 5 Miss Marple novels. They are so classist and racist and sexist and full of horrible gender stereotypes but they are oddly satisfying because there are so many active women characters in them who are smart, powerful, shrewd, or who have other positive qualities – usually, they pass the Bechdel test very well. I kind of enjoy the classist bits because they make particular attitudes about class very clear – as in girls’ series books.
– The Mirror Crack’d. The neurotic American film star at the top of the stairs whose baby was born “mentally defective” and was put away in a home. Ugh! Makes one appreciate how times have changed. Sly blackmailing secretary with a nasal atomizer. Scatterbrained, gardening Mrs. Bantry whose house it use to be. Arty photographer girl from London. Busybody self centered organizing woman who does a ton of charity work (victim). Stupid parlormaid (victim) though not actually a parlormaid, is temporary help from, uh, the village. Or something.
– A Carribean Mystery. Miss Marple on some tropical island. Casual racism. Nice young couple who own a hotel. Stuffy old bore who tells stories of shooting lions in Africa, and murders (victim). Black parlormaid (victim) blackmailer. Cantankerous semi-paralyzed old man, Mr. Raffiel, who is insanely rich and who teams up with Miss Marple. His snoopy male secretary/valet/masseur. His widowed assistant/nurse/attendant.
– Nemesis. Sequel to Caribbean Mystery. Mr. Raffiel leaves a mysterious mystery to Miss Marple. Gardening tour. Middle aged ladies (I liked them.) Three sisters who live in a decaying old house. Many interesting references to a bad girl from the village who has been running around with boys since she was 12 (victim). Pure schoolgirl with heart of gold from days of yore (victim). Saintly, powerful headmistress of a school (victim). Miss Marple seems quite old in this book and it is suggested she might die in the next year or so.
– What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw. Miss Marple’s friend witnesses a murder on a passing train. Good character of the insanely competent university educated woman, Lucy Eyelesbarrow, who chooses to be an incredibly high paid domestic servant instead of academia, in order to have an independent life. Big family. Cantankerous old Mr. Crackenthorpe and his various children who want to inherit his cash and estate.
– The Body in the Library. Mrs. Bantry, much younger and still living in her enormous estate which was later bought by the neurotic film star in Mirror Crack’d. Arty, scandalous film people. A hotel in a nearby village or town where idle people seem to come and stay for an entire season, dancing, playing bridge, taking tennis lessons, and being secretly scandalous. Hotels seem to routinely keep a staff of “hosts” who mix with the guests and play up to them (as in Caribbean Mystery)
Why am I poisoning my mind with this crap! I have so many nice books to read!
Other books on the way out:
* Our National Parks vol. 1 and 2 (from the 50s, with cool illustrations)
* Several other very old guidebooks to parks and regions and beaches
* Sew Simply, Sew Perfect (for its 1960s-ness and basic concepts)
* Comparative Mythology by Puhvel (textbook?)
* How the Irish Saved Civilization
* The Voice of the Whirlwind: The Book of Job (???)
* The New Golden Bough
* Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga
* The Book of the Dead – dover thrift of the Wallis Budge version. Tempted to keep this one.
Tags: books, decluttering, garden, gender, hotel, library, london, racism, reading, School, travel, Writing
To all Republicans trying to keep a shred of decency
I guess stirring up people’s fear and hatred has some result. Can the Republican Party realize what it’s doing here? They try to make a scared, angry mob by pushing the culture wars and racism to extremes. And that is what they have done.
McCain is trying to put out the fire a bit while on the other hand with approval from his campaign and with impunity Sarah Palin fans the flames and adds fuel. You can see in the videos how she likes the boo-ing and the power and feeling of whipping people up into a frenzy of hatred. Fine, it’s hatred and fear that’s there, but you don’t have to FEED IT.
I have been doing my best personally to reach across party lines and across social differences to religious and conservative people who think I am damned to eternal hell for my sexuality or whatever or not allowed to have any place in society. And I make an effort to deal with those people in a rational and just and civic fashion and to respect them. I will continue to do that to the best of my ability.
I like what my friend Cynthia1960 said recently. “I don’t have to treat everyone as my ally. But I have to treat everyone as my possible future ally.” That applies perfectly in this situation. That is the attitude I will maintain to these people no matter what they do. That’s what it takes.
Republicans you had better step up and rein in your attack dogs. What, I’ve watched people get arrested and thrown around by police for years at peaceful rallies, anti war, immigration rallies, and when people do this at a presidential candidate’s speech, nothing happens, no blowback, no nothing? You really want to vote for that? You want that to be the image of your political party and its beliefs?
Tags: fashion, movies, party, Politics, racism
Call for contributions: WisCon Chronicles
August 31st, 2008 by badgerbag in Uncategorized
HEY Y’ALL. I am editing this book. Email me or IM me at badgerbag8 (AIM) if you have ideas and want to talk about it or have an idea you’d like to write about.
Call for Ideas and Contributions
WisCon Chronicles Volume 3 – WisCon 32
Were you at WisCon 32 in 2008? Aqueduct Press would love to hear from you with ideas and materials for Volume 3 of The WisCon Chronicles.
ANY panel, event, or paper you’d like to write about is fine.
Here are a few that we’ve noticed people talking about:
* Maureen McHugh and L. Timmel Duchamp’s Guest of Honor readings and speeches
* Women and Hard SF
* Elves and Dwarves: The Racism Inherent in Fantasy
* Fanfic and Slash 201
* The Battlestar Galactica panel
* The Eclipse One Cover Debate
* Not Just Japan: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy
* Writing Working-Class Characters
We’d also like to see writeups of your hallway conversations: What fantastic discussions did you have in the interstices? In the hallway, in the lobby? At parties, at dinner, in your room, or online?
If you were at WisCon and would like to participate — to offer ideas or to submit an essay — please get in touch with us. Don’t be shy.
If you were blown away by a WisCon panel that we haven’t mentioned and would like to see its ideas expanded upon in The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 3, please let us know. Tell us the name of the panel, which participants (including audience members) most engaged you, and what was valuable to you about the discussion. What was thought-provoking, inspiring, enraging, hilarious, worthy of deeper discussion? If you’re interested in writing an essay on the topic or contributing to the book in some other way, let us know.
Please query before writing an article. If you want to submit an article or essay, please email a query or proposal by September 15, 2008. (The earlier the better.) The deadline for the submission of finished essays will be October 15, 2008. We’re looking for essays of 800-3000 words. If your submission is published, you will receive a small payment and a copy of the book.
Feel free to forward this call for submissions!
email ideas and submissions to: liz@bookmaniac.net
Tags: books, racism, reading, science fiction, Writing
Riot Grrl Nostalgia show
August 29th, 2008 by badgerbag in Uncategorized
There was a good crowd at the Center for Sex & Culture last night last week for the riot grrl SFinX reading. Here’s my notes!
Carol Queen read an intro for Gina de Vries.
Gina wrote Curve mag’s “Hey Baby” column. In 97 she was called “jarringly precocious” by Time Magazine.
Carol (interrupting herself): I did not know that. That is AWESOME! When I was jarringly precocious Time magazine never noticed! There was a photo… gina what were you wearing in it?
Gina: Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society
Carol: How old were you?
Gina: 14
*everyone cracks up*
*more intro*
Gina: There will be cupcakes at intermission. chocolate bergamot… Homemade! I made them! *audience cheers*
Gina read a memoir piece in 2 parts. The first part was about when she was 14 and bought her leopard print mini skirt. “It was the sluttiest thing i’d ever bought.”
Her deep friendship with a very serious queer femme riot grrl, Lila. We talked about veganism, bands, racism, and pornography. (They had class differences. Lila and a lot of the other girls were richer.) Making mix tapes and trading them. Gina read “The Persistent Desire”. Traded zines with every girl I met and hundreds of others through the mail. Starstruck at meeting Kate Bornstein. The overwhelming joy of finally being taken seriously as a queer girl.
“Dykes and fags! Working together! Biphobia sucks! Transgender revolution! Fuck shit UP!” *cheers*
We were so earnest…
Melissa Gira reading from draft of Girl Out of Order … i liked best the bit about how she would work until she passed out, and the process of taking photos of cartoons on tv with a disposable camera, getting them developed at the drugstore, carefully scanning them with a sort of squeegee scanner into the huge, beige, computer at her friend’s parents’ house, then printing it out, cutting it up into bits, writing on it, and pasting it with rubber cement into a zine.
The dangers of the postal service. Sending naked photos of herself. “Parents, lock up your stamps!”
A bunch about sex. Playing out age play with her boyfriend. Pretending to be a virgin (in one of the best asides of the night Melissa added, “Of course it had only been having sex for 4 months”)
Celeste Chan – Riot Grrl was before my time but i was inspired by it, read Sassy, checked Bikini Kill albums out from the library, watched the Yo Yo gang, moved to Olympia in 2000, I imagined it all fantastic and full of fierce eyed women, like it was dyke march every day….*cheers from audience* Instead, it was like getting too close to a dream best friend. You see their flaws. Huggy Bear, Bratmobile, Bikini Kill, thrifting… loved the ethos of diy and you can do anything. It was one of the very few subcultures dealing with violence against women, homophobia, fatphobia and the masculinist nature of punk culture. Addressing competition and jealousy that women are socialized into. It was great. Bring back riot grrrl!!!!!
Zuleikha Mahmoud. Femme shark. ***FEMME SHARKS!!!!!**** yell from audience. Omar and the lesbians band. Going on tour with Mangos with Chili. *cheers*
I, like Celeste, was a little too young. Was in hard core rural Pennsylvania. It didn’t quite make it there. That was the only thing that helped me imagine another life. When I was a little kid I was a strong feminist and I didn’t have a word for it. Then I started going to the library and the librarians had a really intense stockpile of feminist books.
So now I’m writing a book about slutty muslim girls. To reflect myself and the girls I love. A novel. I could read that or, *cries of “BOTH!!!” from audience* AND, I was going to read a piece about the first pride i went to, 2005 in new york.
“Jess is on her way over… she was going to bring her bass to teach me how to play. “I’ll teach you some fingering” and then we laughed but she said she really earnestly wanted to start a band with me. I hope to god she also wants to fuck me. I ran around my apartment hiding all the mainstream shit. The beauty mags and nikes. (phone call with friend) What’s up bachaim. (Farsi for “baby, dear friend”) (explanation of girl coming over) “Text me if you lose your lesbian virginity.” “Inshallah”. God, I wanted her, as much as I wanted shoes or drugs, as much as I wanted to move out when I lived with my parents. (she comes over) “Take your shoes off this is an asian house.” Jess eats a banana. DO THEY KISS OR WHAT OMG I CAN’T WAIT you will have to read the book when Zuleikha finishes it. (Note my subtle implication that she WILL FINISH IT DAMMIT… because it rocks)
2nd story from Zuleikha. First pride march. The night before. Homophobe violence. racism. a fight. I knew the parade was corporate but wasn’t prepared to have Macy’s celebrating my gayness or whatever!
Emotional moment of a parent filming their kid in the parade proudly…
(break) (cupcakes!) A bunch of us stand around and bond on how back then we learned how to do menstrual extraction and were all ready to start smuggling RU-486.
Then me
I talked about my zines and how I started identifying with riot grrl stuff, and showed a folder of a jillion letters, April – June 94, from all over the country. Then read some bits of the Slut Manifesto, which got a lot of laughs. (omg, i must find a better home for that manifesto.) I edited out a lot of the long ranty bits, warning everyone that during edits I’d say “Rant rant rant”. I had not timed it and have no idea how long I read, am hoping not too long. I enjoyed reading it so much. It was tempting to edit the hell out of it and also go back in time and argue with myself. Still I felt a sudden wave of affection for my fierce little self of years ago. Carol asked me if I had written in in irony or not. In retrospect, sure, there was plenty of irony in there but I also meant everything.
This was the first reading I’ve done since disabled again where I felt like I had a reasonable amount of energy and verve. Now, I can pull it off even when I feel like shit and have to fake it, but it feels so great to get a little of my mojo back. whew! and to feel connected with people. I don’t think I’ve ever read to, how should i put this, such the right target audience for anything i’ve read out loud. (though the capitol punishment story at years-ago-SFinX was similar!) how nice was that!!! and my riot grrl stuff does not really get integrated with the other bits of my life, very often. (though i do feel like blogging and even working with blogher are my continuation of all that.)
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha – growing up in (amherst?) – ad in the back of MRR – “I love janes addiction, i cut myself, write me” and getting a ton of letters. riot grrl wrote to her and had gone through MRR to write to every girl who had an ad. Leah was touched… parents didn’t let her out of the house… (next town over might as well have been on the moon.) Moved to NY – then was like “oh, crap, i’m really poor” also tough being mixed race punk in ny… met unsuitable guy way older – blew him off – “some guy who looked like freddy kruger at the bookstore wanted to fuck me” crazy guys breathing on you and trying line after line… 13th street squat getting busted. mystical hippie earth firsters trying to hold down a chapter in midtown manhattan where there pretty much wasn’t an ecosystem left anywhere… She was 19… admired an older 24 yr old woman who was so tough and had been living in squats for 10 years but who would not talk with her… Cops, a tank, assault rifles, it felt like us or them, 500 bodies, no matter how much we blieved in non-violent resistence… dragged off one by one… The guy was a brilliant storyteller… the way people are who have been on the street or in prison since they were kids… he was bi and assumed she was… (I forget what funny queer punk tshirt he had on but it made me laugh) took off their shirts on wall street… fucking in another squat with the guy… not really quite feeling it as sexual … though enjoyable… “like the promise of some day having a body” (I loved that description of sex)
I forget who it was (Leah?) saying something hilarious about west coast queer punk girls being all tra la about it but NYC punk girls being all like FUCK YOU I HATE WOMEN.
Nomy Lamm – old spoken word stuff from 93 – but here instead is stuff that i didn’t read in public at the time. “the ain’t” was my band and this was our song. sing with me… (we sing the bass line) … easy target… piece about living with her best friend who she was in love with. Their messy house and the junk food and fruit flies! Stuff about jealousy, about punk scene hierarchies and how could we have this movement and still have that and so many things being about conforming or conventional attractiveness. (She and another woman whose name I did not catch but who played bass did a song – Nomy played the accordion)
A whole lot of us went to Chow afterwards. I was not sure if I was at the grownup table or the butch table. we talked about Steven’s anarchist anthropologist book and i forget what all else, some about the readings, i went over and talked a bit with everybody else… I think they were going to Rebel Girl at the Rickshaw Stop.
tonight hazelbroom and I were gossipping on IM about all this and we were just listing off 90s dykey zine people and telling funny stories. I told her how I wished I had met Stephanie Kulick who I traded zines with and then later saw Mark’s page about her and realized she was likely a major kindred spirit right down to her woman symbol necklace matching my woman symbol earring which I lost in the ballerina pie fight.
Tags: anarchist, blogging, blogher, books, chocolate, computer, disability, events, gender, LGBT, library, parade, racism, rant, reading, readings, riot grrl, truck, Writing, zines
Working on bioweaponry dangerous for mental health
The NY Times on the poor suspects in the anthrax mailings whose lives were messed up by FBI harassment made me curious.
I can believe the FBI were jerks. But to blame these scientists’ death on the FBI seems unscientific. First we’d have to look at a control group of scientists working for the Dept of Defense on biological weapons and see how many of them commit suicide and drink themselves to death. Doesn’t it occur to anyone that these folks’ consciences might not be easy?
Salon, in Vital unresolved anthrax questions and ABC News, links to Ivins’ letters to the editor over the years. His letters pushed some of my hot buttons – he sounds like a fundamentalist Christian, the sort of person who sits around arguing if “homosexuals” are “born gay” and writes letters to the editor about how the laws of the United States should “reflect the Gospels”. But then he denounces racism and sexism on the radio, and tries to make an ethical argument about abortion and assisted suicide, saying that religious (or ethical) beliefs lead sometimes to good, like the abolishment of slavery, so that we shouldn’t dismiss anti-abortion activists as trying to impose their religion on others.
His brother thinks he’s a fanatic… “However, Tom Ivins, who last spoke to his brother in 1985, said, “It makes sense … he considered himself like a god”. Hmmm. He was minorly obsessed with a sorority, KKG. He was medicated for episodes of paranoia, way before 2001. this article calls him “a man obsessed with a sorority that he first encountered while an undergraduate, asserting in an e-mail message that the women’s group was waging a “fatwah” against him.”
My knee jerk reaction is actually to figure he is a religious fanatic and anti-Islam and quite likely to crack and go postal. But, I realize that is my own assumptions about a) people who would work for the government making biological weapons b) extreme right wing religious people who want their religion to set and control the law. How can that possibly be a good combination – religious fervor, psychotic paranoia, and secret powerful military research? You might as well hire a bunch of mad-eyed bomb-throwing anarchist revolutionaries (like me) to guard your anthrax vaccine. What the hell, government people? Unless you are actually Robert Koch, I don’t want you messing around with anthrax at all. But if you really must hire someone how about sticking to people who are relatively sane?
Tags: anarchist, racism, wikis
Action movie preview rant; racism in Indiana Jones
June 17th, 2008 by badgerbag in rant
I went to my friend’s steampunk beach wedding with Rook and Zond-7 and all and sundry!
Aren’t they cute as hell?
Held a giant chiton (described in post below, but here’s the photo to show how huge it was!)
Went to RoboGames! Drove all over hell and back! Drove to Oakland and hung out with Minnie and Moomin and small Mr. Screamypants!
I saw the Indiana Jones movie, loving it and hating it. I was steeling myself for an inevitable ancient-Harrison-Ford romance with a plucky yet needing to be rescued 24 year old actress, and indeed the movie had all the pain of Smurfette Syndrome, ie, a bunch of male characters of varying kinds and one plucky girl. BUT…. it had the saving grace of having TWO female characters. The plucky girl was older than one would expect from craptastic sexist ageist Hollywood, like actually old enough to have a young adult son, and old enough for it not to be completely stereotypically annoyingly prize-like for her to be involved with Indiana Jones. And she got to kick ass some of the time. The other female character was the totally awesome Evil Psychic Communist in uniform complete with shiny black gloves and obsession with aliens and mind control. She was okay.
There was a really stupid and unnecessary racist bit with the …. clay-covered “naked savages” springing out of the masonry to defend the temple. Why, why, why? Why was that necessary? “Insert mob of non-white naked howling irrational people here.” What??? Why?! Covered in MUD! Wearing GRASS SKIRTS! HOWLING! I believe even ULULATING! Inexplicably kept alive for 5000 years! Fanatically DEVOTED! Mayan, yet Peruvian, yet grass skirt wearing yet wielding BOLAS! Then awe-struck, and bowing to the Artifact! Arrrgh. Rook and I sat there groaning and scoffing. Come on! More skulls, giant insects, sword fights, stone mechanisms rolling shut just a hair too late, waterfalls, yes, Racist Crap no. Anyway!
The pulp-like “ooo mayans” and “ooo nazca lines” and “ooo now we’re in the amazon” was just funny and overblown. I didn’t even get annoyed by it like I did with the weird stuff in Emperor’s New Groove. It was so bad it was hilarious. Same with the “magnetism”!
Back to the villain – I enjoyed the bit where
SPOILER!!!!!
She was going, “I WANT TO KNOW” and staring at the alien skeleton and the aliens began to beam stuff into her head! Yay! I wanted her to know! Go, Hero of the Order of Lenin! Go, psychic scientist crazy woman! My higher level analysis was that her gender was being conflated with communism and the “hive mind” of the aliens. Manliness was the independent thought and maverick status of Indiana Jones and his little rebel boy sidekick. The communist villain spoke at length about her evil plot, which was to gain enormous psychic powers so that everyone in the world’s thoughts would be like hers, they would be taught right thinking, but they wouldn’t know it wasn’t their thoughts. They’d think they were having their own ideas – but it would be communist mind control. Then, she ended up marvelling at the beauty of the alien hive mind, and merging orgasmically with it and squirting up into an interdimensional portal. You can see why I cheered. I don’t think I was meant to and instead it was meant to be punishment or comeuppance and a fit ending. I think also the idea of women in authority, in positions of equality and authority, in communist countries, was mixed up with current (and past) anxieties about feminism, PC-ness, and women’s rights, so that woman in authority = hive mind = evil.
Onward and backward to the previews!
The movie previews promised to be good since they would be action movies. I’m a HUGE sucker for explosions, chases, fights, and other action movie bullshit. Add space battles and I’m extra happy. So, no horrible “romantic comedy” previews I had to suffer through. Instead I got to admire the explosions, while bitching about the Smurfette Syndrome about 5 times in a row. “The Spirit” – Frank Miller movie, made fun of preview already, hilarious voiceover with superhero going “The city screams, she is my mother, she is my lover.” Sooo that makes you a motherfucker then? *sigh* So stupid! So annoying! So unnecessary! Then yet another movie about a Man having Important Man experiences with women as peripheral sex prizes (some movie about a guy living backwards in time. I would prefer they just LEAVE WOMEN COMPLETELY OUT, thanks but no thanks. Give explosions and battles, keep nasssty chips.) Hellboy which looked fucking awesome!!!! Awesome! Hello! Just great! But again, is man having his Man Moments because hollywood if in an action movie has to show how being a Man is all about heroism and heroism is all about being a man! I am so annoyed. I bet if the female characters have any good fighting moments of bravery it will be only because they are defending their man, or their dad, or their brother, or carrying out their father’s last wish, or some other annoying-ass thing whose subtext implies that women only exist in relation to men, especially when they kick ass. Then, Eagle Eye, which looked to be even more of the same. It is all about the profound experience of the lone man who in his lonely way has an Experience. Do I make myself clear, here? Why is this always the plot? It’s like the Joseph Campbell sexist as hell Hero’s Journey just mutated itself into every story possible.
Don’t even get me STARTED on Wall-e. FFS. I mean, I want to see a fucking awesome movie about some robots. In space. Why must it get all messed up with gender stuff? Why not just put some eyelashes and lipstick on that rescue-screamy-flirty-sexy robot girl? WTF with the robot gender roles? You know, if I were a robot, I’d think the nicest bit of would be getting to be ungendered. Like we didn’t go far enough with the movie where all the ants were heterosexual male/female couples (??) and the Bee one, and the one where the (male) cattle had udders? What?
Okay I’m glad I got that off my chest! Otherwise I had an intense few days (and nights) at work, a weekend packed with social events, I am concentrating hard on walking but it’s very hard, and Rook and I gardened a little bit, which was super nice since it’s been so neglected.
I have been noticing how my car is like my spaceship and everywhere I go is like an expensive gravity well. Some places, like the building I work in, or a grocery store, suck you into their enormous gravity well and it is hard to achieve escape velocity. For those, I need the powerful shuttlecraft of my wheelchair. For gas stations, small cafes, and places that can be traversed easily, I can achieve escape velocity handily with only the EVA jetpack of my crutches or cane. You think I am joking about imagining that those annoying slow wheelchair lifts are the airlock? No… I’m really imagining it and enjoying it with a slightly embarrassed smile in case anyone can read my thoughts. I prefer the Belter lifestyle without going near those annoying gravity wells where I am way too heavy, give me the asteroids any day. What this means in practical reality is that I go to the Carl’s Jr. drive through a lot these days.
Tags: cafe, crutches, feminist, gaming, garden, gender, Moomin, movies, narrative, pain, racism, rant, truck, wheelchair
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Bankelele
Nairobi writer on Banking, Finance, Technology, and Investments
Category Archives: Kenya privatization
National Bank Responds to KCB Takeover Bid
National Bank of Kenya (NBK) has published a circular over the proposed takeover by the KCB Group.
KCB has also now published their own circular for NBK shareholders, that has been approved by the CMA and which details their side of the deal.
NBK Circular Highlights:
The board of NBK recommends shareholders approve the Kshs 9 billion deal even though they value their share at Kshs 6.10 as no competing offers have been received so far, and the bank, while strong, needs additional capital to meet regulatory capital and grow its business. They add that the Government has a policy of sector consolidation to create strong banks.
NBK is the thirteenth largest bank in Kenya, a Tier-2 bank.
KCB has proposed that NBK continue to operate as a separate subsidiary of KCB for two years during which there will be no staff changes. An integration will come after, along with an organizational structure review, which may lead to a reduction of the workforce and “optimization” of the distribution network. i.e. branches, ATM’s and agents. NBK has 1,356 staff, serving about 650,000 customers.
Deal a foregone conclusion?: After the re-designation of the preference shares, NBK’s two key shareholders, the Government of Kenya and National Social Security Fund own a combined 93.23% of the bank’s shares.
KCB valued NBK at Kshs 5.6 billion. NBK has 48,987 shareholders who will receive 147,383,968 ordinary shares in the share capital of KCB, equivalent to approximately 4.59% of the share capital of KCB.. The NBK Board appointed Standard Investment Bank (SIB) to independent advise them on the market value of NBK and SIB arrived at a fair value for each NBK share of Kshs 6.10 – the result of combining the dividend discount method (5.41), net assets multiple (6.62) and historical share trading price (5.01).
Listing history: NBK was wholly owned by the Government until 1994 when it sold by 32% to the public through a listing on the NSE, followed by another share sale in May 1996. One of the conditions of the KCB offer is that the NBK shareholders should approve the de-listing of NBK from the NSE.
The NBK board’s opinion on the bank’s valuation is not expected to change anything unless a competing bid materializes – and the deadline for that is July 17.
KCB’s Circular to NBK Shareholders:
KCB has invited NBK shareholders to accept their offer by completing and returning forms during the offer period that runs from 10 July to 30 August. If the deal succeeds, their new swapped shares will list on September 16.
On the pricing, NBK traded 26,638 shares per day in the last 6 months. In the last three months, NBK share prices ranged from Kshs 4.3 to 4.5 while those of KCB ranged from Kshs 38 – 44.
KCB reserves the right to vary the terms of its offer up to 5 days before the closing date (which means they have a chance to improve on any competing offer).
If 75% of NBK shareholders accept the offer, the others will remain minority shareholders in an unlisted (NBK) company, but if over 90% accept, then KCB will move to compulsorily acquire the remaining shares of other NBK shareholders.
KCB notes that NBK’s loan book has a non-performing ratio of 49%.
Any share amounts that convert into fractions of a share in the swap formula will be rounded upwards to a full share.
There is a long-stop date of Thursday 31 October, 2019, and if the deal is not concluded by then, the KCB offer will lapse, and all acceptances will be considered void.
This entry was posted in Bank rankings, KCB, Kenya privatization, M&A, NBK, NPA, NSE investor awareness on July 11, 2019 by bankelele.
KWAL at 50
This week, Kenya Wine Agencies Ltd (KWAL) celebrated fifty years of business. At a Nairobi dinner event to mark the occasion, KWAL Managing Director, Lina Githuka, said that the company, which had been privatized four years earlier, had renovated its portfolio and improved its operation. These had resulted in volumes going up threefold and, with profits up ten times, had set the stage for a second round of privatization.
During the event, there were clips and narrations showing the history of the company, which was established in 1969 by the Government of Kenya to bottle wines and spirits. initially, and up through the 1990s when Kenya’s economy was liberalized, KWAL had a monopoly to import leading international brands like Martell, Hennessy, Bacardi and Campari which they worked with local business owners to distribute to hotels and shops. Later in the 1980s, they opened a commercial winery and embarked in the manufacturing, process and bottling of local wines. While grapes are not easily obtainable here, they used other fruits, starting with pawpaw from Kakamega and later Pekera, and “Papaya” became the first domestically produced wine in Kenya. They later added variants based on passion fruit (Passi Flora), strawberries (Kingfisher), and apples (Woodpecker).
One of our key pillars, trust, is showcased by the long-standing relationship we hold with our partners across the industry. In this, we'd like to recognize one of our largest distributors, Mwalimu Wine Agencies. #KWALat50 pic.twitter.com/XimZSNC4Xn
— KWAL (@KWALOFFICIAL) May 16, 2019
KWAL, under KWA Holdings E.A, is now a subsidiary of Distell, which owns 55% of the company after acquiring a 26% stake in April 2017 for Kshs 1.1 billion. The company produces 20 brands locally including Kingfisher for the last 36 years, and through its partnership with Distell, also distribute many top international brands. The KWAL portfolio includes Yatta juices, ciders (Savanna, Hunters, Kingfisher) wines (Nederburg, Drostdy-Hof, 4th Street), Amarula, and Viceroy.
Distell reported that Kenya had a stellar year (in 2018) with volume up 32% and revenue up 27%, which was partly attributed to the impressive performance of local brands like Kibao and Hunter’s Choice. KWAL plans to open a production facility at Tatu City, near Nairobi, their first new manufacturing plant in two decades, at a cost of Kshs 3 billion to meet the demand of fast-growing brands.
Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Industrialization, Peter Munya, who was the chief guest at the event, said the Government was prioritizing value addition and local content in investments and that the Cabinet had recently approved an investment policy to legally safeguard all the incentives offered to investors. He applauded the privatization process which had rejuvenated KWAL, and he hoped this would extend to the sugar sector where private companies were doing very well, unlike the Government-owned ones.
This entry was posted in Investing in Kenya, Kenya privatization, KWAL on May 18, 2019 by bankelele.
Kenya Airways 2018 results
Excerpts from the announcement of the Kenya Airways 2018 financial results April 30, 2019 at Ole Sereni Hotel. Nairobi at a breakfast event with investors and media.
Performance: 2018 revenue was Kshs 114 billion (~$1.14 billion), compared to 81 billion in 2017 at the airline, which is in the middle of discussions about taking over the management of the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) under a public-private partnership (PPP).
Chairman Michael Joseph said 2018 had been a challenging year, one highlight of which was the launch of non-stop daily flights New York, but there was a lot media scrutiny on PPP on JKIA that was wrong and excitable. He said that the airline was on the right path and thanked the staff for doing a great job under difficult circumstances.
CEO Sebastian Mikosz said this was the second year of growth in passengers and cargo and a narrowed loss. The difference to 2017 (which was abbreviated to 9 months as the airline changed its financial year-end to match IATA and its financial partners) was stark but the CEO went out of his way to compare unofficial twelve month numbers for 2017 to highlight that the airline had increased income, and flown more passengers despite the smaller fleet in 2018. They had 13,258 daily customers (up from 12,484), a cabin factor of 76% and on-time performance 79%.
They earned Kshs 95 billion from flying 4.84 million passengers in 2018, Kshs 8.5 billion from cargo 8.5 billion and earned Kshs 10 billion from other business including ground handling and repairs and maintenance and training,. While the revenue covered their fleet ownership, fuel and staff costs, they ended with an operating loss of Kshs 683 million and, an overall loss before tax of Kshs 7.5 billion ($75 million).
Fuel: Accounts for 40% of costs, and as prices went up 30% in 2018, it remains one of the biggest challenges to profitability. As such they are going back to fuel hedging as a risk minimization strategy.
Fleet: They are getting back two Boeing 787’s from Oman Air but have extended an ongoing lease with Turkish to retain three Boeing 777-300’s which are simply too large to operate given the current loads and will introduce a complexity that is not desirable now.
Routes and Partnerships
The New York direct flight route had flown 15,000 passengers as of December 31 2018. The load factor is 64% and CEO said that there was nothing lucrative about NYC but it helped serve the Africa Market with 5 weekly flights which they will adjust back to being daily flights in the summer. The non-stop route offers the fastest route between New York and Indian Ocean destinations countries like Mauritius
The Air-France-KLM joint venture is still the biggest part of their business. They have now added one with Delta enabling KQ to sell flights to Delta destination cities beyond New York.
UN: With the addition of Geneva (and Rime) in June, they will now fly to all the main UN cities – Geneva, Mogadishu, Paris, New York – from Nairobi, completing their UN network.
JamboJet: They are trying to pushing to get their Jambojet subsidiary IOSA-certified so they can codeshare on more local routes.
African Aviation: The results presentation showed comparisons to Rwandair, Ethiopian, Turkish, Ethiopian and Emirates airlines, but Mikosz said that KQ was the only airline interested in growing the Nairobi hub. The CEO cautioned that while in 2010, Ethiopian was the same size as KQ, today it was three times bigger, and that was due to support systems, Also that Rwandair, while considered small today, will catch KQ in five years unless KQ grows its hub in this competitive environment.
PPP: The fate of the public-private partnership proposal for the airline to manage JKIA is still with the Privatization Commission who turned it over to Parliament for public hearings that were stormy at times and led to a lot of inaccuracies. The CEO and Chairman said it was not necessary for the growth plan that the company had presented to shareholders during their 2017 restructuring, but it was one which would accelerate its rate by levelling the playing field with its continental peers.
This entry was posted in Kenya Airways, Kenya privatization, NSE investor awareness on May 5, 2019 by bankelele.
Kenya Government seeks Investors for Consolidated Bank
The Government of Kenya has invited local or foreign investors to buy a stake in Consolidated Bank. This comes after shareholders had approved an increase of the authorized capital of the bank by Kshs 3.5 billion through the creation of 175 million redeemable cumulative preference shares which will be allocated to the new investors.
The bank was ranked 30 out of 40 in terms of asset size at the beginning of the year. Kenyan banks have been impacted by interest rate caps, more so small banks, and Consolidated has also been limited by its capital base which was Kshs 594 million at the beginning of the year. As at September 30 2018, the bank had Kshs 12.6 billion in assets, with Kshs 8.3 billion in deposits and Kshs 7.9 billion of loans.
The Government owns 85% of Consolidated through, stakes were previously partially owned by the Deposit Protection Fund, and through entities including Kenya National Assurance (2001), Kenya Pipeline Company, Kenya National Examination Council, Telkom Kenya, National Hospital Insurance Fund and LAPTRUST Retirement Services. The institutions had deposits in several banks that collapsed in the 1980’s – such as Jimba Credit Corporation, Kenya Savings & Mortgages, Citizen Building Society, Estate Building Society, Estate Finance Company of Kenya, Business Finance Company, Home Savings and Mortgages, Union Bank of Kenya, and Nationwide Finance Company – and which were then “consolidated” into one restructured bank.
The Government had earlier injected Kshs 500 million of capital into the bank and appointed a transaction advisor in May 2018. Bidders are to register their details and submit their expressions of interest by email before the deadline for tenders on January 23, 2019.
This entry was posted in Consolidated Bank, Kenya privatization on January 13, 2019 by bankelele.
Ethiopia privatization window opens
Several weeks of rapid news has seen Ethiopia privatization of state enterprises proposed as one of several changes to sustain what has been one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies. This all comes in the wake of a new era under Ethiopia’s new prime minister, Dr. Abiy Ahmed Ali, who is leading change within the country and outside, such as on his recent visit to Kenya.
In the last few days the Ethiopian government has lifted a state of emergency, signaled an effective cease-fire with Eritrea, released long-jailed political prisoners, reshuffled security leaders, launched e-visa’s for all international arrivals with a view to dropping visa requirements for all other African nationals, and opened the Menelik palace to tourists among other changes, which have drawn comparisons or Abiy to Mikhail Gorbachev in Russia in the 1980’s.
"They have to adapt their economy to have one that’s fit for purpose, that can absorb the millions of young, unemployed people and ensure an equitable distribution of wealth. The old model was just not doing that.” @asalim86 @FT https://t.co/2NnIG4662w
— John Aglionby (@johnaglionby) June 6, 2018
The surprise was statements about plans for the massive Ethiopia privatization program in which the government would sell minority stakes in roads, logistics, shipping, and prime assets like Ethiopian Airlines, which just took delivery of its 100th aircraft, a Boeing 787, and which is the centrepiece of a logistical, tourism and business hub plan for the country. The program would also extend to two sectors that have been off-limits to foreign investors up to now; banking and telecommunications.
For comparison, a 2012 list of Eastern Africa’s largest banks had the Commerical Bank of Ethiopia as the largest in the region followed by National Bank of Mauritius and KCB in Kenya, and at last measure (2017) had about $17 billion of assets, 1,250 branches, and 16 million customers. And in telecommunications, Ethio Telecom, a government-owned monopoly has about 20 million customers in a country with a population of 107 million (many of them children), but still a low penetration rate.
Ethiopia privatization of state enterprises is not a new item, but it is one which the government has put side as it pursued an industrialization model that has seen the building of new infrastructure, new factories, industrial parks, agro-processors, leather parks, vehicles manufacturers etc. but which has not been equally felt by the country’s large and young population – and this has seen wide-spread protests and a state of emergency that ushered in a new leadership with a new prime minister (Abiy).
“We’ve never witnessed such a level of optimism, hope & unity. But the economy is not getting the attention it deserves. The moment people are over with the political excitement the economic reality is going to bite &… bite hard" #Ethiopia @halelule @FT https://t.co/xT7stGOiwJ
It also came after a lengthy story in the FT – Financial Times on the state of Ethiopia’s economy which cited the fatigue that China has with large investments and some projects that are operating below capacity coupled with the high government debt and shortage of foreign currency – Two investors said that Sinosure, China’s main state-owned export and credit insurance company, was no longer extending credit insurance to Chinese banks for projects in Ethiopia as willingly as it used to. It notes that imports into the country are four times that of exports from Ethiopia leading to the shortage of foreign currency.
The changes in Ethiopia could also be a warning to other African counties that have been moulded in a similar way to Ethiopia model, with heavy borrowing from China and building infrastructure and mega-projects for the future. When the Ethiopia privatization program starts it’s unclear who will benefit and if Chinese companies will be given priority given that they have invested for a long period in Ethiopia compared to other new companies, such as Vodacom and MTN, who are excited about the prospects that are now opening up
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Representatives from across Europe, Asia and Pacific are encouraging increased investment in nature from both the public and private sectors, with emerging data revealing that significant finance gaps remain for countries to achieve their biodiversity targets. As the host country for the 5 th Biodiv...Read more
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Well Researched, Well Planned, Great Fun!
Silvia Verdina - InterNations Group Consul, Sydney
As a Consul for four of the most active InterNations Groups in Sydney, Silvia Verdina continues to explore her new home — one activity at a time.
Born and raised near Lake Garda (Northern Italy), Silvia is no stranger to natural beauty. After living and working in London and Ibiza, Silvia has called Sydney home for the past 5 years. “I love the vibe of the city. It gives you entertainment, amazing food & coffee and beautiful beaches all at the same time,” she says.
After joining as an InterNations member in 2013, Silvia saw a number of groups were inactive and decided to do something about it — opening the InterNations Sydney Cinema and Theatre Group. “I’m passionate about cinema and theatre and thought this would be a great way to share this with others. Where possible, I try to organize activities in this group where we go to see foreign or non-mainstream films, concerts, musicals, theatre and dance productions,” she says.
Silvia is not alone in her love of cinema and theatre in Sydney, in less than one year she has hosted over 60 activities and her group has grown to over 320 members. “I’ve met a lot of new people through my activities; some of them have become good friends. Members have all been very happy with the activities I have organized.”
“Being a Consul is a rewarding experience, but it can also be stressful at times. It’s really important to research your activities and not leave anything to chance. I’m grateful to my Co-Consuls, Mina and Eliza, who do such a great job and take some of the pressure off me.”
Aside from cinema and theatre, Silvia is also a Group Consul for the Sydney DinnerNations, Nightlife and Escape the City Groups — all of which are among the most active in the InterNations Sydney Community. In these groups, Silvia has hosted a diverse range of activities including everything from cruises on the Sydney Harbour to visiting Taronga Zoo to a day trip to a nearby wine region, the Hunter Valley.
Silvia's advice for new Consuls is:
Talk to your members and listen to their suggestions for activities they would like to do.
Where you receive questions from new expatriates, try and give your advice if it is something you can help with.
Organize a range of different activities to keep your members interested and above all — have fun!
About Silvia Verdina
Silvia moved to Australia in 2010 and became an accredited sports and remedial massage therapist. Silvia has enjoyed her role as InterNations Consul so much she is now studying her certificate of Events Management.
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Lakeland coasts past Lorain County, 80-49
Lorain County Community College
Lorain County Community College (12-16, 6-9) 7 13 16 13 49
Lakeland Community College (20-7, 12-2) 16 23 19 22 80
Pts: Hannah Oehlstrom - 19
Reb: Ronnette Rahmon-Sumlin - 9
Ast: Tyeisha Sain - 5
Pts: Alicia Sephus - 19
Reb: Ziona Williams - 10
Ast: Destiny Khay - 6
KIRTLAND, Ohio – Lakeland women's basketball jumped out to an early lead and coasted to an 80-49 victory over Lorain County Community College Wednesday night to reach 20 wins.
Alicia Sephus came off the bench to lead Lakeland with 19 points and added eight rebounds to help Lakeland improve to 20-7 overall and 12-2 in Ohio Community College Athletic Conference play. Lorain County fell to 6-9 in OCCAC play.
Destiny Khay and Delesha Jackson each scored 14 points while Selah Richardson dropped in 12 points. Ziona Williams scored eight points and grabbed 10 rebounds in the win.
Khay got Lakeland going in the opening quarter with a pair of 3-pointers and finishing with eight points in the quarter to help the Lakers out to a 16-7 lead after one.
Sephus paced the offense in the second quarter with eight points and five rebounds as Lakeland outscored Lorain County 23-13 to extend its lead to 39-20 at the half.
Lorain County put together its best quarter in the third but it still wasn't enough to cut into the Lakeland lead. Williams scored six points and grabbed four rebounds to help the Lakers narrowly outscore Lorain County 19-16 to hold a 58-36 lead heading into the fourth.
Jackson scored eight and Sephus scored seven in the fourth as Lakeland extended its lead and cruised to the 31-point victory.
Lakeland will play its final home game of the regular season on Saturday. Feb. 23 against Edison State Community College at 1 p.m. Edison State is 10-4 in OCCAC play.
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Another Side to the Champions League Final
June 25, 2013 Archie Rhind-Tutt 0
London decked in Deutsch was a sight to behold. The first all-German Champions League final, another edition in the recent Klassiker saga and no matter what, the Bundesliga was guaranteed its first European Champion in 12 years. But there was more to it than that – because such is the inextricable link between the Bundesliga and its supporters, it ensured the capital would witness some of the fan culture which has helped to solder a good reputation for German football. Take the scenes in Trafalgar Square on the day of the final.
Gathered below Nelson’s column on the Saturday afternoon was a swarm of black and yellow, drinking in the atmosphere, the weather and come to think of it, a fair amount of beer too. Borussia Dortmund were making themselves heard and felt. One TV presenter, intent on recording a piece to camera, probably didn’t expect to be hoisted aloft by one BVB fan – much to the adulation of others in what was an amusing but harmless moment. Quietly observing such shenanigans was Paul Lambert. He was playing for Borussia on the only occasion they got their hands on the Champions League Henkelpotts in 1997.
Up on one of the balconies overlooking the centre of Trafalgar Square, the Aston Villa manager was approached regularly for autographs and photos. He was of course happy to oblige. Lambert may have only been at the Westfalenstadion for a year but as he admitted earlier in the week, there had been tears in his eyes when he’d said goodbye to the Borussia Dortmund fans. His presence in central London on Saturday afternoon was a special touch.
You may have noticed that this description of Trafalgar Square lacks any mention of Bayern Munich, mainly because their supporters were difficult to spot. Then again, given the very noticeable PR push by Borussia Dortmund, along with their supporters’ colourful presence in London, walking round certain parts of the capital might have had you thinking there was only one team playing on Saturday.
Be assured though: Bayern were present but unlike the stereotype which goes with the club, they were low key, especially in comparison to BVB. The whole final experience was not new to their followers – only the winning bit was, having lost twice in three years. Whilst there was much more enjoyment from the Borussia Dortmund supporters, the Bavarian fraternity appeared decidedly more nervous. That same enjoyment that Borussia were having before the final would only come for Bayern should they win it. As ESPN’s Bayern blogger, Susie Schaaf, explained: Bayern Munich was all business.
“From the news conferences delivered in German, as they’ve always been, to the players arriving at the hotel stone-faced and with their heads down, not stopping for pictures or autographs, Bayern wasn’t in London to charm the world. Bayern Munich was here to win.”
Despite watching every game, seeing Bayern in the flesh is not a regular occurrence for Susie, so understandably she was certainly one of the more vocal Bayern presences in the capital. To be honest, wouldn’t you be if you’d travelled over 4,000 miles from Florida for the occasion?
Susie had some colourful stories of when she had made it over to Europe for matches. That included bowing down to a certain Uli Hoeness after he simply opened the door for her at the Allianz Arena. Whoever says long distance relationships don’t work hasn’t heard of Susie’s love for Bayern Munich, or Uli Hoeness for that matter.
That was demonstrated in a more visible fashion on Friday night as she walked into the Albany Pub on Great Portland Street with hair highlighted red. This was a brave move, considering the place was rammed with Borussia Dortmund fans and for good reason too.
Downstairs that evening, the Borussia Hearts Club convened. As Trafalgar Square would do the following day, it contained plenty gathered in black and yellow and, as ever, a fair amount of beer too, but there was more to it than that with a range of events taking place, amidst the songs blared out on the stereo from the Borussia Dortmund hymnbook. This ranged from a reading in German about the Südtribune by Uli Hesse (author of the wonderful Tor! A story of German football) to an interview with Nico, one of the people responsible for the BVB choreo.
He told of how it takes nearly 300 people to make a tifo on the Südtribune such as the one seen for the Malaga game, how the planning for that iconic display started over a month beforehand and how these biggest choreos can cost up to €12,000 – a large sum of money for any fan group to stump up.
Now gushing about the Borussia Dortmund supporters has become a well-trodden area. Events such as the Borussia Hearts Club organised by Stephan Uersfeld and hearing from people like Nico about the effort which goes into preparing choreos just reiterates why this is the case.
There were some who kept a lower profile in the Albany who showed this. Take Sandra Goldschmidt, another younger BVB supporter, but the word fanatic is probably more appropriate in her case. Living in Duisburg, around 40 miles from Dortmund, Sandra is a season ticket holder and a member at BVB. In the Champions League alone, she’d travelled to Manchester, Malaga and Madrid, twice, to see Borussia play this season alone. Now in London, Sandra was upbeat about what Saturday would bring. This in itself wasn’t too surprising having become accustomed to her positive outlook on Borussia Dortmund on Twitter.
She was one of quite a few Bundesliga aficionados, usually confined to Twitter or Skype, present in the Albany that evening. This was something else to savour. Having spent so many hours online with them, it was great now to just share a pint with them on the eve of what was a humongous occasion for German football.
There was just one thing that would complete the occasion on a personal level – a ticket. Having pestered every man, woman, child and organism, by the end of Friday night, my search seemed to have been unsuccessful. I was reminded of this whilst sharing a taxi to Covent Garden after the Borussia Hearts Club with Jon Hartley (host of Bundesliga Show), Lewis (an English BVB fan) and the aforementioned Susie Schaaf. Everyone in the cab was going, apart from me. Jon, being the witty chap that he is, sensed his moment of comic genius by saying that someone on Facebook had a ticket. Before I even had a chance to interject, he exclaimed “To Muse!”
Cue roars of laughter from three members of the taxi and expletives from another. Indeed, Muse were playing the Emirates on Saturday night but in this regard and with the greatest respect to them, a ticket to the Champions League Final was the only thing that was going to leave me Feeling Good.
Up to this point, I thought I’d tried everything. As it turned out I hadn’t, as Ben Dudley proved. He bought a blank high visibility security jacket on eBay, getting “UEFA Steward” printed on the back and then attempted to bypass security at Wembley. He was ultimately unsuccessful in spite of what was a valiant effort.
I would be more fortunate, just without the valiant part. One of the many pleas I’d put in for a ticket with a friend finally came off on Saturday afternoon. That wasn’t before being offered two tickets to the final for £3500 each by one cheeky beggar on Twitter. Within half an hour, he’d knocked £1,500 off that price, despite maintaining they were “the best seats in the stadium.”
No matter – standing in Trafalgar Square at 2.30pm, a shining beacon of hope came in the form of an email asking whether I had managed to acquire ticket. Feverishly, I responded saying I hadn’t managed to yet before then hearing nothing for two and a half hours. Optimistically, I clung to the hope, the mere possibility that another email would come through.
Instead, having left Trafalgar Square and headed to the adidas lab, I was now watching a panel discussion on how football viewing would be in the future. Actually, scrap that – it was more listening to the discussion whilst frantically pressing refresh on my phone every two minutes so. And then, finally, a pocket vibration.
Praying that I wasn’t about to read about “NECTAR’S LATEST OFFERS” (and yes, I have a Nectar card – English people, don’t judge; others, never mind), I tentatively checked my phone. I read the message. I read it again. My eyes widened. I tried to resist a celebration. I failed, letting out a small, muffled YES. Like a modern day Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, just without a Charlie or a Chocolate Factory for that matter, a ticket for the game was secured.
Departing swiftly, I spotted Terry Duffelen, someone who along with Jon Hartley had helped to foster my passion for German football. When telling him of what I’d acquired, I could see the mixture of emotions in his facial expression, one of which suggested a mugging was imminent. Instead, an embrace ensued before bidding farewell and heading for Wembley Park station to collect my ticket.
Still, there was an anxious wait to be had at Wembley Park. Nerves were frayed by the blocked signal around the stadium making it impossible to contact the man with my ticket. It wasn’t until 20 minutes before the game that our paths crossed and finally, I was walking up Wembley Way which was quite empty by this stage but of course it was – this was a Bundesliga Champions League Final after all.
With some childish glee, and seat reached a full seven minutes before kickoff, it was time to gawp at the surroundings. The perception I’d once held that this incarnation of Wembley was just a rather expensively assembled block of concrete seeped away as to the left was a tremendous block of red and much closer, to the right, a sea of black and yellow, Wembley’s very own gelbe Wand. Bayern’s impressive choreo followed before the teams strode out, as the occasion’s awesome aesthetic was completed with Zadok the Priest christening the Final before at last the game begun.
Thankfully, it lived up to the hype and was not the tight game that many predicted. For all Bayern’s achievements and record breaking exploits during the season, there is a certain complexion to their recent games against Borussia Dortmund which seemed to faze them initially. Perhaps it was all part of Jupp Heynckes’ grand plan. Still, Borussia were brighter from the off as was reflected by the increased noise to the right and the muted nature of those in red on the left.
Noise arrived though each time Robert Lewandowski was thwarted by Manuel Neuer – the game’s initial duel. Having surveyed the situation, Bayern took it upon themselves to show some intent of their own, especially after Neuer’s sharp stop from Blaszczykowski. After efforts by Mandzukic and Martinez, it was then Arjen Robben who was stopped by Roman Weidenfeller. It may seem ignorant to narrow down the game to just these duels and it is not to proclaim that these are the reasons for how the Champions League Final was won. Merely, these duels were interesting subplots to the main storyline.
Only three weeks previously, Neuer had saved Lewandowski’s penalty at Borussia, yet a year previously, the Pole was netting a cup final hat-trick against the German in Berlin. And a month prior to that, Lewandowski was nonchalantly Cruyff flicking a title clincher past Neuer back in Dortmund. That’s where Arjen Robben comes in – because the man playing Lewandowski onside was the Dutch winger.
Robben even had the chance for immediate redemption on that April night at the Westfalenstadion. After being felled by Roman Weidenfeller, Robben then had his penalty saved by the keeper. That wasn’t even his last chance as he shot over the bar inside the six yard box minutes from the end. Minor revenge, if there is such a thing, would come in the cup final as he scored a penalty as Bayern were thumped but greater reward came this season in the DFB-Pokal quarter-final as Robben curled in a spectacular winner against Borussia.
It just so happened Robben’s next game against BVB was the Wembley Final. Rather than taking the tone of his previous performance against them, the first half resembled his Westfalenstadion nightmare as Weidenfeller firstly blocked Robben’s left foot poke before his face denied the Dutchman’s close range half volley.
As expected, roars of appreciation, quickly followed by derision of Robben in the surrounding seats. Half time followed where I discovered that Jon – yes, the same chap who less than 24 hours had made fun at my lack of a ticket –had a spare seat next to him, meaning a new perspective and experience for the second half with Jon positioned further into the black and yellow mass and also closer to the action.
And after the first half’s promise, the second half delivered. If the extraordinary sights and noisy sounds weren’t enough, soon there was a pungent smell of cigarette smoke wafting over my shoulder in the second half at Wembley, the home of the Football Association. Smoking in the stands along with the whole crowd standing to watch a match – the FA wouldn’t like this. Still, it would have been most amusing to see a steward even attempt to wade in and prevent any of it from happening. In any case, even as a non-smoker, I didn’t care – it just checked another box on the whole experience as I could now smell the angst of the Borussia Dortmund fans as Bayern pressured.
Soon I’d hear it too as Robben squared it to Mandzukic and goal. The block of red at the far end erupted. Being lower down in the stand, it was harder to see how it had come about. Replays on the big screen showed that it hadn’t been anything terribly intricate that BVB had been undone by, yet it mattered not. The loud masses around fell quiet bar the lively block in the centre who tried desperately to raise spirits. That wasn’t proving easy and as another wave of cigarette smoke wafted over my shoulder, I could smell it wasn’t working until – PENALTY.
In a Mönchengladbach mash up, Dante fouled Marco Reus. Penalty. Hindsight is wonderful – looking back on the game now, it was a second yellow card for Dante. He should have been sent off. But no one gave a damn at the time (and to be honest, no one complained after full time about it either). All around were just a grateful for a chance, a shot at Neuer from 12 yards.
But it wouldn’t be Lewandowski to take it. This was probably something to do with his performance on the night but more likely the fact that three weeks previously Neuer had guessed correctly against him from the same distance. As Süddeutsche Zeitung had warned at the time, this sort of thing might become relevant in the “motherland of missed penalties.” How right they were, so instead, İlkay Gündoğan took the ball.
“Komm İlkay” shouted one fan behind me. “Believe” was the exasperated exclamation of another. Others in front turned away from the pitch but only one incredibly nervous soul would continue looking away for the penalty itself. Perhaps he should have used the English mentality.
“A German? Taking a penalty? At Wembley? Goal.” Here the English logic would be right, for once, as Gündoğan planted the ball the other side of Neuer helping me to complete the fourth sense of the evening: touch. This involved thudding into several large men in black and yellow, each overcome with emotion. Oh and Jon too. It showcased the sort of euphoria that unexplainably makes football irresistible.
Subsequently, the noise rose once more again around us as belief returned but apart from one exciting break, there was little else to get excited about for BVB. The players looked to be tiring. It was odd not to see Klopp change any players. Jon wasn’t too optimistic for BVB’s chances as Bayern were becoming stronger and stronger and then, for all of the intricacies to their play, they scored with another fairly simple move.
A long ball, a Ribery flick and Robben faced Weidenfeller. In the past, the Dutchman had perhaps been guilty of overthinking it with his chances but he shot early, catching Weidenfeller off guard and the ball trickled towards goal. Even at that moment, some 100 yards away, as the ball bobbled over the line, the BVB faithful could sense it was over.
But for Bayern, the celebrations took off. Arjen Robben didn’t just run away celebrating; he tore away with arms spread wide, knowing he’d done it. He’d avenged his BVB demons, his Champions League demons and even his own fan demons as he showed in part of his celebration. Because after celebrating with teammates, he trudged over to a section of the Bayern support. Robben had copped some abuse from sections of his own fans before the Final and judging by his reaction, during it too. So now he volleyed back some of the treatment he’d been given but the fans did not care. After all, Robben had just made his point to any doubters around 45 seconds before that.
Contrasted with the vibrant, delirious nature of those in red, the other half of Wembley was an altogether more sombre surrounding. Tears weren’t being shed around us but still, the feeling was just one of emptiness. No more could have been given. Injury time may have remained but there was to be no comeback of Malaga proportions this time round despite the late raft of substitutions.
The trophy was Bayern’s as celebrations and frivolity commenced at the opposite end but the yellow wall was not broken. In fact, it’s difficult to recall anyone of a black and yellow persuasion departing immediately after full time. Instead there was applause, a few chants and whistles when Arjen Robben was announced as man of the match but no one was leaving just yet.
There, the fans remained to acclaim their team with the majority still present when Bayern lifted the trophy emphasising the link between this club and its fans. The feeling was similar for Bayern who seemed just as much relieved as they were delighted – finally, after 12 years, they had the trophy again. For Arjen Robben, the duel was won but most importantly, for Bayern Munich the jewel was won. After witnessing some of the celebration shenanigans with Jon, we headed back down Wembley way amidst the jubilant swathes of red.
Slowly trudging towards Wembley Park really brought home the unique nature of everything witnessed over the past few days – whether it was seeing Arjen Robben’s winning goal writing another chapter in the history of European football or witnessing the overhaul of Trafalgar Square Even now, it’s still difficult to pinpoint just how special an occasion it was.
Seeing the game in person of course helped my enjoyment. Yet reflecting a month on, as prestigious an event as the Final was alone, meeting the people who share the same passion for the Bundesliga along with seeing some of the German fan culture firsthand was what made the whole occasion very special indeed.
Archie Rhind-Tutt
Archie is a freelance sports reporter and producer with a strong interest in all things Bundesliga. You can follow him @archiert1
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My Two Moms: Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family
By Zach Wahls, Bruce Littlefield
Author Zach Wahls is the teen whose eloquent speech to the Iowa House Judiciary Committee on behalf of same-sex marriage went viral on YouTube in early 2011. Now, in chapters titled for the Boy Scouts virtues, Zach tells the story of his life as the son of two lesbian women.
Nonfiction, Memoir
Rainbow Book List - Young Adult/ Crossover Nonfiction 2013
Oddly Normal: One Family's Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with his Sexuality
By John Schwartz
On the day thirteen-year-old Joe Schwartz came out at school, his mother came home to find him in the bathroom, having attempted suicide. With Joe's help, his father weaves together the family's story and the statistics behind the failure of schools to protect students who are gender variant.
When We Were Outlaws: a Memoir of Love & Revolution
By Jeanne Cordova
Lesbian activist and reporter for the L.A. Free Press and editor of the Lesbian Tide, Jeanne Cordova, brings the social upheaval and excitement of the 1970s to light in this memoir.
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The Common Sense Canadian
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Rafe: NDP-Green pact should mean good riddance to Kinder Morgan, but Liberal opposition won’t make life easy
May 30, 2017 Energy and Resources, Oil&Gas, Pipelines and Supertankers, Politics, Western CanadafeaturedRafe Mair
John Horgan and Andrew Weaver seal their pact (Photo: @jjhorgan/Twitter)
It will be a much postponed verdict but my initial reaction to the NDP-Green deal is positive.
Whether so motivated or not, Andrew Weaver has done the right politically moral thing – contradiction in terms though that is – by agreeing to support John Horgan and the NDP. It is particularly laudable in the form of being support not coalition. His obligation is twofold – first to the public, to give them the best possible governance option and secondly to the Green Party, which is the reason he has the options in the first place.
Dealing with the latter point, that’s a bigger obligation than might first appear. The Greens are a worldwide “movement” with obligations outside BC and Canada and have ambitions for political power with reasons to believe they can, with time, succeed. The political persuasion that supports Green certainly is not compatible with the BC variety of the Liberal Party and Dr. Weaver has correctly borne that in mind. We will always suspect, with good reason, that in rejecting Ms. Clark, he turned down a pretty good personal offer.
Environment now a serious political issue
On one major point, self-serving though it may be, the Liberals don’t appear no have noticed that environmentalism is no longer the private preserve of the left. In fact, the whole notion is tied in with traditional “conservatism” back to the time of Republican Teddy Roosevelt. The first Federal Environment Minister was Liberal Len Marchand in the 70s, the first for a Province was Jim Nielsen of the Socreds in 1975. It was not until more recent times that the general public became truly alerted and alarmed. For the Liberals to have overlooked that in their early years might be understood, given their newness, bur how they could have continued that policy to the bitter end may account for that end having occurred. It was eloquent testimony to the stranglehold big money had on Ms. Clark and one can forgive all us Kinder Morgan foes taking a bit of whiskey usually beyond our means tonight!
I don’t think for a moment that Dr. Weaver’s anomalous position as a Green can go unnoticed, but sooner or later – most likely later – his position on independent power producers will have to be reconciled with the general position of most British Columbians that they are an environmental catastrophe in addition to being financial disasters, with only the old Liberal hacks profiting handsomely.
Libs can still make trouble
Overlooked in these discussions has been the fact that the Liberals will have an extremely strong opposition and it will be well motivated, if only to make their opposition skills mask their appalling government. I have been in a government with a small majority and can tell you that the opposition can make governing extremely difficult if they understand parliamentary rules and procedures. They can also make new policies all but impossible. I do not believe this government can last anything like four years and would be surprised if it went more than 18 months.
Every time a new government takes over from a government of long standing, the new bunch goes on ad nauseam about the mess they were left by their predecessors. In this case, that case is already made beyond any reasonable doubt, not by good NDP opposition but a vigilant private sector (and here’s where you act surprised, folks) who went largely unreported by the oil-stained media in constant genuflection to the government.
NDP inherit Liberal legacy of debt
Christy Clark missed the boat with LNG (BC Govt / Flickr CC licence)
Here’s part of the story. The provincial debt has, in real dollars, in 15 years of Liberal misrule in prosperous times times, doubled. In that same period, the “great Liberal money managers” all but bankrupted our great power company, BC Hydro, have left it not only without money but bound it to a $10 BILLION expense on Site C; have left ICBC on the ropes; have turned the provincial financial mainstay, natural gas, into a weird pipe dream now floating away into the great beyond, likely never ever to be seen again – called LNG. Were I a sarcastic person by nature – and heaven forfend I should ever be that – I would rejoice we have a trillion dollar Prosperity Fund, squirrelled away so skillfully it can’t be found, to tide us over until times gets better.
The chickens have come home to roost but, unfair though it is, they are no longer Farmer Christy’s responsibly. In fact, watch as these massive Liberal fuckups all become the NDP’s fault when they must be dealt with.
In short, the new Horgan government is going to be fighting for physical survival from the beginning and will be a pretty soft target for the Liberal truth-benders who, already at this writing, just a few hours after the deal was struck, are flooding the social media with gloomy predictions that businesses will be fleeing British Columbia, leaving the unemployed writhing, hungry in the streets.
Horgan’s moment
We will soon see what sort of stuff Mr. Horgan is made of and my suspicion is that it is much sterner stuff than many, including myself, have projected. His principal tasks are two. First, the NDP must be much better prepared to meet the political bullshit that the Christy prevaricators will dish out starting in the first minute they’re in opposition and do so much better they did in 2001 when, contrary to the claims of new premier Campbell that the province was in a terrible fiscal mess, in fact the NDP had a left it with 1.5 BILLION cash in the bank.
The second and far more important task for Mr. Horgan will be to keep his cool. He is known to have a touch of volatility in his personality and while that sometimes serves one well in opposition, it’s very different in government where you must show coolness and firmness. The cabinet will mostly be rookies and be carefully led. I had lunch last week with a former NDP cabinet minister and agreed that the sooner a new minister learns that it’s a lot easier to run the government from the pub than the cabinet room, the better. Everyone arrives at their seat on Day One determined to cure the ills of government, only to find that it’s not quite that easy, as the government faces the reality of trying to make two dollars do the work of one.
It’s normal to close dissertations such as this with a pat on the back to the outgoing government, with words of bonhomie dripping from the lips. As someone who has, in Lyndon Johnson’s little aphorism, been inside the tent peeing out, and outside the tent peeing in, plus the passage of a lot of time, I tend to overlook these flattering obsequies, so my valedictory remarks can be summed up in two words: Good riddance.
About Rafe Mair
Rafe Mair, LL.B, LL.D (Hon) a B.C. MLA 1975 to 1981, was Minister of Environment from late 1978 through 1979. In 1981 he left politics for Talk Radio becoming recognized as one of B.C.'s pre-eminent journalists. An avid fly fisherman, he took a special interest in Atlantic salmon farms and private power projects as environmental calamities and became a powerful voice in opposition to them. Rafe is the co-founder of The Common Sense Canadian and writes a regular blog at rafeonline.com. View all posts by Rafe Mair →
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nonconfidencevote says:
Christy’s gonna go back to the Legislature on International Yoga Day!
I wonder if she’ll “hit the mat” or “hit the road”?
Where’s a Burrard St bridge when you need one………
The witch is not gone yet!
Don’t get too excited ; she has many tricks up her sleeve.
If she can force another election she has enough money to win next time whilst the opposition are devoid of funding.
By laying out their proposed changes the NDP/Greens could become cannon fodder for the Liberals,
The Christy party have no morals ; expect many surprises .
One of the reasons I wouldn’t have minded a slim Lib majority. Under these circumstances, none of the governmental arrangements would have lasted anyway, so let Christy take the fall. If she managed to hang on for a couple of years, some other major doo-doo would take her down. Like a change in interest rates — suddenly BCer’s would understand how deep is the shit we are standing in.
Do not be surprised either if she stretches it out until October either. That will give her more time to con an opposition member to join her and may just be long enough that the LG will just call another election instead. remember the LG is a Liberal supporter and Donor…. Right now i put nothing past Clark to stay in power….
Love your article Mr. Mair. As usual.
It is absolutely imperative that the foreign buyers’ tax on real estate be increased from 15% to 30%. As it stands, with our dollar being worth only about 75 cents American, foreign buyers are sill receiving a 10% discount.
Troy Grant says:
While I am no fan of Weaver, I was pleasantly surprised he did not bend to his true nature and go with Crusty. It must have twisted his soul into knots to resist. However, it must be pointed out while this coalition for today is a progressive victory, it is only by a whisker. The coalition is fragile, minority rule has rarely survived very long. Weaver can wallow in his 10 minutes, but the truth is his 3 chair victory was the worst case scenario going into this election. The plan was to win at least 5 chairs or in his words a majority. The ONLY reason Weaver is more than a grease spot is a mathematical anomaly of MLAs nobody saw coming, the fact is he failed as a leader in terms of election results. The best of luck to Horgan, he will need it.
It will take a lot of money to get us out of this hole they’ve put us in. I am reminded of Tommy Douglas back in the day, when some Yahoo in the audience would holler “where is the money going to come from? Well, Tommy would say: “It’ll come from those that have it!”
Salal says:
I do hope one of John’s first orders of business will be to request a forensic audit. He needs to be forearmed for two very important reasons. BC taxpayers must know the truth. Clark must see in black and white the proof that her balanced budgets skirted the truth. She is a very skilled liar. John must have the documented proof to shut those lies down.
A special request (tongue in cheek) from me. Could we insist that Liberals called upon to speak during question period answer questions put to them without detouring into Liberal infomercials?…and keep there comments factual? Thanks.
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Driver’s Education @ Chaska High School
Community Education, in collaboration with Safeway Driving School, offers students ages 14½ and older the opportunity to participate in classroom instruction to prepare them for the MN permit test. All instructors are licensed by the MN Department of Public Safety.
Behind-the-wheel instruction must be set up with Safeway Driving School, 651.351.9150, www.safewaydrivingschool.com. The cost is $150 and is payable to Safeway at the lessons..
Classroom instruction prepares the student to take the Minnesota permit test and begin the responsibility of driving. The 30 hours of classroom is structured into 10 independent lessons. Students must be on time for all classes. Riding the district activity bus may not ensure timely arrival so alternative arrangements should be made. If a student misses a lesson, they can make up that exact lesson number at the next session or at one of Safeway’s other locations. After class is completed, students that are 15 years old are eligible to take their permit test at any Minnesota exam center. Students can take the class at age 14½ but cannot take their permit test until age 15.
Parent involvement is required to produce safe, responsible teen drivers. It is critical that parents plan to practice regularly with their new student drivers. Safeway offers detailed information on its web site to assist parents with understanding Minnesota laws and requirements for student drivers. Safeway strongly encourages parents to review its parent information and watch the online Parent Class videos at www.safewaydrivingschool.com.
Behind-the-wheel instruction must be directly set up with Safeway Driving School, 651.351.9150,www.safewaydrivingschool.com. The cost is $150 and is payable to Safeway at the lessons. Includes six hours of driving in three, two-hour private lessons. All driving is done in a real car on actual city streets, highways and freeways with a responsible, licensed Safeway instructor. Safeway recommends students take their first lesson 6-8 weeks after receiving their permit. The lessons should be a minimum of 30 days apart to allow for practice driving. The lessons can be completed up to one year after completing classroom. Scheduling is offered online for 24/7 convenience. All of Safeway’s cars are white with identical graphics, so parents and students are confident that it is a Safeway car picking up the student for a lesson. Students can get picked up for their behind-the-wheel lesson from home, school or work.
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Ultimate Frisbee Team @ Chaska Middle School East
Ultimate Frisbee is a fast paced non-contact sport that is requires a team of 7 to move a disc (frisbee) up an soccer-length sized field into an endzone. The Chaska Ultimate team was established in 2015 and it continues to grow. The season starts in mid-March and end in early June. A player can expect 2-3 practices per week, one game per week, and 2-3 weekend tournaments. Games will be played on Thursdays, schedule and locations TBD. The team is open to all players in grades 9-12.
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Col. John A. Dunning -- Do I Have the Right Man?
John A. Dunning
Col US Air Force Res
WWII Korea AFCM
May 28, 1906 - Mar 14, 1974
Magnolia Park Cemetery
Warner Robins, Houston County, Georgia
The gravemarker above peaked my interest for a couple of reasons. First, the idea that Mr. Dunning was from the District of Columbia. Being near a United States Air Force base, it is not uncommon to find individuals from all over the country in this cemetery. I always tend to snap a photo when I see them, though. Some researcher out there might be wondering where Col. Dunning ended up.
Second, I wondered what the acronym AFCM meant. A quick search suggested it stood for "Air Force Commendation Medal." I confirmed this with my resident expert, my father. He is a retired Chief Master Sergeant from the US Air Force, and he now works for the Department of Defense in Washington, DC.
So, I was hooked. I wanted to find out more about Col. John A. Dunning.
A search of the 1910 US Federal Census resulted in this entry:
Precint No. 10, Boise, Ada, Idaho
O'Farrel St.
Dunning, Donald A. - age 35; m1; 7 yrs; b. Kansas; parents b. Missouri; occ. Lawyer
Dunning, Alice H. - age 30; m1; 7 yrs; 3 children; b. District of Columbia; parents b. New York
Dunning, John A. - age 4; b. District of Columbia
Dunning, Sarah - age 0/12; b. Idaho
Dunning, Mary - age 0/12; b. Idaho
A few other finds were pretty interesting: searching with Google, I found a copy of the 6 July 1945 edition of the Chinese Lantern, a newspaper for the U. S. Armed Forces during World War II. A short article with this photo attached was included. Under the photo was the caption, "Dunning." The article:
'HATCHETS,' 'LUCKY LADY' COMMENDED
HQ., 14TH AIR FORCE - The "Flying Hatchet" fighter group and the "Lucky Lady" medium bombardment squadron have awarded Unit Citations for "outstanding performance of duty in action during the period of April 10 to May 15, 1945 when the Japanese attempted capture the airfield at Chinkiang but were defeated."
The Flying Hatchets fighter group is under the command of Col. John A. Dunning, San Antonio, Tex., and the "Lucky Lady" medium bombers are commanded by Col. T. Alan Bennett, Winter Park, Fla.
Using Ancestry, I found a couple of Stars and Stripes newspaper articles (Europe, Mediterranean, and North Africa Editions database) that seemed to also fit "my" Col. Dunning. The first was from 24 May 1952.
"20th Wing Jets Arrive in UK
LONDON, May 23 (AP) -- The first squadron of F84G Thunderjets of the U. S. Air Force 20th Fighter-Bomber Wing has arrived at Weathersfield, Essex.
The wing is part of the 49th Air Div, which also includes a wing of B45 Tornado light jet bombers.
The division is being moved to Britain from Langley AFB at Hampton, Va. The B45 will be the firts multijet bomber-type plane sent to Europe. It attains a speed of about 550 mph with its four jet engines.
Col John D. Stevenson, of Laramie, Wyo., commands the division. Col John A. Dunning, of San Antonio, commands the 20th Fighter-Bomber Wing. Col David M. Jones, of Winters, Tex., commands the 47th Light-Bomber Wing. He was a flight commander on the first Tokyo raid in 1942."
The second article is quite lengthy. It was written by Jon Hagar, Staff Writer, for the 1 January 1955 Stars and Stripes (page 11). The title was Thunderstreaks: New Firepower for NATO - Swept-wing F84Fs can carry 6,000-pound weapons load, exceed 45,000-foot altitude, smash the sonic barrier. Col. John A. Dunning was mentioned when the next units to receive these planes were described:
Among the next units to get the Thunderstreaks will be Col. John A. Dunning's 20th Fighter-Bomber Wing at Wethersfield. It is currently flying the Thunderjet, the plane which fought the bulk of the air war for the United Nations in Korea and was turned out at the rate of 10 a day during the height of that conflict by the same firm that is now tooled up for Thunderstreak production.
I found all of this quite interesting. Of course, the information presented here is not "proof-positive" as to whether or not it applies to "my" Col. John A. Dunning. Do I have the right man? Further investigation would be required to properly answer that. I do think, however, all the timeframes fit rather nicely with the information on the gravemarker at Magnolia Park. Take it as you see fit.
I thank Col. John A. Dunning for his service to our country.
Ancestry Dunning Epitaphs Interesting Individuals Korean War Military World War II
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The John A. Dunning mention in the Chinese Article was the father of my neighbor, and he was a Brigadier General and Silver Star recipient for his service in WWII. He died and is buried in San Antonio, TX. He was born in 1914 in TX and died in 1962.
You may wish to check this link for an eyewitness account of an incident that took place in China in World War Two involving Colonel John Dunning.
http://www.witnesstowar.org/content/view.phpg=Inc&c=Inc&v=13
General John A. ("Big John" to his men, I believe)Dunning was commander of the 20th at Wethersfield RAF base in England in the early to mid 1950's. I believe he passed in 1962 following medical treatment at a hospital in the Philippines. My dad knew him in the 20th and respected him deeply.
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Women In Yeats at 47 Great Jones St. (2015)
Sonoko December 24, 2015 PRODUCTIONS, THEATER
by William Butler Yeats
Directed by Sonoko Kawahara
Site-Specific Presentation of
At The Hawks Well and The Only Jealousy of Emer
at 47 Great Jones Studio 6th FL
A hawk cries, a ghost is born, a hero is dead and Emer calls for love.
Two actresses meet in a bare-bones East Village studio, where they conjure up the supernatural world of W.B. Yeats. Extremely minimal, extremely challenging, yet subtly furious.
Photo by Keiichiro Hoashi
About the production
Following the critically acclaimed, mesmerizing jazz and martial arts theater piece Deadly-She Wolf Assassin at Armageddon!, CJA is pleased to launch this new minimalist telling of two heroic Irish tales by the legendary Irish poet W.B. Yeats. At the Hawk’s Well and The Only Jealousy of Emer are two of five shorts plays known as the “Cuchulain Cycle” written by Yeats, which were influenced by traditional Japanese Noh theater. Yeats began writing this cycle in 1916. 100 years later, two modern New York women summon his vision in a studio in the East Village.
About Cuchulain Cycle
The arrogant young hero, seeks out the immortal water, nearly drinks but meets bird woman and fails. (AT THE HAWKS WELL, 1916), then is named the bravest among men and received a proof, a green helmet (THE GREEN HELMET, 1910), later King Conchubar, aware of Cuchulain’s bravery and his unruly temper, makes Cuchulain swear an oath of obedience, forcing the unaware Cuchulain to fight and kill his own son, a begotten on the woman of spirit, Queen Aoife. After discovering the truth, a raged hero runs out to fight the sea and drown (ON BALIE’S STRAND 1904), but his wife Emer makes a bargain with the spirit of the sea, restoring his life by renouncing forever any claim or hope for Cuchulain’s love, (THE ONLY JEALOUSY OF EMER 1919), finally, at the battle filed, the hero is killed by the Blind Man from ON BALIE’S STRAND for the price of twelve pennies. (THE DEATH OF CUCHULAIN 1939).
Written by William Butler Yeats
Performed by Marina Celander, Youn Jung Kim, Sachiko Ninomiya (Japanese dance)
& Sumie Kaneko (shamisen/koto/voice)
Lighting: Ayumu “Poe” Saegusa
Music: Sumie Kaneko
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For Elizabeth
On the Poet’s Eleventh Wedding Anniversary
Though you behold me silent in this room,
Know that I walk in fields of fresh-cut hay;
Though I be still, my thoughts like roses bloom
And run with clouds across the vault of day.
The west wind summons me beyond this chair
Where you now see me, seemingly transfixed;
Though closed, my window draws the mountain air
With scent of pine and cedar intermixed.
We twain this mortal clay shall not confine,
Nor seasons circumscribe, nor passing years
Encase eternity. Our stars outshine
The squandered light of this world’s dying spheres:
For love, unbounded, cannot be contained,
Save by that Heart to whom it is ordained.
Festum Sanctae Mariae Magdalenae Poenitentis
Anno MMXVII
Joseph Charles MacKenzie is the first and last American to win First Place in the Long Poem Section of the Scottish International Poetry Competition, Henry M. Austin Poetry Prize.
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James Sale July 29, 2017
Normally we think of squandering time or money, so I love the conceit of ‘squandering’ light; very powerful. The tight ‘boundary’ of the concluding couplet, of course, reverse that effect of the world’s squandering, since nothing is wasted in its precision.
Joseph Charles MacKenzie July 29, 2017
Mr. Sale, you have greatly relieved me by your comment.
Although, the couplet, in the sense of the “snapping back awake from the meditation” that I so very much hoped to achieve, and which only you have that technical agility to indicate, is really no act of any poetic virtue on my part.
I feel that the many, many uses of the couplet readers have pointed out in the Sonnets for Christ the King are the effect of the English sonnet’s primary developer, your own countryman William Shakespeare.
Someone once accused me once of “returning to the horse and buggy days” with the English sonnet’s traditional idiomatic usages. But a better analogy came to me later.
Shakespeare’s sonnet form is not a horse and buggy. For me, it is rather a 1742 Guaneri “del Gesu” violin, the same that we saw Rachel Barton Pine play on last Saturday at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. (Her 18 million dollars worth of fiddle is on permanent loan to her, by the way!)
For, when you really blow the dust off of Shakespeare’s form, when you polish it up, position that bridge, add the new strings, and warm it up, you find that it does anything you want. You want the couplet to do this? Then, by my faith, it will do it.
And I think that Shakespeare did not live to fully understand what he had accomplished. Wyatt and Surrey had furnished all the material, but as a player, I think Shakespeare was really just beginning to understand the form’s capabilities.
It seems there are so many things, alas, that are not traceable to any virtue on my part, this being one of them.
Dear Mackenzie – that may be so: as a poet one may always be conscious of the technique one is employing – or even fully of what one is saying (did Shakespeare himself ever imagine that he said what all the subsequent critics have ascribed to him?) but the fact is that the ‘Muse’ through us does accomplish extraordinary things if we are in the right mode of receptivity, which I do believe you to be. And further, on your point about Shakespeare’s sonnet form, again you are spot on. I like all sonnet forms, including the Petrarchan, but I think, as I think you do, that the Shakespearian form is superior in English precisely because of what it is capable of. The Petrarchan’s structure of octave/sestet lends itself beautifully to a binary contrast; but the Shakespearean form in its 3 quatrain + couplet structure lends itself to extraordinary emotional and logical leaps: a sort of thesis, antithesis, synthesis, and then when you think you can’t go any further – boom – the couplet that clinches everything. Stephen Fry observed, and I think he is right, that the ability to write an effective sonnet is the test of any poet worth their salt. Your 77 on Christ the King, therefore, are an extraordinary performance.
Joseph Charles MacKenzie March 21, 2018
I simply wish everyone to know that Mr. Sale’s analyses of the Shakespearean sonnet’s structure, and his encouragement in my use of it, has been extremely important to me as a poet.
Amy Foreman July 29, 2017
This is a stirring and beautiful love poem, Joseph Charles MacKenzie, with the perfect tension between the seen and unseen, the corporeal and the immaterial, the still, silent “clay” and the walking, running, shining soul loosely bound to that “clay,” but not confined . . . Very lovely, sir.
Thank you, Amy. I greatly appreciate that you have identified that dichotomy “material/immaterial.” For you, I will explain.
At St. John’s College, I had the privilege of getting to know the founder of that school’s Great Books Program, Mortimer J. Adler, a popularizer of philosophy who was popular himself. Professor Adler was a very good Thomist and Aristotelian. A Jew, he converted to Catholicism at the end of his life.
He could read Aristotle’s Greek without recourse to any dictionary, when I knew him.
One of his favorite Thomistic teachings was the “immateriality of the intellect.” It is not surprising that he appeared on TV with William Buckley to discuss just that. He loved proving it, as well, one of his favorite proofs.
So you have actually discerned the very thing which makes the poem a metaphysical poem, as well as a love poem. And the couplet adds the final, Chistological note.
As to love, its only real expression is marriage—matrimony being a perfect state, as we learn in our sacramental theology. This is reflected in the mystical marriage.
The Heart in the couplet is the Sacred Heart because the Feast of the Blessed Magdalene, the date of our anniversary, occurs in July, what we call the Month of the Sacred Heart. The Sacred Heart is also for us a play on material immaterial, because, metaphysically, it is both the heart that was pierced by the centurion’s lance, the Heart of Mary’s flesh, but also the metaphysical bridge, if you will, between our visible finite world and the Infinite One.
But you comment proves what a Franciscan told me about the Sonnets for Christ the King: “Everyone will discern in the poems what he or she will be given to discern.” So that can be many things, this layer or that layer.
As James Sales has said, the hallmark of true poetry is the disarming of the critical intellect. One might even say the lifting of the critical intellect once disarmed.
Satyananda Sarangi July 29, 2017
Greetings Sir!
It is undoubtedly one of the pleasant experiences to read your sonnets. And this love poem is quite good.
Needless to say, I am getting inspired by every post on this website.
Dear Mr. Sarangi,
I always appreciate that you have experienced this lightness, this pleasure. Pleasure is a thing we have destroyed in the West.
In your Indian tradition, it seems you have had many medieval poets who understood the pleasures of poetry—even Kabir, I would say—possibly because they accompanied themselves on musical instruments in recitation and so understood one of the purposes of art: to unburden.
Art is for man. I write for you in view of my King.
Yes, indeed. Being from a land where English is not the native language, sometimes it is quite impossible to write in strict metrical form. But, I still want to dedicate some lines to you :
Art that withers with time isn’t what we seek,
For heavens never wished men to slumber;
These clouds that mask our vision may lumber
Around and mock us for being so weak.
The carrion of truth, the dying beauty
And warmth of the genuine lives that fade,
Where e’erlasting wonders of world are made,
Die not, but live on as one entity.
O Lord! With a zillion eyes, behold
The men lying in dust, blood and folklore;
With each elapsing day, You bless them more
By the far stretching sun rays carved of gold.
Ere the pendulum hands freeze to be stilled,
Guide all through good, and let Eden be filled.
© 2017 Satyananda Sarangi
( This poem has no meter, I would like you to ignore this fact.)
Joseph S. Salemi July 29, 2017
This is a truly beautiful sonnet.
I boastfully, pridefully, and shamelessly want everyone to know that this generous comment comes from someone whose command of prosody is the absolute best our nation has to offer!
So there!
And, of course, we have discussed in another thread Salemi’s use of olfaction in his “Potpourri,” so verse 8 of the sonnet has a very contemporary precedent, if you will.
New Mexico contains part of the chain of the Rocky Mountains. Our balcony gives onto the nearby Sandia Mountains which are proud, rough, and majestic in an austere and mysterious way. I call them my “mystical mountain.” If the winds are just right, indeed the scent of pine and cedar can be discerned.
But I am also situated among three medieval “pueblos” or villages. Jemez to the west, Santa Anna to the north, and Sandia to east. The Puebloans have traditionally used the various trees for medicinal purposes and have evolved a symbology of trees, much in the manner of European medieval culture.
The pine tree is the tree of the gentiles whose boughs can replaces the palms of our Palm Sunday liturgy. The height of the conifer symbolizes the stature of the Messiah.
The cedar is of such biblical importance that I have no reason to expound on that here. Our New Mexico cedars are of humble appearance compared to those of Lebanon. They characterize our landscape. The Indians associate them with creativity.
I offer this for readers as I live in a very symbolic world which informs every verse!
Lorna Davis July 29, 2017
Mr. MacKenzie, I loved this sonnet the first time through, but found so much more after reading your description of the area you live in. I also live in the mountains, but on the coastal slope of a drought-prone area, where the only pines and cedars are the ones I planted many years ago. You’ve painted a lovely picture here, not just of your world and your reverie, where you “run with clouds across the vault of sky”, but also the feeling of a deep and peaceful relationship, one that shares but also transcends the environment you describe.
For Readers, Lorna Davis is a fine formalist poet whose biography is most edifying indeed. You may recall her winning 2nd place in the prestigious Society of Classical Poets 2017 Annual Poetry Contest.
Lorna Davis is also what we call in French a “poetesse née,” who began writing verses at the age of six.
I had very much enjoyed her poem entitled, “The Harvest.” It contains a moral lesson some very sad, unfortunate souls I have come to know of late, might do well to heed:
It’s what you’ve learned to feel in life
That you will feel in death;
The love or hate that fills your heart
Will fill your dying breath.
The machinations of this world
Are but a stage for learning;
The fires that fuel the spirit
Are what keep the wheels turning.
Each moment on this earthly plane
Is one more chance to grow,
But what you’ll harvest is your Self;
Be careful what you sow.
So I thank you most profoundly, Lorna Davis. In a way your comment is the most important because you have seen how our environment is both shared and transcended.
One of the errors of modernism is the cult of nature, naturalism, which imbues mere creatures with a kind of divine or quasi-divine status—nature as an end in itself.
Perhaps you might share my Thomistic perspective according to which nature is merely one of the Five Ways to the intellective realization of God’s existence. It is the Way of Causation. The majesty we behold in our environment elicits in us the meditation of its cause. As no created thing can cause itself, the Creator must be, in fact, outside the “chain of causality.”
Therefore, the grandeur that Lorna Davis and I are contemplating in this discussion is not the grandeur of creation, but the grandeur of the Creator.
Mr. MacKenzie, thank you for your kind response to my comment. I am so pleased to know that you found one of my poems worthy of remembering. I am acutely aware of how far out of my league I am here, and as disheartening as the conversations have sometimes been, I am reminded over and over of how lucky I am to be a member.
We have at times been at opposite ends of the political spectrum – I’m afraid my liberal views run about four generations deep – but a group that abandons civility is unlikely to be much help, in my opinion, in preserving or enhancing our civilization. Surely the one lies at the very core of the other. So I thank you for always being willing to discuss ideas and ideals in a rational manner; it seems likely that what humanity has in common – love of family, love of nature, a sense of the divine – far outweighs our differences. And good poetry is good poetry.
I looked into Thomism a little today, and will have to look further. One of the most profound spiritual experiences I have ever had was in an astronomy class in my first semester in college – my first sense of the actual scale of the known universe. It didn’t in any way diminish my belief in a Creator – quite the opposite, in fact: I have since that day been in awe, and realize that It is not something we can shrink down to a size that our brains can easily assimilate. I do perceive the Creator everywhere in the creation, not that the creation in itself is divine, or that the creation and the Creator are one, but that It is present in every particle and all of the space between. I’m afraid I’m not finding the words to describe that awareness. Perhaps the words of St. Thomas Aquinas will help. Again, thank you.
David Watt July 29, 2017
Mr. Mackenzie, I would liken this sonnet to a set of scales upon which rest the senses, higher feelings, and the physical world. Balance is effortlessly maintained despite the difficult task of choosing the optimal position for each element.
Many thanks David Watt for your observation about balance, because in truth, the entire structure of the sonnet, let’s face it, balances motion against rest, statis against movement.
Of course, this is the observation of a poet. Readers may recall Mr. Watt’s unforgettable sunbeam-savouring rabbit that appeared last June in the Society of Classical Poets: http://classicalpoets.org/taking-a-gambol-and-other-poetry-by-david-watt/
I would love to hear this poem recited in the Australian accent because I think the full force of its wit would become quite apparent.
For Readers, David Watt is an Australian poet from Canberra, where the famous Floriade festival takes place I believe—an annual event doubtless worthy a poem!
Thank you for your kind words Mr. MacKenzie. The Floriade Festival with its artistically displayed tulips and many other flowers would indeed prove a fine subject for poetry. As we generally attend each year, I will keep this idea in mind.
I hadn’t thought of reciting ‘Taking a Gambol’ in my distinctively Aussie accent. However, I do appreciate your suggestion.
Sally Cook July 30, 2017
Dear Mr. MacKenzie —
In this dumb, dry age, your poem is so evocative of all that is good.
Good gets little attention today, and so I thank you.
I read with interest what you say about trees. My father loved trees, and was always planting them. I can still see a row of pines he planted on one side of a road near here. When we drive by, it is as if I were visiting him.
I would like to show you some poems I have written about that. Joseph S. Salemi has published some of these in the past in his journal TRINACRIA.
All good art is in some way an expression of an aspect of love, and symbolic of love. That is why love poems are so difficult to write and so few write them. Your poem puts us one step closer to the ultimate truth.
Hi Sally Cook – I love your point about good art being an expression of an aspect of love; that is very profound, and I believe it to be true. Thank you.
In fact, if you read Mr. Sale’s “The Lyre Speaks True,” you will see how very much the poet adheres to this truth and I invite everyone to read my review of this wonderful collection here:
http://classicalpoets.org/review-the-lyre-speaks-true-james-sale-2016/
James Sale August 4, 2017
Thank you kindly for referring to my collection!!
Dear Sally Cook,
I am greatly honored by your kind and very important comment.
[Reminder for Readers: Sally Cook is one of those very fortunate poets who has been able to publish in Joseph Salemi’s TRINACRIA Review—the finest lyric review in our country at this time and well nigh impossible to get into—and is a prolific poet who has appeared in many distinguished publications. TRINARCRIA # 16 presents her exquisite “What the Moon Knows,” but I believe she has appeared in other issues as well.]
I would love to see your poems on trees! Keep in mind, I am in a wilderness, where my family has been for at least 400 years (with the foundation of our capital of Santa Fe). Trees have significance and play into at least one of the New Mexico poems of Sonnets for Christ the King.
What I wouldn’t give to hear your Sally Cook opinion about my Sonnet 27 which places our Spanish-introduced cottonwoods in a place of honor! Here is the link and please enjoy, Ms. Cook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1izFY5IZts
Is it possible to place an example of the poems you are talking about here now that you have utterly teased all us readers? (!)
Sally Cook August 3, 2017
I was able to get where I could hear you read your Sonnet 27, and greatly admired your reading of it. However,
I would like very much to read your sonnet 27on the page, but don’t have enough computer proficiency to be able to locate it in print.
Would you mind very much printing it here so all of us may see it?
Here are two of the poems about my father’s trees – one chestnut, admired; the others, a row of pines planted.
A Memory Of Franklin Street
Published National Review
Heaven surrounded us, all sweetness then,
Bright sky and earth, so calm and more than fair;
Warm and expansive, welcoming, so when
We passed a building it seemed more than square
Brick and rough timber. I might stop to stare
And wonder at the glow of what had been
Before my time; reach out to touch the bare
And rugged trunk of one great tree again
Recall my father once stood with me there
As he explained its decades, more than ten,
Of leafing and then shedding. Past repair,
Its life had paralleled the lives of men.
The Holland Road Pines
Originally Published in TRINACRIA
Long rows of pines my father placed
On Holland Road are interlaced
With what he knew. I see them there;
He cannot know my backward stare.
I sense his purpose here. I read
His poetry, perceive his need
To leave a mark, that we may know
Time moves, although it is so slow
We barely know it takes us where
An aging footstep on a stair
Speaks volumes of the speed of night;
I see his trees, in fading light,
Ken July 31, 2017
Sally, Your “All good art is in some way an expression of an aspect of love, and symbolic of love” has helped me understand Mr. MacKenzie’s work. Every poem of his I read or hear just proves what you are saying.
Joseph Charles MacKenzie August 2, 2017
I am very please, Ken, that you have also enjoyed the other poems as well. Indeed, if anyone should ask what the Sonnets for Christ the King are about, it would be perfectly correct to answer: “Love.”
Sally, the two poems, one published in the National Review and the other in TRINACRIA are gorgeous beyond compare.
These are fresh, almost nondescript in their ease of language, and one could go on I suppose in a technical way with the rhymes falling so perfectly, just as naturally as leaves from a tree.
But their most outstanding quality is truly their lyricism, in particular that part of lyricism of which your trees are an outstanding metaphor, to speak of the passage of time.
The way in which you have integrated what I call the “hidden face of the father” is perfectly magnificent.
Ms. Cook, I must tell you that the beauty of these two poems far exceeds my abilities to praise them as they clearly deserve. I can only say that this is the Ars Poetica Nova at its finest.
How very gently, smoothly, and effortlessly your two poems illustrate the shift from the pathetic 20th century with its sad-sack, Negative Nancy self-sophisticates, to the pure beauty and serene perfection of the Ars Poetica Nova! I am so very pleased I asked you to share these—they really illustrate the very best principles of the Nouvelle Poésie!
I am most honored by your kind response, Ms. Cook.
Thanks, James Sale —
I have been being interviewed for a book someone is writing about me, and this and other related topics keep coming up. So I was ready to go on about it. Interestingly, the book will be about my paintings. I find it significant that the same problems exist in all areas of the arts. Don’t you sense a trend toward the ugly, the meaningless, the vague, and the generally unpleasant? Why the arts always expected to take the side of the trivial and whiny? In the past 30 years (probably more) why did so many creative people refuse to grow up? Was it the schools, the entertainment media, the destruction of family, religion, patriotism and other rulers by which we used to measure expression:
I think everyone might be interested to hear what you have to say.
In fact, the observation—and James Sale has stated it elsewhere with aught of eloquence, I might add— is fundamental and primary. As poets, we must never forget this. In a way, it is what makes us poets. It is what we bring to the world.
The vast history of lyric verse in fact supports Sally Cooks notion.
But I would be very interested to know when the book Sally Speaks of will see the light of day. I think it would be edifying to have it reviewed maybe in the Society of Classical Poets, assuming the “scoop” isn’t already assigned to another publication?
Thanks Mr Mackenzie – I hope one day to be invited to review Sally Cook’s poetry; as for her art, I am not qualified to judge, though as Jack Nicholson, playing the Joker in the Batman movie, once observed: “I don’t know whether it’s art, but I like it”!
Thanks, but It is too early to tell. I will know more later.
Dear Sally – thank you very much for your perceptive comments and also wishing for me to express my views on what is – phew! – a huge topic. One indeed worthy of the whole mental capacity of the members of the SoCP, for perhaps if we could answer this with greater clarity then we could seek to redress it in society even more effectively. Of course, we do that by writing poems predicated on ‘beauty’, but sometimes it is true to say that poetry won’t hack it for the terminally unimaginative: they have to have their dose of prose, medicinally -speaking, before they can even begin to comprehend the scale of the loss we have suffered over the last 300 years or so. This is not to say that ‘things’ were better in ye olde days; some things were and some things weren’t. But what more than anything else in my view has contributed to the mass destruction of our values, the values which built society, and which still sustains it (though every year another plank is taken out of the edifice), is the answer to the simple question, once posed by Pontius Pilate: What is truth? Pilate was simply a political pragmatist who liked expediency, but what we have done, and this has accelerated since the Enlightenment, is undermine the basis that truth can exist at all; that everything is ‘relative’ or subjective, or just your opinion. Couple that with the fatuous idea that everyone is ‘entitled to their opinion’ (their voting yes, ignorant opinions no), then we have a recipe for chaos, disaster, and very ugly art – because consequentially from the entitlement to have an opinion, everyone is entitled to be what they want as well – no matter how little study or talent they may possess. Who can gainsay they are artists? This has happened on many fronts. The political and spiritual leaders in the West have much to answer for: when they had a grip on the public mind and opinion, they largely abused it. World War 1 was the watershed after which it all came to a head: how could the public – with its millions dead – have trusted those egregious leaders who promised a new world fit for heroes tomorrow, and who delivered so little – poverty and the Wall Street Crash today? Small wonder that skepticism flourished, alongside a general negativity about life, even as life was, in fact, after the WW 2, about to improve. But this wouldn’t have been total fatal except for the fact that wickedness does like to flourish – remove one constraint, and suddenly we have a flood, all crying ‘freedom’ but really desiring the license of libertines. It is really quite astonishing how many of our cultural heroes and heroines are total hedonists, and if I got onto the topic of atheism and atheists I’d need a long, long space to outline my views. Funnily enough, I have recently been invited by a Quaker magazine to do a long article on just this subject, or more exactly on theodicies, so I am looking forward to engaging with it soon. Hope I have said enough for now – thanks for stimulating me to reply!
This is very important what Mr. Sale is saying.
The pagans, both early and 20th-century Germanic, had strong family and patriotic values. And yet their god is death.
And the few so-called “values” we possess today, are the merest crumbs from Christendom’s table. They can be relativized, re-defined, and even discarded, because no longer a function of truth.
I would like everyone to know that “Though You Behold Me Silent In This Room,” is now condemned by a 20th-century modernist on grounds that it does not drag through the streets the sensuality of the beloved and, worse, that the poem does not arise from a sexual interlude.
In other words, that it is not pornographic.
But such a condemnation. modernist to its core, is one of the highest forms of praise in reverse.
That the Ars Poetica Nova does not seek to dazzle the audience with sensationalist “originality,” as if this were the whole “game” of poetry—as it was for the modernists, and we see how boring it made them—is the result of a nobler, finer originality.
The world very rarely sees, as I mentioned to Fr. Libby, love poetry that violates or discards all the cheap clichés of modernism. In fact, I do not know any prior instance in at least 300 years of English lyric verse of a love poem whose foundational conceit intertwines the metaphysics of the intellect with the metaphysics of Love in its highest, purest sense, while retaining the traditional play of beholding/beheld in the perfectly ordinary context of marriage.
Such a criticism informs the entire world that this one sonnet discards every single dogma the modernists ever held dear.
I believe that those who have appreciated this sonnet, by their ability to recognize the paradigm shift which has clearly taken place, are already holding Ars Poetica Nova values of poetry (and have been practicing them)—further proof that the Ars Poetica Nova is here to stay.
Let those who live in the 20th-century, blinded by their own self-sophistications, condemn away. Perhaps my work represent exactly that dividing line between the old school and the new on a level that runs much, much deeper than formalism, which can be very empty.
Old 20th-century modernists have been been imploding over my work since the Inaugural Poem for Donald J. Trump, and now this sonnet, this simplest of love poems, has their heads spinning again.
Sultana Raza August 26, 2017
I hope you don’t mind my jumping in here. I agree that the ugly, the violent, and the twisted is being promoted in all the arts. Who knows why? The reasons are probably too numerous and varied for anyone to enumerate. However, these articles give an interesting take on Modern Art:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/10/17/unpopular-front
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20161004-was-modern-art-a-weapon-of-the-cia
Joseph Charles MacKenzie June 20, 2018
Thank you for your most perspicacious observation. It is interesting that this is becoming an issue in the mainstream.
Hope you don’t mind my jumping in here. Who knows why the arts have been encouraged to become ugly, violent, twisted. However, here are some interesting takes on the subject:
The question would be worth addressing in an essay, to be sure!
Sultana Raza June 20, 2018
Agreed. Apart from the fact that this year I’m quite busy presenting papers (on Keats) at conferences, with a few more coming up in the next few months, it would be better if this particular essay were written by an American. Then, at least the writer wouldn’t be considered to be biased. Also, though asymmetry has been fashionable in the arts for many decades now, does it foster balance in society or the individual? And doesn’t society need balance in order to progress further more evenly, like a vehicle? Sorry, if it seems like I’m lecturing, but there are long-term effects of promoting asymmetrical structures and ways of thinking in the arts to consider.
James Sale hit the nail on the head on the English sonnet and MacKenzie’s gift, even if MacKenzie himself wants to give all the credit to the form. Sale’s beautiful point about the English sonnet sure doesn’t make the form any easier.
No, Ken, you are right – it is a difficult form, but as Mr Mackenzie has shown – one with such massive potential for expressive power.
But I also owe something to New Mexico’s poetical history which has more than once united poetry with power, if you will, in a significant way.
For, the sonnet in its Spanish Petrarchan form did reach my beloved land on April 30, 1598, the day Don Juan de Oñate forded the Rio Grande at El Paso del Norte, served at a solemn High Mass on its banks with his some 800 soldiers, read the Royal Charter of La Nueba Mexico, and declared a day of festivities which included a stage play about the Conquest written by Don Marcos Farfan de los Godos, one of Oñate’s captains, and the recitation of poetry, no doubt including the sonnets of Garcilaso de la Vega, whose works were already popular in Mexico and would have been brought in by the soldiers. Of course, recitation was the primary entertainment in those days with Garcilaso’s tremendous success, especially as this deeply spiritual poet was also a renowned soldier.
These things matter. AS a poet, I am not disconnected from New Mexico’s literary past. There are hispanic-hating bigots among the old modernist who are aware of my regionality and who despise my Catholic roots with unfathomable hatred.
But history is also a source of power in poetry, even if we cannot emulate the past. I have learned a great deal even from Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz in terms of the kind of force that Mr. Sale is speaking of, even though I employ none of those lovely, Baroque twists and turns that she is so famous for.
Thank you, Mr. Sarangi, for your kind poem. Yes, it is very interesting to approach English from the perspective of other languages, as also in the case of my Scottish mentor (his native languages are Scots and Gaelic). But this can sometimes give a power and concentration to a poem.
I very much enjoyed your quatrain:
Chris Tabaka July 31, 2017
A beautiful poem.
Many thanks for your kind compliment. Are you the Christine Anne Tabaka whose wonderful three-quatrain poem, “The Dying Muse,” was published by the SCP in June?
By your theme of “the dying of poetry,” it very much reminded me of Sonnet 52 from “Sonnets for Christ the King” which I would love to hear your poet’s opinion on. I think you will immediately see the relationship I am speaking of.
Here is the audio. Please enjoy!
Father Richard Libby July 31, 2017
Mr. MacKenzie, this is a well written and beautiful sonnet. Congratulations on the poem and on your anniversary!
Thank you, dear Fr. Libbey, for your anniversary congratulations. I am so very pleased that you enjoyed the Sonnet.
And, of course, we would expect no less from clergy, who love the fact that we finally have love poetry ordained to marriage.
And this could not be more important, because it counteracts the false idea of love the Romantics have imposed on English poetry since the 19th-century, an idea drawing many souls into perdition, I fear.
James Eliot December 2, 2018
Very fine poem, I agree with Fr. Libby.
Dona Fox July 31, 2017
Dear Joseph Charles MacKenzie, Thank you for sharing the poem you wrote for your wife. I forwarded your words to my husband and he came in all the way from the fresh-cut fields to kiss me.
Ha, ha, ha! I must say the sonnet earned me a kiss from my spouse as well! It looks like I would do well do write as many love sonnets as I can. Maybe this sonnet has a special amorous effect on readers!
But I am very, very pleased that you have reported such a delightful outcome, Mrs Fox. This goes to what Sally Cook was saying above about all good art having love as its underlying principle.
All, may I please recommend Lorna Davis’s second response above. I think it is one of the most eloquent statements about the relation between decency and civilization I have ever read.
And the reality is that I am neither left nor right nor anything else in any kind of spectrum. I am a simple Thomist, that is all.
But we would all do well to heed Lorna’s advice not only in recognizing the intellect’s priority over the will (Lorna’s “always being willing to discuss things rationally”), but in subjecting the intellect to the highest things, supreme of which is charity.
Helen H. Gordon August 2, 2017
I loved this sonnet. The rhymes are well chosen (not the least trite), to carry the theme forward. The English sonnet form suits the subject very well, progressing through the quatrains and ending with a memorable couplet. I also enjoyed the readers’ comments about the contrasts of time and place, material and evanescent. Nice craftsmanship, Mr. MacKenzie.
Oh yes, the couplet is the most difficult part of a sonnet.
Thank you, Helen H. Gordon. May I please ask if you are the historical novelist, composition expert, poetess, and author of a book on Shakespeare’s sonnets,? You are an English professor I understand?
Oh yes! The readers comments here have given me a greater understanding of the poem as well—one of the joys of the Society of Classical Poets.
Charles Southerland August 3, 2017
Dear Mr. MacKenzie,
I agree with all of those before me how beautiful and wonderful your poem is. It is a marvelous tribute to you beloved wife.
I have read it many times and wondered why the cliches
of the last three lines of the first stanza haven’t drawn any criticism from experienced poets. Those lines are pretty standard fare in the poetry world.
There is a hint of cliche in the first line of the second stanza as well, but the bigger issue of the stanza is sense, not cliche. For example: If the west wind summons you beyond or past your chair, where does it summon you to? The line seems to die there without an answer even though you continue on with another clause that ends abruptly without resolution. How is it that the wind can summon the transfixed, seemingly or no? Both clauses are detrimental to the other. One demands action while the other stifles action.
The issue is further compounded in the third and fourth lines with a closed window, which somehow draws mountain air which produces the scent of pine and cedar intermixed but unexplained by metaphor, simile or allegory. The reader has to make the leap that the house is drafty or poorly built for these events to take place. I don’t think your imagination quite coincides with those specific images. To me, there is no cohesive sense of the sonnet line in the entire stanza. Others may disagree.
Your final stanza and your couplet are interesting in that, eighteenth century language rides into view. I’m not against the language but it seems that you are stretching your neck to be poetic instead of letting the poetry come of its own accord.
The sentence: “Our stars outshine the squandered light of this world’s dying spheres.” sounds great but I don’t get the plural “spheres” in position as either a rhyme or sensibility. “Our stars” is possessive and plural, yet “light” is singular, and in the couplet which should resolve the sonnet, Heart is also singular. If clay cannot confine, or seasons circumscribe, or passing years encase eternity, (eternity is forever light) then how can stars (which burn out eventually) outshine anything beholden to time, such as dying spheres?
Death is a timed commodity, I think. Eternity is not. “The squandered light of this world’s dying spheres” is problematic, in that, as a metaphor, only the Earth and moon are spheres, and I can’t find anywhere in the scripture where either of them die or that the world has more than one sphere that orbits it. Either way, the image isn’t apt.
Your couplet sounds beautiful.
For love, unbounded, cannot be contained— seems redundant, does it not? Why waste precious words on restatement?
I find that love, unbounded or not, contained or not, can falter between mortals. It happens all the time, even if it is ordained. Divorce courts are full of faltering love between mortals.
Of course, if you are saying that the Heart to whom it is ordained is Christ, I stand corrected, but your title says it’s for your wife, not the Lord.
Like I said, It is a beautiful poem. Kudo’s.
Charles Southerland has written a reasonable and cogent critique of our friend, Joseph Mackenzie’s, poem. For all the politeness and civility, it is of course a devastating assault and we should not be in any doubt about that; so what are we going to say to justify the fact that we ‘like’ our friend’s poetry? That ‘that’ is just Charles’ opinion and we have our own; indeed, that all is subjective? God forbid that we should allow that to be the case, for we would undermine our own rationality if we did so.
What, then, might prove an adequate response to Charles Southerland’s critique? My starting point would be to acknowledge that there is some truth in what Mr Southerland has to say; and I am not under pressure now to make this concession, since I had conceded it already in my original review of JC Mackenzie’s sonnets. The paragraph in question is small, comes at the end of my major endorsement, and is more or less a quibble that I am prepared to let go of for the benefit of enjoying the beauties of Mr Mackenzie’s poetry. I say this:
“So, in case I am thought to be too uncritical of Joseph Mackenzie’s collection there a number of small – not for me important – elements that slightly jar. One, is the occasional penchant for archaic diction: mayst, ’tis, etc., which, in the case of ‘I Thee Wed’ is brilliantly deployed, but which I would not myself generally recommend. Also, his use and sprinkling of foreign languages, especially, but not only, Latin, tends to make his work appear more highbrow and elitist than it really is. Others may complain of his use of big abstractions, signified with capital letters, like Love, Beauty, and Truth. Plato has indeed returned, and the modern world won’t like it, for like Pontius Pilate they prefer the question ‘What is truth?’ more. But these are minor caveats to my way of thinking; the poetry is a gold mine of multiple treasures, and anyone studying what Mackenzie is doing will learn a massive amount, quite apart from experiencing some absolutely beautiful poetry.”
In saying this, then, I am saying – and this is not only about Mr Mackenzie’s poetry – that I do think that archaicisms, solecisms, and contractions should be used very sparingly, if at all. But the reason they are used by Mr Mackenzie and others on the pages of the SoCP is because of a central value, which is I think at the heart of this dispute. This value I will call euphony; it is very important to Mr Mackenzie, but it is less important to Mr Southerland, and therein lies the contention.
To understand this at a deeper level we need to detour backwards to the middle of the C20th where two literary critics dominated the USA and UK literary landscape. Taking their cue from the earlier remark by Ezra Pound to ‘make it new’, I A Richards in America, and his disciple, F R Leavis in the UK, began a programme of redefining what literature is and should be doing. For the sake of brevity, let me focus on F R Leavis, whose influence in the UK permeated graduate and undergraduate English studies for near on 40 years, till his influenced was superseded by the post-modernists. The ‘make it new’ of Ezra Pound became an iconoclastic touchstone by which every poem had to be entirely original, devoid of clichés, full of fresh, sensuous images; and as rhyme and meter were familiar patterns, then poems that were real poems were going to be largely devoid of these contrivances. This sounded fine – at the time – but it led to some bizarre results that were taken very seriously. So, for example, under the advocacy of F R Leavis, D H Lawrence suddenly became a ‘major’ poet (a quaint view now); but more contentious still, Milton became a ‘minor’ poet! Leavis launched a full-out attack on Paradise Lost, as a poem, on the grounds that its diction was artificial, its imagery was vague, and somehow the poem was ‘against’ life in its theatrical depictions of heaven and hell. These criticisms were all piffle, and the great C S Lewis rebutted them all in this magisterial, Preface to Paradise Lost, but the damage was done; and what happened next was what we are all too familiar with today. The academic world didn’t like Lewis – Oxford declined to give him the professorship that was so well deserved after years working there – while the public bought his books in their millions. Leavis, on the other hand, a dour, self-important, and seemingly unlikeable character, had a knack for acquiring ‘disciples’, and these took up senior positions in UK universities and spread his pestilent ideas throughout the land.
And so we return to Mr Southerland’s ideas on Mr Mackenzie’s poem and why I think we need to reject them. For the standards Mr Southerland is applying are those similar to F R Leavis in the UK, and I A Richards in the USA. They require every word to be precisely accounted for; they want every image to be original and sensuous; they want, in short, specificity, control, and precision. Now, to be clear, these are not bad things in themselves, and as a blueprint for some poets to work within these criteria can be effective. In other words, Mr Southerland has a valid point. But just as F R Leavis went far too far when we discovered via him that Milton was a minor or vastly overrated poet, so too we have to demur when he seeks to lessen the impact of Mr Mackenzie’s poetry.
For Milton is, if nothing else, euphonious. And, the great ballads are euphonious; indeed, they are full of repetition, grammatical irregularities and a host of other deficiencies, including clichéd images; yet they are powerful poems that speak to the heart. Take
Western wind, when wilt thou blow,
The small rain down can rain?
Christ, if my love were in my arms
And I in my bed again!
OK, the rain is coming down – we get it – why repeat the word ‘rain’, or ask why it can? Or, why is Christ in there? Or what’s the actual connection between a Western wind – as opposed to an Eastern one – and being in bed with a lover? Does this poem make any sense?
The kind of poetry we like, then, is the kind that is euphonious – meter/rhyme – which speaks to the heart and is less concerned with originality because it recognises that this chimera can often lead to contrivance, formlessness, ugliness, and a strained relevance – to mention only 4 pitfalls. And to be clear, euphony here is a synonym for that constant preoccupation of mine (and others too) – the hunger for beauty.
Thus, if we now go back to Mr Southerland’s specific points we will, I hope, see them in a deeper context. This does not invalidate his points necessarily, but we will have to consider them all on a one-by-one basis and ask what the trade-off is. It would make this essay too long for me to review all his points, but I note that one of his critiques actually involves a line that I drew attention to as especially beautiful. What Mr Southerland sees is: “The squandered light of this world’s dying spheres” is problematic, in that, as a metaphor, only the Earth and moon are spheres, and I can’t find anywhere in the scripture where either of them die or that the world has more than one sphere that orbits it. Either way, the image isn’t apt.
My reading of these lines is different from Mr Southerland’s – which I stress is not to denigrate how he sees this. But for starters I am not looking in scripture for some literal description or definition of what the ‘spheres’ are; I assumed that the word ‘spheres’ is a shorthand for the ‘music of the spheres’: the sound that derives from the planetary motion, including the Sun and Moon which were thought to revolve round the Earth. The light of the spheres is, then, from the shining of the planets themselves, whilst there is also a music which their motion creates. This idea is, of course, as old as Pythagoras and is about the invisible, inaudible harmony that underpins the whole cosmos, but which we can scarcely perceive; but if we could – as Dante for example did – everything would change for us here on Earth. There is a profound sense that this light is squandered, because – to invoke a scriptural idea – the world/Creation has been ‘subjected to futility’, that we await a new world, a new heaven and Earth. So I do think the image apt. But I also point out that I think, as my original comment did, that the word ‘squandered’ as applied adjectivally to ‘light’ is a fresh and arresting metaphor.
These are some considerations on one specific example that Mr Southerland uses; I could go through all his points; clearly, I will reach different conclusions to him, but not I think because I am being difficult, but because I am starting from a different philosophical position regarding the nature of poetry and the value system I wish to invoke to justify my arguments.
I deeply respect Mr Southerland and his work. Therefore, if nothing else, I hope my outlining these ideas might, if not persuade him to alter his position, may perhaps encourage him and all of us to examine first principles. But we can start with first principles and then find works that match them – and find we like them; or we can go in reverse, and just read stuff we like, and then ask ourselves: hang on a minute, what do these works reveal about what I like and why I like it? In my opinion both methodologies are valid ways of proceeding.
Wilbur Dee Case August 3, 2017
Much of what you have written, Mr. Southerland, is clear-headed here; but I have to admit I wonder why you call the sestet 18th century.
Let me follow with a brief historical view of the sonnet, but only from the English language standpoint.
Although one of the early practitioners of the English language sonnet was William Shakespeare, it is Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard who gave it its familiar English form, two quatrains followed by another quatrain and a couplet, the couplet an English contribution to World sonnetry. After Sidney’s sonnet sequence Astrophel and Stella, Elizabethans, like Spenser and Shakespeare, came up with their own sequences, Spenser even developing the Spenserian sonnet with an ababbcbccdcdee rhyme scheme. Of course, Shakespeare is rightfully noted more for his poetic dramas, than for his sonnets, but he did use the sonnet in his prologue to Romeo and Juliet and further on in Act I.
In the following 17th century, writers like John Donne and John Milton contributed their own remarkable, occasional sonnets; but with the advance of prose in England in the 17th and 18th centuries, by writers, such as Bacon, Donne, Hooke, Browne, Hobbes, Boyle, Bunyan, Pepys, Defoe, Dryden, Swift, Richardson, Locke, Addison, Steele, Law, Fielding, Berkeley, Smollett, Hume, Sterne, Franklin, Johnson, Gibbon, Boswell, Walpole, Adam Smith, Burke, et al., there was a well-deserved reprieve from the sonneteers, as the sonnet could not bear the sweep of thought in science, literature, philosophy, history, politics, religion, and economics. Of course, the conservative reaction to the Industrial Revolution came strong with the escapism of the Romantics, like Wordsworth, Keats, and Shelley, Shelley even using it in a larger work, Ode to the West Wind, though not as extensively, as Pushkin did in his novelistic Evgeny Onegin. Of course, the sonnet’s use in English continued up into the present, including those by Victorians, like E. Browning and Hopkins, Modernists, like Frost and Auden, and Postmodernists, like Lowell and Heaney. In the 1990s and early 2000s, under editor Baer in The Formalist, and in the first decade of the 20th century, under editor Yankevich in The New Formalist, the sonnet continued to have its proponents with writers, like Turner and Salemi. Two recent sonnet sequences, like those of Hilbert and MacKenzie, show that enthusiasm for writing sonnets has not yet died out.
Dear Mr. Case,
I suppose I picked on the 18th century purely by my reading experience. I could just as easily chosen other periods. My real point there was continuity of language style and perhaps thought. The poem changed style without reason. It detracted from thought because of the change. I have no issue with language of the period, or any period for that matter. The change in Mr. Mackenzie’s style here is the least of several issues with the poem for me. But it is an issue. I’ve written over 200 sonnets. I hesitate to call myself an expert but my sonnets are widely published. No matter what form one likes to write in, it is a process of practice of failure and success. It is the only way I know of to become proficient. Beauty is art. Artists know where the bad strokes are in art. This poem is a beautiful poem but there are a myriad of bad strokes within its construction which stilt its beauty for me. One artist to another. I love the sonnet form. There are other forms which I practice with great zeal. I am most comfortable with the sonnet though. My apologies for throwing a century out there without the appropriate thought it required.
Joseph Charles MacKenzie August 13, 2018
I personally question the genuineness of anyone who pronounces himself “jarred” while proclaiming the poem’s undeniable beauty in the same breath.
Of course, we are no longer in the realm of authentic criticism anyway, but rather that of subjective opinion-making which may or may not have any legitimate claim to to the understanding of aesthetics—had the maker of the opinion composed two hundred, two thousand, or two million sonnets.
Yes, I am glad Wilbur mentioned Thomas Wyatt who should never be discounted.
David Hollywood August 4, 2017
Delightful. Lovely poetry.
Thank you, kind Sir. I am deeply grateful, because, ultimately, your words seem to me perfectly useful. Why should not poetry be lovely? Why should it not be delightful? Such qualities are always an invitation to further explore the heights and depths, if one choses.
We all too often fall into dissection or vivisection in our approach to fine lyric verse. But, in a way, it seems that to experience a poem as lovely and delightful is a far better place to be.
There are wine connoisseurs I know here in New Mexico who never really enjoy wine. Rather, the experience of tasting becomes a mere indulgence in oenological pretension—the mere savoring of one’s own ego.
Better to to taste a 2016 Casa Rodeña “1629” (the label is named after the year our New Mexico Franciscans made their first successful vintage) with a sense of loveliness and delight than to spend half an hour of someone’s mortal time rattling off a list of “bouquets,” “palettes,” and “noses” followed by another half hour on botany and soils.
A lesson, perhaps, for the wannabe literary critic? I am inclined to think so.
So, thank you, Mr. Hollywood!
Erisbawdle Cue August 4, 2017
“From the free versers and never Trumpers
to the formal listers and ever thumpers—
passion is our veneration—
talkin’ ’bout my generation.”
—”Weird” Ace Blues
“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings,”
Since feeling’s first, who pays attention to the syntax won’t
e’er wholly kiss you, wholly be a fool, hee, cummings thought;
but Nietzsche truly felt, one should be passionate and awed,
if you believe in syntax, you’ll believe in God—so don’t.
Such blood approves a better fate than wisdom, and/or love;
who swears by all the flowers, will not cast his eyes above.
The brain’s best gesture’s less than eyelids’ flutter. Can’t you see?
Life’s not a rhyme, and death is not some metric poetry.
At times I think I am alone in this dark World and wide;
yet though I am here out of sight, I am not out of mind.
Poetry in a Bottle
A lowly vine begins to grow with care
and water. Let’s fast-forward three long years
to pick a crop, add two more to be fair.
Between the spaces, row and pruning steers
the vintner to a harvest fine for shears
when buds broken, flowers yield, and fruit sets,
self-pollinates—he prays, no frost, but fears
until the grapes mature and then he lets
a sigh come out. And then he picks and gets
his wish with reds to crush beneath his feet
and press to squeeze between the toes, he bets
the farm on dark merlot, like sunset heat.
It’s grace he counts on for the harvest feast.
At that, he doesn’t need to be a priest.
I laughed, of course, at your self-defining, self-defeating joust.
A baby on the teat can’t write sonnets.
One does indeed need to take the time to
smell the bouquets, let the trickle wash onto the tongue to the palette and all that goes into the the vino to understand
what it takes to make a wine fine enough to brag on. I’m a farmer. It’s in the soil. I’ve catered a hundred wine tastings. Connoisseurs truly appreciate what it takes to make a classy wine.
Poetry is surely an acquired taste, but writing it
isn’t any easier than tending a vineyard. It took me five-plus years to learn to write. I’m just now hitting my stride. Did lots of
pruning. I know what it takes to make a classy poem. I’m proud of my merlot in casks.
May the grapes that make the wine be the judge.
It is certainly wonderful news – beyond all that we normally expect – that Dona Fox’s married love life has improved as a result of a poem – if I were an evolutionist I might say that was progress. But, instead – let me congratulate Dona on her receptivity to love, and Joseph for producing the sonnet of incitement!! I think first names are appropriate here – we are talking of love. We must all now aspire to this greatness: to write a poem that inspires somebody else to kiss or embrace their partner!
Ehem… Uh, Mr. Sale, I think that will do for now… Thank you.
Oh! Er … got the message!
James Sale is correct in his answer to one of the comments (above). For, indeed, merely declaring something cliché for extra-literary reasons, or for the purposes of a campaign, or—if one were to discern from the bitter obsessiveness of some critiques—out of mere jealousy, does not make it so.
What the ignorant call cliché is what the learned call tradition. How often, for example, do we see in the oeuvre of Victor Hugo almost all of the idioms of Lamartine? Very often indeed.
Do readers know, for example, that one of the most common words I see in the many evaluations of my poems is the word “enigmatic.”
And such a term is no surprise. The Sonnets for Christ the King, from their very title, have gone where no one has ever gone before in the history of English verse.
If it were otherwise, they would not be receiving the attention they are now receiving. People from all over the world are buying them, hearing them, enjoying them, and even using them for various purposes, to console those who have lost a loved one, as gifts, even as a teaching tool.
No critique is devastating to me. The Negative Nancies pay their homage in the inverse, and draw even more attention, signaling to readers something like: “If the poems are what the critic says they are, then why is he obsessed with them?”
Vita brevis, ars longa.
Let me quote, in affirming Sale’s extremely important observation (supra) from Edward Alexander’s book, “John Ruskin, Matthew Arnold, and the Modern Temper”:
“In the ‘Nature of the Gothic’ Ruskin states it to be a law of art that ‘no good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.’ He [Ruskin] takes imperfection, irregularity, deficiency, to be signs of both life and beauty; and charges those who would banish imperfection from art with trying ‘to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.’
For Ruskin the Greek system of architectural ornament is a warning and not a model. The Greek system enslaved the workman because it denied him the expression of his personality in his art; it confined him to the composition of geometrical forms and symmetrical foliage, that is, to a kind of activity in which Ruskin can see no human faculty expressed.
The medieval of Christian system, on the other hand, recognizing man’s inherent weakness, also recognized the value of the individual soul and encouraged its expression in art. Ruskin’s quarrel with his countrymen arises from the fact that they have chosen the pagan over the Christian system…”
And the irony, after all of this, is that the syllable counters and cliché monitors of the modernist “perfection crowd” are so imperfect in their own works that no critic would even know where to begin to enumerate them—and if a critic dares, then there is no end to the bitterness, compulsion, and fury of the one criticized.
My apologies, MacKenzie. I am a capitalist. I wish you such success as you never dreamed in selling your collection of sonnets. I haven’t read them so I can’t speak to their quality. I am only speaking to the one poem you published here on this page for people to read. I wouldn’t dream of my critique regarding this one poem to cast aspersions on your work which I haven’t seen. It is this one poem I take issue with. At that, I said it was beautiful, did I not? I know nothing of those poems you so highly tout, so how could I critique what I have not seen or have obsession with such? I don’t. Please do not conflate one thing with the other.
There are no worries here.
"Wild" E. S. Bucaree August 5, 2017
I’m fairly sure, my greatest flaw is failure to adore.
Who cares about all that!
I find the anagrammatic heteronyms extremely clever. I did not know one could craft so many of them out of a single name. And that is also a very decent poem you’ve posted as Erisbawdle Cue.
Where else are we going to read the perfect satire of Nietzsche and his “will-to-power” mentality adopted by every last liberal of the 20th century?
Readers, you can enjoy a super clever, Bruce Dale Wise, Ars Poetica Nova satire in Issue 16 of TRINACRIA. You will not want to miss “On the Mediocre Manifestations of Robert Lowell”—it’s just too good! Here is one of its magisterial verses:
“The poetry of Robert Lowell would better serve as planks
in whalers or for firewood for stern New England Yanks.
That grand inquisitor of narcissism left his curse
of wooden, puritanical, rhetoric’lly stiff verse…”
No Marcus, I am not Joseph Charles Mackenzie; for one thing he is a yank and I am a Brit, and for another, as Ben Jonson observed, ‘Style most shows a man: speak that I may see thee’. If you examine what Mr Mackenzie has written and what I have written you will find, although we agree on many principles, and like similar forms, yet our styles of writing are extremely divergent! And that’s good.
Mr. Sale, your interlocutor is no longer with us.
Meanwhile, if I may, you might find it perhaps interesting to know that in Nuevomexicano parlance, the word “Yank” has a multiplicity of meanings, such as: someone who lacks manners, a land thief, a person who does not honor the Blessed Virgin Mary, or all of the above!
My apologies, then, twice over! You are not a Yank but an American; and I am certainly not a Brit – a non-existent race artificially manufactured for the purposes of passport of control – but an Englishman or … a limey? All the best – and thanks for explanation of disappearance of Marcus!! Had no idea!
Lew Icarus Bede August 6, 2017
Let me be very clear, lest I be misconstrued.
1. The literary wood of “On…Robert Lowell” is due to mainly to Mr. G. M. H. Thompson, whose thoughtful voice I hear less and less @ SCP. I hope he has not been chased away, as I found his critical prose, despite its naiveté, at the same level as yours—budding. I do like my last line in that poem, in referring to Lowell’s style as “a cross between Donne’s Metafizz and Melville’s density.”
2. Despite all of things I do not like about Robert Lowell’s life and poetry, I still consider him the best American sonneteer of the 20th century; and I have read no Postmodern or Newmillennial sonneteer who has influenced me as much as he has, including all the Formalists and writers here @ SCP. When I took a college class with Elizabeth Bishop back in the 1970s, near the end of both of their lives, she said she thought he was the best poet of their generation; and, now, in retrospect, I think so too.
3. I do think some of your sonnets, like “Edward the Confessor,” are excellent, and deserve to be anthologized in this era. What I admire in Lowell’s sonnets are his variety of topics and his encapsulating the modern moem, as Mr. Turner is attempting in his epics. Despite all that we may hate about our times, I think, as serious poets we must embrace as many aspects of our times as we can.
4. Even though, like Mr. Whidden and Mr. Southerland, I have written hundreds of sonnets, for the New Millennium I have been shifting my glance to other structures, especially those of my own making.
5. And finally, I must ask myself, though I do like so many sonnets of the last millennium from around the World, how powerful are they really compared to that fourteen-lined poem by Catullus that Mr. Thornton recently translated? A quick off-the-cuff answer is that though they may not be as structurally powerful, they can be textually richer, finer, more beautiful and fluid; they can be as passionate, as intricate, and as illuminating. Strength is not the only quality; but it is a hard one to get into our language; and that is why we must keep the Puritan Milton in our sights, despite Keatsian slights and Eliotic flights. Strength, as Mr. Sale has pointed out, was an important Ancient Greek qualitiy; and it is, after all, one that lasts.
I am impressed with those new structures of you own making, if such is what I have read in TRINACRIA. It seems that your quest is a good one, to espouse the form to the thought, rather than forcing it into the mold of a form
It is as if you have done all the thinking in advance, at a high, philosophical level.
I can honestly hear “On the Mediocre Manifestations of Robert Lowell” being performed. An actor would find all kinds of “opportunities” in it!
Just a brief comment. I appreciate the inter-mingling of the personal and the universal in this poem. As if these two beings were alone in the universe. Can’t help wondering about the significance of the ‘West wind,’ and the closed window. Does the narrator smell the pines in his memory? Or has his spirit moved outdoors, beyond the confines of the room?
Yes, these are questions which are very much left to the reader. It is important, however, that you have discerned them.
Charles Southerland December 26, 2018
Dear Sultana– McSkirt flippantly says the questions are very much left to the reader because the writer, (McSkirt, or MacSquirt) can’t honestly answer the questions. One of his alter-egos is James Eliot. He normally uses women; hence McSkirt.
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This book identifies common areas of confusion or misunderstanding about our political system—clarifying many distortions of accepted history, constitutional law, economics, and science—to help readers distinguish documented facts from the different conclusions and interpretations that may be drawn from those facts. Sheila Suess Kennedy aims to create a more informed electorate and to better ground debates in fact, from Capitol Hill to the family dinner table. Talking Politics? What You Need to Know before Opening Your Mouth provides a solid starting point from which Americans can build more persuasive arguments for their preferred policies, whatever they may be, and will interest students of political science, civics, and history, from high school to undergraduates, and the general public interested in politics and informed discussion.
Sheila Suess Kennedy is a professor of law and public policy at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and director of the Center for Civic Literacy at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). She is the author of several books, including American Public Services: Constitutional and Ethical Foundations and Distrust American Style.
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President - Frank Grey Smith
Vice-Presidents - JJ Morris, George Aitken, JG Murdoch, A. Hunt
Committee - J. Turner, H. King, E. Fox, George Hallett, A. Mackenzie, G. Strachan
Treasurer: HH Morrison
Captain - Eddie Fox
Vice-Captain - J. Kelly/G. Benson
Secretary - WC Lynar (to May), EM Macgregor (from May)
Second 20 Secretary - A. Collis
The club's annual general meeting considered a proposal to amalgamate with the University club, but while the meeting agreed to a merger they stated that there could be no change to the club's name or colours. Eventually Melbourne settled for taking eight of their players.
The rules were changed before the season so that players who marked the ball before the bell would still get to take their shot, and if the ball was in transit when the bell rang any scores would be counted. The league's rules also stated that a match abandoned due to bad weather would be counted as a draw regardless of the score.
A scratch match was played on the Friendly Societies' Ground on Saturday 13 April.
Melbourne were already having a nightmare season when their best player Alex McKenzie walked out on the club and went to Carlton after a brief permit controversy. They used 74 players for the year, the most of any senior side in the 19th century.
In late August, after a massive loss to Fitzroy there was a suggestion in the papers that the club would be excluded from the senior ranks. They said one would imagine that their final interment took place at Fitzroy last week, and that a further resurrection on their part will be little short of miraculous. They won one more match for the year and might have died had the MCC not stepped in.
A meeting of members a week later explained that the debt from moving to the Friendly Societies' Ground had put them between 500 and 600 pounds in debt, which they had been unable to service due to a lack of gate reciepts caused by poor form. The meeting resolved to ask members and ex-players to help with contributions, and to hold a fundraising concert.
In a the June 8 game against Footscray, Melbourne appealled on the grounds that Footscray had played an ineligible player Mr Sadler. The protest was upheld and Melbourne were awarded the match two weeks later.
At the end of the year, with the club in deep financial trouble, having suffered their worst run ever on-field, the MCC took control of the footballing club, paid off its debts, took over its limited assets and incorporated the Melbourne Football Club as the footballing section of the Cricket Club.
VFA Matches
Date Opposition Result
4 May Footscray WIN
11 May Carlton LOSS
18 May Geelong LOSS
24 May Richmond DRAW
25 May Essendon LOSS
1 June South Melbourne LOSS
8 June Footscray WIN
15 June Port Melbourne LOSS
22 June Richmond LOSS
29 June North Melbourne LOSS
6 July Footscray WIN
20 July Essendon LOSS
27 July South Melbourne LOSS
10 August St Kilda LOSS
17 August Geelong LOSS
24 August Port Melbourne LOSS
31 August Fitzroy LOSS
7 September Williamstown LOSS
14 September Carlton LOSS
21 September Richmond WIN
28 September St Kilda LOSS
12 January Carlton DRAW
20 April Essendon LOSS
13 July Ballarat Imperials LOSS
29 May Southern Tasmania LOSS
July Tasmania ?
William Aitken, G. Allen, Avery, Bain, G. Benson, J. Benson, Blair, R. Brown, J. Carah, Carroll, H. Claringbould, Clarke, N. Cohen, Comber, Arthur Connelly, T. Deane, J. Doble, A. Doherty, Donald, Drood, W. Farrell, E. Firebrace, Eddie Fox, T. Fox, J. Freeman, Herbert Fry, J. Garton, George Hallett, H. Harper, J. Harvey, H. Hayes, Alf Healing, Dick Houston, James Kelly, Richard Kelly, T. Kennedy, J. Kerrigan, A. King, Howard King, Lander, G. Langridge, M. Lemon, G. Lidstone, E. Lording, E. Lynar, Mathieson, McArthur, McCann, McCarthy, J. McGrath, A. McKean, A. McKenzie, R. McKinlay, Mitchell, H. Mitchell, Howard Morrison, Mullen, Munro, H. Nixon, J. Nuttall, H. Orwin, P. Parsons, Prentice, P. Russell, Shaw, Fred Sheahan, G. Slattery, W. Smith, South, C. Spooner, G. Strachan, Thomson, JH Trowbridge, W. Tulloch, Woodman
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W. Smith 9, J. Benson 7, R. Kelly 6, G. Langridge 3, H. Trowbridge 3, William Aitken 2, E. Firebrace 2, George Hallett 2, G. Allen 1, G. Benson 1, J. Carah 1, W. Farrell 1, J. Kelly 1, M. Lemon 1, McCann 1, R. McKinlay 1, Mitchell 1, F. Sheahan 1, South 1, Unknown 1
Team P W D L F A P
1 South Melbourne 19 14 3 2 121 49 62
2 Carlton 20 15 0 5 100 64 60
3 Port Melbourne 20 13 3 4 90 55 58
4 Essendon 21 13 0 8 112 55 52
5 Geelong 20 10 4 6 88 73 48
6 North Melbourne 20 11 1 8 94 75 46
7 Fitzroy 20 10 2 8 85 66 44
8 Richmond 19 7 1 11 62 102 30
9 St Kilda 18 5 1 12 62 114 22
10 Williamstown 20 5 2 13 56 73 16
11 Melbourne 21 4 1 16 46 142 18
12 Footscray 16 1 0 15 37 86 4
Ballarat, Ballarat Imperials and South Ballarat were also in the competition but didn't play enough games against Melbourne teams to qualify for the premiership.
North Melbourne 16 3 1 43 13 79
Geelong 12 6 1 62 29 60
Essendon 15 3 3 48 26 66
Port Melbourne 13 0 7 62 44
South Melbourne 10 3 8 60 40 46
Williamstown 8 3 7 29 38 38
Carlton 10 1 9 28 30 42
Fitzroy 4 4 13 38 84 24
St Kilda 2 2 18 21 62 12
Melbourne 1 0 20 8 59 4
Footscray 3 3 10 17 39 18
Footscray were not ranked on the table as they had not played enough games.
The Australasian - 13/04/1889
The Argus - 13/04/1889
Weekly Times - 13/04/1889
Table Talk - 10/05/1889
Sydney Mail - 25/05/1889
The Sydney Times - 22/06/1889
Hawke's Bay Herald - 09/08/1889
Sydney Morning Herald - 19/08/1889
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Once Again....Bernie!!!
Just a reminder of what Bernie's campaign is really all about.
(By the way, Warren's lying about Bernie. But who cares??)
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UW-M Held Up As Fool in FedCourt
"Fool" is a title which UW-Milwaukee has earned.
This "pronoun usage guide" pushed by UW-M's Wokesters was part of a 5th Circuit decision.
The decision? "Nope, dope."
Yes, There WERE Iraqi WMD's
The AOSHQ mentions this story.
American troops found nearly 5,000 abandoned chemical weapons in Iraq from 2004 to 2011, but their discoveries were kept secret by the U.S. government,...
On at least six occasions, American troops and American-trained Iraqi troops were wounded by the abandoned munitions, but news of the encounters was neither shared publicly nor widely circulated among the troops, the victims told the Times. Others said they were told to be vague or deceptive about what they found.
"'Nothing of significance’ is what I was ordered to say,” Jarrod Lampier, a retired Army major, said of the 2006 discovery of 2,400 nerve-agent rockets at a former Republican Guard compound, the largest chemical weapons discovery of the war....
The Ace blogger speculates that the Bush Administration was, perhaps, the dumbest bunch of clucks ever to occupy Washington.
Remember that GWBush, like his Daddy and Mommy, were Certified Members of the Deep State. So the speculation should be on this question: why did the Deep State want this kept secret?
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Six Illegals Rape and Prostitute Teen in Green Lake County
Somehow this news item gets ZERO comment from the Big-Mouth babe at Voces de la Frontera.
That's because she doesn't really give a flying fart about Hispanics; her interest lies in disrupting society as a whole.
The Green Lake County Sheriff’s Office has arrested six people in connection with a sex trafficking case, according to a news release.
Law enforcement officials said they received a 911 call Nov. 28 from a juvenile on the run. According to police, she had escaped from a residence where she was being sex trafficked....
...Police believe all of the suspects are undocumented immigrants from Guatemala.
Don't hold your breath waiting for a local "nooz" outlet to ask Christine Neumann-Ortiz about this story. They really don't care, either.
Krason's Take on Pubbie Platform
Prof. Krason of Franciscan U. takes a look at Pubbie Platform and how it aligns with Catholic social teachings--you remember, the stuff from Leo XIII and John Paul II.
In general terms, it appears that the Pubbies endorsed many of the principles of Catholic social teaching in their 2012 (Romney-Ryan) campaign. Trump didn't really change that platform. (Read the entire essay; it's worth the few minutes.)
But he is actually working to implement parts of it.
...on economics and social welfare policy the thinking of conservatism and the Republican Party (as seen in the 2012 platform), to quote my book, “conforms pretty well to Catholic social teaching.”
So, the Republican Party’s closeness to Catholic social teaching on economics, while it has certainly undergone an evolution, did not begin with the Trump candidacy and presidency....
As the Democrat Party marches off the cliff of atheist socialism, and as the Libertarian/Extreme Capitalists/Amoralists become irrelevant to the national interest, Trump--of all people--emerges as the Great Unifier.
Maistelman's Mis-placed Confidence
In the middle of a news item that we read for comic relief we find this:
"We are confident the Wisconsin Elections Commission will uphold the law and our challenges," said Lipscomb's attorney, Michael Maistelman.
"Wisconsin Elections Commission" and "uphold the law" is a contradiction in terms.
Sorry, Mike. You have a problem.
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There WILL Be False Flags in Virginia
There will be a 'gun rights' rally in Virginia on Monday. That's because when the (D) Party got complete control of lawmaking in that State, they immediately introduced legislation to eradicate the Second Amendment. None of it will prevail in Federal courts, but that's not the point. The point is to enshrine tyranny because they can.
Anyhow.
It is reported that the violent branch of the (D) Party, "Antifa", (successor to the KKK) will be marching with those who wish to maintain Second Amendment rights. The reporter in the linked article seems to think this is a good thing.
"Antifa"'s existence at this event is strictly for purposes of initiating "false flag" violence, because there is nothing the (D) Party wants more than violence which can be blamed on "gun rights deplorables."
One more thing: don't even think about taking the MSM' s word for what happens there.
Birds of a Feather: Pocan, "Burn It Down" Bernie
It is reported that Comrade Sanders will NOT fire his Iowa campaign worker who expressed admiration for the Gulag and who promised that if Comrade Sanders is not the (D) nominee, 'Milwaukee will burn.'
Not only will he not fire the guy--the Comrade won't even disavow the remarks.
So what does Mark Pocan (Madistan) do?
Rep. Mark Pocan.... announced Thursday that this year he is endorsing Bernie Sanders.
Of COURSE that's in red font.
Perhaps Cong. Pocan will bring gasoline and bottles to the Democrat Convention to actualize "Burn-it-Down" Bernie's promises?
Note well: the inflammatory organizer observed that many of his fellow workers in the Bernie campaign were even more 'leftist' than he is.
Where does Comrade Pocan fit on that scale? Hmmmmmmmmmmm???
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Deep State, Vatican Edition
Over here, Donald Trump is more-or-less the "anti-Deep State" guy.
In the Vatican, it appears that Pp. Francis 1 IS the "Deep State" guy. Benedict XVI was the "anti-Deep State guy" over there.
(That description ignores a lot of subtleties and cross-currents, but you get the idea. This blogger imparts the same information, differently.)
So it got .........ahhh..........interesting. The Deep State in the Church (which may have included Rembert Weakland on the low-smarts/bit-player side) was getting worried about B-16's orthodoxy and popularity. So--somehow--B-16 was 'inspired' to resign, paving the way for a more accommodating Pope.
That is Francis I.
But that's not going very smoothly; a high-level and very knowledgeable Vatican State department guy, Mgr. Vigano, published a few lengthy letters which spilled a lot of beans--and he's running for his life at this time as a result.
Francis' teachings are often not consistent with Catholic tradition, nor with Scripture; as a result, many Catholics are simply ignoring him. Even worse for him, the Church's finances are going from bad to much, much, worse; the Deep State players who have been looting the Church are out of his control. At the same time, wealthy US Catholics have figured out they were played for patsies and wallets are snapping shut.
(My dear Prot pals: this does NOT mean that the Church has become defectible; she is still the un-spotted Bride of Christ.)
But there are a whole lot of tumors eating away at Her.
Bishops Demand Heroic Virtue in Spain
Apparently the Bishops of Spain now require a three-year "marriage formation" period of instruction before marriage.
They have no clue about normal (heterosexual) human behavior.
Either the Bishops are requiring heroic virtue from these young, engaged, people, or they are tacitly licensing fornication.
Come to think of it, isn't that the license issued in "The Joy of Sex"Amoris Laetitia?
Cory Mason: History-Challenged
The Mayor of Racine--a mind-numbed robot Democrat, comments on the water level in Lake Michigan.
...“As this happens more and more, and as the climate is changing and the lake levels are rising building a resilient lakefront is going to be something that we’re going to have to think about for the future," Mason said....
We've mentioned before that the water level in Lake Michigan is similar to the level during a part of Dave Schultz's term as Milwaukee County Exec. But history is irrelevant to mind-numbed Democrats.
(The "reporter" clearly pushed "climate change" onto Mason and some random woman; both of them mentioned it as though there is an irrefutable climate-based link between water-level and "climate." That's a fallacy, of course; the irrefutable link is between precipitation and lake level. It's reasonable to assume going forward that this "reporter" will poison the well on other stories. Beware!!)
Which Fusion for the Right?
Antle has a very perceptive essay here. He kicks it off with the Porn Controversy which produced very clear fault-lines in the "Republican" bunch.
Then he gets to the meat of the matter:
...Social conservatives have long been viewed—and have generally viewed themselves—as junior partners to economic conservatives inside the Republican Party. They get their voters to the polls to protest abortion and gay marriage. The elected Republicans then promptly cut taxes while Supreme Court precedents declaring abortion a constitutional right remain inviolate and new ones similarly enshrining gay marriage are added, even as conservative judges proliferate. The marriage issue was thought to be central to Bush’s reelection in 2004. By 2016, a slightly higher percentage of evangelicals ended up casting their ballots for Trump, who supports—or at least does not oppose—gay marriage. It is almost universally seen as a settled issue—and not settled in the social conservatives’ favor.
Similarly, however much fusionism in theory was supposed to be equally committed to tradition and free markets, liberty and virtue, in practice it was seen primarily as a defense of free markets and constitutionally limited government. A manifesto published by First Things in March entitled “Against the Dead Consensus” (signed by TAC senior editor Rod Dreher and contributing editor Patrick Deneen, among others) laid out the charges. “Yes, the old conservative consensus paid lip service to traditional values,” the signatories wrote. “But it failed to retard, much less reverse, the eclipse of permanent truths, family stability, communal solidarity, and much else. It surrendered to the pornographization of daily life, to the culture of death, to the cult of competitiveness. It too often bowed to a poisonous and censorious multiculturalism.”...
It remains the case that the "economics first!!" branch of the dying fusion is in first place. Just listen to Trump's crowing about the Dow, or jobs, or wage increases. He's echoed by the "conservative" radiomouths, both national and local--except Tucker Carlson. And Tucker's viewership has rocketed upward because he simply does not kowtow to a Koch-style MuhMoney!! creed.
Maybe the others should pay attention. Unless they think porn is good for their children.
Tokin'Tony's Wish for Wisconsin
Tokin'Tony wants legal marijuana in Wisconsin, and a certain blockhead Pubbie leggie is right there as well. There may be more, of course, but they speak jibberish so they can't be understood.
This won't change their alleged 'minds' either.
Running red lights. Driving at high speeds. Crossing center lines into the opposite lanes. Getting into accidents -- even hitting pedestrians. A new study found these were some of the dangerous driving behaviors of regular, heavy users of recreational weed who began using before the age of 16.
Here's the catch: users drove this badly even when they were no longer high.
The study, published Tuesday in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, asked chronic, heavy marijuana users to drive in a customized driving simulator.
And what is "heavy use"? A lot less than you might expect....
..."Heavy use was defined by daily or near daily use, a minimum of four or five times a week, with a lifetime exposure of 1,500 times," said Staci Gruber, director of the Marijuana Investigations for Neuroscientific Discovery (MIND) program at McLean Hospital, the largest psychiatric teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School....
Wanna take bets on Milwaukee's crazy-driver problem and its relationship to weed?
Milwaukee "Press" Missed This??
So happens I look at every Milwaukee "news" website every morning. JS, 4, 6, 12, 58.
None mentioned the presence of a Communist flag carried by "protesters" at the rally.
And NONE have mentioned the "burn down Milwaukee" comments by Bernie's Iowa manager, either.
Maybe they're incompetent?
Nah. They have a narrative and by God, that's what you're going to get. Good and hard.
WINNING!! On "Family Separation" Border Policy
The momentum is rapidly building.
A U.S. judge ruled Monday that the Trump administration is operating within its authority when separating families stopped at the Mexico border, rejecting arguments that it was quietly returning to widespread practices that drew international condemnation. NewsThud quoting AP
The ACLU and a bunch of (D) lawyers are spending a shit-ton of money--and losing.
That's a feature AND a benefit.
Where's the Tariff Inflation??
They told me that prices would skyrocket after Trump smacked Red China with tariffs so that US citizens could find solid employment in THIS country.
U.S. producer prices edged up in December as a rise in the cost of goods was offset by weakness in services, the latest indication of tame inflation pressures that could allow the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates unchanged this year.
The Labor Department said on Wednesday its producer price index for final demand ticked up 0.1% last month after being unchanged in November. In the 12 months through December, the PPI increased 1.3% after gaining 1.1% in November.
S'pose it's possible that the Free Trade Morons were wrong?
Or were they just lying..........?
Frank Walker's Right
Frank Walker speculates his way to exactly the right conclusion: Abp. Gaenswein is a double-dealer who is making sure that Pp. Benedict (emeritus?) loses credibility. While the press reports that 'Benedict says he did not author [parts of] the book,' note very carefully: that's Gaenswein saying it. B-16 has not uttered those words on the record.
And--for good measure--Cdl. Sarah, the co-author of a book on the Church's unbroken tradition of priestly celibacy (yes, it dates back to the Apostles), is also being slandered as a "liar" for acknowledging B-16's work on that very book.
The war has become un-civil. The long knives are finally exposed, and the Christians are being martyred. Again.
"Russkies Hacked Burisma"? Sure. No Doubt. /sarc
Bongino is very good at smelling the BS from the NYSlimes.
It's quite simple. The Senate may hear witnesses in the Trump trial, and those witnesses may include people who are very familiar with Biden's Ukraine shakedown. (Not that the Biden-bribe is the ONLY Democrat bribe/payoff scheme, mind you....) Would the name "Soros" surprise you?
So. The NYT was told to run this bullshit about "hacking." That way, when the truth of Operative Comrade Ambassador Yovanovich's activities in Ukraine comes out during the Trump trial (or from Schweizer's book), the Democrats can protect Their Precious and his scumsucking friends by declaring:
It's all Russian operatives helping Trump!!!
Watch and see. Meantime, watch the Bongino link above. He's kinda fun.
Carville's a Blockhead
Nah, Chris 'Tweety-Bird' Matthews didn't bother to follow up.
Former lead strategist for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign James Carville said on Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Hardball” that President Donald Trump was “the greatest threat this country has faced since the fall of communism.”...
Communism fell?
Certainly not the peasants in North Korea or Viet Nam, nor the Uighurs in Red China, nor the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing Venezuela, nor the Ladies in White in Cuba....
Jim, you blockhead, you should try Communism for yourself. Move to one of those workers' paradises. Don't come back.
Lowry's "Bernie" Column: Out-of-Date in 12 Hours
Rich Lowry writes a gently-worded column about the 'socialist' Bernie.
...If he had his way, the Vermont socialist would fundamentally change the character of the country. He would make the United States an outlier in the Western world, not in terms of its relatively limited government, but its sweeping activism. A Hellfire missile aimed right at the federal fisc, Sanders would make President Barack Obama's economic agenda look like the work of a moderate Republican.
In foreign affairs, he would bring a sympathy for US enemies not often heard outside academia or Noam Chomsky reading groups.
He is the American Jeremy Corbyn, a socialist true-believer whose fantastical agenda reflects the dictates of dogma. The difference is that Corbyn effectively promised a return to socialist-imposed stagnation in Britain, whereas Bernie is inviting America to experience it for the first time....
Nope. Sorry, Mr. Lowry, your assessment was horribly wrong.
In a video released today, Bernie's Iowa campaign manager made it clear: there WILL be gulags under Bernie, there WILL be "re-education" under Bernie, and, if you resist Bernie, you WILL be dead--not to mention dead Milwaukee cops and (possibly) a burned-down City of Milwaukee.
Rich, boy, best up your game. Your polite warnings are a girl's game.
What Bernie and his followers need is a close-up of baseball bats and--if necessary--AR-15's.
Listen Up, Mayor Barrett
It appears that Bernie's campaign management has plans for Milwaukee.
They're bringing matches and gasoline to the Convention. This gives a whole new meaning to "Feel the Bern!"
Oh, yah, and "gulags are good."
Think they'll let AOC toss a few Molotovs?
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Kerry, Lawyer, Liar
Why izzit that when someone is a lawyer, they are so often caught lying?
Here John Kerry gets smashed by a SeeBeeS member of the MSM (!!!) for his egregious lying.
Stopped clock and all that.........but worse, Kerry continues to carry the torch for Iran's dictators.
Local Gummints Steal Highway Funds for "Needs"
Technically, the locals are not "stealing" highway funds. They're trying to take what Tokin'Tony is giving away--which are funds previously earmarked for local highway repairs.
So now it's not "Scott-holes"; it's Tony-Holes.
Even better is the outright lying from these local twerps.
...Mike Koles, executive director of the Wisconsin Towns Association, called it “a clear, undeniable record of the unmet needs.”
“The needs are unquestionable, and while we realize this one-time grant program is not a long-term answer to more than a billion dollars of reported local community needs, it is a significant step in the right direction,” added League of Wisconsin Municipalities Executive Director Jerry Deschane....
"NEEDS"? Really? NEEDS?? The Propaganda-Lying School of Money-Grubbing is in session.
Let's look at these "needs":
...West Bend’s $4.1 million downtown riverwalk and the Potawatomi Tribe’s $600,000 ATV trail. However, some requests seemingly have nothing to do with transportation at all. The City of Spooner wants $3.9 million to renovate an old railroad station into a museum. The Village of Belleville wants $542,000 to restore their old train depot into business space. The Town of Solon Springs wants $347,500 for a scenic overlook....
There is no shame among these thieves. None at all.
How Many Communists in the Deep State?
Interesting little interview (54+ minutes) with a researcher-author who specializes in digging out the Communist/Marxist philosophy in our Leading Lights.
Turns out that the Establishment is crawling with these vermin.
Does that make them anti-Trump?
Maybe. But Communism is absolutely incompatible with the US' system of government.
Interesting names.......including a fellow named Comey.
The Poisonous FISA "Court"
Unfortunately, this little excerpt fairly characterizes far more "Courts" than just FISA.
...On September 4, 2019, the FISC approved the FBI’s amended querying procedures, explaining that the revisions remedy the deficiencies contained in the earlier procedures. Thus, the FISC held that the FBI’s minimization and querying procedures were consistent with the requirements of Section 702 and the Fourth Amendment. [Ruling]
Although the Government did not seek to resume FISA-702(16) “abouts” collection, the FISC, with assistance from amici, reviewed whether the “abouts” restrictions applied to any other types of Section 702 acquisitions currently being conducted. Essentially it was the job of David Kris to deal with the violations being outlined, and then find process arguments to convince the FISA court to keep letting the DOJ and FBI use the system.
It’s Kris’s job to manufacture the judicial plausible deniability the FISA Judges need to keep allowing the FISA process to exist.
Stop and read that again.
Even before Mr. Kris was given this new FISC assignment, it was already his job to manufacture process arguments, find obtuse angles to justify the procedures being used, and provide the FISA judges with the plausible deniability they need in order to keep rubber stamping the fourth amendment violations.
It’s a scheme. A legal game of whack-a-mole. Every time the DOJ and FBI violate the fourth amendment; and every time they are caught in a compliance audit; Kris comes into the picture as the ‘fixer’, with the job to keep the non-fixable system going....
The Black-Robed jackwads have been cruising for a bruising for well over 50 years. It's about time that they got what they're asking for.
Congress MUST de-fund FISA.
Probably Losing Their Company Car....
Two idiots.
Two General Motors employees have been arrested after they were caught racing two brand new 2020 Corvettes at speeds of up to 120 mph on a Kentucky road.
The men had reportedly been drinking at Cue Time Cocktails and Billiards on Wednesday evening, before deciding to go on the high-speed joyride along Lovers Lane, in Bowling Green. ...
Well, yes, the new 'vette can handle a lot of speed and curvy roads.
Apparently having a degree from GM Institute (or some other college) does not confer actual smarts.
They'll prolly have to give up their company cars--or maybe be assigned to driving a Bolt.
B-16 Fires a Missile
Apparently Benedict XVI's 'minder,' Mgr Gaenswein, was on vacation, and B-16 got together with Cd. Sarah to write a book strongly strenuously defending priestly celibacy.
The priesthood of Jesus Christ causes us to enter into a life that consists of becoming one with him and renouncing all that belongs only to us,' he writes....
'For priests, this is the foundation of the necessity of celibacy but also of liturgical prayer, meditation on the Word of God and the renunciation of material goods.'
Marriage, he writes, requires man to give himself totally to his family.
'Since serving the Lord likewise requires the total gift of a man, it does not seem possible to carry on the two vocations simultaneously. Thus, the ability to renounce marriage so as to place oneself totally at the Lord´s disposition became a criterion for priestly ministry.'...
It's no secret that some German Cardinals--who have been troublesome for their entire careers--are pushing for married priests. That's not new, but their propaganda-blast vis-a-vis "the Amazon" IS new. They're using a 'priest shortage' in that region to justify ordaining married men, and they've managed to fool a few Catholics. So far.
Pp. Francis is sympathetic to this cause, of course, but he'll never put that into writing. He'll just ask for an "interview" with his favorite atheist newspaper publisher, state what he thinks, and have the Vatican Press Office do the Dishonesty Do-Si-Do.
It's a well-worn path for this little Peronist Jesuit.
Will Cd. Sarah's and B-16's intervention be enough? It may be, as a number of US (and German) Catholics have cut back on the cash donations following the perfidies of Francis, and cash is king, as they say. When two of the better thinkers of the Church release this sort of bomb, ..........well........
Nonetheless, PRAY!!
Cobra v. Mongoose in Democrat Household
Nancy is doing her damndest to keep the focus on impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, World War 3, World War 3, ..........yada. You get the idea.
But even the MSM cannot overlook the REAL war going on--the one inside the (D) household.
New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she won't pay $250,000 she owes in dues to the Democrats - money which is put toward the effort to keep the party's majority in the House.
The 30-year-old firebrand, who is the youngest person ever elected to Congress, balked at contributing her share of fundraising to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
At issue for AOC, as she is referred to, is a policy that she says 'blacklists' vendors working with insurgent primary challengers like herself....
Rumor has it that the AOC gang of CPUSA (yes, I said it: Communist Party USA) insurgents intends to take out two dozen DEMOCRAT House members this year, including several Black Caucus members (remember Bobby Rush?) and some rank-and-file moderates (Lipinski of Illinois and Engel of NYC.)
Of course, Nancy is not defenseless. New York State is going to lose one Congressional district after the '20 Census.
Guess which one Nancy will eliminate?
The Impeach-Impeach-Impeach-World War 3 World War 3 thing is already month-old room-temperature oatmeal. The REAL fun will be watching the Cobra take on the Mongoose.
Try Not to Cry, America
This is truly depressing, I guess. Some obnoxious money-grubber dame and her house-twit won't infect the US.
According to reports coming from England, Meghan Markle and her husband are settling in Canada and refusing to move to Hollywood to pursue Meghan’s career until President Trump is no longer president....
Damn near enough justification for a Trump third term.
Trump vs. Reality
The President is being very poorly advised.
President Donald Trump told Fox News TV host Laura Ingraham on Friday his 2021 plans to welcome more foreign graduates will not flood the labor market for U.S. college graduates.
Won't 'flood the market', eh?
...Ingraham rejected business claims of shortages: “We’re seeing a plateauing of wages … There’s a never-ending appetite on the part of corporate America to bring in as much cheap labor as possible to drive down wages.”...
Trump seems to think that the Administration will control for quality.
“I’m not talking about cheap — I’m talking about brainpower,” Trump responded. “They want to hire smart people. And those people are thrown out of the country — we can’t do that,” he said, referring to foreign graduates of U.S. colleges.
Trump seems to want to help companies import a relatively small number of very clever people, such as Ivy League valedictorians....
Why sure!! Take only Ivy League valedictorians, throw the rest back!! Maybe that's what Trump really intends to do...............not.
...In fact, the government does not require U.S companies to hire Americans first, and it does not screen out unskilled foreign workers. The government does not cap foreign hires and does not enforce the loopholed rules which supposedly require foreign workers to be skilled and to be paid market-level wages. Nor does the government even try to curb the large scale nepotism that allows foreign born managers in the United States to import huge numbers of foreign workers who will kick back some of their salaries to their bosses.
For example, the “Optional Practical Training” program was expanded by President G. Bush and President Barack Obama to provide employers with an extra stream of foreign graduates. Foreigners get these OPT work permits by simply enrolling in U.S. colleges,....
Now there's a "quality" metric!! Enroll in college, get a job.
But how "qualified" are these folks?
...Federal agencies have never released a full count of the resident H-1B workforce, but federal data shows that a huge percentage are not valedictorians and that many come from no-name universities in India.
The federal data for 2017, for example, shows that 39 percent of the H-1Bs sought by New York employers were rated as “entry-level” workers, similar to U.S. graduates. Another 26 percent were rated as just “qualified,” and only six percent were rated “competent.” These cheap workers have pushed hundreds of thousands of American professionals out of jobs.
This is the visa worker program which is used by companies to replace many Americans graduates....
We've mentioned that Kohl's has more than 400 imported IT workers right there in Menomonee Falls. Hit the link, scroll down, and you'll find the same thing at WallyWorld HQ in Arkansas.
Trump is wrong, and he should admit it.
Obnoxity Poll
Yah, I don't have one of those cute little polling gadgets.
But I have THE question:
Which was MORE obnoxious during yesterday's game: Joe Buck, or Bloomberg's 385 ads?
RedforEd Update
Actually, it's "Reds-in-Ed"...but that's another day.
Anyhow, here's the news:
The founder of the #RedforEd movement is now promoting “next-generation” political teacher activism to academics in graduate schools of education around the country in order to further advance a socialist agenda in the United States.
Noah Karvelis — who launched the #RedforEd movement in Arizona when he was 23 years old in March of 2018 — is now a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin at Madison....
Hmmmm. UW-Madison.
Why are we not surprised??
In Virginia? Words to Live By
The AOSHQ's gun guy has some really, really, good advice if you're planning on "lobby day" activity in Richmond.
...As I mentioned before, these are Lobby Days. They are not Be a Badass or Start Some Shit Days. I will absolutely guarantee you that extremists on the left are going to be there in number to start trouble and make the pro-gun side look like the aggressor in any confrontation. One of my best friends and my main shooting buddy made a career as a network cameraman, and has covered countless rallies, demonstrations, civil disturbances and outright wars all over the world. Time after time he has seen first hand the tactics of the left, who will stop at nothing to cause you to lose your cool. Want to be on the evening news in a video edited to make you look like a aggressive gun-toting redneck? That can and will happen. If you are confronted, walk away. You will do more damage to the cause and give the left just what it wants if you get into as much as a shouting match. Think the media will cover any of this in a fair and unbiased manner? Think again.
These events have the potential to go sideways in a hurry so keep your wits about you, do be safe, and do not be the star in a shitshow. This is simply about showing numbers. All eyes are on Virginia, which is why it is critical this not devolve into a riot. Believe me when I say the 2nd Amendment Sanctuary movement has the attention of the legislature, and tens of thousands of people in Richmond will be very difficult to ignore. The time for vigorous protest will come later....
Or as another sage put it a couple centuries ago:
Keep your powder dry.
Best Wishes!!
Now It's "Cellphone Control"
They're still working on gun control, but that's so last century.
So they're updating their control freak targets.
“Young people frequently use cell phones to bully and threaten other young people, activities that have been linked to many suicides.”
“In light of the dangerous and life-threatening consequences of cell phone use by young people, it is clear that persons under 21 years of age are not developmentally mature enough to safely possess them.”
The word to notice is "control."
Where in the World Is Lyin' Joe Pientka?
Maybe the FBI is trying to be THE most corrupt outfit in the US Government.
FBI Agent Joe Pientka – who lied the FISA Court and later interviewed Flynn – was promoted and moved to the SF area AFTER the FBI learned of serious problems in his FISA application.
So lying to FISA gets you a promotion to ASAC.
Then there's the update:
The SF FBI Field Office has scrubbed him from their site.
OK, so..........where in the world is Lyin' Joe Pientka??
President Trump's "To-Do" List Is Long
Sure, he's been a force for change in D.C.
But he has a lot of promises he hasn't kept, and a bunch of other items which must be done.
...In the spring of 2018 a group of congressional reps led by Devin Nunes, Mark Meadows, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Louie Gohmert, Lee Zeldin and Bob Goodlatte, asked President Trump to declassify a series of documents so the public could see how former officials in the DOJ & FBI abused their offices and conducted political surveillance....
Still NOT done, Mr. President.
...Amid the twists and turns many people have forgotten about the material congress asked President Trump to declassify two-years-ago. Additionally there has been some material cited that just seemingly slipped away without follow-up. Consider:
Whatever happened to the forty pages of Lisa Page and Andrew McCabe text messages that Catherine Herridge noted nine months ago? Herridge only published four of the pages in March 2019.
Why are the Lisa Page and Peter Strzok text messages still redacted two years after their original release (December 1st, 2017)?
Where’s the release of the Susan Rice inauguration day memo to the file?
Why didn’t the DOJ/FBI release all of the Bruce Ohr 302’s without redaction? Will those fully unredacted 302’s be part of the IG report release?
Where’s the unredacted David Archey FBI declarations that were previously ordered to be released by a DC judge?
The Mueller investigation ended 9 months ago. Why are we still not able to see the unredacted three authorization memos that Rosenstein gave to the special counsel on May 17th, August 2nd and October 20th, 2017?
It would be nice to have an informed electorate for the November contest, no?
RELEASE THE DOCUMENTS!!
Watch Attkisson's Suit!
We mentioned yesterday that Sharyl Attkisson has filed suit against (among others) Rod Rosenstein for civil rights violations, specifically, SPYING on her. That's because Attkisson was hot on the Obozo Regime's trail following Obozo/Holder abuse of the IRS as a database-for-spying.
Guess who ELSE was involved in that spying?
FBI Director Robert Mueller, "the honorable and clean".
All this spying on politically inconvenient citizens began in 2012, so by the time Trump became a factor, they were pretty good at it.
Not perfect, but good.
Tar and feathers? No.
Rope and trees.
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Humor Break
This is for Tommy Trolley....but also, with great sympathy, for our neighbors in Madistan. HT Powerline
Yup. FISA Is Part of the Swamp
Shouldn't really be a big surprise, as it's been clear for a couple of decades that the Judicial Branch is just as power-mad and reality-challenged as is any other bunch of suspects.
PowerLine provides what SHOULD be the final nail in FISA's coffin.
David Kris served as Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice under President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder. He drew on his prestige as a former senior official in the Department of Justice to disparage Rep. Devin Nunes in his exposure of the FBI’s misconduct in the Russia haox and assure the left that all was in order. He is an apologist for FBI misconduct who gives the Department of Justice Inspector General report on the FBI’s FISA misconduct the stupidly credulous reading that absolves the FBI of political bias in the matter.
Who better than Kris to serve as amicus curiae to the FISA court to help it assess the government’s response to Judge Collyer’s December 17 order. That is what new FISA court presiding judge James Baosberg did late yesterday afteroon in this order. As Jack Paar used to say, I kid you not....
That battle just now commencing in Virginia.......yes, THAT one..........is only a little "symbolic." It's mostly for real. The Second is not about self-defense, and not about hunting.
It's about jackasses like FISA.
Heap Big (D) Speaks Truth, Once
News item.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D.-Mass.) sent out a tweet on Thursday evening saying that transgender young people are “more likely” to have mental health problems.
Those problems began ....ahhh.......before any surgeries.
The evidence is coming in; trannies are products of extremely dysfunctional and/or abusive families. That said, accommodating their fantasy-world is NOT the solution.
Gee. Aren't "Deep Regrets" Enough?
FEEB capo Wray.
FBI Director Christopher Wray told the federal surveillance court in a letter Friday that he “deeply regrets” the bureau’s many errors in the process to obtain surveillance warrants on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
“The FBI has the utmost respect for this Court, and deeply regrets the errors and omissions identified by the OIG,” Wray wrote in a letter to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC)....
First off, these were not "errors and omissions." They were deliberate, and criminal intent was behind every. damned. one. of them.
We know about 4 FEEBS who were fired for malfeasance and lying. What about the rest? Have they been stripped of their pensions? Health-plans?
And when they go to court--if "Justice" ever pulls that trigger--will they be sentenced to something more than probation?
Yah. Not likely.
Thanks, Mr. Wray.
More Corrupto-Clinton!
Here's the question: which is more corrupt? the State Department, the "Justice" Department, the FEEBS, or the Clintons?
...Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch, said the revelations in these emails demonstrate that a fresh criminal investigation into Clinton is necessary, as these newly discovered emails prove she regularly transmitted classified information via her insecure server system.
“Magically, after years, the FBI finds more Clinton emails that show Clinton used text messages for government work, not to mention the continuing flow of classified information transmitted over her unsecure email system,” Fitton said. “These documents further underscore the need for a fresh, unbiased and thorough criminal investigation into Clinton’s blatant malfeasance – and the related DOJ, FBI, and State Department cover-up.”...
Follow-up: doesn't it make you feel good to know you are supporting all these slime-buckets with your taxes?
The Busybody Twits at State Department
So Iraq asked us to get out, please.
What's the reaction from the State Eminent Multiple Failure Department?
'We don't want to leave and we're going to impose our will on you you bunch of Deplorables!'
(Familiar language, no?)
Lotta people with bad habits in that Department. Maybe Trump should transfer them to the Forestry Department and assign them to Wyoming.
A LIttle More Obozo-Stupid
Grim has spent a lot of time in-theater in the ME.
...Turkey is apparently moving forces into Libya to try to quell the remaining fires of the civil war Obama kicked off nine years ago. They have, of course, chosen to back the wrong side; but it's also the side Obama had picked, quite a few of whom were al Qaeda affiliates in the grand days of that movement. The Trump administration doesn't seem to care about Libya one way or the other, and will likely let the Turks decide the issue if they are able. Trump, at least, doesn't share the opinion that America is indispensable to these conflicts....
Obozo, along with the friggin' genius ex-limo driver Rhodes and the usual gaggle of nincompoops-in-striped-pants at State, not to mention Communist-voter Brennan.
Yah, he F*&^ed the Middle East real good.
A Dishonest Obozo-Lawyer in D.C.? Oh, NOOOOOES!!!
Glenn Reynolds reads the crap from ex-Obozo twits so you don't have to.
...Susan Hennessey is Executive Editor of the Lawfare Blog, a Brookings Senior Fellow, and a CNN National Security Legal Analyst and former Intelligence Community lawyer. She’s also, as you can see, a dishonest idiot. These are the “experts” Trump is supposed to have deferred to. Disgraceful, and a pretty good explanation of why our foreign policy has been a dumpster fire for the last three decades....
The stupid, lying, lawyer claimed that the passengers in the Ukrainian jet were victims of "crossfire" between US and Salami-man.
Reynolds makes the by-now obvious point that the Usual Suspects (State, CIA, NSA, etc.) were NOT asked for advice; as a result, they fervently pray that the gambit fails.
Because the question is obvious: Who Needs These People??
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Corrupt? The FEEBS?? Oh, NOOOOES!
How long will it take before Trump fires the whole damn bunch of these bastards?
In a federal lawsuit filed this week, Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosentein has been implicated in yet another improper government spy operation.
In the new complaint, Attkisson v. Rosenstein et.al., investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson names former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosentein and four other Justice Department officials as the government agents who of illegally survielled her electronic devices....
There's a whistleblower who (obviously) should become Director, FBI.
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New Polling Data
AOSHQ contracted with a reliable pollster and has the following results.
Trump vs. The Precious
It's wonderful to hear President Trump call Obama exactly what he was: a wormy, pandering, chickenshit who was de-balled by Mooch and Pelosi. Trump knows that Obama is doing his very best to strike at the King, by the way, and so do we all.
Seems that without Brennan, Comey, and The Clap(per), li'l Barry is ........impotent.
The Press doesn't like it. Boo Hoo.
BadaBing!! Wall Funds Released by 5th
Besides winning his case against "sanctuary cities" last Friday--which means Trump can do the right thing and cut off "COPS" funding to "sanctuaries" (like L.A.), Trump scored another one in the 5th Circuit today.
...A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling to allow the Trump administration to divert $3.6 billion in military construction funds to fund expanded construction on the president’s southern border wall....
By January 2025, many US citizens will be much safer, no thanks to Paul Ryan nor the Bush Bunch, nor the America-hating Left/Democrat Party.
Killing Americans With Globalism
While this study tells us what we already suspected, there are a few questions remaining.
...A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association examined 112 counties near automobile plants, primarily in the industrial Midwest and South, from 1999 to 2016. A quarter of the counties were near a plant that closed. Researchers compared overdose deaths before and after plant closures.
Opioid overdose deaths in counties where automobile plants had closed were 85 percent higher than in counties where they hadn’t.
The study’s “findings highlight the potential importance of eroding economic opportunity as a factor in the U.S. opioid overdose crisis,” the authors conclude. “From 1999 to 2016, automotive assembly plant closures were associated with increases in opioid overdose mortality.”
The study found non-Hispanic white men suffered the largest increase in overdose deaths....
We've known, largely by instinct, that lack of a future leads to serious social problems. Opioids are the new alcohol, of course. So there's that.
Another interesting study would look at marriage and childbirth rates across the same counties. The "hunch" is that marriages are down, but childbirths are not--meaning illegitimacy is increasing.
We paid a lot for cheap teevees and cars, no?
Thank God for Trump!!
Mikie Bloomberg: Laughably Wrong, Again
Li'l Mikie Bloomberg will have wasted a small fortune on his wacky-doodle crusade.
We mentioned earlier that Li'l Mikie "thinks" that nobody, but nobody, should have the right to self-defense.
Apparently Li'l Mikie wants to out-do that inane position, and he's trying!
California “is something the rest of the country looks up to,” Bloomberg said.
California has been a joke since about 1975, and it's become a very bad joke in the last decade or so. Here in Normie-World, we fertilize grass with processed poop (Milorganite.) In California, they fertilize their sidewalks with raw poop.
That's just for openers. Moonbattery has a long, long, list of other California .....ahh.......problems.
Poor, Poor, D.C. Babies!!
Your betters--the ones you pay--will not be working much today.
Federal government employees in Washington will be permitted to leave work hours early on Tuesday as the region anticipates just an inch of snowfall.
"Employees of Federal offices in the Washington, DC area are authorized for early departure," the Office of Personnel Management said in a notice to staff. "Employees should depart 4 hours earlier than their normal departure time and may request UNSCHEDULED LEAVE to depart prior to their staggered departure time. All employees MUST DEPART at no later than 1:00 pm at which time FEDERAL OFFICES are CLOSED."...
One to three inches of snow is expected.
Here's a quick challenge: see if you can notice a difference between "working" and "not working" output from the hive of drones......
Poor, poor, babies.
Six Illegals Rape and Prostitute Teen in Green Lak...
"Russkies Hacked Burisma"? Sure. No Doubt. /sarc...
A Dishonest Obozo-Lawyer in D.C.? Oh, NOOOOOES!!!...
Paying for Slander (!!!)
Remember "Dumb Polack" Jokes? Fuggedaboutit
Kerr Moves on From 9-28 NBA Record
Comey's Father-in-Thought
Bloomberg, the Monomaniac
(D) Pol Does What (D) Pols Do
HAR!!
Don't Take Young Boys to Disney.....
Bill Gates: All Hat, No Cattle, Again
Working on Sympathy
This Soleimani Thing
Do These People......
Federal Bureau of Lies, Distortions, and Fraud
Will Iran Continue to Take John Kerry's Advice?
Dear Messrs Vos and Fitzpatrick
Shut Up, Rose
"Establishment George" Weigel Gives Advice
Li'l Ronny Howard Asks for Comparisons
So, Bibi. Let's Talk About This
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Barometric Pressure During Squall Passage
Last year we posted a note here about an unexpected small rise in barometric pressure as a severe squall passed over a boat in the Caribbean (Local Pressure as a Squall Goes By). The article served two purposes, it documented that unexpected behavior and in doing so demonstrated the value of a having high quality precision barometer on board.Today, we get to carry on with that story, but with more data.
It started with a bike ride home from work, with just enough drizzle to put on rain pants. Ten minutes later however, the wind was at least 25 kts, gusting to 30, with rain heavy enough to reduce visibility to about 200 yards for a short time... not to mention an excellent test of good rain gear. This was an honest to goodness tropical squall, which I have seen many times underway... actually it was not at all a "tropical squall;" it just behaved like one. See Cliff Mass explanation of the system.
After dinner and much banter about the unusual likelihood of such a squall here in Seattle, I happen to notice the trace on an accurate barometer I have at home. Screen captures are shown below.
Shown on a 6 hr trace, the bump is at about -2.5h
Same data, zoomed to past 3 hr, but captured at a different time.
We can look at real times since this barometer has an accurate clock.
The cursor is the close dotted line showing the pressure was 1008.4 at 1802 or so, just before the event.
The peak pressure of 1009.2 occurred at 1813 (PDT).
The pressure continued its pre-bump rise by about 1825.
Thus we see that at about 1813 the pressure rose by about 0.8 mb above its trend over a period of 10 to 15 min. This instrument was roughly 25 ft above sea level, in a room with open windows, about a mile or two from the West Point Lighthouse (WPOW1), which recorded hourly (MSL) pressures of 1009.0 and 1009.7 at 1800 and 1900 PDT.
The new data here is some documentation of the squall as it also passed over the Atmospheric Sciences Building at UW, which has several fine instruments on the roof, as well as a precision barograph inside the building.
In the earlier note, linked above, we speculated that maybe there was some brief pressurization of the cabin on the boat where the barometer was located, but now there is clear question about that interpretation. Namely the environment of this instrument was rather different from the boat, and also we now have the UW data (below), from an entirely different environment.
High precision barograph at UW Atmospheric Sciences.
They see the same bump about 5 min later, and about half the intensity, rising about 0.4 mb. For what it might be worth, my guess is the squall was less severe when it got to UW, which is about 5 mi east of here. I say this because we have the data (below) from their measurements, and I was right in the middle of this one, on a bike, and have some experience in the observations.
Unless their meter is blocked on some level, I know for certain we had much stronger winds at our location.
But they did indeed have a lot of rain, but this is much harder to gauge by eye to make comparisons. I would guess what we had here for a brief time was violent rain.
They recorded about a quarter inch of rain in a few minutes.
This record of rain gauge bucket tips shows the downpour even more clearly.
And as you would expect with a big squall, there was a fast and notable air temperature drop.
Likewise as we would expect in a fast moving squall, the wind direction was all over the place.
So in conclusion, we have clear proof of a squall and some estimate of its severity (there is likely other data on this as it was an unusual event) and we have two independent measurements of the pressure bump, in rather different measurement environments.
Now we just have to figure out what caused this... though there is no doubt that with a good barometer you learn things you would not otherwise. For example, we can see very nicely on my home barometer the local pressure variations that lead to the sea breeze in Puget Sound on a warm clear day. Later I will write up how racing sailors can use this information to predict the wind while underway in a race on Puget Sound.
PS... it is a bit difficult to tell what took place at West Point Lighthouse because they only record data hourly... but there was definitely some larger scale system in place over the region, which we will have to look up. The Lighthouse data is shown below, with the corresponding pressure trace from my barometer.
Wind and pressure at West Point. Recall wind in kts is about 2 x wind in m/s. Notice that they had more wind here than at UW, and I would guess somewhat less then I experienced for a short period.
This is the corresponding pressure trace from my home barometer. We clearly cannot see the details discussed above on this scale.
Follow up from the next day, Wed Sept 3.
At the office we have several accurate barometers that store data, so I checked one to see if we still had detail enough to see the bump, and sure enough we see this just fine, as shown below.
This illustrates three points. One is we have still another completely different environment of the instrument during the measurement, so this seems to imply this might not be the factor.
And second, it seems we may have a real meteorological effect here to understand. We need to rig up our Gill Pressure port, and have this set up outside for the next squall to remove all such influences.... unfortunately (in this regard) Seattle has only some 4 or 5 squall days per year.
The other important point to observe is the great value—for research and careful foreacsting—of a barometer that can store digital data and then transfer it to a computer for archiving or further analysis. There are several units on the market that will do this, and some phone barometers can export the data as well. The barometer in the Kestrel 550 hand held wind meter, for example will even blue tooth high precision barometer data to a phone or tablet. This is a rapidly changing technology and high precision barometric pressure is now readily available.
In the above example, 24 h ago, this bump was just barely visible on the crude display screen of the instrument itself, but we could just connect it to a computer with a USB cable, export the data to a spread sheet and plot it. The whole process took just a few minutes.
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Rotary Currents
Most tidal currents we deal with on inland waters are reversing currents. That is, from slack water the current builds in the ebb direction to a peak value, on average about 3 hours later, then it starts to diminish in speed back to another slack—and over this full ebb cycle the current is flowing in more or less the same direction, tabulated as the ebb direction.
Then the current reverses, and carries out the same pattern in the tabulated flood direction. Usually in a reversing current, the ebb and flood directions are nearly opposite to each other, but it is not uncommon to be out of alignment by 10º or so, and in extreme cases as much as 45º—but even when misaligned there are these two unique directions that define the set in a reversing current.
In stark contrast, there are some locations in open inland waters, and in essentially all coastal waters, where tidal current behavior is quite different. These currents are called rotating currents. A pure rotating current rotates its direction of flow over the tidal cycle without changing speed. In a pure rotating current there is no peak current speed and no ebb or flow direction.
A pure rotating current, however, is rare. In most cases the current speed does change somewhat as the current rotates, and thus the pattern of the flow is not a circle, but an ellipse, in which case the long axis of the ellipse can be thought of as defining the ebb and flood directions, as well as the peak values to be expected.
The rotation is created by the interaction of two tidal waves moving in different directions. Either one of these waves on its own would create a simple revering current, but where these waves cross the resulting current shows a rotation pattern at that location. The shape of the rotation pattern depends on the relative amplitudes, times, and directions of the crossing tidal waves. In the Northern Hemisphere the rotation is usually clockwise. Running farther into a large open estuary with various channels, the same tidal waves will later create reversing currents.
A key point for navigators is to know and expect this different behavior of the current once sailing into large open bays or into coastal waters. Sometimes the official NOAA Tidal Current Tables alerts us to this with reference in the list of secondary stations to special tables or diagrams for rotating current stations, but in other parts of the world there is no warning. We just have to know it happens and search through the references for the data. On some Canadian charts, rotary current diagrams are printed right on the chart at the pertinent locations, but we do not see this often on US charts.
Once we know the current rotates where we care about, and we find the data describing it, we are faced with how to use this information. The procedure for figuring time, set, and drift of a rotary current is different and more involved than is the same process for a reversing current.
For a reversing current, we go to the Tidal Current Tables, find the nearest station, and look up the peak and slack times and speeds. Then use the interpolation table from the book to figure speeds at other times or use a shortcut like the Starpath 50-90 Rule. Or much easier, go online to tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/noaacurrents/Stations and look up the data already corrected for secondary stations. Or easier still, open an echart program that includes a tides and currents utility, and click the place on the chart you want, set the calendar and clock, and read off the current for that specific time, or print a plot of current versus time for a day or so. This feature of electronic charting is one of its strong selling points for those who sail tidal waters.
For rotary currents, however, none of these easy methods work. Furthermore, you must have the official NOAA Tidal Current Tables at hand. Abbreviated versions rarely have the needed information, and it is not online, and it is not included with echart current utilities. Rotary current predictions are too complex to be tabulated, so we are left with approximations.
To show the process, we look just SW of Cuttyhunk Island in Rhode Island Sound (Current station #749). A section of Table 5 from the Current Tables shows how this current rotates at this location. The currents are not strong at this location, but other places rotating current can be quite strong. On Nantucket Shoals or the entrance to Strait of Juan de Fuca, or many places in Alaska rotating currents can routinely be well over 2 kts.
Also note that within just 3 to 6 miles of this rotating current there are 3 stations with purely reversing currents. One just inside Buzzard’s Bay (#773) and two just inside Vineyard Sound (#747 and #745). There are numerous examples around the country where pure reversing switches to rotating in just a few miles.
The main reference to using the data are the Instructions to Table 5 in the Tidal Current Tables, but I venture to guess that not all navigators who might benefit from the information have seen them, so we offer a brief summary here till they get a chance.
The current speeds shown in Table 5 are the monthly averages. The times of each current are relative to the time of max flood at Poll0ck Rip Channel, which is a primary reference station in this area. Thus that one time sets the times for the currents at each hour after that. If for example the max flood at Pollock Rip occurred at 0551, then the average Cuttyhunk current at 0951 (4h later) would be 0.5 kts, setting toward 146 T. Since we know the current each hour, if we knew the time period we expected to be in this current we could figure the net tidal vector and from this figure our CMG and SMG as we transited the area.
But we are not done. These are average speeds, and just as with reversing currents, the speeds are stronger at spring tides (new moon and full moon) and weaker at neap tides (quarter moons, which appear in the sky as half-moons). As a rough rule, spring tides give rise to currents about 20% larger than the average, and neap tides yield currents about 20% lower than the average at any particular location. And this can be fine tuned even farther taking into account the location of the moon in its orbit at these phases. When the moon is closest to the earth (perigee) at the springs, the x 1.2 factor increases to x 1.4, and when the moon is farthest from the earth (apogee) at the neaps, the x 0.83 factor (1/1.2) is reduced to x 0.71 (1/1.4).
With reversing currents we do not have to worry about this. The astronomical influences are built into the current table predictions. But for rotating currents we get only the averages and have to apply the astronomical corrections ourselves. The needed astro data are on the inside back cover of the current tables and also online. This year, for example, July 12 is full moon and July 13 is perigee, so we expect currents throughout the region to be some 40% larger than average on these days, which you can see in the current tables for all reference stations in the region. On these two days, however, we would need to increase the tabulated rotary currents by this factor ourselves.
Sailing in rotary currents takes extra work, but knowing how to figure them and how to account for their influence on neighboring reversing current helps you make good predictions ahead of time that in turn helps you interpret what you see on the GPS.
Excerpt from Table 5, NOAA Tidal Current Tables
Section of chart 13218 showing four current stations, three are reversing, one is rotating (#749, Cuttyhunk Is, 3.25 mi SW). The average speeds at the stations are shown to scale, with the average ebb at #747 being 2.0 kts. The current predictions are for the precise location of the station dots, not along the arrows. Away from the precise station locations we must infer the currents from neighboring predictions.
We might expect the converging max ebb currents near point B to be near southerly, with some element of rotation. The current NW of #773 is similar to that at #773, but we can expect the peak flood current near point A to be curving to NE with some element of rotation. An echart program with a range and bearing tool is an easy way to make a rotary diagram as shown above. The vectors correspond to the ones shown in Table 5.
We have exercises on rotary currents in our new Navigation Workbook 1210 Tr, which are discussed in more detail in our text Inland and Coastal Navigation.
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Correlation between plasma properties and its deposited thin film of RF magnetron sputtering system using Zn target
Nayan, Nafarizal (2010) Correlation between plasma properties and its deposited thin film of RF magnetron sputtering system using Zn target. Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia. (Unpublished)
In the present work, we investigate the fundamental properties of magnetron sputtering plasma using Zn target and its deposited Zn thin film. The magnetron sputtering plasma was produced using radio frequency (RF) power supply and Argon (Ar) as ambient gas. A Langmuir probe was used to collect the current from the plasma and from the current intensity, we calculate the election density and electron temperature. The properties of Zn sputtering plasma at various discharge conditions were studied. At the RF power ranging from 20 to 100 W and gas pressure 5mTorr, we found that the electron increased drastically from 6x10'9 to 1x10'10 cm-3 when the discharge gas pressure increased from 5 to 10mTorr. The electron microscope images show that the grain size of Zn thin film increase when the discharge power is increased. This may be due to the enhancement of plasma density and sputtered Zn density.
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This means that the South African clothing and textile industry is a prime example of an industry that has been heavily impacted by globalization. How to apply for Government Jobs in Textile Industry? List of Government Jobs available in Textile? What are the government jobs available for textile engineers? Where and which post should I try for Government job in Textile Industry after completing M. By Marc Bain December 18, 2015. responsive garment industry 6. 1 Job Portal. Production Manager, Merchandiser, Garment Exports Documentation and more! Garment Industry Jobs - October 2019 | Indeed. Researching fashion job opportunities? If yes, you have come to the proper place. Explore 465. “The industry will require 6,200 to 7,600 production workers over the next several years, for which there is virtually no supply,” the Apparel Human Resources Council says in its 2011 report.
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Egypt frees two detained Canadians: Ottawa
Canadian officials welcome release of John Greyson and Tarek Loubani after their weeks-long detention without charge in Egyptian prison cell
AFP, Sunday 6 Oct 2013
Canadian filmmaker, John Greyson, and emergency room physician, Tarek Loubani (Photo: ctvnews)
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Egyptian authorities have released two Canadians who had been held without charge in Cairo since mid-August, Canadian officials said Sunday.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper welcomed the release of John Greyson, a Toronto filmmaker and university professor, and Tarek Loubani, an emergency room doctor from London, Ontario.
Harper, speaking in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, said that Ottawa "welcomes this decision by the government of Egypt" to set the pair free.
"We look forward to seeing these two Canadian citizens return home in the not-too-distant future," Harper told reporters.
The pair, who were transiting Egypt on their way to the neighboring Palestinian Gaza Strip when arrested, had not been formally charged.
They were arrested in Cairo on August 16 amid bloody clashes between security forces and Islamists that killed dozens of people
The two Canadians ended a hunger strike after winning small concessions from their jailers, a relative of one of the men said Thursday.
In Ottawa, Minister of State Lynne Yelich earlier issued a statement welcoming the release.
"I look forward to Dr. Loubani and Mr. Greyson being reunited with their families and friends, who have shown tremendous strength during this difficult time," the statement read.
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird "and I were in contact with senior Egyptian officials on numerous occasions concerning this case," and diplomats at the Canadian embassy in Cairo "worked tirelessly to secure their release."
"I wish to express our appreciation to the Egyptian authorities for providing consistent consular access,"
said Yelich. In an open letter smuggled out of prison and released in late September, Loubani and Greyson called conditions at Tora prison in Cairo "ridiculous."
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Wary foes Turkey and Syria hold covert contacts to avoid conflict
Reuters , Monday 21 Oct 2019
Turkey is holding covert contacts with Syria's government to avert direct conflict in northeast Syria where both sides have deployed their armies, Turkish officials say, despite Ankara's long-standing hostility to President Bashar al-Assad.
Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan backs rebels who fought to topple Assad during Syria's eight-year civil war. He described Assad as a terrorist and called for him to be driven from power, something which earlier in the war appeared possible.
But Assad's allies Russia and Iran helped turn the conflict round and with U.S. forces now withdrawing from northeast Syria, Assad's Russian-backed troops are sweeping back into the region just as Turkish troops move in from the north.
Warily, the two sides have set up channels of communication, both direct military and intelligence contacts and indirect messages through Russia, to reduce the risk of confrontation, three Turkish officials say.
"We have been in contact with Syria on military and intelligence issues for some time in order to avoid any problems on the field," a Turkish security official told Reuters.
He said contact was first initiated over a separate escalation in northwest Syria, when Russia-backed Syrian troops earlier this year launched an assault in the Idlib region where Turkish troops are deployed.
"Contact with Syria has largely been through Russia, but this communication was done directly between Turkey and Syria at times to avoid Syrian and Turkish soldiers engaging in direct confrontation," the official added.
While the Turkish government insists that it has not changed its stance towards Assad, the security contacts with Damascus reflect a growing reality that it cannot ignore the Syrian president's steady restoration of control over his country.
Russia's position as go-between also points to the central role played by Moscow - Assad's most powerful backer - in Syria since President Donald Trump said he was pulling U.S. troops out of northern Syria.
Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Tuesday for talks which are likely to shape the next steps in northeast Syria.
"We will also receive information about Syria's perspective and the steps it will take during the meeting with Putin," a senior Turkish official said.
The Kremlin declined to comment on the matter in any detail.
SYRIAN FORCES IN TURKEY'S "SAFE ZONE"
Turkey launched its cross-border offensive on Oct. 9, saying it aimed to set up a roughly 30 km (20 mile) "safe zone" along 440 km of border, driving back Kurdish-led forces and preparing to settle up to 2 million Syrian refugees it currently hosts.
The Turkish offensive, currently halted for a 120-hour pause which expires late on Tuesday, has focused on two Syrian border towns of Tel Abyad and Ras al Ain, which lie roughly in the middle of the border strip Turkey is targeting.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Sunday they had withdrawn from Ras al Ain, and Turkey has said it controls the other town, Tel Abyad.
Further west, however, Syrian and Russian forces have already deployed in the border towns of Manbij and Kobani, which are both located within Turkey's designated "safe zone".
Erdogan said last week he could accept Syrian forces entering Manbij as long as the Kurdish YPG militia, which is the main fighting force in the SDF and is considered a terrorist group by Ankara, was removed.
The Kurdish-led forces, who were Washington's main partners in the battle to dismantle Islamic State's self-declared caliphate in Syria, said last week they had held talks with Damascus about trying to stem the Turkish advances.
RUSSIAN ENVOY
Despite backing opposing sides in Syria's conflict, Ankara and Moscow have grown closer, their ties strengthened by joint energy projects and Turkey's purchase of Russian air defences - to the anger of its NATO ally, the United States.
As Erdogan and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence hammered out a surprise Syria truce under the glare of international media on Thursday, Russia's Syria envoy quietly met Erdogan's national security aide in another part of the president's palace.
Syrian media reported that envoy Alexander Lavrentiev met Assad in Damascus the next day, without saying whether he had brought a message from Ankara.
A third Turkish official said Lavrentiev's talks in Turkey had focused on preparations for Erdogan and Putin's meeting.
Turkey and Russia have cooperated more closely on Syria since agreeing two years ago to work along with Assad's other main ally, Iran, to contain the fighting.
Turkey says it wants free elections in Syria overseen by the United Nations, and would work with whoever won power in a fair vote. It has also dropped its once frequent calls for Assad to go, although officials say that does not signal any shift.
"When it is necessary, there are of course contacts with Syria on intelligence, information sharing and other things," Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said last week. "There is no contact whatsoever on a political level."
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In the biggest deal yet seen in the construction SaaS market, the Melbourne, Australia-based collaboration technology provider Aconex has acquired Munich, Germany-based rival Conject for A$96m (c. €65m or £51m or US$73.3m).
Aconex announced the agreement to acquire Conject Holding GmbH earlier today, along with its intention to launch a fully underwritten placement to raise approximately A$120m to cover the deal costs (read The Australian). The deal eclipses the previous biggest acquisition seen in the sector, the February 2006 purchase of Constructware by Autodesk, then valued at US$46m.
The transaction is expected to close on or about 31 March 2016, subject to customary closing conditions, including approval by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. According to Aconex, in the financial year ended 31 December 2015, Conject generated €24.5m (A$36.1m – £19.3m or US$27.6m) in total revenue and €0.8m (A$1.1m – £0.7m or US$0.8m) in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA). The acquisition price implies a trailing revenue multiple of 2.7x.
Aconex anticipates the acquisition will help grow its revenues and profits, and will accelerate its business in Europe and other regions with a larger customer base, expanded sales and product development teams, and increased scale of operations. It does, though, expect to incur some one-time transaction and restructuring costs.
Strategic Synergies
Aconex CEO Leigh Jasper said:
“This acquisition will significantly expand our market penetration and user network throughout Europe, and will further consolidate our position as a leader in the global market for cloud-based construction collaboration solutions,” said Aconex CEO Leigh Jasper. “We believe that the strategic, operational and financial synergies of the business combination will substantially increase the long-term value that we are able to deliver to Aconex customers and shareholders. The addition of Conject will reinforce our strategic focus of growing the network, expanding product breadth and driving scale.”
The acquisition is consistent with our strategy of market consolidation, and Conject provides the primary market consolidation opportunity available today. Conject’s customer base, business and culture are highly complementary to ours. Their footprint across Europe’s largest construction and infrastructure markets, particularly Germany and the UK, will strengthen our presence and further increase our global economies of scale by leveraging our existing infrastructure. We believe that the transaction will provide opportunities to improve Conject’s operating performance and drive margin expansion and growth over time. We look forward to welcoming their management and employees, integrating their operations, and serving their customers.”
Outlook for Conject’s Business Integrated with Aconex
Conject recorded compound annual revenue growth (CAGR) of 18% over the last three calendar years (read my report on its 2014 performance). For the year ended 31 December 2015, Conject achieved gross margin of 73% and EBITDA margin of 3%. Aconex believes that under its ownership and management, the Conject business can achieve 15-20% revenue growth over the next four years, with gross margin of 70-72% in the near term and 73-75% in the medium term. With improvements in operating performance and the effects of product and operational synergies, Aconex expects the EBITDA margin to improve, reaching 11-16% in the near term and 20-25% in the medium term on an ongoing operations basis, excluding the impact of one-time costs related to the acquisition and integration.
“Leading the Construction Collaboration Market in Europe”
Conject, the Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM) Group – described by Aconex in its release as “Leading the Construction Collaboration Market in Europe” (a claim that might be disputed by its fast-growing rival Think Project!, also based in Munich) – was founded in 2000 in Germany and in December 2010 it acquired BIW Technologies, a Woking, UK-based construction collaboration software provider founded in 1999. Headquartered in Munich, Conject currently has approximately 210 employees located in 12 offices in nine countries. The company has served large, complex construction and infrastructure projects throughout Europe and other regions, with a customer base of more than 670 asset owners/operators and contractors and users in approximately 50 countries. Major customers include:
ArcelorMittal/Nippon Steel (Germany)
Stiftung Zollverein (Germany)
The National Grid (U.K.)
University of Manchester (U.K.)
Groupe Vinci (France)
BNP Paribas Residentiel (France)
Spectrum Holding (Russia)
Mace (Poland)
Changi Airport Authority (Singapore)
Hyundai (United Arab Emirates).
Conject’s current product portfolio supports the plan-build-operate lifecycle of assets. For project management, the company provides a cross-company collaboration platform which operates both on premise and in the cloud. Conject also provides solutions for mobility, cost control, mobile inspections (launched in the UK in May 2014, following its Wapp6 acquisition), and facility management.
Aconex believes that Conject’s successful experience in marketing, selling and supporting its Project Controls solution will benefit the commercial launch of the Aconex connected cost module later in calendar year 2016. This module will provide unified cost control across the project lifecycle, including claims and payments, contract administration, earned value management (EVM – post), budgeting, cost performance, and forecasting. The cloud-based cost control solution was acquired with Worksite in July 2015 and has been subsequently integrated with the Aconex collaboration platform.
Aconex also believes that the Conject acquisition will help drive penetration of its Aconex Connected BIM solution in the UK and other European markets leading the adoption of building information modelling (BIM) for construction projects. Aconex Connected BIM (launched in October 2014) manages BIM data and processes for project-wide collaboration between design and construction teams and handover to the asset owner. The company envisions similar leverage for Aconex Field, which enables field safety and quality inspections and defects management on mobile devices.
My reaction
The deal consolidates Aconex’s global leadership position among the SaaS collaboration pure plays, and it may also re-energise the Conject business. I have been hearing industry rumours about Conject being put up for sale and/or looking for new investment for some months; while the early signs of a resurgence were strong following the December 2010 acquisition of BIW Technologies, I think that initial dynamism has dissipated in recent years.
Despite the heavy losses BIW experienced when the Global Financial Crisis devastated the construction market in 2008 (read BIW – Battered in Woking), it retained a strong management team led by Colin Smith. After BIW plc went into administration, it recapitalised in late 2009. Effectively a ‘pre-pack’ deal was done that allowed previous directors and shareholders to acquire the operating company, BIW Technologies Ltd, and start afresh, free of the loan notes that brought the holding company down (while also destroying any equity held by many employees – myself included).
The acquisition of BIW by Conject a year later gave the Munich-based company a strong footprint in the UK and in the Middle East and other markets, and there also appeared to be a good ‘fit’ between the construction and FM strengths of the two firms. Rivals perhaps expected the UK management team to disappear but during the first 15 months, BIW CEO Colin Smith (below right) quickly replaced Martin Reents as Conject CEO, BIW sales director Steve Cooper also joined the holding company’s board, and the BIW SaaS product suite remained the strongest in the group’s portfolio, with investments in a new SaaS FM application and, later, BIM, set to strengthen the offering.
However, after Colin Smith left in December 2013 (later joining Textura), the business, in my view, lost momentum. UK revenues were growing, but Conject lagged technologically behind its rivals in responding to industry demands for BIM capabilities (it finally joined the BIM race just a year ago) and for mobile functionality; a UK launch of the SaaS FM solution was repeatedly postponed; and despite rebranding to Conject many UK end-users still tended to refer to the core platform as “BIW”. In April 2015, Smith’s successor Ralf Händl talked fairly conservatively about the polarisation created by BIM and about industry consolidation, perhaps hinting that Conject was open to suitors. Today, we have seen how that consolidation forecast has worked out.
Aconex’s founders and other members of its management team share some of the dynamism and ambition personified in Colin Smith, I think. I believe they will re-energise what became a somewhat staid Conject business, while also dramatically increasing the Aconex group’s penetration into Europe, particularly in the UK and in the central and eastern European markets where Conject has long retained a strong presence.
In terms of technology, the cost management capabilities of Conject’s Financial Control application, developed in the early 2000s to meet a major contractor’s exacting demands, have long been a strength and will accelerate the availability of tried and tested project cost control technology for contractor organisations and other industry clients. Conject’s UK team has led the group’s BIM developments, and with UK BIM practices now increasingly being emulated in other countries, this will add strength to Aconex’s BIM offering. However, I would not be surprised if Aconex disposed of some of the non-SaaS elements of Conject’s German operation, while looking to expand its own whole-life asset and data management capabilities in the cloud.
Update (22 March 2016) – A snippet from the transcript of the Aconex teleconference regarding the acquisition, quoting Leigh Jasper, and covering the integration aspects of the deal:
As part of this acquisition, we have put together a detailed plan to fully integrate Conject and the Aconex business, driving overall profit growth for the combined entity. We have factored in a one-time operational integration investment to bring Conject up to Aconex operating standards, which will ultimately drive more efficiency and productivity into the team. We will leverage synergy to improve operating performance and increase global economies of scale.
We will consolidate the platforms in much the same way that we have consolidated the INCITE Keystone platform; continuing to operate the Conject platform in the near term, but then fully aligning customers and integrating the platforms over the long term, ultimately resulting in one platform for all customers on the Aconex network. The success of the INCITE Keystone acquisition has provided a strong template for how this can work with the Conject-Aconex integration.
[Disclosure: As mentioned, I am a former employee of BIW Technologies (2000- May 2009). I have also undertaken consultancy work for Conject.] Apologies also to anyone affected by a short datacentre outage around noon GMT, 17 March.
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Harrison on 17 March 2016 at 11:51 am
The 2 best systems on the market today become 1 game changer.
Terryinperth on 17 March 2016 at 1:53 pm
Catch me if you can? It just became a one horse race! World conquest next?
As former BIW then Conject now Aconex, you’re now in Aconex colours!
Don on 17 March 2016 at 5:21 pm
Aconex have a bad reputation in the industry, employing bullying tactics towards both employees and clients alike, mainly in Australia but also in UK / Europe. Maybe this acquisition will be the start of the shedding of this image. They are positioning themselves as a serious global player
Bruno on 18 March 2016 at 7:52 am
I do find it strange that Aconex have no presence in South Africa. Is it that their bullish tatics are not tolerated there or is because they know they cannot compete against platforms that are suited for Africa’s industry where companies like Asite and 4Projects have invested.
former sales on 18 March 2016 at 8:52 pm
“The 2 best systems on the market today became 1 game changer”
“World conquest next?”
Couldnt agree more. Anyone who has worked in this industry knows what this merger means…boom baby!!!
but small struggling competitors like Asite and 4Projects (Roy Hill fame – hahahahahahahah!) snipe that Aconex are bullies and Aconex cannot compete!! Fellas pleaaaze, just give up now.
Glad I kept my ESOP shares 🙂
Extranet User on 20 March 2016 at 4:13 pm
4projects was bought by Viewpoint last year. It will be interesting to watch the Aconex and Viewpoint battle in the UK and European market.
Bruno on 21 March 2016 at 4:31 pm
I think ‘ Former Sales’ is just another brainwashed Aconex user, unless you still doing cloud based real-time construction document management Aconex takes first prize, although falls back dramatically when trying to integrate true collaborative BIM. I personally have to say from experience Aconex are behind on cBIM and iBIM(M) and maybe by aquiring Conject it shows us just how far they really are with true BIM capabilties but definitley have the largest marketing and advertising budget.
Lets not forget that Aconex was one of the last Saas platforms to integrate with Microsoft Outlook, along withl BIW Tech who couldnt either until it became Conject 🙂 the treadmill turns very quickly in this industry, i just hope they can keep up.
Sebastian on 22 March 2016 at 4:01 am
What’s your view of 4Projects since Roy Hill? Seems like that disaster killed them
Who can catch Aconex now? Who is the industry tortoise
Bruno on 24 March 2016 at 10:02 am
Hey Sebastain, Interesting debate. Firstly, let’s not shoot 4Projects’ application down. The software is a good platform for collaboration. Since Roy Hill contract with 4Projects, a deal that was done by the former 4Projects VAR, Project Collaboration in Australia before the ViewPoint Aquisition. That relationship with the VAR went very south which i believe is what sparked the collapse of 4Projects clients in Australia . 4Projects partnership with Construction Computer Software in South Africa also collapsed due to the ViewPoint aquisition, as these two companies are competitors globally. 4Project in the Middle East never really took off.
We all know that when 4Projects became ViewPoint Collaboration in the US and never got off the ground successfully and I think ViewPoint relied heavily on its ROI from the UK. There has been a lot of hiring and staff leaving 4Projects too, which does not make it easy for ViewPoint who also have the Baines Group now as a shareholder.
In closing I do hope they sort the internal issues out, as they are an important player in this market and I would hate to see Aconex rubbing their hands over this muddy water.
Rob Vanderhill on 23 March 2016 at 11:16 am
Maybe if Asite and Think merge in response to this – plus they make a strategic financial alliance with Procore and e-builder in US there will be a challenge.
4Projects is done, just whittling away in Viewpoint.
Edmond on 25 March 2016 at 7:51 pm
Its a shame that BIW didn’t kick on from a few years ago. Was it at lack of leadership, investment or ambition? Regardless, its been a steady decline since being the UK market leader a decade ago. Goes to show if you stand still the market will move on without you.
The real value for Aconex is the Conject customer base and ownership of established trade routes into new territories. They’ll go through the Conject organisation like a does of salts, getting shot of the ageing, disjointed solutions and poorly performing business units.
Time will tell, but I suspect customers will suffer as a result of less choice and rising prices (gotta pay those shareholders!).
Paul Wilkinson on 1 April 2016 at 9:08 am
BIW got financially squeezed. Its funding included loans from some angel investors and when Global Financial Crisis hit, some of these loans were called in. Simultaneously, anticipated revenues from key projects were disappearing as projects were mothballed or cancelled. The directors kept the core business going (albeit by going down a pre-pack route) but they, investors and employee shareholders lost any hope of a windfall from their stake in the holding company. As part of Conject, the former BIW business looked to be recovering, but – as I wrote in my post – I think its leadership hesitated when it should have been pushing hard to capitalise upon the BIM and mobile opportunities (in the end, too little too late).
As you say, Aconex will review what it’s got from the Conject deal and I expect it to discard elements of the business that are surplus to requirements. The sales operation is sound, but I understand some of the solutions, particularly in the German operation, were outdated, and there is clearly also some duplication between the merged businesses’ solutions.
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Alan Dershowitz Compares Himself to Founding Fathers, Relieved the Epstein Indictment Doesn’t Mention Him
Gary Legum
Alan Dershowitz is basically like one of the nation’s Founding Fathers, according to Alan Dershowitz.
The famous lawyer and Martha’s Vineyard pariah called into Joe Piscopo’s radio show on Tuesday morning to give his take on the case of his former client, Jeffrey Epstein, after Epstein was arrested on charges of sex trafficking of minors over the weekend. Mostly he used it as an opportunity to be relieved that the indictment against Epstein didn’t mention him before engaging in some conspiracy-mongering about why anyone is even reporting the allegations of two of Epstein’s victims that Dershowitz had sex with them.
At least two women have claimed that Epstein directed them to have sex with Dershowitz while they were still teenagers. One claimed her encounter with Dershowitz happened in Epstein’s Palm Beach home around 2005 or 2006, when the Dersh would have been in his late sixties. This would have been just before Dershowitz helped negotiate a sweetheart plea deal for Epstein after the latter was arrested on charges he was running a sex ring of teenagers out of his house. It is that plea deal, cut with then-U.S. Attorney and current Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, that has Democrats calling for Acosta’s resignation.
The second girl claimed she had multiple encounters with Dershowitz in Epstein’s homes in Palm Beach, New Mexico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, as well as aboard one of the billionaire’s private jets.
Dershowitz has forecefully denied the charges, filed bar complaints in three states against David Boies, who is representing one of the women in a lawsuit against Epstein, and has generally worked hard to paint himself as a victim of false accusations.
Which leads into his Tuesday conversation with Piscopo. After saying that Boies had admitted there was no evidence tying him to the girl, Dershowitz said that he “doesn’t worry” about the claims sticking:
“In America, a falsely accused person has the right to defend himself. Whether it was Alexander Hamilton defending himself, John Adams defending himself against Thomas Jefferson, every American should have the right to defend from a false accusation.”
No one has claimed that Dershowitz does not have the right to defend himself against accusations he says are false. Obviously he has that right. It is the comparing his martyrdom to, say, Alexander Hamiltion defending paying blackmail over his affair with Maria Reynolds, is a bit much.
Dershowitz also went on to claim without evidence that the accusations against him “are clearly motivated by the fact that I have defended Trump on constitutional grounds. Some of it is motivated by the fact that I have defended Bibi Netanyahu and Israel.” He also claimed that one website admitted it would not be covering the story at all except that Dershowitz is so pro-Israel that it needs “to silence his voice.”
So to sum up, Alan Dershowitz is being persecuted over these grubby charges as revenge for his defending Trump and advocating for Israel. Which is just like Alexander Hamilton, apparently.
Listen to the clip of Piscopo’s show above, via WNYM, starting around the 1:40 mark.
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Gary Legum has written about politics and culture for Independent Journal Review, Salon, The Daily Beast, Wonkette, AlterNet and McSweeney's, among others. He currently lives in his native state of Virginia.
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By Suzanna Bobadilla • @suzbobadilla • 4 years ago
Only children, and our families’ choices
After so many years of making small talk with strangers, I can subconsciously rattle off those introductory and intrusive getting-to-know-you questions, mostly about how to pronounce my name and “where I’m really from.” But eventually, the stranger will ask if I have siblings and I’ll respond: “No, I’m actually an only child.”’
Ninety-two percent of the time, this person that I will barely met will ask, ‘Why didn’t your parents want more kids? Did you ever miss having a sibling?’ Five minutes into this conversation, I find myself explaining my family’s right to reproductive justice to a stranger.
Sometimes, I’ll joke back, “Well, it was never really my call.” Other times, I’ll tell the truth: “Well, my mom and I almost died when I was born.” People often seem taken aback when I directly answer their question, but hey, I get a little touchy when folks ask intrusive questions about my mom’s reproductive choices as an “ice breaker.” Only children like me are flippantly characterized as being bossy, needy, selfish, and spoiled. But as I have gotten older, I see my only-childness not as a shortcoming, as the title itself suggests, but as proof that, when given the chance, women make the best decisions for themselves and their families.
Aside from asking for a twin as a 7th year birthday present, I’ve never questioned my mom why she decided to only have one kid. To me, it seems obvious. She knew what she wanted for our family, and she was able to enact those decisions. My mom made choices about our family based on her rather dangerous birth experience, what she and my dad envisioned as our household, and probably more factors that are none of my, yours, or anyone’s business. To be sure, there are other women in my family who decided to have one child for non-health reasons that are equally powerful: they wanted to travel the world, to be bad-asses in their careers, or whatever other reason was their decision. We have been lucky to have a family culture that believes in our women.
With the holiday season approaching, we can all be a bit more thoughtful about the types of assumptions and reactions we make when asking about each other’s beloved communities. For example, being an only child has shown me that friends and wider community members can have more of a positive impact in our lives than our blood-family. I’ve learned to be aware that some folks aren’t the biggest fans of their family for some reasons that they might not want to share with you. Ideally, we can ask each other questions about our loved ones without implicitly prioritizing one type of family over the other, especially as family topics so often intersect with issues about reproduction, sexuality, and sometimes abuse.
Realistically, I know that these questions about why I don’t have any siblings will come up. It’s weird to have to answer for my parents’ reproductive choices because, hello, do you ask your parents about their sex lives? But hopefully I can also use these questions as to remind the newly-introduced that the autonomy to create families of whatever size, type, dynamic is really frickin’ awesome.
We experience the impact of reproductive justice every day. Without meaningful access to comprehensive health services, people aren’t able to make the kinds of decisions my mom did. Holiday questions about family size may not be as politically explicit as debates about abortion in congressional hearings, but its effects are felt in everyday conversations. Imagine what it would be like to have families introduced without immediate evaluations or questionings, but until then: Hi. It was nice to meet you too.
Featured image credit: Logan Chadde
Suzanna Bobadilla
Suzanna Bobadilla is a writer, activist, and digital strategist. According to legend, she first publicly proclaimed that she was a feminist at the age of nine in her basketball teammate's mini-van. Things have obviously since escalated. After graduating from Harvard in 2013, she became a founding member of Know Your IX's ED ACT NOW. She is curious about the ways feminists continue to use technology to create social change and now lives in San Francisco. She believes that she has the sweetest gig around – asking bad-ass feminists thoughtful questions for the publication that has taught her so much. Her views, bad jokes and all, are her own. For those wondering, if she was stranded on a desert island and had to bring one food, one drink, and one feminist, she would bring chicken mole, a margarita, and her momma.
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By Senti Sojwal • @senti_narwhal • 11 months ago
Last month marked the 46th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that affirmed the constitutional right to safe, legal abortion. Almost fifty years later, despite near constant attacks on abortion access, and a largely anti-reproductive health SCOTUS and White House, Americans still overwhelmingly support the decision and an individual’s right to make their own choices about their reproductive futures.
Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health just released the final results of the Turnaway Study that explore the effect of abortion access on an individual’s existing and future children in the US. Earlier ...
Last month marked the 46th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that affirmed the constitutional right to safe, legal abortion. Almost fifty years later, despite near constant ...
By Sejal Singh • @Sej_Singh • 1 year ago
Many millennials plan to have fewer children than they want. Nearly two out of three say it’s because childcare is so prohibitively expensive that they simply can’t afford the families they’d like to have, according to a new poll.
It’s a disturbing, but unsurprising, figure. Childcare costs have skyrocketed by 168 percent in the last 25 years. Full-time daycare costs an average $9,589 a year, according to the Care Index. In urban areas, it can be even worse. Parents in Washington, D.C., pay an astronomical average of $35,782 ...
Many millennials plan to have fewer children than they want. Nearly two out of three say it’s because childcare is so prohibitively expensive that they simply can’t afford the families ...
Roe v. Wade is in danger. This is not a drill.
When Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement last week, he put an immediate target on reproductive rights. Kennedy, the longtime swing vote on the Court, was the crucial fifth vote recognizing a (limited) constitutional right to abortion. Trump has pledged to appoint anti-abortion conservatives in his place — and if he succeeds, the Supreme Court is almost certain to overturn Roe, allowing states to outlaw abortion.
We can’t stop Trump from nominating a right-wing zealot. That means our one, slim chance to save ourselves from a ...
When Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement last week, he put an immediate target on reproductive rights. Kennedy, the longtime ...
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By Meg Sri • 2 years ago
From Kuchibhotla to Kal Penn: How Hate Crimes Build Off Liberal Media
Yesterday, the New Yorker published a stirring article on Being Indian in Trump’s America, a rumination by Amitava Kumar on racial violence, hate crimes and the tensions that come with being South Asian in America. Around the same time, Indian American actor Kal Penn tweeted images of racist scripts offered to him at the beginning of his acting career. The two pieces, juxtaposed together, offer a handy depiction of hate: a dehumanization project that begins with media stereotyping and logically concludes in racist violence.
Yesterday, the New Yorker published a stirring article on Being Indian in Trump’s America, a rumination by Amitava Kumar on racial violence, hate crimes and the tensions that come with being South Asian in America. Around ...
By Alexandra Brodsky • 3 years ago
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By Dana Bolger • 4 years ago
New Favorite Tumblr: Every Single Word
Every Single Word is a new project powerfully documenting an age-old problem: the erasure and silencing of non-white characters in film. The tumblr’s creator, Dylan Marron, edits movies to remove all dialogue spoken by white people.
Every Single Word is a new project powerfully documenting an age-old problem: the erasure and silencing of non-white characters in film. The tumblr’s creator, Dylan Marron, edits movies to remove all dialogue spoken by white people. ...
By Maya Dusenbery • 4 years ago
Chart of the Day: Women created 37 percent of the news last year
The Women’s Media Center is out with their latest report on the gender gap in media — from the newsroom to the big screen.
Watch: Viola Davis accepts SAG award and talks diversity in Hollywood
At the Screen Actors Guild Awards last year, Viola Davis won the title of outstanding lead actress in a drama and gave this great speech on diversity and representation in Hollywood, thanking the creators of How to Get Away With Murder for believing that a “sexualized, messy, mysterious woman could be a 49-year-old, dark-skinned, African-American woman who looks like me.”
At the Screen Actors Guild Awards last year, Viola Davis won the title of outstanding lead actress in a drama and gave this great speech on diversity and representation in Hollywood, thanking the creators of How to Get ...
By Katie Halper • 5 years ago
3 things you might not know about the badass feminist icon Lauren Bacall
Actress Lauren Bacall, who died Tuesday at the age of 89, was famous for her films, memorable lines, husky voice, and marriage to Humphrey Bogart. But she also challenged gender norms on screen, and was an advocate for freedom of speech and unapologetic liberal. Here are a few things you might not know about about her.
Actress Lauren Bacall, who died Tuesday at the age of 89, was famous for her films, memorable lines, husky voice, and marriage to Humphrey Bogart. But she also challenged gender norms on screen, and was an advocate for freedom of speech and ...
Infographic: There have been no women of color protagonists in top grossing sci-fi and fantasy films
Given that women and people of color are so underrepresented in Hollywood generally, this analysis revealing the diversity gap in sci-fi and fantasy films is not entirely surprising.
But some small, uncynical part of me thought that just maybe a genre that is entirely, utterly unbound to current realities would be slightly more diverse. Syreeta recently quoted the great Octavia Butler, whose sci-fi novels Hollywood should be adapting for the big screen all the time: “There are no real walls around science fiction. We can build them, but they’re not there naturally.”
But some small, uncynical part of me thought ...
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Dec 1, 2009 4:39 PMPublication: The East Hampton Press
Mere mention of beach restrictions on dogs brings public outcry in East Hampton Village
Dec 1, 2009 4:39 PM
By Erin Geismar
The East Hampton Village Board of Trustees have received more than 60 e-mails opposing the possible extension of the hours that dogs would be banned from village beaches and the adoption of a leash law, ideas the Village Board has informally discussed, Village Administrator Larry Cantwell said this week.
But Mr. Cantwell said the discussion, which took place at a work session last month, was just that, and he stressed that the board is far from taking any formal action.
“There has been no specific proposal in writing nor a public hearing scheduled,” he said. “There has been nothing but a discussion.”
The village code now bans dogs from beaches from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. during the summer season and requires that pet owners must be in control of their animals at all times, but it does not specifically require that a leash be used. One suggestion made at the November work session was to extend the hours dogs are banned to 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. and consider specifying the language used in the code regarding leashes.
Mr. Cantwell said the discussion began when the board heard the annual report from the village beach manager, Edward McDonald, who Mr. Cantwell said, reported that there had been fewer complaints about dogs at beaches this summer. The board also heard from Village Police Chief Jerry Larsen who said officers had written 40 tickets for violations involving dogs at the beaches this summer, including tickets to owners whose dogs disturbed piping plover nests.
But Deputy Mayor Barbara Borsack said in an interview that Mr. McDonald’s findings were limited to Main Beach, which is highly regulated, and that she had heard complaints about dogs and noticed problems herself at other village beaches, prompting her to raise the idea of tightening current restrictions.
“The feeling is that people are actually leaving Main Beach, where there is staff enforcing those rules, and going to other beaches that don’t have staff,” she said.
Ms. Borsack, who noted that cleaning up after dogs was also an issue at some beaches, said it was a “quality of life” issue to preserve one of the village’s most important attributes.
“I would be thrilled not to have to make any changes at all,” she said. “But it would take the people who want those privileges to take responsibility for themselves.”
Mr. Borsack said all members of the board have received the correspondence from concerned community members and reiterated that no decisions had been made regarding dogs on beaches or beach fires, which was also discussed at the work session.
“I think we have to do something; we just quite haven’t figured out what to do yet,” she said.
Mr. Cantwell said that the topic will be discussed at this Thursday’s work session and that if the board wants to consider any formal proposal it would schedule a public hearing to allow for community input.
If God had wanted dogs to hang out at the beach, he would have made them seagulls.
By btdt (449), water mill on Dec 2, 09 5:27 PM
Go back to Watermill and leave us few natives alone dude. People just have to be responsible dog owners period, and fine the crap out of those who aren't.
By BlackDog (47), East Hampton on Dec 3, 09 12:15 PM
with a pea bag silly
By asurest (117), easthampton on Dec 5, 09 5:20 PM
fix-it-now
oh i mean pee
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Originally from Brittany, JOËNNE is an autodidact and has a passion for transforming human figures into volumes. To do this, she has chosen the technique of modelling and produces pieces in small and medium-sized formats... No firing is needed thanks to an air drying clay, which she paints in bright, pure colours... and her sculptures take on the appearance of small, well-made ceramics. JOËNNE lets herself be guided by her creative instinct, and enjoys shaping characters that are taken straight from a fantastical imaginary world brimming with inventiveness. Expressive, novel and wondrous all at once, this extraordinary world springs directly from the child inside of her, whom she delights in keeping alive. Expressed in a great formal simplicity, her creations are deeply marked by this desire for spontaneity that Naive Art has propounded since the time of Henri Rousseau. It is not a question, for example, in these figurative sculptures, of respecting proportions or imitating nature. However, the meticulousness of certain details reveals a quest for artistic effects, despite a deliberate schematisation and stylisation that allow the artist to symbolically codify the subject. JOËNNE consequently presents endearing artworks full of expressive freshness. They embody a form of refound innocence in a visual convention that the artist has pared down and made very much her own.
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Pixel Scroll 6/7/16 Pixel Sally, Guess You Better Scroll That Pixel Down
Posted on June 7, 2016 by Mike Glyer
(1) THE WAY TO LIVE IN FANDOM. In “A few post-Wiscon thoughts on being an ally” Sigrid Ellis covers several topics, and this segment speaks to fans far beyond the environs of WisCon.
Here’s the thing: if the fates are kind, all of us will one day be old in fandom. Two, three, four generations will pile in after us, building on what we have fostered. We, too, will be pushed to the margins and passed by.
Yet my heart and head are with the youth. With the future. I cannot bring myself to condemn change that spreads power among more people. I cannot argue against hearing more people tell their own stories. I cannot stand against representation, inclusion.
And yet, and yet, and yet …
What I want, what a crave, is for people to LISTEN to each other. To empathize. I want the young’ns to thank those who came before for their victories, however incremental. I want the founders and established folks to respect the anger and impatient demands for change. I want the next generation to not throw out everything just because it was done before. I want the previous generation to avoid “because we always do it this way” as a reason.
When I hear some Old Fart say something dismissive and intolerant, I wince. I want to prevent my respected elders from showing their ass in public, I want to cover for them, I want to protect them from being overheard.
When I hear some Young Turk calling to burn it all to the ground and start again, I wince. I want to run interference, I want to soften their demands, I want to compromise and meet them halfway.
(2) WHAT IT’S ABOUT. In a piece for Bloomberg, “’Star Wars’ Is Really About Feminism. And Jefferson. And Jesus”, Cass Sunstein has excerpts from his book The World According to Star Wars.
….Like a great novel or poem, Star Wars doesn’t tell you what to think. You can understand it in different, even contradictory ways. Here are six of those ways.
From the feminist point of view, is Star Wars awful and kind of embarrassing, or actually terrific and inspiring? No one can doubt that “The Force Awakens” strikes a strong blow for sex equality: Rey is the unambiguous hero (the new Luke!), and she gets to kick some Dark Side butt. Just look at the expression on her face when she has a go at Kylo Ren.
By contrast, the original trilogy and the prequels are easily taken as male fantasies about both men and women. The tough guys? The guys. When you feel the Force, you get stronger, and you get to choke people, and you can shoot or kill them, preferably with a lightsaber (which looks, well, more than a little phallic — the longer, the better).
But there’s another view. Leia is the leader of the rebellion. She’s a terrific fighter, and she knows what she’s doing. She’s brave, and she’s tough, and she’s good with a gun. By contrast, the men are a bit clueless. She does wear a skimpy costume, and she gets enslaved, kind of, by Jabba the Hutt. But isn’t everything redeemed, because she gets to strangle her captor with the very chain with which he bound her? Isn’t that the real redemption scene in the series?
(3) SISMAN OBIT. Publisher and novelist Robyn Sisman (1955-2016) died May 20 of cancer reports The Bookseller.
She began her career in publishing at Oxford University Press where she worked her way up to become an editor.
She later became an editorial director at J M Dent and created two publishing imprints – Everyman Fiction, a list of contemporary fiction; and a classic crime line, which included writers such as Nicholas Blake (Cecil Day-Lewis), Margery Allingham, and Kingsley Amis.
Malcolm Edwards believes she commissioned the first Interzone anthology at Dent.
Sisman then joined Hutchinson, part of the Random House group, via a stint at the newly established UK arm of Simon & Schuster.
She oversaw publication of Robert Harris’ wartime novel Fatherland, but also such books as Kim Newman’s The Night Mayor and Brian Stableford’s Empire of Fear brought to her attention by an sf advisor.
Sisman’s career as a writer began with her debut novel, Special Relationship, published in 1995 by Heinemann. She wrote five other romantic comedies, Just Friends (Penguin), Perfect Strangers (Penguin), Weekend in Paris (Penguin), A Hollywood Ending (Orion) and The Perfect Couple? (Orion).
She was married to author Adam Sisman.
(4) TOP DRONE. I don’t know what Luke will go shooting womp-rats with now – “The U.S. Air Force May Have Just Built Its Last Fighter Jet” reports The Daily Beast.
In the direst scenario, Air Force fighters simply won’t survive over enemy territory long enough to make any difference during a major war. In that case, the penetrating counterair system, or PCA, might not be a fighter jet as we currently understand it.
Instead, it could be a radar-evading drone whose main job is to slip undetected into enemy air space and use sophisticated sensors to detect enemy planes—and then pass that targeting data via satellite back to other U.S. forces. “A node in the network,” is how the strategy document describes the penetrating system’s main job.
The Air Force could start work on the penetrating counterair system in 2017, according to the new air-superiority plan. The document proposes that this possible stealth drone could team up with an “arsenal plane”—an old bomber or transport plane modified to carry potentially hundreds of long-range missiles
(5) AERIAL SNACKAGE. Richard Foss was up early to guest on a TV show called Food: Fact or Fiction and wrote a great post about his experiences.
One segment was about the history of food aboard commercial aircraft, the other about food in space, and each had their humorous moments. As part of one I had to eat some airline peanuts, and unfortunately they had brought the sweet kind that I detest. I managed to fake enjoyment when the camera was on, but must have made an interesting face as soon as it stopped, because the cameraman asked if I was choking. When I told him the situation, he complimented me on my acting, because he had thought I loved peanuts as long as the camera was on. The annoying part? They had to shoot the scene three times, so I ate a whole bag of the nasty things.
(6) UP THE AMAZON. John Scalzi delivered “A Tweet Spree on Amazon Authors and Envy” — 17 tweets and a kitten picture. Here’s number 6.
6. I've had single digit Amazon Author rankings in SF/F; I've been off the list of 100 entirely. As far as I can see, no impact on sales.
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) June 7, 2016
(7) AUGUST BRADBURY SHINDIG. Steven Paul Leiva signal boosted a call for submissions for this summer’s Ray Bradbury Read in LA.
On August 22, 2016, in celebration of the ninety-sixth anniversary of the birth of American and Angeleno literary great Ray Bradbury, the Ray Bradbury Read will take place in downtown Los Angeles from twelve noon to three p.m.
The Ray Bradbury Read will feature three hours of short readings from the works of Ray Bradbury; from his short stories, novels, poems, and essays…
The readers of Bradbury’s work will be members of the public selected by the process described below. There will also be guest celebrity readers….
To be considered as a reader you must submit a proposal for a reading of a five-minute-or-under excerpt from one of Bradbury’s many works. The excerpt can come from any of Ray’s published prose and verse writings and should have a central theme, coherence, and completeness about it. More than one excerpt or poem can be read, as long as their reading time does not exceed five minutes. Excerpts from plays and screenplays will not be accepted.
(8) WALK THROUGH MGM. Marc Scott Zicree, Mr. Sci-Fi, visits the former MGM, where Twilight Zone was shot.
(9) DO ANYTHING ELSE IF YOU CAN. William F. Nolan wrote on Facebook:
A major misconception: that all famous, successful writers find it easy to bring in vast amounts of money and have always enjoyed big bucks, right from the start of their fabled careers. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Stephen King had his phone cut off for non-payment and had to use a gas station phone to receive calls while sweating for low pay in an industrial laundry. Ray Bradbury lived on tomato soup for years as his stories were rejected. Charles Beaumont had to hock his typewriter for food. Richard Matheson nearly starved trying to live on random, penny-a-word sales. Just a few examples from many. It takes talent, hard work and a LOT of years to “make it big” as a writer. And most writers never do. A tough game, people. Very, very tough indeed. Write if you must — but ONLY if you must.
(10) NOT A STRANGER. ScienceFiction.com shares “Strange Opinion: Bob Gale Of ‘Back To The Future’ Is Not Happy About ‘Doctor Strange’”.
In a recent interview with MoviePilot, Bob Gale let his opinion be known about Marvel’s upcoming ‘Doctor Strange’ movie, a film that he is not looking forward to. While you might think “Who the hell is Bob Gale?” and “Why does his opinion matter on this?” let me tell you, I had similar thoughts. I knew he was a writer/producer on the ‘Back to the Future‘ movies back in the 80?s (and has done little else since, except for ‘Back to the Future’ video games and promos, and the ride at Universal Studios), and I thought it was very strange that years later the man would pop up again with comments on a Marvel movie. However, Bob Gale having an opinion on the matter is not as strange as I originally thought, as it turns out that back in the 80s (at the height of his relevancy) the man wrote a screenplay for ‘Doctor Strange,’ which unfortunately never got made. Apparently Bob Gale is a huge ‘Doctor Strange’ fan and an expert on the character, which is why he tried to get his movie made, and also why he feels so strongly about Marvel’s upcoming film featuring the character.
Of course I’d listen to Bob Gale’s opinion. He majored in film at USC. More important, that’s how he happened to take me (a fellow USC student) to the first LASFS event I ever attended, the club’s 1970 anniversary dinner, where Harlan Ellison read aloud “Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World.” He can say anything he likes about Doctor Strange as far as I’m concerned. 😉
(11) FANTASY TOURISM. The B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog has “Rough Guides to Getting Around Single-Climate Planets”.
Ursa Beta Minor (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, by Douglas Adams) Introduction: The Pleasure Planet Ursa Beta Minor was designed, manufactured, and terraformed to be the ultimate vacation destination. The planet is comprised completely of warm oceans and thin strips of beach front. It is always Saturday afternoon, and the bars are always open. In fact, as you read this, you’re wondering why anyone would travel to any other single-climate planet, and frankly we have to agree with you.
Where to Go: Aside from the beaches and the bars, there is only one other destination: Light City, the capital city. While in Light City, visit the headquarters of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which will be very disappointing, but afterwards you can stroll down Life Boulevard and walk past the shops that literally no one is wealthy enough to afford.
Getting There and Getting Around: You’ll need a ship equipped with some sort of Infinite Improbability Drive, or at least a Bistromatic Drive. Once in orbit, you can only arrive by air, as the owners really want you to see Light City from up there, or else the whole trip is a waste.
(12) APPERTAIN YOURSELF A LIBATION. Stoic Cynic in a comment:
Apropos of nothing in this thread (yet), and with apologies to Johnny Mandel, Mike Altman, the cast of MASH, and various posters toasting world peace:
Through early morning fog I see
Another troll post on the screen
Their words that are meant to rile me
I realize and I can see
That scrolling past is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it
If I please
Games of trolls are a loss to play
Not gonna feed it today
That losing card I’ll some day lay
But right now though I have to say
Their words are time we’ll not see again
It doesn’t hurt when it begins
But engage and get all drawn in
The loss grows stronger, watch it grin
Scrolling past is painless
Sea Lions once demanded me
To answer questions they thought key
Is it to be, or not to be?
And I replied, oh why ask me?
And you can do the same thing
If you please
[Thanks to John King Tarpinian, Martin Morse Wooster, Andrew Porter, Stoic Cynic, and David K.M. Klaus for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Niall McAuley.]
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124 thoughts on “Pixel Scroll 6/7/16 Pixel Sally, Guess You Better Scroll That Pixel Down”
Lela E. Buis on June 8, 2016 at 8:38 pm said:
>Scollin’ scrollin’ scrollin’
Though the pups are trollin’
Keep them pixels scrollin’
And filed!
Heh. Funny.
microtherion on June 8, 2016 at 9:44 pm said:
Have you seen the little Pixels scrolling in the dirt?
JJ on June 8, 2016 at 9:55 pm said:
Lela E. Buis: Every little girl’s dream is to be a Disney princess.
I can’t tell, but I’m guessing this is sarcasm?
Because if it’s not, you sure don’t know many little girls.
(1) THE WAY TO LIVE IN FANDOM — As far as I know, I’m broadly in agreement with the political goals of the WisCon crowd. And yet, every single report on it I’ve read seems to spend an awful amount of time on people policing each other and being policed. The vibe I’m getting is of the “Quiet Cars” in Swiss trains, where there isn’t all that much quiet because of all the busybodies patrolling the length of the car shushing everybody who raises their voice above a whisper.
Does the typical WisCon attendee actually have a good time (or, presumably, an extra good time because of all the attention given to mutual respect and inclusiveness), or is the conference experience filled with as much constant angst and drama as the reports seem to be?
David Goldfarb on June 8, 2016 at 10:42 pm said:
Little pixels, on the scrollside,
Little pixels, made of ticky-tacky…
@microtherion: All my friends who’ve gone to WisCon seem to have had a good time there.
Hampus Eckerman on June 8, 2016 at 11:08 pm said:
“And yet, every single report on it I’ve read seems to spend an awful amount of time on people policing each other and being policed. “
I think it is the language. There are mutterings and smalltime complaints regarding every convention. But people attending WisCon seems to wrap all comments into the identity politics vocabulary.
JJ on June 8, 2016 at 11:48 pm said:
Hampus Eckerman: I think it is the language. There are mutterings and smalltime complaints regarding every convention. But people attending WisCon seems to wrap all comments into the identity politics vocabulary.
I think it also has to do with the fact that, in recent years (and especially after Frenkelgate, which was a many-years run of people complaining and seeing nothing done about it until it finally turned into a huge blowup), people have reached the point where they actually feel able to speak up — that if they say something, they will actually be listened to and believed.
I know a number of real-life arenas where you don’t ever hear public complaints (although, if you’re plugged into the grapevine, you can find out about them). That doesn’t mean that there aren’t any complaints. It means that people don’t publicly complain because they know it won’t accomplish anything and/or they know that they will be the one who ends up facing reprisals for complaining.
And a lot of the time they just walk away, without anyone realizing what has happened or understanding why the people aren’t there any more.
Nicole J. LeBoeuf-Little on June 8, 2016 at 11:55 pm said:
@World Weary:
There was one thing that amused me at the Star wars re-release. The line to the men’s room ran all the way through the lobby but there was no line at all for the ladies’ room. Only time that I’ve seen that in my life!
That used to be the go-to joke about Rush concerts. Though I can report this was somewhat less the case last summer at the Pepsi Center in Denver.
Leslie C on June 9, 2016 at 4:56 am said:
@Magewolf: I am rather impressed that you described the language in that video as “mild cursing”.
Darren Garrison on June 9, 2016 at 6:05 am said:
Every little girl’s dream is to be a Disney princess.
Except for those who wish they were an Oscar Meyer Wiener.
And yet, every single report on it I’ve read seems to spend an awful amount of time on people policing each other and being policed. The vibe I’m getting is of the “Quiet Cars” in Swiss trains,
What I’m always reminded of by the actions of the really strongly socially-justicey groups is the Cultural Revolution scenes in Three Body Problem. First there is extreme confidence that there is an Enemy with a Bad Ideology that must be shamed, shunned, punished, and re-educated and that they are the Pure ones with the Correct Thinking who will do it–then the former punishers rip each other apart over ever-smaller slips from ideological purity. Each of them thinks that it can’t happen to them–until their “friends” turn on them like a pack of piranha.
Sunhawk on June 9, 2016 at 6:56 am said:
@JJ – OK I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who couldn’t tell if that was sarcasm lol When I was little, I wanted to be a dragon when I grew up! 😀
Kendall on June 9, 2016 at 8:03 am said:
@Sunhawk & @JJ: I try to use smileys liberally (!) for stuff like that, but I thought it was very obviously sarcasm. Even if someone like BT or Tank Marmot said it, I’d still presume it was sarcasm. Just me? 😉
BTW I LOL’d at the picture of princesses and the Oscar Meyer Weiner, @Darren Garrison! Very cute.
Jack Lint on June 9, 2016 at 8:07 am said:
Remember that time we accidentally wandered into the Sad Puppy* bar and Mike asked us if we remembered the theme from Scrollhide?
* There was a discussion of Westerns over on MGC so I figure it makes sense.
Rev. Bob on June 9, 2016 at 8:33 am said:
@Greg Hullender, Jack Lint:
Here at File 770, we’ve got both kinds of music – country and western!
Hampus Eckerman on June 9, 2016 at 8:42 am said:
Sunhawk:
“When I was little, I wanted to be a dragon when I grew up! 😀
I want to be a dragon NOW! >.<
Looking at the code for the smiley, I see that there is an “img scale” option set at 0. This is a test post out of curiosity to see if plugging in a bigger number will give an enlarged image.
(ETA: Nope! The whole tag is snipped.)
Mike Glyer on June 9, 2016 at 9:29 am said:
Rev. Bob: Here at File 770, we’ve got both kinds of music – country and western!
…with the Scroll of Pixels.
Kendall: I try to use smileys liberally (!) for stuff like that, but I thought it was very obviously sarcasm. Even if someone like BT or Tank Marmot said it, I’d still presume it was sarcasm. Just me?
If people don’t use smileys, then the only indicator I have to go from is the “personality” they’ve shown in their posting history. Since this poster has a history of posting really clueless things in all seriousness, it was reasonable to presume that this was just another one of those.
Cubist on June 9, 2016 at 3:18 pm said:
“The hills are aliiiive…
“Oh my god, they’re mooo-viiing!!!!”
LunarG on June 9, 2016 at 3:21 pm said:
Sometimes it’s hard to be a pixel
Givin’ all your love to just one scroll
Stand by your scroll!
Tasha Turner on June 9, 2016 at 7:13 pm said:
I wanted to be a Supreme Court Justice when I grew up. Now I’d take healthy. Or a dragon. Or sorcerer. Or magical healer. But not Ruler of the Universe. 😉
ETA: I always knew if born in a past time it was WAYYYY better to be born as aristocracy in the western world than common person so Princess would be ok under those circumstances. O_o
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Spider-Man Homecoming Deleted Scenes & Rejected Concepts
Jan Gilbert Jul 11, 2017 Features Top Lists
Spider-Man’s homecoming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been a huge success for both Marvel Studios and Sony, and if you haven’t seen it yet make sure you do and even better in IMAX 3D! But as amazing as Spidey’s new solo movie is, there were still numerous scenes and ideas that were deleted and rejected from the final cut of the film.
And in my latest video below, I explain some fascinating scenes and concepts that never made the final cut of Homecoming involving a whole range of characters such as Nick Fury, Vulture, Aunt May, Tony Stark and Captain America, plus I explore the use of Peter Parker’s Spider Sense in the movie.
By the way, I’m also running a Spider-Man: Homecoming giveaway at the moment for a couple of Funko Pops, plus a pack of Homecoming merchandise – check out the video for more details!
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Abraaj Group In Heat Over Use Of Investor Funds In Kenya
By Footprint to Africa February 7, 2018 No Comments
The independently run health care fund of Dubai-based private equity fund Abraaj Group is in the spotlight over its claims of irregular use of funds in Kenya and two other countries.
Media reports in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times over the weekend cited concerns from investors that the fund’s money set aside for investments in the three countries had been misused.
Abraaj’s Kenyan portfolio is made up of 18 clinics and 10 hospitals that provide over 700 patient beds.
The $1 billion (about Sh103 billion) Abraaj Growth Markets Health Fund (AGHF), is focused on Africa, India, and Pakistan, and has been snapping up Kenyan hospital chains firming its grip in the sector.
The fund had announced plans last year to add more Kenyan hospital chains in its portfolio.
In a quick rejoinder, however, Abraaj dismissed the media reports as “inaccurate and misleading” saying that all the capital had been drawn and deployed correctly for fund investments.
“Some capital was not used as quickly as anticipated due to unforeseen political and regulatory developments in several of the fund’s operating markets,” it said in a statement.
Abraaj has brought in accounting firm KPMG to examine what happened to some of the capital.
It said, “delays in use of funds” had been communicated to its investors but that it would use KPMG to “verify all receipts and payments made by the fund” according to a report by Financial Times of London.
The fund said it had hit “roadblocks” in investments in Kenya, Nigeria and Pakistan, with the delays communicated to investors, said FT in its report. “We are confident that the exercise being conducted by KPMG will confirm that all the funds were accounted for and used appropriately,” it said in the statement.
And in response to Business Daily queries the fund said Monday it is still committed to investing in Kenya.
“The Abraaj Group has made significant investments in Kenya and it remains central to our intention to provide affordable, accessible and quality care to low and middle-income communities. We remain focused on implementing the value creation plans for the investments we have already made and looking ahead to exploring additional opportunities as they emerge.”
Fredd Kambo, a director in the healthcare team at the Abraaj Group with responsibility for East Africa, had in an earlier interview said the PE firm plans to invest in Kenyan’s underserved healthcare sector.
“Essentially, AGHF is on a mission to provide affordable, accessible, and high-quality health care to middle and low-income patients in the region,” said Mr Kambo in September last year.
“As an example, the provision of hospital beds per 10,000 people stands at 14 in Kenya versus a global average of 27. We, therefore, are embarking on a journey to partner with local healthcare operators to provide them with capital and expertise to address the urgent need.” Mr Kambo had said.
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Western Canada Summer Games
Team Toba medals at Western Canada Summer Games
Team Manitoba has captured medals in golf at the 2019 Western Canada Summer Games that were held August 13-18 in Swift Current, Saskatchewan.
On the men’s side, the team of Braxton Kuntz, Noak Fiks, Adam Ingram, Carter Johnson and Trey Ross took home silver in the 54-hole team competition. Team Manitoba battled hard during the event was unable to catch Team Alberta who took the gold by a slim 7-stroke margin.
In the individual competition, Braxton Kuntz took home silver and missing out on the gold by a single shot. Kuntz did a great job of applying pressure on the last day by posting a solid round of 69. Noak Fiks finished in 5th, Trey Ross and Carter Johnson T10 and Adam Ingram finished in 13th position.
In the female event, the Manitoba team of Cala Korman, Crystal Zamsow, Armaan Dhillon, Jeri Lafleche and Sarah Farmer took home the bronze. The young Manitoba squad was unable to keep up with Team Alberta but did a great job of staying with Team Saskatchewan in the battle for second place. Despite a solid third round performance, Team Manitoba missed out on silver by a slim 5-shot margin.
Individually, Cala Korman finished alone in 6th place, Jeri Lafleche in 10th, Aramaan Dhillon in 11th and Sarah Farmer in 12th.
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Both teams were led by PGA of Canada members Garth Goodbrandson (Head Coach) and Bri-ann Tokariski (Manager).
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The Western Canada Summer Games were officially launched in Regina, August 1975, in a pre-Olympic Games year, along with the decision to hold the Games every four years, one year ahead of the Olympic Games and using the same 23 summer sports disciplines.
The Western Canada Summer Games are intended to provide development opportunities for amateur athletes and to help them advance their skills in a competitive, but friendly environment. The Games also serve to broaden the exposure of talented athletes and provide a training ground for national and international level competitions. Social and cultural elements round out the sporting events for athletes.
This year, over 1,700 athletes, coaches, officials and mission staff from Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut will be attending the 10 days of competition. These athletes, ages 13 – 20 years old, are our country’s next generation of national, international, Olympic and Paralympic champions.
For more information about Team Toba and Sport Manitoba’s involvement in multi-sport games, please visit the Sport Manitoba website.
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What do you think of the New Yorker Obama cover?
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Andrew / July 15, 2008 12:25 AM
The cover in question.
CVAL / July 15, 2008 6:54 AM
My reaction upon seeing the pic was offense.
The artist really cranked up the offense factor: Placing the American flag in the fireplace ablaze, having some likeness to Bin Laden hanging from the wall, placing Barak in middle-eastern clothing (everyone wearing a turban is not Muslim), and then giving Michelle an afro and an AK-47! WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Would it be funny if any other politician were depicted in such an incendiary way? Say Ehud Olmert were (even for the sake of parody)placed in a similarly ridiculous sketch, would this have even been printed?
Would it have been funny if McCain were depicted wearing an adult diaper, leaning against a walker, and his wife Cindy feeding him?
The perspective being represented is all too often one sided.
Carlotta / July 15, 2008 7:36 AM
This is disgusting. The people responsible for greenlighting this cover should resign.
Political cartoons are grounded in a candidate's or politician's actions, track record or verified quotes. Those are MIA in this purported parody of anti-Obama propaganda.
Outside of the Obama haters the only person who can be happy about this is Jesse Jackson, who now has the heat taken off him for his "nutty" remarks.
printdude / July 15, 2008 7:44 AM
I thought it would have been appropriate for MAD magazine, or with a very slight possibilty Rolling Stone.
But the New Yorker?
Perhaps their reader base has fallen off so much they needed to make a splash. Now they've splashed into the hog trough.
R / July 15, 2008 9:14 AM
I'm surprised that no one's accused Hillary Clinton of having drawn it.
Much, much ado about nothing. It's called satire, Barack.
Natch / July 15, 2008 9:24 AM
I always thought satire poked fun at person's ACTUAL vices. Does Obama burn the flag and worship Osama? Does Michele wield an AK-47?
I agree with CVAL - the artist (and "The New Yorker") was deliberately trying to provoke a reaction by being as offensive as possible, ans I suppose we all fell for the bait by getting worked up about it.
Maybe the best reaction would just be to ignore the whole thing as the blatant publicity stunt it was, and not to reward "The New Yorker" by paying it any attention.
Pedro / July 15, 2008 9:49 AM
I think it is telling that the people most "outraged" are the people who think that their fellow Americans can't think for themselves and would believe that cover to be truth.
If they think you are an idiot, why would you trust them to make decisions on your behalf?
charlie / July 15, 2008 10:02 AM
Ho Hum...
Marginally funny but hardly offensive. It's just preaching to the choir and none of the hillbillies, whose attitudes and false beliefs this is poking at are ever gonna see it.
sb / July 15, 2008 10:08 AM
i like it. as an obama supporter, i think it's exactly the right amount of ridiculous. anyone with a thumb and a brain can pick up the magazine and see it's a parody. and yes, it's designed to be sensational. which doesn't fit the new yorker brand to me, but hey - maybe they'll start selling sea monkeys and joy buzzers on the back page. which i think they should have long ago. that extra sea monkey cash comes in handy on the months when no one is talking about the cover of the new yorker.
Greyhoos / July 15, 2008 10:19 AM
Props to Printdude and Pedro.
Personally, I think it's an incredibly weak, simplistic cartoon in every respect -- editorially, satirically, and (yes) artistically.
The artist just threw together a bunch of the ridiculous untruths than have been lobbed about by the wingnut fringe without giving them any additional satiric twist. It's a bit pathetic, actually. And yeah, one would expect better from the New Yorker.
hey hey now - as a hillbilly, and i'm being entirely serious, i take offense to that. just because we prefer to live apart from the urban hipster bike riding threadless t-shirt wearing masses doesn't mean we don't think or read. believe it or not, i can bass fish and also think for myself.
Leelah / July 15, 2008 10:59 AM
When I first saw it, I didn't realize that was supposed to be Michele, so I was just confused.
Josh / July 15, 2008 11:12 AM
Ditto Printdude & Greyhoos.
Funny that the Herald tribune just did an article about how comics are hard-pressed to find an angle to lampoon Obama. Apparently, many comics and writers find there's not much to laugh at.
miller / July 15, 2008 11:55 AM
Funny cover. Not the funniest New Yorker cover ever, but still pretty funny.
The cover collected a gaggle of stupid fears about Obama and simply made fun of them. That people on the left are so up in arms about this is its own depressing story. God, we can't go a day in this country without some group being outraged about some stupid silly thing. There is a lot to be pissed about in modern America--more than most people seem to grasp--yet we seem to reserve our outrage for relative trivia such as magazine covers that are simple, and classic, parody/satire.
Regain your senses of humor and perspective, my fellow citizens. Otherwise we are in worse shape than I thought.
Gaigen / July 15, 2008 1:25 PM
1) I understand that it's satire and how some can honestly believe that no one will take it seriously. But that's in a NORMAL world where the Olsen Twins are front page news and people DON'T think that Project Runway really matters. Reasonable perspective is dead and buried. Face it, we're living in an Idiocracy (to steal a phrase) and many, MANY people will completely miss the satire. I've read enough comments from people in the past day or so to know this to be a fact. There are people who honestly believe that the cartoon only supports what they already believe. They've said as much. It's not the New Yorker's job to talk down to their level, of course, but if there aim was to show how ridiculous all of those theories about Obama are, I think they missed their mark.
2) Personally I don't care. In fact I think the cartoon was rather simplistic and didn't show a whole lot of imagination. ("Hey, everyone things Obama is a Muslim.. let's show him as a Muslim!") But like CVAL said I think it would have been funnier to include McCain in a pair of Depends maybe Cindy McCain dressed as Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS.
charlie / July 15, 2008 2:01 PM
If you was a reall hillbilly you wunt have no computer.
I supose you is wearing cut off overalls and a steraw hat too?
Ain't it bout time you needs to be checkin on the stil?
Dubi / July 15, 2008 2:51 PM
If the point is to scare, the drawing could have been scarier.
The artist left out the "faith based" initiatives which is what is really alarming about Barack Obama.
Ramsin / July 15, 2008 4:22 PM
It doesn't count as racism if ironic self-aware liberals do it. Duh.
jen / July 15, 2008 4:58 PM
well, CVAL, here you go:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/horsey/viewbydate.asp?ID=1792
Greyhoos / July 15, 2008 6:18 PM
I'm actually getting very annoyed with "racism" being cited as the big issue, here. I think it fails to address the issue at hand and cheapens the word "racism" for being applicable in more appropriate cases.
The actual issue here is the severely degraded (as it rotten) state of the news media and of political discourse in this country, of late. Which, I might add, the cartoon in question totally failed to offset. Quite the opposite -- it only further contributed to it.
Steven / July 15, 2008 9:09 PM
Shrug. Who really reads New Yorker anyway? Too many words. Now if it were the cover of Readers Digest, I'd be pissed.
fluffy / July 15, 2008 9:29 PM
I'm not terribly insulted, but I don't think it was appropriate for the cover of the New Yorker. It's more appropriate, in my opinion, in the middle of a very liberal 'zine, where most readers would "get it". The New Yorker knew the reaction that cover would get. They could have easily come up with a more diplomatic or sophisticated image to convey their Obama satire.
On the other hand, it has brought up the issue out to the open for discussion and maybe it has been an enlightening experience for a few of those fuckers who believed all that Obama Muslim mumbo-jumbo.
Thanks Jen ;))
Eva / July 16, 2008 8:02 PM
Yes, thanks Jen!
I agree with Jon Stewart, 'It's a f***ing cartoon'.
brad / July 17, 2008 8:54 AM
Sort of disappointed that no one has used the opportunity to call the cover an obamination.
spudart / July 17, 2008 9:37 AM
Beachwood Reorter had the following observation: Recent polls show that 12 percent of the population believe that Barack Obama is a Muslim (not that there's anything wrong with it) and that Rod Blagojevich has a 13 percent approval rating.
I might add that I live on the South Side, and the NYer issue in question never arrived in my mailbox. So I'm thinking maybe my mail carrier has weighed in with his/her opinion of the cover cartoon.
But then again, that might just be another case of the CPO being the CPO.
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Tourist Attractions in eKulindeni, Grass & Wetlands, Mpumalanga
South Africa » Mpumalanga » Grass & Wetlands
Tourist Attractions near eKulindeni, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Road Map of eKulindeni
Viewing Attractions
Things To Do in eKulindeni
Ebutsini 4x4 Trail
in eKulindeni, Mpumalanga
eKulindeni Attractions
Songimvelo Game Reserve: 7 km
Barberton Golf Club: 24 km
Par: M 70, W 70
Off De Villiers Street, Barberton
First Stock Exchange: 25 km
The facade of the first gold stock exchange in South Africa is still standing.
Jocks Tree: 30 km
The acacia under which Jock of the Bushveld liked to rest.
Eureka City: 34 km
Eureka City near Barberton, was once a boom town during the heady days of the gold rush. Today it is a ghost town.
Theatre Club: 39 km
Swazi Reed Dance: 39 km
The reed dance is a spectacular annual event attracting multitudes of tourists to the Kingdom of Swaziland. Performing at the reed dance ceremony are thousands of Swazi maidens in their traditional attire. These Swazi girls come from various locations
Swaziland Harvest Festival: 39 km
The Ncwala, or first fruit ceremony is considered to be the most sacred and colorful of all the Swazi ceremonies in which the King plays a dominant role. The Ncwala is usually held in December or January upon a date chosen carefully by Swazi astronomer
Blue Swallow Reserve: 69 km
Provides sanctuary and protected breeding area for the endangered Blue Swallow These birds nest here in breeding pairs in summer before flying north for the winter. Less than 4,000 blue swallows are still in existence....
eKulindeni, formerly Eerstehoek, is situated on the Southern border of the Songimvelo Nature Reserve from which it derives most of its economic benefits. Songimvelo covers an area of 50,000 hectares and is the largest provincial game reserve in South Africa. The reserve is accessable only by horse from eKulindeni and consists of mountains, valleys and flood plains. It is an incredibly tough terrain that can only be accessed by horseback and horses can be organized in eKulindeni. Only 5% of Songimvelo has 4x4 road. Game viewing is plentiful but limited to herbivores from the smallest up to and including elephant. There is no danger of running into lion while on a horse trail.
EKulindeni boasts one of the countries newest water treatment works which is capable of producing more than 12 million litres of high quality water for domestic use per day. EKulindeni borders the kingdom of Swaziland, which is the last absolute monarchy in sub-saharan Africa, and is also close to the 1000 year-old ruins of the lost Legoya people and San paintings.
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Jayna Hefford Autographed Card
A few days ago, in the wake of the CWHL's demise, Mike Murphy from SB Nation's The Ice Garden compiled a list of the league's greatest players by position - a.k.a. the First Team All-Stars - and for perhaps the first time ever, I agreed 100% with someone else's list.
In the next few days, I'll feature a few of the outstanding athletes I was fortunate enough to see play in the few years I had season tickets to Montréal Stars / Les Canadiennes games. Today's spotlight shines on Hockey Hall of Famer Jayna Hefford, whose 20-year career includes 12 World Championships (seven gold medals, five silvers) to go with four Olympic gold medals (and one silver). As a matter of fact, she, Hayley Wickenheiser and Caroline Ouellette are the only women to win four consecutive Olympic gold medals in hockey, a feat that will become increasingly difficult to match, particularly now that there are three superpowers in the women's game (Canada, the U.S. and Sweden) and that other countries are improving as well.
Just about a year ago, the retired player and then-current University of Toronto assistant-coach took on the reins as CWHL interim commissioner (following the sudden departure of Brenda Andress after a ten-year tenure in the position) and had hoped to "increase the (league)'s visibility and popularity" via her own profile but also marketing its stars better, and showcasing their talent.
It wasn't to be, as her reign ended abruptly - she dissolved the league earlier this summer when she saw that despite Andress' best efforts to expand from four to six teams, into the U.S. and China, and having a TV deal in place with Sportsnet, none of it meant added revenue streams. In fact, the league's finances were so dire that not only did it have to fold, but it asked its players to send back the jerseys they wore and trophies they'd won so they could be sold at auction; many of the players' families as to re-buy the cherished memorabilia so the player could keep what would technically - ethically - been rightfully theirs.
The Hall of Fame would wind up buying out the rest so it wouldn't get thrown away. We are still in the infancy of the women's game, and there was no way having two separate professional leagues was ever going to work. The players have now formed a union, so that last-minute surprises like the league shutting down should never happen again, as the next league's finances should be more accessible to those trying to bring the game to the next level. And maybe Hefford's wife, former U.S. Olympian and CWHL co-founder Kathleen Kauth will have her say in the next step forward as well.
Hefford was the league's first scoring champion and points leader, and three years after she retired, became the namesake for the award handed to its most outstanding player as voted by the players.
That kind of respect doesn't come undeserved.
Here she is sporting Team Canada's red uniform, on card #72 from Upper Deck's 2014 Team Canada Women set:
She signed it in black sharpie three or four years ago at a league benefit, adding her jersey number (16) at the end.
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Actively role-play through an encounter! Articulate the exact steps your character takes, adding in details and color to the story. Get up and act out what your character says and their mannerisms - pretend you are them and faced with the same circumstances. Don't be afraid to be funny, scared, or serious - exaggerate the situation and emotions in order to make a point. What your character plans and says can often be enough for an obvious outcome. We believe GM's should encourage Players to role-play (and possibly grant bonuses to checks - from a minor +1, to Advantage (similar to Superior Luck or Leadership), or automatic success, rather than ONLY rely on the rules of the game to resolve encounters. This also makes for better GM narration. Good role-playing means the characters are engaged dramatically, one of the first steps to a truly memorable experience.
What if I don't have the necessary Ability, skill, trait or power? Remember - part of challenge of role-playing is also acknowledging what you (AND your character - who may not have the experience to make the same informed decisions a player can) cannot do, and working within those limits. Use Feats or Advantage (similar to Superior Luck or Leadership) mechanics to push beyond the limits or rely on raw ability! The GM may allow the use of one of the modifying attributes (as appropriate to the situation) as a target level and require a Full Quality Result in absence of a normal check (assuming the character meets normal requirements). The quality requirement may be less the more role-playing draws out the scene explicitly.
At the heart of it all is role-playing - never let mechanics or rules stand in the way of or superseded good role-playing. Characters should be played using their defined knowledge, mannerisms, and abilities as best they can by both GM and player. Only the GM knows all the factors governing the situation, directing players to apply adjustments, or make them for the players when assessing the resolution.
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Fifth National Conclave for Laboratories
From L-R: Mr Anupam Kaul, Principal & Head-QMS, CII-IQ; Dr Vijay Narain Ojha, Chief Scientist, National Physical Laboratory; Dr R P Singh, Secretary General, Quality Council of India; Mr Peter Unger, Chair, International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation & Mr Anil Relia, Director, National Accreditation Board For Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) at the inaugural session of 5th National Conclave for Laboratories held on 27-28 October 2016, at New Delhi
The CII Institute of Quality in partnership with the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) held the 5th National Conclave for Laboratories in New Delhi on 27th and 28th October, 2016.
The Conclave brings together the vast community of scientists and engineers engaged in managing industrial and medical laboratories in India to discuss and evolve policies and development strategies for strengthening India's lab infrastructure and support the national conformity assessment programme that is vital both to trade as well as consumer protection.
The Indian Accreditation Board NABL operates the second largest Accreditation scheme in the world with more than 3000 labs accredited. The Institute of Quality of the Confederation of Indian Industry is deeply involved in development of policy initiatives with regard to standards and conformity assessment schemes in India, due to their increasing relevance to trade as well as consumer protection, and has been providing capacity building services to conformity assessment bodies in India and the South Asian Region to improve their services reliability and attain accreditation that is recognized globally.
The Fifth conclave was held on the theme “Increasing Significance of Testing & Calibration in Global Supply Chain”. This theme was chosen to emphasize on the strong linkage of a national laboratory infrastructure with the stringent global regulatory requirements for products and increasing quality expectations from in voluntary markets. As the foundation of all conformity assessment efforts lies in reliable testing and calibration practices, laboratories play a critical role in building the credibility of national quality infrastructure and trade potential.
The Fifth conclave was deliberately timed to coincide with the holding of the joint General Meetings of international Accreditation Forum (IAF) and International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) that were held in New Delhi to enable the participation of the visiting overseas experts in the Conclave deliberations. The delegates benefitted immensely from the sharing of best practices and latest developments from the presence of the overseas experts.
For the first time, the National Physical Laboratory, which is the national metrological institute of India, participated in full measure as a Platinum sponsor and intensive participation of its senior scientists in the deliberation.
Mr Peter Unger, Chairman, ILAC in his key note address spoke on the importance of Managing Integrity and Ethical practices in Laboratory Services. He outlined the detailed steps laboratory management need to take to ensure that not only ensures reliability of results from technical view point but also on the integration of ethical practices in the laboratory management system that enhance confidence among clients and regulators.
Speaking in the inaugural session Dr R P Singh, Secretary General, Quality Council of India informed the important development of NABL moving under the umbrella of QCI following a Cabinet decision of the Government of India. He said this development would significantly assist in consolidating the accreditation framework and services in India as all Accreditation Boards for conformity assessment
would be able to work in harmony and bring in the synergies for the emergence of a sound and globally respected quality infrastructure in India.
Dr V N Ojha, Chief Scientist, NPL made a detailed presentation of the significance of metrology in conformity assessment and in particular on the accuracy of generating reliable test and calibration results. He informed the key role played by NPL in ushering the International System of Units (SI ) in India that has helped India integrate its technical development with the rest of the world by ensuring traceability to international standards. India is a signatory to the Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA) drawn up by the International Committee of Weights and Measures (CIPM) that enables automatic recognition of national measurement standards and for calibration and measurement certificates issued by the member NMIs. Dr Ojha highlighted how correct measurement results have a deep impact on diverse uses such as diagnostic tests, safety of industrial workers, road safety, food safety.
Mr Anil Relia, Director, NABL traced the different stages of evolution of conformity assessment in India and the world beginning from the late 1980s when testing and certification were required more to improve the quality of domestic products to the current emerging scenario, where regulations and international trade would be inconceivable without accredited conformity assessment. He expressed happiness on the National Conclave for Laboratories developing into a permanent signature event for Laboratory professionals.
Mr Anupam Kaul informed regarding the launch of the CII Laboratory Professional Certification Scheme and the certification of the first batch of CCLP Professionals in collaboration with Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd in the Oils and Lubricants Sector. 5 Laboratory staff of HPCL were conferred with the CCLP Certificates during the Conclave.
Mr Sean MacCurtain, Secretary, Conformity Assessment Committee, ISO informed on the development taking place on Standards for conformity assessment bodies and practices. In particular he highlighted the important changes in the key standard for Laboratories, ISO 17025 that is currently undergoing a revision after a gap of more than 10 years. Mr Jeff Gust, Chief Metrologist, Fluke Corporation USA gave further details on the upcoming standard and the expected timelines by which it would be published.
Mr. Vu Xuan Thuy, Director, Bureau of Accreditation, Vietnam mentioned how the trade between India and Vietnam could significantly increase in the last 5 years due to confidence generated by the Conformity assessment programmes both countries have established.
In the Valedictory Session , Mr Rajeev Kher, Former Commerce Secretary, Govt of India and Member Competition Appellate Tribunal & Former Commerce Secretary, Govt of India spoke on how Government has recognized the significance of Standards and conformity assessment as necessary levers in in trade negotiations. He said it was time India came up with a formal regulatory regime to support a holistic framework of conformity assessment.
Dr G.N. Singh, Drugs Controller General of India mentioned about the challenges India was facing about 10 years ago in acceptance of its products and compliance assurance systems by thanks to the efforts of the scientific community and the policy makers, most of these have been overcome and we are now recognized at par with the developed world.
The 2 day Conclave covered sessions on Role of testing and calibration services in meeting demands of global supply chains, Business growth sectors for laboratory services, Key global developments in metrology, testing, calibration, reference materials and PT programmes, New technologies in testing and calibration contributing to global value chain, Managing integrity and ethical management of laboratory services.
Some of the key speakers who addressed the conclave include
Mr. Raj Nathan, Senior Vice President, International Accreditation Service,USA; Ms Dana Leaman, Chief, NVLAP, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA; Dr. S K Saxena, Director, Export Inspection Council of India, Dr. K.M. Chacko, Director, Shriram Institute of Industrial Research, U K Nandwani, Director General, STQC, Dr. R. K. Kotnala, Chief Scientist, National Physical Laboratory, Mr N Kalyan, CEO, Elca Laboratories, Mr Saibal Mukhopadhyay, Country Manager, Canadian Standards Association, Mr U Thanu, Director General, National Test House, Ms Asha Nangia, Senior Director, DEITY, , Dr. Anil Handoo, Senior Consultant, BLK Super Specialty Hospital, Dr. Sukesh Chandran Nair, Professor & Head, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Dr. Ms. Ranjana Mehrotra, Chief Scientist, National Physical Laboratory, Dr. M S Qureshi, National Chemical Laboratory.
A panel discussion on the Conclave theme with Heads of Public and pivate sector organizations lead to the following Conclave recommendations:
In order to enhance the participation level of laboratories in accreditation programmes, a less prescriptive laboratory recognition model and a matching scheme may be developed that can be quickly implemented that can be later expanded for subsequent accreditation
Laboratories should be accorded the status of a business sector and a support and development policy be formulated at the Government level. This policy needs to support the expansion of the laboratory segment to match with some of government’s own policy initiatives such as food safety, environment protection etc. Another aspect is to promote the sector for testing of samples from overseas markets thereby increasing its competitiveness. Some of the other aspects that need attention are the impediments in import of test and calibration equipment as well as samples for testing
Developing a strong programme to raise the competence level of people working in the laboratories
Indian PT providers should explore overseas markets especially the middle east countries that offer huge market potential for such schemes
The Fifth National Laboratory Conclave witnessed the award of the First batch of Certificates for the CII Certified Laboratory Professional Scheme. Mr Rohit Kumar Gupta of HPCL receiving the Certificate from Mr Peter Unger, ILAC Chair
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Haughton: I didn’t mean to step on Phillips’ toes
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Less than a week after Opposition Spokesman on Planning and Development Dr André Haughton shredded his party leader’s proposal to cut general consumption tax (GCT) by two percentage points, the university lecturer, in a statement issued by the People’s National Party yesterday, indicated that he crossed the line when he trespassed on the portfolio responsibilities of Dr Peter Phillips and Mark Golding.
Golding is the opposition spokesman on finance and the public service.
“Truthfully, my comments on the GCT reform have encroached on the party leadership and the shadow minister of finance, and no disrespect was meant by it. As a new member of the shadow Cabinet, I was unaware of previous discussions and decisions on tax policy, which falls in the portfolio of the leader of the Opposition and the shadow minister of finance,” a seemingly remorseful Haughton said yesterday.
“I will, in the future, on matters like this, avail myself to discuss it internally lest I be misunderstood,” he added.
In his contribution to the State of the Nation in the Upper House last Friday, Haughton said that Phillips’ proposal to reduce GCT by two percentage points was unworkable and would have a negative cumulative effect across the board.
“As the shadow minister with responsibility for planning and development, it was not my intention to speak in contrary to the party’s position.”
The opposition senator argued that his utterances highlighted the differences between his academic orientation and his political inclination.
“Once again, no harm was intended and neither was I challenging the position of my party,” he said.
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Guest Post: Hook, Line, and Sinker – How to Hook Your Reader with Just One Sentence.
Last Updated on June 5, 2019
Guest Post: Hook, Line, and Sinker – How to Hook Your Reader with Just One Sentence
Today I have another awesome guest here on my blog! Mark, thanks A LOT for this AMAZING and DETAILED article! Learn How to Hook Your Reader.
Guest Post: Hook, Line, and Sinker- How to Hook Your Reader with Just One Sentence
When I was young, I took to heart a terrible piece of advice from Stephen King which made my writing all the worse for decades.
Don’t get me wrong; Stephen King is a phenomenal writer, and his book “On Writing” still remains one of the most inspirational and helpful works about the craft. However, I was young, stupid, and full of myself and my own talent. I read something from King which I desperately wanted to believe; I gobbled it up without stopping to think of the context.
When young Bobby Garfield complains to neighbor and mentor Ted Brautigan in King’s Hearts in Atlantis about the boring old book The Lord of the Flies that he has to read, Brautigan chastises Bobby and teaches him an important lesson.
“A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give… eventually. Do you go along with that?”
Bobby nodded.
“How long would you prime a water-pump and flail the handle if nothing came out?”
“Not too long, I guess.”
“This book is two hundred pages, give or take. You read the first ten percent – twenty pages, that is, I know already your math isn’t as good as your reading – and if you don’t like it by then, if it isn’t giving more than it’s taking by then, put it aside.”
-Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis
“Aha!” young me said. “This is perfect! And he’s right – a book CAN drag in the beginning, but it soon rewards you. So clearly, I can spend several pages to build up the story, only to knock it out of the park ten or twenty or thirty pages in.”
No, no no, wrong, wrong, WRONG. Ted’s advice, which is excellent for a reader, is death for a modern writer. Ted was advising a child how to approach reading; specifically, reading classic English literature. It was a discussion between two characters in the 1950s lounging on a porch on a hot summer afternoon when the chief source of entertainment for little boys was comics, baseball, black-and-white broadcast television, and the occasional monster movie.
It was NOT made to a new author trying to get their foot in the market in a world where attention is fought for constantly, where the largest bookseller on earth constantly reminds its customers of other, similar books which might be MORE interesting as they browse, and where even the medium that books are read on is full of games and social media that updates and alerts constantly. An author doesn’t have ten percent of the book to establish themselves anymore. They don’t even have one.
In short, the modern reader doesn’t have the patience to pump and expect water eventually; they expect it to come gushing when they turn the faucet. Every page is critical. Every word is critical. And I’m going to say something here which might be controversial, but REALLY can’t be ignored.
The most important part of any book is the first sentence.
The second most important part of any book is the first chapter.
If the reader isn’t hooked in the beginning, the rest does not matter. No one will read it.
The author MUST hook the character with the very first sentence or two. A hook grabs reader attention by introducing the main character, the action, the scene, the problem, and enough questions that make the reader interested to find out more. It also must be exciting enough to engage the reader. This is most easily done by taking your main character and getting him into trouble.
Once attention has been snagged, the author then must use the first chapter in order to reel the reader in. This is best done through characterization-through-action of that main character, showing how she responds and resolves the problem while introducing more opposition. It is not done by lengthy exposition. Through action, the author must introduce fully their character, their motivation, the setting, hints toward the main problem, the key themes to the book, AND finish with another larger hook to get the reader to continue onto the next chapter.
Tough? Maybe. But absolutely vital. Even writers who would never, ever dream of writing out of order may want to consider writing the first chapter later after they know their story better.
To demonstrate the difference that a solid first line and first chapter can make, I’m going to use as examples two books from two New York Times best-selling authors: Christopher Paolini’s Eragon, and Jim Butcher’s Blood Rites. Paolini’s work begins with the typical High Fantasy prologue, and Butcher’s work begins the reader in the heart of the action. Read the following, and judge which works better.
Wind howled through the night, carrying a scent that would change the world. A tall Shade lifted his head and sniffed the air. He looked human except for his crimson hair and maroon eyes.
-Christopher Paolini, Eragon
Paolini’s first line establishes very little: time, weather, and a vague premonition. There are a few questions that the reader may be asking himself at this point, but they’re entirely the wrong questions. Does a scent change the world? What does it smell like? How will that scent change the world? This is, in fact, a dead line: the ‘scent’ is simply a poetic opening that does little more than sound interesting. It has no significance other than the fact that a creature smelled it. The following lines are barely better: the reader is introduced to a character who is almost certainly not the main character, which immediately makes many readers lose interest. Why waste time learning about someone who is almost certainly not going to be important for the beginning section of the plot? Ultimately, the main questions the reader has as they read these passages are: what is this creature, and why should I care?
On the other hand, Butcher’s opening paragraph is a single line.
The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.
-Jim Butcher, Blood Rites
Immediately, we’re thrown into action. We might not yet know who the main character is, but we know that he’s in trouble: there’s a burning building, and presumably, he’s in it. To many readers, that would automatically start the heart racing. How to get out? Yet, the masterful part of this opening line is the second clause: and it wasn’t my fault. Whose fault was it? Who started the fire? Was it accidental, or intentional? Furthermore, why does the main character feel the need to state that it wasn’t his fault? Are there people who would otherwise blame him for the fire? What does that say about him?
Ladies and gentlemen, the reader is now hooked.
Let’s continue on to Paolini’s first few opening paragraphs:
He blinked in surprise. The message had been correct; they were here. Or was it a trap? He weighed the odds, then said icily, “Spread out; hide behind trees and bushes. Stop whoever is coming . . . or die.”
Around him shuffled twelve Urgals with short swords and round iron shields painted with black symbols. They resembled men with bowed legs and thick, brutish arms made for crushing. A pair of twisted horns grew above their small ears. The monsters hurried into the brush, grunting as they hid. Soon the rustling quieted and the forest was silent again.
The Shade peered around a thick tree and looked up the trail. It was too dark for any human to see, but for him the faint moonlight was like sunshine streaming between the trees; every detail was clear and sharp to his searching gaze. He remained unnaturally quiet, a long pale sword in his hand. A wire-thin scratch curved down the blade. The weapon was thin enough to slip between a pair of ribs, yet stout enough to hack through the hardest armor.
The Urgals could not see as well as the Shade; they groped like blind beggars, fumbling with their weapons. An owl screeched, cutting through the silence. No one relaxed until the bird flew past. Then the monsters shivered in the cold night; one snapped a twig with his heavy boot. The Shade hissed in anger, and the Urgals shrank back, motionless. He suppressed his distaste—they smelled like fetid meat—and turned away. They were tools, nothing more.
To be fair, Paolini’s focus on the beginning passage is on building anticipation. The reader understands from the beginning that this Shade and his cohorts were sent to this location on orders, and are now trying to ambush someone who is approaching. This would normally create tension, which would be proportional to either what we know about the Shade and the Urgals, or what we know about the person or group being ambushed. It’s not a bad tactic to use, mid-story.
It utterly fails as an opening, as the reader at this point doesn’t care about the person being ambushed. They don’t even care about the Shade. At this point, the reader is likely just trying to figure out who is important and whether the Shade is the good guy or the bad guy. The shifting viewpoint between third person omniscient and third person limited doesn’t particularly help, either. The reader might assume that the Shade is the bad guy and the people being ambushed are good, but they would do so only due to tired, worn-out clichés: the Shade has a threatening attitude, and the Urgals are monstrous; ergo, bad guys. When the reader gets to the last paragraph, he is likely either buckling down to read a lot of exposition about a lot of characters he cares nothing about, has skipped ahead to the next chapter, or has put the book back on the shelf.
Heck, the first time I read Eragon, I skipped. I’m not alone.
Now, let’s check up with Jim Butcher’s protagonist.
My boots squeaked and squealed on the tile floor as I sprinted around a corner and toward the exit doors to the abandoned school building on the southwest edge of Chicagoland. Distant streetlights provided the only light in the dusty hall, and left huge swaths of blackness crouching in the old classroom doors.
I carried an elaborately carved wooden box about the size of a laundry basket in my arms, and its weight made my shoulders burn with effort. I’d been shot in both of them at one time or another, and the muscle burn quickly started changing into deep, aching stabs. The damned box was heavy, not even considering its contents.
Inside the box, a bunch of flop-eared grey and black puppies whimpered and whined, jostled back and forth as I ran. One of the puppies, his ear already notched where some kind of doggie misadventure had marked him, was either more brave or more stupid than his litter mates. He scrambled around until he got his paws onto the lip of the box, and set up a painfully high-pitched barking full of squeaky snarls, big dark eyes focused behind me.
I ran faster, my knee length black leather duster swishing against my legs. I heard a rustling, hissing sound and juked left as best I could. A ball of some kind of noxious-smelling substance that looked like tar went zipping past me, engulfed in yellow-white flame. It hit the floor several yards beyond me, and promptly exploded into a little puddle of hungry fire.
Butcher doesn’t let up on the excitement. We immediately understand that the protagonist is in the building and running out, but he’s got a problem: he’s carrying a huge heavy box that is full of puppies while being chased by something that appears to be shooting napalm Even though we know nothing about the protagonist, the situation is exciting enough and odd enough that it grabs the reader’s attention and keeps them turning the page. More questions begin to pop up, and characterization begins to leak into the verbiage. We see bits and pieces of not only the setting but also the character: he lives in “Chicagoland,” he’s been shot numerous times, he judges that the puppy must have gotten in a ‘doggie misadventure,’ and he ‘juked’ – all terms which give us glimpses of personality.
Furthermore, we see his choices. Somehow, this box full of puppies is worth more to this character than his own safety and life. Why? Is this a person who often puts his life on the line? Is there something special about the puppies? Why would he go through so much pain and agony to pull them out, rather than drop the box and run for his life?
Five paragraphs in – Butcher has hooked his reader and is reeling him in; Paolini’s missed the hook and lost the fish.
Now finally, let’s introduce the opposition. Ideally, this should be an adversary, not merely an event; something that the character we’ve been focusing should be conflicting with. Because writing is about conflict, the adversary should highlight what is important or vital about the character and ratchet up the tension. Seeing the characters in conflict should also tell us about the story in general and what to expect from the book as a whole.
Here’s how Paolini introduces the opposition to his Shade.
Between these two rode a raven-haired elven lady, who surveyed her surroundings with poise. Framed by long black locks, her deep eyes shone with a driving force. Her clothes were unadorned, yet her beauty was undiminished. At her side was a sword, and on her back a long bow with a quiver. She carried in her lap a pouch that she frequently looked at, as if to reassure herself that it was still there.
One of the elves spoke quietly, but the Shade could not hear what was said. The lady answered with obvious authority, and her guards switched places. The one wearing the helm took the lead, shifting his spear to a readier grip. They passed the Shade’s hiding place and the first few Urgals without suspicion.
The Shade was already savoring his victory when the wind changed direction and swept toward the elves, heavy with the Urgals’ stench. The horses snorted with alarm and tossed their heads. The riders stiffened, eyes flashing from side to side, then wheeled their mounts around and galloped away.
While Paolini certainly expects this passage to be exciting, the effect on the reader is anything but. Essentially, by starting his work with an unimportant adversary character slowly planning to ambush an unknown character, Paolini has done nothing more than started a sudden fight between elves and orcs. In the post-Lord of the Rings world, this is absolutely dull; nothing we haven’t seen done dozens of times before, and far better. The reader doesn’t know a thing, or care, about the elves; by now, they certainly don’t care about the Shade.
The only thing that the reader MIGHT care about is the big obvious Plot Device sitting in the elf-lady’s lap – and this is less because there’s anything interesting about it, and more because Paolini essentially tells his readers, “Look, over here, this thing’s important. Something’s going to happen here.” Compare this to Butcher’s box full of puppies, and the difference is clear: both are the MacGuffins of their own narratives, but Butcher’s box has far more narrative agency than Paolini’s pouch. The box creates pain, and tension, it alludes to having a mystical history and is full of puppies, who have their own personality. Paolini’s pouch just sits in someone’s lap.
Have you been wondering yet about Butcher’s opposition? I bet you have.
The goop hit my left shoulder blade and slid off the protective spells on my mantled coat, spattering the wall beside me. I flinched nonetheless, lost my balance and fumbled the box. Fat little puppies tumbled onto the floor with a chorus of whimpers and cries for help.
I checked behind me.
The guardian demons looked like demented purple chimpanzees, except for the raven-black wings sprouting from their shoulders. There were three of them that had escaped my carefully crafted paralysis spell, and they were hot on my tail, bounding down the halls in long leaps assisted by their black feathered wings.
As I watched, one of them reached down between its crooked legs and . . . Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but it gathered up the kind of ammunition primates in zoos traditionally rely upon. The monkey-demon hurled it with a chittering scream, and it combusted on its way to me. I had to duck before the noxious ball of incendiary goop smacked into my nose.
Hook, line, sinker.
If Butcher hadn’t landed the reader before, he has by now. He uses the increased tension and opposition to go into detail on his main character – he can use magic; his leather duster has protective spells on it, and he had cast a spell earlier. Butcher’s investment in his MacGuffin pays off when he puts the puppies in danger, immediately raising the stakes, which he uses as an opportunity to show the reader what the main character has been running from. Demons. But not just any demons; flying purple chimpanzee demons who throw flaming monkey poo. Flaming monkey poo which almost hits the protagonist square in the face.
Butcher’s antagonists in this scene may not appear as anything more than goons, and that’s because they really aren’t. But they serve an extremely important job: we see how the main character thinks and responds. It completes the picture and helps us understand a little bit more about the world that the author wants to tell us. And it tells us more about what kind of book we’re about to read.
By the end of the first chapter of Blood Rites, the reader may come to the conclusion that he’s going to read a book about a modern-day magic user in Chicago who fights evil to great personal risk and pain, all while keeping a humorous attitude. And they’d be right. If this sort of story appeals to them, they would probably pick it up.
By the end of the first chapter of Eragon, the reader may come to the conclusion that he’s going to read a book about a lot of elves and orcs fighting some epic battle with this black-haired elf as the main character, and they’d be kinda right but mostly wrong. They also might be looking for a different book.
Often times, your first sentence, and your first chapter may be the only chance you have to truly sell a reader on investing the time to read your book. Don’t forget that you never get a second chance to make a first impression. It’s true for real life, and it’s true for books as well.
Make yours count.
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Intelligent Data Analytics Platform for a Metro Rail Transport System
Project Title: Intelligent CPS Data Analytics Platform for a Metro Rail Transport System
Priority area and sub-area : Computer Science and Engineering, CPS, Big Data Analytics, Transport
Duration: 36 months (Starting from December 2018)
Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology, India
Total Fund Sanctioned : 24,96,000 Rupees
Principal Investigator : Fr Dr. Jaison Paul Mulerikkal CMI
Co-PIs: Dr Vinith Rajatlal (JEC), Dr Sminu Izudheen (RSET), Mr Binu A (RSET)
Research Assistants: Mr Joish George (RSET), Ms Sona CP (RSET)
Junior Research Fellows: Mr Sajan Raj & Ms Deepa Merlin Dixon
Through this project, we intend to develop an intelligent data analytical platform for a metro rail transport system integrating its various CPS and other data sources. We keep Kochi Metro Rail Limited (KMRL) as a specific use case for this project. This platform will be a middleware with input (data) APIs and output (information) APIs which is built on the top of an HDFS based software stack. The middleware will also implement a set of analytical solutions which are again exposed to the outside world through relevant APIs. Developers can leverage on these input and output APIs to develop internal or external applications. The project will also implement few Proof of Concept (POC) applications to prove the viability of the above middleware with its APIs. This middleware will be generic in nature so that it could be replicated in other Metro Rail systems with minimum modifications and customization.
Data is the new fuel. Kochi Metro was inaugurated on 17th June 2017 and there are four assured data streams from its IP enabled CPS modules. They are (1) Automated Fare Collection (AFC) system, (2) Trip Planner mobile application (Kochi 1 App), (3) CCTV cameras and (4) Automated Vehicle Location data. Moreover, there are two other external data streams which will complement the above data streams. They are (5) vehicle parking data associated with metro stations and (6) GPS data from the feeder city bus network, both are available to KMRL and thus made available to this project. This data, some of which are structured and the other unstructured, will be put together to create real-time (and near-real-time) information and valuable legacy insights to improve customer experience, customer trip planning, trip scheduling, ridership forecasting, commuter behaviour analysis, security and administration of a metro rail system. Details of these use cases are explained in the main body of the proposal.
The project proposes to develop a CPS data middleware built on the top of customized HDFS based software stack. The very basis of this middleware will be Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), which is an industry standard for big data platforms. Data will be stored in HDFS and will be analyzed using MapReduce programs. In order to process streaming and real-time data, the project proposes a combination of Spark, Flume and Kafka big data tools. Machine learning and pattern matching algorithms will be run on the top of this middleware using Google TensorFlow, OpenCV and Spark MLlib.
The project will design a rich set of input APIs to PUT various stream of data into the middleware and output APIs to GET outputs from the middleware. Actionable insights and reports will be generated to meet project objectives, viz, improving customer experience, customer trip planning, trip scheduling, ridership forecasting, commuter behaviour analysis, security and administration of a metro rail transportation system.
Jyothi Engineering College (JEC) (www.jecc.ac.in) is a NAAC accredited institution with 4 NBA accredited engineering program, including B Tech Computer Science program. Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology (RSET) (www.rajagiritech.ac.in) – a NAAC A grade accredited institution with 5 NBA accredited B Tech programs including CS and IT has signed a MoU with KMRL to do this research. RSET has a High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster with 7 TeraFLOPS capability at Sunya Labs and has also secured technical assistance from a Barcelona based consulting firm – HPCNow – to run this facility successfully.
We gratefully acknowledge that this project is financially supported by the Interdisciplinary Cyber Physical Systems Division of Department of Science and Technology for a total project amount of Rs. 24,96,000 under the order number: DST/ICPS/CPS-Individual/2018/1091(G).
Please feel free to contact, if you would like to contribute to this project or to know more about it using the following contact form:
Figure: Joint KMRL, RSET and JEC meeting at Rajagiri School of Engineering & Technology, Kochi.
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Turn of the Tide celebrates 20 years of Khoj support for artists across mediums, ideas — Indulge Express
Indulge Express, 03.21.2018
Outstanding Delhi based alternative arts incubation space, Khoj, celebrates twenty years. On 11 February 2018, Khoj will mark this anniversary with Turn of the Tide, an exhibition by twenty artists who have contributed their work in aid of the ongoing programmes at Khoj.
Over the past twenty years, Khoj has pushed artistic practice across the region by encouraging dialogue and debate in the arts community through workshops, residencies, exhibitions, talks, and community art projects. Khoj provides diverse spaces for artists to incubate and experiment with their work and skills and at every step has continued to ponder over what does it mean to be contemporary in South Asia? Twenty years later, with rapidly changing social circumstances, the tide turns again and the same question echoes even louder with a new generation within the contemporary landscape of art in India.
Through old and new friends and a continued belief in the need for an alternative space, Turn of the Tide: 20/20 Artists for Khoj presents work from twenty of the most exciting contemporary artists practising in India today which will be sold to support the continued work at Khoj. The works will be on view at Khoj from 12 – 24 February 2018 and may be acquired against a donation made to Khoj International Artists’ Association.
The 20/20 artists who have generously gifted their works to the association include Abir Karmakar, Amshu Chukki, Andrew Anand Voogel, Benitha Perciyal, Bhuvanesh Gowda, Kartik Sood, Katyayini Garg, Manish Nai, Pallavi Paul, Prabhakar Pachpute, Pranay Dutta, Rakhi Peswani, Rohini Devasher, Sachin George Sebastian, Sahej Rahal, Sahil Naik, Shailesh BR, Shreyas Karle, Shweta Bhattad, Sumakshi Singh and Surabhi Saraf.
Alongside Turn of the Tide, a limited edition portfolio of ten curated black and white works, entitled Wastelands, will be displayed at Khoj. The works have been generously gifted by established artists including Amar Kanwar, Asim Waqif, Jyoti Bhatt, Nataraj Sharma, Navjot Altaf, Prajakta Potnis, RAQS Media Collective, Riyas Komu, Seher Shah and Sudarshan Shetty. The works may be acquired against a donation to benefit the ongoing work at Khoj.
Turn of the Tide and Wastelands will open at 5pm 11 February 2018 and will continue until 24 February 2018.
Related Artists: Manish Nai
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Andrew Vincent
The Politics of Human Rights
The Politics of Human Rights provides a systematic introductory overview of the nature and development of human rights. At the same time it offers an engaging argument about human rights and their relationship with politics. The author argues that human rights have only a slight relation to natural rights and they are historically novel: In large part they are a post-1945 reaction to genocide which is, in turn, linked directly to the lethal potentialitiesof the nation-state. He suggests that an understanding of human rights should nonetheless focus primarily on politics and that there are no universally agreed moral or religious standards to uphold them, they exist rather in the context of social recognition within a political association. A consequence ofthis is that the 1948 Universal Declaration is a political, not a legal or moral, document. Vincent goes on to show that human rights are essentially reliant upon the self-limitation capacity of the civil state. With the development of this state, certain standards of civil behaviour have become, for a sector of humanity, slowly and painfully more customary. He shows that these standards of civility have extended to a broader society of states. At their best human rights are an ideal civilstate vocabulary. The author explains that we comprehend both our own humanity and human rights through our recognition relations with other humans, principally via citizenship of a civil state. Vincent concludes that the paradox of human rights is that they are upheld, to a degree, by the civil state,but the point of such rights is to protect against another dimension of this same tradition (the nation-state). Human rights are essentially part of a struggle at the core of the state tradition.
Språk & Lingvistik
Social & politisk filosofi
Statsvetenskap & politisk teori
Oc - Statskunskap och politik
O - Samhällsvetenskap och rättsvetenskap
Av författare:Andrew Vincent
Av förlag: Oxford University Press
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Behind the Scenes of an Al Qaeda Massacre {Masterlist}
Masterlist created May 27, 2012
Last edits Sept. 20, 2012
(new wiki link Nov. 18)
The original article "Behind the Scenes of the Al-Baida Massacre" has been moved here.
"Al-Baida" wasn't necessarily the location, for one thing, which remains unsettled.
The Sub-posts:
Original article, first published March 30, 2011, as Behind the Scenes of the Al-Baida Massacre - one of the first articles plugged in as this site was started a month later.
Further Behind the Scenes - quick updates from April 30 - a transcript, some other things.
Al Baida Massacre III: Three Killings in February.
From October, the Al-Hassadi Al-Qaeda link and a location-Maktub-come into focus.
Report: Behind the Scenes of an Al Qaeda Massacre
(pretty slick cover at left, report forthcoming, no estimated due date).
Update Sept.20:
Still no report or even effort towards one. Sorry. There should be a more cogent summary of the stuff at the links above, but I'm swamped. However, since this post is getting plenty of views lately, let's take a look at some Al Qaeda / Islamo-nihilist atrocities happening in Syria more recently.
In Douma, near Damascus, the same kind of matching work between rebel captives and murky massacre victims yields fruit more brilliantly than it did here (luckier with abundance of clear visuals). Sixteen regime victims were found, throats slit, rebels said, around Aug. 17, 2012. Only six were clearly shown, and all match with six out of 16 known FSA captives. Those were last seen alive in a video shot by a rebel death squad from the neighboring town (Harasta). (the six seen dead marked here)
See here for the fuller explanation, mostly citing existing work but with a few additions from our own.
See also the expanded Syria page at the CIWCL site for more things relevant things done well.
Labels: al Baida, IFHR/FIDH, massacres, prisoners of war, video evidence
The Christopher Stevens Operation
Updates Sept.18
The average reader should need no links to know of this story by now, and I have nothing great to offer other than this post to collect commentary. Maybe I'll put something more here, depending. I'm curious if this gets blamed on remnants of Gaddafi loyalists, or on the Salafists it would seem like.
Sept.18: On blaming loyalists: Indian Express:
A senior Libyan official accused supporters of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi of carrying out an attack that killed the US ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi.
Deputy Interior Minister Wanis al-Sharif told a news conference in Benghazi that the attackers had used rocket-propelled grenades.
There were RPGs...which shows there were forces exploiting this. They are remnants of the (former) regime, he said. The news conference was broadcast on Al Jazeera television.
Fox News/Infowars:
While the establishment media has engaged in a concerted effort to bury the fact that today’s attack on a U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was carried out by the same extremists the U.S. armed during the overthrow of Colonel Gaddafi, Libya’s Ambassador to Washington Ali Aujali launched his own lame attempt to shift the blame, ludicrously pointing the finger at Gaddafi loyalists.
“We know that Qaddafi’s associates are in Libya. Of course, they took this chance to infiltrate among the people,” Aujali said in today in an interview.
Also, Petri has somehow assembled a playlist of 83 videos of the Benghazi consulate attack. One in particular sounds interesting, and was picked up by Dputamadre: Chris Stevens: Hunting or Saving?
Posted by Caustic Logic at 4:51 AM 189 comments
Al Qaeda's Flag Over Benghazi
last updates Sept. 12, 2012
Bumped Sept. 12 in response to the news of the US envoy to Libya's killing during Salafi protests, and roughly on the anniversary of 9/11 to boot.
Happy Halloween, everyone. You want something spooky? As usual, you can find something to fit the bill here.How about the flag of al Qaeda in Iraq being flown surreptitiously above the flag of new Libya, over the NTC headquarters-cum-capitol building in Benghazi?
Via Libya S.O.S., a video and a story from Vice.com.
http://youtu.be/ZAfBoOsYK1c
http://www.vice.com/read/al-qaeda-plants-its-flag-in-libya
AL QAEDA PLANTS ITS FLAG IN LIBYA
By Sherif Elhelwa
... [A]ccording to multiple eyewitnesses—myself included—one can now see both the Libyan rebel flag and the flag of al Qaeda fluttering atop Benghazi’s courthouse.
According to one Benghazi resident, Islamists driving brand-new SUVs and waving the black al Qaeda flag drive the city’s streets at night shouting, "Islamiya, Islamiya! No East, nor West," a reference to previous worries that the country would be bifurcated between Gaddafi opponents in the east and the pro-Gaddafi elements in the west.
Earlier this week, I went to the Benghazi courthouse and confirmed the rumors: an al Qaeda flag was clearly visible; its Arabic script declaring that “there is no God but Allah” and a full moon underneath. When I tried to take pictures, a Salafi-looking guard, wearing a green camouflage outfit, rushed towards me and demanded to know what I was doing. My response was straightforward: I was taking a picture of the flag. He gave me an intimidating look and hissed, "Whomever speaks ill of this flag, we will cut off his tongue. I recommend that you don't publish these. You will bring trouble to yourself.”
He followed me inside the courthouse, but luckily my driver Khaled was close by, and interceded on my behalf. According to Khaled, the guard had angrily threatened to harm me. When I again engaged him in conversation, he told me "this flag is the true flag of Islam," and was unresponsive when I argued with him that historically Islam has never been represented by a single flag. The guard claimed repeatedly that there is no al Qaeda in Libya, and that the flag flying atop the courthouse is “dark black,” while the al Qaeda flag is charcoal black.
Update Nov 1:
Reader Peet73 alerts me the same flag can be seen in a demonstration last Friday in Benghazi. The New York Times made no mention of the flags, but showed a photo with at least five of them, the most common one carried, per that image. The demonstration was in support of extremist Sharia law, particularly to support the Jibril/NTC stance on marriage (no-consent polygamy, rescinding of female-friendly divorce laws). How their terrorist flag wound up atop the main courthouse (the same spot as the famous Benghazi beheading, by the way) is a puzzle that was bound to make news. In fact:
Digital Journal
Fox News (readers vote it "scary")
Daily Caller: "A CNN report on Saturday [the 29th] showed al-Qaida’s black flag flying over the Benghazi courthouse, which was one of the rebellion’s starting points."
The CNN video, submitted to them, is the one shown above.
There was also this:
Anti-Qaddafi Forces Flew al-Qaeda Flag During Siege of Sirte (National Review Online)
John Rosenthal here conflates the similar "Emirates flag" and the al Qaeda flag, the former actually being seen flown in Sirte. Hence, no al Qaeda.
The appearance of the al-Qaeda flag over the Benghazi courthouse has been generally spun by commentators in the Western media as a sign that Islamic extremists are now rushing to fill the “vacuum” left by the fall of the ancien régime in Libya. But the Echorouk report and the accompanying photo indicate that anti-Qaddafi forces in fact fought under the “Islamic Caliphate” banner in the decisive battle of the rebellion.
Only one or the other flag can be flown, apparently, and it was this one. So see, these aren't bad guys. That other black (bad) flag of Islamist extremists helped them to lay siege to Sirte and mop up afterwards. Far from a troublesome symbol of Islamist terrorist war criminals, the AQ/Emirates flag is now just another way of saying "FREEEEEDOOOOMMM!"
But reader Sam 1 alerts me, in comments below, new video (if not a new procession) of rebel fighting vehicles in Sirte flying the same al Qaeda flag with the full moon. The occupants of those vehicles are all disguised too, like bank robbers or snuff film makers. Was this from October, during the slaughter, or more recently, to mop up again inside the shattered and scattered onetime "capitol of the resistance?"
Others think it's possibly new. ABC News (US) has picked up the story, saying these are "police" vehicles." Similar processions have been seen in Tripoli. Ibrahim Dabbashi says:
But the Libyan ambassador to the United Nations, Ibrahim Dabbashi, told ABC News that the video is not what it seems. Libyan brigades have flown similar flags in the past and, when questioned about them, the brigade commanders always said they were simply the "flag of the Prophet Muhammad," Dabbashi said.
"These brigades have no relation whatsoever with al Qaeda," he said. "There are no al Qaeda elements in Libya."
So it is al Qaeda then. Great.
Posted by Caustic Logic at 4:00 AM 46 comments
Labels: al Qaeda, Belhaji AH, Benghazi, Libya
Shed Massacre Annivesrsary
By Caustic Logic
last update Sept. 3/4
<< The Khamis Brigade Shed Massacre
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It's about that time - Thursday will mark the one-year anniversary of the Khaimis Brigade Shed Massacre. There have already been some pre-anniversary developments (too tired to collect ATM) and there will surely be more as the date arrives.
Blogger analytics suggests some trafic lately, from Libya, following our graphic of the dead doctors Omar Salhouba and Ali Al-Darrat from the related Qasr Ben Ghashir "massacre." It would seem that issue has gotten some mention in Libya recently...
For now, this is just a spot for comments so the readers/contributors can drop references to anything they see on the mythical Yarmouk massacre remembered, and related-enough things like the above.
I don't have to follow all this stuff personally for hours a day, thank God and my readers.
http://www.libyaherald.com/?p=12761
They were on it a bit early, and again Libya's new Independent Daily seems short of Libyan staff...
The Yarmouk Massacre Anniversary
By Rhiannon Smith.
On Saturday 11 August, the 23rd Ramadan, a memorial service was held in Tripoli to mark the anniversary of the notorious Yarmouk massacre which took place during the final days of the 2011 Libyan Revolution. The 32nd Khamis Brigade, run by Colonel Qaddafi’s son Khamis, were holding prisoners arrested during the revolution in a warehouse adjoining the Yarmouk Military Base just outside Tripoli. Statements from eyewitnesses and journalists at the time and a subsequent in depth report on the massacre compiled by Physicians for Human Rights in December 2011 confirm ...
Cyclical confirmation, cool! Rebels ("survivors") say, rebels tell HR groups with no bullshit detectors, and they "confirm" what the rebels say... CIWCL tears it all wide open...
Update, Sept. 3/4: I still haven'tdone a detailed search, and have only gotten a few tips. But one from h was very good. A set of photos at Facebook of "ألبوم إحياء الذكرى الاولى لشهداء محرقة ومعتقل اليرموك" ["Album commemorate the first anniversary of the Holocaust Martyrs' and Yarmouk detainee"].
Album commemorate the first anniversary of the Holocaust Martyrs' and Yarmouk detainee
Posted by the Ministry of care for the families of martyrs and missing - Libya [ وزارة رعاية أسر الشهداء والمفقودين - ليبيا]
Here, at the site, I recognize Mr. Sabri Tahir Al-Tabal - صبرى الطاهر الطبال , Vice-president of the association of holocaust Yarmouk survivors, alleged onetime prisoner (not escapee).
Otherwise, no familiar faces are obvious. The anniversary appears to have been an ambitious, festive, all-day affair. There was a luncheon, a visit to the site and display of photos of the alleged victims (I recognize Ramadan Jabr), then what seems (at left) like a disco party to celebrate the rebel victory at Yarmouk base that happened about the same time as this alleged mass-killing.
(a few more notes later)
Citing many photos, but not all: There's a one year since the massacre banner, with some famous photos included. Early arrivals have that banner behind them. There were fliers printed up en masse. I want a copy of one of those. If this is a real family of a real victim, her father's killers are providing this girl with her chicken and orange soda. People were bussed in and/or from site to site. An interesting-looking banner I can't read. A bigger one-year banner with more photos (including the sobbing man congratulated by Dr. Salem). (Sadly, but not surprisingly, Dr. See-Through Salem is not present in any of these photos.)
Speakers at the table or podium: possibly Said Falba on the right here - same guy speaking. A little girl speaks, and so does a woman in black. By his black skin, bald head, and camo pants, this speaker (survivor, presumably) must be related to all the dead, Black, army-type guys found around the shed. Is he the same as seen in the Class of Yarmouk '11 post? Doesn't seem to be. So are there now two fully Black survivors, or what? Here's a whole different kind of Black guy speaking. A third? Another guy. This guy (speaking) looks familiar, but not one of the guys discussed here as I wondered... None of these guys do ... I guess this is the new Fathallah (I like season one's actor better)
Two main guys - speaking to the media, again, again, again, again, the guy on the right here and left here appeared in some of those. Here's the bearded guy with the five dead (sons?), in front of the shed. En route down Al Hadbha Road to the site, the entourage got a police escort to protect them from Gaddafi snipers or whatever. The friendly post-Gaddafi cops kept the order at the shed compound. Quite a few people attended. ... a young relative of Ramadan Jabr's - Something odd about this portrait, perhaps besides the photoshopping. It's held by this kid.
Then again, the victory party at the end.
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Over one million tourists used Airbnb to visit Czechia in 2017
Ruth Fraňková
More than one million tourists who visited the Czech Republic last year were accommodated via Airbnb, which is an increase by over 50 percent on the previous year. The number of Airbnb travellers in the regions outside of Prague increased even more significantly, by 108 percent. The data was released on Wednesday by Anita Roth, head of policy research at Airbnb.
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Chris Johnstone
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Czech government seeks power to set quotas for foreign workers by decree
Brian Kenety
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Czech Kiwi widens travel offer with airport connections
Czech flight search company Kiwi, one of the biggest air-ticket sellers on the European market, is broadening its business model, the daily e15 reported on Friday. From now on, customers can get a package including air ticket as well as journey to and from the airport. At the end of last year, Kiwi launched a pilot service combining journeys with six large European transport companies, including Deutsche Bahn, FlixBus, National Express, RegioJet, SNCF and Trenitalia.
Czech government moves to protect clients from rip-offs at money exchange offices
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Czech household debt rises but default risk down
Czech household debt reached 2.18 trillion crowns in the first quarter of 2018, according to data released by the Banking and Non-banking Credit Register on Wednesday. Year-on-year, the Czech household debt burden increased by over 175 billion crowns, or 8.7 percent.
Young Czechs get country home habit
Prices of apartments in the Czech Republic have been growing sharply in recent years, and so have the prices of summer houses. In 2017, prices of Czech cottages and cabins went up by five to ten percent on the previous year, the Czech News Agency reported.
Support for Czech cigarette ban still strong after smoke free year
It’s almost a year to the day since the Czech Republic finally moved to ban smoking in bars, cafes, and restaurants. And while the ban is still a live issue with sporadic attempts to change the law, a survey commissioned by Charles University shows support is still strong among Czechs and suggests that there are a lot of myths about its impact.
Deal agreed for Chinese to take back seized CEFC Czech assets
Just over one week after the dramatic takeover of the assets of the biggest Chinese investor in the Czech Republic, CEFC, a deal appears to have been sealed which should pave the way for a return to normal business. In the words of some Czech reports, the Czech-Chinese war is over.
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Moving Towards South Asian Confederation
Ideal of Human Unity
Ideal of Human Unity - Introduction Ideal of Human Unity - Chapters
Vision of Unity
Vision of Unity - Part I Vision of Unity - Part II
Hindu-Muslim Unity
Hindu - Muslim Unity: Introduction
Sri Aurobindo's Ideograph Journals
Chapter 3-Part II
Chapter 4-Part I
Chapter 4-Part III
Chapter 5-Part IV
Chapter 10-Part I
Chapter 10-Part II
Chapter 10-Part III
Chapter 10-Part IV
Chapter 21-Part V
Chapter 21-Part VI
Chapter 23-Part VII
Chapter 29-Part 1
Ideal of Human Unity - Chapters
Chapter XII Part I
The Ancient Cycle of Prenational Empire-Building –The Modern Cycle of Nation-Building
Expansion versus Consolidation
In Chapter XII of The Ideal of Human Unity, Sri Aurobindo traces the journey from the ancient cycle of prenational empire-building to the modern cycle of nation-building. In fact, the true nation-unit was not achieved in the ancient world though the foundation was laid through the formation of classical culture-units. The culture-unit evolved as the human collectivity moved through the tribe, the city-state, the clan, the small regional state to culminate in loose yet distinctive cultural and geographical aggregations. ‘Within that loose unity the tribe, clan or city or regional states formed in the vague mass so many points of distinct, vigorous and compact unity which felt indeed more and more powerfully the divergence and opposition of their larger cultural oneness to the outside world but could feel also and often much more nearly and acutely their own divergences, contrasts and oppositions. Where this sense of local distinctness was most acute, there the problem of national unification was necessarily most difficult and its solution, when made, tended to be more illusory’. (The Ideal of Human Unity, pg 364) In other words, a nation which evolves by incorporating, harmonizing and amalgamating multiple culture units will find it difficult to deal with a particular culture-unit if the latter has achieved a remarkable uniqueness and distinct identity. The modern nation finds it difficult even today to tackle this crisis amicably. Thus, Pakistan could not hold itself as a united nation primarily because the cultural uniqueness of its Eastern counterpart could not be overshadowed by political maneuvering, administrative measures or religious binding.
The ancient world tried to solve the issue of amicable amalgamation of diverse culture-units through two major means:
(a) Firstly, ‘by the hard discipline of subjection to a foreign yoke’ (Ibid)as in Judea and probably in Egypt;
(b) Secondly, where the nation-unit was attempted primarily from within ‘through the conquest of all the rest by one strong clan, city, regional unit such as Rome, Macedon, the mountain clans of Persia’ (Ibid, pg 365), the new State typically embarked on an expansionist spree and through military might tried to form a larger empire-aggregate.
The expansionist zeal in ancient times was a military adventure that not only served political interests, brought material riches but also expanded knowledge-fields. However such ventures were invariably undertaken before the nation -unit could be optimally consolidated in the psyche of the people. As a result the unity could not be made durable leading to the collapse of the larger and rather artificial aggregate. Sri Aurobindo explains, ‘Assyria, Macedon, Rome, Persia, later on Arabia followed all the same tendency and the same cycle. The great invasion of Europe and Western Asia by the Gaelic race and the subsequent disunion and decline of Gaul were probably due to the same phenomenon and proceeded from a still more immature and ill-formed unification than the Macedonian. All became the starting-point of great empire-movements before they had become the keystone of securely built national unities. These empires, therefore, could not endure’ (Ibid).
Though the ancient empires could not endure, some lasted longer than others. It is interesting to note that durability was present if an expansionist programme was followed by a phase of consolidation, where a mighty warrior was succeeded by a great administrator. ‘One who first founds on a large scale and rapidly, needs always as his successor a man with the talent or the genius for organisation rather than an impetus for expansion. A Caesar followed by an Augustus meant a work of massive durability; a Philip followed by an Alexander an achievement of great importance to the world by its results, but in itself a mere splendour of short-lived brilliance’ (Ibid). Indeed, despite being the greatest military leader of antiquity, Alexander’s (356BC – 323BC) dream of racial fusion to form a superior Persian-Macedonian race collapsed even before his untimely demise though his empire extended from Thrace to Egypt and from Greece to the Indus valley. On the other hand, Augustus Caesar’s (63BC – AD14) vision and administrative skill led to a two and half centuries of unbounded peace and prosperity in the Greco-Roman world, a feat unparalleled in history.
These reflections prompted Sri Aurobindo to make a case-study of the Roman Empire before shifting his focus from the ancient cycle of prenational empire-building to the modern cycle of nation building.
Date of Update: 21-Nov-12
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Bianca Andreescu makes history, to play Serena Williams in U.S. Open final – CBC Sports
Bianca Andreescu has become the first Canadian to reach a singles final at the U.S. Open, defeating Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic 7-6 (3), 7-5 in the semifinals on Thursday.
The 19-year-old will face 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams on Saturday. Williams defeated Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina 6-3, 6-1 earlier on Thursday. In their only previous meeting, Andreescu led Williams 3-1 at the Rogers Cup final in Toronto last month before the 37-year-old American was forced to retire due to back spasms.
Andreescu is appearing in only her fourth Grand Slam tournament. She had never been past the second round at a major.
“If someone told me a year ago that I would be in the finals of the U.S. Open this year, I would have told them, `You’re crazy,”‘ said Andreescu, who took her semifinal’s last five games after trailing 5-2.
Andreescu battled back from deficits in both sets to defeat the No. 13 seed Bencic. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Associated Press)
She is the first player to get this far in her debut in New York since Venus Williams was the runner-up in 1997.
“It’s just surreal,” Andreescu said about the prospect of facing Serena Williams next. “Like, I really don’t know what to say.”
The 15th-seeded Andreescu trailed Bencic 4-1 and 5-2 in the second set before taking the last five games.
Andreescu, who has already won titles at Indian Wells and Toronto during her breakout 2019 season, unleashed a torrent of bruising groundstrokes to defeat the Swiss on a warm night at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Bencic misses a shot from Andreescu. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Associated Press)
Momentum shifted on the first point of the first set tiebreak when Bencic double-faulted and her previously immaculate play began to crumble and Andreescu cruised from there.
Bencic finally broke Andreescu to open the second set but despite stretching her lead to 4-1 and 5-2, Andreescu fed off the supportive crowd to level at 5-5 after another costly Bencic double-fault.
Andreescu booked her ticket to her first Grand Slam final when Bencic sent a forehand into the net on match point to end the tense first-time encounter.
Andreescu has played a lot of tennis this week at the U.S. Open. (Mike Stobe/Getty Images)
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Canadian Bianca Andreescu advances to US Open final in tournament debut – TSN
Canadian teenager Bianca Andreescu has reached the final in her U.S. Open debut by beating No. 13 seed Belinda Bencic of Switzerland 7-6 (3), 7-5.
The 19-year-old Andreescu is appearing in only her fourth Grand Slam tournament. She had never been past the second round at a major.
Andreescu will face 23-time Slam champion Serena Williams for the championship on Saturday.
Andreescu is the first woman to reach the final in her first appearance in the main draw at Flushing Meadows since Williams’ older sister, Venus, did it in 1997.
Android 10 Settings still hints at ‘style’ and ‘clock’ customizations for Pixel – 9to5Google
Android 10 Settings still hints at ‘style’ and ‘clock’ customizations for Pixel 9to5Google
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EEE Mosquito Virus: Man becomes 5th human case of rare, mosquito-borne virus in Mass. – Boston 25 News
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MIDDLESEX COUNTY, Mass. – A man in his 70s from southwestern Middlesex County has become the state’s fifth case of a rare and potentially deadly virus, according to the Department of Public Health.
A South Coast woman died of the rare, mosquito-borne virus Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) last month.
The state’s Department of Public Health has now confirmed a fifth person has been diagnosed with EEE in Commonwealth.
In total, there are 32 communities now at critical risk, 39 at high risk, and 121 at moderate risk for the EEE virus in Massachusetts. Ashland, Hopedale and Milford had their risk level raised to critical following the man’s diagnosis while Bellingham, Blackstone and Millville are now part of the high-risk area.
The Department of Public Health identified the fourth victim diagnosed with the virus as a woman over 50 from southern Bristol County. Many communities in southeastern Massachusetts are on alert for EEE.
According to the DPH, the virus has been found in 333 mosquito samples this year, many of which are able to spread the virus to humans.
The first case of EEE confirmed in a human this year came in early August when a man over 60 years old from Plymouth County was diagnosed. A second person was also diagnosed in Grafton earlier in August while a third person in Franklin County was diagnosed with EEE last week.
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health is performing aerial spraying for mosquitoes in communities considered high risk for EEE.
Related: How is the threat of EEE impacting local school sports?
Everyone is being urged to follow the five D’s of mosquito control:
Dusk – Avoid outdoor activity when mosquitos are most active
Dawn – Don’t go outside when the light is changing in the sky
DEET – Use repellents containing it
Dress – Cover exposed skin to block mosquitoes
Drain – Dump standing water so mosquitoes can’t breed
State health officials say the peak time to get bitten by an infected mosquito extends through September here in Massachusetts. The risk continues through the first hard frost, which, on average, is more than a month away.
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Vegetarians could face higher risk of stroke than meat eaters, study claims – ABC15 Arizona
A study released Wednesday by the British Medical Journal claims that vegetarians could have a higher risk of a stroke than meat eaters.
The study followed more than 48,000 participants in the UK for nearly 18 years. The study placed participants in three groups: Meat eaters, fish eaters and vegetarians.
The study claims that vegetarians were 20 percent more likely to have a stroke than non-meat eaters, which equaled to be three additional haemorrhagic stroke victims per 1,000 participants.
Before you change your eating habits, you should know that meat eaters were more likely to develop a heart disease than vegetarians. The difference between meat eaters and vegetarians was 10 additional cases of heart disease per 1,000 participants.
According to the British Medical Journal, previous studies on the correlation between a vegetarian diet and strokes only reported stroke mortality. In those studies, there was no significant difference between vegetarians and meat eaters in stroke mortality.
The study did adjust for self reported high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, diabetes, and body mass index, which suggests that part of the associations might be attributed to these factors, it says.
“However, the lower risk in vegetarians and vegans remained marginally significant after adjustment for all of these factors,” the study said.
To read the full study, click here .
Hong Kong braces for weekend protests as leader fails to appease activists – CBC News
Hong Kong is bracing for more demonstrations this weekend, with protesters threatening to disrupt transport links to the airport as embattled leader Carrie Lam’s withdrawal of a controversial extradition bill fails to appease some activists.
Protesters plan to block traffic to the city’s international airport on Saturday, a week after thousands of demonstrators disrupted transport links, which saw some of the worst violence since the unrest escalated three months ago.
The Airport Authority, in an advert in the South China Morning Post newspaper on Friday, urged protesters “not to disrupt the journey of tens of thousands of travelers who use the airport every day.”
Other rallies are planned on Friday evening across the city, at sites such as subway stations and near government headquarters.
In a pre-recorded televised address on Wednesday, Lam said the extradition bill had been withdrawn, conceding to one of the protesters’ five demands, although many said the move was too little, too late.
The extradition bill, which would have allowed people to be sent to mainland China for trial in courts controlled by the Communist Party, triggered mass protests that have now evolved into a broader backlash against the Hong Kong government and its political masters in Beijing.
Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam addresses a news conference on Thursday. (Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)
The massive and some times violent protests present Chinese President Xi Jinping with his greatest popular challenge since he came to power in 2012.
Many protesters remain angry over Lam’s refusal to grant an independent inquiry into perceived police brutality against protesters. Police have fired tear gas and bean bag rounds at protesters, who in turn have thrown petrol bombs and bricks at police in running battles across the Asian financial hub.
The protesters’ three other demands are:
Retraction of the word “riot” to describe rallies.
Release of all demonstrators arrested.
The right for Hong Kong people to choose their own leaders.
Many Hong Kong residents fear Beijing is eroding the autonomy granted to the former British colony when it was handed back to China in 1997.
China denies the charge of meddling and says Hong Kong is an internal affair. It has denounced the protests and warned of the damage to the economy and the possible use of force to quell the unrest. Hong Kong is facing its first recession in a decade.
Legislation addressing China’s actions in Hong Kong will be among the top priorities pushed by U.S. Senate Democrats when Congress returns to work after a recess next week, their leader said on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Global credit rating agency Fitch Ratings downgraded Hong Kong’s long-term foreign currency issuer default rating to AA from AA-plus on Friday after months of unrest and protests in the region.
Hong Kong’s rating outlook is negative, Fitch Ratings said.
The move would make it more difficult for both the government and companies based there to borrow money. The last time Finch downgraded Hong Kong’s rating was in 1995.
Increasingly violent protests have roiled the Asian financial hub as thousands chafe at a perceived erosion of freedoms and autonomy under Chinese rule.
Ronnie Ortiz-Magro & Jen Harley Split Again Over Cheating Claim – E! NEWS
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What’s that sound? It’s the cast of Jersey Shore fist-pumping over the demise of Ronnie Ortiz-Magro and Jen Harley‘s relationship.
The reality TV star and his on-again, off-again girlfriend have gone their separate ways, E! News can exclusively report. A source says that despite giving their partnership yet another chance, they broke up last weekend.
Jen has publicly accused the father of her daughter, 1-year-old Ariana Sky, of cheating on her, but our insider insists the split had nothing to do with infidelity. “They just weren’t getting along,” the source tells us.
But as Jen sees it, Ronnie may have gotten a bit too close to another woman during a recent boat party. She posted an alleged photo of the woman wrapping her arm around Ron, writing, “Is this love??? Or is this a mistake??”
She shared a lengthier message on her Instagram Stories, which read, “Ron and the cast, everyone always apologize to me for saying the thing they have to say about me (sic)… But I can’t take the abuse anymore… I’m the one bullied and abused by everyone just [because] I don’t post the things that happen to me doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen!!”
Meanwhile, a source says the woman at the receiving end of Jen’s social media tirade is simply a “friend” of Ron’s who was “consoling Ron on the boat because he was upset that they broke up.”
It’s nothing new for fans of the pair to see their extreme highs and lows play out on social media, but we’re told Ronnie is finally throwing in the towel for good and will remain focused on fatherhood.
The source explains, “He’s alright. His number one priority is his daughter, that’s all he cares about right now. He’s always thought this way. He still wants to be able to co-parent with her. Being a good is father is the only thing that matters to him regardless of what happens between him and Jen.”
As recently as July, it appeared Ronnie and Jen had turned over a new leaf and re-committed to making things work. In fact, the 33-year-old told Us Weekly, “Right now things are going good [with Jen], and I think it’s because I made a change and I stopped doing the same thing over and over again. I started just focusing on myself and stopped worrying about what other people wanted from me, and what I want for myself. So right now things are good.”
E! News has reached out to Jen’s camp for comment.
Health officials ask Canadian vape users to be on alert for symptoms after hundreds hospitalized in U.S. – CTV News
Two deaths and hundreds of cases of lung disorders in the U.S. believed to be linked to vaping have sparked a second warning from Health Canada on the potential danger of e-cigarettes.
Twenty-one-year-old Ricky D’Ambrosio is one such example — a young adult struggling in a California hospital with respiratory failure linked to vaping. His family posted his story on social media to warn others.
“When we posted on Facebook, we said, ‘We aren’t sure he’s going to make it or not but we want to make sure — to spread the awareness and let kids know this is what can happen,’” said his sister, Caitlyn. “The media has spread misinformation that vaping is better for us and it’s not.”
In the U.S. there have been two deaths and some 361 cases of lung disorders — many of which are similar to teenager Adam Hergenreder, whose strange lung conditions are apparently linked to e-cigarettes.
“My lungs feel like they’re being crushed by 20 pounds,” Hergenreder said. “I’m 18 years old and my lungs are like a 70-year-old’s.”
He said that he vaped a lot, and added THC oil.
Authorities still don’t know what the exact cause of the illnesses is, but some parents are launching a war on vaping.
“The pictures are proof,” said Hergenreder’s mother, Polly. “Proof of what vaping does to your lungs.”
One of the focuses in the U.S. investigation into these illnesses is the presence of Vitamin E acetate found in samples of vaping products that contained cannabis, according to a statement put out Thursday by the New York State Department of Health. At least one vape product containing Vitamin E has been linked to each of the 34 victims in N.Y. currently suffering from vaping-related pulmonary illnesses. Vitamin E was not found in e-cigarettes or other vape products containing nicotine.
Vitamin E, a well-known nutritional supplement that is not dangerous when ingested as a vitamin, might be harmful when inhaled, the statement warned, adding that the connection is still being investigated.
There are no cases of vaping-associated lung disease in Canada, but a national team is monitoring for problems. Dr. Nicholas Chadi, a pediatrician at Sainte-Justine hospital who also speaks for the Canadian Paediatrics Society, is part of this team.
“We’re getting a strong message from the U.S that we need to be careful about vaping devices and aerosols that come from those devices,” Chadi said. “We’re still looking for answers, we don’t really know what might be causing these people to get ill, but we do know there are known harms associated with using electronic cigarettes. We’re talking about nicotine, we’re talking marijuana and sometimes in very high concentrations. Those risks are well known.”
Health Canada reissued a statement on Thursday advising Canadians who use vape products to be on the alert for symptoms of illness, and to get medical attention immediately if they feel concerned about their health.
The statement also reminded health care professionals to ask patients about vaping habits if patients are experiencing shortness of breath, hyperventilation, chest pains, or any other symptoms associated with respiratory issues.
“Vaping is not without risk, and the potential long-term effects of vaping remain unknown,” the statement reads. “Non-smokers, people who are pregnant and young people should not vape.”
The difference between e-cigarettes and cigarettes is that e-cigs heat liquid nicotine, instead of burning tobacco. Vaping is the act of inhaling and then exhaling the aerosol produced by heating the liquid nicotine.
Vaping was initially advertised primarily to adult smokers, offering them a safer alternative to cigarettes and claiming it could help them quit smoking.
“We know electronic cigarettes can be an option for older adults who want to quit smoking, but there really are no signs to support that in young people,” Chadi said.
Surveys show vaping rates among among kids and teens are rising exponentially. E-cigarette usage in Canada has increased by 74-75 per cent in one year among young adults and adolescents.
“It’s a newer trend that’s changing the landscape of adolescence substance use,” Chadi said. “We need to be cautious, we need to make sure we’re not in a situation where a new generation of youth are using nicotine when we were really making great progress reducing use of cigarette smoking, so I think that’s really the issue here,”
Companies sweeten the appeal by adding flavoured liquids to vapes, including kid-friendly flavours such as “Froot Loops” and bubble gum, which can introduce young consumers to nicotine for the first time, opening the door to addiction.
That’s why the Canadian pediatrics society is calling for a ban on flavoured products in Canada, like one announced last week in Michigan.
“Pediatricians are becoming more and more aware that there are hundreds of chemicals found in the aerosols of these products that are harmful,” Chadi said. Those chemicals are “not things we would want in the lungs of young people.”
The Canadian Cancer Society also wants sales of e-cigarettes to be limited to those 21 and older, and are calling for better warnings from Ottawa and provincial governments.
“(Vaping) is attractive to kids, and right now in Canada … unregulated, we have thousands of flavours and this is unacceptable,” said Rob Cunnigham, a Senior Policy Analyst with the Canadian Cancer Society. “Right now the warnings on vaping products and packaging are inadequate. The governments need to do much better on the messaging to Canadians.”
The American Vaping Association has said that “street vapes … THC or other illegal drugs are responsible for these illnesses, not nicotine vaping products.”
CTV News reached out to the Canadian Vaping Association for comment, but received no answer.
Android 10 Review: A Thoughtful Gesture – Tech Advisor
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Rising country music singer Kylie Rae Harris dies at 30 – CBS News
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Geomagnetic storm could make Northern Lights visible in MI this weekend
by Wayne Curry | March 23, 2019 | 02:20
Forecasters have said that the Northern Lights might be visible from the United Kingdom this weekend (23 March), thanks to a solar storm on its way to Earth.
The aurora is likely to extend through the state of MI and Wisconsin into northern IL.
Most commonly spotted over Iceland, the glowing effect of the Northern Lights is the result of disturbances in Earth's magnetosphere.
The NOAA predicts the phenomenon, also known as the aurora borealis, could illuminate the skies above Washington state, NY and Wisconsin over the weekend.
The Southern Hemisphere has its own version, known as the southern lights or the aurora australis.
The Northern Lights may be visible from southeast Wisconsin starting Saturday night. Sometimes the sky is quiet, then suddenly lights up with color.
According to the Canadian Space Agency, "Auroral ovals are usually centered around the Earth's magnetic poles but can expand during periods of intense solar activity".
Skywatchers in parts of the United States, including NY, may be able to see the northern lights this weekend.
You don't need any fancy equipment to see the glorious display.
The sky "has got to be mostly dark" to increase your odds of seeing the northern lights, O'Hara said.
Those at higher latitudes are more likely to catch a glimpse of the aurora borealis said the Met Office, particularly those in Scotland. "This will pair with completely clear skies", wrote meteorologist Joe Charlevoix on Twitter.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, sections of the country stretching from NY to Washington may see an aurora borealis starting on Saturday.
A spokesperson for the Met Office told i that the more north the area of Scotland someone is in, the higher their chance is of seeing the Northern lights.
Pompeo to visit Western Wall with Netanyahu in break with diplomatic practice
Accusing Iranian leaders of seeking the "annihilation and destruction" of Israel, he pledged continued American support. The Golan Heights has officially been recognised as part of Syria since the country acquired independence in 1944.
System Shock 3 Gets a Teaser Trailer at Unity's GDC Keynote
Though we are expecting the game to arrive on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One whenever it does. Still, it would be great if we had some information about the game's setting and story.
Cuphead Heads To The Switch Next Month
Nintendo hasn't shared any further details about this week's Nindies Showcase , so we don't yet know what games will be featured. A long-held rumor, and even longer wish has come true: Cuphead is coming to Nintendo Switch! Pre-orders are open now.
The Establishment's 2020 Pick? Beto O'Rourke Campaign Raises Big Money
White House contender Sen. "No, I wouldn't entertain that", Trump said. "You gave me a good excuse to be out of school". President Trump also says he guarantees the Supreme Court won't be expanded for six years, while he's in office.
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli PM, to visit White House next week
This has nothing to do with presidential harassment and everything to do with unprecedented obstruction. This article has been updated to include a response from the White House.
Major study links very hot tea with higher risk of esophageal cancer
The study, published in the International Journal of Cancer , involved 50,045 individuals aged 40 to 75 years. Farhad Islami, of the American Cancer Society .
John Bercow tells Britain's parliament they are not traitors
The fact Britain won't leave the bloc on schedule on March 29 is "a matter of great personal regret for me", she said. Despite the warnings from Brussels , EU officials said averting a calamitous no-deal split is now the priority.
Spycams Have Been Found in Rooms at 30 Hotels in South Korea
Police said the site profited off these subscribers, raking in more than $6,000 between November 2018 and March 2019. If convicted, the suspects could face up to five years in prison and tens of thousands of dollars in fines.
What Disney gets as its $71.3B buy of Fox assets closes
Among other things, it paves the way for Disney to launch its streaming service, Disney Plus, due out later this year. It already has classic Disney cartoons, " Star Wars ", Pixar, the Muppets and some of the Marvel characters.
European Union fines Google €1.5bn for breach of competition rules
The European Commission has fined Google €1.5 billion for throttling competitors in the internet search advertising market. Walker writes . "As a result, over the next few months, we'll be making further updates to our products in Europe ".
Bayer shares plunge on new United States cancer ruling
While calling evidence of a glyphosate link to cancer "shaky", he has also said the company seemed callous about the possibility. Chhabria has scheduled another bellwether trial for May and a third trial is likely to take place this year.
United States stock indexes are mostly lower after Fed policy decision
Joe Manimbo, senior market analyst at Western Union Business Solutions, said: "The Fed did a big about-face on policy". Chairman Jerome Powell and other Fed officials have hinted at doing that later this year, but haven't set a date yet.
Trump questioned on Jared Kushner's use of WhatsApp with foreign officials
Per their letter , Kushner's lawyer also admitted to the Committee that he used a private email from January to August of 2017. Cummings has been trying get more information about the Trump White House's practices, but says he's run into a brick wall.
Kane insists club rivalries will not split England camp
All we can do is play the way we have been playing, play with that freedom and I think the players we have allow us to do that. England topped a Nations League qualifying group that included 2010 world champions Spain and 2018 runners-up Croatia.
Kathleen Parker: Too rich to run in 2020
Some have pointed out that in a Democratic debate, he could be asked why no one on the stage would be a worthy running mate. Still, some advisers are reportedly opposed to the idea, recognizing that it would be seen as a gimmick, Axios reports.
College men's basketball: Badgers draw OR in NCAAs
This is all very bad news for a Wisconsin team that has already been in an abysmal shooting slump over the last few weeks. But Pritchard and Louis King woke up late in the season and carried the team in the Pac-12 Tournament.
Facebook admits storing millions of passwords in plain text on internal servers
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Islam and Politics (26 Nov 2019 NewAgeIslam.Com)
How should Muslims introspect after the Supreme Court Judgement on Babri Masjid and Ramjanambhumi Dispute
By Ghulam Ghaus Siddiqi, New Age Islam
It might shock you if I request you to judge the actions of those in leadership who happily want to come into limelight by pouncing upon a ‘golden’ opportunity of appearing as “heroes” or “representatives” of Indian Muslims, or to say nominally, of ‘Islam’. Prominently this is the case of recent judgment on Babrimasjid and Ramjanambhoomi, which is taken as an opportunity as if it were a gift granted to the publicity-seeking religious “representatives”. You may be shocked at my request for judging their actions, which might not have a direct connection with their next-step demand for the review petition, yet indirectly there is indeed a connection. That connection is highly inspired by a wish for publicity-seeking which has weakened their mental faculty to decide what may become good for the Muslims, Hindus and India.
Clearly speaking, today’s “religious representatives” seeking an opportunity to appear in limelight have a role to play for the benefit of their personal wishes; - a role which in view of Tariqat (meant here ‘a corpus of mystical experiences and observations (mushahidat), is not a part of actual teachings of Islamic religion. Islamic teachings never inspire one to do any deed for other than achieving pleasure of God Almighty.
It must be decoded here that a person should not be given the title of ‘representative of Islam’ or ‘Muslims’ representative’, if his attitudes are not Islamic. It is not more important to find him be attired in Kurta, Pyjama and turban than to see shades of Taqwa which are recognised by the attitudes of humbleness, sincerity, respect of humanity, thinking of welfare of the society, community and country— each with the sole purpose of attaining pleasure of Allah Almighty. It is embarrassing to express that we do not find such shades of Taqwa in the attitudes of those who, in voices of several means of media, are called “Muslim representatives”. Try please to find out such attitudes or shades of Taqwa within them. Such attitudes of Islam are missing from such “religious representatives” who could thereby win the hearts of human beings including non-Muslims, the way the Sufis did through their humane deeds based on sincerity, truthfulness and honesty towards Islamic religion.
Hardly did a compiler of Ahadith in book-forms miss a hadith which reads, “Actions are [judged] by intentions”. In all actions of worship, what works well in their pursuit is such an intention which purely looks for the pleasure of Allah Almighty. But present-day “Muslims’ representatives” want to earn publicity and self-respect rather than the pleasure of Allah Almighty which actually comes through one’s making good intentions and not the intention of publicity.
I would not blame any names but say that they must feel that God knows them best about what they want to seek through calling for review petition on the Babjri-Masjid issue; publicity or pleasure of God Almighty. The question remains unsolved unless we understand how we can please God Almighty in such an issue as a bone of contention between two larger communities of human beings, Muslims and Hindus. Meanwhile let this idea strike our mind that the pleasure of God Almighty is attained by knowing what is actually Maqasid Sharia (objectives of Islamic Sharia).
Before delving into Maqasid Sharia, it is better to observe that the review petition against the Supreme Court’s Ayodhya judgment will be both futile and imprudent. It is highly unlikely that any Muslim organization will succeed in getting the Supreme Court to make any changes to its judgment which granted the disputed land to Hindus for the construction of a Ram Mandir. Another thing to worry about is that the Muslim parties, who had agreed to accept whatever the SC’s judgment may be, favourable or unfavourable, are now planning to do just the opposite.
I would not criticize any religious sentiment attached to a mosque or a temple, which can be sensed respectively as a natural attitude in both Muslims and Hindus. Some Muslims have expressed both acceptance and dissatisfaction over the SC’s judgment. Some have even planned to file a review petition. The same reaction would have come from some Hindus if the judgment had not been in their favour. All this is their right provided it does not go against law and order. What is laudable and commendable so far is that no riots or clashes between the two communities have occurred so far after the SC’s judgment and thereby law and order is still maintained. This credit definitely goes to all Indians, especially Muslims.
Indian Muslims must accept the SC’s Judgment without going to file any review petition. They should close the chapter of contention between the two communities by accepting whatever the Supreme Court has issued. Now they must stick to other opportunities to express their servant-hood towards God Almighty. This can be done if they build mosques in their hearts, spend time in acts of worship, meditations in any of the mosques located in India, act upon teachings of Taqwa and educate them with special focus on those of sincerity, love, respect, humbleness and all other parts of goodness enshrined in Islam. This is what the Maqasid Sharia demands today in its vast objectives including the welfare of the society. It is time for Muslims to act upon universal teachings of tolerance, patience, harmony and peace and thereby winning the hearts of other fellow human beings including those who have great antipathy and prejudice against Muslims, as any reaction to hate increases nothing but hate.
To understand Maqasid-e-Sharia briefly, it is worth mentioning that numerous rulings of Islamic Sharia are changed or concessions in Islamic laws are granted according to changing circumstances of the time and thereby the door of easiness and concession is always open for Muslim Ummah of every age. The basis of changes in such rulings, according to majority of Muslim jurists, revolves around the seven fundamental principles of Islamic Jurisprudence. They are 1) zaruriyaat (absolute necessities), 2) hajat (necessity), 3) daf’e haraj (removing difficulty), 4) ‘Urf (recurring practices of a large number of Muslims), 5) Maslahah (interest/benefit), 6) izala al-fasad (elimination of corruption), 7) umum-e-balwa.
Absolute necessities (zaruriyat) are classified in what preserves one’s faith (din), soul (nafs), wealth (maal), mind (aql) and offspring (nasl). Some jurists add the preservation of honour to these five popular necessities. Preservation of these necessities is the objective of Islamic Sharia. So in the context of SC’s judgment on Babri Masjid-Ram Janam Bhoomi, even if we believe that a land once a masjid is always a masjid, we will still have to take into consideration the objective of Islamic Sharia which preserves one’s life, removes difficulty, eliminates corruption and ensures social interest. This will be in line with the fiqhi maxim “Necessities cause the prohibited things to be permissible”, (الضرورات تبيح المحظورات)”. That means we must accept SC judgment which, as per some opinions, is a resolution and in conformity with the objective of Islam in preserving lives of Indian civilians. If this resolution is not accepted, there might occur corruption and loss of lives and thereby a violation of objectives of Islam.
A regular Columnist with NewAgeIslam.com, Ghulam Ghaus Siddiqi Dehlvi is an Alim and Fazil (Classical Islamic scholar), with a Sufi-Sunni background and English-Arabic-Urdu Translator. He has also done B.A (Hons.) in Arabic, M.A. in Arabic and M.A in English from JMI, New Delhi. He is Interested in Islamic Sciences; Theology, Jurisprudence, Tafsir, Hadith and Islamic mysticism (Tasawwuf).
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Aayina sb, you say to Satish, “Satish Your expectation is wrong and this people lie vey easily”.
I have grounds to disagree with you when you have this expectation.
You say, “There was no nation state concept in Islam and in Arab their was Kabilas(Tribes), When Mohmmad self declared himslef Paigmaber and forced to belive all people, Sura Tuba was last to nail it, so any left non-Muslims can be converted or killed.”
First let me say “peace be upon him” because we Muslims puntucally say ‘Salam upon the Prophet’. I may agree with you on the points that the Messenger of God Almighty came to invite all mankind to Islam but with the divine guidance of not forcing anyone to accept Islam.
Surah Taubah deals with rules of war, conditions, modes of dealings, and many other issues. One should fear here to deduce anything which goes to the extent of ‘altering the meaning of the divine messages’. One needs to ponder over them justly and honestly. Without pointing out any preconceived idea, a researcher must go through all verses related to war and then deduce the exact meaning, utilizing the principles of understanding the Quran, inherited from the first era of Muslims, and passing by Hanafi, Shafii, Maliki and Hambali ages to this 21st century. Anyway, reality of things is beyond our perception when we fail to cover the proper reasoning meant for the subject. I would not repeatedly call you to believe or take my articles on the relevant subject as much granted as you know about your own reality.
“This people cheat on Social science as well, as they have none which is rational or also we cannot adopt which they have develop form their Hambo Jambo Hadeses.”
I think knowledge, faculty of reasoning, power of analysis and observation; all are nothing but a blessing of God Almighty. The one who holds it must be thankful to God Almighty, and use its benefit in the right way. It the same knowledge makes one arrogant as opposed to other fellows, it means his knowledge is tantamount to darkness where there is no light of knowledge. Let me say that there are so many rational grounds in Social Science and Ahadith which can only be grasped first with the blessing of Allah and then with the source of proper methodlogy to understand Ahaadith.
You say, “thier social science is also stealing of hard work of modern and eastern Philospher which this Muslims will adopt and attribute to some their Hadeses or Quran Ayat, then they argue that in Islam philosophy is not allowed to use see how Quran and Islam is complete”
Grasping real philosophy and theology was the real purpose of some genius Muslims of the past. But this is true there were some occasions where the matters of heart took over those of rational faculty. There were occasions where hearts and minds fought with each other. It was a very confusing and decisive state when they had to choose either of the two. The Quranic verses guided them, in other words, the speeches of God Almighty which enlightened their hearts to choose the path of the hearts and leave the path of minds. But there were only some occasions but it does not mean that minds and hearts fought with each other in all occasions. Other than few selected issues, there are oftentimes the places where the mind and heart co-operated each other.
Actually our scientist orientalist writers have done a great effort to degrade the values attached with Islamic sciences, yes so much, that they hurled the bomb of so-called ‘objectivity’ and ‘subjectivity’ that many exploded with it apart. They forgot many things. To quote one of them for you, they forgot that it is also a part of rational reasoning that the One Who created all worlds, and everything what is in them, and the One Whose essence is beyond our imaginiton, is the only One Whom we should trust and believe. There were some Muslims philosophers who had the same thought but they presented it in some different ways without preconceiving the idea that some people in near future would appear who would pull my thoughts to make it oppose other thoughts of Muslims, only to discredit Islam and its scientific corpus.
By Ghulam Ghaus Siddiqi غلام غوث الصديقي - 12/5/2019 2:43:48 AM
To Satish
NAI can you leave the spacing in paragraphs as they easy to read and understand, I have seen when I write long comment everything come as one paragraph.
Satish Your expectation is wrong and this people lie vey easily.
There was no nation state concept in Islam and in Arab their was Kabilas(Tribes), When Mohmmad self declared himslef Paigmaber and forced to belive all people, Sura Tuba was last to nail it, so any left non-Muslims can be converted or killed.
This people cheat on Social science as well, as they have none which is rational or also we cannot adopt which they have develop form their Hambo Jambo Hadeses. Their social sceince is similar to their Science of Quran, attributing all non-Muslims((((Non-Muslim:A degoratory and negativity word use to address people who not follow Islam)))hard work to Quran, thier social science is also stealing of hard work of modern and eastern Philospher which this Muslims will adopt and attribute to some their Hadeses or Quran Ayat, then they argue that in Islam philosophy is not allowed to use see how Quran and Islam is complete.
You need to hear Mulana Tariq Jameel he use lots of Hindu stories and attach to Mohmmad paigmaber, this are samless creed cannot give credit to non-Muslims for anything they have given to the society, same like Mormans they have just last year Baptised Ghandhi as thier was noway they can able to adopt Ghandhi as Hindu so they baptised him, even though he dead, because for Mormans good person can only be Christian,
Christians also tried to make Ghandhi their last prophet when he was alive, written books on it, the condition was he has to became Christian publicly to Himulate his own religion, the project did not work.
The new project is going on by Qidiyani sect, Mirza Gulam delclard himself as Avtar of Krishna so Hindu can be fooled but our Sikh brother were left out, so under this new project Gurunanak dev is Wali and Sikhs are just misguided to understand that Gurnanak dev have became Muslims by heart, so all Sikh must all convert to Islam.
Both Muslims and Christians have problem to adopt good people as good if they are born in different rlegion to theirs.
Muslims will like only those Hindus or Christians or Jews who condem their own non-Muslim community but takes side of Muslims.
If you are using Social Media platform you will see they will forward criticism of Hindu by Hindu in favour of Muslim than they put on social media platform, but they will never put any digarotory comment on Hindu by Muslims and it's even impossible to find criticism of Muslim favouring Hindu condemning Muslim for Hindu favour.
Only tow people on social media I have seen one is Indian and other is from Trinidad Imran N. Hosien. He clearly says if I was born as Hindu I will never like Mulism and than he says Muslims need to accept and owe apploogies to Hindu for the atrocities and crime done to Hindus.
Now people like Gulam Ghus Sidiqque or anytime form Indian origin will either ignore their bad karma to Hindus or will remain shun or keep changing the narrative.
Satish Sorry to go bit out of way but I have seen Naive Hindus come here and do comments which is not going to be fruitfully change Muslims mind at even single idea on the contrary if we understand them it is easy to know how they are hypocrate and know how to deal them like westerners. Western world intelctuall and even comman citizens understand Muslims hypocrisy Just they deal them with civility
By Aayina - 12/4/2019 9:23:52 PM
A woman named Fasilah narrates that she heard her father saying: I asked Nabi sallaAllahu ‘alaihi wa sallam, “O Rasullullah, is love for one’s nation considered chauvinism?” He sallaAllahu ‘alaihi wa sallam replied, “No, chauvinism is partly to help one’s nation in perpetrating injustice” (Ibn Majah)
By Kaniz Fatma - 12/4/2019 3:41:24 AM
The concept of loyalty and love towards country, as per Islam, is very simple. Muslims are duty bound to be loyal to the country in which they live. As for Indian Muslims, they do have such loyalty for their country. At some occasion, if they raise their voice for their rights in accord with their constitution, let me proudly say, It is their right granted by the Indian constitution, and for that matter, they too are proud of that. However if anything which goes against the welfare of the country, it is objectionable and must be decried urgently.
Achchi Taqreer kar lete ho bhai. APNE BHAYION KO SIKHAO YE DESHPREMI MESSAGE
By Satish - 12/4/2019 2:23:28 AM
@Satish sb,,
I have not seen any Mulla declaring ‘love to country’ an act of Shirk. However there are terror elements which declare ‘love to country’ as ‘love to worthless dust’. This view amounts to mixing right with wrong.
As I have said in my earlier comment that the nature of loving a country exists in every good human being. Even an animal loves its homeland and makes all possible effort to construct and develop the place in which it lives. This love is a part of nature, and Islam does not teach anything against any parts of Nature. The most solid evidence, in the view of Islam, is that Islam does not consider it ‘forbidden’. This is very clear from the fact that things which have no evidence of forbiddance as such are considered permissible.
There are only wahhabis and their partners who are found with the offensive words such as bidat, haraam etc in matters related to what have not been declared haraam. The very famous jurisprudential ruling is that the things which Allah and His Prophet have not declared Haram are permissible. This rule is based on al-asl fil ashyaa al-ibahat (الأصل في الأشياء الإباحة). In other words, this jurisprudential maxim reads “In principle all things, of various categories and types, are permissible” for human beings until they violate Islamic injunctions.
Patriotism is not a concept antithetical to religion or community. The country where a citizen enjoys religious rights, security, liberty and freedom is a beloved place for him. For Muslims, a country where they freely bow down before God Almighty in five-times prayer and have freedom to devote all their time to remember God and His Prophet (peace be upon him) is indeed their beloved homeland, the safety and security of which is their responsibility.
So those “Mullas” as in your mind who declare patriotism to be an act of Shirk are sheer ignorant. Call them please to attend this class, insha Allah they will learn and you will be silent.
By Ghulam Ghaus Siddiqi غلام غوث الصديقي - 11/28/2019 11:47:58 PM
@Miss Kaniz Fatma,
Perhaps I have replied to this question of yours before, while I am not sure. There is very technical debate over the authenticity of the ‘hadith’, “hubbul watan min al-iman”. I think it is not necessary to debate over it. It would be enough to know that according to some scholars of Hadith, the hadith “to love your country is part of faith” is weak in its chain of narration. The ruling of weakness over this hadith is due to chain of narration. However the weak hadith is reliable in virtues [fazail] if not in Ahkaam. However other scholars consider it to be fabricated and the fabricated hadith is not reliable in any case. But the weakness or fabrication of this hadith does not mean that “love the homeland is not allowed”.
We have so many other evidences which make it compulsory for us to love our country.
Jurists (Fuqaha), saints (Auliya), the wise (hukama), and Muslim authors have expressed their affection for their respective homelands. A number of Ulama have written books on patriotism, for instance, “Al-Hunain ilal Awtan (Love towards the homeland)” authored by Jahiz.
Being away from the homelands, according to the Muslim scholars, is extremely difficult moment equal to pain of losing one’s life. Allama Mulla Ali Qari, in his book “Mirqatul Mafatih (commentary of Hadith book – Mishkatul Masabih)”, says, “Being away from the homeland is one of the most painful situations”.
It is narrated by Hazrat Anas that “whenever the Prophet (peace be upon him) returned from a journey and observed the walls of Medina, he would make his Mount go fast, and if he was on an animal (i.e. a horse), he would make it gallop because of his love for Medina” (Bukhari, 1886, Book 29, Hadith 20). The same hadith is also mentioned in Jami al-Tirmidhi.
In the commentary of this hadith, Allama Ibn Hajar Asqalani says, “This hadith is evidence of the virtue of Madina and permissibility of love to country/Hubbul Watan” (Fathul Bari commentary on Sahih Bukhari, Arabic version 3/621). Allama Aini has also made the same interpretation of this hadith. (Please see, Umdatul Qari –commentary on Sahih Bukhari 10/135)
Allama Ibn Jawzi says in his book “Muthir al-gharam al-sakin ilá ashraf al-amakin p.75”, “homelands are always beloved”.
Imam Abu Nuwaim said in “Hilyatul Awliya 7/380”, “Being away from the homeland was the most painful experience of all that I felt”.
The nature of loving a country exists in every good human being. Even an animal loves its homeland and makes all possible effort to construct and develop the place in which it lives. This love is a part of nature, and Islam does not teach anything against any parts of Nature. Instead it urges the believers to love their country, and be kind towards its people.
By Ghulam Ghaus Siddiqi غلام غوث الصديقي - 11/28/2019 9:49:36 PM
Kaniz Fatma, some Mullas speak it is shirk to love the country.
By Satish - 11/28/2019 8:43:40 PM
Is the hadith on love of the country weak? I have come across on some websites in Urdu about that. Could you please explain it?
By Kaniz Fatma - 11/28/2019 3:41:06 AM
@KF
Yes there is a hadith predicting about that. It is narrated by Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said, “An army will raid the Kaabah and when it reaches a desert (Baidaa a place near Makkah) land, all of them will be swallowed up by the earth”. She asked, ‘O Messenger of Allah! Why all of them?’ He answered, “All of them will be swallowed by the earth but they will be raised for judgment according to their intentions”. This hadith has been reported by Bukhari and Muslim. Imam Nawawi has also quoted in his Riyad al-Salihin.
This is a prediction but whose army would it be, which has been referred to in this hadith, and when this army will invade the Kaabah is a matter known to Allah Alone. Such prophecies are a part of the unseen knowledge. But the message taken from this hadith indicates that everyone will be rewarded or punished according to his intentions. This also indicates that the company of the tyrant people is extremely dangerous.
By Ghulam Ghaus Siddiqi غلام غوث الصديقي - 11/28/2019 2:24:30 AM
It is reported that “Allah does not look at your figures nor at your attire but He looks at your hearts and accomplishments” (Sahih Muslim). This hadith refers to significance of sincerity and good intention. Muslims must do all their noble deeds based on these two virtues and their hearts should be free from all such things that destroy noble deeds. Hypocrisy and ostentation fall in the category of such evils.
Since the true condition of heart is known to Allah Alone, the true position of one’s actions will be known on the Day of Judgment. However in this world, the people will be treated according to their apparent condition.
By GGS - 11/27/2019 11:54:02 PM
Is there any hadith about that an army will try to raid the kaabah but they will be swallowed up the earth? What is the importance of it
By KF - 11/27/2019 11:31:16 PM
Ikhlas is missing from our Muslim representatives therefore we are causing embarassment all around the globe
actually we have left the path of islam therefore everywhere ruswai and zillat
By Shamim - 11/27/2019 2:36:35 AM
Waging Jihad by fighting has terms and conditions. Simply knowing that it is obligatory upon Muslims is not enough but a sign of neek hakim khatrae jaan.
Many things are obligatory in Islam but their implementation is allowed only after the conditions are met.
For example, Zakat is obligatory but it has conditions that if one possesses the Nisab, only he can give zakat. There are many other conditions that the author can better tell us.
Jihad by fighting too has conditions, so far as I know. It is waged to stop terrorism, oppression, injustice. It is done by Islamic government and in present world there is no Islamic government. It is done against those who have no peace-treaty and at war with Muslim countries.
By Maliki - 11/27/2019 2:28:10 AM
GOOD IDEAS!
By Ashraf Ali - 11/27/2019 2:19:34 AM
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The group also warned against the deployment of helicopters in the South South zone by the military, saying it was going to bring them down.
It also said once the deployment of the six missiles commences, no flight operations should take place within the country’s airspace.
The group, which also claimed affiliation to the Niger Delta Avengers, said the missiles were capable of bringing down any aircraft no matter how big.
Several US Soldiers Killed After Truck Accident in Texas
Military officials at Fort Hood, Texas report that three soldiers have been killed after a US Army truck overturned by a flood creek. Six additional soldiers are missing.
The truck involved was a Light Medium Tactical Vehicle.
Emergency crews continue to conduct rescue operations, searching for the remaining soldiers missing from the 3rd Battalion, 16th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Comabt Team, 1st Cavalry Division.
Brazil Revolts as Temer Forces Austerity, US Dependency After Coup Exposed
Michel Temer’s interim government has moved rapidly to reverse 13 years of social programs advanced by the democratically elected Workers Party, despite increased turmoil in his beleaguered administration.
In two weeks, the highly-orchestrated rightwing impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, viewed by many Brazilians as a coup, has been beleaguered by a combination of incompetence by the Temer government and a series of leaked audio files implicating key cabinet ministers in their plotting of the “impeachment” as a means to derail a far-reaching corruption probe.
Policemen Kill Okada Man In Ilaro, Ogun, Riot Breaks Out
Information reaching our news desk indicates that there is tension and trepidation as riots has erupted in Ilaro in Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun State. As gathered by this medium, according to an eyewitness report, the crisis started when Police Officer allegedly shoot on a Commercial Motorcyclist popularly known as Okada in many parts of the country for refusing to pay bribe. As gathered unconfirmed report shows that there dead bodies, as the Police has continued to shoot sporadically.
Mohammed Barkindo Appointed As OPEC Secretary-General
A former Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mohammed Barkindo, has been appointed as the Secretary-General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). He replaces Libya’s Abdalla El-Badri, who had completed full terms. Barkindo was the NNPC GMD from 2009 to 2010. He has also been an acting Secretary-General of OPEC in 2006. The Federal Government nominated Barkindo for the position citing his qualification and experience.
FG Scraps Post-ume b
Pegs cut-off at 180
The Federal Government Thursday scrapped the conduct of post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) for candidates seeking admission into higher institution.
The government explained that all tertiary institutions were at liberty to conduct screening for candidates seeking admission into any school.
Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, said this on Thursday in Abuja after declaring open the 2016 Combined Policy Meeting on Admissions to Universities, Polytechnics and other higher institutions in Nigeria.
19-Year-Old Wizkid Impersonator, Ifeoma Nelly Pictured
We have been able to lay our hands on the alleged photo of 19 year old Wizkid impersonator, Ifeoma Nelly who was able to dupe unsuspecting Wizkid fans, both home and abroad of several millions of naira. Police say Miss Ifeoma, who is a 200 level student of Industrial Chemistry in Delta state university (DELSU) sported a low cut, talked and dressed like a man. It took them time before they were able to believe that she was female. She was set up at a hotel where she came to collect part payment of 25 thousand dollars from some Australians who wanted to feature Wizkid on a show in their country. When she stepped in with her companions, they swooped in on her and arrested the teen scammer. Before then she had been posing on Facebook as Wizkid. She even registered her number as the singer and was able to successfully dupe people of almost 13 million naira. Imagine, just 19 years old and already so criminally minded.
Ogoni Clean-up: Jonathan Made A Mistake – Traditional Ruler
The President of the Ogoni Council of Traditional Rulers, King Godwin Giniwa has declared that former President, Goodluck Jonathan made a terrible “mistake” for ignoring the UNEP report.
The paramount ruler of the Ogoni kingdom, King Giniwa said this while making his remark during the launch of the Ogoni clean-up programme held in Gokana Local government area of Rivers state.
While describing Jonathan as an easy-going man, the Paramount ruler expressed shock that Ogonis were neglected during his administration.
Fani-kayode Still In Custody For Fresh Allegation – EFCC
Ade Adesomoju, Abuja
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said on Thursday that it was investigating the spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Presidential Campaign Organisation for the 2015 election, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, for fresh allegation.
The anti-agency said the fresh allegation was different from the case of the N800m which the former Minister of Aviation allegedly received as campaign fund from the $2.1bn meant for procurement of arms.
On the Road to Raqqa
The road to Raqqa, capital of the phony ISIS/ISIL/Daesh “Caliphate”, will continue to be a riddle wrapped inside an enigma at least until the US Presidential elections. Let’s examine why.
by Pepe Escobar for Sputnik news
The loose combo known as Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), led by the Kurdish YPG alongside its women’s brigade, the YPJ, are trying to advance against Daesh north and now also west of Raqqa.The key target is Tabqa, west of Raqqa. Tabqa is crucial because it links Raqqa with Daesh positions near Aleppo — where an embryonic Mother of All Battles is gearing up. Conquering Taqba itself will be no mean feat as it implies the SDF forces crossing the Euphrates River, which happens to be a red line imposed by Turkey’s Sultan Erdogan.
Russia Not Afraid to Defend Arctic Region From Prying NATO Powers
Russia is strengthening the defense of its sector of the Arctic by developing an Arctic version of its Tor missile defense system, and reports suggest that a ‘family’ of high-pass armored vehicles is also under development. Speaking to Sputnik, a military expert argues that these measures are a direct response to NATO actions in the region.
An Arctic version of the missile system for surface-to-air defense, Tor, is set to enter testing in Autumn 2016, a representative of the manufacturer, Izhevsk Electromechanical Plant, part of Russia’s Almaz-Antey defense manufacturer, told the Russian media.
Syrian Army is Getting Ready for a Triumph Similar to Liberation of Palmyra
The Syrian Army plans to advance on the city of Deir ez-Zor in the country’s east, the last large Syrian city completely blocked by Daesh jihadists. In its analysis of the upcoming operation, Russian online newspaper Vzglyad says the success of the operation in Deir ez-Zor may be seen in the same light as the liberation of Palmyra.
Russian Military Receiving New Improved Combat Air-to-Air Missiles
According to the general director of the Duks designing company, Russia’s new short-range maneuverable combat air-to-air missiles based on the R-73 short-range missile have begun being delivered to the military.
– Russia’s new short-range maneuverable combat air-to-air missiles based on the R-73 short-range missile have begun being delivered to the military, the general director of the Duks designing company told Sputnik.
“Deliveries have begun,” Yuri Klishin said.
Lithuania, Poland NATO Drills Aimed at Rising Tensions on Russian Border
Russian Foreign Ministry opposes Lithuania and Poland NATO’s military exercises and states that they can destabilize regional situation.
NATO’s military exercises in Lithuania and Poland destabilize the situation in the region and have the goal of continuing the aggravation of tensions along the Russian border, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Meshkov said Thursday.
Nigeria Plans to Boost Oil Production to 2.2Mln Barrels Per Day by Year-End
Nigeria plans to increase its oil production to 2.2 million barrels per day until the end of 2016, Oil Minister Emmanuel Kachikwu said Thursday.
— Nigeria plans to increase its oil production from the current level of 1.6 million barrels per day up to 2.2 million barrels per day until the end of 2016, Oil Minister Emmanuel Kachikwu said Thursday.
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Level Three. Timing.
Level Three – Timing.
It was all about timing. This was a saying that regularly was said by both R V’s mum and dad. Why was this said and about who? Well, there was a lot to do and all at the right time and it was mostly for the recent newest arrival at the household.
Having a younger brother was certainly something to get used to and for R V he was getting up earlier than he thought he ever would, doing more learning about having a small child in the house than sometimes he thought he should and becoming more worried than he ever knew he could be. It was a full on routine. R V’s brother was up early and he seemed to be aware of everything that he needed and at the times that they had to be given to him and done for him. Loudly he would cry to get his breakfast, louder he would cry when he needed a doo doo removal, loudest he would cry when he was tired and needed a nap. Everything needed to be done as and when he insisted on it and R V was getting used to this routine.
R V and parents had been sitting down to dinner when a certain crying started and up went dad to do the doo doo removal. They had settled down to do reading time when the crying went off again and this time everyone knew it was a cuddle that Dillon wanted. Dillon’s demands went off with regular routine and it was precise. Each noise he made meant something and R V had learnt the language of his brother’s cries.
At least it was helpful to know the code of cries, but it has to be said they could be inconvenient. If someone did not get to Dillon at the right time then he would go into overdrive crying mode. No one wanted that. It was the worst phase of the code of cries because it meant that the timing of someone had been off, Dillon’s reaction to it would be off the scale and it would take ages to settle him back to quiet, cherished brother again.
Timing was the answer to a lot of the code of cries and R V had learnt, along with his parents, to know what was needed and when. Sometimes R V thought it was odd that the littlest, youngest member of the household seemed to be dictating how everyone did things but to be honest he loved snuggle times with him so much that he didn’t let it trouble him for too long.
It was a Dillon demand household and R V had found it all too routine to answer his friends pleas for his time with an explanation that he had to be around for his younger brother’s first look at this, first time of that and he didn’t really notice how sad their acceptance of his rejection to them was each time.
It had been a while into Dillon’s adaption to the household when R V’s mum came into talk to him. She told R V that maybe it was time for him to go out and be with his friends again, to have a few visits with them instead of watching out for Dillon all the time. R V felt funny about the idea. On the one hand he did miss New One and Little Herbert a LOT. He had been so distracted by Dillon that he had not had time to think about it but when his mum mentioned them he had to say that he did want to go and see his two friends. It was just so hard because then when he thought about Dillon he felt anxious to leave him. What if something happened to him while he was out? R V knew that his mum and dad could look after him but he was exceptionally small and he was sure they could never watch over him like a big brother could. When a stray fly had gotten into Dillon’s bedroom R V had been the one to alert their parents to it and when he had looked as if he had needed a burping again he was the one to tell his mum and dad about that before the code of cries was even needed. His timing, it had to be said, where Dillon was concerned was absolutely impeccable. Besides that R V felt that if he left Dillon he would miss out. Already there was so many lessons about how to look after him that he had learnt and what if he went out to do something else and he missed a brotherly moment. When R V’s mum heard his concerns she told him that she did understand but that timing was a consideration for all the people that loved him. As of late New One and Little Herbert probably felt that R V’s timing was not as impeccable for them as it was for Dillon.
Reluctantly R V abandoned, temporarily, his big brother role and off he went to be with his two friends. He had thought it would be terrible to be away from his brother. He had thought it would be horrible but actually he had more fun than he thought he would and seeing how happy Little Herbert and New One were to see him made him realise that timing was a concept that applied to a lot of things in life. When R V got home and could show Dillon to his two friends he found that his love for his brother increased and he really did need to have a sense of timing for all the significant people to him.
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Harnessing Gamer Power: The Citizen Science of EVE
Gamers are great. I’m not just saying that because my fiance and I are gamers, I swear (riiiight). Gamers are great because of their dedication, persistence, and loyalty – and now, scientists are taking advantage of those qualities to get gamers to do science from home. EVE Online is a space-based MMORPG (massive multiplayer online role playing game) that, if you like World of Warcraft, No Man’s Sky, or doing your own taxes, you’ll really enjoy. My fiance tells me that it’s basically ‘multiplayer spreadsheets’ with trading, pirates, industry, and more. And part of that more is SCIENCE.
Swiss company Massively Multiplayer Online Science (MMOS) and students of Reykjavik University worked with CCP (the company behind EVE) to create a minigame where players help classify images for the Human Protein Atlas. The Human Protein Atlas is a project aiming to map out protein distribution throughout the human body; this would give scientists everywhere a greater understanding of how our bodies work normally, and what happens when they don’t function as planned.
Screenshot from EVE
The minigame is pretty simple in concept, though it shows just how close some scientific calls can be. The game gives you the image on the left with red stains for the cytoskeleton, blue for the nucleus, and green for the protein of interest. You can toggle on or off any of these colors to get a better look at different parts of the image. Then, you select the pattern of protein distribution and where you see it, using the hexagons on the right. There’s a nifty tutorial for everyone to get the hang of it, and you get in game rewards for participating – including The Sisters of Eve Combat Armour and Analysis Coat, and other items that you can then sell for in-game cash.
This is citizen science at it’s finest – harnessing the power of our collective free time to help complete truly massive scientific undertakings. The science adds yet another layer of game play for dedicated EVE players and in return uses the free labor, disguised as fun, to chip away at dense scientific projects. What’s more, there’s a decent bit of cellular biology involved in taking on this project – I would bet that players are learning a lot about the structures in a cell from playing this minigame and, to me, it seemed like it would make a fun review activity for high school biology classes.
If you can’t get enough of science and just need to do it from home, or if you think this project is visionary and you want to try it out, you can sign up for a free trial here. My fiance tells me that players who are dedicated to EVE (notably, himself) are able to make enough in-game money to not pay real dollars for their gaming experience, and that’s a win for everyone.
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‘Bee’ Reviewed: Pandemic
Nyx: Does this box make me look too small?
Today we’re reviewing something a bit different on ‘Bee’ Reviewed – a board game! Pandemic is the brainchild of Matt Leacock. The game is a great example of integrating science and culture, and it’s also a super fun game you can play with kids (teaching them that they, too, can be a scientist or researcher!).
Pandemic is a cooperative game, meaning that all the players are on the same team, working together to beat a very difficult game; this style is pretty non-traditional as the average best-selling tabletop games (Monopoly, Life, Stratego, etc) are all competitive. This mirrors the cooperative structure of science – we build on the works of others and must work together to succeed. In the game, you play as a team of medics, pilots, researchers, and scientists (each with your own special ability) working to stop four diseases from taking over the world by finding cures. If you’ve ever played Plague Inc, this game was the precursor to that app and is multi-player (up to four people, the recommended age being 10+). Together you treat disease, research cures, build research stations, and travel the world to stop… a pandemic.
Beyond being a ton of fun and, because of the element of chance, having a very different game each time you play, Pandemic reinforces the importance of science to our modern society and health. The game also builds communication skills and the ability to think several steps ahead and describe that logic. It pushes people to take risks because you can only be so certain that something will work, but be all in on that risk together. It’s a great game for families to play together and bond but it also mirrors so many of the ways the scientific community actually functions (without boring you with real virology). The only way you could dislike this game is if you’re fundamentally opposed to not being competitive or are a super troll in real life (in which case people will hate you for spoiling their attempts at team work and you should politely go back into your cave and leave them alone to yell at people on the internet).
One of my favorite things about Pandemic is that it shows scientists and researchers, logic and strategy and knowledge, saving the world. I know it’s just a game, but it might be nice if knowledge and logic and science were given a little more world-saving appreciation in the modern era (over punching people or superpowers). Pandemic aims to do just that while simultaneously providing you and your team mates with many, many hours of fun for only $25.
The only thing I can fault this game for is that it has a lot of small pieces – you wouldn’t want to play in areas with very small children, who might try eating the pretty disease-cubes and choke. But other than the mess of cubes, that you’re almost certain to lose one or two of over time, the game itself is well designed, easy to learn, and pretty fast to play (for a cooperative game). The game has several levels, ranging from Novice to Legendary, so you can even ‘customize’ game play based on how tired you’re feeling when you sit down to start.
Not convinced? Watch this episode of Tabletop with Wil Wheaton to see all the fun you’re missing.
More on Communicating Science to Skeptics
Photo by DanaK~WaterPenny entitled ‘Science, it works.’ (Attribution 2.0 Generic), link through photo
In June I made a post about ‘mis-trusting science’ in response to an article/commencement speech published in The New Yorker by Atul Gawande; Gawande is a pretty big name in science-writing, having both been published in and been an editor for The Best American Science Writing series (and his work was even picked to be in THE BEST of the best, too!). Given that he’s a pretty preeminent science-communicator, you’d think that he’d have the dirt on how to communicate science… but his speech has been torn apart by other communicators for a wide variety of reasons.
In my post I argued that Gawande was thinking too small, discussing how to change the mindset of a single individual when really it was a radical shift in how we all share information that needs to occur (i.e. checking we have the facts, etc, before making that FB post). Until our culture could learn to respect facts over sensationalism, community consensus over our personal ego, we were wasting our time trying to change one person’s outlook on science; your facts could never persuade in the face of a constant barrage of sensationalist coverage and rampant individualism (read: narcissism).
Each time I would try to convince one particular acquaintance to give evolution or vaccines a serious look (“I was never vaccinated, and I’m fine!”), I would get back “I don’t care enough about these issues to look into them more. But maybe someday I’ll sit down and start to sort through the evidence. Until then, though, I don’t need to know more about these things.” This response has always frustrated me because there’s nothing to debate here, other than the merits of laziness, and also implies that this individual is a better decision maker on vaccinations/evolution than people who have obtained their PhDs and published papers on the matter. We both know this individual is not going to spend the time on evolution to become a real, scientific, expert – he’s not going to put in the time of a PhD candidate or a researcher. He’s going to learn enough to justify one opinion or the other and move on, if he looks into it at all, never taking the words of real experts into account but just satisfying his personal ego.
The internet has created an echo-chamber for ignorance, allowing people to justify their lack of knowledge by pointing to the sensationalist ‘controversy’ surrounding an issue instead of realizing that scientists have reached a pretty definite consensus on certain issues. Amazingly, my own experience working in biology – the fact that I have sorted through more of the evidence and read real, peer-reviewed scientific papers – matters not at all to this individual; to Gawande’s point that we all feel like we’re the only expert on every subject in the world, I heartily agree.
Photo by The Kingsway School entitled ‘open evening (17 of 57)’ (Attribution 2.0 Generic), link through photo
Another critic, Richard Grant, has come up against Gawande’s article saying “People don’t like being told what to do… I don’t think people who object to vaccines or GMOs are at heart anti-science. Some are, for sure, and these are the dangerous ones. But most people simply want to know that someone is listening, that someone is taking their worries seriously; that someone cares for them.” He argues that scientists aren’t successful because they bring facts, graphs, and figures to the debate which feels arrogant and cold. Science-communicators must take the time to listen to our anti-science audience, Grant asserts, if we are to change both the minds and hearts of our anti-science compatriots.
Grant says that charlatans have already recognized the need for belonging and listening, creating these self-affirming anti-science communities that can be difficult to penetrate, and writes, “Tellingly, Gawande refers to the ‘scientific community’; and he’s absolutely right, there. Most science communication isn’t about persuading people; it’s self-affirmation for those already on the inside.” This is something I can, on the whole, agree with (in ever more concentric circles of exclusivity as scientists generally write for others in their discipline) – but I also question the value of Grant’s strategy of appealing to the hearts/emotions of the anti-science crowd.
My acquaintance is not afraid of vaccines and he isn’t troubled or upset by them (though I know some are, and I think those fears are listened to by the medical community); he just feels he shouldn’t have to bother spending the time to learn about something he isn’t interested in, something he never needed and thus can’t see the importance of, something that he won’t trust the medical community on because he is the only expert and he hasn’t checked it out for himself yet. Being anti-science isn’t always about emotion; it’s generally about arrogance. It’s the assumption that you must be able to figure out this puzzle better than a whole community of other people working hard at their jobs; the assertion that you would need to ‘sort through the evidence’ on vaccines implies you would make a better decision than those whose job and lives are to research, test, and create them.
I struggle to believe that every pediatrician is scoffing mightily at every anti-vaxxer mother and presenting her with graphs and tables, but rather that anti-vaxxer mothers don’t trust the pediatricians more than their gut even when the pediatrician understands that they are worried about the health of their child. What’s more, we can’t waste our very precious time and money trying to validate the feelings of each anti-science person in the world just so they might be more susceptible to facts. People who are anti-fact just are – consider this exchange between a news anchor and Newt Gingrich about crime in America, where FBI statistics show that crime is (on the whole) decreasing:
“CAMEROTA: But what you’re saying is, but hold on Mr. Speaker because you’re saying liberals use these numbers, they use this sort of magic math. These are the FBI statistics. They’re not a liberal organization. They’re a crime-fighting organization.
GINGRICH: No, but what I said is equally true. People feel more threatened.
CAMEROTA: Feel it, yes. They feel it, but the facts don’t support it.
GINGRICH: As a political candidate, I’ll go with how people feel and I’ll let you go with the theoriticians.”
Photo by BRICK 101 entitled ‘Minifig comparison’ (Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic ), link through photo
I feel Grant’s article is, in some ways, valid; the scientific community can get very tribal at times and we do write for each other – but that’s because we’re also the only ones even interested in listening (because Grant, the anti-science crowd doesn’t want to listen to us, either). My acquaintance does not seek out science writing, I (and other science-minded people) do. And trying to reach him by listening to his ego, the underlying issue with many (though not all) people in the anti-science community, will not force him to look up some science-communication and become educated. When it is one individual’s life and health on the line, it matters less to me if they’re ignorant, but anti-vaxxers put all our children at risk and climate change deniers put the future of our species at risk as we are continuously rejecting global solutions to stop this ticking time bomb.
Grant’s article doesn’t actually provide a solution; listening to the ‘feelings’ of most anti-scientists will not move the conversation forward unless science-writers, too, want to start appealing to their ego over the facts. And, in my opinion, that’s a slippery slope down the lane to becoming a science-charlatan because the ego will do whatever is convenient/profitable, not what is right or true. After all, just look at our political landscape where, as Gingrich so delightfully put it, we listen to feelings over facts. Has listening to people’s feelings caused people to see the truth that America is less violent today than before? No, it just strokes their ego and forces them deeper down the anti-truth rabbit hole. I’m going with Gawande that the only real way to win against anti-scientists is to stick to the facts.
Science v. Poetry in History
Photo by Axlwaii entitled ‘Poetry in Python’ (Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic), link through photo
Recently I wrote a post about Ada Lovelace, a new idol of mine because she:
Was the first computer programmer
Was a sassy woman who hung out with Charles Darwin
Coined the term ‘Poetical Science’
Ada Lovelace’s poetical science was a revolutionary way of thinking – and it may still be too revolutionary for most modern intellectuals. Dr. Betty Toole is a Lovelace scholar and, in reading her paper ‘ADA LOVELACE’S POETICAL SCIENCE‘, I came across some fascinating information about the contentious history of poetry and science that I thought I would share with you.
Beginning in Greece:
According to Toole, the first evidence of a conflict surrounding poetry and science begins with Plato’s Republic where poetry is banned from the utopia because it “gives no truth of its own, stirs up the emotions, and thereby blinds mankind to the real truth.” Plato views poetry as the anti-thesis of truth (which is an objective fact found through scientific inquiry) not as a different way of uncovering or viewing the truth.
Aristotle, however, did not agree with his teacher; he saw poetry and particularly metaphor as having significant societal value, saying in his Rhetoric that “ordinary words convey only what we know already; it is from metaphor that we can best get hold of something fresh.” Given that Aristotle wrote Poetics, an entire book dedicated to literary theory and craft, it’s safe to say that he finds poetry to be worthy discipline.
Through the Industrial Revolution:
While philosophy saw the rise of subjectivism in the writings of Descartes (cogito ergo sum, anyone?), objectivity wasn’t officially solidified until the early nineteenth century with the Industrial Revolution.
With objectivity being loosely defined on Wikipedia as “the state or quality of being true even outside of a subject’s individual biases, interpretations, feelings, and imaginings”, it actually harkens back to some of Plato’s original philosophy on the state of truth. By contrast, subjectivism is defined as “the philosophical tenet that “our own mental activity is the only unquestionable fact of our experience””.
According to Toole, “The allies of objectivism were scientific truth, digital skills and reason. These empirical skills were in contrast to subjectivism, which came to be associated with analog skills, emotions, imagination, intuitive insight and “higher truth.” With the development of technology and its dehumanizing influence… the Romantic poets left reason, science and technology to the empiricists.”
Both objectivity and subjectivism appear to be diametrically opposed despite utilizing similar fundamental principles in a quest to find truth – doubt, questioning, and repeatedly testing a theory to see where the truth lies. With the defining and popularization of these theories, the gap between poetry and science only grew.
Photo by Steve Johnson entitled ‘magnetic fridge poetry’ (Attribution 2.0 Generic), link through photo
To Modern Times:
C. P. Snow famously argued in his 1950s ‘Two Cultures‘ essay that there was a cultural divide separating the sciences and the arts, the two greatest areas of human intellectual achievement. According to an excellent article run in 2009 in the Scientific American, “Snow argued that practitioners in both areas should build bridges, to further the progress of human knowledge and to benefit society. Alas, Snow’s vision has gone unrealized. Instead literary agent John Brockman has posited a “third culture,” of scientists who communicate directly with the public about their work in media such as books without the intervening assistance of literary types. At the same time, many of those in the humanities, arts and politics remain content living within the walls of scientific illiteracy.”
This is not entirely true – as groups such as Neuwrite try to pair literary types with scientists to communicate more effectively with the public – but on the whole, Brockman is likely correct and it’s hurting us all. Despite science and art having a contentious history, modern intellectual problems are too complex to solve with one area alone; to find the truth will require the kind of searching Ada Lovelace employed – one that mixes the arts and sciences. Until then, media misrepresentation and public misinformation will run rampant and both art and science, the foundations of human health and progress, will suffer.
Mis-trusting Science
The New Yorker recently published a commencement address given by Atul Gawande here, which speaks to the larger impact of scientific thinking on our culture. It’s a really excellent speech and I recommend reading it in full.
Science is a collective endeavor – beyond the scientists who are actually doing the research, the rest of us in the lay community have a responsibility to science as well. Seeking out correct information, employing the scientific mindset, seeking to think up educated questions about everything, etc. is critical to healthy academic, economic, social, and political environments. We’ve seen how far a healthy, scientific culture can take us all, as Gawande says, allowing us “…to nearly double our lifespan during the past century, to increase our global abundance, and to deepen our understanding of the nature of the universe”. Gawande speaks to a decreased level of trust in the scientific community and prepares the graduates to go out and defend science and the scientific mindset. But I want to speak to what may be causing this decreased level of trust in the scientific community and I’m not sure it will be a surprise to anyone.
The internet, and the increased general abundance of “information”, has allowed us to build echo chambers for ourselves, the complete antithesis of what would be considered a scientific mindset. To paraphrase Gawande, a scientific mindset is an open mind, gathering information repetitively and testing expectations against that information, with the understanding that no knowledge is ever concrete. But our self-made echo chambers provide us with only one kind of information, leading us to believe that the knowledge we gained is actually completely true – after all, it’s so well supported! No longer are we asked to test our expectations in this new age; instead we are assured we are all experts in the matter at hand. When we can be self-assured experts, what need have we for the scientific community? Why place our trust in studies we didn’t conduct, studies that we, the experts, don’t agree with?
There’s an important distinction I need to make here between safe spaces and echo chambers. I’m not against safe spaces, areas (virtual or physical) that allow an individual to explore at their own pace some kind of trauma, injustice, or aspect of their being through personal expression without fear of harassment, persecution, violence, discrimination, or hate speech. Typically, safe spaces are created for individuals of a minority/oppressed group or those who have suffered unusual trauma such as rape, war, etc. Safe spaces are often used to help individuals come to terms with who they are or experiences they’ve faced; they provide support to people who are marginalized and in need often because the rest of the world is not supportive. This last point is key because it tells us that the people in the safe space are already receiving the alternate view to the safe space in their everyday lives and are thus not isolated from it.
Can a safe space become an echo chamber? Certainly, just as any community can. But they are not designed to be that way – just like a session with a counselor or support group would not automatically be considered an echo chamber (how angry would the public be if a counselor told a patient to ‘go kill themself’ because of a trauma they experienced? Intuitively, we understand people need whole-hearted support at times, with no opportunity for harassment!). All these avenues – safe spaces, counseling sessions, support groups – are simply places for people to work on being their best self without fear of being harmed, harassed, or discriminated against. People talking with others like them about experiences only relevant to them (for example,a group of plant biologists meeting to talk about sugar maple trees) is not the issue here; it’s when those communities decide to begin passing judgments on the world while ignoring factual evidence that we get in trouble.
Unlike what Gawande seems to suggest, this is a larger issue than just combating each individual non-believer in the scientific community. The internet is a new tool that we still haven’t learned how to use effectively, and it’s being used as a weapon of war against the scientific mindset through echo chambers and by perpetuating a culture where we don’t examine our sources carefully. Our culture surrounding internet usage needs to shift from mindless sharing, clicking, and liking to really thorough and informed questioning of what is put in front of us and who is creating and sharing content. Only when we all rededicate ourselves to employing the scientific mindset on the internet will we see the cultural shift necessary to bring back a much-needed communal trust in science.
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John Oliver on Science
Just in time for my blog to start up, one of my favorite comedians, John Oliver, has decided to do a segment about science as presented to us in the media. I think the segment really speaks for itself, but I highlighted some key points below in case you’re interested – and then I offer my take.
1:32 “There are now so many studies being thrown around that they can seem to contradict one another.”
And in science, sometimes studies do contradict one another! Depending on the environmental conditions, experimenter bias, technology that exists at the time, events like speciation that were previously unknown, and other scientific advances, two studies can get vastly different results. That’s why replicating experiments over and over is so important; it decreases the likelihood that the results achieved are erroneous or biased. This relates to what Oliver says about science being a work in progress – our understanding, our experiments, our techniques are always getting better, collectively, as we continue to make progress!
4:19 “Even the best designed studies can get flukish results and the best safeguard science has against that is the replication study…replication studies are so under-appreciated…so you just have all of these exploratory studies out there that are taken as fact.” and 5:10 “Scientists themselves know not to attach too much significance to particular studies until they’re placed in the much larger context of all the work taking place in that field but too often a small study with nuanced, tentative findings gets blown out of all proportion when it’s presented to us, the lay public.”
If you ever look at the back of a published, credible scientific study, you’ll see a huge list of resources. Scientists know we can’t just accept one study’s word on the matter; there needs to be a considerable amount of work done in an area for us to accept it as ‘a working fact’. I use the term ‘a working fact’ because there are hardly any things in science we accept as 100% definitely true – most things we accept as highly statistically likely.
Even so, science is not glamorous like the news media (and often our books, TV shows, and movies) represent. Science is slow and frustrating; we take baby step after baby step, and all of these steps can take years of small, almost ‘insignificant’ advances before it finally all builds into something bigger. Some of the most glamorous recent advances in biology – for example the CRISPR system – were discovered the first time completely by accident. It was a baby step that led to a whole new field of really exciting work, still in its infancy almost thirty years later. Can we start presenting this process – the slow, steady, frustrating process of research – to a lay audience so that the time, effort, materials, dedication, philosophy, and background research that goes into each study can be more fully understood?
7:45 “And there’s no doubt some of this is on us, the viewing audience. We like fun, pop-y science that we can share like gossip.”
We need to be demanding accurate science from our media! Who is funding the science? Where is the bias? Sourcing and context or nada! More than that, we need to change how we chose to see and portray science. We need to give funding to replication studies to make sure the exploratory studies are accurate. We need to portray the whole process of science – from the background research to the Eureka! to the replication studies that back up our first ‘Eureka’ claims. We need to try to dig a little deeper into understanding those long, complex titles scientists submit to journals even though it’s not fun or pop-y and often the results seem minuscule.
Not only does science deserve more respect, but we need to respect ourselves, out intelligence, and our society more by putting in this work. We hurt ourselves when we choose not to vaccinate our children (or go around smelling farts all day) because of faulty science; we hurt ourselves when we don’t hold big oil, pharma, fishery, tobacco, etc. companies accountable for their actions because we feel we can’t trust the contradictory nature of science. We hurt ourselves when we are brainwashed into believing we, a lay audience, are not capable of understanding what science brings to the table.
A lot of this boils down to an essential point: look for consensus among several studies and scientists in order to determine the most likely truth in science. We’ll all be better off for it.
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Meghan Barrett is a student at Drexel University, earning her PhD in Biology, working on arthropod neuroanatomy, native bee ecology, and pesticide development. She writes poetry, non-fiction/articles, plays and interactive RPG gamebook apps, and enjoys infusing her work with a subtle (or not-so-subtle) biological twist.
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Master Certified Single Mother Life Coach, Author, Speaker and Single Mother Academy Founder, Sang Thi Duong, has been advocating for Single Mothers for the past 20+ years, and what began as a personal journey has since grown into a movement with thousands of Single Mothers worldwide.
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South Park Branded Escape Room Expands to Los Angeles and Will Debut on Tuesday, September 17
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South Park Season 23 to Premiere on Wednesday, September 25 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on Comedy Central
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–$VIAB—South Park: Cartman’s Escape Room will make its Los Angeles debut on September 17, with additional openings in New York and Boston this fall. Following the Chicago, Dallas and Denver launches with tens of thousands of fans participating, Escape the Room Los Angeles will transport fans of South Park into another one of Cartman’s schemes, as they enter and try to escape the most diabolical and evil place ever invented: SKOOOOL! The new Los Angeles Escape the Room is located at 3223 Glendale Galleria in the Glendale Galleria Mall. Ahead of attending the Escape Room, viewers can take the SPandMe test to find out which South Park characters are inside you.
The nationwide launch of South Park: Cartman’s Escape Room offers fans of the iconic series a truly immersive experience featuring original dialogue and animation, providing an exciting new experiential initiative where participants will be transported into a standalone South Park experience. A pop-up prototype of the escape room was staged at recent Comic-Cons in San Diego and New York and was a huge hit among fans. It was recognized as of one of the best activations at each convention. For more information about this one-of-a-kind experience or to make a reservation visit escapetheroom.com/south-park.
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One of the singers of the acclaimed medieval group The Telling, Ariane Pruessner will walk participants through some beautiful and lively Spanish medieval songs from the Llibre Vermell collection of pilgrim songs. No experience necessary.
The Telling Group Performs ‘Contemplation’
Acclaimed group The Telling presents a candle-lit concert of mesmerising medieval music including music by Hildegard of Bingen, chants and troubadour melodies.
“The vocal colours of the two principal singers complement each other well: Clare Norburn’s clear silvery, bell-like soprano just the foil for Ariane Pruessner’s resonant wine-dark tones.” (BBC Music Magazine)
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Erik Poppe, Norway, 2018 (93 mins)
Utøya 22. Juli is told from the perspective of one of the female teenagers trapped on the island. The film is based exclusively on the testimony of the survivors but the characters are fictitious. In July 2011, a teenage girl struggles to survive and to find her younger sister during the terrorist attack at a political summer camp on the Norwegian island of Utøya.
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Concert: Journey To The New World. The group Palisander performs.
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Kelly Clarkson Talks ‘Idol’, Love & Troubled Starlets
‘RTL Boulevard’ profiled Kelly Clarkson on Friday (December 21). Clarkson talked about her experience winning the first season of ‘American Idol’ saying, “‘Idol’ is great. I had such a good time on the show. It was a good breakthrough for me because I like a lot of types of music. It’s the story of anybody trying to make it. You know, there’s that one break you get that ends up being the story that’s talked about through your whole career. So, it’s cool, I’m very thankful for it.”
As for her troubles finding a guy, the 25-year-old said, “I’ve just never been in love. I think people throw the term ‘love’ around too much. I think it’s pretty sacred. So I don’t say that too often.”
Clarkson also commented on other young singers who have experienced difficulties in their personal lives like Amy Winehouse and Lindsay Lohan. “I think God kind of put me through a lot of tests when I was younger just to make sure I’d be able to handle this, because this is a lot. I mean, people make fun of other people my age in the industry that are doing whatever they want to do and it may look like they’re going crazy, but, I mean, how many normal people my age do you see going crazy that aren’t in the spotlight. It happens. It’s called being young.”
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November 28, 2007 – ‘Christmas In The Northwest 10’ features a song dedicated to Seattle area ‘American Idol’ season six finalists Blake Lewis and Sanjaya Malakar. Since 1985, ‘Christmas in the Northwest’ artists have been lighting up the holidays, and raising money for Children’s Hospitals through the sale of the ‘Christmas in the Northwest’ CD series. Audio of ‘I Wanna Be Blake (I Wanna Be Sanjaya)’, performed by the WannaBe Idolz, at myspace.com/christmasinthenorthwest has since been removed.
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Family: Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl
Genus: Onopordum L.
Onopordum carmanicum (Bornm.) Bornm.
This species is accepted, and its native range is Iran.
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Jan 1, 2004 Bornmüller, J.F.N. [5144], Iran K000778307 isosyntype
First published in Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 59 Abt. B: 302 (1939)
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How I used powerful storytelling to nail my crowdfunding campaign
Published by Robelen Bajar on March 21, 2015 | Leave a response
Last year, I crowdfunded more than $10,000 to help establish Amazing Grace, a social enterprise based in the Philippines. It was founded to help local farmers and micro-entrepreneurs in the town of Balangiga, Samar start again after super-typhoon Haiyan destroyed their town as well as their livelihood.
The crowdfunding campaign ran for 54 days with 75 contributors averaging a contribution of $133. In comparison, the overall average contribution is around $75 worldwide, which means my campaign smashed the average.
This is what I learned.
1. Get on the right platform
The platform you choose will depend on the kind of campaign you run and what you’re trying to achieve. If you’re crowdfunding to pre-sell a product, launch a book or test a business idea, you should consider platforms like Kickstarter, Indiegogo, or Pozible.
StartSomeGood is a great platform for causes, social enterprises and change-makers, and have a community that is passionate about social change.
If you want to crowdfund a European holiday or university tuition fees, GoFundMe is a great starting point.
I chose Indiegogo for its flexible funding option which allows campaign owners to keep whatever money raised, even if he or she do not hit their funding goal. The fees are higher, but reverts to the standard rate if the campaign succeeds. Indiegogo’s open platform means that users can run any project including donations for charities or awareness campaigns making Indiegogo the perfect platform for my project.
2. Community and relationships are key
Crowdfunding is all about engaging with a community who connect with you and your message.
Simon Sinek offers an insight:
“The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.”
Find your tribe and focus on them because they are the people with whom you share the same values, and that is where you will get traction. Community takes time to build which means this is the kind of work you should already be developing as part of your business venture or project.
I met with people over coffee, formed alliances with organisations that believed in what I believed and made sure I followed up. Support came from incredible individuals and organisations who helped spread the word within their networks
3. People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.
I recommend you listen to Simon Sinek’s TedTalk on Start With Why: How Leaders Inspire Action. He explains that when we speak from the inside out – when we share our why, the reasons we exist, the things we believe in – we are talking directly to the part of the brain that is responsible for feelings like trust and loyalty. It is also responsible for human behaviour and decision-making and has no capacity for language.
You know, sometimes, you can give somebody all the facts and figures and they say, “I know what all the facts and details are but it just doesn’t feel right.” Why do we use that verb? It doesn’t feel right. Because the part of the brain that controls the decision-making, doesn’t control language and the best we can muster up is, “I don’t know, it just doesn’t feel right.
A big part of my crowdfunding campaign was storytelling and opening up to my community. For the very first time, I allowed myself to be vulnerable and shared my personal story, why I believed in the cause, and why others should believe in it too.
Two weeks into the campaign, my story made headlines on news.com.au, booting Putin off as lead story by mid-day. I also blogged about in the Founder Diaries.
4. It’s a full-time gig
Do not underestimate the time and commitment required to see it through. From day one of going live, I had no time to do anything else but push the campaign, right to the very end. It was a full-time gig on top of my full-time business. I thought I was in over my head. Had I been more prepared I would not have missed out on media opportunities to feature on various media outlets. They reached out on Twitter but I was too busy to respond quickly. By the time I did, I’d missed their deadlines.
5. Have everything ready before launch
The real work begins when the campaign goes live. Have everything ready so you’re available for opportunities that require you to respond immediately.
Here is a quick checklist:
Press release written for various media outlets
Profile shots
Your pitch – short and long version
Social media campaign calendar
Media contact list
Your list of potential supporters in a database
Email campaigns and follow-up
Thankyou emails
6. Create momentum early
It’s important to demonstrate that your campaign has legs preferably in the first few days. Make sure your inner circle (family, friends, strategic partners) is primed before the official launch. Your campaign needs to look credible to strangers and show a solid base of funding.
It is also important to note that you should be able to raise one-third of your funding goal from your close networks, the next third from their networks, and finally from the platform itself and your marketing efforts amplified. I used my wedding as a platform to launch my crowdfunding campaign and asked guests to contribute in lieu of gifts.
The key to creating momentum is to set milestones – align your activities around those. This is one of the things I didn’t do well. I built some early momentum which wasn’t sustained midway (see chart below). The pressure was then on me to drive contributions in the final week of the campaign. It’s not something you want to do. In my case, the final week led up to Christmas and the campaign was due to end on Christmas Day!
7. Be prepared for surprises (and disappointments)
The biggest surprise was that the people who supported the campaign were not who I expected. Many were strangers who were moved by my story and who believed in me, what I was doing and why. Folks in my inner circle who I thought would back the campaign did not. And while my immediate reaction was immense feelings of disappointment and confusion, it was a reality I came to accept quickly.
I realised that when people say or do certain things, often it has nothing to do with you. Rather, it is a reflection of who they are, what they value, the things they believe in and their attitudes towards life. Don’t take things personally. You need absolute focus, emotional strength and mental power to get through your crowdfunding campaign and smash your targets. Direct your energy on the things that will move you closer to your goal. More importantly, stay positive, persistent, resilient, and relentless.
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By Lucia Maria at 4:33 PM 20 comment(s) Links to this post
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Sandro Magister of Chisea notes that few people have heard or even read the Pope's Holy Week sermons. So he's put them together on one page for all to read.
Related Link: Holy Week: The Hidden Homilies of Pope Benedict ~ Chisea
Hidden, except for those who were able to listen to them in person: a few thousand out of 1.2 billion Catholics in the world. Here are the complete texts. Required reading for understanding this pontificate
Tags: Catholicism, Lucia, Vatican
Just thinking about this MMP last night and wanted to find out a bit more about this second referendum that was supposed to be held about it. I had heard about it but wasn't sure of the detail. I found this article online by Dr Muriel Newman from the Centre For Political Research in New Zealand which goes into some of the history of MMP. As we all know, one of the big problems around MMP is that the little parties hold too much sway when the bigger parties need their support. As a consequence, we're getting all sorts of weird and wonderful bills (Bradford's Anti-Smacking bill) being passed.
So, what's the story with the second referendum? According to Dr Newman -
When the 1993 Electoral Act to introduce MMP was drafted, a clause was inserted to allow a Select Committee to review the system after two MMP elections and to determine whether there should be a another referendum on electoral reform. Many New Zealanders understood this to mean that another referendum would be held, so that if they voted for MMP and it didn’t work out, they could get rid of it.
How we wish! And was a select committee set up to review the system? Apparently, yes.
The Select Committee set up in 2000 to review MMP - as was required by the Act – couldn’t reach a decision on whether another referendum was needed. As a result, the Government concluded: “Changing any major constitutional arrangements would require a higher level of consensus from the public than currently appears to exist. In the absence of that high degree of consensus, the Government is of the view that it would not be appropriate to recommend any significant amendments at this time”.
How convenient. It seems to me that the Government knew they were on to a good thing and didn't want to change it; that's my opinion anyway.
Section 264 of the 1993 Electoral Act stated that if there was to be a further referendum on changes to the electoral system that, “the nature of the proposals to be put to voters” be outlined.
So, what's an alternative? Dr Newman points to an idea outlined by Don Brash in a speech written last year -
“My personal preference would be to adopt the Supplementary Member system with a total Parliament of 100 members. There could be 75 electorate MPs, thus enabling a small reduction in the size of current electorates. And 25 list MPs. As now, voters would have two votes – one for their electorate candidate and one for their preferred party. But whereas at present the party vote determines the overall composition of Parliament, under the SM system the party vote would determine only the composition of the list seats. A system of this kind would enable minority voices to be heard without giving small parties disproportionate influence, would enable a reduction in the total size of Parliament, would provide a route for people to enter Parliament without spending a lifetime working through the party hierarchy, and would provide a way of ensuring reasonable diversity in the overall composition of Parliament. To the extent that a higher proportion of the total Members of Parliament would be elected in electorates, SM would also increase the power of voters and reduce that of party bosses”.
What do you think? Would the SM system be better than what we have now? Or would people like to see a return to FPP? I think that democracy is definitely suffering under the system we have now, anyway.
It might be time to organize a petition to have another referendum on our voting system.
By I.M Fletcher at 9:34 AM 5 comment(s) Links to this post
Tags: Democracy, Fletcher, NZ Politics
Proposals to introduce naked women presenting the six o'clock news on ALT TV has met with condemnation from the promoter of the Boobs on Bikes Parade, Steve Crow, who said:
"We rely on the shock value to ensure our Erotica Show gets as much free publicity as possible. Moves to have naked women presenting the news is going to come like a cold shower, and rain on our parade. I mean, can you imagine a naked women presenting the news showing pictures from the Boobs parade? Do you think anyone is actually going to notice? They'll still be staring at the news presenter. It's highly likely Aucklanders will fail to rise to the occasion, and will no longer remain faithful to the Boobs Parade. We risk losing a cultural icon of long standing tradition."
The Boobs on Bikes group were not the only group to show stiff resistance. John Campbell, who will be hosting an exclusive 2 hour special presentation called "The Casting of Naked News" raised the issue utmost in the minds of the media: "Do you think NZ journalism will ever be taken seriously again?" and the answer seems to have been a resounding "was it ever taken seriously?"
TVNZ has responded by advising that all of their presenters are, and always have been, presenting the news naked from the waist down.
In related news, the Costume and Wardrobe Union went on strike today in protest, and ACC issued advance notice that Repetitive Injury Syndrome claims (wrist location) will force premiums to rise by 30%.
Secularists are waiting with glee to see the predictable responses from religious groups and Family First, who will no doubt harp on about how this simply treats women as sexual objects, is demeaning and ultimately reflects a society that is crumbling from within. These concerns are likely to be met with a well reasoned "Show us yer tits".
Already polls indicate that up to 50% of the nation will be watching the show nightly, and another 30% watching at least once a week. Which covers 80% of the male population, a couple of lesbians and Graham Capill. Feminist Groups were up in arms, demanding that naked men were also shown on TV for balance. Then they had second thoughts, and decided animated bars of chocolate would actually be far more attractive.
The Minister for Ethnic Affairs has commented that, with all programming, a suitable ethnic representation must be made. Accordingly, the show organisers are committed to ensuring the presenters are at least 30% Maori, 15% Pacific Islands, 10% Asian and 45% silicon.
The Social Liberal Action Group (SLAG) pointed out that one hour a day of gratuitous nudity on TV was hardly cause for celebration. They would not rest until the entire channel was broadcasting naked women 24 hours a day. When advised that there already were such channels, they were called "adult channels" they went cross eyed and immediately asked for a change of underwear.
With all this "social advancement", the only strange thing is that breastfeeding in public will still be seen as offensive by the same people.
Related Link: Six O'clock Nudes
See Also: The History of the original Naked News
Direct link: to a random Porn Site for those just pretending to read this for the article
Tags: Media, Satire, ZenTiger
What is the punishment for deliberate acts likely to cause serious injury?
It's probably 15 minutes community service, but even if it isn't, we still have to catch the b*stards first. I'm also willing to consider appointing bounty hunters to supplement security services:
in another recent incident a large amount of broken glass was scattered in the paddling pool and underneath the play equipment in the Children’s Playground.
Related Link: Vandalism in the Botanic Gardens
Tags: Crime, Law and Order, ZenTiger
Last month the Vatican hosted a conference for women from all corners of the world to discuss themes in John Paul II's Letter to Women published 20 years ago.
Many feminists consider the Church to be an enemy of women's liberation, but when it comes down to it, nothing could be further from the truth. Feminism is more than just trying to be like men. In fact, trying to be like men is the antithesis of true feminism. It says that being a woman is not good enough, instead women need to turn into men to be accepted as equal. The focus on contraceptive and abortive "rights" shows just how far off the track many feminists in today's world have gone. Far from liberating women, this focus enslaves women to be sexual playthings rather than human beings worthy of respect for their innate gift of life that science spends billions trying to emulate.
So how did feminists get it so wrong? Maybe it's because we've let the radicals define feminism for us and they have their own reasons for hating and fearing Christianity.
Radical feminists often reserve their fiercest hostility for Christianity. So it was particularly refreshing to hear erudite German philosopher Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz challenge the modern conventional wisdom that Christianity is to blame for women’s oppression. As Gerl-Falkovitz noted, the ancient belief systems for which today’s feminist neo-pagans pine did little to elevate women’s status. In those systems, as in much of the Islamic world today, women were regarded as the objects, not subjects, of rights. Women in the ancient world were identified with beauty and breeding, but their common humanity largely was overlooked.
Judaism’s view of women departed sharply from that ancient model. The practice of “holy prostitution” so common in the ancient world was renounced, as was the image of the pagan goddess as sexual ideal. The Hebrew Scriptures revealed a personal God who had created men and women in his image. Women now were connected to the realm of the spirit, not just the flesh, and motherhood was seen as a personal event in the life of the mother and a blessing from God, not merely a woman’s duty-bound contribution to the increase of the tribe.
The Gospels continued on this trajectory. They depicted God taking flesh in the womb of a woman, a woman who was free to accept or reject her role as the mother of Jesus. Gospel accounts find Jesus entrusting women with profound theological insights, performing miracles at their request, and finding solace in their support during his Passion, after most of his male followers had fled. Although Christians themselves often have failed to live up to Jesus’ example regarding women, Gerl-Falkovitz said, feminism is an outgrowth of Christian ideas about women’s equal dignity: “Only in Judeo-Christian culture sprang up this humanization of women.”
Related Link: Faith of the Feminine ~ National Review Online
Vatican conference on women highlights the Judeo-Christian tradition’s liberating power.
Tags: Catholicism, Christianity, Feminism, Judaism, Vatican
The Easter Vigil is celebrated on the Saturday night before Easter Sunday. On that night many people who have been studying over the previous year to become Catholics are Baptised and/or Confirmed and given their first Eucharist. In our parish on Saturday four adults entered the Church in this way.
Over in Rome this Easter Vigil the Pope baptised an Italian/Muslim journalist who has been very critical of Islam in his writing.
In a surprise move at the Easter vigil at St Peter's on Saturday night, the Pope baptised Magdi Allam, 55, an outspoken Egyptian-born critic of Islamic extremism and supporter of Israel, who has been under police protection for five years following death threats against him over his criticism of suicide bombings.
He said that by baptising him publicly the Pope had "sent an explicit and revolutionary message to a Church that until now has been too cautious in the conversion of Muslims because of the fear of being unable to protect the converted, who are condemned to death for apostasy".
He added: "Thousands of people in Italy have converted to Islam and practise their faith serenely. But there are also thousands of Muslims who have converted to Christianity but are forced to hide their new faith out of fear of being killed by Islamist terrorists."
Muslim groups in Italy said Mr Allam would have done better to have undergone a low key conversion at a local parish. "What amazes me is the high profile the Vatican has given this conversion," said Yaha Sergio Yahe Pallavicini, deputy head of the Italian Islamic Religious Community.
Given that the Pope has been calling for reciprocation in religious freedom for some time now, this may be a public signal to Islam. A throwing down of the gauntlet so to speak.
Related Link: Pope risks Muslim anger by baptising controversial journalist
UPDATE: Magdi Allam Recounts His Path to Conversion
Tags: Catholicism, Islam, Lucia, Vatican
Over at Kiwiblog, David fights gamely to assure all freedom can be defined by how many days a year a society can shop.
He assumes of course that asking people on low incomes to work at time and a half is really an honour that would not be refused. This is all before we consider the Helen Clark factor.
Dear Helen turned lower and middle class New Zealand into welfare beneficiaries. Working for Families (WFF) does actually encourage workers to stay at home with their family on a public holiday. Helen deserves full credit for the first accidentally family friendly policy that Labour has introduced. You see, the moment a worker gets paid overtime rates, their income go up, which raises their tax rate and reduces their WFF tax credit. Ultimately it means their net return for working on a public holiday produces little extra.
Indeed, the extra money may not even cover the cost of Labour's other Family Friendly policy: "Free" childcare. Remember the free childcare policy that allows families to outsource childcare to work more? Well it wasn't free. In fairness, "free" is a complex term only properly understood by Labour's Finance Minister. It is probably as complex as the logic required to assure us that lower paid staff are actually "free" to choose to work or not work on Public Holidays.
I wonder, if it turned out retail workers turn down the perks of working so others may shop, if business owners be the first to step in and make up the labour shortage? Fancy being served by a CEO? I think it's a great idea, and might prove profitable. Let's legislate that shops can open providing you are served by CEOs, the board of directors, top line managers and any stars who have endorsed the product.
But maybe we should resolve this problem with the same maturity as displayed by the environmentalists? Let's set up an international public holiday trading scheme.
Some countries probably are using too many holidays anyway. We might be one of them. I'm sure Labour Day ain't what it used to be. We could sell that on the open market. Even better, let's trade it for Melbourne Cup Day.
Melbourne Cup Day would be of great benefit to the New Zealand economy. In Australia, Melbourne Cup Day works exactly like a public holiday but without the need to pay penalty rates. Businesses either close down because their staff piss off to the races, or they wish they had closed down, because staff don't do any work that day anyway.
They show up to work with a TV set tuned to Flemington Racecourse and spend the day deciding which horse name sounds the fastest before finally choosing anything Bart Cummings has punted. Either way, no work is done but - no penalty rates!
A New Zealand Melbourne Cup day would likely bring in a few billion dollars in foreign exchange - possibly enough to pay our Kyoto carbon tax offset (another trading scheme that didn't quite live up to the brochure).
China might be in the market for a Labour Day. They instituted an 8 hour day on a 5 day week. Very progressive. The 8 hour day has brought remarkable benefits to the Chinese workforce. It's calculated that only 7,000 peasants a year now die in a Chinese mine. During standard hours. Another 3,000 die too, but they die in overtime, and on a much better pay scale.
Hey - don't knock 60 cents an hour. Rice is quite cheap there. That's why its now sold back to us as bio-fuel. Maybe we can trade it for our coal? That might save another 1,000 Chinese mine workers from dying in a coal mine accident. Instead, they'll starve to death after being made redundant. Actually, they'll probably keep working so that they can sell their coal to Indonesia who will sell oil to Australia so they can sell uranium to China so we can buy plastic watering cans - because with water restrictions, we can't use sprinklers.
Helen is well aware of the benefits of trading with China. I'm suggesting we trade holidays, but it seems the Labour Government have already set up a "morals and ethics" trading offset too.
Helen has shown good United Nations potential here, ensuring we get kickbacks for the right reasons. Did you notice how we were too moral to deal with Fiji? We were also quick not to condone playing cricket with Mugabe. The Canadians couldn't land a deal, and Helen and Cullen stuck to their guns even if it meant our pension funds got hit with a departure tax. The New Zealand public must be feeling rather glad that we saved our morals for such an important deal as a Free Trade Agreement with China.
But what do we have that China may want? Apart from coal, there's New Zealand's butter and milk - things we produce in abundance because no-one in New Zealand can afford them. Can we trade Cheese for Tibetan Monks? Probably not, China has already explained they need to be recycled. I think Falun Gong units have been declared faulty and are being recalled too. They wont be completely wasted though, because organ donor statistics in China clearly illustrate they are far more generous than NZ in this area. However, if the number of reincarnations increase with babies missing kidneys, hearts and bone marrow, we know what went wrong.
Overall, it's a great deal. Given that Helen doesn't believe we have a soul, it's something easily traded. But I wouldn't say we need to feel bad about this. The danger of standing up for human rights and doing what is right is that occasionally, we as a nation will be found wanting.
And one thing worse in today's society than some-one trying to do good and occasionally failing, is some-one who is painted as a hypocrite. There is no fouler crime to the liberal who believes in the right to do anything, act anyway, and pretend no harm comes to those who watch from the sidelines.
This all started with freedom to shop. It will supposedly end when we have the freedom to shop 24/7 for cheap goods made on the backs of cheap labour. Indeed, the current theory is that spending money with China will help them to not only pay overtime to those dying in the mines, but a small pension to their surviving families.
I wonder if they will one day be able to afford our cheese? We can't. Thank God the shops are closed.
Related Link: [Kiwiblog] Easter Trading with China
Related Link: [Hitting Metal with a Hammer] Sophie's Choice
And it continues in 2009 with Freedom II Shop
Tags: China, Economics, Religion, ZenTiger
And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe: and they were amazed. And he said to them: Do not be amazed, you seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He is risen: he is not here. Behold the place where they laid him.
~ Mark 16:5-6
Easter Blog Posts on other sites
Andrei - The Resurrection
Frank Ritchie - Resurrection Sunday
David Farrar - Still wants to shop and people to work
Easter Reading
Papal Preacher - Only Christians Believe Christ Is Risen
The Tomb is Empty! The Warrior of Love has conquered!
Death could not contain the One who poured Himself out in Love. The light floods the once dark cave and now fills the entire world with hope. Love has triumphed over death and heavens gates have been opened wide.
Tags: Catholicism, Christianity, Lucia
Bill English, National's Deputy Leader has graciously offered to spend his time fixing up Labour's rotten legislation [The Electoral Finance Act] to allow Labour to get out and campaign without worrying about the laws they made they were also breaking. He's introducing an amendment to sort out the need to declare a "personal" name and address for political parties.
I wouldn't be surprised if John Key will be offering to make the tea and scones at Labour's fund raisers too.
National are such good sports, and will no doubt be very pleased to pick up a silver medal in this years election, and then celebrate with tea and scones.
Related Link: Bill addresses the bill
Tags: Election 2008, Electoral Finance Bill, ZenTiger
There is no 'Friday Night Free For All' tonight.
Good Friday Posts on other sites
Not PC -Mocks Easter
DPF - Wants to Shop
AJ Chesswas - Preaches God's Love
Ian Wishart - Holy Blood & Grail
Aurora - Reports on Christians in Oz who don't think Good Friday is important
Holy Smoke - Martyrdom of Iraqi Church
Garth George - No Myth or Fable, But Personal Saviour
Good Friday Reading
The Meaning of His Piercing
Rancor Is Poison to Soul, Says Pope
The Crucifixion of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ - Dolorous Passion
By Lucia Maria at 5:35 PM Links to this post
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I just went and had a look at the TV Guide to see what kind of programming there was over the next three days of Easter. I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised to find that there wasn't any, apart from an episode of Praise be this morning (Good Friday).
I don't think you can really count 'Bruce Almighty' as religious programming, either.
The time was, the stations would at least attempt some kind of film, such as The Robe, Jesus of Nazareth, or even a film that was not quite appropriate to the season such as Charlton Heston in 'The Ten Commandments'.
The programming across the Easter break could easily have been last weekend's or next weekend's viewing.
It really is sad, but I suppose it is just another indicator of our country's growing secularisation.
By I.M Fletcher at 10:00 AM 13 comment(s) Links to this post
Tags: Christianity, Culture, Feast Days, Fletcher
Terminations are permitted up until birth if an unborn child is thought to have a range of disabilities
and that hot on the heels of this:As campaigners claimed that termination had become just another form of contraception, figures showed that about 1,300 women had at least their fifth last year....At the same time, 61,904 women in England and Wales were having their second abortion last year - up from 58,740 in 2004.
I read some notable lunatic tried to blame abortion on the Catholic Church. It seems that so many people listen to the Catholic Church in protestant England that all those sex education lessons over the last 30 years hadn't managed to sink in.
What hasn't sunk in is this culture of liberal irresponsibility. But then, it's a thought crime just to point this out.
Related Link: Abortion - 10 trip tickets to improve convenience factor
Tags: Abortion, ZenTiger
I've read a few Scott Hahn books now, so I can imagine the book above will be easy to read, well thought out and devastatingly refute Dawkins' case against religion. I mean with a cover like that - what else would you expect?
Related Link: Answering the New Atheism ~ Amazon
Tags: Books, Lucia, Religion
Very good reply by Bishop Pat in the Herald today re: the Seven Sins misreporting.
Some quotes below.
Let's start at the beginning, with the Herald deciding, like hundreds of other newspapers, to grossly misrepresent what a lone bishop said in an interview with the Vatican's newspaper.
[...] And don't let the fact it was that lone bishop speaking stop the Herald from running a photo of Pope Benedict on the front page and then repeating the dose the next day, by which time one might have thought its editors would have realised the errors they had made tying the comments to the Pope, the Vatican or the Catholic Church as a whole.
If certain publications want to make such erroneous connections, that's their prerogative. We'll be interested to see how the Prime Minister reacts when comments a backbench MP makes to his or her local newspaper are reported as new Labour policy and run with Helen Clark's photo.
That's just a couple of quotes from a very good response. The whole thing is worth reading.
By I.M Fletcher at 10:52 PM 0 comment(s) Links to this post
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Currently, Saudi Arabia does not permit any other faith to exist in it's country besides Islam. To that end, even owning a Bible or a crucifix is illegal. However, it is believed that negotiations are currently under way at the Vatican that could lead to the first ever Catholic church being built in Saudi Arabia. With the number of Catholics in the country (mostly from the Phillipines, working as servants) many churches would be needed.
Of course, this article is from the Times, so it might be total conjecture based on wishful thinking, but, you never know. If this is even remotely true, this could be big. Really big.
Related Link: King Abdullah extends hand of friendship to Catholic Church ~ TimesOnline, UK
Tags: Catholicism, Christianity, Islam, Saudi Arabia, Vatican
Hmmmm... A meeting in Moscow has "softened" Russian opposition to a missile defence shield set up in the Czech Republic and Poland. The Russians seem to be "looking to broaden the international security agenda with the US".
Vladimir Putin appeared to pave the way for a breakthrough deal within weeks on the Pentagon's contentious missile shield plans yesterday when he responded positively to an offer from George Bush. With the White House and the Kremlin preparing Putin's swansong summit with Bush at a Nato meeting in two weeks in Romania, the outgoing Russian president appeared to soften his opposition to US plans for missile interceptors and a radar site in Poland and the Czech Republic.
The US defence secretary, Robert Gates, and the secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, met Putin and his successor, Dmitry Medvedev, in Moscow yesterday ahead of the Nato summit in Bucharest. Putin is to attend in one of his last foreign acts as Russia's president.
The US and the Czechs are keen to wind up lengthy negotiations on the missile shield, but hope to strike a deal with Moscow, while the Poles remain unconvinced, looking for stronger American security guarantees and a new air defence system to protect them from Russian threats.
It was not clear what Bush offered the Russians in a letter to Putin that softened Moscow's opposition. But US officials said there was nothing new. The Pentagon insists the shield's facilities are aimed at Iran, while Moscow maintains they could be directed at Russia's nuclear arsenal.
Washington has previously sought to allay Moscow's concerns by offering Russia inspections of the sites in Poland and the Czech Republic, suggesting Russia's participation in the shield, and delaying the new system's operability pending Iranian missile advances.
But according to Nato and European officials, the Russians are looking to broaden the international security agenda with the US beyond the missile shield by reviving an arms control dialogue and offering the west logistical and transport help for the Nato effort in Afghanistan. All of this is likely to be broached at the Nato summit.
Despite the apparent race to conclude a missile shield pact, Poland remains the trickiest partner. The Poles are worried about Russia, not Iran, and are pressing Washington for beefed-up defences, which, in turn, will increase Russian opposition.
Now, why would the Poles be worried more about the Russians? Could it have something to do with, oh, the dismemberment of Poland spearheaded by Catherine the Great of Russia in 1795 after the first ever constitution in Europe giving "the people" greater rights than they had ever had before, thus threatening all those states surrounding Poland that didn't want "the people" having rights? Or maybe the 123 years of time from that point when Poland ceased to exist as a state ? Or how about the 1920 Polish/Soviet war soon after the rebirth of the Polish state? Or WW2 where Russia entered Poland in the guise of "helping", but instead used the Nazi invasion from the other side as a pretext for grabbing half of Poland? Or something to do with the Soviet army waiting on the outskirts of Warsaw near the end of WW2, watching while Warsaw was annihilated by Nazi troops in the Warsaw Uprising (the entire city had to be rebuilt) instead of helping as they promised to do. Or how about the consequent takeover of Poland, facilitated by the allies (Britain and the US at Teheran and Yalta) that lasted right up until 1989? Or the continual rejections for requests to this day for more information into the Katyn and associated massacres of 1940 of up to 25,700 Polish officers and leaders.... It's a long list. A long list with many causes for worry.
Related Link: Putin appears to soften opposition to American missile shield
Tags: Lucia, Poland, Russia
I continue to be amazed at what is considered to be important international news by the NZ media. For instance, Poland is currently going through a number of problems to do with setting up a US missile defence base on Polish territory due to threats from the Soviets, whoops, Russians. But no, not a peep on that. But opting out of parts of the EU Charter, most especially anything to do with "gay marriage" - that gets a news item on TV One's website. I'd be interested to know if that got the television news as well.
Polish President Lech Kaczynski said on Sunday he plans to push for an opt-out from parts of the European Union's Charter of Fundamental Rights after the ruling Civic Platform said it wants to ratify the treaty in full.
The previous conservative government negotiated an opt-out from the charter in the EU's reform treaty, due to be signed next month, arguing that it could limit Warsaw's ability to maintain a traditional Roman Catholic family policy.
Kaczynski, who has the power to veto any legislation, said he was determined to avoid legalising gay marriage which he said was sanctioned by the EU Lisbon Treaty's Charter of Fundamental Rights.
"The charter contains resolutions that are completely proper, but there are also resolutions which may subsequently sanction marriages other than unions between a man and woman," Kaczynski told worshippers after Palm Sunday mass in the north-eastern town of Lyse.
Related Link: Poland wants opt-out of parts of EU charter ~ One News, NZ
Tags: Lucia, Media, New Zealand, Poland
I see that the subject of the Seven Deadly Sins has been well and thoroughly thrashed again in the Saturday Herald; no less than in the editorial and by two columnists (one of whom seems to be a fan of Christopher Hitchens' atheist rantings, and who suggests we read Hitchens' God is Not Good).
Anyway, this got me thinking again..
What the Bishop said, as far as reinterpreting the Seven Deadly Sins for the modern age, was by-and-large for Catholics; to make them more aware of their faults and failings and try to get up attendance in Confession.
Why has the secular media jumped all over this with such intensity?
I have a theory here, and it's the old "shoot the messenger" theory. Basically, people don't like to be reminded of their failings or "sins" and they don't like being told they are wrong or to have to look inside and self-evaluate; there are things there that they'd rather not care to see. The problem with that is, we all have a God-given conscience, whether we use it or not. I think deep-down (maybe in the cockles of the heart, or maybe the sub-cockle area) most people know what is right and what is wrong.
In this day an age, though, there is this overriding thought that we should all be allowed to do whatever we want as long as it doesn't really "hurt anyone". If you're stealing from work the thinking is you can keep doing it as long as you don't get caught. If you're into lusting after the opposite sex and having one-night stands, well who is it hurting? We are all attached to our sins.
It's easier to point the finger at the Church and say, "yeh but the church did this", or "the church did that" instead of looking to our own failings. The members of the Church will be judged at the end of time just like everyone else; that doesn't make what the Church has to say any less valid as far as doing what is right by our fellow man.
By I.M Fletcher at 9:48 PM 28 comment(s) Links to this post
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As most people who regularly visit this blog know, I wasn't in favour of the extending of Daylight Saving. I don't mind it in the middle of Summer and I think it went on quite long enough, thank-you-very-much, without extending it.
I like my sleep and dislike having to get up in the dark. However, the Government in it's infinite wisdom decided to extend it by three weeks due to a petition largely signed by sports clubs and the like.
Notice the bold bit in the previous sentence? THREE WEEKS. There was going to be a week added to the beginning and two weeks added to the end. Well, according to the news (and my computer which I haven't patched) the changeover back to normal time should have happened overnight if we were playing by last year's times.
So, the clocks are supposed to go back now on the 6th of April. But hang on - that's THREE WEEKS away from now. That means that FOUR weeks have been added onto the DS we already had?
I'm being ripped off another week of morning sleep somewhere.....
I am sure those who like DS will be happy though.
Tags: Daylight Saving, Fletcher
Chat time again!
Tags: Friday, Lucia
So it seems party pills will be banned via an act of Parliament last night. Sellers have two weeks to close down; users have six months.
This is what happens in societies with little sense of discipline or self-control. Even though it ought to be up the individual whether or not they abuse their bodies or their minds, it ends up being enforced from above because many worry that their own children will not be able to resist the lure of the drug which "everyone" needs to have a good time at a party.
They must be pretty damn boring parties if people need drugs to enjoy them.
Related Link: Party pills go in fortnight ~ Stuff
Tags: Lucia, NZ Politics
I've been having a little look at the opinions posted on the NZ Herald site as regards the recent news non-story about the "new" or updated Seven Deadly Sins that one of the Bishops from the Vatican has come out with (but which has not been endorsed by the vatican or the Pope). There are quite a few people there on the Herald site commenting on number three, 'Accumulating Excessive Wealth' and criticizing the Catholic Church as being hypocritical because they are "rich" (as these opinion posters like to put it).
I've got news for you - we aren't.
In our own Parish, the Bishop has given the go-ahead for a new church to be built to service the entire area. It's been about five years or more since he gave the go-ahead and we STILL haven't raised enough money to get it built albeit after many fund raising sausage sizzles, stalls, auctions and many other events. Rich?? Give me a break.
The same can be said for the renovations to the roof and structure of the Cathedral in Auckland. Here's a quote from a newsletter about the renovations from 2005 -
The roof has to be replaced, floor redone, walls weather proofed and strengthened. The liturgical features of the Cathedral will be re-ordered and redecorated. The support of the parishes of the diocese is essential to raise the $10m needed for the conservation and restoration of the Cathedral. Bishop Pat reminds us that the Cathedral is a “Precious Heritage Entrusted To Us.” He appeals to us to help save St Patrick's Cathedral.
This again was largely supported through donations. Even as late as September last year the Church was appealing for donations -
Two million dollars is still needed to completely restore the cathedral. The Church will no doubt be praying that Aucklanders find it in their hearts to contribute.
What about overseas? A friend of the family recently went across and visited Vanuatu. The priest there was living in a leaking shack; so much so that he had to move his bed to avoid the drips of water.
Well then, you'll no doubt say that might be the case here but look at Rome. Well according to David MacDonald in his blog, he visited the restoration of the Sistine Chapel there and -
I could not take photos in there because a Japanese company owned the copyright. The Vatican didn't have enough money in the budget to restore the Sistine Chapel so a Japanese company did it in exchange for the copyright privileges. The Vatican itself has a yearly budget that is equivalent to the Archdiocese of Chicago, and frequently runs on a deficit.
What about all the sculptures and paintings and buildings that they own though? Well, no one really "owns" them. The assets are "public wealth". It's like a museum, or the art that at Buckingham Palace - it belongs to the people. According to my mother, Bishop Fulton Sheen once famously said in one of his programmes that if the Catholic Church sold every single thing it owned, there would only be enough to give tuppence to every person in the world. I'm sure that's gone up now but it still wouldn't be much.
I'll leave you with another quote from David MacDonald -
The big beautiful traditional Churches that receive the most complaints were not built with big bucks. They were built with the sweat of the brow of volunteers who worked 'till 11 PM every night after a full day of working their regular day jobs. They would do this for years until their community Parish was built. I wish I had that kind of tireless faith and dedication. That is the real wealth of the Catholic Church - the people, and 2000 years of prayers of the faithful.
Tags: Catholicism, Fletcher, Media
An anti-abortion group in Victoria, Australia did a 200,000 letter drop showing images of aborted babies to unsuspecting householders. The letters were in an envelope and there was a mild warning on the front, but it seems many were unprepared for the images contained within.
The response in Australia seems to be outrage that the anti-abortion group could do such a thing. The words "offensive" and "disgusting" seem to feature many of the newspaper links that I've been reading.
Some people are also upset because their children have opened the envelopes and seen the images inside. Now this I can understand is a cause for concern. My children don't know about abortion yet. I don't plan to tell them until they are older, as my children don't need to know that the world is filled with adults that would rather murder their own children than change their lifestyles. So, I would be upset if my children opened a letter to find such images inside.
However, the likelihood of my children opening such a letter is very slim, as they've been taught not to open mail without permission. Maybe the people whose children have opened the envelopes might like to think about instituting a no-mail opening policy with their own children.
Which leads me to the most important point. Where is the outrage about the fact that small babies are routinely murdered? All these people talked about how upset they were to see the images, as if the seeing was the upsetting bit. Incredible, really.
Related Link: Graphic anti-abortion pamphlets spark emotional debate
Tags: Abortion, Australia, Lucia
A couple of weeks ago I finished reading We Look For A Kingdom: The Everyday Lives of the Early Christians by Carl J. Sommer. The scope is from AD 100 to 313 in the Roman world, during a period of intense persecution, right up to the legalisation of Christianity by the Roman Emperor Constantine.
The first section on what the Roman world was like at the time was a wonderful lead in to the whole book. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to have a good idea of what the lives of the early Christians were like. It made me think about the real lack of accessible historical books on that period, which makes it almost seem like that period of history didn't exist. I say this because as a child, I loved reading history. I think I managed to read every child's history book in our local library before moving on the adults books at age 8. And I never came across any history book that went into the lives of the early Christians.
After reading the book, I've started reading Augustus Ceasar's World to my kids during their history lesson, as I feel that really knowing this period of history from the death of Julius Caesar onwards is vital for any Christian child of the West. This way they'll know more about that period than I did at their ages and therefore be immune from being mislead by much of the anti-Catholic (and anti-Christian) propaganda that I fell prey to when reading history in my teens.
Tags: Christianity, History, Lucia
There's something very off-putting with persevering with watering my plants by hose (no sprinklers allowed) over the long, hot summer only to be attacked by sandflies every time I go down there to chop off the odd zucchini or tomato.
Maybe swathes of concrete around each plant will reduce the number of hiding spots for the little critters. Either that, or I'll have to dress in very thick clothing, including gloves and goggles.
When I first sprouted the seeds, I imagined I could just nip down to the vege patch to get something to add to dinner, but I find myself not wanting to because of the bites. Three this time. Three too many, if you ask me.
Tags: Lifestyle, Lucia, Personal
The family is the primary social unit of society, the fundamental building block, it's own mini-society. The family pre-dates the state, so any attack on the family should be a cause for concern of every citizen. However, citizens don't seem to exist any more. We have the people, the workers, the poor, the fundamentalists, the rainbow parade, the single mothers, young people - all groups that are touted to the populace at large as having special interests of how society ought to be run - but what about the citizens?
In a democracy, a citizen has a responsibility to be interested in what is occurring in the governance of the nation, and taking an active role to prevent anything detrimental to society at large. But it seems in NZ many people no longer consider themselves citizens and instead consider themselves as children that need to be looked after by the state.
No wonder the state is dismembering it's major rival. Strong families don't need a strong state and will prevent a state from over-reaching. Weak families lead easily to a totalitarian state, headed by parliamentarians that don't need to do anything except say the right things to get themselves voted in. Gone are the days where a violent revolution was needed.
Dr. Jeff Mirusof Catholic Culture asked the question: "At what point is totalitarianism recognized by the citizenry? At what point does a sufficiently large group of people understand what is going on that they can move cohesively to stop it?"
It's a good question. I think in NZ, many people are recognising that what Labour has done with the anti-smacking and electoral finance acts went way too far. I think many people think that all our problems will be solved if they just vote in a different government. A different government headed by John Key.
John Key is rapidly turning into the messiah-in-waiting - never-mind that he got the Nationals to vote FOR the anti-smacking act. And even if he was the type to recognise the danger of that act and repeal it IF National gets voted in next election, that will not be nearly enough to turn the creeping tide towards totalitarianism. In a highly secular society such as NZ, the creep will continue inexorably towards the end. The media reaction to the "new" deadly sins shows how adverse many are to any culpability of their own failings in the situation we have now in NZ.
Related Link: Secularism, Acculturation and Creeping Totalitarianism ~ Catholic Culture
Tags: Child Discipline, Electoral Finance Bill, Lucia, NZ Politics, Religion, S59
With yesterday's explosion of interest in sin as defined by the Roman Catholic Church, and consequent misinterpretation by the media, I thought I'd point to where you can find out more what constitutes sin.
Frank Ritchie of Servant's Thoughts has written a thoughtful piece on what sin is.
The Roman Catholic Catechism goes into more explicit detail on what would be considered sinful. The list is far larger than the Seven Deadly Sins and the "new" sins being eagerly talked about.
If you still need help after reading all that, I'd recommend The Sinner's Guide by the Venerable Louis of Granada, OP (1504-1588). The online book goes through all the reasons why not to sin and the rewards for trying to live a sinless life. As well as remedies for each of the Seven Deadly Sins.
Ultimately sin leads to separation from God. It's not a good thing and leads to deep unhappiness, followed by possible eternal damnation. As much as it would be nice to think that it all ends when we die, unfortunately (or fortunately) we are immortal beings that will live forever either with or without God. Guess which option is the better one.
Tags: Catholicism, Lucia
Just a lil heads-up on a cool new Firefox extension called PicLens.
It works with most popular photo sites and blogs such as Flickr, Photobucket, Facebook, bebo etc. If you've ever used coverflow on the iPod Touch or iTunes - it's not quite exactly unlike that. A nice wall of images (with iPod-ish shiny reflection) that you can drag and then click on an image.
Tags: Fletcher, Reviews, Technology
Today's Dominion Post has a large article on the front page of the world section titled "Polluters and druggies - go to hell". The teaser on the front page says "Deadly Sins: Pope's new list". News items on the radio have also be referring to the seven deadly sins being revised. FairFactsMedia and David Farrar and Peter Cresswell have jumped on the bandwagon. The following is an example of the major error in understanding of what the Vatican has said:
The Vatican has brought up to date the traditional seven deadly sins by adding seven modern mortal sins it claims are becoming prevalent in what it calls an era of "unstoppable globalisation".
~ Fewer confessions and new sins ~ BBC
The first error is the assumption that there were only seven "deadly" sins to start with and that these "new" seven are actually adding to that list. The seven stand on their own and don't need to be added to.
The second error is in interpretation. These "new" sins aren't really new. They are already covered under the original seven and/or the Ten Commandments and/or Church Doctrine. They may seem to be new as they cover new situations where the same old sin takes hold. That's most likely what Archbishop Gianfranco Girotti meant when asked about "new" sins.
For a less biased and more accurate article than both the BBC and the Times articles, I would recommend this one by Associated Press: Vatican Updates Its Thou-Shalt-Not List. It puts the whole thing into much better perspective.
As an aside to all of this, it's always interesting what type of Catholic news makes it to mainstream secular consciousness. Digging up and displaying St Pio doesn't make a mention, but adding sins - woah! There's probably a psychological reason for that. Maybe it's because deep down, people know they need a better appreciation of sin, so the antennae pop up. Which is a good thing, because sin is what separates us from God and a knowledge of sin is one of the first steps in healing that separation.
Archbishop Girotti said that the modern world does not understand the nature of sin. With their coverage of the interview, the mass media unintentionally underlined the prelate's point.
The Forum: Not "new sins" but an old media blind spot ~ Catholic World News
British Catholic Labour MPs may have backbones after all
Gordon Brown's Labour Government in the UK wants to pass a bill that will allow the creation of animal-human hybrids for medical research purposes and that will also remove the requirement on clinics to consider the "need for a father" before providing IVF treatment. One small problem: his Catholic MPs.
Catholic Labour MPs are not too happy about this bill (the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill), so unhappy in fact that given a choice they would vote against it. Which is not making Gordon Brown and the UK Labour Government happy. The bone thrown to the MPs; that they could just not be in the room when the bill is passed has turned into a red rag instead. So now, the Catholic MPs are saying they will vote against the bill with the opposition, which will mean the bill will fail.
It's not over yet, but if the Catholic MPs are growing a backbone, that'll be causing a major ripples in a country where there are now more Church going Catholics than Anglicans (despite the much larger Anglican population) and where one Catholic Priest has argued for a re-conversion of Britain to Catholicism. Maybe that's why some British MPs want to look at why Catholic doctrine is being taught in Catholic schools. Can't have that, as sex-education is not taught in the way the Government wants.
Anyway, interesting times in Britain right now.
Related Links: Labour's Catholic MPs will vote in embryo bill ~ Telegraph, UK
Catholic MPs may be revolting ~ Lucyna Maria, NZConservative
Tags: Britain, Catholicism, Lucia, Morality, Politics
Kerre Woodham of NewsTalk ZB would probably favour summary execution, if she could get away with it. She is frothing about boy racers, and anyone who might be mistaken for a boy racer. They all should have their cars crushed. She actually said she wouldn't mind if it meant a few "innocent" cars were accidentally crushed. Just crush them like insects. On the spot. No first warning. No investigation into who owns the car. Just crush it. Such is the seriousness of the problem.
If you are going to go around and say "hit them were it hurts" then make sure you are hurting the right people. Crushing some-one else's car just makes you a thug.
The likely market reaction? Steal the car first. Maybe Kerre's?
One of the problems is that the laws are not being enforced properly. I do not disagree the problem is serious, and that we need to protect innocent bystanders.
However, the reaction to create incredibly severe punishments that also have a greater chance of capturing innocent people in its net would be State intervention at it's worst.
Tags: Cars, Law and Order, ZenTiger
There's a really sad feature article in yesterday's Sunday Star Times written by a woman in her late 30's who "writes in defence of the one-night stand." I found it sad, because while she apparently wrote in defence, her own words showed just how damaging such a lifestyle is to a person.
It started with losing her virginity at age 14. It seems to have taught her to use men and let herself be used in turn by them. Not that she saw that; her only regret was that she was used, ie not cared for by the boy she had sex with. The fact that it was her choice also seems to vindicate the experience as if choosing ought to remove any regret.
I was "going out" with the guy, but we broke up soon after, and I watched him go through a succession of teenage girls. It does annoy me that someone who didn't really care about me was my first time - but it was still my choice. Really, I just wanted to get it over with, to see what it was all about.
There there are the two following statements about sex that don't gel. The first talks about how she feels sex ought to be.
I think it’s healthy to think of sex as fun, to not attach too much importance to “getting it right” actually, if you think of sex like that, you hardly ever have a bad experience. It is, simply, just another experience.
The next is her actual experience.
It’s kind of a 72-hour roller coaster. Day one: euphoria and the lingering memory of intimacy, it’s like being hugged, for a really long time. Day two: hangover recovery. Day three: the realisation you are still alone.
Here's more about the virtue of choice that vindicates anything.
There’s an assumption that a woman who goes willingly into a one-night stand must have low self-esteem. Actually, I like myself. I also like sex. Sue me.
It’s your choice. It should always be your choice. I can think of only one occasion where I knew I didn’t want to do it, even as I put my key in my front door. You learn from those experiences.
Her major worry is that she will be judged. She rationalises that she's only had 19 sexual partners, therefore she's not promiscuous as the Kiwi woman's average is over that number (really? there must be a heck of a lot of us pulling that average down).
Do I judge her? No. I feel sorry for her. What a waste of a life.
Related Link: Judgement Call ~ Sunday Star Times
By Lucia Maria at 9:40 AM 25 comment(s) Links to this post
Tags: Lucia, Morality
Anti Body-Snatching Device
Picture courtesy of Jason Watson
Is there a hard left in NZ that wants to take control by force, nationalise everything and shoot everyone that disagrees? Chris Trotter in today's column in the Dominion Post alludes to such, and reiterates again, that rolling Helen Clark for Phil Goff is a much better alternative than a revolution.
Um, so is there another terrorist group in NZ that the police ought to be looking at?
Related Link: Will update this link to work when the column comes online
Tags: Chris Trotter, Communism, Lucia, NZ Labour, NZ Politics
So, according to the news today, the Government's accounts (for the first time in almost 15 years) are in the red? The Government can give all the reasons they like (and I'm sure they are many and varied) but I find it very hard to swallow that for years and years the take from the poor taxpayer has been rising to a surplus of billions and all of a sudden, six months out from an election, there isn't any left - in fact, into the negative.
As the Four-Square women would say to one another, "how convenient".
According to the story -
..tax revenues are $700 million below forecast.
Oh, really? Again, I find this a bit hard to believe. The Government is not taking enough from us? Sorry, but taking tax is one of the things this government is VERY good at and I doubt they would have mucked up on that.
I'm sure someone will provide the reasons for this, but the story just left myself and family members watching saying, "yeh right" incredulously.
Tags: Fletcher, New Zealand, NZ Labour Govt 2005-2008, Tax
You've got to wonder, with the latest body snatching case, does this mean that anyone could steal a person's body? Apparently the police can do nothing because the body doesn't belong to anyone.
So, what if a satanic group needed a body to mutilate before setting it on fire in a bizarre religious rite? Could they go down to the nearest funeral home and just take off with any body that takes their fancy? Or how about something a bit more likely - a medical teaching facility that runs out of cadavers. Is there anything in law that stops them from being able to load up from the hospital morgue?
I suppose most people wouldn't have even thought of taking a body from grieving relatives, and that and respect for the dead, has probably been the only only thing stopping body snatching from happening more often. That, and the expectation that doing so was not legal. Yet, there is a legal black hole here. A legal black hole that needs to be filled.
Related Link: Woman's body snatched from hearse
Tags: Crime, Lucia, New Zealand
You've heard of the Super Nanny that sorts out troublesome kids in no time flat?
You've heard of the Nanny State - those meddlesome left wing zealots that know better than parents, and like to equate violent abuse with temperate physical discipline?
Well prepare for the new reality TV show hitting the airwaves this season: Super Nanny of the State. Hosted by the muppet talent Campbell, it features Sue Bradford and Cindy Kiro as the Super Nannys of the State (SNotS). These big SNotS take on little snots and show how positive parenting techniques are so effective in a classroom situation.
Yes, with the Dom Post page 3 announcing that 1 in 5 children in the classroom are extremely disruptive, anti-social, violent and abusive, it makes a teacher with 25 kids vainly trying to manage (let alone educate) 20 whilst 5 of them are playing up big time.
Faced with such disturbing statistics, and cognisant that today's children are the product of the last 20 years of increasingly liberal PC tosh (yes, damn it, tosh.) - Sue Bradford and Dr Kiro are going public in a very real and concrete "money where their rather large mouths are" kind of way.
It's live. It's real. It's uncut, with no outtakes. It's reality. They'll each be stepping into NZ's most difficult classrooms, posing as relief teachers in schools around NZ. Hidden cameras will demonstrate those very techniques they vaguely mention whenever that dirty word "discipline" comes up. For those parents still not in jail for beating their kids to death, here's the chance to learn from the masters. Let's hope those clueless, violent prone parents (Mum - zonked on valium" or "Dad - rampant with Viagra) bother to tune in. Apparently, there's well over 300,000 of them. Indeed, some polls rate the target audience as high as 80%. Cullen is counting the tax on advertising revenue already.
But after the first few shows, wont the game be up? Even to the most apolitical kid, Bradford and Kiro will be the most recognisable faces on TV after Paris Hilton.
This is where the ratings brilliance of the TV producer, a Mr Z. Tiger, just gets better.
To keep children and parents guessing, the first 15 minutes of every show will be a ratings winning segment putting Kiro and Bradford into disguise. A makeover with bite.
A NZ version of Queer Eye (the Tranny Nannies) will dress them; Our own glam girls Rachel Hunter and Xena will teach deportment and how to make a piercing battle cry of command; NZ trained Plastic Surgeons Antonie Dixon and Daniel Moore will tuck tummys, siphon bio-fuels from thighs (adding a nice Green twist) and remove the occasional limb; and Lunn of Tawah has offered to teach a variety of fourrin acksense to fool the kids and, strangely, improve elocution skills.
There's enough there to challenge the ratings power of Lost and Californication, so the TV moguls are feeling pretty confident these new age gurus Bradford and Kiro can pull this whole thing off.
Unfortunately though, their success may prove to be their undoing. This could really embarrass the teachers of NZ and show them up for being incompetent in their inability to instill, as Dr Kiro might well say, "socially and culturally acceptable behaviour patterns by reaching out and communicating at a trust-level with children as adults and peers with due recognition of the power relationship imbalance of adults requesting that children consider the long term personal value and goal-oriented self-actualised payoff for bloody well paying attention." Because, the way they tell it, this whole lefty liberal thing with kids is like falling off a log.
Actually, I have to 'fess up and admit this show is still in the concept stage and I'm actually behind it. So if the show doesn't get the huge tax payer funding grant I'm expecting (I gotta pay the talent guys), then all I can say is, well, what a shame such a good idea will go to waste. They should do it anyway. Maybe, just maybe, it's time we dropped another 300,000 signature petition on parliament's doorstep?
Tags: Child Discipline, Children, Dr Kiro, Education, S59, Satire, TV, ZenTiger
The Abortion Supervisory Committee has recently come out with a report to Government on what is happening with abortion in NZ.
A couple of points that have really stood out to me were:
the Committee will be looking at the availability and the need for second trimester services in all regions
In 2006, 2,399 abortions "needed" to be done as a result of oral contraceptive failure.
The second trimester is 15 to 27 weeks from last menstrual period. Here's a week by week look at the development of the baby during this time. Given that NZ's law doesn't allow for abortion on demand (even though we have abortion on demand), I can only think of that there would be an increasing "need" for second trimester abortions for reasons of fetal abnormality that typically get diagnosed later in the pregnancy. Unfortunately , though, diagnosis of abnormality can be wrong as a couple pressured in the UK to abort their baby right up to his birth discovered.
The second point is on the incredible number of abortions (2399 in 2006) due to oral contraceptive failure. Contraceptive failure that points to the probable abortificient nature of the pill failing in preventing implantation of a conceived child, as it is highly unlikely that the low dose pills available in NZ actually prevent ovulation.
In NZ the highest hormone level pill is 50mcg (see Medsafe). When the pill first came out it was 150mcg, much higher than what is available now. Studies on a higher hormone dose pill showed that ovulation was not prevented all of the time, that it was still possible to ovulate on the high hormone level pill. Since that time, hormone levels since have been lowered because of the terrible effects on the bodies of the women taking them.
The lower the hormone dose, the less chance of ovulation being prevented. That means that if a woman on the pill is sexually active, it is highly likely that she is conceiving. But no matter, the low dose pills still reduce the likelihood of pregnancy. The crucial thing for a newly conceived baby to do is to implant into the lining of the uterus to gain necessary nutrients for the continuation of life. However, the uterus of a woman on the pill is very hostile to the newly conceived baby as the lining is much thinner and makes a successful implantation less likely. This implantation can still occur, as our abortion statistics for women on the contraceptive pill show, but this is not the norm. What is more likely is that the baby dies and is flushed out with the next menstrual period. That is what I mean by the pill being abortifacient .
If the contraceptive pill only affected ovulation and not the lining of the womb, then it would not be abortifacient. However no conceptive pill purports to do this - they all say they prevent ovulation most of the time (highly unlikely) and as a backup change the nature of the lining of the uterus so as to make implantation of the conceived baby unlikely.
Of course the abortifacient nature of the contraceptive pill will not bother alot of people, but it should bother those who think they are only preventing ovulation, because in effect, it is very likely those people have unbeknownst and unexpectedly lost a number of children already due to the abortifacient effect of the contraceptive pill. That's a tragedy for those people. And for everyone, whether they acknowledge it or not.
The only caveat I need to add is that there are also pro-life physicians out there that do not believe that the evidence supports the hostile womb theory, that once a baby is conceived that everything works to enable implantation. That may be so, but personally, since this is a matter of life and death, that's a hell of a risk to take.
Hattip:
Who cares about a smack when we are killing 18,000 babies a year! ~ DumbOx, Being Frank
Report of the Abortion Supervisory Committee, 2007
Birth Control Pill: Abortifacient and Contraceptive ~ American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Tags: Abortion, Contraception, Lucia, New Zealand
A ranting Islamist website called Ummah Pulse is carrying an article about a Jesuit attempt to "get behind the lines" of Islam in order to water down its theology.
A German Jesuit priest-scholar called Felix Koerner is helping state-funded Turkish Muslims create an "authentic" variety of Islam that can be reconciled with the modern world.
Ummah Pulse sniffs conspiracy, you’ll be shocked to hear: it reckons that Koerner is one of Pope Benedict XVI's secret agents, employing Jesuitical wiles to implement his anti-Muslim agenda.
Considering that the Jesuits have been very recently admonished by the Pope to become obedient again to the Pope and Catholic Doctrine, I somehow doubt the Pope is anyway involved with what this particular Jesuit is up to.
Islamic website suspects plot by Pope ~ Telegraph, UK
Remember 4th vow of obedience, Pope urges Jesuits
Tags: Catholicism, Islam, Lucia
Sorry, it's late and the cynicism is at full strength. I blame NZ Labour. They did this to me. I am now a victim. Oh, calamity. What measure of justice can I expect?
The Government will strengthen victims' rights through a range of initiatives, including developing a Victims' Charter and funding a national 0800 victim helpline and a website for victims, Justice Minister Annette King said.
Well, that directly addresses the fact that court cases for serious crime can take 2 years to get to court. And very serious crimes three years. (They are called elections at that point, but the jury is fickle).
Wow thanks Annette. You can go to the web site and see if the victims charter allows you any rights around bringing the criminal to trial before they die of old age. And I guess 0800-VICTIM will be useful if some violent maniac happens to be beating you to death with a phone. Maybe it will be answered faster than 111? Although, dialing so many digits with broken fingers is going to hurt.
But a special website for victims? This is showing initiative? What extra initiatives are they saving for the election? On this basis, I'm guessing fridge magnets. And T-Shirts. "I'm a victim. Labour cares so much they got me this T-Shirt". Actually, maybe they'll just make you wear the T-Shirt you had on when you were bludgeoned in your corner dairy? That way you have authentic victim blood on it. It would be a collectors item if they weren't so common.
Ms King says a Victims' Charter will be developed to build awareness of the standard of service that victims can expect from government agencies. "The Charter will be a significant step in ensuring that victims of crime are aware of their rights under the Victims Rights Act and the information and services they should receive.
Like being billed $20,000 in legal fees as a result of your partner being murdered by an early parolee? Like waiting 2 years for trial? Like seeing the person that tried to kill/rape/rob you being let out early? Like seeing that the criminals get sex change operations and new limbs out of tax payer funds, but you need to go private to receive timely treatment? Like seeing that repeat offenders get "community service", and failing to show for even that just becomes another repeated offence? We are already aware of the low standards of service. And I don't see any initiatives actually addressing them.
"I am absolutely determined victims should not be re-victimised by having to make repayments." said Annette King
What, you aren't promising to sort out IRD too are you?
Ms King said the Labour-led Government would provide $1.7 million in 2008/09 establishing a central contact point for victims to provide information and to assist victims with advice about support agencies and services.
The police don't take calls from victims now? "Thanks for reporting you have been bludgeoned. Would you like the new website address so you can find the number for an ambulance? We'd like to help but it's not our core business."
In other initiatives announced today, Ms King said the Labour-led Government will also provide additional funding to the New Zealand Council of Victim Support Groups to build the capability of frontline service co-ordinators.
More bureaucracy instead of direct action. And when you boil down the essence of what all these new initiatives are, it's just another example of Labour telling us where to go. Again. Well, it will be our turn later this year. Annette, try phoning 0800-VOTED OUT.
Related Link: Government toys with victims
By ZenTiger at 11:50 PM 14 comment(s) Links to this post
Tags: Election 2008, Law and Order, ZenTiger
Remember a couple of years back when a Reuters photographer got busted for manipulating photographs in Iraq to make them more, er, interesting? More smoke and whatnot. Well a guy, John Graham has written C code to detect Photoshopped cloning in images. He basically did it because he wanted to win a car in a Spot The Ball newspaper competition, and found a paper describing the algorithm he was looking for. He didn't end up winning the car but the program seems to work quite well. (See the images below).
You can download the C code from his blog (and see more pictures there and here) but I don't think there is a Windows executable yet.
Tags: Fletcher, Media, Software
A man who beat his partner to death had his 10 year sentence reduced to eight years.
The Court of Appeals decided the murder was not as serious as first thought.
The justices said they were not unsympathetic to the judge's view that domestic violence was a serious problem in New Zealand and a "firm response is required...but consistency of sentencing for similar offending is also an important principle."
Obviously, its a far more important principle than a firm response.
Sure, the mother of six children died as a consequence of the murderous attack, but many people die from murder, and murderers are not always punished as severely, was the logic from the Court of Appeals. Indeed, they managed to find two other cases where people beating other people to death got lesser sentences, so they dropped the sentence on this one too.
It didn't occur to them that perhaps the other sentences should therefore be raised.
It just didn't occur to them.
Instead, they now think it appropriate to lower the sentence and allow this guy to be eligible for parole in just 4 years. Wow, that sends a message.
And I'm probably guilty of some heinous crime by calling this guy a murderer.
Apparently, it's only manslaughter when you beat some-one so badly they appear dead. You then cover up the evidence and leave them on the kitchen floor where they are not discovered for 30 hours, missing out on vital medical assistance. They die 3 days later. Beating them close to death, and then leaving them to die is only manslaughter. Maybe if he had more practice, he would have done the job properly? Oh well, he'll be back out soon.
The people in the justice system continue to get away with murder.
Related Link: Sorry for locking you up. Why don't you sue us now for stress?
PS: I'm all for this guy having a chance to be rehabilitated. That has nothing to do with the fact that the punishment needs to fit the crime. All indications here is that serious crime isn't taken seriously by the justice system. Even when the judge makes directions to lock this guy away, others are seeking to use the system to let the guilty go free.
A man who beat his partner to death has had his 10-year sentenced reduced to eight years by the Court of Appeal today.
Joseph Kengike was found guilty of the manslaughter of Moana Kapua, the mother of his six children, and sentenced to 10 years in jail last July.
The assault happened after Kengike and Ms Kapua had been out drinking. Ms Kapua was discovered 30 hours later unconscious with bruising and haemorrhages to her head, a boot print on her abdomen and a fractured eye socket. She died in Auckland Hospital three days later.
The decision released today from the Court of Appeal by Justices Bruce Robertson, Tony Randerson and Ronald Young, said the case was almost identical with two other manslaughter cases.
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Quotes on Marine Mammals
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"And when the day comes that we can communicate intelligently with dolphins, they may introduce us to the concept of survival without aggression, and the true joy of living, which at present eludes us. In that circumstance what they have to teach us would be infinitely more valuable than anything we could offer them in exchange."
Horace Dobbs, Follow a Wild Dolphin, London: Souvernir Press, 1977 (quoted in "Whale Nation", Heathcote Williams, Jonathan Cape ltd,1988)
"The brain size of whales is much larger than that of humans. Their cerebral cortexes are as convoluted. They are at least as social as humans. Anthropologists believe that the development of human intelligence has been critically dependent upon these three factors: brain volume, brain convolutions, and social interactions among individuals. Here we find a class of animals where the three conditions leading to human intelligence may be exceeded, and in some cases greatly exceeded.
The Cetacea hold an important lesson for us. The lesson is not about whales and dolphins, but about ourselves. There is at least moderately convincing evidence that there is another class of intelligent beings on Earth beside ourselves. They have behaved benignly and in many cases affectionately towards us. We have systematically slaughtered them. Little reverence for life is evident in the whaling industry - underscoring a deep human failing...In warfare, man against man, it is common for each side to dehumanize the other so that there will be none of the natural misgivings that a human being has at slaughtering another..."
Carl Sagan, The Cosmic Connection, New York: Doubleday, 1973
"To think the way we do he (the whale) would need to use about one-sixth of his total brain."
J. Lilly, The Mind of the Dolphin: A Nonhuman Intelligence 63, 1967
"Every one of these vanished millions of whales used to consume several hundred tons of a large species of zooplankton a year. That plankton now is undergoing a classic population explosion for want of a predator.What will be the effect on the oxygen-producing smaller plankton of the world ocean? What will be the effect on the colour and reflectivity of the oceans? What will be the effect on the average water temperature of the oceans, on its dissolved oxygen content and subsequently on the earth's atmosphere? No one knows. But climatologists know any significant change in ocean temperature can have profound effects on the earth's climates. By killing off the whales of the world man is playing Russian roulette with the earth's primary support system. Yes, we desperately need the whales to preserve the air we breathe."
George Small, Ph.D., College of Staten Island, 'Why Men Needs The Whales', in Project Interspeak, ed. T. Wilkes, San Francisco,1979.
"In the water, whales have become the dominant species,
Without killing their own kind.
In the water, whales have become the dominant species,
Though they allow the resources they use to renew themselves.
Though they acknowledge minds other than their own.
Without allowing their population to reach plague proportions.
In the water, the whale is the dominant species,
An extra-terrestrial, who has already landed..."
Heathcote Williams, Whale Nation, Jonathan Cape ltd,1988
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Co-existence with Giants
Updated on February 10, 2018
by The Safina Center Staff
By Katarzyna Nowak, Safina Center Fellow
When I arrived in the Udzungwa Mountains of southern Tanzania in 2008, the forested hills seemed to roll on uninterrupted. I moved into a small house painted sky-blue – one in a row of three 2-bedroom houses, with generous verandas and breathtaking views, at the Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Center. The Center is a field station managed by Tanzania National Parks currently in partnership with a science museum in Italy and a natural history museum in Denmark. I had come to study the sister species of the Zanzibar red colobus monkey, whose conservation had been the focus of my doctoral thesis.
My house at the Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Center. Photo: Katarzyna Nowak
But it was around this time that corridors between the Udzungwa Mountains and other protected areas were being rapidly blocked by expanding plantations and agriculture. Suddenly compressed and isolated, the mountains expelled their refuging savanna elephants into the surrounding landscape. “Elephant numbers are increasing!” was the general perception of local people. The corridor loss, documented by my colleague Trevor Jones, coincided with an emergence of crop-use by elephant bulls. Some villagers resorted to calling the district game officer to shoot and kill “problem” elephants. Problem animal control – the killing of elephants and other wildlife to protect crops, property, life, livestock – has been official policy in Tanzania since 1921 (when the country was still under British colonial rule). We had to try to understand these forest-living bush elephants better in order to mitigate the growing tensions.
Udzungwa ele high up in Afromontane. Photo: Katarzyna Nowak
Jones and I initiated what became several years of study starting out with dung surveys throughout the forested mountains. We walked over 150 kilometers of transects following predetermined compass bearings and enumerated more than 2000 piles of elephant dung from 300 to above 2000 meters elevation. We looked inside the fibrous dung piles for seeds to get an idea of elephants’ diets; one tree species whose seed they disperse is Parinari excelsa that grows to 30 meters. More than once, we found mango seeds. We also measured the diameter of 200 or so dung boli that were intact enough to estimate elephant age finding that the population was young and likely still recovering from ivory poaching that lasted into at least the late 1980s (poaching was resurging again around the time we were starting our survey work in the Udzungwas).
Looking for seeds in elephant dung. Photo courtesy: Katarzyna Nowak
We befriended Ponjoli Joram, the park’s ecologist who was, at the time, the youngest park ecologist in the country. He was full of energy, wit, ideas, ambition. He also preferred the field to the office. So Joram applied to the Erasmus Mundus Masters Program in Applied Ecology and I co-supervised his thesis on elephant crop-use. At this time, local women were permitted to enter the forest weekly – without machetes – to collect bundles of firewood. They also collected elephant dung that was later soaked in buckets of water and spread atop people’s crops to deter elephants; the thinking was that elephants are coprophobic avoiding fields smeared with their own dung. The method seemed logical if laborious but before we could methodically test it, a rule prohibiting people from entering the park was enacted meaning not enough dung could be found to carry on with this method.
Joram got the farmers together to agree to trial something else: chili-oil fences. These consist of rope strung between bamboo poles. The rope was first dipped in a sticky mixture of hot red chili powder and dirty engine oil, as were scraps of cloth that we sourced from tailors in the village. If not for high rainfall at our site that made reapplication necessary, difficulty of sourcing engine oil, and the burning sensation left by the chili-oil mix on farmers’ hands and arms (despite gloves), it’s possible that this method could have had some success as it has elsewhere. We needed a plan C.
Ponjoli Joram & farmers repairing chili-oil fence. Photo: Katarzyna Nowak
The idea I suggested was to use bees to deter elephants – a method that was being spearheaded by Dr. Lucy King in Kenya. Elephants, like other mammals, encounter wild bees in the bush and do not like to be stung. With our help, Joram applied to Fauna and Flora International’s Rapid Response Facility for emergency funding and was awarded a grant which we used to build hives then connected with wire to form fences strategically positioned between the park and farms in crop-use “hotspots.” A beehive fence consisting of 50 hives was thus erected, flowers to attract bees were planted, thatch roofs built to shield hives from direct sun and rain, and the participating farmers (some 30 of them) forged and registered a co-operative. Five years on, the initiative has continued under the Southern Tanzania Elephant Program (STEP), and expanded to four other villages. The original fence now has 150 hives and the farmers’ group has taught other communities about the beehive method. Wildlife-friendly honey is sold locally. Meanwhile, our scientific assessment of how well the beehive fence has worked is about to be published in the conservation journal Oryx.
Team with beehive. Photo courtesy: Katarzyna Nowak
The efficacy of the linear beehive fence is mixed. One of our challenges is attracting bees to hives; another is diurnal bees and increasingly nocturnal elephants (avoiding people). While we detected an overall decrease in crop visits by elephants especially after the fence was extended from 50 to 150 hives, some farms actually experienced more damage. Elephants developed strategies including walking to the end of the fence-line and into farms, breaking through (especially where hives were empty), or entering by way of existing breakage points that had not yet been repaired. Later, on their way back to the park, elephants would become “trapped” by the fence trampling crops closest to and alongside the length of the barrier.
Planted flowers under hive to attract bees. Photo: Katarzyna Nowak
Still, since the beehive fence was built, villagers have not called for “problem animal control.” The take-away message seems to be that human perceptions figure as much in human-elephant co-existence as the real effectiveness of the mitigation method employed. Looking back, we wish we had gauged people’s perceptions of elephants before and after mitigation. What we have is a story of empowerment: disenfranchised farmers taking matters into their own hands, building fences that yield honey and a pollination service and also deter elephants enough to enable co-existence.
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Albatross mate for life, except when they don’t
by Safina Center Fellows, Staff, and Affiliates
By Hob Osterlund, Safina Center Fellow
Albatross have a reputation for choosing one mate for life, which is true.
Except when it isn’t.
In fact, in the case of Ganesh and Gracie, you would need a decade-long, gender-fluid flow chart. In 2009 they were an item; together they raised a healthy chick on Kaua’i. After that, for unknown reasons, they broke up. For the next four seasons they both raised chicks with another mate: Ganesh with Lakshmi, Gracie with George. At the beginning of the 2014 season, Ganesh returned like clockwork after several months at sea. Lakshmi reunited with him. She laid an egg and both parents tended it faithfully.
Gracie also touched down, back from her own long-distance oceanic travels. Sadly, George never showed up. A presumed widow, Gracie had two predictable options: she could go back to sea and resume her pelagic pursuit of squid, or she could hang around in the colony to explore the possibilities of a new partner.
Photo: When nesting season begins, mates wait for the sight of their love returning. © Hob Osterlund
She chose neither. Despite several acres of shaded woods and open fields, she picked a nesting spot about two feet away from Ganesh and Lakshmi.
In other words, she moved in with her ex and his second wife.
She constructed her nest and laid an egg. Was it fertile? If so, had she mated with Ganesh, or could she possibly have found a new love already? We would never know. After a few days, Gracie ditched her own egg and began taking turns with Ganesh and Lakshmi, incubating their offspring. Why not? What child would not benefit from multiple sources of nurturing?
Gracie’s egg sat stage left, mute and exposed like an understudy memorizing her lines, never to hatch.
Alas, the three-parent egg also failed. Weeks past its due date, the trio huddled nearby, not quite ready to give up. Gracie and Lakshmi preened each other, shoulders touching. One of the mōlī stood, strolled to the egg and spoke gently to it. It was dad. It was Ganesh.
Over the next few years, their saga morphed further into As-The-Bird-Turns soap opera. For three more seasons Gracie seemed like she was still into her ex. In 2015 when she laid an egg about six feet away and stayed faithful to it, you could say she was beginning to reclaim a tiny bit of independence. Despite Gracie’s steadfastness, however, after five weeks of solo incubation duties, her hunger took charge. She had to leave to sustain herself. If she had a new mate, he hadn’t appeared for his shift.
In 2016 and again in 2017 she laid her egg nearby, each year a bit farther from Ganesh and Lakshmi, each like a single footprint stepping away.
In the 2018 nesting season, Gracie finally moved to a different part of the colony at long last. She had chosen a female mate this time, so their nest contained two eggs. These pairings are not uncommon among albatross in Hawai’i, but typically both eggs in a two-egg nest will be infertile. Not so for Gracie. One of the eggs in her nest was fertile, which meant there was a male in the picture. To our surprise, he ended up participating in the parenting. Their chick fledged successfully.
Sadly, last year neither of Gracie’s new partners returned. As fate would have it, Lakshmi also failed to return.
Photo: Ganesh waits for mate Lakshmi; she fails to return. © Hob Osterlund
Gracie and Ganesh had both been widowed. Would they return to sea, or would they begin the search for a new mate?
Neither. In late December they were seen together in their old favorite nesting spot. It was too late to raise a chick, but that didn’t stop them from sharing hours of sweet nothings.
Whew. So what about this year, in the prelude to the 2020 season? You guessed it. Gracie and Ganesh have officially reunited. The original pair has remarried. They have one egg. It’s fertile. The nest is deep in the woods, away from the others, just like they like it.
Photo: Ganesh and Gracie, mates a decade ago, reunite. © Hob Osterlund
Photo: Ganesh faithfully incubates an egg in their favored nesting spot. © Hob Osterlund
So now have they mated for life? Stand by.
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Makaala
Spellbinding…..
Ohhhh … I want to cry … so interesting hearing about this … Our beloved osprey pair in Montana- Iris & Louis experienced Louis finding a widowed female down the river – Iris & Louis had raised a chick the year before – all started as normal w 3 eggs – but Iris abandoned them with no Louis around 😢 This was our “Soap Osprey” … stay tuned this spring
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By admin on Sunday, January 12, 2020
The Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued Saturday night has ended for the North Peace Region. At times the wind was gusting up to 46 km per hour.There is still more rain in the forecast today as Environment Canada is calling for showers ending early in the afternoon, then cloudy with 40% chance of showers. Rain is expected in the amount of 10 to 15 mm, while the temperature is forecast to reach 20.- Advertisement –
Tumbler Ridge diversifies revenue with community forest
The District of Tumbler Ridge will be securing additional revenue along with help for area sawmills with a new community forest.Approximately 22,000 hectares of Crown land will be secured through a 25 year agreement that will allow the District to harvest 20,000 cubic metres of timber each year.- Advertisement -The Crown land is within the Dawson Creek timber supply area and the District is expected to use the forest for economic opportunities and controlling boundary wildfires.The economic opportunities for the District include supporting current jobs by using the harvested timber to supply the West Fraser and Canfor sawmills in Chetwynd and increasing the District’s revenue.District officials say pine beetle infested timber will also be used for bioenergy production to give the area an addition power supply in case of outages. read more
Gutierrez tosses no-no to lead Lady Chargers
By admin on Saturday, January 11, 2020
Literally. The sophomore right-hander tossed her first no-hitter as a member of the Lady Chargers, striking out 12 and walking just one in a 3-0 victory over Citrus (13-3) in a nonconference affair. The one walk, which was the only thing that kept Gutierrez from notching a perfect game, came in the first inning. Freshman Nicole Palmer drove in a pair of runs, and sophomore Brooke Pefley had two doubles and a run scored to pace the Cypress offense. The Lady Chargers (17-3) hit the diamond again late Saturday, outlasting Antelope Valley, 1-0 in nine innings. Sophomore Gabrielle Woody’s sacrifice fly in the ninth inning drove in Jade Espinoza for the winning run. Gutierrez earned the victory in relief, pushing her record to 10-3 this season. Alyssa Gutierrez’s softball career has been nearly perfect, dating back to her prep days at La Mirada High and continuing on at Cypress College, where she currently stars. On Saturday, Gutierrez was nearly perfect, again. Antelope Valley fell to 16-2-1 on the season. Cypress returns to action at 3 p.m. Monday at Riverside. BaseballL.A. Harbor 13, L.A. City 10 Sophomore Juan Dorado drove in two runs and sophomore Justin Cogman had two hits with an RBI, a run scored and a stolen base as the Seahawks rallied in South Coast Conference action. L.A. Harbor, which improved to 9-9 overall and 2-0 in conference, resumes play at 2 p.m. Thursday at Pasadena. Men’s basketballCompton 86, Coll. of the Canyons 72 Sophomore guard Cortnei Houston finished with 23 points and 6 assists to lead the Tartars in the Southern California Regionals. With the win, Compton (22-9) advances to next week’s state playoffs in Fresno. Freshmen Wayne Andrews (8 rebounds) and Justin Carter (12 rebounds) each finished with 19 points for the Tartar. 160Want local news?Sign up for the Localist and stay informed Something went wrong. Please try again.subscribeCongratulations! You’re all set! read more
Doig River orphan well project honoured with an Award
By admin on Friday, January 10, 2020
FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. – The Environmental Managers Association of B.C. (EMA of BC) presented the Doig River First Nation (DRFN) with an Indigenous Project Award.Saturday, June 13th, 2019 at an Awards Gala, the Indigenous Project Award was to recognize an innovative orphan well restoration pilot project. As part of the recognition, DRFN received $2,000 in funding from the EMA of BC that will go toward training a member of the community in environmental practices and fieldwork. “We would like to thank the EMA of BC for this opportunity to achieve our vision to be a leader in the area of environmental restoration of orphan wells,” said Chief Makadahay.- Advertisement -The pilot project creates meaningful engagement with key players that include DRFN, BC Oil and Gas Commission (BCOGC) and industry contractors who work together toward the long-term goal of restoring hundreds of orphan well sites on DRFN traditional territories in northeast B.C. The budget for each orphan well reclamation project varies greatly depending on its size and scope. Provincial funds have been established to help pay for the growing problem of abandoned well sites in Western Canada. Earlier this year, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that energy companies must fulfil their environmental obligations before paying back creditors in the case of insolvency or bankruptcy.“Doig River has experienced a lot of activity in its territory over the last 40 years and we would like to be part of the solution to reclaim and restore the land,” said DRFN Chief Trevor Makadahay. “This is important to our community, so we can exercise our treaty rights on a landscape that is healthy and back to its natural state.” Advertisement Full remediation and reclamation of an orphan well site start with a full assessment of the contamination level of soil and/or groundwater. Depending on the size and scope of the work, contaminated material may be removed and transported to a landfill and/or Treatment, Recovery and Disposal (TRD) facility or treated onsite. Any issues with the wellbore integrity need to be resolved and the wellhead or pumpjack is dismantled and transported to a metals recycling facility. Once the equipment and contaminated material is safely and responsibly dealt with, the site is ready for the reclamation phase. Activities in this phase include may include replacing topsoil, recontouring the land, reseeding and ongoing maintenance such as regular soil and groundwater sampling. read more
Lay off Mesut Ozil: Joachim Low picks him for a reason
By admin on Monday, January 6, 2020
talkSPORT looks at Mesut Ozil’s World Cup in detail Mesut Ozil isn’t the most popular German player at the moment. After a difficult second half to the season at Arsenal, the playmaker has also learned to live with criticism from supporters of the national team, with calls for him to be dropped in the build-up to and throughout the World Cup. Yet Joachim Low keeps picking him, and given Germany have just booked their first place in a World Cup final since 2002, the coach must be doing something right. talkSPORT takes a look at the numbers that support Low’s decision, and suggest people should lay off the Arsenal playmaker…Ozil hasn’t been one of the standout players at the World Cup – pretending otherwise would make no sense – but with the level of stick he’s taking you would think he hadn’t bothered to turn up at all. Take this extract from the website of German television station N-TV:“There’s no getting away from Mesut Ozil these days. German cities are plastered with his face. Ozil in victory pose. Ozil wrapped in a German flag. Ozil after scoring a goal. The ‘Wizard of Oz’. Yet when the whistle blows, the 25-year-old superstar only has one trick: He makes himself invisible.”Perhaps Ozil is elusive or difficult to keep tabs on, but his impact on the German team has been anything but invisible. The Arsenal man has created more chances (15) at the World Cup so far than some of his much more talked about contemporaries. Wesley Sneijder has only managed nine, for example. Angel di Maria, 11. James Rodriguez created 12, and even Neymar trails Ozil with 13. That’s not a bad return from the Gunners man at all.In fact, only Thomas Muller has created as many chances for Germany at this World Cup so far, with both he and Ozil the two leading creators, and the much-lauded Toni Kroos trailing with 13. Bastian Schweinsteiger, who has received little to no criticism for his displays, has only managed to create five.Along with passing forward and looking for openings, Ozil is also capable of holding onto the ball and helping to slow a game down, something vital for any team looking to control matches and win a World Cup. At the tournament so far he has completed more passes – 88% of 296 attempted – than other esteemed playmakers like Oscar (77% of 210), Sneijder (79% of 239), Di Maria (77% of 242) and James Rodriguez (77% of 196). In terms of his German compatriots he was more accurate than Thomas Muller (74% of 201 passes) and Sami Khedira (85% of 227), meanwhile.Ozil has also proven useful in his deliveries into the box, something particularly useful for Germany considering they have strikers capable of thriving on good crossing like Muller and Miroslav Klose. At the 2014 World Cup, he has completed 44% of his attempted crosses into the box, more than Andre Schurrle (who has failed to complete a single cross), Di Maria (30%), James Rodriguez (36%), and Neymar (37%). Again, the Arsenal man holds up favourably in comparison to other players that have received praise for their individual showings, yet he is judged to have under-performed.The numbers above show that Ozil has contributed a large amount to his nation’s success at the 2014 World Cup, even if that has passed unnoticed. That’s summed up well by the fact that most will recall his failure to score in Germany’s 7-1 win over Brazil last night rather than his tidiness in possession, good movement and proactive passing. Perhaps Ozil will continue to take stick, but Joachim Low will also continue to pick him, and with good reason.Is Mesut Ozil being judged harshly these days? Let us know below… 1 read more
Maryland court backs ban on gay marriage
By admin on Friday, January 3, 2020
“I think history will hold them in contempt,” plaintiff Lisa Polyak said of the judges. “To create a legal solution in a vacuum, that doesn’t recognize that the constitution is there to support the people, is to create an ignorant and irrelevant solution.” State Sen. Richard Madaleno, who is openly gay, said he plans to introduce a bill to allow same-sex marriage. He also expects a proposal to create civil unions. “I think we’ll have a lengthy discussion next session about what the options are for legal recognition for gay people,” Madaleno said. Don Dwyer, one of the General Assembly’s most conservative members, said he would introduce a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage as “insurance.” The ACLU of Maryland, which provided legal representation for the plaintiffs, said the fight to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland would continue. Plaintiffs vowed to take the fight over gay marriage in Maryland to the Legislature after the state’s highest court threw out a suit challenging a law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman. In a 4-3 decision, the Court of Appeals ruled that the state’s 1973 ban on gay marriage does not discriminate on the basis of gender and does not deny any fundamental rights guaranteed by the state constitution. The court also found that the state has a legitimate interest in promoting opposite-sex marriage. “Our opinion should by no means be read to imply that the General Assembly may not grant and recognize for homosexual persons civil unions or the right to marry a person of the same sex,” Judge Glenn T. Harrell Jr. wrote for the majority. Plaintiffs said that the judges missed a historic opportunity to strike down a discriminatory law. Legislators on both sides of the debate predicted action on the issue in the next session. The heavily Democratic legislature has passed several gay-rights laws in recent years but has not voted on legalizing same-sex marriage or civil unions. Many of the plaintiffs have children, and they argue that their families are being denied the stability and legal protection that comes from having married parents. Lisa Kebreau, 39, and partner Mikki Mozelle, 31, who live in Riverdale, have three children – ages 20 months, 2 and 17. “We really wanted them to understand how normal and good their family is – that their family is just like any other family,” Kebreau said. Nine same-sex couples and a gay man whose partner died filed the lawsuit in 2004 against court clerks who denied their applications for marriage licenses. Baltimore Circuit Judge M. Brooke Murdock in January struck down the law defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman, but the state immediately appealed. Murdock’s ruling was put on hold during the appeal and never took effect.160Want local news?Sign up for the Localist and stay informed Something went wrong. Please try again.subscribeCongratulations! You’re all set! read more
Lincoln Red Imps to finish the job and send Celtic crashing? CORAL DD
By admin on Sunday, December 29, 2019
Coral’s Nicola McGeady joins the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast to round up the latest sporting odds.After Henrik Stenson’s sensational Open triumph, attention now turns to the PGA Championship in New Jersey later this month.Rory McIlroy is the 7/1 favourite, world number one Jason Day is 8/1, Jordan Spieth is 11/1, while Stenson is 16/1 to secure a second straight major success.On Wednesday night, Celtic will aim to avoid a humiilating European exit when they host Lincoln Red Imps in the Champions League second qualifying round.Brendan Rodgers’ side lost the first leg to the part-timers of Gibraltar but the Hoops are fully expected to triumph at 1/33, while the Red Imps are 40/1.Coral is the official betting partner of the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast read more
Abandoned school site viewed for uses
By admin on Saturday, December 28, 2019
CASTAIC – The Newhall County Water District is reviewing potential uses of a former elementary school site that was ordered abandoned by FEMA because it lies in the path of Castaic Dam, officials said Monday. The 18-acre property east of Interstate 5 along Ridge Route Road has been eyed by the Castaic Little League for a field complete with diamonds, concession stands and bleachers. But the water purveyor is bound by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which purchased the land and relocated the century-old Castaic Elementary in 1996 for fear the dam – built to withstand a magnitude-8.0 earthquake – could rupture and flood the property. Newhall Water now owns the land and has two wells there. The deed handed from FEMA restricts development, though small retailers, fast-food restaurants, a post office and a large apartment complex have sprouted around the abandoned property. Gutzeit said they are only in the first step in a process that would include federal scrutiny. “We are not land-use planners, so we’re not going to be the ones that make the call, whether it’s going to be used for Little League, soccer or croquet,” she said. “We’re just going to determine what level of use our board is comfortable with. After that, it’s out of our hands.” But any potential uses must account for environmental impacts, Gutzeit said. “Since it’s vacant for so long, we need to see if there is any adverse environmental impact by changing that,” she said. “Ultimately, what I would like to see is some kind of compromise between natural land and fields. If there are animals walking up and down the creek, I don’t know if it’s the best idea to have lights running until two in the morning. … But it’s up to the entire board.” Eugene Tong, (661) 257-5253 eugene.tong@dailynews.com 160Want local news?Sign up for the Localist and stay informed Something went wrong. Please try again.subscribeCongratulations! You’re all set! AD Quality Auto 360p 720p 1080p Top articles1/5READ MORECasino Insider: Here’s a look at San Manuel’s new high limit rooms, Asian restaurant Still, NCWD General Manager Steve Cole said the agency’s engineering committee will meet this month to review whether – or how – the site could be used. “We’re just going to bounce some ideas around about the liabilities and possible uses for that site,” he said. Castaic Little League officials could not be reached for comment Monday. The league, whose season begins this month, serves some 200 players ages 7 to 14 from throughout western Santa Clarita Valley, and plays at the nearby Castaic Sports Complex. Officials have said it’s less than ideal – the facility only has dirt softball fields and is costly to lease. NCWD board member Randall Pfiester, who also the chairs the three-member engineering committee consisting of board members B.J. Atkins and Maria Gutzeit, said there are other hurdles, FEMA not withstanding. Newhall Water is currently drilling a third well on the site intended to replace in the next five years the two 50-year-old wells. “We have construction going on over there, so we don’t want anybody’s child endangered,” he said. “Anything we decide will have to be referred to our attorneys for approval and to FEMA as well.” read more
Tore Andre Flo tells talkSPORT Michy Batshuayi could become Chelsea’s main man
By admin on Friday, December 27, 2019
Michy Batshuayi could replace Diego Costa as Chelsea’s leading frontman, according to Tore Andre Flo.The Belgian sealed the Premier League title for the Blues on Friday night with his winner against West Brom, but his future at the club is uncertain.He has not started a single league game under Antonio Conte since his £33million move from Marseille last summer and his goal against the Baggies was only his second in the top-flight.Flo, however, reckons the 23-year-old could have a big impact next season should top scorer Costa – who is being linked with a move to China – exit Stamford Bridge.The former Chelsea hitman, who now works as an academy coach at the club, told talkSPORT: “He is at a very good club and obviously scoring that goal must have boosted his confidence.“He has shown he could be a really good player and hopefully he can step up a level and maybe take Costa’s spot.“He seems to be a very popular player among his teammates. He works hard in training and has a great attitude.”READ MORE: ‘Antonio Conte is an inspiration for all us coaches’, former Chelsea star Tore Andre Flo tells talkSPORT read more
TWIN TOWNS TO BE COUNTY SPORTING CAPITAL
By admin on Thursday, December 26, 2019
Sinn Fein County Councillor Cllr Harvey has succeeded in gaining a united County front to promote and develop the towns of Ballybofey and Stranorlar as a Sporting Capital of Donegal.Speaking on her motion Cllr Harvey said: “Each Electoral Area has there own unique potential to promote and develop for tourism potential , I feel that within the Stranorlar Electoral Area sport is our niche, we have the infrastructure, we have the various sporting organisations, we have exceptional accommodation , what we need is a desiginated committed approach.“I have asked that Donegal County Council engage with all relevant stakeholders, including Failte Ireland to promote, develop and market the towns of Ballybofey and Stranorlar as a sporting destination capital of Donegal taking a strategic co-ordinated approach which involves all stake holders including GAA County Board, Soccer league, Boxing clubs, Tennis, Rugby, FV AC, hotels, tourism office, chamber of commerce and BASSIC.” Cllr Harvey added: “This is not a new concept, the idea of promoting tourism through sport has been around for decades, however a local co-ordinated approach on a County basis has been absent.“I want the Council to specifically focus this concept for Ballybofey and Stranorlar in the first instance, I believe this has huge potential, we have the infrastructure in place and this need to be promoted and enhanced. I understand some Councillors have reservations.“I want tourism promotion packages in place, co-ordination between the relevant stakeholders, marketing from Failte Ireland, investment from Central and Local Government.“I am delighted for the support for my motion and I look forward to the outcome, I expect stakeholder meetings to take place in the next quarter of the year” TWIN TOWNS TO BE COUNTY SPORTING CAPITAL was last modified: January 30th, 2012 by BrendaShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Tags:BallybofeyCllr Cora Harveysports capitalStranorlartwin towns read more
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Living In Terror... Mountain
by realmofmist
I remember someone once said, “I can see clearly now the rain has gone.” But nobody ever told me about snow; that crystal-like sea of white can be blinding. For something as cold as ice, it takes much more than sunglasses to reach clarity.
This all started yesterday, as I was on the market for a new Neohome. After scouting through potential locales, Terror Mountain happened to grab my attention. I love winter. Something about it brings out the Advent Calendar in me. I mean, the serenity you feel as you walk out onto an untouched field of snow is beautiful.
But this is Terror Mountain; I had an obstacle to overcome. What makes Terror Mountain so terrifying? I needed to find out before I could call this place home.
When you hear Happy Valley, what visual pops into your head? Perhaps multi-flavoured popsicles and chubby Bruces wearing scarves a size too small. I thought that too. But finding the perfect home isn’t as easy as choosing a plot of land for 15,000 NP and calling it half a day.
From an outside perspective, Happy Valley looks like the place to be. You got a public skating rink at one end, slushie shop at the other and an ice cream cart right in the middle. Needless to say, that association is a LIE! Look closely at what Happy Valley forces you to do as a tourist and you’ll see the truth.
Say you want an Ice Cream and go to the Ice Cream Cart. Oh, wait a second; you need a coupon! As far as I recall, coupons are used to discount a full priced purchase.
...So I have to pay full price for a coupon to trade for my ice cream? How does that give me any sort of discount whatsoever!? Then he hints at the Snow Faerie liking ice cream, so visiting her would be a good idea. At this point, he’s not giving me Ice Cream, he’s giving me employment.
You slowly begin realize what Happy Valley is all about.
The Slushie Shop has all sorts of weird flavours for you to try. Cool right? So tell me, when would you ever want a Cheesy Pizza Slushie? Never! At least add some condiments; throw in some mushrooms or something. If you’re going to make a gross slushie, at least put some effort into it.
You might think you’ll find some relaxation at the skating rink. That is until you realize that Bruce has been skating there FOREVERRR! Does he have a family? Is he lonely? Hey, I’ll adopt him! What kind of sick coach has this guy trying to create a black hole on ice? We don’t need a Pteri chirping to wake us up; the sound of him breaking ice every morning is perfect.
They’ve designed a machine to throw scoops of ice cream at you. Can you get it in a cone? No. How about a cup? No. Apparently, having huge scoops of ice cream hurled at your head is the only option. Suddenly, Double Chocolate Chip sounds kind of dangerous. But some people need their ice cream fix and casualties ensue.
But the thing that gave it away was the Advent Calendar. “How could the advent calendar be suspect?” you ask. This community decides to give away items every holiday season, because they’re generous like that... the same community who wants you to buy coupons.
These items don’t go through safety checks or quality control, and the only sort of warranty system is feedback. I was never good at math, but the addition here was painless. You soon discover that Happy Valley is a cruel place, created for the sole purpose of market research. What would we do for an ice cream bar? They want to know and for years we’ve been telling them.
So I stood there, knee-high in a pile of snow muddling in my thoughts. I couldn’t live in this ice cream machine of a town. I was at the base of the mountain and things had already become petrifying. But I knew I had to find somewhere to live, and so I began my ascent into the heart of the mountain.
I arrived at the Ice Caves and straight up, there’s no way I was living there; that place is a death trap!
Just look around; half the ground is missing! It makes you wonder what their community maintenance budget is; it’s probably in the negatives. This place has gone to the gutter, and with violence being on a steady incline it doesn’t look like it’ll improve anytime soon.
Snowball fights break out on a daily basis. Scratch that, these are ICE BALLS! Not friendly in the least bit. You have a huge ice monster calling this place his home, a Polarchuck eating a hole through the foundation of the mountain, and an Elephante trying to obliterate the pathways. Where are the authorities!?
They probably tumbled down to Tyrannia, and I wasn’t willing to join them. It was a no go for the Ice Caves, so I continued making my way to the very top.
When you’re at the peak of a mountain, you can watch the world below you. The journey to the top was tiring and I had become a sceptic. Why was Terror Mountain so chaotic? It didn’t remind me of the cool serene environment I had dreamed of. I wanted to understand her secrets; it was time for some undercover detective work.
I decided to disguise myself in a big blue bag, and lay in wait outside Tarla’s shop. It wasn’t long after that she noticed me there and took me inside. Just as I expected, she went to store me in the backroom... except we didn’t go to a backroom, we were headed down. Into a cellar or a dungeon, I didn’t know; but it would be ten minutes later until I had to chance to see.
By the time I got out of the bag, Tarla had taken me a far bit. Disoriented, I pushed my way out of the bag and what I saw will stick with me forever.
If you’ve ever wondered where all the items come from, one only has to glance at Mika and Carassa. You see their “garage” isn’t really a garage; it’s more like a huge factory fixed into the mountain itself. They create products that appeal to the masses for low-low prices and distribute them to residents above.
Terror Mountain isn’t a world, it’s a corporation.
I was in shock. This place I wanted to call home was nothing but a gigantic production line. I felt so out of place at that moment, and then I noticed something; something that was also out of place.
The Super Happy Icy Fun Snow Shop.
Surrounded by a community of deception and greed, lies a little shop promoting joy and comfort. Why was this one not like the others? I needed to know.
I walked inside and an enthusiastic Lenny wearing sporting gear greeted me. “If you are feeling cold, why not feel even colder with these icy treats!?”
If I was someone that loved Summer, that would have blown on empty ears. I finally understood, and all I could do was stumble out of the store laughing. I fell onto the snow, and stared up into the sky.
I wanted to live on Terror Mountain because it reminds me of winter, a season where you find yourself navigating through the most simple of terrains. An adventure every time you follow a trail of snowy footprints. I realized the only scary thing about Terror Mountain was the neighbours, not the neighbourhood.
All I wanted was to find real estate; instead I found a home. It took a while to find somewhere to belong, but I’m glad I’m finally here. You should come visit me sometime.
Just remember, before the mountain there was a hill; and no matter what, you still have to climb.
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Georgiev gets 3rd career shutout, Rangers beat Devils 4-0
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By VIN A. CHERWOO
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) Assistant coach Lindy Ruff has been working on the New York Rangers' penalty-killing the last two weeks. His efforts are paying off in a big way.
Alexandar Georgiev stopped 33 shots for his third career shutout and the Rangers scored two short-handed goals while killing off eight New Jersey power plays in a 4-0 win over the Devils on Saturday.
New York limited New Jersey to seven shots on goal in its 15 minutes with the man advantage. Since giving up seven power-play goals on 11 chances in losses at Tampa Bay and Florida this month, the Rangers have allowed just four in 29 chances the last seven games.
"Certainly not the way you draw up winning the hockey game, taking that many penalties and having that many penalty minutes to kill," coach David Quinn said. "Just so proud of our guys, the way we found a way to win. Really gutted it out, stood tall on our penalty kill.
"We went through a stretch where our penalty kill was really hurting us. ... Give Lindy a lot of credit. He's worked awfully hard at it and our guys have really responded."
New York improved to 4-0-1 in its last five games. Mika Zibanejad had a goal and an assist, and Jesper Fast, Adam Fox and Brady Skjei also scored.
Georgiev had 11 saves in the first, 10 in the second and 12 in the third to get New York's first shutout of the season.
"When you look at it 4-0 and you kill that many penalties, your goalie needs to be good and he was good when he needed to be," Quinn said. "Georgie had a big part in this win, that's for sure."
Mackenzie Blackwood had 19 saves for New Jersey, which lost for the fourth time in six games.
"There's not much to be said," the Devils' Taylor Hall said. "It was a huge special teams game and their (power play) got one on a limited number of chances and we got zero, and then outscored by two. It's unacceptable."
The Devils had five power plays in the second period, including one that carried over from the final minute of the opening period. However, they managed just three shots on goal - all by Nico Hischier. New Jersey had six shots go wide, and an attempt by Jesper Bratt went over the net on the third man advantage.
The fifth penalty, a double-minor on Libor Hajek for high-sticking Wayne Simmonds, began in the final minute of the second.
"Obviously we don't want to take this many penalties but we did a good job," Zibanejad said. "Even to start the third with a double minor. We hung in there. ... We stayed with our structure. We didn't give them that many chances."
Zibanejad, playing his third game after missing 13 with an injury, made it 2-0 with a short-handed goal from the left side on a give-and-go with Brendan Lemieux at 2:35 of the third.
The Devils got a sixth power play at 5:21 when Chris Kreider was whistled for a five-minute major for boarding Kevin Rooney. Both also got majors for fighting and Kreider received a misconduct.
"The guys helped a lot," Georgiev said. "Even when the other team had a five-minute stretch of power play, we didn't let them have too much zone time."
The Rangers took advantage on the Devils' opportunity once again. Fast converted a pass from Jacob Trouba on a 3-on-1 rush at 5:52 for his third of the season.
Skjei added an empty-netter with 2:42 left.
When the Devils did get shots on goal at even strength, Georgiev was there to make the save.
The Devils outshot the Rangers 11-7 in a tight first period. Travis Zajac had a shot hit the goalpost less than two minutes in, and Lemieux did the same on a rebound of a shot by Trouba a couple minutes later.
Fox got the Rangers on the scoreboard on a power play. He got a cross-ice pass from Kaapo Kakko from the right side near the boards to the left side of the goal and quickly put it past Blackwood for his fifth with 7:15 left in the first.
NOTES: New York F Filip Chytil, a first-round pick in 2017, played in his 100th career game. ... Fox has two goals and four assists in his last seven games. ... Devils F Jack Hughes was out with a lower-body injury, missing what would have been his second meeting against the Rangers and Kakko - who went No. 2 in this year's NHL draft after New Jersey selected Hughes with the first pick. Hughes, who was injured when he took a shot off his leg on Thursday at Montreal, has four goals and seven assists in 24 games. Kakko has six goals and five assists in 22 games. ... Rooney returned to the lineup in Hughes' place after missing seven games with an upper-body injury. ... New Jersey was shut out for the fourth time this season.
Rangers: Host Vegas on Monday night.
Devils: At Buffalo on Monday night.
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Leeds Handed Huge Boost With Crucial Star Available For Crunch Games – Analysis
February 21, 2019 Spoughts Leave a comment
Leeds have been handed a significant boost in their promotion chase with the news Kemar Roofe could be fit before the end of the season.
The 14-goal striker suffered an injury in the match against Swansea City last week, rupturing one of the ligaments in his legs.
It seemed as though the striker could miss the rest of the season, although Leeds were always optimistic that he could return before the campaign was out.
And Roofe has now confirmed that he is hopeful of playing in the last six or seven games of the season.
Speaking to Radio X on Thursday morning, the striker said: ‘I suffered damage to my lateral ligament and I will be out for six to eight weeks.
When asked if he’d play again this season, Roofe added, ‘Yes, I will be back for the final six or seven games, maybe a bit sooner.
‘Every game is like a final now, each three points is massive.’
It was always going to be a lot to ask Patrick Bamford to play every game between now and the end of the season, especially given his own record with injuries this campaign. He has suffered two ligament issues himself.
He is also not entirely fit after coming straight back into the first-team rather than spending any time with the Under 23s.
Now he will know that Roofe will be able to take some of the pressure off him, presumably starting with the game against Sheffield Wednesday on April 13.
That said, Leeds need to get to that point still in the promotion race. They face crucial clashes against Bolton on Saturday and then an away trip to QPR over the next week. They still have a game in-hand over their closest promotion rivals and can go back top with a win in both games.
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Tottenham Star Reveals How Manager Helped Fix Career By Limiting Drinking – Analysis
Kieran Trippier has revealed the role Sean Dyche had in improving his career.
The 28-year-old right-back played under Dyche at Turf Moor, where Spurs play this weekend.
Trippier then moved onto Spurs, where he has become one of the most consistent defenders in the country. He also starred at the World Cup, helping England to a semi-final against Croatia.
They lost that game despite Trippier scoring the opening goal of the game from a free-kick.
And Trippier has now admitted that the Burnley boss helped him limit his drinking — to the benefit of his career.
He told the Burnley Express: ‘He helped me a lot. I was still going out when I was younger – drinking – and I wasn’t looking after myself properly. He came in and sorted it all out.
‘We were close when I was at Burnley and I would love to play for him again one day. We usually talk once every two weeks, just to keep each other updated on things.
‘We’ve always stayed in contact, we’ve always had that kind of relationship. We’ve probably become even closer since I left.’
Dyche is a highly regarded manager within the game and his work with players like Trippier has been clear. So many have come through the door at Turf Moor and left as better players.
This is just another example of his man-management ability and why Burnley are lucky to have the gravel-voiced manager in situ.
The example also stretches to the likes of Tom Heaton, Nick Pope and other players at Burnley, who have gone from Premier League also-rans to full internationals under Dyche’s watch.
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Liverpool And Spurs Plot Stunning Swoop For 10-Goal Ace – reports
October 27, 2015 Spoughts Leave a comment
Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur are thought to be putting together a shocking move for Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy, according to ESPN.
Vardy has been comfortably the best forward in the Premier League since the start of the season, and already has 10 goals to his name.
Even more impressively, Vardy has scored in seven consecutive Premier League games, which puts him in a category alongside a very select group of players.
Would it work?
At first, it seems ridiculous that either club would come calling for a player who was only playing for Fleetwood Town in 2012.
However, Vardy has been in incredible form since the start of the season.
He also seems to fit into both Jurgen Klopp and Mauricio Pochettino’s preferred systems.
Klopp would be delighted to have a striker with such incredible pressing and running ability to spearhead his forward line.
Pochettino could use him to alternate with Harry Kane, given the lack of options currently available to him.
However, it remains to be seen if Vardy is the real deal or whether this is just a sudden run of form.
Liverpool have been burned before, signing Rickie Lambert last season before quickly realising he was not good enough for a club the size of the Anfield side.
It’s hard to see Vardy carrying this on much longer, and even if he does, he currently has a perfect foil behind him in Riyad Mahrez.
Both clubs might do better looking at the playmaking midfielder, who was an underrated part of the run that kept Leicester in the Premier League last season.
Furthermore, considering the massive premium they will both pay for Vardy at this point, it might be worth considering finding the next Vardy rather than taking a punt on a 28-year-old.
Klopp said as much when introduced as Liverpool manager – that he prefers to find players like Robert Lewandowski, who he signed for less than £1 million while at Borussia Dortmund, than signing players for big money.
Rumour rater
Vardy is under contract at Leicester for another three years.
However, there is no way he’ll be earning as much at the King Power Stadium as he would at either Anfield or White Hart Lane.
To an extent, this could just be an attempt by Vardy or his representatives to increase his wages ahead of a January window in which the Foxes will be incredibly worried about losing him.
Vardy is in a more powerful position for negotiation than at any other point in his career, and could secure a contract to set him up for the rest of his life.
On the other hand, it is really not surprising to hear that top sides are chasing Vardy, who has been exceptional over the calendar year.
Neither club would be particularly foolish to sign him, so this might be one that brews as we approach January.
Rumour rated: 3/5
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The fire risk prevention in healthcare centres
Despite fire risk is one of the major occupational hazards, it is often underestimated because these events don't happen very frequently. Nonetheless, when there is a fire hazard the damages that it can cause are very serious both for the loss of human lives and goods as well.
Anyway these events happen: three fire hazards happened last December: the first at the Paracelsus Clinic in Castaneda where two patients were intoxicated, the second at the Mellino Mellini Hospital in Chiari and the last one at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan.
In order to both reduce the risk and manage an emergency, the law which regulates fire hazards prevention was updated last year ( Ministerial Decree 19th March 2015 ).
The Decree covers all the main themes related to fire hazard risk:
– Identification and evaluation of the dangers stemming from the activity;
– Human resources organization;
– Operational control of the subsequent adjustment stages;
– Managing changes;
– Emergency planning;
– Rescue Teams safety;
– Performances control taking into consideration Chrono programs as well;
– Protection systems maintenance;
– SGSA.
The aforementioned Ministerial Decree has established that both public and private healthcare centres should have sent by the end of last April a document called SCIA under art.4 of the Presidential Decree n.151/11 which established the adoption of a specific system to prevent fire hazards (named SGSA system) compliant with the Ministerial Decree 18th September 2002, Title V.
The SGSA, as previously pinpointed in the Presidential decree (10th March 1998) and before that in the law decree 626/94 focuses on the importance of risk handling when it comes to prevent fire hazards from happening.
In particular the SGSA should have:
– a document containing a plan of action on how to prevent fire hazards signed by the person in charge. The document must contain the budget available for safety in a set period of time.
– the analysis of the main fire-related causes and dangers affecting people safety.
– a system of preventative control tests which can guarantee that the new adopted measures are maintained at all levels ( prohibitions, limitations, procedures, etc.)
– a plan to handle emergencies;
– a training plan for the staff and an organizational chart showing the fire prevention staff, supervisors included. The number of the people involved is indicated below.
Furthermore, it is necessary to appoint a technical supervisor who will be in charge of planning, coordinating and checking the procedures and a fire prevention team that will be in charge of carrying out preventative controls, intervene in case of an emergency and supporting the other staff.
This integration among all the preventative measures can help in handling more thoroughly the risk and it sets limits both for the time frame to take actions and the necessary compensation of the residual risk during the adjustment phase.
Since healthcare centres are often over-packed and full of patients who are no longer self-sufficient they can be included among those types of activities which carry a high fire risk and therefore deserve special measures to be taken.
The manual handling of patients: how to reduce the risk of musculoskeletal diseases.
Hazardous chemical substances: risk assessment in the healthcare industry.
The importance of training and information on prevention
Biosafety laboratories and environmental management of biological risk
How to safely manage the waste bearing a risk of contagion
Forum Risk Management in Sanità
The role of health education in preventing biological risk
Personal Protective Equipment: a barrier against biological risk
Needlestick prevention devices to lower healthcare workers’ exposure to biological risk
Drawing blood and the safety measures for patients and healthcare workers
Safety-engineered devices: technique progress
The Ebola emergency and the choice to use safety devices in operational protocols
Directive 2010/32/EU: State of The Art in Europe
Directive 2010/32/EU Has Been Approved
Prevention, the first step to greater safety
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Frozen Planet 1969
The Heavy Medicinal Grand Exposition – Limited Vinyl // CD // DD
Pepper Shaker Records & Headspin Records – released November 1, 2018
Review by Terry “The Ancient” One Cuyler
“Psychedelic Snake Oil”
The Heavy Medicinal Grand Exposition
I.Oddball Sundae (00:00-05:15)
II.The Juggler (05:16-10:08)
III.Introducing… Oxandra Lanceolata (10:09-16:26)
The Talking Juice (16:27-27:31)
Swords For Hire (27:32-31:47)
Never Should Have Left Town With A Whistling Monkey By My Side(31:48-39:29)
2 Encore: A Herbal Miracle (6:02)
The Heavy Medicinal Grand Exposition by Frozen Planet….1969
Step right up ladies and gentlemen, so I can tell you about The Heavy Medicinal Grand Exposition by Australia’s Heavy Psych trio Frozen Planet ….1969 made up of Paul Attard & Frank Attard of Mother Mars and Lachlan Paine of Looking Glass who planted the seeds to the band in 2012 in a jam session at the Frank Street Studio, the home of Pepper Shaker Records. Then a little more than a year later the guys got back together and decided to release the recordings as a side project they would call Frozen Planet 1969.
To date, the band has only played a handful of shows. Each show has been uniquely different with the band continuously jamming for thirty to forty minutes. No rehearsal necessary. Every time Frozen Planet 1969 gets together it’s either to record or play live. And it’s All improvised! Although this is a style of creating and playing music that can cause friction it seems to work quite well for Frozen Planet 1969 who has released a total of 6 albums and 2 singles since their 1st “Self Titled” album.
The bands latest offering is on it’s surface a 2 song album which might be disappointing if they were only 3 to 5 minute songs and leave me hoping they were just appetizers for an upcoming album. However as masters of improvisation who love to jam, Frozen Planet 1969‘s album The Heavy Medicinal Grand Exposition is not just two songs. it is in truth a Psychedelic / Acid Rock opera about a traveling medicine show.
In the album description on Bandcamp ‘I’ through ‘VI’ of the title-track serve as the acts of the show. The band takes twists and turns to help guide you through the story, while Doctor Berner, with the help of some colorful characters, are on a quest to sell bottles of his glowing green elixir (which will apparently cure any pain or deliver anyone from evil!). After listening to this I am hooked and want to see one of those rare shows.
Tags: Acid Rock, Album Review, alternative rock, Australia, colorful characters, doctor berner, Frozen Planet...1969, Fuzz, Heavy Psychedelic Rock, Improvisation, liquid bass, Matthew D. Thomas, medicine show, Music Money Management, Rock Music, Space Rock, Stoner Rock, Stream, Sydney, Taste Nation LLC, The Heavy Medicinal Grand Exposition, thunderous drums
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Axel, the Court Magician
A character from my personal worldbuilding project, Elaios, and an important figure in its historical context.
He is more often credited for sowing deep distrust of magic than for prototyping the first primitive machines that would later lead to his country's industrial revolution as that work came after he committed regicide and accepted asylum in an enemy's court.
© 2012-2020 Terri Morgan. All rights reserved.
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Reintroducing:
Sovereign Seven #1
by Jonny Rice | in Reviews | Thu, 13 July 2006
By Chris Claremont & Dwayne Turner
“It Was a Dark and Stormy Night…” (38 Pages)
First off, I should admit something: I go back and forth between thinking that Chris Claremont is a genius and that Claremont is the George Lucas of the comic book world – you know, the guy who should have just gotten out of the business twenty years ago. This will probably color my whole opinion of the following thirty-some issues of Sovereign Seven. I like the guy; don’t get me wrong. I just never really know what to expect when I open one of his books. That being said, let’s dig in.
The series starts out with a bang. We first meet S7 as they fall from the sky (like any good alien arriving on Earth in the DC Universe). Claremont knows he’s got a barnburner here – a real, live one. And he plays it up: “It was a dark and stormy night, when Sovereign Seven came to town….” It’s fitting that Claremont allows his story to play out like a classic mystery novel. It follows your basic Claremontian storytelling maxim: there should always be more questions than answers. And those questions abound after just a few pages. Who are Sovereign Seven? Where do they come from? Why are they on Earth? And how awesome is Dwayne Turner?
Yes, the art definitely holds your attention. Mr. Turner has a solid understanding of what it means to be a storyteller, and no matter how confusing all the new characters become (and it does get a tad confusing), it’s no fault of his own. I’m not very familiar with his work outside of his early 90s run on Wolverine, but Turner’s style here has evolved from earlier days, and for the better. Sure, there’s still a gritty quality that made him one of those infamous X-penciler extraordinaires – but here he shows a cinematographer’s eye, with a new, faintly manga-influenced flavor which befits the more adventurous, lighthearted tone of S7.
By page two, we’re thick into the action, with S7 dropping out of an energy portal in typical super-hero fashion, landing themselves their very first fight on Earth – against big, spiky demon guys with hand-held, plasma-shooting Gatling guns…
…This was the 90s, so we’ll just have to forgive Dwayne Turner. At least it wasn’t X-Cutioner. (Shudder)
Being super-heroes and all, S7 feel obligated to stop the demonic uglies from putting the smackdown on a very defenseless human, one Toby Merlin. Merlin holds an amulet of which we assume is infused with very powerful magic, because these demon guys want it bad enough to take on S7 in a firefight. With their Gatling guns. That shoot lasers. God, I love comics.
Claremont, probably not wanting to confuse us too much in the first few pages, allows the team leader, Cascade, to take on the uglies. Cascade’s power seems to be the ability to teleport in sort of a liquid form (get it, Cascade?). But apparently, Network (another of the Seven) can focus the abilities of her friends onto Cascade, thus making Cascade all the more powerful. The demons are down in no time, giving us a few pages of character development between the Seven that allow the reader to get to know the team: Network, Rampart, Finale, Cruiser, Cascade, Reflex and Indigo (from l-r).
Claremont and Turner take us elsewhere for an interlude featuring another character known as Maitresse, who’s perturbed by her daughter’s absence. Honestly, she’s a bad dude. She sucks the life out of people. She looks like she got lost on her way to a Youngblood reunion. She also rules her own world. But since she only gets a couple of pages, we’re left with mostly question marks.
Back to the Seven, who’ve taken the unconscious Toby Merlin to the nearest settlement – Crossroads. Crossroads is, at the very least, a café/inn. It may also be a town. This is not made clear. Not much has been made clear so far. Hopefully, we get some sort of explanation soon. All we know is that the cops ignore the commotion at Crossroads because of its position, at the edge of at least two states we’re led to assume. Ergo, it’s outside of their jurisdiction.
The obligatory second wave of villainous nasties shows up at the inn, also after the amulet in Merlin’s possession. Rather than the demonic uglies, we’re introduced to a group of women – Jack Kirby’s Female Furies! It’s confusing as hell, having not only been introduced to seven new heroes, but also two new supporting characters (who we’ll save for next column), and now at least seven obscure super villains (it’s hard to tell how many in the commotion of the big bar fight). While a bit superfluous, the fight does give us a chance to learn the abilities of our heroes….sort of. Network is telepathic. Indigo rolls around real well. Rampart has some sort of shielding power. Finale has a sword. Cruiser likes to eat. Reflex is big.
Then suddenly, Darkseid appears. I kid you not. Darkseid. He retained the services of the Furies to retrieve the amulet, and now he wants it back bad enough to show up in person. In a hat and trench coat.
Now, I’m no expert as far as the DC Universe is concerned, which is exactly why I wanted to review these issues of Sovereign Seven in the first place. So I have to ask: Does Darkseid wear trench coats often? Is this normal Terran fashion for him?
And the hat. I like the hat.
Cascade and the heroes have no idea who he is, and if the reader didn’t have a rudimentary understanding of the DCU, they wouldn’t know either. Darkseid, however, does recognize Cascade, and mentions that she reminds him of her mother (could it be Maitresse, the sucker of souls seen earlier?). Cascade doesn’t much appreciate the comparison.
Merlin hands over the amulet without much fuss, not wanting to die a horrible death. Darkseid and the Furies leave in a flash of light. And the Seven, penniless and new to Earth, agree to repair the damage caused to the inn during their fight. So, for the time being, S7 have a temporary home.
In the final pages, Maitresse appears in a postlude of sorts, falling from the sky to a flaming world, discovering the rumors that her daughter (confirmed as Cascade) has escaped are true. Confused yet? Good.
And yet, in spite of all the absurdity, I liked the issue. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t miss Claremont’s prose. In the pages of S7 it takes on something new – a fairy tale quality reminiscent of Tolkien or E. Nesbit. Gone is the angst of his X-Men days, replaced with a greater emphasis on wonder and adventure. It has a sort of a Jules Verne by way of Alice in Wonderland type of vibe that I found very refreshing. Sovereign Seven are strangers in a strange land, and the confusion experienced by the reader only reinforces that fact.
Like any good Claremont serial, the first issue, while confusing as all get out, is filled with a number of mysterious characters and potential plotlines. Claremont and Turner have set the table quite nicely, even if we don’t yet understand what the heck is going on. S7 definitely has potential, and with time, could develop into an engrossing read. The cast is there, and so is the artwork. Here’s to hoping that Claremont still has the magic.
Tagged Cascade, Chris Claremont, Cruiser, Darkseid, DC Comics, Dwayne Turner, Finale, Indigo, Network (character), Rampart, Reflex, Sovereign Seven. Bookmark the permalink.
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