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Subjectscancer epidemiology (1)epidemiology (1)genetic research (1)Genome-Wide Association Study (1)oral cancer (1)View MoreJournalNature Genetics (2)Scientific Reports (1)Authors
Agudo, Antonio (3)
Ahrens, Wolfgang (3)Boccia, Stefania (3)Brennan, Paul (3)Canova, Cristina (3)View MoreYear (Issue Date)2016 (2)2018 (1)TypesArticle (2)Dataset (1)
Genome-wide association analyses identify new susceptibility loci for oral cavity and pharyngeal cancer.
Lesseur, Corina; Diergaarde, Brenda; Olshan, Andrew F; Wünsch-Filho, Victor; Ness, Andrew R; Liu, Geoffrey; Lacko, Martin; Eluf-Neto, José; Franceschi, Silvia; Lagiou, Pagona; et al. (2016-12)
We conducted a genome-wide association study of oral cavity and pharyngeal cancer in 6,034 cases and 6,585 controls from Europe, North America and South America. We detected eight significantly associated loci (P < 5 × 10(-8)), seven of which are new for these cancer sites. Oral and pharyngeal cancers combined were associated with loci at 6p21.32 (rs3828805, HLA-DQB1), 10q26.13 (rs201982221, LHPP) and 11p15.4 (rs1453414, OR52N2-TRIM5). Oral cancer was associated with two new regions, 2p23.3 (rs6547741, GPN1) and 9q34.12 (rs928674, LAMC3), and with known cancer-related loci-9p21.3 (rs8181047, CDKN2B-AS1) and 5p15.33 (rs10462706, CLPTM1L). Oropharyngeal cancer associations were limited to the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) region, and classical HLA allele imputation showed a protective association with the class II haplotype HLA-DRB1*1301-HLA-DQA1*0103-HLA-DQB1*0603 (odds ratio (OR) = 0.59, P = 2.7 × 10(-9)). Stratified analyses on a subgroup of oropharyngeal cases with information available on human papillomavirus (HPV) status indicated that this association was considerably stronger in HPV-positive (OR = 0.23, P = 1.6 × 10(-6)) than in HPV-negative (OR = 0.75, P = 0.16) cancers.
Genetic Contributions to The Association Between Adult Height and Head and Neck Cancer: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis
Pastorino, Roberta; Puggina, Anna; Carreras-Torres, Robert; Lagiou, Pagona; Holcátová, Ivana; Richiardi, Lorenzo; Kjaerheim, Kristina; Agudo, Antonio; Castellsagué, Xavier; Macfarlane, Tatiana V.; et al. (2018-03-14)
With the aim to dissect the effect of adult height on head and neck cancer (HNC), we use the Mendelian randomization (MR) approach to test the association between genetic instruments for height and the risk of HNC. 599 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were identified as genetic instruments for height, accounting for 16% of the phenotypic variation. Genetic data concerning HNC cases and controls were obtained from a genome-wide association study. Summary statistics for genetic association were used in complementary MR approaches: the weighted genetic risk score (GRS) and the inverse-variance weighted (IVW). MR-Egger regression was used for sensitivity analysis and pleiotropy evaluation. From the GRS analysis, one standard deviation (SD) higher height (6.9 cm; due to genetic predisposition across 599 SNPs) raised the risk for HNC (Odds ratio (OR), 1.14; 95% Confidence Interval (95%CI), 0.99–1.32). The association analyses with potential confounders revealed that the GRS was associated with tobacco smoking (OR = 0.80, 95% CI (0.69–0.93)). MR-Egger regression did not provide evidence of overall directional pleiotropy. Our study indicates that height is potentially associated with HNC risk. However, the reported risk could be underestimated since, at the genetic level, height emerged to be inversely associated with smoking.
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Elisabeth Maring
Res Assoc
1216 Marie Mount Hall
efmaring@umd.edu
Expert Credentials:
Adolescents and families, community violence, substance abuse, at-risk youth and families, health hazards in the built environment, cross-cultural and international research on families
Adolescents and families, community violence, substance abuse, at-risk youth and families, health hazards in the build environment cross-cultural and international research on families
Program Affiliation:
UM India list
Family Science (AGNR)
Ph.D. Family Science University of Maryland (2006),Ed.M. Risk and Prevention for Adolescent Youth Harvard University (1996)
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A bad call didn’t ‘rob’ the Cardinals of the 1985 World Series
I generally write about matters of media accuracy on my journalism blog, The Buttry Diary (occasionally picking on the New York Times). But I’m addressing this matter in my baseball blog because it’s as much a matter of baseball legend as a failure of accuracy by the New York Times.
The Times published an otherwise good (and, I presume, accurate) story by Billy Witz about instant replay in baseball that includes this sentence, in which I have italicized the passage that is absolutely inaccurate (but I don’t expect the Times to correct it):
And so, it seems, baseball will never have to worry about controversies like Don Denkinger’s call at first base that robbed the St. Louis Cardinals of the 1985 World Series or Jim Joyce’s missed call at first that foiled Armando Galarraga’s perfect game in 2010.
Before I elaborate on the Don Denkinger call, I should note that I blogged on The Buttry Diary, including a call for instant replay, about the Jim Joyce missed call.
But, as the Kansas City Royals embark tonight on their second World Series since the Denkinger call, and since the Times was inaccurate on that point, I will focus here on Denkinger: Of course he missed the call at first base, calling pinch-hitter Jorge Orta safe, leading off the ninth inning of Game Six of the 1985 World Series, 30 years ago today. Bad call, no one’s arguing that, including Royals fans or Denkinger.
Here’s the pre-replay truth about umpiring: In real time at full speed, it’s almost impossible to see which happens first on bang-bang plays: the ball hitting the glove or the foot hitting the bag about eight feet away. Human eyes can focus one place, but not both, and the action happens fast. Umpires get the call right the vast majority of the time, but that call gets blown probably more often than any call in baseball, except balls and strikes. Plays at first base accounted for 32 percent of replay reviews this year.
And the blown call at first base — either way — usually is not that big a deal. Maybe a bad call breaks up a perfect game, but unless the tying run scores when the guy at first should have been the final out of an inning, a bad call at first can’t rob you of the World Series. A bad call at home, yes. A bad call on whether a ball was a homer or a foul ball, absolutely, especially with men on base. But a bad call that puts the leadoff man on first base requires at least one more event — usually two — to result in a run.
If it’s the ninth inning and you have a one-run lead, you need to give up a home run or have multiple things happen to lose the game. The umpire has just let the tying run get on first base. Either mistakes by the defensive team or hitters beating pitchers need to account for seven more bases before this one base even contributes to losing the series. It can’t possibly rob a team of the World Series. The Cardinals got robbed of one base and the Royals needed eight bases to extend the World Series to a seventh game.
Bad calls are part of baseball. As I noted in a post about 1985’s Game Six last year, the Royals got robbed in the fourth inning of Game Six — the same game when Denkinger blew his call — when Frank White stole second and slid in ahead of the tag by Cardinal shortstop Ozzie Smith. Replays clearly showed White was safe (as former Cardinal catcher and broadcaster Tim McCarver, a longtime Cardinal homer, noted). White would have scored easily on the Pat Sheridan single that followed.
The White call was bigger than the Orta call on multiple levels:
The blown call on White involved a runner in scoring position, not just at first base.
If you replayed the two innings without the bad calls (as much as you can do that), the Royals definitely score in the fourth. The Cardinals would have given up the tying run with two outs. The only out after the bad call was on a sacrifice bunt that wouldn’t have taken place if the Royals had an out. Even if Denkinger makes that call right, the Cardinals needed two more outs to win the game, and they didn’t get them.
If the Royals lost the game because of the bad call against them, they lost the Series. The Cardinals had another shot in Game Seven (more on that later).
The next team to win a World Series without overcoming a bad call will be the first.
Players don’t play perfectly. Managers don’t manage perfectly. Umpires don’t call games perfectly. Champions are the teams that overcome their own mistakes and mistakes by the umpires. Champions are teams that make opponents pay for their mistakes and take advantage of umpires’ mistakes. Losers too often blame someone else rather than accepting defeat gracefully and accountably. The 1985 Cardinals and their fans were perhaps the worst ever at accepting their team’s role in their own defeat. And the Cardinals might be the sports media’s favorite baseball team — at least one of the four or five favorites — so the sports media helped cement the legend of the Cardinals being robbed.
With White’s potential run erased, the Royals trailed 1-0 going into the bottom of the ninth inning, with Cardinals relief ace Todd Worrell coming in to close the game and, they hoped, the Series, which St. Louis led 3-2.
The bad call placed the tying run on first base. That’s all it did. For the Royals to tie the game, the Cardinals had to let that guy score. For the Royals to win the game that inning, the Cardinals had to let another guy get on base and score. Here’s what the Cardinals did in the ninth inning of Game Six, each of which mattered more than Denkinger’s blown call:
First baseman Jack Clark misjudged a catchable pop foul by Steve Balboni, who followed Orta at the plate. Bonesy would have been the first out of the inning, even with the blown call.
Instead, Worrell gave up a ground-ball single to Balboni, putting the potential winning run on base with no help from Denkinger. And, of course, the Balboni hit moved the tying run into scoring position.
After Jim Sundberg bunted into a force play at third base (he wouldn’t have bunted if either or both of the Orta or Balboni outs had been recorded), Cardinals catcher Darrell Porter allowed the runners to advance anyway on a passed ball, placing the winning run, for which Denkinger had no responsibility, in scoring position.
Worrell gave up a single to Dane Iorg, the fourth pinch-hitter of the inning (Darryl Motley was introduced as a pinch-hitter leading off the ninth, but Orta hit for him after a pitching change, and the Cardinals intentionally walked pinch-hitter Hal McRae after the passed ball).
In that inning, the Cardinals didn’t face George Brett or any of the Royals’ most dangerous hitters, except McRae, who didn’t get a chance to hit. If you replay the inning with Orta being called out, the Royals’ dangerous top of the order would have been coming up in a tie game with runners on base.
There truly have to be dozens of bad World Series calls that were more consequential than the Denkinger call. It wasn’t even the most consequential bad call in that game. The bad calls in that game evened themselves out, as they usually do. The Denkinger call was dwarfed in importance in that inning by a botched pop foul, a passed ball and the closer’s failure to retire two batters who hit less than .250 in the regular season.
Moving to more recent Royals history, a home plate umpire in the Blue Jays series this year made an awful call against a Royal pitcher. Replays clearly showed the ball was in the strike zone and the batter failed to check his swing. But you play on. Later in the series, Wade Davis got a generous call on a strike (it wasn’t even strike three, but Davis later struck the batter out) that was outside. I don’t remember the umpires or the batters, and only remember one of the pitchers, because most bad calls aren’t big deals and they even out over the course of a game or a series.
Back to 1985: Remember, this wasn’t Game Seven. A truly consequential bad call in Game Six can only rob a team of a World Series if that’s the final game of the Series. The Cardinals, if they were truly championship material, had another chance to win the next day. But they completely melted down in an 11-0 blowout that confirmed for the whole world outside St. Louis that the Royals were the true and legitimate champions that year. Every one of those 11 runs the Cardinals gave up in Game Seven, and their failure to get more than five hits off Bret Saberhagen were all bigger factors in the outcome of the World Series than the Denkinger call.
But baseball legends don’t let facts get in the way of a good story. And Cardinals fans — the “best fans in baseball,” as they like to keep telling us — have whined about that call for 30 years now. So the legend has become accepted as fact: Don Denkinger robbed the Cardinals of the 1985 World Series.
Legends are preferable to accountability for some teams and fans.
Don’t look for a correction in the New York Times, but here’s how that paragraph should have read:
And so, it seems, baseball will never have to worry about controversies like Don Denkinger’s call at first base that started the Kansas City Royals’ comeback win over the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1985 World Series or Jim Joyce’s missed call at first that foiled Armando Galarraga’s perfect game in 2010.
That’s a factually accurate description of the importance of the call. I’ll send a copy of this blog post to the Times’ Standards Editor. Will update if the Times corrects. But don’t count on it.
Acknowledgment: Thanks to Steve Fehr for an email that called the Times’ error to my attention and for making some of the same points I’ve made here in our Twitter direct-message exchange. Update: Steve corrected my memory on the score of Game Seven: It was 11-0, not 10-0, as I originally wrote. My memory from 30 years ago failed me on that, and I should have double-checked. But I double-checked all the Game Six details. They were right, and Denkinger’s role in the inning was a minor as I noted.
As Steve notes, Missouri sports fans have some history with actually being robbed by officials:
25 years later: If you ever wondered what the Fifth Down looks like in the play-by-play… pic.twitter.com/H9NlaNquAQ
— Mizzou Athletics (@MizzouAthletics) October 6, 2015
Watch the ninth inning of Game Six here:
Focusing on the Royals again
Most of the time, this blog focuses on the New York Yankees, my favorite baseball team. But the Royals are my sons’ favorite team (I took them to the park regularly when we lived in Kansas City in the 1980s). I grew some fondness for the Royals myself while watching them (though I always cheered for the visiting team when the Yankees were in town). And I have even more fondness for my sons than for the Yankees. So last October, the Royals pretty much took over my blog for all of the post-season. I may blog another time or two this World Series (depends on what happens and whether I get inspired). But here’s a review of last year’s posts about the Royals and their run to the World Series (and almost a championship):
Guest post: Tom Buttry reflects on his life (and last night) as a Royals fan
Keeping a 29-year-old promise, I’m headed to the World Series
Decades of Royals (Kauffman) Stadium memories
Kansas City Royals’ ‘all-lost years’ team
Game Two was worth the wait for my sons and me
A team of the best who played for Yankees and Royals
Final thoughts on the Royals and Giants and the 2014 season
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Tags: 1985 World Series, Dane Iorg, Darrell Porter, Darryl Motley, Don Denkinger, Frank White, Hal McRae, Jack Clark, Jim Sundberg, Jorge Orta, Kansas City Royals, New York Times, Pat Sheridan, St. Louis Cardinals, Steve Balboni, Todd Worrell
Stephen Fehr (10:02:56) :
To underscore the point, recall Game Six of the ALCS. Royals closer Wade Davis allowed a leadoff single and walk. Two runners on in a one-run game, no outs. Worse situation than what Worrell faced with a runner on first, no out. What are closers supposed to do in those situations? You close the game. If you’re Worrell, you get Balboni to pop up. He did that and the ball was not caught. So you get Balboni to do that again or hit into a double play. Instead Balboni gets a single, advancing the runner. That set the stage for the walkoff. Whitey Herzog left the Royals in part, he said, because they wouldn’t get him a closer. St. Louis got him one and Worrell blew the series. Contrast that with Wade Davis, who did what closers are supposed to do when facing adversity. You get three outs.
Steve Buttry (10:04:31) :
Absolutely. This way the Royals don’t have to whine for decades about being robbed by a rain delay.
In late and extra innings, the Royals win again and again | Hated Yankees (12:37:28) :
[…] a strong, but distant, tradition of late-inning excellence from a generation ago that includes the Game Six comeback in the 1985 World Series and George Brett’s memorable 1980 homer against Goose Gossage, trailing 2-1 and giving the […]
Were the 1986 Red Sox better than the 2015 Royals? | Hated Yankees (09:35:03) :
[…] in the trash-talking spirit of good friends sharing sports fun and the fact-checking practice of this blog, I couldn’t let Jim get away with that “better team” […]
You can’t win baseball arguments with friends, but still you try | Hated Yankees (20:52:25) :
[…] You never start or join a sports argument thinking you’re going to win. All the facts that I cited yesterday will never prevail over loyalty, emotion and memory in a sports argument, and Jim has those abundantly. 1986 was a great World Series with a good Boston team, and Jim has savored this achievement for 29 years. In his heart, that had to be a great team his Mets beat, even if that was the only World Series the Red Sox made in a stretch of, well, 29 years. I am similarly respectful of the 1985 Cardinals, which the Royals beat in seven games the year before (also after a Game Six meltdown by the other team that focused on a memorable play at first base). […]
[…] but Sundberg wins on experience, six Gold Gloves and his game-winning slide at home to cap that epic Game Six comeback. If d’Arnaud can match Sundberg’s ’85 heroics, Mets’ fans will cherish the […]
Fond (and scary) memories of Kansas City’ 1985 championship parade | Hated Yankees (09:03:37) :
[…] Orta, Steve Balboni, Jim Sundberg and pinch-hitter Dane Iorg, the role-player heroes of the epic Game Six comeback, smiling and waving from the backs of barely moving […]
Mike Buttry compares the 2015 and 1985 Kansas City Royals | Hated Yankees (09:38:36) :
[…] triple off the top of the wall in Game Seven against Toronto and scoring the winning run in Game Six of the 1985 World Series are probably the most excited I’ve ever been watching a baseball […]
Comparing the 1985 and 2015 Kansas City Royals | Hated Yankees (08:32:27) :
[…] remembered and savored by Royal fans until death or dementia. For ’85 fans, the memory of the ninth-inning comeback in Game Six is the memory fans will always cherish. (I’m not counting memories of opponents, such as the […]
The Royals’ greatest moments of championship seasons | Hated Yankees (09:31:05) :
[…] Don Denkinger blew the call. But bad calls are part of baseball. As I noted in a post last year, the call didn’t cost the Cardinals the World Series. The plays that followed — good plays by the Royals, bad plays by the Cardinals — moved […]
A baseball trip filled with family, friends, food and fun | Hated Yankees (07:46:27) :
[…] Steve shares the Buttrys’ passion for the Royals, and appeared in this blog three times last year. In addition to wishing me well in Houston, Steve mentioned that he was going to be […]
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Skylarking
XTC, “SKYLARKING”
June 19, 2015 June 14, 2015 ckriofskeLeave a comment
(My 100 favorite albums in chronological order: #24 – released October 27, 1986. Originally posted on Kriofske Mix, 2/15/2015.)
Track listing: Summer’s Cauldron / Grass / The Meeting Place / That’s Really Super, Supergirl / Ballet For A Rainy Day / 1,000 Umbrellas / Season Cycle / Earn Enough For Us / Big Day / Another Satellite / Mermaid Smiled / The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul / Dear God / Dying / Sacrificial Bonfire
In the four years between English Settlement and this record, XTC lost a bit of their mojo. Some blamed Andy Partridge’s refusal to tour anymore, rendering the band entirely studio-bound; others cited drummer Terry Chambers’ sudden departure (not unrelated to no longer touring). Mummer (1983) and The Big Express (1984) have their moments but neither album is as consistent or convincing as the three preceding them. Partridge’s settling for the studio cuts both ways, suitably buffing his newfound pastoral nature into a fine folk-pop sheen (“Love On A Farmboy’s Wages”) while using this retreat as an excuse to spew bitter venom about the music business (“Funk Pop A Roll”, “I Bought Myself A Liarbird”). In either case, the public didn’t buy it—25 O’Clock, an EP of late ’60s pastiches the band released in 1985 under pseudonym The Dukes of Stratosphear sold more than The Big Express in the UK!
Thus, their label Virgin insisted the band hire an outside producer for their next record and gave them a list of names; they picked Todd Rundgren, a pop polymath best known for his ‘70s singer/songwriter hits “Hello It’s Me” and “I Saw The Light” but also a seasoned studio wiz, having produced the likes of the New York Dolls, Patti Smith, Meat Loaf, etc.; Not that XTC hadn’t employed producers on their previous albums, but Rundgren took charge to a far greater degree than any of them—supposedly, after the band sent him their demos, he shaped and sequenced the whole album before any of them set foot in his recording studio in Woodstock, New York. Naturally, Rundgren and Partridge (who was used to having more control) clashed throughout the making of Skylarking and never worked together again, but even Partridge now admits the final result is one of their better albums.
I’d go as far to say that most days I think Skylarking is the band’s best album, partially thanks to Rundgren’s overseeing. What immediately sets it apart (and above) the previous two records is a unified structure, its songs passing through two recognizable, interrelated cycles: The Seasons (Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter) and Life itself (birth, death, rebirth). Granted, not every single moment fully adheres to these trajectories (for complex reasons we’ll address later), but the songs more or less superficially fit together in this way, making for arguably the first XTC album as obsessed with the whole enchilada as each individual trinket. In addition to following a tighter structure, Partridge and Colin Moulding also each contribute a strong set of tunes, as if they’ve crossed that threshold from touring to studio band, at last mastering the type of composition best suited to the latter arena.
Skylarking’s unification is further heightened by how some songs are deliberately crafted to either thematically complement each other or literally flow into one another. “Summer’s Cauldron” opens the album in a gauzy, blissful haze of humid but sparkling light psychedelia. As its chorus builds for the final time, gaining momentum, instead of a pause, a new chord and melody immediately announces the next track, “Grass”. With an almost East Asian-like fanfare, the song sustains the previous track’s tone, only wedding it to a lyric about making love out in the open. Concluding “Grass” with a musical callback to the beginning of “Summer’s Cauldron” nourishes the connection between the two tracks even further. Similarly, a few songs later, when the relatively laid-back “Ballet For A Rainy Day” reaches the last word of its final chorus, it ends on a slightly different chord than the previous choruses, instantly going right in to the swirling, string-laden “1,000 Umbrellas”, which sounds not too far off from the quirky psych-orchestral pop Prince was dabbling in on Parade at the time.
“The Meeting Place”, with its playful, faux-mechanical arrangement and crystalline chorus continues the cheerfully idyllic mood of the first two tracks. Some might argue “That’s Really Super, Supergirl” pushes it further, maybe even too far into self-parody. Fortunately, Partridge is a master of imbuing precious and coy subject matter with enough care and ingenuity that it becomes digestible through the sheer force of its melodicism and musicality—just listen to those intricate backing vocal overdubs or how easily and unexpectedly the band arrives at that chord change before the chorus. “Season Cycle” does a similar thing only with the chorus feeling more like a natural extension of each verse. Coming just about right in the middle of Skylarking, it blatantly reiterates the album’s overarching themes; it’s also significant for being the first XTC song with a heavy Pet Sounds-era Beach Boys influence, which will surface repeatedly throughout much of the band’s subsequent work.
The general air of optimism and breeziness gives way to weightier themes and somewhat darker (and more varied) moods on Skylarking’s second half. However, the song that kicks it off is one of XTC’s most triumphant: “Earn Enough For Us” is a socio-economical sketch both musically and lyrically worthy of the Kinks, driven by a classic guitar riff and an impassioned sense of both defiance and pride (“Just because we’re on the bottom of the ladder / we shouldn’t be sadder / than others like us / who have goals for the betterment of life”). It’s certainly one of the catchiest, most urgent working class anthems of the ‘80s (why in the world wasn’t it picked as a single outside Canada and Australia?). Moulding’s “Big Day” takes a few steps back from the previous song’s family-struggling-to-make-a-living to where it all began, pondering getting hitched with equal anticipation and dread as autumnal, chiming 12-string guitars signal colder weather ahead.
At this point, the album’s concept wavers a bit. In contrast to everything preceding it, “Another Satellite” feels like an outlier, a remnant from the band’s prog-rock recent past, although the sweet harmonies rub up nicely against the flanged synth-guitar hook and the song’s spacious, echo-y arrangement. Then, things get a little complicated. Initial pressings of Skylarking included “Mermaid Smiled” a brief, nautical-themed, showtune-ready sigh of a song, followed by “The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul”, a jazzy spy music pastiche that, like “Season Cycle”, introduced another new path the band would develop further on later albums. However, after “Dear God” (the B-side of the “Grass” single) actually started to get radio and MTV airplay, it was added to the album (placed after “The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul”) and “Mermaid Smiled” was deleted—“something had to go and so I took off the shortest song,” said Partridge. While not especially profound, “Mermaid Smiled” is charming, buoyant and a good lead-in to “The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul”. It really should’ve remained on Skylarking (with it, the album still clocks in at under 50 minutes), which is why I’ve kept it in the tracking listing here. (If your copy doesn’t have it, you can find it on the band’s 1990 rarities comp Rag and Bone Buffet.)
Although “Dear God” was the album’s biggest hit, it doesn’t fit too comfortably on Skylarking. Despite encouragement from his bandmates and Rundgren to include it, Partridge was never at ease trying to write about his atheism: “such a big subject… in three-and-a-half-minutes,” he lamented. Still, what three-and-a-half minutes! With an eight-year-old girl (played by a boy in the iconic music video) singing the entire first verse, “Dear God” grabs hold of the listener right at the start; then the drums kick in and the minor-key acoustic arrangement turns electric as Partridge sings the second verse. A string quartet slowly creeps in, at times sinister enough to peel paint off the walls (think of the strings in Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode To Billie Joe”). The whole track builds to a ferocious final minute where Partridge lays out his blasphemy with eloquent but intense, blunt force. Arguably the catchiest and most original single in the band’s catalogue since “Senses Working Overtime”, the song repositioned them as both modern rock stars and controversial figures in America, even inspiring a firebomb threat to a Florida radio station and moving one college student to hold his principal hostage at knifepoint, demanding that the song be played over the school’s PA system. To this day, it’s still one of XTC’s best-known songs in the US; although aesthetically Skylarking doesn’t need it, without it, the album might’ve fallen into obscurity.
Thankfully, the band chose to keep the closing sequence intact and not tack “Dear God” on at the end, even if the overlapping transition between it and the penultimate track “Dying” jars a little. But these two final songs, both written by Moulding are essential to Skylarking’s allure. “Dying”, like nearly every other XTC song of this period contains a healthy dose of Beatles-isms: it could be a track off The “White” Album or side two of Abbey Road. However, it’s more of a link to “Sacrificial Bonfire”, one of Moulding’s very best songs and the latest in a long line of spectacular XTC album closers. Over tumbling percussion, an almost classical-sounding guitar riff provides the hook, while deftly employed orchestration carefully draws us further in, the strings eventually mirroring that initial riff. Moulding sings, “Burnt up the old / ring in the new,” and later, “Reign over good / burnish the bad.” Rebirth may be an obvious theme to end on here, but it’s an effective, compelling one for the sense of majesty and sincere awe the melody and arrangement together conjure up. Skylarking is nearly a perfect circle of an album—as “Sacrificial Bonfire” fades out, I recommend utilizing the “repeat all” function on whatever listening format you prefer, for that opening instrumental haze of “Summer’s Cauldron” becomes more enticing and resonant with each passing cycle.
Up next: Lonesome for a place I know.
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May 5, 2012 General Ag News and Notes, Haliimaile Pineapple, Maui Gold Pineapple, Pineapple Post a Comment
ML&P reports doubts about its ability to continue
KAPALUA – Financial challenges facing Maui Land & Pineapple Co. are raising a “substantial doubt about the company’s ability to continue as a going concern,” the company reports in its latest filing with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission.
Among a number of disclosures in the filing, a group of lenders has declared that a $280.5 million loan for the Kapalua Bay Holdings’ construction of the The Ritz-Carlton Club and Residences, Kapalua Bay is in default. ML&P has invested more than $50 million in cash and $25 million in land for the development project and has 51 percent ownership in the Bay Holdings company.
“The company’s cash outlook for the next 12 months and its ability to continue to meet its financial covenants is highly dependent on selling certain real estate assets in a difficult market,” the filing says. “If the company is unable to meet its financial covenants resulting in the borrowings becoming immediately due, the company would not have sufficient liquidity to repay such outstanding borrowings.”
While the company’s future appears ominous in its SEC filing, Tim Esaki, the company’s financial officer, said Friday that company officials “remain optimistic.”
April 20, 2011 Coffee, General Ag News and Notes, Macadamia Nuts, Pineapple Post a Comment
Feds say firm abused Thai farm workers in Hawaii, Washington
The U.S. Employment Opportunity Commission announced today that it filed lawsuits in Hawaii and Washington state against Global Horizons Inc., a Beverly Hills-based farm labor contractor, and eight farms, including six in Hawaii.
The agency said Global Horizons brought more than 200 men from Thailand to work on farms in Hawaii and Washington, where they were subjected to severe abuse.
The EEOC contends that Global Horizons engaged in a pattern or practice of national origin and race discrimination, harassment and retaliation. Hundreds of additional potential claimants and witnesses are expected, the EEOC said.
The agency said the Thai workers were assigned to work at these farms in Hawaii: Captain Cook Coffee Company, Del Monte Fresh Produce, Kauai Coffee Company, Kelena Farms, MacFarms of Hawaii and Maui Pineapple Farms.
The Washington state farms named in the lawsuits are Green Acre Farms and Valley Fruit Orchards.
The lawsuit follows criminal charges brought against Global Horizons last year. The U.S. government in September indicted Global Horizons owner Mordechai Yosef Orian and others with exploiting about 400 Thai workers in forced-labor conditions from May 2004 to September 2005.
February 12, 2011 General Ag News and Notes, Haliimaile Pineapple, Pineapple Post a Comment
Pine venture afloat after first year
A year ago, Haliimaile Pineapple Co., the employee-driven farm picked up the pieces of the failed Maui Pineapple Co., and reopened with a new name and renewed commitment to grow pineapple.
Vice President Rudy Balala confirmed, “We just finished the one year. We had some up-and-down times, but overall we’ve had good support from Hawaii customers. And our Mainland customers too, they have hung with us.”
The company employs 83 people.
Friday was an extra day for picking to accommodate a field that had ripened earlier than expected.
Pine venture afloat after first year – Mauinews.com | News, Sports, Jobs, Visitor’s Information – The Maui News
January 22, 2011 General Ag News and Notes, Haliimaile Pineapple, Maui Gold Pineapple Post a Comment
Haliimaile Pineapple topic of Rotary talk
KIHEI – Doug Schenk, a director of the Haliimaile Pineapple Co., will speak at the 7:30 a.m. meeting Wednesday of the Rotary Club of Kihei Sunrise.
He will discuss the “rebirth” of pineapple on the Valley Isle. As a locally owned and operated successor to Maui Pineapple Co., Haliimaile Pineapple Co. is trying to fill the void left by Maui Pine, which closed in 2009, a release said.
The breakfast meeting convenes at the Five Palms restaurant at the Mana Kai Maui Resort in Kihei. The cost of breakfast is $17. The meeting is open to the public.
For more information, call President Ed Corbett at 264-3468 or see www.kiheirotary.org.
September 13, 2010 General Ag News and Notes Post a Comment
Local farms in labor bind
In 2008, there were 202 requests (more than twice the number of requests in 2006 and 2007), and 137 of those were approved.
Across the nation in 2009, 5,177 workers entered the U.S. under the
H-2A program, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
The problem is supply versus demand.
“If Hawaii is going to increase its agricultural sector, somebody’s gonna have to do the work in the fields,” said Mae Nakahata, president of the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, which represents 1,600 members in the local agricultural industry. “A lot of the local people don’t want to do that type of work, so where is that labor going to come from?”
Nakahata said many farms are tiny, family operations that can’t handle the workload by themselves.
“A lot of our farmers are dependent on second and third parties to get their labor because they’re not large companies,” Nakahata said. “They depend on the contractor, and that the contractor is doing its job correctly.”
Many local farms relied on Global Horizons Manpower Inc., a Los Angeles-based recruiting contractor whose president and associates are now accused in what’s been called the largest human trafficking scheme ever prosecuted in the U.S.
Federal investigators allege that Global Horizons, headed by Mordechai Orian, hired Thai workers under false promises of high wages, but later revoked their traveling documents and violated their rights.
The Global Horizons case involves about 400 farmers who passed through Hawaii from May 2004 through September 2005. The case includes 14 farms around the state, including Maui Pineapple Farms, Aloun Farms, Del Monte Hawaii and the Kauai Coffee Co.
None of the farms is being accused of wrongdoing in the case. Aloun Farms’ owners face trial in a separate case involving 44 Thai workers who claim to have been abused.
“Local farms are in a tough situation now,” said Nakahata. “How do you evaluate whether the contract you’re going for is legitimate?
March 24, 2010 Agricultural Equipment, Farm Machinery, General Ag News and Notes, Haliimaile Pineapple, Maui Gold Pineapple, Pineapple Post a Comment
Last pieces of Maui Pine sold at auction – The Maui News
Going, going — now it’s gone
KAHULUI – The $23 million fresh fruit processing line that three years ago was supposed to represent the new future of Maui Pineapple Co. was auctioned Tuesday for $125,000.
"It’s so specialized," said Maui Land & Pineapple Co. President Ryan Churchill, noting that there weren’t likely to be a lot of buyers for the equipment.
More than 300 bargain hunters and looky-loos crowded the Elleaire Ballroom at the Maui Beach Hotel for an all-day extravaganza of hope that kept three auctioneers chattering in relays, as many more bidders were online, following the action from around the world.
ML&P closed down its Maui Pine subsidiary at the end of last year, selling or leasing some of its land and equipment to Haliimaile Pineapple Co. But the unwanted leftovers went on the block Monday, ranging from wrecked golf carts to never-used office equipment to a generating station that could power a city of 50,000.
It was a day when the complete newbie could go head to head with the experienced auction-goer and come away a winner.
Like Becky Woods, chief executive officer of Maui Economic Concerns of the Community, which runs Ka Hale A Ke Ola and other island homeless shelters. She noticed pictures of golf carts on the front page of The Maui News on Tuesday morning and decided to check it out.
February 26, 2010 General Ag News and Notes, Haliimaile Pineapple, Maui Gold Pineapple, Pineapple Post a Comment
Pineapple will stay on Maui. « Dcmaui’s Blog
When Maui Pineapple closed it’s doors, Haliimaile Pineapple Company opened their’s, thereby saving lots of local jobs. Cudos to the Haliimaile Pineapple Company!
The company is growing the popular Maui Gold variety of pineapple and the strategy is to focus mainly on the local market, although a small portion will be exported to the mainland.
Hawaii Insider : Prickly issue of vanishing pineapple
Prickly issue of vanishing pineapple
Growing sugarcane and pineapple is hard work, as generations of plantation and farm workers in Hawai’i can attest, but making money at it these days may be even harder. While conditions have improved in modern times for the islands’ fieldworkers, the competition from Third World countries — with different standards of living and labor laws — has also increased.
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One of the latest large landowners to cry uncle is Maui Land & Pineapple, which announced Nov. 3 that its pineapple subsidiary — renowned for its "Maui Gold" brand — would cease production at the end of the year. Citing losses of $115 million since 2002, along with $20 million in expenses for a new packing facility, the announcement continued: "The painful decision to close pineapple operations at MPC after 97 years was incredibly difficult to make, but absolutely necessary. We realize this ends a significant chapter in Maui’s history — an important part of many lives, over many generations."
The company’s last harvest took place two days before Christmas, but just before New Year’s, a group of investors came up with a plan to continue operations on about 1,000 acres — a third of the former farm — under the name Haliimaile Pineapple.
February 8, 2010 General Ag News and Notes, Haliimaile Pineapple, Maui Gold Pineapple, Pineapple Post a Comment
GirlHacker’s Random Log
I used to pick up Maui Gold pineapples at Trader Joe’s every winter. The pineapple display often had the Maui Golds placed amongst the ones from Thailand or elsewhere and I’d carefully check for the Hawaii tag. I was trying to reclaim the amazing flavor of the freshly sweet pineapple I had in Maui years ago. Sadly, Maui Land & Pineapple, Inc., who retailed as Maui Gold, shut down their pineapple production at the end of 2009. Maui Land & Pineapple was the largest grower of the fruit in Hawaii. Dole Food still has some pineapple acreage in Oahu, but has most of its production elsewhere. Del Monte harvested its last Hawaii pineapple crop in 2008. However, not all is lost as Haliimaile Pineapple Co. Ltd has stepped in and purchased or leased the Maui Pineapple assets and fields, including the Maui Gold pineapple and brand. They plan to export a small percentage to mainland retailers where Maui Gold can command a premium price (I’m thinking that might not be Trader Joe’s).
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Auctioneering
303 Lafayette Street, Lewisburg, WV 24901
It’s a short stroll from this charming downtown historic home to shops, restaurants, entertainment and the School of Osteopathic Medicine. Built by Lewisburg pioneer-lawyer John A. North and known as the Second North House, the home has a stone foundation, 16-inch walls and 11-foot ceilings. The layout and two kitchens offer extra income opportunities with a rental apartment or bed-and-breakfast.
Property Narrative
This two-story corner home only one block from Lewisburg’s main intersection has a flagstone landing and an inviting columned front porch ideal for rockers or wicker furniture. An arched doorway with decorative glass opens into a hall entry with a brass chandelier. Attractive floors of oak and tiger maple have held up remarkably well over the home’s 182 years, maintaining its architectural integrity and attesting to the quality of the original construction. Eleven-foot ceilings create an expansive feel, and oversize double hung windows let in plenty of light.
The first floor includes a living room, den, dining room, two kitchens, bar, full bath and half-bath. The living room, dining room and den feature gas fireplaces with ornamental mantels by Conrad Burgess (1806-1850), a skilled Greenbrier Valley craftsman whose signature woodwork, often with sunburst medallions, is seen in the region’s early fine homes. Another exceptional feature is the living room’s tiger maple flooring, which is laid in a unique diagonal pattern.
The well-lit kitchen has a tile floor, laminate counters with a decorative tile backsplash, and an eye-catching knotty pine tongue-and-groove ceiling. There are two stainless steel racks for hanging pots, and a display rail for plates. Appliances include a Samsung side-by-side refrigerator with a freezer drawer, an Electrolux gas range with a hooded vent, and a Kitchen Aid dishwasher. The double stainless steel sink has a garbage disposal.
Double doors open from the kitchen to the spacious dining room, which can seat a dozen or more people. The dining room includes a brass chandelier, crown molding and a chair rail.
The second kitchen, which currently doubles as a laundry room, has a porcelain tile floor, a tile counter, a Magic Chef electric range, a Kenmore refrigerator-freezer, and a pantry closet.
The first floor also includes a nook with a built-in wormy chestnut bar, a sink, a tile floor and storage cabinets, and a mud room leading to the back yard.
The full bath on the first floor has a tile floor, a pedestal sink and a shower. The half bath has a tile floor and a composite marble sink.
A main staircase and a smaller staircase lead to the second floor, where the home’s five bedrooms are located. The landing at the top of the main staircase, which has its original oak treads, has wide oak flooring and leads to a balcony over the front porch.
The master bedroom has a gas fireplace with a wood mantel and slate hearth. Bedroom 2 has an attached full bath with a tile floor, shower-tub combo, and a pedestal sink. Bedroom 3 has an attached bath with tile flooring, a pedestal sink and a shower. Bedroom 4, a large corner room with a walk-in closet, has an attached bath with a shower-tub combo, a cultured marble vanity and a tile floor. Bedroom 5, like all the bedrooms, has a ceiling fan, but lacks a private bath.
The side yard includes a large, 2-level bluestone patio shaded by sugar maples and dogwoods, perfect for relaxing on summer evenings or for entertaining. The fenced yard has a perennial garden with peonies, hydrangeas, hostas, boxwoods, ornamental grasses, a magnolia tree, a holly tree and weeping cherry trees. A detached tool shed provides storage space for lawn equipment.
The flexible nature of the home’s layout readily lends itself to a variety of purposes. The current owners once rented part of the home as a 2-story apartment to medical students. They later converted to airbnb rentals. A separate front entrance and stairway make these kinds of uses possible while still preserving the owners’ privacy.
Lewisburg, often called one of America’s best small towns, offers fine dining, charming shops, a country club, an 8-screen cinema, and a lively arts scene. Local events include the State Fair of West Virginia, two food-themed street festivals and a literary festival. The Greenbrier Valley Theatre, the state’s official professional theatre, is only a block away and has year-round performances. Well-known musical artists appear at Lewisburg’s Carnegie Hall. The town is home to the 800-student West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, and a campus of New River Community and Technical College.
The Greenbrier resort is in White Sulphur Springs, only 8 miles away. The world-famous hotel occupies 10,000 acres. Its offerings include multiple golf courses, a spa, a tennis complex and stadium, a casino, high-end boutiques, an art colony and 10 restaurants. The Greenbrier hosts an annual PGA tournament and houses the summer training facility for the NFL’s New Orleans Saints.
For outdoor enthusiasts, the Greenbrier River is a draw for fishermen and kayakers, and the 75-mile long Greenbrier River Trail, which parallels the river, is popular with hikers and cyclists. Snowshoe Ski Resort, a scenic 90-minute drive to the north, is the largest ski complex in the Mid-Atlantic States. This four-season resort also has an extensive system of mountain biking trails.
A spacious and attractive home in a convenient location, this historic Lewisburg property combines the features of a comfortable family home with some interesting business opportunities.
Latitude: 37° 48′ 2″ N
Longitude: 80° 26′ 43″ W
Lewisburg Elementary School
Eastern Greenbrier Middle School
Home Information
Total Finished Square Feet: 3980
Main Floor Square Feet: 1990
Upper Floor Square Feet: 1990
Half-Bathrooms: 1
Garage: None
Lot Acres: .2135
Foundation: Stone
Floors: Wood, Tile
Heat: Gas Furnace
A/C: Central
Kitchen Countertops: Laminate (Kitchen 1), Tile (Kitchen 2)
Bath Countertops: Cultured Marble
Interior Features: Crown Molding
Fireplaces: 4, natural gas
Items to Convey: Ceiling Fans Gas Range, Electric Range, Dishwasher, Garbage Disposal
Sewer: City
Natural Gas: Yes
Internet: Multiple Providers
Cellular Service: Multiple Providers
Legal and Tax Information
Lewisburg District
Map: 25
Parcel: 11
Deed Book: 488
Sold by boundary and not by the acre.
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GFB VIEWPOINT
What prompted the formation the formation of the Growers For Biotechnology? (formerly known as Growers for Wheat Biotechnology)
A group of wheat growers were concerned that the facts surrounding the benefits that biotechnology can and potentially could, deliver to the wheat industry, were not being brought to light.
What is the group’s purpose or objectives?
The Growers For Biotechnology, Inc. is dedicated to advocate the research, development and acceptance of biotechnology in wheat. Our stated objectives may be found by clicking on the “who we are” link, featured on this website.
Aren’t you in effect, really a mouthpiece for big pro-biotech corporations?
Whiles there’s no mistaking the fact that GFB supports further research and eventual adoption of biotechnology in wheat, we do not speak for those companies and organizations that are involved in developing and commercializing wheat biotech products. We are wheat producers who firmly believe the U.S. farmers should have the access to the best tools and technology and should be allowed to make their own decisions about how best to use them, or not use them.
It should also be pointed out that growers are often perceived more favorably by the public as credible information sources on biotechnology than other sources. For example, a recent survey of over 400 consumers in North Dakota by North Dakota State University indicated that respondents put more trust in farmers as credible information sources about genetically-modified foods than friends or family members, public interest groups, food manufacturers, clergy or grocery stores.
If there’s no support for biotech wheat, what will happen to research and development?
These companies have a business to run just like we do. If bans or moratoriums were placed on biotech research, their options would then be fairly simple; take their technologies elsewhere to recoup their investments or, shift their resources to other crops. In either scenario, the U.S. wheat industry loses and endangers its market leader position and would be left to play catch up to the rest of the world. We want those in the global wheat value chain to understand biotechnology is a critical tool that we must adopt in order to stay cost competitive and meet changing consumer demands for wheat-based products.
I’ve read where foreign and domestic customers say they don’t want biotech wheat, how do you respond to that?
We want to encourage our customers to take a second look at the benefits of biotechnology in wheat. First, we don’t think anybody has said they will introduce these products until competent regulatory authorities determine their safety and issue a full regulatory approval for the technology to be used in wheat production. Once regulatory approvals are in place, we believe customers will continue to have a choice between biotech and non-biotech wheat.
We firmly believe the U.S. has the capacity to grow both biotech wheat and non-biotech wheat and deliver it to customers around the world based on their preferences. Customers throughout the world currently purchase billions of dollars worth of biotech-derived commodities. In some parts of the world where consumers are concerned about biotechnology, we believe more education needs to take place and we want to play a constructive role in the education process.
Wouldn’t support of biotech wheat be a high-risk stand for the downstream wheat industry to take without clear support from consumers or producers?
If we demonstrate that the value is there, and that biotech wheat has passed the rigorous, science-based review of our regulatory system, food processors and retailers can help the U.S. wheat industry gain acceptance for biotech products. If that happens then we will have addressed the biggest hurdle the opposition has used against acceptance. In addition, we believe most wheat-based food products sold today utilize biotech ingredients.
For instance, in a loaf of bread there is usually biotech soy flour or oil plus biotech yeast. In fact, biotech yeast has been used in making bread in Europe, Japan, U.S. and many other countries for well over a decade. These products have been approved by regulatory authorities as being safe for human consumption, the same standard that biotech wheat will eventually achieve. Given biotechnology is already thoroughly incorporated into the food products we have been safely consuming for several years; we see no reason to discriminate against wheat producers who need the benefits that biotechnology can offer.
GFB STRUCTURE
What is the structure of the GFB?
The group consists of a Board of Directors and its Executive Committee is made up of the four officers, which include a Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer. The GFB will hold its annual meeting in the 4th quarter of the calendar year and may call other meetings, as the Board of Directors deems necessary.
How is the business of the GFB handled?
The Board of Directors manages the business affairs of the corporation.
How are directors chosen?
The bylaws stipulate that the Board of Directors shall be comprised of no more than 12 and no fewer than three directors. Directors shall be elected at the Annual Meeting of the Directors and shall serve a staggered 5-year term. If a director can’t fulfill his or her term, the Board of Directors may elect a replacement. The Board of Directors reserves sole authority to appoint directors to the Board.
How does the GFB receive its funding?
Each producer-director of the GFB has pledged a commitment of their own time and financial resources, to launch and execute the business of the corporation. The GFB will apply for, and accept reimbursements for travel expenses and/or grants to defray expenses, including development costs in the execution of its education outreach activities. The GFB will not solicit members or dues.
GFB OUTREACH
Does the GFB have an office?
The GFB has no offices and is essentially operated out of the home of the Board Chairman.
How can I reach the GFB?
Written inquiries may be sent to Growers for Biotechnology, P.O. Box 1454, Meridian, ID 83680-1454. Email: info@growersforbiotechnology.org
What activities does the GFB conduct?
There are a few major companies that currently have research and development underway, Monsanto being the most visible of those companies. Roundup Ready wheat is one product that could certainly benefit our producers, but our focus is on understanding and sharing the benefits of a much broader range of products that could be developed, with biotechnology.
For instance, we are very interested in disease resistance, drought tolerance, and nutritional enhancements – and we believe more attention needs to be focused on discussing the potential benefits from these products. We want to encourage this type of research and product development – and not see it hindered due to the lack of information and education about the potential benefits.
What result are you looking for from the downstream customers?
We want the downstream customers to fully understand the value that biotechnology can capture and deliver from them and, armed with that understanding, we would like their support in securing market acceptance for biotech wheat.
What happens to the GFB if the introduction of biotechnology in wheat is banned or delayed?
While unfortunate, any ban, delay or moratorium on biotech wheat’s introduction and acceptance, wouldn’t cause us to fold our tents and go home. It just means that there’s more work to be done. Work with helping the downstream customer better understand the value biotechnology brings, helping educate producers on the value of biotechnology and the risks associated with losing access to it, and working with media and other industry stakeholders to make sure our voice is heard.
Do you have a set timetable for accomplishing your objectives?
No. We realize there’s a lot of work to be done before biotech wheat is accepted, and it will be some time before biotech wheat products are ready for market introduction. That’s why it’s so important to build the support for biotech wheat now so we can get these tools into the market sooner than later. The more we delay, the more catching up we have to do later.
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Symptoms of an Allergy to Chocolate
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Deer Protein Allergies
by Angela Libal Updated September 30, 2017
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Deer protein allergies are caused by an immune reaction. The immune system creates antibodies to the deer proteins, and reacts as it would to an invading disease agent by releasing histamines and white blood cells. Reactions can be mild (similar to hay fever) or severe (anaphylaxis, a condition that can cause death as the airway swells closed and the body goes into shock). To develop an allergy, you must be exposed to the deer. People who raise deer, hunt and butcher deer, or are otherwise in close contact with deer may become sensitive to deer proteins.
Deer Dander
Dander is the most common exposure risk for allergies. Dander is the skin and fur routinely shed by animals. It can be inhaled during exposure to the animal or to anything that has been in contact with the animal. Inhaling dander causes symptoms similar to respiratory infection in an allergic person. Symptoms include runny nose, sneezing and coughing, sinus congestion, eye irritation, and general discomfort. It is extremely rare for a dander allergy to trigger anaphylactic shock.
Deer Fluids and Fur
Allergies to body fluids can be more serious than allergies to dander. These allergies are triggered by contact with fluids, especially saliva and musk, and sometimes urine and manure. Animals spread saliva and musk into their fur while grooming. Touching the animal's fur or hide causes an epidermal reaction, including itching, swelling and hives. Severe cases may include a rash with open welts or blisters. Respiratory symptoms can also occur. Anaphylaxis is rare.
Deer Serum Allergies
Deer protein allergies triggered by internal body fluids and meat are the most severe. In these allergies, proteins in the deer's blood and flesh cause an immune reaction. Ingesting these proteins can cause severe gastrointestinal distress, including flu-like symptoms, nausea and vomiting, general inflammation, hives, and respiratory distress. Anaphylactic shock is most likely with these allergies, as the proteins are distributed systemically throughout the body.
Fallow Deer and Horse Allergies
Cross-reactivity is when sensitization to one protein causes an allergy to a related protein. Proteins from some species of deer cross-react in people who are allergic to various farm animals. Fallow deer (scientific name Dama dama) proteins cross-react with horse proteins. People who are allergic to horse dander or fluids are likely to have a reaction to fallow deer, even if they have never been exposed to this type of deer before.
Roe Deer and Cattle Allergies
Roe deer proteins can cross-react with cattle proteins. People who are allergic to cattle dander, fluids or beef are likely to have an allergic reaction to roe deer (scientific name Capreolus capreolus), even on their very first exposure.
Deer Meat and Food Allergies
Allergies to any meat are rare, and allergies to deer meat (venison) are rare even for people allergic to other kinds of meat. Certain diseases cause sensitivity to many ingested proteins. People who are allergic to meat usually have celiac disease (an autoimmune disease of the digestive tract) or eosinophilic esophagitis (a disease where the body's white blood cells attack the lining of the esophagus). Other people with meat allergies are not allergic to the meat itself, but to proteins in pharmaceutical products that the animal was treated with. Most people with meat allergies are not allergic to venison.
Allergic reactions of the skin are treated by washing with soap and water, and applying aloe vera gel, rubbing alcohol or a prescription hydrocortisone cream. Antihistamines treat respiratory and epidermal reactions. Anaphylaxis requires epinephrine injection, antihistamines and immediate medical attention.
PubMed: Occupational Respiratory Allergy to Roe Deer
Alton Thygerson, Ed. D., et al.; "First Aid, CPR, and AED"; 2007
deer image by Henryk Olszewski from Fotolia.com
Angela Libal began writing professionally in 2005. She has published several books, specializing in zoology and animal husbandry. Libal holds a degree in behavioral science: animal science from Moorpark College, a Bachelor of Arts from Sarah Lawrence College and is a graduate student in cryptozoology.
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Music & Playlist Transfer
Can iExplorer transfer music to a device?
iExplorer is the perfect app for transferring music from an iPhone, iPod, or iPad to your Mac or Windows PC and doesn't have the restrictions that iTunes has when it comes to importing music, but the Media Library section is read-only which means you won't be able to add any music to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod in that section. Once the music is on your computer, you'll then need to use iTunes to transfer it to your device. iExplorer does allow you to transfer music files to an iPhone or iPad and save it in the correct directory inside the Media folder, but that won't update the music database necessary for it to show up in the Music app and be played back. Those files would be stored on your iPhone or iPad but hidden from view. This is due to the way that iOS works and how Apple designed it. If you don't like syncing with iTunes, you might consider enabling the option to "Manually manage music and videos" which will allow you to simply drag and drop any tracks to your device without syncing:
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What makes iExplorer unique and different from iTunes is that it can transfer absolutely any of your music and other iTunes media to your computer from any iPhone, iPad or iPod while iTunes only lets you import tracks purchased from the iTunes Store. iExplorer can also import your playlists and information about your favorite tracks (the play counts and star ratings for each one). You can find out more here:
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Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1905
Contravention of the extradition treaty between the United States and Mexico by the governors of Texas and Tamaulipas
[660] Chargé McCreery to the Secretary of State.
American Embassy,
Mexico, October 19, 1905.
[661] The Secretary of State to Chargé McCreery.
Department of State,
Washington, November 2, 1905.
Washington, November 14, 1905.
Mexico, December 15, 1905.
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As the tragic case of Alfie Evans drags on, Tracey Morris and her sidekick Linda Byrne O’Riordan have inserted themselves into the “Alfie’s Army” group of protesters outside Liverpool’s Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, and various other Hoaxtead pushers have jumped into the fray to stir things up even further.
Alfie’s parents, Tom Evans and Kate James, launched another emergency appeal yesterday, in hopes of taking their son to a hospital in Rome, where he would be offered palliative care. The Italian government had apparently offered Alfie Italian citizenship in order to facilitate his transfer to Rome, and a “military grade” air ambulance was on stand-by during the court hearing. As the legal argument got under way at the Royal Courts of Justice, two people believed to be from a German air ambulance crew were escorted from the hospital.
Following arguments, the three-judge appeals tribunal ruled against the parents on all grounds, backing Tuesday’s High Court decision. Yesterday’s claim by the parents included the threat that medical staff involved in Alfie’s treatment could face criminal charges in Italy if he dies.
According to The Guardian,
The high court ruled on Tuesday that Alfie may be allowed home from Alder Hey, where his life support has been withdrawn following a long legal fight, but barred the parents from taking their son to the hospital in Vatican City. Mr Justice Hayden said that although Alfie had been a “fighter” since his life support had removed, his undiagnosed degenerative condition had “almost entirely wiped out” his brain matter and he stood no chance of recovery.
It is worth noting that physicians from Italy had previously agreed with Alfie’s UK doctors that the child stands absolutely no hope of recovery; if he had been transported to Italy, it would have been to receive palliative care, not some miracle cure.
Tuesday’s High Court decision also stated that Alfie could be allowed to go home with his parents for palliative care, but this option seems to have been ignored. It seems clear that the courts are attempting to find a middle ground which will allow Alfie to die with dignity, while respecting the wishes of his parents; however, things have reached such a fever pitch that it’s unlikely a reasonable accommodation will be made.
While the case itself is emotionally gripping, we believe that the current tensions around the fate of little Alfie have been exacerbated a hundred-fold by people like Tracey, Linda, Wesley Hall, and their ilk.
Tracey and Linda got their three seconds of fame (yes, it was originally to have been 15 minutes, but they got the discounted version), appearing very briefly on BBC:
Sadly, Tracey’s name was not shown, but at least she was wearing an appropriately tragic t-shirt.
For her part, Tracey not only posted a record-breaking 11 live-streamed videos on Facebook yesterday (which we are not going to publish here because they’re basically just Tracey screaming at the top of her very capacious lungs), but managed to post a number of inflammatory comments as well. Here’s a small selection:
…and so on and so forth, ad infinitum.
Wesley Hall leapt in with an attempt to smear Mr Justice Hayden, who handed down the High Court judgment in February, and heard the parents’ appeal on Tuesday: Wesley’s claim that Judge Hayden “ridiculed Alfie Evans legal advisors” is a reference to the judge’s expressed disapproval of some of Tom Evans’ lawyer’s tactics, which could have earned him a citation for contempt of court.
And yes, Wesley, Rochdale Borough Council had a legal representative in the 2005 case, which was not, as you claim, the “uncovering of Satanic ritual abuse”.
It’s customary for both sides in a legal dispute to have legal representation, which we’re sure Wesley knows from bitter experience.
And the case in question was not, as Wesley seems to think, the Rochdale SRA fiasco, but rather involved an application by the BBC for an order permitting them to disclose the identity of two social workers involved in the original Rochdale ‘satanic abuse’ investigations. It took us all of five seconds to Google this, just in case Wesley ever decides to ever bother, you know, fact-checking anything.
Oh, but he’s not only claiming that Mr Anthony Haydon QC, as he then was, had had the unmitigated gall to represent Rochdale MBC…he’s also slamming him for writing a legal handbook about the issue of children and same-sex families. Homophobic much, Weaselly?
He also tries to smear Alder Hey Hospital, bringing up the 2001 retained organs scandal, in which Alder Hey and other hospitals within the NHS were retaining patients’ organs without family consent.
Hospital staff affected
As you might expect, all of this attention has made life very difficult for those who work at the hospital, attempting to deliver the best possible care to their patients. According to a BBC story,
Over the past fortnight, hospital chair Sir David Henshaw said, staff had endured a “barrage” of abuse. …
In an open letter, Sir David and chief executive Louise Shepherd said staff had been “deeply affected” by Alfie’s “desperate” story.
“We share the heartbreak that occurs when a child cannot be cured and when a child dies,” they wrote.
“All of us feel deeply for Alfie and his whole family and we continue to do everything we can to support them as best we can, just as we have for the last 17 months”.
But, they said, staff had recently been the subject of “unprecedented personal abuse that has been hard to bear”.
The hospital has seen several protests in recent weeks, and police have investigated claims patients and staff were intimidated.
Sir David and Ms Shepherd said the previous fortnight had been “a very difficult time.”
“As an organisation, we have endured attacks upon our motivation, our professionalism and our ethics,” they said.
Charges may be brought for abuse of judges
Meanwhile, The Telegraph reports that judges who are subject to verbal abuse in the courts and online might have to bring prosecutions against their abusers.
Lord Burnett of Maldon said the possibility of prosecuting online trolls was “should be looked at” but warned that it was often too difficult to find the identity of the person involved.
His comments come in the wake of abuse online of judges involved in the Alfie Evans case, in particular Mr Justice Hayden, the High Court judge who ruled in February that the terminally ill child’s life support could be withdrawn.
A petition calling for the judge to step down and describing him as a “disgrace to our legal system” had received more than 14,000 signatures by Wednesday afternoon.
Lord Burnett told the Lords Constitution Committee that abuse “hurled at judges in the courtroom” was often shrugged off but in persistent cases “the contempt jurisdiction should be explored more fully”. …
He said the abuse was “capable of undermining the rule of law because it erodes confidence in an institution which doesn’t deserve to have its confidence eroded”.
Police watching social media trolls
Some relief could be on the way for those who’ve been attacked by online trolls using the Alfie Evans case as a springboard, however: Merseyside Police issued a statement yesterday, pointing out that some trolls had already been pointed out, and that they would be keeping an eye on social media discussions regarding the case. Obviously people are allowed their opinions, but threats of violence, or egging people on to “storm that hospital” (just as an example, naming no names) should not be tolerated.
This synopsis of Alfie Evans’ medical history, current condition, and the “treatment” options offered by the hospital in Italy is basic required reading for anyone wishing to understand what’s happening. We’re reprinting it from Dr Dominic Pimenta’s Twitter feed.
26/04/2018 in Assorted knobheads. Tags: Court of Appeal, Tracey Morris, trolls, Wesley Hall
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Blabberwatch says:
Ooh, we’ve got a live one here:
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2018/04/24/storm-that-hospital-tracey-morris-fans-flames-in-alfie-evans-case/comment-page-1/#comment-102765
Once again Wesley has been caught lying. This guy gives Angela a run for her money!
That news about the possible tightening of laws to address verbal abuse in the courtroom will come as a shock for Neelu and Edward. Rather like a pair of junkies being told the opium crops have failed this year.
I’m fast losing respect for the parents due to the ratbags they are associating with. The attacks upon hospital staff are atrocious. We even have Angela Power-Disney inferring that some billion pound deal is behind it. As if nurses don’t have a hard enough time working and surviving on minimal wages as it is.
I can grasp the concept of Tracey saying that if she hadn’t been there. But…er…she was. So why didn’t you storm the building, Tracey? Too busy flirting with that nice BBC cameraman, perhaps?
I guarantee the majority of those protesters are on social security as they don’t seem to have to go to work.It’s one of the real downsides of unemployment- nurses, doctors, hospital staff like cleaners etc subsidize a bunch of lunatics to abuse and harass them.
Angie’s just jealous that the billion pounds went into supporting a shady conspiracy rather than her GoFundMe fags-and-gin appeal.
Yesterday Tracey was calling on people to dump their kids somewhere and “come on down” to either Alder hey or the protest in Belfast. And going by the responses a lot of parents were obliging!
What country does Linda think Belfast is in?
The story so far:
I can’t imagine where Tracey got the inspiration for that t-shirt from.
*Sorry, I meant “come on dine”.
The father seems to be heading down the rabbit hole at a great rate of knots
The father now has taken on a different legal team to his wife, she continues to work with the law
Tom on the other hand has taken after another Tom, and dug deep into the FOTL, posting this
Admin · 8 hrs
Given the failings in the judicial and statutory systems, I have now turned to the Common Law Court to protect my family.
I have recorded my birth and Alfie’s birth with the Common Law Court and have obtained our Birth Certificates. These certificates confirm our standing under common law and protect our inherent birth rights.
In addition to recording our births with the Common Law Court, I have also obtained the ownership of our legal fictions through the Common Law Court and have the certificates to prove it.
The judicial system in this country has no authority over someone standing under common law jurisdiction, which means that when they issued an order to switch off Alfie’s machine, they were dealing with the legal fiction and not the living child.
As I have now obtained ownership of the legal fiction for Alfie, I can confirm that the fiction is not attached to him. This means that the court orders are not applicable to him and that they have no authority to prevent me from removing him.
If you wish to stand with us, please show your support by recording your own birth with the Common Law Court, there is no charge for doing so and it can be done by visiting the website
CommonLawCourt.com
If a statutory court were to interfere, fail to recognise, or abide by a Common Law Court process, this would be a denial of Common Law Rights and a Common Law crime against the people.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/alfiesarmy/about/
He has broken with his wifes legal team (also formerly his) to take the FOTL path, but interestingly also has taken a different legal team on, being Paul Diamond
http://www.christianconcern.com/defender-of-the-faith-paul-diamond
Until now he’s not been on the radar (basically Christian fundamentalistic orientation from my quick perusal of his history) but if he is onboard with Tom’s adopting FOTL arguments, I suspect he and his organization will soon be under some close scrutiny
https://www.commonlawcourt.com/
Whose is this?
Tracey and her friend were on BBC news, from yesterday
That’s right, they were. I shared the video yesterday and EC refers to it in the post above, followed by a screenshot of it. Here’s the video for anyone who missed it:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-merseyside-43894291/alfie-evans-the-people-supporting-his-family
They’re at 0:14 and 2:00.
Bloody hell, that Linda Byrne O’Riordan looks like a two-man job….
Thanks, Steve. Very interesting and sad to see.
I see Blabberfangs is planning another public hissy fit embarrassing screamfest perfectly dignified protest:
Jeez, she’s obviously been watching too many Neelu videos, does she realise the legal implications of defaming professional healthcare staff??
She is accusing staff of murder and illegal experimentation, not a light thing to accuse a professional healthcare worker of….
Hope she has the evidence to back these statements up, or the people working at the hospital would be quite within their rights to sue her…
‘Alfie Evans: Parents and doctors to discuss sending toddler home’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-43904809
No Tracey “the world” didn’t come out screaming and is not represented by a bunch of Liverpool fanatics. In fact if you read the comment’s section of most tabloids the vast majority are urging Alfie’s parents to let nature take it’s course and for the poor boy to slip away as he will soon.
And your comments on nursing staff are de3spicable you vile creature.
I should qualify my previous words: the poor mother is going through the very awful thing of losing a child which is an “unnatural” state of affairs. Parents should not outlive their children and if you know any mother who has lost or is losing the child you will understand the extraordinary bond that exists between mother and child.
The father seems to be the driver of this campaign which can only end in tears for all concerned. Respect to the doctors & nurses at Alder Hey hospital and all those workers who keep the place going.
Dumbed Down Britain. What do these people mean when they say they “support Alfie”?. How is standing outside the hospital support anyone?. One woman even said she hopes he will recover in Italy. As much as I adore Italy doctors there (or anywhere) are not able to regenerate a brain (and they have said all they can do is provide palliative care which is what he is getting now). Don’t these fools even follow the case?
Politeness precludes me from commenting but I wouldn’t like to meet her in a dark alley. As for Tracey..brrrrr.
One thing I love about Oz is the endless sunshine (especially in Winter) but it’s a harsh atmosphere that does not always show up people in a complimentary light.
I miss the softness of the Britain’s gray skies which is usually far softer on the face. Lynda Byrne & Tracey have broken that rule.
And the irony of that one is that the info’ posted by Samantha actually explains that Alfie can’t be cured and strongly criticises the protesters for their behaviour at the hospital. Hey, why bother reading stuff before commenting on it, eh?
“Can’t italy file for extradition of alfie”
No dear, they can’t. Now off you pop, Jeremy Kyle has just started.
I bet their neighbours are dreading that.
My jaw hit the floor when I saw that too, Stan. Does Paula think Alfie’s a wanted fugitive or something?
The serious dangerous of the vaccines
Oh joy, now the antivax lowlives have scented publicity and are clambering aboard the bandwagon. What fun!
Do we have #AlfieEvans vax history? How much vigabatrin did he get, where is his mitochondrial disorder specialist and other tests, can someone give home water, can you?
— John Hewitt USA (@jhewitt123) April 24, 2018
Yeah, Angie’s been pushing that line too. One of her friends said it, so she instantly shared it as fact.
Interesting thread on Tracey Morris’ Facebook page by Samantha Lavelle. She reports the doctor’s findings on Alfie and appears to be subtly trying to report the truth. One of Tracey’s friends attacks her but Morris tells her to keep it up. She seems ignorant that the thread is demolishing her own case. It’s an example of the disconnect this mob has. I don’t believe they really care about Tracey. They love the drama. They love a rumble.
The father seems quite ignorant and seems to be praying for Alfie to recover. How?. My mother had to make a decision after consulting the family, to turn off my brother’s life support at the age of 51. My mother was great believer in miracles but still faced reality- that to keep him artificially alive was cruel and of no use. This lot seems to be driven by religion but if they truly believed that surely they would think Alfie deserves to move on.
Sadly many of those tabloids have branded judges “Enemies of the People” and throw their hands up in mock horror when some of those people take it as literally as they intended it to be.
The judge in this case has read the medical evidence. He has seen and heard more than any commenter has been privy too. His judgements have been sympathetic and comprehensive. I see no reason to second guess him.
I have personally been in a similar situation but at the other end of a life. The ability to think rationally is not always available. The medical profession can be wrong. The right thing to do is not always clear. I cut the father a HUGE amount of slack here.
The leeches who have attached themselves to this, deserve none.
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2018/04/26/attention-seekers-stir-the-pot-in-alfie-evans-case/comment-page-1/#comment-102804
Really sorry about what you and your family had to go through with your brother, Sam. That’s awful 😦
Sam, when you said “I don’t believe they really care about Tracey”, did you mean Alfie?
Arrested repeatedly “for exposure”? Oo-er. This is not something to boast about.
The medical history of Alfie & evidence in the original judgement make it abundantly clear that no recovery to anything even remotely resembling a normal life is possible for him. Sadly, in this case, there is no life to be saved. That Alfie is continuing to breathe unaided is a bonus for the parents, one they should be using to spend time with him, not endlessly trying to find a remedy that simply is not available or, worse, even if they succeed, will not give a better outcome for their child.
I see that Merseyside Police are monitoring social media and it is to hoped that they will prosecute those issuing threats of harm to the hard-working and caring staff at Alder Hey.
I had (& still have) some sympathy for the parents. I would not wish the illness of their child on anyone, let alone at their age. They, in desperation, have taken advice which is not helping and can clearly (objectively) be seen as self-serving for those giving it. Those concerned should be thoroughly ashamed, but they aren’t and probably won’t be,.
What about all the other parents with children in the hospital? The protestors & the lawyers acting for the parents don’t seem to give a damn about them.
Hahaha, one for the Book of Fruitcake Quotes, I reckon 😂
Frank Bruno’s taken away her post? 😮
There’s no point in suing someone who has no money. I think she’ll eventually end up with another Restraining Order. The way she’s going she’ll be able to paper the walls with them.
Re Paula – crap, that’s a new level of stupid.
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I hereby declare myself a freeman on the blog.
I am no longer answerable to your laws, EC.
So take that, Daddio
Yes, it’s very sad. Grasping at straws is one thing, but this gets into sheer delusional territory. I think we may be witnessing something like the breakdown Neelu experienced at the sad death of her niece: literally driven mad with grief.
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That’s okay, I hereby declare you a legal fiction. Or something.
Oh, and no remedies for you, Bucko! So don’t even bother asking.
Samantha, bless her, is posting a Twitter thread originally put up by Dr Dominic Pimenta (@juniordrblog), who has clearly and calmly explained Alfie’s medical history and current situation. It’s very much worth reading, so I’ve done a series of screen grabs which I’ll post here shortly.
Shaking in their boots?
Why does Tracey think everyone’s scared of her?
For the record, they’re not.
Their tv appearance or what was shown must have been such let down for them! 😂
Okay, I’ve updated today’s post to include the Twitter thread which explains the situation.
A particularly important part of the story is that the Bambino Gesu hospital in Italy is not offering Alfie treatment for his condition. They are offering to cut a small hole in his neck to insert a breathing tube directly, and basic hydration…at a cost of €65,000. That’s all.
This will not help Alfie in any way. It might make his father and mother feel somewhat better for a while, but ultimately their boy is already dead to all intents and purposes.
Another anonymous grass says:
“pick up the kids from school”??? which kids Tracey? surely not your own, I thought they was removed from your care?
Brilliant! Very informative. Thanks, EC. I’ve now added those to the drive:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10kQBxERDKLeL_VIE9QMVTyLqwqxfNc1Y?usp=sharing
Everytime Tracey Morris purports to expose something, someone is always shaking in their boots, this is a classic example of her using words to attack the credibility of the courts & the hospital & to get more attention from her deluded followers, who probably believed the two twats, (excuse my language), were going to arrive at Alder Hey & ‘rescue’ that poor little boy from the hospital & spirit him away on the plane to Italy.
So people gave them money to go & stay in a hotel to flatter themselves for self-aggrandizement. Did those people really really believe that Tracey Morris, who is the worst kind of conspiracy theorist with no experience in anything except making unfounded allegations against various establishments & Morticia, a ‘paralegal’, who ‘knows everything’ according to herself, could actually go to Liverpool & achieve that when the mob couldn’t make any difference?
They deserve to lose what ever money they gave to them.
There is a page on FB that refute the allegations called, ‘Dignity4life’, who actually believe in a dignified passing for the little boy. A lady from America wrote on it one day saying something like, ‘I am so happy to have found this group, I was very worried that nobody in the UK could spell or understand things’, not a direct quote btw. I can’t remember it word for word, but it is terribly sad that people would even think that about the U.K.
Tracey was up in Belfast magistrates this morning for harassment and should really be up in court again in Liverpool for claiming doctors are giving babies lethal injections, she’s also threatening to name the nurses and doctors in the Alfie case against the anonymity order granted in court. She spent two days making a pest of herself outside Alder Hey and strangely the family, who according to her rang her on Sunday night for help, didn’t speak to her once, why oh why are people still being fooled by this foul woman. She claims to save other people’s children but her time would be better served looking after her own young sons, given the awful job she did with her older children who by her own admission spent most of their lives in the care of the state you’d think she’d want to do a better job this time but no she’s more interested in living a fantasy life online and sticking her nose in where it is not wanted or needed.
Well said, GH.
Thanks, Scarlet!
That won’t be an exclusive Tracey you stupid person. Sadly the father already showed the names of the medics involved by waving court papers about on a live.
The names of the medics could be seen very clearly on the papers. It may have been in Monday after one appeal but not too sure. He also of course, released other information which the judge had expressly said could not be released to the public.
Next up for discussion – the number of angels balancing on the head of a pin. That’s also about as useful.
95% of Indians are vegetarian. eh? She’s full of it, isn’t she! It’s more like 20%. The UK is 14%.
BBC: The myth of the Indian vegetarian nation
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-43581122
The dad seems to have lost the plot entirely, his wife has remained working with the hospital and the original legal team, the dad has gone the freeman on the land route, and a xtian fundy legal group who apparently want to go back to the good old days of the middle eastern crusades….
I wouldn’t be surprised if he ends up in jail, he’s already doing the FOTL ‘you’re not the boss of me’ shtick and ignoring court orders.
Sad to see what grief can do to a person
I did. Well spotted.
Has it dawned on Tom Evans that confrontation has failed?
A Damascene conversion?
The parents of Alfie Evans have released a joint statement asking for privacy and saying they now wish to build a relationship with Alder Hey.
In the letter passed out by Tom Evans, 21, and Kate James, 20, they also called on their supporters to “return back to their everyday lives”.
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/parents-alfie-evans-ask-privacy-14582485
She thinks she’s some kind of hero, like Liam Neeson in ‘Took’.
Breaking: ‘Bill Cosby found guilty of sexual assault in retrial’
Going by her last comment, does Tracey think she’s Linda now?
Tracey is obviously not watching the latest news.
I take back what I said above. She does know the latest news.. and doesn’t give a damn. Nasty, vicious woman.
The Bandwagon Club should issue Angie with a tardy slip.
Tom Evans wants to build bridges and have a good relationship with Alder Hey Hospital now.
STOP INTERFERING, TRACEY!
She’s in full conspiracy bandwagon mode now, mind. Making up for lost time, I guess…
“Alfie Evans’ father calls on ‘Alfie’s Army to ‘stand down’ and praises Alder Hey staff for ‘dignity and professionalism'”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/alfie-evans-father-calls-alfies-12433620?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mirror_main
Tracey apparently can’t bear the fact that Mr. Evans isn’t ‘towing the party line’. He MUST have been gotten to!
“Hey we are so coming for you all”
*Coming for you’s all, surely?
“He’s been silenced!” “They’re not his words!”
Typical bloody conspiraloon talk. Grrr..
Face it, Tracey. Mr and Mrs Evans, just like Sabine, do not want your so-called “help”. Accept it.
Not sure what prompted Mr. Evans’ U-turn but it’s a very positive development, imo. I’m hoping he just “snapped out of it”, as the saying goes, though I suspect there’s so much going on behind the scenes that we don’t know about. Surely there must be some rational, loving, level-headed friends/relatives who’ve been trying to talk sense into him over the last week or so.
Either way, hopefully his statement will help to quell the madding crowd.
I think she needs to be hauled in and questioned. She’s making vague threats that could mean anything.
Power-Disney wracking her brains as to how she can monetize the drama.
Breaking: Angie finally reveals where she gets all her information from:
Sam, I couldn’t agree with you more. I just wish Facebook would. I’ve reported all of Tracey’s vile threats over the last 5 days and not one has been deemed to breach their community rules.
LOLOLOL!!
Hehe, thanks Jake 🙂
Another one for the fruitcake quotes, I reckon.
Another positive side effect of Mr. Evans’ change of heart is that it’s pissed off Malcolm.
I made a mistake there.. I referred to them as Mr and Mrs Evans. I don’t think they’re married.
That’s funny, “What does it mean?” often runs through my head when I read Ogilvy’s posts too.
That’s right – the mother is Miss James.
Cue his next post: it will either be “Spiny and Jake: nonce cunts triggered” or “Spiny Nonceman and Jake want Alfie’s dad silenced – I wonder why”.
Place your bets now 🙂
Ooh, so close!
Yeah, he doesn’t sound pissed off at all! 😂
It seems Mr. Ogilvy’s had a wee drink or two. Hic
Awww, good luck with that, Malky. Bless
Phew! I was starting to think he’d forgotten the bit about burning us in a wheelie bin. Nice save, Malk!
At least I think it was. Perhaps if an English speaker could translate his hissy fit for us, we might be able to check.
Thank fuck he disproved the claim that his posts are incomprehensible by posting “POOR SPINY THE NIGHT WATCHMAN THE DAWN BOREUS ,RICKYS ARSELICKERS SO EASY TAE TRIGGERLIKE BURNING A NONCE IN A WHEELIE BIN”.
Take that, Jake 😂
Dare I say… what does it mean? 😀
Great article sent to me by Tim of the MKD Clan:
‘Alfie Evans’ parents needed help. The vultures came instead’
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/26/alfie-evans-parents-activists
“As if the heartbreak over the fate of their son was not enough, the vulnerable couple became the focus of activists with their own agendas,”
Bam – the whole thing in a nutshell! Kudos to Gaby Hinsliff
Call it a hunch but I suspect this may be a fake user name:
If it were the real Virgin Mary, she’d have a tick by her name 😀
I’ve PMed it to Tracey, which I’m sure she’ll appreciate 🙂
“Call it a hunch but I suspect this may be a fake user name”
No, ‘Tracey Morris’ is definitely correct.
I’m ‘ere all week.
I can assure you Tracey’s increasingly unstable behaviour is not making her many friends in N Ireland, people are horrified at how she’s exploiting this tragedy.
Those who still follow her, a dwindling group of Facebook Mums and misfits must be daft. Here is her MO, find a cause to latch onto claim you have people contacting you ‘hundreds are coming forward’ no one ever sees these people, she’s claims to have an army of support, the last time she was in court there were five people with her, one was a convicted stalker. Her best legal team in the world is just a legal aid solicitor who looks like he drew the short straw. She has no legal team no army no supporters. She’s a scumbag who is banned from seeing her own grandchildren for life. She’ll move on from this like she did all the others, remember the ranting outside the children’s hospital and what she was going to do there? Not one thing has changed she did absolutely nothing apart from filming herself.
Yes, that’s pretty much our assessment of her too, GH.
“id comply too and then if lynch them once I for his to Italy it’s absolutely disgraceful”
Once I for his to New Zealand was great holiday!
Both Tracey and her sidekick have been reported to Alfie Evans family members for using the child’s plight to crowdfund their recent holiday to Liverpool, and falsly claiming to know and have spoken to Tom Evans, I have been reliably informed they have both also been reported to Merseyside police, for falsely claiming to have a connection to the family in order to falsely obtain money and making illegal and fabricated claims about medical staff- she’ll never learn but maybe the vulnerable people she is preying on will finally see sense
Saddayforeveryone says:
Exactly!! Organised a protest that hundreds were going to be at – I reckon there was 20 at the most. She’s totally deluded but very dangerous. I feel sorry for the vulnerable people who are sucked in by her rants and funding her lifestyle through their donations to her PayPal. I wonder is she declaring all her extra income to the Dhss lol
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Mass suicide, ‘wandering souls’ rumours hit assets charges in Delhi’s Burari
Posted byVicki Horton March 17, 2019 Leave a comment on Mass suicide, ‘wandering souls’ rumours hit assets charges in Delhi’s Burari
Pawan Kumar Tyagi, a assets supplier in north Delhi’s Burari, plans to preserve a pooja in his flat soon. Prodded for a purpose why he stated he is ‘involved’ due to the fact his condo stands right behind the residence wherein 11 contributors of the Bhatia family were observed dead on July 1. “I am not superstitious; however ‘shuddhikaran’ (purge) is essential. My college-going daughter has been scared ever because of the deaths. The pooja will reassure her,” stated Tyagi, a property supplier. Tyagi is relieved that an empty plot of land separates his condominium from the Bhatia house. “The rate of the Bhatia house and plots and homes surrounding it will likely be affected because of the rumors (of ghosts and supernatural electricity) after the incident. Hopefully, other residences inside the place will not be affected,” said Tyagi. On July 1, 11 contributors of the Bhatia circle of relatives — Narayan Devi (seventy seven), her sons Bhavnesh Bhatia (50) and Lalit Bhatia (45), their wives Savita (forty eight) and Tina (forty two) respectively, a daughter Pratibha (fifty seven) and 5 grandchildren, Priyanka (33), Neetu (25), Monu (23), and Dhruv and Shivam (each 15) — had been observed useless within the house. The police to this point believe that the deaths have been a result of an occult ritual long gone wrong. “But after positive TV channels started out linking the deaths to supernatural powers, we’re involved about the future of this neighborhood,” said KL Bhardwaj, an aged resident.
Bhardwaj, who grew up in Burari, believes those rumors can pass directly to have a “lengthy-time period” impact. “People may be afraid to buy plots and apartments right here. Tenants will keep away. Cab and vehicle drivers will not offer rides to this neighborhood” he said. For extra than a decade, assets prices in Burari had been skyrocketing. “It is one of those neighborhoods in which land continues to be available for buy,” stated Bhardwaj. Over a dozen workplaces of belongings sellers, inside a two hundred meter radius of the Bhatia house, bears testimony to the land availability fact. According to Gyanendra Kumar, a realty dealer in Sant Nagar, residential apartments with parking facility value everywhere among Rs three,000 and Rs 6,000 consistent with square toes. Kumar stated the costs have visible an appreciation of 50-70% in the final decade. “Following the deaths now, the residence (belonging to the Bhatias) and the neighboring residences may also even discover it tough to attract one purchaser,” said Kumar. Ever because of the mysterious deaths, the neighborhood has been combating “rumors” and “fake news” being run on certain information channels. A neighborhood police officer stated that in ultimate one week, citizens have shooed away newshounds of a news channel that brought a ‘baba’ for a display. A guy has been slapped for seeking to “create a horrifying surrounding” for his YouTube video and locals have indulged in more than one confrontations with reporters. The effect of the mass ‘suicides’ started out displaying within three days of the deaths. At least four tenants vacated the neighborhood quickly after news of the deaths unfolds. While may be persuaded to go back, a couple of college students from Surat in Gujarat have discovered lodging some other place. “A student had moved here in early June. His flatmate changed into meant to sign up for him in July but changed into advised by his dad and mom no longer to return and stay in Sant Nagar. The person who had already moved in, too, left the flat without even accumulating his protection deposit,” stated a family friend of the Bhatias who didn’t want to be named. Navneet Batra, a neighbor of the Bhatias, said the reputation of Burari, and in particular, of Sant Nagar, changed into getting tarnished with the aid of repeated “sensational” crimes. “We desire that people consider the police model that the Bhatia circle of relatives turned into no longer murdered. A mass homicide of this scale could have left people even more apprehensive,” stated Batra. Just weeks before the ‘suicides, Burari had witnessed a gang war that left four people lifeless slightly a hundred meters from the house of the Bhatias. In September 2016, a 21-12 months-antique female from the same neighborhood was stabbed to death, allegedly using her jilted lover. Many citizens suspected that neighborhood property sellers have been spreading rumors about ghosts. “The assets sellers want residents to vacate their houses and the property fees to head down so that they should purchase it at low fees. But this neighborhood is positioned near a busy market and will always find customers,” stated TP Sharma, a nearby resident. The nearby police said that the booming property business in the place might be ascertained from the reality that a massively wide variety of complaints acquired by using them are related to belongings frauds and disputes. “In some cases, we’ve discovered one property being bought to a couple of buyers. This is because the maximum of those houses cannot be registered and may handiest be transferred underneath the overall electricity of attorney. Property dealers regularly misuse this fact and promote properties the usage of solid documents,” said a police officer. NK Agarwal, a assets supplier in Burari, refused to invest approximately the destiny of the neighborhood but said that the Bhatia residence would truly undergo the brunt. “Since everybody now knows approximately the deaths, it is going to be hard to find a buyer for the subsequent four-five years,” said Agarwal. The residing contributors of the Bhatia family, meanwhile, are doing their bit to dispel rumors surrounding the house. “Lalit’s elder brother Dinesh (one of the surviving siblings) has advised us that he will be staying within the residence for a few days once the police are performed with their probe,” said Batra. Dinesh’s nephew, Ketan Nagpal, confirmed that the circle of relatives might visit the Sant Nagar house soon. “We will perform a ‘hawan’ inside the house, organize a banquet for priests and will live there collectively for some days,” stated Nagpal. This is not the primary time that a whole neighborhood’s identification has been threatened due to sensational deaths. The house in Noida’s Nithari, wherein serial killings of youngsters had been unearthed in 2006, is regularly called a “boot bungalow (ghost bungalow). Property dealers stated that those aware about the killings hesitate from buying and renting a home within the residential block in which the house, belonging to the accused Moninder Singh Pandher, is positioned. In Ghaziabad, a house wherein a dealer and six individuals of his own family had been killed in 2013, had to be demolished after it becomes deemed a “sick fated” constructing. The decision to demolish the residence became taken while prospective customers wouldn’t offer a couple of of-fourth of the constructing value.
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Author Review – Judith McNaught
Judith McNaught’s romance novels are to die for. It portrays worlds of elegance, passion, intrigue and love like no other author can. Almost all romance book readers are avid fans of her books. Judith McNaught started out with the book Whiteney My Love, a historical romance book and went on to write contemporary stories of which her latest novel has been Every Breathe You Take which was released late last year.
I have read all of her books except for the book Water’s Edge which has a shroud of mystery surrounding it since many books portray its advertisements but I have never come across the book in any bookstore nor in any e-stores such as Amazon.com which sells almost everything. I read from somewhere that the Water’s Edge never was published but the original story line for Water’s Edge was modified and finally was released as Someone to Watch Over Me which was released prior to her latest novel.
Below I outline some of my most favorite books by Judith McNaught:
1. Whitney My Love: The adventures that Judith MacNaught takes us on through in this book makes it an enjoyable read. Whitney as a child feels as she should make up for the fact that her father doesn’t have a son and engages is all such activities to make her father proud which has the reverse effect in fact. She falls for a guy named Paul and goes out of her way to impress him and fails miserably. Her aunt and her husband, summoned by Whitney’s father comes to take Whitney away to Paris where she grows into a beautiful woman courted by all eligible men of the ton. The story starts when the Duke of Claymore purchases Whitney as his bride without her knowing about it. Sparks begin to fly but the undeniable passion that flares between Whitney and the Duke becomes Whitney’s undoing..
2. Until You: Featuring Whitney’s husband, The Duke of Claymore’s younger brother Stephen Westmoreland, this is an enjoyable read packed with romance, passion and intrigue. There are times when you are so happy you tend to smile and cry with frustration and sorrow at what they both go through to come out victorious in the end.
3. Something Wonderful: The tempestuous marriage of Alexandra Lawrence, an innocent country girl, and Jordan Townsende, the rich and powerful Duke of Hawthorne, is about to face its ultimate test of tender loyalty. Swept into the endlessly fascinating world of London society, free-spirited Alexandra becomes ensnared in a tangled web of jealousy and revenge, stormy pride and overwhelming passion. But behind her husband’s cold, arrogant mask, there lives a tender, vital, sensual man…the man Alexandra married. Now, she will fight for his very life…and the rapturous bond they alone can share.
3. Double Standards: One of Judith McNaught’s forays into contemporary novels, makes for quite an exciting read. The ruggedly handsome president of Global Industries handled his business the way he handled his women-with charm, daring, and ruthless self-control. A man used to the very best, Nick hired Laura Danner, and assumed that the proud beauty would soon be another easy conquest. But Laura’s flashing wit and rare spirit dazzle him-and slowly, against his will, he was intrigued, challenged-and in love. Yet Laura was living a lie, a charade that became more dangerous with every passing moment. Trapped in a web of deceit, she fought her growing love for Nick. Her secret could destroy his fragile trust-and the promise of life with the most compelling man she had ever met!
4. Paradise: One of the most enjoyable novels by Judith McNaught, contemporary style. I nearly cried at the pain, betrayal and injustice and finally the love the hero and heroine find together. Meredith Bancroft is blonde, beautiful, successful – and alone. She remains mysteriously aloof from the Chicago society in which she circulates. Her secret lies with dynamic tycoon, Matthew Farrell.
5. Perfect: This story is just Perfect. A must read for all romance readers.. Julie Mathison has constructed a perfect life for herself. Nothing and nobody can destroy her happiness – until she meets the man of her dreams. Zack Benedict is on the run, accused of murder. Desperate to prove his innocence, he uses Julie as a pawn in a dangerous game.
6. Someone to Watch Over Me: Leigh Kendall reveled in her Broadway acting career, and her marriage to Logan Manning, scion of an old New York Family. When her husband finds an old country cabin, he decides to build their dream house and surprise Leigh with her first view of the mountain property. Following a Sunday night performance, Leigh heads north to join him, but is run off the road fighting the elements of a blinding blizzard. When she awakes in the local hospital, seriously injured, she asks for her husband. The police arrive to inform her that he has mysteriously disappeared, and Leigh, although obviously distraught, becomes the focus of their suspicions. Leigh plunges into a desperate search to find him…and into a menacing web of secrets, deception, and danger. The more she uncovers about her husband and his business affairs, the less she realizes she knew about Logan Manning. Now, with no one to help her, she is heading deeper and deeper into unknown territory…where friends and enemies are impossible to distinguish, and where the truth becomes the most terrifying weapon of all.
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Discussion Magic's next non-rotating format (background and speculation)
Magic's next non-rotating format (background and speculation)
Linc BardDetroit
February 2019 edited February 2019 in Gaming
Speculation about a new non-rotating tournament format is reaching a crescendo this year in the Magic community. It's a very interesting topic to me (I'll explain why in a minute), and I think walking thru the idea would help folks learn a lot about Magic.
Background: What are we talking about?
Magic formats are defined by what cards are legal in them. Its marquee format, Standard, contains cards from the last 2 years. Every fall, a year's worth of cards "rotate" out of the format. A non-rotating format is one that uses a fixed point in time as the cutoff, and sets never leave. Both types of formats have upsides and downsides.
Rotating:
Always a fresh environment; the metagame can't stagnate for extended periods of time.
Accessible to new players, since all cards are readily available and the card pool is smaller (less overwhelming).
Painful to stop playing for 6 months and have to rebuild your deck to get back in.
Receives maximum support from Wizards.
Non-rotating:
Still some freshness as new cards are added.
Decks remain legal forever. Less pressing to buy new cards.
As start date gets older, it is more difficult to obtain those cards, barring reprints.
In general, more expensive to play competitively.
There are currently two non-rotating formats that follow normal rules: Legacy (all cards since the beginning) and Modern (cards since 2003's 8th Edition which debuted the new card frame). Before Modern was an official format, there was a second rotating format called Extended which included support for 4 years of cards instead of 2 (at various times, it was also tried as 3 years and 7 years). As Modern gained unofficial popularity (spearheaded, interestingly, by community member Gavin Verhey, now a product architect at Wizards), Extended was supplanted as an officially sanctioned format. The community generally feels like Modern is begrudgingly supported by Wizards, tho I think there is plenty of evidence that is no longer the case if it ever was.
Colloquially, the new speculative format is called "post-modern" which is just bad-clever, so that will be the last time I say it.
Why is it a big deal right now?
There's a sense that Modern is "collapsing under its own weight." It's grown by 50% since it was first sanctioned and now includes 60% of all Magic sets. Reprints aren't happening fast enough, so prices continue to climb on many tournament staples. Magic has grown tremendously in the last 5 years especially, adding to the upward push on prices. That said, the format is also more popular than ever.
But the giant elephant in the room is actually Magic's latest digital product, Arena. This coming fall (2019), cards will rotate out of Standard on that product for the first time, which will leave folks with a giant pile of unusable digital cards if a new format isn't established by then. While it's possible Wizards would create a separate non-rotating format for Arena, it feels unlikely they'd want to muddy the water with a separate digital-only format when they've pushed to keep them (mostly) unified.
Lastly, establishing a new format would likely cause substantial swings in the secondary market as folks evaluate what the new "staples" will be and buy them. While Modern isn't going away (possibly ever), it would likely cool that market significantly. Where prices are swinging, you get nerds speculating.
Where will the new line get drawn?
There's quite a few things to keep in mind. I'll start by laying out the top 5 candidates for where the line gets drawn and then talk about what it has for and against it being the line.
2014's Tarkir block.
2015's Origins (the last core set for 3 years).
2015's Zendikar (return) block.
2016's Kaladesh block.
2017's Ixalan block.
Tarkir: The mildly popular "Frontier" format has already tried to draw the line at 2014's Khans of Tarkir. But it contains "fetch lands", which has dramatically fallen out of favor with the Play Design team for causing excessive shuffling and longer tournaments. A new non-rotating format almost certainly wouldn't include them, although they could just ban them from day zero. Lastly, this set is cited as the beginning of the "sixth age of design" for Magic: The Gathering, but it should be noted that Modern starts right in the middle of the third age, so this isn't terribly compelling. This was the last 3-color themed set, which could be relevant. Lastly, the card frame was tweaked starting with this set, adding a black bar at the bottom of all cards. Not as dramatic as the Modern change, but notable and an easy way for beginners to judge legality.
Origins: The story of the Gatewatch (Magic's verison of the Avengers) started in 2015's core set, Origins, with their, well, origins. It was a very popular set that the design team put tremendous resources into to craft background stories for the five planeswalkers as a prequel to what was to happen next.
Zendikar 2: The set "Battle for Zendikar" kicked off the brief 2-set block paradigm that lasted 2 years. It saw the Gatewatch form and just sold like hotcakes. However, Magic's lead designer Mark Rosewater nominated it as the block that, from a design perspective, he'd most like to erase from history. The storyline in this block continued in the next one, Innistrad 2 ("Shadows over Innistrad"), making it unlikely they'd draw the line between them.
Kaladesh: Kaladesh marks the start of the current Nicol Bolas-centric storyline currently reaching a climax on Ravnica. It resulted in a few banned cards partially due to the Energy mechanic finding some degenerate deck uses. It's generally accepted that, while Arena debuted with Ixalan in 2017, the cards for Kaladesh and Amonkhet (the following block) have all been coded into Arena already. It's further rumored the the cards go back as far as Zendikar 2 from internal alpha, but I haven't found reliable sourcing for that. Lastly, Energy, while a bit problematic in its first iteration from a power abuse standpoint, is a parasitic mechanic that wants a ton of mechanical support. If they ever plan to use it again, cutting off its first use would be far from ideal.
Ixalan: This is when MTG Arena launched, so folks have these cards. It would be zero effort and minimal effect to simply launch a non-rotating format with the cards folks already have. If I believed that the format would be Arena-only, this is as good a bet as any.
Place your bets
My money is on Origins. Here's why:
Core sets began Legacy (de facto, Alpha) and Modern (8th Edition).
Wizards loves flavor consistency. Chopping off the beginning of the Gatewatch feels bad.
Easier to sidestep fetch lands than ban them and keep hearing about it.
Gives them a clean slate to try a new 3-color block without muddied waters.
Rosewater hates Zendikar 2, but this is a play design decision, which he is apart from, and the set was well received.
It's far enough back to create a unique metagame without being a herculean task to code back that far for Arena.
Modern omits 10 years of Legacy. This would push us to 12 years removed from Modern, which feels right.
My sense is that Origins is where Magic's general popularity really started to spike (again).
Tarkir's card frame change is compelling, but I suspect play design, creative, and marketing would all prefer Origins.
In the end, no one can say for sure and I'm certainly not an expert on the play design consequences of where the line is drawn. Critically, no matter where you draw the line, there are tradeoffs to be made. You could make a decent argument for almost any set in the last half dozen years. My methodology was to simply identify the tradeoffs I think are most likely.
My own bias is that I started playing & collecting again at Origins, so I certainly would love a non-rotating format that coincides. I don't play Modern due to the cost of the decks, a lack of folks to play against, and the giant gap in my collection right where Modern begins - I'd quit buying cards just a year prior to 8th Edition. It would be a neatly poetic for me personally if the next format rose with my return to the game. It would surely help me onboard folks to a non-rotating format if I could access my entire "new" collection and not need to look up tons of cards I'm not familiar with.
Anyone else following this raging rumor mill? What do you think?
No, I just recently got back into magic. Mostly watching people on youtube and twitch. Maybe I'll try Arena someday.
I have no idea on what's been happening but shot in the dark, Ixalan. They won't have to worry about fetch lands, the energy mechanic, and it's less work for arena. But Linc is probably right.
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I wasn't even in the ballpark!
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/announcing-pioneer-format-2019-10-21
The format, Pioneer, will begin with 2012's Return to Ravnica Block. Still very fortuitous for me since I retroactively bought quite a few cards back that far. The initial ban list does include the sacrifice lands to limit mana bases and reduce shuffling.
It jumps 9 years ahead of Modern. They won't be adding Arena support for the format.
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AOHR’s Deputy Chief: MB Military Tribunal Bone-Breaking Between Regime, Justice
Deputy chairman of the Arab Organization for Human Rights: MB Military Tribunal Bone-Breaking Battle Between Regime, Justice The second session of the military tribunal for the 33 Muslim Brotherhood reformists and business moguls was held on Sunday, June 3rd. Most of the 200-member defence panel in addition to the international observers were denied access to the court session.
by Asmaa Shehata, Ikhwanweb
Deputy chairman of the Arab Organization for Human Rights: MB Military Tribunal Bone-Breaking Battle Between Regime, Justice
The second session of the military tribunal for the 33 Muslim Brotherhood reformists and business moguls was held on Sunday, June 3rd. Most of the 200-member defence panel in addition to the international observers were denied access to the court session.
About this topic, Haitham Manaa, deputy chairman of the Arab Organization for Human Rights, said :
The current military tribunal is a bone breaking battle between the executive authority and the judiciary in Egypt. This incident will actually have its impact of the future of justice in Egypt and will definitely overshadow the Arab region as a whole because Egypt is a key player all over the region. We have cared for this file since last December when the Egyptian Interior Ministry presidency poked their noses in this topic ..!
Manaa added in a statement to Ikhwanweb that these trials violate the judicial system which has its own rules and regulations. When I send a civilian dressed in civilian clothes to a military tribunal, this angers people who want, as civilians, to stand trial before competent and civilian courts.
I don’t think that this referral to military justice is merely for the sake of reaching truth and releasing the detainees. Taking only this measure (of referring civilians to a military tribunal) means that they aim at issuing tough sentences. They want to show that they can do whatever they want under the military justice, said Manaa.
The human rights activists pointed out that Egypt has a different definition of the military justice. If a person evades the military service and he stands trial in front of a military court, it is OK. But referring civilians unjustly and in such a chaotic way to a military tribunal is a violation to rules and basics of justice and proves that such measures are politically motivated.
Manaa expressed his pessimism towards the future sentences of the tribunal, specially after the Egyptian regime denied international observers access to the trials. "This means that they want to fabricate something which they don’t want the international observers to see. They prevented the Turkish Bar association, Human rights Watch and other human rights organizations to attend the court session. This means that there something prepared under the table.
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When you ask lineworkers what differentiates their work from general construction, it’s not surprising that they will typically say they work with big lines at high voltages. Lineworkers take pride in keeping lines up and fixing them when they come down. We know that lines do come down inadvertently, and we also know that the losses resulting from such incidents can be substantial. No amount of regulation will combat these problems, so that’s where best practices come into play. Best practices establish the most common methods to achieve operational success within the parameters of regulations, provide work techniques inclusive of the collective trade experience and debunk field-level work practices that counter those efforts.
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Utility workers could be exposed to radiofrequency (RF) radiation every day and not even be aware of it. With today’s telecommunications explosion, even utility poles are housing cellular systems such as antennas and distributed antenna systems. And yet, the rapid growth rate of RF technology does not change the fact that we are still obligated to follow the laws and comply with OSHA and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requirements, especially when dealing with RF radiation exposure limits.
Not surprisingly, training is the best route to both RF safety and rule compliance. Anyone who enters a telecom tower site, or who works around antennas located on or near utility poles and building rooftops, must have received training that meets the requirements of OSHA 29 CFR 1910.268(c), and they must also be properly protected from any RF radiation emitted from antennas. Appropriate RF safety training will teach workers to recognize RF radiation hazards and control their exposure.
Unfortunately, many utility workers have not yet been fully trained in RF safety because their employers do not realize the training requirements nor the true dangers of RF radiation. Whatever the case, now is the best time to ensure workers complete training. They must know what they could be potentially exposed to and how to protect themselves. In fact, in the FCC’s June 4, 2013 final rule (see www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-06-04/pdf/2013-12716.pdf), the commission states that individuals “must receive written and/or verbal information and notification (for example, using signs) concerning their exposure potential and appropriate means available to mitigate their exposure.” Additionally, the FCC stated, individuals exposed as a consequence of their employment must have appropriate training regarding work practices that will ensure that that they are “fully aware of the potential for exposure and can exercise control over their exposure.” The update goes on to note that education is the key to a successful RF compliance program.
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Train the Trainer 101: Practical Underground Safety: Handling Neutrals and Rescue
by Jim Vaughn, CUSP
Over the years I spent as a lineman, I did my share of underground installation and maintenance work. During my years in safety, I have seen the expansion of safety processes associated with underground, especially in response to the most recent OSHA changes. Not all of the changes have been effective, and that’s why we’re now going to spend some time addressing several underground safety questions Incident Prevention frequently receives. We’ll look at the rules and practices and what works from a practical perspective.
Handling URD Neutrals
This will not come as news to most of you, but for more than 60 years we have been splicing URD concentric neutrals during underground repairs without isolating the neutral or bonding across the open neutral in the ditch. That is something no lineworker would do on an overhead neutral, yet hardly any readers will be able to recall a time when someone was injured making neutrals in URD. Now, as OSHA’s language and expectations are more defined regarding grounding for personal protection, industry better recognizes current flowing in grounded systems, and employers are looking for ways to create equipotential and grounding during underground maintenance. For the most part, it’s not going well. The two questions I hear most are, why should we ground and how do we do it?
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Voice of Experience: PPE Regulatory and Consensus Standard Requirements
by Danny Raines, CUSP
OSHA 29 CFR 1910 Subpart I and 1926 Subpart E cover the requirements of personal protective and lifesaving equipment. With the publication of OSHA’s final rule in April 2014, the general industry and construction standards are now essentially the same for electric utilities, and there are few if any differences in the PPE required by each standard.
In addition to OSHA’s regulatory standards, there are ANSI/ASTM and other consensus standards that govern the manufacturing, type and ratings for all PPE. These consensus standards change as the industry evolves and PPE improves. All PPE should meet the most recent standard requirements. In the remainder of this article, we will examine OSHA’s PPE requirements for electric utility workers, as well as some of the latest consensus standard requirements.
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December 2015 Q&A
Q: I’ve been reading ASTM 855, IEEE 1048 and the National Electrical Code, and I’m a little confused by the practice of grounding through a switch. Can you help me better understand this?
A: In transmission/distribution applications, there is no issue with grounding through a switch. To explain, we always have to ask whether the issue is grounding through (in the path) a switch or grounding (by way of closing) a switch. The application may sound the same, but it depends on which standard you read. Our subject matter experts think the confusion lies in the well-known NEC rules, which require permanent installations to have a connection-free path for the ground electrode conductor at the service entrance of an electrical system. According to the code, grounds – except in some specialty connections – cannot be disconnected through operation of a switch or breaker contact. ASTM 855 is an equipment manufacturer's standard that has no application to utility practices in the field other than being used as a guide for shop construction, sizing, rating and assembly of personal protective grounds. IEEE 1048 does address the value of having the grounding switches closed when de-energizing a system for work; that ground switch is a very low-resistance path to earth at the feeder or transmission bus source that will lower fault current in an accidental or inadvertent energizing of the source. The ground switch in the station is also a path to ground that will divide and help reduce the amount of induction current on a circuit. Closing the switch can help reduce induction current at a work location, depending on how far apart the work location and the ground switch are.
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Fundamentals of Substation Rescue Plans
by R. Scott Young, CUSP
I’ve worked in substations for most of my adult life, and I’ve picked up a few things along the way. Some were the result of good experiences, while others I learned through less than ideal circumstances. In this article, I want to share with you what I learned from my first experience with confined space rescue in a substation.
It was mid-August of 1983 in Florida and the outside temperature was in the high 90s. Inside the 69/13-kV transformer, the temperature was well over 100 degrees. Two journeymen were conducting an inspection inside the transformer when they discovered a problem in the winding. They called the lead man in to take a look. One of the journeymen climbed out of the transformer and the lead man climbed down to the bottom. He was in there for about 20 minutes, and as he began to climb out, his leg got stuck and he soon became claustrophobic and panicky.
Investigating Industrial Hygiene at Salt River Project
by Randi Korte, CUSP
At Salt River Project, a large utility based in metropolitan Phoenix, there are a great variety of jobs, situations, risks and exposures that must be addressed, assessed and controlled. Journeymen lineworkers labor in heat approaching 120 degrees on the desert floor, while hydrologists trudge around in near-zero-degree weather to examine snowpack on the mountainous Mogollon Rim. A pressman needs a hearing assessment to judge the impacts of a six-color press, while electronics technicians must be evaluated for radio-frequency exposure from telecommunications equipment. A warehouseman at a power plant in the high desert prairie requires education about hantavirus exposure from deer mice, while a call center representative needs an ergonomic evaluation to guard against back and joint issues.
So, while the term “industrial hygienist” may conjure visions of a W. Edwards Deming-like technician scrutinizing manufacturing processes, nothing could be further from the truth at SRP. Industrial hygiene encompasses scores of jobs within the water, power and telecommunications utility that serves much of central Arizona. Employees work in and around dams, irrigation ditches, power plants, high-voltage lines, state-of-the-art facilities and legacy buildings dating back to the Truman administration. Industrial hygienists assess risks for jobs that didn’t exist a year ago as well as occupations that have been in existence since SRP was founded in 1903.
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Train the Trainer 101: Practical MAD and Arc Flash Protection
Author’s Note: Before we get to the article, I want to thank the members of Incident Prevention’s editorial advisory board for their help in assembling this installment of “Train the Trainer 101.” They help me keep my head on straight, especially when I have ideas that are way outside the box. Even though I am also on the board, they still hold me to high standards of accountability and accuracy. These folks are a great asset to iP and make better writers of everyone who contributes to the publication.
Over the past year, iP subject matter experts have fielded many questions about how to meet the minimum approach distance (MAD) and arc flash (AF) rules published by OSHA in the 2014 final rule regarding 29 CFR 1910.269 and 1926 Subpart V. The questions about MAD came from a variety of perspectives, but they were primarily submitted by contractors trying to facilitate the information transfer now required by 1910.269(a)(3) and 1926.950(c). Without information about a system’s fault characteristics, the contractor cannot determine MAD, either by calculation or via the tables in 1910.269 Appendix B and Appendix B to 1926 Subpart V. That means the contractors must fall back on the sometimes absurd provisions of alternative tables R-7 through R-9. In my work for a contractor, we have found that those alternative tables can make some work – particularly transmission work – very difficult, if not impossible, especially when faced with compact lattice structures or old construction standards on wood poles. For AF programs, that lack of information may be overcome effectively by experienced guesswork, but compliance by guesswork cannot be defended when the compliance safety and health officer asks how you determined the AF compliance requirements.
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Voice of Experience: Clearing Up Confusion About 1910.269
It’s now been 18 months since OSHA’s final rule regarding 29 CFR 1910.269 and 1926 Subpart V was published. For the most part, the dust has settled and the industry has started to adjust to the requirements of the new standard. However, questions still abound regarding certain issues, and I’d like to address two of them – employee training and host-contractor information transfer – in this installment of “Voice of Experience.”
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October 2015 Q&A
Q: Is equipotential grounding now a personal protective grounding method required by OSHA?
A: The answer is yes, even though OSHA doesn’t specifically say so in terms we easily understand. The terminology isn't OSHA's fault. As an industry, we adopt certain familiar ways of describing or discussing things and simply don't recognize what OSHA is trying to communicate unless we do some diligent research. In 29 CFR 1910.269(n)(3), OSHA requires arrangement of grounds to protect employees without using the word “equipotential.” The title of the rule, however, is “Equipotential zone.”
The full text of 1910.269(n)(3) states, “Temporary protective grounds shall be placed at such locations and arranged in such a manner that the employer can demonstrate will prevent each employee from being exposed to hazardous differences in electric potential.” By definition, that is equipotential grounding.
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N95 Filtering Face Pieces: Where Does Your Organization Stand?
by Jarred O'Dell, CSP, CUSP
When it comes to following health and safety standards, nearly every worker tries to do the right thing. And when workers deviate from standards and best practices, it is typically due to lack of knowledge and proper training. One industry topic that is not yet fully understood and continues to be heavily debated is the N95 filtering face piece, in particular its uses and program requirements. In response, this article seeks to assist those who are involved with the development and enforcement of their organization’s voluntary respiratory protection policy.
To begin, there are two reasons why N95 face pieces are especially relevant to readers right now.
First, OSHA is currently in the process of revising the standard on crystalline silica dust, which is a common utility and construction industry hazard that is oftentimes mitigated by N95 face pieces. OSHA’s fact sheet on crystalline silica (see www.osha.gov/OshDoc/data_General_Facts/crystalline-factsheet.pdf) describes the substance as “a basic component of soil, sand, granite, and many other minerals” that workers may encounter when sandblasting, jackhammering, drilling rock or working with concrete. Clearly, many utility industry workers are exposed to most of these activities – if not all of them – on a recurring basis.
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Stepping Up Steel Safety Education
by Keith Lindemulder
It’s estimated that between 2 million and 4 million utility poles are replaced annually in the U.S., and in almost every region of the country, many of those replacement poles are now made of steel. In fact, more than 1 million steel distribution poles have been installed by electric utilities across the country in the last decade. That number is expected to rise considerably as utilities strive to keep up with the need for new lines, replace aging and damaged poles and harden existing lines.
The increased use of steel utility poles in distribution lines has created a need for new training and coursework for student, apprentice and journeyman lineworker programs nationwide. For years, the Steel Market Development Institute (SMDI) has developed training standards and guidelines, and in 2013 it teamed with several respected leaders in utility safety and line work training to update and bring new materials to the trade. Among the organizations SMDI collaborated with are the Institute for Safety in Powerline Construction (ISPC), based in Alexandria, La., and Metropolitan Community College (MCC) in Omaha, Neb., which offers a leading utility line technician program. Through these partnerships, steel pole training programs have become well-established, and both coursework and program participation continue to evolve.
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Rigging Fundamentals for Utilities
by Brian S. Hope, ASP, CSP, CUSA
Over the past 20 years I have had the great opportunity to travel the country observing everyday safety practices in the utility industry. During this time it has become clear to me that, more often than not, employees are practicing inadequate rigging techniques that put them and their co-workers at risk on a daily basis. These poor practices are being perpetuated from one generation of riggers to the next. Employees who learned improperly from previous trainers go on to train new employees in the same fashion. It seems that a number of workers have bought into the dangerous idea that unsafe practices are acceptable as long as they don’t result in a serious accident. This cycle of carelessness and endangerment is unacceptable and can only be stopped through adequate training and reinforcement of proper rigging techniques. We must revisit the most fundamental principles of rigging safety to build the foundation necessary to change our current culture. In this article I will discuss three of the most basic aspects of rigging – equipment selection, inspection and proper use – and I look forward to continuing the conversation when I present “Basic Rigging Fundamentals” on September 30 at the iP Utility Safety Conference at ICUEE.
Arc Flash Mitigating Technologies and the OSHA Final Rule
by Samy Faried
On April 11, 2014, OSHA issued the final rule regarding 29 CFR 1910.269 and 1926 Subpart V. The final rule included modifications that address minimum approach distances, fall protection systems and hazards of electric arcs. Since the publication of the rule, there have been an extensive number of articles published that detail changes to 1910.269 and 1926 Subpart V. Those articles focus on explaining the changes but most lack information about arc flash mitigating technologies.
This article focuses on current technologies available to minimize and prevent exposure of workers to arc flashes. Employers must ensure workers are provided the necessary protection against these flashes, as it can mean the difference between life and death. According to NFPA 70E, arc flash incidents occur five to 10 times each day and account for 400 fatalities each year. Additionally, the Electrical Safety Foundation International has reported that more than 2,000 workers are treated annually for flash-related burns. The severity of a flash and the related severity of injury primarily depend on the magnitude of the arcing current and the duration of exposure. A typical three-cycle circuit breaker will interrupt fault currents in 50 milliseconds. Exposure to a temperature of 205 degrees Fahrenheit for 100 milliseconds may cause a third-degree burn, which will cause skin to fall off and may result in death.
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Train the Trainer 101: Practical Personal Protective Grounding
In the last 10 years I have consulted on dozens of induction incidents, eight of which resulted in fatalities. There were commonalities in each one. Just about every Incident Prevention reader will agree that one of the topics that receives the most attention across the power industry – in writing, training and conversation – is personal protective grounding (PPG). Not a week goes by that I don't email or talk to someone about PPG and, in particular, about dealing with induction.
At iP we discuss and share information as well as news about incidents involving induction, and yes, they do occur at an alarming rate. I can't point to any empirical evidence, but my colleagues and I think we, as an industry, are the reason for the confusion over PPG issues. We have been slow to evolve from grounding for the purpose of stabilizing electrical systems and protecting equipment, to grounding for the protection of workers. Even the language of the OSHA standard, to some, seems vague, contradictory or too technical. The ANSI standards establish sound procedures for protective arrangements, but they are not training resources for craft workers. Now, as infrastructure loads and system voltages continue to increase, there are corresponding hazards that were not even discussed just a generation ago. Those hazards are resulting in incidents and, worse, preventable incidents that risk the lives of power-line workers.
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Voice of Experience: Power Generation Safety and the OSHA Update
I have never worked in a generation plant, but I have visited many plants during my years of working with utilities. My experience has been in safety and skills training for transmission and distribution systems. I have also worked with generation employees on OSHA and DOT projects, and I am now in the process of helping a company revise their OSHA 1910.269 training program, including the portion that addresses 1910.269(v), “Power generation.” I have to say, I was surprised by the absence of changes to 1910.269(v) in the 2014 OSHA update. The revised section reads almost word for word the way it did in the original 1994 standard. As far as the changes that were made, they consist of a few clarifications and the addition of “the employer shall ensure” to several paragraphs. That language, which is found throughout the entire 2014 1910.269 standard, removes any implied directives and expectations. It also helps to ensure the employer’s accountability and responsibility for employee safety and safe work practices.
Safety Management Worksite Safety Voice of Experience
August 2015 Q&A
Q: I'm wondering about an issue with a third-party safety analysis required by one of our clients. We are required to satisfy their safety requirements, including creating programs and safety manual changes worded to meet their criteria. I have issues with the required changes because they don't fit into our safety program.
A: You are not alone in your concerns. OSHA issued a warning about this exact topic, and it was a reason for changing the language in the proposed rules from June 2005. In the proposed rule, 29 CFR 1926.950(c) required contractors to follow a utility’s work rules as if they were statutory OSHA rules. Further, in the preamble to the proposed rules, OSHA clearly indicated the intent of the new rule’s language was to leverage utilities under the Multi-Employer Citation Policy in order to improve contractor safety. All of this created a concern for utilities that gave rise to third-party evaluations. The purpose seems to be both a means of qualifying the contractor and also providing a buffer between the contractor’s performance and the utility’s newly proposed responsibilities. For those readers who are not familiar with this process, the third party signs on to represent the utility in the evaluation of contractors. The utility also signs on to the process. The utility’s contractors, or proposed contractors, pay to join the third-party program and work to attain an acceptable rating for their safety program.
Safety Management Worksite Safety Underground
by Raffi Elchemmas, AEP, MBA
May-June 2015
It is an undisputed and well-known fact that workers’ use of manual tools increases repetitive movement, introduces awkward working postures and elevates the risk of ergonomic injuries and illnesses. Throughout the past decade, the utility industry has done a great job of recognizing these ergonomic safety issues, and a number of utility tool manufacturers have responded by developing new battery-operated tools and tool features that address them. Slowly but surely, ergonomic safety is increasing in the workplace as investor-owned utilities, contractors, cooperatives and municipalities make the switch from manual to battery-operated tools.
However, even with the progress that’s been made, there are many workers who are still using manual cutting and crimping methods on job sites across the country, which means those individuals face a greater likelihood of carpal tunnel syndrome, tendonitis, sciatica, sprains, strains, soft tissue damage and other injuries.
According to the most recent data available from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, among upper body injuries involving the repetitive use of tools, approximately 61 percent involve injury to the hands and wrists, 20 percent involve injury to the shoulders, 10 percent involve injury to the arms and 9 percent involve injury to the trunk and back. Signs of these of musculoskeletal disorders include decreased range of motion, decreased grip strength, swelling, cramping and loss of function. Other symptoms of these injuries include numbness, pain, tingling and stiffness.
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How to Navigate the FR Clothing Marketplace
by Derek Sang, QSSP, IASHEP, NASP
When the original version of the OSHA 1910.269 standard was published, flame-resistant (FR) clothing wasn’t even mentioned. The dangers associated with electric arcs were known, but the standard only required that an employer not allow an employee to wear clothing that, when exposed to flames or electric arcs, could increase the extent of injury sustained by the employee. This was covered under 1910.269(l)(6)(iii). The rule eliminated the use of garments constructed with synthetics such as polyester, nylon, rayon and acetate, which could melt and drip, and led to the adoption of clothing made with 100 percent cotton. The problem was that non-FR cotton – once exposed to thermal energies beyond its ignition point – will ignite and continue to burn, thus adding to an injury.
Now that the much-anticipated revisions to the 1910.269 standard have been published, they have introduced a number of new challenges to the electric utility industry and those entrusted with their employees’ safety. Specifically, page 20317 of the final rule (see www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2014-04-11/pdf/2013-29579.pdf) states that the “new provisions for protection from electric arcs include new requirements for the employer to: Assess the workplace to identify employees exposed to hazards from flames or from electric arcs, make reasonable estimates of the incident heat energy to which the employee would be exposed, ensure that the outer layer of clothing worn by employees is flame resistant under certain conditions, and generally ensure that employees exposed to hazards from electric arcs wear protective clothing and other protective equipment with an arc rating greater than or equal to the estimated heat energy.”
Safety Management PPE Worksite Safety
by Laura McMillan
On a clear, sunny day following a fierce thunderstorm the night before, Mark drove off to work. The schedule for the day was busy with repairing downed lines in several heavily trafficked neighborhoods followed by some scheduled maintenance at a router station. Mark met up with his crew, reviewed the schedule and then the team headed out for what they expected to be a long day. The crew was experienced, though, so Mark felt confident they would be able to complete their list of tasks.
In the driver’s seat of the crew cab on the way to repairing the downed lines, Mark thought about the task ahead; it would pose a challenge, but he and his team knew the drill and felt comfortable navigating to the assigned areas. In fact, he had grown up in one of the neighborhoods on their route and knew a few shortcuts. They were somewhat off the mapped routes, but Mark and the rest of the crew felt they could save some time by following the shortcuts. Indeed, the crew did save some time and found themselves a bit ahead of schedule.
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Know your fabric: Why ‘freedom’ weave khadi is becoming a millennial pick
The cotton weave makes it breathable, though the cloth may also include silk or wool, which are all spun into yarn on a spinning wheel called a charkha, something that was famously used by Gandhi to weave his dhoti.
Written by Anjali Jha | New Delhi | Updated: October 2, 2019 2:31:35 pm
Gandhi 150: The fabric is cool in summer and warm in winter making it a versatile.
Khadi or the ‘freedom’ fabric has largely been associated with Mahatma Gandhi, but no one would have bet that the humble weave would pass the test of time. Thanks to the millennial trend, neutral palettes or pastel shades are seeing a revival and so is homegrown khadi.
Khadi or ‘khaddar’ basically refers to handspun, handwoven natural fabric originating from India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. The cotton weave makes it breathable, though the cloth may also include silk or wool, which are all spun into yarn on a spinning wheel called a charkha, something that was famously used by Gandhi to weave his dhoti. The fabric is cool in summer and warm in winter.
Khadi is being promoted in India by Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), which is an initiative by the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. KVIC is entrusted with the task of providing financial assistance to institutions and individuals for the development and operation of khadi and village industries; guiding them through the supply of designs, prototypes and other technical information.
Aditi Rao Hydari and Arjun Rampal wearing khadi at runway.
If you are not living under a rock, you know that sustainable fashion is the need of the hour, with a bunch of designers working to make khadi more wearable.
Priyanshi Jariwala, the founder of The Khadi Cult, can be partly credited with getting the attention of millennial Instagrammers through her quirky designs. “The reason for picking khadi is primarily the versatility of the fabric, its national importance and the fact that it hasn’t received its due. The fabric is eco-friendly and generates employment for weavers as well. That was enough for me to get started. We are trying to weave a new story with khadi and the inspiration for our prints comes from daily life. The idea is to appeal to a younger segment,” she said while talking to indianexpress.com.
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The Khadi Cult generally works around co-ordinated sets, funky shirts, graphic pantsuits, things that one won’t associate with khadi at first glance. Jariwala comments, “Something like a ‘dabba’ print was an ode to the dabbawalas of Mumbai. The whale print addressed the issue of depleting marine life. The key is addressing serious themes subtly, bringing different elements together with fun graphics. We typically use digital printing, which makes it easier to get desired colours. The Chai, Matsya and Hari Sawari prints are some of my favourites.”
The Surat brand, however, doesn’t weave its own fabrics, but sources it from government-run Khadi institutions. “We work with khadi cotton and muslins and the latter is my favourite. The challenge of working and experimenting with the same fabric gives us a creative high,” adds Jariwala.
Hyderabad-based textile designer Gaurag Shah will be unveiling nearly 30 khadi saris, its patterns inspired by Raja Ravi Varma’s paintings. Coincidently, the master class painter’s death anniversary falls on October 2 and to bring more relevance to this day, the designer came up with this amalgamation.
The saris have been woven using 150-count fine khadi, with the yarn procured from Ganjam Zilla Khadi Gramodyog Sangh in Odisha. Two hundred kilograms of dupion silk yarn was dyed in 600 hues of natural dyes, for the weavers to replicate the paintings using the Srikakulam jamdani technique.
Isha Priya Singh who is one of the genuine loves of Indian textile and is often seen giving out tips and tricks on using drapes in versatile ways and for all seasons. Through her Instagram posts with the name desidrapes, she puts out conversations around Indian fabric and traces its history. “Khadi is a process to create textiles. A variety of fabrics can be created through Khadi and they can lend themselves to any and every style. I do love wearing Khadi but it isn’t easy to find genuine and well-designed Khadi clothes. Especially now that the Khadi Commission has made it difficult for private designer labels to use the word Khadi. People who love Indian textiles mostly have Khadi in their collections. Nothing stops them. Like I already said, Khadi is just a textile. It can lend itself to any and every style”, she said while talking to indianexpress.com.
“Khadi is the answer to a spiritual as well as a sustainable way of life. Cow dung and silicone are used as softening materials. Value-addition is done through hand-painting, printing, and surface ornamentation techniques. It is the only fabric that doesn’t use fossil fuel. Sustainable fashion will move as a core element to inspire companies rooted in designing a better future,” points out Rupal Dalal, Executive Director, JD Institute of Fashion Technology.
Apart from ace designers like Abu Jani-Sandeep Khosla and Sabyasachi Mukherjee, there are others making their mark in khadi and giving it the platform it deserves. Ashish Satyavrat Sahu, who is popularly known as khadi-wala-designer on Instagram, works with tribals in Ranchi, Jharkhand.
“Since 2012, when I was working in Gujarat, I have been attracted to this versatile fabric. I try to combine Jharkhand’s rich art and craft such as Sohrai and Kohvar along with khadi to make something that can appeal to everyone. With the help of KVIC, I am aiming at making an all-women based khadi readymade manufacturing unit in Ranchi. I want to include as many tribal native people of the state as possible. Their hardworking nature inspires me to do better. With designers making khadi trendy, there are more buyers,” Sahu says.
It’s not an easy process though, he points out, since besides keeping an eye on the amount of starch used, one has to choose the right trims and cuts, besides buttons in wood or coconut, to complement the fabric. There’s no debating that khadi remains immensely wearable for every generation.
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C1Po2C-06 [11]: Progress towards operation of a deuterium cold neutron source at the NCNR
Level 6, Cryo Expo Exhibit Hall ()
Level 6, Cryo Expo Exhibit Hall
Poster Presentation C1Po2C - Argon, Hydrogen, and Nitrogen Systems
John Jurns (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
The NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) operates a 20 MW research reactor that produces neutrons for a suite of 30 neutron scattering instruments. 70% of these instruments use cold neutrons (E < 5 meV), which are moderated by two separate cold neutron sources. The cold moderator for both sources is liquid hydrogen (LH2), which is in turn cooled by a recently commissioned 7 kW, 14K helium refrigerator. NCNR plans to replace the larger cold source with a new one operating with liquid deuterium (LD2). This report focuses on progress towards the upgrade to liquid deuterium, and options to address the particular challenges of designing and operating a cooling system that will simultaneously support operation with both LH2 and LD2 sources.
John Jurns (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Dr Robert Williams (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Mr Michael Middleton (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
C1Po2C-06 poster.pdf
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Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot
By Martin Dugard and Bill O' Reilly
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The honest truth about leather
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Agha Saiddain, Marketing Director of Pakistan based tanners, Royal Leather Industries located in Lahore and the current Chairman of the Pakistan Tanners’ Association (PTA) Central section, has presented his thoughts to ILM around some of the untruths and misconceptions around leather and leather products in the current market. He urges the tanning industry to work together to fight on common ground.
From the very beginning of humanity animal meat and skins were an essential partner for the human race. It would have vanished to exist without animal meat and skins. Both remained as important as water and oxygen till humans started growing other foodstuffs and fabrics. However, both meat and their skins remained important for people to survive. The use of animal meat, milk, and it’s hide, or skin is part of the human race as most of us are both carnivorous and vegetarian.
The need hierarchy theory of famous psychologist, Maslow states that hunger and thirst are two basic needs of any human or animal. Any interference in this natural system is unnatural and bound to disappear after some time. Some NGOs through publicity and advertising are using false facts and are busy creating dissonance among consumers about natural leather. Their ultimate goal is to raise negativity around leather to a point where consumers will check the label before buying any leather product and may prefer to buy plastics and synthetic materials instead! These NGOs want to distort the perception of the consumer to the level where big brands will write on the labels “No animal skin is used, only synthetic material”. What we can see in their publicity campaigns is that all these are based on element of fear and hypocritical love for animals. Attacking meat and beef by creating stories around animal welfare, traceability, animal slaughter etc. They also stoke up fears around the environmental of leather making, chrome tanning, emissions of methane gas during the life-cycle of the animal. With incorrect information they are busy developing a perception among the masses that leather making is toxic and the rearing of livestock is a major source of global warming. Up until now the global tanning sector has not really challenged these false claims. However, the tanning industry has gathered information and does have valid arguments which are based on the honest truth as well as solid facts.
Throwing a useable resource into landfill
According to FAO (Food and Agricultural Organisation) statistics, the global cattle herd was 1035.3 million in 2013 and it says that there is an average annual growth rate of the global cattle herd around 0.8%. Therefore, the size of the global cattle herd in 2018 should be around 1077.38 million head. According to a study conducted by the U.S. Hide, Skin and Leather Association (USHSLA) the annual slaughter of cattle at a global level was 240 million head in 2013. The same source says that the average weight per hide is approximately 30 kilos meaning that total annual weight of hides would 7.2 billion kilos. To dump these into landfill would cost US$950 million per year. Similarly, the global population of sheep and goats was 1172 million and 1005 million heads respectively and according to the FAO, the annual global slaughter of sheep and goat was 542.50 million and 424 million head respectively. Based on the average weight of sheep and goatskins is around conservatively 700 grams per skin. Therefore, the total weight of sheepskins and goatskins works out 675 million kilos which could cost another US$90 million per annum to dump. Every year, developing nations are spending US$45 billion on municipal waste management which is estimated to reach US$150 billion by 2025 (Source: PROPARCO). Adding another 7.875 billion kilos to this would cost a huge adding to ground contamination and air pollution. The tanning industry itself is a pollution controlling and waste management sector handling 7.875 billion kilos of raw hides and skins and each year. Hides and skins that are a by-product of the meat industry. Who on earth raises an animal for leather? The answer is none, when it comes to mainstream farm animals.
Why do these NGOs blame the leather sector for the degradation of the Amazon, methane emissions, and bad practices during animal rearing and for other environmental issues? The tanning industry is recycling the hides and skins into leather and beautiful leather goods such as shoes, garments, gloves, bags, automotive and furniture upholstery, and many other articles. This recycling industry of hides and skins provides jobs to millions of people across the world and especially in poor and developing countries. The developed nations are also benefitting by selling their leather chemicals, accessories, and machinery in to the industry.
The industry needs to face anti-leather NGOs and challenge their narrative based on falsehoods. As ILM Columnist Mike Redwood says, tanners must raise their honest voice, we must combine and sing in harmony.
Misdescriptions of leather
The Global Leather Coordinating Committee (GLCC) which brings together the ICT, ICHSLTA and IULTCS has challenged big brands such as Nike about its ‘Fly Leather’ and its environmental credentials as well as the use of the term ‘leather’ in this material.
The leather sector needs to raise a combined voice to not allow the use of the word “leather” in such products and prevent terms such as synthetic leather or bonded leather etc. We must introduce a true “Leather Mark” like the “Wool Mark” to save this ancient industry which has put a lot of effort into reducing its consumption of water and energy together with use of more environmentally friendly chemicals. If we compare the pollution load of the tanning industry as compared with other industries and carbon emissions caused by the use of fossil fuels, then it’s impact is only a fraction of the total.
In my view, the leather industry needs to work on building up more fact data, especially around the environmental impact when comparing synthetic materials and natural leather. And, to create a new love for this ancient material we have to join together and develop a narrative based on the honest truth and follow it strongly and aggressively.
Agha Saiddain, Chairman, Pakistan Tanners' Association (Central).
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Gambling in Mississippi: Its Early History Mississippi History Now » » Gambling in Mississippi: Its Early History Avelez Hotel in Biloxi, built in the late 1920s, was one of many hotels on the Mississippi Gulf Coast that offered gambling activities.
It was demolished in the 1950s.
Postcard courtesy Deanne Nuwer.
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The hotel was damaged by fire and then neglect before it was ultimately demolished.
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Out for a night in Biloxi.
Gambler Bob Thompson, center, in the lobby of the Avelez Hotel cashing in his winning bet against Salvatore Joseph Sicuro.
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Circa 1946 photograph courtesy Claude Sicuro.
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November 1939 photograph by Where are the casinos in mississippi Post Wolcott.
Courtesy Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Call No: LC-USF34-052487-D The Broadwater Beach Hotel was built in 1938 specifically to cater to out-of-state and Mississippi gamblers.
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Late 1940s photograph courtesy Deanne Nuwer.
Gambling in Mississippi: Its Early History By Deanne S.
Nuwer Gambling in Mississippi is centuries old.
Before Europeans or Africans called the state their home, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and other Indian peoples in the region gambled regularly.
American Indians were fond of games and gambling, according to early accounts.
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Billiards in Biloxi During the 1830s and 1840s, the population of the state grew.
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Many early 19th-century Mississippians went to the Mississippi Coast on the Gulf of Mexico to enjoy its resorts and mild weather.
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Many seafood factories had been built along the Coast by the 1890s, and each one of them constructed its own schooners for harvesting shrimp and oysters.
However, in June and July, the factories organized races for cash prizes to see which one of them had the fastest schooner.
By 1912, the entire Mississippi Gulf Coast was connected by shell roads, railroad lines, and a trolley system.
The Coast and Piney Woods regions were booming.
When World War I ended in 1919, the Piney Woods region provided much-needed lumber to markets around the world.
After Prohibition was enacted July 1, 1919, some of the ships once used for hauling lumber engaged in transporting illegal liquor to entertainment establishments along the Mississippi Coast and to other major cities in the Gulf region.
From the Caribbean Islands, particularly Cuba, to various ports along the Mississippi Sound, ships secretly sailed around the Barrier Islands and bayous.
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Dog Key Island, which was only three miles long and about 487 acres, had been used for years by local fishermen because artesian springs were there, providing fresh water.
During Prohibition it became a haven for bootleggers.
Realizing its importance because of the fresh water supply and its location twelve miles outside of the jurisdiction of United States claims, three men decided to develop a resort there.
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Any visitor who paid the 75-cent fare could take the short boat trip of about thirty minutes to the Isle of Caprice and gamble at its casino.
There were roulette wheels, dice tables, and other gambling devices available.
By 1932, the Isle of Caprice Resort was completely submerged.
These hotels and many smaller establishments offered slot machines for their guests, along with other activities such as dancing and golfing.
Slot machines also appeared in grocery stores and other businesses.
Gambling devices were more prevalent along the Gulf Coast and in Mississippi River towns, where gambling had historically existed, than in other sections of the state.
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During the Great Depression of the 1930s, gambling was viewed as a means to stimulate the economy, especially along the Gulf Coast.
Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, gambling expanded along the Coast.
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In early 1950, a group of Gulf Coast ministers organized a movement to outlaw gambling on the Coast.
Calling themselves the Biloxi Protestant Ministerial Association and a Group of Interested Laymen, where are the casinos in mississippi sought to outlaw slot machines in Harrison County.
Their concern was that laws were not being enforced regarding the illegal operation of slot machines.
Meeting regularly with like-minded citizens in their respective churches, they advertised in The Daily Herald a list of statutes that prohibited gambling as outlined in the Mississippi Law Code of 1942.
The group believed gambling was harmful to family life and to individuals who could not control themselves when they spent too much money at the slot machines.
By 1951, the U.
Senate Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce had also begun hearings to determine the extent of organized crime in the casino industry throughout the United States.
Senator Estes Kefauver from Tennessee headed the committee and it was soon called the Kefauver Committee.
The Gulf Coast ministers and citizens used the hearings to call more attention to the slot machine problem on the Coast.
They advertised the fines and imprisonment stipulations for breaking the Mississippi laws and continued to demand the enforcement of those laws by local officials.
As a result, law officials seized slot machines in various clubs and stores in Harrison County and dumped them in the Back Bay.
The law officers also arrested the owners of the machines.
Officials at Keesler Air Force Base, who also believed that gambling was a bad influence on the men and women stationed there, joined in the call for enforcing anti-gambling laws in Harrison County.
Keesler officials were concerned that the 327 bars, supper clubs, and other businesses in Harrison County would exploit the thousands of men and women who were stationed there.
It was believed that illegal slot machines tempted the young men and women to gamble away their hard-earned money when the chances of winning at the slot machines were almost non-existent.
After several days of investigations and hearings in Biloxi, the Kefauver Committee condemned the gambling establishments, but did not close them.
After this report, a crackdown on gambling operations did occur for awhile in Harrison County.
The mayor of Biloxi promised to enforce laws as related to gold rush machine the slot machines and other gambling devices during his administration.
Thereafter, gambling operations began to decline.
Clubs on the Coast Throughout the 1960s, clubs such as the Fiesta, Gus Stevens, the Beach Club, and Mr.
Back room gambling had not stopped.
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Hurricane Camille hit the Mississippi Coast on August 19, here, destroying homes and businesses.
In the 1980s, the economy of the coastal region was still floundering.
Casinos and the new century The 1990s, however, brought new gambling interests for Mississippi when Congress passed the National Indian Gaming Act in 1988.
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Along the Mississippi Gulf Coast and in towns along the Mississippi River, local legislators also realized the revenue advantage of legalizing where are the casinos in mississippi />Mississippi Senator Tommy Gollott, a Democrat from the 50th Senate District in Harrison County, spearheaded legislation for dockside gambling to help the slumping state economy.
As a result, on June 29, 1990, the Mississippi Legislature passed the Mississippi Gaming Control Act.
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To date, in addition to Neshoba County, legalized casino gambling exists in Tunica, Washington, Adams, Warren, Hancock, and Harrison counties.
Hancock County, on December 5, 1990, was the first Mississippi county to approve dockside gambling.
Harrison County quickly followed.
Two years after the Gaming Control Act passed, where are the casinos in mississippi Isle of Caprice Casino opened in Biloxi.
By October 1992, Splash Casino in Tunica County opened.
Today, in 2005, there are about thirty gaming properties along the Gulf Coast and Mississippi River.
Over 42 million people visited Mississippi casinos in 2004, with the vast majority of them coming from outside of the state.
Posted March 2005 References: Gambling Vertical File, Down South Magazine, May-June 1952 and September-October, 1958; Mississippi Guide, December 8, 1937, Biloxi Public Library, Biloxi, Mississippi, The Biloxi News, May 30, 1926; and New Orleans, The New Orleans Item, July 11, 1926.
Hearing Before the Preparedness Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate 82nd Congress First Session on Illegal Gaming Activities Near Keesler Air Force Base.
Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750-1830, Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2002: 41-42.
The Mississippi Gulf Coast: Portrait of a People.
Sun Valley, California: American Historical Press, 1999: 48.
Source Material for the Social and Ceremonial Life of the Choctaw Indians.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2001: 140-160.
Mississippi Historical Society © 2000—2017.
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This book is a remarkable and moving account of life on the home front in Manchester during the Second World War. Based on transcripts of recorded interviews with senior civilians and former members of the Armed Services, this book provides aMoreThis book is a remarkable and moving account of life on the home front in Manchester during the Second World War.
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After yesterday's story about "Nichole," who is being spared deportation (for now) due to her sexuality, the Washington Post has an in-depth piece about gay asylum seekers from Latin America. In 1994, then-Attorney General Janet Reno ruled that asylum seekers could legally argue that they needed asylum because they would be persecuted for their homosexuality in their native countries. Many early seekers of asylum using those provisions were gay men from Latin America, and especially Mexico, where gay men were often beaten and abused even by the police.But, in the last year or so, lawyers representing asylum-seekers say that the Department of Homeland Security's already-opaque decision-making structure has significantly decreased the number of asylum petitions from gay Latinos that it accepts. But even Jorge Saavedra, who directs the Mexican government's AIDS programs and is openly gay and HIV-positive himself, says that homophobia still runs rampant in Mexico. Why now? In 2006, Mexico passed a same-sex unions law that — as one assumes many in the LGBT community in the United States could already guess — did nothing to end the scourge of homophobia and, some say, might have made things worse by making homophobes more anxious and aggressive toward gay Mexicans. In the meantime, the Department of Homeland Security — for completely apolitical reasons I'm sure — decided last year that every single asylum petition from Mexico has to undergo a "special" review by the Department in Washington. Grants of asylum have begun to plummet, even as Mexicans seeking asylum continue to report tales that ought to horrify us all — including tales of being forced to perform sex acts on prisoners for the amusement of the guards and of being fired for being HIV-positive. But, you know, that's no reason to take their tired, their poor, their huddled masses longing to breathe free or their gay citizens trying to escape a life of abuse. Homosexuality's a choice after all. As Latin Nations Treat Gays Better, Asylum Is Elusive [Washington Post]
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Does high intelligence improve prognosis? The association of intelligence with recurrence and mortality among Swedish men with coronary heart disease
Life course and long-term influences on health
Alma Sörberg Wallin1,
Daniel Falkstedt2,3,
Peter Allebeck2,
Bo Melin3,
Imre Janszky2,4,
Tomas Hemmingsson1,5
1Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
2Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
3Division of Psychology, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
4Department of Public Health and General Practice, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
5Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Correspondence to Alma Sörberg Wallin, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Solnavägen 4, Stockholm 113 65, Sweden; alma.sorberg{at}ki.se
Background Lower intelligence early in life is associated with increased risks for coronary heart disease (CHD) and mortality. Intelligence level might affect compliance to treatment but its prognostic importance in patients with CHD is unknown.
Methods A cohort of 1923 Swedish men with a measure of intelligence from mandatory military conscription in 1969–1970 at age 18–20, who were diagnosed with CHD 1991–2007, were followed to the end of 2008. Primary outcome: recurrent CHD event. Secondary outcome: case fatality from the first event, cardiovascular and all-cause mortality. National registers provided information on CHD events, comorbidity, mortality and socioeconomic factors.
Results The fully adjusted HRs for recurrent CHD for medium and low intelligence, compared with high intelligence, were 0.98, (95% CIs 0.83 to 1.16) and 1.09 (0.89 to 1.34), respectively. The risks were increased for cardiovascular and all-cause mortality with lower intelligence, but were attenuated in the fully adjusted models (fully adjusted HRs for cardiovascular mortality 1.92 (0.94 to 3.94) and 1.98 (0.89 to 4.37), respectively; for all-cause mortality 1.63 (1.00 to 2.65) and 1.62 (0.94 to 2.78), respectively). There was no increased risk for case-fatality at the first event (fully adjusted ORs 1.06 (0.73 to 1.55) and 0.97 (0.62 to 1.50), respectively).
Conclusions Although we found lower intelligence to be associated with increased mortality in middle-aged men with CHD, there was no evidence for its possible effect on recurrence in CHD.
HEALTH BEHAVIOUR
PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS
Social and life-course epidemiology
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2014-204958
An association between premorbid intelligence and later morbidity, including coronary heart disease (CHD), has been established in longitudinal studies.1–4 However, no previous study has investigated whether intelligence affects prognosis of CHD. According to the hypothesis that higher intelligence affects health outcomes through a better ability to prevent and manage disease,5–7 those with higher intelligence should be at lower risk for recurrence and early death after a CHD incidence. Adherence to treatment and recommendations might indeed be difficult. For instance, poor compliance in medication for secondary prevention cardiovascular diseases (CVD) is a frequent problem; several prospective studies have found that most patients stop taking at least one prescribed medication during the first year after an event.8 Intelligence has previously been found to predict medication persistence in a population at risk for CVD.6
The aim of this study was to investigate if lower premorbid intelligence is associated with recurrence among men diagnosed with CHD. In addition, we wanted to investigate the association of intelligence with case-fatality and all-cause mortality in this group. We used the Swedish conscription cohort of 1969–1970, which consists of 49 231 men born in 1949–1951. This cohort contains information on physical condition, health behaviours and intelligence obtained by medical examinations, questionnaires and cognitive assessment. Record linkage with national registers provided data on morbidity, mortality and measures of socioeconomic factors in adulthood.
The study was based on data from a nationwide, mandatory examination of 49 321 Swedish men who were conscripted for military service in 1969–1970, at age 18–20. The background of the Swedish conscription examination and the measurements included have been presented in detail elsewhere.9 ,10 Only 2–3% of all Swedish men were exempted from conscription at that time, in most cases due to severe mental or physical disability. Ninety-eight per cent of all men conscripted in 1969 and 1970 were born in 1949–1951; the remaining 2% were born before 1949 and are excluded in order to increase homogeneity. Data from national registers were linked to the conscription data and anonymised by Statistics Sweden. This study includes those 2186 men (4.4%) who obtained a first diagnosis of CHD (see below) between 1991 and 2007, age about 40–56, for whom information was available on all variables in this study (figure 1). Ethical approval was obtained from the Regional Ethical Review Board in Stockholm, decision reference number 2004/5:9–639/5 and 2010/604:32.
Flow chart of the study sample.
Exposure: intelligence
Intelligence was assessed at conscription in 1969–1970 by four subtests measuring verbal, logic-inductive and visuospatial ability and technical comprehension. The cognitive assessment has been described in detail elsewhere.4 ,11 ,12 The results were converted to standard-nine (stanine) scales with a normal distribution for each subtest, with scores 1–9. These were combined and transformed into a new stanine scale as a global measure of general ability, corresponding to approximate IQ bands of: <74, 74–81, 82–89, 90–95, 96–104, 105–110, 111–118, 119–126, >126.13 Of the men, 49 262 (99.9%) had an intelligence score in the data.
Outcome: recurrent CHD
Diagnoses of first and recurrent CHD (Swedish version of International Classification of Disease Ninth Edition (ICD-9) up to 1996, codes 410–414; thereafter ICD-10, I20-I25) were obtained from the Swedish national hospital discharge register, and the national cause of death register for out-of-hospital deaths in CHD, which are held by the National Board of Health and Welfare. In Sweden, hospital care is publically financed and available to all citizens. Men with a first event of CHD registered between 1 January 1991 and 31 December 2007 were included in the analyses. Follow-up started when a man was diagnosed with CHD, at any time during 1991–2007, and ended at the date of whichever occurred first: a second fatal or non-fatal event of CHD recorded in the national hospital or death registers (with a minimum of 28 days after the first event; diagnoses and deaths within 28 days were regarded as reflecting the first event), emigration, death from other causes, or 31 December 2008. The possible follow-up time therefore ranged from 1 to 17 years depending on the time of the first event.
First CHD events leading to death out of hospital and recorded in the cause of death register but not in hospital registers were included in analyses of case-fatality at baseline, but only men surviving their first CHD event were included in follow-up analyses.
Case fatality and mortality
Case-fatality in first CHD was defined as death with any underlying cause registered within 28 days of the first hospital admission for CHD, as is common in case-fatality research, or CHD as underlying cause in case of out-of-hospital death. Mortality with ICD-codes 390–459 (ICD-9) or I00-I99 (ICD-10) as underlying causes, that is, all CVD, were classified as CVD mortality.
An overview of all covariates, including additional information about the variables and any categorisations, is presented in the online supplementary table S1. At conscription, all men underwent a 2-day examination during which health measures were obtained including weight and length, from which body mass index (BMI, kg/m2) was calculated, and blood pressure. Information on cigarette smoking and alcohol use was self-reported in a questionnaire. Information on CVD mortality in parents before age 65 was included as an indicator of genetic risk for early CVD. Socioeconomic position in childhood (at age about 10) and adulthood (at age about 40) was registered in the national population and housing censuses. The original six and eight occupation-based socioeconomic groups4 were collapsed into three and four, respectively, to retain statistical power. Information on income at about 40 years of age (in 1990) and marital status in the year of the first CHD event, or the preceding year in case of missing data, was obtained from the Longitudinal Database of Education, Income and Occupation (LOUISE). Education is highly correlated with intelligence and was not included in the main analyses due to the risk for multicollinearity (correlation about 0.55 in this cohort14) and overadjustment, but was added in an additional analysis.
Since intelligence is associated with various forms of morbidity and possibly the severity of conditions, comorbid conditions and complications might account for any differences in outcome between IQ categories. Hence, diagnoses obtained from the hospital discharge register, either registered as concomitant diagnoses at discharge after the first CHD event or as primary or concomitant diagnoses up to 28 days after or in the 7 years preceding the event, in correspondence to an extension of the Ontario AMI prediction rule applied by Rasmussen et al,15 were included as either comorbid conditions or complications (diagnoses and corresponding ICD codes are shown in online supplementary table S1). Depression was also included among comorbid conditions since it is also predictive of recurrence in CHD.16
Intelligence was modelled in three groups: low (stanine score 1–3), medium (4–6) and high (7–9), using the highest performing group as reference. Descriptive statistics of IQ level and covariates were calculated for the full cohort and in subsamples based on men with a first CHD 1991–2007 (table 1), and of covariates for the three IQ categories (table 2). ORs for case-fatality among men with a first CHD event 1991–2007 were estimated by the logistic regression model. Among men surviving a first CHD event, HRs for a second CHD event and for all-cause and CVD mortality, during the period 1991–2008 in relation to level of intelligence at conscription were estimated by the Cox proportional hazards model. Proportionality of hazards was assessed in log-log survival plots and no major violations against the proportionality assumption were found. After adjustment for age at first CHD (model 1), early-life factors that were considered as potential confounders were added to the model (model 2), followed by factors measured at conscription or later (model 3). An additional analysis added education in three levels: ≤9, 9–12 and ≥12 completed years. Additional analyses restricted to myocardial infarction (MI; ICD-9 410, ICD-10 I21–22), applied to both the inclusion criteria (first event) and outcome (recurrence), were performed. Possible interaction by adult socioeconomic position17 was examined in stratified analyses in groups of white-collar or blue-collar occupations. Also, due to the higher mortality among people with lower intelligence, which might cause an underestimation of the IQ-recurrence association, we performed an analysis combining recurrences and deaths from any causes as end points. All statistical analyses were performed in SAS V.9.2 and V.9.3.
Characteristics of men with first CHD 1991–2008 and in the full cohort of conscripts
Distribution of risk factors in IQ categories among men in the study sample
Data were available for 2156 men with a first CHD in 1991–2007 and for 1923 men who survived for follow-up through 2008 (7543.6 person years, mean 3.9 years of follow-up time). Men with CHD had lower IQ score, a greater proportion of CVD risk factors (measured at conscription), manual occupations or no registered occupation in 1990 and lower income compared to the full cohort (table 1). Men who died from other causes than CHD during follow-up had a lower IQ score and a poorer CVD risk factor profile, more disadvantageous socioeconomic conditions and more often comorbid diagnoses or complications in the hospital records, compared to the total group of men with CHD. Men with a second (recurrent) event did not differ substantially from the total group of men with CHD concerning the factors included. Among the 1923 (89%) men who survived for 28 days after their first CHD event, 902 (47%) had a recurrent event during follow-up of which 17 were fatal. Sixty-one per cent of the recurrent events occurred within 1 year after the first. Of the first-event survivors, 146 (7.6%) died from any cause. Of the deceased during follow-up, 37 (25%) had no recurrent CHD event, and 86 (59%) died from other causes than CHD. Among the 74 men who died from CVD, 51 (69%) had a recurrent CHD event prior to the fatal event.
Table 2 shows the prevalence and distribution of risk factors in the three IQ categories. The prevalence of smoking and risk use of alcohol, and average BMI and systolic blood pressure, increased somewhat with decreasing IQ category. Non-manual employees had higher IQ to a greater extent while manual employees more often had lower IQ. Parent's early CVD death, diastolic blood pressure, and comorbidity and complications were not associated with IQ.
Table 3 shows the associations of intelligence at conscription with case-fatality at first CHD event, and mortality from CVD and all causes during follow-up among 28-day survivors of the first event. There was a tendency of higher case-fatality with decreasing IQ level but it was entirely explained by CVD risk factors and, in particular, socioeconomic and marital status. Men with medium and low IQ had a clearly higher all-cause mortality rate than men with high IQ. After adjusting for confounders the point estimates were attenuated, reaching just below the conventional level of statistical significance.
IQ and case-fatality at first CHD event 1991–2008 and subsequent mortality
Table 4 shows that intelligence in adolescence was not associated with recurrence among men with CHD in this cohort, neither during the full 17 years follow-up period nor in the analysis limited to 2 years’ follow-up. All of the estimates, crude or adjusted, were close to 1.0 and none reached conventional levels of statistical significance. Adjusting for education had no impact on the risk for CHD recurrence (data available on request). Restricting the study group to men with MI showed a similar pattern, although statistical power was low due to the smaller number of events.
IQ and recurrence among survivors of a first CHD event 1991–2008
There was no clear evidence of interaction by socioeconomic position in the stratified analyses (data available on request). There was no difference between blue-collar and white-collar occupations at the medium IQ level, while the HR point estimate was slightly higher at the low IQ level among white-collar employees compared to blue-collar workers, but statistical power was low due to the small number of events in the stratified groups. Analyses stratified by age (40–50 and 51–58 years at first CHD) did not show any statistically significant differences either.
In an analysis combining recurrent events and deaths from all causes (37 deaths) as end points, the HRs were slightly higher compared to the main analysis (age adjusted: medium IQ 1.08, 0.92–1.28; low IQ 1.22, 1.01–1.47; fully adjusted: medium IQ 1.02, 0.87–1.21; low IQ 1.12, 0.92–1.37). Including fatal first events in the analysis yielded similar results (data available on request).
In this group of Swedish middle-aged men with CHD, we found no association of premorbid intelligence with CHD recurrence. By contrast, the risk of later all-cause and CVD mortality was higher among men with medium or low premorbid IQ compared to men in the highest IQ category, in line with findings in the normal population.13 These associations were attenuated after adjustment for traditional CVD risk factors, comorbidity, socioeconomic factors and marital status.
Several studies in various cohorts have found associations between intelligence measured early in life and later CVD morbidity, CVD mortality and all-cause mortality in general populations,2–4 ,18 ,19 and we found that the risk for mortality from CVD or all causes increased with decreasing IQ also among middle-aged men with CHD. Yet, we are not aware of any previous studies investigating the role of premorbid intelligence in prognosis after a CHD event. Studies that have included health behaviours in models of the association between intelligence and later morbidity and mortality, such as smoking and alcohol consumption,20–23 have been inconsistent and at most found little attenuation from these factors, implying that health behaviours are not important mediators. The prognostic value of health literacy, which is related to general intelligence,24 on adherence to treatment in CVD and other conditions such as diabetes has been inconsistent in review studies.25 ,26
Interpretation of the results
One of the hypotheses often put forward to explain the association of IQ with later morbidity and mortality is via the ability to manage one's own health condition.27 ,28 Some have indeed found associations between higher intelligence and health behaviours, for instance quitting smoking,29 ,30 having a healthy diet,31 ,32 physical exercise32 and persisting with prescribed medications6 (but null findings are also reported33 ,34). Gottfredson argues that those with higher intelligence more easily understand and adapt to health messages, and that IQ-related differences in health outcomes should increase rather than attenuate with increasing health information and medical support.7 Lifestyle interventions and pharmacological treatment are central in secondary prevention of CVD,35 and differences in adherence to medications can indeed have a rapid impact. In a prospective study on patients with acute MI, non-adherence to medication 1 month after the event was associated with increased mortality within 1 year; even stopping one of three prescribed medications was associated with an 80–180% higher risk depending on medication type.36 Intelligence has been found to be associated with medication persistence in a randomised controlled trial among people aged 55–72 with an elevated risk for future CVD (indicated by the ankle brachial index).6 In a cohort of Danish men, lower IQ measured in adolescence (lowest vs highest tertile) was associated with low persistence with prescribed antihypertensives, defined as not refilling prescriptions for at least a year up to age 54, among the 1571 men obtaining such prescriptions from age 41. Given these previous findings, associations of IQ with medication adherence would be expected to cause differences also between IQ categories in CHD recurrence. Moreover, men in the present study with high IQ at conscription had lower prevalence of smoking and risk use of alcohol, and lower BMI and systolic blood pressure, and more advantageous socioeconomic conditions than men with medium or low IQ.
Despite these differences, there were no differences between IQ levels regarding the risk of a second CHD event during follow-up. One possible explanation is that medical treatment and rehabilitation is given according to patients’ needs, which might mitigate inequalities based on individual as well as socioeconomic factors. The attention, care and support given by medical professionals might also outweigh individual differences. Furthermore, this is a relatively young group of men with diagnosed CHD at an early age (41–58) when factors not related to life style, for example genetic factors, might be more influential and thus more difficult for the individual to affect.37 In addition, a form of selection bias might occur if men with high intelligence developed CHD due to unmeasured factors associated with better or worse prognosis. Such bias can distort causal inference in any study restricted to already sick individuals.38
Although we found no differences between IQ levels in regards to recurrence, it is possible that the higher mortality rate among men with medium and low IQ, compared to men with high IQ, reflected a long-term effect of poorer disease management and lower adherence to treatment. Most deaths occurred long after recurrent events of CHD, so there is a time difference between the outcomes. It is also possible that factors that were present already early in life27 ,28 that were not captured by the covariates in our data contributed to the long-term differences in mortality between intelligence levels. Factors early in life have been found to predict CVD and mortality later in life.39 ,40 Moreover, lifestyle risk factors such as high BMI and elevated blood pressure in adolescence4 and socioeconomic factors in adulthood3 ,4 ,19 have been found to partly explain associations of early IQ with CVD and mortality later in life. Here, we found that high BMI, blood pressure and smoking in late adolescence also attenuated the associations of low IQ with case-fatality and long-term mortality after first CHD, along with socioeconomic and social factors measured in middle age. Parent's early death from CVD and socioeconomic position in the men's childhood did not explain the associations, in line with previous findings on associations of intelligence with morbidity and mortality in general populations.2–4 ,19
Strengths and limitations
In this nearly complete cohort of all Swedish men born in 1949–1951, intelligence was measured in adolescence long before CHD developed, which minimised the risk for reverse causation, that is, precursors of CHD affecting cognitive ability. Information on CHD events, comorbid diagnoses, mortality and socioeconomic factors were obtained from national records using the unique identification number held by all citizens, yielding reliable data and a virtually complete follow-up. The study also had a perfect participation rate without self-selection. However, patients who did not stay overnight at the hospital or had a silent event that did not lead to hospitalisation were not recorded in our data, and we had no clinical information on severity of the disease. Moreover, the participants were followed until about 58 years of age when CHD is still quite rare and the number of cases was consequently small, limiting statistical power. Also, the results cannot necessarily be generalised to CHD later in life, to women, or to countries with a dissimilar healthcare system. There is a strong but far from perfect correlation between measures of IQ early and IQ later in life,41 and, therefore, our exposure may not fully capture IQ during the follow-up. Moreover, those with higher intelligence might have had less severe events, in concordance with the association between intelligence and health. Finally, our adjustment for comorbidities was not perfect since we could adjust only for comorbidities requiring hospitalisations.
Among middle-aged Swedish men with CHD, premorbid intelligence was not associated with the risk for recurrence. By contrast, lower intelligence was associated with higher case-fatality rate at first event and higher mortality during 17 years of follow-up. Although lower intelligence is a risk factor for morbidity and mortality in a life course perspective, we found no evidence of lower intelligence having a negative effect in secondary prevention of CHD.
What is already known on this subject
Higher intelligence early in life is associated with decreased risk for coronary heart disease (CHD) and mortality but its prognostic importance in patients with CHD is unknown.
Differences in the ability to manage health conditions has been suggested as one explanation for the association between intelligence and health outcomes.
What this study adds
In this cohort of 1923 men, obtaining their first CHD diagnosis in middle age, lower intelligence was associated with all-cause mortality but not with the risk of recurrence.
We found no evidence of intelligence level being an important factor in secondary prevention of CHD.
The authors would like to thank Natalja Balliu, statistician at the Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm County Council, for assistance with the statistical analyses.
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“You want hardcore Power Grass that will drop your jaw and get your heart racing? Grandpa’s Cough Medicine delivers- fresh and dark lyrically, these guys are not scared of exploring unconventional subject matter with their truly unique presentation on acoustic instruments. It’s a thrilling musical ride, going in a whole new direction!” – Larry Keel
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Blazing tempos, outlaw attitude, foot-stomping intensity, acoustic wizardry. These things all accurately describe Grandpa’s Cough Medicine’s tongue in cheek approach to bluegrass music. Carving out a niche that is all their own, they include humor and dark subject matter in their lyrics, yet are fully capable of letting their musicianship do the talking with instrumental compositions. The trio’s seemingly simple combination of flat-picked guitar, Scruggs style banjo, upright bass and two vocals creates a sound so huge, that it can make a six piece band blush. Their first CD “Jailbird Blues” was lauded in their hometown of Jacksonville, FL as one of the “Top Ten Local Albums of 2011″, and their second album “The Murder Chord” was released in August of 2012 to high acclaim. They were the top-voted music act in 2014’s One Spark festival in Jacksonville, garnering lots of publicity and a check for over $11,500. This money was used to record their third album “180 Proof”, which was released February, 6th 2015 and features guest spots from Jason Carter, Aaron Till, Randy Kohrs, Isaac Corbitt and Hank Williams III. In July of 2015 GCM ventured to Lyons, Colorado to compete in the Rockygrass instrument contests. Brett took 1st place in flat pick guitar and 2nd place for dobro. Mikey won 1st place for banjo.
Brett Bass – Guitar, Dobro, Vocals
The founding member of GCM, Brett Bass was inspired to play guitar at age 11 when he heard the guitar solo in Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crazy Train”. He immersed himself into the world of heavy metal electric guitar playing, practicing for hours a day. It was at age 17 that he was bitten by the acoustic bug, hearing how bluegrass pickers were just as fast and technical as his favorite metal players. He began learning how to sing and play Johnny Cash songs, as well as how to pick bluegrass fiddle tunes. The first songs he ever wrote (Many of which are on “Jailbird Blues”) came out in the country/bluegrass style, so he ran with it. The playing of his favorite bluegrass flat pickers, such as: Doc Watson, Bryan Sutton and Larry Keel became his new guitar inspiration, absorbing their styles through albums and instructional DVDs. His songwriting reflects the influence of the decidedly darker subject matter found in heavy metal music. Brett is the 2015 Rockygrass flat pick guitar champion.
Mike “Banjo Boy” Coker – Banjo
Mike Coker had a revelation at age 11, when he heard banjo legend Earl Scruggs playing the theme to “The Beverly Hillbillies” on TV. He told his father that day, that he wanted to play the banjo. He received his first 5-string and began taking lessons in traditional, Scruggs style banjo. He played in a youth band for several years and fatefully ran into Brett one day at a bluegrass jam. They began jamming, collaborating and writing songs, until he was brought into the band. Mikey’s stellar playing and youth earned him the nickname “Banjo Boy” and his presence in the band greatly influenced GCM’s playing, causing them to go faster than ever before. He is also the 2015 Rockygrass banjo champion.
Jon Murphy – Upright Bass, Vocals
Jon Murphy graduated from the University of Arizona, with a minor in music. His musical experience includes playing cello as a teenager, singing in the Arizona Opera Chorus, playing guitar and bass in several different types of bands and he’s released a solo folk album independently. One day he answered a craigslist ad that said “Outlaw country band seeking members” and after one practice, joined GCM. Originally he played electric bass. As the band started heading more and more towards bluegrass, he bought an upright and taught himself to play it. He has put the time and dedication into being a rock solid bluegrass bassist, singer and songwriter.
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Put meat, poultry, and fish in separate plastic bags so that their juices don't get on your other foods.
Freeze — or cook — raw ground meat, poultry, or fish within 1 to 2 days.
Freeze — or cook — fresh meat (steaks, chops, roasts) within 3 to 5 days.
Keep unopened packages of hot dogs and deli meats in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks. Opened packages of hot dogs should be eaten within 1 week and deli meats within 3-5 days.
Follow these handling and cooking guidelines to help prevent foodborne illnesses in your family:
Wash all fruits and vegetables with plain running water (even if you plan to peel them) to remove any pesticide residue, dirt, or bacteria. Scrub firm produce, such as carrots, cucumbers, or melons, with a clean produce brush.
Wash melons, such as cantaloupes and watermelons, before eating to avoid carrying bacteria from the rind to the knife to the inside of the fruit.
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Cooking times may vary so use a food thermometer to be sure food has reached a safe minimum internal temperature.
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Don't use old cutting boards with cracks or deep gouges because bacteria may hide in the crevices of the board.
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After preparing food, wipe your kitchen counters and other exposed surfaces with hot soapy water or a commercial or homemade cleaning solution. Consider using paper towels to clean surfaces.
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Wie is de Mol? - Season 9
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Wie is de Mol? is the Dutch version of the Belgian reality television game show De Mol. The first four seasons were regular seasons with ordinary people. After the break in 2004, all participants in the following seasons were Dutch celebrities. The show is currently presented by Rik van de Westelaken. The program is about 10 candidates, who have to complete assignments by which they can earn money. However, one of the groupmembers is the Mole. The Mole's goal is to make the assignments fail and keep the amount of money earned as low as possible. The other candidates do not know who the Mole is, and need to unmask him or her. At the end of every episode the candidates take a multiple choice test about the mole's identity. The test contains 20 questions about the mole's activities since the previous test and personal questions about the Mole. With the help of 'jokers', which they can earn during the assignments, the contastents can turn a wrong test answers into a good one. The person who gives the least amount of correct answers is "executed" and must leave. In most series this process continues until only two contestants and the Mole remain. The winner is the person with the most correct answers in the final test and he or she gets all of the money earned in previous stages of the game.
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Global Distribution of Cyclones
What are cyclones?
Cyclones are extreme versions of depressions. The pressure is so low that dangers caused by this weather system are deadly compared to a depression. Cyclones have other names e.g. the are called ‘hurricanes’ in the West, ‘Typhoons‘ in oriental Asia and ‘Willy willy’ in Oceania.
Why do they occur?
If we are looking at hurricanes in America then they tend to start off in places like the sub-Saharan African continent. Geographers are not sure the exact cause but small disturbances in atmosphere over land and start of a low pressure system of thunderstorms. As this weather system travels west over the warm pacific ocean it gains energy and all the thunderstorms start swirling around the eye – the area with the lowest pressure. As this system moves on land it releases its energy through precipitation and strong winds up to crazy speeds like 176mph and even higher. However, it doesn’t last too long as it looses its energy on land as there is no warm water from the ocean evaporating.
What conditions are required for them to take place?
Warm tropical oceans where sea temperatures are at least 27 degrees
Oceans where the depth is at least 60m.
Late summer and early autumn where sea temperatures are at their highest
The area of the trade wind belt between latitudes 5 degrees and 20 degrees on either side of the equator
Wind speeds need to be constant between ground level and 12km above ground level.
How are they measured?
The Saffir-Simpson scale is used to measure hurricanes. It gives each hurricane a rating between 1 and 5. It basis the rating according to the wind speed, storm surge and damage. The rating each hurricane is given is called ‘category’. Hurricane Katrina was so intense that it had a rating of category 5 on this scale. Below I have put the rating table:
Sustained winds (mph)
9-12 feet
>155
>18 feet
Where do they happen – the global distribution?
So it is quite clear the global distribution is limited because of the large criteria required for hurricanes to form. Hurricanes occur in equatorial areas in the latitudes of 5 degrees to 20 degrees to either side of the equator. This includes regions such as the Gulf of Mexico, the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean. Any coastal area in this latitude which is surround by warm water is at risk of experiences cyclones.
When do they occur most often?
They occur in the months of late summer and early autumn. This usually in the months of July to November in the Northern Hemisphere and December to May in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Oroville Car Chase
Suspected vehicle thieves lead deputies on a chase in Oroville. A deputy was on patrol when he spotted a white Honda Accord with dealer plates before 1:30 Wednesday morning. That vehicle had been reported stolen from Yuba City. The deputy attempted stop the car, but the driver of the vehicle allegedly fled away at a speeds around 100 miles per hour. Other deputies joined the pursuit, but briefly lost sight of the car near Lower Wyandotte Avenue and Foothill Boulevard. Deputies found the vehicle after it had reportedly gone off the roadway, hitting a fence and a tree. The two occupants were attempting to flee on foot when they were arrested. According to a Butte County Sheriff's Office press release, the two suspects, identified as 36-year-old Christopher Johnson and 45-year-old Jeremy Papesh were both charged with possession of a stolen vehicle among other charges.
Chico Police are Searching for Shooting Suspect
Police are investigating a shooting in north Chico. Officers and detectives arrived to the area of Garden Park Drive and Ceres Avenue around after 12:30 Wednesday morning and found a victim with a gunshot wound. The unidentified victim was taken to the hospital for treatment. Police believe the injury to be non-life threatening. Officers canvassed Garden Park Drive and found shell casings. According to a Chico Police Department press release, no other citizens were injured and no property was damaged.
Anyone who witnessed the incident or has any information about it is asked to call the Chico Police Department at 897-4911.
Cherokee Fire
Fire crews halt a vegetation fire north of Oroville early this morning. The Cherokee Fire started in the area of Highway 70 and Cherokee Road around 3:30 am. According to Cal Fire, the blaze burned less than an acre is now fully contained.
A witness reported to the CHP that fire crackers were allegedly seen thrown from a black convertible in the area of the fire after 3:30 am. However, authorities say the cause of the fire hasn't been determined.
Cal Fire Butte County tweeted that Highway 70 was partially blocked with emergency equipment while crews battled the fire. The roadway is now clear.
Chico Shooting
Police are reporting a shooting incident that happened around 4 am this morning in the area of Bruce Road and Humboldt Road. The suspects reportedly fled eastbound on Highway 32 in a dark Honda sedan. Police found the victim at the Valero Market on Bruce Road and Skyway. According to police, the victim had a gunshot wound to the arm.
A Jury Convicts a Man For an Assault on a Fellow Inmate
23-year-old Jack Masters of Oroville was found guilty of felony assault on Monday. Masters was serving a multi-year felony sentence in the Butte County Jail for two counts of auto theft. Masters attacked another inmate who was awaiting a trial. According to a Butte County District Attorney's Office press release, Masters was captured on the jail's surveillance system viciously punching, kicking, and throwing the other inmate around for three minutes.
Masters is scheduled to be sentenced November 9th. He faces up to four years in state prison.
Tree Fell in Chico This Morning
The CHP has reported a tree down in the area of River Road and West Sacramento Avenue just after 3 am this morning. The tree fell over the road and is blocking both lanes. At last report the CHP was coordinating with a boom truck operator to cut some branches off the tree.
Progress is being made on the Ponderosa Fire east of Oroville
The Ponderosa Fire is getting closer to containment. The wildfire started August 29th 2 miles northwest of Forbestown. The blaze has burned 4,016 acres and is 72 percent contained. 54 structures have been destroyed 32 of which were homes. There are NO structures currently threatened and no evacuations at this time. All roads are also open at this time.
According to Cal Fire, crews will continue to patrol, mop up, and strengthen containment lines.
Highway 99 Downed Lines
Downed power lines caused traffic to back up on Highway 99 in Chico this morning. The south bound lanes of Highway 99 were reopened after 8 am this after the lines fell after 7:30. The CHP closed the lanes due to a fire caused by the downed lines. Chico Police dispatch reported that traffic was backed up all the way to Bruce Road. PG&E arrived and worked on killing the downed power lines.
Around 9:15 the authorities reported that the southbound Highway 99 was down to one lane.
Chico Missing Woman Found Safe
A missing Chico woman has been found. 25-year-old Tatiana Medeiros she was found safe and sound around 5 am this morning. This after she was last seen around 7:30 Monday evening near the Olive Garden on Business Lane. According to police, Medeiros was found by maintenance workers at the Oxford Suites which is across the street from the Olive Garden. Reports say that she has since been reunited with her family.
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Desperate Phone Call Links Man With Wife, 2 Great-Grandchildren Moments Before They Were Killed in Carr Fire
Posted 6:52 AM, July 30, 2018, by CNN Wire, Updated at 11:30AM, July 30, 2018
It only took a little over 15 minutes for Ed Bledsoe to lose three lives that meant the world to him -- his wife and their two great-grandchildren.
He had left his home in Shasta County, California, on Thursday to go to the doctor, he told CNN on Sunday. The Carr Fire had been burning for four days at that point and Bledsoe said he didn't realize the fire was coming into his neighborhood.
He also said his family was never told to evacuate.
#CarrFire [update] northwest of Anderson (Shasta County) is now 98,724 acres and 20% contained. Evacuations and road closures in place. Unified Command: CAL FIRE and Whiskeytown National Park. Photo credit: CAL FIRE https://t.co/QmhauhZj9m pic.twitter.com/5WtNG37T9U
— CAL FIRE (@CAL_FIRE) July 30, 2018
While he was out, his 70-year-old wife, Melody Bledsoe, called and told him she could see the fire and that he needed to come get her and their great-grandchildren, 4-year-old Emily Roberts and 5-year-old James Roberts, who Ed Bledsoe called "Junior."
"I said 'I'm on my way.' So I just throwed down everything and took off," he said.
Ed Bledsoe said he wasn't able to use his usual route to get home because of traffic congestion in the fire area, so he left his car and tried to make it home on foot but that, too, was not possible.
"I took off running down there (toward his house) and I helped some guy that got burnt ... I got him and helped him out of there and when I got back down there the fire was" -- Bledsoe paused, seeming to search for a word to accurately convey the chaos -- "the fire was ... just intense.
"But I still tried to get down in there and they come and stopped me and wouldn't let me get down in there."
Bledsoe said he got back in his car and sped through an alternate route, passing "everybody in the dirt" but still could not get to his house.
At the same time, his sons also tried to get to the house, he said, and heat and flames were so intense as one son tried "it burned his hair off. It took his breath," adding that his son's house was also on fire.
In those final minutes, unable to get to his wife and their great-grandchildren, Bledsoe was able to get through on the phone.
Bledsoe broke into sobs as he described the words that passed between them.
"He just kept saying 'Grandpa, come and get me," Bledsoe said, referring to 5-year-old James. "'The fire's coming in the back door. C'mon Grandpa.' I said 'I'm right down the road.'"
His granddaughter and wife were also on the phone, he said.
"Emily says, 'I love you, Grandpa.' Grandma said 'I love you, Grandpa ...' Junior said, 'I love you ... come and get us ... come and get us ...' I said 'I'm on my way ... ' He talked until he died."
"I tried to call them back and it just went to nothing," Bledsoe said as he wept. "Poor babies and my wife ..."
'I can't blame it on nobody but me.'
Despite being disconnected by phone, Bledsoe said that at the time he still had hope his family was alive.
He said he was told that the sheriff's office picked them up and rescued them. He told the fire department he thought his wife and great-grandkids were in the house. Fire officials sent a fire crew in and reported no bodies were found.
A search then commenced for the family.
Fliers were created. The family even created a GoFundMe page because, according to that page, Bledsoe was renting the home and didn't have insurance.
The day after being told there were no bodies in the home, a relative who's a firefighter told the department they needed to search the rubble again. That's when the bodies were found.
Bledsoe's wife had wrapped the kids and herself in wet blankets as the fire drew near.
"I would've liked to have went in there and died with them," Bledsoe said.
Bledsoe said even though the family was not told to evacuate, he feels more guilty than angry.
"I can't blame it on nobody but me. I shouldn't have left my family in harm's way."
Raising great-grandchildren
Bledsoe and his wife had raised the two great-grandchildren since birth.
"I raised them, took care of them and taught them everything they know. Me and Grandma," he said, referring to his wife.
Bledsoe said his wife, Melody, "was the best wife a guy could have. They didn't make them no better."
He said when the couple first got together, she had about $24,000 in the bank. A child in their neighborhood needed surgery, but the child's family did not have the finances so Melody wrote a check to the family for the child to get the surgery.
"That's what kind of woman she was," he said.
Family friend Jason Decker told CNN affiliate KGO that 4-year-old Emily loved to play with other children in the area and "lit up the room."
Decker said 5-year-old James, idolized his great-grandfather and wanted to wear suspenders just like him.
In his great-grandson's last moments speaking to him on the phone, Bledsoe said he "sounded happy because he was talking to me and he knew Grandpa was coming to help him."
As of Sundy, the Carr Fire had burned through 95,368 acres since it began on Monday and was 17% contained, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known as Cal Fire.
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Who's Who: The Wanderers
by Russell & Siskoid
Membership: Celebrand, Dartalg, Elvo, Immorto, Ornitho, Psyche, Quantum Queen
Relationship to Legion: Allies
Legion Log
The Wanderers were a seven-member group of traveling super-heroes who first met the Legion during Ultra Boy's term as leader. They consisted of Celebrand, the non-powered leader; Dartalg, armed with a blowgun and a pouch of darts; Elvo, armed with an energy sword; Immorto, who was unable to be killed; Ornitho, who could transform himself into any bird species; Psyche, who could manipulate the emotions of others; and Quantum Queen, who could turn herself into a living laser.
Soon after meeting the Legion, the Wanderers were infected by the Nefar Nebula; their personalities then became temporarily criminal. The Legion battled with them, captured them, and then cured them of the radiation poisoning.
The next time the Wanderers met the Legion was when they helped them, along with the Substitute Heroes and the Heroes of Lallor, to fight against the forces of Darkseid.
During a mission to track down a swarm of space monsters that were terrorizing remote colonies and outposts at the edge of the United Planets, the Wanderers were killed. However, a Controller came upon their corpses and decided to clone them. Unfortunately, during the cloning process three of the members' genes were compromised, so when they were re-animated they had upgraded powers and drastically different looks. Dartalon now had quills coming off of his body, à la Porcupine Pete; Elvar was still a master swordsman, but was shorter and more elf-like in appearance; and Re-Animage now could heal others as well as himself. Ornitho changed his name to Aviax but was basically the same; Psyche and Quantum Queen also regained their original forms and powers.
Although the cloning procedure for Celebrand failed, his remaining undamaged genes were spliced into Re-Animage's left lung until future breakthroughs in cloning might allow for him to be successfully cloned.
This group of "new" Wanderers were able to track down and destroy the monsters who had killed them. They then became deputized agents of the United Planets. As such, they "wandered" around the galaxy fighting against evil.
On a mission to help the indigenous population on planet W-23, the Wanderers met a race of aliens that invited them into a "rip" in space. Feeling compelled to venture into it, the Wanderers were never seen again.
Several years later, in one possible timeline, Superman encounters a statue of Quantum Queen in the Legion's Hall of Heroes. After the Wanderers presumably returned to reality, that Quantum Queen left her original team to join the Legion, where she would eventually die preventing a prison outbreak.
After the so-called Five-Year Gap, though the Wanderers do not appear, Dartalg and Elvo are seen among Leland McCauley's collection of captive statues, in their pre-death state.
After the Reboot, the Wanderers per se do not seem to exist. However, following the events of the so-called Final Crisis, several members of the Reboot Legion, whose universe was destroyed during the events of Infinite Crisis, decide to travel the Multiverse under the guidance of Shikari Lonestar in an attempt to find and rescue survivors of other lost universes. They take the name "the Wanderers."
After the Threeboot, the Wanderers are a black-ops superhero team created by the United Planets to covertly combat the Dominators and are unrelated to the original continuity's team. The majority of them, including former members of the terrorist Lemnos' army called Terror Firma, are killed fighting the Dominion. The sole exception is Mekt Ranzz, who then recruited heroes such as Polar Boy, Inferno, White Witch, Nemesis Kid, and Plant Lad to recreate the team. These Wanderers joined forces with the Legion to stop a Dominator invasion of the U.P. and were then offered Legion membership by Supergirl. Instead of joining, they fled when Mekt was arrested for mind-controlling the population of Winath, and most turned to crime despite Sun Boy's attempts to reform them. The team's other known members include Grav, Jeyra Entinn, Kid Quake, Kromak, Micro Lass, Physo, Tarik, Telekinesis, Thoom, Tyr, and Vrax Gozzl.
After Infinite Crisis, the Wanderers' original history has presumably been more or less restored.
After Flashpoint, the Wanderers are Neo-Sapiens from half a dozen worlds who are either from the 20th Century or have access to it. They are based on the original continuity's team. These Wanderers work with Captain Comet to help Superman during a multi-dimensional crisis.
Important Wanderer Stories:
Adventure Comics (v1) #354
(reprinted in Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 6
and Showcase Presents The Legion Vol. 3)
Quantum Queen makes her debut as a future (dead) Legionnaire
The Legion meets the Wanderers for the first time
Superboy/Legion of Super-Heroes #200
(reprinted in Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 10
The Wanderers attend the wedding of Duo Damsel and Bouncing Boy
Legion of Super-Heroes (v2) #294
(reprinted in LSH: The Curse TPB)
The Wanderers help fight against the hordes of Darkseid
(reprinted in LSH: 1,050 Years Of The Future TPB
and LSH: The Curse TPB)
The Wanderers attend the Legion's anniversary celebration
The Wanderers #1-13
The Wanderers are revived in new, cloned bodies
Legion of Super-Heroes (v4) #39
5 Years Later, some of the original Wanderers are in Leland McCauley's "collection"
Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes #21-30
The Threeboot Wanderers are a black ops team led by Mekt Ranzz
Sun Boy explains the Wanderers' final fate
Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds #5
The Reboot Legion become Wanderers in the Multiverse
Action Comics (v2) #18
After Flashpoint, the Wanderers work with Captain Comet to help Superman during a crisis
Posted by Siskoid at 5:00 AM
Labels: Dave Hooper, Mike Clark, Pablo Marcos, Robert Campanella, Wanderers, Who's Who, Who's Who Allies
ChrisandCindy Franklin February 22, 2017 at 1:04 PM
Interesting stuff. I've always kind of wondered how the Wanderers got the makeove...HOLY $#!+! Why and HOW was Martian Manhunter at the wedding of Bouncing Boy and Duo Damsel?
Siskoid February 22, 2017 at 1:31 PM
He survived to the 30th Century. You didn't know?
Did Superboy meet him? Did J'onn just keep his mouth shut about knowing him in his future? Did Superman say "Hey...!!!" when the JLA first formed? Or was this just Dave Cockrum being cheeky and sneaking him in?
Russell Burbage February 24, 2017 at 7:22 AM
It was Dave Cockrum being cheeky. The wedding was on a moon of Mars, hence Jonn and Tars Tarkas attended.
Green Luthor February 22, 2017 at 4:36 PM
Y'know, I'm not sure when the last time I saw something that mentioned the Wanderers without covering... THAT story. (Definitely a "what were you thinking?" moment for DC, that's for sure...)
Yes, we decided to leave the details of the series out so we didn't have to cover its quite a few odd plots....
Legionnaire LynoT February 22, 2017 at 8:59 PM
Orintho popped up recently in a back-up story in Shade the Changing Girl (issue 2 or 3). He looked more like his original self but the dialogue implied that the events of the 13 issue series had taken place.
Beast Boy was also in that backup story.
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Marshall's Top Tech Trends for ALA Annual, Summer 2009
July 12, 2009 November 1, 2016 Marshall Breeding
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Discovery Interfaces Expand Scope
The genre of Discovery Interfaces has been an ongoing trend for the last few years. These interfaces aim to replace the traditional, stodgy OPAC with a modern interface, delivering library content through an interface more consistent with what patrons experience elsewhere on the Web. They offer visually appealing design, relevancy ranking, faceted navigation, and other standard Web navigation techniques. These products offer an attractive replacement for the online catalogs delivered with the ILS.
The initial phase of this genre of products delivered a new interface. Yet, they remained largely tied to the content managed in the ILS, despite the ever increasing investments in electronic content. In many cases, a federated search component would aim to supplement the primarily print content of the ILS with a clumsy mechanism for accessing e-journals and database.
We’re now seeing a new wave of discovery products that deliver pre-populated indexes of e-journal content, providing access to the individual articles represented in the library’s body of subscriptions on equal footing with the print materials managed within the ILS. Products in this genre include Summon from Serials Solutions, WorldCat Local from OCLC, EBSCO Discovery Service, and Primo Central.
The technology for a new-generation library interface with Google and Amazon-like features has become increasingly commonplace. Every library automation vendor offers one – Innovative Interfaces’ Encore, Ex Libris’ Primo, AquaBrowser now owned by R.R. Bowker, LS2 PAC from The Library Corporation, VTLS Visualizer, SirsiDynix Enterprise etc, and open source versions prosper as well: VuFind and Blacklight. Open source components such as Apache Lucene and SOLR, make the construction of a modern interface less of a technical feat.
Today, it’s the scope of content addressed that differentiates discovery interfaces. It’s now within reach to produce discovery interfaces that address the full breadth of a library’s collection through a single consolidated index, spanning print, articles within e-journals, and each of the individual objects within the digital collections, institutional repositories.
The major change that enables this breakthrough involves a relenting of the stranglehold of publishers and providers of content. Until recently, few were willing to allow wholesale access to the content held within their information products. That left the primary means of discovery outside their native interfaces the far-from-elegant approach of metasearch that incessantly hammered their servers with a very low possibility of connecting a user to their content. The new paradigm of pre-populated indexes involves the risk of wholesale exposure of their key assets, yet stands to increase the use of their products through a more efficient search model.
Social networking powers library discovery
Web 2.0 concepts have been churning in the library technology space for half a decade, but have yet to become part of the core infrastructure that power libraries. Tags, ratings, and reviews have been an expected feature in new discovery interfaces, but have yet to make a substantial impact on the way that patrons interact with library collections.
Library Thing for Libraries and ChiliFresh have become popular add-ins to help existing library catalogs and discovery interfaces add a measure of user-generated content.
BiblioCommons aims to bring social networking into the patron’s basic experience of the library. An interesting new approach to discovery interfaces, BiblioCommons brings user-generated content, social interactions among library patrons, and other Web 2.0 concepts into the process of selecting reading materials. Following a longish period of development, a dozen or so libraries expect to launch BiblioCommons catalogs by the end of the year.
I anticipate that social networking components will increasingly become embedded into the inner fabric of library products and not merely add-ons and afterthoughts.
These interesting products have yet to displace the legacy catalog. Despite a plethora of products available to replace them with more modern interfaces, the vast majority of libraries continue to offer vintage OPACs. Even in the best of times, the replacement cycles of automation products in libraries turn extremely slowly.
The demise of the single-library ILS
In today’s environment of highly-scalable computer platforms and increased interest in resource sharing, the concept of each library operating its own ILS becomes less defensible. We’re seeing a trend toward larger-scale implementations that serve many libraries:
Vendor-hosted Software-as-a-service offerings that aggregate many instances of their products.
Consortial, Regional and state-wide implementations that aggregate many libraries into a single instance of an ILS platform.
OCLC’s WorldCat Local cooperative library system that aims to provide a global platform for library automation to its member libraries.
Web Services and SOA advance
Development of technology products for libraries increasingly embraces SOA or at least offers legacy functionality through Web services. Projects such as the Mellon-funded OLE Project and Ex Libris URM aim to build new frameworks for library automation through a service-oriented architecture. Existing products increasingly use Web services to provide access to internal functionality and data. Today’s environment that fully embraces the concept of openness and holds distain for closed systems. Open source, open APIs, and open access content continue to advance into the mainstream of library technology.
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Mike G. says:
Re: SOA, it’s worth noting that the library world has already produced (at least) one open-source, consortial-strength ILS that is built on a service-oriented architecture. That ILS is Evergreen and the architecture (“OpenSRF”) is based on open standards: XMPP, HTTP, XML, and JSON.
Thanks for sharing your top tech trends!
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The Warramunga’s War
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The Warramunga’s War is a book that follows the Australian Army’s advances in the Middle East and Egypt. The main character, Jamie, is saved by an officer Jacko, who’s half aborigine warramunga. The book leads the reader through an adventure with Jamie and Jacko in the forefront, as they conduct counterespionage and work with real historical figures. They form a close friendship and work together to solve various missions. During their stay in Cairo, Jack and Jamie manage to work against German spies and continue the war effort onto their home turf after their job is done in Egypt. Jacko’s skills come into play near the final leg of the duo’s journey, needing to track down two wartime German Agents in West Australia.
The author describes events in vivid detail throughout the book. Greg Kater ensures the reader is taken through an action filled adventure full of twists, turns, and suspense with lighthearted moments throughout to provide moments of respite. One of these moments was at the beginning, where Jamie was unconscious and had a humorous moment with Jacko and a French nurse. The author also shows ample character development with our duo, showing how they evolve both in strength of friendship and their synergy with each other. They grow as friends and evolve to become better soldiers as well, and this evolution was something that was consistently interesting to me. I felt the part where Jamie develops a romance with someone added depth and emotion to an already well developed character. They seem to gain some level of experience from who they work with as well. Speaking of those people, the author’s level of dedication to research shows as well, with many areas being accurately described. The people he represents in the book are true to their original character and accomplishments.
While I enjoyed the narrative and the characters, I felt that the pacing, was inconsistent and sometimes abrupt. There is a part in the book where we’re zoomed into the future, which threw me off. Other than that small issue, The Warramunga’s War is an amazing read which shows a lot of spirit and has a unique take on old events.
Pages: 324 | ASIN: B07NJZFVJX
Posted in Book Reviews, Four Stars
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Conquests and Fame
Alexandrea Weis Author Interview
Realm follows young Roxanna as she becomes the wife of Alexander the Great and is swept away by history. What was the inspiration for the setup to this emotional story?
I have wanted to write her story since I was sixteen and first saw Roxana mentioned in a history book about Alexander the Great. A professed history geek, Alexander has always fascinated me, but it was her story I wanted to tell. She lived beyond him, saw the breakdown of power, and in the end was a victim of his conquests and fame. She was forgotten by history, but I believe her role in his life, and the war of the generals, was important. I wanted people to know that Alexander was married to a woman who I am sure had to have remarkable fortitude and courage to not only travel with his army, but survive his generals.
Roxana is an intriguing and well developed character. What were some ideas you wanted to explore with her character?
She developed out of years of study of Alexander. This was a man who had women, the powerful daughters of kings, diplomats, and wealthy men, thrown at him, but he never married any of them. He took the hand the daughter of a mere chieftain, and instead of setting her up in a palace, as was the custom, Alexander took her with him across the world. I wanted to highlight her strength and intelligence, qualities he must have admired, but also show her powerlessness in a world where women had no voice. She must have been frustrated at not being recognized because of her sex, but I wanted her to rise above her limitations and influence the most powerful man in the world. I do not subscribe to the fact that she was a non-essential wife as many historians believe. I wanted to make her a unique woman who could have changed the course of history.
I enjoyed the portrayal of Roxana and Alexander’s relationship. Was their relationship planned or did it develop organically while writing?
The ups and downs in their relationship were built around the history of his campaigns, and how hard it must have been for her as a woman loving a man and competing with his army, his generals, and his other lovers. I also had to factor in how women were treated in ancient Greece, along with Alexander’s great respect for women. The rest developed organically, but like any relationship that goes through great hurdles it either gets stronger or falls apart. I like to believe theirs got stronger. After all, Alexander died when she was seven months pregnant with his only heir. It was also nine months after the death of his dear friend Hephaestion. For me, it was obvious he turned to her in his grief, and that told me a great deal about where they were at his end.
What is the next novel that you are working on and when will it be available?
My next novel is a thriller and the first in a new series, called The Secret Brokers. It is about Dallas August, a man who runs an organization of elite spies for hire who steal secrets and sells them to the highest bidder. He is blackmailed into going on a mission to steal an important secret from an unsuspecting woman and ends up in the middle of a war between two powerful kingpins. The Secret Brokers releases 4/7/2020.
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A WOMAN UNLIKE ANY OTHER, SHE WILL CONQUER THE UNCONQUERABLE AND BE LOVED BY A MAN WHO IS WORSHIPPED AS A GOD.
Based on a true story.
When her homeland is conquered by the mighty Alexander the Great, Roxana—the daughter of a mere chieftain–is torn from her simple life and thrown into a world of war and intrigue.
Terrified, the sixteen-year-old girl of renowned beauty is brought before the greatest ruler the world has ever known. Her life is in his hands; her future his to decide.
Without formal education or noble blood, Roxana is chosen by the Greek conqueror to be his bride. Soon she comes to know profound happiness and unyielding desire in her warrior’s arms.
However, being the king’s consort comes at a heavy price. To survive her husband’s treacherous kingdom, she must endure continuous warfare, deadly plots, jealous rivals, victory-hungry generals, and the stigma of being a barbarian. Persian blood will keep her from claiming the grandest title of all—queen—but her reign will seal the fate of an empire.
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The Adventures of Jules Khan – A Teenage Muslim Superhero
Karim K Devji Author Interview
The Adventures of Jules Khan – A Teenage Muslim Superhero introduces a new superhero that changes how teens & adults consume faith, fiction & entertainment. What was your inspiration for this idea?
Almighty God and teenagers are the inspiration…
‘Bring the lost souls to me…through youth entertainment’ seemed to be the inspiring message I was imagining…
As I began writing I was sipping on Starbucks Christmas Blonde Coffee ( that’s where the idea of a Blonde blue eyed Muslim Superhero was conceived – can you imagine? ) located on Commercial Drive in Vancouver, I would happily visualize teenagers across USA and the world gathered together reading ‘The Adventures of Jules Khan’ as they busily chewed pink bubble gum, smiling, laughing and thoroughly enjoying reading the comic book or paperback or watching the movie or playing the Electronic Arts game of Angelina, Boris and Jules getting chased relentlessly while searching world Museum’s for clues…
Jules Khan is an interesting and well developed character. What were some ideas that drove the character development?
A modern day blonde blue eyed teenage muslim superhero – who would accept that? Changing the judgement narrative was one idea…Is Jules Khan the next new Avenger in the Marvel series or a Superhero in the mega entertainment world? Could he bring a ‘cool’ factor to young Muslims, Jewish, Christians and all faiths? I am hoping so…Could the characters in the book be as slick as the characters in a Hugo Boss commercial? So many ideas….
This book did a great job of blending faith with modern action comics. What were some themes you wanted to capture in your book?
Theme number uno: Marvel Studios crashes into the 3 monotheistic faiths was a main theme that would appeal to teenagers and adults; maybe a theme creation of a new acceptable way to learn more about other cultures and faiths in a safe, fun, entertaining and modern non-judgemental environment…
What is the next project that you are working on and when will it be available?
The Comic Books, The graphic novel, the adult novel, the movie, the electronic games, the merchandise…so much to do and so little time….
Somehow after receiving a winner recognition through the Canada Book Awards 2019; New York City Big Book Awards’ for young adult fiction – Distinguished Favorite 2019 recognition, Literary Titan Gold Medal Book Award plus between 4 and 5 star reviews it has given me the confidence to develop
‘The Adventures of Jules Khan’ from a simple commitment of a book into keeping this amazing project under development into the future…
The Comic book should be out in 2020…
New York City Big Book Awards’
Author Links: Amazon | GoodReads
What would you do if you held the power to help the entire world? It sounds intimidating, but one teenager, Jules Khan, embraces his destiny for the good of all mankind and all faiths. Jules takes you on a narrative adventure that spans the globe, which is already raging from WWII, racing against the evil National Weapons Association and their followers. With Mother Nature given superpowers and some surprising and formidable friends, can Jules find out the truth about his family and his future in time to save the world?
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In Dark Times Michael Gerhartz explores the delicate yet sadly relevant organ trade problem. In this fascinating novel readers get a glance into the complicated and cruel organ trade business. The narrative is constantly changing its perspective, from the lucky recipient to the doomed donor while following the incredible adventures of the engrossing main character, Natascha.
Michael Gerhartz creates a globe-trotting and energetic crime drama that is full of unexpected twists and deadlt turns. I felt that there was a focus on painting the bigger picture while discounting the details. The overall plot was engaging and stimulating, but at times I felt like the characters were acting against their own principles because a certain act was required to propel the plot. While Natascha was a stand out character to me, she was so well constructed that other characters felt underdeveloped in comparison. The personality that is exhibited by the characters is exceptional and authentic but I wanted to see more of it. This story reminds me of Pulp Fiction, where many smaller plots and character stories all interweave to make one complex story. Although this keeps the tension high and kept me flipping pages, it could be hard to follow at times. I enjoyed the way in which the author portrays security companies and the human face he gives to people working in Masad.
I can confidently say that I had a great time reading Dark Times by Michael gerhartz. The story is perfect for readers who like to follow clues to solve intriguing mysteries. Dark Times reminds me of Tom Clany’s Jack Ryan where agents embark on clandestine and deadly missions to overcome a terror menacing the world. Perfect for readers who embrace a bit of romance in their action adventure stories.
Pages: 738 | ASIN: B07MTQ9YWC
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Cries of the Forsaken
The pieces are on the move. As one moves against the other, readers may wonder who is pulling whom and to what end? Does divinity mean the essence of purity or simply the chalice overflowing with power? Cries Of The Foresaken by Kristopher Jerome is a story full of twists and turns that will keep you hooked from beginning to end!
Normally I am very particular about fantasy worlds as many books start well but fail to keep it coherent throughout the story. That is not the case with Cries Of The Foresaken. Even though I realized a bit later that this is book one in a series, I didn’t mind it for two reasons. One, the story started strong and it kept me glued. Two, the author did not try to place undue focus on the background but kept the story well bound to a few characters. As I progressed through the book, I was not disappointed with the turns and twists that I never saw coming. The book is consistently engaging and sometimes there were twists where I didn’t even expect there to be one.
The other thing that I liked about this book was that the author did not try to make it a colossal work like the Tolkien series or the ones by George RR Martin. I prefer a book which does not conform to the stereotypes and is different from the rest. While Cries Of The Foresaken has room to expand, it’s not forced.
I felt that some of the characters were too rushed and I had to turn back to see previous pages. Some things get explained in the course of the series and characters are fully developed, but in this book alone, I felt, the characters were a bit hollow. One thing that I thought slowed the pace was a pause in the middle as the characters were pursuing side missions. Lastly, I felt that the ending was a bit too rushed, leaving too many open threads to tie up. This being part of a series I expect these will be tied up before the series finale, but I still felt the this novel on it’s own did provide me with a satisfying ending.
Cries Of The Foresaken is an exciting and riveting book that is an entertaining read and definitely in the top 10 books that I have read in 2019.
Pages: 299 | ASIN: B07YLC6JNY
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A Journey Through the Darkness
Jenn Lees Author Interview
Murtairean. An Assassin’s Tale is set in a war torn medieval world where the convictions of two unlikely allies are tested. What were some goals you set for yourself as a writer with this book?
In this particular story in the Dál Cruinne Series, I wanted to write a character with this world’s version of a superpower, asking the questions of what would someone give to obtain the advantage, what has it really cost them, and how do they reconcile within themselves the life they lead because of that power? And of course, I threw in the unpredictability of the human heart when the chemistry called attraction is involved.
My goal as a writer was to finally commence a story that has been in my head since the mid-1990s. Long before I even contemplated being a writer. I love fantasy and wanted to try my hand at it—as so far, I have written dystopian/romance/time travel. And yes, I do tend to mix my genres. I’ll do the same with this series as the next books are an inter-world fantasy.
I enjoyed the relationship between Vygeas and Leyna and thought it was well developed. What character did you enjoy writing for?
I enjoyed writing Vygeas. I always seem to identify the most with my male protagonists. Maybe because I was a tomboy.
I loved writing the fight scenes. I used to do martial art but not much with weapons and never a sword, but I always love watching a good sword fight. Also, I’d love to ride a warhorse. And who doesn’t want a special gift that gives you the advantage over almost everyone?
Writing Vygeas’ tortured, convicted soul on the verge of great change was a journey through the darkness, looking for the light. Something I feel we all experience, and so I could identify with him, and I hope the readers do too.
And I enjoyed the way Vygeas’ taciturn personality bounced off Aiden’s talkative, open, oops-I’ve-said-too-much, honesty.
The depth of the backstory and world-building is something that was well executed. How did the idea for the world start and change as you wrote?
The fantasy world of Dál Cruinne is more like an ancient Gaelic/Celtic world than a medieval European one. Hence the Gaelic words in the title and the place names, and landscape very much like Scotland. As the series progresses the reader will find many more differences, such as how kings, their righ, and high kings, ard righ, are chosen in this world.
I didn’t purposely set out to make a non-European fantasy world, but I do feel it’s been done enough in this genre. I have a love for Scotland, its history and geography. I’m fascinated by the Celts in Britain and the history of the Gaels in Ireland. My ancestry is from both. And I love the sound of the Gaelic when it’s spoken. So, to me, an ideal fantasy world has shades of all of these—and castles of course! I took my inspiration from these cultures but haven’t based it exactly upon them.
I’m not too sure if anything changed as I wrote, as I had worked on the type of world I wanted before I began. The main thing that surprised me in the writing was the amount of magic that came out in this particular story. It probably isn’t anything like Druidic magic, but as I said, this world has shades of those cultures and isn’t a carbon copy.
Murtairean. An Assassin’s Tale is a novel in the Dal Cruinne series. Do you plan on writing more books in this series?
Murtairean. An Assassin’s Tale is sub-titled as A novel in the Dál Cruinne Series and isn’t book one as such. It is an introduction to this world and there will be other stories, which run serially (to themselves and not necessarily to Murtairean), but Murtairean is a first glimpse and, hopefully, an enticement for the reader to stick around for more. I’m sure Vygeas, Leyna and Aiden will turn up in the other stories. Lord Ciaran certainly does.
I have a duology/trilogy in the planning with the first draft of book one almost completed. The series will be Arlan’s Pledge (Arlan means pledge in the Gaelic) and the first book is Trastaidh. The Crossing. The main character, Arlan, is the son of current Ard Righ of Dál Gaedhle (the large western kingdom of Dál Cruinne), who finds himself transported to our world, to Scotland, and meets the attractive Rhiannon. Will he find his way back to Dál Cruinne, or, after spending time in Rhiannon’s comfortable western culture, does he really want to?
Leyna, a warrior woman and high-end thief, turned her back on her title of Lady Leynarve of Monsae after her parents’ murder. Bent on revenge, Leyna travels to a hit where assassins gather, intending to find and kill the one who ruined her life.
Vygeas, a mercenary and assassin, has the gift of heightened perception, enabling him to sense his opponents’ emotions and anticipate their every move. Sickened by the warmongering, Vygeas awaits execution for desertion. But he’s given one final task to win his freedom…kill a mark and avoid the gallows.
Unaware of Vygeas’ trade, Leyna hitches a ride with this handsome sell-sword with exceptional abilities. Vygeas realises he has encountered the beautiful and capable Leyna’s family before…on a previous hit.
While pursued by a powerful sorcerer-mage, they combine their skills to thwart his attempts to capture Leyna and destroy Vygeas.
Fighting their joint foes without, and battling their torments within, Vygeas and Leyna discover the truth that could destroy their newly forged relationship.
Will their past define them, or will they discover all they could be?
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Literary Titan Book Awards January 2020
The Literary Titan Book Awards are awarded to books that have astounded and amazed us with unique writing styles, vivid worlds, complex characters, and original ideas. These books deserve extraordinary praise and we are proud to acknowledge the hard work, dedication, and imagination of these talented authors.
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Duty and Betrayal
Duty and Betrayal: The SS Brotherhood and the NASA Connection by Toby Oliver is a smart novel that takes place in the early 1960s, following various members of the intelligence communities of the United States and Great Britain. After the end of World War II, the Western powers sought to capture/recruit former Third Reich scientists to advance their own technologies, essentially beginning the Cold War. One of these men, Bernard Zimmerman, has caught the attention of Spencer Hall of MI5 for a very personal reason. Jack Stein of the CIA is brought in to help, and the two get to work. Is the SS still active, even after World War II? Will Spencer be able to act logically and safely in his quest to uncover these men? Then, of course, there’s Joyce and all of the emotions connected to Spencer’s past relationship with her making things even more thrilling.
I really appreciated the dialogue in this novel, which was consistently sharp and nimble. With any historical fiction novel that focuses on intelligence and spying, there is quite a bit of dialogue. Oliver does well to make the dialogue both interesting and logical. The characters are well crafted that each line they speak and each choice they make, I found myself thinking, ‘Yes, of course that’s what he would do.’ It’s so well-written, I would believe the author if he told me that all of these events actually happened.
If there is any weak point in the story, I felt it would be in the first couple of chapters which are heavy on some of the characters’ back stories, but almost all of the information provided in these areas is relevant and useful in understanding who these characters are, making this a very minor issue.
This book reads exactly the way an old school spy movie would play out. No big flashes from explosions or high-tech gadgetry like we get from these stories now. Just operatives using their investigative and deductive logic skills to investigate, interrogate, and do what they can to capture the individuals they need.
This is an exceptionally well written book that is persistently entertaining and compelling.
Pages: 212 | ASIN: B01N1JLYRC
Posted in Book Reviews, Five Stars
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Experiment X: Revolt
Experiment X: Revolt by Nikki Haase is a dystopian science fiction novel about the lives of the Subjects, creatures with special powers that were created in the Lab. These Subjects realized they were being manipulated by the malicious and charming Doctor James Thaddeus who has the ulterior motive of creating his own army and ruling the world. Once these Subjects have escaped and are out in the real world, they soon realize it is no longer a battle of Subjects vs Thaddeus. Rather, due to Thaddeus’ connivance, the whole world views them with suspicion and judgement. After a botched mission, the media furthers the fear mongering surrounding this group. However, if they wish to save the ones they love, they must find a way to take down this despot.
At the center of all this is the narrator Karen. She offers a wonderful window into the lives of the Subjects: their anxieties and discomfort in this world that they are unaccustomed to. The plot, which follows the superheroes as they are framed for wrongdoing by a charming sociopath, is well-executed and moves at the perfect pace. It’s not a series of jam-packed action scenes. Rather it takes the time to develop characters and their complex dynamics. However, the narrative was not at all difficult to latch on to.
If you missed any of the previous books in this series, starting here would be like starting any of the Marvel movies midway: even if it’s a lot of names and superpowers to remember, you can pretty much immediately understand what is going on.
The perspectives of different people throughout the story were explored very well. The Subjects were a believable bunch in a realistic situation. Even though it’s a premise that’s worn thin, I was able to empathize with nearly every Subject’s flaws and troubles. Although Thaddeus was a bit two dimensional, the sheer amount of negativity with which he was portrayed made up for any sympathy I may have had left.
Experiment X: Revolt is a quick, fun read for anyone who is into the likes of the Marvel and DC cinematic universe. Even if you’re not, it’s great for a thrilling adventure fantasy.
Pages: 221 | ASIN: B07L7WJ7K5
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Crocotta’s Hackles
Lluava has horrifying nightmares that keep her from resting. In those very real and vivid dreams, she feels she will surely meet with her own death. Life for Lluava is every bit as harrowing and challenging as the dreams that plague her. At the tender age of eighteen, Lluava is chasing Therimorphs and fighting the elements of winter. Her heightened senses are the only thing keeping her going. She feels, she thinks, and she sees much more deeply than any other human. To complicate matters, her dual form isn’t exactly in her favor. Lluava seems to have everything and everyone against her.
Crocotta’s Hackles, by Katharine Wibell, is the third book in the Incarn series. With a complex plot spanning the series, Wibell offers readers yet another peek into Lluava’s life. Hers is a dual world; she lives two very different lives and struggles to maintain a solid balance between the two. When she and Apex find themselves in the middle of Leucrocotta, and isolated Theriomorph civilization, they are both overwhelmed with the possibilities that there may be others like it.
This fantasy adventure by Wibell breaks into areas seemingly unexplored by other novels in the same genre. The dual forms experienced by the main characters make for a truly interesting reading experience. Wibell’s characters are thoroughly developed and even secondary characters are given engaging scenes and dialogue that makes them easy to visualize. Truth be told, I am as taken with Wibell’s secondary characters as I am her cast of primary players. There is just something about the way she introduces each character to the plot that makes them easy to visualize.
One of the most enthralling aspects of Wibell’s novel is the point of view provided readers as they watch Lluava function in her dual form. It is a unique perspective and gives readers the opportunity to see her operate as an animal as she voices her thoughts as a human. Not many authors are able to pull this type of character development off without losing readers’ interest, but Wibell has written well-rounded characters and kept amazing consistency from one book to the next in this saga.
The gods, as described in Crocotta’s Hackles, are quite the entities. I am not always intrigued by books that have a mythical feel, but Crocotta’s Hackles portrays gods as less than holy and much more meddlesome and vengeful. This, in and of itself, makes Crocotta’s Hackles an engaging read. The havoc they wreak on Lluava’s life is no small part of the book’s plot and makes the main character’s predicament all the more challenging.
Fans of the fantasy genre will find Wibell’s work a welcome change to the vast majority of books currently available. A far as the saga itself goes, Crocotta’s Hackles is the most intensely focused of the three books. Readers who choose to explore Lluava’s dual worlds will not be disappointed.
Pages: 320 | ASIN: B07L1DLXBD
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4 February 2015 – The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has strongly condemned the attack carried out by armed groups operating under the Alshuruq Operation in the ‘oil crescent’ area, causing many deaths and undermining the recent efforts of Libyan leaders to reach a peace pact.
“The attack constitutes a major break in the public pledges made by the main commanders to refrain from actions that could harm the political process at a time when the Libyan parties are working intensively to build bridges of cooperation,” said an UNSMIL statement today.
Media reports suggest that yesterday’s attack on a central Libyan oil field left four people dead.
“This attack also undermines efforts to reach a political solution and endangers the oil resources that belong to the Libyan people,” the Mission continued, reminding all armed groups that the majority of Libyans want peace and stability restored to their country.
Armed groups must act in good faith in accordance with their earlier commitment to a ceasefire and to disengage their forces as proof of their commitment to the political process, the Mission said.
“Parties should not take advantage of the ceasefire to mass forces or launch attacks,” it emphasized, also stressing that all sides must exercise maximum restraint and refrain from taking any action that could further escalate the situation.
Over the past few weeks, Libyan stakeholders had gathered in Geneva under the auspices of the UN to commence a Libyan-Libyan political dialogue. To that end, the Mission reminded all parties to the conflict that they need to be aware that the “eyes of the world are on them.”
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Gunwalker scandal broadens–the FBI connection
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Confidential informants who are participating in the Congressional probe of the Project Gunwalker (Operation Fast and Furious) scandal have now zeroed in on the FBI connection. Such a connection has been hinted at in the past, but information relayed today shows that FBI involvement was much deeper than anyone imagined.
The investigation into Gunwalker has revealed a scandal involving multiple departments of the Obama Administration–Justice, FBI, ATF, ICE, DEA, DHS, and State. These connections have been verified through previously hidden emails and documents, and sworn testimony of whistleblowers.
But the FBI connection is one that could be potentially the biggest one yet, indicating that the bureau not only was involved in Gunwalker but has been up to its neck in a scandal all its own–a program called ‘PATCON,’ or ‘Patriot Conspiracy.’
A paid confidential informant enlisted under PATCON indicated a long history of the covert program spanning several decades which include such debacles as the Ruby Ridge murders, the Waco murders of a religious cult, the Oklahoma City bombing, and Project Gunwalker.
Newsweek Magazine had received this information which they had planned to include in a major story today, according to citizen investigative journalist Mike Vanderboegh. But before the story went to press, the facts were gutted out of the final copy. There is no mention of PATCON or its various tyrannical operations that have resulted in countless deaths.
Vanderboegh stated,
I also knew from sources, living and dead, that PATCON was the worst scandal that the FBI ever perpetrated. PATCON could sink the FBI, perhaps permanently, and along with the Gunwalker Scandal, totally discredit the teflon coating that the Bureau has excreted around its corrupt core and thoroughly debunk the myth that the FBI is anything but an agency of arsonists posing as firemen.
Finally, I knew that Newsweek would run the story tomorrow. I have been hinting about this story for weeks, and now it was about to happen.
But Newsweek editor Tina Brown nixed the heart of the story by removing key facts concerning the paid confidential informant, PATCON, Ruby Ridge, Waco, the OKC bombing, and the Clinton Administration.
Confidential sources who are cooperating with the Congressional probe of Gunwalker indicate that the FBI and the White House were so frightened by the prospects of this story getting out to the public that they used the authority and power of their government offices to pressure Newsweek to omit key facts. And that they did. The story, which was published today, makes no mention of the bombshell information that makes the story the story.
What we have, instead, is a non-story.
The Daily Beast, by the way, is now a part of the Washington Post-Newsweek family of ‘news’ organizations.
But what Newsweek wishes to hide is shouted from the housetops by Vanderboegh, who has a wealth of information about PATCON through his many undercover contacts in the government. That wealth of information includes the following:
There are many rumors and individual bits of fact that have drifted out about PATCON over the years — Stories of FBI informants and undercover assets giving taxpayer-funded operational assistance — including weapons, explosives and money — to neoNazi and racist terrorists to cement their relationships with the criminals; Reports that an operation that began with real concerns about racist terrorist groups like The Order was expanded to include mere political opponents of the Clinton administration and the defensive-oriented constitutional militias; Reports of a similar operation called VAAPCON, “Violence Against Abortion Providers,” using the same tactics; Reports that the Southern Poverty Law Center was hip-deep as a partner to the FBI in PATCON; Reports of FBI penetration of the news media, religious institutions and the ranks of politicians of both parties, who very usefully expanded the FBI’s power and reach and who provided political cover when the curtain slipped. Oklahoma lawyer and journalist J.D. Cash once told me that “there isn’t a neoNazi or racist group in the country that isn’t operationally controlled by the FBI.” Did that include the Aryan Republican Army and the Oklahoma City bombing? I asked. “Certainly,” he replied. So, the prospect of a story in a major news magazine about PATCON must have given the FBI a severe case of the old rectal looseness.
This information has broad repercussions for the continuing investigation into the OKC bombing being conducted by Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue, whose brother was killed after the attack. There is evidence that the Clinton Administration used the FBI to squelch any talk of broader connections in the bombing in order to propagate the ‘lone bomber’ theory.
For more information into PATCON, consult this document, which was posted today by National Gun Rights Examiner Dan.
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The gap between men’s and women’s remuneration is increasing
By Lyderė | News | Comments are Closed | 21 July, 2017 | 0
According to information available from Statistics Lithuania, last year women’s remuneration in Lithuania was 13.4 percent lower than the one men get. Looking at different age groups, the biggest wage gap is between men and women in age of 35-44, their salaries vary by an average of one fifth. The members of Association Lyderė, whichRead more
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Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė awarded country and foreign countries citizens for the merits of the Republic of Lithuania. One of the Association “Lyderė” founders – the vice-president of the stock services company “Nasdaq” Arminta Saladžienė – got the Medal of Merit for Lithuania Award. More information.Read more
Discussion “Gender Equality in the Labor Market”
The founders of Association “Lyderė” organized discussion “Gender Equality in the Labor Market”. Topics of discussions were – gender equality in the labor market, how it can contribute business success and other organizations and what trends are currently prevailing in Lithuania. During the event, the results of Donatas Paulauskas’ analysis of gender inequality in theRead more
Discussion at the Seimas (Lithuanian Parliament) entitled “Companies that ensure gender equality: why and how to do it?”
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Two founders of Association Lyderė, namely Dovilė Grigienė, CEO at Swedbank, and Giedrė Kaminskaitė-Salters, Head of Legal at Telia Lietuva, took part in a discussion held at the Seimas to share their experience in ensuring gender equality at the companies represented by them. The discussion focused on some examples of specific companies, the successful implementation ofRead more
Ryto garsai (Morning Sounds) radio show on LRT
Giedrė Kaminskaitė-Salters, Head of Legal at Telia Lietuva and a co-founder of the Association, shared her insights into women’s leadership, a balance between family and career, and possible solutions in our country. The interview is available at: http://www.lrt.lt/mediateka/irasas/1013670330/ryto_garsai_2017_06_07_06_30.Read more
Three times YES to women’s leadership
According to information available from Statistics Lithuania, the employment of men and women in the labour market is gradually increasing in our country. Men are ahead of women in this area by just a few percentage points (in 2016, their employment rate reached 70% and that of women stood at 68.8%). Although the situation is graduallyRead more
Women’s Leadership Breakfast with Adena Friedman, CEO of Nasdaq
Adena Friedman, CEO of Nasdaq, a global stock exchange, attended a Women’s Leadership Breakfast during her visit to Lithuania at the end of May. The Nasdaq leader and Esther Wojcicki, a prominent scientist from the University of Stanford, USA, and other women active in society and business shared their insights and personal experience, told aboutRead more
Dėmesio centre (In the Spotlight) TV show on LRT
Dovilė Burgienė, a co-founder of the Association, was a guest at the Dėmesio centre show on LRT and shared her insights into how the situation in our country should change to make it easier for women to balance motherhood and career. Listen to the interview here.Read more
Association members hold international conference Go Forward
Members of the Association held international conference Go Forward where over 20 speakers shared their inspirational insights, experience and ideas that not only changed the world of business, science and culture but also broke the stereotypes and encouraged women’s career and leadership.Read more
Active women come together to found Association Lyderė
Women active in business and the social environment have come together to found Association Lyderė to encourage women’s leadership and career aspirations. The Association aims to ensure gender balance in leading positions in the public and private sector, to eliminate differences in remuneration, and to use recognised international best practices in the field of women’sRead more
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Pladis to feature on BBC’s Inside the Factory
By Ashley Williams – 01 August, 2017
McVitie’s-owned Pladis is to appear on the BBC Two series of Inside the Factory, broadcast from 8pm tonight (1 August).
During the third series of the show, co-presenters Gregg Wallace and Cherry Healey have gained access to some of the largest factories in the UK to reveal the secrets behind production.
In tonight’s episode, Wallace visits the McVitie’s factory in London, which produces 80 million biscuits a day. He follows the production of McVitie’s chocolate digestives, from the arrival of 28 tonnes of flour right through to dispatch.
He also discovers that the biscuits are shaped by a bronze roller, costing up to £10,000, and that the chocolate is added to the bottom not the top of the biscuits.
Healey visits Nottingham University’s sensory lab to find scientific proof that dunking a biscuit in a cup of tea improves the flavour. She also visits the chocolate refinery in Manchester to witness how it is transported in heated lorries to stop it from solidifying on its way to the factory.
Meanwhile, historian Ruth Goodman investigates the link between biscuits and digestion, and discovers that, during the Victorian era, biscuits could cure everything from typhoid to scarlet fever.
Pladis is the third company to feature on the latest series, following on from tea producer Typhoo and pasta manufacturer Barilla.
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Talk:Poké Maniac (Trainer class)
Should something be said about how Bill is identified as a Pokemaniac? It explains his penchant for dressing up as a Pokemon...
How about Nicolai and Harley as well?--Pokencyclopedia 21:19, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Bill's Father? When do we EVER learn about him?
Or is it something posted by someone who thinks there are two Bills? Satosuke 20:38, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
In GSC Bill’s mother says his father was a Pokemaniac. “My husband was once known as a POKéMANIAC. BILL must have taken after his father.” IIMarckus 20:47, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
Cool. I stand corrected. Satosuke 02:31, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
Why did the design change? I've gotta admit, even though I like Charizard, I like the older design better... So... can anyone find out why the design changed?--"X", "PEACE" TOTHE DRAGONS ANDTHE BEASTS 23:39, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
I guess before they were Pokémon "nerds", with the stereotypical stuff of nerds like lab coats. But then I assume Nintendo made it more of a "Pokémon fanatic" rather than "nerd" thing, so they got the costumes reflecting pure obsession. er1hp streak 23:41, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Well, can we say something like that? (I wish they didn't change, though.)--"X", "PEACE" TOTHE DRAGONS ANDTHE BEASTS 00:02, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Umm... i think it's more of due to iin R/B/Y and the remakes, there was a Pokemaniac in the Rock Tunnel who talks about Pokemon Cosplay (only in the remakes, in RBY he calls it Costume Play). So maybe they changed it after that part, to make it more fit? I dunno, ever since i saw that cosplay part, i wondered why he wasn't in costume. Lol. Now he is! CherryParanoia 01:46, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
Charizard?
Their HGSS design doesn't resemble Charizard, they seem more like green Rhydons. The " In Generation III, they were changed so that they became cosplayers dressing up in Charizard costumes." line doesn't apply to them anymore. Should someone add a line concerning that? Lovely Rose 00:30, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
Colosseum Leaders as Poké Maniac?
Since some Colosseum Leaders from Pokémon Battle Revolution wear some Pokémon costumes as well, ignoring their Pokémon, couldn't they be considered as Poké Maniacs? --PKMNChamp 08:20, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
Not unless they are stated to be. Wearing a Pokémon costume is just Pokémon cosplay. Don't forget that Poké Kids do too. --SnorlaxMonster 08:24, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: Sierra Muerte
Visionary creator Michel Fiffe unleashes his imagination on the thrilling, amazing, and wonderful world of G.I. JOE! Eccentric soldiers battling bizarre terrorists take center stage in this bombastic account of G.I. Joe’s quintessential mission against Cobra! Through a beachside ambush, a compromised manhunt, and a revenge plan that backfires, America’s fighting elite risk life, love, and honor in this brutal globe-spanning adventure. Also contains back-up material featuring an in-depth exploration of the classic comic book series, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero.
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G.I. Joe: Sierra Muerte
From the mind of comic book auteur Michel Fiffe comes a brilliant, contemporary, and loving homage to all things G.I. Joe! Eccentric soldiers dominating bizarre terrorists are showcased in this bombastic account of G.I. Joe's quintessential mission against Cobra! Through a beachside ambush, a compromised manhunt, and a revenge plan that backfires, America's fighting elite risk life, love, and hono
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Sales of Captain Morgan to match Bacardi, says Diageo
Sales of Captain Morgan rum will one day catch up with Bacardi, according to Diageo.
Talking to Drinks International, Russell Jones, Captain Morgan global brand director, said the consumer trend is away from white rums and towards spiced rums and that Bacardi’s 19.56m 9-litre case sales (2011) is achievable by Captain Morgan (9.20 cases in 2011).
He said: “I think we can catch up with Bacardi. In some markets we are ahead of Bacardi. In Canada we‘ve gone through a million cases and are on the cusp of taking over Bacardi.
“For historical reasons there are 20m cases of white rum being drunk around the world, largely because of Bacardi.
“But the more holistic trend is that the market is going away from white rums to spiced, Latin American and aged rums. In nine out of 10 cases, where rum is performing well, it’s on the back of spiced rums.”
Jones said the US is the major market for Captain Morgan and, as such, is a testing ground for product innovation, such as the April-launched Captain Morgan Black Spiced Rum.
He said: “What happens in the US tends to set the trend. We’ve seen 16 spiced rums join the market in three years in the US. But more competition is good for us, it forces us to be on our game.
“Captain Morgan is now the number two bar call in the US and the number three spirit [by volume].”
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Viviana A Zelizer is a Professor of sociology at Princeton University.
She is interested in how interpersonal connections enter into the production, distribution, consumption, and transfer of economic value. Her work highlights situations in which the relationship between economic activity and personal life is changing or in dispute.
In The Social Meaning of (1996) and The Purchase of Intimacy (2005), she shows we use money and more generally, economic activity to create, maintain, and renegotiate important intimate ties without necessarily damaging them. Far from corrupting intimacy, people regularly sustain their intimate ties with economic transactions.
The Purchase of Intimacy, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.
“The Priceless Child Turns Twenty-Seven.” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 5 (Fall 2012): 449-456. In special essay section, “Pricing the Priceless Child: a Retrospective.”
“How I Became a Relational Economic Sociologist and What Does That Mean?” Special issue on “Relational Work in Market Economies,” edited by Fred Block. Politics & Society, 40 (June 2012): 145-174.
“Caring Everywhere.” In Rhacel Parreñas and Eileen Boris and, editors, Intimate Labors: Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care. Stanford University Press, 2010, pp. 267-279.
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Smithville TX’s Playhouse presents “Chrome Cruisin ’50’s
DINNER THEATER AT PLAYHOUSE SMITHVILLE
Playhouse Smithville brings you this years dinner theatre with a strut: Chrome Cruisin’ ‘50’s, a time when everything had fenders, fins, and skirts… the cars, the girls, the guys, the TV’s, the Drive-Ins, the politics, the poetry, and the music. A live memorabilia tour, cabaret and dinner theatre by Playhouse Artistic Director playwright,john daniels, jr. (sic).
The Playhouse “gives you a rockin’ good time” with the band Vintage 259. Matt Torrez, Michael McGary, and Joel Daniels return to drive the sound. Vintage 259 provided the music for The Playhouses’ first show Little Shop of Horrors. Over thirty songs from the Decade of “I Like Ike!” to spark your memories, and make you want to dance.
Comedy rules in Chrome Cruisin’ ‘50’s as The Playhouse Company revives the humor of early television and comedy teams like Nichols and May. It’s not all laughs, though. Just like in ‘50’s, television live drama makes an appearance. Chrome Cruisin’ remembers the Beat Poets and salutes Sci-Fi film too.
In the Ed Wood tradition Playhouse Smithville gives you a new 1950’s Sci-Fi classic, “Christmas Time On Mars” written byjohn daniels, jr. and directed by Jon-Michael Williford. “Well, it is an independent film,” says the Playhouse Artistic Director.
Rock-N-Roll, comedy, drama, poetry, a movie, and a gourmet hot dog provided by Smithville’s own Frankendog (with lots of groovy toppings), yummy sides and delicious desserts makes the date.
Sam Blasco, Shelby Brown, and Tom and Jo Watts, all of Smithville, join the Playhouse for the first time. The cast of twenty includes Pam Latham, Lia Nelson, Jim Woodruff, Jim Sanders, A.J. Fuex, Lisa Picciandra, Lisa Holcomb, Geoffrey Goerlitz, Brad Wilbourn, Sydney Hight, Bonnie Watts, and Brandon Flippo.
Brandonon loan from the Blinn College Theatre Department is the technical director and designer for the show.
Playhouse Executive Director, April Daniels will have you waltzing in the aisles and Kayla Jo Williams appears in her twelfth Playhouse production. (yes, that is every show!)
“So, agitate the gravel, Clyde and cast an eyeball, Daddy-O… its boss at the Playhouse (in Smithville-the word from the bird.) You can dress the part dig, if you’re hip.” Limited seating. Tickets at www.playhousesmithville.com or call 512-360-7397. Shows Feb. 3-14, dinner at 6:30, show at 7:30.
The Katy House Bed and Breakfast is one block away. If we can help you plan your trip to Smithville give us a call or visit our web site at http://www.katyhouse.com (512) 237-4262
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Tricky, Tricky, Part 2
Trick taking games are defined by the following criteria:
(A) Each player has a hand of cards.
(B) These cards are played in a series of rounds (tricks).
(C) Each player in turn must play to the trick.
(D) Each player plays to the trick exactly once.
Trick-taking games were in a slump they’re coming back. Let’s look at how to write one that stands out from the crowd.
Variations On The Basics
Even with the four criteria listed above, there’s a great deal of room for any designer who’s willing to explore the design space. Each of these criteria carries assumptions with it. Let’s set these assumptions aside and ask “which traditional rules am I willing to break?”
(A) Each Player Has a Hand of Cards
The vast majority of trick taking games deal the same number of cards to each player. There’s no particular reason for this, however.
Each player in the traditional game Euchre receives a five-card hand. Then a sixth card is offered to the dealer. If any player accepts it, that card goes into the dealer’s hand and the dealer then discards one card. While this still leaves the dealer holding five cards, these five are chosen from six.
What if we allowed the dealer in Euchre to keep all six cards, simply discarding the last card when all the other players have run out their five? This would tend to make the dealer’s position stronger and reduce the need for hand-evaluation skills. But what if your card game had a significant dealer disadvantage? Then offering that player a larger pool of cards from which to play would go a long way toward addressing that weakness.
A recent prototype in my group similarly gives the dealer one extra card but then requires a discard. In this case, the discard dictates trump but can never be played, thereby forcing the dealer to give up a trump card in order to promote its suit-mates. In this case, the extra card forces the player to exercise her hand-evaluation skills even more carefully.
By offering significantly different hands of cards to different positions at the table, we can give our games a type of texture which same-hand card games traditionally lack.
A Sample Game With Different Hand Sizes
What if in addition to varying the hand size, we also made different positions receive their cards from different sources? Here’s an outline for such a game. Feel free to run with it as far as you wish:
Imagine a three-handed game. This game uses four suits with cards numbered 1-9 in each suit. Before dealing, these cards are divided into three decks. Deck A contains the 1, 2, 3, 4 of each suit (16 cards). Deck B contains the 5, 6, 7 of each suit (12 cards). Deck C contains the 8, 9 of each suit (8 cards).
Each deck is shuffled. and dealt out. The start player receives a fifteen-card hand–eleven cards from deck A and four cards from deck B. The middle player receives a twelve-card hand–five cards from deck A, four cards from deck B, and three cards from deck C. The dealer (last player) receives a nine-card hand–four cards from deck B and five cards from deck C.
These cards are then played over 12 tricks. The dealer will play out his hand in the first nine tricks but has the best cards. The middle player will play the entirety of her hand but has a medium-strength hand and three tricks in which the dealer does not loom over her. The start player has the weakest hand but gets to choose three cards to leave unplayed.
(B) Cards Are Played In a Series of Rounds (Tricks)
Most trick taking games start with the assumption that only one trick will be going on at a time.
Hattrick allows two tricks. After the first player plays a card, any player who wishes may begin a second trick in a second suit. Because of the possibility of this second trick, Hattrick is at its best when it is played by its full compliment of 6 players. When 4 players participate, Hattrick is simply too forgiving.
Victory & Honor is a game for exactly four players and has exactly three tricks going on at all times–the left, the center, and the right. None of these tricks are evaluated until all three have been completed.
(C) Each Player In Turn Must Play To the Trick
In addition to its three simultaneous tricks, Victory & Honor also allows players some control over the order of play. If you play a card in your left area, your left-hand opponent must play next. Similarly, play to your right area makes your left-hand opponent play next. If you play a card in your center, your partner plays next. This variable player order gives Victory & Honor a texture unlike any other card game I’ve seen.
Most trick taking games also assume that each player will play exactly one card in each trick. What if your game allowed cards to be played in combinations? In games of that type, there might not be any need at all to keep hand sizes even.
For example, your game might allow players to play sets and add their value. Thus, when my opponent opens with the 8 of spades, I might respond with a pair of 5s–the 5 of spades and 5 of diamonds–and count this play as the 10 of spades (the rank of my cards–5–multiplied by the number of cards in the set–2).
Alternately, you might allow your game might allow players to play runs. When my opponent opens with the 8 of spades, I might respond with a run of three cards–the 4, 5, 7 of spades–and count the play as 12 spades (the lowest card–the 4–multiplied by the number of cards in the run–3).
A Sample Game that Allows Multi-Card Plays
I particularly like set-playing in games which feature unevenly distributed ranks. Here’s another game outline for you to run with:
Imagine a four-handed game. Cards in this game are ranked 2 – 9 but high-ranked cards are rarer. There are twelve 2s, eleven 3s, ten 4s, nine 5s, sis 6s, five 7s, four 8s, and three 9s. A player may follow a trick by playing sets as described above–when your opponent opens with the 8 of triangles and the 8 of spirals, played as a pair, he declares the value to be 16 and must choose either triangles or spirals as the suit.
If you were to ask most any card game player who takes their turn, they’d stare at you with the sort of look generally saved for the simple-minded. Of course, I take my turn. Who else could it be?
But Twilight/Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde threw this assumption right off a cliff. This game features two decks–one white, one black–which are shuffled together and dealt out. These colors correspond to the two teams in the game. Because these decks have different card backs, it is clear to everyone who holds how many of which team’s cards. When it is your turn to play, you may name any player holding cards belonging to your team to play for you. This leads to some engaging decisions. Can you force an opponent to take a trick for you? Can you find opportunities to waste the opposition’s cards?
What variations do you like to see in a trick-taking game? What makes them so special to you? Which ones do you dislike? Why? Share with your fellow readers in the comments below. And if you’re enjoying what you’re reading, create an account with WordPress and follow this blog. If you keep reading, I’ll keep writing.
October 18, 2014 Kevin G. Nunn card game, card games, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Euchre, Hattrick, trick taking games, Victory & Honor
3 thoughts on “Tricky, Tricky, Part 2”
Carl Klutzke says:
One of my biggest complaints with most trick-taking games is that too many of the cards in the deck have little or no value. In Euchre, for example, 9s and 10s and queens are usually worthless: even if they are trump they often get pulled from your hand before you can use them. What are some ways to address this? I recall that Sticheln had some interesting rules that made lower-value cards worthwhile, but it’s been a long time since I played it.
Loot by Reiner Knizia is, I think, an interesting one to look into. I would describe it to players of traditional card games as a trick-taking game where there may be multiple tricks being played simultaneously, you can play to a trick more than once, and each player in a trick has to use a different suit. This, plus the fact that someone has to play a card as a “prize” to start each “trick” off, and you can either play or draw a card on your turn, never both, leads to some very interesting dynamics.
Virginia Dickenson says:
Outstanding, Kevin! Loved the Meeple Syrup show! I am MIFFED that you didn’t tell me previously you had this blog! (Did you???) Well…I know about it NOW!
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Anti-Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok had eye-popping influence at Justice Dept.
By Larry O'Connor - The Washington Times
Over the past two weeks it has been revealed that Justice Department official Peter Strzok is facing an inquiry from the DOJ’s Inspector General over what appears to be highly inappropriate conduct while he was engaged in several high-profile, politically charged investigations over the past two years.
Strzok, a former deputy to the assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI who also weaseled his way onto Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia Collusion investigation until he was removed in July, has been in the headlines lately over text messages showing his utter disdain for then-candidate Donald Trump and his attempt to plan a mysterious “insurance policy” incase the billionaire real estate and media mogul won the highest office in the land.
So what did Strzok actually accomplish at the Justice Department up until his reassignment to an “supervisory job in the bureau’s human resources department” over the summer?
Remarkably, (and some would say disturbingly) quite a lot.
1: Strzok was able to modify FBI Director James Comey’s initial finding that Hillary Clinton had been “grossly negligent” in her handling of sensitive and classified government documents with the use of her private email server. Strzok’s Svengali-like manipulation of Comey (a man who’s credibility can not and should not ever be questioned because Joe Scarborough has told us he’s impeccable… although it’s kind of strange to hear how this partisan underling manipulated Comey in such a blatant and perverse way) successfully changed the FBI’s findings on the Clinton email debacle to “extremely careless” thereby keeping the outrageous behavior free from criminal referral. Score one for the Thesauras! Hillary saved by the synonym machine!
2. Strzok participated in the interview of Hillary Clinton over her private email server. The interview, conducted days before Comey released his controversial findings in July 2016, was conducted without the benefit of any recording devices or a sworn oath.
3. Strzok also convinced Comey (a pillar of virtue and a man who’s competence and effectiveness you really shouldn’t ever question, I mean, just look at the great job he did) to soften the language in his findings over the likelihood Clinton’s private and unauthorized email server had been hacked by a foreign entity.
“In an early draft, Comey said it was “reasonably likely” that “hostile actors” gained access to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email account. That was changed later to say the scenario was merely ‘possible.’” Fox News reported this week.
4. Strzok also oversaw the questioning of then-National Security Director Michael Flynn over his contacts with Russian officials during the post-election transition process. Flynn’s answers to Strzok’s questions were later found to rise to the level of criminal deception leading Flynn to a guilty plea agreement with the Mueller investigation.
5. We’ve also learned that Strzok was a “key figure” with regard to the acceptance of and possible dissemination of the infamous Russian Dossier, a collection of unverified tales about Donald Trump that was paid for by the Clinton campaign. Strzok reportedly briefed the House Intelligence Committee on the dossier in December of 2016, just one month after the presidential election and in the middle of the transition process.
6. Fox News has also reported that Strzok has been accused of “obstructing” the House Intel Committee’s investigation. “Investigators were contacted by an informant suggesting that there was “documentary evidence” that Strzok was purportedly obstructing the House probe into the dossier,” James Osen and Jake Gibson earlier this month.
7. As a highly placed member of the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation team, Strzok rubbed elbows and cooperated with other intelligence agency heads including John Brennan at CIA and Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper. Both Brennan and Clapper have shown themselves to be as virulently anti-Trump and partisan as Strzok displayed in his text messages. And let’s not forget, Clapper’s report on Russian involvement with the DNC hack and WikiLeak’s was the foundation of the fake “Seventeen Intelligence Agencies have concluded Russian hacking on behalf of Trump” talking point that emanated from the Obama Administration, was parroted by the Clinton campaign and became a montra of the New York Times, AP, CNN and most mainstream media outlets until they corrected their own record earlier this year.
That’s the list as of now… but we expect it to keep growing.
It is unclear whether Strzok was involved with the FISA warrant that ultimately led to a wiretap on former Trump campaign director Paul Manafort who has been indicted as a result of the Mueller investigation. But given his alleged involvement in the FBI’s handling of the dossier and the infamous “insurance policy” texts suggesting an attempt to undermine the Trump campaign or a potential Trump presidency, many observers are connecting those dots and reaching reasonable conclusions.
Strzok is the quintessential swamp creature and it is remarkable to look at how many highly politically charged pies he had his fingers in over the past two years. Remarkable until you recognize exactly what has sadly become the reality here on the ground in Washington DC. There was a time when “Career Justice Department Official” was a badge of honor and something that suggested that the individual attached was one of extreme integrity and beyond political influence or corruption. Now, sadly, it appears the exact opposite applies.
Where are the “Career Justice Department Officials” who don’t appear to be more loyal to the swamp, the system and their chosen political allies rather than the rule of law?
Who played these iconic Star Wars characters?
Congress in action
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BenFred: Perron tells his side of play that kicked Krug's big hit on Thomas Ben Frederickson
BOSTON – Entering Wednesday's Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final, everyone had shared his opinion of Brown's defense man Torey Krug's game defining Game 1 hit on Blues' rookie Robert Thomas. Everyone except the guy who sparked it. It was Blues forward David Perron who tangled with Krug in front of the Bruins' net after the puck headed in the opposite direction around the halfway mark of the third period. You know what happened next. After being ridden like a mechanical bull, Krug got up, furious, and zoomed toward the platform, who had skated away, headed to the bench for a shift change while fully prepared to be engaged from behind. That hit didn't come, as Krug smartly realized it would have suffered a penalty. But Krug's intention was clear. Someone was going to pay Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy said Krug was simply chasing the puck. Yeah, right. Krug, without his helmet and out for retaliation, leveled Robert Thomas instead of Perron. The Bruins celebrated a clean, hard hit that energized all of TD Garden. The Blues wondered if Krug should be called for charging, considering he took a long sprint down the ice before rocking Thomas. That's how this stuff goes. Thomas, who has been involved what is believed to be a wound injury throughout the playoffs, is not playing in Game 2. Blues Craig Berube said Krug's coach had nothing to do with that. Yeah, right. I wondered how Perron felt about his wrestling match with Krug…
BOSTON – Entering Wednesday’s Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final, everyone had shared his opinion of Brown’s defense man Torey Krug’s game defining Game 1
hit on Blues’ rookie Robert Thomas.
Everyone except the guy who sparked it.
It was Blues forward David Perron who tangled with Krug in front of the Bruins’ net after the puck headed in the opposite direction around the halfway mark of the third period. You know what happened next. After being ridden like a mechanical bull, Krug got up, furious, and zoomed toward the platform, who had skated away, headed to the bench for a shift change while fully prepared to be engaged from behind. That hit didn’t come, as Krug smartly realized it would have suffered a penalty. But Krug’s intention was clear. Someone was going to pay
Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy said Krug was simply chasing the puck. Yeah, right.
Krug, without his helmet and out for retaliation, leveled Robert Thomas instead of Perron. The Bruins celebrated a clean, hard hit that energized all of TD Garden. The Blues wondered if Krug should be called for charging, considering he took a long sprint down the ice before rocking Thomas. That’s how this stuff goes.
Thomas, who has been involved what is believed to be a wound injury throughout the playoffs, is not playing in Game 2.
Blues Craig Berube said Krug’s coach had nothing to do with that. Yeah, right.
I wondered how Perron felt about his wrestling match with Krug now that the Bruins seem to have the best out of it. His explanation made a lot of sense. Here it is.
“At the time, we are obviously not playing a good game,” Perron said Wednesday. “We are down, 3-2. There are 10 or so minutes to go. The penalties are at 4-1, 5-1, 5-2, 4-2, whatever, right around there. (The platform is right here. The blues had four penalties to the Bruins. Two at the time; NHL officials tend to keep things even.) I think I can push the envelope a little bit. At worst, I feel like getting my team a 4-on-4. If he gives me an extra slash or something, maybe we get on the power play. That was my perspective. ”
The refs did not bite on the pushing and shoving between platform and drug. Perron eventually skated off, figuring Krug might chase him down and engage again. That would have been welcomed. Didn’t happen. “I was pretty exhausted, so I figured he was,” Perron said. “I only heard the crowd.” I just heard the crowd. I didn’t see the hit. I had to see it yesterday. You never want to see a teammate get hit like that, for sure. It was a good response by him, and momentum for them. . . It could have been turned in many ways. Maybe he takes another penalty from that (hit on Thomas). It’s really tough to say. It didn’t work out for us.
“I don’t really want to comment on this,” he said. “I agree with both sides of it. If you are playing for the Bruins, you are like, great hit. From our perspective, well, he took a lot of strides. I know he slipped into a bit, but he’s coming with a lot of force, a little bit reckless. That’s all I can say. I can see both sides of it. I’m not the ref. Don’t let them decide. ”
Time will tell if that becomes a deciding factor in this series, but it certainly feels like an important chapter right now.
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Frozen treasure
Some 860 000 seed samples from around the globe are held in storage in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago – to preserve the diversity of our food sources.
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Whatever happens, our food crops will survive! Safely out of reach of the effects of war and natural disasters, seed back-up samples from the world’s biggest gene banks are stored in airtight foil packages inside sealed boxes in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on Spitsbergen. Wheat from the Middle East, barley from Tajikistan, amaranth from Ecuador – a broad variety of seeds is kept nicely chilled at minus 18 degrees Celsius. The seeds of some plant species will remain fertile at this temperature for many thousands of years.
GETTING THERE FROM GERMANY
Lufthansa flies daily from Frankfurt (FRA) and Munich (MUC) to Oslo (OSL), where a connecting flight will take you to Longyearbyen (LYR) on Spitsbergen. The seed vault is built into Platåberget mountain.
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A golden pursuit
PHOTOS BATZAYA CHOIJILJAV
The nomadic people of western Mongolia have a long tradition of hunting with eagles. For this, they develop a deep emotional bond with their birds
You hear it from far away: Miew–miew! Miew–miew! The high-pitched scream pierces the air, carrying across the crumbling brick wall and out into the dusty street: Miew–miew-miew!
It’s the scream of an eagle. Hunched in its cloak of feathers, it sits perched on a big, gnarled root in front of the stone house, incessantly opening and closing its beak. A scraggly rooster strutting across the yard makes sure to keep its distance.
The door of the house opens and a gray-haired man in dark pants and a blue short-sleeved shirt steps outside. “The eagle’s still a youngster,” he says. “Its instincts still tell it to beg for food.” The man holds out a wooden scoop full of meat to the bird, and it settles down instantly at the sight of the red chunks.
We’re in Bayan Ulgii Province in the westernmost part of Mongolia, almost 1500 kilometers from the capital, Ulaanbaatar. It’s home to Kazakhs, a Muslim minority that came to the country around 200 years ago. Besides the nomadic life they lead with their goats and cattle during the summer, they have preserved another tradition: hunting with golden eagles.
Shaimurat, our host, whose culture knows no surnames, is one such eagle hunter – a berkutchi. His people don’t see it as a sport, the 55-year-old tells us as we take a seat amid the unplastered walls and heavy rugs of his front room. Life is hard here in the Altai Mountains, where the summits tower 4000 meters into the sky and temperatures drop to 30 below zero in winter, and the eagle he hunts with helps him put dinner on the table every night. Each winter, Shaimurat and the other berkutchi hunt for hares, foxes and marmots. While the hunters and eagles wait in the mountains, beaters flush out whatever’s hiding in holes and crevices or between rocks. Then the raptors are released. They swoop down at speeds of over 200 kilometers per hour and seize the animals whose flesh feeds the hunters and whose fur is used to make coats and caps.
Falconry, says Shaimurat, is the highest form of hunting. After all, anybody can hunt with a rifle. His father and grandfather were berkutchi before him. He studied geology to begin with and then worked for mining companies. But after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, when the economy in communist Mongolia crashed as well, he bought a farm and turned his thoughts to the tradition of eagle hunting.
While Shaimurat’s wife Kulzira squeezes milk tea and lamb stew onto a little table already crowded with glass bowls full of cookies and sweets, he shows us the medals hanging on the walls, along with the many trophies, framed certificates and banners bearing his face. Shaimurat is a three-time winner of the Golden Eagle Festival at which, every October, the best berkutchi pit their skills against one another. When Shaimurat imitates the eagle’s swooping attack, he hovers over the sweets on the table in front of him, clenches his fingers into talons and then suddenly pounces forward and strikes: Thwack!
“If you want to hunt with a golden eagle, you first have to catch one,” he explains. That means climbing high into the Altais, to where the birds build their aeries and grabbing a chick. While the species is endangered in many countries, the golden eagle population in Mongolia is big enough to survive such an intrusion unscathed. A real berkutchi only ever takes one chick, Shaimurat assures me, and only ever females. “They weigh almost twice as much as the males, up to seven kilograms, are much stronger, and have a better hunting instinct.”
The berkutchi spends hours stroking the animal, talking gently and even singing to it
Before training can begin, the bird has to get used to its human hunting partner and learn to trust him. That’s why it will spend several months sitting tethered to a perch in the house or yurt, the nomads’ tent. Every day, the berkutchi spends hours stroking the animal, talking gently and even singing to it so that it learns to recognize his voice. Meat is placed in front of it until it eats out of its owner’s hand voluntarily – the sign that it has accepted him as its master. Then the actual hunting lessons begin. To demonstrate, Shaimurat packs a few chunks of meat into a leather pouch that the bird is meant to dive for – first from a height of one meter, then from two meters, then from the roof of the house and eventually from a cliff. These exercises are repeated hundreds of times until the bird has mastered them perfectly.
When the eagle is three or four years old and approaching maturity, the berkutchi shows it the skins and pelts of foxes and other potential prey so as to familiarize it with their appearance and scent. In the last phase of training, the berkutchi sets his eagle on pelts as they’re dragged behind a horse. Finally, before the hunting season begins, the animal is put on a diet. Only a hungry eagle is a good hunter. But even for the owner of a good hunting bird, times are hard: Up until the Russian revolution of 1917, an eagle could feed an entire family, says Shaimurat. During the socialist era, you could still swap a fox fur for a goat or sheep, whereas nowadays it’s only worth the equivalent of €10 at most. So even if a good eagle manages to kill 50 foxes in a winter, it’s barely enough to live on. We ask whether one of his two sons will take his place one day. Shaimurat doesn’t know. But he’s worried: “Our culture is vanishing.”
Annual highlight: Every October, the hunters choose a champion at the Golden Eagle Festival
But 30-year-old Asalbek is also preserving the tradition. He sports a scar under his left eye and a green prayer cap – and is a seventh-generation berkutchi. His father won the first Golden Eagle Festival back in 2000, and since he died two years ago, Asalbek has been providing for his mother, five brothers and five sisters.
Asalbek is standing outside his hut, 10 kilometers from the village of Sagsai, showing his son Gambal how to hold an eagle properly. “You’re not a real Kazakh until you can command an eagle,” he says. This much is clear: For the Kazakh minority, eagle hunting is a defining part of their identity.
Indeed, according to Asalbek, the bird is more than just a hunting assistant – it’s an integral part of the family. The eagle is seen as an individual that grows, develops and has its own character. In the hot summers, Asalbek bathes the bird regularly so that its feathers don’t become disheveled by the dry air and sandy dust. On cold winter nights, he brings it into the house or yurt, keeping it warm with blankets. “When my eagle thrives, my family and I thrive as well – I’m convinced of that.”
Eagle expert: It takes a berkutchi many years to acquire the skills of caring for and hunting with eagles
Asalbek has reared four eagles so far and every one of them meant something to him. As a rule, he tells us, a hunter sets his bird free after 10 years. “You want to give it the chance to breed and live a long life.” But every goodbye is difficult, says Asalbek, and tells of golden eagles that injure the tendons in their feet or lose toes or talons and cannot hunt anymore, and are then taken care of until the end of their days –and of berkutchi who keep vigil for a week when a bird dies before carrying it up into the mountains and asking its spirit for forgiveness.
Asalbek wants to show us his hunting grounds. He pulls on the maroon coat that belonged to his father, heavy boots, the thick leather gauntlet the eagle perches on, and the red fox fur cap that keeps his head warm. Asalbek leaps onto his horse. He leads us through vast meadows; still soaked with the spring meltwater, they squelch beneath the horses’ hooves. We cross scree fields. And then, slowly, we climb the first foothills. From there we can see a river meandering across the plain, the snow-capped peaks of the Altai Mountains gleaming on the horizon.
More than just a hunting assistant: For Asalbek, his eagle is his pride and joy – his companion, partner and friend
Once we reach the top, Asalbek lets the eagle take flight. Pushing off with its muscular legs, the bird beats its wings, climbing higher and higher towards the sun that’s occasionally visible between the leaden clouds. But even those few rays are enough to make the bird’s plumage gleam: The golden eagle is aptly named.
“When I sit here watching my bird, I sometimes dream of setting this eagle free again, too,” says Asalbek. One day, when the sun is shining, he’ll bring the bird up here, lay a slaughtered sheep on a rock, let her eat her fill, send her off one last time – but not call her back. He might even have to hide so that the animal doesn’t follow him home. But sooner or later, the eagle will fly away, seeming to dwindle in size until it looks hardly any bigger than a sparrow before eventually disappearing in the golden skies. Asalbek doesn’t say it, but his eyes reveal what he’ll be thinking when that moment comes: Goodbye, my feathered friend.
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Senate Resolution No. 1525 – Honoring and Commending for the Country’s Outstanding Police Officers in Service (C.O.P.S)
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Scope: National
Legislative status: Pending in the Committee (8/24/2015)
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Senate Bill No. 2484- Philippine Psychology and Psychometrics Act of 2008
Senate Bill No. 2482- Environmental Planning Act of 2008
Senate Bill No. 2431- Granting 10 TO 15% discount privileges to solo parents
Senate Bill No. 2432- Environmental Impact Assessment Act of 2008
Senate Bill No. 2430- Granting former OFWS 20% discount privileges and Tax Exemption
Senate Bill No. 2421- Corporation engaged in National Wealth Development, direct remittance of 40% Share to LGUS
Senate Bill No. 2420- 15% Iincrease on basic salary of National Government Personnel
Senate Bill No. 2486- Provincial Water Utilities
Senate Bill No. 2485- Joint Legislative-Executive Tax Commission (JLETC)
Senate Bill No. 2483- Metallurgical Engineering Act of 2008
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P.S. Resolution No. 55 - Importation of Rice
Senate Bill No. 2126 -Children's Health Insurance Program
Senate Bill No. 2127 - Government Perforamance Act of 2010
Senate Bill No. 2125 - Benefits and Incentives of Barangay Security Development Officers(BSDO's)
Senate Bill No. 1406 - PAGASA Modernization Act of 2010
Senate Bill No. 1334 - Philippine Fisheries Code
Senate Bill No. 1337 - Agriculture and Fisheries Extension Act of 2010
Senate Bill No. 1339 - Drunk Driving Prevention and Punishment Act of 2010
Senate Bill No. 1336 - Magna Carta for Barangays
Senate Bill No. 1338 - Child Support
Senate Bill No. 1335 - Anti-theft and Robbery of Portable Telecommunication Devices Act of 2010
Senate Bill No. 7 - Household helpers additional benefits
Senate Bill No. 6 - Barangay Greening and Forest Land Rehabilitation and Protection Act of 2010
Senate Bill No. 8 - Migrant Workers Hospital Act of 2010
Senate Bill No. 5 - Universally Accessible cheaper and Quality Medicines Act
Senate Bill No. 4 - Mandatory Universal Healthcare Coverage Act of 2010
Senate Bill No. 10 - Magna Carta for Public School Teachers
Senate Bill No. 9 - Barangay Nutrition Worker
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P.S. Resolution No. 158 - Reducing Emmissions from Deforestation and Forest Degredation (REDD) Programmes
P.S. Resolution No. 174 -Plight of Victims of Tropical Storm Ondoy and Typhoon Pepeng
P.S. Resolution No. 175 - Robust adaptation strategies to enhance food security and, alleviate rural poverty
P.S. Resolution No. 100 - Human Trafficking
P.S. Resolution No. 71 - Coal spill incident in Brgy. Wawa, Nasugbu, Batangas
Senate Bill No. 2355 - Combat duty pay of all enlisted personnel of the Armed Forces of the Philippines
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P.S. Resolution No. 198 - MDG (Millennium Development Goals)
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P.S. Resolution No. 230 - Strategic areas of the Philippin Foreign Relations
Senate Bill No. 2561 - Child Nutrition Law OF 2010
P.S. Resolution No. 218 - Indigenous and Tribal People's Convention
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P.S. Resolution No. 380 - Honor of the Late Quintin B. Paredes, Statesman
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P.S. Resolution No. 427 - Profound Sympathy to the People of Japan
P.S. Resolution No. 417 - Security and Well-Being of Overseas Filipinos in Times of Crisis
P.S. Resolution No. 440 - Ifugao Rice Terraces
Senate Bill No. 2759 - Total Plastic Bag Ban
Senate Resolution No. 416 - Filipinos in Iraq
P.S. Resolution No. 403 - Philippine Posts Abroad
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Senate Bill No. 2858 - Ethnic Origin Act of 2011
P.S. Resolution No. 498 - Massive Fishkill in Taal Lake
P.S. Resolution No. 491 - Poaching (Moro Gulf and Sulu Sea)
P.S. Resolution No. 472 - Honor the Life of Forest Guard Elpidio 'JOJO' Malinao
P.S. Resolution No. 470 - MTPDP AND Climate Change
P.S. Resolution. No. 457 - Commending Congressman Manny Pacquiao
P.S. Resolution No. 458 - Green Brigade in the Sangguniang Kabataan
P.S. Resolution No. 443 - RP-Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Joint Commission Meeting on Technical Cooperation
P.S. Resolution No. 564 - Honoring and Commending the Metrobank Foundation Outstanding Teachers of 2011
P.S. Resolution 554 - Commending the Philippine Dragon Boat Team
P.S. Resolution No. 544 - Commending the Alternative Indigenous Development Foundation, Inc. (AIDFI)
P.S. Resolution 541 - Profound sympathy to the People of Norway
Senate Bill No. 2985 - Amended Charter of the People's Television Network, Incorporated
Senate Resolution No. 666 - Commending the Grand Winners of the 2011 National Search for Sustainable and Eco-Friendly Schools
Senate Bill No. 2986 - Restoring Jurisdiction Over Final Decisions from Court of Appeals to the Supreme Court
P.S. Resolution 615 - Domestic Workers Convention (Philippines' Entry as a State Party to the ILO Convention NO. 189)
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Senate Resolution No. 661 - Meat Products
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Senate Bill No. 3105 - Philippine River Basin System Administration Act of 2012
Senate Resolution No. 682 - Mandatory Environmental Insurance Coverage
Senate Bill No. 3097 Lake Lanao Development Authority of 2012
Senate Resolution No. 675 Accountability of Financiers of Small-Scale Mining Operations (Compostela Valley)
Senate Resolution No. 672 Royal Government of Bhutan
Senate Resolution No. 673 2011 and 2012 Calamity Fund
Senate Resolution No. 746 - Small-Scale Mining Operations in The Ifugao Rice Terraces
Senate Resolution No. 771 - Honoring Felipe Padilla de Leon
Senate Resolution No. 831 - Sustainable protection of the Puerto Princesa Subterrannean National Park
Senate Resolution No. 871 - Congratulating Brillante Mendoza
Senate Bill No. 3276 - World Interfaith Harmony Week 2
Senate Resolution No. 134 - Year 2013 as the Year of the Overseas Filipino Workers
Senate Bill No. 695 - Human Resources for Health Network Act of 2013
Senate Bill No. 674 - Southern Palawan Special Economic Zone and Free Port Act of 2013
Senate Resolution No. 11 – Sexual Exploitation of OFWs by Selected Embassy Officials
Senate Bill No. 388 - Child Support
Senate Resolution No. 11 - Sexual Exploitation of OFW's by Selected Embassy Officials/Staff
Senate Bill No. 7 - National Land Use Act (NALUPA) of 2013
Senate Bill No. 1391 - Department of Culture Act of 2013
Senate Resolution No. 216 - Environmental Audit of the Performance of Relevant National Agencies and Local Government Units
Senate Bill No. 1357 - Anti-Religious and Racial Profiling Act of 2013
Senate Bill No. 1267 - Combat Duty Pay and Subsistence Allowance of All Personnel of the AFP
Senate Bill No. 1899 - Baybayin Act of 2013
Senate Bill No. 1901 - Protected Areas Declaration Act of 2013
Senate Bill No. 1902 - The National Bureau of Investigation Reorganization and Modernization Act of 2013
Senate Bill No. 1898 - Verde Island Passage Act of 2013
Senate Bill No. 1900 - Forest Limits Act of 2013
Senate Bill No. 1902 - National Bureau of Investigation Reorganization and Modernization Act of 2013
Senate Resolution No. 456 - Commending Brillante Mendoza
Senate Resolution No. 427 - Members of the International Community for their Humanitarian Response
Senate Resolution No. 426 - Media Killings
Senate Resolution No. 333 - Earthquake Risk Audit
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Senate Resolution No. 312 - Commending Filipino Filmmakers, Brillante Mendoza, Lav Diaz, The Late Lino Brocka And Gym Lumbera
Senate Resolution No. 311 - Commending the National Bureau of Investigation
Senate Resolution No. 233 - State of Rice Supply in the Country
Senate Resolution No. 231 - Commending the 2013 Metrobank Foundation Outstanding Teachers
Senate Resolution No. 203 - Philippine Tropical Fabrics (Implementation of Republic Act 9242)
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Little Men: The Good Man (chapter 3, “Sunday”)
As mentioned in a previous post about the art of domesticity, I have been reading Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys. The audio book version from Librivox.org has actually been my companion while doing yard work and gardening these past few Saturdays. Keeps my mind off of my aching joints and bones! Listening to Little Men as opposed to reading it has given me a chance to take a step backward and see the story as a stand-alone work.
Different from Little Women
I’ve had problems reading Little Men in the past because I had assumed it would be an extension of Little Women. Instead, it concentrates more on the boys and girls of Plumfield rather than Jo and Professor Bhaer (and after twelve chapters, I’ve seen little or no reference to the other main characters of Little Women with exception of Laurie). It reminds me of the experience of reading The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkein. The magic of the story was lost for me after the first installment, The Fellowship of the Ring, because the Fellowship split up and went in different directions. It was the chemistry of the Fellowship that made the story special for me, just as the sisterhood of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy made Little Women special.
A direction not taken
Some distance from Little Women has helped me to better appreciate the charm of Little Men although it did leave me wondering why Louisa chose to go this way with her sequel. Obviously the sisters are grown women now with their own lives but I would have thought she would have placated her fans with more about the sisters. Louisa was indeed a professional writer with a keen understanding of what sells, but she was independent too.
Why the book was written
John Pratt, husband to Anna, father to Fred and John
Little Men was written as the result of the sudden death of Anna’s husband John Pratt. Louisa and May were in Europe at the time, taking the Grand Tour. When Louisa heard the news she immediately sat down to write Little Men so as to support her nephews, Freddy and Johnny, with its sales. It would follow then that the book would be written more with them in mind.
Much taken from real life
Like Little Women, Little Men is full of real life anecdotes, and in some ways, they are more obvious. For those of you with a thorough knowledge of Louisa’s life, these anecdotes jump right off the page. Yesterday while listening to chapters 6-12, I picked up on several which I’ll share in upcoming posts.
Bronson’s presence
Amos Bronson Alcott
Her father Bronson is very much present in the good and kind Professor Bhaer as well as in Grandpa March. In Chapter 3, “Sunday,” I could hear Bronson speaking clearly through the voice of Demi, Meg’s son.
Consolation for Nat
Nat is the new boy, having only been at Plumfield a day or two when chapter 3, “Sunday,” opens. At bedtime he notices a picture on the wall at the foot of his bed which he found “peculiar … for it had a graceful frame of moss and cones about it, and on a little bracket underneath stood a vase of wild flowers freshly gathered from the spring woods. It was the most beautiful picture of them all …” Nat found himself longing to know more about the picture and Demi noticed. He began then to tell the story of Christ, The Good Man, as told to him by Grandpa March.
Demi shares Grandpa’s story
In the picture, Christ is blessing the children and Nat, who knows little about Him (except for His name being taken in vain), remarks how kind Christ looks. Grandpa March had given the picture to Demi after telling him the story of The Good Man many times. Demi related to Nat that Christ loved poor people, “and was very good to them. He made them well, and helped them, and told rich people they must not be cross to them, and they loved Him dearly, dearly.”
Help for Nat
He continued to tell Nat about the life of Christ and how the “bad men killed Him.” Nat, only at the school for few days, took great comfort in the story; Jo, so grateful to her nephew for offering such comfort to Nat, thought to herself, “Demi is unconsciously helping the poor boy better than I can …”
Real life counterparts
There are references in Anna’s childhood diaries of conversations with her father on biblical stories: On Wednesday, September 2, 1839 she wrote, “I had a very interesting talk with father about Jesus. He explained to me some things that I wanted to know about what he did: about his feeding of the five thousand people, and about raising the dead to life, and stilling the tempest. I like conversations with father.” (from Houghton Library, Amos B Alcott Family Letters 1837 TO 1852 Vol. 1 to Vol. V 1852-1855).
Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt
In another passage, Anna shows her preferences for her father’s way of teaching religion: Sunday, December 22, 1839 “I went to Mr. Barnard[‘s church] this morning. I wish he would preach about something that I could understand as father does when he talks with me about being good. After I came home, father read about God’s making the World, about Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, eating the forbidden fruit, and being sent out of the garden, and about Cain’s slaying his brother Abel. Father explained it to me so that I might understand it. He wishes me to understand all I read. He talked with us about loving one another.” (Ibid)
For all of Bronson’s faults, his way of making religion a living faith for his children is to be commended.
It’s obvious through Demi’s story of the Good Man and its impact on Nat, that Louisa was greatly impacted too. The voice of her father through Demi was tender way that he told it to Nat, who needed that kind of consolation.
It’s these kinds of stories that makes Little Men special to me.
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4 Replies to “Little Men: The Good Man (chapter 3, “Sunday”)”
Lucie Winborne says:
Interesting. My recollection is that Bronson Alcott did not believe in the divinity of Christ, but rather that he was merely a great teacher…something I believe caused him some problems in his society. Also, only in later years has it struck me that while I grew up reading and rereading Louisa’s books, assuming the family’s Christian faith, I cannot recall an instance of the March family ever attending church. Even the book Marmee gives the four girls to read on Christmas morning is not actually named (do you know what it is?). I should know this by now, but were the Alcotts essentially Unitarians?
susanwbailey says:
You are correct that Bronson did not believe in the divinity of Christ but instead thought he was the most perfect human being that ever lived. I’ve yet to read anywhere how he dealt with the resurrection aspect of the story. Like the Unitarians, he did not believe in the Trinity. In the new annotated version of Little Women edited by Daniel Shealy, he has a footnote which explains that the book given to each March girls was the most likely New Testament. At Orchard House, there is an actual small green New Testament that belonged to Lizzie. The family attended church sometimes (as noted in Anna’s and Abba’s writings) but Bronson felt that his church was inside of himself, if you know what I mean. Abba was more traditional and liked to attend services but she’d try different things. I read somewhere, I think in My Heart is Boundless, edited by Eve LaPlante, that while in Germantown they both attended Quaker services. Bronson was raised in the Episcopal Church and his mother hoped he’d become a minister but they didn’t have the means for his schooling. Abba was raised in the Unitarian faith – she attended Kings Chapel in Boston and was married there. While the Unitarian Church likes to claim Bronson and Louisa as one of their own, they were not members. Louisa even dabbled in Christian Science and Buddhism at points in her life. She was a seeker.
If I had a father like Bronson who actually explained the faith to me as Anna noted in her journal, I don’t think I’d want to worship in a regular church where the sermons were way over the heads of children. Judging by how Louisa wrote that scene in Little Men about The Good Man, I bet Bronson was one heck of a preacher and teacher.
He does seem to have been an interesting teacher, and no mistake.
I teach high school religious ed and we gathered all the 11th graders together for a class by a Jesuit priest who used Q & A to draw out teenagers. While in the larger group the kids wouldn’t talk but I could see on their faces that they liked him and were intrigued by his question. When we broke up into our own smaller classes afterwards, my kids opened up like they never had before and I knew it was because this Jesuit priest had primed the pump. He make me think of Bronson. I would have loved to have sat in on one of his classes!
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Read the Boston Globe about the discovery first revealed on this blog.
Susan’s Books
Louisa May Alcott: Illuminated by The Message: “Susan Bailey's new book is part of a series called Literary Portals to Prayer, which is meant to encourage a kind of literary lectio divina, a form of contemplative reading that is a pathway to prayer. An intriguing idea for a book, no? And there’s no better person to write it than Susan Bailey.” Lori Erickson, The Holy Rover on Patheos
“I never fully realized how much spiritual content is integrated into her body of work. Ms. Bailey extracts beautiful and uplifting passages and pairs them with Biblical ones that make similar points. It includes some of Alcott’s less well known works which makes me want to read those that I have missed.” Diane Brandi
Susan Bailey has compiled a remarkable edition of side by side texts, demonstrating a deep understanding of the life, world, and spirituality of Alcott. The matches [with the Bible} are spot on and insightful. Eileen Charbonneau. award-winning author
River of Grace: Susan Bailey’s powerful and beautifully-written book is much more than an insightful spiritual memoir. River of Grace is also a brilliant reflection on the connections between creativity and grace. A book one to cherish. Amy Belding Brown, author of Mr. Emerson’s Wife and Flight of the Sparrow
Susan Bailey is an accomplished researcher of all things pertaining to Louisa May Alcott. I found joy in the way that [she] shares about her favorite authoress. Miss Alcott's books wedged themselves into Susan's soul and allowed her to identify parallels and discover herself again. This is not a story of how to get over grief fast -- but how to deal with it and give your afflictions to the Almighty. Tarissa, In the Bookcase blog
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My review of "Little Women" is in this week's Catholic Free Press from the Worcester, MA diocese. www.catholicfreepress.org; click on E-Edition, pg. 9. #littlewomenmovie #littlewomen
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"A very strange and solemn feeling came over me as I stood there, with no sound but the rustle of the pines, no one near me, and the sun so glorious, as for me alone. It seemed as if I felt God as I never did before, and I prayed in my heart that I might keep that happy sense of nearness all my life."
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The Edge of Lost (Paperback)
By Kristina Mcmorris
***NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER***
"Will grab your heart on page one and won't let go until the end."
—Sara Gruen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants
On a cold night in October 1937, searchlights cut through the darkness around Alcatraz. A prison guard's only daughter—one of the youngest civilians who lives on the island—has gone missing. Tending the warden's greenhouse, convicted bank robber Tommy Capello waits anxiously. Only he knows the truth about the little girl's whereabouts, and that both of their lives depend on the search's outcome.
Almost two decades earlier and thousands of miles away, a young boy named Shanley Keagan ekes out a living as an aspiring vaudevillian in Dublin pubs. Talented and shrewd, Shan dreams of shedding his dingy existence and finding his real father in America. The chance finally comes to cross the Atlantic, but when tragedy strikes, Shan must summon all his ingenuity to forge a new life in a volatile and foreign world.
Skillfully weaving these two stories, Kristina McMorris delivers a compelling novel that moves from Ireland to New York to San Francisco Bay. As her finely crafted characters discover the true nature of loyalty, sacrifice, and betrayal, they are forced to confront the lies we tell—and believe—in order to survive.
Kristina McMorris is a New York Times bestselling author and recipient of more than twenty national literary awards. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and two sons. This is her fourth novel, following the widely praised The Pieces We Keep, Letters from Home and Bridge of Scarlet Leaves. For more, visit KristinaMcmorris.com.
“Kristina McMorris evokes such a strong sense of place that to open her books feels less like reading and more like traveling. Her absorbing new novel..[is an] epic, deeply felt tale of struggle and sec-ond chances… a trans¬porting piece of historical fiction.” —BookPage
“[A] gripping immigrant saga…it is also a portrait of America during a turbulent time and a quest that ends in triumph. Readers will be caught up in this well-told story.” —RT Book Reviews, 4 Stars
“Beautifully written with mesmerizing details, this is one of those books that sticks with a reader… extensively researched and the historical images are incredibly accurate… an absolute must-have.” —VOYA Magazine
“In terms of both the character and the era, McMorris took a chance, and she succeeded. And the careful plotting—another McMorris hallmark—pays off in an absorbing story. The Edge of Lost is about taking—and making—chances. A satisfying read.” —Kitsap Sun
"McMorris manages to pack this book with all the messiness and nuances of a life. Her vivid descriptions and use of language make you feel like the fly on the wall...I heartily recommend embarking on this journey." —The Daily Herald
“Grabs readers from the very start and doesn't let up until the dynamic conclusion. The Edge of Lost is another work of genius by the talented Kristina McMorris.” —Fresh Fiction
PRAISE FOR THE NOVELS OF KRISTINA McMORRIS
The Pieces We Keep
“The past collides with the present in this sensitive and multilayered story where the discovery of long-held family secrets leads to healing. The contemporary twist will be a treat for fans of World War II historical fiction.” --Beth Hoffman, New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Me and Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
“McMorris’ strong pacing keeps the two stories zipping along and all its many strings connected for a gratifying conclusion.”--Kirkus Reviews
“Impeccably researched and beautifully written.” --Karen White
“Readers of World War II fiction will devour Kristina McMorris's Bridge of Scarlet Leaves, a poignant, authentic story of Japanese and American lovers crossed not only by the stars but by the vagaries of war and their own country's prejudices.” —Jenna Blum
“An absolutely lovely debut novel filled with endearing characters and lively descriptions. Fans of World War II romantic fiction will definitely enjoy this fast-paced story.” —Kristin Hannah
“A tender and heartfelt glimpse of a time long past. While wholly original, it's filled with characters as beloved as your own grandparents. Propelled by the epic sweep of world war, yet warmed by intimate human moments, this story will linger in the reader's memory long after the last page is turned.” —Susan Wiggs
Publisher: Kensington
Publication Date: November 24th, 2015
Fiction / Psychological
Kobo eBook (December 1st, 2015): $13.56
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REVIEW: The Dinner
I’ve racked my brain for days. Still, I cannot find a scenario in which the same person who masterfully threaded the seven-character Bob Dylan opus “I’m Not There” could also write something as clunky as “The Dinner.” Pardon this casual dismissal, but just … woooof.
Oren Moverman’s film is a cheap knockoff of “Carnage” – both Yasmina Reza’s play and Roman Polanski’s cinematic adaptation – as it gathers wealthy individuals to gnaw at each other over the sins of their children. That film wasn’t even anything to write home about, but it at least found a claustrophobic consistency and stuck to it. Moverman hacks away at any building tension between the two couples by frequently cutting away with flashbacks and expository scenes.
Even when Moverman does center the action on the open loathing between a successful politician (Richard Gere) and his cynical brother (Steve Coogan), “The Dinner” falls flat. They don’t sound like people. They talk like characters. Every bloviating pontification reeks of unrealistic grandiloquence. I don’t buy that this manner of speaking is some kind of class marker, either. Moverman just cannot find the humanity in the people he puts on screen.
When evaluating films, director David Fincher says he operates on the following logic: “First I’m looking for the technical. Then the believable. Then the connection.” Moverman’s film never makes it past the first criterion. C- /
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ChadEHarris (18:16:42) :
Haha. While I did like the monologue before the class comes in and how it tells us that mental health is a factor in more stories (including our own) than we want to admit, it took me forever to figure out who Chloë Sevigny was and whose kids did what. But then again I don’t treat movies as puzzles to figure out. I wait for them to unfold with minimal “predictions” on my part. But in those areas I was genuinely confused for a bit. You didn’t get claustrophobic from the restaurant, even with the cutting away? It was like hell in there, especially when they went to that “waiting room” type area after dinner. That assistant was always lurking.
Marshall Shaffer (18:31:39) :
Claustrophobic, yes, but to what end? I didn’t understand why the constant need to break whatever meager tension he built.
It seems like an attempt to mix two strategies, but too much was lost in that.
screenzealots (01:19:13) :
I think I may have been the only person in the world who kinda liked “The Dinner.” Great review, by the way.
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Novel mutations in COX15 in a long surviving Leigh syndrome patient with cytochrome c oxidase deficiency.
M. Bugiani, V. Tiranti, L. Farina, G. Uziel, M. Zeviani
Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico "C. Besta"
BACKGROUND: Isolated cytochrome c oxidase (COX) deficiency is usually associated with mutations in several factors involved in the biogenesis of COX. METHODS: We describe a patient with atypical, long surviving Leigh syndrome carrying two novel mutations in the COX15 gene, which encodes an enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of heme A. RESULTS: Only two COX15 mutated patients, one with severe neonatal cardiomyopathy, the other with rapidly fatal Leigh syndrome, have been described to date. In contrast, our patient had a slowly progressive course with no heart involvement. COX deficiency was mild in muscle and a normal amount of fully assembled COX was present in cultured fibroblasts. CONCLUSIONS: The clinical and biochemical phenotypes in COX15 defects are more heterogeneous than in other conditions associated with COX deficiency, such as mutations in SURF1.
Journal of Medical Genetics
Cytochrome-c Oxidase Deficiency
Leigh Disease
Heme
Genetics(clinical)
Bugiani, M., Tiranti, V., Farina, L., Uziel, G., & Zeviani, M. (2005). Novel mutations in COX15 in a long surviving Leigh syndrome patient with cytochrome c oxidase deficiency. Journal of Medical Genetics, 42(5).
Novel mutations in COX15 in a long surviving Leigh syndrome patient with cytochrome c oxidase deficiency. / Bugiani, M.; Tiranti, V.; Farina, L.; Uziel, G.; Zeviani, M.
In: Journal of Medical Genetics, Vol. 42, No. 5, 05.2005.
Bugiani, M, Tiranti, V, Farina, L, Uziel, G & Zeviani, M 2005, 'Novel mutations in COX15 in a long surviving Leigh syndrome patient with cytochrome c oxidase deficiency.', Journal of Medical Genetics, vol. 42, no. 5.
Bugiani M, Tiranti V, Farina L, Uziel G, Zeviani M. Novel mutations in COX15 in a long surviving Leigh syndrome patient with cytochrome c oxidase deficiency. Journal of Medical Genetics. 2005 May;42(5).
Bugiani, M. ; Tiranti, V. ; Farina, L. ; Uziel, G. ; Zeviani, M. / Novel mutations in COX15 in a long surviving Leigh syndrome patient with cytochrome c oxidase deficiency. In: Journal of Medical Genetics. 2005 ; Vol. 42, No. 5.
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The Girls of Meru
Andrea Dorfman
“The Girls of Meru is a profound depiction of the fight for human rights, in this case, the rights of girl children, to live freely without the reality and threat of sexual violence. This film poses a challenge to everyone in the world to stand and protect the rights of the most vulnerable in our midst.”
– Naa Afua Dadesen Cooper, Ph.D., 2018 Halifax Poet Laureate
“A universal tale of empowerment and agency that needs to be heard.”
– Ky’okusinga Kirunga, Director of Community Engagement and Strategic Partnerships at the Stephen Lewis Foundation
“The big heroes of this film are the little girls whose horrific experiences managed to change the law and protect thousands of other victims from suffering the same fate.”
– Judy Kibinge, award-winning Kenyan filmmaker, writer and producer
Official SelectionFIN Atlantic International Film Festival 2018
Official SelectionVictoria Film Festival
Official SelectionHuman Rights Film Festival - Paris (2018)
Acclaimed filmmaker Andrea Dorfman follows a remarkable collaboration over five years to tell the heartbreaking yet uplifting story of the girls of Meru and their brave steps toward meaningful equality for girls everywhere.
In Kenya, one in three girls will experience sexual violence before the age of 18, yet police investigations into the crime are the exception rather than the rule, leading to a culture of impunity around rape. But a courageous group of girls has helped set a legal precedent for child protection worldwide.
In The Girls of Meru, a multinational team led by Canadian lawyer Fiona Sampson and Tumaini Shelter head Mercy Chidi Baidoo builds the case of 11 girls to pursue an unheard of legal tactic. They challenge the Kenyan government to uphold its highly praised constitution and to hold police accountable.
The Kenyan high court responds in record time. And the real work begins.
Over five years, acclaimed filmmaker Andrea Dorfman follows the heartbreaking yet uplifting story of the girls of Meru and their brave steps toward meaningful equality for girls worldwide.
In Kenya, one in three girls will experience sexual violence before age 18, yet police investigations are the exception. In The Girls of Meru, a multinational team led by Canadian lawyer Fiona Sampson and Tumaini Shelter head Mercy Chidi Baidoo builds the case of 11 girls to pursue an unheard of legal tactic. Together they created legal history.
Long Synopsis
Eleven-year-old Alice was on her way to school when she was dragged into the Kenyan bush by a stranger. When her stepmother reported the rape, police promised to make an arrest, but only if she paid them. Alice’s stepmother had no money. So the perpetrator went free.
In Kenya, one in three girls will experience sexual violence before the age of 18, yet police investigations into the crime are the exception rather than the rule, leading to a culture of impunity around rape. But Alice and a brave group of girls like her help set a legal precedent for child protection worldwide.
Like Alice, many young rape survivors in the town of Meru end up at Tumaini Shelter, where they begin to heal. From inside Tumaini’s walls come 160 girls, ages three to 17, who sue the Kenyan government with the help of a legal team led by Canadian human rights lawyer Fiona Sampson and the head of Tumaini Shelter, Mercy Chidi Baidoo.
This international team—including lawyers and activists working together across the globe—pursue an unheard of solution to child rape: challenge the Kenyan government to uphold its newly ratified and highly praised constitution, which protects the equal rights of all, including girls. Their unique case makes legal history and sets a standard for protecting girls against sexual violence.
Over five years, filmmaker Andrea Dorfman follows the story of the Tumaini children, whose identity is court-protected, through stirring glimpses of faces, hands and feet, arresting animation, and tiny voices growing strong.
The girls of Meru—and their fight for justice—resonate across a world where the rights of young women are too often dismissed. In this heartbreaking yet uplifting documentary, Dorfman captures a brilliant pursuit for meaningful equality, one that puts the law in the hands of those who need it most.
Q & A with Filmmaker Andrea Dorfman
The Girls of Meru documentary project stemmed from your work making short videos for Fiona Sampson’s NGO, The Equality Effect. How did you sense this story needed to be something more?
I first got involved with The Equality Effect when Fiona Sampson asked if I could make a short video for the organization’s website. The legal team was working on a number of cases collaboratively (for example, to criminalize marital rape in Kenya, to abolish the corroboration law in Malawi) and a video could communicate to funders, the press, educators, and others what their work was about. After I made that short video, they started to focus on one case in particular—the 160 Girls. I became fascinated with the legal complexities of the case and how the international human rights team was working together to achieve court victory, which could take years. I was curious about who the petitioners—the girls whose stories made up the evidence of the case—were, and I knew it would take time and research in order to understand their situations. At this point, I could see that the story would lend itself very well to a feature-length documentary, and I approached the National Film Board with the idea to make The Girls of Meru.
How did you work through the unique situation of having to tell a visual story without being able to show the faces of the film’s most important protagonists, the girls?
Because I wanted to protect the identities of the girls who received treatment at Tumaini Shelter (both those who were involved in the 160 Girls legal case and those who were not), I was faced with a unique challenge when filming them. As humans, we connect to faces. But it’s amazing how much we can learn about a person by how they move their hands, how they walk from behind, their eyes, and their smile. I quickly became very creative in how I filmed the girls at Tumaini. I would often frame specific parts of their bodies or film them from afar. Sometimes I’d intentionally put the camera out of focus, while at other times I’d allow a girl to be silhouetted. In the end, I don’t think it takes away from how we get to know them. In fact, I wonder if this style of filming allowed for a unique kind of intimacy.
How did you deal with spending long periods of time at Tumaini Shelter, a space that is filled with giggles and songs and children, while knowing that all the girls around you—some of them toddlers—had experienced sexual violence?
Spending time with the girls at the shelter was a privilege and a joy. It’s a place where the girls appear to feel very safe to express themselves and be free with each other. As an outsider, I felt very welcome. When I wasn’t filming, the girls would invite me to play games and to sing and dance with them. It was always joyful spending time at the shelter. This made it a paradoxical experience. Knowing the girls were there because they had experienced extreme trauma and violence was never far from my mind. But, occasionally, like I talk about in The Girls of Meru, sometimes I would momentarily forget, only to be jolted back to reality. There was one time in particular that I was playing a game with the girls. We were sitting in a circle, and one by one each of us had to take a turn dancing in the centre. One girl who was dancing and laughing must’ve been around seven years old. I knew because when she laughed, I could see that she was missing the same teeth that my seven-year-old niece was missing at the time. Somehow I managed to keep it together long enough to finish the game. It helps to know that the girls are surrounded by a lot of support at the shelter—in the form of social workers, therapeutic counsellors, volunteers, and the house mother—should they ever need anything. But like Mercy Chidi Baidoo says in the film, the scar of their rape will never go away.
Your filmmaking practice varies from shorts to features and from fiction to documentary. Are there through-lines in your work that carry from one project to the next?
Yes, I believe there are through-lines in my work in the form of themes that show up over and over. I consider myself to be a feminist, and themes around gender, such as body image, reproductive rights, and gender roles, show up in many of my films. I am also curious about the relationship between being alone and loneliness.
Most of your projects are shot in Halifax, where you live, or created in your home studio. How did the process of being in a completely different and unfamiliar environment affect the way you worked on The Girls of Meru?
Working in an unfamiliar environment and struggling with languages I don’t speak and customs I don’t know definitely gave me challenges to work with. Making The Girls of Meru was a profound learning experience and I couldn’t have made it without the incredible support that surrounded me while I was in Kenya. The access that Ripples International and The Equality Effect granted me gave me a front-row seat from which to observe the unfolding legal events. Judy Kibinge, the well-known Kenyan filmmaker, was a creative consultant on the film. She gave me great advice and also organized three shoots I couldn’t attend in Meru when the case was being fought in court. I think documentary filmmakers are by nature curious observers and learn to do well in unfamiliar environments. We know that sitting back and listening—and, oftentimes, being OK with being in awkward and uncomfortable situations—will take us to unexpected places.
How did you make the process of narrating what is essentially the story of a court case a deeply human-centred film?
I never planned to include so much of my own voice in The Girls of Meru, but through the process of editing, it started to make sense that my narration be the guide through the story. In order to make the legal case understandable, there was a certain amount of explaining that I needed to do. When I first observed the lawyers strategizing the case, I had no idea what they were talking about. The law is spoken in its own difficult-to-understand language, and so it was necessary for me to provide translation. I used the fact that I was an observer from the outside to make myself a conduit for the audience, most of whom would have been in exactly the same shoes as me. That said, I’m not pretending to be “the voice of God” in the film. I provide translation for the events as I understood them. I was granted a privileged position to witness legal history in the making while shooting The Girls of Meru, and it was important for me to make it as accessible to the audience as I could.
Given the size of the legal team—from multiple nations and contributing years of time and millions in pro bono work—how did you decide which people to focus on to best tell the story?
As I began to follow the 160 Girls legal case, it quickly became clear to me that the major players on the team were Kenyan social worker Mercy Chidi Baidoo, who was dealing with a climate of impunity towards defilement in her community, and Canadian lawyer Fiona Sampson, who helms the collaborative human rights law practice that facilitated and funded the case. Both women work with dedicated teams, without whom they could not have achieved court victory. Although I couldn’t highlight each team member individually, it was important for me to give a sense that they were vital to the process. So they are present in the film without being identified in depth. And then, of course, there are the girls who bravely lent their stories, in the form of evidence for the court case and for the documentary. Their stories ultimately led to court victory. The challenge for me in The Girls of Meru—a documentary following a process as opposed to a single character—was to make it emotionally engaging. This is why, at its heart, the protagonists of the film are the 160 girls themselves.
Do you have any sense of how the girls are doing, where they are, or what they have moved on to?
It’s impossible to say how the 160 girls, specifically, are doing today. Many of them would now be in their late teens and early twenties, graduated from high school and leading their lives, their relationship with Ripples International now long ended. But I do have a sense of how girls recently released from care at Tumaini Shelter are doing. Over the short term, they maintain a close relationship with Ripples after they are discharged. For up to two years after they’ve left, they continue to receive counselling and medical treatment. From my experience asking counsellors how the girls do when they’re back in their communities, it seems there is a spectrum. Some do very well; others, understandably, struggle at home and at school. On many occasions while I was at the shelter, I met young women who had received treatment at Tumaini years before and who had returned to volunteer or visit. They all spoke warmly of their time at the shelter, the experience having changed them. One young woman I spoke with (who would be one of the original 160 Girls) is at college studying social work and doing a work placement at the shelter.
How do you think the telling of this one very specific story will improve the lives of girls everywhere?
After the 160 Girls court case was victorious, groups from all over the world contacted the legal team—they wanted to achieve the same thing in their countries. By helping to disseminate the story of the 160 Girls victory, I think there is great potential in giving hope in the form of showing how change is possible. I think The Girls of Meru can play an important role in this task.
Clip #1
Photo : © Equality Effect
CEO of the Equality Effect Fiona Sampson.
One of the girls from Tumaini Shelter in a handmade mask.
Director Andrea Dorfman and one of the girls from Tumaini Shelter.
Image from Film: Shoes from one of the girls staying at Tumaini.
Spectators at the 160 Girls court case.
Image from Film: One of the girls from Tumaini Shelter.
Executive Director of Ripples International Mercy Chidi Baidoo.
Image from film: The girls at Tumaini Girls Rescue Centre.
Image from film: Girl on lawn at Tumaini Girls Rescue Centre.
Image from film: Dr. Fiona Sampson, Human Rights lawyer and CEO of Equality Effect and Mercy Chidi Baidoo, Executive Director of Ripples International.
Image from film: Close-up of girl’s hands at Tumaini Girls Rescue Centre.
Image from film: Girls with Dr. Fiona Sampson.
Photo : Aaron McKenzie Fraser
Andrea Dorfman is a Halifax-based filmmaker who creates stories that explore the world with wonder and heart. Her first feature, Parsley Days (2000), premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was named one of Canada’s Top Ten films of the year. In recent years, Dorfman has gained popularity as an animator. Her National Film Board of Canada animated documentary Flawed (2010) was nominated for an Emmy, and Big Mouth (2012) has toured children’s festivals across the globe. How to Be Alone, a mixed-media video poem written by Tanya Davis, has received over eight million hits on YouTube. Andrea is currently in development on her fourth feature-length film, Spinster. She lives in Nova Scotia with her partner, his two kids, a dog, and two mischievous cats.
Annette Clarke is an accomplished producer committed to collaborating with artists to tell powerful, transformative stories. As Executive Producer for the NFB’s Quebec-Atlantic Studio, Annette has met cacao farmers in Belize, foreign workers in Labrador, the endangered bluefin tuna, rock-star chefs decrying food waste, and an animated young girl who copes with her mom’s mental illness by losing herself in the imaginary world of books. Her producer credits include Vive la rose (2009, TIFF and Sundance), The Chocolate Farmer (2010, Hot Docs, RIDM), Flawed (2010, Hot Docs, Silverdocs, double honours at PSIFF, Emmy nomination), The Boxing Girls of Kabul (2011, IDFA and CSA for best documentary short), Hard Light (2012, FIFA Jury Award), Buying Sex (2013, Hot Docs), Danny (2014, Hot Docs Big Ideas series), 54 Hours (2014, Yorkton Founder’s Award), Gun Runners (2015, Hot Docs), Theater of Life (2016, Berlin), Hand. Line. Cod. (2016, TIFF). Annette’s current productions reflect on the human condition inside Nova Scotia prisons, along the Brazilian Amazon, on Fogo Island and through the story of 11 young girls in northern Kenya who make legal history.
Dedicated to the girls whose stories led to court victory, making legal history.
ALEXANDER DRURY
UFULU KANYONGOLO
KEZIAH NYAUNDI
CHIDI OGBONNA
JOAN SAMPSON
Written and Directed by|
Creative Consultant
JUDY KIBINGE
Director of Photography and Animation
Original Music by
CHARLES AUSTIN
Sound Edit & Design by
MÉLANIE GAUTHIER
A very special thank you to
MERCY CHIDI BAIDOO
FIONA SAMPSON
THE GIRLS AT TUMAINI AND ALL THEIR SUPPORTERS
Sound Recordists
EDNAH BONARERI
MIKE FILIPPOV
DANIEL HEWETT
DAVID JALENGA
DANNI KARANJA
Additional Cinematography
STAN BARUA
TIM MWAURA
PHILIPPA NDISI-HERRMANN
IRIS NG
JOAN POGGIO
ANNALET STEENKAMP
DEBRA NJERI NGERU
WINNIE MUTHONI KAMAU
GEETA SONDHI
EMILY WANJA
LISA NJERI KIHAGI
JACKIE IMALI
ANNA MACLEAN
Narrated by
ALEXIS FARAND
Foley & Narration Recording
Assistant Dialogue Editor
SANDY PINTEUS
NORM ADAMS – cello
CHARLES AUSTIN – guitar, marimba, piano, melodica
JORDAN MURPHY – percussion, drum kit, cymbals
JOSHUA VAN TASSEL – marimba, hand percussion, udu, shaker
“SAY NO” (160 Girls theme song)
Composed and Performed by ROSY OHON
Produced by THE EQUALITY EFFECT
JACQUES BERTRAND SIMARD
LORI HEATH
ERIN OAKES
CAROL PASTEN
ROBIN SPITTAL
Technical Coordinators
JEAN-FRANÇOIS LAPRISE
DANIEL LORD
CHRIS MACINTOSH
Assistant Editors
CHERYL MURGATROYD
DAVE MULLINS
SANDI RANKADUWA
On-line Editor
MELISSA WHEELER
AMANDA LAUKYS
PATRICIA DILLON-MOORE
MYLÈNE AUGUSTIN
DOMINIQUE AUBRY
CAMILA BLOS
LESLIE ANNE POYNTZ
Executive Director English Program
MICHELLE VAN BEUSEKOM
Pat Dillon-Moore
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Category Archives: Projects
Our five year enforcement report
The quality of life in Cricket Green owes much to planning controls.
These ensure development meets minimum standards, trees and open spaces are protected, noisy and intrusive activity prevented and listed buildings aren’t neglected.
The effectiveness of planning controls is only as good as the quality of their enforcement. This has long been a Cinderella of Merton Council and the official record shows that the number of outstanding enforcement actions on the books across the Borough is reaching 1,000. This doesn’t include the multitude of breaches that go unreported.
We are seriously concerned by the impact of weak enforcement on Cricket Green and are publishing our five year report. This tracks the success, or otherwise, of our formal requests to Merton Council for action since 2014 on issues such as:
loss of trees due to failure to comply with planning permission for multi-use games area at The Canons
the unauthorised use of Burn Bullock car park for car sales
paving of front gardens without planning permission
removal of the characteristic yellow tiles at the former Bull pub
the proliferation of estate agent boards at Brook House and the Cricketers flats without permission
the failure to implement requirements of listed building repair notice at Burn Bullock
hoardings erected without permission around the fire station and straying onto others land
unauthorised tree clearance, new entrance and other works at Blue Houses site
The record speaks for itself.
Only two of the fourteen issues raised have been resolved and even with these we were not notified of the action being taken.
Our representations have been frequently ignored even after writing five or six times and some responses have taken literally years to secure.
On this evidence it is clear Merton’s enforcement team is stretched too thinly and needs to be both better resourced and supported in taking a more assertive approach.
Read our Five Year Enforcement Report
We plan to maintain it and hope that future reports will paint a more positive picture.
This entry was posted in Cricket Green Conservation Area, Projects, Publications and tagged Cricket Green Conservation Area, Enforcement on November 3, 2019 by mitchamcricketgreen.
Cricket Green Charter – have your say
It’s the 50th anniversary of Mitcham Cricket Green Conservation Area and so there is no better time to be refreshing the Cricket Green Charter.
The Charter was first prepared in 2013 and sets out principles that have been informing development and other decisions for more than five years.
The Canons Lottery project is a direct result of the Charter, and is just one of the important achievements it has inspired.
We have been inviting views on the refresh since the beginning of 2019 and been in touch with more than 5,000 households in the local area.
We have received some great feedback.
We also held a workshop earlier this month for local people and councillors. This also heard from Merton Council’s futureMerton team about the changes Cricket Green can expect in the coming years.
Thank you to everyone who has been involved so far. We produced a report on the consultation feedback.
We are now asking for your views on a final draft of the new Cricket Green Charter.
Have a look and let us know what you think.
Have we pitched things properly?
What have we missed?
Are these your priorities?
How would you like to see Cricket Green change?
You can email us, get involved on Twitter, or come along and talk things through at our stall at Merton Heritage Discovery Day (at the Civic Centre in Morden on May 11th) or Mitcham Carnival (at Three Kings Piece in Mitcham on June 15th).
We also have an Open Meeting in Mitcham Cricket Pavilion on May 28th at 7pm and would love to chat to you there.
We need to have your feedback by the time of Mitcham Carnival.
Report on the consultation feedback
Final draft of the new Cricket Green Charter
This entry was posted in Cricket Green Conservation Area, Projects, Publications on May 1, 2019 by mitchamcricketgreen.
Cricket Green war memorial gets national listing
We’re delighted that the Secretary of State has accepted our nomination for the war memorial on Lower Green West to be nationally listed.
We proposed the listing on Remembrance Sunday last year and have secured a Grade II listing for this important memorial at the heart of the Mitcham community.
The volunteer research behind the nomination has now been accepted on the official record.
The war memorial has been listed on three grounds:
As an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on this local community, and the sacrifice it has made in the conflicts of the C20
As an elegant wheel-head cross memorial with well-executed carved details and sculpted bronze swords
For its relationship with the Grade II-listed Mitcham Parish Rooms.
We’re proud to have played our part in securing national recognition for this monument to the contribution Mitcham’s community made in the two World Wars. It stands as witness to the impact of conflict on Mitcham and we’re delighted to see the war memorial recognised and protected for the future.
The memorial was unveiled in 1920 at a ceremony attended by 5,000 people and has 588 names inscribed on the four panels.
This national recognition also supports the war memorials programme promoted by Civic Voice as the national organisation for local civic societies like Mitcham Cricket Green Community & Heritage.
Read the official listing notice
This entry was posted in Cricket Green Conservation Area, Projects and tagged national listing, war memorial on July 28, 2017 by mitchamcricketgreen.
Air pollution at Cricket Green
The impact of air pollution is rising up rapidly up the agenda and Cricket Green is not immune.
With support from Friends of the Earth we have been conducting some air quality trials in the area and the results are concerning.
We chose three locations at which to measure air quality – the busy road junction by the White Hart at Jubilee Corner; where Church Road reaches Lower Green and near the old milestone by Elm Lodge.
We set out ‘diffusion tubes’ for 20 days to measure pollution levels for nitrogen dioxide.
High levels of nitrogen dioxide are known to inflame the lining of the lung and reduce immunity to lung infections such as bronchitis. The tubes were sent off to a laboratory for analysis and gave the following results:
By White Hart 67.0µg/m3
Church Road/Lower Green West 27.1µg/m3
By Elm Lodge 41.8µg/m3
Air pollution is measured in µg/m3 (micrograms per cubic metre)
For the period of our trials (in August 2016) two of the sites exceeded the European legal mean annual limit for nitrogen dioxide at 40µg/m3
We cannot yet say that air pollution in Cricket Green is breaking legal limits as we ran the trials for too short a period of time. They are a snapshot and air pollution varies throughout the year as a result of the seasons, weather patterns, traffic levels and other events.
What we can say is that it isn’t looking good. While more results are needed, we think it is time to start taking action to avoid even more problems in the future. The solutions aren’t easy – traffic levels in the area are very high – but with effort they can found and as a start we think there’s merit in extending the Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) already planned for central London to cover a much larger area.
We are keen to extend this study further, and we are supporting Mitcham Society in its own efforts to monitor pollution levels at Mitcham Fair Green. Let us know if you would like to get involved.
This entry was posted in Cricket Green Conservation Area, Projects on January 9, 2017 by mitchamcricketgreen.
Save our assets
One of our latest projects is to identify the buildings and open spaces in the area which are most valued by the local community. We are keen to take advantage of the new legal protection which has been introduced under the “community right to bid”.
Where local assets are included on a register held by the local council this means they can’t be sold off without the local community being given time to come up with some alternative proposals.
We’ve already identified the cricket pavilion and the fire station as early contenders. Neither is currently owned by the community and both are at risk.
We’ve included our ideas on a website gathering examples across the country and you can see the fire station here and the cricket pavilion here.
Let us know which other buildings or open space you think we should be campaigning for. Contact us at the usual address: info@mitchamcricketgreen.org.uk
This entry was posted in Projects and tagged cricket pavilion, fire station, The Place Station on October 14, 2012 by mitchamcricketgreen.
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Many different types of immune cells are thought to contribute to the development of multiple sclerosis (MS). While some have firmly established roles, others are still hotly debated. One of these mysterious types is a group of immune cells called CD8+ T lymphocytes (T cells). While present in MS lesions, their function – whether as proinflammatory agents or immune suppressors – is unclear. Recent evidence points towards a disease-causing role for CD8+ T cells; however, researchers are still trying to determine how these cells cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) to access the central nervous system and cause inflammation.
A group at Université de Montréal led by MS Society-funded research Dr. Alexandre Prat investigated whether a protein on the surface of CD8+ T cells called melanoma cell adhesion molecule (MCAM) facilitates the entry of these harmful immune cells into the central nervous system. Their work was published in the journal Annals of Neurology.
The researchers first established whether CD8+ T cells possess MCAM on their surface in post mortem brains of individuals with relapsing-remitting MS. They also measured the percentage of MCAM-positive CD8+ T cells in the blood of MS donors.
The researchers next used a number of cell culture experiments to determine how MCAM affected the behavior of CD8+ T cells. They tested whether MCAM-containing CD8+ T cells were 1) better at passing through cells of the BBB, 2) toxic to oligodendrocytes (cells that produce the myelin that wraps around nerve fibres and is attacked during MS) and, 3) releasing molecules that are pro-inflammatory and toxic to other cells.
The researchers then explored whether MCAM-positive CD8+ T cells contributed to the development of an MS-like disease in animals. To this end, mice were injected with either MCAM-positive or MCAM-depleted CD8+ T cells that were pre-programmed to attack myelin. In both cases mice developed an MS-like disease, and its severity (assessed by measuring tail and limb disability) was compared between the two groups.
To test the potential benefit of blocking the binding of MCAM to the BBB, the researchers administered a blocking molecule to mice with a progressive MS–like disease. The mice were divided into two groups: one group was given the molecule before the onset of disease symptoms; the other after disease onset.
MCAM-expressing CD8+ T cells were identified in the brains of individuals with relapsing remitting MS, both in and around active lesions. Levels also spiked in the blood of relapsing-remitting MS donors during a relapse period.
In cell culture, MCAM-positive CD8+ T cells bound to and penetrated cells of the BBB with more efficiency than MCAM-negative cells, were toxic to myelin-producing oligodendrocytes, and produced a number of pro-inflammatory and cell-toxic molecules.
MS-like symptoms were slower to develop and less severe in mice injected with MCAM-depleted CD8+ T cells. Likewise, an MCAM-blocking molecule reduced disease severity in mice with an MS-like disease. An important observation was that the MCAM-blocking molecule was effective whether administered before or after disease onset.
This study demonstrates that MCAM can be found on pro-inflammatory CD8+ T cells and allows them to pass through cells of the BBB, drive inflammation and destroy myelin-producing oligodendrocytes. There also appears to be a strong correlation between the presence of MCAM and the severity of MS symptoms, making the results from the MCAM-blocking experiments extremely encouraging.
MCAM is also found on pro-inflammatory CD4+ T cells, another group of immune cells known to play a role in the development of MS. Blocking MCAM would therefore potentially limit the ability of both pro-inflammatory CD4+ and CD8+ T cells to cross the BBB and cause disease within the brain.
Blocking MCAM also reduced disease severity in mice with an MS-like disease, regardless of whether the therapeutic blocking molecule was given before or after the onset of symptoms. As noted by the authors, these results suggest that MCAM-blocking molecules could provide a novel therapeutic to control long-term disability in MS, possibly halting disease progress from the very first symptoms. Further testing will be needed, however, if we are to begin translating therapeutics from mice to humans.
Larochelle C et al. (2015). Melanoma cell adhesion-molecule positive CD8 T lymphocytes mediate central nervous system inflammation. Annals of Neurology. DOI:10.1002.
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Stories to Share is volume 2 in the Jim Henson's Muppet Stories series. The series collects the various Jim Henson's Bedtime Stories short stories in hardback form. Included in the volume are stories from Fraggle Rock, Muppet Babies, The Muppet Show, and Kermit's Tales. Many feature the theme of responsibility, making good choices, and doing the right thing.
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Hike on Dragon Mountain Robin has asked his Uncle Kermit if he wants to climb Dragon Mountain with him. Kermit agrees, as he hasn't climbed the mountain since he was a Frog Scout. On the trip back down, Kermit becomes lost, but Robin leads him back on the trail using the skills in his Frog Scout Handbook. Written by Deborah Kovacs
Illustrated by Richard Walz
Babes in Snowland Halloween and Thanksgiving have passed, and its getting near Christmas, but no snow has fallen outside the Muppet Babies nursery. The Babies imagine themselves into their snow globe, where they meet Mr. Snowman and his snow machine. He tells the Babies that he has become bored with snow, but after they recount their memories of snow to him, he realizes all the wonderful winters that he has seen and orders it to snow. The Babies return to the nursery just in time for it to begin snowing outside, where they immediately venture outside to play in the first snowfall of winter. Written by Charles Hirsch
Illustrated by Tom Cooke
Up, Up, and Away Gonzo is excited that the big fair has come to town, and is the first to visit the fairgrounds. While there, he applies as an assistant for Mr. Sammis, the Hot-Air Balloon operator. Assuring Mr. Sammis that he is sensible and reliable, he gets a trial run. While guarding the balloon, Mr. Sammis' kitten Ariel climbs into the basket, and while trying to remove the kitten, Gonzo accidentally releases the balloon, with himself and the kitten in tow. Both are saved in the end, and Gonzo, Mr. Sammis, and Ariel enjoy a controlled ride in the balloon. Written by Deborah Kovacs
The Sky's the Limit Picture hunt illustration, with Gonzo, Mr. Sammis, and Ariel flying over town in Mr. Sammis' hot-air balloon. Illustrated by Richard Walz
Up the Waterspout Itsy Bitsy Spider realizes that Solomon Sun has overslept, and it will be a rainy day. While walking to school with his sister Mitzi Spider, they hear the cries of someone stuck in chewing gum in the rainspout. Ignoring the warnings of his mother to not climb up the rainspout on a possibly rainy day, Mitzy and Itsy climb up the waterspout to untangle Fred Fly. Just as he is freed, the three are washed down the spout by a sudden downpour of rain. Realizing Itsy and Mitzy and about to be washed away, Fred flies to the home of Solomon, who wakes up and dries up all the rain. Written by Barry Keating
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Fozzie's New Partner Fozzie Bear has just performed his smash, one-bear show "The Funniest Bear Anywhere" at The Muppet Theatre, but is upset that the audience didn't laugh at all of his jokes. Kermit suggests that Fozzie visit Muppet Labs, and Beaker and Dr. Bunsen Honeydew will be able to help him out. They create a Robot named Loopy, who will laugh at everything Fozzie says. Fozzie soon discovers that Loopy laughs at everything Fozzie says, and he's unable to tell what jokes are really funny, so he returns him back to Muppet Labs. Written by Jim Lewis
What Should We Play? Bean Bunny, Chester Frog, and Hannah Toad are bored on a summer afternoon. While Bean wants to play Pirates and Chester wants to play 20,000 Leagues under the pond, both realize they cannot as the pond is drying up from the heat. Hannah convinces them both to talk a walk to see what surprises they might encounter. After an adventure on their walk, thunder and lightning cut the trip short, but when the trio return to the pond, they find it has fill up enough for them to swim in. Written by Daphne Skinner
Surprise Shapes Hannah Toad, Chester Frog, and Bean Bunny are playing near their clubhouse in this picture search by John Gurney. Illustrated by John Gurney
The Wide World of Gonzo Baby Gonzo is sick in bed with a cold. To keep him from being bored, Nanny gives Gonzo an adventure magazine. Gonzo grumbles that he doesn't want to see other people having adventures, so Nanny gives him safety scissors, paste, and pictures of himself, and tells Gonzo to cut up the snapshots and paste himself over the people having the adventures in the magazine. As soon as he is done, Gonzo imagines himself as a Cowboy riding a Horse, or jumping out of an airplane. His excitement gets Baby Kermit's attention, who thought Gonzo was just having a normal cold, not an adventure. Written by Kimberly Morris
Piggy's New Leaf Miss Piggy has just finished having Kermit, Fozzie, and Gonzo over for lunch. Fozzie has gotten peas stuck to the ceiling showing everyone his new juggling act. Gonzo has gotten mashed potatoes on the table, and there are dirty dishes everywhere. While cleaning up, Piggy sees a book Kermit has left. A Birthday present from Fozzie, Piggy knows Kermit has been enjoying the book greatly, and begins to read it. She becomes so drawn into the book that she neglects the mess, and eventually spills chocolate milk all over Kermit's book. Hiding the book from Kermit, she rushes to the book store to purchase a replacement copy, only to find Kermit in line buying another copy of his lost book. She tells him the truth, and vows never to do anything like that again. Written by Louise Gikow
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2020 “The 50th Anniversary of the Birth of the Minimoog” calendar cover
Just in time for the new decade, we are proud to announce the release of our new 2020 calendar. Following a long line of past calendars celebrating the different aspects of the history of the Moog legacy, The 50th Anniversary of the Birth of the Minimoog calendar traces the iconic synthesizer’s history from the creation of the prototypes through its eventual release in 1970 and beyond. Prominently featured are rare, historical images of the prototypes of the synthesizer, including those with pioneering Moog artists Sun Ra, Dick Hyman, and Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece.
The calendar is available through our online store, and through the Moogseum Store at 56 Broadway Street in downtown Asheville, NC.
The calendar features new images of all four models of the Minimoog prototypes, including the “Min A”, the Mini Moog Model B and Model C, and an extremely rare example of Model D prototype customized for R.A. Moog’s Composer-in-Residence, Chris Swansen. Also featured are rare photos of the Minimoog prototypes Models A and B being used in performance by Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece, Sun Ra, and Dick Hyman. Additional images explore the Minimoog in the early years of its release, including photos with Minimoog maverick salesman David VanKoevering, and with Bob Moog.
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Further honoring Minimoog history, the calendar explores the technical evolution from one prototype to the next, drawing on first-hand accounts from two of the original Minimoog engineers, Bill Hemsath and Jim Scott. It also features important dates of the Minimoog on its journey to becoming the most iconic analog synthesizer of all time.
The 50th Anniversary of the Birth of the Minimoog 2020 calendar can be purchased here: http://bit.ly/MinimoogCal2020
We are delighted to share the rich history of the Minimoog through this one-of-a-kind collection of photographs, and to celebrate the many contributors who helped bring the instrument to life. Our goal is to bring the Moog legacy alive in everything that we do, and this calendar is no exception. It is full of compelling information that anyone interested in the Minimoog’s history will enjoy throughout 2020 and beyond.
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HomeMotorsportsJune 1948-June 2018: 70 Years of Porsche Sports Cars
June 1948-June 2018: 70 Years of Porsche Sports Cars
June 6, 2018 Motor Sports NewsWire Motorsports, Sports Cars Comments Off on June 1948-June 2018: 70 Years of Porsche Sports Cars
Porsche Hosts “Sportscar Together Day” Across the U.S.
ATLANTA, GA – June 6, 2018 – (Motor Sports Newswire) – Birthdays are best celebrated with friends and family. June 8 will mark 70 years since the first vehicle to bear the Porsche name, the 356 “No. 1” Roadster, received its street certification in 1948. To make the most of the date, Porsche Cars North America (PCNA) and its authorized U.S. dealers are hosting “Sportscar Together Day” across the country for Porsche owners and fans. The events blend the spirit of driving pleasure and the rich Porsche heritage, from the earliest 356 models to the latest variants of the Porsche 911, 718, Panamera, Cayenne and Macan.
“Sportscar Together Day” celebrations are planned between June 8 and 10 at locations from local Porsche dealerships to MetLife Stadium, home of the New York Giants and New York Jets. The Porsche Experience Centers in Atlanta and Los Angeles will also host gatherings of owners, enthusiasts, and classic Porsche models.
“Porsche packs 70 years of sports car experience into every model we build today,” said Klaus Zellmer, President and CEO of PCNA. “The performance, design and feel are always unmistakably Porsche, whether on country roads or in the daily commute. ‘Sportscar Together Day’ gives our customers and fans a chance to share their passion with us.”
Ferry Porsche, son of Ferdinand Porsche, designed and built the original 356 in 1948 to create something new for the time: A sports car combining superb driving dynamics and performance with efficient everyday usability. Early motorsport successes inspired the company to continually develop the 356, as well as other legendary sports cars like the 550 Spyder and 904 GTS.
The 911 was first introduced in 1963 and became the quintessential sports car for everyday driving as well as an unmistakable icon for the brand. Today, the United States is the largest single market: In 2017, U.S. buyers accounted for 8,970 new 911s out of 32,000 worldwide, or 28 percent. More than half of over 30,000 race wins in Porsche history can be credited to 911 cars. Today, every Porsche carries the DNA of the 911.
The next step in the evolution of Porsche as a sports car company comes next year with the all-electric Mission E. Advanced electric powertrains are a new application for the original vision behind the 356. But e-mobility at Porsche dates back to 1898, when Ferdinand Porsche designed the Lohner-Porsche Semper Vivus – the world’s first functioning hybrid car. More recently, Porsche has demonstrated its hybrid drive expertise on the race track, winning the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans three years in a row. By 2022, Porsche will have invested more than six billion euros in e-mobility to produce both plug-in hybrids and purely electric vehicles.
“Sportscar Together Day” will be a global event, with celebrations rolling through time zones around the world. The hashtag #SportscarTogether will allow participants everywhere to share their experiences on social media.
The Porsche anniversary year culminates September 27-30 with the largest Porsche gathering in the world, Rennsport Reunion VI, at the legendary WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca near Monterey, California. Vintage and contemporary Porsche race cars, their drivers, and Porsche engineers are the stars of this event, which drew nearly 60,000 people when it was last held in 2015.
“Sportscar Together Day” highlights in the U.S. include
– Alt Park Concourse, June 8-10
Porsche is the honored marque at the Alt Park Concours d’Elegance in Cincinnati, Ohio.
– Detroit Metro Porsche Dealers, June 8
The 70th Anniversary Celebration will be held at the private M1 Concourse in Pontiac, Michigan, including a Porsche Drive Experience event coached by Porsche Sport Driving School instructors.
– New York Tri-State Dealer Sportscar Together Day at MetLife Stadium, June 9
The Tri-State Porsche dealers are co-hosting a large scale cars and coffee event including a historic 70th Anniversary photo. For more information and to register go to http://sportscartogethertristate.com.
– Porsche Experience Center Atlanta, June 9
Driving and heritage event with food, music and special features in the Center’s restaurant, classic restoration workshop and other spaces. Open to anyone who registers in advance by visiting www.sportscartogetherpec.com.
– Porsche Experience Center Los Angeles, June 9
Driving and heritage event with food, music and special features in the Center’s restaurant, motorsports workshop and other spaces. Open to anyone who registers in advance by visiting www.sportscartogetherpec.com.
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Established in 1984, Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (PCNA) is the exclusive U.S. importer of Porsche 911, 718 Boxster and 718 Cayman; Macan and Cayenne; and Panamera. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia since 1998, PCNA is also home to the first Porsche Experience Center in North America featuring a module-based 1.6 mile driver development track, business center, and fine dining restaurant, 356.
The company operates a second Porsche Experience Center near Los Angeles. That 53-acre complex features a driver development track with eight educational modules totaling 4.1 miles, a business center, and Restaurant 917. PCNA employs over 300 people who provide parts, service, marketing, and training for 189 dealers. They, in turn, work to provide Porsche customers with a best-in-class experience that is in keeping with the Porsche brand’s 70-year history of leadership in the advancement of vehicle performance, safety, and efficiency. PCNA is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Porsche AG, which is headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany.
At the core of this success is Porsche’s proud racing heritage that boasts some 30,000-plus motorsport wins to date.
Follow us: twitter.com/porsche | facebook.com/porsche
For Porsche apps: https://www.porsche.com/usa/apps-and-entertainment/apps/
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Porsche Reports Global Sales Growth During Month of September
October 12, 2015 Motor Sports NewsWire Luxury cars, Motorsports, OEM Automotive, Sports Cars Comments Off on Porsche Reports Global Sales Growth During Month of September
Macan continues to be the strongest-selling model ATLANTA, GA – October 12, 2015 – (Motor Sports Newswire) – Porsche today announced increased sales worldwide in September 2015. The Stuttgart-based sports car maker continues to see […]
Porsche Opens Fine Dining Restaurant at New Experience Center in Atlanta
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Restaurant 356 Features Locally Sourced Organic Ingredients and Diverse Global Cuisine ATLANTA, GA – July 16, 2015 – (Motor Sports Newswire) – Porsche Cars North America, Inc. has officially opened the doors to its new […]
Gooding & Company Celebrates More Than $233 Million in Sales from Its 2016 Automotive Auctions
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With 50 Cars Sold for Over $1 Million, the Auction House Yields Highest Year-End Total in Company’s History SANTA MONICA, CA – November 9, 2016 – (Motor Sports Newswire) – Gooding & Company, the auction […]
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How to play chords like G/B
I heard that if there is a chord written like x/y then that means an x chord with y in the bass. This can be played by playing x normally, but then playing the y note on the 6th string, correct?
Then what about G/B? B on the 6th string is the same as the B on the 5th string 2nd fret. That note is already played in a G chord. So does that mean that all notes lower than that note are omitted?
Here is a list of ways to play G/B. The only one that makes sense to me is 7. 1 is very similar to 7, except instead of playing B on the second string D is played. Won't that sound different? How can these two be the same chord?
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Keep in mind that when playing with a bass player (who will likely be on the B), any voicing that doesn't emphasize the G in the root (which would clash with the bass) will work. Indeed, you can just take normal G voicings and omit the root. When playing solo, on the other hand, it's important to indicate the root of the chord. – Rein Henrichs May 31 '11 at 18:47
Related: music.stackexchange.com/questions/2445/… – Rein Henrichs May 31 '11 at 18:48
I think we can improve this question by making it general instead of only specific to Guitars. Or at least make it clear that you are only asking about Guitar in your title. – Sufendy May 30 '13 at 2:09
Possibly helpful, from Reddit: What kind of chords are Em/G, Am/C, etc? – neilfein May 22 '16 at 20:54
You've pretty much got it figured out.
If you read G/B as "G over B" it makes sense that your lowest note needs to be a B. There is nothing that says what string the B has to be played on, only that the G chord has to be above B. So, you can voice the chord up and down the neck, and keep the lowest note a B.
When this is really important is when there's a moving line in the harmony and is a B at that point.
When arranging for a group I'd often let a guitar ignore that voicing if I had other instruments that were moving the harmony line already. It just depends on how strong that note/harmony needs to be in the overall sound of the band.
And, for the theory of it, it's really a G chord in first inversion.
the Tin Manthe Tin Man
In the G/B chord you play a normal G with B as a bass. That means that the lowest note you have is a B. Since a G chord contains the notes G D and B you can play a G chord from any position as long as you play B as a bass.
As you can see in all the examples from your link the lowest note is always a B. That is also why you leave out the 6th string from your normal G chord. You will still have a higher G as well as a higher D in the same chord, but now the bass note is a B instead of a G.
Chords are made out of at least three different notes. A G major chord is G B D. The different chord positions will sound a bit different but the harmonies are the same, and since you are only playing G B and D it will still be a G chord.
Technically, chords are made out of at least two different notes. Pedantic Man, away! – Rein Henrichs May 31 '11 at 18:48
Technically, perhaps, but in practical use a major or minor chord is a triad meaning three notes. – user1044 Sep 11 '11 at 3:36
Everyone else above has talked about the theory related to this question, but here's an actual G/B chord voicing that may help you out.
-x-
-8- (4th finger)
-7- (3rd finger)
-5- (1st finger)
-7- (2nd finger)
...where the root is on the D string (where your first finger is).
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How about an open "G" chord but simply omit the sixth string? That would voice it as B-D-G-B-G, which I would think should be good. – supercat Aug 12 '14 at 2:21
This is, certainly, G/B. I was just trying to provide a different voicing. – JP Doherty Aug 13 '14 at 17:42
That's B-x-G-D-G-X; I could see advantages to using a higher hand position if one were putting a B on top (e.g. 7-x-9-7-8-7 or 7-10-9-7-8-7 (bar 7th fret), but I'm curious why you would suggest using a higher hand position but then not use the upper E string? – supercat Aug 13 '14 at 17:57
Like I said, just another voicing. If you want voicings with the high E string in use, happy to provide a bunch of them, but it's not relevant. The omission of one or more strings does not make it a less effective voicing. – JP Doherty Aug 15 '14 at 17:49
One of the purposes of a slash chord is to make the bass move stepwise. So it you don't have a bass player, you might want to look at the voicings of the surrounding chords as well to make the bass move as desired.
In this example, withholding the content of this chord and the progression, this makes the most sense as it usually highlights the IV chord motion. – user6164 May 30 '13 at 4:14
A good example of the G/B chord, which illustrates why it matters which note is in the bass, is the main progression/riff from "Blue on Black" by Kenny Wayne Shepherd.
The riff starts on a D chord with the bass note moving briefly down to C and then back to D. The next chord is introduced by a "walk" up the A string, playing the notes A, B, C to finally form a C9 chord. After this comes the G/B chord, so the bass lines moves down by only a semitone, rather than going all the way down to G, so it creates a more melodic transition before it changes to a regular G chord.
As a result, you can see that the x/y notation is a good concise way of describing what the bass line should sound like, or indicating passing notes between chords, or just creating different harmonic effects. You'll notice that G/B sounds a bit more tense and unresolved than a regular G chord, even though it's based around the same 3 notes G B D.
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The base inversion of the chord is considered at rest. Other inversions become more tense as you move away from the base. This becomes even more apparent when dealing with more complex chords such as 7ths, 9ths, etc. – the Tin Man Aug 26 '16 at 23:41
To play Mr. Bojangles on guitar in first position (open strings), you'd play the famous chord progression notated "C G/B Am" with bass notes C, B, A.
For 'best' voicing, you wouldn't play any of the notes available to you on the 6th string, although each chord triad has at least one reachable note.
If you are the rhythm guitarist playing in a band with a bass player, you could safely play 6 string versions of each chord, because the bass player will read the referenced chord progression as instructions to play the descending line C, B, A.
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Why do harmonics played on guitar sound lower as you move to higher frets while fretted notes sound higher?
Is this a C chord or an Em chord?
Two equal E notes on guitar
Why do these chords not have these repeated notes?
Describe a chord shape?
How do i remember note positons on my guitar? (I learned all the notes already)
Finding diatonic chords on guitar?
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Amsterdam University Library: interior design
In a historic corner of Amsterdam, we carve a stunning yet functional library interior from the outdoor space between two protected buildings.
Conjuring a state-of-the-art university library out of a gap in the urban fabric – literally the space between two historic structures – ranks pretty high on the scale of interior challenges. We rose to the occasion with a warm, welcoming and contemporary library space that nevertheless embraces history. The new University of Amsterdam (UvA) library for the humanities fittingly has a foot in both past and present.
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Building surface
12,500 m2
Interior design, Education
Respecting history
The Binnengasthuis, an ancient corner of the city, started life as the site of a medieval convent. Later, it housed a pioneering hospital complex. When the hospital closed in the 1970s, the site was acquired by the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and earmarked for redevelopment as a new library for the humanities. There was just one small problem: the need to retain the existing site, with its protected buildings, largely as it was.
A bridge to the new
The solution, which we arrived at in collaboration with Van Stigt architects, connects the two buildings (the Tweede Chirurgische Kliniek, the old hospital, and the Zusterhuis, or former nurses’ home) by means of a facetted glass roof. The outdoor site then becomes the unique atrium around which the new library is organized. The new atrium ‘contemporizes’ the old structures, while it allows us to retain all of their character-defining details, including the old façades, corridor structure and stairwells.
“A facetted glass roof encloses a dramatic atrium, in an interesting meeting of interior and exterior qualities.”
Art of the atrium
The paved, triangular expanse between the old buildings is reclaimed as a unique indoor/outdoor space, thanks to the glass roof, with its intriguing facetted pattern. An eye-catching feature staircase, its organic shaped resembling a tree, is inserted into the new atrium. A second floor – the entrance area of the library – hovers above the former outside space, curving around the central void. This floor houses the library reception and information desk and a variety of places to sit and work.
Going to ground
The ground floor level now becomes the library basement, a floor down from the entrance level. With its trees and paved covering, the atrium retains its outdoor character, adding contrast to the interior design. A variety of seating options, some around the resident tree, allows students to enjoy the abundant daylight. On one side, a glass-fronted study room adds to the options while retaining the light, open structure of the atrium.
Miles of books
A university library – even in this digital age – means books: and plenty of them. Where to put them, however, in a building that was never designed for them? We solved the dilemma by meticulously mapping out the shelving requirements, using every inch of available space. In total, our design accommodates no less than 8.5km of books.
Students and library employees were consulted at several phases in the design. Their requirements varied greatly – so we naturally responded by designing a wide variety of study spaces, work and meeting rooms. These range from informal, lounge-like areas in the corridors and atriums, to more traditional desk or table arrangements in quiet niches, to shared areas for consultation and teaching. Teaching rooms offer multifunctional options thanks to mobile furniture or multi-use podium structures.
It’s all about intensity
The library is designed as a place for study, interaction and collaboration. As such, there are spaces for all of these functions. From the students, we learned that their most pressing need is places for ‘high-intensity study’ – concentrated individual work. We therefore provided plenty of spacious high-intensity study spaces, mostly equipped with adjustable chairs for comfort. Tables are standard sizes, but with some variation in height.
Middle-intensity study areas offer students the opportunity to work together on assignments and offer comfort and flexibility for groups. Informal low-intensity study spaces are mainly located in more public areas, such as corridors and halls.
Room revolutions
In addition to the range of individual study spaces, we added a playful variety of room options to our interior design. The brainstorming room, for example, consists entirely of whiteboard walls – perfect for capturing and explaining ideas. The green room, finished in all-organic materials and centered around a tree, harnesses the learning-inducing effects of nature. An offline room offers an escape from digital background noise, its cocoon-like arrangement providing a retreat from technology and a place for pure contemplation.
Colour is a powerful carrier of meaning. In the library, we opted for a subdued colour palette which fits with the historical character of the old buildings, while adding warmth and atmosphere to the interior. To add vibrancy and a contemporary touch, we added brighter accents within the same colour spectrum – typically using these for furniture and other details. In addition, every floor has its own basic colour signature. This colour zoning helps with orientation.
Recognizable patterns
Throughout the building, the Saint Andrew’s cross – a motif inspired by the University of Amsterdam’s logo – has been subtly incorporated into both floors and walls, bringing the historic structure up to date.
Project credits
Universiteitsbibliotheek: Eigentijds interieur met respect voor historie
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Personalized genetic age table for Scruffy
How are Scruffy's ancestors represented in her DNA?
DNA is inherited in pieces, called chromosomes, that are passed along from parent to offspring. Each generation, these chromosomes are broken up and shuffled a bit in a process known as recombination. So, the length of the segments your dog shares with her ancestors decreases with each generation above her: she shares longer segments with her mom than her grandma, longer segments with her grandma than her great-grandma, and so on.
How does Embark know which breeds are in Scruffy?
We can use the length of segments Scruffy shares with our reference dogs to see how many generations it has been since they last shared an ancestor. Long segments of DNA that are identical to known purebred dogs tell Embark's scientists that Scruffy has, without a doubt, a relative from that breed. By testing over 200,000 genetic markers, we build up her genes one DNA segment at a time, to learn the ancestry with great certainty. Other dog DNA tests look at many fewer genetic markers and have to take a guess at breed ancestry based on that.
What does this mean for Scruffy's looks and behavior?
Look closely and you'll probably find Scruffy has some physical and/or behavioral resemblance with her ancestor's breeds. The exact similarity depends on which parts of DNA Scruffy shares with each breed. Some traits associated with each breed are listed in the Breed & Ancestry section of our website. Embark will tell you even more about Scruffy's traits soon!
For Scruffy we have been able to go further, and identify some of the breeds that we think may have been part of her heritage and have contributed to the Supermutt portion of her genome. We cannot be sure, given how little of their DNA has carried down to Scruffy, but we thought you might like to know our best guess anyway!
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“Rescue. Age unknown ~ not a puppy, not old. Has learned voice commands and has become great on leash ~ so you can teach an old dogs new tricks. She's a delightful, sweet little dog. Loves to play rope. Loves to run on the beach.”
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Del Monte Forest, California, USA
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32.3% Poodle (Small)
17.7% Pomeranian
6.2% Cocker Spaniel
Poodle (Small)
A highly intelligent and playful dog, Miniature and Toy Poodles make for great lap dogs and companions.
The Pomeranian is a cocky, animated companion with an extroverted personality.
Cocker Spaniels are handsome and intelligent hunting dogs that are also well-suited to life as a loving family pet.
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Explore other Embark dogs who have breed mixes that are similar to Scruffy’s.
See which breed every part of Scruffy’s DNA comes from!
Chihuahua mix
Poodle (Small) mix
Cocker Spaniel mix
Pomeranian / Poodle (Small) mix
Family Tree From Embark PARENTS GRANDPARENTS GREAT GRANDPARENTS Chihuahua mix Poodle (Small) mix Chihuahua Cocker Spaniel mix Poodle (Small) Pomeranian / Poodle (Small) mix Chihuahua Chihuahua Cocker Spaniel mix Mixed Poodle (Small) Poodle (Small) Pomeranian Poodle (Small) mix
Our algorithms predict this is the most likely family tree to explain Scruffy’s breed mix, but this family tree may not be the only possible one.
Genetic Health Conditions
A genetic health condition indicates a genetic mutation that increases the risk that an animal develops a specific disease. For example, having two copies of a mutation in the PRCD gene increases the risk for developing a type of Progressive Retinal Atrophy, which is a condition that causes vision loss in dogs.
A clinical tool is a genetic mutation that is NOT associated with increased risk for a specific disease, but could influence how your veterinarian interprets your dog’s clinical data, or how they determine your dog’s diagnostic, monitoring, or treatment plan.
Vets are often able to make use of clinical tool information during their practice. For example, Alanine Aminotransferase (ALT), is a value that vets measure in routine bloodwork. Learning if your dog's ALT values are normal or not from a DNA test can help your vet better understand bloodwork results in relation to your dog's liver health.
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These clinical tools are valuable to your veterinarian and can inform the clinical decisions and diagnoses they make.
Alanine Aminotransferase Activity result: Low Normal
Scruffy has two copies of a variant in the GPT gene and is likely to have a lower than average baseline ALT activity. ALT is a commonly used measure of liver health on routine veterinary blood chemistry panels. As such, your veterinarian may want to watch for changes in Scruffy's ALT activity above their current, healthy, ALT activity. As an increase above Scruffy’s baseline ALT activity could be evidence of liver damage, even if it is within normal limits by standard ALT reference ranges.
A genetic health condition indicates a genetic mutation that increases the risk that an animal develops a specific disease.
Not At Risk
Good news! Scruffy did not test positive for any of the genetic conditions that Embark screens for.
It is still important to let your veterinarian know these results because they could help guide Scruffy’s diagnosis and treatment if she gets sick in the future.
Carrier for
1 genetic condition
Scruffy is a carrier for 1 of the genetic diseases that Embark tests for.
What does Carrier mean?
Scruffy has inherited a recessive allele for a genetic trait or mutation. This is not enough to cause symptoms of the disease, but is important to bear in mind if Scruffy ever has children.
Condition List
Progressive Retinal Atrophy - crd4/cord1
(RPGRIP1)
This retinal disease causes progressive, non-painful vision loss. The retina contains the cells, photoreceptors, that collect information about light: that is, they are t…
Good news! Scruffy tested clear for 15 genetic conditions that are common in her breed mix.
Von Willebrand Disease Type I
(VWF)
Coagulopathies, disorders of blood clotting, can lead to symptoms such as easy bruising or bleeding. Dogs with coagulopathies are often at risk for excessive bleeding dur…
Seen in Poodle (Small)s, but not Scruffy.
Congenital Macrothrombocytopenia
(TUBB1 Exon 1, Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Variant)
This is a benign disorder of platelet production that leads to abnormally large, sparse platelets. Affected dogs typically do not suffer any ill effects from the size or …
Seen in Poodle (Small)s, Chihuahuas, Cocker Spaniels, but not Scruffy.
Progressive Retinal Atrophy, rcd3
Rod-cone dysplasia, rcd3 (PDE6A)
Seen in Pomeranians, but not Scruffy.
Progressive Retinal Atrophy, prcd
Progressive rod-cone degeneration (PRCD Exon 1)
Autosomal Recessive Hereditary Nephropathy, Familial Nephropathy, ARHN
(COL4A4 Exon 3)
Kidney and Bladder
This condition causes inappropriate loss of protein in the urine, which leads to muscle wasting, abnormal fluid accumulation in the skin and limbs, and excessive thirst a…
Seen in Cocker Spaniels, but not Scruffy.
Glycogen storage disease Type VII, Phosphofructokinase Deficiency, PFK Deficiency
(PFKM Whippet and English Springer Spaniel Variant)
Affecting an enzyme required for red blood cell and skeletal muscle cell energy production, phosphofructokinase (PFK) deficiency causes red blood cells and skeletal muscl…
Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis
(MFSD8)
This form of lysosomal storage disease can cause juvenile to adult-onset neurologic signs, depending on the affected gene. While lipofuscin is commonly observed in the ti…
Seen in Chihuahuas, but not Scruffy.
(HEXB, Poodle Variant)
An early onset form of lysosomal storage disease, this can cause affected dogs to display neurologic signs as puppies or young adults. These include partial or total visi…
Spinocerebellar Ataxia with Myokymia and/or Seizures
(KCNJ10)
Brain and Spinal Cord
Known as the "oldest" (even reptiles and more ancient species have them!) part of the brain, the cerebellum fine-tunes motor signals from the brain to the muscles, allowi…
Neonatal Encephalopathy with Seizures, NEWS
(ATF2)
A neurologic disease of puppies, affected puppies are often smaller than their unaffected littermates and require intensive nursing care. Without this extra support, pupp…
Hereditary Sensory Autonomic Neuropathy, Acral Mutilation Syndrome, AMS
(GDNF-AS)
A rare condition affecting the ability to feel pain, HSAN has been diagnosed in French Spaniels, English Springer Spaniels, English Pointers, and German Shorthaired Point…
Exercise-Induced Collapse
(DNM1)
First characterized in field-trial lines of Labrador Retriever dogs, this muscle disorder can cause episodes of muscle weakness and sometimes collapse; after recovering, …
Hereditary Vitamin D-Resistant Rickets
(VDR)
A disease of insufficient calcium absorption, this can cause lameness and skeletal abnormalities; however, if diagnosed early it can be successfully managed. Calcium abso…
Osteochondrodysplasia, Skeletal Dwarfism
(SLC13A1)
A form of skeletal dwarfism, this causes affected dogs to have abnormally short legs but a normal sized body due to abnormal fetal skeletal maturation. As a fetus, most o…
Chondrodystrophy and Intervertebral Disc Disease, CDDY/IVDD, Type I IVDD
(FGF4 retrogene - CFA12)
Chondrodystrophy (CDDY) refers to the "long and low" body shape characteristic of many dog breeds including Dachshunds and Corgis. Recently, a mutation was discovered tha…
Other Conditions:
Clear of 155
Scruffy is clear of 155 other genetic conditions that Embark tests for.
Genetic Result: Ee
More likely to have a mostly solid black or brown fur coat
Genetic Result: KBky
Genetic Result: atat
No dark mask or grizzle facial fur patterns
Likely furnished (mustache, beard, and/or eyebrows)
Genetic Result: FI
Likely short or mid-length coat
Genetic Result: GT
Likely light shedding
Likely wavy coat
Unlikely to have hind dew claws
Genetic Result: AA
Through Scruffy’s mitochondrial DNA we can trace her mother’s ancestry back to where dogs and people first became friends. This map helps you visualize the routes that her ancestors took to your home. Their story is described below the map.
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Scruffy’s Haplogroup
Scruffy’s Haplotype
Part of the large A1b haplogroup, we see this haplotype in village dogs in over 25 countries across the world. We have detected this haplotype in lots of breeds, and it occurs most commonly in German Shepherd Dogs, Maltese, English Springer Spaniels, and English Setters.
Orion Black Benoit
My Main Squeeze du Chatea…
The Paternal Haplotype reveals a dog’s deep ancestral lineage, stretching back thousands of years to the original domestication of dogs.
Are you looking for information on the breeds that Scruffy inherited from her mom and dad? Check out her breed breakdown and family tree.
Paternal Haplotype is determined by looking at a dog’s Y-chromosome—but not all dogs have Y-chromosomes!
Why can’t we show Paternal Haplotype results for female dogs?
All dogs have two sex chromosomes. Female dogs have two X-chromosomes (XX) and male dogs have one X-chromosome and one Y-chromosome (XY). When having offspring, female (XX) dogs always pass an X-chromosome to their puppy. Male (XY) dogs can pass either an X or a Y-chromosome—if the puppy receives an X-chromosome from its father then it will be a female (XX) puppy and if it receives a Y-chromosome then it will be a male (XY) puppy. As you can see, Y-chromosomes are passed down from a male dog only to its male offspring.
Since Scruffy is a female (XX) dog, she has no Y-chromosome for us to analyze and determine a paternal haplotype.
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“we will burn, we will burn together” or: Re-reading The Crucible now — John Proctor, cruelty and betrayals
Continued from here, a series of reflections on re-reading The Crucible in the wake of Richard Armitage’s casting as John Proctor at the Old Vic. This is going to be my last post on this particular topic, as we’ll have reactions to previous available in only a few days! The time has passed really quickly. A blog has been announced to collate the experiences of Armitage fans who see the play — follow it here.
Tonight I want to write about my perception of the personal level of the play and the role cruelty plays between John Proctor, Abigail, and Elizabeth Proctor. I’ve illustrated it with a few period musical selections.
Richard Armitage and Samantha Colley in rehearsal for The Crucible, Summer 2014. Source: Old Vic Theatre on FB.
There are so many ways to be cruel, and I wonder which of them Richard Armitage will use John Proctor to plumb.
I don’t know if the notes that Miller interpolated in the script are shared with the audience in performance, but Miller introduces Proctor early on in Act I with the note that Proctor’s low tolerance for hypocrisy and foolishness made him a target of “calumny.” The key statement, however, is Miller’s notation that Proctor is a sinner against his own notion of morality. “Proctor,” he writes, “respected and even feared in Salem, has come to regard himself as a kind of fraud.” I can only imagine the sort of ferment that that might have provoked in the mind of Richard Armitage the reader.
The lengths to which one will go to protect one’s own self-concept even against one’s awareness of how flawed it is. How cruel we can be to others in order to keep ourselves whole. I don’t know what Miller means when he says Puritan society lacked a mechanism for expiating sin; sin is not the problem here so much as Proctor’s inability to see himself as sinner in the way that counts most — from the inside.
In Act One, however, this contradiction is not yet visible, and Proctor is strong, powerful, and frightening, scaring his own hired woman when he enters the scene and flirting a little with Abigail, although, as it turns out, he has no intention of coming through despite the memories that animate the impulse to joke with her and his admiration for her “wickedness.” Here we see the basic cruelty of gender relations in the society of the play, and the way they affect the end of any intimate relationship — with the separating lover denying the telling of the common story that united lovers share. As Proctor says, Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time. But I will cut off my hand before I’ll ever reach for you again. Wipe it out of mind. We never touched, Abby.
It makes me wonder what Richard Armitage dreams as John Proctor — wild nights, brief encounters, violent joinings, curt brushoffs, with Abigail Williams? And his own inability to control Abigail, his threat to resort to violence to keep these women, disobedient servant, spurned lover, under control?
And what about Proctor’s relationship to his wife? What does Armitage dream about that?
The psalter used by Parris’ congregation would have been a later edition of the Bay Psalm Book of 1640, the first book printed in North America. (You may remember that it is exceedingly rare, now, with only eleven known copies surviving, of which five are complete, and that a copy was sold last fall for $14.1 million.) Early editions of this work indicated only the melodies to which the psalms were to be sung; musical notation was not included until the 1698 edition. Below, a choir sings a setting of Psalm 23 (“The Lord to Mee a Shepherd Is”) harmonizing to the notation of the melody in the 1698 edition.
The beginning of Act Two sharpens this conflict Proctor feels between rectitude and desire, and the line he’s willing to walk to keep his notion of himself clean, with the stage direction that when Proctor walks into the house, he puts down his gun, then tastes the food cooking on the fire and seasons it. I find this a fascinating moment — it could, indeed, be comic. But then it’s clear, once Elizabeth puts the stew on the table, that it was an artifice — for as she watches him eat it, he praises it as “well seasoned” and she blushes with the compliment. Think a moment about what might be happening there. John is not willing to eat a badly seasoned stew; neither is he willing to salt it in the presence of his wife; neither is he willing to lie about it. So he salts the stew himself so he can have it as he pleases without forcing himself to suffer nor lying to his wife. (Incidentally, salt was an expensive commodity in the early modern world, so parsimony with salt signaled either a thrifty wife or a stingy one, though I don’t know whether Miller knew this.)
John has, in the end, told the truth. He has avoided something that’s apparently a bone of contention between them, but only by adjusting the circumstances to fit his later words about them. Things about the scene suggest that he feels manipulated to this end by Elizabeth — he tells he wants to please her, but she is not willing to accept his affections — and then he has to ask her for a drink, so that he appears to be criticizing her anyhow. He says he wants to please her, but he himself manipulates the situation so that he may do so without wounding his own rather casuist sense of truth-telling. His desire not to be cruel is thus a superficial move on his part, for in the end, if we take the seasoning as a synecdoche, he changes nothing about himself in his attempt to please Elizabeth. And this, one suspects, is what he most needs.
Indeed, the script suggests John thinks he’s already conceded enough, that he has no more obligation to suffer for his dalliance with Abigail, and that his wife’s suspicion of even a brief encounter with her is unfounded. As he says to Elizabeth, You forget nothin’ and forgive nothin’. Learn charity, woman. I have gone tiptoe in this house all seven month since she is gone. I have not moved from there to there without I think to please you, and still an everlasting funeral marches round your heart. I cannot speak but I am doubted, every moment I am judged for lies, as though I come into a court when I come into this house! And yet: it’s clear, he has lied.
And still lies. Elizabeth points out that she is not the judge, but his own heart — which points to guilt he still feels for things he still does. As he has no cause to whip his wife, he then turns to Mary Wolcott, whom he threatens to whip for her absence, in her place. When Elizabeth points out something they both know, tentatively albeit it reasonably — that Abigail wants to take her place — and urges him to disabuse the girl of any fantasy she might have of becoming Goody Proctor, John puts off the indictment of his own feelings by reading Elizabeth’s insistence as further cruelty to him. Agreeing to do as his wife acts, he nonetheless replies, I see now your spirits twists around the single error of my life, and I will never tear it free!
Elizabeth’s insistence that she will win, the curiously foreboding forecast that John will come to know that [she] will be [his] only wife, is then interrupted by the entrance of Mr. Hale. When John attempts to list the commandments, her attempt to save him by pointing out the one he’s forgotten is the prohibition on adultery thus strikes the reader as both a lifesaver and a condemnation.
At the very latest, the photos released earlier this week should have suggested the possibility that the scene that Arthur Miller omitted from the first performance of the play because it slowed down the tempo of the production, Act II, scene one, John Proctor’s encounter with Abigail Williams in the forest, will play a role in this production. (That placement doesn’t make narrative sense to me — it would work better narratively as Act III, scene one, which is why I am discussing it here.) That scene makes clear that Abigail is motivated by desire; jealousy / greed; and the desire for revenge. Miller’s script clearly adds madness to this list — or at least some kind of dissociation from the reality that Proctor is unlikely to marry the woman whose testimony hangs his wife — but this seems like overkill to me. Can a madwoman truly be cruel?
In this scene, it’s clear, Proctor’s decided — he’s going to ruin Abigail and defend Elizabeth (or try). One wonders why — out of loyalty to Elizabeth? But certainly out of a desire to preserve his own position and more importantly, his self-image. This move is, in part, a cruelty toward which his society forces him, a cruelty that Elizabeth has demanded as payment for his transgressions, but also, let us admit, a cruelty that he commits willingly or necessarily, particularly once he sees how far from reality Abigail is. To me, the more interesting thing about this scene than Abigail’s apparent madness or John’s apparent decisiveness — in essence, I think, he still gets what he wants here, if his plan works — is the bandying about of hypocrisy. Abigail’s real knowledge — the thing she knows that she can truly torture him with as no other person in the play can — is her awareness of his hypocrisy. Telling the truth about their relationship and confessing his fornication to the court, she points out quite astutely, makes him the hypocrite.
One of the tunes recommended for use in the original Bay Psalm Book (the metrical index with of tunes can be found here) is Old Hundredth — the original melody for Psalm 100 as derived from the 1551 Geneva psalter and thus one of the oldest tunes of Protestant Christianity. Here’s a performance of that psalm following the melodic and rhythmic style of the seventeenth century (without harmony), beginning at 2:30. Note that the Puritans would not have used musical instruments in worship and that pianos of the style they are using were not current until the 1720s.
Act Three of the play takes us to the courtroom, where John brings Mary Warren to the court in order to have her testify that the poppet used as evidence against his wife was given to her. The officials suspect this testimony, knowing as they do that Proctor is no friend of Parris and that his cultivation of a Christian life has suffered under this enmity. When they ask him whether his only impulse is to free his wife, and not to upset the court, he falters in his answer — on the one hand, as if he hadn’t thought they could think something of him; but on the other, I find myself asking, given the character’s history of showing that his only recourse when he loses an argument is to (threats of) violence, if there isn’t something to this charge.
I think most viewers will be inclined to sympathize with the Proctors in Act Three; Elizabeth is the target of a false accusation from Abby because Abby wants Elizabeth’s place, a false accusation that could bring Elizabeth to her death; John goes to court to prove his wife innocent and he’s fully willing to blacken his own reputation to do but even that will be insufficient. This reading, with the failure of the Proctors’ private lives made manifest as an ideological or political failure brought home at the hands of the crazed Abby, is fully in line with the Arendtian reading of the play I proposed last time and is close to Miller’s original thinking about the play. My understanding is that this is how the play is usually played, with the Proctors’ contradiction of each other seen as a sort of O. Henry paradox in which each sacrifices himself in order to save the other.
At the same time, however, the problems set up by the triangle are potentially more complex than this. Leaving aside the problem of Abby’s madness, we still have the question of she can best get payback for Elizabeth’s decision to put her out and John’s turning away; it does not matter, in the end, if John is unwilling to marry Abby, for Elizabeth’s destruction is sufficient to remedy both her social disgrace and her having been discarded as lover. All Abby can do to get what she wants is to behave cruelly — the society gives her no other choice — but the act is nonetheless malevolent. John’s willingness to proclaim in open court of Abby, repeatedly and forcefully, that she is a whore, a harlot, is a lie — everything the play tells us suggests that he was as willing as she — and cruel to her. He blackens his honor temporarily but only strengthens the picture he wishes us to see of him, as the man who clings to the truth. He admits to fornication in order to prove that he has told the truth, just like he salted the soup in order not to lie to Elizabeth — again doing exactly as he pleases to support his view of himself but not telling us the whole story.
Finally — we have to ask ourselves, based on Act Two, about the extent to which we believe John’s charge that Elizabeth will never let him free of awareness of his sin. Is this John’s defensive posture or is it an accurate description of his betrayed wife? It’s John who tells us that Elizabeth lies to save his honor. But whether she does it to save her honor or to gain her own revenge, she ends up the victor on that score (especially since we know by this point that as a pregnant woman, she will not be executed immediately), even if not on the charge of witchcraft. And when John’s attempts to insist Mary tell his version of things fails and sets loose a wave of behavior that indicates demonic possession and ends in accusations against him, John realizes the mistake of this — that it is the man who “quails,” the man who cannot tell the truth, the man he has been all this time, arranging the circumstances, telling half truths, in search of maintaining his own notion of his rectitude — only when he sees that the possessed girls’ accusation against him is now inevitable and irrevocable. He may not have possessed Mary Warren, but it’s thoroughly clear that he must have threatened her.
John may not have come in order to upset the court, but in fact he does exactly that.
Richard Armitage in rehearsal for The Crucible, Summer 2014. Source: Old Vic Theatre on FB.
And Elizabeth?
Miller disappears Abby in Act Four, conveniently, and the audience is left with the problem of how the Proctors will resolve their relationship. Hale no longer believes in what he is doing, but the maw of the machine must still be filled, and so if John is to come free, he must do so in a procedurally correct way, by confessing. Hale tries to get Elizabeth to push him to do so — and it is at this point that one wonders most, independently of John’s charges that she lacks charity (the seventeenth century idiom for the term ἀγάπη, the love referred to in 1 Corinthians 13), exactly what Elizabeth’s feelings are. John enters the scene, clear that he is no saint — as if, perhaps, he’s realized exactly what his self-image has done to himself and his family. Elizabeth, while reminding him that part of his problem has always lain in his own stubborn insistence on clinging to his image of his responsibilities — for who can forgive someone who refuses forgiveness? and is not the refusal to accept forgiveness, the refusal to forgive oneself, the height of arrogance? — now concedes her own role, that part of what he has said about her coldness is true. And while she bends in this scene on some level, still the cold quality of her principle is clear — she will not beg John to abandon the self-conception that has brought himself to this point in the first place. She will not.
The end of the play is usually read as heroic, with Porter Proctor going almost eagerly, indeed heroically, to his death. Since high school, I’ve not cared for that reading; I see the end of the play as heavily ambivalent, for it is entirely irrelevant to a society that believes in witches on the level that Miller depicts this one as doing whether the victims are innocent or guilty — they serve as examples either way. If we prefer the roman à clef reading (sustained by an excerpt in the Old Vic’s teaching guide to the play, although it’s frustrating that they reproduce only Miller’s memories of this incident and not Kazan’s, because they are strikingly different) that Proctor’s death is some kind of reproach from Miller to Elia Kazan, it’s still not entirely clear that making the arrogant hero die pointlessly is really a statement in praise of naming no names. Proctor does die.
In the end, despite his disclaimer that he is no saint, Proctor goes to his death as proudly as he scoffed at the existence of witches in Act One; in the end, as Elizabeth points out when she refuses to plead with him to change his mind about the confession and says to Hale, He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!, his picture of himself has been sustained throughout. We can read this as heroic if we want to see this play as the fate of the martyr before the totalitarian authority, I suppose. But in the end, John Proctor ends the play where he started it — a stubborn man who has maintained his notion of himself and is willing that others should suffer the consequences for him. He cannot remake his world in the way he salted the soup, but neither can he let go of the incredibly hubris of believing that he can somehow do so by dying. And Elizabeth? She supports this notion — he has his goodness now — but if she is as cold as she admits, this statement is can also be read as bitter rejoicing. She will not betray him. If this is a decision to be cruel, or to be kind — given the fact that he’s about to die — we can only leave to the actors and to the audience watching them.
And again, I wonder — I wonder so hard — how Richard Armitage dreams John Proctor’s death.
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32 Responses to ““we will burn, we will burn together” or: Re-reading The Crucible now — John Proctor, cruelty and betrayals”
Well said! Thanks for the primer!
Gratiana Lovelace said this on June 20, 2014 at 4:43 am | Reply
You’re welcome, but this isn’t really a primer. I’m reading against the conventional position on this play (and have been throughout the series). But I’m glad if it is useful to you!
I’ve just finished leading Act II, and I believe it’s Act II, Scene 2 that is the dropped scene in the forest, right?
I don’t know what combination of reasons Proctor has for choosing to save his wife, but he did say of Elizabeth that “that goodness will not die for me!” Maybe his conscious cannot let Elizabeth be torn down as he remains safe.
I loved the line at the end of scene 1! “It is a Providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.”
I can’t read the rest of your comments until I read for myself how events unfold!
Thanks for this, though. Certainly a self-examining play.
trudystattle said this on June 20, 2014 at 5:15 am | Reply
the edition I have gives it as Act Two, scene one, but that can certainly be a mistake (as it doesn’t make sense there).
I wish you a lot of enjoyment with the remainder of your reading!
I’m reading this from the repeated perspective that the actors articulated regarding “cruelty”. Also, I find both John and Elizabeth seriously unsympathetic characters. I think if one had a more sympathetic view of these characters one would certainly read the play differently.
I looked it up and my (public library) Penguin edition says the missing scene is Scene 2.
Ok, you’re analyzing for cruelty.
‘Unsympathetic’ meaning these two characters express little sympathy for others or that you as a reader find little sympathy for the characters?
I don’t doubt it (I have the Bantam 1975).
Both, I suppose. I really develop very little sympathy for John. Elizabeth is harder for me to read, insofar as she starts off as the wronged party. I really don’t know how to read her in Act Four.
What you’ve written in this series is truly fascinating. There is, however, a general consensus on how this play and its characters are to be interpreted in a production. While I understand the method of your analyses and your position as a certain type of theorist, I doubt the director, or any member of the cast for that matter, will deviate much from that consensus. Your analyses, to theatre people, would inevitably lead to the conclusion that Miller’s creation of the Proctor characters is a failure; well, it isn’t normally seen that way. Characters that deserve more criticism are probably Hathorne and Danforth. They are described by some critics as puppets of evil because Miller didn’t seem to understand the nature of that particular brand of evil himself, leaving people knowing the language of theatre confused.
Harry Kennedy said this on June 20, 2014 at 6:58 am | Reply
This is not to diminish the value of your views. I’m not the most qualified to critique them. They are certainly unique, of a play quite thoroughly explored in the past. And it is very rare and refreshing to find a fan of Mr Armitage’s so well-learned and astonishingly eloquent.
Thanks for the comment and welcome. To clarify — I was hardly writing to try to influence the director, and neither she nor any member of the cast is reading this blog, so what I think is immaterial to their views.
I don’t think that I said anywhere that the Proctor character is failure — I would say, however, that it is at least arguable, if you want to look at this play from the standpoint of classic Greek tragedy, that he does not achieve the character arc of the classic Greek tragedic hero.
That I don’t like this play especially well has probably been obvious since the beginning of the series, though 🙂
to me, Danforth and Hathorne are throwaways from the standpoint of talking about cruelty — representatives of the state are encompassed by the Arendtian view (see previous post).
Du schriebst: I don’t know what Miller means when he says Puritan society lacked a mechanism for expiating sin; sin is not the problem here so much as Proctor’s inability to see himself as sinner in the way that counts most — from the inside.
Zuerst mal: Ich habe bisher keine Aufführung oder Verfilmung gesehen, auch das Stück nicht gelesen, geschweige denn Sekundärliteratur dazu – nicht mal deine Texte komplett, nur diesen hier -, und über Puritaner habe ich auch nur das (ähem) Fachwissen, das man mit einem kurzen Überfliegen des deutschen Wikipedia-Artikels erlangen kann.
Anders ausgedrückt: Ich sollte die Klappe halten.
Allerdings ging mir dein oben zitierter Satz nicht aus dem Kopf, während ich deine Gedanken über die Beziehungen der Charaktere gelesen habe, und deshalb sage ich doch was.
Sehr kurz zusammengefasst, scheint die puritanische Lehre vor allem auf der Annahme zu basieren, dass der Mensch an sich schlecht ist und nur das eiserne Festhalten am Leben nach dem Wortlaut der Bibel garantiert, dass die angeborene Verderbtheit des Menschen nicht in den Vordergrund tritt. 100%ige Einhaltung der biblischen Regeln, wenn jemand ein aufrechtes Mitglied der Gemeinde ist.
Für mich heißt das: Wer strauchelt (falsch handelt, sündigt), dem kann nicht vergeben werden. Rituelle Buße, zeremonielle Reinigung, wie es sie wohl – vermute ich – in den meisten Religionen in der einen oder anderen Form gibt, existiert bei den Puritanern nicht.
Wie kann dann ein angesehener Mann auch nur vor sich selbst eingestehen, dass er, der so stolz ist, ein vorbildliches Mitglied der Gemeinde zu sein, ein Sünder ist? Nicht nur die Sünde des Ehebruchs müsste er sich eingestehen, sondern auch noch (viel wichtiger!) die des Stolzes. Er müsste sich eingestehen, dass er ein Heuchler ist.
Ja, ich weiß: Genau das sagst du auch.
Und in einer Gesellschaft, die Buße – und die anschließende Vergebung – als normal ansieht, wäre es vielleicht möglich, dass er es sich eingesteht. Es wäre peinlich, es wäre demütigend, aber es wäre nicht der Verlust allen Ansehens. – Wäre es das bei den Puritanern?
Kurz: Ich sehe durchaus einen Zusammenhang zwischen der Nicht-Existenz von Buße-Ritualen und Proctors Unfähigkeit, sich selbst einzugestehen, ein Heuchler zu sein.
OT: Du hast einen schlechten Einfluss auf mich – dieser ganze Text nur wegen EINEM Satz von dir. gg
OT: Bin ich die einzige, deren Blick beim ersten Bild immer wieder magisch zu Richards Hand hingezogen wird?
Hedgehogess said this on June 20, 2014 at 4:54 pm | Reply
Hmmm. I hope it’s okay if I answer in English.
Part of the problem with this play from the perspective of a religious historian is that Miller makes repeated errors about religion. Most of them are not really serious, for instance, Miller refers to the Puritans singing a psalm that refers to Jesus (and the consequences for the possessed girls). Actually, the Puritans sang the psalms as religious texts, and none of them refer to Jesus, having been written centuries before. Or he has the court ask Proctor if he reads the Gospel, and when Proctor says he does, they refer to an incident that’s not in the Gospels (the story of Cain and Abel).
On this one, though, he’s just plain wrong. Puritans certainly had confession of sins — both a corporate confession of sins during worship, and the injunction to confess one’s sins privately to G-d and to the injured party, which shows up over and over again in the literature of their divines. Moreover, they had institutions of social discipline, consistories and consistory like institutions that called sinners before them in order to examine them, alter their behavior, and punish them for wrong-doing through various types of exclusion up to and including excommunication. The participation in these activities was certainly a public act. I’m not exactly sure why that fails to meet the criteria for expiation of sin.
If we want to speak theologically, Miller is in even worse shape. The Puritans did not believe in free will in the sense of capacity to affect one’s salvation by one’s actions. (They were what is sometimes sloppilly called “double predestinarians”). People could not be saved by being particularly holy. This did not mean, however, that they thought the sins of the reprobate (those who would not be saved) unimportant, nor that lacked a mechanism for people to confess them (see above). If one were a church member (see below, I’m not exactly sure what Miller understands that to be), there would be higher standards for behavior, certainly, as the Christian is supposed to gradually become sanctified in his outward actions. In essence, Calvinists of this stripe thought that (apart from the political use of the law, and the purpose of make humans aware of what awaited them) the law actually encouraged Christians in their path toward sanctification.
This failed reading on Miller’s part is why the body of historians who were expert on Puritanism in the 1950s and 60s panned this play so thoroughly — it operates on a modern understanding of “how I might feel if I lived in that society.” Miller seems to have accepted Max Weber’s reading of the meaning of predestination for Protestants generally wholesale, but a historian of that period would laugh himself silly. Protestants generally found predestination to be a comforting teaching; it was a reason to join the Reformed Church. Moreover, on this level, the question fails to meet the requirement of distinction, in that every Protestant Church was that way.
I’m not sure if Proctor was actually a church member in Miller’s eyes (or historically — I would have to look it up — but I think he was not a member of the Salem village church). Miller seems to think that all church members were created equal, so to speak. But there was a difference in Salem society between people who were professed members of the church (like Mary Sibley, whom Parris called out from the pulpit, or Rebecca Nurse — this is why her case was so particularly scandalous) and everyone else. Members of the church were subject to greater degrees of church discipline than those who were not.
Danke für die Erklärung.
Ich hab’s ja selbst gesagt: Ich sollte die Klappe halten, wenn ich keine Ahnung habe. 🙂
Da du Prädestination erwähnt hast: Ich habe nie verstanden, wie das ein ansprechender Gedanke sein konnte (kann?). Wenn du Zeit und Lust dazu hast, wäre es nett, wenn du mir (ganz grob) erklären könntest, was daran reizvoll war und welche geistige Grundeinstellung dahinter stand.
If you start from a free will supposition — G-d has enough merit available to save everyone and aspires to do so; humans have the capacity to act to save themselves, either by initiating the process (congruent merit) or cooperating in a process that G-d initiates (condign merit — both of these views were current in the medieval church and the latter becomes the official view of the Roman church after 1563); if they do not cooperate, they will not be saved — some theologians in the 1500s and 1600s argued that the struggle for salvation was unbearable because there were no guarantees that what one did was sufficient. On the one hand, you affect your own fate; on the other, you would never be certain that you were good enough to merit salvation because you cannot know the mind of G-d.
Predestination ends discussion about knowing the divine will, which is inscrutable, because G-d has already decided this (depending on your view, either before time began or shortly after the Fall into Sin.) If you start from a no free will position, then whatever you do is “good enough” because everything you do is irrelevant. G-d has already made this decision (and in the view point of an orthodox Calvinist, the saints are elected “unconditionally,” i.e., G-d elects not for merit or lack of same, but simply according to G-d’s will) and the decree is eternal and impossible to resist. Moreover, everyone is worthy of damnation, so that G-d chooses to save anyone at all is a huge gift for which humans should be grateful. As humans simply don’t know what will happen, they are free to live their lives in conformity to that divine will without anxiety.
Arguments about which of these views is philosophically more consoling have been going on for centuries; I think the answer to that depends on your own personality. But historically speaking, in multi-confessional areas in Europe where people could choose their own religious confession, we find literate people writing and preaching to each other that predestination is a consoling doctrine. Interestingly, and this is also controversial from our standpoint, we find in areas like East Frisia where Anabaptist options were available, that people left the Reformed Church because they did not think the discipline it practiced was severe enough. In our world, the Puritans stand for all that is harsh and severe in religion but in their own world that was not quite so clearly the case.
Danke. Ich glaube, ich kann jetzt nachvollziehen, wie der Gedankengang abläuft.
I grew up in a “no free will” setting and I tend to agree that it’s crushing — if I were picking a Christianity today I’d totally pick a free will Christianity — just that it’s hard to read that back onto the 17th c.
I think the point for understanding Proctor is not the spurious question of a public ritual — that could have been a throwaway for Miller — the play says clearly, or rather Elizabeth points out repeatedly, that Proctor’s problems are in his head. She says, he can’t forgive himself but my reading of it is more that he isn’t willing to change how he sees himself.
In anderen Worten: Ein verdammter sturer Esel.
Eben ein echter Mann …
Ich werde das Stück erst mal lesen, dann werde ich sehen, wie ich Proctor einstufe.
noting that what I write above is not the conventional view of the character, which sees him as a heroic man resisting the demands of his society although without any hope of success. It is, however, a possible one.
Ich halte selbst nicht viel davon, einen “conventional view” nachzuplappern, nur weil das die übliche Sicht ist.
Vielleicht werde ich Proctor als heroisch sehen, vielleicht so wie du, vielleicht habe ich eine dritte Ansicht – das wird sich zeigen.
Und jetzt verschwinde ich und lese noch was, aber ganz sicher nicht The Crucible. Schönen Abend/Tag noch. 😉
re: Richard’s hand — no I don’t think that’s strange at all!
Igelchen: Auch ich kann nicht an der Hand vorbeisehen…… YOU ARE NOT ALONE! 🙂
cRAmerry said this on June 20, 2014 at 5:43 pm | Reply
Noch eine, die mich hier “Igelchen” nennt?!
if the shoe fits …
Sorry, guylty hat’s angefangen 🙂
Besser nicht ?
Ja, Guylty war die erste. 😉
Naja, Euer königliche Hoheit Queen Hedgehogess wäre auf Dauer ja auch wirklich unpraktisch lang und umständlich, also akzeptiere ich huldvoll auch die Kurzform Igelchen.
Na dann Eure stachelige Highness (ESH)!
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In the 2018-19 academic year, NC Space Grant supported the University of North Carolina Charlotte 49er High-Powered Rocketry Club to compete in the NASA Student Launch Initiative in Huntsville, Alabama. After competition, the team received first place in safety, first place in payload (on-board experiment) design, second place for project review, third place for STEM engagement for their outreach into local schools and communities, and third place for best-looking rocket. They were also awarded the Spring 2019 first place ranking for a senior design project at the UNC Charlotte Senior Design Expo.
NC Space Grant also supported the NC State University High-Powered Rocketry Club, nicknamed Tacho Lycos, in NASA Student Launch. That team won the first place Altitude Award for the team whose rocket came closest to reaching its declared target altitude.
The 2018-19 University of North Carolina at Charlotte high-powered rocketry team poses with their awards won in the NASA Student Launch Competition in Spring 2019.
Congratulations to the 2019-2020 winners:
Campbell University, competing in NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC), faculty advisor: Lee Rynearson, Ph.D.
Fayetteville State University, competing in NASA RASC-AL Competition Moon to Mars Ice and Prospecting Challenge, faculty advisor: Joseph Kabbes, Ph.D.
Lenoir-Rhyne University, competing in Spaceport America Cup, faculty advisor: Doug Knight, Ph.D.
North Carolina A&T University, competing in (Society of Automotive Engineering) SAE Design Competition West, faculty advisor: John Kizito, Ph.D.
NC State University, competing in American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Design/Build/Fly Challenge, faculty advisor: Jack Edwards, Ph.D.
NC State University, competing in AUVSI Student UAS Competition and the 2019-2020 NASA Student Launch Competition, faculty advisor: Felix Ewere, Ph.D.
NC State University, competing in HeroX Base11 Space Challenge (HBSC), faculty advisor: Tarek Echekki, Ph.D.
UNC-Charlotte, competing in Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) SoutheastCon 2020 Hardware Competition, faculty advisor: James Conrad, Ph.D.
UNC-Charlotte, competing in NASA Robotic Mining Competition: Lunabotics 2020, faculty advisor: Aiden Brown, Ph.D.
UNC-Charlotte, competing in 2019-2020 NASA Student Launch Competition, faculty advisor: Jerry Dahlberg, Ph.D.
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Breathing Affects Memory and Emotional Response
An interesting study on breathing was recently conducted by researchers at Northwestern Medicine. The study looked at how breathing affects memory and emotional response.1 The findings showed that the rhythm of breathing can impact neural activity and actually enhance memory as well as certain emotional judgements – namely fear.
Study Looked at Electrical Activity of the Brain
The research study looked specifically at electrical activity of the brain, and how it changes with the rhythm of the breath – and how this rhythm affects memory recall and emotional judgement. The findings showed that these factors depended on whether a participant was inhaling or exhaling, and whether they were breathing through their nose or mouth.
Participants Were Asked to Make Rapid Decisions on Emotional Expressions
60 participants were asked to make rapid decisions on emotional expressions shown on a computer screen. The expressions were of either fear or surprise. The subjects had to indicate which emotion was being conveyed, as quickly as they were able. During inhalation, participants were able to recognize fearful faces more quickly, however not during exhalation. Furthermore, there seemed to be no difference in identification of surprised expressions. Also, enhanced performance was not noted when participants breathed through their mouths; only during nasal breathing. There was a corresponding difference in the activity of the amygdala and hippocampus during inhalation compared with exhalation as well. During the inhalation, there was general stimulation of neurons across the entire limbic system, including the amygdala, hippocampus and olfactory cortex.
Supports Theory of Rapid Breathing Enhancing Memory and Dangerous Situations
This supports a theory that during excited, rapid breathing, the ability to register fear, or dangerous situational elements is enhanced. During this type of breathing, the number of inhalations are drastically increased.
Hippocampus Plays a Role in Memory and is Enhanced During Inhalation with Activation of the Limbic System
The same subjects were also asked to complete a memory function test. A computerized module was used which prompted participants to remember shown objects and recall them later on. The objects that were encountered during inhalation were remembered better than those seen during exhalation. The conclusion the researchers made was that the role the hippocampus plays in memory is enhanced during inhalation with the activation of the limbic system.
Important Finding: Therapeutic Use of Breathing Clinically
While the main focus of the research paper was on memory recall and perception of fear during inhalation, there was mention of an important finding that relates to the therapeutic use of breathing clinically. In reference to the basic mechanisms of meditation and focused breathing, the lead author Christina Zelano, assistant professor of neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine said, “when you inhale, you are in a sense synchronizing brain oscillations across the limbic network.”
Northwestern University. “Rhythm of Breathing Affects Memory and Fear.” NeuroscienceNews. NeuroscienceNews, 6 December 2016.
<http://neurosciencenews.com/memory-fear-breathing-5699/>.
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Node Smith, ND, is a naturopathic physician in Portland, OR and associate editor for NDNR. He has been instrumental in maintaining a firm connection to the philosophy and heritage of naturopathic medicine among the next generation of docs. He helped found the first multi-generational experiential retreat, which brings elders, alumni, and students together for a weekend camp-out where naturopathic medicine and medical philosophy are experienced in nature. Four years ago he helped found the non-profit, Association for Naturopathic ReVitalization (ANR), for which he serves as the board chairman. ANR has a mission to inspire health practitioners to embody the naturopathic principles through experiential education. Node also has a firm belief that the next era of naturopathic medicine will see a resurgence of in-patient facilities which use fasting, earthing, hydrotherapy and homeopathy to bring people back from chronic diseases of modern living; he is involved in numerous conversations and projects to bring about this vision.
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Chicago’s Low-Line Project to Offer a New Urban Retreat
Nicole Cardos | May 17, 2017 2:50 pm
Chicago may see a new kind of urban oasis this summer.
It’s called the Low-Line, and unlike elevated walkways such as the High Line in New York City or the 606 on Chicago’s Northwest Side, it’s looking down for inspiration.
The new half-mile path in Lakeview will be below and between the CTA Brown Line Southport and Paulina “L” stations.
“The idea of the Low-Line seems sort of unusual, right?” said Dillon Goodson, the community development manager at the Lakeview Chamber of Commerce who has been working closely with the Chicago Transit Authority on a proposal. “Like the idea of encouraging people to linger underneath a train that’s loud and can sometimes be kind of dirty, but I think that’s the area where we can make the greatest amount of improvement: by cleaning up the space, by making it more visible, by giving people a reason to experience it.”
The idea of the Low-Line was first envisioned in the 2011 Lakeview Area Master Plan, and the project has a few goals: to beautify the neighborhood, create more green space and connect commercial corridors.
A portion of the project is being financed by Special Service Area 27, a funding mechanism that raises money through a property tax levy for a particular taxing district. And that portion of the project—the Paulina station and both sides of Ashland Avenue—is set to open during this summer.
Low-Line map shows the half-mile Lakeview path.
But there are a few design considerations to keep in mind.
“It isn’t really intended to be a place for people right now, it’s really a maintenance space for the CTA,” said Andrew Moddrell, a partner at PORT, the agency hired to take on the first phase of the project’s designs.
“There are parking spaces there, so if there’s going to be this encouraged use, we want to make sure people feel safe moving through there,” Moddrell said.
Another concern is noise from the “L” trains.
“If there was a place to sit here, would you sit here?” Moddrell said. “Some people say, ‘Yeah, Chicago is noisy, it’s under the ‘L’ tracks and that’s fine.’”
Keeping in mind these considerations, PORT is looking into adding better lighting and thinking through appropriate uses for a space below moving trains.
Currently, there’s the Low-Line Market at the Southport stop—the first initiative of the Low-Line project. It’s a farmer’s markert that runs from June 1 through Oct. 26.
To share your input on the Low-Line project, take this survey.
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Noted entrepreneur & environmentalist Viral Sudhirbhai Desai bags energy conservation award 4th time
On the National Energy Conservation Day, a National Energy Conservation Award ceremony was organised by the ministry of energy in New Delhi. In this event, noted entrepreneur & environmentalist Viral Sudhirbhai Desai was awarded first prize in the textile sector. This is the fourth time that Desai, who is the CEO of Surat-based Zenitex, has bagged the award.
Interestingly, Desai is also the chairman of the Energy and Renewable Energy Committee of the Southern Gujarat Chamber of Commerce (SGCCI). The award ceremony, organised by BEE under the ministry of energy, was attended by RK Singh, Union minister of state for power and new & renewable energy and minister of state for skill development & entrepreneurship, and officals of various renowned global corporates and Indian public limited companies working for energy conservation.
Desai, who is also known as Greenman of Gujarat due to his efforts towards sustainability & environment protection, has achieved a rare feat of being awarded this National Award four times by the ministry of energy, three times in which he was ranked first in the country. In addition to this, in the past he has been awarded a national award for outstanding entrepreneurship by President of India.
“Energy saving is the moral duty of all of us and if we truly love our country, we all have to save energy at our own levels. I take every step in conserving energy, not just in my home, but also in my company Zenitex. This award is also special for me as it’s the first award for our Katargam unit of the city. The Government of India has appreciated this work from time to time. I am grateful to the Government of India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for this topmost honour for public and private enterprises of Indian origin,” said Desai. “It is a matter of pride for Surat and Gujarat that despite being an SME, Zenitex has bagged this award for the fourth time setting a new benchmark for others to follow.”
Energy minister RK Singh appreciated the efforts of energy conserving organisations and said, “Saving energy is not only saving money, but also saving the environment. And protecting the environment is one of the first demands of today.”
As Greenman of Gujarat, Desai is credited to have turned Udhna Railway Station into first green railway station of the country under his ‘Clean India Green India’ campaign. He has been also inspiring many to adopt trees though the ‘We Work For Trees’—a tree adoption campaign by Hearts at Work foundation. One such young couple inspired by Viral Desai adopted 100 trees on account of their wedding celebration. His innovative concept of decorating cars with eco-friendly artificial green grass created huge awareness among people towards his ‘Clean India Green India’ & ‘Save Environment’ movement. This idea was even lauded by national and regional media after his company designed two such green cars and named them ‘The Green Crusaders’. He was even honoured internationally with ‘Bharat Gaurav’ Award, held in the House of Commons, British Parliament at London in the United Kingdom a few months back for his efforts towards environment protection and sustainability.
A coffee table book named ‘Breathing Green’ has been published documenting the journey of transformation of Udhna station to become the first Green Railway station of India spearheaded by Desai as ecopreneur under his ‘Clean India, Green India’ movement. The book depicts interesting facts and details about the initiative and will inspire many others to join the campaign. Indeed, the movement run by Desai to save environment and green cover of earth has proved to be a powerhouse of inspiration for many others to follow.
(This story has not been edited by our staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed from NewsWireIndia.)
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GOES-R (GOES-Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites) satellite is a result of cooperation between NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It is part of large space system of weather forecasting, detection and observations of environmental anomalies and phenomena developed by NOAA since 1975. Satellite is manufactured by Lockheed Martin with utilization of A2100A bus. It will be long for 5.5 m with dry mass at 2800 kg and estimated operational life at 15 years. Gathered data will be downlinked with speed at 100 Mbps, transmitting will be performed on S band, L band and UHF channels. Satellite will be powered by two deployable solar arrays and onboard battery. They will provide up to 4 kW of power for following instruments: Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI - for gathering data on clouds and moisture in atmosphere), Space Environment In-Situ Suite (SEISS), Extreme Ultraviolet Sensor/X-Ray Sensor Irradiance Sensors (EXIS), Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI), Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM), and Magnetometer (MAG). Propulsion of the spacecraft will be provided by LEROS-1C chemical rocket engines (thrust at 460 N) fueled with Hydrazine / MON and manufactured by British company Moog ISP. Satellite will be launched and put into GEO by Atlas V rocket in 541 configuration - with 5 m payload fairing, four additional boosters and Centaur upper stage powered with single 1 RL 10A-4-2 engine with thrust at 99.2 kN.
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The 5 Best Restaurants In Harlem
Filed Under:Best Of New York, Brunch, Cocktails, Food, Harlem, Restaurants, Wine
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You may not automatically think of Harlem as a “foodie” neighborhood but it’s proving to become just that. A Top Chef is dishing out traditional soul food with a twist, a little piece of France can be found on Lenox Ave., and plenty of unconventional cocktails and flavorful wines are being served up by some of the best restaurateurs in the city. So make your reservation now because these seats are getting hot. By Carly Petrone.
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Grab a seat along the brick-lined wall inside quaint and cozy Lido, the restaurant led by executive chef Serena Bass. She is serving up some seriously delicious comfort food like savory spaghetti and roasted veal meatballs and crispy short ribs with parmesan polenta. If you’re in the mood for brunch, take advantage of their bottomless mimosa (with purchase of an entrée) until 3:30 p.m. and pair it with their decadent blueberry pancakes or the egg panini with goat cheese and bacon. Looking for something light? Snack on the grilled Tuscan bread crostini with burrata, roasted peppers, and currants agrodolce. Sip on one of their tasty cocktails at the bar – may we suggest the Floozie (Hendricks Gin, St. Germain, Rose, and Orange Zest) or a Mattina di Fuoco (Jalapeno & Cilantro Infused Gin, Lime, Sriracha, Ginger Beer)? Lunch service available from 11:30 a.m. – 4 p.m., dinner from 5:30 p.m. – 10 p.m. (11 p.m. on Fri/Sat), and brunch from 10:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. (Sat/Sun).
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By now you’ve probably heard about celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson’s hot restaurant Red Rooster. He and co-creator Andrew Chapman celebrate all that Harlem has to offer, including hanging original work by local artists and naming the restaurant after the legendary speakeasy once located at 138th Street and 7th Ave. Here, you can dine on traditional dishes with a twist like the blackened catfish with curried black eyed peas, red chili cauliflower, and pear-spinach chutney or the chicken & waffles with chicken liver butter and bourbon maple syrup. Wear your Sunday best because Sunday brunch comes with a side of Gospel (and signature Bloody Marys). Boncellia Lewis brings down the house with songs and spiritual favorites from 11:30 a.m. 3:30 p.m. Is there anything better than bringing a community together with great food and music? We think not. Check website for restaurant hours and events.
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Head over to Amy Ruth’s for a plate of their classic waffles. With fourteen different combinations to choose from, it’s a good thing there’s normally a wait time. This will give you time to ponder over whether to order The Rev. Al Sharpton (chicken & waffles), The Jennifer Holiday (waffles & fried catfish), or The Guy Woods & Shay Barnett (waffles with cinnamon, fresh bananas, and pecans). Either way, you’ll devour every fluffy bite. Wash it down with some sweet iced tea or the Kool-Aid of the day and you’ve got yourself a meal that will keep you full until your next waffle craving. Check website for restaurant hours.
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Vinateria is the perfect date spot with its cool vibe and even cooler cocktails and wine list. The space is stylish, open, and dimly lit with church pew banquettes in the waiting area and milk glass pendant lights hanging from the ceiling. When you’re not busy talking about the décor you’re faced with a decadent Spanish and Italian–inspired menu ranging from homemade black spaghetti with octopus and breadcrumbs to hand-cut beef tartare with cornichons, capers, horseradish, and raw quail egg yolk. You’ll definitely want to start your night out at the zinc-topped bar – try one of the special cocktails dedicated entirely to Spanish film director Pedro Almodovar or the pear cilantro margarita. Either way, your date will be impressed. Dinner starts at 5 p.m. and brunch begins at 11 a.m.
If you want a delicious French meal but don’t feel like flying to France to get it, make a reservation at Maison Harlem. This bistro oozes a Parisian atmosphere with lots of exposed brick and French windows allowing plenty of light into the rustic interior. Bite into a decadent croquet monsieur with fries or salad, try the tasty P.E.I. mussels provencale, or enjoy a classic dish of coq au vin. There’s a reason why everyone from Whoopi Goldberg to Barbara Walters has stopped through to check out the menu. It’s a little piece of France in the middle of Harlem! Doors are open from 11 a.m. – 11 p.m. (Mon-Thur); 11 a.m. – 12 a.m. (Fri-Sun).
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NHL Players in the Olympics
The title says it all. This article will be no more than a comprehensive list of NHL (and some other players owned by NHL teams) players set to participate in the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Leave a Comment » | Olympic Coverage | Tagged: Alexander Ovechkin, Alexander Sulzer, Andrei Kostitsyn, Andrei Markov, Andrej Meszaros, Andrej Sekera, Andres Ambuhl, Antero Niittymaki, Anton Volchenkov, Antti Miettinen, Bobby Ryan, Brenden Morrow, Brent Seabrook, Brian Rafalski, Brooks Orpik, Chris Drury, Chris Pronger, Christian Ehrhoff, Corey Perry, Dan Boyle, Daniel Alfredsson, Daniel Sedin, Dany Heatley, David Backes, David Krejci, Denis Grebeshkov, Dennis Seidenberg, Douglas Murray, Drew Doughty, Duncan Keith, Dustin Brown, Eric Johnson, Eric Staal, Evgeni Malkin, Evgeni Nabokov, Fedor Tyutin, Filip Kuba, Fredrik Modin, Henrik Lundqvist, Henrik Sedin, Henrik Tallinder, Henrik Zetterberg, Ilya Bryzgalov, Ilya Kovalchuk, Jack Johnson, Jamie Langenbrunner, Jan Hejda, Jarkko Ruutu, Jarome Iginla, Jaroslav Halak, Jere Lehtinen, Joe Pavelski, Joe Thornton, Johnny Oduya, Jon Quick, Jonas Gustavsson, Jonas Hiller, Jonathan Toews, Joni Pitkanen, Karlis Skrastins, Kaspars Daugavins, Kimmo Timonen, Loui Eriksson, Lubomir Visnovsky, Luca Sbisa, Marc Andre Fleury, Marcel Goc, Marco Sturm, Marek Zidlicky, Marian Gaborik, Marian Hossa, Mark Streit, Martin Brodeur, Martin Erat, Martin Havlat, Martins Karsums, Mattias Ohlund, Maxim Afinogenov, Michal Handzus, Miikka Kiprusoff, Mike Komisarek, Mike Richards, Mikhail Grabovski, Mikko Koivu, Milan Jurcina, Milan Michalek, Miroslav Satan, Nicklas Backstrom, Nicklas Lidstrom, Niklas Backstrom, Niklas Hagman, Niklas Kronwall, Ole-Kristian Tollefsen, Olli Jokinen, Ondrej Pavelec, Oskars Bartulis, Patric Hornqvist, Patrice Bergeron, Patrick Kane, Patrick Marleau, Patrik Elias, Paul Martin, Paul Stastny, Pavel Datsyuk, Pavel Kubina, Pavol Demitra, Peter Budaj, Phil Kessel, Rick Nash, Roberto Luongo, Roman Polak, Ruslan Salei, Ryan Callahan, Ryan Getzlaf, Ryan Kesler, Ryan Malone, Ryan Miller, Ryan Suter, Saku Koivu, Sami Lepisto, Sami Salo, Samuel Pahlsson, Scott Niedermayer, Semyon Varlamov, Sergei Gonchar, Sergei Kostitsyn, Shea Weber, Sidney Crosby, Teemu Selanne, Thomas Greiss, Tim Thomas, Tobias Enstrom, Tomas Fleischmann, Tomas Holmstrom, Tomas Kaberle, Tomas Kopecky, Tomas Plekanec, Tomas Vokoun, Toni Lydman, Tuomo Ruutu, Valtteri Filppula, Yannick Weber, Zach Parise, Zbynek Michalek, Zdeno Chara | Permalink
The End to All Team Canada Speculation
As the announcement was made on NHLNetwork in the States and TSN in Canada, NHL Hot Stove was on board and prepared to drop the news to
you directly after the announcement.
The selection, in order as it was announced:
Bob Mickelson: “This is a day every Canadian has been waiting for” and those words have never been more true.
Mike Chambers: “…a first ever Olympic Mens Ice Hockey win at home, on home ice.”
Steve Yzerman: (huge ovation) “….like all Canadians we are very excited to be here. For all hockey fans, it’s a great day.” “This has
been an enjoyable process, but, a difficult one.” “Every player on this roster was put on after great debate.” “We feel we have a team
that will make Canadians proud…….and compete for a Gold medal which all Canadians know that we can achieve.”
Martin Brodeur (Montreal, Quebec)
Marc Andre Fleury (Sorel, Quebec)
Roberto Luongo (Montreal, Quebec)
Leave a Comment » | Olympic Coverage | Tagged: Bob McKenzie, Bob Mickelson, Brent Seabrook, Chris Pronger, Corey Perry, Dan Boyle, Dany Heatley, Drew Doughty, Duncan Keith, Eric Staal, Jarome Iginla, Jay Bouwmeester, Joe Thornton, Jonathan Toews, Kevin Lowe, Marc Andre Fleury, Martin Brodeur, Mike Chambers, Mike Richards, Patrice Bergeron, Patrick Marleau, Rick Nash, Roberto Luongo, Ryan Getzlaf, Scott Niedermayer, Shea Weber, Sidney Crosby, Steve Yzerman | Permalink
The Seven Million Dollar Man
How does a team know their investment will pay off? Better yet, What would inspire a team to devote a large percentage of their cap space to one single player? This article plans on analyzing the production from “top-tier” forwards based on a seven million dollar cap hit or higher.
As of this writing there are 14 forwards making this salary or higher, with most of these players filling the scorecard adequately. These 14 forwards discussed are Jason Spezza, Joe Thornton, Marian Gaborik, Brad Richards, Sidney Crosby, Jarome Iginla, Alexander Ovechkin, Scott Gomez, Evgeni Malkin, Vincent Lecavalier, Thomas Vanek, Dany Heatley, Chris Drury and Eric Staal.
A quick glance at this list screams Drury and Gomez as the noticeable busts. Coming into a weak free agent year for centers the two cashed in on GM Glen Sather’s ludacris spending. However, a deeper look into their 2009-2010 season makes other players current production look similarly as bad.
In addition, this article will identify the best of the bunch showing exactly if and why the top salaries are actually worth it. Impending free agent Ilya Kovalchuk believes his worth to be 20 percent of the current cap, an enormous 11 plus million cap hit. With his current production, not to mention countless intangibles would you consider the 27-year-old worth it?
Leave a Comment » | 30 Team Series, Cost Efficiency | Tagged: Alexander Ovechkin, Brad Richards, Cam Ward, Chris Drury, Dany Heatley, Eric Staal, Evgeni Malkin, Glen Sather, Ilya Kovalchuk, Jarome Iginla, Jason Spezza, Joe Thornton, Marian Gaborik, Paul Maurice, Scott Gomez, Sidney Crosby, Thomas Vanek, Vincent Lecavalier | Permalink
Daily Fantasy 3 Stars 12/22/2009
In this section, I break down the top three fantasy hockey performers every night and cite why I chose them in particular. In addition, I will track the amount of times the players have received this honor and tally them at the end of the season. For the sake of clarity, I will be using Yahoo! standard categories (Forwards – G,A,+/-, PP, PIM, SOG; Goalies – W, GAA, SV%, SHO) and thus exclude player’s salaries.
Only three games and six teams in action so the choices were few. Unlike yesterday, the big name players showed up and dominated this list as should be expected. Here are our standout fantasy stars for the evening:
THIRD STAR: Ryan Getzlaf, Anaheim Ducks (0-0-2) – Getlaf scored with 25 seconds left in regulation. Seriously. The 24-year-old also assisted on a Scott Niedermayer blast leading his team to a 4-2 victory over Colorado. In addition, Getzlaf took four shots on net, sat two minutes in the box and finished a solid plus two. Now with 10 goals and 41 points on the season, the Regina, Saskatchewan native continues to justify his ranking as a first round pick.
2 Comments | 3 Stars, Daily Fantasy 3 Stars, Fantasy Hockey | Tagged: Anaheim Ducks, Daniel Sedin, Dany Heatley, Henrik Sedin, Jason Demers, Joe Thornton, Marian Hossa, Patrick Kane, Roberto Luongo, Ryan Getzlaf, Scott Niedermayer, Vancouver Canucks | Permalink
Last night was full of action, with 16 teams in action and eight games. Similar to yesterday, half of the teams scored two goals or less, making it an even split between offense and defense. Here are our standout fantasy stars for the evening:
THIRD STAR: Saku Koivu, Anaheim Ducks (0-0-1) – Koivu transitioned to his new linemate incredibly well. Since rookie Dan Sexton found himself playing with the veteran and last year’s Calder Trophy candidate Bobby Ryan the line has produced for the Ducks. Last night was no different as Koivu scored a goal assisted by Sexton and then assisted on the rookie’s tally later in the period. In addition, the 35-year-old posted a plus two rating, sat two minutes in the box and fired a shot on goal giving him a perfect shooting percentage. Firmly seated as the number two center in Anaheim, look for him to continue posting consistent secondary scoring in Anaheim.
Leave a Comment » | 3 Stars, Daily Fantasy 3 Stars, Fantasy Hockey | Tagged: Alexander Semin, Anaheim Ducks, Bobby Ryan, Dan Sexton, Dany Heatley, Dustin Penner, Gilbert Brule, Martin Havlat, Michael Frolik, Saku Koivu, St. Louis Blues, Stephen Weiss, T.J. Oshie | Permalink
This thread will be updated all day, so keep refreshing it as the day goes along. Here are your wounded bodies for tonight:
Michael Grabner expected back around New Year. [Jason Botchford]
Jussi Jokinen and Chad LaRose playing today. [Canes Now]
Nikolai Khabibulin still not working out. [Dan Tencer]
Eric Brewer out 2-4 weeks. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
Rob Scuderi returns Monday. [LA Kings Insider]
Vesa Toskala is healthy but will not start. [Eat, Sleep, Leafs]
Leave a Comment » | Fantasy Hockey, Injury Update | Tagged: Atlanta Thrashers, Blair Betts, Boston Bruins, Buffalo Sabres, Calgary Flames, Canes Now, Carolina Hurricanes, Chad LaRose, Chicago Blackhawks, Colin White, Colorado Avalanche, Columbus Blue Jackets, Craig Anderson, Dainius Zubrus, Dallas Stars, Dan Tencer, Dany Heatley, Darroll Powe, David Clarkson, Detroit Red Wings, Edmonton Oilers, Eric Brewer, Fire & Ice, Florida Panthers, Habs Inside/Out, Ilkka Heikkinen, Jason Botchford, Jay Pandolfo, Johnny Oduya, Jussi Jokinen, LA Kings Insider, Los Angeles Kings, Michael Grabner, Minnesota Wild, Nashville Predators, New Jersey Devils, New York Islanders, New York Rangers, Nikolai Khabibulin, Ottawa Senators, Paul Martin, Philadelphia Flyers, Phoenix Coyotes, Pittsburgh Penguins, Rick DiPietro, Rob Scuderi, San Jose Sharks, Sergei Kostitsyn, Shaone Morrison, St. Louis Blues, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Steve Goldstein, Tampa Bay Lightning, Tarik El-Bashir, Tim Panaccio, Tom Poti, Tomas Vokoun, Toronto Maple Leafs, Vancouver Canucks, Wade Redden, Washington Capitals | Permalink
Quarterly Review: Projected NHL Trophies
With Atlanta playing their 20th game last night, the first quarter of the 2009-2010 season is officially over. Seeing as this is a milestone within the season we thought it would be a good idea to discuss the trends emerging around the NHL.
The article’s intent is to show who would win the NHL awards if the season finished today. Of course these players will most likely NOT win the awards, NHLHS just likes having fun with small sample sizes and hot streaks.
Whether it be injury or inability there are plenty of surprises when compared to preseason predictions. Teams such as the Colorado Avalanche, Los Angeles Kings and the Buffalo Sabres find themselves at the top of the standings, surprising most pundits.
We will outline the NHL trophies and why we think these players as of right now are deserving of them. In addition, we will include the projected nominees so you can see our train of thought. We hope you enjoy this mini-series which should continue throughout the NHL season.
Click the link below to see our award winners and tell us what you think in the comments section!
Leave a Comment » | 30 Team Series, Around the League | Tagged: Alexander Ovechkin, Alexander Semin, Antero Niittymaki, Anze Kopitar, Brad Richards, Braydon Coburn, Buffalo Sabres, Chicago Blackhawks, Chris Pronger, Colorado Avalanche, Dallas Stars, Dan Boyle, Dany Heatley, Detroit Red Wings, Dustin Penner, Edmonton Oilers, Evgeni Nabokov, Ilya Bryzgalov, James van Riemsdyk, Jason Pominville, Joe Sacco, Joe Thornton, John Tavares, Justin Williams, Kimmo Timmonen, Lindy Ruff, Los Angeles Kings, Matt Carle, Mike Green, New Jersey Devils, New York Islanders, Nicklas Backstrom, Patrick Marleau, Patrick Sharp, Pavel Datsyuk, Philadelphia Flyers, Phoenix Coyotes, Ryan Miller, Ryan O'Reilly, Ryan Smyth, San Jose Sharks, Thomas Vanek, Todd McLellan, Washington Capitals, Zach Parise | Permalink
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Child Abuse, Drugs, Good Parenting, Indifference, Law Enforcement, StopChildAbuse
Texas CPS: New Look, Actions Impressive
Image August 19, 2017 Blackhorn33
Shawn William Franklin, 28, and Walter Allen Williams Jr., 29
CPS ‘suspends’ relationship with West Texas
Rehab after 2 arrested for falsifying drug tests
ABILENE, TX – Child Protective Services has suspended its relationship with West Texas Rehabilitation Center in Abilene in the wake of two former rehab center workers being arrested for falsifying drug tests in exchange for personal and sexual favors.
CPS has used West Texas Rehab to drug test parents as part of that office’s abuse and neglect investigations.
“As soon as CPS became aware of the allegations against these two West Texas Rehab employees, we immediately suspended our relationship with West Texas Rehab and stopped using their facility for drug-testing,” said Marissa Gonzales, spokesperson for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services.
Gonzales said her agency has taken steps to “ensure that no children were placed in an unsafe situation as a result of incorrectly administered tests.”
“CPS has completed nearly 150 safety checks of children who may have had contact with a family member who took a drug test at this facility,” Gonzales said. “We are confident no children were harmed.”
Asked if CPS had severed ties with West Texas Rehab, Gonzales said: “At this point, it’s accurate to say that CPS business dealings with West Texas Rehab are ‘suspended.'”
Arrested and charged with tampering with evidence in the case were two Abilene men – Shawn William Franklin, 28, and Walter Allen Williams Jr., 29.
On Wednesday, West Texas Rehab officials told KTXS that they learned of the allegations on Aug. 4 and immediately fired Franklin and Williams.
Gonzales said CPS learned of the investigation during the first week of August.
West Texas Rehab officials said they were “devastated by the news” and “felt betrayed.” They also said this is the first time anything like this has happened in the center’s 64-year history and that they’re reevaluating hiring practices as a result.
They said they had no additional comments to make Thursday.
In July, CPS expressed concern to Abilene police about how some parents’ drug tests were being handled at West Texas Rehab.
During a police interview, Franklin admitted being friends with a woman who was working with CPS to get her children back. Text messages between the two revealed the woman would send pictures – “sexual in nature” – to Franklin. In return, Franklin would allow the woman to bring in someone else’s hair to send off for testing.
“Franklin would even look for ‘clean hair’ himself to be submitted on (the woman’s) behalf,” the documents indicate.
Franklin told police he advised the woman to use shampoo and vinegar on her hair to help with her test results. When the woman tested, Franklin said he smelled the vinegar in her hair but still accepted the sample knowing it had been altered.
According to the detective, Franklin and Williams admitted allowing friends to bring in clean urine samples rather than urinate on site. Williams also said he knew some of the samples were “synthetic urine.”
In addition, Williams admitted to accepting a hair follicle from a woman who told him she would be bringing in “someone else’s hair,” the documents indicate. Williams said he knew she needed a clean drug test for CPS, and during May, he accepted false hair from the woman in exchange for oral sex.
Child AbuseChild EndangermentDrugsGood ParentingLaw EnforcementValues
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Occupational ionising radiation and risk of basal cell carcinoma in US radiologic technologists (1983–2005)
Terrence Lee1,
Alice J Sigurdson1,
Dale L Preston2,
Elizabeth K Cahoon1,
D Michal Freedman1,
Steven L Simon1,
Kenrad Nelson3,
Genevieve Matanoski3,
Cari M Kitahara1,
Jason J Liu1,
Timothy Wang4,
Bruce H Alexander5,
Michele M Doody1,
Martha S Linet1,
Mark P Little1
1Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland, USA
2Hirosoft International, Eureka, California, USA
3Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
4Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
5Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Correspondence to Dr Mark P Little, Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, DHHS, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Room 7E546, MSC 9778, Rockville, MD 20892-9778, USA; mark.little{at}nih.gov
Objective To determine risk for incident basal cell carcinoma from cumulative low-dose ionising radiation in the US radiologic technologist cohort.
Methods We analysed 65 719 Caucasian technologists who were cancer-free at baseline (1983–1989 or 1994–1998) and answered a follow-up questionnaire (2003–2005). Absorbed radiation dose to the skin in mGy for estimated cumulative occupational radiation exposure was reconstructed for each technologist based on badge dose measurements, questionnaire-derived work history and protection practices, and literature information. Radiation-associated risk was assessed using Poisson regression and included adjustment for several demographic, lifestyle, host and sun exposure factors.
Results Cumulative mean absorbed skin dose (to head/neck/arms) was 55.8 mGy (range 0–1735 mGy). For lifetime cumulative dose, we did not observe an excess radiation-related risk (excess relative risk/Gy=−0.01 (95% CI −0.43 to 0.52). However, we observed that basal cell carcinoma risk was increased for radiation dose received before age 30 (excess relative risk/Gy=0.59, 95% CI −0.11 to 1.42) and before 1960 (excess relative risk/Gy=2.92, 95% CI 1.39 to 4.45).
Conclusions Basal cell carcinoma risk was unrelated to low-dose radiation exposure among radiologic technologists. Because of uncertainties in dosimetry and sensitivity to model specifications, both our null results and our findings of excess risk for dose received before age 30 and exposure before 1960 should be interpreted with caution.
Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://www.bmj.com/company/products-services/rights-and-licensing/
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The association of Hepatitis C prevalence, activity, and genotype with HIV infection in a cohort of New York City drug users
Lynne Strasfeld, Yungtai Lo, Dale Netski, David L. Thomas, Robert S. Klein
Factors associated with serum HCV antibody, HCV RNA level, and HCV genotype were assessed in 557 current and former drug users. Additional assays included HIV antibody, CD4+ lymphocyte counts, HIV viral loads, and hepatitis B markers. Seventy-five percent of subjects were anti-HCV positive, of whom 75% had detectable HCV RNA (median, 5.04 × 105 IU/mL; range, 1020-15.7 ± 106). On multivariate analysis HCV seropositivity was associated with history of drug injection, HIV seropositivity, and increased age and inversely with drug snorting. Among anti-HCV-positive persons, detectable HCV RNA was independently associated with HIV seropositivity, male gender, and history of injection and inversely associated with hepatitis B surface antigen positivity. Among persons with detectable HCV RNA, higher levels were independently associated with higher HIV viral load, increased age, and genotypes 2a and 2b. These findings demonstrate an association of HCV RNA level with HIV viral load, independent of the level of immunosuppression. However, a substantial degree of the person-to-person variability in the prevalence and level of detectable HCV RNA remains unexplained.
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
Published - Jul 1 2003
Drug Users
HIV Seropositivity
Hepatitis C Antibodies
Hepatitis B Surface Antigens
RNA level
Strasfeld, L., Lo, Y., Netski, D., Thomas, D. L., & Klein, R. S. (2003). The association of Hepatitis C prevalence, activity, and genotype with HIV infection in a cohort of New York City drug users. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 33(3), 356-364.
The association of Hepatitis C prevalence, activity, and genotype with HIV infection in a cohort of New York City drug users. / Strasfeld, Lynne; Lo, Yungtai; Netski, Dale; Thomas, David L.; Klein, Robert S.
In: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, Vol. 33, No. 3, 01.07.2003, p. 356-364.
Strasfeld, L, Lo, Y, Netski, D, Thomas, DL & Klein, RS 2003, 'The association of Hepatitis C prevalence, activity, and genotype with HIV infection in a cohort of New York City drug users', Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 356-364.
Strasfeld L, Lo Y, Netski D, Thomas DL, Klein RS. The association of Hepatitis C prevalence, activity, and genotype with HIV infection in a cohort of New York City drug users. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 2003 Jul 1;33(3):356-364.
Strasfeld, Lynne ; Lo, Yungtai ; Netski, Dale ; Thomas, David L. ; Klein, Robert S. / The association of Hepatitis C prevalence, activity, and genotype with HIV infection in a cohort of New York City drug users. In: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 2003 ; Vol. 33, No. 3. pp. 356-364.
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Activist Bios & Updates
The Disappeared in Mexico
Mexico in the Canadian Media
October 26, 2017 by nomorebloodinmexico - 0 comments
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IAHCR) analyze the situation in Coahuila, Mexico.
During the 165th Regular Session of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, representatives of the Diocesan Center for Human Rights Fray Juan de Larios, the Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights and the International Federation for Human Rights presented the report “Mexico: Murders, disappearances and torture in Coahuila de Zaragoza constitute crimes against humanity”, highlighting the fact that between 2009 and 2016, crimes against humanity were committed against humanity. As stated in the report, these crimes qualify as crimes against humanity and therefore fall within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.
At the hearing, representatives of the organizations addressed the collusion of Coahuila’s senior officials and security authorities with the Zetas cartel in the commission of crimes against humanity between 2009 and 2011. As well as the direct responsibility of state security authorities, through the Special Weapons and Tactics Group (GATE in spanish), in the commission of crimes against humanity between 2012 and 2016.
They also highlighted two particularly violent cases: the Allende massacre and the case of the Piedras Negras prison.
Despite the Mexican State’s representative delegation’s commitment to the investigation and punishment of murders, torture and enforced disappearances, they expressly rejected any kind of international cooperation to reverse impunity in the country (as they have refused to accept the establishment of the Advisory Council, recommended by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, with an international membership of experts in the field).
The IACHR review of the case will continue as they expect more information by the petitioners and the state representatives.
Watch the full hearing here (spanish/english)
General Law on Disappearance of Persons approved by the Legislative Branch in Mexico
Families salute the passage of the General Law on Disappearance of Persons, a tool to confront the grave crisis of disappearances and impunity in Mexico
On 12 October, the Chamber of Deputies approved the General Law on Forced Disappearance of Persons and Disappearances by Individuals. The families that make up the Movement for Our Disappeared Persons in Mexico (fb: MovNDmx) salute the approval of this law, because it is the result of almost three years of hard work by more than 60 families and civil society organizations (NGOs) that have proposed fundamental contents of this law and because if it is implemented effectively, it will be an important tool to confront the serious disappearance crisis in Mexico.
The Act creates a National Search System, a National Search Commission and 32 Local Search Commissions for missing persons, structures that incorporate the participation of relatives and civil society organizations, in order to find the whereabouts of our loved ones. In turn, the Act recognizes and punishes the crimes of enforced disappearance and disappearance committed by private individuals; promotes exhaustive investigations – through the creation of Specialized Prosecutor’s Offices; and establishes better conditions to approach truth, justice, punishment of the guilty parties, and to break the chronic patterns of impunity that involve this atrocious practice.
The Act also strengthens the National Register of Missing and Unrecognized Persons, which will contribute to sizing the disappearance crisis in the country and responding to the true magnitude of this painful problem.
The rights of the victims recognized in it will also open up new possibilities to provide comprehensive reparations and care for the thousands of missing persons and families who are going through this stormy road. This will only be possible if the authorities – of all levels of government – comply with their obligations and implement the Law correctly.
In the long and desperate search for our loved ones, faced with institutional inaction and collusion, we recognize in the Law a perfectible instrument, but also necessary and urgent as a first step to prevent, eradicate, combat and sanction disappearances.
However, the Legislative Branch’s obligation does not end with the approval of this Law. The Chamber of Deputies has the inescapable duty to allocate a sufficient budget for its immediate and correct implementation during this same session. This is a basic condition for the Act to operate effectively in favour of the thousands of missing persons in the country and their families, and to prevent the realization of criminal conduct.
In addition, we families demand that the Executive Branch publish the Law immediately, this is a historic opportunity to respond to tens of thousands of families that we can no longer expect, committing this administration to lay the foundations for its full compliance.
The road is just beginning, approval is one more step and implementation will be a challenge. For this reason, we demand to recognize our experience and ensure our participation at all times: without families there can be no effective and legitimate implementation of the Law.
#SinLasFamiliasNo
Movimiento por Nuestros Desaparecidos en México (Movement for Our Missing Persons in Mexico)
Bulletin in Spanish
Ayotzinapa: Interactive Cartographic Platform
The Ayotzinapa Case: A Cartography of Violence
Forensic Architecture was commissioned by and worked in collaboration with the Equipo Argentino de Antropologia Forense (EAAF) and Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez (Centro Prodh) to conceive of an interactive cartographic platform to map out and examine the different narratives of this event. The project aims to reconstruct, for the first time, the entirety of the known events that took place that night in and around Iguala, and provide a forensic tool for researchers to further the investigation. To explore the platform, follow this link.
October 6, 2017 by nomorebloodinmexico - 0 comments
CADHAC, PJGNL and EnfoqueDH sign collaboration agreement
CADHAC (Ciudadanos en Apoyo a los Derechos Humanos A.C.: Citizens in Support of Human Rights A. C.)
Bulletin 1710/42
Today, the Nuevo Leon State Attorney General’s Office signed a collaboration agreement with CADHAC and EnfoqueDH – a project funded by the U. S. Agency for International Development – with the objective of strengthening capacities to investigate and locate missing persons in Nuevo Leon.
The document was signed by Attorney Bernardo Gonzalez; by the director of EnfoqueDH Políticas Públicas en Derechos Humanos, Laura Zambrano and Consuelo Morales, Director of CADHAC. Consul General Timothy Zúñiga-Brown and USAID-Mexico Director Elizabeth Warfield accompanied the event as witnesses of honor.
The signing of the cooperation agreement comes at a crucial time for the enforcement of human rights in the state of Nuevo León, particularly since civil society is actively participating in the strengthening of its institutions, accompanying, promoting and evaluating state action in the face of its responsibilities.
For CADHAC, the signing of the collaboration agreement will allow, along with AMORES (Agrupación de Mujeres Organizadas por los Ejecutados, Secuestrados y Desaparecidos de Nuevo Léon: Association of Women Organized by the Executed, Kidnapped and Disappeared of New Leon), to make futher progress towards the search for truth and justice, while ensuring that new practices are incorporated into the institution of justice so as to allow for progress in non-repetition measures.
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Albuquerque Celebrates 2019 Games with “One Year Out” Event
by Jay B. Hall / Thursday, 14 June 2018 / Published in News and Events
On June 13, Albuquerque celebrated it upcoming hosting of the 2019 National Senior Games presented by Humana with a One Year Out Celebration on their downtown Civic Plaza. Mayor Tim Keller and several speakers shared their pride and excitement, followed by music, dance, sport exhibitions and an intergenerational walk around City Hall and the plaza.
More than 800 people came to the plaza during the six hour celebration. The entire staff from the National Senior Games Association’s headquarters in Clearwater, Florida also attended and participated in numerous planning meetings during their stay.
“The 2019 National Senior Games will showcase the unique and diverse culture of our city, and will demonstrate the belief we are ‘One Albuquerque’,” Keller stated, referring to the current city motto. “In this case, it means that everyone, from seniors to young people, will come together to host this huge athletic event.”
NSGA CEO Marc T. Riker echoed the mayor in his remarks, recalling “When we came out for our site visit it was immediately evident there was one community that would pull together to make phenomenal gains and create an awesome experience for our athletes and visitors.”
Humana, the presenting sponsor for National Senior Games since 2007, was well represented with remarks from Mark Iorio, Central West Region Medicare President, who espoused Humana’s focus on well being demonstrated by their corporate support of The Games.
New Mexico Senior Olympics is celebrating its 40th anniversary and brought many volunteers and door prizes. More than one speaker credited their strong presence in the state as a big factor in attracting The Games to Albuquerque.
Shuffleboard, basketball, and pickleball demonstrations by senior athletes were held to highlight as sport action people can expect from The Games in 2019. Mayor Keller, a former high school star quarterback, had not played pickle ball before but was game for a game, showed his natural athletic ability and surprised many as he picked up the basics very quickly. Watch video clip here.
Kel ler also spoke to television news cameras and provided comments to the Albuquerque Journal at the event, lauding the economic boost and civic pride of “One Albuquerque” that will result in a tremendous welcome for athletes and visitors. Read the Journal story here. You can also watch television news story coverage by KOB TV 4 here.
High noon did not keep more than 200 people of all ages from participating in an intergenerational fitness walk around the plaza under the theme of Olympic Day, which is celebrated annually with events around the country during the month of June. Youth groups from nearby summer programs joined with seniors in the walk that circumnavigated City Hall and the plaza.
The energy and enthusiasm of the senior athletes from New Mexico was on full display, from opening stretching exercise to music, sports activity, and dancing to musical entertainment. This video clip featuring the North Domingo Baca Intergenerational Center line dancers and attendees stepping out with the Round About Band is a great example.
“We are pleased with the commitment of the local organizing committee and New Mexico Senior Olympics for staging this great awareness-building event,” Riker commented. “We have no doubt Albuquerque will put its best foot forward when they host The Games in one year.”
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Have time for only one NYC Event today? Do This:
Bob Dylan (thru Dec.6)
Beacon Theatre, 2124 Broadway / 8PM, $99+
“Bob Dylan famously maintains a restless touring schedule that renders him a nomad for much of the year but often returns him to the place of his artistic birth; this year, he settles in for a whopping ten-night stand. Among rock élites, Dylan remains peerless. His concerts are strictly pander-free zones—no cheesy pleas to clap or sing along, no glut of backup musicians, usually no “Like a Rolling Stone.” Rather, Dylan asks audiences to ignore his legend and engage with his firecracker band, its every elegant rumble rooted to the present.” (Jay Ruttenberg, NewYorker)
7 OTHER TOP NYC EVENTS TODAY (see below for full listing)
>> Dayramir Gonzalez & Habana enTRANCé
>> Broadway the Calla-way
>> Son Little
>> Le Nozze di Figaro
>> SOLEDAD BARRIO & NOCHE FLAMENCA
>> Judy Collins ‘Winter Stories’
>> Astronomy Live: Traveling the Neighborhood
You may want to look at previous days posts for events that continue through today.
Music, Dance, Performing Arts
Dayramir Gonzalez & Habana enTRANCé
Atrium, Lincoln Center / 7:30PM, FREE
“A star in Cuba since his teen years, pianist Dayramir Gonzalez is now a New York resident with an international following, representing the young generation of Afro-Cuban jazz. Since winning Havana’s JoJazz Festival in 2004 and 2005, Gonzalez has gone from winning three Cubadisco Awards for his 2007 debut album Dayramir & Habana enTRANCé to performing with legends like Chucho and Bebo Valdés and headlining Carnegie Hall. Tonight he’ll perform selections from his latest album, The Grand Concourse. Deemed “a tour de force” by DownBeat and “a masterpiece” by Latin Jazz Network, the dynamic album blends the pulse and mystique of New York with early 20th-century Cuban music and the rhythms and sensuality of Yoruba musical traditions.”
Broadway the Calla-way (Nov.26-30)
Feinstein’s/54 Below (254 W54th St., btw Broadway/Eighth Avenues). / 8PM, $85+
“Starting November 26, the Tony-nominated sisters host their own show at Feinstein’s/54 Below, performing a mixture of Broadway favorites by Sondheim, Bernstein, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Schwartz, and more. For this special Thanksgiving performance, there is a Thanksgiving dinner prix fixe with curated holiday dishes.” (Playbill)
Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey St./ 7:30PM, $20
“The singer Son Little has a lithely expressive voice that can locate forgiveness, sorrow, and ecstasy in even the most hackneyed turns of phrase. Though he traffics in sounds sealed shut in the previous century—classic R. & B., some blues—his songs are rarely delivered without subtle contemporary flourishes. As his own star has inched up, his versatility has led him to the studios of various luminaries, including Mavis Staples and the Roots. At Bowery Ballroom, Little gives a peek of his third solo LP, due next year.” (Jay Ruttenberg, NewYorker)
Le Nozze di Figaro (next Nov.30, 1PM)
Metropolitan Opera House / 7:30PM, $53+
“Two outstanding casts—including sopranos Nadine Sierra, Anita Hartig, Susanna Phillips, and Hanna-Elisabeth Müller; mezzo-sopranos Gaëlle Arquez and Marianne Crebassa; baritone Mariusz Kwiecien; and bass-baritones Luca Pisaroni and Adam Plachetka—come together for Mozart’s scintillating class comedy. Antonello Manacorda and Cornelius Meister conduct Sir Richard Eyre’s fast-paced production.”
SOLEDAD BARRIO & NOCHE FLAMENCA
at the Joyce Theater / 7:30 pm.; $45+
“The fleet footwork of flamenco can be mightily impressive, but this company doesn’t aim to merely wow. In recent years, Noche Flamenca and Barrio, its incandescent headliner, have moved away from spectacle seeking authentic communal encounters. A new iteration of its production “Entre Tú y Yo” (“Between You and Me”) comprises three works: a revised version of “La Ronde,” which explores facets of the duet form; “Refugiados,” created 15 years ago from poems by refugee children; and “Soleá,” a semi-improvised solo by Barrio that impresses not only for its virtuosity, but for the thrilling internal drama she shares.” (NYT)
Judy Collins ‘Winter Stories’ (Nov.18-27)
Joe’s Pub / 7PM, $40+
“In just a few weeks on November, 29th, singer, songwriter, author, and activist Judy Collins will release her fourth new album in the past four years, Winter Stories, a collection of songs that capture the sounds and feel of the winter season. Just in time for the holiday, Winter Stories features Norwegian folk artist Jonas Fjeld and harmonizing newgrass group Chatham County Line.”
Hear Judy celebrate the release of the album with an eight-night run of shows at Joe’s Pub.
Smart Stuff / Other NYC EventS
AMNH Presents | Astronomy Live: Traveling the Neighborhood
American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th St. / 7PM, $15
“Explore the worlds within our local galactic neighborhood with presenters Brian Levine and Jana Grcevich. How about a vacation to Europa, an expedition to study science on Saturn, or a mining mission on Mars? Where would you go in our solar system and what could you do there?”
Continuing Events
NYC holiday markets – five to explore. (Newsday)
HOLIDAY SHOPS AT BRYANT PARK
WHEN | WHERE Oct. 31-Jan. 5, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Friday and 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, 40th Street and Sixth Avenue
INFO bryantpark.org/eat-drink/holiday-shops
UNION SQUARE HOLIDAY MARKET
WHEN | WHERE Nov. 21-Dec. 24, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Sunday, Union Square Park’s southern side
INFO urbanspacenyc.com
COLUMBUS CIRCLE HOLIDAY MARKET
WHEN | WHERE Dec. 4-24, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Sunday, 59th Street and Central Park West
GRAND CENTRAL HOLIDAY FAIR
WHEN | WHERE Nov. 18-Dec. 24, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday (closed Thanksgiving; open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Christmas Eve), Vanderbilt Hall at Grand Central Terminal, 89 E. 42nd St.
INFO grandcentralterminal.com
GRAND BAZAAR NYC
WHEN | WHERE Nov. 24 and Dec. 1, 8, 15 and 22, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., 100 W. 77th St.
INFO grandbazaarnyc.org
Holiday windows in NYC you won’t want to miss
“‘Tis the season! As Thanksgiving draws near, New York City’s department stores are unveiling their holiday windows. Macy’s, Bergdorf Goodman, Saks Fifth Avenue, American Girl and others are each putting their festive foot forward for the holidays.” (amNY)
COMING SOON (WFUV)
11/21-23, 25-26 Hozier, Hammerstein Ballroom
11/23-24, 26-27 Bob Dylan, Beacon Theatre
11/26 Son Little, Bowery Ballroom
11/26 Marcia Griffiths, Sony Hall
11/27 Vintage Trouble, Rough Trade NYC
Fall Concerts (nycgo.com)
David Byrne’s American Utopia on Broadway
October 4, 2019–January 19, 2020
Hudson Theatre
“The Talking Heads frontman hits Broadway with a show based on his latest album—but you can expect some old favorites as well.”
♦ Before making final plans, we suggest you call the venue to confirm ticket availability, plus dates and times, as schedules are subject to change.
♦ NYCity, with a population of 8.6 million, had a record 65 million visitors last year and was TripAdvisor’s Traveler’s Choice Top U.S. Destination for 2019 – the ninth consecutive year. BUT quality shows draw crowds. Try to reserve seats for these top NYC events in advance, even if just earlier on the day of performance.
WHAT’S ON VIEW
These are My Fave Special Exhibitions @ MUSEUMS / Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue
(See the New York Times Arts Section for listings of all museum exhibitions,
and also see the expanded reviews of these exhibitions)
‘ARTISTIC LICENSE: SIX TAKES ON THE GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION’ (through Jan. 12). “Displays that artists select from a museum’s collection are almost inevitably interesting, revealing and valuable. After all, artists can be especially discerning regarding work not their own. Here, six artists — Cai Guo-Qiang, Paul Chan, Richard Prince, Julie Mehretu, Carrie Mae Weens and Jenny Holzer — guided by specific themes, have chosen, which multiplies the impact accordingly. With one per ramp, each selection turns the museum inside out. The combination sustains multiple visits; the concept should be applied regularly.” (NYT-Roberta Smith)
212-423-3840, guggenheim.org
ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER (through Jan. 13).
“You could be forgiven for drawing a connection between Kirchner’s shocking color palette and his character. It would be understandable enough, considering his problems with morphine, Veronal and absinthe; the nervous breakdown precipitated by his artillery training in World War I; and his suicide in 1938, at the age of 58, after the Nazis had denounced him as a degenerate. But to linger on Kirchner’s lurid biography would be unfair to the mesmerizing technical genius of his style, amply on display in this exhibition. Surrounding more or less sober portrait subjects with backgrounds of flat but brilliant color, as Kirchner did, wasn’t just a youthful revolt against the staid academic painting he grew up with. It was also an ingenious way to articulate subjective experience in an increasingly materialist modern world. (NYT-Heinrich)
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‘SCENES FROM THE COLLECTION’
“After a surgical renovation to its grand pile on Fifth Avenue, the Jewish Museum has reopened its third-floor galleries with a rethought and refreshed display of its permanent collection, which intermingles modern and contemporary art, by Jews and gentiles alike — Mark Rothko, Lee Krasner, Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman, and the excellent young Nigerian draftswoman Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze — with 4,000 years of Judaica. The works are shown in a nimble, non-chronological suite of galleries, and some of its century-spanning juxtapositions are bracing; others feel reductive, even dilletantish. But always, the Jewish Museum conceives of art and religion as interlocking elements of a story of civilization, commendably open to new influences and new interpretations.” (Farago) 212-423-3200, thejewishmuseum.org
NY AT ITS CORE (ongoing)
“Ten years in the making, New York at Its Core tells the compelling story of New York’s rise from a striving Dutch village to today’s “Capital of the World.” The exhibition captures the human energy that drove New York to become a city like no other and a subject of fascination the world over. Entertaining, inspiring, important, and at times bemusing, New York City “big personalities,” including Alexander Hamilton, Walt Whitman, Boss Tweed, Emma Goldman, JP Morgan, Fiorello La Guardia, Jane Jacobs, Jay-Z, and dozens more, parade through the exhibition. Visitors will also learn the stories of lesser-known New York personalities, like Lenape chieftain Penhawitz and Italian immigrant Susie Rocco. Even animals like the horse, the pig, the beaver, and the oyster, which played pivotal roles in the economy and daily life of New York, get their moment in the historical spotlight. Occupying the entire first floor in three interactive galleries (Port City, 1609-1898, World City, 1898-2012, and Future City Lab) New York at Its Core is shaped by four themes: money, density, diversity, and creativity. Together, they provide a lens for examining the character of the city, and underlie the modern global metropolis we know today. mcny.org” (NYCity Guide)
and you should be sure to check out these special exhibitions at that little museum on Fifth Ave., The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(open 7 days /week, AND always Pay What You Wish for NewYorkers)
‘THE LAST KNIGHT: THE ART, ARMOR, AND AMBITION OF MAXIMILIAN I’ (through Jan. 5).
“Kaiser Max, who ruled the Holy Roman Empire in the years around 1500, anchors the Met’s largest show of arms and armor in decades: a gleaming showcase of heavy metal and Hapsburg propaganda. Maximilian I, who ruled a swath of Europe stretching from the Netherlands to Croatia, would have looked resplendent on the battlefield when he wore the tapered suit of ribbed and fluted steel here. What really broadcast his power were public spectacles of chivalric glory, in which he jousted with local noblemen and foreign champions in ritualized, but still dangerous, mock combat. He also embraced the hottest technology of the late 15th century: printmaking, which allowed the emperor to broadcast his military prowess through books and monumental woodcuts. The pen, or at least movable type, was for Maximilian even mightier than the sword.” (Farago-NYT)
212-535-7710, metmuseum.org
GD: this is a good one. you have to see it.
Museum Mile is a section of Fifth Avenue which contains one of the densest displays of culture in the world. Eight museums can be found along this section of Fifth Avenue:
• 105th Street – El Museo del Barrio (closed Sun-Mon)*
• 103rd Street – Museum of the City of New York (open 7 days /week)
• 92nd Street – The Jewish Museum (closed Wed) (Sat FREE) (Thu 5-8 PWYW)
• 91st Street – Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum (open 7 days /week)
• 89th Street – National Academy Museum (closed Mon-Tue)
• 88th Street – Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (closed Thu) (Sat 6-8 PWYW)
• 86th Street – Neue Galerie New York (closed Tue-Wed) (Fri 6-8 FREE)
Last, but certainly not least, America’s premier museum
• 82nd Street – The Metropolitan Museum of Art (open 7 days /week)*
*always Pay What You Wish (PWYW) for NewYorkers
Although technically not part of the Museum Mile, the Frick Collection (closed Mon) (Wed 2-6pm PWYW; First Friday each month (exc Jan+Sep) 6-9pm FREE) on the corner of 70th St. and Fifth Avenue and the The Morgan Library & Museum (closed Mon) (Fri 7-9 FREE) on Madison Ave and 37th St are also located near Fifth Ave.
Now plan your own museum crawl (info on hours & admission updated June 2, 2015).
For other selected Museum and Gallery Special Exhibitions see Recent Posts in right Sidebar dated 11/24 and 11/22.
Broadway Bonus –
11 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend – NewYorkTimes (11/21/19)
Must-see theater coming to New York City stages this fall (amNY)
10 must-see Off-Broadway shows (amNY)
NYT Theater Reviews – NYT theater critics on the plays and musicals currently open in New York City.
and, drum roll, here are all the critics opinions on all the plays – Playbill’s “the Verdict”
For good, comprehensive and current info:
Broadway Shows: What to See and How to Get Cheap Tickets (NYT)
finally, lot’s of useful info on TKTS discount tickets from the headout blog:
Everything You Need to Know About TKTS Broadway Tickets
NYCity Vacation Travel Guide Video (Expedia):
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The best and worst movies of 2016
By Kyle Smith and Sara Stewart
Left: Nate Parker in his "Birth of a Nation." Right: Amy Adams awes in "Arrival." Fox Searchlight Pictures; Courtesy of TIFF
KYLE SMITH: From a long-ago war to an animated allegory, an homage to humanity
The more movies sell themselves with spectacle and sizzle, the more it matters to ground the characters with something resembling genuine human dilemmas. The best films of the year — even the one about the aliens, the one about the dragon and the one about the bunny — devised artful and satisfying ways of reminding us how ennobling some of our most emotionally expensive choices can be.
In the magnificent “Arrival,” Amy Adams’ linguist decodes alien language in an effort to save the human race — but that’s just the sci-fi topping on a deeply moving story about relationships, which turns on one of the greatest twists in movie history. Director Denis Villeneuve has crafted one of the best sci-fi films ever made.
What’s startling about Kenneth Lonergan’s “Manchester by the Sea” is that it resists the Hollywood mandate that the main character must change. This anguish-laden family drama brings with it a freight of almost unbearable sorrow, but one emerges from it rededicated to cherishing loved ones and holding them dear.
“Patriots Day” and “Deepwater Horizon,” both dramatizations of horrific recent events directed by Peter Berg and starring Mark Wahlberg, are reminders of how enthralling it can be when a skilled filmmaker situates you in a place you may never have been to or experienced in anything but a superficial way. “Deepwater,” with its fascinating detail about what goes into harvesting oil, underscores the ingenuity, professionalism and courage it takes to do battle with nature for her gifts, while the equally thrilling “Patriots Day,” in which terrorists unwisely take on Boston and Boston wins, is a portrait of a great American city’s incomparable mix of brashness, toughness and smahts.
Breaking down the poison of racism using two completely different strategies, Nate Parker’s furious but controlled pre-Civil War epic “The Birth of a Nation” and Byron Howard and Rich Moore’s lighthearted but sneaky “Zootopia,” an animated allegory about racial profiling by police, illustrated how committed political stances can give even entertaining films real heft. On the other hand, overprivileged white guys learned critical lessons about arrogance and decency in both “Doctor Strange” and a hilarious documentary about a guy so strange he needs a doctor, “Weiner.”
SARA STEWART: A generous look at identity beats out glitz and glamour at the movies
We often call movies an escape, and that’s never felt truer or more necessary than this year. In contrast to the endless series of sucker punches that was the news cycle, cinema’s best offerings were mostly thoughtful, leisurely and generous of spirit. There are no gunfights in this list, no kingdoms that rise or fall, there’s nary a car chase or even a grand romantic gesture (I remain unmoved by critical favorite “La La Land,” an ode to the self-regard of Los Angeles).
Here are 10 stories that turn not on conflict between heroes and villains but on the inward struggle of identity. What does it mean to be human? How do you become a decent one? What if who you are isn’t what the people around you want you to be? How do you build bridges that connect you to others?
“20th Century Women,” my top choice, takes a joyful philosophical dive into the intersection of feminism and masculinity, while “Arrival” puts the question of humanness on a much larger scale: How might we learn to communicate with the ultimate other — a visitor from another world? “Moonlight,” the toughest watch of the bunch, is a deluge of psychological torment shot through with glimmers of sheer joy, giving voice to the experience of growing up African-American and gay in the projects of South Florida.
“The Witch,” released in that early-year period I call Horror Movie Season, takes the Puritanical fear of the feminine — the same kind that gave us the Salem Witch Trials — and brilliantly mashes it up with a straight-ahead scary movie. The dystopian satire “The Lobster,” meanwhile, takes dead aim at our cultural obsession with coupledom.
“Hunt for the Wilderpeople,” which should finally put New Zealand director Taika Waititi on everyone’s radar, is the comic story of a tough-talking, love-starved foster kid on a nature foray with a reluctant father figure. Yeah, it’s funny: That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t take it seriously.
“American Honey,” the most unruly film on my list, is a nearly three-hour travelogue about a vanful of working-class teenagers selling magazine subscriptions, which manages to zoom in close on American poverty and make Shia LaBeouf likable.
I struggled with including “Manchester by the Sea,” whose star, Casey Affleck, has been dogged by stories of past alleged mistreatment of women. Should an actor’s reputation affect how you view his work? I have argued that it should, but I can’t deny this devastating drama a place on this list — it’s that good.
There’s another man here whose moral failings are indisputable, and that would be the subject of “Weiner.” How on earth did documentarians Elyse Steinberg and Josh Kriegman finagle this much inside access to the meltdown of a once-promising political dynamo? Sheer hubris, of course, and their film is a brilliant monument to it. Finally, “Hidden Figures” is a much cheerier monument to three unsung heroes of NASA’s glory days: African-American women once known as “computers in skirts” who did the math that enabled us to get into space.
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Stephen Mills was born in Victoria in 1954. From 1977 to 1983 he worked in the Parliamentary Press Gallery as a reporter for The Age. In 1986 he joined Prime Minister Bob Hawke's staff as a speech writer, a position he held until 1991 when he rejoined the Parliamentary Press Gallery working for t...
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King: Finding the spring in Pure Spring ginger ale
Andrew King
Memories of summers past usually flood my mind this time of year; jumping off cottage docks into a cool lake, a purple tongue from a melting grape popsicle, or riding my bike down to the corner store to get a refreshing soda in an icy glass bottle.
Recently I came across one of these old glass soda bottles, emblazoned with the logo of Ottawa’s old soda company, Pure Spring Ginger Ale. Once the largest independent soft drink maker in Canada, the faded Pure Spring logo reminded me of my time spent scouring ditches and collecting empty pop bottles I would return for deposit money so I could buy my own bottle of pop. As a fan of Pure Spring, I always wondered if there ever was a real “pure spring.” What better way to spend a summer’s day than to get on my bike once again to search not for bottles, but for the legendary spring that once fuelled a company that once sold more soft drinks in the region than Coca-Cola?
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Pure Spring was started by a man named of David Mirsky, the son of Ottawa’s first rabbi, Jacob Mirsky, who arrived from New York City in 1894. As a prominent member of Ottawa’s Jewish early community, there was information about Mirsky’s Pure Spring in The Ottawa Jewish Archives, which retains a small collection of Pure Spring documents and artifacts.
David Mirsky began selling newspapers at the age of 14 at an Ottawa train station where he noticed large quantities of soda pop being shipped in by train to quench the thirst of Ottawa residents. Apparently seeing a need for a locally produced soft drink, Mirsky started collecting empty beer bottles and returning them to another Ottawa beverage landmark, Brading’s Brewery. It was here that Mirsky was given permission by Brading’s to build a small shack near the brewery to tap a spring that was said to have trickled down from a nearby limestone escarpment called Nanny Goat Hill.
Bottling the fresh spring water, Mirsky sold it in five gallon cans and delivered it to Ottawa homes by horse and wagon. Using his earnings from water sales, Mirsky began to carbonate and flavour his spring water, and by 1925 incorporated his company as “Pure Spring”.
The archives report that Mirsky continued to use the spring near Brading’s Brewery until he moved his growing business into a manufacturing plant off Preston Street, a large facility that was later demolished and is today an empty parking lot across from the Heart and Crown Pub.
The Mirsky family continued to own Pure Spring until 1963 when it sold it to Crush Beverages, which later moved operations in 1969 to a state-of-the-art manufacturing and bottling plant on Belfast Road. Pure Spring not only commanded a large percentage of the soft drink industry in Canada at the time, but it also introduced canned soft drinks to this country and later the twist-off cap. Pure Spring Ginger Ale continued to be produced until the mid-’80s, at which time the logo featured spring water pouring over a limestone embankment.
With archival records stating Ottawa’s Pure Spring legacy stemmed from a spring near the former Brading’s Brewery, the first step in locating it would be to find out where this brewery was actually located. The address of Brading’s was listed at 451 Wellington St., but the entire area was expropriated by the National Capital Commission in 1938 and subsequently demolished in 1960 to make room for Greber’s “beautification plan”. Fire Insurance Plan maps from the early 20th century show the brewery, once called Union Brewery, which I overlaid on a current map to reveal its exact location. Outlining the area of Brading’s, the old brewery was pinpointed along with where Mirsky’s spring would have been. The results revealed it was near an area now called “Garden of The Provinces” at the corner of Bay and Wellington, bordered by a limestone embankment known as Nanny Goat Hill.
With the old Brading’s Brewery located, I visited the site and followed the limestone escarpment said to contain the spring that Brading’s allowed Mirsky to use. The area is heavily overgrown and fenced off now, but directly across from what would have been the old brewery, a curious structure emerged from the foliage at the base of the 30-50 foot escarpment. Behind some shrubs, an old stone and mortar structure rising from the base of the cliff about five metres up its face was visible accompanied by sound of rushing water. Sometime in history, someone built a stone enclosure around the base of this cliff containing what sounds to be a water source underneath a concrete hatch on its top surface. Nearby there is a City Of Ottawa water management building with hatches to whatever lies underneath this stone column against the cliff. Above this stone column, a plot of land remains vacant beside the new Cathedral Hill condos, unusually undeveloped, but logical if there was an underground spring below it.
A fence prevents any further inspection, and without trespassing it was hard to get any closer to confirm if this was, indeed, the original spring.
If it is the spring that sprung an Ottawa soft drink legacy, it seems a shame that it remains concealed without any plaque or indication of its importance in Ottawa’s history. Research and records all point to this very well being the actual “Pure Spring” Mirsky used to launch a company that once rivalled Coca-Cola and provided many of us with lasting summertime soda memories.
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Joseph diGenova – Legal analyst and Former US Attorney to the District of Columbia
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“. . .at the end of the meeting he said “Come on, let’s have a drink.” So I went into his office and we started talking about our families and my daughter at that time was having very serious medical problems, and he said bring her down here, I’ll get her into the Houston Center, we’ll have her taken care of, it won’t cost you a dime, let me know, give me the phone, I’ll call her, I’ll talk to her. I said, Mr. President that’s very nice of you, but we’ve got everything taken care of.”
Joseph diGenova, Legal Analyst and Former US Attorney for the District of Columbia
A Ockershausen: This is Our Town, this is Andy Ockershausen. And I’m so pleased to have a special guest who’s really a WMAL personality, but he’s part of what we are here and that is a major, major market radio station. And people listen to this man. We’ll spend the next half hour or so talking to him about his life in Our Town, which we consider so important, his friendship with Supreme Court Justice Scalia, his law partner and lovely wife Victoria. I got that right, Joe, I didn’t say “Vicky”. And the passion he has for the law. He’s my friend, a local treasure, and a special guest, Joe diGenova, welcome to Our Town.
Joseph diGenova: Great to be here with you, Andy.
A Ockershausen: Back on WMAL, which you never left. I did, but you stayed.
Joseph diGenova: That’s right. Every Monday morning, 7:05.
A Ockershausen: My wife just lives for that Monday morning. I thought she lived for me, but she lives for the radio show.
Joseph diGenova: It’s all right.
A Ockershausen: But Joe, you’ve had a spectacular career in Our Town and yet you are not from Our Town, you’re a Wilmington boy.
Joseph diGenova: I’m from Wilmington, Delaware, the hotbed of eastern radicalism, home of the DuPonts. Where nothing ever happens except people sit around and make money and go to private clubs. It’s a lovely little town. Went to a nice little Catholic boys’ school.
A Ockershausen: Fabulous. Christina River?
Joseph diGenova: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Beautiful.
A Ockershausen: I went through basic training up there in Delaware for the Air Force. And one of the highlights of my life was having my first submarine. Well, they called it a hoagie. The best bread I ever had was Wilmington, Delaware.
Joseph diGenova: Absolutely. I remember-
A Ockershausen: That’s what I remember the most.
Joseph diGenova: Yeah, I remember being drafted and then going to the US Post Office in Wilmington, getting on a bus and going to Philadelphia for my physical.
A Ockershausen: The hospital?
Joseph diGenova: Yeah.
A Ockershausen: The naval hospital?
Joseph diGenova: Oh my God, it just … Awful experience. That was in the middle of the Vietnam War, baby.
A Ockershausen: Well, I was in the middle of the Korean War, and thank God I was at the end of it. Because I was reminding, we saw something of a tool company called Thule and I was one time on order to go to Thule, Greenland, and I quickly used all my friends to get out of that, I’m not going to Greenland. But Joe, and then you went to high school in Wilmington?
Joseph diGenova: Salesianum School for Boys, Oblates of St. Francis de Sales. Great school. I had a great time there and then went to-
A Ockershausen: Great, great school.
Joseph diGenova: Yeah. Great.
A Ockershausen: We’re involved with his Don Bosco effort, Christo Rey, Janice and I are and-
Joseph diGenova: I’m a great believer in Catholic schools for boys and girls. I think it’s a great thing to have kids separated, educated separately.
A Ockershausen: Great education for our kids.
Joseph diGenova: I think it’s a wonderful thing. The boys and girls all grow up differently and it’s very exciting. It’s really fun.
A Ockershausen: Ain’t that a wonderful thing?
Joseph diGenova: Yeah, we didn’t have to worry about transgender bathrooms back in the 1960s, let me tell you.
A Ockershausen: But, you went through school and then you decided to go to the university in Washington D.C.?
Georgetown Law School
Joseph diGenova: Yeah, I went to Georgetown to go to law school and I came here in 1967 and never left.
A Ockershausen: What a blessing for Our Town.
Joseph diGenova: Been here since 1967, it’s hard to believe but that’s 50 years.
A Ockershausen: I know, isn’t that great?
Joseph diGenova: 50 years.
A Ockershausen: Joe, was Ed Bennett Williams a professor there then?
Joseph diGenova: He was, I did not have him, though.
A Ockershausen: Downtown.
A Ockershausen: You were downtown? They were downtown, 5th street, right?
Joseph diGenova: It was the old law school, the one there at 5th and E.
A Ockershausen: Right.
A Ockershausen: Where is it now? It’s moved.
Joseph diGenova: The firetrap. Now it’s down right off the 95-
A Ockershausen: Right on campus?
Joseph diGenova: No, it’s right downtown, right off the Louisiana and Mass.
A Ockershausen: Oh, is it? I didn’t know that.
Joseph diGenova: Yeah, it’s right …
A Ockershausen: I remember kids that I knew go to school-
Joseph diGenova: New Jersey and Mass, New Jersey and Mass.
A Ockershausen: Went downtown to Georgetown. That was a surprise to people.
Joseph diGenova: Yes, right next to the Hyatt.
A Ockershausen: But that was a great education. It’s a city school, correct?
Joseph diGenova: Yeah. Well, back then Georgetown Law School had a great faculty, there were some liberal, some conservative, some moderates, now it’s all left-wing nuts, so I don’t give them any money. They get no money from me. They hate prosecutors, they have the worst, most left-wing faculty, they’re just crazy.
A Ockershausen: Well that’s any university in America, what is new about that, Joe?
Joseph diGenova: Well, they’re crazies at Georgetown now.
A Ockershausen: If you want to go to a straight . . ., go to England.
Joseph diGenova: I stopped giving money to Georgetown, the main campus, when they took the crucifixes off the wall because they didn’t want to offend the other students. I said, “I thought it was a Catholic school? And they took the crucifixes off the wall?” I said, “I guess you don’t want my money.”
A Ockershausen: Well, Joe, I had never heard that story, but that’s unbelievable.
Joseph diGenova: Oh, yeah.
A Ockershausen: It’s the oldest Catholic university in America.
Joseph diGenova: And it’s run by Jesuits, so there’s the problem. A Ockershausen: Yeah, well, true, but like they said, you’re not a Jesuit, you’re a Catholic. That’s a quote. Well, that was the introduction of you to the law but what was the introduction of you to the military? You tell me they took …
Joseph diGenova Rejected From the U.S. Military Draft
Joseph diGenova: I was rejected because I have what they call industrial blindness in my left eye, I got about 50% of my sight, and they said … Here’s what’s so stupid about the draft, they wouldn’t take me, so I said, “Wait a minute, I can do paperwork. I’m a pre-law student, I can do … ” He said, “No, no, the doctor said to me, ‘We are not going to pay your medical bills for the rest of your life.'” Can you believe that? This was ridiculous. I could’ve been behind the lines, I could’ve been a warrant officer, I could’ve been supply master, they didn’t want me.
A Ockershausen: Well, you know they’d say … I remember this World War II story, they’d find somebody-
Joseph diGenova: I didn’t go to Canada, though, I did go for my physical and got rejected.
A Ockershausen: Well, Joe, there was a story in World War II that they found some guy that was partially blind but they found another guy that had bad arms, so they said, “We’ll put you with the bad arm guy and he’ll be able to see you, and you’ll be able to do this “cause you got good arms.” So they pair them up.
Joseph diGenova: Well, that was World War II, it was different.
A Ockershausen: Oh, and the world changed.
Joseph diGenova: Believe me.
A Ockershausen: They were taking everybody.
World War II | Korean War | Vietnam War
Joseph diGenova: The Vietnam War was a disgrace in every conceivable way.
A Ockershausen: It was a terrible time for our country.
Joseph diGenova: What we did to the American troops is what was terrible.
A Ockershausen: I’m reading and I’ve been quoting stories that I found out from reading about the Korean War and the mistakes that were made by … Which was really not a new war, that was still a part of World War II.
Joseph diGenova: Sure, it was a carry over.
A Ockershausen: It was still going on. And what things our country went through in the early ’50s, it was incredible with that war and nobody knew about it much. You would go up and down the street and ask somebody about Puch’ŏn, they didn’t know what you were talking about.
Joseph diGenova: Incheon. It was the forgotten war and the soldiers from that war, just like the Vietnam soldiers, never got the adulation that they deserve for serving their country. It was a police action, remember that’s what it was called.
A Ockershausen: And it’s the best memorial in our city, is that memorial for the war of those guys.
Joseph diGenova: It’s fabulous. Absolutely fabulous.
A Ockershausen: In their ponchos walking up-
Joseph diGenova: Yep. It’s amazing.
A Ockershausen: That’s great.
Joseph diGenova: Just amazing.
A Ockershausen: But Joe, I had part of that. You missed that, so we both missed the big war. But you had a great time in your law, how did you go from being a prosecutor, which did you become a prosecutor immediately or did you serve as a clerk?
On Clerking for Judge George R. Gallagher, DC Court of Appeals
Joseph diGenova: Well what happened was I clerked for a great judge on the D.C. court of appeals named George R. Gallagher who was a remarkable, remarkable guy.
A Ockershausen: I know that name.
Joseph diGenova: During the 1950s, he had been in charge with a couple of other people of prosecuting the American Communist party, and he became a great teacher to me about internal security, national security, and I really learned at his feet. He encouraged me to become an assistant US attorney, which I did.
A Ockershausen: He was a prosecutor? Originally?
Joseph diGenova: Yes, he worked in the Justice Department.
A Ockershausen: And then he because a judge?
Joseph diGenova: Then he became a judge. And he encouraged me to become a prosecutor, which I did and I became an assistant US attorney in the ’70s and then went to work up on the Hill for Senator Mathias for seven years.
Senator Mac Mathias
A Ockershausen: Mac Mathias?
Joseph diGenova: Good ol’ Mac, great guy.
A Ockershausen: Yeah, great guy, and we did a lot of work with him. Fortunately, he was a listener, he lived here in Our Town, so we knew Mac through all the promotions that we did with him.
Joseph diGenova: Oh yeah, real … Great guy, great guy.
A Ockershausen: Mathias was one of the few remaining live Republicans in the State of Maryland.
Joseph diGenova: Yeah, he was a serious guy, he got elected statewide many, many times.
A Ockershausen: He was a congressman, right?
Joseph diGenova: Yes, from Frederick.
A Ockershausen: Well, it was Connie Morella take his seat, eventually?
Joseph diGenova: Yes, yes, that’s exactly right.
A Ockershausen: We just talked to Connie, she’s in an American battle monuments today, she travels the world with that.
Visiting Ambassador Connie Morella in Paris
Joseph diGenova: We visited her in Paris when she was the-
A Ockershausen: Is that right? When she was US Ambassador.
Joseph diGenova: When she was the ambassador to the OEO.
A Ockershausen: Did she give you the tour?
Joseph diGenova: Oh yeah, it was great. Had a wonderful time.
A Ockershausen: That’s a first-class place to be Ambassador, right?
Joseph diGenova: You can’t beat that gig with a beautiful home in the heart of Paris and staff. Tony forgot how to make toast.
A Ockershausen: Well, that’s such a plum for her and we love Connie.
Joseph diGenova: She deserved it.
A Ockershausen: Yeah, but did you work with John Tower?
Working for Senators John Tower and Howard Baker
Joseph diGenova: Well, actually, I did. John Tower actually was the first person along with some other people, Howard Baker, who brought me to Capitol Hill for my first gig, I was brought up there to work on the Church Committee, which is you remember in the 1970s was investigating the CIA and the intelligence community and the FBI. And so I worked for Tower and Baker and that was one of my greatest experiences was working for those two because I’ll never forgive Sam Nunn for what he did to John Tower when they wanted to make John Tower Secretary of Defense and Nunn went after him and chopped him down. There’s a great story about Sam Nunn, remember he ran for president?
A Ockershausen: Yes, he did.
Senator John Tower – A Couple of Stories
Joseph diGenova: So he had to resign from Burning Tree, because it’s completely no women.
A Ockershausen: Right. No family.
Joseph diGenova: I think the only Black was Vernon Jordan. And so he resigns, so he does this ridiculous, unsuccessful run for President, does Senator Nunn, so he comes back right away afterwards and he says, “I’d like to rejoin.” And they said, “No way.” And I said, “That’s John Tower’s revenge.” They wouldn’t let him back in Burning Tree. He had to play on public courses for the rest, up until now.
A Ockershausen: People always tell me the average age for the members out there is deceased.
Joseph diGenova: That’s right, deceased.
A Ockershausen: In Burning Tree. But, John Tower, I got a quick story about John Tower. Out of the blue, he called me because he was referred to me that he was a jazz fan of some renown, he loved to listen to Felix Grant.
Joseph diGenova: Yup. Aw, man.
A Ockershausen: And he said could “I come up one day or one evening, and meet Felix and sit in the studio and talk to him.”
Joseph diGenova: Oh wow.
A Ockershausen: I said “Senator we would love that.”That’d be great, please do.” He said “That would be a treasure to me to meet Felix.” He just loved the guy. I don’t know why. And we had him, I had him speak at a party for the Republicans in Alexander, Virginia. They were running for office. And he came in and we played the music “happy days are here again.” He said to me, he said “that’s a New Deal song, that’s not my song.” He was on top of everything wasn’t he?
Joseph diGenova: He was a good man, I liked John Tower, he was a great Senator.
A Ockershausen: I know he liked a few cocktails.
Joseph diGenova: I used to watch him. He was a great orator, people forget this. He would come out on the Senate floor, no papers, no pre-written speeches by staff. He used to wear these three piece dark blue suits, pinstriped. He would stand there, and he’d put his thumb in the little pocket in his vest.
A Ockershausen: Vest right?
Joseph diGenova: And he would talk for one hour, never miss a beat, perfect speech and had no papers. I just would sit there mesmerized watching the guy. He was a classic senatorial speaker.
A Ockershausen: He worked in the radio station you know down in Texas.
Joseph diGenova: Yeah, Yeah. You could tell he was a very-
A Ockershausen: He was a professional.
Joseph diGenova: He was a skilled orator. There are very few of those left. You look at the senate today, it’s like McDonald’s. It’s like talking to somebody whose making change for you. There are not great orators, and Schumer is the worst. The only thing he hasn’t done is cry on Senate floor.
A Ockershausen: He’ll speak at the drop of a hat, your hat.
Joseph diGenova: He hasn’t cried on the Senate floor, and I think that coming to a theater near you.
A Ockershausen: He was close to it this morning.
Joseph diGenova: Yeah, God.
A Ockershausen: But he can appear anywhere. He is Mr. Ready, you know. He’s ready to speak at a moments notice. No matter what the subject is.
Joseph diGenova: Yeah that’s true.
A Ockershausen: Well, this is a great conversation and we’re talking-
Joseph diGenova: I’m glad you’re having a good time.
A Ockershausen: Yeah. Andy Ockershausen, and this is Our Town. And remember I want to remind you, Our Town is Annapolis, Our Town is Vienna, Virginia we go all the way to Winchester. This is the WMAL signal that can’t be beat.
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A Ockershausen: This is Andy Ockershausen and this is Our Town. And we’re talking to Joe diGenova, the erstwhile star of WMAL radio, who became a star back on WMAL and we’re so pleased about that. And we were talking about Senator Mathias, did you work for him when he was a Congressman too?
A Little More About Senator Mathias
Joseph diGenova: No, I only worked for him, I went to work for him in 1976.
A Ockershausen: And did he get beat or did he give it up?
Joseph diGenova: No, he gave it up. He was reelected and then he decided not to run again.
A Ockershausen: Right, he was always Mac Mathias.
Joseph diGenova: That’s right.
A Ockershausen: It was one word.
Joseph diGenova: That was his middle name. McCurdy. It was a Scottish name. Charles McCurdy Mathias. McCurdy.
A Ockershausen: Tis a good Irish name.
Joseph diGenova: No, no it was Scottish.
A Ockershausen: Oh, really. I did not know that.
Joseph diGenova: Yeah, McCurdy.
Republican Convenation, Detroit, 1980 | Victoria Toensing
A Ockershausen: And you worked at the Republican Convention back in Detroit, I can’t remember …
Joseph diGenova: 1980, I went there with Mac, he was the chairman of the Maryland delegation and when I was there we went to the ERA march and in the middle of that march I saw this beautiful redhead in a white Susan B. Anthony dress. And she was pretty hot, so I went up to her and she was selling these little pins, they were gold pins, it was an elephant and it said ERA GOP because she was trying to keep the equal rights amendment in the platform. So I went up to her and I said what are you selling, and she said I’ve got these beautiful gold pins. I said how much are they, she said three, I said how many do you have, she said thirty, I said I’ll give you ninety bucks, give me them all.
A Ockershausen: Wow, what an impression.
Joseph diGenova: I gave her ninety bucks, I took the gold elephants and I said do you ever come to Washington, she said yes. I said well, why don’t we have dinner, and ten months later we were husband and wife.
A Ockershausen: You’re a quick mover.
Joseph diGenova: She was a great lady. She was lecturing at the Justice Department, she was one of the best prosecuters in the country, she had actually developed all of these airport searches for the international drug smugglers. It actually went to the Supreme Court and she won, big case on drug smuggling.
A Ockershausen: She argued it herself?
Joseph diGenova: No, no, no. She was there for the argument with the Supreme Court, she drafted the brief and everything. They always make people from the solicitors generals office do the arguments because they’re …
A Ockershausen: Have you been in front of the court?
Joseph diGenova: No, only as an observer, only as an observer. Always would have liked to, but …
A Ockershausen: Did you have any cases that the court decided?
Joseph diGenova: Oh, yeah we had a couple of cases that went up to the Supreme Court when I was US Attorney and we filed a couple of …
A Ockershausen: For the District of Columbia?
Joseph diGenova: Yeah, for the United States government office in the District of Columbia, right.
Career | Politics Through Law | Special Prosecutor
A Ockershausen: Well, Joe your career is so stupendous in all the things you’ve done, why didn’t you follow Mac into politics? You are in politics.
Joseph diGenova: Well, I never was interested in elected office. And I always felt, I was a prosecutor’s prosecutor, I really believed in the system, I believed if you’re a prosecutor …
A Ockershausen: And you worked hard, I know that.
Joseph diGenova: Yeah, I worked too hard actually. But I believed if you’re a prosecutor, you do so many difficult, dangerous and important things that it’s not a good idea to be a politician, because then forever, if you ever do anything else people suspect your motives, they wonder why you did things. I didn’t have the stomach or the interest. My interest in politics, I was a political scientist, that was my major in college.
A Ockershausen: In Georgetown?
Joseph diGenova: No, no, no. University of Cincinnati, it’s great, I went there because they had one of the best political science departments in the country.
A Ockershausen: That’s a Catholic school, is it not?
Joseph diGenova: No, no, no, that was Xavier.
A Ockershausen: Xavier, I beg your pardon.
Joseph diGenova: They were in town together. And I loved political science so to me, the way to be in politics was to be in the law and in Washington D.C. So I came here and my goal was to become involved in politics through the law by going to work on Capitol Hill, which I did. I worked on the Hill on all kinds of committees for Mac, then I became a Special Prosecutor over in the House of Representatives investigating the Teamster’s Union in the 1990s.
A Ockershausen: Is that Beck?
Joseph diGenova: No, no, that was Carey, he was the so-called reform president, who actually was not very much of a reformer. And then I got to be a Special Prosecutor under the statue and investigated the people who rifled Bill Clinton’s passport files, you remember that, back at the end of the Bush administration, the first Bush.
A Ockershausen: Yeah, H.W. Herbert Walker.
Joseph diGenova: And had the opportunity to interview Jim Baker, who was the chief of staff at the time, and a bunch of other people. Jim was represented by, what the hell was his name, very famous lawyer here in town. Anyway, I’ll remember, Lloyd something or other.
A Ockershausen: Plato Cacheris.
Joseph diGenova: Yeah, no, Plato, god bless him.
A Ockershausen: One of my favorite Greek words.
Joseph diGenova: One of the best.
A Ockershausen: Plato Cacheris. That’s a Mo Siegel line, he used to use that on him all the time. Now but in the 1980s with the Reagan convention, correct?
George H.W. Bush | Republican Convention, Detroit 1980
Joseph diGenova: Right, 1980, and that’s where I met Victoria Toensing, my wife.
A Ockershausen: He had an opponent in the 1980 convention, that was George Bush.
Joseph diGenova: Yes, right. That’s right. And then of course after he picked him to be VP, in a great move.
A Ockershausen: Who else was it? Was it just Bush opposing Reagan? I remember …
Joseph diGenova: Yeah at that point it was just the two of them.
A Ockershausen: I was at an ABC meeting, ABC used to own this radio station, we had an ABC meeting in Chicago and we’re sitting in a bar one night with my dear friend Ernie Fears, the first black general manager in America of a radio station and he was WMAL FM. And we’re sitting there just chatting and who came in but George H.W. Bush, alone, no handler, it was the campaign. And he came over and sat with us and we just had the best time, what a delightful man.
Joseph diGenova: Yeah he was a good man.
A Ockershausen: He had a cocktail with us, we wouldn’t let him pay, and he accepted it of course. But he got to meet Ernie, he was a famous local guy. And George, from that time on, he became for some reason, very close. I played tennis with him, played with him at the White House. But George H.W. was a different man, he was a great man.
Investigating the Clinton passport file | Interviewing George H.W. Bush | A Helping Hand
Joseph diGenova: Well I’ll tell you an interesting story, when I was investigating the Clinton passport file, I had to go down to Houston and interview him, President Bush. Not because he, just because you had to do it, it was part of the process, because it was so close to the presidency what had happened that you had to do it. I interviewed Jim Baker and a whole bunch of other people. So I interviewed him, he was very nice, he answered all by questions, no BS, and at the end of the meeting he said “Come on, let’s have a drink.” So I went into his office and we started talking about our families and my daughter at that time was having very serious medical problems, and he said bring her down here, I’ll get her into the Houston Center, we’ll have her taken care of, it won’t cost you a dime, let me know, give me the phone, I’ll call her, I’ll talk to her. I said, Mr. President that’s very nice of you, but we’ve got everything taken care of. But he just went out of his way …
A Ockershausen: That was George. That was H.W.
Joseph diGenova: It was just amazing. And he wrote me a letter after that, about a year later, when I finished the investigation and I exonerated everybody. He wrote me the loveliest note, thanking me for being so professional. And I’ve saved it. It’s just unbelievable. He didn’t have to do that.
A Ockershausen: I sent him one time a picture of me and I autographed it, to my pal George, Andy O. And he wrote the nicest note back, I’ve got it somewhere, he said I don’t know who that other guy was but you really look great, Andy. I kept it…it’s a treasure. That’s the kind of man he was.
Joseph diGenova: You know it was really great to see him and Barbara at the Super Bowl, that was spectacular.
A Ockershausen: He didn’t look good.
Joseph diGenova: No.
A Ockershausen: He says he’s going to jump out of the airplane now.
Joseph diGenova: End of the road.
A Ockershausen: She’s not going to let him do it.
Joseph diGenova: Yeah he’s had a long, happy, and wonderful life.
A Ockershausen: What a wonderful man. But so are you, Joe, and I’m so glad you’re back on WMAL. Now, you don’t do any prosecutor work anymore but do you represent anybody, of course everybody you represent is innocent.
Joseph diGenova: That’s correct.
A Ockershausen: Keep that up.
Joseph diGenova: Yes, that’s very important.
A Ockershausen: Do you have a lot of high profile clients in the crime world?
An Interesting Law Practice
Joseph diGenova: Well, no, no, no. Well we have a very interesting practice. Sometimes we represent countries, sometimes we represent companies, sometimes we represent trade associations, individuals, we do civil, criminal, lobbying.
A Ockershausen: Defense work?
Joseph diGenova: Yeah, yeah, now. I’m not a prosecutor anymore. Sometimes we do civil suits as plaintiffs, civil suits as defendants. We have what I call a garden variety Washington D.C. practice, we just fix things. We just fix things for people.
A Ockershausen: And a great fixer never goes to court.
A Ockershausen: But Joe, but you can be a prosecutor if you’re suing somebody, can you go to court and prove your case?
Joseph diGenova: Well, sure that’s what lawyers do, sure civil.
A Ockershausen: I mean you still do that, which is what a prosecutor does, proves the case.
Joseph diGenova: Sure, well it’s a civil case, you’re representing a private person or a company or something. Yeah we do that.
A Ockershausen: And both, how big is your firm?
Joseph diGenova: Oh, it’s very small, we have four lawyers and that’s it. Me, my wife, Victoria Toensing, our son, Brady Toensing, and a wonderful young partner named David Cluck.
A Ockershausen: And you make a lot of money, of course.
Joseph diGenova: Well we try to pay the bills.
A Ockershausen: Joe. Andy Ockershausen talking to Joe diGenova and we’re going to take a break now and have on some very important spot that we will get paid for. Thank you, Joe.
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A Ockershausen: This is Our Town, this is Andy Ockershausen, having a wonderful conversation and it is a pleasure to …
Joseph diGenova: You should hear the stuff off air.
A Ockershausen: Very dear friend, Joe diGenova. With so much Joe, that you know we listen to you on the radio, so a lot of people are going to hear this. More people will hear this comcast than will hear you, I’m sorry, podcast, Comcast is my old company that fired me. I made a mistake. But, talking about Benghazi, you’ve got a great story about Benghazi.
Joseph diGenova: Well, Victoria Toensing and I, Victoria did most of the work but I was present, and we represented Greg Hicks, who was the Deputy Chief of Mission at the time that Ambassador Stevens was murdered by the terrorists. And we’ll never forget, Greg was a great hero, he helped the people organize that night, and what happened was, when he spoke to us from Tripoli, he said the American people have been lied to. Susan Rice had gone on television and lied on five consecutive television shows that it was the video, it wasn’t a terrorism attack. They knew immediately, in the Administration, that it was a terrorist attack.
A Ockershausen: Correct.
Joseph diGenova: They knew that night. And in fact the CIA conferred. So Greg came back, and he criticized, privately, inside the Department, Susan Rice, and told the Hill that she had lied.
A Ockershausen: She was NSA, right?
Joseph diGenova: No, Susan Rice at that point, I can’t remember whether she was …
A Ockershausen: She had been at the UN.
Joseph diGenova: Yeah, I think she was the National Security Advisor. And she lied, I mean she went on television, Susan Rice, and lied to the American people.
A Ockershausen: All the morning talk shows.
Joseph diGenova: So what they did was they retaliated against Greg Hicks. They put him in a cubicle, they brought him back from Tripoli, they put him in a cubicle, they tried to strip him of all his responsibilities, which they did. And then they tried to fire him, and Victoria worked desperately to help him. And she got Lindsey Graham to help, and eventually he was given a sabbatical so he could take a term at a think tank and then he retired, and now he’s doing national security work outside of the government. But he’s a great American, and this is why Hillary Clinton, I am so delighted that she is not President of the United States. Let me ask you this question, how could you get up every morning, knowing that you did absolutely nothing to save lives in Benghazi. You and Leon Panetta and everybody else associated, how in the world do they get up every morning and not have guilt?
A Ockershausen: Clear conscience.
Joseph diGenova: And you know what, that’s exactly why she never should have been President of the United States. And I say to all the people, all of us who worked on Benghazi, and tried to make the American people aware of it. It’s the best unpaid, free legal work we have ever done because it helped defeat her, and I’m glad it did.
A Ockershausen: Her whole problem was that secret stuff about not telling the truth, how can anybody store all these things that she stored in her server …
Joseph diGenova: Oh, please, please.
A Ockershausen: I mean it’s just ridiculous.
Joseph diGenova: If any other civil servant had done what she did with that private server in her home, they would’ve been put on leave, they would’ve been suspended, they would’ve had their clearances revoked, they would’ve been prosecuted for violating the espionage statutes, and she gets away, she doesn’t do anything. And Jim Comey says everything is fine. No reasonable prosecutor would bring this case. I said, I raised my hand at this point, I said “Appoint me, I will take the case.”
A Ockershausen: You’re reasonable.
Joseph diGenova: I will take the case, I’m a reasonable prosecutor, I will take the case.
A Ockershausen: White wash. Well Joe, one of the great things about you that I remember, that I grew up with, was Mayor Marion S. Barry, right.
Mayor Marion Barry
Joseph diGenova: Yes, yes. The one.
A Ockershausen: And you had so many run ins.
Joseph diGenova: Well you know, Marion Barry was a very interesting public figure. He did a lot for the city in his own way, he was beloved by the citizens and at a time, this was a nascent democracy. You know they got home rule in 1974, although they had had home rule much earlier in history, under Bosch Shepard, who had paved the streets, put in sewers.
A Ockershausen: Who built northwest Washington.
Joseph diGenova: Yeah. You know, but the bottom line is Marion Barry was a complex figure, interestingly enough, he wasn’t a crook, he didn’t steal money.
A Ockershausen: Not a dime.
Joseph diGenova: He was the kind of person, he had a dependency on drugs, he was a cocaine addict during his entire tenure they had to worry about whether he was going to pass out during meetings of the City Council and the cabinet and all that. And he was a complex man, but you can’t be a public official in the middle of a drug crisis and be a cocaine user. And the problem at that time, in the 1980s, practically everybody in the city was doing coke – wealthy people, poor people, people in government, people in business, realtors, developers. And so the fact that Marion Barry was doing drugs didn’t mean a lot to a lot of people. And what happened was that was the reason the city became a nightmare of drug peddling, guns, homicides, killing. And that’s because the culture in the city, which he lead, and he was the biggest part of, was a pro illegal drug use culture. And I don’t know, where do you go from there? I mean what do you expect is going to happen if you think that using coke and heroin is great. All these kids died from overdoses.
A Ockershausen: Bad years, bad years.
Joseph diGenova: Crack cocaine came in during that time. And then we had all these other drugs.
A Ockershausen: Were you the prosecutor then? Or were you in private practice?
Joseph diGenova: Oh yeah, no I was five years, five years. During my tenure from 83-88 one of the worst, and of course we had all kinds of government corruption, we convicted all kinds of Deputy Mayors. You know we investigated the Mayor’s drug dealer because what are you going to do? You find out the mayor is doing drugs in the middle of your drug deal, what the hell are you supposed to.
A Ockershausen: Was it Edmonds?
Joseph diGenova: No, no, that was Karen Johnson.
A Ockershausen: Oh, I remember that name.
Joseph diGenova: Remember Karen Johnson?
A Ockershausen: Sure, sure, I remember her. Joe you had such great things with Our Town.
Navy SEAL Robert Stethem Murder Investigation
Joseph diGenova: Did some spy cases and everything. We did the first big terrorism case. You remember from suburban Maryland, there was a very fine Navy SEAL named Robert Stethem, who was murdered on the tarmac in Beirut, TWA847. Victoria, my wife, led that case, led the investigation and we actually, it was in our office, Washington D.C., that’s where the venue was. And we actually went to Germany because the Germans accidentally captured the murderer, and they had him and they just didn’t want to keep him, they wanted to let him go. So they said here’s what the Germans thought, let’s make all the people on the plane come over, we’ll get Uli Derickson, remember the famous stewardess who tried to prevent the hijackers from killing more people? They said, let’s bring them over, we’ll have a line up, they’ll never be able to identify him, we’ll say it’s not the right guy, and we’ll send him back to Beirut. So, we all go over with the witnesses, they have this crazy line up.
A Ockershausen: How big of a number of people? A hundred people?
Joseph diGenova: No, no, it was like six people. The passengers, the stewardess, and a couple of other people. And the issue was … what do the Germans do? This is typical Germans, right. It’s like keeping the Holocaust records so that everybody could get them when the war was over. They get all these American soldiers from a local base who were swarthy looking and look like the guy, and they do makeup, and they make every one of them look exactly like the terrorist, thinking they’ll never be able to …
So we go into this room, and then here’s what they do, they give each one a number, then they take them out and then they put a different number on each one for each viewing. They go out, every single witness nailed the guy. And the reason was why, everyone of them said, I will never forget those eyes.
A Ockershausen: Wow. Nailed him through the eyes, huh?
Joseph diGenova: So they had to keep him. And we wanted him extradited, Victoria wanted him extradited back to the United States, they wouldn’t do it so they kept him, and they tried him and they convicted him, and then they ultimately released him a few years later. But he was murdered, this is really interesting, an assassin killed him in Beirut. He was targeted eventually …
A Ockershausen: Wow, absolutely, probably his own people.
Joseph diGenova: Intelligence operatives from all over the world were involved in this, he was actually blown up in a car accident.
A Ockershausen: Alone, I hope.
Joseph diGenova: Yeah.
A Ockershausen: Joe, what is the situation now worldwide? Is there still a great group of people, everybody spying on everybody else now? But most of it’s on the web, isn’t it?
On Spying
Joseph diGenova: Most of the spying that’s done is done electronically.
A Ockershausen: That’s what I was saying.
Joseph diGenova: And given the access to information that people have, because of the crazy devices that people use, it’s pretty easy to spy on people. We saw from our own NSA program where we were scooping up all of the emails and phone data, what was called the mega data, that we could gather all that. And it’s very important, by the way, to have that, I’m in favor of gathering that data and then getting special warrants to go and look at it. I think it’s crazy not to gather it, I think you’ve got to be out of your mind not to gather it.
A Ockershausen: If they’re out there, you’ve got to find them.
Joseph diGenova: With people, with what’s going on in the world. But there are still human spies, we have them in this country, we catch them all the time. A lot of industrial spying, the Chinese, and the Japanese try to steal from American companies because the most important thing to them is technology. The Chinese are the worst, and they’re very smart, they’re very good at what they do, and they have tremendous support from the Chinese government for their spying. They have special little towns where they do nothing but have spy centers, where they train people and teach people, and we need a robust national security agency, and really it’s a good thing people don’t know what the NSA can do, because if they knew they wouldn’t believe it. It’s beyond Star Wars, what the NSA can do.
A Ockershausen: I’ve heard about beyond Star Wars, and there’s so much going on in that world that goes way over my head.
Joseph diGenova: That’s why all this crap about Trump and the Russians, this is like a two minute investigation. They know this, everybody at NSA knows whether they’ve got information or they don’t. And the answer is they don’t because if they did, that would be leaked too.
A Ockershausen: Yeah but this makes good headlines though.
Joseph diGenova: Absolutely, this is so stupid. I tell you what I say, if I were the attorney general, I would have a grand jury tomorrow, I would issue subpoenas to every senior, former Obama administration official, put them in that grand jury, start asking them questions. There’s a very limited number of people who had access to those phone calls and the transcripts from them, extremely limited. This is a no brainer, you could do this is your sleep. A junior prosecutor can make this case, this is not like the old days, this is like John Brennan says he’d be happy to cooperate. He’d be the first one in the grand jury, if I were running it, the first one.
A Ockershausen: Joe, this is a great, great conversation. And it’s a pleasure to be with you and hear all these stories because the good old days of tracing Marion Barry have been replaced by important job, you’re a defense attorney.
Joseph diGenova: Just think, D.C. statehood is just around the corner.
A Ockershausen: Who said that?
Joseph diGenova: According to Muriel Bowser.
A Ockershausen: Oh, poor Muriel. She stuck out there saying they’ll never have the Redskins and the public doesn’t care what she says. I don’t know what your feelings are, but we want the Redskins to play in the city of Washington.
Joseph diGenova: Build a stadium. There’s plenty of money around to build a stadium.
A Ockershausen: Tear down. There’ll be money for that. Joseph diGenova: Oh my gosh, of course there would be. And you know who would get it done, Trump. If they want to build a stadium, he’ll say you want it done, I’ll make sure it happens. He’ll get the financing, he’ll get the builder, and it’ll be done on time, under budget, maybe done ahead of time.
A Ockershausen: You know we had the perfect guy to push that with John Wilson, but he …
Remembering John Wilson
Joseph diGenova: Poor John, God bless him.
A Ockershausen: He was depressed …
Joseph diGenova: I remember meeting with him shortly before he died, and God bless him, he was a lovely man, he cared deeply about the city, but if you spent five minutes with him you knew he was tortured by life. It was very sad.
A Ockershausen: Really, really?
Joseph diGenova: And I liked him, I liked him, I really liked him.
A Ockershausen: Great guy.
Joseph diGenova: I thought he was one of the more decent politicians who cared. And he was not corrupt. John Wilson was a really decent man.
A Ockershausen: Absolutely. After you said about Marion, of all the things we know about Marion, and we know a lot, he never was in it for the money.
Joseph diGenova: Nah, he wasn’t. Marion wasn’t a crook, he was just a drug addict. I mean that’s what he was.
A Ockershausen: Very popular figure in our lives.
Joseph diGenova: Booze, women, and cocaine. Booze, women, and cocaine.
A Ockershausen: He used to always call me out of the blue to get on the air when he wanted some public support.
Joseph diGenova: God, put him on.
A Ockershausen: He’s a great guest. He did like this *sniffles*, so he’d excuse himself in the other room, and come back *sniffle* I’m ready!
Joseph diGenova: Oh my God.
A Ockershausen: But Joe this has been a wonderful, wonderful conversation, I’m so pleased you’re part of WMAL’s life and our family and Victoria is. But we’ll always be there for you, maybe you don’t get paid but we’ll always be there for you, Joe. Well you did some work for us at Comcast SportsNet too.
Joseph diGenova: Once in a while.
A Ockershausen: Do they still call you now?
Joseph diGenova: I haven’t been there now for about a year or so.
A Ockershausen: Roger Cossack has taken over the whole world.
Joseph diGenova: Has he? God bless him.
A Ockershausen: He’s back in, he teaches at Pepperdine.
Joseph diGenova: Right, right, I remember.
A Ockershausen: What a life. But Joe, thank you so much.
Joseph diGenova: Thank you, Andy, delighted to be here.
A Ockershausen: Send my love to Vicky, Victoria.
Joseph diGenova: Yes, Victoria.
A Ockershausen: And I hope to see you at your next birthday because next time I want to see you sing.
Joseph diGenova: It’s a deal.
A Ockershausen: We’ll have a party for our second season, we hope you and Victoria will be here.
Joseph diGenova: We will, we promise.
A Ockershausen: Kick off on 2.
Joseph diGenova: Okay, that’s cool.
A Ockershausen: Joe diGenova, this has been Our Town, this is Andy Ockershausen, and we’ve had a wonderful conversation.
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Dear Joe, my wife Lisa and I watch you regularly on the Hannity show and we love to hear you explain what’s going on with these scandals because you’re a great lawyer and you know exactly what you’re talking about and it’s an absolute disgrace at what’s going on with the IG’s 500 page report. Hope to see you soon on the Hannity show! With best regards, James Brown
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Melanie Lynskey: I’m drawn to the weirdos
By Jarett Wieselman
Some actresses dig their way into the pleasure center of your brain so deeply it’s impossible to extract them. From that point forward every time they appear on screen, a message is sent to your frontal lobe and a smile spreads its way across your face. Such is the case with Melanie Lynskey.
By the time the credits rolled on 1994’s “Heavenly Creatures” I felt like I had discovered a diamond wrapped up in that gem of a movie. And while her “Heavenly” co-star Kate Winslet has gone on to be one of the world’s biggest stars, Melanie has quietly amassed an equally impressive resume and a loyal fan following.
Thanks to scene stealing roles in “Ever After,” “Sweet Home Alabama,” “Shattered Glass” and this year’s back-to-back-to-back brilliance of “Away We Go,” “The Informant” and “Up in the Air,” Melanie is one of the most in demand actors when it comes to creating cracker jack supporting women.
And as Melanie tells PopWrap, that’s just how she likes it!
PopWrap: Between “Away We Go,” “The Informant” and “Up in the Air,” it’s like the last half of ’09 is all about Melanie!
Melanie Lynskey: It is weird — I filmed them very close together though. I know sometimes actors will say they made their movies far apart, but I just had this crazy year where I was pinching myself over every script.
PW: You had be doing a lot of TV, so where did this renewed interest in big screen roles come from?
Melanie: I was getting frustrated because I wasn’t working on things I wanted to be working on. Well, I wasn’t really working [laughs] and I started to think, “Oh god, is it me?” So I changed it up and got a really amazing new movie agent who has great taste and got me in the room for all these wonderful projects.
PW: “Up in the Air” was named National Board of Review’s Best Picture of the Year and is one of the major Oscar frontrunners — what attracted you to the role of Julie, George’s sister?
Melanie: Well, it’s not really the biggest part, but I was so attracted to the scenes I would have with George’s character. The depiction of the relationship with your family, how awkward and skewed it can be. How your family can basically be strangers to you. I don’t see that too often, so I was really interested in those smaller moments.
PW: You have a knack for honing in on these amazing supporting roles, do you prefer them?
Melanie: I kind of do. Even when I’m reading a script where I’m supposed to be looking at the lead role, I’ll find myself gravitating toward some small weirdo in a few scenes instead. I’m very instinctive like that and I love the challenge of not having a lot of time to create someone who feels real. People don’t tend to scrutinize the supporting characters as much, so you’re allowed to be more interesting.
PW: What are your feelings on the term “character actor?”
Melanie: I like it. I think a lot of actresses are afraid of it and think, “Oh god, that means I’m ugly!” [laughs] But I’ve never been the ingenue. I’ve never been the leading lady type. I feel like a character actress — it’s where I’m comfortable.
PW: Despite that, you came out of the gate pretty hard in 1994 with one of my favorite movies, “Heavenly Creatures.” What was that experience like?
Melanie: I knew Peter [Jackson, director] from his horror movies in New Zealand, and when Kate auditioned he showed me the tape and said, “This is where you have to be.” So imagine seeing a tape of Kate Winslet and being told, “Here’s what you have to do.” She was this beautiful, professional, successful actress from London and I was very intimidated. But they were so kind to me while making that movie — they taught me, to this day, everything I know.
PW: And you will forever hold the distinction of being the first actor to share a big screen kiss with Kate Winslet!
Melanie: [laughs] Right! I was watching the Oscars at home in my pajamas and when Kate won, it popped across the screen! I thought that was so funny.
PW: I must admit, I got to witness the “Heavenly Creatures” reunion you two shared at the “Away We Go” premiere back in June!
Melanie: I knew your voice sounded familiar! That was so fun! I hadn’t seen her for so long, so it was lovely. We went through such an intense experience together [making that movie] and it was like we still knew each other. I am so proud of her — everything she does is amazing.
PW: A lot of your films feature strong female leads, which obviously spills over onto the set — do you like that sense of female empowerment that comes along with it?
Melanie: I do! I love it! Someone like Reese [Witherspoon, “Sweet Home Alabama” co-star] is such an inspiration. Gosh, that was long ago. She was just this tiny little blonde girl who was so in control. So professional. I would watch her every second. She’s very impressive. There was not one moment where she wasn’t doing something: reading a book, taking care of the kids, prepping the next scene. She’s just amazing.
PW: And yet your character is incredibly memorable — when fans approach you, what role does it tend to be for?
Melanie: It’s a bit of everything. Usually I can call it — if I see someone looking over I can make a good guess. Although sometimes I’m totally surprised. For example, there was this tough-looking security guard at the airport and he’s looking at me and goes, “Hey! ‘Detroit Rock City,’ what’s up!” Usually in airport it’s “Two and a Half Men” and at bars it’s “Sweet Home Alabama.”
PW: Just think how much that would increase if you actually had a baby in a bar!
Melanie: [laughs] God forbid!
PW: With a trio of terrific films this year, what would you like to do next?
Melanie: It’s funny, I’ve been a working actress for so long, but I’ve never been able to pick and choose. Usually I’m just trying to do projects I feel good about, so if I can just continue on this path, I’ll be very happy.
“Up in the Air” is in theaters now, while “Away We Go” is on DVD.
Photo: WireImage; Paramount
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Is it a wig? Secrets revealed about the president’s hair
It doesn’t matter that he is a billionaire whose name adorns buildings around the world.
It doesn’t matter that he staged one of the great electoral upsets in the history of the United States.
It doesn’t matter that political turmoil that is boiling over in Washington or that the protests are growing.
For President Donald Trump, it always comes down to the hair.
Is it a wig? Did he have a scalp reduction or some other cosmetic surgery? What about hair replacement?
Well, some of those answers came Thursday when Mr. Trump’s longtime physician, Dr. Harold N. Bornstein, said in a series of recent interviews with the New York Times that the president uses the medication finasteride — sometimes marketed as Propecia — to maintain his famous mane.
Dr. Alan. J. Bauman, founder of Bauman Medical in Boca Raton, a board-certified hair restoration specialist.
“It’s certainly not a wig,” said Dr. Alan. J. Bauman, founder of Bauman Medical in Boca Raton, a board-certified hair restoration specialist.
The last time Trump’s hair was headline news was when talk show host Jimmy Fallon ruffled the candidate’s locks on national television during the campaign. Fallon was universally derided for asking Trump about the trivial rather than serious questions.
Yet, here is the nation once again talking about Donald Trump’s hair. Imagine asking the president if he suffers from some of the medication’s side effects, including erectile dysfunction.
“I’m not surprised the doctor released the information that he is on finasteride,” Bauman said. “The medication protects his hair and hair is important to him – as it is to many men.”
Finasteride was developed as a prostate drug, but it was soon discovered that it helped men retain their hair and beat back male pattern hair loss. It also helps weaker hair grow stronger, but if the follicle is dead, then it’s time for some hair plugs.
The medication blocks a conversion of a hormone into DHT, the culprit of hair loss.
Bauman said about 2 to 3 percent of men who use finasteride experience some mild sexual side effects, decreased libido and mild erectile dysfunction.
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The Limping Man
Posted by Peter Cooper in The Contexts of Writing
Born on the 4th July, Captain Ahab, Disabilities, Double Indemnity, God, Illness as metaphor, Inspector Bucket and the Beast, Inspector Bucket and the Olympics, Limping, Matthew 15, Meniscus tear, Old Testament, Redemption, Shaun of the Dead, Sherlock, Sumerian texts, Susan Sontag, The Annotator, The Usual Suspects, Token Magazine, Wrestling with God
‘For no one who has a defect shall approach: a blind man, or a lame man, or he who has a disfigured face, or any deformed limb. (Leviticus 26.18)
For nine months I have been a lame man: a limping man. Meniscus tear, don’t you know – for which, back in January, I had arthroscopy of the knee. I’ve had nothing but sympathy, of course, during this time, but my crab-like gait has put me in a brotherhood (and sisterhood) of people who have (or have had) a gammy leg – and worse. We are legion, we limping men.
Yet in films and fiction and ancient lore we, the limping people (crippled by arthritis, Achilles’ tendon injuries, twisted ankles or dodgy knees, on crutches, in plaster casts, missing a limb and in wheel-chairs – temporarily or permanently) are, as often as not, seen as objects of suspicion, omens of evil, ripe for mockery or an easy target for abuse or exploitation.
From the limping man, in the eponymous British noir thriller (The Limping Man) to limping, weaselly con-man Roger Kint in The Usual Suspects, the man with the limp (as I shall call those who are temporarily or permanently disabled) is presented as a figure of menace or ineptitude. From The Day of the Dead to Shaun of the Dead, it is the lurching, limping man (woman or child) shuffling towards us that establishes a sense of mockery or impending terror.
Amongst the multitude of the disabled, one might mention evil Captain Hook with his hooked hand; the hobbling and dangerous Long John Silver; manic Dr Strangelove (in his wheelchair with his deranged mind and uncontrollable Nazi salute); Captain Ahab, limping along the foredeck in Moby Dick with his peg-leg and epic desire for existential revenge; even the poor put-upon but hapless Mr Nirdlinger in JM Cain’s Double Indemnity – whose murder the reader or viewer feels is somehow justified.
All lurching, shuffling, limping men.
What all this is about, of course, is not a malicious prejudice against us limpers but, as I have discussed in one of my earlier posts (and as Susan Sontag famously argues in her essay ‘Illness as Metaphor’) another example of writers using disability as a metaphor for character. The correlation is clear: if a character in fiction is wicked, morally compromised or challenged in some way, he is likely to be pre-marked with a physical affliction. At the best he might rise above his physical disability to show himself morally renewed; at the worst, he must be seen to be punished for his evil, an evil so obvious in both his inner and outer nature.
Giving a man a limp is, at the very least (notwithstanding its metaphorical overtones), a way of making a character, as Doc Henshaw argues in one of his on-line creative writing sessions, “interesting”. This idea is one of the standard clichés of creative writing classes. Henshaw boasts of being able to list thirty-four limping characters from literature, film or TV, and all within the space of fifteen minutes. (Quite a party trick!) He includes Chester’s twisted gait in Gun Smoke, Dr. Philip Carey’s lurch from W. Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage, Dr. Weaver’s tapping cane from the TV show ER and Dr. Watson’s “psychosomatic limp”, as seen in the first episode of Sherlock. (An interesting grouping of Doctors there!)
The disability, however, doesn’t have to be a limp, it is obvious to state. Henshaw himself begins by recommending to a student that he make a character deaf to make them more dramatically appealing. It could be a missing arm, as with the infamous one-armed man in The Fugitive; Jamie Lanaster’s golden prosthetic hand in Game of Thrones, or John Wayne’s/Jeff Bridges’ eye-patch in True Grit.
In the bizarre biblical story of Jacob wrestling with what most commentators agree is God, Jacob himself ends up as a limping man. Although Jacob seems to win the bout, God’s parting shot is to dislocate Jacob’s hip. The price of seeing (and wrestling with) God face-to-face is apparently to be blighted with the mark of the limping man.
In my capacity as a god-like author who is in control of my characters’ fates, I confess to using this trick myself: of metaphorically and actually disabling my characters. In my novel, Inspector Bucket and the Beast, I curse the morally suspect Frederick Dreadnaught with small-pox, and in one of my ‘Inspector Bucket’ short stories, Inspector Bucket and the Olympics, a character uses the fact that he is on crutches (another limping man!) to attempt a desperate fraud. In The Sad Strange Tale of Jon Bergersson I handicap my eponymous hero with ‘sickness’ and ‘asthma’. And in my experimental steam-punk story, Moriarty’s Revenge, I curse the moral coward Markham, who partially narrates the story, with both a limp and a glass eye – double metaphorical imperfections! I might also have taken the opportunity to give the rather psychotic protagonist in my The Annotator, (due to be published in the first print edition of Token Magazine on the 1st May) a physical imperfection – but I resisted. Perhaps hearing voices that he feels are controlling him, or at least prompting him to certain actions, is already enough of a handicap: a kind of limping in its own way.
There are precedents for all this (as always, and as I have already implied) in the Bible. The Author of All Things easily outdoes us earthly authors in the way He seems so shamefully happy to blight those who offend him – and with the most terrible of infirmities too:
“The LORD will smite you with madness and with blindness and with bewilderment of heart. (Deuteronomy 28-9)
He seems equally happy (smug almost) about accepting the blame (or praise) for causing the disabilities in the first place:
“The LORD said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes him mute or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?” Exodus 4:11
Thus, the blueprint for the metaphorical use of the limping man is deeply embedded in the Bible itself where, as Jeremy Schipper argues, disability, more often than not, is seen as a religious, moral or theological issue under the control of the divine (as at Gen 16:2; 20:18; 25:21; 29:31; Exod 4:11; 23:26; Deut 7:14; Judg 13:2-3; 1 Sam 1:5; 2 Chron 16:12).
Christian commentators often use the Jacob story to show how when mankind gets too cocky about himself, God will put him in his place. The key quote here seems to be from Psalms 147:10-11: “God does not delight in man’s strength or cleverness, but in those who fear Him and put their hope in His unfailing love”
Thus God cripples Jacob. Seems like a low blow to me. And after the bell too, for Jacob had clearly won the bout.
However, in a turn-around to my central point, I must concede that some Christians advise us not to, “trust a man without a limp.” The idea here being that a man who doesn’t realise he is nothing without God, and that he is dependent on the Lord just as a crippled man might be dependent on his crutches, is a lost man.
Nevertheless, what we are seeing here, once again, is how disability is being used as a signifier of a moral condition.
However, this moral attitude to the limping man goes back even earlier still than the Hebrew Bible, to, arguably, the most ancient of ancient texts. The first tablet of the earliest extant Sumerian prophetic texts predicts, we are told, the danger to ancient society of contact with a limping man:
“If a woman gives birth to a limping male : penury”
Another tablet reads, with even more confidence, that, “If a woman gives birth to a cripple, the land will be disturbed; the house of the man will be scattered.”
Modern narratives, however, when not turning the limping man merely into an object of menace or bitterness, do sometimes present the possibility of redemption through disability. We see this, for example, in Ron Kovik’s Born on the 4th July (film directed by Oliver Stone) where, by the end of the narrative, the wheelchair bound Kovik attains, it seems, a form of both political and moral regeneration.
The Christian New Testament, too, it is fair to say, in its use of disability metaphors, focuses (in contrast to the Old Testament) just as much on the redemption of the sick and the lame as on the disabilities themselves. It employs both figurative language and the actuality of disability itself to suggest that the limping man may one day be restored to transcendent moral and actual health:
“And large crowds came to Him, bringing with them those who were lame, crippled, blind, mute, and many others, and they laid them down at His feet; and He healed them. So the crowd marveled as they saw the mute speaking, the crippled restored, and the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel.”
A fantastically moving passage, of course, and yet I find it hard to believe that this redemptive God of Israel is the same deity who clearly seems to relish causing the disabilities that afflict mankind in the first place.
As for me, the operation (you’ll be pleased to know) was successful – although I confess a residue of the limping man returns to haunt me if I become way too cocky in my walking!
Nevertheless, this limping man is back to walking a less crooked path – at least physically.
A pox take it!
Bleak House, Dickens, Inspector Bucket and the Beast, Old Testament, Smallpox, Susan Sontag, The Book of Job
“That stinking child! Look what she did to me. Look!” He began to rub at his cheek where he had been perspiring, and, as the cakes of paste seemed to fall away, he slowly uncovered a face terribly lined and pocked with smallpox scars. “Look at me! Look at me!” he shouted. Everyone in the whole room looked at him with fresh distaste.
(Inspector Bucket and the Beast, Dahliapublishing.co.uk)
In life, as well as in literature, the idea of being struck down by disease always seems to have had a moral implication. Here, in this quotation from my ‘Inspector Bucket and the Beast’, once the malevolent Beast is unveiled it is clear that his ugly character is matched by his true ugly and “distasteful” appearance – in this instance caused by smallpox. I confess, now that I have read some of it, that I am perpetrating the wrong described by Susan Sontag (in her essay ‘Illness as Metaphor‘) of using disease as a metaphor for character. The correlation is clear: if you are wicked you will be punished with an affliction. I am not, of course, alone in doing this sort of thing. We can see this attitude to disease, for example, in the earliest reactions to AIDS, which was widely seen, I remember, as the ‘gay disease’ – in other words AIDS was considered by some to be some sort of moral judgement on and punishment for the ‘sin’ of being homosexual.
Disease as moral punishment starts as long ago as (and no doubt before) the Old Testament. For example, because the pharaoh wouldn’t let The Israelites go free, therefore disobeying God’s will, Egypt was punished with ten plagues, the sixth of which was “boils”
“And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh. And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.” (Exodus 9:8)
I’ve always wondered why God didn’t just spring the Israelites himself, rather than forcing Egypt to undergo all the unnecessary horror of dispensing TEN Plagues. But let’s leave that to one side for a moment. God seems to have had a thing about boils and sores and tumours. Skin complaints of all kind actually:
“The first angel went and poured out his bowl on the land, and ugly and painful sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast and worshiped his image.” (Revelations 16:2)
“But after they had brought it around, the hand of the Lord was against the city, causing a very great panic, and he afflicted the men of the city, both young and old, so that tumors broke out on them.”(1 Samuel 5:9)
It’s clear already that disease is to be seen as the direct result of disobeying the Lord’s strictures.
And as it is in theology so it will be in history.
“…. there came the death-dealing pestilence, which through our own iniquitous doings, (was) sent down upon mankind for our correction by the just wrath of God …”—Giovanni Boccaccio
According to William Blake, it was “boils” that Satan smites Job with, not the pox (neither the grand – syphilus – nor the small version) and not the plague. But it seems, in actuality, that the Hebrew term used in the Bible at this point in Job’s seemingly interminable sufferings was (apparently) non-specific. Satan, theoretically I suppose, had every disease in the universe available to him (past, present and future). He could have applied any chronic disease that took his fancy. Chief culprit as far as biblical scholars is concerned, it seems, is leprosy. (1)
But in the 17th and 18th centuries physicians and pamphleteers wondered(2) if it mightn’t have been smallpox after all that Job had been afflicted with, for surely (they thought) there must be some biblical precedent for such a terrible scourge. It is no wonder that they saw smallpox as something that surely must have had cosmic antecedents for it was the cause of such epic and widespread carnage. According to one calcu lation made in 1760, smallpox is said to have accounted for one-tenth of all mortality during that period. It affected approximately three quarters of all living people in the 18th century. If true, this is a remarkable statistic. (it was still killing vast numbers of people a year worldwide in the early 1950s(3) and though eradicated by 1977 is still rumoured to be extant and possibly obtainable by terrorists.)
By the latter part of the 17th Century, data from the Bills of Mortality (2) indicated (according to the statisticians) that smallpox had supplanted the plague as Great Britain’s biggest killer, as well as the biggest scourge on those who survived it – for its consequence, if not death, was blindness and disfigurement. As Ben Jonson(3)said smallpox could “nullify a face.”
Despite the beginnings of vaccination, Smallpox was an ever-present feature of life in the 19th century too, as I try to show in my own novel. In the following quotation the child killer, finally tracked down by Inspector Bucket, wonders aloud if Bucket’s own child, like the Beast himself, might not have suffered from the dread disease:
“I believe the one child you and your wife … spawn(ed) died of some disease,” he taunted. “What was it, Inspector, what was it? Influenza? Cholera? Or was it the smallpox?” He paused, pondering. “I might have died of that too.”
The literature of the 19th century generally, it might seem, treated smallpox as so much part of the fabric of life that, as in George Elliot’s ‘Daniel Daronda’, its consequences might be used as a commonplace comparison with feelings of rejected love. For one character (Alex) we are told, “… the disappointment of a youthful passion has effects as incalculable as those of small-pox …” Similarly In ‘The Sad History of the Reverend Amos Barton’ (‘Clerical Lives’) Amos has, “a narrow face of no particular complexion – even the smallpox that has attacked it seems to have been of a mongrel, indefinite kind.” So prevalent were smallpox scars throughout this period that Wilkie Collins too, like Elliot, refers to smallpox almost casually in his depiction of characters’ features. In two of his sensationalist novels, for example, (‘Poor Miss Finch’ and ‘No Name’ ) several characters are described as having faces “pitted” or “deeply pitted with the smallpox.” The implication is often that the smallpox sufferer is at heart a wicked person or, as in the case of Amos Burton, judged by others to be so.
Of course the righteous, or the noble and the beautiful, are, on the whole, content (at least philosophically) to see disease as a judgement on the wicked and the irresponsible poor, but smallpox was different in that it was egalitarian in its attacks. That is, the wealthy and the noble were as likely to be smitten by it as the poor and disreputable.This was very unlike the plague, which seemed to deliberatly select the poor and spare (certainly in terms of numbers affected) the rich because (presumably) they could retreat to their country estates and generally they had a standard of living which (relative to the state of the poor) protected them from the sources of infection. Nobody, it was felt, could suspect a lady to die of the plague(!) But, apparently, smallpox wasn’t quite so class-conscious as its sister scourge.
Queen Anne, for instance, suffered a severe attack from smallpox (and her son died of it, putting paid to the future hopes of the Stuarts).The son and daughter of Charles 1st died of it too, as did Queen Mary. The plague was seen very much as a judgement of God for wickedness. But when the victims of smallpox seemed to be everybody, the pure and the angelic as well as the wicked and the ugly, the simplistic notion of divine punishment for sin perhaps needed to be modified (that is if the well off wanted to continue to maintain their faith in a benign Creator.)
Job’s afflictions are not, of course, the consequence of his wicked behaviour either (though his friends and relatives, like the parishoners of Amos Barton, quickly jump to this conclusion). Job’s sufferings are, it seems, rather a test of his faith – of his inner beauty and steadfastness, rather than merely (!) an attack on his outward appearance.
My inspiration for ‘Inspector Bucket and The Beast’ is, of course, from Dickens’ ‘Bleak House’ and it is in this novel that we see the character of Esther Summerson famously afflicted by smallpox. Esther is clearly a ‘good’ even an ‘heroic’ person, if often (it must be said) overwhelmingly sentimentalised. And yet she too, falls prey (by common critical agreement) to smallpox (though like Job the illness is never actually specified). She survives but is (temporarily) made blind by it. Dickens is clearly using smallpox, as well as the other ‘infections’ in the novel such as cholera and money and the law and legal system) as a metaphor for the interconnectedness of society. Lady Dedlock’s love affair with ‘Nemo’, now an impoverished document copier, links her with the poor classes and the likes of Jo the crossing sweeper – from whom Esther, by way of Charley, contracts her smallpox (because of her many acts of selfless care.) In turn she could have infected the wards of Jarndyce, Ada and Richard, but, selflessly again, shuts herself off from them. The upper, the middle and the poor classes are connected by a chain. Esther’s ultimate reward is that Allan Woodcourt, the stalwart surgeon, who, like her, is connected to and cares for people in all classes, marries her and sees only beauty in her. Dickens is here showing (unlike my poor effort in ‘Inspector Bucket and the Beast’) that the uglness of smallpox (and by extension any disease) may reveal the beauty and moral strength of the person within.
Just as it did in the end with Job.
(1) J. E Hartley,’‘Book of Job’.
(2) R.A. Anselment ‘Smallpox in Seventeenth Century English Literature
(3) According to the W.H.O. factsheet, 50000 worldwide a year
(4) An Epigram to the Smallpox
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Pinoy students win medals in China math tilts
August 14, 2018 - PH News
The young math wizards earned 3 gold and 2 bronze medals at the recent 14th China Northern Mathematical Olympiad (CNMO) in Taizhou City, Zhejiang province and 15th China Southeast Mathematical Olympiad (CSMO) held in Jinjiang City in Fujian province. At the CNMO, all three contestants from the...
The young math wizards earned 3 gold and 2 bronze medals at the recent 14th China Northern Mathematical Olympiad (CNMO) in Taizhou City, Zhejiang province and 15th China Southeast Mathematical Olympiad (CSMO) held in Jinjiang City in Fujian province.
At the CNMO, all three contestants from the Philippines bagged gold medals, according to the Mathematics Trainers Guild Philippines (MTG).
They are Grade 9 students Immanuel Josiah Balete of St. Stephen’s High School and Bryce Ainsley Sanchez of Grace Christian College), and Grade 10 student Charles Justin Shi of Philippine Cultural College-Annex Campus. They were accompanied by team leader Hazel Joy Shi.
In the contest, participated in by more than 300 students mostly from China’s northeastern region, participants had to solve two sets of exams with four problems each and were given three hours to solve each set.
At the CSMO, the Philippines earned two bronze medals courtesy of Grade 9 student Vincent Dela Cruz of Valenzuela City School of Math and Science and Grade 10 student William King of Bethany Christian School in Cebu.
Other members of the team were Jonathan Conrad Yu of Philippine Christian Gospel School, Genrish Ng of Saint Jude Catholic School and James Matthew Young of Iloilo National High School.
Participating countries and regions in the CSMO were China, Thailand, Hong Kong, Macau, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines.
“Our young Filipino students continue to make their mark in international math contests,” said MTG president Dr. Isidro Aguilar.
Recently, the Philippines topped the 14th International Mathematics Contest (IMC) in Singapore with 196 medals consisting of 27 gold, 53 silver, and 116 bronze.
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How to know if you are affected by the recent hacking or cyberattack on Facebook?
MANILA – How to know if you are affected by the recent hacking on Facebook? Or is there a way to know it?
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of the largest social networking site, Facebook, announced on Friday that the platform has experienced a major security breach. More than 50 million users accounts were affected by the attack, in which attackers were able to take over users’ accounts. This has prompted Facebook to logout all the accounts signed in from devices. In fact, one of the compromised accounts is Zucherberg’s himself.
So for the question on how to know if your account has been affected by the latest security glitch, the answer is still ‘no’. Investigations are currently underway.
As of Friday, the perpetrators have not been determined as well as the extent of the damage due to the hacking – if these accounts were misused. In a latest development of its investigation, Facebook said that victims logged into other services like Tinder, Instagram or Spotify with their Facebook accounts; these corresponding accounts to these services might be affected too. Examples of hacking a phone here show how easy it can be without the proper safeguards in place.
BPI internal system error caused “lost money”, unauthorized transactions
The attackers had exploited the use of “access tokens” or basically, digital keys, that let them access other users’ accounts as if they were that user.
It is not certain if Facebook users from the Philippines were affected, too. Nonetheless, the National CERT-PH under the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Cybersecurity Bureau is informing and reminding the Philippine-based Facebook users to make sure they shouldn’t use the said social media platform to store their private files and high-risk private conversations. The agency further advised account holders to use Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) to ensure more security of their accounts.
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ILO - Recommendation concerning Protection against Hazards of Poisoning Arising from Benzene R144 (Protezione contro i rischi derivanti dal benzene), 23 giugno 1971
Categoria: Convenzioni OIL
R144 Recommendation concerning Protection against Hazards of Poisoning Arising from Benzene
Geneva, 23 giugno 1971
The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,
Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its Fifty-sixth Session on 2 June 1971, and
Having adopted the Benzene Convention, 1971, and
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to protection against hazards arising from benzene, which is the sixth item on the agenda of the session, and
Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of a Recommendation,
adopts this twenty-third day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred seventy-one, the following Recommendation, which may be cited as the Benzene Recommendation, 1971:
I. Scope
1. This Recommendation applies to all activities involving exposure of workers to:
(a) the aromatic hydrocarbon benzene C6H6, hereinafter referred to as benzene;
(b) products the benzene content of which exceeds 1 per cent by volume, hereinafter referred to as products containing benzene; the benzene content should be determined by analytical methods recommended by the competent international organisations.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of Paragraph 1 of this Recommendation, the benzene content of products not covered by clause (b) of that Paragraph should be progressively reduced to as low as practicable where this is necessary for the protection of the health of workers.
II. Restrictions on the Use of Benzene
(1) Whenever harmless or less harmful substitute products are available they should be used instead of benzene or products containing benzene.
(2) Subparagraph (1) of this Paragraph does not apply to:
(a) the production of benzene;
(b) the use of benzene for chemical synthesis;
(c) the use of benzene in motor fuel;
(d) analytical or research work carried out in laboratories.
(1) The use of benzene and of products containing benzene should be prohibited in certain work processes to be specified by national laws or regulations.
(2) This prohibition should at least include the use of benzene and of products containing benzene as a solvent or diluent, except where the process is carried out in an enclosed system or where there are other equally safe methods of work.
5. The sale of certain industrial products containing benzene (such as paints, varnishes, mastics, glues, adhesives, inks and various solutions), to be specified by national laws or regulations, should be prohibited in cases to be determined by the competent authority.
III. Technical Measures for the Prevention of Hazards; Occupational Hygiene
(1) Occupational hygiene and technical measures should be taken to ensure effective protection of workers exposed to benzene or to products containing benzene.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of Paragraph 1 of this Recommendation, such measures should also be taken where workers are exposed to products the benzene content of which is below 1 per cent by volume, if this is necessary to ensure that the concentration of benzene in the air remains below the maximum fixed by the competent authority.
(1) In premises where benzene or products containing benzene are manufactured, handled or used, all necessary measures should be taken to prevent the escape of benzene vapour into the air of places of employment.
(2) Where workers are exposed to benzene or to products containing benzene, the employer should ensure that the concentration of benzene in the air of the places of employment does not exceed a maximum which should be fixed by the competent authority at a level not exceeding a ceiling value of 25 parts per million (80 mg/m3).
(3) The maximum concentration referred to in subparagraph (2) of this Paragraph should be lowered as soon as possible if medical evidence shows this to be desirable.
(4) The competent authority should issue directions on carrying out the measurement of the concentration of benzene in the air of places of employment.
(1) Work processes involving the use of benzene or of products containing benzene should as far as practicable be carried out in an enclosed system.
(2) Where it is not practicable for the work processes to be carried out in an enclosed system, places of work in which benzene or products containing benzene are used should be equipped with effective means to ensure the removal of benzene vapour to the extent necessary for the protection of the health of the workers.
(3) Care should be taken to ensure that wastes containing liquid benzene or benzene vapour do not endanger the health of workers.
(1) Workers who may have skin contact with liquid benzene or liquid products containing benzene should be provided with adequate means of personal protection against the risk of absorbing benzene through the skin.
(2) Workers who for special reasons may be exposed to concentrations of benzene in the air of places of employment which exceed the maximum referred to in Paragraph 7, subparagraph (2), of this Recommendation should be provided with adequate means of personal protection against the risk of inhaling benzene vapour. The duration of exposure should be limited as far as possible.
10. Every worker exposed to benzene or to products containing benzene should wear appropriate work clothes.
11. The use of benzene or of products containing benzene by workers for cleaning their hands or their work clothes should be prohibited.
12. Food should not be introduced into or consumed in areas in which benzene or products containing benzene are manufactured, handled or used. Smoking should be prohibited in such areas.
13. In undertakings in which benzene or products containing benzene are manufactured, handled or used, all appropriate measures should be taken by the employer to have available for workers:
(a) sufficient and suitable washing facilities, in suitable places and properly maintained;
(b) suitable accommodation for taking meals, unless appropriate arrangements exist for the workers to take their meals elsewhere;
(c) changing rooms or other suitable facilities, where work clothing can be stored separately from the ordinary clothes of the workers.
(1) The means of personal protection referred to in Paragraph 9 of this Recommendation and the work clothes referred to in Paragraph 10 thereof should be supplied, cleaned and regularly maintained by the employer.
(2) The workers concerned should be required to use these means of personal protection and these work clothes, and to take care of them.
IV. Medical Measures
(1) Workers who are to be employed in work processes involving exposure to benzene or to products containing benzene should undergo:
(a) a thorough pre-employment medical examination for fitness for employment which shall include a blood-test;
(b) periodic re-examinations, which shall include biological tests including a blood-test, at intervals, of not more than one year, fixed by national laws or regulations.
(2) The competent authority in a country may, after consultation with the most representative organisations of employers and workers concerned, where such exist, permit exceptions from the provisions of subparagraph (1) of this Paragraph in respect of specified categories of workers.
16. On the occasion of the medical examinations the workers concerned should be given written instructions on protective measures against the health hazards of benzene.
17. The medical examinations provided for in Paragraph 15, subparagraph (1), of this Recommendation should be:
(a) carried out under the responsibility of a qualified physician, approved by the competent authority, and with the assistance, as appropriate, of a competent laboratory;
(b) certified in an appropriate manner.
18. These medical examinations should be carried out during working hours, and should not involve the workers in any expense.
19. Women medically certified as pregnant, and nursing mothers, should not be employed in work processes involving exposure to benzene or products containing benzene.
20. Young persons under 18 years of age should not be employed in work processes involving exposure to benzene or products containing benzene, except where they are undergoing education or training and are under adequate technical and medical supervision.
V. Containers
(1) The word "Benzene" and the necessary danger symbols should be clearly visible on any container holding benzene or products containing benzene.
(2) An indication of the percentage of benzene contained in the product in question should also be given.
(3) The danger symbols referred to in subparagraph (1) of this Paragraph should be internationally recognised.
22. Benzene and products containing benzene should not be brought into any place of employment except in containers which are of suitable material, adequate strength, and so designed and constructed as to prevent any leakage, or inadvertent escape of vapours.
VI. Measures of Education
23. Each Member should take appropriate steps to provide that any worker exposed to benzene or products containing benzene receives appropriate training and instructions at the employer's expense on measures to safeguard health and prevent accidents, as well as on the appropriate action if there is any evidence of poisoning.
24. In appropriate positions in premises in which benzene or products containing benzene are used, notices should be displayed which indicate:
(a) the hazards;
(b) the preventive measures to be taken;
(c) the protective equipment to be used;
(d) first-aid measures to be taken in cases of acute benzene poisoning.
VII. General Provisions
25. Each Member should:
(a) by laws or regulations or any other method consistent with national practice and conditions, take such steps as may be necessary to give effect to the provisions of this Recommendation;
(b) in accordance with national practice, specify the person or persons on whom the obligation of compliance with the provisions of this Recommendation rests;
(c) provide appropriate inspection services for the purpose of supervising the application of the provisions of this Recommendation, or satisfy itself that appropriate inspection is carried out.
26. The competent authority in each country should actively promote research into harmless or less harmful products which could replace benzene.
27. The competent authority should establish a statistical system for reporting data concerning medically observed cases of benzene poisoning and these should be published annually.
Fonte: ILO
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Tanya Surprises Ryan With Personalized Remix of “Thank U, Next"
posted by Sierra Marquina - Dec 14, 2018
Thank U, Seacrest! Tanya Rad hilariously — and epically, if we do say so ourselves — personalized and remixed Ariana Grande’s “Thank U, Next” as a Christmas present for Ryan Seacrest on-air on Friday, December 14.
“Her’s is the smallest,” Ryan said on-air when Tanya presented him with a tiny gift bag. “Oh boy, what’s this? It’s not even a gift? It’s a piece of paper: ‘Merry Christmas your gift is on soundboard one,’” he read before playing the LOL song. “Cut No. seven.’”
Tanya remixed the lyrics to instead read: “Thought I’d end up in promo, but it wasn’t a match / tried to be cool in LA, now I look back and laugh / even almost got married and moved to Arizona / but I can say thank you to Ryan, because you were my angel / And for that I say thank you Seacrest, thank you Seacrest, thank you Seacrest / You’re my best friend that’s the opposite sex.”
“I have to say … that is a unique gift,” Ryan said, after nearly peeing his pant with laughter. “I’m honored to be your ‘best friend — of the opposite sex.’”
Watch back the hilarious moment in the video above and to see the adorable gifts Sisanie and Patty Rodriguez also gifted Ry.
“Thank You, Seacrest” Lyrics:
Thought I’d end up in promo
But it wasn’t a match
Tried to be cool in LA
Now I look back & laugh
Even almost got married
& moved to Arizona
Glad I can say thank you Ryan
Cuz you were my angel
You’ve seen me in love
You’ve seen me be not so patient
You’ve seen me in pain
Now I’m so amazing
I’ve loved and I’ve lost
& you’ve stood right beside me
Now look where I am
Look at all you’ve taught me
And for that I say
Thank you, seacrest
You’re my best friend thats the opposite sex
Spend more time with my cowokers
I ain’t worried bout nothing
Cuz they all like fam
We havin’ better discussions
I know you tell me to blink real fast
But I’m having a blast
Doesn’t even feel like we’re workin’
And I’m so good with that
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