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Pilot Locker for Pongo
Callsign: Pongo
Wing Status: Wing Technical Officer
Squadron: VMFA-321 Hells Angels
Total Flights:  85
Combat Flights:  7
Pongo's Basic Training Progress (completed)
Pongo's Last 10 Missions
01/12/20 Yoda F/A-18C Training Code I 1 01:20 00:00 00:00 VFR 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Flew on the CAW1 Training Server as a Flight Lead in the Pilot seat.
01/12/20 RedFrog F/A-18C Training Code I 0 01:00 00:00 00:00 VFR 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Flew on the CAW1 Training Server as a Wingman in the Pilot seat.
01/11/20 Casimir F/A-18C Strike Code I 2 02:00 00:00 02:00 VFR 1 0 1 (C1) 0 0 0 13 0
Flew on the CAW1 Combat Server as a Wingman in the Pilot seat.
01/11/20 BoneDust F/A-18C Escort Code III 0 01:15 00:00 01:15 VFR 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Flew on the CAW1 Combat Server as a Flight Lead in the Pilot seat.
01/08/20 Nomad F/A-18C Training Code I 0 01:05 00:00 00:00 VFR 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Flew on the CAW1 Training Server as a Flight Lead in the Pilot seat. Rockets and guns at the range.
12/09/19 T.Rex F/A-18C Training Code I 0 01:00 00:00 00:00 VFR 2 0 2 (C1) 0 0 0 0 0
12/04/19 T.Rex F/A-18C Training Code I 0 01:10 00:00 00:00 VFR 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Curiosity keeps me creative. I relentlessly browse the web for inspiring piece of news or work.
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Why Globalists Want to Contain Iran
June 3, 2018 vitalanon
By Chris Kanthan
Forget the hullabaloo about Iran’s nuclear program—Netanyahu and the Neocons have been screaming about the imminent demise of the globe by Iran’s non-existent nukes for more than twenty years. The truth is that Iran is in the crosshairs of globalists for four main geopolitical reasons:
Oil competition
In terms of world’s proven reserves, Iran is #4 in oil and #2 in natural gas. Thus, a free Iran will endanger Saudi Arabia’s role as the leading oil producer.
To give some historical context, the only reason that Saudis are so rich now is that Iran has been virtually isolated by crippling US sanctions since 1979. For decades before that, Iran was #1 in oil production and refining, but everything changed when Saudis colluded with international financiers to create the oil-for-dollar (“petrodollar”) scheme in the 1970s during the dollar crisis. In return, globalists turned Iran into a global pariah. Thus, in 1970, Iran was producing more oil than Saudi Arabia; however, by 1980, the Saudis were producing six times more oil than the Iranians!
A resurgent Iran will also mean competition to US oil and shale companies which have been ramping up production since 2011 (when Libya was destroyed!).
Challenge to Israel
Israel wants weak Arab neighbors that it can kick around and grab oil/land from – a prime example being Golan Heights, that has huge oil reserves. There are Israelis who dream of a Greater Israel, which encompasses land from many neighboring countries. Iran is strong and independent; it helped defeat Al Qaeda and ISIS jihadists in Syria; it’s very likely helping anti-Saudi rebels in Yemen; and it arms Hezbollah who can punch Israel in the nose if the latter meddles in Lebanon.
Divide and Rule; Weapons Sales
If everyone in the Middle East got along with one another, there will be no need for US military bases, and Saudi Arabia won’t be binge-buying US/UK weapons. That would be terrible! For the military-industrial complex, the Middle East has been a cash cow for the last two decades. Perpetual wars mean enormous war-profiteering for private contractors and defense corporations.
Then there are geopolitical elites, for whom controlling nations and regions is imperative. For them, divide and rule is an essential strategy. Hence they fuel the Sunni-Shiite, Saudi-Iran, Arab-Persian conflict and keep it just short of a full-fledged war — after all, corporations don’t want their pipelines and refineries to get destroyed. In geopolitics, this playbook is called “controlled chaos.”
Eurasian Alliance of Iran-China-Russia
There’s a huge struggle for the control of Eurasia, and Iran is a key piece in that geopolitical chessboard. As long as Iran was isolated and weak, it didn’t matter. But now Iran is getting into all kinds of military and economic alliances with Russia & China — the two countries that have been labeled by the Trump administration as “rival powers” and “revisionist powers” that have heralded an era of “great power competition.”
Iran is also key component of China’s Silk Road (also called Belt and Road Initiative or One Belt, One Road) — freight trains from China have to go through Iran on their way to Africa and the Middle East. Destabilizing Iran means sabotaging China’s Silk Road, and that would be very desirable for globalists.
However, if the Iran-Russia-China coalition survives, it will mean the following for the West:
** Unable to conquer Syria & Lebanon.
** Possible loss of Iraq, since there’s a huge Shiite majority. This, in turn, will lead to the formidable Shiite Crescent — four contiguous nations of Lebanon-Syria-Iraq-Iran. (*Lebanon = Hezbollah, in the minds of Israel/USA)
** Partial loss of Turkey, a pivotal NATO member. Erdogan-US relations are already on the rocks and Turkey is steadily moving into Russia’s orbit. Turkey is buying anti-missile systems (S-400) from Russia, partnering with Putin to build TurkStream pipelines that will bring Russian oil/gas to Europe, getting close to Iran, and planning on joining China’s One Belt, One Road.
** Partial Loss of Qatar as a vassal state. Qatar works hard to please the US/EU establishment and hosts a huge US military base. However, Qatar also shares the world’s largest natural gas field with Iran, which has become even more of a strategic and indispensable ally after the Saudi blockade last year.
** Possible eviction of US military bases from Afghanistan, a country that borders Iran and now wants to join CPEC — China-Pakistan Economic Corridor — that’s so promising that Pakistan is giving the diplomatic middle finger to Washington, DC.
Basically, the US is on the verge of losing its hegemony in a contiguous string of countries from the Middle East to China. The four leaders who’re actively working on this are the powerbrokers in Russia, Iran, Syria and Lebanon. China is quietly helping in the economic front, while being careful not to militarily challenge the US.
These are the reasons why globalists are fervently trying to topple the current Iranian regime. Neocons such as Bolton are partnering with MEK, a cult-terrorist group that was conveniently deemed innocuous by the US government in 2012, the same year when the US illegally seized $100 billion of Iranian assets and imposed devastating sanctions. Trump pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) gives the hawks one more chance to crush the Iranian economy through sanctions, which will also force EU companies to pull out of Iran.
Warmongers don’t care much about what happens after a regime change. If Iran is embroiled in a bitter civil war between Islamists & secularists for the next decade, it will just be splendid. The chaos can actually be used to chop up Iran into pieces — Baluchistan on the east, Khuzestan on the south and Kurdistan on the northwest. This will ensure that Iran will never be an influential regional power again. Of course, all this would also mean millions of refugees rushing into Europe and America, but geopolitical machinations are ruthless.
Chris Kanthan is the author of a new book, Deconstructing the Syrian War. Chris lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, has traveled to 35 countries, and writes about world affairs, politics, economy and health. His other book is Deconstructing Monsanto. Follow him on Twitter: @GMOChannel
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An Expansive New Fantasy
An Unfolding tale is a new and serialized online fantasy fiction, published in short, easily digestible chapters. Because new content is being added on a regular basis, so there's always something fresh to read. No more waiting months or years between novels.
“Great new ideas from the author to keep the dedicated, and virgin fantasy reader, enthralled from the start… The best part of "An Unfinished Tale" is that I get a new chapter every few days; the worst part is that I only get a new chapter every few days!” — Seth Wyga, Early Reader
The primary story arc of An Unfolding Tale will be found right here on this website. However, other related content will also be published through other media. Currently, we have two story arcs for your enjoyment
Shadows of a Fallen Prince
In a world threatened by shadows, his death is just the beginning…
When the crown prince of Relen'kar is suddenly and unexpectedly struck down, a diverse cast of characters from across the Realm—and beyond—find themselves cast into a struggle that will change the world forever. Haunted by the prince's far-reaching presence and threatened by an the shadow of an ancient enemy, they will find themselves drawn together in a struggle to find and protect the one power that could save them all.
And the one power that could destroy them.
Some will not survive and others will wish they had not, but none will escape the shadow of the fallen prince.
Set nine months before the events of Shadows of a Fallen Prince, Blue Amber follows the adventures of young Layne Calefar—a shipwright's son working in Stormholt.
When a chance encounter with the mysterious but fatally wounded ranger named Tamnar leaves Layne in the possession of a strange sun-shaped medallion, he suddenly finds his simple life turned upside down. Pursued by the same inhuman assassins who murdered Tamnar, Layne finds himself fleeing the safety of Stormholt with only a drunken mercenary for protection.
Together, they will undertake a journey which, while no more than fifty miles, might just as well have taken them across the Endless Sea. Compelled by both the medallion and his ill-conceived promise to Tamnar, Layne finds himself drawn to the very edge of the Shimmering—and beyond, into the wondrous and dangerous world of the Fey.
What he finds there will shake him to the core.
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Jami' ibn Tulun
This mosque was built for Ahmad ibn Tulun, son of a Turkish slave of the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun. He was sent to Egypt in 868 as governor of al-Fustat, but within two years he had been made governor of the whole country. Shortly thereafter, by refusing to send the annual tribute to the Abbasid court, he established himself as an independent ruler of the province. His family ruled in Egypt for 135 years, until 905. Ibn Tulun founded a new royal city on an outcrop of rock called Jabal Yashkur near the Muqattam range to the northeast of al-Fustat, razing the Christian and Jewish cemetery that was located on the hill to do so. This was a site to which many legends were attached: it was believed that Noah's ark had landed here after the flood, and that here God had spoken to Moses and Moses had confronted Pharaoh's magicians; nearby, on Qal'at al-Kabsh, Abraham had been ready to sacrifice his son to God. The city that Ahmad ibn Tulun built was called al-Qata'i', 'the wards,' descriptive of the allotments in which each group of his followers settled. In 905, when the Abbasids reestablished control, the city was destroyed and plowed under. Of its magnificence and scale all that survives is the mosque that formed its center. The mosque served as the new congregational mosque, replacing the Mosque of 'Amr, which was too small to accommodate the troops of Ibn Tulun.
Directly from his palace, or Dar al-Imara, which once stood adjoining the mosque on the qibla side, Ibn Tulun could enter the sanctuary via a door to the right of the minbar. This mosque was used for Fatimid ceremonies during the month of Ramadan. It was damaged when used as a shelter for pilgrims from North Africa to the Hijaz in the 12th c., but restored and refounded with madrasa-type functions by 'Alam al-Din Sanjar al-Dawadar at the behest of Mamluk Sultan Lajin in 1296. (Lajin had been one of the accomplices in the assassination of Sultan al-Ashraf Khalil ibn Qalawun, and while hiding in the deserted mosque, he vowed to restore it should he escape.)
The mosque is a rare architectural expression of the cultural hegemony of Samarra, Ibn Tulun's home. It is built entirely of well-fired red brick faced in carved stucco; it has ziyadas and a roof supported by arcades on piers.
The present off-center, spiral stone minaret with a mabkhara finial (the ribbed helmet carried on an open octagonal structure) is a rebuilding by Sultan Lajin of 1296.
The ablution fountain and dome were built on the site of the fawwara or fountain built by Ibn Tulun and destroyed by fire in 986. The fawwara, whose function was purely decorative, was housed in a pavilion comprising a dome carried on gilded marble columns. The original ablution facilities and a clinic were housed in the ziyada for hygienic reasons.
What remains of the roof of the room behind the mihrab is supported by wooden corbels, a local version of similar elements found in many buildings in North Africa and al-Andalus. The Andalusian influence is also manifested in the use of double-arched, horseshoe windows on the shaft of the minaret, in the entrance to the minaret's staircase, comprising a horse-shoe arch with a rectangular molded frame, and in the stone corbels supporting the cornice from which the tunnel vault carrying the bridge between the roof of the mosque and the minaret springs. This influence is accounted for by the resettlement in Egypt of Andalusian Muslim refugees who were driven out of their homeland by the Christian Reconquista (1212-60).
Since its renovation in 1999 little remains of the original plaster work, the courtyard has been paved and the fountain refaced in black marble.
See also the site record for the 2005 restoration of the mosque.
'Abd al-Wahhab, Hasan. "Al-Jami' al-Tuluni." Majallat al-'Imara 2 2 (1940): 105-112.
Berchem, Max van. "Notes d'archéologie arabe II. Toulounides et Fatimites." In Opera Minora I, 203-233. Geneva: Editions Slatkine, 1978.
Creswell, K.A.C. Early Muslim Architecture. n.p.: Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1940.
Cuneo, Paolo. Storia dell'urbanistica: il mondo Islamico. Rome-Bari: Laterza and Figli, 1986.
Hoag, John. Islamic Architecture. New York: Rizzoli, 1987.
Jarrar, Sabri, András Riedlmayer, and Jeffrey B. Spurr. Resources for the Study of Islamic Architecture. Cambridge, MA: Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, 1994. Resources for the Study of Islamic Architecture. Cambridge, MA: Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture.
Karnouk, Gloria. "Form and Ornament of the Cairene Bahri Minbar." Annales Islamologiques 17 (1981): 113-139.
el-Masry, Kamal. "Die tulunidische Ornamentik der Moschee des Ahmad Ibn Tulun in Kairo." PhD diss., Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, 1964.
Riegl, Alois. "The Arabesque." In Problems of Style, 229-305. Princeton University Press, 1992.
Swelim, M. Tarek. "The Mosque of Ibn Tulun: A New Perspective." Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1994.
Williams, Caroline. Islamic Monuments in Cairo: The Practical Guide, 46-49. Cairo: American University of Cairo Press, 2002.
Mosque of Ahmad ibn Tulun (Translated)
Masjid Ahmad ibn Tulun (Alternate transliteration)
Jami' Ahmad ibn Tulun (Alternate transliteration)
Ibn Tulun Mosque (Variant)
Mosque of Ibn Tulun (Translated)
Mosque of al-Maydan (Variant)
Ahmad ibn Tulun Mosque (Variant)
مسجد إبن طولون (Original)
876-879/263-65 AH; renovated 1077-1088/470 AH; rebuilt 1296-1297/696 AH; expanded 1882/1299 AH; renovated 1918/1330 AH and 2005/1425 AH, 876-879/263-65 AH; renovated 1077-1088/470 AH; rebuilt 1296-1297/696 AH; expanded 1882/1299 AH; renovated 1918/1330 AH and 2005/1425 AH
Tulunid
Shari' al-Saliba, al-Basatin, Cairo, al-Qahirah
Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn (Governor of Egypt and Syria) (patron) (b.835-d.884/220-271 AH)
Cairo (place) (969 CE/358 AH [Fatimid Foundation of Cairo])
Ibn Tulun Mosque Restoration
Exterior wall, northeast façade
Nasser Rabbat (photographer)
Nasser Rabbat
MIT Libraries, Aga Khan Visual Archive
IHC0163
Early Islamic Architecture in Cairo
Doris Behrens-Abouseif
The Rise of Islamic Archaeology
Gülru Necipoğlu, Stephen Vernoit
Restoration of Ahmad Ibn Tulun Mosque On-site Review Report
Mohammad al-Asad
Floor plan of Ibn Tulun Mosque, Cairo
Lesson 06: Architecture of Empire The Abbasids
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What will be the future of the 2016 traditional foreign trade advantage?
With the opening of the program, the combat model is officially launched in 2017.Looking back at 2016, our economy is still developing smoothly, but the world economy is still recovering.In this economy, our traditional foreign trade advantage is also weakening, and the new competitive advantage remains to be formed.
Look back to the development of foreign trade in 2016
Back in 2016, our foreign trade development form remains uncertain and unstable.The economy is complicated.The country is also vigorously promoting the favorable development of foreign trade economy and achieving good results.
Our country foreign trade import and export value significantly decreased in the first quarter, second quarter to achieve stabilized, continue to achieve positive growth, three or four quarter the year before the present low after high and steady in the right direction.
According to the customs statistics, China's total goods exports totaled 24.33 trillion yuan in 2016, down 0.9% from 2015.Of these, the export of 13.84 trillion yuan, down 2%;Imports of 10.49 trillion yuan, up 0.6%;The trade surplus was 3.35 trillion yuan, closed at 9.1%.
We look forward to the development of foreign trade in 2017
As 2017 opens, the outlook for the world economy remains underpowered this year.Especially trump, foreign trade environment is faced with many uncertainties and destabilizing factors, however, as the G20 consensus gradually implement, the renminbi to join the SDR, and foreign trade supporting policies takes effect factors will support the smooth running of foreign trade.
The 2017 foreign trade structure will be continuously optimized
All the way in the "area" strategy implementation, as well as supply side to speed up structural reform policy, under the impetus of the development of foreign trade in China since 2016 in the import and export trade mode structure, the main product structure, market diversification, main body structure, the trade structure optimization and improvement, 2017 will continue and will continue to optimize, mainly manifested in the following five:
The first is that international market diversification has steadily advanced.Our country on the "bric" countries as well as other countries along the "area" rapid export growth and thus to be of great importance to the business development of foreign trade in the emerging world;
Second, the proportion of general trade is rising;
Third, the export of private enterprises is further promoted.Private economy is an important part of the national economy development, the development of the socialist market economy plays an important role, become a vital force to promote the growth of foreign trade, is an upgrading and implementation of trade products, promote trade patterns, the innovation of the important carrier of the formats.The higher proportion of private economic and trade, which means that the innovation capacity, the active level and the quality benefit of the foreign trade in our country;
Fourth, the export of a complete set of large equipment is accelerated.As the world's first manufacturing power in our country, along with the "going out" strategy implementation and strategy of "area", the enterprise large-scale foreign investment, overseas engineering construction, in the process of the implementation of the international cooperation capacity, effectively promoting the equipment manufacturing and high value-added products export;
Fifth, the new mode of foreign trade is actively developing.Cross-border e-commerce, market procurement and trade, foreign trade integrated service enterprises continue to maintain rapid growth, "production - service" one-stop industry alliance pattern begun to take shape.These emerging models are becoming new sources of growth in foreign trade.
The 2017 services trade will accelerate development
New trend appears in recent years, international trade and investment, China's foreign trade development entered the new stage, the domestic and foreign economic trade environment requires the transformation of the development mode of foreign trade in our country, promote foreign trade to accelerate the upgrade, vigorously promote the development of trade in services.
China's service trade has been growing rapidly since 2016.Export structure to optimize, trade in services innovation pilot areas good service import and export growth, the approval of the state council to carry out the trade in service innovation and development during the first half of the pilot of the 15 provinces, municipalities, regional service trade import and export accounts for the proportion of 47.5%, an increase of 0.8% over the previous year.
The new growth areas will be fostered by 2017
One is, to adapt to the international Internet, big data, intelligent manufacturing rapid development trend, choose smart appliances, smart phones and other products as a key product in the future China's trade in goods exports, through policy guidance and financial support, innovation, subsidies and other measures to vigorously support;
Second, encourage enterprises to actively implement the "going out strategy", the construction of the international marketing network, increase government funding support, and give play to the role of Canton fair and other platforms, strengthen economic and trade exchanges, industrial cooperation, swap park construction, promote the foreign trade from quantity expansion to quality improvement, strengthen trade great-power status.
2017 will support the development of emerging industries
2017 will vigorously implement the optimal into optimal out of foreign trade strategy, circulation upgrade strategy, domestic and international market integration strategy, speed up the development of foreign trade comprehensive service enterprises, cross-border electricity, overseas warehouse, market procurement mode and new trade commerce, improve the efficiency of traditional trade.
One is, to promote cross-border e-commerce construction, strengthen the construction of business related customs clearance service platform system, improve the management of electronic payment system, speed up the development of cross-border e-commerce logistics services, and promote the development of cross-border e-commerce industry cluster, enhance the level of foreign cooperation of cross-border e-commerce;
Second, encourage the development of key cross-border e-commerce enterprises, attaches great importance to the new mode of foreign trade industry association, etc, comply with the foreign trade industry development trend, service enterprises as the core, build procurement, production, service integration, electronic information platform.
Three is, build a new type of "integration of foreign trade" system, foster internal combination, the management mode in line with international standards of commodity trading markets, in the main regional trade center has strong international influence of large-scale exhibition, supporting the construction of enterprise overseas marketing, logistics and warehousing for settlement of the network.
2017 will continue to use "One Belt And One Road" to boost exports
First, promote rational and orderly flow of various resources and configuration, stimulate the vitality of enterprises and potential, to support high-speed rail, nuclear power and other key areas of major engineering project cooperation, in order to increase the export of related equipment manufacturing goods;
Second, combining with our country enterprise development needs, and further intensify policy innovation, service innovation and regulation innovation, strengthen enterprise enhance the level of product quality, brand, technology, service consciousness, tries to build up a new foreign trade growth, improve product added value, a new competitive advantage and business models, improve the ability to develop the international market.
Facing the whole, in 2017 China's foreign trade environment is complex, but the tiger think breakthrough and innovation, beyond the traditional trade forms, is necessary to cope with the complexity of the environment strategy.Foreign trade enterprises need not only in terms of products, logistics, upgrades, more need to be in service, website experience, upgrade optimization on the marketing strategy.
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VOA explains non-coverage of Antifa attack on U.S. journalist Andy Ngo
BBG - USAGM Watch > Featured News > VOA explains non-coverage of Antifa attack on U.S. journalist Andy Ngo
BBGWatcher July 9, 2019
Featured News, Hot Tub Blog, Waste & Mismanagement
Amanda Bennett, Andy Ngo, Antifa, BBG, Doug Bernard, John F. Lansing, John Lansing, Press Freedom Editor, USAGM, VOA
BBG – USAGM Commentary
“VOA says that it is ‘uncertain if or how we might approach it’“
In comments to The Daily Caller, Doug Bernard, identified as Voice of America Press Freedom Editor, explained why U.S. tax-funded media outlet, which is managed by the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) and funded by U.S. taxpayers, did not cover under his watch the violent left-wing Antifa attack on conservative journalist Andy Ngo which happened in Portland, Oregon several days ago. Doug Bernard, who has been with the agency, previously known as the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), since 2002, was appointed several months ago to his press freedom reporting and editing job by VOA Director Amanda Bennett who previously praised his work as a reporter. The Daily Caller reporter pointed out that multiple other news organizations “have reported on the violence against Ngo, including Fox News, CNN, The Hill and more.” “2020 Democratic candidates Andrew Yang and former Vice President Joe Biden condemned the violence against Ngo. Eric Swalwell, who announced his departure from the race Monday, also condemned the attack,” the article said. The Voice of America and the U.S. Agency for Global Media did not initiate coverage of the incident.
VOA Press Freedom Editor Doug Bernard Quoted by The Daily Caller: “‘I’m familiar with the story; uncertain if or how we might approach it. Sort of lost the ‘news’ angle with time,’ Doug Bernard, VOA press freedom editor, told the Daily Caller News Foundation when asked if a statement had been released on the attack.
‘Hands more than full today with new report targeting dozens of Turkish journalists and groups, including BBC and VOA,’ Bernard continued. He did not respond to further questions asking to clarify why no report was issued on Ngo’s assault.”
Organizations For Journalists Not Reporting On The Attack On Andy Ngo After A Week By Shelby Talcott, The Daily Caller, July 8, 2019
Organizations For Journalists Not Reporting On The Attack On Andy Ngo After A Week
Multiple organizations that aim to protect freedom of the press and journalists have stayed silent on the Andy Ngo attack.
Doug Bernard who was quoted by The Daily Caller as saying that he is uncertain “if or how we might approach” the beating of U.S. journalist Andy Ngo story, had received generous praise from VOA Director Amanda Bennett at the time of his appointment as VOA Press Freedom Editor earlier this year.
In an email sent to staff on April 1, 2019, Ms. Bennett wrote: “You all know how important our new Press Freedom initiative is to VOA — so I am pleased to announce that Doug Bernard has been appointed VOA’s new Press Freedom Editor.”
The Voice of America central news division did not cover the Andy Ngo story on its main English-language website. Now VOA’s Doug Bernard says that he was “uncertain if” the violent attack on a U.S. journalist by a radical left-wing group deserved coverage from the Voice of America. VOA regularly reports on right-wing-inspired violence in the United States and has reported repeatedly charges that President Trump’s criticism of “fake media” inspires violence toward journalists, as well as comparisons of Trump’s criticism of “fake media” to suppression of the press by Lenin, Stalin, and Mao.
Amanda Bennett and USAGM CEO John F. Lansing, both appointed during the Obama administration, were informed on July 3, 2019 by a former VOA and BBG manager that the Voice of America was not covering the Antifa attack on journalist Andy Ngo story and generally ignoring mainstream conservative Americans and their organizations. They did not respond to the e-mail and did not initiate coverage.
Under Bennett’s and Lansing’s watch, several VOA journalists were posting multiple anti-Trump social media posts and memes, some of them of obscene nature. These postings continued for many months even after Bennett issued a weak warning that they should stop. The same VOA reporters did not post any anti-Antifa or anti-left-wing content on their social media accounts, some of them clearly linked to their VOA work, or posted any substantial criticism of liberal groups. VOA quoting and reporting on liberal advocacy groups has been vastly greater under Bennett’s watch than quoting and reporting on mainstream conservative advocacy groups even though the VOA Charter, which is U.S. law, requires a balanced presentation of American viewpoints.
Earlier this year, USAGM refused to answer a media media inquiry whether VOA journalists responsible for reporting on press freedom issues are severely biased. One such inquiry, which received no answer, was sent to both Bennett and John Lansing on April 3, 2019 when obscene anti-Trump posts apparently uploaded by and linked to a VOA reporter were still seen on social media. Most such posts by other VOA reporters were by then removed by them after remaining online for many months and in some cases for over two years.
Screenshot 2019-04-05 of a 2016 Facebook post attributed to VOA reporter
Screenshot (edited) taken on 2019-04-05 of a 2016 video reposted on Facebook by a person believed to be a VOA reporter.
In an e-mail to Bennett sent last week, a former VOA journalist pointed out that responsible mainstream conservative groups and individuals have practically no voice on the Voice of America while American Communist Angela Davis does.
Searches of the VOA News site for “Candace Owens” and for “Angela Davis,” or for “Robert DeNiro” and “James Woods,” show that VOA rarely quotes or mentions conservative American voices among political or entertainment celebrity figures. Bennett and Lansing did not respond to an e-mail inquiry about non-coverage by VOA of the Antifa attack on journalist Andy Ngo story. A search of the VOA English News website showed only one report about U.S. actor James Woods who became known for expressing his conservative views. The VOA report only referred to his film career. At the same time, VOA News had dozens of reports about another U.S. actor Robert DeNiro who is known for his liberal views and severe criticism of President Trump. In 2016, a VOA foreign language service posted without any balance a Robert DeNiro partisan political campaign video in which he called Trump “dog,” “pig” and similar names. Versioned in a foreign language, the VOA video could have targeted ethnic American voters. It included audio in English. The VOA video was eventually removed but without any apology or explanation from either VOA director Bennett or USAGM CEO Lansing. VOA and another USAGM media entity under Mr. Lansing’s watch, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), were accused in a New York Times report and by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) shortly before his retirement as chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee of illegally targeting Americans with Facebook ads.
USAGM CEO John Lansing has been reeling from numerous scandals under his watch, including the theft of tens of thousands of dollars by his ex-right-hand man at the agency, Dr. Haroon Ullah, whom Lansing had hired in 2017 and promoted as his spokesman on programming strategy. There are also new reports of a fake news video allegedly used by the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB) under the watch of the OCB director selected by Lansing. Bennett was also selected by Lansing to her VOA director’s position. Her appointment was in 2016. Lansing has been USAGM CEO since 2015.
New Scandals Rock Government’s Foreign Broadcasting Service
The United States Agency for Global Media is facing intensified scrutiny after two new cases raised questions about journalistic and financial management.
USAGM CEO won’t apologize for hailing ex-top aide who was a thief
BBG Watch - USAGM commentary In a much delayed and highly misleading message to employees of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), CEO John Lansing used half-truths and omitted many material facts to avoid making an apology for hiring and heavily promoting his former top aide Dr. Haroon Ullah. Lansing’s former Chief Strategy Officer…
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is mostly restricted by law from promoting its content in the United States except on request.
Ed Royce on USAGM Illegally Targeting Americans with Facebook Ads
OPINION Issues in the News: Royce Report on USAGM Illegally Targeting Americans with Facebook Ads U.S. International Media: Information War Lost by USAGM By The Federalist “…Oversight is not a game. It is a core constitutional function, a cornerstone of the structural checks and balances on which our federal government is built.…
Juri July 9, 2019 at 7:58 pm
Amazing hypocrisy and arrogance.
2016 Vote Alan Heil Amanda Bennett Andy Lack BBG bias Cold War Radio Museum Donald Trump employee morale fraud Haroon K. Ullah Haroon Ullah Hollywood Howard Fast human rights Hunter Biden Iran Jeff Shell Joe Biden John F. Lansing John Lansing journalism Mahtab Farid Masih Alinejad Myroslava Gongadze Nancy Pelosi Natalia Clarkson NPR propaganda Robert De Niro Russia Sandy Sugawara Soviet Union The Federalist theft Twitter U.S. Congress Ukraine USAGM Vladimir Putin VOA VOA Charter VOA Extremism Desk VOA Extremism Watch VOA Persian
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Bay Area / California
Labor & Education
Mid-Market / Tenderloin
Soda Tax/Food Politics
Reviews From CAAMFest 37
by Peter Wong on May 7, 2019
Cai Chengjie’s Rotterdam Film Festival award-winner “The Widowed Witch” shows that computer graphics aren’t necessary to make a film intriguing. All that’s needed is a mix of entertaining ambiguity married to some tart insights about human nature.
Er Hao, the titular supernatural being in question, proves a morally ambiguous heroine. Losing three husbands makes her either a black widow or a victim of a continual bad luck streak. The death of most recent husband Dayong seems a life-breaker as his passing has left her homeless and destitute. Finally, she gets raped by a relative under terrible circumstances.
Given what’s happened to her in the past, perhaps it’s understandable why Er Hao doesn’t believe she’s gained any supernatural abilities. She offers mundane explanations for what other villagers call her magical powers. Surviving getting publicly shot in the gut is possible if the gun isn’t loaded. If a slap to the face relieves neck stiffness, magical powers aren’t needed to accomplish that.
Yet Er Hao soon finds advantages to claiming she has magical powers. The powerlessness brought on by destitute widowhood gets replaced by leverage via the rural villagers’ superstitions. A supposed friend who refuses to pay back 2000 yuan borrowed from Dayong may be angered by Er Hao’s “accidentally” running over his cart. But when the ex-friend believes his neck stiffness resulted from a curse, he sings a different tune to the widowed witch. Most dramatically, a tough beating up someone stops quickly once Er Hao displays some uncanny knowledge of his personal life.
To be fair, Cai uses an inventively subtle way to show that the supernatural does exist and that the film’s protagonist does have magical powers. The extended opening color sequence featuring Er Hao trudging with Dayong through the snow feels like a non sequitur. The change from color to the black and white stock that characterizes most of the rest of the film shocks the viewer. It’s much later that it becomes clear the color images that pop up in the film are examples of the supernatural or at least supernormal intruding on Er Hao’s life. What opened the film was essentially the lead character’s near death experience, which she escaped by symbolically being brought back to life by the shaman.
The reason later supernatural occurrences are shown in black and white is quite simple. They show that the extranormal world has become a normal part of the widow’s life.
Despite Er Hao’s using her supernatural powers to her advantage, she doesn’t do so by scamming others to enrich herself. She uses these powers to help people. One guy, for example, gets advised to bulldoze the shabby vacation cottages he’s renting. He does and discovers a humongous gold nugget unearthed by the bulldozer.
Ironically, Er Hao’s advice soon causes her to discover her powers’ limits. The law of unintended consequences cannot be skirted by her powers. More importantly, human greed and callousness prove the equal of supernatural abilities. These cumulative truths wind up leading to tragic results.
Hearing a Spanish song being played at full blast in a Chinese restaurant setting may not be the most unusual moment seen at this year’s CAAMFest. But hearing that song while a quartet of young Chinese scuffle with someone in a bunny suit….that’s strange. It’s also the climax of Athena Han’s entertaining short “Bunny Man.”
A discussion on racial terminology provides the lead-up to the scuffle. Four Chinese friends are having a late-night dinner in a Canadian Chinese restaurant. They’re talking about whether the terms FOB (fresh off the boat) and CBC (Canadian Born Chinese) are offensive or rather a way of classifying people in a generally tolerant city.
The rhythms of the discussion are nicely rendered. Various rhetorical points verbally slide between Chinese and English, as if both languages are equally valid. Having Hong Kong film-like subtitles in both English and Chinese also buttress this point. Yet the discussion eventually reaches a rhetorical logjam, with nobody being persuaded or conceding anybody else’s divergent point of view.
How does the bunny suited figure provide resolution on this discussion? The figure’s presence seems initially unrelated to this debate. Yet the scuffle first provides a release for the Chinese diners’ frustrations.
However, what does it mean that the song “El Gatito” plays on the soundtrack during the scuffle? Is it really just a ridiculous non-sequitur? Or does that juxtaposition symbolize the absurdity of the personal intolerances displayed during the diners’ earlier argument ? Han wisely leaves it to the viewer to puzzle out the answer.
“Ten Years Thailand” gives a Thai spin to the near-future dystopia film begun with Hong Kong’s “Ten Years.” Filmmakers Aditya Assarat, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Chulayarnon Siriphol, and Wisit Sasanatieng use everything from understated drama to out-and-out fantasy (particularly in “Planetarium”) to generally depict the faces of openly secret repression. Weerasethakul’s short may seem the exception as no figurative jackboots can be seen. Yet it feels as if government repression is baked into a city’s very stones.
Gretchen Carvajal and Violet Wang’s short “Baraha” bills itself as a visual chapbook. Its raw materials encompass home movies, symbolic dance, poetry, and Tarot symbology. Following Carvajal through the phases of “Deception,” “Death,” and “The Moon,” the film sees her deal with the challenges of retaining her Filipino heritage while coming into her own personal power.
The opportunities represented by moving to America feel in Carvajal and Wang’s eyes to be not worth the shortcomings involved. They include not measuring up to a mother’s expectations, being ashamed of one’s own heritage, and even losing the ability to love oneself. In this regard, Carvajal’s father appears more supportive, tellingly feeding her fire ants to help her preserve her voice.
“Baraha” winds up being more than a survivor’s story. The fable told in “The Moon” metaphorically relates how Carvajal learns to rediscover her own inner light and share it with the world. If the life lesson in Carvajal’s short feels familiar, at least it’s expressed in a style that requires several views to unpack its lesson.
Director Justin Chon (the acclaimed “Gook”) returns with the autumnal and moving “Ms. Purple.” Semi-estranged siblings Kasie (Tiffany Chu) and Carey have been traumatized in different ways by their mother’s abandoning them in childhood. Their father’s slow lingering decline brings the two back together. The backdrop of downbeat classical music suggests their painful past keeps both siblings stuck in Los Angeles’ Koreatown in different ways. Chu particularly shines as someone trapped by other men’s priorities.
In Anna Mikami’s short “Bed and Breakfast,” a spacious snow country bed and breakfast suddenly feels very cramped for the two couples staying the night there. Lena, who’s there with her boyfriend Charlie, once had a serious relationship with Sam, her then-poetry teacher. Now the butch Sam has come with her lover Terri. And it’s not clear Lena and Sam’s feelings have been totally forgotten.
The fun in this straightforward short is seeing the supposedly banked passions between Lena & Sam slowly roar back to life. It hasn’t been that long since their relationship ended. Significant glances and stares asking such questions as “do you still love her” remain unsaid. By the time Lena and Sam finally have a moment alone together, their passion can no longer be denied.
Yet the unexpected encounter between the former lovers forces them to finally lay the ghosts of their former relationship to rest. Sam probably ended the affair because she realized it crossed a couple of very large ethical lines regarding fidelity and teacher-student relations. Lena finally accepts her reasons for doing so. Mikami captures Lena’s acceptance of that emotional truth with a nice visual metaphor.
Far less straightforward but far more satisfying is Becca Park and Jun Shimizu’s “Speak Easy, B.” It can be called a cinematic crawl through the wreckage of a terminated affair with a supposed soulmate.
B has gone for an initial consultation to a therapist for depression related to the end of her lesbian relationship. Through B’s imagination, symbolic clues to the causes of her depression can be found. These clues include a home in the desert, a photograph knocked off a wall, dancing waitresses, and even a basketball game with a boy.
Park and Shimizu don’t throw in odd moments such as B’s vomiting a meal solely for the sake of startling weirdness. These visual symbols offer ambiguous answers regarding the reasons for B’s unhappiness. The desert locale, for example, could represent B’s generalized feelings of emotional isolation.
The film’s images may capture what B cannot express in words. However, the context from B’s life associated with these images, such as whether friction between B and her ex-lover contributed to the break-up, is missing. Obviously finding the connections between these images will require a lot of therapeutic work. What’s not clear is how much B is intended to be a semi-fictional construct of director Becca Park.
Andrew Stephen Lee’s “Manila Is Full Of Men Named Boy” turns a father’s birthday celebration into an exercise in quiet humiliation for his estranged son.
Rodrigo Manatad is celebrating his birthday on the day Michael Jackson’s funeral is being telecast in the Philippines. Rodrigo’s estranged son Boy has returned from Los Angeles to Manila for his father’s birthday. However, Boy’s buying a teen named Bing Bong to pass him off as Rodrigo’s grandson. But what happens when Bing Bong makes a better impression on Rodrigo and his friends than Boy?
The reason for Boy’s ruse is hinted at by the film’s title. When lots of men share your name, how do you personally stand out? It’s probable that Boy’s failure to achieve success makes the younger man look in Rodrigo’s eyes like a mediocrity or even someone who’s failed at life. Instead of being a doctor, Boy’s just a nurse. Being childless and not even in a relationship count as more strikes against Boy. Finally, having strangers express their sorrow for Michael Jackson’s death grates on Boy because he doesn’t even personally know the deceased King of Pop.
Rodrigo’s treating Bing Bong more like a son than Boy winds up pushing the adult son’s last buttons. Sharing a love for smoking and drinking provides a bonding moment between the older man and his supposed grandson that’s denied the American visitor. Perhaps that’s why Boy interrupts Bing Bong’s karaoke performance with Rodrigo so that he can use the karaoke song lyrics to express the agonies of his bruised relationship with his father.
By the end, the only mourning Boy Manatad does will be for losing any hope for earning Rodrigo Manatad’s respect.
CAAMFest’s heartbreaking Closing Night Film “Geographies Of Kinship” rips off the benevolent veneer covering the decades-long international adoptions of Korean children. As Deann Borshay Liem’s documentary shows, humanitarianism proves less relevant to this industry than sexism, global politics, economic privation, moralism, and even racism. Her film traces both the history of this international adoption industry and the human cost represented in the stories of four adoptees.
Fighting in the Korean War may have created war orphans. But it was the American military entertainment districts known as Company Towns that would play a bigger role in boosting South Korea’s international adoption trade. More than a few struggling Korean women who worked in those towns produced kids from their sexual relations with foreign troops.
The presence of those kids became a multi-level embarrassment to Korean society. Thanks to the hojuk system, the kids’ lack of a Korean father made these mixed race kids non-citizens. Single motherhood was frowned upon in Korean society. The presence of mixed race kids also undermined Korean president Syngman Rhee’s drive to make a racially pure Korea. In this cultural context, sending mixed-race kids off for international adoption provided a quick and dirty solution for South Korea.
Liem shows how economic considerations also helped the Korean child adoption trade continue for decades. For the orphanages, foreign adoptions became a cash cow. When the Korean War ceasefire took hold in 1953, there were 317 orphanages. By 1968, there were now 600 orphanages which needed a steady supply of “orphans” to stay in business. Thanks to the absence of a social safety net, poor Korean families gave up their kids to reduce the number of mouths they had to feed. South Korean president Chun Doo Hwan used the population reduction made possible by foreign adoptions to help the country’s economic development. Even the 1990s’ Asian Financial Crash helped keep the adoption trade going through creating what were called IMF (International Monetary Fund) orphans.
The horrors of the history behind the Korean child adoption trade gets balanced out by the personal stories of several international adoptees. They include Estelle Cooke-Sampson, who was a bi-racial orphan; Dae-won Kim, who had to learn about his Korean heritage in secret; and Jane Jeong Trenka, whose fascination with family histories pushed her to find out about her birth mother.
Contrary to the rosy images of a better life outside of South Korea, these international adoptees led lives which were not fully emotionally satisfying for crucial reasons. Estelle, for example, thought of herself as primarily African-American thanks to a lack of exposure to Korean culture. More seriously, the hostility of Dae-won’s Swiss adoptive parents to their adopted son’s efforts to learn about his Korean heritage left him near-suicidal and suffering from PTSD.
The last third of the film follows attempts on both the personal and political level to rectify the wrongs brought about by the Korean child adoption system. On the personal level, the adoptees seen in the film work to find their roots or get reconciled to their Korean heritage with bittersweet results. At least one interviewee moves to South Korea to help other international adoptees reconnect with their birth parents. Estelle’s journey in particular proves the hardest emotional lift as she seeks both her actual Korean relatives and her birth name.
On the political level, things begin promisingly with adoptee LenaKim Arctadius’ public question to future South Korean president Kim Dae Jung. Her question sparks efforts to rein in the abuses of the international adoption system. But it would take nearly a couple of decades before South Korea’s government finally took effective action to begin curbing the factors that fueled the system.
One adoptee interviewed in the film states the long term goal of fellow adoptees very plainly: the return of their nationality, so they can belong to South Korea too. Estelle’s story shows just how long this journey may take to reach its end.
(“The Widowed Witch” screens at 9:10 PM on May 15, 2019. “Bunny Man” screens as part of the Altered States shorts program showing at 9:50 PM on May 10, 2019. “Ten Years Thailand” screens at 9:45 PM on May 11, 2019. “Baraha” screens as part of the “It Runs In The Family” shorts program showing at 5:00 PM on May 10, 2019. “Ms. Purple” screens at 7:30 PM on May 10, 2019. ”Bed and Breakfast” and “Speak Easy, B” screens as part of the “Out/Here” shorts program showing at 6:30 PM on May 13, 2019. “Manila Is Full Of Men Named Boy” screens as part of the “Flip The Script” shorts program showing at 12:30 PM on May 11, 2019. All these screenings take place at the AMC Kabuki Theatre (1881 Post, SF). “Geographies Of Kinship” screens at 7:20 PM on May 19, 2019 at the Roxie Theatre (3117-16th Street, SF) . For further information about tickets and the films, go to http://caamedia.org .)
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6 Days Tour with Paro Festival
Day 1: March 18th Arrival in Paro
Welcome to the land of happiness, also known as Druk Yul (country of the Drukpa Lineage, the Dragon People, or the Land of the Thunder Dragon.) Upon arrival at the Paro International Airport, you will be greeted in our traditional style by our guide and driver, who will be accompany you throughout the tour.
After that, we will gradually start with the tour and drive towards Thimphu (capital city, 1hr drive). On the way, we will stop for a short sightseeing at Tamchog lhakhang (Temple built by the famous saint from Tibet called Thangtong Gyalpo in 13th century.)
Then we will be moving directly towards the capital. First we will visit the Memorial Chorten (Built in the year 1974).
Then the famous 51.5m Buddha point (built in the year 2006). The Changangkha Lhakhang (built in 12 century).
Lunch will be at Folk Heritage (to experiment the traditional life style of the Bhutanese).
After that you will go visit National institution of Zorig Chusum (13 traditional arts and crafts).
Royal Textile Academy of Bhutan (is a national textiles museum)
Tashichho Dzong (Tashichho Dzong has been the seat of the government since 1952)
Day 2: March 19th Punakha
After breakfast, you will then start moving to Punakha. While going to Punakha, you will need to go across the Dochula Pass (3100m). Over there you will stop for a short sightseeing and tea break, while having tea, you can also see the beautiful Himalayas across.
Then visit Chimi Lhakhang (Madman’s temple)
Lunch at the Local Restaurant
Visit Punakha Dzong (fortress of glorious religion. It’s also known as Punthang Dechenphodrang, Legend says that Zhabdrung made the carpenter trulpizow balep made to sleep in chamber and he had been taken to paradise /zangtopelri of Guru Rinpoche and he got at the sketch and the model of the dzong)
Visit to the long suspension bridge in Punakha.
Day 3: March 20th Paro
Before starting your journey to Paro, for go for a short hike at Khamsum Yuelley Namgyal Chorten (Built by the third Queen Mother, Ashi Tshering Yangdon Wangchuck. This beautifully designed chorten took nine years to complete, using only religious scriptures to construct the four- story temple. Have to hike for 40minutes through the paddy fields and vegetable fields, into the chir pine forest.
Then start your journey to Paro. When you reach there, visit the National museum / Ta Dzong / Watch tower. (Ta Dzong actually means a watch tower to look after the province of Paro valley and served as a regional administrator as well as a store house which would ensure supplies in the event of warfare.)
Kichu lhakhang (Kichu it actually means the peaceful palace. The first temple was built by a 1st Dharma king of Tibet Songtsen Gampo in 7th century.) Then you can also visit the Late Dilgo Khyentse Rimpoche’s Museum next to Kichu Lhakhang.
Day 4: March 21st Paro Festival
After having a good breakfast, you will then drive to Paro Dzong to witness the last day holy mask dance festival and see the Thongdrol (Liberation at sight).
Day 5: March 22nd Tiger’s Nest
Today you will be visiting the most iconic structure in the valley of Paro, the Tiger’s Nest. The cave on the rock was there before 750 million years ago during the formation of the earth. It was only known after the arrival of Guru Padmasambhava in 746 A.D.
Day 6: Departure from Bhutan
Our guide and driver will bid farewell to you all and have a pleasant flight back home. We will be looking forward to seeing you again in future for another place to tour around.
Thank You & Tashi Delek!
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You are here: Home / LIFESTYLE / Automotive / Top 9 Cars for Women in Australia
Top 9 Cars for Women in Australia
March 5, 2019 by Ilias Hassani
Pictured: 2019 Toyota Corolla hatch. Source: Toyota.com.au
We’re always on the lookout for something better than we already have. And why not? Especially our vehicles! Cars in 2019 are getting better technology every day, with improved safety features that make more sense. Women all over Brisbane are getting rid of their old, unwanted cars for more efficient alternatives that assist better with driving and more.
Let’s have a look at the top 9 vehicles that we think you should get in case you’re planning to sell your scrap car for cash and make space for better things in life!
9. Mitsubishi Triton
According to the makers of Mitsubishi, the Triton has been ‘engineered beyond tough’. The superiority of the external features is owing to the sports bar, 18” alloy wheels, LED Daytime Running Lamps and an array of MiTEC safety and connectivity features. WIth the highly impressive torque, you can be assured that your vehicle will move with ultimate ease irrespective of the kind of load you put on it. It’s available with a different range of features to suit the standards of female drivers like 4X4 and 4X2 drives. The price range lies between $24,000- $50,000
8. Toyota RAV4
Did you know cars can be hot, too? But wait, we’re not talking about the Rovers or the Lambos. We’re talking Toyota! The refreshing new colours of the all-new Toyota RAV4 will give you enough reason to get one for your home. It has completely practical features like a power back door for when you have 10 bags of groceries in your hands and need to open the boot. Not just that, you can refuel your vehicle with the hybrid fuel economy – which basically means it has the perfect combination of electrical efficiency and the power of petrol.
7. Mitsubishi AXS
‘Buolt for owning the city’. This Mitsubishi beauty is the celebrity of cars for women. It’s got stacks of storage with assistive technology that can be handled without having a diploma in car mechanisms. It is also stylish and has LED daytime running lamps that make the model look even better. For black lovers, there’ a special 2WD Black Edition featuring black alloy wheels and black mirrors. If you want to feel like Emma Watson from ‘Perks of Being a Wallflower’s tunnel scene, there’s a panoramic glass roof with mood lighting. It also has urban friendly driving and the basic MiTec safety features that make it one of the top 10 cars for women in Australia! The price range lies between $23,000–$33,000.
6. Hyundai i30
The car that defines itself as ‘comfortable, luxurious, sporty.’ Are all of these three characteristics possible to be put together in a small car? Hyundai proved it can! With more variants that Uber itself, it gives you exactly what you want. I30 is like a customised car with remarkable features while being cost-effective. The safety features are looked after with Hyundai SmartSense advanced safety technology. The Hyundai AutoLink keeps you connected to your vehicle via an app! The final feature that made us drool over the car was the Australian Tuned Suspension that makes the car deliver the performance of a dynamic, comfortable and localised car.
5. Mazda CX5
An active driving display and rearview mirror with an auto-dimming function are two standard features of this fuel-efficient car. Ladies, now you don’t need to have great lighting in the car because the vanity mirror is illuminated already! With front heated seats and a seating capacity of 5, the Mazda CX5 has made its place in the Top 5 cars for women in Australia. You won’t have to worry about parking right anymore with smart city brake support, front and rear parking sensors and a 360 degree View Monitor.
4.Toyota Corolla
The all-new Toyota Corolla is not a surprise to this list. Every Australian, man or woman, will know the reliability of this car. The 2019 model has even more safety technology involved now, with every variant having seven airbags, active cruise control that will bring the car to a full halt by the use of the Autonomous Emergency Braking.
Toyota Corolla has been the epitome of affordability in cars with improved features every time. It is also cheaper to maintain than most cars and outlives most cars in its segment as well. It’s a win to buy this one, every time!
3. Ford Ranger
‘Designed for Purpose, the Ford Ranger is full of innovation and dynamic features. With variants for every need and its 5-star safety features, the Ford Ranger is among the top 3 this year! Leather trim and leather seats with an 8-inch colour touchscreen add to the comfort of the passengers and the driver. There is also a wide range of benefits available to all Ford customers like the 5-year unlimited kilometre warranty that offers servicing of your vehicle by a factory trained technician. Undoubtedly one of the best buys for working women who need to get work done faster and hassle-free.
2. Mazda 3
Available in Hatchback and Sedan, Mazda 3 is one of the two popular car choices amongst Australian women. With the Smart City Brake support and reverse camera, it offers assistance to drivers, much more than most car models in this segment. It also has the blind spot monitoring feature and satellite navigation for some additional driver assistance. It’s advance key-less entry and auto on-off headlights give greater convenience to the driver as well. WIth an awful lot of convenience and safety features, this almost tops the list of best cars for women in Australia.
1. Toyota HiLux
Toyota has always been a brand that you can trust. But what is special about the Toyota HiLux? Why is it part of the top ten cars a woman in Australia can buy? The noteworthy features of this car such as the advanced technology of Vehicle Stability Control make it more reliable. Toyota is famous for its durability and with Hi-rider underbody protection, this car is built for years of safe driving without spending excessive amounts on its maintenance.
Life is too short to drive an old, boring car for too long! If you want to sell your old car without any hassles and get one of these top cars, get in touch with the best car removal service in Brisbane, Swift Cash for Cars. They will pick your car up for free, and do your paperwork for you! They also offer cash up to $8,999 for old cars in any condition.
Wait no more, let’s go shopping!
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A TV documentary made allegations connecting Australian Crown Casino to organized crime. Their claims included human trafficking and money laundering. Moreover, the gambling firm published newspaper ads to deny the claims.
Although there are documentaries on how does a pay per head work and another topic, Australia was rocked with a hard-hitting one about a major gambling firm. Australia’s Channel Nine TV network and two newspapers investigated Crown Casino’s links to organized crime. In fact, they based their stories on leaked documents from within the company.
At present, Australian Crown Casino has casinos in Perth and Melbourne. In addition, it is planning to have one in Sydney. There are no plans to start a sportsbook pay per head operation.
Australian Crown Casino Investigation
The documentary stated Crown turned a blind eye to money laundering happening within its casinos. In addition, the company exploited loopholes in the immigration processes to get rich Chinese gamblers into the country without going through the proper procedures.
In addition, there are claims that Crown has connections with a brothel that was investigated for human trafficking. An independent Member of Parliament wants an investigation based on the documentary.
Andrew Wilkie told the parliament that the casino firm acted above the law in Victoria. He added that there were three police officers who stated that Crown was like an independent sovereign state in Victoria. The laws of the Commonwealth didn’t apply to them.
Although Wilkie failed to have parliament start an investigation, Attorney-General Christian Porter sent the allegations to the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity. However, the agency can only look into the behavior of federal law enforcement officials and not the casino firm.
The state of Victoria launched its own investigation on the claims. Some people want AUSTRAC, the country’s anti-money laundering regulator, to look into the cash going through Crown Casino.
However, Crown denied all allegations. In paid newspaper ads, the company said that it wants the deceitful campaign against them to stop. They accused the documentary of trying to damage their reputation. Also, it takes its legal obligations seriously. The best bookie pay per head providers will continue to monitor the developments of this case.
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Bronx artist's bagel cartoon wins Trader Joe's contest
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A cartoon that he drew about bagels titled "Tis the Seasoning" recently won him the Trader Joe's Fearless Flyer Cartoon Contest on Instagram.
Now his cartoon, which features the Trader Joe's Everything Bagel Spice, will be featured on the store's holiday guide.
And Carr has been on a roll this fall. He recently got his first cartoon printed in the New Yorker.
Carr says he carries notebooks wherever he goes, using his surroundings as his muse.
"My inspiration comes from daily life. I love living in New York City," he says.
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Economic diplomacy brief: infrastructure and trade
By Greg Earl, Deputy Editor of The Australian Financial Review
If infrastructure building is the new Great Game in the Indo-Pacific, the question is whether this week’s developments represent a warm-up for the main match or the creation of a junior league.
Some sort of cooperation between the US, Japan, and Australia to provide an infrastructure development pathway in contrast to China’s sprawling Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been touted in unattributed ways on the sidelines of various events for months.
This sotto voce approach has meant that an announcement was eventually needed just to maintain some credibility. But the trilateral partnership announced by Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop this week leaves as many questions unanswered as answered, not least what sort of financial resources are really envisaged. The same applies to the Trump administration’s commitment of a modest new US$30 million for regional infrastructure (See Jonathan Pryke and Richard McGregor’s 'The new US–Japan–Australia infrastructure fund'.)
And this raises some questions about whether the countries should have persevered with the more organic things they are doing rather than creating inflated expectations.
China’s capacity to inject a mooted trillion dollars into the BRI from disparate funding sources is coming under pressure from its own domestic growth challenges and some regional pushback led by the new Malaysian government.
But there is little sign that the trilateral partnership will be marshalling resources anywhere near the US$200 billion being touted by the China Development Bank alone.
Instead, the challenge is to embark on a consistent and gritty long-term process of proselytising transparent tendering procedures, proper post-construction maintenance programs, and prudent debt profiles.
Australia is already doing good work here, following the recent Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Sydney, with the smart cities program, pulling ASEAN countries into the Global Infrastructure Hub, and supporting an ASEAN infrastructure pipeline.
Japan could usefully join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and help take up the challenge of getting some of the Asian countries that most desperately need infrastructure investment, such as Indonesia and Vietnam, to agree on standards that would become a benchmark for everyone, including the BRI.
In the Mekong, where the Laos dam collapse has underlined the parlous state of water resources management, there are now three competing pieces of regional water diplomatic architecture that require better coordination.
Taking a non-confrontational approach to the BRI is sensible. But refusing to even concede that the BRI has changed the regional development landscape, as the Asian Development Bank’s latest 2030 strategy does, seems to be taking circumspection too far. The 30-page document, which otherwise sets out quite reasonable new directions, doesn’t even mention what is the biggest new presence in global development spending since the Marshall Plan and World Bank.
The only acknowledgement of the changed landscape comes in a passing concession to the rise of new institutions, after the ADB talks up the potential for partnerships with corporate and philanthropic foundations. Only then does it concede it will “strengthen its collaboration with new multilateral partners such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the New Development Bank”.
Some reserve about the ambitions of its member country China is understandable. Yet it’s the ADB’s widely quoted forecasts for the unfilled need for new infrastructure in Asia that provide one of the best prisms through which to view the potential challenge of the BRI.
Those ADB forecasts suggest that even if the BRI is seen as a trillion-dollar investment exercise over a decade, with less than half of that funding committed by Chinese players so far, there is plenty of unfilled infrastructure demand for others – including the US, Japan, and Australia – to fill.
Those concerned about the BRI should be pointing this out to the many countries which need the infrastructure, rather than overstating the BRI phenomenon. The problem is, that requires both diplomacy and cash.
Trade twists
This week, the World Trade Organisation’s latest report on trade barriers provided an interesting context for a major speech by Australian Trade Minister Steven Ciobo backing freer trade and a parallel regular gathering of his Trade, Tourism and Investment Policy Advisory Council (TTIPAC).
The WTO has fingered Australia as an enthusiastic user of anti-dumping actions, up there in the company of the US, India, and China, producing headlines such as this. The investigation scorecard was US (54), India (49), China (24), and Australia (16).
Anti-dumping investigations and actions have been creeping up in the past couple of years as the government has lauded its global free trade leadership with successes including the TPP-11, and somewhat overhyped opportunities such as post-Brexit Britain.
This under-the-radar protectionist action wouldn’t have come as any surprise to the TTIPAC gathering of business figures because they get the latest readout from the government’s unreleased polling on how the domestic mood towards foreign trade and investment is turning sour.
India to the rescue
After the Australian Federal Government’s surprisingly lacklustre launch of former Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade chief Peter Varghese’s weighty report on economic engagement with India (which we noted here), Ciobo has now embraced part of the core strategy and dropped any reference to a trade deal.
He has even refined Varghese’s innovative, but potentially sensitive, idea of focusing on selected Indian states rather than the whole country. Indeed, while Varghese picked 10 out of the 36 states and territories for attention, Ciobo has zeroed in on only three: Maharashtra, Karnataka, and West Bengal, although they are pretty obvious targets.
And perhaps in a canny way to make this palatable to those turning sour on foreign trade in the TTIPAC polling, Ciobo has revealed that Indians are the second highest tax-paying diaspora in Australia.
While Japan may well be the only deep-pocketed member of the three amigos now limbering up to provide an alternate Indo-Pacific infrastructure offering to the BRI (see above), its companies are notable for only playing a modest role in Australia’s domestic infrastructure construction boom. Europeans, Koreans, and Chinese competitors seem to play a bigger role.
A Japanese government–backed mission last month represented the latest effort to redress this hole in the bilateral business relationship, with Ambassador Sumio Kusaka ruefully noting how Japan’s low birth rate meant that its big and skilful construction companies now had to go abroad to survive.
Perhaps with an eye to the Chinese companies facing questions about their long-term maintenance of infrastructure projects, Kusaka argued that “one of the great strengths of Japanese businesses is that they are overwhelmingly very dependable and keen to develop long-term, mutually advantageous partnerships”.
There was a time when Australian companies would argue they could not penetrate the opaque nexus between government and business decision-making in Japan. So it was ironic to see potential Japanese investors and builders trying to get their heads around the curious new Australian policymaking process in the infrastructure sector known as the “unsolicited proposal”.
After being told that these insider deals without normal tendering arrangement were going to become more common, it will be fascinating to see whether or not corporate Japan will regard Australia as more like home.
This article was first appeared in The Interpreter, published by the Lowy Institute. Please click to read full report.
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How Fox News Pushes Trump to Make Every Bad Decision
No story has demonstrated the power of this unending Trump-Fox feedback loop like the partial government shutdown.
Matthew Gertz
Updated Feb. 03, 2019 2:59AM ET / Published Feb. 02, 2019 9:25PM ET
President Donald Trump’s announcement last Friday that he would end the longest partial government shutdown in U.S. history without securing funding from congressional Democrats for his long-promised border wall came after weeks of brutal headlines and sagging poll numbers.
But when Trump arose the following morning, he did not devote his time to convening his White House advisers to figure out what went wrong or reaching out to Republican congressional leaders to plot their next move.
Instead, he did the same thing he’s done on countless days of his administration: He turned on his television, tuned in to his favorite program, Fox & Friends, and started tweeting about what he saw.
For more than a year, I’ve studied this Trump-Fox feedback loop, the president’s habit of live-tweeting his favorite shows on the right-wing cable news network. I’ve tracked several hundred of the president’s often-hyperaggressive tweets back to particular segments on Fox News and its sister network, Fox Business, that caught the president’s eye.
Fox helped build Trump’s political brand and fuel his electoral rise, and in recent years has remade itself as a propaganda outlet in support of his presidency. Trump, in turn, has long been obsessed with the network. His worldview and decision making are shaped by the former network personalities with whom he has stocked his administration, the “Fox cabinet” of current stars he reaches out to for advice, and the hours of Fox programming he reportedly watches each day.
Having a superfan in the White House has given Fox outsized influence over both the news cycle and federal policy. The network’s efforts to infuriate its audience—over everything from NFL players kneeling in protest during the national anthem to a caravan of migrants slowly approaching the U.S. southern border—can trigger outraged presidential tweets, instantly turning the network’s particular fixations into national news.
And because Fox’s staff and guests are aware that Trump could be watching at any time, they often use the network’s platform to try to reach him directly, seeking to shape his decisions on political strategy, legal tactics, pardons, personnel, and more.
No story has demonstrated the power of this Trump-Fox feedback loop like the partial government shutdown.
Trump’s incessant craving for validation from the network’s conservative commentators triggered his initial refusal to sign any legislation funding the government that did not include money for a border wall, and then that need sustained his intransigence over the following weeks. His eventual cave shows the limitations of prioritizing the whims of right-wing infotainers during congressional negotiations. But there is no evidence Trump has learned anything from the crushing defeat, suggesting that he will continue trying to make policy with respect to the wall and other issues, on the basis of whether it pleases Fox hosts.
In September, I argued that Trump’s Fox affinity made a government shutdown inevitable. The same pattern kept playing out: House and Senate leaders would agree to a spending bill, Fox commentators would claim the bill betrayed the president’s base because it didn’t include wall funding, Trump would angrily tweet about the Fox segments and send Washington into chaos, and Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan would have to talk him into supporting the legislation. With Trump publicly declaring that a shutdown was a “great political issue” and explicitly citing Fox hosts as his inspiration for the tactic, the situation seemed untenable.
Three months later, it finally came to a head. As the December deadline to renew government spending loomed, Fox personalities again began urging Trump to shut down the government rather than sign a spending bill that didn’t include money for the wall. Once again, Fox’s influence was matched against that of Republican congressional leaders, who warned the president that a shutdown would be a grave tactical mistake.
But this time, Fox News won.
When the White House signaled that it was backing away from its wall-funding demand, furious network commentators insisted that Trump reconsider and instead shut down the government. The calls were loudest on Fox & Friends, the president’s favorite morning cable show. “If there's not a shutdown,” declared co-host Steve Doocy, “he’s going to look like a loser.”
Goaded by those he typically counts on for support, Trump reportedly “seethed and panicked” about the criticism, and then took their advice.
The president’s propagandists were jubilant. As portions of the government shuttered and hundreds of thousands of federal employees worked without pay for weeks, Fox’s airwaves were filled with cheers for the president and exhortations for him to remain firm. The hosts gave little indication of Trump’s grave political peril—to the contrary, they urged the rest of his party to stick with him regardless of the consequences. “If this takes 150 days, I think the Republican Party needs to stand united with the president,” argued Sean Hannity.
Trump made clear throughout the shutdown that he was prioritizing the support of Fox’s hosts over all other considerations. He consulted with Hannity and Dobbs for strategic advice about how to handle the shutdown, gave a national address in which he ripped language from their shows, and showed up on Fox programs to make his pitch directly to their audiences.
And as federal workers missed paychecks and his poll numbers plummeted, the president kept his television turned to the fawning reports of his favorite network and his iPhone open to Twitter. Trump sent at least 60 tweets parroting the network’s programming over the course of the shutdown.
The president trumpeted the polls Fox cherry-picked to suggest he was winning the shutdown:
He cribbed statistics the network aired about “Walls Around The World”:
He claimed that “Only a Wall” could protect Americans from a caravan of migrants the network repeatedly reported on:
He pushed Fox’s attacks on congressional Democrats who refused to support wall funding:
And he promised Doocy that he wouldn’t “cave”:
Cozying up to Fox News may have made Trump president. But as a legislative strategy, it was a total failure. It proved impossible for Trump to simultaneously ensure the support of far-right media figures accountable only to their audience and make a deal that attracted Democratic votes.
Fox’s own personalities understood the dynamic at play: During one heated debate, political analyst Juan Williams declared that Hannity was one of the right-wing commentators “running the government.” And Republican senators knew it too: One told Axios that Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner’s reported effort to try to end the stalemate with a major deal was impossible, saying, “Trump can withstand Ann Coulter. He can't lose Hannity and the rest.”
Hampered by these tensions, the president’s strategy eventually collapsed. With Democrats refusing to negotiate until he agreed to reopen the government, some federal workers beginning to revolt, and Republican senators on the verge of abandoning him, Trump finally gave in after 35 days, agreeing to reopen the government for three weeks while Congress attempts to negotiate an immigration package.
Trump’s decision to fold divided his Fox allies—even the hosts who had counseled the president on his shutdown strategy. Hannity offered a vigorous defense of his decision, arguing that “anyone out there” who is “thinking President Trump caved today, you don't really know the Donald Trump I know.” For Dobbs, however, the news was “a victory for Nancy Pelosi... and to deny it is to try to escape from reality.”
But neither Dobbs nor the president appeared to hold a grudge—by Thursday morning, Trump was tweeting about the previous night’s episode of Dobbs’ show, using the Fox host’s talking points as evidence that a border wall is necessary. Based on that program, Trump argued that Republicans negotiating an immigration deal “are wasting their time” because Democrats will not provide money for the “DESPERATELY needed WALL.” “I’ve got you covered,” he ominously added.
That seemed to be a reference to Trump’s likely endgame: declaring a national emergency in order to divert previously appropriated federal funds to wall construction. Ever since Trump first suggested that he might take that step in early January, Fox hosts have been urging him to do it, claiming that, in Dobbs’ words, the “only way forward” is for Trump to “simply sweep aside the recalcitrant left in this country” and do so.
Republican congressional leaders keep warning Trump that declaring a national emergency is a terrible idea that won’t serve his ends, and up until now, he’s listened to him. But we’ve seen how this played out before. The president will continue to wallow in Fox’s programming, as night after night its hosts tell him that the declaration is his only way to win. And eventually, he will listen.
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Welcome to The Official Clarinet Pages Harry Pedler Thread.
Here you will find what will hopefully become the most comprehensive collection of Serial Number data on the Harry Pedler marque in cyberspace, as well as historical insight into the marvelous, mysterious maker who excelled as a pioneer and innovator--Mr. Harry Walter Pedler, himself. Many very thoughtful and motivated people are to thank for the information thus far accumulated, and herein documented.
I offer my most sincere appreciation to Phil Pedler for making all of this possible in the first place, and for his tireless dedication to the preservation of clarinet history in its many forms across a multitude of spectrums, our own Silversorcerer for initially getting me interested in Pedler clarinets, his insistance that I start a HP thread, and his vast initial contribution of serial number data that enabled me to cobble together a noteworthy and legitimate list "out of the gate", Dean McMakin for his phenominal collection of Elkhart data and tremendous, personal dedication to the incredible Indiana musical instrument industry at large, and our own Rocket350 for his insight, personal notes on Harry Pedler serial numbers and model designations, photographic contributions of warranty cards, and assistance in finding legitimate sources of information on the internet, scanned from the original sources dating from the beginning of the last century. I thank those, too, who selflessly went to the trouble to make such information available to us. AND I thank all of you who have engaged this thread with your insights and contributions. There will no doubt be a good many more who offer future contibutions for which we will be forever thankful.
Please keep in mind that this thread is a work in progress, and while fact, or presumed "fact" will be stated as fact, there will be many instances where factual data is not, or "not yet" available, and it will be stated as such. As it is, there shall be many amendments to original posts, going forward. It is my hope that we can develop a timeline with an accumulation of serial numbers, random bits of data, advertisements and with good fortune, a sales receipt or two. I appreciate EVERY contribution of information, as this list will serve all who seek information on this topic. I will accept folklore, readily, and present it as such, until such information can be confirmed as fact, maintained as folklore, or easily disputed. The way we grow and learn is through the sharing of information, so I invite each knowledgeable reader to share what (s)he knows, or thinks (s)he knows. Understand that we are "writing history" right now, presumably based upon honest representation and careful calculation of all we glean. It is our inherent responsibility to be as accurate as available information will allow. This is exciting and dangerous territory. Readers beware:
What we think we know for certain:
Born 21 January, 1872 in London, Harry Walter Pedler Sr. was "cherry-picked" from his native England by William J. Gronert (AKA: "Tommy Atkins", born 30 December, 1851 in Hastings, England) --a fellow Englishman, and associate of Charles Gerard Conn in July of 1905, at which point he was already considered a master clarinet craftsman, having been taught the trade by his tenure with Rudall, Carte and Co., LTD from the age of 13 (1885) first as an apprentice. At the age of 28 (1900), he reportedly left Rudall, Carte and Co., LTD, and began his own clarinet manufacturing business under his own name, until being ushered to the United States by Gronert with his wife, Louisa Hughes Pedler, and 5 year old son, Harry Junior. Pedler worked for and with Conn until 1914, when, yearning for home, he left Conn's employ. Bags in hand, his return to London was abruptly hampered by the outbreak of WWI, and was unable make the voyage. Whether or not he ever returned to England is unknown. In 1916, Harry Pedler and William J. Gronert founded the American Manufacturing Company. It is interesting to note that Gronert worked for Conn until 1911, and "then organized the Elkhart Musical Instrument Company which merged with the Martin Band Instrument Company, of which he was the secretary and general manager at the time of his death". (Taken from his obituary posted in The Elkhart Truth, 26 July 1919). This information raises more questions (and eyebrows) than it answers, as it would imply he worked concurrently with Pedler and the MBIC. Any contract that may still exist, written up between any of the aforementioned fellows during their tenure with one another, would perhaps tell us about the hierarchical culture that existed at the time.
Upon Gronert's death on 25 July, 1919, Harry Pedler re-branded the company (see: Presto; February 12, 1920, for announcement) under his own name, and in March of 1930, Harry Pedler sold his company to The Martin Band Instrument Company (MBIC), but continued on in senior management capacities, and oversaw the perpetuation of his legacy until his departure, reportedly in April of 1931, (Thanks to 350 Rocket, we have an account from an April 1931 edition of Music Trade Review, confirming Harry Pedler Sr's and Jr's resignation from MBIC. The same article also mentions Harry Pedler founding his business in 1914, which is an oversimplified interpretation of actual events) when he and his son, reportedly displeased with the direction of production under MBIC left the company abruptly and ultimately went to work with Ferdinand August "Gus" Buescher (of saxophone fame at the time, though he also dabbled in clarinets) on 23 July, 1932, making brasswind instruments.
By December of 1937 (and one account I have states 1936) MBIC-made Pedler clarinets would no longer be stamped, "Harry Pedler and Co.", and were instead ALL stamped "The Pedler Co." when Harry Pedler changed the name of his joint venture with Buescher from Art Musical Instrument Company and re-branded the company "Harry Pedler and Sons", directly after Gus Buescher's death on 29 November, 1937. This is significant, because there was a 6+ year window after Harry Pedler's departure from MBIC, where his name DID, INDEED adorn production clarinets in its original form, without his own influence. I consider this April 1931-December 1937 window of time "transitional".
To complicate matters, some true Harry Pedler clarinets made prior to April 1930 were also stamped "The Pedler" and other similar variants, but to re-iterate, no clarinets after December 1937 were authorised to be stamped "Harry Pedler and Co.", as Harry Pedler had re-secured rights to his name by this point.
Thus far, evidence showing that any true Harry Pedler clarinets (1919-1930) were adorned with a serial number is scarce, and a good many clarinets were not even engraved at all--even with his name, sometimes, during the earliest years. The standing exception is that BBb models may have been serialized early in their production, and 350 Rocket makes mention of serialization starting in 1928 with the Premiere model, and noting that all metal Pedler clarinets have perhaps always been serialized. I now have in my possession what most clearly appears to be a post-1923/pre-1931 Albert System top joint, Model 1544, myself, which bears a serial number. Until further evidence surfaces, however, it is a cautious measure to operate under the calculated assumption that the serial number process officially began when Martin Band Instrument Company took the reins in March of 1930, but I look forward to disproving this, if such factual data is made available.
Several different materials were used in the construction of both Harry Pedler and The Pedler Co. Clarinets: Rosewood, Grenadilla wood, Hard Rubber (Ebonite), "Gren-O-Lite", and Silver-plated brass. It has been reported that the early heavy guage metal clarinets were not manufactured of silver-plated brass. Rather, they were constructed entirely out of solid nickel-silver. I cannot substantiate this claim, but I would appreciate the insights of those who may know and/or own such instruments. The professional model, heavy guage, single walled metal clarinets have been recorded at 914 grams (see reference, this site). It has been said that Harry Pedler preferred Hard Rubber, and made clarinets in metal or wood upon request or demand.
At the height of production, Harry Pedler expanded his business to keep up with the demand for his clarinets. It has been (incorrectly, I believe) reported that he could manufacture over 500 clarinets per day (The music Trade Review, June 23, 1923) and then reported 6 months later that he could manufacture 600 clarinets per month (The Music Trade Review, December 29, 1923). The manufacture of 7200 clarinets, per year--Pre-Martin, is a lofty, but plausible expectation from a medium-sized shop of 10,000 square feet and 70 workers (Presto-Times, March 1930), whereas the projected manufacture of 180,000 clarinets per year is most certainly not.
In 1937, upon MBIC relinquishing the rights to the Harry Pedler brand, the name "Harry Pedler" would never adorn another woodwind; only brasswinds. While a good many of the MBIC clarinets produced after April 1931 were designed and intended primarily for the student market, high-end professional models were also made. Harry Walter Pedler Sr.'s legacy primarily resides in his own, fantastic self-branded clarinets made prior to 1931, and the truly exceptional, laboriously hand finished, carefully and cleverly executed professional level clarinets manufactured by MBIC that were simply a more refined, direct extension of Harry Pedler's original designs.
Harry Walter Pedler Sr. died 25 September, 1950, in Elkhart, Indiana. At the time of his death, His son, Harry Walter Pedler Jr. took over as chief of their brasswind venture, and ultimately sold the business to Selmer in 1958.
« Last Edit: March 10, 2018, 06:08:18 PM by Windsong »
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Re: Harry Pedler and Co./The Pedler Co. Serial Number List
HARRY PEDLER/THE PEDLER, CO. SERIAL NUMBER LIST:
* All clarinets, unless listed otherwise are Bb Sopranos in the BOEHM SYSTEM. While Harry Pedler made clarinets in the keys of A, C, and Eb, I have only ever seen one Eb in metal. I have in my possession, literature published by Harry Pedler from 1924 verifying their existence, however.
** All clarinets listed are deemed or known to be Low Pitch (A=440Hz). I have never seen a HP Harry Pedler, and firmly believe none exist. I have come across no literature stating any were ever made—even in the Albert system.
*** All clarinets listed were made between 1919-1956. When specifics on dates are made available, especially as they relate to prefix model range, they will be posted.
**** I have personally examined a good many of the clarinets on this list, either from handling the clarinets personally or careful scrutiny of photographs from internet auctions, and conversing with owners and sellers in cyberspace whom I will likely never actually meet. Quite literally, thousands of hours have been spent in the culmination of data (including the time of generous others who have selflessly contributed to this project for purpose of historical preservation of often fleeting information) recording and examining clarinets to ensure accuracy, but no claims are made to 100% accuracy. If you know of reported data that is incorrect or seems incorrect, please make it known, and it will be investigated/corrected. If you own (or come to own) any clarinets listed, and can provide further details of any kind, I'd be most obliged.
HARRY PEDLER CLARINETS, SANS SERIAL NUMBER
No S/N...Hard Rubber..."Harry Pedler & Co." In oval with lyre crown...17/6 Boehm with "Pedler Appliance" ( no crow's foot)..."A" hand scribed key batch marks under LH pinky keys.
No S/N...Grenadilla wood..."Harry Pedler & Co." In oval with lyre crown...17/6 Boehm with "Pedler Appliance"
No S/N...ALBERT SYSTEM SOPRANO...Model 152 (2-ring, non-roller pinky keys)...Hard Rubber..."Harry Pedler & Co." in diamond logo (stamped on mouthpiece, barrel and bell)...50/50 case...over/under thumbrest screws..."wrap-around" register key. ("KESSELMAN-O'DRISCOLL Co. MILWAUKEE, WISC. DISTRIBUTORS" stamped on bell underneath diamond logo).
No S/N...ALBERT SYSTEM SOPRANO...Model 1544 (4-ring, roller pinky keys)...Hard Rubber..."Harry Pedler & Co." in diamond logo (stamped on mouthpiece, barrel and bell)...over/under thumbrest screws.
No S/N...Hard Rubber..."Harry Pedler & Co." in oval with lyre crown...50/50 case...18/7 ( Augmented model 177?)...over/under thumbrest pinning..."Pedler Appliance" (i.e. no crow's foot)..."D" stamped key batch marks under LH pinky keys...G#/A adjustment screw.
No S/N...Bass Clarinet, Model 201A...Rosewood..."Harry Pedler & Co."..."USQMC" (United States [ARMY] Quartermaster Corps)...(see photos, this thread)
No S/N...Bass Clarinet, Model 201A...Rosewood..."Harry Pedler & Co."..."USQMC"...open ring at LH1.
NON-METAL CLARINETS, SANS PREFIX
1103...BASS CLARINET, Model 201A...Rosewood..."Harry Pedler & Co.".
1105...BASS CLARINET, Model 201A...Rosewood..."Harry Pedler & Co."...open ring at LH1...(possibly pre-1931)
1126...BASS CLARINET, Model 201A...Rosewood..."Harry Pedler & Co."...complete plateau upper joint...(likely pre-1931)
3762...Hard Rubber...top joint only...Model 1544 (15 key, 4 ring) ALBERT SYSTEM SOPRANO
14911...Grenadilla Wood..."The Pedler Co." In oval w/ lyre crown...top joint only (split through register key)...cannibalized for a few keys...RIP (ODD, but in personally examining the on-line photo, I see no prefix)
P2910...Grenadilla wood..."Pedler Special" (no oval)...Geib style “Pedler” branded case...18/7...over/under thumbrest screws...crow's foot.
P3397...Grenadilla wood..."Pedler Premier" (no oval)... knurled adjustable top barrel ring...Geib style tan case.
P4217...Grenadilla wood..."Premier By Pedler"...17/6...over/under thumbrest screws...crow's foot...Authentic, branded Geib case, also with Pedler tag.
P8706...unknown composition..."Premier By Pedler"...17/6...over/under thumbrest screws...crow's foot.
P9218...Wood..."Harry Pedler & Co. Premier"..18/7.
P10354...Wood..."The Pedler Co."...17/6.
P11172...Wood..."The Pedler Co." in oval with lyre crown...17/6...crow's foot...over/under thumbrest screws...original Geib style case...individual upper joint trill key posts.
P11297...Wood..."The Pedler Co."...17/6
P11664...Wood..."The Pedler Co."...17/6...conventional "Pedler" branded case...crow's foot.
P11807...Wood..."The Pedler Co." in oval with lyre crown...17/6...crow's foot...twin under thumbrest screws...individual upper joint trill key posts.
P11825...Wood..."The Pedler Co."...17/6...hard rubber bell and barrel with "Harry Pedler and Co." logo in oval w/ lyre crown.
P12138...Wood..."The Pedler Co." in Oval with lyre crown...4 upper joint trill key posts...17/6...crow's foot...twin, "under-thumbrest" screws...silver plated keys...Pedler-branded Geib style case.
P13800...Wood...The Pedler Co." in oval with lyre crown and "Premier"...17/6...crow's foot...
P14718..."The Pedler Co"...4 upper joint trill key posts...17/6...Geib case.
P14776...wood..."The Pedler Co."...17/6...crow's foot...twin “under-thumbrest” screws.
P15168...Wood..."The Pedler Co." in oval with lyre crown...17/6...crow's foot...Pedler branded Geib style case...twin under-thumbrest screws.
P16116...Wood..."The Pedler Co." in oval with lyre crown...17/6...crow's foot...4 upper joint trill key posts...silver plated keys...S/N on UJ and LJ.
P19356...Wood..."The Pedler Co." in oval w/ lyre crown...17/6...crow's foot...early 1940s Pedler-branded case...over/under thumbrest screws...S/N on UJ and LJ.
P19631...Wood..."The Pedler Co." in oval w/ lyre crown...early 1940s Pedler-branded case...17/6...crow's foot.
P19805...Wood..."The Pedler Co." in oval w/ lyre crown...unbranded, mid-to-late 1940s case (medium brown, rectangular w/ rounded corners)...twin under-thumbrest screws...4 trill posts...new "T-style" bridge key (post WWII)...S/N on UJ and LJ...crow's foot
P22229...Wood..."The Pedler Co." and "Pedler Pennant"...
E1136...Guarantee Bond only...Hard Rubber...Professional Model...Signed by Sid Pedler.
E1352...Hard Rubber...17/6.
E1430...Hard Rubber...Hoosier model...17/6...With Guarantee Bond signed by Sid Pedler.
E3089...Hard Rubber..."American, The Pedler Co." (no oval)...Geib case w/o Pedler brand...S/N on LJ prominently, and faintly on TJ...factory lyre band on LJ socket ring...17/6...over/under thumbrest screws...crow's foot.
E3253...Hard Rubber..."Premier, The Pedler Co."...18/7.
E6781...Hard Rubber..."Pedler Hoosier, Elkhart, Indiana" (open logo)...17/6...Crow's foot...over/under thumbrest screws...shared throat trill posts...Pedler-branded flat, rectangular, snake-skin 50/50 case.
E13866...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co."...17/6.
E14613...Hard Rubber...Pedler Hoosier, Elkhart, Indiana" (open logo)...17/6...Crow's foot...over/under thumbrest screws...shared throat trill posts...Pedler-branded Geib case.
E15301...Hard Rubber..."Art Craft Symphony" bell engraving...17/6...crow's foot...unusual 50/50 case.
E15828...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co." in oval w/lyre crown...50/50 snakeskin case w/Pedler brand...17/6...S/N on UJ (and perhaps on LJ?).
E16298...Hard Rubber..."American, The Pedler Co." (no oval)...Geib style Selmer case...17/6...S/N on UJ and LJ...factory lyre band on LJ socket band...crow's foot.
E16299...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co." in oval w/lyre crown...50/50 case...17/6...factory lyre band on LJ socket ring...17/6...Single(!), under-thumbrest screw...crow's foot.
E16705...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co." in oval w/ lyre crown...17/6...no case...factory lyre band on LJ socket ring...crow's foot.
E17423...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler co." In oval w/lyre crown...17/6...original Geib style case...crow's foot...shared upper joint trill key posts...bell is grenadilla, and stamped "American".
E17772...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co." In oval w/ lyre crown...17/6...crow's foot...individual top joint trill key posts.
E19190...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co." in oval w/ lyre crown...Geib case w/o Pedler brand...S/N on UJ and LJ...18/7..twin under-thumbrest pins..."Pedler Appliance" (i.e. no crow's foot).
E20675...Warranty card..."The Pedler Co."...Bb...Model 157...(date of 8/21/47 handwritten on top of card. Penmanship is notably different on 2s and 7s, as is ink color. Added after the fact for posterity, perhaps.)
E21640...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co." in oval w/lyre crown...17/6.
E22104...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co." In oval w/lyre crown...17/6...Geib case, original ligature.
E22124...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co." in oval w/lyre crown...17/6...Geib case...4 upper joint trill key posts.
E24581...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co." In oval w/lyre crown...17/6...Geib style "Pedler" branded case...4 upper joint trill key posts...twin under-thumbrest screws.
E28067...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co." without oval logo...17/6...50/50 case with storage slot...4 upper joint trill key posts...correct single screw ligature and mouthpiece.
E30525...Hard Rubber...17/6...individual upper trill key posts...twin under-thumbrest screws...original Pedler case.
E30970...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co." in oval w/ lyre crown...17/6...Pedler-branded Geib style case.
E31115...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co" in oval with lyre crown...17/6...Pedler flat case...ringless bell.
E31699...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co"....17/6.
E32334...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co" in oval with lyre crown...17/6...crow's foot...Lyre holder socket ring...original, Pedler-branded, Geib style case in medium brown...thin plating on keys...original mouthpiece
E33152...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co"....17/6...bakelite bell?
E34363...BASS CLARINET...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co." in oval with lyre crown...S/N on UJ and LJ.
E36489...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co." in oval with lyre crown...17/6...twin, "under-thumbrest" screws...4 upper joint trill key posts...Pedler branded Geib style case in tweed (dark brown leatherette is standard, though they are found in tan and medium brown, too)...lyre holder socket ring.
E37071...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co."...conventional "Pedler" branded case...17/6...crow's foot.
E38008...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co." in oval w/ lyre crown...17/6...twin, under-thumbrest screws...4 upper joint trill key posts...crow's foot.
T6178...Wood..."Trophy" in script on top front of upper joint, "Pedler" above a trophy cup and "Elkhart Indiana" below it, engraved on barrel...17/6...crow's foot.
T6510...Wood..."Trophy" in script on top front of upper joint, "Pedler" above a trophy cup and "Elkhart Indiana" below it, engraved on bell...17/6...crow's foot...Pedler branded case.
N24803..."The Pedler Co."...17/6 (UNICORN of the bunch. Mis-recorded, or rarest of the Pedler breed?)
W-SERIES:
W267...Grenadilla wood..."Harry Pedler & Co." In oval with lyre crown...17/6..."Pedler Appliance" (i.e. no crow's foot).
W709...Grenadilla wood..."Harry Pedler & Co." In oval...17/6..."Pedler Appliance".
W3211..."The Pedler Co." silver keys...adjustment screw at crow's foot.
W8007...Wood..."The Pedler Co."...18/7..."Pedler Appliance" (i.e. no crow's foot)...matching serials on UJ and LJ...pinned top joint.
W8267...Wood ..."The Pedler Co."...18/7...articulated C#/G#..."Pedler Appliance" (i.e. no crow's foot).
W8862...Wood..."The Pedler Co." in oval w/lyre crown...19/7...articulated C#/G#..."Pedler Appliance".
W11407...Wood..."The Pedler Co." In oval with lyre crown on top joint and bell...S/N on top rear of top joint, and bottom rear of bottom joint...short barrel and long top joint...silver-plated keywork...blue, forged needle springs...17/6...4 upper joint trill key posts..."Pedler Appliance" (i.e. no crow's foot)...no case.
W14830...ALTO CLARINET...Wood...complete plateau.
W17337..."The Pedler Co."...adjustment screws at crow's foot.
W17392..."The Pedler Co."...Silver keys..."screw ring key adjustment"
W17490...BASS CLARINET...wood..."The Pedler Co." in oval with lyre crown, and "Custombuilt" art deco bell.
W19822...BASS CLARINET...Wood..."The Pedler Co." in oval w/lyre crown...S/N on UJ and LJ.
A850...Grenadilla wood..."Harry Pedler & Co." In oval...17/6...over/under thumbrest screws...crow's foot...matching S/N on UJ and LJ.
A2915...Grenadilla wood..."American, The Pedler Co." (no oval)...Pedler-branded Geib case...s/n on LJ only...17/6...over/under thumbrest screws...crow's foot...original "The Pedler" mouthpiece.
A3395...Wood...17/6...crow's foot..."The Pedler Co." In oval with lyre crown...original Pedler branded Geib style case..."Sgt. Bob Mitchell, HQ 4th Army" tag in case liner, and "US" stamped into barrel.
A3666...Wood..."American, The Pedler Co." (no oval)...Pedler branded Geib style case...17/6...over/under thumbrest screws...crow's foot...lyre mount on lower joint tenon socket ring.
A3893...Grenadilla...UNBRANDED...17/6...crow's foot...lyre mount on lower joint tenon socket ring...50/50 case.
A4522...Wood..."American, The Pedler Co." (No oval).
A5793...Wood..."American, The Pedler Co."...17/6.
A6909...Wood..."The Pedler Co." in oval with lyre crown, and "American By Pedler" on bell...individual top joint trill key posts...lyre mount on lower joint tenon socket ring...Geib style Pedler branded case.
A6937...Wood..."American, The Pedler Co. (No oval)...17/6...crow's foot...individual top joint trill key posts...factory lyre mount ring...Geib style "Pedler" branded case.
A7934...Wood..."American By Pedler" on Bell, and "The Pedler Co." on barrel...17/6...crow's foot...Geib style Pedler branded case.
G2028..."Pennant” (Grenolite)...Lower joint only.
G2440...”Pennant” (Grenolite)...Upper joint only.
G5962..."Pedler Grenolite" (on barrel)... "Pennant" on top front of top joint...("Pedler" in banner on bell)...17/6...4 upper joint trill key posts...crow's foot.
478...Metal..."The Pedler Co." In oval w/ lyre crown...and "U.S." underneath...17/6.
7348...Metal..."Made by Harry Pedler & Co., Elkhart Ind."...with elaborate rosette motif engraving...17/6.
7672...Metal..."The Pedler Premiere, Elkhart Ind." in oval...17/6...early, bar-type crow's foot..."F" batch marks under lower trill keys...long, fully assembled case.
8565...Metal..."The Pedler Premiere, Elkhart, Ind." in oval...17/6...crow's foot...long, fully assembled case.
10033...Metal...Eb..."Harry Pedler Inc." (very unusual!)...rough, fully assembled case.
10728...Metal..."American, Harry Pedler & Co."...17/6...Fully asembled long Pedler case...open logo...crow's foot.
10906...Metal..."The Pedler Premiere, Elkhart Ind." In oval, WITHOUT lyre crown...17/6 with thin bar "crow's foot...original long style case.
10992...Metal..."The Pedler Premiere, Elkhart, Ind."...17/6.
11XXX...Bass Clarinet...all metal..."Harry Pedler & Co."...Low Eb...Ornate engraving on bell with "goldwash" inside.
11141...Metal..."American, Harry Pedler & Co."...17/6...open logo...crow's foot.
11551...Metal..."American, Harry Pedler & Co."...17/6...Fully assembled long Pedler case...open logo...crow's foot.
11754...Metal..."American, Harry Pedler & Co."...17/6...Fully assembled long Pedler case...open logo...crow's foot...original Harry Pedler replacement spring card with springs.
13150...Metal..."American, Harry Pedler & Co"...17/6...Fully assembled long Pedler case...open logo...crow's foot.
13693...Metal..."American, Harry Pedler & Co."...17/6...Fully assembled long Pedler case...open logo...reported date of manufacture is 1935-1936 (plausible, though unsubstantiated)...crow's foot.
13769...Metal..."American, Harry Pedler & Co."...17/6...Fully assembled in long Pedler case...open logo.
E13935...Metal..."Precision Hand-Made Harry Pedler & Co. Elkhart, Ind." engraved on bell...detachable bell...17/6...Pedler Appliance. (ODD metal clarinet with confirmed E-Prefix).
15365...Metal..."American, Harry Pedler & Co."... "fully assembled" long Pedler case...open logo...17/6.
23603...Metal(?)…Warranty Card..."Harry Pedler and Co., Inc....Bb clarinet...Model: 167.
28300...Metal..."Student Made by Pedler"...17/6...crow's foot.
29825...Metal...open "Pedler HOOSIER Elkhart Indiana" on bell...17/6...crow's foot...fully assembled long Pedler case.
34566...Metal..."Pedler Custombuilt"...17/6...crow's foot.
35890...Metal..."Pedler American" in ornate Art Deco engraving...17/6...fully assembled long Pedler case...crow's foot.
36066...Metal..."The Pedler Co." in oval with lyre crown...17/6...fully assembled long Pedler case...crow's foot.
36070...Metal..."Student" and "Made By Pedler"...17/6...fully assembled long Pedler case...crow's foot.
37665...Metal..."Pedler Hoosier" (elaborate art deco bell engraving)...17/6...fully assembled long Pedler case...crow's foot...S/N stamped on underside of LH pinky key.
37927...Metal..."Pedler Hoosier" (elaborate art deco bell engraving)...17/6...fully assembled long Pedler case...crow's foot...S/N stamped on underside of LH pinky key and above bell solder ring.
38213...Metal..."Pedler Custombuilt, Elkhart, Ind." (elaborate art deco bell engraving)...17/6...crow's foot...fully assembled Pedler-branded long case.
41082...Metal..."Student (in script) Made By Pedler"...17/6...crow's foot...long, "fully assembled" case.
46588...Metal..."Pedler Custombuilt, Elkhart, Ind." (elaborate art deco bell engraving)...17/6...crow's foot.
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Quote from: Windsong on April 25, 2017, 06:32:58 PM
It has been said that Harry Pedler preferred Hard Rubber, and made clarinets in metal or Grenadilla wood upon request or demand.
Windsong, I find this statement rather intriguing. If you could state your source of this info, it would be greatly appreciated!
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I think this is on another thread. It might be hard to read the section on ebonite. Harry was quite a proponent of ebonite. Grenadilla was special order on sopranos, rosewood appears to have been standard on basses and altos which were produced in much lower numbers.
« Last Edit: April 26, 2017, 02:22:29 PM by Silversorcerer »
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Airflyte,
Sorcerer's brouchure is just one example, and I have read it elsewhere, as well, but admittedly, I think it was in another link I had to translate. I will have to check. I am not the consummate record keeper, but I have a decent memory, not that this helps with providing evidence. I have read that Grenadilla was at times scarce and embargos and tariffs at the time made it more expensive to procure in America, so it is entirely plausible that this drove Harry Pedler to find a sustainable product.
While just a strong hunch that will require more research, I firmly believe Pedler and Conn both had an inside line on solid rod rubber from their friend and fellow co-worker Jessie James Babbitt.
Grenadilla mostly came from France, but the French took it from African colonies. It was only difficult to get when wars made trade difficult. U-boats, I suppose? It is also true that import tariffs financed the US government before the Federal Reserve/Income tax era began. Imported grenadilla was taxed. Rubber is also imported to the USA, so the tariff problem would apply to either material.
In any case the French themselves priced Ebonite clarinets higher than ebony or grenadilla in 1902. Good wood was readily available and hard rubber was the new technology;- more durable and stable, particularly well suited for use in military bands and after many decades hard rubber clarinets still retain their original acoustic properties, if not always their dyed color.
When Pedler was making primarily hard rubber clarinets, many other USA makers were making them from grenadilla. It is not clear that the availability of grenadilla was a major factor in his material choice. I am certainly not inclined to repeating unsubstantiated rumors. That is the problem with the historical record in any division of the record. Over time, legends are taken as truths and should not be. The tendency to repeat an oral tradition should be discouraged. Without sources for a memorized oral tradition, or where we might have read something, we should be cautious. What is that adage? History is the lie most universally agreed upon. That is what happens without searching or re-searching sources. Any rumor can be written down, and that does not increase the veracity of the rumor. A great number of these rumors are in history text books at this point.
For some reason we do not see many early wood Conn clarinets. In fact I can't really remember seeing even one that was properly identified. We know that during part of that period of hard rubber Conns, Pedler worked for Conn. During that same period Bettoney and Penzel-Mueller and Pruefer were making plenty of wooden clarinets. Maybe they had a grenadilla stock pile? We really don't know.
What we do know is that the Harry Pedler catalog is a historical document, not a legend or rumor. We also know that the large number of wooden Pedler clarinets are from the Martin BIC / Pedler Woodwinds period of production. I have seen one genuine wooden Harry Pedler. I passed on it because of the number and severity of the repairs coupled with the high price. It had a diamond logo, similar to the diamond logo on the rosewood basses;- I don't think I saved any photos of it because the photos were not very good. I figured I would eventually see another one. Well;- not yet.
Solid post, Sorcerer, and firmly rooted in the presentation of fact, at that.
We don't really know *why* Hard Rubber was Harry's "material of choice". For all we know, it may well have initially been a suggestion or even a directive from Conn to Pedler that was well received, and warmly embraced. It may well have been Harry's idea, entirely, as well, and perhaps it was Conn who realised that Harry was onto something. It is common knowledge that Conn was a risk taker in business endeavors, and he thrived (and dare I say, suceeded, quite often) in the chaos of uncertainty.
I have seen no documentation, anywhere which describes the desire to move away from traditional materials to Hard Rubber, and any theories drawn from any set of given circumstances without more data can only be seen at this time as entirely speculative--though speculate I will, to be sure.
There is precious little information out there on this topic, and it's garbled, indiciferable nonsense, ofttimes, regurgitated from site to site, and presented as "the truth", when it may, or very well may not be so.
We have no choice but to all begin with folklore, and work to disprove it, if we can...
If we cannot, and especially if we find documentation supporting or disproving our hypotheses, we must embrace or deny it, respectively, respectfully and responsibly.
« Last Edit: April 29, 2017, 01:08:49 AM by Windsong »
OK, tell us all about Bibbat, Conn, and Pedler... ...
Bibbat, Conn, Pedler and a monkey walked into an opera house.....
Oh, I intend to, and that's "Babbitt".
With a rare free-day, I took the opportunity to make steady headway on my many theories. I will remain optimistic that we can soon substitute speculation for fact, or at least draw more specific conclusions based upon some additional facts.
I discovered new (to me) information this AM, and I answered several of my questions in the process.
It does appear that the trade embargo abruptly cut off supplies from France in 1916, forcing Harry Pedler to source his stock elsewhere (Central and South America, most likely; Rosewood originates from Honduras, primarily, and rubber trees [Euphorbiaceae] grow in both Central and South America). It's also important to note that there are no readily available records of Harry Pedler producing any clarinets between the years of 1916 and 1919, but I will forever be on the lookout for the elusive AMC. (I'd be delighted to know of anyone who has seen or has procured one).
UPDATE: It appears as though our own Lisa has procured not one, but two potential clarinets made by Harry Pedler and William Gronert in the interrem years of 1916-1919. (See other posts on this forum for photos!)
I believe the reason hard rubber clarinets sometimes sold for more than grenadilla clarinets had more to do with the complex production and machining costs associated with it, and not necessarily because Ebonite was more prized, or comprised of more expensive raw materials, though admittedly--I don't know. I have read of the volatility of the rubber rod stock making process, and its tendancy to warp and shrink during manufacturing, and I have to believe that such a grand headache could only be remedied by a compensatory pricetag. I intend on digging more into that, as well.
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Quote from: Silversorcerer on April 27, 2017, 09:49:24 PM
. . . . . . oh, this will be good! . . . . . .
Here is a Harry bass model 201A with the early marks and bell engraving. This is probably part of the original USQMC instrument acquisition that was in the early 1920s. I don't know the serial. The diamond logo is one not seen too often. That one has a substitute neck, most likely from a Selmer 9 model.
There is another 201A I know of that has the serial # 1103, and my 201A is serial #1126
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Fantastic em"bell"ishment! Just beautiful. Some of Elkhart's great work. Thanks for that.
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Quote from: Windsong on May 07, 2017, 01:42:26 PM
My next skill to learn is metal engraving, so I can do some cool stuff like that. Modern bells are really no fun at all.
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"Bumping" this thread for the timeline updates. Good work Windsong.
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Aims: Over the past decade in particular, formal linguistic work within L3 acquisition has concentrated on hypothesizing and empirically determining the source of transfer from previous languages—L1, L2 or both—in L3 grammatical representations. In view of the progressive concern with more advanced stages, we aim to show that focusing on L3 initial stages should be one continued priority of the field, even—or especially—if the field is ready to shift towards modeling L3 development and ultimate attainment. Approach: We argue that L3 learnability is significantly impacted by initial stages transfer, as such forms the basis of the initial L3 interlanguage. To illustrate our point, the insights from studies using initial and intermediary stages L3 data are discussed in light of developmental predictions that derive from the initial stages models. Conclusions: Despite a shared desire to understand the process of L3 acquisition in whole, inclusive of offering developmental L3 theories, we argue that the field does not yet have—although is ever closer to—the data basis needed to effectively do so. Originality: This article seeks to convince the readership for the need of conservatism in L3 acquisition theory building, whereby offering a framework on how and why we can most effectively build on the accumulated knowledge of the L3 initial stages in order to make significant, steady progress. Significance: The arguments exposed here are meant to provide an epistemological base for a tenable framework of formal approaches to L3 interlanguage development and, eventually, ultimate attainment.
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"Owls generally make their presence known through their vocalizations, which peak two times a year"............. "One is in summer, when fledglings depart their parents’ territory and search for their own"................ "Most young owls have staked their claims by September or October, making November and December relatively quiet in the owl world"............. But the chatter increases again during the winter breeding season, when mates are courting each other and defending their territory"..........
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In January, Owl Courtship Begins
by Carolyn Lorié
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I’m an enthusiastic, if laid-back, bird watcher. One of the things I love most about spring and summer is the effortlessness with which I encounter a wide variety of birds. Sitting in my backyard, I’ll catch sight of an indigo bunting in the apple tree or watch a pair of phoebes flying to and from their nest. On an afternoon hike, I might spot a Baltimore oriole or hear the sweet sounds of a wood thrush.
Not so in winter, when the cold curtails my outdoor activities and so many birds have departed for warmer climes. The dearth of birds and walks leaves me feeling doubly deprived, and I count the days until red-winged blackbirds will again greet me on my morning stroll.
But January is far too early to dream of spring, so I’ve decided to put thoughts of seasonal songbirds out of my mind and focus on some of our region’s year-round residents, namely owls.
If any species of bird takes effort and fortitude to observe, it is the stealthy, nocturnal owl. Of the 134 species in the world, five are year-round residents of the Northeast: the great horned, barred, eastern screech, long-eared and saw-whet. Despite the number of species and their constant presence, is the dead of winter a reasonable time to seek them out?
Turns out it is.
The first weeks of January is when the action starts, according to Matthew Young, who works at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Owls generally make their presence known through their vocalizations, which peak two times a year. One is in summer, when fledglings depart their parents’ territory and search for their own. Most young owls have staked their claims by September or October, making November and December relatively quiet in the owl world. But the chatter increases again during the winter breeding season, when mates are courting each other and defending their territory.
For great horned owls (Bubo virginianus), the process starts just as the Northeast is settling into the deep freeze of winter. Young told me that by early January the birds, which range in size from 18 inches to just over two feet, start calling to each other. It’s even possible to distinguish the female versus male calls, as the females have a higher pitch and an extra note in the beginning of their call.
By February, most great horned owls are incubating their eggs and have grown quieter, though their calls can still be heard as they defend their territories. But as they grow quiet, the barred owls (Strix varia) pipe up. The familiar “who-cooks-for-you-who-cooks-for-you-all” calls become more frequent from late February into April, which is their breeding season.
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Long-eared owls (Asio otus) tend to roost during the winter in small groups (known poetically as parliaments). I was excited about the prospect of discovering not just one but several owls roosting, until Young told me that long-eared owls are “one of the most secretive and least known birds in North America.”
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While it would be spectacular to see a snowy owl or stumble upon a parliament of long-eared owls, I’ll be pleased just to hear the calls of a great horned or barred. The return of the songbirds may be months off, but this winter will have plenty of moonlit, windless nights, and I will be out there, looking and listening.
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To the delight of all who revel in the grace and beauty of nature, bald eagles are soaring above New England in numbers unseen for over a century. We’ve come a long way since the days when poor farming and logging practices denuded our forests, choking streams with silt and compromising the food chain. We now know that if you degrade the eagle’s habitat and pollute the water you affect the entire web of life, including fish-eating birds in the skies above.
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Between 2004 and 2008, 29 subadult eagles were released in Vermont during a collaborative effort between VDFW, National Wildlife Federation, USFWS, Outreach for Earth Stewardship and Central Vermont Public Service. “None of those birds appear to have settled in Vermont,” said Buck. “All of our nesting pairs are the result of population expansion from neighboring states.” Vermont’s first successful eagle nest was found in 2008 at the Springfield Reservoir.
New Hampshire Audubon has managed that state’s bald eagle project in collaboration with the New Hampshire Fish & Game Department and the USFWS. And said Chris Martin, Senior Biologist at New Hampshire Audubon, “TransCanada provided a significant grant that boosted bald eagle recovery efforts in New Hampshire and neighboring Vermont.”
Biologists and volunteers have studied and protected bald eagle populations for more than 35 years: counting numbers and nests, posting nesting and roosting sites, installing guards to thwart predators, and tracking individuals by banding and monitoring young. As a result, “New Hampshire’s breeding population has been doubling roughly every five years over the past 20 years,” said Martin. “Over-wintering populations have also been increasing steadily.”
In 2015 and 2016, during the annual Midwinter Bald Eagle Survey, record numbers of 90 or so eagles were recorded in New Hampshire (about 60 adults), with most spotted in the Lakes Region and along the Connecticut and Merrimack Rivers. Vermont’s winter counts also spiked, with 81 eagles seen in 2015 and 59 in 2016, including around 30 adults, mostly near Lake Champlain and the Connecticut River.
The bald eagle was removed from the federal endangered species list in 2007, but is still considered threatened in New Hampshire and endangered in Vermont. Eagles continue to be harmed by eating fish or carrion contaminated with lead from fishing tackle or ammunition as well as mercury from the environment, poisoned bait intended for other animals, electrocution from power lines, human disturbance at nest sites and by being hit by cars and trains as they feed on carrion.
“There’s a sense that since eagles are off the federal list, they’re doing well,” said Fowle. “But there’s still climate change and other threats. We need to be good stewards if we want to have them here for a long time.”
“Eagles are an environmental success story,” said Buck. “They’re imbedded in the folklore of this country. It’s magnificent to see a bald eagle. They are a beloved creature.”
Readers who would like to become involved in the Bald Eagle survey or monitoring activities can contact Chris Martin at New Hampshire Audubon, or Margaret Fowle at Audubon Vermont.
Michael J. Caduto is an author, ecologist, and storyteller who lives in Reading, Vermont.
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Both Vermont and adjacent New Hampshire Moose populations are on a Minnesota-like free fall paradigm, currently with 75 to 80% annual calf mortality..........Combine this with the debilitating "one-two-three and your out" storm of warming climate, brain worm and winter tic affliction and the last thing Moose need to deal with is a hunting season..............Vermont biologist Walter Medwid worked for the state's Fish & Wildlife Dept. and argues forcefully about the fact that a 1/3 decline in population since 2009(3000 down to current 2000), should have Governor Shumlin stepping in and taking the hunting of Moose off the table until good science can determine if the carrying capacity of the Moose herd can be restored to decade-ago levels.......
https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://vtdigger.org/2016/06/23/walter-m-medwid-vermonts-moose-mismanagement/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMzQ3MTkxMTQ3NzY3NjQ1NDk5NDIaM2JiNTcwMGRiYTRlZTUyZDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNF5E6p5ujq58exKo3KmTBT0Je7GcQ
WALTER MEDWID: VERMONT’S MOOSE MISMANAGEMENT
JUN. 23, 2016, 7:00 PM BY COMMENTARY 7 COMMENTS
Editor’s note: This commentary is by Walter Medwid, a biologist who lives in Derby.
An Open Letter to Vermont Agency of Natural Resources Secretary Deb Markowitz,
I am writing to request that you take two urgent steps: 1) Use your office and authority over the Department of Fish and Wildlife to request that Gov. Peter Shumlin cancel this year’s moose season, and 2) that you appoint a special investigator to launch an inquiry into the decision-making process for this year’s moose hunt to determine whether state laws and public policy were violated in the process.
I make these requests for the following reasons:
Vermont’s moose population is in crisis; it has been in decline over the last 10 years but most significantly the population has been below the minimum carrying capacity threshold since 2009. That threshold minimum of 3,000 animals has been longstanding public policy. Current population estimates hover around 2,000 animals.
Despite the severe population deficit, the Department of Fish and Wildlife’s (DFW) recommendation to the Fish and Wildlife Board (FWB) of 160 moose permits (some 8 percent of the current population) was accepted by the board this April without a single vote against the proposal despite a host of alarms going off.
Vermont’s moose population is facing serious threats — winter ticks, brain worm, heat-stress due to a warming climate but mostly unrelenting hunting pressure has been the key factor in the population decline. Since 2009, the first year of the population going into the red, 3,854 moose permits were approved by the FWB with nearly 2,000 killed, pushing the population deeper and deeper into deficit.
Vermont Moose hunter with his kill
Most troubling is the fact that calf mortality appears to be off the charts. A recent study of collared moose calves in Maine showed a 75 percent mortality rate. In New Hampshire in the past year a stunning 80 percent of collared study moose calves died.
I implore you to do all you can to halt this year’s kill so that this state’s moose population has some small chance of recovering. Doesn’t that serve all interests long term including hunters?
The stated goal of this year’s decision by DFW/FWB is “… designed to increase moose numbers throughout the state.” In what Orwellian world does an aggressive kill quota of a species in decline coupled with likely very high calf mortality result in a stable and increasing population? The biology doesn’t support it neither does basic arithmetic or simple logic.
And perhaps most troubling of all is that the decision by the FWB was chiefly informed by the categorization of this year’s permit quota by DFW leadership as “… very conservative.” In fact, of the three key moose states in New England, Vermont’s quota is actually the most aggressive. New Hampshire with a moose population twice that of Vermont’s is releasing 71 permits — less than half the number Vermont is releasing. And Vermont’s quota, as compared to Maine’s with some 65,000 animals, is nearly three times as aggressive as Maine’s as a percentage of population.
Did the FWB approve the DFW proposal because it was falsely categorized as “very conservative?” Was the board informed that the department’s proposal was in fact very aggressive as compared to the other two key moose states? If not, why not? Wouldn’t that red flag alone have at least engendered some discussion and debate rather than the complete silence and groupthink in April? And why were there no alternative proposals including one that was conservative in fact, offered to the board by DFW — how could one proposal cover all the diverse perspectives towards management of this iconic species in crisis? Why did your team at DFW convey to the public that this year’s plan was very conservative after it was voted upon in April?
Vermont has been deemed the state with the highest percentage of wildlife watchers. Most Vermonters simply want to see a moose, yet for over a decade the odds get worse each year. Shouldn’t moose be managed to benefit all Vermonters as state statutes require? Isn’t wildlife held in the public trust and not privatized to serve special interests and not public interests? Isn’t this year’s aggressive kill proposal contrary to all reasonable expectations held by the vast majority of Vermonters? And how did our management decision-making process become so thoroughly broken, so reckless?
I implore you to look into this entire fiasco that throws public interests, public policy and public law under the bus. I implore you to do all you can to halt this year’s kill so that this state’s moose population has some small chance of recovering. Doesn’t that serve all interests long term including hunters? There are simply too many red flags to not halt this year’s take and examine how this arm of Vermont’s governance failed so miserably.
Thank you for your hearing me out. I look forward to your reply.
Is it possible the the USFW Service feels that it's initial proclamation that "the Puma is extinct in the East" was premature,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Or is it as our friend, Endangered Species Specialist Mark McCollough states below-----simply "unfinished Peer Review assessment needed before the Puma is declared extinct in the East and delisted from the Endangered Species list?...............Since many Puma biologists consider the Puma to be one species throughout North America(not an eastern subspecies as the USFW is postulating), might "independent (biologist) experts" stir up enough dust to keep the Puma listed east of the Mississippi River?..............There have been several reputable analyses done by biologists showing definitively(deer, road, human population and continuous habitat variables) that suitable habitat for Pumas does exist in various parts of the Appalachian Spine as well as in NY State and New England..................How about the Feds keep Pumas protected until recolonization or rewilding of those haunts take place by our "Ghost Cats?"
Subject: Eastern Cougar listing reopened comment period
On June 28, 2016, the Service will publish a Federal Register notice to reopen the comment period on the 2015 proposed rule to delist the eastern cougar in order to seek review from independent experts, as required by our 1994 peer review policy. Although we intended to do this when the proposed rule was first published, we were unable to complete peer review during the previous comment period. Thus, we are providing an additional 30 days to obtain independent review of our scientific analysis.
With 100-200 Pumas in Florida and suitable habitat in the
Appalachian Mountains north up into NY and Maine, why
is the USFW Service so hellbent on delisting our "Ghost Cat, for
many biologists, the same feline that exists in the Western USA?
As a matter of procedure, reopening the comment period will also allow an opportunity for additional general review. We are emphasizing, however, that previous comments need not be resubmitted because they are already part of the administrative record and will be fully considered in our review. We anticipate making a final decision on the delisting proposal within the next few months.
Today, the notice will be in the Federal Register's electronic reading room here: https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection
On Tuesday, the notice will be in the Federal Register here:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/html/FR/todays_toc.html
Additional comments can be submitted starting on June 28 through July 28, 2016 at www.regulations.gov under docket no. FWS–R5–ES–2015–0001.
Please do not hesitate to contact me or Krishna Gifford, 413-253-8619, with questions.
Mark McCollough, Ph.D.
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Telephone: (207) 469-7300, Extension 1115
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Want to be an extension of the natural areas that abuts your home and neighborhood?.........Mimicking the native plant habitat in your region will encourage wildlife to utilize your property..............Providing the three essential elements needed for life to thrive---- plants that produce berries, nuts and seeds for food, creating horizontal and vertical "tangle" to create cover and providing some sort of water source(birdbaths if nothing else) and you are on your way to getting National Wildlife Federation certification that your yard is wildlife habitat.............There are all types of native landscaping styles to put into effect and the article below provides a good overview and foundation to get started and/or further enhance the indigenous habitat that you have put in place
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Native Plants Help You Find Your Garden Style
Imagine the garden of your dreams designed with plants indigenous to your region
Margaret Oakley Otto June 24, 2016
Houzz Contributor. Margaret Oakley Otto is Design Director for Oakley Gardens, a boutique landscape design and consulting firm in Los Angeles that focuses on sustainability and environmental stewardship. For nearly a decade, she has designed intimate garden spaces that connect people with nature. Margaret coordinates the Theodore Payne Foundation for Wildflowers and Native Plant’s annual Native Plant Garden Tour and is a Southern California Field Consultant for the California State Park Foundation’s Park Champions Program. Margaret blogs at Acorn Radicle, where she shares the life-affirming tidbits that she gathers from her work with and around the earth.
Gardening with plants native to your region is a powerful local choice that protects global biodiversity and creates an authentic sense of place. The design challenge with natives is ultimately one of imagination — we must imagine, for example, that the large green shrub with berries on it that grows in the hills or mountains 15 miles from where we live can be pruned and shaped to fit our garden.
It is completely possible to evoke an array of garden styles with native plants. All it takes is an understanding of design principles for the style you are trying to achieve, creativity in using the plant materials that you normally see growing in the wild, and the knowledge of how to maintain those plants to achieve your desired effect.
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This dry creek interplanted with a mix of California native grasses directs and captures rainwater. Design by Richard Grigsby of The Great Outdoors Landscape Design & Construction.
Most of us live in urban or suburban areas, where our landscapes have a visual impact on many other people, and it’s important to utilize design principles when creating your native garden. In the end, you will be much happier with the result.
As a general rule of thumb, almost all beautiful landscapes utilize repetition of the same species, or a variation of the same species, to create a sense of cohesion and harmony. You’ll notice lots of repetition in gardens designed by Mother Nature too. By picking one or two plants to repeat throughout your native landscape — among your other plants — you will create a sense of calm and order.
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Basic Garden Styles
If you are in the position of creating a native garden from scratch, here are some stylistic approaches to consider as you plan. These principles are also helpful to keep in mind when editing or updating an existing garden. Your landscape style choice might be influenced by the architecture of your home, the history of your area or garden spaces you find inspiring.
This modernist backyard utilizes clean, delineated hardscape materials of gravel, decomposed granite and concrete. Native penstemons are planted in squares, while a palo verde tree casts delicate shadows on the decomposed granite. Young ceanothus is planted as a screen against an aluminum fence.
Modern. An architectural or a more modern design emphasizes plant shapes and foliage textures over flowers — though you can certainly include flowering plants. A key rule of thumb is to keep the number of plant species you are using to a minimum. Less is more. That doesn’t mean you can’t create a garden that feels full, alive and lush. Rather, it means choosing a minimalist palette of three to five species of plants, for example, and repeating them throughout the space.
Pick plants that are well-scaled to the space: For a small space, pick smaller native grasses, ground covers and shrubs that reach a mature size no larger than 4 feet tall and wide. If you have the space, one courtyard-size tree or large shrub pruned into a tree can be a nice focal point or shade creator. For larger areas, you can pick larger-scale plants, but stick to the principle of a restrained palette with an emphasis on plant foliage.
Cassy Aoyagi, FormLA Landscaping
The red tubular flowers of California native snapdragon dangle over square pavers here, with a fine gravel neatly edging the path.
Negative space is an important part of architectural landscape design. This means leaving some empty space for the eye to rest between, in front of or around and behind plants. Negative space can be created with low-growing native ground cover plants or with inorganic materials such as gravel or mulch. Spacing your plants so you can see the full shape of each plant is another way to utilize negative space. Create a sense of spaciousness by shaping hardscape areas, such as walkways or seating areas, with clearly defined lines.
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Dune sedge (Carex pansa) makes for a lovely ground cover and provides plenty of space for the eye to rest in this classical garden designed by Wynne Wilson.
Classical. Classical garden style emphasizes balance, proportions and symmetry, and evokes the ancient architecture of Greece and Italy. This effect can be achieved with native plants — just be sure to use a limited plant palette and consider plants that can be pruned into more formal shapes, such as rounded shrubs, boxy hedges or columnar plantings. In Southern California, Catalina cherry (Prunus ilicifolia lyonii), native to the Channel Islands, makes an excellent formal hedge.
Read more about classical garden style
The purple flowers of Cedros Island verbena (Verbena lilacina) mix with vibrant yellow and orange monkey flowers (Diplacus sp.) and vibrant pink Clarkia wildflowers in this California native cottage garden. An Australian native bottlebrush tree provides a vibrant red nectar source for hummingbirds nearly year-round.
Cottage. A native cottage garden evokes a sense of abundance, emphasizing a profusion of color and blooms and including numerous plant species with different textures. This style allows for a more diverse plant palette and is achieved by planting to fill a garden space. For example, you’ll want to know that the mature size of a ceanothus is 10 feet by 10 feet, and space the next plant roughly 5 feet from the center of your ceanothus.
There is less emphasis on negative space in a cottage garden, though carving out spaces for the eye to rest can still be beneficial. Use warm, rustic materials for hardscapes, such as aged wood for fencing and aged brick or stone for a walkway, and incorporate garden objects that draw the eye to important areas of your garden. Vintage garden furniture also makes an excellent complement to a native cottage garden.
Wildflowers absolutely lend themselves to a cottage garden. There is no sweeter way to evoke an authentic sense of place than by sowing seeds for wildflowers that are native to your area — you may even discover some beauties you’ve never seen before. Just be sure to balance your seasonal wildflowers with perennial shrubs that look more or less the same year-round, so your garden doesn’t look too barren when the wildflowers disappear.
Read more about cottage garden style
Andreas Hessing of Scrub Jay Studios designed this eclectic, semiformal collector’s garden.
Eclectic. An eclectic garden by definition is a combination of other styles. Going for an eclectic look can free you up to express your taste and personality. But eclectic can quickly slide into chaotic if design principles are not followed.
Be sure to use repetition of the same plants for a sense of harmony, and avoid an overly long list of plants. And includes places for the eye to rest, such as hardscapes or ground covers. Try to create a theme for the objects in your landscape to prevent a sense of randomness. But have fun with introducing unexpected elements. Rules, after all, are meant to be broken sometimes.
A calming Buddhist statue sits atop a recycled-concrete garden wall in front of vibrant purple Cedros Island verbena (Verbena lilacina).
There are numerous variations on each of these styles, and you can celebrate your own cultural heritage or the history of your region by incorporating objects or stylistic accents that have symbolic meaning and significance.
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Find plant maps, sale sites and guides that make going native in the garden easier than ever
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There’s certainly been a welcome groundswell of support for native plants among gardeners, landscapers and even nurseries. The benefits of going native are many: lower maintenance when properly sited, an increase in wildlife, support of pollinating insects that feed birds and provide us with one in three bites of food, improved soil fertility, water clarification and mitigated runoff.
Native plants are adapted to local climate and soil conditions, especially when those plants have been sourced from local seeds. (It’s always good to ask where the seed came from, because in an ideal world, native plants would be from local native plant communities for best vigor and wildlife support.) Native plants connect us to where we live and help us understand local environments — I always profess that milkweed, for example, is a gateway drug to gardening for wildlife (in this case, monarch butterflies).
Following are some sources you can check out to help get you started on your hunt for the best native plants in your area. Good luck!
Related: Houzz guides to native U.S. plants:
Northwest | California | Southwest | Texas | Rocky Mountains
Central Plains | Great Lakes | Northeast | Mid-Atlantic |Southeast
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1. Nurseries, university extension offices and farmer’s markets. Obviously, the first place you’ll probably look for native plants is at a nearby nursery. Hopefully you’ll shop at local, independent nurseries and keep the money in town. Those local places will hopefully also have some awareness of regional native plants.
Public university extension offices also have resources for native plants and wild plant communities, with a wealth of knowledge about what works best. Near me I have the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, which even has a native plant greenhouse featuring seasonal sales, along with a trial and display garden full of local plants.
You can also check out local farmer’s markets to see if there are any smaller start-up vendors with native plants.
Adam Woodruff + Associates, Garden Artisans
2. The Xerces Society. This is a nonprofit conservation group that works to save invertebrate creatures for the benefit of all wildlife. Its website has a clickable map that takes you to native plant lists for your region, guides for conservation planting, bee identification info and much more.
Benjamin Vogt / Monarch Gardens
3. Pollinator Partnership. The sponsor of the annual National Pollinator Week, this organization lets you enter your zip code and takes you to handy printable PDF guides you can take to a nursery. The more we ask nurseries for native plants, the more they’ll carry them.
Pictured: Pasque flower, native to the central and northern U.S. plains from Wisconsin, south to Nebraska and west, all the way up and down the Rocky Mountains.
4. Biota of North America Program. For the more advanced gardener who knows Latin plant names (quite handy when so many plants have the same common name), BONAP lets you search for plant distribution by state and county maps. It also has maps by density gradient, soil type and climate. You can also search for plant maps via the USDA database.
5. Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. Another great resource, particularly because it actively plants natives in its botanical gardens and has plant sales. If you’re in Texas, you can visit.
Pictured: Blue sage, a Missouri native.
6. Missouri Botanical Garden. I’ve always liked using its search page to find out what growing conditions would be best for my new native plant purchases. It’s always good to consult several websites to build a consensus, which can save you both maintenance time and heartache. The Missouri Botanical Garden also has display gardens and tons of events.
7. The Find Native Plants website. If you’re looking for a one-stop shop with links to local nurseries, seed sources and books on native plants and their natural environments, then this site is for you. It’s generated by the writers at the website Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens (of which I am a part).
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There is one member of the lunatic fringe who, whenever I review a particular ensemble, sends abusive, incoherent and frequently libellous emails. I gather this ranting member of the illiteracy also sends abusive emails to my colleagues whenever they review the same ensemble. The strange thing is, this idiot hurls abuse not because we are in any way critical of the performances, but because we praise them. Whenever I say a nice thing about them, I am told I do not know anything, am a deaf imbecile and, because my name is not Chinese, belong to a sub-species of humanity whose race and ethnicity by default render me incapable of serious musical judgement. I am told to “Go Home” and not “Impose my ignorance on Singaporeans”, to “Jump under a moving train” and to undertake all manner of sexual activities with all manner of inanimate objects.
Far from being offended, however, I am thrilled when reviews and criticism prompt a reaction, hostile or otherwise. It is good to know that, even among the loonies of this world, music matters sufficiently to warrant the effort taken to hurl racist, libellous and vicious abuse at those who comment on it. How sad the world would be if nobody cared, and allowed critics to say whatever they like without risk of censure. I could, personally, live without the extreme racist abuse, but otherwise I urge my dopey detractor to keep it up; I wish more people would respond, although a measured response with considered opinions is always preferable to the contradictory ramblings of the seemingly mentally unstable.
Responding to critics is, however, a surprisingly rare activity; and I cannot recall anyone previously berating me for being complimentary to a performer. We critics put ourselves in the front line by voicing personal opinions in public, and while we try to justify them, we do not hope (nor wish) to force others to adopt our stance. Our aim is to get the conversation going; if you talk about something, then it begins to interest and concern you in a more positive way than if you just let it pass over tour head. Sadly, it seems to me, the level of conversation when it comes to music is limited to the abusive one-worders of anonymous YouTube and Twitter subscribers; the considered thoughts of a professional critic seem, if anything, to intimidate readers into silence. So long live my Singaporean abuser; at least there is one person who seems to care, even if they have yet to identify in themselves quite what it is they care about.
I have, like all my colleagues, had plenty of interesting feedback over the years, some of it abusive but as often as not stimulating and genuinely thought-provoking, and I have entered into protracted correspondence with some, leading to a deep re-evaluation of opinions on both sides of the correspondence. But I’ve also had a good crop of really silly ones.
There was the famous organist who, after having released somewhere in the region of 12 CDs in as many months featuring as many composers and musical styles, objected to this comment I made: “With such a heavy recording schedule and such an extensive repertory, you would have thought XXXX might by now be in danger of treating the recording process as something routine”. I did go on to say that this was a danger said organist had, against all the odds, managed to avoid. Unfortunately, the first sentence so enraged him that, before reading on, he fired off a letter to me in which he said that, when he read my words, he seriously contemplated suicide. That, to me, was an outrageous and unacceptable thing to write; but I’m afraid my response was equally outrageous and unacceptable; “It’s good to know my words could have had one positive outcome for the world of music”.
Then there was the well-known composer and arranger who, having read my review of his latest publication in which I suggested it was all written to a formula with no originality, wrote the following to my editor: “I do not know who this Marc Rochester is and have never heard of him before. So why do you continue to allow him to write in your magazine? I have been reading his reviews for the past few years and feel he is incapable of telling good music from bad”. My kind editor wrote back (copying to me); “You seem to know a lot about someone of whom you claim never to have heard, and I can assure you, and as his last review so eloquently proves, Marc Rochester is unusually adept at telling good music from bad”.
I prompted a flurry of letters with one of my early reviews for the Western Mail when I was sent to Swansea to review a performance by the jazz drummer Buddy Rich. Complaining that the sound system gave so much prominence to Rich that it was impossible to recognise the musical context of what he was playing, I got streams of complaints from Buddy Rich fans (not all of whom appeared to have been at the concert) about “not knowing what I was talking about” and about “not understanding what Buddy was trying to do”. I also got a charming note from Buddy Rich himself to the effect that I showed really understanding of what it was he had been trying to do and complaining about the sound engineers who seemed to be working to their own agenda.
Perhaps the best thing to happen to critics is to find their words recycled in promoting good artists. When a comment I had made in the pages of the International Record Review (of fond and sad memory) about a young singer’s début album appeared on a sticker for her subsequent release, I don’t know who was more excited, me or my editor who felt it had given credibility to a magazine which always had to struggle to get its voice heard.
Of course, there is always the issue of your own words being sent back to haunt you. A damning piece of criticism I wrote about an opera production I saw in Cardiff many years ago included the sentence “Only if the alternative would be to watch paint dry over three hours, this production of La Boheme would be, marginally, the most stimulating”. When I was in Birmingham some months later I walked past a theatre only to see a poster for the same production there in which my name appeared beside the promotional quote “most stimulating”.
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The Diploma Recital - How Not to Do It
With the best part of 20 years’ experience in examining diploma recitals, I have long since learnt that just about any competent student can muddle through the notes of their chosen programme sufficiently well to pass. Of course, it does depend so much on programme choice; and the diploma recitals which fail do so usually because the programme has not been well chosen.
The most obvious problem is the temptation to choose pieces which set out to meet some imagined (and totally non-existent) agenda set by the examiners. Why students (or, as often as not, their teachers) feel that the same selection criteria exist in a professional diploma recital as in a grade 1 exam defies all logic. There may, once, have been a time when a “balanced” or “varied” programme meant, exclusively, music written at different periods of musical history, but that certainly is no longer the case in real life. By diploma time, a student should have sufficient experience to know in which areas of the repertory are their particular strengths and weaknesses, and to plan a programme which comprises the former and avoids the latter. A student who does not know this, is clearly far from ready to tackle a diploma, no matter how fast or loud they can play.
A second programme-choice-malfunction, if you like, is to choose pieces which are already well known. The obvious reason for failure here is that by the time the actual recital comes along, the student is so tired of the pieces, regards them with such familiarity, that they go through the motions and fail to realise that a half-decent examiner can sniff out a routine delivery from an inspired one before even the first note has been played. Any recital should be, in part, a voyage of discovery not just for the audience but for the performer; for only then can the performer communicate that sense of wonder and awe which makes for a really satisfying performance.
And the third common error is simply choosing pieces which are not liked but are regarded as worthy; “I hate Beethoven’s late Sonatas, but they look good on the programme, so I’ll include one”. Nothing communicates itself more than dislike, and no performer can hide a sense of disconnect from a piece, no matter how well they handle its technicalities.
But perhaps even more important than merely passing the test in a diploma recital is to make it memorable and distinctive, so that the examiners do not just award higher grades and distinctions, but go away with a name stored in the memory for future reference. In many cases examiners have a life outside examining and can offer opportunities to performers whose work they have admired.
It is in this area that most damage is done by the culture of playing notes rather than delivering a performance. I’ve sat through no end of good playing of well-chosen repertory and come away unimpressed. Sometimes it’s a stage manner which repels, sometimes it’s the dress, but most often it’s a simple failure to understand the totality of the occasion. Grim programme notes which sound like Grade 5 theory papers or read suspiciously like the half-baked ramblings of a Wikipedia contributor (something all too often revealed by the inclusion of comments on aspects of the work which are not actually played in the recital performance) are still, horribly, the norm; yet these are the one thing that the examiner will take away from the performance to revisit at a later time.
I often wonder how students prepare for their diploma recitals beyond practising on their instrument. Do they video record themselves giving a public recital, do they invite disinterested parties to comment (anonymously) on their YouTube posting, do they practice deportment and facial expressions in front of a mirror, do they ask friends and family to suggest how they might look better? I have strong doubts in many cases that any of these are done. Yet how else is a young performer expected to learn how to put on a show in public? I have watched young boys in full evening dress make themselves look silly by clearly feeling totally out of their element in inappropriate recital dress. I have watched teenage girls at a crucial moment become horribly conscious that their shoulder-less, strapless gown is not offering them the support it normally does at a party. I have watched young and old people of both sexes wander on to stage completely confused by what message they wish to send out – and ending up sending a message of uncertainty and unease.
Sweaty handkerchiefs and cloths used to wipe the hands look awful if they are just carried on and off with as much care as the violin, horn or clarinet (and so do plastic bottles of water, especially when the sucked loudly during the performance), while a lovely dress covering the body is often spoiled by horrible shoes covering the feet. On a personal note, exposed armpits are a major problem for me – I know some conservatories ban them from recitals – but if they have to be there, then a shave or a wax is really a pre-requisite, and if there is a tendency to sweat, it is immediately visible by the watery reflection in stage lights.
The walk on to stage or into the room, the bow (which must be given, even if nobody is applauding – you have to acknowledge the effort made by your audience even if it is just one miserable old examiner), the posture between movements or during introductions and bars’ rests, the smile or the frown, the look of agony or the look of ecstasy, they all have their place in a performance (which is often judged subconsciously as much on its visual as its aural appeal). All these have to be practised and practised again until they become second nature. If it looks right and natural, then you have the examiners on your side before you play a single note; if it doesn’t then you have an uphill struggle ahead if you to win the examiners over.
Has your recital been properly timed? Do not “borrow” timings from somebody else’s performance and never dig a grave for yourself by being so exact that the chances of your timing being correct are nil (how can a live performance always take 23 minutes and 42 seconds?). Have you thought about how you should differentiate between the end of a movement and the end of a piece and the end of the recital? Have you thought how you should prepare to play the first note once you are out there on stage?
All these elements are what makes the diploma recital so drastically different from the graded examination; yet still students seem to think they are just an extension of the same thing. No wonder so many get disappointed when their results do not match their expectations.
Posted by Marc Rochester at 4:40 PM
Carmen in Concert
(An abridged version of this review appeared in The Straits Times, Singapore, on Monday 25th April 2016)
As modern-day Carmens go, Christine Rice is one of the best. Singing the title role in this concert version of Bizet’s famous opera, she was not just vocally compelling but conveyed through facial inflexions and body language a potent image of Carmen’s alluring, captivating and sensuous femininity. Casting Andrea Care as her troublesome and jealous lover, Don Jose, was a master-stroke. A gloriously expressive tenor, he too conveyed so much character through the voice that the limitations of performing opera on the concert platform were effectively swept aside.
In fact there was such tangible chemistry between Care’s Jose and Rice’s Carmen that one wondered why she was ever even tempted by Shen Yang’s Escamillo. Not so much vocally uneven as downright lumpy, he had a few projection issues. More significantly, from his act two entry, striding cheerfully down a side aisle of the auditorium in a shabby suit and waving to friends in the audience as if he were an audience member returning late after one too many at the interval bar, he seemed uneasy in the role of a triumphant matador and lover.
Not so Li Jing Jing. If anything her obvious self-possession and assertiveness sat strangely on the role of Micaela, a character usually associated with weakness and timidity. But she sang so enticingly that, for once, Micaela came across as a credible rival to Carmen for Jose’s affections. Li’s vast biography in the programme book – longer than any of the others in the programme book with the exception of, strangely, that of the chorusmaster of one of the choirs taking part - implied a struggling for recognition (the old adage sprang to mind: “the longer the biography, the less it has to say”), yet this gorgeous voice has real star quality.
The adult chorus, made up of the Singapore Symphony Chorus and NAFA Chamber Choir, was very good indeed, if a little weak in the lower voices, while the Children’s Choir was simply outstanding. They stole the first act with their march through the auditorium and on to the stage, their absolute perfection of tone and pitch, their tightness of ensemble and their authentic French diction.
The Singapore Symphony Orchestra does not usually do opera, and it showed. Despite conductor Lan Shui's demonstrative direction - projected on to a big screen at the back of the auditorium so everyone on the packed stage could see it – they lacked the flexibility to bend to the singers, and it often seemed that orchestra and voices were on different wavelengths. Nevertheless a symphony orchestra playing an operatic score does produce a very different result than an opera house orchestra doing the same thing, and this was no exception; a lot of inner detail was revealed which even those of us who profess to know Carmen inside out would have found refreshingly revealing.
There was a narration given by Joseph Lee which, drawn from the original play rather than the opera libretto, purported to come from Don Jose's meditation from his prison cell awaiting his execution. And this proved to be far less of a distraction than it might at first sight have appeared, for Lee had mastered the art of blending in to his musical background, and it certainly added illumination for those unacquainted with the opera.
Illumination of the electric variety constituted the principal element of staging for, while the concert hall platform was devoid of props (apart from Lee's chair) and looked every inch a concert hall platform, it was lit from above by a variety of subtle shades which were unusually effective because director David Edwards had the entire performing body (except Carmen, Don Jose and Lan Shui) in white, so that the whole stage seemed to absorb the subtly shifting colours. It worked well enough to lift the performance out of being a mere concert-hall performance and into the realms of a dramatic production.
The end of the line for the Graded Music Examination?
Having just completed a university course which covered the issue of music education in Singapore, I was surprised by the amount of hostility and opposition the students showed to the concept of graded music examinations. Considering Singapore is one of the growth areas for the exam boards and that virtually every Singaporean has had some connection, albeit peripherally, with graded music exams, I was expecting at least a general acceptance that, even if they had some evil about them, graded music examinations were seen as a necessary evil. Not a bit of it. Perhaps three out of 80 students registered a measure of support, but by far and away the majority view was that they were positively detrimental to music.
More than one student was willing to stand up and recount how being “forced” to do graded exams had led them away from a love of music, how the pressure to do exams had stifled their interest in music, and, most seriously, how the extended period spent learning examination repertory had prevented them broadening their own musical horizons by learning other pieces.
We know that a majority of piano (and it is mostly piano) teachers in Singapore work on the exam syllabus as a complete teaching curriculum, and regard the exam as such a fundamental in music training that all efforts are focused solely on the exam and achieving a distinction mark in it. However, quite how damaging that has been to Singapore’s musical environment has not seriously been considered. Yet here were students, many still having piano lessons, who could show that those of them with a love of music, of jazz, of improvisation, of experimentation , of ensemble playing, even of accompanying were being denied a musical education because of this wholly false elevation of the graded exam into a measure of total musical ability.
As an examiner of many years’ standing and one who has, at various times, argued passionately about the benefits of graded music exams while recognizing the dangers they pose, I was not prepared for quite such uniform opposition to them from students themselves. Students, it should be said, who are every bit as signed up to the Singaporean concept of exam culture as anyone, but who recognize the failings of the graded examination system within the context both of other academic examinations and of the musical health of the nation.
The problem is, of course, largely down to teachers and parents. The latter, mostly from a background where music is alien, can only understand progress through physical evidence such as examination reports and results. Unable to identify skill and ability over paper qualifications, these parents naturally press teachers to elevate the exam above and beyond its role as a yardstick of progress. Since parents are the teachers’ paymasters, it is equally natural for the teachers to accede to their demands.
But the teachers must take the lion’s share of the blame if graded music examinations are, as seems likely, being discredited by their extensive misuse. If a teacher is a professional, the parents must be persuaded to accept the professional’s opinion. The trouble is, too many piano teachers are not, psychologically speaking, professional. They neither understand nor practice their art in a professional manner, even if they earn their income from it and devote their lives to it. The teacher who has neither the courage nor the conviction to show professionalism in the face of parental pressure, has no moral right to offer guidance to a pupil. The recurrent theme from the students has been that the teachers were too exam-orientated; and whether the teachers really were that or were simply doing the bidding of their paymasters does not come into the equation.
They are familiar stories, especially (but not exclusively) in Singapore: The student who obtains distinction at grade 8 but who knows nothing about music, playing the piano or communicating to listeners. The student who, after a decade of intensive study, knows just two dozen pieces of music. The student who does not know what improvisation is, has never heard of most major composers, thinks of Bach merely as the composer of a Prelude and Fugue or Beethoven as the composer of a Sonata or two. All of these are symptomatic of having passed through the graded music examination system and come out with a paper chain of distinctions.
There is nothing inherently wrong with graded music exams, but there is everything wrong with the way they are perceived. And as perception in Singapore is a much stronger currency than truth, perhaps the time has come for a new generation of teachers to abandon graded music examinations altogether. If the nation is to grow musically, it has to eradicate the cancerous spread of the graded musical examination, otherwise it will forever see music as a competitive sport rather than an artistically enriching experience.
It is a very sad fact that too many musical organizations offering higher education musical courses, competitions or even teaching/performing jobs expect of their applicants some evidence of achievement in graded music examinations. Clearly, there is a need to persuade them away from this policy; in many respects, such certificates are worth less than the paper on which they are printed. But while it seems self-evident that some kind of certification is needed to demonstrate a musician’s worth, we should ask whether that really is the case. Ask any German, French or American musician about graded music examinations, and they will have no idea what you are talking about; yet these countries are as musically distinguished (possibly more so) than those who place the Graded Music Examination system at the heart of their educational plan.
There is a growing groundswell among music students in Singapore that the graded music examination system is not just inappropriate but detrimental to the musical environment here. When I asked them to suggest an alternative, it is interesting that they seemed to feel that no alternative was necessary, that the graded examination far from filling a hole in the educational environment, simply added an extra and unnecessary layer to it.
Posted by Marc Rochester at 10:59 AM
A Singapore Organ Recital
Last Sunday, as part of the excellent Tapestry Festival in Singapore, there was a rare organ recital on the Esplanade Klais. Indeed, so few and far between have organ recitals become here, that I persuaded the Straits Times to run a review of it. For the benefit of organ buffs the world over, here is my review;
It pre-dates Christianity by around 1000 years, and for much of its history has been associated with the Islamic world. But for most of the last 400 years the pipe organ has been regarded as the almost exclusive property of the church, so it fully justifies its place in the Esplanade’s annual Tapestry Festival of Sacred Music as the musical representative of the Western Christian Tradition.
This year it fell to Michael Hey, the Assistant Director of Music at St Patrick’s Cathedral New York, to blow the dust and cobwebs out of the under-utilized pipes of the great Esplanade Klais organ. And he did it with great relish, spicing things up with a wonderfully easy stage manner in which he found himself as often as not in dialogue with a particularly loquacious member of the audience.
He did not have the stage entirely to himself, either. Rebecca Li appeared, a shimmering vision in what might best be described as a cardinal’s scarlet, to sing Mozart’s Laudate Dominum and Schubert’s Ave Maria. In the Mozart problems of coordinating a single human voice at the front with thousands of inanimate pipes perched high above the back were obvious, but with the Schubert she was completely in her element and delivered a warm, ravishingly expressive performance which we could have happily heard again.
Certainly a repeat of the Schubert would have been preferable to the solid indigestibility of Reger’s gargantuan “Hallelujah” Chorale-Fantasy. I’m not sure Reger’s organ music should be let loose on an unsuspecting audience at any time, let alone on a hot Sunday afternoon. Despite Hey’s brave attempts to cut a path through its thick and impenetrable jungle of notes by judicious use of organ colour and some sprightly foot-work, the only pleasurable moment came when he pulled out most of the stops, and rested his fingers and feet on one massive chord in a powerful celebration of finality.
He also tried to lighten Bach’s somewhat heavyweight G minor Fantasia and Fugue with imaginative registration and flutterings of the swell pedal. This could have sent purists into paroxysms of rage, but it did much to captivate the Singapore audience. Best of all, he gave a glittering performance of Bach’s Wachet auf. It was crisp, clean and enticingly communicative.
A scintillating account of Scherzo Symphonique by the French composer Pierre Cochereau afforded Hey the opportunity not only to display his tremendous virtuosity but also his fluent command of the instrument, as stops were pulled out and pushed in in a kaleidoscopic demonstration of the organ’s colours and qualities. What a shame this opened the recital; it would have been the perfect climax to a sweltering afternoon which, despite sparkling sunny intervals, had sometimes seemed dangerously oppressive.
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Interview with Sian Conway from #ethicalhour
April 13, 2017 May 18, 2017 Stuart Mitchell
This is another one I’m really pleased to present, this is someone with a real passion for all things ethical, who started and runs the most popular ethical business chat on twitter, #ethicalhour and who knows more than a little about ethical marketing, Sian Conway.
For those people who have not heard of you could you explain a bit about who you are and what you do?
Depending on what day it is I wear several different hats! I’m a digital marketing manager, ethical fashion blogger and business mentor. My background is in marketing and branding and supporting social entrepreneurs to start new ethical business ventures.
In 2015, inspired by my travels in Cambodia, I started Little Lotus Boutique – an ethical fashion brand and blog committed to raising awareness of ethics in the fashion industry and supporting Cambodian artisans to develop sustainable businesses and support their families.
In June 2016 I was looking for new ways to promote Little Lotus Boutique’s blog, which gave me the idea to start a Twitter chat for ethically-focused blogs and brands – #EthicalHour.
It became popular quickly and now has over 5,500 followers. The hashtag reaches over 1 million impressions every week during our chats! I realised through the #EthicalHour conversations that ethical business owners are in real need of support, advice and a community around them to help them grow and maximise their impact – so that’s exactly what #EthicalHour has become. We provide support, advice, collaboration and training through our growing community across social media and our blog.
Little Lotus Boutique – Sustainable fashion with a social heart.
Although we think of marketing as big campaigns do you feel that what you do in bringing ethical companies to people’s attentions as a form of ethical marketing?
#EthicalHour has become about teaching ethical business owners how to market their businesses, as well as promoting the wide range of ethical and responsible businesses around the world who are doing positive things.
Although it’s predominantly a business-to-business community, it does raise awareness among ethical consumers too (ethical business owners are also consumers!) and there are several journalists who watch the chat and sometimes cover the issues and businesses we’re talking about.
I do think the chats have become a form of ethical marketing because they have created a platform to raise awareness of smaller ethical businesses, organisations and producers who are creating a positive impact.
How important do you feel ethical marketing is?
I’ve worked in marketing for around 10 years, and ethical marketing is really important to me. Not just raising awareness of ethical businesses, but being ethical in all your marketing practices.
I’ve worked in many different sectors, including education, arts and culture, finance and tech. The majority of my experience is in B2B marketing and the “Know, Like and Trust” factor is essential in this environment. I’m a big fan of trust based selling and solving your customers problems with valuable solutions.
Old school marketing techniques are more about flashy sales messages and pushy techniques, but I think consumers see through these now. Inbound marketing is all about building trust and adding value.
I think the most successful brands are more transparent and honest about what they do and build real relationships with their customers. That’s what ethical marketing is all about for me, and I think the brands that do it well are much more successful.
#GiveGoodGifts campaign led by social enterprise The Soap Co
Which ethical marketing campaigns have really stood out for you, both in people you’ve worked with and on the wider stage?
One of my favourite campaigns I’ve been involved in is the #GiveGoodGifts campaign last Christmas, led by social enterprise The Soap Co.
The idea behind the campaign was to bring together bloggers, independent retailers and brands to champion and celebrate products that are beautiful and have heritage, positive social impactand are environmentally sustainable.
The campaign was launched around Black Friday, to provide a more ethical alternative to the mass consumerism it promotes, and ran up until Christmas. It got some really good media attention and big brands involved, and was a really inspiring way of showcasing some of the amazing makers, brands and products out there on the ethical market.
What would you say has been the biggest change in your lifestyle since deciding to be more ethical?
Definitely my shopping habits! Looking back I was totally addicted to “fast fashion” – buying new clothes every month just for the sake of it. I never really considered where my clothes came from or the environmental impact they were having. I was spending so much money and sometimes not even wearing the clothes I bought. It’s so wasteful and unnecessary, and I’m so glad I’ve now opened my eyes to ethical fashion.
Since switching to a smaller, more sustainable wardrobe, that’s rolled out to other areas of my life too. I’m now on a mission to make my entire bathroom and makeup bag cruelty free, and I’m working harder to reduce food waste too.
#ethicalhour is the biggest ethical business chat on twitter
Ethical Hour is a great place to network and to see what others are doing, what do you enjoy most about it?
My favourite thing about #EthicalHour is the amazing sense of community and all the people who take part. We have new people every week, and we have regulars who have been with us from the beginning. We’ve also built a really active and supportive community in our Facebook Group too.
Everyone is so supportive and helpful – always willing to share their advice for ethical living or running a business. Being a business owner and trying to live ethically can be lonely at times, and your family and friends don’t always understand it. In the #EthicalHour community you’ll always find likeminded people ready to support you, lift you up and inspire you to keep moving forward.
In a world of alleged ‘fake news’ and greenwashing do you think it’s getting more difficult to showcase ethical products and services?
I think consumers are becoming wise to greenwashing and are much more sceptical – which is a good thing because it exposes the brands that are only using ethical and sustainable credentials as a PR exercise and aren’t really living their values.
For the truly ethical and sustainable products and services, transparency is more important than ever. I think they have to craft their messages carefully to stand out from the crowd, but there are so many opportunities available to them that as long as they are honest and transparent, so I don’t think it’s necessarily more difficult.
It’s about telling your story. If you can show people why your values are important to you and how that reflects in your business practices, you have the opportunity to build a relationship with consumers around your ethics.
With so much greenwashing on the market, I don’t think labels and badges are enough anymore, but if you are an ethical brand then you have a good story to tell, and if you make the most of that your genuine ethical credentials will speak for themselves.
What advice would you give to someone starting out with a company to guide them to making the right ethical choices?
I think you have to live your values. If something isn’t important to you then you won’t be able to sustain it in your business, but if you’re passionate about it you’ll make it happen. Start by defining your personal values and what’s important to you, then think about how you can bring that into your business and brand.
If you’re true to yourself and build a business around your personal ethical values, you’ll find it easier to market what you do and find similar people to connect with who will help you grow.
There’s some really exciting things lined up which will grow the #EthicalHour network even further!
In April it’s Fashion Revolution Week and Responsible Business Week, so we will be doing some big campaigns for both of those. We’ve got some brilliant ethical fashion sponsors involved for our #FashionRevolution campaign this year!
Longer term, we will continue to put out helpful content on the blog, run the weekly Twitter chat and grow the Facebook group. We’re also starting an Ethical Bloggers Club which will develop into a platform to connect ethical bloggers and brands for collaborative opportunities, sponsored posts etc.
As well as the free marketing masterclasses we offer on our YouTube channel, I’m also planning to launch a series of premium online training courses. These will cover marketing and business growth topics in even more detail to help people take practical actions to grow their business and maximise their positive impact. Some of the profits from these training courses will be used to fund microfinance loans for entrepreneurs in developing countries – so every time we help someone develop their business here, they will help someone overseas transform their lives and grow their business too.
One of the free masterclasses offered from #ethicalhour – How to be successful on Twitter
If you could change one thing about how people view ethics in business in general and in marketing in particular what would it be?
I think the thing I’d most like to change is the attitude that “ethical is not for me”. Many people think that being ethical is something you either do or don’t do. The reality is that ‘being ethical’ is so broad, it includes so many different things. In business, at it’s core, it’s about reducing any negative impact on the environment, treating people fairly, doing no harm and creating a positive impact where you can. Every business could make more ethical decisions, just as we all could in our daily lives.
In marketing, the same principle applies. It would be great if more people understood the value of ethical marketing, and that it’s not just for ethical businesses.
For those without experience of it, sell us Ethical Hour.
Running an ethical business can be lonely. #EthicalHour is a community of like-minded, ethically-focused business owners, bloggers and people trying to live more ethically, who support and encourage each other.
We provide advice, support and training to help ethical businesses grow and maximise the positive impact they make. We’re a friendly tribe and we’re always looking for new members!
Join the Twitter chat using hashtag #EthicalHour – Mondays 8-9pm BST. Follow us on Twitter to find out more!
Thanks so much to Sian for this, it’s a really great insight into #ethicalhour and ethical marketing. Images used in this article are (c) Sian Conway.
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Division of Time
15 Decades of Built Heritage on Kingsville's Division Street South
KINGSVILLE . ONTARIO . CANADA
"Division of Time" is a project of the Kingsville Municipal Heritage Advisory Committee. Division Street South has examples of built heritage from every decade beginning in the 1870s until present day. Each week, we will share some of these stories. Please comment on our posts, tell us your memories and help document and celebrate our history.
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Albert & Hannah Malott House (1900)
Categories: 1900s, Tags: Grenville, Henry, Herrington, Malott, Oxley
231 Division Street South
Albert (son of Capt. William J. Malott) married Hannah (daughter of John Herrington) in 1887 and they built a home (which no longer stands) on the corner of Division Street South and Erie Street the following year. Following in his father’s footsteps, Albert was a “wharfinger” and later became the lighthouse keeper for Kingsville. In 1900, Albert and Hannah purchased a vacant lot on the corner of Division Street South and Prospect for $125 and built a cottage in a style that was popular at the time. Two years later, the Malotts moved to Mill Street West and Albert pursued a career in carpentry. Later owners include George Henry and Martha Grenville. When Albert Lainchbury purchased the home in 1914, he hired the Oxley Brothers to convert the cottage into a two-storey house, and the “large veranda” was added in 1916.
Our Growing Time
Fifty Thousand Dollars Worth Of Residences Being Built
To give some idea of the building operations in Kingsville, for this year, we have interviewed the various contractors, and the following are the various contracts which they have underway [. . .]
Oxley Bros., Contractors [. . .]
Mr. Lainchbury, Division st. south, making cottage into two story house, $1,000
The Kingsville Reporter, May 21, 1914 p.1
Mr. Lainchbury is making a very great improvement to his home on Division St. south, by adding on the north and west sides a large veranda. One would scarcely credit what an addition it makes in the appearance of the house.
The Kingsville Reporter, September 21, 1916 p.5
On Christmas day, the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lainchbury was the scene of a very pretty wedding, when their youngest daughter, Florence, was united in marriage to Dr. Ardell P. Morris, of Toronto, son of Dr. and Mrs. Morris, of Mt. Elgin.
At high noon, the bride entered the drawing room on the arm of her father to the strains of Lohengrin’s wedding march, played by her cousin, Miss Fern Jeffery, who was prettily dressed in green satin. The bride was attired in a beautiful gown of flesh color crepe de chene with pearl trimming, wearing a veil caught by orange blossoms and carrying a bridal boquet [sic] of roses and valley lilies. The Rev. J.E.J. Millyard officiated. The only attendant was Baby Jean, niece of the bride, wearing a pretty little dress of pale blue crepe de chine and carrying the ring in a basket of freesias. After congratualtions, the guests retired to the dining room, where a delicious wedding repast was served by Misses Eula Wigle, attired in white silk, and Madeline Bennett, dressed in pink silk, both wearing a corsage boquet [sic]. Many beautiful and useful presents were received, among them being handsome cheques from the fathers of the bride and groom.
The Kingsville Reporter, December 26, 1918 p.1
INTERESTING OLD DOCUMENTS
Parchment Deeds From the Crown 108 Years Ago
Mr. Albert Malott laid on our table yesterday some ancient documents in the form of title deeds from the Crown, which were in the possession of his father-in-law, the late Mr. John Herrington. While somewhat greyed with age they are in a good state of preservation and the print and signatures to the deeds are distinct and perfectly legible. The deed is of parchment and was made to John Tofflemire on the 21st of February, 1824, a part of which lot is now occupied by the town park; the other was a grant to John Wigle of 200 acres, being lot No. 3 in the Second Concession, West Division, Gosfield South.
The transfer was given under the great seal of the Province of Upper Canada and D. Cameron was registrar at the time. The “great seal” was indeed “great.” It measured 4 1/2 incles across and was 1/4 of an inch thick. It was made of wax – probably a mixture of beeswax and resin – and either side was covered with paper and the seal had been placed in the press containing the dies and stamped. The design on the stamp in the center was a wreath through which were an anchor and a sword crossed; at the bottom of this design are two cornucopias (horns of plenty) and the whole is surmounted by the British crown. Lettering around the outer edge of the seal is not legible. The reverse side is stamped with the British Coat-of-Arms, and also lettered at the outer edge. The seal is fastened to the document with a piece of linen tape pressed in the wax and attached to the parchment in such a way that the seal sould not be detached without cutting the tape, tearing the parchment or destroying the seal.
The Kingsville Reporter, July 21, 1932 p.5
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Puppies and kittens. the show Jem and the Holograms. Flash Gordon. Pizza and wings. Whiskey and beer. Bands like Social Distortion, The Misfits, Bad Religion, Off with their Heads, The Methadones, The Riverdales, Screaching Weasel, etc. Horror and Sci-Fi crap. Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Clones break immersion.
JohnnyKapow replied to JohnnyKapow's topic in Friday the 13th: The Game General Discussion
Offline has been cool but I want to play as a counselor and they don't have that option available yet. LOL omg....it would be a different game mode. You would have to voluntarily choose it, the same way you choose either Quick Match or Private Match. I do see the argument about splitting the player base as has been pointed out. As for the devs needing to implement other stuff first, I get that too. Well, maybe they'll add a way to get xp for being a team player.
It can also be argued that people are leaving the game because everyone keeps seeing lobbies full multiple copies of the same character. On the same note, isn't it "forcing" people who don't want clones to play in lobbies with duplicates if you don't give them the option of a random or "hardcore" mode? It's not like they give exit interviews when people decide to stop playing to find out why. LOL
This isn't about anyone needing to feel "special". Where did you even get that? It's about breaking the feeling of immersion by having duplicate characters. The title of this thread says as much. And if you don't care about it, then if it ever becomes an option then don't ever decide to utilize it. How are MORE options a bad thing? I can see not wanting to be forced to play with a random character, but if others want to and you don't have to, and if it's optional, then why protest against it?
It would be an option you would choose. Instead of Private Match or Quick Play there would be a Quick Play - Random option. For players who just wanna jump in and play and everyone gets a unique character and you make the best of who you get. LOL if people choose Bugzy all the time maybe they be more comfy playing "MLB The Show" rather than F13.
That seems like a fun idea for private matches.
Obviously it would be a CHOICE. Not bothering to read the thread doesn't help anyone.
Then you wouldn't choose the random quick match option and you'd still get to play as your favs.
Emotes need to go
JohnnyKapow replied to Hell Toupee's topic in Friday the 13th: The Game General Discussion
I use a mic, but I agree there should be a better way for non verbal players to communicate.
That would be so sweet.
If there was a choice to play "Quick Match - RANDOM", people wouldn't lobby hop as they would be purposely CHOOSING to play as a random character.
Yep it's a game, but to a lot of people the enjoyment of a game (especially one based on a film series) is about immersion in the fiction. Teabagging or dancing really breaks that. There are plenty of games for people to play if they don't care about feeling immersed in a story. Nintendo has a whole series of games that nobody can relate to about an Italian plumber fighting turtles and mushrooms in an acid trippy world. The devs should stick to making the game experience as much like the films as possible.
They could just add an option in the menu. We have "Quick Match" right now, so they could add "Quick Match - Random". That way if you wanna just jump in and play it's up to the game to assign each player a character making sure there will not be duplicates. They have a gambling system in place already with the perk lottery, so I can't imagine this would be too difficult. When I play private matches I always play with people who tend not to use duplicate characters. I like to use LaChappa but if I see someone has already selected him then I just pick a counselor that isn't in use, even in quick matches. I'm even at the point now that if I enter a lobby and I see more than one or two of a certain character I just leave. I prefer NOT to play as Jason, but at least in the offline mode the computer makes sure each bot is unique.
JohnnyKapow posted a topic in Friday the 13th: The Game General Discussion
Anyone else think that they should only allow one of each character in a match? Watch the movies, the only twins are in Part 4. It also ruins it for the Jason player when there are a few people playing Bugzy or Adam and a few more playing as Vanessa. I really think you should be given a "spawn preference" choice for characters as we have between Jason and counselors. I think they should also add incentives to encourage team play, like extra xp for assists like item sharing, self sacrifice (repair the car but don't escape in it for example) and things like that.
I like being Killed.. *By Jason
JohnnyKapow replied to HuDawg's topic in Friday the 13th: The Game General Discussion
I think people missed the point of the films. Dying should be expected. Jason should be OP. Escaping should be like a badge of honour.
But this game is about the movies that exist, and in the context of those films nobody dances around after they know Jason is present. If they wanted to add an emote that makes sense they would have just given players the option to look panicked at will.
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Amphillis ANGELL
BIRTH: ABT 1640, Providence, Providence, RI [8534]
Father: Thomas ANGELL
Mother: Alice ASHTON
Family 1 : Joseph WHIPPLE
MARRIAGE: [11628]
Family 2 : Edward SMITH
_Thomas ANGELL _|
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|--Amphillis ANGELL
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|_Alice ASHTON __|
[8534] [S733] Descendants of Thomas Angell
PAGE: p. 1
[11628] [S713] Brenda Bova
[11716] [S733] Descendants of Thomas Angell
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Ebenezer BEARD
____ - ____
Father: John BEARD
Mother: Anna HAWLEY
_James BEARD _
_John BEARD __|
| |_Martha ______
|--Ebenezer BEARD
| ______________
|_Anna HAWLEY _|
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Amanda Charlotte BRENNAN
21 Aug 1993 - ____
BIRTH: 21 Aug 1993, Phoenix, Maricopa, AZ
Father: James Andrew BRENNAN
Mother: Elizabeth Ann "Liz" FLORES
_John Thomas BRENNAN _________+
_James Andrew BRENNAN _______|
| |_Charlotte Phyllis ACKERMANN _+
|--Amanda Charlotte BRENNAN
| _Robert G FLORES _____________+
|_Elizabeth Ann "Liz" FLORES _|
|_Rosemary GARCIA _____________+
Ignatius ELMS
Family 1 : Sarah BENNETT
MARRIAGE: ABT 1731, Middleboro, Plymouth, MA
|--Ignatius ELMS
Margerie HOWE
1591 - 21 Apr 1632
BIRTH: 1591, Bury, St. Edmonds, Suffolk, ENG
DEATH: 21 Apr 1632, Suffolk, ENG
Father: John HOWE
Mother: Margery LONSDALE
Family 1 : John GOODRICH
MARRIAGE: 7 Aug 1615, Wethersfield, Hartford, CT
+John GOODRICH
_John HOWE ________|
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|--Margerie HOWE
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|_Margery LONSDALE _|
Hannah MAYO
1650 - ____
BIRTH: 1650, Barnstable, Barnstable, MA
BAPTISM: 20 Oct 1650, Barnstable, Barnstable, MA [5388]
Father: Samuel MAYO
Mother: Thomasine LUMPKIN
_John MAYO _____________________
_Samuel MAYO _______|
| |_Elizabeth _____________________
|--Hannah MAYO
| _William LUMPKIN _______________
|_Thomasine LUMPKIN _|
|_Tamesin\Thomasine ( ) LUMPKIN _
[5388] [S428] Rev. John Mayo
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Deborah MORSE
23 Jan 1714 - ____
BIRTH: 23 Jan 1714, Sherborn, Middlesex, MA [756]
Father: Samuel MORSE
Mother: Mary COOK
Family 1 : John SADLER
MARRIAGE: 5 May 1740, Needham, Norfolk, MA [9439]
_Samuel MORSE ____+
_Samuel MORSE _|
| |_Deborah HERRING _+
|--Deborah MORSE
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|_Mary COOK ____|
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[755] birth, marriage: Morse genealogy
[756] [S67] Morse Genealogy, comprising the descendants of Sam
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[9439] [S67] Morse Genealogy, comprising the descendants of Sam
George PECK
Father: Luther PECK
Mother: Annis COLLAR
Family 1 : Mary MYERS
MARRIAGE: 10 Jun 1819 [11698]
_Jesse PECK _+
_Luther PECK __|
| |_Ruth HOYT __
|--George PECK
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|_Annis COLLAR _|
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[8664] Family History: New England Families #2
(VII) Rev. George Peck, D. D., son of Luther and Annis (Collar) Peck,was born in Middlefield, Otsego county, New York, August 8, 1797, diedin Scranton, Pennsylvania, May 20, 1876. He was the second in point ofage of the famous five sons of Luther Peck, all of whom were ministersin the Methodist Episcopal church. George Peck united with the churchin 1812, and was licensed as an exhorter in 1815. He received a localpreacher's license in 1816, and served on the Cortland (New York)circuit without remuneration. In the same year he joined the Geneseeconference on trial. In 1821 he had charge of the church at Paris, NewYork, and during two following years was stationed at Utica. In 1824he was appointed presiding elder of the Susquehanna district. He hadmuch to do with Cazenovia Seminary before he became its successfulpresident in 1835. His interest in educational matters was alwaysintense. It is claimed that he "was the originator and the firstmoving spirit in the founding of Wyoming Seminary." "One evening inthe latter part of October, 1839, ne delivered an address in the oldchurch at Forty Fort on the subject of education, in which he advancedthe idea that a Methodist Seminary was needed in the Wyoming Valley,and that Kingston furnished as good a location as could be found forsuch an institution." One of his biographers further claims that he"was the originator of the first course of study prescribed by theGeneral Conference for traveling preachers."
His election to the editorship of the Methodist Quarterly Review"marked a new era in the history of the magazine, the more liberalpolicy adopted by the church enabling the editor to devote his timeand ability chiefly to its advancement, and to call to his aid an ablecorps of paid contributors. The result was that the literaryexcellence of the journal increased with marked rapidity, while, owingto the greater liberality in publication, the mechanical execution andelegance of appearance formed a decided contrast with the precedingvolumes." After eight years of very successful work on the Review hewas made editor of the New York Advocate. Here his statesmanship wasmanifest in many lines.
He had joined the Genesee conference, but became a member of Oneidaconference at its organization, was a member of New York conferenceduring the years of his editorial work, and in 1852 returned to hisformer fields of labor, becoming a member of Wyoming conference at itsorganization. He was delegate to general conference in thirteensessions, 1824 to 1872. His sound judgment and skill in debate werehere of great service to the church. Wesleyan University conferred thedegree of A. M. upon him in 1835, and in 1840 Augusta College gave himthe degree of D. D. He was a member of the Evangelical Alliance whichmet in London, in August, 1846.
Almost throughout his entire ministerial career Dr. George Peck was avaluable contributor to the literature of the Methodist Episcopalchurch, and in other fields of literary effort he enjoyed a reputationas a faithful and accurate writer. His publications, all extant, are:"Universalism Examined," "History of the Apostles and Evangelists,""Scripture Doctrine of Christian Perfection," "Rule of Faith," "Replyto Bascom," "Manly Character," "History of Wyoming" (1858, a rare andvaluable work), "History of Methodism Within the Bounds of the OldGenesee Conference," "Our Country, Its Trials and Its Triumphs," "Lifeand Times of George Peck."
Dr. Peck's fields of labor as a clergyman may be noted as follows:1816, Broome circuit, New York state, junior preacher; 1817, Cortland;1818, Wyoming; 1819, Bridgewater; 1820, Canaan; 1821, Paris; 1822-23;Utica; 1824-25, presiding elder Susquehanna district; 1826, Wyoming;1827, Wilkes-Barre; 1828-29, Ithaca, New York; 1830, Utica; 1831-32,Cazenovia; 1833-34, Auburn; 1835-38, principal Cazenovia Seminary;1839, presiding elder Susquehanna district; 1840-47, editor MethodistQuarterly Review and general book editor of the Book Concern; 1848-51,editor Christian Advocate; 1852-53, Wilkes-Barre; 1854, presidingelder Wyoming district; 1855, presiding elder Binghamton district;1856-57, Scranton mission (now Elm Park Church); 1858-61, presidingelder Wyoming district; 1866-67, Providence; 1868, Dunmore; 1869-72,presiding elder Wyoming district; 1873-76, superannuated.
One of his biographers says: "I view him as one of the most remarkablemen of our times--one whose genius and piety are indelibly stamped onthe ecclesiastical policy and wonderful growth of the church; whosewise counsels and herculean labors are interwoven in its development.For the past fifty years of his whole life he has been distinguishedby a devoted love to the church and unswerving loyalty to the honestconvictions of truth."
[11698] [S726] New England Families
PAGE: FTM CD #159
William SANDELL (*)
Family 1 : Joan
+John SANDELL
William SANDELL
Richard SANDELL
Joan SANDELL
Katherine SANDELL
|--William SANDELL
[3451] Will written 9 Aug 1542. SOURCE: Ancestry of Bethia Harris, p. 59.
Thankful TUCKER
Sep 1710 - BEF 6 Nov 1740
BIRTH: Sep 1710, Chatham, Barnstable, MA
DEATH: BEF 6 Nov 1740
Father: Samuel TUCKER
Mother: Hannah MAYO
Family 1 : Nathan HATCH
MARRIAGE: 22 Dec 1732
_John TUCKER ____
_Samuel TUCKER _|
| |_Susanna ________
|--Thankful TUCKER
| _William MAYO ___+
|_Hannah MAYO ___|
|_Elizabeth RING _+
[2013] MARRIAGE: Her husband was probably Nathan Hatch. Needs documentation.
Chatham was formed from Manamoit Village in 1712. SOURCE: FGS from
Arlene Rainelli in possession of CBrennan (Hopkins file). Her sources
were Mayflower Planters, 2:90 and Stephen Hopkins MFIP.
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By Guest BushBacker, September 28, 2006 in Kearny
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There STILL is a LIE from YOU!
He was warned about the intelligence being faulty by the CIA before he went ahead and LIED!
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"Guest," you don't know what you're talking about.
There were some documents that were forged that had been considered as evidence that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from Niger. The CIA knew of that and the president was aware of that.
However, British Intelligence assured our intelligence agencies that their information was not based on the forgeries.
The CIA can't rubber stamp intelligence that they have not verified, so Bush's speech acknowledged the British as the source of the information.
How do you count that as a lie without doing a triple backflip?
Bush is a great man, unemployment is way down under him.
In 2000 it was 4.0% and in 2006 it was 4.6%, that's an increase of only .6%, THAT's way down! I know that because FOX NEWS said it is.
1) The tech bubble from the Clinton years had gone into decline before Bush took office. That's a downward-trending economy. In essence, you're just picking the lowest unemployment number under Clinton and comparing it to the current numbers under Bush. That seems to qualify as either stupidity or cheating.
http://www.qualityinfo.org/olmisj/ChartVie...art&graph=unemp
2) Whatever the condition of the economy Bush inherited from Clinton, the 9-11 attacks severely damaged the US economy. That doesn't seem to factor into PatRat's calculations at all--though that could make sense if he thinks that Bush orchestrated the 9-11 attacks.
Now that I taught you Kool-Aiders some math we're going to move on to science, starting with the dinosaurs 2000 years ago..................
Uh, yeah, thanks. Maybe you should get back to your Etch-a-Sketch.
Well, I couldn't figure out if it was:
A) Spin
BullSH*T
C) A AND B
Thise are the ONLY choices.
... thus demonstrating that you very probably didn't understand what I wrote (leaving open the possibility that you get it, but you obfuscate now rather than own up).
Secretary Rice tried to draw the distinction between escalating (increasing) forces in Iraq in terms of number and escalating the conflict itself--two different things.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/11/rice-augmentation/
The opposition favors the term "escalation" for the troop increase since in the minds of certain sheeple it gives the idea of escalating the conflict itself (via the fallacy of equivocation).
It shouldn't be too hard to understand, even for you.
And you can continue your attempted defense of liars.
The POINT is that the ALLEGED Patriot originlly posted a complete lie as fact.
It has nothing to do with possibly, maybe, or because of this or that.
He is a LIAR, plain and simple.
And your source of information is what? FOX News?
Talk about triple backflips, the CIA just HAPPENED to have forged documents about an ALLEGED incident that the Brits had real intelligence about.?
I have at least two big problems with that scenario:
1) I don't believe in coincidence in a case like that
2) If we trust foreign intelligence more than our own we're screwed
If you really believe this whole dog & pony show be happy, the Easter Bunny's on the way and Clinron did not have sex with that woman.
Strife767 0
A realistic optimist
As opposed to ignoring both the numbers and the context and claiming that unemployment went "way down" under Bush?
IF that's actually close to what really happened there's a major question to be answered: WHY oh WHY was there not a MASSIVE ovrhaul of the CIA after such a potentially disastrous intelligence lapse? The lack of action makes the whole story just a little too cut and dry. I also have a big problem he would trust British Intelligence more than the agency his father was so intimately involved with.
There's no doubt Iraq was on the cowboy agenda long before 9/11 and the evidence ( talk of WMDs, uranium, etc. ) all points to him constructing a case to justify his desired course of action.
I guess the real defense will be "He didn't lie, he just believed and told the things that suited his agenda and ignored the rest".
Guest BushFlacker
George W Bush is a great supporter of democracy, in a country of 300,000,000 people he has stated he will spread democracy even if the only support he has comes from his wife and his dog.
If it plays well in Baghdad he may even consider democracy in the US. Rumor has it that even the the dog is turning his leg up at Bush.
It's very easy for any unbiased, rational person to understand.
If it looks likje BULLSH*T, smells like BULSH*T, and comes from a KNOWN source of BULLSH*T, the odds are overwhelming that it IS BULLSH*T!
What part of that is giving you so much difficulty?
In BushWorld that's not lying, it's "Texas Talk"
It must be because I was dizzy from the spin coming from a man who although he claims to zealously believe in democracy has also stated that he's gonns do whatever he wants and they can't stop him, a VERY democratic attitude. Of course this BS is also coming from the few left who don't admit it's reached civil war proportions in Iraq.
I understand what what you wrote perfectly. it was a distorted attempt to defend the indefensible.
Strange world amongst the neo-Nazi-cons, an increase in unemployment means it's way down and sending more troops is descalation.
Guest Breaking News
This just in:George W Bush has been diagnosd with a severe case of AWC* Syndrome, it is still not known if he will accept treatment, he appears to enjoy it.
*ArroganceWithoutCause
Provide the context and let's see.
Bush had very little effect on economic policy prior to the economic effects of the WTC attacks. Unemployment in the wake of those attacks rose as the economy stayed in a tailspin for at least a year (iirc). As Bush's policies (along with judicious handling of interest rates by the Fed) have been enacted, unemployment has decreased by a full percentage point. That's a strong argument for Bush's policies bringing unemployment way down.
It's up to you to suggest why (specifically) that characterization isn't fair (and balanced!).
IF that's actually close to what really happened there's a major question to be answered: WHY oh WHY was there not a MASSIVE ovrhaul of the CIA after such a potentially disastrous intelligence lapse?
Because if you fire everybody then you have to start from scratch.
The CIA is chock full of lifetime government employees. It's staff positions in the government that hold a surprising amount of power in our system. The staffers stay year after year to a large degree, while the elected officials come and go--even faster now that term limits are in effect in some areas.
Bush installed Porter Goss to try to clean things up, but the CIA was apparently too big for him to overhaul (Bush is probably at fault to at least some degree for weakening his resolve).
On top of that, the big problem was having intel on the ground--and you can thank Jimmy Carter and the Democrat majorities from the 1970s for emasculating our human-based intelligence abilities.
Saddam Hussein acted like a guy who had WMDs, in part because he felt it strengthened his position with his ME neighbors (like Iran)--and Saddam fully intended to produce WMDs when he got sanctions lifted.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/06/gos...tion/index.html
The lack of action makes the whole story just a little too cut and dry. I also have a big problem he would trust British Intelligence more than the agency his father was so intimately involved with.
You're talking silly.
Bush has made a good effort to overhaul the CIA. If you expect more from the next president (regardless of party) you're fooling yourself (barring the prompting of catastrophe).
Bush trusted the CIA, but the British had information to which the CIA was not privy.
Is Bush supposed to completely ignore that?
See, you're talking out of both sides of your mouth, chum. On the one hand, Bush is supposed to trust the CIA, and on the other hand he's supposed to fire a bunch of 'em for incompetence.
Uh--right, and he's so clever that he somehow tricked all of the world's other major allied powers into agreeing with the (incompetent) CIA's assessment of Hussein's capabilities.
Honestly, you've have to try in order to have a less coherent view of the world.
The preponderance of evidence supported the idea that Iraq had WMDs. Intelligence is nearly always a mixed bag with evidence supporting multiple interpretations.
Most likely you're doing what you accuse Bush of doing. You have a theory that you prefer (Bush incompetent/evil/whatever) and you make the evidence fit your view by ignoring what doesn't fit.
Let me put this very plainly so you ca't accuse me of spin.
YOU are fullf crap.
You are so obviously biased in trying to absolve your liitle cowboy of all guilt while stooping as low to try and blame Carter that it's just ridiculous. I don't see even a HINT that maybe Bush senior shpuld bear some responsibility for the poor performance of the agency he headed.
What are you, the Bush family publicist?
I won't even give you credit for a nice try to explain the BULLSH*T.
I'm talking out of both sides of my mouth? YOU are talking out your A**HOLE CHUM!
Let me reiterate--WHAT a load of biased blameshifting BULLSH*T!
Now you're adding your tilt to it.
Didin't say he's supposed to trust the CI, said he should be ABLE to trust the CIA and if not should be finding out why and correcting it.
Try understanding what you read, that's consistent.
You have a lot in common with the little cowboy, you're arrogant, delusional, and think you know a lot more than you do.
A theory? No, it's a FACT that Bush went to war and there's been no credible evidence produced to support the reasons why, only his theories. It's a FACT that Saddam presented no imminent danger and more time could well have been spent to confirm or refute Bush's theories but he was pre-disposed to attacking Iraq.
That's not theory, that's documented.
Guest Diogenes
There's a major flaw in that argument. Witness Bush's actions. He opposed the formation of the 9/11 Commission. He refuses to comply with or it seems even consider many of its recommendations, and granted compliance is his option but I think it's owed at least consideration. Witness his statements that he's made up his mind and he's going to do what he wants and nobody can stop him.
Those are not the voice/actions of a man who is interested in learning the truth, they're the work of a stubborn, tunnel-visioned, ideologue. From all reports Colin Powell was banished because he voiced opions that differed from Bush's. I think it was a great disservice to the country and the administration to treat the man that way.
Quite simply, the paucity of thought involved in your analysis.
This is the rhetorical equivalent of you walking up to me after which you vomit all over the front of your own shirt, then self-assuredly saying ...
"Refute that!"
The US of A is a constitutional republic, not a democracy, though "democracy" in common parlance has come to mean a state that features democratic representation. True democracies promote the tyranny of the majority.
Bush has a good argument that his actions in office have been constitutional--not the least of which is the string of high court victories in support of his executive actions.
In the few instances where Bush has lost in court, he has changed his policy--yet for some reason that fact escapes your attempt at description.
Don't forget to eat plenty before your next post.
Guest Radagast
There are career employees in every department including State and the Pentagon. Why didn't Bush widen his 'resolve' into those departments? Simple, they were, for the most part, telling him what he wanted to hear. The CIA was very widly split on the issue of Iraq in 2002 but you'd never know that by what you hear from the Administration. The only way that the people in the CIA (who turned out to be right) were able to get their positions out for discussion was to leak their findings. That is the reason for the overhaul of the CIA ... to stop opinions that do not agree with Bush from ever seeing the light of day. Just another exercise in paranoia that this Administration is famous for.
Bush ignored what turned out to be true because he was listening to Chalabi and others who were more interested in lining their pockets than anything else. They spoon fed 'intel' to BushCo. Ahhhh ... and where is Chalabi today? Still wheeling and dealing for oil money. It was all he was ever intereted in. BushCo is paying the price for being narrow minded and I don't feel a damn bit sorry for him.
Who did he convince? The UN? You want intel on the ground? There it was. Blix and his crew found virtually nothing except what we already knew was there. There was not one shred of evidence of a nuclear program. Oh, but of course, that was because they weren't looking hard enough or they were being tricked by the Iraqis blah blah ... the Chalabi noise machine and the Wolfowitz-Pearle lobby for that other Middle-Eastern country, was all Bush wanted to hear
The preponderance of evidence supported the idea that Iraq had WMDs.
That is utter nonsense.
Guest a proud american
For what it's worth, two separate inspection teams went to Iraq. One in the late 90's and the other just prior to the invasion. Both inspection teams stated that there were no weapons of mass destruction. They had searched all of the sights and made un-announced visits to insure the Iraqi's weren't moving them around.
If the President made one mistake (among many) it was putting Rumsfeld in charge of the Pentagon. Rumsfeld had decided that the Military under Clinton had gained too much authority and he was determined to bring them back under civilian control. If there was going to be a war he was ultimately going to be in charge. That coupled with having Cheney as Vice President and the neo-cons from the Heritage Foundation, it was a recipe for disaster.
Had they listened to the Generals in the beginning we would have had enough troops to not only secure victory, but we could have secured the infrastructure. Instead they have done everything backwards. Sending more troops at this point is only going to guarantee more casualties. Bush's father even sent in his fixer Baker to try and bail Bush out with the Iraq study Group but as usual he ignored their report. We are there now in the middle of a civil war. Sending more troops is not the answer.
Guest Patriot
You know what they say about opinions .
For what it's worth, two separate inspection teams went to Iraq. One in the late 90's and the other just prior to the invasion. Both inspection teams stated that there were no weapons of mass destruction.
No, they didn't.
Both teams stated that Iraq was failing to cooperate fully with inspections.
You tell me what sense there is in declaring no weapons of mass destruction when the nation under inspection isn't cooperating fully (the Blix team found missiles with a range far longer than Iraq was permitted--missiles that had been hidden from previous inspections).
Where do people such crazy ideas such as the notion that the inspection teams cleared Iraq?
"The first point, made in paragraph 8 of the report, is that the Commission has not at any time during the inspections in Iraq found evidence of the continuation or resumption of programmes of weapons of mass destruction or significant quantities of proscribed items – whether from pre-1991 or later. I leave aside the Al Samoud 2 missile system, which we concluded was proscribed.
As I have noted before, this does not necessarily mean that such items could not exist. They might – there remain long lists of items unaccounted for – but it is not justified to jump to the conclusion that something exists just because it is unaccounted for."
http://www.unmovic.org/
They had searched all of the sights and made un-announced visits to insure the Iraqi's weren't moving them around.
Evidence suggested that Iraq was being tipped off about the supposedly unannounced visits. Regardless, somehow you got the wrong idea about the reports that came from the inspections.
Ever thought about the money trail between Iraq, France, Germany, and Russia?
Had they listened to the Generals in the beginning we would have had enough troops to not only secure victory, but we could have secured the infrastructure. Instead they have done everything backwards.
The next comment deserves to stand on its own.
Sending more troops at this point is only going to guarantee more casualties.
According to whom?
Bush's father even sent in his fixer Baker to try and bail Bush out with the Iraq study Group but as usual he ignored their report.
The Baker group was selected and designated by Congress.
http://www.usip.org/isg/about.html
It wasn't really possible to take the report seriously, since it suggested that the US should seek help from Syria and Iran in stabilizing Iraq.
And we should put the fox in charge of the hen house while we're at it.
We are there now in the middle of a civil war. Sending more troops is not the answer.
General Petraeus seems to disagree.
Yes, and we also know what they say about assholes!
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Newcastle Thundering Vale After-Action Reports
Forum » Gehennum games / Games in retrospect » Newcastle Thundering Vale After-Action Reports
Started by: Phyd3aux
Date: 13 Mar 2009 12:13
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A game being run in Newcastle on the 4th Saturday of each month, D.V.
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1st Game - 28th February 2009
Phyd3aux 13 Mar 2009 12:13
It occurs to me that I'm possibly the *worst* person to be writing these, as I can never remember names. But still, I have a handy reference in this case, so I'll push on this time :)
Kinman is a 24 year old (verification needed) member of Skwalker Lodge, a practitioner of mystic disciplines, whose core motivation is a deep respect for the unity of Nature, and who tends to subordinate details and individuals to larger issues. He is a childhood friend of Gestar, although is a year or two older. He has been in the vale approximately 4 years. Played by Bryan.
Mennon is a 32 year old half-leshy raised as a eupatrid in Bethan, and bred to the the tough, laconic, and phlegmatic tradition of the Iron Stone Men. He is a member of Tamé's Lodge in the Timeonid strain, and favours direct action and close confrontation. He is the the mentor of Gestar and the rescuer of Faiofasmon. He has been in the vale approximately 4 years. Played by Matt (myself).
Faiofasmon is a 4 year old (verification needed) lupine demigod, offspring of a wolf and a daimon. Rescued from drowning, by Mennon on his way to Thundering Vale and presented to Greymane Lodge, he has learned to change into a man. Faiofasmon is intensely curious about human affairs and behaviour, inclined to be intensely loyal, and desperately needs 480 minai so that he can get a room in Greymane Lodge rather than having to sleep under the floor with the wolfpack. He has been at the vale about 4 years. Played by Paul.
Gestar is a 22 year old eupatrid younger son who has been pensioned off to Thundering Vale, and is a character with an intense drive to prove himself. He is a member of Tamé's Lodge in the Jolianid strain, and is, in fact, an avatar of Jollian. He is the protegé of Mennon, a childhood friend of Kinman. He has been at the vale for around 2 years. Played by Tony.
It has not been properly determined precisely what status the above characters have within their respective lodges, and the vale as a whole. It is certain that they are quite junior (not having resided there long), but some will have passed a trial or two. These details will be recorded as soon as they are established.
The game begins with a hunt being organised by a junior huntmaster by the name of Immolan. Due, presumably, to the members of the hunt being quite junior in status at the vale (and a lot of students) the area designated for the hunt is on the very edge of the Thundering Vale's lands, some two days hike away.
During the hike nobody ingratiated themselves to Immolan. [Nobody really thought to try, although I hold Mennon is generally disinterested in gratuitous ass-kissing]. Not surprisingly, when the hunting site was finally reached, the players found themselves being on beating duties, whilst Immolan and his favoured hunters formed an ambush. The instructions were to wait an hour before commencing, to give Immolan and his group time to position themselves. Whilst waiting, Kinman heard a noise and went to investigate. He discovered a group of 6 intruders carying a pole with a prepared suckling pig tied to it, and all carrying large packs. Much to our surprise, Kinman attacked the intruders alone. Even more to our surprise, he prevailed fairly easily. The remainder of the PC's heard the scuffle and arrived in time to mop up the remainders, and prevent those inclined from fleeing. None of the intruders were killed.
Mennon set about intimidating and bullying the captives, whilst the other PC's searched their belongings. It was discovered that they were carrying several handfuls of clear green gems, and that they were part of a larger camp in a high valley mining green sapphires under the command of somebody named Mexes. Faiofasmon was sent to fetch Immolan, which he succeeded in, although was briefly distracted by a deer which he was unable to herd into the path of the hunters waiting in ambush.
When Immolan arrived, he was appraised of the situation, the prisoners were bound and a sent back to the vale with a group of the hunters acting as a guard. Initially Gestar was to be part of this guard detachment, but persuaded Immolan otherwise. Sometime during these activities Faiofasmon managed to sneak off with the suckling pig and feasted on it. He later reported that it was so good, even the trotters were tasty. The remainder of the hunting party then set off for the poachers camp.
[Sometime around this time Bryan, who had been joining in via Skype, was forced to leave due to his computer acquiring an infection of some variety. As such Kinman plays no further part in the rest of the story.]
Arriving at the poachers camp, Immolan declared that he would go and speak with this Mexes, and that if he raised his hands above his head he was in trouble, and that the party was to attack. The hunting party moved as close to the camp as they could whilst still remaining out of sight, and Immolan approached. Mexes turned out to be an exceptionally large man [which means probably even more-so by Gehenese standards]. Within 2 minutes an arrow was fired at Immolan from a concealed bowman. Immolan parried the arrow, and although he did not technically give the signal, the hunting party recognised an attack when they saw one, and counter-attacked.
The miners fell quite quickly to Javelins, arrows, swords, and Faiofasmon's jaws. Mexes managed to perform a turn-long ritual of some kind before he was brought down by a heavy wound. Several seconds later, whilst in the process of being bound by Immolan, Mexes turned into a dragon [of the chinese long-and-curly shaped variety, I understand]. Although heavily wounded, the Mexes-dragon was still a formidible challenge. It killed Immolan with its teeth, and then proceeded to roast Mennon and 4 of the hunting party with it's breath (in a single attack!). Several of the hunting party had fled prior to the breath attack. It was eventually brought down by virtue of some well placed arrows shot into it's mouth by some of the non-PC elements of the hunting party (which was why they ended up being roasted), and was slain by Gestar who used a miracle to en-holy his sword.
Luckily Mennon wasn't killed outright by the breath (although his tattoos were all burned off), and once he came to spent the next day and a half (or so) healing himself with Yoga. Whilst this was going on, a general cleaning up of the area was begun, and Faiofasmon contacted the daimon of the stream. The daimon manafested physically, bummed drugs from the player characters, and efforts were made to smooth things over with it. Not long after Mennon had healed himself, an official party from the vale turned up, and the hunting party retired home.
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Unfold 1st Game - 28th February 2009 by Phyd3aux, 13 Mar 2009 12:13
Re: Newcastle Thundering Vale After-Action Reports
Agemegos 13 Mar 2009 20:45
I am awarding 75 experience points for the adventure.
The next adventure will take place in about six months game time. I am awarding another 75 experience points on account of the down time. Plus which you all get 1 educ point to spend on account of six months' casual learning.
That is, you each get 150 experience points plus one educ point. If your character spends significant time in study, you may purchase one or two additional educ points for 25 experience points each.
Normally, characters can only raise a skill (or anything else) once "between adventures". On account of the long down time I will on this occasion allow you to raise a skill (or buy it at level nought) once using the from the adventure *and* once using the points from the down time. That is, you could if you wished buy a new skill and raise it once (by one level cheaply or by two levels at wasteful expense), or raise an existing skill twice (by two levels cheaply or by up to four levels at extravagant expense).
Nota maxima bene that in ForeSight EXPERIENCE POINTS ARE MARKEDLY DIFFERENT FROM GENERATION POINTS.
What you can do with experience points is set out on p.50 of ForeSight Enhanced, but I have made a slight alteration to the cost of E familiarities. To summarise, you can:
Raise a trained attribute from (Inherent value + n) to (Inherent value + n + 1) (n not exceeding 3)
cost: 75 n experience points
Acquire a skill other than a Mystic Discipline at level nought, with two weeks of lessons from a teacher who makes a Teaching roll.
cost: 5 * "exp" experience points ("exp" value is that of the skill to be acquired).
Acquire a skill other than a Mystic Discipline at level nought, with ("exp" + 1) weeks of effort and appropriate tutorial materials.
Acquire a skill other than a Mystic Discipline at level nought, with (2 * ("exp" +1)) weeks of effort.
cost: 10 * "exp" experience points ("exp" value is that of the skill to be acquired).
Raise a skill level by 1, to the maximum dictated by the skill's Limit and your attributes.
cost: "exp" * (new skill level) experience points ("exp" value and level are those of the skill to be improved)
cost: 3 * "exp" * (new skill level) experience points ("exp" value and level are those of the skill to be improved)
Raise an E familiarity from n to (n+1), (n not exceeding 2), if you have dwelt in the relevant terrain.
cost: 3 * (n+1)^2 experience points
I will not be using long-term familiarities in this campaign.
If you want to learn a new Mystic Discipline, the procedure is rather involved.
Unfold Re: Newcastle Thundering Vale After-Action Reports by Agemegos, 13 Mar 2009 20:45
I have a note here scribbled on my character sheet that as a one-time bonus, we may exchange 10exp for 1 education point. Another concession, I think, to the long game time between adventures.
My understanding is then that we either have (150,1) or (140,2) or (115,3) as our possible breakdowns of (exp, educ).
Also, how do we raise skills above the limit? It can be done at character gen, I presume it can be done with exp. … Actually, I'll go check the rules, but clarification could still be good.
Edited to add: Ignore that. I just realised I made the *same* mistake I made on the email list a few weeks ago. Character generation special case is limit*10, not limit of skill level.
Oh, and the in-depth nature or learning new Mystic Disciplines is going to have to be dealt with eventually. Perhaps it's better to detail it now (possibly in another thread or even forum) so that we can start getting our heads around it early? (Or is that, too, in the foresight rules?)
Unfold Re: Newcastle Thundering Vale After-Action Reports by Phyd3aux, 14 Mar 2009 02:52
No, I have a house rule. Which I have outlined in the HindSight forum.
The Prequel
At the beginning of the previous game, it has now been ascertained that:
Mennon was an acolyte of Tamé's lodge, and an adjuvant of the college. In his first year in the vale, he passed the tests of The Eagle, Endurance, Flag, Fleetness, Fortitude, 1st Javelin, Python, Roaring Falls, and the Wolf (with the kind assistance of Faiofasmon). In his second year he passed the trial of the deer, and in his third year he passed the trial of the fire. He passed no trials in his fourth year.
Kinman was an initiate of of Skywalker lodge, and an adjuvant of the college. In his first year in the vale he passed the tests of Endurance, Python, Deer, Flag, Fleetness, Fortitude, Roaring Falls, 1st Javelin and also acquired the Thunderbolts testamur for heroic speed. He passed nothing in his second year. In his third year he passed the trial of the Eagle and 2nd Javelin.
Gestar was an initiate of Tamé's lodge, and was a member in residence of the college. <Details of trial tests forthcoming>
Faiofasmon held no ranks either in a lodge, or in the college.
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2nd Game - 28th March 2009
Between the first game and this game 6 months has transpired. During this time:
Kinman has passed the tests of Fire and Forrest. Consequently he has now become an acolyte of Skywalker lodge and a huntmaster of the college.
Mennon has passed the test of the 2nd Javelin, and was, due to being part of the dragon slaying in the previous game, allowed to attempt the trial of the tiger. Unfortunately the tiger succeeded in fleeing after a short fight in which Mennon had the upper hand almost all the time. The trial of the Tiger is the only trial holding Mennon back from becoming an adept of Tamé's lodge.
During the annual games, Mennon managed to win the fencing tournament. During the party at the end of the games, he was approached by an attractive woman wearing a robe made out of water. One thing led to another, and a good time was had by all. The geist's name was, apparently, Leuin.
Gestar has … <More Info Needed Please>
Faisfasmon has moved from sleeping with the Greymane pack to sleeping in Mennon's quarters. This was regarded as a step up.
Tamé's lodge is unhappy with the state of affairs regarding tiger hunts. There are too many would-be adepts, not enough tigers in the vale, and even less opportunities to hunt them, exacerbated by the other lodges each being allotted a single tiger hunt of their own each year (to Tamé's lodges two hunts allowed per year). Thought is given to mounting expeditions outside the vale to hunt tigers there, or possibly even to finding villages with an excess of tigers and wanting to be rid of them. Thoughts of a semi-professional tiger extermination operation float through the players minds. Nothing more is discussed along these lines.
Out in the Vale, there is talk of a spectacle down in the village. The characters make their way there and find a large group of elephants, one of which is painted yellow. Clearly an expensive person has made their way here. Upon closer inspection it can be seen that there are armed guards, and several expensive looking people. Mennon finds one of the servants that works in the Vale and asks what is going on, and is informed that an expensive person turned up with his travelling elephants and asked to talk to the chief. The servants sent him to see the chief servant (the only person in the vale who even remotely resembles the title of chief). The expensive gentleman was a little annoyed and asked to talk to the master, and was sent to the master of hounds. At this point the expensive man is more than a little upset, and is made worse when informed by the houndmaster that "the curator sees to the likes of you". Further rumours around the villiage are heard that the expensive man has been heard to declare that he has worked out who is in charge, and it's him, and that he has co-opted a local brothel to serve as his quarters, and that he will go hunting the next day. Between espensive hangers on, guards, servants, beaters, and the like, the entire party looks to number in the hundreds.
Clearly this is just not on. Only members of the college may hunt in the lands of the Thundering Vale. Kinman makes his way towards the expensive looking man, and Mennon falls in behind. When they reach the circle of guards that are maintaining a perimeter around the expensive gentleman a guard puts his hand up and halts Kinman. Mennon points out to the guard that he is blocking the path of a huntmaster of the Vale, and Kinman and Mennon are allowed through upon an exclamation of "it's about time!" (or somesuch). Without introduction, nor waiting for one from the expensive gentleman, Kinman tells him to fuck off that he is not welcome in the Vale and to go away. The man, in his turn, explains that he is Andreion, his father is the episkopos of the province surrounding the vale, and that he, himself, is very soon to be the episkopos. Kinman explains that he is being presumptious in turning up and expecting to be allowed to hunt on our lands without informing us. Andreion remarks that he had attempted to politely announce his intentions upon arrival, but was given such a run-around by the locals, that he no longer cared. Kinman and Mennon leave, and manage to pass by the curator on their way back to the vale. They inform the curator of the current state of affairs, and the curator goes to speak to the episkopos wherein he is given a message to convey to the council of members to the effect that the episkopos will stay for a week and will go hunting, and will brook no interference.
On the way back to the Vale Mennon and Gestar hear a squeal of pain that sounds like a deer. Upon closer inspection they discover that some of the episkopos' hanger's on, whilst doing something at the stream, happened upon a large (by their standards) buck. The lands around the villiage aren't hunted by the college, and so the wildlife there aren't as cautious of people as they should be. The newcomers shot the buck and were exclaiming at the size of it. Presently more of their friends turned up to see the prize, and Mennon and Gestar left, Mennon having an uneasy feeling that they really should have done something.
At the vale a meeting of the members is held. Most are in attendance. It is generally agreed that Andreion cannot be allowed to hunt unchecked. However being, as he is, almost certainly effectively in charge of the province (even if his father is the episkopos proper) it is worried that if push comes to shove, that the college might find itself at the wrong end of the episkopos' army. It is also pointed out that if nothing is done, then word of the vale will spread and every man and their dog will turn up expecting to be allowed to hunt, and the college just won't be able to stop them all. Options are put forward to try and keep the game away from wherever the episkopos is, to attempt to arrange an accident, and some others that the writer cannot recall at the moment. Mennon suggests that we don't really know enough about Andreion and that we might do well to invite him up to dinner, to show him the place a little, and to maybe try and come up with some kind of compromise. This is eventually decided upon as the course of action to take, although Seven Arrows lodge declares that they will have no part in it at all, and leave. Preparations are then made for the feast that night, and an official invitation is sent to Andreion.
Whilst the meeting was going on, Faiofasmon (not being a member of the college at all) is wandering the grounds when he comes upon a couple of members of Andreion's agema rubbernecking like tourists, generally amazed at the college. He (Faiofasmon) introduces himself and becomes acquainted with them. They explain that Andreion is indeed currently running the government of the province, and is doing a rather good job of it by all accounts. He has come to the vale not only to hunt, but also to inspect the border stones to the north (as apparently the border to a neighbouring provence is somewhere in or near the vale). They declare that Andreion intends to bring order to the lawless remote parts of the province. Faiofasmon asks them to look around and do they really think it looks like a lawless place, and the two reply that yes, it does look rather wild. Faiofasmon takes the two to the pavilion of the falls to enjoy the view and some drugs. The two end up passing out.
Andreion arrives at just on sunset. Faiofasmon, upon hearing about the plans for a feast, arranges for the passed out couple to be brought to the location of the party. Andreion seems genuinely surprised - although not particularly impressed - at the extent of the college. He is heard to wonder whether they all perform their militia service, and is informed that the Vale has its own militia. The party goes until the very early hours, and Andreion and his retinue are drunk under the table by two groups of yoga masters working in shifts through the festivities.
The Vale's members wake bright and early the next day and go about their day as normal. Andreion and his retinue wake in the early afternoon feeling seedy and somewhat sorry for themselves and, not surprisingly, perform no hunting that day. Andreion declares that he will hunt on the morrow - taking the gamekeeper along as a guide - until the full moon, at which point he will return and will be pleased to inspect the militia drilling. The full moon in question happens to coincide with the festival of ??? and the annual running of the Trial of Fleetness. A little later in the day Faiofasmon happens upon Andreion and a small retinue overlooking the college's stadium. Andreion seems unimpressed and declares that it looks a little short. Faiofasmon attemtps to be humourous by declaring it is no wonder, then, that we get such fast times. The joke is appreciated by none in the vicinity except Faiofasmon. Andreion declares that the vale has too many rules and not enough obedience, and asks Faiofasmon if he is a member of the militia. Upon discovering that Faiofasmon is not even a citizen, Andreion is quick to have him removed.
Mennon and Faiofasmon decide to warn the daimon of the vale of Andreion's plans, and the likely consequences of it, and also to perhaps enlist some aid. All the player characters proceed to the shrine of the daimon, who turns out to be none other than Leuin who made Mennon's acquaintance in the previous annual games. Faiofasmon makes and partakes of the usual drugs preparations, and summons Leuin. Leuin does not physically manifest, and so the conversation is only between her and Faiofasmon. Faiofasmon warns Leuin of Andreion's plans, but Leuin is unconvinced that he poses any real threat, and is a little confused as to why we don't just beat Andreion and send him on his way. After a couple more explanations, Leuin gets bored and dismisses Faiofasmon telling him not to worry about Andreion.
Nobody is sure what to make of this, but it seems to be unspokenly agreed that another course of action ought to be sought.
Mennon takes Kinman to have a talk with the Gamekeeper. He points out that on the next day Andreion will be conducting an illegal hunt. Mennon declares that he would like to conduct a legal hunt on that day, with Kinman as the huntmaster. The gamekeeper agrees that this should happen, and asks Mennon where he would like to go hunting. Mennon is not sure and asks the gamekeeper if there is a place he would recomend. The gamekeeper names the valley he will be taking Andreion to the next day, and suggests that it would be most unusual and unfortunate for Andreion's hunt if the game would all end up running through a different fork of the valley. Mennon and Kinman agree.
Mennon and Kinman then go looking for volunteers to join their hunt the next day and have virtually all of the Thundering Vale college volunteer. They somehow manage to get the hunt down to 20 people. Kinman, as huntmaster, decides to split the hunt up into 4 teams of 5. Two of these teams are sent to stealthily watch Andreion's hunting party. One of the teams is sent to beat the game toward the 4th team (consisting of the player characters) who will drive the game to the desired location. Mennon wonders why Kinman is arranging the hunt in such a militaristic manner, as well as in a manner that leaves no doubt as to the intent to disrupt Andreion 's hunt. Kinman informs Menon that since Andreion will never see the two surveillance teams, it doesn't matter. Mennon is nonplussed, but submits to Kinman's will since Kinman is the huntmaster of the hunt.
Not long before Andreion's hunting party are due to arrive, the beaters of the counter-hunting party begin to beat the game toward the player characters who, in their turn, drive the game into the north fork. This works exceedingly well. Perhaps half an hour later, the the characters notice that the forrest is on fire. It seems that Andreion's beaters - having had no beating success with the traditional methods - have decided to try and smoke the game out, and have started a fire, which is now heading up the valley toward the players. Mennon declares that should he survive, he will kill any of Andreion's beaters that he happens upon, and damn the consequences! The characters begin trying to herd the now panicking remaining game up the north fork, and to move themselves up it as quickly as they can. Faiofasmin succeeds in quickly summoning up Leuin who is also in a panic, and demands that Fsoifasmon do something. Faiofasmon desperately tries to find a way that Leuin may redirect the river into the valley, but to no avail. However Faiofasmon ends up describing the principle of a fire break to Leuin who instantly breaks contact with him. Shortly thereafter there is a spectacular earthquake, which results in enough trees being knocked over to cause a firebreak, and the fire advances no further.
Once the commotion is over, the characters head up to check on Andreion's hunting party and discover that he, and the gamekeeper, are missing. Where Andreion's elephant last was is a very deep sinkhole. The rest of Andreion's hunting party is in disarray with panicking elephants having bolted, their riders having been flung off and suffering any number of injuries. The beaters who started the fire came under fire from the beaters of the character's hunting party, who didn't take kindly to having their forrest lit on fire. As such Andreion's beaters are either dead or fled. Mennon is pleased by this information, the other characters are a little concerned that the survivors will tell their tale. The characters help out what's left of the hunting party. A massive search is planned to find Andreion and the gamekeeper. It is generally understood that the search is - from the Thundering Vale's point of view - more interested in the gamekeeper, and that searching for Andreion is really just paying lip service. Of course, this is never made obvious to any outsiders.
And so ends the 2nd adventure.
Unfold 2nd Game - 28th March 2009 by Phyd3aux, 31 Mar 2009 13:02
Re: 2nd Game - 28th March 2009
Agemegos 01 Apr 2009 22:00
Good stuff! Thanks Matt.
The daimon who bonked Mennon: her name was "Leuin". The expensive guy who was next in line to be episkopos: his name was "Andreion". The Curator's name is "Lennon" and he is from Greymane Lodge.
Unfold Re: 2nd Game - 28th March 2009 by Agemegos, 01 Apr 2009 22:00
Phyd3aux 03 Apr 2009 03:01
<looks at his character sheet> … wow - that was a u, not a v. My handwriting sux. The other names I just never wrote down, and would never have remembered. Although I was getting a little tired of constantly referring to "Andreion" as "the episkopos" … I'll edit accordingly. … Hopefully I'll get the rest of that report finished soon.
Unfold Re: 2nd Game - 28th March 2009 by Phyd3aux, 03 Apr 2009 03:01
Or someone else could take it from where you left off.
doesn't really seem likely, somehow :(
Well, does anyone besides me like these bulletins or find them useful? If like the view from the other side as a way of knowing whether I am achieving what I set out to. But if they're drudgery to Matt and no interest to anyone else I'll make do without them.
Not drudgery to me. I've just been slow to finish this one due to other commitments, but I always *wanted* to.
Thanks again, Matt.
You may each have 75 experience points, which, moreover, you may spend.
(Funny, I thought I had posted this already.)
For the third session (this Saturday, ANZAC Day) I am hoping for an initiative by the character-players to set the initial direction of the adventure. Faiofasmon needs a big wodge of cash. Mennon and Gestar each want to kill a tiger single-handed in the view of a huntmaster and two adepts. The sinkhole hasn't been explored, nor the gamekeeper's body recovered.
Unfold Re: Newcastle Thundering Vale After-Action Reports by Agemegos, 21 Apr 2009 04:59
3rd Game - 25th April 2009
There is no prequel. The game begins the morning after the previous game ended.
Mennon declares his intent to survey and search the sink hole for the gamekeeper's body. The other players agree that should happen and state their intent to participate. Gestar asks if that they should make an official announcement, but the other characters remember the mass of volunteers they had to sift through last game in similar circumstances. Mennon suggests to his protege that it would, however, be appropriate to inform the Seven Arrows lodge of the intention - given that the Gamekeeper was from Seven Arrows lodge. Gestar does this, and the Lodge sends an official party to accompany and help the expedition. The other characters go in search of rope, lighting and anything else they think will help the expedition.
A little later, Gestar decides to go looking for some people in the vale who may have some sort of practical engineering experience, and finds the lumberjacks. He talks to Amelan who, in the capacity of Chief Mahout, is in in charge of the lumberjacks. Amelan is a strange fellow, even by the standards of the vale. He is an alumnus of Tamé's lodge, and has somehow managed to fall outside of the rule forbidding partners or concubines withing the vale. As such he has a small hareem of concubines/wives (nobody is quite sure which) - who seem to need no instruction or direction from him as to his wishes - and a veritable army of children. Amelan agrees to come along on the expedition, and to bring a contingent of his lumberjacks with all the livestock and equipment he thinks they'll need. Everything is then set to begin the morning of the following day.
The expedition meets early the next morning. Amelan brings his lumberjacks, rope, elephants, one of his wives/concubines, and two of his children who are around 6 years of age. Mennon, Gestar, Faiofasmon and Kinman bring as much rope as they can carry, and some wicked candles that are designed to be unlikely to go out. The Seven Arrows contingent brings, well, themselves. All set out just after dawn, and the sinkhole is reached by lunchtime.
The sinkhole is about 20 metres by 40 metres. Going down about 20verification please metres are a number of strata of rocks, then the darkness obscures all else. A rope with a weight is lowered into the hole, and after attaching 3 more ropes, the depth is calculated to be around 40 fathoms. Amelan rigs up a lowering mechanism where a log is used as a counterweight and brake, and the lowering is performed by an elephant picking up and moving the log. This is apparently the way that the lumberjacks lower felled trees down cliffs. The players, out of game, are impressed with the idea of elephants as a sort of biological tamed bulldozer. Mennon volunteers to be the first to be lowered into the sinkhole, and is lowered down.
After the rock strata, the sinkhole opens up into a much larger cave, and the walls cannot be seen anymore. After a small while of further lowering, Mennon finds a mess of fallen trees. He tests his weight on them, and it holds. It is at this point that he realises that they haven't established a communication system. Hoping for the best, Mennon yells up , and his pleased that he gets a response. The other player characters are then lowered down, and then other NPCs.
The players begin to look around the wreckage. No bodies can yet be seen. A wrecked howdah is found, and near this Faiofasmon finds a bejewelled ankus (implement for goading elephants) which looks like it belonged to the Stragegos - although was almost certainly not actually used by him. Faiofasmon claims the ankus. The other players begin looking through the fallen trees, moving the smaller branches and logs that they can until such times as the lumberjacks are able to rig up more advanced tree removal operations.
As lumberjacks begin to be lowered down, more serious tree moving and excavation begins to take shape. Faiofasmon decides to summon the daimon of the cave, who manifests physically and is sporting a large hole in her head (which she is covering with her hand) and has blood trickling down her face. She accepts some dope from Faiofasmon by means of a painkiller. She indicates that after the crash of elephants and trees, one of the humans got up and walked away. When asked in which direction he went, she waves her arms and says " … sideways".
Whilst this is going on Gestar estimates that the excavation seems to be proceeding well enough on its own, and decides he will do some exploration of the cave. He wanders off into the darkness, and after a while finds a room with a hearth, a large box, a bowl of porridge, a pot of beer (with a ladel), and a cot. The hearth is cold, although the porridge is warm. The box is sealed shut by way of an elaborate knot, and when Gestar lifts the knot slightly to get a better look at it, it crumbles to dust in his hands. Inside he finds a suit of bronze armour (muscle cuirass, greaves, vambraces, shield) a baldric with a scabbarded sword, and a cloak. The sword blade was not visible, but was clearly there and sturdy - closer inspection showed it to be translucent, perhaps glass. Gestar returned the equipment to its box.
Continuing out into the corritor Gestar found a wall, and the corridor going to the left and the right. Since he did not recall that wall being there before, he retrieved the bowl of poridge and used splodges of porridge as a sort of breadcumb trail. He also has a nibble on the porridge every once in a while. He first went left, and after some time becomes certain that he had not previously been that way. Retracing his steps, he sets off to the right.
Back in the cave, Mennon, upon hearing about the person who wandered off after the cavein, decides to talk to the geist. Upon seeing her wound, he tries to help by bandaging it up (not quite realising its metaphoric nature), and the geist praises him as kind. Mennon asks if the geist can recall what the survivor looked like, and is told that the figure was not alive, and that all humans really look the same to her. Um? I may need some memory jog on that score. Mennon asks which direction the stranger staggered off in and is told "sideways" and after a pause "the same place your friend went". Mennon looks around and realises that Gestar isn't anywhere to be seen. He thanks the geist and goes in search of Faiofasmon, finding him in wolf form (as Faiofasmon had decided to do a little sniffing and exploring). Mennon informs Faiofasmon that Gestar is missing, and that he would appreciate the aid of Faiofasmon's olfactory capabilities (but not in those words). Mennon then informs Kinman that he and Faiofasmon are going searching after Gestar, and that they would appreciate it if people would be aware of the search when the time comes to exit the cave (if they are not back at that time). Mennon and Faiofasmon proceed into the darkness.
After a while Mennon and Faiofasmon find the same room that Gestar did (although they do not realise this, of course). Faiofasmon has a good sniff around, and finds the room smells strongly of shapeshifter. Mennon samples the beer in the pot, and takes a sip. It tastes rather good, so he finishes the ladel, an then has a second helping. Mennon then examins the contents of the box and is impressed. He tries to shift the box, and whilst it moves, it's a bit unwieldy. Mennon decides that he can sling and wear most of the armour (even though it doesn't fit him properly) in order to carry it out, and begins to do so. Faiofasmon seems unimpressed with Mennon nicking the stuff, but Mennon is unperturbed by Faiofasmon's complaints (presumably in the form of growls and snarls) - also Faiofasmon is still (even in wolf form) carrying the ankus he found in the cave. Unfortunately, Mennon can't carry all the armour and gear and the pot of beer - so the pot is left behind. The two continue on.
Unfold 3rd Game - 25th April 2009 by Phyd3aux, 27 Apr 2009 13:21
Re: 3rd Game - 25th April 2009
Agemegos 04 May 2009 05:20
Queried spellings ought to be "howdah", and "ankus" or "goad"
Unfold Re: 3rd Game - 25th April 2009 by Agemegos, 04 May 2009 05:20
4rd Game - 23rd May 2009
Phyd3aux 26 Jun 2009 18:58
Bryan has bowed out of the game, and so Kinman shall no longer appear in the campaign. Additionally — due to an extended internet outage at the game venue — Paul was sadly unable to join this game, and so Faiofasmon shall make no appearance in this episode.
The story begins the the evening of the day the last story completed
Gestar and Mennon go looking for a place of recreation. They find, near the docks, a multi story establishment built maybe twenty metres out on the water on top of a coral bank. There is a walkway from the shore to the establishment at the front of which are two divers and a long line of people. The divers are selectively letting people in (or turning them away) and asking for something called a "cover charge". There is no apparent pattern to the amount people are charged entry. Gestar and Mennon decide that this place looks intriguing, and line up. Mennon bets Gestar the first round of drinks that Gestar cannot charm his way in for free. A dishevelled looking man with a musical horn is let in for free just before Gestar and Mennon arrive reach the front of the line. Upon being told that neither paint plays an instrument, the divers demand a small cover charge. Gestar's attempts at charming a free entry fail.
The establishment turns out to be four stories tall, with a stage in the middle of the ground floor, and each other floor being a square ring allowing patrons to see the stage from any floor. Gestar and Mennon are met by two girls who show them to a table on the 2nd floor, overlooking the harbour. The girls are, essentially, companions for the night. Both sit down with Mennon and Gestar, and one unpacks a stringed musical instrument, and plays a quiet accompaniment to the music coming from downstairs. Small talk is engaged in. The girl with the instrument turns out to have a predelection for bad puns (which her cohort refuses to allow her to indulge in). Gestar and his companion go downstairs for a dance. Dinner is then ordered and eaten.
Just after dinner, Mennon notices a very richly ornate barge rowing into the harbour. As it rows past the establishment, Mennon notices a figure dive off the back of the barge. He points this out to Gestar, they both get up and lean on the balcony for a better view. They spot where the figure surfaces and watch them swim to shore. Whilst watching this, the barge docks, and the occupants make to shore. The swimmer turns out to be a young, and very attractive girl. She tries to climb over the railing onto the ground floor, but a diver sees her, and pushes her back into the water, exclaiming "cover charge!". Gestar makes his way quickly downstairs, whilst Mennon sits back down at the table. Gestar's companion rolls her eyes and sighs "Jolianids".
By the time Gestar gets downstairs he cannot find the diver in question, and the girl is gone. Gestar makes his way outside, and finds the girl about halfway toward the shore, swimming under the walkway. He leans over and offers to pay her cover charge. She accepts a hand onto the walkway, and they both head back to table where Mennon and the two girls remain. As it happens, none of the divers encounter them on their way back to the table, and so no cover charge ends up needing to be paid. The young girl is — by just about any Gehenese measure — Drop Dead Gorgeous™.
The girl makes very short work of what is left of the food. She says her name is Imelana, and that she is running away. (Dum, Dun, Daaaaaaaah — plays the girl on her instrument). She is the daughter of a rich man from a nearby episkopy, and has been promised to marry a man she has no desire to. Gestar warns her that there is a lot of the world of which she will be unaware having such a sheltered life to date. Imelana remains undeterred. Furthermore she states that they will realise she is missing soon, and that she must make haste. Gestar declares that he will, at the very least, help her to reach the city limits. The two depart. Mennon smiles and declares that he gives them half an hour at the most before they're in trouble. The girl with the instrument seems to agree. When asked if perhaps he should be following after his friend, Mennon declares not for half an hour.
Gestar and Imelana make their way out into the night. They make find themselves in a bathhouse, inside which Imelana has a bath, and they use the time to dry her clothes. After this, Gestar realises that the city gates will be closed at this time of evening, and so he finds a place for them to stay for the night, but is prudent enough to find a different empty room to the one he is told to go to, and stays the night in there instead. He works his whiles upon Imelana, and a good time is had by all.
Half an hour after Gestar's departure Mennon pays up the bill, and bids farewell to the two companions. The divers acting as bouncers at the gate show him the direction in which Gestar and the young lass went in. Gestar notices that there are a lot of people running around with torches, looking in, and under anything they can. He concludes that Imelana's family have worked out that she is missing. A small distance (twenty or thirty metres maybe) down the road from the establishment, he finds a bathhouse. The doors are barred shut, but sounds of splashing can be heard from within. At about this time one of the searchers with a torch turns up at the bathhouse. Mennon bursts into a fit of coughing to try and hide the sounds of (presumably) his protege from being heard. The torch bearer moves on.
Mennon makes his way back to the establishment, and gives the divers at the gate a small bribe to conveniently forget (or misdirect the direction last seen of) Gestar and Imelana. Having done this, he makes his way back to the bathhouse, and after checking nobody is watching, climbs the gate. By now there is nobody in the bathhouse, but clear signs that somebody was there. Mennon heads out to the back, and finds a back door, and makes his way through. He reasons the most likely way Gestar would have gone, and continues on in that direction.
Upon the way he happens upon a boardign house and, remembering that he doesn't actually have anywhere yet to stay the night, knocks on the door to try and establish a room for himeslef and maybe Gestar, that he can come back to later. THe boarding house claims to be full (apparently based on Mennon's feet somehow), so Mennon continues on. The next boarding house he comes to down the road is a little more derelect and is answered by a young man who is utterly stoned. Seeing Mennon's tatoos the stoned man asks if Mennon is with "the other guy"? Mennon takes a room at the boarding house, but finds Gestar's room empty. Smiling at Gestars foresight, or good fortune, Mennon retires back to his room.
In the morning Mennon awakes early as is his custom, and waits in the common area downstairs for Gestar (whom Mennon expects to catch on his way down). Gestar, in his turn, awakens and soon discovers that the gorgeous woman from the night before is now a man. Imelana wakes up shortly thereafter and quickly makes the same discovery, and is — unsurprisingly — even more surprised than Gestar. They quickly decide that whilst this is a very good disguise, Imelana will need some men's clothes. Gestar heads out to get them.
Gestar runs into Mennon in the common room, and explains the situation to him. Gestar is going to get Imelana out of the city as soon as possible. Mennon will catch up with them after he has intercepted the old gentleman, and discussed his villages tiger problem. Gestar asks Mennon to wait in the boarding house until Gestar returns with the new clothes for Imelana, and Mennon agrees. This they then do.
Mennon goes through a morning routine of bathing and massage before making his way to the pallace (which does not accept petitioners until late afternoon). When he arrives, he finds a small group of people preparing to rush in and race for first in line when the doors are opened. Umongst them is the old gentleman that was pointed out to them the previous afternoon. Mennon strikes up a conversation, asking about the tiger problem. THe man states that he was tardy the previous day and didn't get a good place in line, but he was quite sure that today he was bright and early and would definitely attain an audience. It is at this point that an official comes out of the door and announces that the Episkopos will not be hearing audiences today. The old man looks dissapointed, but Mennon says that he (Mennon) may be able to help the old man, and invites to pay for breakfast whilst they discuss.
The old man introduces himsself as Imar and explains that he is head man of his village, and that the tiger they have is mysterious. It only attacks once a month on the full moon, and that it only kills men. Usually tigers kill livestock and whatnot on the outskirts of the village, but this one does not. Mennon tells Imar that he is from the Thundering Vale, and Imar falls to his knees, begging Mennon for his help. Mennon repeatedly tells the man to get to his feet, and not to grovel, but it is no use. Mennon promises Imar that he, and others from the vale, will be at the village by the next full moon, and after learning the location of said village, heads off to catch up with Gestar and Imelana. The village is called Murino and is north of Heresketh.
Gestar and Imelana have not made particularly brilliant time. Mennon catches up to them just as they have stopped to trade some shoes for Imelana, who is getting footsore. Mennon picks Imelana up in a firemans carry, and Gestar and Mennon run for a period to make up some time. Imelana complains that it is worse than a carga. After a period, Mennon agrees to allow the party to travel at Imelana's pace. They travel at this pace for a few hours, before it is clear that they are behind in time again, at which point Mennon offers a more reasonable carying solution, in the form of a piggy back. Imelana agrees and the party make it back to the vale just before the afternoon rains. Imelana is found a place to stay in the vale's villiage.
During dinner, Mennon talks to the head of his lodge about the Tiger. The lodge head's name was foolishly not recorded by the player, but was — unsurprisingly — an avatar of Timeon. It is agreed to send a party to allow Mennon to hunt the tiger (since success will mean one more adept in the lodge). Mennon is warned that "single handedly doesn't mean unarmed, and doesn't mean stupid". He is also strongly advised to find somebody who knows about were tigers (which the story from Imar strongly sounds like)
The next day, Gestar and Mennon break their fast with Imelana (after the usual morning routine of gymnastic activities and a bath). Gestar and Imelana decide to try and work out what happened to Imelana. Mennon is determined to organise his tiger expedition. The full moon is four days away. Imelana's feet sores are completely dissapeared. It appears he knows some yoga (much to the characters' surprise). Imelana seems a little interested in learning more about the Vale, as well.
All three of them make their way to the library in Skywalker lodge, to talk to the librarian. Gestar and Imelana first talk to the librarian, who speaks a little of shapechangers, but doesn't know much himself. He directs them to a part of the library which should have relevant books, and they set off. The librarian then talks to Mennon about were tigers. He describes three types of were tigers that he has heard of. One type changes based on a trigger (a full moon or somesuch) and is completely bestial when in tiger form. Another type can change at will, and retains their full wits in both forms. The third type changes between forms when it has sex, or when it kills, and is completely bestial when in tiger form. Mennon describes the expedition he wishes to go on, and the librarian suggests that he (Mennon) should speak to a man named Leppaman who is an adjuvant in the Skywalker lodge.
Gestar and Imelana find a tretise on shapechangers. Unfortunately it is written in elvish, which Gestar cannot speak, read or write. Fortunately Imelana can read elvish. They begin the slow process of translating the book (made slower by one of the translators not being able to read the language). The book is an attempt at an objective treatise. It fails miserably, and the prejudice of the author against all things shapechanging, and the opinion that they are abominations is abundantly clear.
Mennon finds Leppaman and describes the situation to him. Leppaman reiterates the three types of shapechanging tigers he is aware of. After a small amount of thought, Leppaman suggests that if a female chapechanger of the third variety was to sleep with a man she would then turn into a tiger. The bestial tiger would then, naturally, kill the man and then change back into a person. In this way only the man is killed, no livestock are killed, no tiger prints are found, etc etc. It seems to match Imar's stories very well. Mennon asks Leppaman if he would be willing to accompany the tiger hunting expedition as an adjuvant witness, and expert advisor on were tigers. Leppaman agrees. Leppaman has been drinking an awful lot during the time he has spend with Mennon. Mennon suggests that since — after killing his tiger — he only has the trial of the forrest remaining to be both huntmaster and adept, and that since Leppaman needs only the trial of fleetness, that they could work together and each train the other for the trial they have yet to attain. Leppaman explains that he has something dislocated in his knee which is quite painful and prevents free movement. As he gets older the problem gets no better, and whilst he *could* have a surgeon cut out the loose part, then use yoga to heal it, he has thought about it and decided that he doesn't really want the trial of fleetness that badly. Mennon departs.
That afternoon, Mennon talks to the head of the lodge again, and appraises him of the situation. He has, including Gestar, two adjuvants to act as witnesses, but still needs a huntmaster. The head of the lodge assigns one of the lodges better huntmasters, and that huntmaster's progegé to go along as well. They all have a discussion and decide that with Leppaman's knee the way it is, they had better leave on the next day to give them 3 days time to travel. Mennon goes to inform Leppaman of this eventuality. Leppaman is completely doped up on laudenum, but thanks Mennon for the extra travel time consideration.
The next day the party sets off. Imalana asks if he may acompany them, but when told the pace they were expecting to keep, and the distance to be travelled, quickly realises that it would just not be possible. Gestar arranges permission for Imalana to continue using the Skywalker library in his absense, so that Imalana may continue to research what had happened to him. The party set off
Ok this is as far as we got on the Saturday evening. We played a few hours extra the next day, but I"m out of time to write that up.
Unfold 4rd Game - 23rd May 2009 by Phyd3aux, 26 Jun 2009 18:58
paully 12 Jul 2009 12:44
The story as I have it:
Gestar & Mennon retire to their lodgings in Morino to recover from their wounds. (See last episode once it's written.)
While the others "Lamar, Lamar, Lamar" on the yoga front, Faiofasmon does a little eavesdropping in the village to see what the vibe is: Most locals and interstate traders think that the thorough thrashing of the professional tiger hunters does not bode well so the traders will see you later thank you very much. Fiaofasmon feels this would play into the hands of any were-tiger smart enough to keep an eye on the road out of town and reckons it needs looking into. As luck would have it, Gamasan & Mikan need to stretch their legs and decide to have a look as well. The three find their way to the site of the tiger fight from the previous episode and follow the trail of the tiger as far as they dare; the tiger seems to have headed for the hills but no one fancies being caught in a tiger ambush today.
While searching for the tiger, Fiaofasmon finds a baby in a sack slung up in a tree. It turns out this belongs to the were-tiger (Gestar's memory isn't the best when he's recovering from tiger bites) so the baby is collected and taken back to town. The party decides the baby will make excellent bait for the were-tiger and a plan is hatched.
Using local labour, an observing platform is constructed in the tea tree plantation where the baby was found. The NPC's take their posts on the platform and the baby is placed on the bank on the other side of a small rivulet such that the tiger has only one path of approach. The tiger falls into the trap hook-line-and-sinker and a fight ensues: The tiger grabs the baby and makes a break for it, Faiofasmon grabs the baby back and scores a bad wound to the arm, Mennon bags the tiger and completes the trial of the tiger. Yay!
The party returns to the vale triumphant. The baby is given to the chief mahout to raise as one of his own (a situation might need correcting) and Mennon gets his tattoo.
The party heads to Orio to sell Bob-Kate's jewelry but everyone agrees they won't get the best price in such a back water and it's also a bit close to home if Bob-Kate's family are serious about searching for him-her. Bob-Kate does some experimenting on the shape changing front and discovers that when male she must bonk a female to change form. By implication, the reverse is also true.
The party confers and decides the items found during their visit to the shee might be worth a membership or 8 at Graymane lodge and so the haggling begins. It turns out the items are very magical indeed (walk on air, kill geists, that sort of thing) and strongly linked with Graymane but the lodge can only offer one membership now and another in 5 years. The party accepts and Faifasmon becomes a full ranking member of the vale. Yay! The items also pay for Bob-Kate's tuition as a student at Graymane until the next membership is up for the taking. The items are interned under Fiaofasmon's new room in a subterranean cyst.
What's next in store for our heroes?
There is some experience to spend, some learning to do and some trials to attempt.
Fiafasmon would really like to look into the shape-changer war going on in the shee; how did it start and what will end it?
They could try to sell Bob-Kate's jewelry in a bigger town farther afield.
There's a baby were-tiger in the vale which might need sending somewhere.
Unfold Re: Newcastle Thundering Vale After-Action Reports by paully, 12 Jul 2009 12:44
paully 18 Aug 2009 12:40
The next session went something like this:
The start of the adventure saw our heroes in Thundering Vale wondering what to do with the shape changing child they brought back with them at the end of the last session.
The three consulted Leppaman, the Vale's librarian, to uncover what options were before them:
Request a miracle from a suitable geist to bless (or curse, depending on your outlook) the child so it can't change shape
Give the child to a geist to raise or send to the shee
If the child doesn't count as 'human', offer it as a sacrifice to a suitable geist
Throw the child into a deep river tied to a rock
This avenue of investigation led to more questions:
Is the child human as far as sacrifice is concerned?
Our heroes decided this question would be best answered by a priest of Thelmond; that geist what don't like 'uman sacrifice.
Is the child cursed by a geist to be a shape changer?
This seemed unlikely given the nature of the child. If it were the case, the options for having the curse lifted required the cooperation of the geist concerned or risked provoking it.
Which geist(s) would be suitable to bless the child so it couldn't change shape?
Indarian perhaps; this celestial body fixed in position is the very epitome of constance.
Faiofasmon takes advantage of the situation to put a few questions of his own to Leppaman:
What is known of the dynastic house of the red moon? I.e. Bob-Kate's family.
Not a lot about the family in particular. The red moon occurs when Selina is at the horizon and in a mood to party. Pondering this leads to another question; is Selina red in other locations, where she is higher above the horizon, at the same time?
Why is there a war in the shee between the Leshy and the shape changers?
Unknown: About 500 years ago a famous Leshy called Timeon discovered the ability to 'Turn Sideways' thereby finding a way from the Elder Isles to the shee. The shee is a vastly improved version of that half of the globe which can see Indarian. Timeon spread the knowledge to other Leshy who spread it to others still and now few Leshy remain in this world preferring to live in the shee instead. Soon after they began settling the shee, the Leshy starting driving the shape changers towards the 'terminator' which marks the place where the shee ends and 'nowhere' begins. There is no record of why this practice began.
This raises some interesting questions:
Is the shee a creation of Indarian?
Are the Leshy, Timeon in particular, favourites of Indarian? If fact, given the Leshy are immortal and once adult unchanging, could they be the children of Indarian?
Is this war an extension of some disagreement between geists?
Our heroes think it only fair at this time to tell the chief mahoot about the nature of the child he has been given. He gives the heroes 3 weeks to come up with a plan or he will take the action required to make sure the baby doesn't end up hurting anyone.
To answer some of these questions Faiofasmon decides to have a crack at the Trial of Summing and and put the questions to Indarian. Given how bad he is at this skill, no one is surprised when his attempt fails utterly.
The following day, Leppaman is spotted heading for Thekla on an elephant borrowed from the lodge. He explains that he's heading for one of the most famous libraries in the world; the one at House Azure. This magical place of academia claims to have the most extensive collection of books which can be researched, for a fee, by a member of the House. Our heroes decide to tag along. The fist leg of the trip is on foot to Orio, then by rented yacht up the coast to Thekla.
The trip is uneventful. Gestar manages to not do any monster-baiting during this trip (and his wrists thank him for it).
Leppaman bids his travelling companions farewell at the city gates and heads his own way. Our heroes head for the jewellers quarter to sell Bob-Kate's items. They end up with 50 mina for their troubles but run into a "toll" collecting point in a back alley. A fight ensues and our heroes walk away unharmed with a couple of coin purses, two bronze swords and a cool pair of shades for their troubles. Divers, hmmph.
Our heroes head to the quarter known as House Azure to secure accommodation. While there Faiofasmon hires a street kid to find where Leppaman is staying. Negotiations for accommodation go so badly the party decides to head for a more upmarket part of town.
The following day, the party does the gym and bath routine followed by some shopping for armour and the like for Bob-Kate & Faiofasmon.
They then travel up to the temple district. This is a lovely part or town up on a volcanic plug overlooking the city and the bay. The first stop is the temple of Thelmond and the priests are asked if a shape changer counts as human when it comes to human sacrifice. The lawyer types jump at the challenge and, in this case, the answer is no. The answer would be yes if the child were a cursed human, Leshy, diver, flyer or bits-a.
The second stop is the temple of Indarian where a very aged priest is found composing songs on a harp. Tea is brought and the priest performs a tea ceremony the creates a magic brew that soothes the body and shapens the mind and senses. The priest indicates that Indarian does not approve of shape changers and the party concludes she probably wouldn't bother to help the child with a miracle. The priest is not so forthcoming about the relationship between Indarian, the shee and the Leshy although he admits this line of questioning shows good logic. The priest recommends our hereos return home so they head back into town.
The steet urchin has returned up results and says Leppaman is staying at a high priced joint called the White Rose Garden. An exorbitant fee is paid.
The party heads to the library at House Azure in search of knowledge. A researcher is hired to look into the whole question of Indarian, the shee, Lehsies and shape chagers. It will take 3 months and 9 mina to secure results.
The party decides they've done all they can in the big city and head back to the docks, first stopping at the White Rose Garden to leave a message for Leppaman. The urchin meets them at the docks and asks if he can hitch a ride to Orio on their boat. Our heroes figure 'what the heck' and everyone, minus Leppaman, hires a boat back to Orio and the party returns to Thundering Vale without any noteworthy events taking place.
Unfold Re: Newcastle Thundering Vale After-Action Reports by paully, 18 Aug 2009 12:40
Agemegos 14 Feb 2010 03:49
We've had a bit of an hiatus, what with one thing and another. I think we've only played once since last August.
Further, at least one and maybe two new players are likely joining the campaign soon.
I think a situation report is called for. Matt? Tony? Paul? What do you reckon is going on?
Unfold Re: Newcastle Thundering Vale After-Action Reports by Agemegos, 14 Feb 2010 03:49
paully 25 Mar 2010 11:58
The start of the adventure saw our heroes at Thundering Vale determined that the baby shape-changer living in their midst be given to a geist, possibly as a sacrifice. (See previous post-action reports.)
The three consulted Greymane Lodge's preeminent summoner, the Speaker to Stones & Streams, for advice on an appropriate geist. He offered a sharpened knife for the purpose of the murder err.. sacrifice but not much else in the way of help or advice. The three decided that, given historical events, the geist of the forest could probably best use some mana from a sacrifice so off they went to collect the baby and visit the temple of the forest.
[It was at about this time that our heroes noted the absence Akhaimanon, the young street lad who had followed them home from their trip to Thekla (last episode). Everyone figured he'd most likely taken off to see Valina, the nearby port city, to see what opportunities could be found there.]
At the temple, our heroes consumed the appropriate drugs and the geist showed up (they think) and agreed to send the child to a safe place in return for three favors from each of them. Seeing no better option before them, they agreed and the bonking err.. favors were performed on the nights of the next full moon and the full moon after that.
The following full moon saw the inhabitants of the Vale celebrate the festival of Thundering Vale with associated sporting events and parties. A couple of thousand blow-ins arrived from out of town including a group with obvious wealth and import judging from the massive amount of stuff they had brought with them. Our heroes sauntered down to take a look at this tent and Fiaofasmon thought to detect a scent similar to that of Ivrian[e], the other shape-changer they brought back to the Vale after a trip out of town (a couple of episodes back). The scent belonged to a middle aged male retainer who turned out to be Ivrian[e]'s pseudo-father.
A number of sporting events took place; Mennon scored a first in the wresting and placed in two other events. Mennon scored much kudos and a new tattoo for such an outstanding performance.
Fiaofasmon reported the facts about the strangers to the rest of the party. The party paid their respects to the visitors and extended a supper invitation to the bloke in charge, Inkeman Aretos, at one of the pavilions that night. Ivrian[e] was troubled by the fact that a relative had shown up in town and thought it best to avoid the group of visitors altogether.
Over supper, a couple of things became apparent: this guy did not appear to be a blood relative of Ivrian[e] and he was obviously lying about his reason for visiting the Vale. The stated reason was to research his family history in regard to a female relative, our heroes felt it more likely he was here to find a missing female relative, Ivrian[e], and drag her home. Supper ended in the usual manner and everyone headed back to their lodgings.
Mennon sought out Ivrian[e] only to find his/her pseudo-father (now appearing as a woman) trying to negotiate her way past the Greymane doorman with a letter. Mennon offered to deliver the letter but was turned down. Mennon finds Ivrian[e] packing a swag with the intention of hiding into the forest until her relatives leave. Mennon provided advice on the best hiding place and, after waiting a few minutes, followed Ivrian[e] into the forest. Sure enough, Ivrian[e] had fallen into an ambush not far into the woods, having been attacked by two Melankreuthes (the Polemarkh's spies appointed to keep watch over the dynastai) who had come to the Vale with the group of visitors. Using nothing but his fists and feet, Mennon made short work of the two victims and instructed Ivrian[e] to seek shelter on an island in the Cloud Lynx River, the island also houses the temple to geist the of the river. Mennon left the two would be assailants hanging in their own net from a tree branch and headed back to the village to confront Inkeman Aretos over the conduct of his people.
Gestar and Fiaofasmon followed Ivrian[e]'s pseudo-father to a tavern in the town where, after making him/her-self look more obtainable, she sets about trying to turn back into a man (by having sex with one). Gestar decides he's the man for the job but is snubbed.
Our heroes banded together and confronted Inkeman Aretos concerning the fact that two of his entourage attacked Ivrian[e] and a third was seen looking for her. Inkeman is as surprised as anyone to discover that two of his employees (and potentially a third) worked for the Polemarkh and ordered that the two spies be dispatched.
Fiaofasmon was sent on four legs to catch up to Ivrian[e] and ensure her safety. Fiaofasmon made it to the temple and the geist appeared, somewhat jealous at first, but Ivrian[e] performed a stunning piece of persuasion and the geist relented. Much bonking ensued below the surface of the river in a magical grotto.
Mennon and Gestar showed up at the temple and were somewhat puzzled by the absence of Fiaofasmon and Ivrian[e] but, based on the physical evidence at the scene, decided to wait for them to reappear. Ivrian[e]'s pseudo-father showed up (still in female form) with a baby tooth suspended from a human hair (obviously some form of magical apparatus) guiding her way. The magical tooth stopped working as soon as it entered the precincts of the temple.
The three had a conversation in which some facts were brought to light:
Ivrian[e]'s pseudo-father was not a Melankreuthes, just a shape changer hiding out in a royal household bonking rich women and siring royal children
If the secret got out about Ivrian[e] being a shape changer (which it pretty much had) then Ivrian[e]'s pseudo-father could kiss his sweet set up goodbye
In addition, Ivrian[e]'s mother was exposed as a faithless wife and her life was forfeit
And, Ivrian[e] had lost all claim to royal privilege and responsibility (all the better as far as Ivrian[e] was concerned)
Given the above, Ivrian[e]'s pseudo-father decided to grab his stuff from the camp of Inkeman and hike over the mountains into Orio to start a new life. Always the gentleman, Gestar escorted Ivrian[e]'s pseudo-father (still in woman form) back to the Vale to collect her belongings. On the way, the two stopped to change Ivrian[e]'s father into male form, i.e. some bonking occurred.
When they got back, they found the camp heavily guarded by members of the Vale and were informed the visitors had been told to pack their things and leave at dawn. Gestar secured permission for Ivrian[e]'s pseudo-father to break the curfew to get his belongings. Ivrian[e]'s pseudo-father showed surprising skill and familiarity with the art of tent-break-&-enter and raised no alarm while obtaining his items. Gestar and Ivrian[e]'s pseudo-father walked through the woods for a bit chatting and, without warning, Ivrian[e]'s father 'stepped sideways' into the shee leaving Gestar to return to the temple alone and share the news.
What's in store next adventure for our heroes? Why, rescuing Ivrian[e]'s mother from death of course. What could be a more appropriate adventure for Gestar the monster-baiter?
Unfold Re: Newcastle Thundering Vale After-Action Reports by paully, 25 Mar 2010 11:58
tkemp 26 Mar 2010 07:53
That all looks good to me, apart from one small detail - I think Mennon was with Ivrian[e]'s pseudo-father when he/she stepped sideways.
EDIT: removed bits covered in your in-progress AAR you emailed us.
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A Journey in Being
World Views and the Ultimate View of the Narrative
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Fundamental Principle of Metaphysics
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The analysis of experience and meaning enables clarification of the nature of problems of existence and their resolution.
‘X exists’ indicates present tense. Here we shall also use a tense-less sense in which ‘X exists’ means ‘X has existence over some ranges of locations and times’.
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Conceiving METAPHYSICS as precise knowledge of things as they are, significant parts of the developments so far—the concepts and givenness of experience, existence, and Being—are metaphysical knowledge.
So far, this knowledge is not of the Universe as a whole. So far, it shows few ‘things’ that we know to have Being.
The development will fill in these lacunae. It finds directions of perfection and other directions in which, for limited forms of Being, knowledge will ever remain in process.
Development will proceed self-consciously with metaphysics and method emerging together.
BEING names that which is.
Being and world are known in experience (awareness) which is theater and core of our being.
As such, experience is so immediate its Being needs and has no proof—i.e., proof or foundation in terms of the Being of something else.
The power of the concept of Being is neutrality. The power of experience is immediacy and centering (of our Being in the world). It is important that no commitment be made at outset to the nature of Being (beyond existence) or to kinds of experience (especially human experience).
The UNIVERSE is All Being.
Creation is a form of Being.
The Universe contains all Creation
But is not created.
A pattern or LAW has Being.
(A Law is a limit—it allows
Some patterns, not others).
The Universe contains all Laws.
The VOID is the absence of Being.
There is a Void. A simple argument for this lies in the meanings of ‘meaning’ and of ‘existence’.
The Void contains no Law and so has no limits.
Therefore the Universe—all objects, patterns, and Laws—emerges from the Void.
The Void is ever present with every part of the Universe;
Therefore the Universe has no limits.
This is the fundamental principle of metaphysics,
Also called the fundamental principle.
The meaning of the fundamental principle includes that
But for the freedom of concepts (i.e., assertions or propositions) to have conflict—e.g. disagree—with facts or one another, every concept is realized.
When the fundamental principle is thus expressed in terms of concepts its form is one of factual and conceptual realism.
That there will and must be phases of ‘something rather than nothing’, i.e. phases of manifest Being, is a trivial corollary.
The fundamental principle has many implications that are momentous but relatively trivial to see or prove.
‘Something rather than nothing’ is a first example. Other examples are that the variety of the Universe is far greater than that of our cosmos and that the Universe has Identity and ultimate power that are conferred on the individual.
Any difficulty regarding such conclusions is in their interpretation—their significance, squaring them with common sense, science (fact), and logic (which includes mutual consistency); and questions of how they may be realized in action.
There may of course be doubt regarding the fundamental principle itself. However, the principle is internally consistent and consistent with science and fact; it is therefore not absurd; and therefore action under the principle may fall under ‘existential attitude’ and ‘fundamental principle as hypothesis for action’, discussed in the Complete Edition of the essay.
The fundamental principle harbors many further conclusions that are significant for which difficulties in intuition, demonstration, interpretation, and realization are anticipated. The range of application, revealed below, is that of the human endeavor. This reveals an opportunity for an immense and significant program of program of development.
Every valid law or theory of science or realm of experience of the world has interpretation as a compound fact
Regarding some limited domain
But implies nothing about the existence or non-existence, magnitude, or nature of what is external to the domain.
This interpretation is superior to the interpretation of law as universal hypothesis and shows explicitly the absence of conflict among science-experience and the fundamental principle.
Universal and New Conceptions of Realism and Logic
The conceptions of Realism and Logic developed here are new, related to but a final boundary of logic, and are of ultimate significance.
If every concept of a system asserts a fact
Conflict among concepts and between concepts and facts may the system non factual.
The logics—classical and modern—help prevent such conflict.
The logics have limited domains of validity.
Conceive REALISM (LOGIC) as the constraints for
Concepts to have reference.
Valid facts, sciences, and logics are part of Realism (Logic).
Realism (Logic) is not a limit on the Universe.
The object of Realism (Logic) is the limitless
Universe in all its detail.
This assertion incorporates science and logic but its
Revealed Universe is greater than theirs without limit.
That the Universe is the object of Realism (Logic) has immediate and immense implications.
Any difficulty is in the interpretation of implications.
But Realism (Logic) harbors immensely more,
Beyond the intellect of limited forms.
Metaphysics so Far
Knowledge of the Universe so far combines the empirical with the rational.
This knowledge by abstraction is perfect, complete in foundation and far exceeds expectation.
However, while beings are in limited form, this knowledge is ever in process. Given the case, this in process aspect cannot be other than ideal.
The Universe is revealed as a place of ever fresh adventure.
Objects and Identity
From FP every concept within Realism (Logic) has an OBJECT.
This dissolves distinctions of kind and abstraction—unifies all kinds and abstracta in Realism, i.e. in the one Universe.
IDENTITY is (sense of) sameness of self or object. Identity is an aspect of objecthood; self is an aspect of certain objects—Individuals or persons.
Practical objects are included as concept-objects according to ‘good enough’ instrumental andor value criteria.
This division develops consequences of the metaphysics for identity of the Universe and the individual, for the variety of Being (and therefore of experience), and for the nature and necessity of a journey in ultimate realization.
General Cosmology is commonly identified with but includes and is far greater than modern physical cosmology.
The Universe has Identity in acute, diffuse, and non-manifest phases.
This Identity has continuity across the non-manifest.
The Universe is ultimate POWER (power is defined as degree of limitlessness).
It is in the nature of the limitlessness of the Universe that its Power is conferred on the individual.
All individuals inherit (realize) the ultimate—the Universe and its Power.
For limited form, ideas—knowledge, understanding—must be essentially incomplete. For limited form, realization is given as an endless journey in interwoven ideas and action—unlimited in variety, magnitude (summit to dissolution), and extension-duration of Being.
Demonstration—there is no limit to realization since a limit would be on the Universe. However, the concept—definition—of limited form is that it does not know-realize All Being in an instant.
For unlimited form realization is a single acute act of Being and perception.
This section is about general and physical cosmology and their mutual study.
DURATION is difference as change in the same object (the concept of sameness as an aspect of identity is developed in the Complete Edition: Objects and Identity); EXTENSION is difference coordinated to distinct objects. Duration and extension are precursors to space and time (these ideas are developed further in the Complete Edition: General and Physical Cosmology—Variety of Being).
The variety and extent of the Universe are unlimited.
Cosmologies, Laws, and cosmological systems have no limit to their variety, number, and extent. They are relatively stable against a void and transient background.
Mechanism is, roughly, structure and regularity of behavior that permits understanding and predictability.
Experience and Being
What is the relation between Experience and Being?
If matter is an exclusive substance, mind is impossible and must therefore be material.
Experience is essence of mind; its primitive form is effect; higher forms are built of the primitive.
The metaphysics makes substance untenable, thus enables the interpretation: MATTER as FIRST and MIND as SECOND ORDER BEING.
From FP, experience and Being are coextensive and are the place of significance.
Consciousness, Life, and Mechanism
On Earth we find life to be organizations of matter; we normally associate mind—consciousness and primitive experience—with life.
What are the general relations among these aspects of Being and mechanism?
Adequate address of the question will require simultaneous ideal generalization of all pertinent concepts.
Under mechanism (1) Life has material form (2) All experience has material embodiment, and (3) Higher experience or consciousness associates with life.
This division reviews, criticizes, and further develops the concept of metaphysics and the universal metaphysics of the narrative and its method. It and it addresses the question of doubt regarding the universal metaphysics and action under doubt.
Metaphysics is Realism (Logic).
The narrative so far provides demonstration of a perfect, unique, and ultimate UNIVERSAL METAPHYSICS.
We may therefore call it the metaphysics.
Trivially, from demonstration of the metaphysics, metaphysics is actual and possible.
Doubt and Doubting
Doubt arises over ‘ever presence’ of the Void and so over FP.
The path to certainty requires us to admit and investigate doubt.
Our most certain—but significant—endeavors harbor uncertainty.
This uncertainty is occasion for an EXISTENTIAL ATTITUDE that encourages outcomes of greatest ideal value.
Further Demonstration of the Fundamental Principle
It is useful to consider alternative demonstrations of FP.
An improved proof. If the Universe were in a void state there would be no Laws and so every state would emerge. However the void state is present with the manifest Universe which is therefore limitless.
A heuristic alternative. As absence of Being, there is no distinction between existence and non-existence of the Void which may therefore be taken to exist.
A second heuristic alternative. Apply Ockham’s Razor to the question ‘What does not have Being?’ The minimal hypothesis is that no (Realistic or Logical) concept lacks an object.
Doubt and Existential Attitude
Because doubt about existence of the Void remains, need for an existential component to Realism (Logic) remains.
Even if FP is certain, there is no guarantee of realization to any particular limited form.
An appropriate existential attitude will be potent in realization.
In absence of certainty, the dual of doubt is attitude.
Fundamental Principle as Hypothesis
An alternative to certainty is to regard thought-action based on the limitlessness of the Universe as an experiment.
Truth, Assertion, and Declaration
What attitude is productive of the greatest outcome? Is it to treat FP as hypothesis or as fact?
We assert the truth of a state of state of affairs. Some social states are conventionally true by declaration, e.g. ‘I crown you king’.
However I do not make universal gravitation true by declaration.
Can the—greatest realization of—FP be made future true, by present declaration?
Ideas, and Metaphysics, and their Method
Development of the metaphysics begins with analysis of and synthesis of meaning.
From concepts to system—analysis-synthesis of Law and Void enable deduction—synthesis—of FP.
Brief assessment—the method is Analysis and Synthesis of Meaning.
From FP, a limited form experiences all knowledge only in process via participation and immersion.
Applied Metaphysics
Conceive Applied Metaphysics as extension of the above method to practical / imperfect knowledge.
A first, perfect extension: by FP all concepts are realized—this extension, since it asserts realization of concepts without connecting the concepts explicitly to their objects, falls short of all empirical knowledge. It is so far known to be empirical only for the perfect objects.
Analysis-synthesis of meaning may be seen to include methods for science and mathematics.
The general theory of objects may be extended to practical cases. In general the knowledge is good enough (for common situations—i.e., in the Normal context). In some cases the knowledge is perfect according to some value (this may include the good enough case). In some cases the extension is (1) empirical (2) is such it is inherent in the nature of Being that knowledge cannot be made more precise without changing the conditions of existence of the context, and (3) in this sense the knowledge is perfect.
Civilization and individual are VEHICLES and ideas and action are MODES of realization. The individual fosters civilization—the individual is a focal point of Being and transformation or becoming; civilization nurtures the individual.
In its internal and external endeavors civilization provides disciplines or means.
‘SCIENCE’ and ‘YOGA’ will stand for the instrumental and intrinsic disciplines of Being-becoming, respectively.
The matrix of civilizations across the Universe is Civilization.
Civilization and its Disciplines
A DISCIPLINE systematizes knowledge or practice in some area or endeavor.
Disciplines provide methods for known kinds of problem or context.
Disciplines, too, emerge and develop… some approaches to their development were seen above.
All this and more fall under the earlier general analysis of method.
Are there ways (method), goal, and significance for the entire endeavor—process—of Civilization?
The metaphysics shows an ultimate goal (realization) and frames the endeavor and its significance (in this account metaphysics refers to a system of understanding of Being developed explicitly from the fundamental principle in the Complete Edition of the narrative)…
…From disciplines to civilization and from civilizations to Civilization and the ultimate.
In the universal, however, there is only imagination, action, experiment, criticism, and attitude—i.e. existential attitude in the face of doubt and absence of resolve.
For the journey, it is essential to recognize, accommodate, and deploy the tension between human freedom and received human nature (and situation).
Understanding and transformation of civilization must be integrated with participation-immersion and illuminated by the metaphysics.
As an institution, religion is a multi-dimensional phenomenon. No simple statement of the form ‘this institution is X’ is adequate to capture of all dimensions of the institution.
A preliminary conception of religion that captures an ideal is just this: religion is an attempt to know ‘truth’—i.e., to understand the Universe in ‘our time’ and to live accordingly.
An ultimate and powerful conception of RELIGION is use of all dimensions of being in understanding and realizing All Being. It is this idea, not the word ‘religion’ that is significant.
The process of Religion as conceived here is identical to the process of Civilization conceived ideally. The ways of transformation (below), especially catalysts, occasion finite—more than just incremental—and embodied step change; reason and memory occasion continuity.
This ideal recognizes and fills vast realms not recognized in or touched by the standard paradigms. The ideal is a shell to be given substance in individual, group, cumulative, and charismatic endeavor and reflection.
For limited form, the ideals of this conception occasion endless process; the metaphysics shows that the individual—limited form—touches the ultimate in process.
Approaches to Transformation
An earlier title to this section was Transformation and Method. However the metaphysics has revealed closure in depth (the question of substance) but ever openness in variety. Therefore while there is a place for a methodical approach there is no overarching method. The new title of the section is intended to reflect a balance between method on one hand and imagination, experiment, abandon, and dissolution on the other.
The Way of the Journey is:
Analysis and Synthesis of Being—of received ways and forging of ways at the front of ways-in-process.
Of and in the disciplines and the metaphysics under mutual illumination, guidance, and inspiration in the journey.
The essential aspect of synthesis is experiment—action that modifies Being.
The way—method—of understanding Being above an implicit analysis and synthesis of ideas and meaning.
Similarly the way of transformation is analysis and synthesis of Being. Just as in knowledge, so in action and transformation: the way and the process arise together in interaction. We receive from the tradition but there is no ‘way’ that is an absolute given in that it is received rather than discovered or uncovered.
We may arrive at analysis of Being by study of tradition—analysis and experiment with its ways—and by imagination, criticism and experiment which include discovery of the metaphysics of the narrative and illumination by it.
Ideas and action—learning: imagination, action and experiment, criticism, review, correction, and charting or planning—are essential modes of becoming (synthesis). The vehicles and foci of transformation (synthesis) are individual (being) and Civilization. An outline of synthesis focusing on individual and civilization follows below.
Analysis of Ways of Transformation
Analysis of ways reveals knowledge, morals, practices, and method:
PRACTICES and PRACTICE IN ACTION; and the instruments of exploration and technology;
Catalysts of transformation; and
Learning: imagination, action and experiment, criticism, review, correction, and charting or planning.
Description of the Ways
Core knowledge;
Practices and practices-in-action; catalysts;
Retreat and return
Cumulative learning; charisma; self-consciousness or reflexivity for the ways.
Synthesis of Being
Ideas and action—imagination, criticism, and experiment—are essential MODES of becoming. The VEHICLES and foci of transformation are individual (being) and Civilization. Descriptions of the elements follow:
Ideas;
Being (individual)—transformation; and
Civilization (community)—organic and technological growth.
Synthesis I—Transformation of individual human being.
All times and places—Yoga practice and action; death and crisis.
Here and now—home, town, and country: ideas and experiments, health, routine.
Cultural milieu and community—care and sharing; charisma and initiative; moral behavior, honesty; and abandon.
Nature, psyche, and Universe—gateway to ultimate, immersion, inspiration, and catalysts such as fasting, isolation, meditation, and exertion that pushes any apparent limit to capacity.
Synthesis II—Civilization of the Universe: Transformation of communities (of individuals).
Organic—Civilization as matrix—individual transformation, sharing; communication and charisma.
Artifact—or artifactual Being. Ideas regarding artifact—artificial intelligence and life; ontology, cosmology, cognitive science.
The vision of this section has two components that correspond to two interacting purposes. The first component is as an outline of the process of realization for our civilization as it is today; this emphasizes concrete and practical as well as ideal concerns. The second component concerns the relation between our civilization and Being—between civilization and Civilization.
A vision for our world—the aim of the vision is participation, especially but not exclusively in light of the metaphysics as framework. So as to remain light, dynamic, and responsive to process these comments are kept brief. The following are significant:
Political-moral-economic principles and action—participation and immersion.
Culture—humanities, ethics and history; science, art, technology, and symbol—participation and immersion.
Religion—Being in all its dimensions in realization of All Being.
The subject of this division is the journey of realization presented in concrete form—dimensions, assessment (of progress so far), blue-print or plan, narrative (and ongoing assessment).
The dimensions are the modes (ideas and action), vehicles (individual and civilization), places (nature, society and culture), and mechanics (analysis and synthesis of Being) of transformation.
A Universal Journey of Realization—individual and shared.
Ideas—now mature they imply that ideas and text are never complete; therefore focus turns to transformation.
Transformation of Being—action—focuses on the individual transformation which is at an early stage (recall ‘In the life of the spirit, we are always at the beginning.’)
Civilization and Being—focuses on human civilization and Civilization of the Universe.
Artifact and technology—use and development of technologies for transformation of Being and Civilization of the Universe.
Ideas—the ideas are mature; two aspects of maturity (1) the ideas are innately reflexive—self-assessing and (2) completeness of foundation and breadth.
Transformation—assessment will clarify achievement, hone principles of action, suggest areas and places of activity. Brief assessment (a) Dimensions above (details in Blueprint for Realization, below) (b) Yoga in its most general sense—ways and catalysts; application—self transformation, self healing, influence and transformation in small groups (c) Places—an aspect of dimensions, from my experience and travel—nature as ground (inspiration, and source of Being and connection) and civilization and community as fabric (sustenance and sharing).
Civilization—work includes developing the idea and function of Civilization, investigating social sciences, and nature of science and implications for social science and their use. The present form of the idea of transformation has practical origin in personal and small scale group settings and is confirmed and enhanced by the metaphysics. Focused sources of particulars are Civilization and Transformation, and document Journey in being-detail.html).
Artifact and technology—component studies in which I have experience and exposure: social science, history, cosmology, and cognitive science; design, computation, and programming. These may be useful, especially in design of artifactual Being for Civilization. (e.g. artificial intelligence).
Ideas—topics for study and research
Development of the following has begun.
(1) Foundation and development of the metaphysics; inclusion of all dimensions of psyche; that as study of Being, metaphysics must be reflexive.
(2) Unification of science and Logic; and concrete and abstract objects. Analysis-synthesis of the realms harbored in Realism (Logic).
(3) Application—i.e. interaction of the metaphysics with academic disciplines and human endeavor, especially metaphysical thought of the past (e.g. Leibniz and the speculative systems,) Logic, mathematics, the sciences (fundamental physics, physical cosmology, and evolutionary biology), and science and philosophy for and of society.
(4) Science—general interpretation—local fact versus universal hypothesis versus hybrid of fact and generalization without universalization; interaction with the metaphysics. Requirement of participation and immersion for limited form.
(5) Symbolic systems—interaction with the metaphysics. Special application of the fundamental principle (the Universe is the object of Logic) to symbolic systems, e.g. language, logic and logics, set theory, mathematics, and computation and programming languages. An emphasis—mutual application of the symbolic systems (e.g., inflected languages and mathematical innovation) and mutual application with the metaphysics and Logic.
What does it imply for foundations of general (and point) set theory that set theory must have an object or objects in the one limitless Universe?
While the foregoing are of interest in the universal metaphysics and its application and implication the following are foundation for further study.
(6) The system of human knowledge as system and in its categories. For interaction with the metaphysics. See System of human knowledge. Analysis of the secularism and trans-secularism—their standard forms, domains of validity, and limits—on their own methods and from the universal metaphysics.
(7) Explicit meta-study—review all aspects of the process, especially analysis and synthesis of ideas and Being—including formulation in these terms. Nature of meta and planning process.
The following concern extension to action and transformation.
(8) Extension of metaphysics to action as implied by continuity of ideas and action. Principled deployment of the dimensions.
Interaction with experience and disciplines to found and develop dimensions of transformation—modes (ideas and action), vehicles (individual and civilization), places (nature as ground—and inspiration and connection, society and culture as fabric—sustenance and sharing), and mechanics (analysis and synthesis of being—see method—with step increment-risk and consolidation by adaptation, reason and recollection).
The idea of nature as inspiration has a source in the idea of ‘Beyul’ that in Tibetan Buddhism is a hidden land whose revelation and discovery parallel and precipitate inner revelation and process.
(9) Study of ways—(1) The elements—grounding, transformation, and consolidation; (2) Approach—method: (a) analysis and synthesis of Being (which include experiment: ideas cannot be developed in isolation from action) with focus on catalysts of Being in interaction with emotion-cognition and integration with (b) tradition.
(10) Study of artificial Being—stand alone, evolutionary, and symbiotic; technology for civilization and Civilization; cognitive science—especially, AI, A-Life: symbolic, computer implementation, and designs; reflection on and analysis of symbolic and computer models, significance, enhancements (quantum, distributed), and alternatives; development of dynamic and automated text: development—writing, revision in interaction with world (object).
(11) Theoretical and experimental study of transformations with organisms, individuals, selves, and dissolution of self—psycho-biology.
Transformation and action—report and record for immersion, sharing, and vertical interaction between execution and design.
(1) Approach—mechanics: above, in Ideas.
(2) Method and review—in light of experiment and learning.
Grounding | Everyday—Everywhere
(3) Death—adaptation to death—understanding it, its nature as horizon to this life, conditions and time for death, death as normal and real and gate to the ultimate, is a first task.
(4) Place—home—society and culture, continued—normal living, transient or stable, conducive to truth and realization. An ideal—share with others who enjoy and support these aims. Aim—empower and sustain increment and understanding by shared endeavor.
(5) Practice and action. Yoga, meditation in practice and in action and living.
(6) Place—nature—ground of Being… of individual and civilization—gateway to insight and Universe (Beyul) and as place for physical being, immersion in Being—porosity and transience of boundaries, and experiment with self and catalysts.
Aim—a place for insight, for catalytic experiments, and for consolidation via records, recollection, and renewal.
(7) Place—society and culture—travel and immersion—especially ‘secular’ institutions (e.g., culture and knowledge, politics) and ‘trans-secular’ institutions (e.g., spiritual places-institutions-persons and influence on civilization and its processes).
Aim—learning from and influence on civilization and its processes; staying to learn, share, and work.
Civilization and Being
Dimensions—see A Vision for our world. (1) Internal (2) External
Approach—participation and immersion; integration with transformation.
(1) Internal dimensions—individual being; culture—knowledge, morals and institutions—secular and trans-secular; political and economic; artifact and technology.
Participation and immersion; integration with transformation.
(2) Civilization of the Universe—shared endeavor; metaphysics and transformation of being; retreat and return; exploration, artifact, and technology
(3) Shared endeavor, research group—establish or join a research and transformation community; publishing the developments; integration with artifact and technology.
The idea of a transformation community is developed in TranscommunityDesign. For a preliminary plan see TransCommunity (an Excel workbook) or TransCommunity (html).
Artifact and Technology
Use of technology in and for Civilization.
(1) Artificial Being—stand alone, design and evolution, symbiotic, and adjunct—build (hardware-software), experiment, learn; dynamic text—i.e. automation of text and ideas… and text that is interactive with ideas and life via computer implementation (software, intelligent editing, remote interaction).
(2) Experiments with organisms—especially the individual experimenting with him or herself—psycho-biology.
(3) Shared endeavor, research group—establish or join a research and transformation community.
(4) See the transformation community documents linked above.
The future—this place is held for reports and narratives of the journey (ideas, plans and planning, transformations, and goals) as it unfolds.
The main elements for the future are (a) Sharing the narrative is essential to sharing the journey—the journey and narrative shall be open; the sharing will be with individuals and groups in the context of civilization (b) Reports on progress in transformation, ideas, and goals (plans).
The central achievements of the narrative are the universal metaphysics, the universality of ultimate realization, and method for the metaphysics and realization.
The ultimate and universal character of the metaphysics provides new and in some ways ultimate interpretations of core human disciplines.
There are numerous implications for and potential interactions with the disciplines of human knowledge and human endeavors—i.e., for research and action.
In the main narrative I have not collected together the possibilities for research as a program. However, a collection of topics may be found under the index entry ‘Program of study, research, and transformation’
I would like to place on record some influences and sources for this work. The world (cumulative experience, reflection) and the tradition are sources. Breadth and depth are crucial, especially in interaction—each requires the other.
General influences are defined by the world and cultures in which I have lived. Though diffuse and often in the background these influences are immensely significant. Significant events, spiritual (religious) leaders, and statesmen have been among my inspirations. Music, literature (particularly poetry), and drama including film have been especially inspiring. Good drama makes me want to live and share; fantasy is a source of imagination which when uncritical may be improved by critical filtering. Nature has been immensely inspiring—I have received so much from nature (1) as gateway to the universal and (2) inspiration for my ideas and thought. The core foundational ideas for this work and earlier thought have been conceived in nature. I have learned of the idea nature as map of inner and outer worlds from Tibetan Buddhism and cumulative personal experience in nature (environments less touched by human intervention—that in some interpretations of ‘civilization’ are its antithesis).
Philosophical thought has been a significant influence. The main influences include ideas on the nature of the Universe from Indian Philosophy. From the thought of the West I have learned much about language and meaning; the nature of Being; and logic, mathematics, science, religion, and epistemology (the study of knowledge). Philosophical ethics—with its frequent striving to be rational—seems often unhelpful in actual situations which seem to not fit neatly into any one rational framework; it is nonetheless suggestive; however it must build, at least implicitly, on some foundation in Being—e.g. in tradition, emotion, day-to-day interaction, and in the moral systems and codes of the past. In my simple reflections on action under uncertainty I have learned much from philosophy but I have also learned about the importance and nature of multivalent thinking from an education in engineering, from economic thought, and finally in living with feeling and reflection.
Science has served as inspiration and paradigm in many ways, especially in interacting with the metaphysics.
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Fools gold: cranks can’t count
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. 14 months on from the start of the Treadgold/Climate “Science” Coalition/ACT campaign to cast doubt on the long term New Zealand temperature record, after parliamentary questions, much mud slinging at Jim Salinger and NIWA, legal action, and the expensive and time-wasting reconstruction of a temperature series that’s pretty much identical to the original, diligent digging by Open Parachute/Sciblogs blogger Ken Perrott has revealed a stunning level of statistical incompetence in the “paper” that started it all. Written and published by Richard Treadgold of the Climate Conversation Group, that “paper” contained a graph purporting to show a long term NZ temperature series constructed without adjustments for station moves.
A day or two ago, Treadgold posted a link to the underlying data at his blog, and Perrott — who has been requesting this information for most of the last year — was quick to download it and take a peek “under the hood” of Treadgold’s graph. And what he found was truly remarkable. Treadgold makes no allowances for missing data, makes no attempt to create a valid composite series, simply averages the numbers and plots them on a graph. There are a lot of gaps in the data — especially in the early years — so the “NZ” temperature is in some years just Dunedin, or Dunedin plus Wellington, or Wellington plus Auckland, and so on. Treadgold’s incredible statistical naivete allows him to not just compare apples to oranges, but to feijoas and konini berries as well. The result, of course, is a dog’s breakfast. To make matters worse, he then computed a trend on the data, and announced:
Straight away you can see there’s no slope—either up or down. The temperatures are remarkably constant way back to the 1850s. Of course, the temperature still varies from year to year, but the trend stays level—statistically insignificant at 0.06°C per century since 1850.
A whole political campaign has been constructed on the back of this statistical idiocy. Variations of Treadgold’s claim have been used in questions in Parliament. Valuable scientists’ time and tax payer money has been wasted pursuing his folly. The Climate “Science” Coalition are still desperately trying to keep the issue alive, hoping that if they can create enough smoke everyone will assume there’s a fire somewhere. Unfortunately for Barry Brill and his colleagues, Treadgold’s statistical incompetence undercuts their whole campaign. Do they really think the NZ public and politicians will take the word of a bunch that sling mud and smear scientists, when they are incapable of doing their own simple sums?
Congratulations to Ken for unmasking this fraud. I eagerly await the fulsome apology Treadgold owes to Jim Salinger, NIWA and the public of New Zealand. Perhaps the NZ C”S”C might offer to repay some of the tax payer funds wasted on this affair. But I won’t be holding my breath…
Meanwhile, I think it’s worth repeating the conclusion to my first post on this affair:
None of these cranks should be accorded any respect in future. By their words shall we know them, and their words show them to be ignorant, bullying fools. De Freitas [science advisor to the CSC] should withdraw and apologise, or resign from his post at Auckland University, and if Treadgold, Dunleavy, McShane, Leyland,or any other member of the NZ CSC want to partake in public debate on the subject of climate science, they should expect derision to be heaped on them and their views.
[Update 10/2: Prompted by Manfred’s comment below, I checked back over the original 7SS data and Treadgold’s spreadsheet — as well as with one or two people who might be expected to know — and it appears that taking a simple average of the annual anomalies in years where some stations reported no data was NIWA’s practise for the original 7 station series. It’s not ideal, particularly in the very early years when there are large gaps in the data, but it’s how it was done. Treadgold was therefore following established practise, in that one respect. I therefore apologise to Richard for echoing that specific allegation without first checking the data. However, this does not get him off the hook for the rest of his “analysis”, nor prompt me to change my overall conclusions. I accused him of “statistical idiocy” and that charge stands — not least because he derives his anomalies by taking unadjusted or raw station data and relating it to a 1971-2000 baseline derived from different stations at different locations using different measurement equipment, and then pretends that he’s made the warming disappear. Tell that to the glaciers…]
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Author GarethPosted on February 9, 2011 June 12, 2011 Categories Climate cranks, Climate politics, Climate science, environment and ecologyTags Bryan Leyland, de Freitas, Ken Perrott, NIWA, NZ, NZ C"S"C, Owen McShane, Salinger, temperature, Terry Dunleavy, Treadgold
120 thoughts on “Fools gold: cranks can’t count”
“Utter contempt” would be far too mild a phrase to describe the maunderings of this moron!
Dappledwater says:
Oh dear!. How embarrassing for Treadgold.
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Con says:
I would call him a bullshit artist but that would be too generous.
who has been requesting this information for most of the last year
so the “NZ†temperature is in some years just Dunedin
> malfunction: irony meter goes off scale!… >
And there goes yet another half hour cleaning spillages out of the keyboard. (Embellished by placating the grumpy spouse awakened by a piercing cry of Whaaaat!!)
Sime says:
A simple review of the data by a number of experts would have stopped this in its tracks, hence scientists use peer review. These individuals however don’t care do they, 14 months of delay and BS thanks to their total lack of expertise.
Send the Treadgold/Climate “Science†Coalition/ACT campaign the bill for all the associated costs.
Actions have consequences and I rather suspect the NZ tax payer would like their money back.
CTG says:
Yes, it is going to be interesting to see who picks up the bill for the NZCSET court case…
be nice to see some transparency around the funding, that’s for sure
I hope, in fact I demand from NZ Herald and other news agencies that they will run this in a prominent place to set the public record straight.
Has anybody talked to the press about this? A mention on on column inch on a corner on page A14 will not do!
As far as Peer Review undertaken by the deniers: They do not have peers in their ranks to undertake such review and any capable scientist who would undertake such a review would tell them what they do not want to hear.
erentz says:
“Do they really think the NZ public and politicians will take the word of a bunch that sling mud and smear scientists, when they are incapable of doing their own simple sums?”
Sadly for the Rodney’s of the world I think they still will.
Absolutely second you Thomas, the record needs to be set straight very publicly somehow. News cameras in Treadgold’s and his political supporter’s faces asking for apologies would be nice.
notice how our in-house deniers have flocked in to denounce these statistical shenanigans? motes and beams…
Why are we not surprised? NZC”S”C is nothing but a franchise distributing propaganda to foster the lie that climate change is still a matter of “scientific debate”.
Their work here is done, which is why they and their sock puppets don’t even bother to defend their “research”.
Contemptible, but predictable – details matter less than headlines that manufacture doubt in the public sphere.
Doug Mackie says:
Why aren’t the deniaists decrying Treadgolds woo? I told you already no denialist can criticse another . Where would it stop?
The reason none of the denialists can bring themselves to say EG Beck’s claims are idiocy is because Bob Carter says he believes EG Beck. Similarly once they admit Treadgold is doubleplus wrong here then it opens everything else he has said to unsurvivable scrutiny.
Congratulations to Ken for unmasking this fraud. I eagerly await the fulsome apology Treadgold owes to Jim Salinger, NIWA and the public of New Zealand.
I’m afraid it’s actually Ken who must apologise, not only to Richard Treadgold, but also to NIWA, Salinger and the NZ public. It seems he didn’t check – Treadgold actually used NIWA’s own methodology. Gareth also didn’t check, and now looks a bit foolish.
A quick glance here:
http://www.niwa.co.nz/news-and-publications/news/all/2009/nz-temp-record/temperature-trends-from-raw-data/technical-note-on-the-treatment-of-missing-data
will show you that both you and Ken have blundered badly with your posts:
Missing annual values or missing sites
The resulting annual anomaly series for individual sites still has missing values in some years. This can include the situation where a site has not yet started (eg, Invercargill, pre-1949), or has closed (eg, Molesworth, 1994).
The ‘eleven’-station average is simply the average of the individual station anomalies over those stations where the annual anomaly is available.
A glance at the spreadsheets for the original 7SS, the 11SS and the new NZ7T series all confirm that NIWA calculates average anomalies using data from available sites where others are missing. Which is exactly what Treadgold has done, following their method.
Apologies are in order, I suspect.
Utter tripe. Take an IQ test.
I posted earlier, but my comment hasn’t appeared. Perhaps the link caused a problem.
I have reproduced my comment at Open Parachute.
paulm says:
Cant these things be cleared through some national scientific academy and save people and public lots of time and trouble.
Each government should have an official body set up to tackle these issues.
Were running out of time and we dont need these crap all the time.
Manfred, are you the same Manfred who wrote: “We should wait until such time as the science is either proven beyond doubt, or it is shown clearly that NZ is being in any way impacted by actual climate change.” ?
the links between smoking and cancer have never been 100% proven
Australis says:
Perrott has shot himself in both feet. He supports the 7SS and 11SS, in which NIWA average data over multiple years including those that have missing data. He has been defending them with total myopia and dedication for over 12 months. Now, he has belatedly decided that he doesn’t like NIWA’s approach.
The 11SS is most egregious example ever of a series whose trend is WHOLLY driven by missing data. Seven stations missing in 1931, three missing in 1941, one missing in 1951 and 1991. There is no trend at all shown by the years which have no missing data.
Compare this with Perrott’s criticism of Treadgold’s paper – where the missing data moved the trend by less than 0.1°C.
Denialist drivel.
Again you have no idea of what you are talking about.
AndrewH says:
I’ve had a glance at the spreadsheet snippet that Ken showed and had a think about the logic.
Obviously averaging the ‘temperature’ with missing data fields would be wrong ie Dunedin is highly unlikely to represent the NZ average but there wouldn’t seem to be anything particularly wrong with averaging the ‘anomaly’ even if Dunedin is the only site available.
Relative warming may be higher or lower from one end of the country year by year but in the longer term it should smooth out.
Ken was half right. In the original series, NIWA did in fact take the average of however many stations were available in each year, just as Treadgold did, so that particular charge is not valid.
However, NIWA have acknowledged that this leads to less reliable figures where the data are sparse, and so in the revised series they only take the composite anomaly when the full 7 stations are available, i.e. from 1909 onwards.
The big problem with Treadgold’s analysis remains that he splices together raw data from different stations as if they were one series (what he calls “unadjusted”), which is quite a neat trick to hide the incline.
Actually, the 7SS shows quite clearly that Dunedin has had the least warming, and Auckland the most – but they’ve all had significant warming.
Mike Palin says:
Gareth, good to see your update of 10/2 to get this story properly sorted.
Mass attack of red ink from the trolls, I see.
or Troll…
I had rather assumed that when Rodney Hide rabbited on about lack of trends in the ‘unadjusted data’ it was the result of plonking a bunch of unrelated numbers side by side.
So there we are.
No, no. That’s ACT economic policy, isn’t it?
” in the revised series they [NIWA] only take the composite anomaly when the full 7 stations are available, i.e. from 1909 onwards”.
No, no – in the new series, they use the composite anomaly when all 7 stations are NOT available. eg 1909 – 1912. See page 5 of NIWA’s report on the Review.
But in the original 7SS and 11SS (especially) they averaged all years including those with missing stations – and Treadgold followed suit. So all of the bluster by Perrott has been horribly misplaced.
I have talked with some NIWA people involved with the 7SS and/or the 11SS. The nonsense being peddled here by these trolls has no foundation or justification. If the idiot Treadgold does end up in a court, he’ll get slaughtered.
” he derives his anomalies by taking unadjusted or raw station data and relating it to a 1971-2000 baseline derived from different stations at different locations using different measurement equipment”
NIWA also “derives his anomalies by taking [adjusted] station data and relating it to a 1971-2000 baseline derived from different stations at different locations using different measurement equipment”.
The only difference between the two methods is that NIWA adjusts the data from the older stations. Those adjustments should be random – and cancel out rather than accumulating to create a trend. So your refusal to apologise is simply based on your credo that the NIWA 7SS adjustments (now abandoned) were correct.
The NIWA adjustments are fully explained in the report accompanying the revised series, and certainly have not been abandoned.
Look at Treadgold’s data. He has a series labelled “Wellington”. There is no such station as “Wellington”, so how did he come up with that series? By splicing together the series from Thorndon and Kelburn, without making any allowance for the difference in climatology between the two sites. In doing so, the anomalies he calculates for the Thorndon station in the early part of the series are based on the average temperature in Kelburn, meaning that Treadgold’s anomalies for the Thorndon part are 0.8°C warmer than they should be.
The reason for that 0.8°C adjustment is pure physics – it is the lapse rate difference expected from the 120m difference in alitutde between the two sites. Are you saying that we should ignore the laws of physics?
As for saying that the adjustments “should be random” and cancel out, that is utter nonsense. All the adjustments that have been made are to account for physical differences between the stations. A site move from a lower to a higher station will always result in a drop in average temperatures.
Bottom line is, Treadgold’s analysis is a load of unscientific crap.
Adjustments are necessary to correct for changes in the siting and instrumentation of each station. These are explained in detail in the Report on the Review of NIWA’s “Seven-Station†Temperature Series, December 2010. They are not random nor have they been abandoned by NIWA. Such adjustments are a necessary and standard procedure in compiling temperature records as confirmed in the Australian Bureau of Meteorology letter of peer-review. Anyone who thinks otherwise is willfully ignorant of best practice in this field.
It is also true that the latest NIWA report indicates that the “7-Station Composite Anomaly = Average of anomalies at individual sites where there is data for that year”. This means the full 7-station record cannot be extended back in time any further than 1913.
One way to account for those years with fewer than the full 7-stations reporting data (but more than single station) is to calculate an uncertainty on the value of the composite anomaly and use this to weight the data when performing a linear regression. The standard deviation of the mean (aka standard error) is the standard deviation divided by the square root of the number of stations in this case and has the effect of discounting data from years with fewer stations reporting – all other factors being equal. Applying this procedure to the (incorrectly) unadjusted composite anomaly data in Treadgold’s spreadsheet yields a more than significant warming trend of 0.37 ± 0.09 degC per century from 1857 to 2008. Hmm, just enough rope…
Treadgold is an ignorant disingenous fool. That anyone could just join up Thorndon and Kelburn, ignoring the 0.9C (nearest 10th) difference would be laughable if it weren’t tragic – tragic that anyone could take such drivel seriously. As for you Australis, go to NIWA and try a face-to-face argument with anyone involved – you’d be laughed out of the room, you scientific illiterate.
CTG: “A site move from a lower to a higher station will always result in a drop in average temperatures”.
Afraid not – check Hokitika and other locations. The Review Report makes it clear that the Kelburn-Thorndon offset was based on comparisons with Albert Park, Masterton, etc and was not driven by theoretical lapse rates.
Of the 52 adjustments contained in the old 7SS, 51 of them have been abandoned in the NZT7. Just compare the two series, station-by-station, as has been done at the Climate Conversation blog.
You don’t know what you’re talking about. I have just attended a presentation by a person responsible for working out the Wellington adjustments, amongst other things. If it comes to taking his word against yours – let alone matching scientific competence and intelligence – no contest. You talk unmitigated nonsense, and that’s putting it politely. The gall of you and your fellow-travellers is amazing.
The lapse rate is not theoretical, it is very solid physics based on centuries of observation. You are on pretty shaky ground if you are trying to suggest that the lapse rate is not a real effect. But then, you don’t have any actual science backing up your position, so I guess you have to start making shit up, eh?
The lapse rate predicts a difference of 0.8°C between Kelburn and Thorndon, which is the adjustment that Salinger originally used. The revised report uses an adjustment of 0.89°C. Yes, I can see how they totally threw the lapse rate out of the window when they came up with that figure.
It’s a specious argument to say that the adjustments were abandoned, when the revised report also uses adjustments, just slightly different numbers. Remember, Treadgold’s argument was not that they had used the wrong numbers for the adjustments, but that adjustments were not required at all.
You have still completely failed to address the issue of the fatal flaw in Treadgold’s analysis, i.e. the splicing together of incompatible temperature series, and using the wrong average to calculate anomalies.
The lapse rate is not theoretical
Of course it is, just like snow skiing. Totally theoretical. All that white stuff on the tops of tall mountains?, dandruff from angels.
Verity Buff says:
CTG,
I think you’re wrong to say that Treadgold argued adjustments were not required. Where does he say it?
His paper says: “What did we find? First, the station histories are unremarkable. There are no reasons for any large corrections.”
Then: “There is nothing in the station histories to warrant these adjustments and to date Dr Salinger and NIWA have not revealed why they did this.”
The histories, the metadata, showed no reasons for big adjustments. He doesn’t say that adjustments are never needed, although he asks what they were. Have I missed something?
Why is it even important? Because the paper points out: “About half the adjustments actually created a warming trend where none existed; the other half greatly exaggerated existing warming. All the adjustments increased or even created a warming trend, with only one (Dunedin) going the other way and slightly reducing the original trend.”
The major conclusion (of warming) from the 7SS was created by manual adjustments. That’s potentially fine, but wouldn’t you ask some questions?
Nonsense. If you troubled yourself to read the original article and the hundreds of posts in response (some months back), you would see that these points were answered long ago. Treadgold’s assertions are pathetically stupid.
You appear to be another sock puppet, and clearly have no knowledge whatsoever of NZ climatology.
As for “fired up” – moral indignation is an appropriate response to the disingenuous tripe peddled by the never-ending succession of trolls who visit this site.
Apologies for jumping in first, CTG.
So if Treadgold agreed that adjustments were required, why does he have a graph of unadjusted temperature series?
What methodology did Treadgold use to create composite series from different stations in his unadjusted graph?
Trengolds work apears to be invalid, but even Trengolds graph above shows an upward “trend” from around 1920, similar to the predominant global trend.
You would expect it to be possibly less in the Southern Hemisphere, compared to prior temperatures going back into the little ice age. So what is he really on about? Saying its flat from 1850 – 2010 doesnt prove anything. His own questionable graph supports the post 1910 / CO2 related global temperature increase.
MichaelC58 says:
Ehm, has anyone here noticed that Ken’s analysis was shown to have been mistaken on his own website? Maybe its irrelevant here.
Secondly, my understanding is that NIWA was unable to account specifically for their adjustments. In my quality world, absent audit trail of the data makes it unacceptable as an official record and is just heresay, not science. NIWA wisely disowned the record before the trial. But crucially, even if they repeated the studies and got similar results, it does not make the original science either correct or good.
Thirdly, I believe that the reconstruction’s ‘international’ review was by none other than our own Aussie climate convert BOM. And did their review not clearly state they did not look at the original data?
“Unable to account”? Garbage. This is the sort of thing that makes my contacts pretty angry. “Heresay” (sic) my ****.
“You’re a loser – get off the stage”.
RW,
Why are you so fired up? “You’re a loser”??!! Why don’t you explain the issues?
NIWA was asked to describe the adjustments but they didn’t. So either they refused (incredible) or they couldn’t (more reasonable).
MichaelC58 said: “NIWA was unable to account specifically for their adjustments.” He is literally correct, and their behaviour demonstrated it.
First they recalculated Hokitika, then the rest of the stations. If they had simply “accounted” for the original corrections, it would’ve been easier, quicker and cheaper.
So why didn’t they, brainbox?
They did, but obviously you can’t read.
I predict your tenure on this blog will be short, Treadgold-clone.
The 7SS is not “the official record”. It never has been, and never will be.
What exactly do you imagine to be the purpose of an official temperature record?
The 7SS is merely one way of reconstructing the temperature history at a national level. It is useful in the context of looking at how NZ will fare if the climate continues to warm. Even as the world as a whole warms, there will be some regions that cool down. Is NZ one of those regions? By looking at the 7SS, we can see that warming in NZ has generally followed the global pattern, with some periods where our climate behaved differently due to our geographical location. So to that extent, the 7SS can tell us that we should prepare for more warming, not cooling.
Other than that, does the 7SS influence government policy? Not really. It is not used in deciding whether or not global warming is occurring – it is the global temperature record that matters for that. It is not used to determine local adaptation plans, either, because regional climatology is much more significant than a national composite record.
I have never yet seen Treadgold or his band of merry men explain exactly what they believe an “official temperature record” is or what it is used for. Perhaps they could enlighten us?
In my quality world, absent audit trail of the data makes it unacceptable as an official record and is just heresay, not science.
Hint: if you’re going to critique such things please take the time to construct your sentences in English. Otherwise we might be inclined to immediately assume ‘your understanding’ is pretty limited.
Given we can probably assume ‘heresay’ is ‘hearsay’ and not ‘heresy’ you certainly appear to have devoted as much time to research as you did to grammar!
Also ‘climate convert’ = scientific organization.
MichaelC58 – Errrmm, have you ever noticed that nature’s thermometers in New Zealand don’t agree with Treadgold and his fellow cranks either?. You know glaciers and frost days. Does that at least not give you pause for thought?.
@ RW & Bill – your main objection to my concerns is my one misspelt word and that “You’re a loser – get off the stage”. Incredible, but thank you, keep it up. You do excellent work for us sceptics.
@CTG, thank you for response, which is the NIWA defence of “oh, it was never meant to be taken notice of”. Sorry, but to anyone outside your circles this defence appears to be an own goal.
What is NIWA’s counterpoint by saying it’s not official? They are publicly funded to produce it, made it public, spent years aggressively defending it’s accuracy and when pressed legally, they throw it under the bus by saying it’s not official. Wow! What…it now doesn’t need to be correct – it’s only of academic strength – we don’t need accountability? Don’t you see how bad that looks to the public?
But even if not official, SS7 appears to be the most authoritative record (or is there a competing record)? Even you, CTG, with respect, are conflicted with their contradictory argument – You say “…does the 7SS influence government policy? Not really.” immediately after saying “So to that extent, the 7SS can tell us that we should prepare for more warming, not cooling.” Well, who is the ‘us’ in your sentence, who will be preparing, if not the NZ population and its government. Do they mean it’s good enough for climate advocacy but not accountable as an official record?
As a scientist and a medical quality professional I am all too familiar with the tension between academic research, drug companies, public risk management and regulations. The climate wars problem is not that different.
The main disconnect here is that global Public Policy is being driven by academic strength research. It is insane to build far reaching global public policy reform, affecting public health of millions if not billions on academic-strength research,
This was the real devastating effect of Climategate – not disproving cAGW or showing CRU to be evil, but exposing to the public the weaknesses of academic research generally (with ego’s, groupthink, sloppy data and harry_read_me.txt), compared to regulated research, of say the medical or aviation industry, which people assumed to be operating for such an important issue. Academic research is not bad, nor are the people, but is necessarily sloppy to be agile and affordable and thus group-error prone.
The NIWA case is a brilliant example – what people were sold as trustworthy authoritative record by a government research body melts away under closer scrutiny with lost adjustments, no accountability and becomes “just internal research data ” or whatever NIWA said. Reproducing the data, by the same body, even if identical misses the point of lost trust.
That is why no ‘vast body’ of academic research (not to mention model ‘research’) will convince the sceptics and increasingly the public that the sky is falling. The ball is in NIWA’s court to implement audited quality management systems and become transparent and accountable.
A lot of words, but they don’t alter the facts. Fail. Your insinuations and downright allegations of sloppy inadequate research are a direct and actionable slur on the intelligence and integrity of scientists I have known for a long time. Go and say your piece to them directly – you’d be roundly rebutted, so it’s a safe bet you wouldn’t dare to try. It’s pretty clear that your knowledge of climate science is negligible. The 7SS is sound, and the rants of all the “sceptical” prats that turn up saying otherwise say a lot about them, and nothing about the science. Please accept my undying contempt.
Oh dear, you really have drunk the kool-aid, haven’t you?
Tell me, is it groupthink that is causing the Arctic ice to melt?
Michael, you really don’t have any idea what you’re talking about when you accuse non-medical and aviation (“academic” in your words) researchers of being “sloppy” and “group-error prone”. Quality control is exerted in “academic” research by every other publishing researcher who lives for day of finding error and making a name for themselves in doing so whether in peer-review or after publication. I’ll paraphrase one of my favourite sayings for you: academic research doesn’t work despite academics being asses, it works because academics are asses.
I do have to give your credit for one statement. At least you’re man enough to admit that your views on AGW are not, and will never be, research-informed. Few contrarian ideologues are as honest.
Humans are currently engaged in the largest “clinical trial” imaginable – pumping hundreds of millions of years worth of naturally sequestered carbon into the atmosphere over about one century. Based on the best available current peer-reviewed scientific research on the physics of radiative energy transfer and reconstructions of Earth’s past, the planet will warm. How much, no one can be sure, but to ignore the accumulating evidence because it is research done by “academics” is stunning to hear from someone claiming to be a scientist.
Nice one. Michael C58 tries to pretend the South Island’s glaciers aren’t melting away and NZ frost days aren’t declining. No wonder they say climate change denial is a religion.
Michael – that really was an odd diatribe!
You suggest that the ‘public’ is so disillusioned with climate science and NIWA as to reject a properly constructed and audited temperature record because it might happen to look like the previous 7SS.
Well hey, I’m the public (or part of it) and I have every confidence in NIWA’s science and am distinctly unimpressed by the desperate attention seeking of Treadgold et al.
And I’m sure if someone was to hack your e-mail correspondence they’d discover no “ego’s [sic], groupthink, sloppy data and harry_read_me.txt”!
What a ridiculous argument.
Oh, and even though you’re an Aussie, you’re a 15 minute Google Wonder on NIWA and the NZ temperature record, we gather? I mean, you’ve gone from ‘my understanding is that NIWA was unable to account specifically for their adjustments’ to the above in less than 12 hours! Or did you perhaps get a little help at some rather more specific sites?
(Well, you apparently already knew all there is to know sufficient to conclude that the BoM are ‘climate converts’, so I guess it was time to move on…)
And yet another intriguingly abstract claim to expertise from a newly-arrived contrarian! I grant you you certainly have the ‘medical… professional’ arrogance pitch-perfect…
Oh, I hate to impose further on the time of such an important fellow, but regarding that first point you raised; did you bother to read the article all the way to the end? [Bats eyelids sweetly.] Thought not! That’s also par for the course…
johnmacmot says:
That eyelid thing is very cute, Bill!
Ah, well, reason and evidence doesn’t seem to work with contrarians like Michael. Perhaps charm will do the trick.
(Bugger, I used the “trick” word! The worldwide conspiracy is outed again…. )
And another point – which these ignorant “sceptics” certainly wouldn’t be aware of despite much irrelevant nitpicking – is that the NZ temperature rise has occurred despite the M1 index being more “southerly” than hitherto for several decades now. If that mode of the index were to “flip”, the results could be “interesting”, to say the least.
You seem to think regulated research is better than academic research. Would that include the pharmaceutical companies and their drug “trials” ?
In any event even if the NZ temperature record was totally flat for the last 150 years what would government do? Ignore the global record, with its multiple sources and data, because there is some regional factor,anomaly, or unknown error in the NZ Record?
And regardless of Temperature trends here, we will still have sea level rise fron global temperaure rises.
I dont have time to research this issue in detail, but s far as I can see Trengold has stiched together disparate data and made basic errors.
But the main allegation is NIWA have lost some old calculations. So what is it you want? Put them in Jail? I stand to be corrected but the latest 7 station series performed adjustments using known methods on the old data and made the same conclusions.
Correction, there should be no apostrophe in “defending its accuracy ” 🙂
The point I am trying to make in good faith and without disrespect to anyone here, is that I believe climatologists will loose trust if they only talk at us and don’t listen to criticism. The public will view with concern when a government funded body vigorously defends an authoritative scientific record in the media for years, then admits it lost the adjustments and then virtually disowns it when challenged legally.
The simple answer would seem to have been for NIWA to learn and move on – say that yep, we should have retained the old correction data, we did not think it was that important at the time, but now it has become important, and we repeated the data set with proper audit trail and transparency and here it is and its the same and that’s how we’ll do things from now on. What is so difficult about that? Are you saying it is too ‘rude’ to ask for transparency? You know, I have just as big an interest in scientists retaining trust, not the least in case climate sensitivity does turn out to be on the high side.
@AndrewH, You say in essence that the public should have confidence now in the new “…properly constructed and audited temperature record … [notwithstanding] it might happen to look like the previous 7SS….†Thank you – my precise concern – the public is entitled to request from scientists “properly constructed and audited†data, mind you, not necessarily if it’s only about green frogs, but surely if its consequence is taking my money and the restructure the society my children will inherit.
You gus seem to not appreciate the significance of missing data in 7SS – in fact @Nigel, thinks data traceability is trivial: â€â€¦NIWA have lost some old calculations. So what is it you want?†and @RW’s indignation that wanting these ‘old calculations’ is a “…slur on the intelligence and integrity of scientists I have known for a long time.” This is called ‘circling the wagons’ guys and is one of the well known weaknesses of peer review.
I understand NIWA only had to produce the data and (critically) the worksheet of how and why each specific adjustment was made (and not just a general description of the method allegedly used) and pesky Treadgold would have bothered someone else.
As for the starry eyed teenage faith in a magical peer review exhibited by some here, it is fascinating how quickly climate idealists can swap between pouring scorn on peer reviewed trials sponsored by evil drug companies (@nigelj “Would that include the pharmaceutical companies and their drug “trials— and in the next breath defend the purity of peer review in climate science, a field 5 minutes old and symbiotic with a trillion dollar green industry and green, lets say, enthusiasts. (For interesting soul searching about peer review in medicine – see here).
@Michael Palin says: “…academic research doesn’t work despite academics being asses, it works because academics are asses.â€. Cute and I agree, but it ‘works’ for what purposes. For trailblazing scientific advances – definitely. Once you pour money or politics into the mix when you use it to change public policy, then clearly its not enough. That’ll be why we have the FDA scrutinizing every patient record – ‘trust but verify’. Otherwise what are you saying, that influence of money and ideology and confirmation bias does not exist in Climate Science?
What exactly about the revised series does not do the things you ask?
What has NIWA left out in the report? It looks pretty comprehensive to me. All of the station adjustments are explained in a lot of detail. Is there some aspect of the adjustments that you feel is missed out? What information from the original adjustments do you think would shed more light on things?
It seems that there is a lot of goalpost shifting going on. Treadgold’s original argument was that no adjustments of any sort were required at all (hence his use of the word “unadjusted” in his graphs).
Now we have Australis and MichaelC58 complaining about adjustments being “abandoned”, and missing audit trails. Just what exactly does NIWA have to do to please you people?
NIWA has to prove 0=1. In sceptic troll world however, the inhabitants are implicitly (or perhaps deliberately in the case of the marginally more intelligent ones) making use of the tautology 0=>x = 1 (regardless of x); i.e. by starting from their false premisses, they can say anything they like without violating formal logic. Hence “no adjustments required” => “adjustments required” !
a priori argument in the end demonstrates nothing. But that is what these fools are indulging in. It reminds one of the foolish learned scholars of Galileo’s time. They did not need to look, because they could deduce their conclusions from syllogistic logic.
The facts speak for themselves – but these fools are deafened by preconceived propositions.
They earnestly talk rubbish and nitpick, and all the while the Earth burns.
Treadgold’s original argument was that no adjustments of any sort were required at all (hence his use of the word “unadjusted†in his graphs).
Wrong. Have you read his paper? His original argument was: “This is NIWA’s official graph from their web site. This is a graph of the data NIWA posted on the web site. They’re different. Why?”
Then he graphs the naked and adjusted data at each station.
That is an outright lie.
The spreadsheet linked to above has series labelled “Auckland, Wellington, Nelson, Hokitika, Lincoln/Christchurch, Dunedin, Masterton”.
These do not correspond to the names of weather stations in the CliFlo database, so cannot possibly represent “naked and unadjusted data at each station”.
Please explain this discrepancy.
Also, Michael, your “good faith” would be a bit more convincing if you didn’t treat NIWA as guilty until proven innocent.
The burden of proof is on Treadgold and co to prove their charges, not on NIWA to prove their innocence. So far, Treadgold has not produced the slightest shred of evidence to support his case.
Which means that you are participating in slander.
Exactly. There is nothing whatever to suggest that there is anything wrong with the 7SS, or that NIWA (or more precisely, Salinger in the original calculations, NIWA later) have either made mistakes or been dishonest. That of course would never stop any ignorant Johnny-come-lately “sceptic” from blundering in and in the process displaying an abysmal ignorance of New Zealand’s climatology, along with a penchant for slander.
WTF Michael? You accuse academic researchers of being “sloppy” and “error-prone” and then have the gall (or loss of memory) to claim that your comments are made “in good faith and without disrespect to anyone here”.
Your children and mine with have hell to pay if the inevitable switch from fossil fuels to renewables is further delayed (see these cost-benefit analyses of mitigation versus adaption).
Interesting to note that if you follow the link under “MichaelC58”, but drop the .au on the end, you arrive at The Climate Skeptic Shop, where a Dr Michael Cejnar exhorts everyone to buy “Climate Skeptic” branded products — there are caps, polo shirts, bags, and a mug. I suppose you might regard it as capitalism at its finest. Forgive me if I think it tacky and tasteless.
Wearing one of Dr Cejnar’s shirts would be equivalent to walking around with a dunces hat on…
My favourite is the “Climate Skeptic Bag” – fits securely over head for the remarkably low price of $AUD 4.00.
Correction – sorry stuffed up the HTML – the whole last paragraph is the link.
[Fixed. GR]
@CTG. Thanks.
No goalpost shifting. As I said several times, I believe NIWA scored its own goal with the public by not being transparent with their original long standing temperature record adjustments, and their 11th hour claim that the record was not official. The release of the new proper report will not cause the public to get amnesia about how much effort and bad blood it took to force the proper transparency. Now, will all future data from your friends at NIWA have supporting data available, particularly whenever virtually the entire trend appears made up by adjustments?
I have not attacked NIWA scientists personally or specifically accused anyone of fraud – go back and read my posts (OK, I said BOM were climate converts). I love science, I do science and I drag my kids through every science museum (San Francisco Exploratorium is to be believed). But I am aware of the weaknesses of establishment science, as you all would be.
Onus of proof of a theory or accuracy of data in relation to issues of public policy should be on the scientists. When FDA audits me, they assume I am guilty until I prove to them that I am innocent of misdeeds. This may be the crux of our disagreement – I assume you think is impolite to challenge respected scientists for their data – as in, dare I say, Climategate, while I think the public has a duty.
@Mike Palin – so its down to the “but think of the children” exclamation. If you truly believe in Al Gore and IPCC alarm without reservation, then I can see that we sceptics must be extremely frustrating – in fact, for the sake of the children, the logical conclusion to your argument is to, as our one Australian greens candidate and I think Hansen said, democracy may need to be suspended, and presumably a totalitarian green state instigated and sceptics presumably shut up one way or another, to save our children, of course.
Just so you know, that is the future I am fighting to avoid for my children, and because I was brought up under communism, it’s a lot more probable and more scary than <1.0 DegC warming by 2100, which I understand (not 'believe') non-speculative science indicates.
Carol Cowan says:
“The release of the new proper report will not cause the public to get amnesia about how much effort and bad blood it took to force the proper transparency.”
I think you would find most of the NZ public haven’t noticed this issue and don’t care.
Agreed, Carol. It’s a very small and self-selected group who are doing the shouting on this one.
Still an authority on the NZ temperature record and NIWA, I note. Even more so, in fact. Well well well. Despite being an Australian. And a ‘quality medical professional’ (or is that ‘medical quality professional’ ?) who also sells hats and coffee mugs. Taking ‘argument from authority [by proxy]’ to a new level there…
I was at an event last year that was crashed by some boorish oafs from your party. On top of being loud, abrasive and using a megaphone to shout people down, one of them drove a large F100 through one of Adelaide’s public squares while a rally was in progress at a blatantly reckless speed and it was only by good fortune that no-one was injured.
So, in the circumstances you’ll excuse me if I am also unimpressed by your website’s claims of ‘our gradual recognition as citizens of integrity’.
Love those ‘coming soon’ “high-integrity” “very reasonable” buttons and bumper stickers, by the way; ‘Stop climate Fraud’ ‘Climate Skeptic Scam Denier’. ‘Good Faith’, would you say? And here was I thinking this might all be just some shouty Tea Party spin off… and Ring Tones! One can hardly wait… do they loudly declaim things like ‘CO2 is plant food!’ or ‘Volcanoes emit more CO2 than humans!’ perhaps? What a hit on the train!
Incidentally, which ‘we’ has the FDA? Because, forgive me again, I was beginning to wonder if you were even an Australian for a moment there. But I see you’re a graduate of the University of Sydney and are a cardiologist and electrophysiologist. Can’t find anything on your atmospheric chemistry work, but there you go…
As for your strawman about Peer Review – I put it to you that Peer Review, like Democracy, is the worst system we have, apart from all the others.
In fact, given that it’s topical at the moment, I suggest you take it up with these guys, who are very bright cookies indeed. As a medical man I’m sure you’ll understand if I tell you I’d wager they’ll end up tearing you a new, um… orifice.
Dude, you’re the one who brought up “the society my children will inherit.” Memory loss again?
I’m sorry that you are haunted by having been brought up under communism, but the concept that “establishment science” is conspiring with a “trillion dollar green industry” to rule the world is a delusion. Been to the petrol station lately?
(I do like those black hoods bags though!)
“<1.0 DegC warming by 2100, which I understand (not 'believe') non-speculative science indicates."
Your understanding must be pretty limited then.
The amount of warming is dependent on two factors: the amount of CO2e released, and the Earth System Sensitivity (ESS) to CO2-forced warming (expressed as °C per doubling of CO2).
If we take the course of action you want to pursue, i.e. burn every last drop of oil and lump of coal, then atmospheric CO2 will likely end up well in excess of 1000ppm (more if the peak-oilers are wrong). That would be at least two doublings over pre-industrial levels.
Now the accepted range of ESS is between 2.1 and 4.4°C. This means that we can expect between 4 and 8°C of warming by 2100 under your preferred scenario. The effects of this would be devastating.
When I say accepted range, this refers to the 95% confidence limits around the ESS value. Yes it is possible that the value is below 2.1°C, but it is equally likely that it is above 4.4°C. There is only one climate scientist who proposes that ESS is at the lower end, Richard Lindzen. There is very little empirical evidence to support Lindzen's hypothesis, and it is extremely difficult to explain past changes in climate if ESS is really as low as Lindzen says. In particular, it is impossible for the MWP to have been as warm as skeptics claim it was if the ESS is really as low as Lindzen says. So which is it: warm MWP or low ESS? You can't have both.
So, to sum up, the probability of there being "<1.0 DegC warming by 2100" is less than 2.5%. That's one hell of a gamble that you want the planet to take.
“But I am aware of the weaknesses of establishment science, as you all would be.”
Really? What exactly would those be? Nice strawman there, btw.
“establishment”. Can you define what you mean by that nicely loaded word?
Well done, you got Al Gore in there – no idea what relevance he has to anything being discussed here.
“the logical conclusion to your argument is to, as our one Australian greens candidate and I think Hansen said, democracy may need to be suspended, and presumably a totalitarian green state instigated and sceptics presumably shut up one way or another, to save our children, of course.” Now this gets quite offensive, Michael. Ironic too, because people with your attitude are doing a fine job of making drastic political action much more likely in the future.
You might need to come up with some real science to back up your assertion that 1 degree warming is what “non-speculative” science suggest by 2100. Michael, what you are putting forward has great deal to do with your beliefs, and not much to do with understanding at all.
offended @johnmackmot
(‘establishment’ – sorry, no loading intended, just any science).
You’re damn right it’s offensive John, but it’s pure extrapolation to a logical end point and also not my words. They are the words of your fellow travellers:
1. Clive Hamilton, Greens candidate for Higgins by-election, Oct 2009:
(T)he implications of 3C, let alone 4C or 5C, are so horrible that we look to any possible scenario to head it off, including the canvassing of “emergency†responses such as the suspension of democratic processes…. I mean, the truth is, unless we do that, I mean we seriously are in trouble, because we know that Gaia is revolting against the impact of human beings on it.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/hamilton_stands_for_the_grees_and_for_fear_and_less_democracy/
2. ‘The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy`, which Shearman co-authored with Joseph Wayne Smith. Prof. David Shearman, MD, (mountlofty@ozemail.com.au) is Emeritus Prof. of U. of Adelaide: ‘Argues liberal democracy is an impediment to finding ecologically sustainable solutions for planet’ — ‘Global warming presents such a massive and immediate danger that democracy no longer cuts it, and an authoritarian ecological government of ‘natural elites’ will have to be found to replace it’
http://www.climaterealists.org.nz/node/700
I won’t bore you with links to UN’s kind offer for global ‘governance’ of energy use, global taxation etc.
Now John please re-read your post – “people with your attitude are doing a fine job of making drastic political action much more likely in the future”. Wow. That’s strong. Taking over the world to save it? You mean like in ‘I Robot’? In a scientists, such conviction would give some heavy duty confirmation bias. Maybe more – for the sake of the children.
As I said, too much is at stake with cAGW to rely on pal review – in both directions. I, and I suggest, the public should and will want independent examiners audit climate data down to the handwriting in field log books before it will be convinced drastic changes to society are needed. That should be more popular and a lot easier to achieve than John taking over the world.
Now, I’ve probably ranted enough, so Cheers.
Michael, imagine you are driving along a long, straight road at 100 kmh. About 2km ahead, you can see a traffic light change from green to red. You have two course of action open:
1) Take your foot off the accelerator, then gently apply the brakes once you know that the light is not going to turn green in time.
2) Keep travelling at 100 kmh, hoping that the light will turn green before you get to it. If it doesn’t, you slam on the brakes at the last possible minute, hoping to stop in time.
Which course of action is better for the tyres? Which course of action gives you the better chance of stopping in time? Which course of action is riskier?
What John was referring to is option 2 – if we don’t start to mitigate the effects of future climate change now, while we can do it easily, then at some point in the future it is going to require a massive effort. There are 70+ cities with more than a million inhabitants on coasts around the world. If those cities need to be relocated because of rising sea levels, do you think market forces are going to achieve that? Or do you think it might require some heavy-handed government?
So, it is precisely to avoid the sort of big government that you despise that we need to start acting now.
‘Rant’ is spot on!
‘Your fellow travellers’! Genuinely irritating! Even using the cold-war lingo! Sheesh, how about ‘your mate’ Delingpole and his ‘there just aren’t enough bullets‘ to deal with the AGW mongers?
First it’s instant-expertise about NZ’s weather history. Having found himself in rather deep water there, now it’s this ridiculous distraction. Another bloody denier cut-and-paste festival.
It’s all over the denier blogosphere – little known Adelaide medical doctor now an ‘IPCC Professor’ or ‘IPCC doctor’ according to the major links that come up on Google. He isn’t, of course – what the hell is an ‘IPCC doctor’? – but who cares? Oh, and the book was written in 2007, can be read online to get the flavour in context, went nowhere, has been supported by no-one – but it’s C’n’P flavour of the month at the moment!
Slender stuff indeed.
Way to give out his email address, by the way! Shall we quote you out of context and simultaneously publish yours, while we’re at it?
Oh, and a quote from Bolt’s freakin’ blog! Why did I just know he’d have to be in there somewhere? On Hamilton – someone who I have a lot of time for.
(Why can’t you just find the bloody originals, it’s not like it’s hard? And it might even appear that you did some of the work yourself!)
Here’s Hamilton. Also in 2007, and as noticed by Bolt in 2009. I suggest you actually read the thing all the way to the end (I know; it’s hard! but persist), including the quote in context, and tell me if Hamilton is warning that this is just one of the many risks we face in a super-heated world – who could argue? – or advocating something.
Bonk! Abject fail on this one.
(Who’d have though something coming out of Bolt’s blog would be distorted?)
And CTG handles the obvious point well.
C58 on matters of science you are plain wrong. AGW is happening, the 1Deg average warming is already here today and the effects show.
A business as usual attitude will definitely cause massive damage to the state of our ecosystem and the ability to provide sustenance for the billions alive today. Your activism against preventing this damage is deplorable and in my mind activism like this will in the future be deemed unlawful and actionable at court.
Compare your activism to say a medical snake oil dealer who advertises the virtue of taking his quackery because: a) he sells it, and b) he mistakenly believes or pretends to believe that its actually working.
You belong obviously into both categories, selling your activism online and spreading you falsehood. Like the health damage done by the snake oil dealer, your actions might contribute to massive harm to the future of our planet and therefore you should be held personally responsible, just as the snake oil dealer would be!
In what you are doing you are subverting the democratic process because misinformation and propaganda is the enemy of any success in free markets and the choices made by free people. Information and knowledge makes people free, not propaganda. If you want to maintain a free democratic society you must invest in proper science education and scientific literacy. At the current state of affairs (In the US a sizable proportion of people still believe Evolution is wrong and the world was created some 6000 years ago …) society can not make educated choices on matters involving science based on majority votes and is wide open to the type of manipulation you and your ilk are involved in!
In a scientifically literate population you would not matter as you would be simply ignored as most people ignore cranks trying to construct perpetual motion machines.
With so much at stake we might indeed need a legal framework that regulates malicious propaganda like yours just as we regulate tobacco advertising!
Michael C58
I disagree. You want independent examiners outside the climate community too audit climate science? You mean like psychologists or biologists? The only people with the knowledge are to do so are climate scientists, and its a small community.
Even if you could argue that some semi independednt body like physicists might be some use, they are only party qualified to do so, will have their own “biases” for or against agw etc.
In the end you cant escape climates scientists reviewing the data and because its a gigantic issue with thousands of papers on it a large panel reaching a consensus, like the IPCC. Tightly managed with internal checks and publically available data and methods.
The only thing I can think of is to consciously ensure more sceptics are “consulted”. Perhaps the IPCC looking some of the unpublished studies. But with with respect to sceptics even thats on shaky ground and goes against a century of good practice.
You cant end up decideing this thing like like deciding evolution by debate between equal teams of scientists and creationists, clearly stupid. Its science not a law court .
The best evidence is multiple lines of evidence ruthlessly torn into in the peer review literature.
A big breakthru agaisnt agw would win a nobel prize and every scientists wants that. Im sure exon mobil would be delighted. The fact that there hasnt been a breakthru sceptical argument or even a good one speaks volumes.
Oh come on is that the best you can do? A single candidate for public office and a single academic? Hardly evidence is it? You said “I think Hansen said this”. So I expect you went off and looked and couldn’t find any evidence for that then? Are you going to apologise for slurring Hansen? Plus it’s a logical fallacy isn’t it? Two people expressed those views so we all must have those views? What a load of tosh.
FrankD says:
From Michael’s website: “Our mission is to enable the countless climate skeptics to show their true numbers in public.”
And when the countless were counted it turned out there were 25,758 of them. That was the number of people who voted (in the Senate) for Michael’s risible party in the 2010 Australian election.
The Greens, by comparison, pulled 1,601,664, just in the six states where both parties fielded candidates. That’s 62 to 1 worth of fail. Even the semi-joke Australian Sex Party drew 10 times as many votes as the Climate Skeptics.
For all Michaels handwaving about growing up under communism, democracy handed him his hat, while simultaneously handing those enemies of democracy the Greens six senate seats (and one in the House).
It’s time that ignorant fool left these pages. Objectively, his statements on climate are no better than the twaddle touted by Ken Ring.
The Australian Sex Party had some surprisingly reasonable policies and some surprisingly articulate spokespeople! (And surely putting Viagra and Cialis on the PBS should have romped them in? 😉 )
Also, for some reason the Climate Sceptics were incapable of discerning the ‘own goal’ aspects of decking themselves out in TShirts that say CRAP in large letters (Stands for ‘Carbon Really Ain’t Pollution’ – good, eh?).
Whether this was in sympathy with the scatalogically-inclined Tony Abbot (‘Climate change is crap!’ and now ‘Shit happens!’) is not clear…
“Verity Buff” appears likely to be a pseudonym adopted by Richard Treadgold.
Richard: you remain unwelcome here. You have your own site, go and play with your sycophants there.
It reminds me of the kind of name encountered in spam emails, especially the kind directed at worried males.
“Verity Buff”?
19th Century heroine? Cross-dressing cabaret act? Star of 70’s soft-core flicks?
I’m very afraid it’s supposed to suggest ‘fan of the truth’, but I don’t think it’s working!
(Or perhaps just an admirer of the genus Mimulus?)
Treadgold as cross-dresser! Let’s not go there, except to note that the blessed Ken Ring has been known to summon matronly assistance when beleaguered on blogs. Sock poppets, perhaps?
Not surprizingly, the santa cruz monkey flower, Verity Buff, is extinct in the wild.
He who uses the pseudonym could well do himself a favour and visit this page:
http://zipcodezoo.com/Trends/
he may also find a picture of himself on the same site 🙂
I see that the earlier comments 93-95 – abusive trollery from the presumed bosom-buddy of Treadgold et al.- have gone. That’s certainly raised the tone immediately.
“the latest 7 station series performed adjustments using known methods on the old data”.
Known methods? I understood NIWA had invented an entirely novel method for its new set of adjustments – dependent on comparisons with remote stations which are well-correlated.
Because all this is so innovative, NIWA has undertaken to publish a paper in a science journal showing that it really works.
Why don’t we all suspend judgment until that paper appears?
Once again, Australis, you pontificate before doing even the bare minimum of research. Here are three references to techniques for adjusting temperature time series due to station inhomogeneities. The Li and Dong (2008) paper, last on the list, is particularly interesting in that they describe a technique for detecting and correcting for undocumented discontinuities; in other words, they go well beyond NIWA’s approach, which only deals with documented discontinuities. I can’t wait for the NZC”S”C to start suing the Chinese government.
So, Australis, the process of detecting and correcting for inhomogeneities is hardly novel.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/joc.3370150403/abstract
http://cdiac.ornl.gov/epubs/ndp/ushcn/ndp019.html
http://www.springerlink.com/content/n68m58g74643567g/
(I only include three links to avoid the spam filter; there is a lot more literature on this topic than that – it is left as an exercise for the reader to find out more).
Caught out in your ignorance yet again. You haven’t got a glimmer of a clue. And tell your red-ink mates to get back under their bridges while you’re licking your wounds.
If those are your three best shots, they’re not very impressive. None are mentioned in the bibliography of the Review, so obviously NIWA weren’t too taken by them, either.
The description of GHCN is irrelevant, and the Li & Dong (2008) paper goes on about UHI – which NIWA ignores in its NZT7. Only the Easterling effort has anything to say which might have helped the Review, and it describes methods that NIWA didn’t deploy.
So, are you looking forward to NIWA’s paper?
BTW, why do you claim that NIWA don’t deal with undocumented discontinuities?
Reading comprehension is obviously not your strong suit, so I will try and keep it simple for you.
Your claim was that NIWA’s adjustments are entirely novel. I supplied three random reference that I found in two minutes of googling to show that the process of adjusting temperature time series is well established.
I made no claims that NIWA was using any of the techniques in those references – indeed, I specifically made sure that none of the references I included were mentioned in the NIWA report, in order to demonstrate that there were independent studies doing similar things.
It is clear that “entirely novel” is not an accurate way to describe what NIWA have done. “Entirely consistent with accepted climatological practice” is how I would describe it.
It is also clear that NIWA makes changes that related to documented changes in the station histories – station moves, equipment changes and malfunctions. I thought that was pretty clear from the report. Maybe you didn’t actually read it?
Oh, and you are wrong about UHI as well. The description of the Auckland series quite specifically describes a possible UHI effect and a correction that can be applied. The correction makes very little difference to the overall 7SS.
Well, that’s quite a fail, Australis. What else you got?
Clearly Australis is an ignorant, obnoxious troll who never lets the facts spoil his fantasy stories – or more precisely, downright lies. Contemptible.
There was never any issue that literature on climatological adjustment exists – only that NIWA used a novel method. It will be described in the forthcoming paper, despite the fact CGT seems unaware of those announced plans.
NIWA does not confine itself to discontinuities noted in metadata. For examples, check the pre-1927 Lincoln adjustments.
There is no UHI adjustment in either the original or the revised 7SS – for Auckland or any other urban station. The Review says “more research” is required.
Gosh, what a lot of backpedalling.
We have gone from Treadgold’s original declaration that NIWA was engaged in serious fraud on a par with organised crime, down through “there is no audit trail”, and now all we are left with is the accusation that NIWA is doing science.
Er, isn’t that what they are supposed to be doing?
Tiny Tim McGee says:
Gosh, what a lot of tripe. You people don’t seem to be thinking clearly.
Where did Trendbold mention serious fraud or organised crime?
Where did NIWA “account” for their adjustments? And if they did, as you say they did, why did they then reconstruct the whole series?
Idiot. DNFTT.
“Idiot”? “Don’t feed the trolls”? Well, I’m not well impressed with your attitude to visitors!
So you’re not very friendly here, you don’t like hearing sensible questions and your “host” doesn’t care to make you behave.
There’s no reason to return, is there?
You make two spelling mistakes just in writing Treadgold’s name, describe CTG’s remarks as “tripe”, and pose “questions” that have been addressed over and over again. That makes you (at best) a semi-literate troll. How dare you make those remarks about CTG’s contributions – especially since the odds are that you knowledge of NZ climatology is nil.
Sorry about the spelling mistakes. Slip of the fingertips.
Tripe: a colourful word meaning something of no value. I used it because CTG referred to:
Treadgold’s original declaration that NIWA was engaged in serious fraud on a par with organised crime
But he made no declaration of that — ipso facto, the statement is worthless; tripe. Or is there a reference for that? It’s not in his paper, but maybe he said it elsewhere?
I don’t know why you should italicise “questions” — they were genuine enough. I quite obviously missed the earlier discussion/s, so would you be kind enough to give me a reference or repeat the answers, please?
From the public fact that NIWA reconstructed the temperature series at considerable expense and trouble, it’s obvious they couldn’t explain the adjustments. So, when Verity Buff asked about them, I was curious that Macro claimed that NIWA had, in fact, justified the old adjustments. Is Macro still around? Can anyone provide a reference, please?
My follow-up question remains the same: If the adjustments were properly described, why did NIWA reconstruct the series? That’s a reasonable question, isn’t it? Or have I trodden on someone’s invisible toes?
You know nothing about my knowledge of NZ climatology, so it’s strange to hear you give an assessment of it. You come across as hostile, calling me an idiot for asking questions.
I know that Treadgold didn’t use the words “organised crime”. That was exaggeration for comic effect – do you see what I did there?
Are you now saying that Treadgold did not accuse NIWA of fraud at all? If that is the case, then Treadgold really needs to brush up on his communication skills, because it certainly sounded for all the world as though that is what he was saying.
For example, look at the questions asked in parliament by the ACT party last year. These questions were either written by Treadgold himself, or else written by somebody who was very familiar with Treadgold’s work. These questions very clearly implied that NIWA were guilty of fraud (or scientific malpractice if you prefer).
If you are saying that Treadgold did not actually accuse NIWA of fraud, then there are some very upset people at NIWA that he needs to apologise to. Would you like to send Treadgold’s apologies, or shall I?
Oh, and if we are going to ask questions, then another perfectly reasonable question is: how exactly did Treadgold construct his “unadjusted” series?
I strongly suspect that Tiny Tim is another Treadgold sock puppet. Please ignore him.
Who cares if an individual believes in climate science or not, the REAL problem with deniers, trolls and their ilk is resistance to, and the fear of change along with the common misconception that everybody has the right to “assess risk” which unless you are a credible and qualified EXPERT you DON’T.
Non experts i.e. the rest of us have the role of “risk management” should you require to take part in the former go and get qualified and stop being “Climate Cowboys”
A possible way of sorting this problem out is to apply common sense and a good splodge of personal greed, as a way to circumvent the denier BS…
As the man says in the clip below…
“…So if you don’t give a dam about the environment, do it because you are a greedy bastard and you just want cheap power!”
When the movie comes out take your friends!
‘this is no longer the purview of birkenstock wearing tree-huggers – not that there’s anything wrong with that!
looks like an instant classic 🙂
@McGee 9.23: Read this (unfortunately also includes plenty of inanity from your fellow trolls strewn through it, along with some hilariously stupid remarks by the ultra-naive), instead of wasting my time. The typical tag-team tactics used by you lot are designed to do precisely that – distract and delay. If you had any genuine interest in learning something about the subject, you would have already found it, of course. Don’t come that “innocent enquirer” crap with me.
http://hot-topic.co.nz/nz-sceptics-lie-about-temp-records-try-to-smear-top-scientist/
You’re into DNFTT territory permanently as far as i’m concerned.
retsilla says:
I realise this is a fairly old/cold thread, but I see that for some reason the C”S”C have chosen now to issue a press release about their “analysis” of the temperature record. Much of the substance of the release is stuff that has already been adressed or straight out lies, but they must have felt it was time to pop up again.
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After the Ten Commandments Monument was placed at the Oklahoma State Capitol, the Satanic Temple announced that it wanted to donate a public monument to “complement and contrast” the monument on the grounds. The proposed Baphomet monument features the devil in goat form. “It offers a lap that visitors can come to sit on, and have their picture taken with” said Lucien Greaves, with The Satanic Temple.
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The “Church” not only teaches the wrong venue for the Kingdom, but totally wipes out the Resurrection of the dead from where they rest in peace. If you ever visit New England, look at the early American cemeteries where you will see thousands of gravestones marked R.I.P: meaning rest In peace.
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In prophecy, what is the Kingdom? When Pastor Elmore related his experience from 40 years ago in last week's sermon about his quest for the truth and asked a judeo-Christian minister, “What is the Kingdom?” and to his surprise, the minister said, after consulting stacks of books, “I don't know what it is either,” we can safely say that not much has changed in an entire generation. For such an incompetent reply, these kinds of retarded ministers have no business being behind a pulpit. Perhaps I Peter 3:15 escaped his mind to “Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you.” For the future of prophecy is a hope in the Kingdom of God.
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Mr. Champagne Socialist
In common with most European countries Ireland has - thankfully - begun taking a tougher approach to the "asylum seekers" flooding the Continent like a plague of locusts. Rumour has it that the Irish Naval Service would no longer act as an unpaid shuttle service between Africa and Italy, instead becoming much more selective. Gratified by this I was nonetheless disturbed to learn from Parliamentarian Mick Wallace how things were actually starting to play out down there.
"We're literally killing them! Actually drowning them" he raged as he returned from the scene of a tragedy, eventually dissolving into tears at his country's shame. I had to admit that I also felt a pang of guilt at the thought of our sailors holding the heads of hapless migrants under the Mediterranean waves while machine-gunning the survivors, cackling maniacally as they did so.
But not for the first time Mick was engaging in a bit of hyperbole. In fact make that grotesque misrepresentation. Let me explain. He visited Calais where he met - wait for it - an unfortunate boy whose whole family died horribly. So he was now alone in the world, just waiting to reach safety in Ireland. Actually I think I've heard from this guy before now. About a thousand times in fact.
And how was Ireland 'actually killing them'? Well it seems the fact that Ireland isn't accepting this poor orphan (and everyone else who feels like roosting here) means that we're 'actually killing them'. Yeah, Mick, right. Someone said that if you can fake sincerity you got it made. Well if that's true Mick does not have it made because his performance brought down a tirade of abuse and ridicule on his head (on which he wears a dead ostrich, as you can see from the pic).
This guy is the quintessential champagne socialist SJW. Although making millions from property development during the boom he nonetheless held his street cred, at least with the chattering classes, by espousing fashionable causes that cost him nothing. ('Paging Bono, paging Bono'). Always while the cameras were rolling of course. Things like refusing to eat Israeli or South African oranges, chaining himself to bankers' cars, getting arrested for protesting American military landings at Shannon.
Although an avowed anti-capitalist this horny-handed son of the soil was quick to avail of bankruptcy laws when his firm went down the tube, adroitly switching ownership of assets, leaving the taxman, creditors and his workers in the lurch before heading off to Italy to inspect his vineyards there. Another passion of his is Ireland's homeless. Whose numbers would be tripled were his proposals to let everyone from the Third World settle here.
But with the 'liberal' Left what you say matters more than what you do. Which is another way of saying the lot of them are two-faced hypocrites.
Comment from a South African Jewish reader
A reader from South Africa has written a comment (at the end of this thread) The following is an excerpt:
I have lived in South Africa for 68 years, I am Jewish but unfortunately I or any of my friends did not manage to own any gold or diamond mines. Quite a few of them however did start businesses which succeeded in employing many white and black south africans, affording them the opportunity of educating their children as well as putting food on the table.
It's amazing how today as in the past, any problem which arises finishes up being the fault of the Jews. We must surely be the "chosen people", chosen to be blamed, chosen to be killed, chosen to be chased out of any place they might make their home.Of course there were people like Slovo, Kasrils, Goldreich etc. who supported the abolishment of apartheid but were outnumbered by the jews who were not involved and just wanted to be left alone in the status quo unfortunately. Their thinking being that whatever happens we'll be blamed as seems to be the case now. The majority voted against the National party although there were a few who did."
Here let me expand on my response to his comment. First I know and have always acknowledged that not all Jews are engaged in the war against White civilisation. In fact maybe it's only a minority amongst them. However, Jews are overwhelmingly over-represented in every movement working towards this end. Briefly I'm referring to feminism, cultural relativism, bogus equality theories, affirmative action, open borders (for White countries only) the degradation of art and entertainment. And here's another point. They are overwhelmingly under-represented among those of us fighting back.
Specifically in regards to South Africa...while spending two semesters in SA (at Wits and UCT) in 1994 and 1995 I got to know at least ten Jews. Looking back I think that not one of them was enthusiastic or hopeful about the emerging Rainbow Nation. Yet the masterminds and controllers of the ANC-lead war against White South Africa were Jewish. Just as with the NAACP in America this 'black' organisation was in reality a Jewish operation with a few token melanin-enhanced faces shoved up front for the optics. It was founded by KGB agent Ruth First (wife of Joe Slovo), Dennis Goldberg, Lionel Bernstein, Arthur Goldreich and Bob Hepple. Jews have more control over the banking system now - both the Central Bank and the commercial banks - than they did under White rule, and several Jews are or have been in the Cabinet, three of them sit on the Supreme Court and they headed up the police and railway services. All despite representing a minuscule proportion of the population.
In summary Jews - or at east the elite Jews - have precipitated the fall of White South Africa and have profited greatly from that fall.
So dear reader/commentator, what can we make of this? My proposal is the same as that recommended in an earlier post. 'You might as well give up trying to bamboozle those whites who already understand the nature of the Jewish attack on our people. That game is up, the evidence is overwhelming, and awareness is only going to grow from here. The horse is already out of the barn. The Jews had a good thing going, but as usual allowed their hatred and arrogance to get the better of them.
However, what you can do, if you are Jewish and if you are actually sincere, is work within the Jewish community to call off the dogs. You can work with them in a way that we can’t. Next time you are tempted to chastise the goyim, chastise your own instead. Persuade THEM, those who are doing harm, as opposed to US, who are simply pointing out the reality of the situation in a bid to salvage what we can out of the increasing wreckage of our own tribe.'
So thanks for your comment my friend. I accept your sincerity and wish you well. And hopefully you'll give my words some consideration.
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A grave warning from Dr. Paul Ehrlich
I see Fidel Castro look-alike Paul Ehlich continues to dish out advice even as he approaches his eightieth year. He sternly warns of Global Warming. It seems that within a decade or two England will be a desert, while tourists will bask on the beaches of Svalbard, beneath whispering palms, bathed in a sub-tropical sirocco breeze. And based on this advice I immediately placed my order for a warm house in the middle of the Sahara. Because when Paul advises shrewd investors act.
And do the polar (heh!) opposite.
You see the good doctor's prognostications have up to now been, well, mixed. In fact make that utterly, totally and hilariously wrong. To wit in 1970 (The Population Bomb) he warned of imminent world-wide mass starvation, that England would cease to exist as a country by the end of the 20th century as famine stalked the land. In 1974 he predicted a new Ice Age as being just around the corner. Then, without skipping a beat changed his mind and said well no, actually I mean Global Warming is going to finish us off. And soon.
Ehrlich is far from being alone. The Inconvenient Truth about Al Gore is that in 2006 he told us that we'd all be living "in a frying pan" within ten years. How did that work out Al? In 1970 Dr. George Wald of Harvard was awarded the Nobel Prize for warning us that "civilization will end within 10 to 15 years" short of taking dramatic and unprecedented measures. Which of course never were taken. There are dozens of other hucksters out there now peddling similar nostrums, this time based on the Global Warming wheeze.
Serious question: How do these guys get away with being totally wrong again and again? More pertinently how do they continue to get away with it? It's complex, so maybe we need one of those brilliant black doctors and scientists we see on TV to explain it to us? Either way, my own theory is that the GW hoax represents a perfect vehicle for propagating the globalist/NWO agenda. Listen to uber-bitch Mary Robinson on the New York Slimes "we need to secure an international legally binding climate agreement because climate change cannot be solved at the national level alone."
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Throwing the Saudis under the bus
What's behind the sudden outburst of American hostility to the bloated perverts of Saudi Arabia? I'm referring narrowly here to the sudden interest in the 'missing 28 pages' of the 9/11 Omission (sic) Report that allegedly tie that hell-hole to the 9/11 attacks. Why the sudden interest? There's even a Bill going through Congress to support their disclosure, jointly sponsored by legendary dual-citizen Chucky Schumer. After all they've been known about for more than ten years. And now, right on cue, the FBI reveal the dramatic discovery of a buried cache of documents which directly ties the Saudis to the attack. I also notice that the media shills on CNN and Fox are rowing in behind the new-found demonising.
The questions come thick and fast.
Is it to deflect interest away from the real perps?
But if so, why now, just when it seems the whole thing is slipping into the memory hole like the USS Liberty attack?
Surely if the Saudis get flung under the bus they're going to identify the rest of the criminals before they go? Or will they take one for the team in return for a safe and luxurious hideaway filled with pretty young White boys?
What will be the impact on the recent farcical US Court ruling which blamed Iran for the attacks and thus liable for $ billions in compensation?
Questions, questions, questions...and I really don't know the answer to any of them. What I do know is that when it all pans out the Israelis will once again bring Iago to mind: "Now whether he kills Cassio or Cassio him, or each kill the other, every way makes my gain".
Anyway, in response I'm sure most Americans will want to know what Kim Kardashian thinks about it....
Some people in Ireland really do benefit from diversity
As you've probably discerned, I'm not a great fan of diversity despite being constantly assured of its endless benefits. Mind you for some strange reason those benefits are never actually spelled out in any detail. Which is leading an increasing number of people to wonder whether anyone actually does benefit. In fact I can assure the doubters that many indeed do. Specifically those engaged in the law, prison and immigration industries.
This from the Irish Independent:
"A man who took part in imprisoning, stripping and beating Innocent Wilson because he wanted to teach him a moral lesson for entering his girlfriend's bedroom has been jailed for six months. In Dublin Circuit Criminal Court Judge Sarah Berkeley sentenced Lucky Shaka (24) to two years' imprisonment, but suspended the final 18 months."
I can just imagine the scene in court
State Prosecutor: 'Mr. Shaka, you are facing serious charges. Are you innocent or not?'
Shaka 'No, I not Innocent, I Lucky'. Pointing at Wilson 'He Innocent'
State Prosecutor: 'So you are not innocent?'
Shaka: 'No, I not Innocent'
State Prosecutor: 'Judge, I rest my case'
And then there's the case of the Nigerian employed by an Irish hotel as a Food and Beverage Manager - 'in effect the second most senior management position in the hotel'. The owners must have seen him as quite a catch, possessing as he did a degree in Catering from Lagos University (his Shank Of Missionary being a mouth-watering speciality). Unfortunately - and totally unexpectedly - some problems arose shortly after recruitment. Like spending months at a time out on 'sick leave', having a difficult time with biased and racist colleagues, threatening to strangle the hotel manager. And showering fellow employees, diners and their food with a virulent strain of the TB bacterium.
His lengthy appeal was of course funded in full by the Irish taxpayer.
So yes, the law and immigration industry do benefit from diversity. And who does not benefit? Well just about everyone else really.
A simple message for immigration status-whores
The current migrant crisis invasion of Europe makes life great for the virtue signalling status whores of the Left. In the comfort of their leafy suburbs and academic cloisters they incur neither physical nor intellectual discomfort. By the latter I mean that they don't have to address the practical ramifications of their hectoring.
Their position deems any rejection of migrants as a Bad Thing. This is evidenced by heart-rending pictures of starving women and children (it's considered rude to mention that about 80% of the invaders are fighting-age men) offset against a wealthy and selfish West. What's never addressed is the subject of limits. And that's because once you concede the need for limits in principle - even if some time in the far off future - you've blown away the 'just let them in' argument. In essence you're acknowledging that immigration must be based on a range of practical criteria.
Heresy!
But even the Swedes have been forced to face up to the implications and are now using heat imaging technology to detect invaders crossing their borders while admitting they'll need to expel more than 80,000 of those they so smugly allowed in. So I suggest asking a simple question of any status-whore you need to interact with: Do you agree that there should be no limits to the numbers taken in? If not you admit that there's a need for an immigration policy. And if you agree with that you agree that immigrants pursue the approved channels. So let's start by shipping all of those rescued migrants back to the country they set out from.
It really is that simple.
Remedying Korea's race problem
I've read recently that South Korea has been deemed the most racist country in the world. The horror! Whether true or not a recent report from one of the UN's gravy train riders (the splendidly named Mutuma Ruteere - 'you can rut here, Mutuma') has identified severe problems. From his report and many others it seems the explanation lies in Koreans' ignorance of the wider world, and by implications the benefits of diversity. And I suppose we could forgive them that, given that they've done quite well on their own so far. For instance in 1957 they had the same per capita income as that of pre 'independence' Ghana whereas now it's more than twenty times higher.
"In one way or another, racism affects almost every foreigner in Korea. But being black here is different. Whether African-American, African or not even black but mistaken for it, experiences in Korea are tainted by the perception that blacks are lower than other races: Blacks are violent, unintelligent and poor. Black Americans are not really American, and are inappropriate teachers for Korean children. The local media continues to be flooded with racist sentiments, advertisements and perceptions. It’s painful and it’s widespread."
"Black people report difficulty getting taxis, even when Koreans and whites get them on the same street. Some say cab drivers go so far as to make illegal U-turns into traffic to avoid picking up black passengers. Some Koreans will refuse to get into elevators with black people, and will often change subway cars to avoid being near black passengers".
On the other hand “there were meanings associated with the color white – peace, being a peaceful people, purity,”
And the cause of this wrong-headed view of the po' blacks? It seems "American movies and music influenced Koreans to see blacks as dirty, poor, violent slum-dwellers. The U.S. way of looking at black people came to Korea so Korean people looked at black people just like Americans did.”
Right. So I have a great idea. Why doesn't the Western media create movies and TV shows with blacks in lead roles, as professors, doctors and scientists...and who are brave, intelligent and resourceful? Why not include an occasional black person in an advertisement, and in a positive role? Why not affirmative action blacks into high positions, positions way beyond their abilities, even to the level of US President? Why not encourage White women to see black males as ideal mating material?
I know these are crazy ideas. We all know they represents an inversion of reality. But wouldn't it be worth it were they to correct Korea's racism problem? And now here's another suggestion. According to this Korean journalist 'our racism is based on sheer ignorance'. You see - and he's right - only a tiny number of Koreans (here are some) have had direct experience of living with blacks and their (cough) 'culture'. So why not organise Cultural Exchange Programs whereby groups of Koreans spend a few months soaking in the authentic Black Experience in say.....Haiti, East St. Louis, Camden, Liberia or Somalia.
It'd certainly cure them of their ignorance, that's for sure.
On a point of order....
There's an interesting five-part review by Andrew Joyce of David Cesarani's Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933-49 currently being published on the Occidental Observer. Yes, believe it or not, a book on the Holocau$t™ at long last.
While strongly recommending his article I must take issue with the following:
"I am not a “Holocaust denier” in the traditional understanding of the term. To wit, I am not preoccupied with quantities of coke, the mechanics of cremation, or the residual properties of prussic acid. I belong to a younger generation of European-descended people who weren’t born before, during, or immediately after World War Two. Like many members of the movement from my generation, while I can clearly see the disastrous effects of “Holocaust education” on young people (and the whole of Germany in particular), I never felt the same urgency to dispel propaganda, specific narratives, or accusations that older movement members seemed desperate to over-turn.
My generation grew up with news of large-scale ethnic conflicts in Rwanda and Cambodia..... Efforts to inform my generation that mass killings had taken place in this or that corner of an East European forest (and four decades before their birth) lacked the power to shock or injure than it might otherwise have done. We interacted with [the Holocaust], but we found it lacking."
Judging by that I assume Andrew is Generation Y. And while I'm more like generation A or B my experience of younger folk tells me that actually they have fully bought into the wheeze. In fact I know several who've made the Auschwitz Pilgrimage where they gladly underwent the prescribed programming, returning infused with an even deeper sense of White Guilt. Be that as it may, my main concern relates to his dismissing the significance of the Holocau$t™ and the importance of exposing the fraud for what it is.
I say this because the Holocau$t™ has in many ways become the embodiment of the 20th Century. It has been wielded with uncanny skill to silence (and incarcerate) critics of Jews or Israel, to extract billions from unfortunate guilt-ridden German taxpayers, and to transform the status of an aggressive and acquisitive people into that of Ultimate Victim.**
As with the 9/11 attacks, should the general public become aware of the breathtaking scale of the fraud, and the tsunami of lies and obfuscation with which it has been maintained, the consequences would fundamentally transform political and economic life in the West. And without such exposure things will pretty much go on as they are until we Whites become marginalised and dispossessed in the countries our ancestors built.
** A subsequent comment to this post by B7Scorpio powerfully expands on this thesis.
"The official version of WWII with the Holocaust as it's centrepiece has become the founding myth of the contemporary West.
What is a founding myth and what does it do? It is a universally known story featuring fundamental archetypes that (1) explains the origin and structure of the world, (2) defines ultimate Good and Evil (from which are then derived the values used to justify the possession of power) and (3) defines what is held sacred in that society.
The WWII myth fulfils all three functions.
1) We live in the 'post-war world'. The institutions (the UN, the IMF, the World Bank, the World Trade Organisation etc.) all have their ultimate origins coming out of WWII. The borders of key European states were settled after the war. Even the assumption that liberal democracy is the default model for all states follows WWII. (The Cold War froze things for a while but WWII is the key origin point). To repeat: we live in the 'post-war world'.
2) Ultimate Evil is Nazis. Good is simply that which opposes Nazis. The values of our society (anti-racism, tolerance, diversity etc.) follow from these definitions.
3) The only thing that is held sacred in the contemporary West is the Holocaust.
Seeing WWII and the Holocaust as a founding myth (and a myth that almost all White people believe in!) explains why it has so much power over our people. It also explains why White identity has been so neutered. A society's founding myth sets both the boundaries of allowable political thought as well as the determining centre around which all thought is orientated. White identity politics is powerless as long as the myth holds because the myth says White identity = Nazis = evil so any attempt at White advocacy is disprivileged before it even begins. As long as the Holocaust remains 'holy' the anti-White power holds the ultimate meta-political trump card.
"The Holocaust myth really is a poison wellspring that is psychologically and consequently physically killing our people. The problem is that all three functions of the myth are negative for White people instead of positive. Everything is backwards.
Instead of the origin of the world being something creative and bountiful it is an event of horrific death and destruction.
Instead of ultimate Good being at the centre of the myth, ultimate Evil (Nazis) is placed at the centre. Ultimate Good (Americans dying on Omaha beach for example) is merely reactive. The 'evil' of white racialism, with Adolf Hitler as the devil, occupies the centre-point of the story.
And instead of that which society holds sacred being something beautiful and sublime it is something shameful and obscene (the Holocaust).
The myth really is an anti-myth for White people which means it is spiritual poison.
Unless we break the spell this myth has over our people it's hard to see how we will recover. At the moment our enemies determine the mental frame in which our people think.
Deprogramming White people out of the kosher WWII myth is vital. Does that mean we have to defend Hitler's National Socialist Germany? Do we need to somehow turn the myth inside out? Transmutate the myth from negative to positive with the Third Reich as heroes and the anti-German powers as forces serving evil? I don't know. But I'm pretty sure being 'red-pilled' about the Holocaust and WWII is transformational. Because once their psychological weapon of calling you 'Nazi' no longer works what else have they got?"
PS: Uncle Nasty...a compatriot of your wants to contact you. If interested would you email me at irishsavant@yahoo.com
"It's oh so beautiful...."
The revolution devours itself, the snake eats its own tail. And it's happening at an increasing rate. I refer here to the vibrants turning on White women, even when they're (cough) 'liberal'. Examples abound but this one takes this biscuit, involving as it does liberal Genocidist Madeleine Albright, the crone who thought tens of thousands of Iraqi children starving to death to be 'worth it'. (Remember when she suddenly discovered her Jewish origins at the time of her Senate Confirmation hearings? Instantly rendering any objections to her as 'anti-Semitic'.)
For quite a while she's been a liberal feminist icon but, as I mentioned at the beginning, things are changing. An invitation for her to speak at a swanky all female school has been met with a fusillade of objections because she's 'White' (she's not, of course) and a 'genocide enabler' (which she is). 'Just SO MANY white women' wailed one student. So yes, just like in France and Russia after their Revolutions the list of enemies expands. Being a woman is no longer enough to protect your place on the Victimhood Hierarchy. You have to be a non-White woman.
How this plays out in the greater scheme of things remains to be seen. But White women, even liberals and feminists, will increasingly face tough choices. And Jews are being caught up in the maelstrom as well. Hitherto, with great skill and agility, they oscillated between White and non-White depending on the circumstances. So where massively over-represented (i.e. wherever the pickings were good) they became White to mask the disparity. On the other hand when being held to account for misbehaviour they reverted to being long-suffering victimised Jews. (Albright's ploy referred to above represents another example of the tactic.)
But that's changing as well. Blacks, Latinos, Muslims - almost all vibrants in fact - don't give a hoot about the distinction between Jews and Whites. Still less do they appreciate the work Jews have done on their behalf. (Of course it was not done on behalf of the vibrants. They were just ancillary beneficiaries of the War On Whites). And this Scylla is being met on the other side by the Charybdis of Whites awakening to the war being waged on them. Admittedly the Great White Beast still slumbers but now twitches ominously as his tormentors grow increasingly brazen.
I don't know what's going to happen or when. But for certain the trends I refer to are real and will have great significance.
Crack open the popcorn and enjoy the show!
Living - for now - testaments to the New Woman
Fascinating to watch 'em crash and burn, victims of their own design. Madonna and Angelina Jolie, the embodiment of the spirit of the New Woman, of Having It All. Sexually active while barely into their teens, an unfathomable number of subsequent partners (of both sexes), glittering careers, vast wealth, late onset "families", some of whom were purchased ready-made, home-wrecking, abandoned marriages (...AJ says of her first husband 'the greatest husband a girl could have......but I needed freedom'), feted and rewarded for dishing out democracy and women's rights to all those cute faces the rest of us see only on TV.
What more could the independent grrrlll of today ask for?
But now? Being nearly twenty years older than she, Madonna reveals what awaits Jolie. Excluding paid hangers-on she's now abandoned, alone and unwanted, so detested by her dysfunctional "family" that she used the law on her son when he chose in desperation to flee to his father. A bitter, squalling hair-trigger shrew, ricocheting between rage and self-pity as she frantically struggles to hang on to her collapsing career, each performance becoming more and more an exercise in self-parody.
And Angelina? Twenty five years of feminist freedom have left her a physical and emotional wreck with yet another disintegrating marriage and a squad of mainly purchased children spiralling out-of-control. Luckily her non-stop filming, human rights status-whoring and stints in rehab mean she incurs minimal personal inconvenience from these little horrors. But pity the surrogate parents!
At least Madonna and Angelina have the wealth to purchase hangers-on and luxury. And, catastrophic as the results might have been, they have fulfilled their basic biological imperative by spawning their own offspring. But what about the ordinary woman, seduced during her (long vanished) youth by the feminist illusion, and now toiling at her useless career in a tiny impersonal cubicle? For every Angelina or Madonna there are literally millions like her, and for whom a bleak future beckons.
Having decided to put off settling down she's horrified at the speed with which her child-bearing years are disappearing, while all those disposable 'good men' whom she confidently put to one side at an earlier time are no longer available, being married and/or interested only in girls a lot younger than she. The liberated kind of girl who dispenses sexual favours with reckless abandon....like she herself used to do. But now as her eggs atrophy in her drying ovaries she's doomed to an atomised life with just cats as a surrogate family, doomed to negotiate a Darwinian cul-de-sac.
While I do feel a small tinge of schadenfreude at the fate of such women I also recognise that they're victims. Victims of feminism, the single most evil and destructive movement ever to beset the White race. A curse which most of us, men and women, have fallen under at one time or another. We now need to unambiguously proclaim that this has been a Jewish movement from start to finish, a fundamental component of the Cultural Marxist Revolution developed to destroy the White Christian family and with it the unique civilisation to which it gave birth. Feminism's intellectual genesis in the Frankfurt School, its icons such as Frieden and Dworkin, and its brainwashing enablers in news and entertainment have been overwhelmingly Jewish. As long as this central reality is denied or ignored there never will be a solution, a solution whereby our women revert to being friends and partners, not adversaries.
So let the deprogramming begin!
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Subchapter 3: EMPLOYEE COOPERATIVE CORPORATIONS
§1975. Formation of employee cooperative corporation; revocation
1. Election. Any corporation organized under former Title 13-A or Title 13-C may elect to be governed as an employee cooperative under this subchapter, by so stating in its articles of incorporation or articles of amendment filed in accordance with Title 13-C.
[RR 2001, c. 2, Pt. B, §31 (COR); RR 2001, c. 2, Pt. B, §58 (AFF).]
2. Revocation. An employee cooperative may revoke its election under this subchapter by a vote of 2/3 of the members and through articles of amendment duly filed in accordance with Title 13-C.
PL 1983, c. 136 (NEW). RR 2001, c. 2, §B31 (COR). RR 2001, c. 2, §B58 (AFF).
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Frank Bowen decides to change his life and travel to Goa where he meets the seemingly friendly Theo and the woman of his dreams, Maria. In Bangkok, he is pointed in the direction of Theo's friend – Richard – an English ex-pat with dubious connections and knowledge of the seedier side of the city. Richard gains his trust and Frank decides to take up a proposition—to take paFrank Bowen decides to change his life and travel to Goa where he meets the seemingly friendly Theo and the woman of his dreams, Maria. In Bangkok, he is pointed in the direction of Theo's friend – Richard – an English ex-pat with dubious connections and knowledge of the seedier side of the city. Richard gains his trust and Frank decides to take up a proposition—to take part in an anti-terrorist drill in Hong Kong. That drill soon turns into a nightmare. Plenty of twists and turns in this first, high-octane, conspiracy thriller, from Jay Tinsiano....
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Aditi 2020-01-16 01:21
An innocent man set up for a deadly terrorist attack! Sounds way too thrilling.False Flag by Jay Tinsiano is all about series of dirty crimes committed by the intelligence officers and setting up innocent foreign travellers to cover up their mess. This book is thoroughly fast-paced, gripping and engrossing from the very first pages.Thanks to the author, Jay Tinsiano, for sending me over a copy of his novel, in exchange for an honest review.Frank, who just broke up with his girlfriend, decides to hit the road by travelling to Goa, Bangkok and Hong-Kong. His Goa trip turns out very well, manages to make some friends like Maria and Theo, but unfortunately he didn't know that he was already being set up for something heinous. Then he moves to Bangkok and check-in with the hotel that Theo had suggested, and this is where he met, Richard, who asks him to do some smuggling for him across the country, Frank does that gladly, as he was robbed off all his money and passport. But now the story gets highly interesting and exciting, as Frank discovers this not any kind of petty crime, instead something big, which involves some high-rank officials in the government committing a series of terrorist attacks and before he realises, its already too late.The storytelling of the author is amazing, he managed to keep his story interesting by giving twists and turns in every last pages of every chapter, that is something which will definitely keep the readers on their edges. The characters were well-fitting, especially Frank, an innocent guy but with a mind of a genius, he thinks fast, acts fast, only problem he believes people too easily and also we can feel his pain of losing his whole family, then there's Maria, a Dutch girl, who likes to live her life, (view spoiler)[whose father is another con-man, who had been involved in setting up Frank (hide spoiler)]. The chemistry between Frank and Maria is sweet and imploring, although not to mention they only had a one night-stand and all throughout the journey of Frank, no such emotions were exchanged instead they acted more like friends, helping out each other. Almost all the characters had a backhand-story, including the notorious killer of this plot. All-in-all, a short mystery novel which is going to take you through many exotic places.So if you're looking for some fast-paced mystery, this book perfectly fits the bill.
Mỹ Khương 2019-12-29 02:17
Whoa this seems like a great book!
Tony Parsons 2020-01-08 02:02
Beijing, China. Temple of Earth Gardens. Ho Zhang & Peng Quan (strategic advisor) were discussing the daily business that needed to be tended to. After 4 yrs. Frank Bowen (English) & Jodie (lover) decided to call it quits Goa. Hopefully he would enjoy the Anjuna beach.Bangkok, Thailand. Richard Stokes took Frank to the Pat Pong girlie strip bar.Later he had a business venture for him. Dean Whiteman (Hong Kong Legislative Council) introduced himself. 1991, He needed reliable men to lead the counter-terrorism response team drills in Hong Kong, China. Frank & Jimmy Duffy were on their way.Lieutenant Chan (SAS Flying Tigers), Agent Xeng, Agent Sun, had heard/seen the # 61 Tram explosion (Chun Yeung St.). Jimmy’s picture was on TV news also. There was another explosion at the Causeway Bay MT station also.Agent Charlie Wo & Agent Joe Yi were at the crime scene.What was Theo Kampala up to? DI Douglas Brown was checking the bombed-out sites also. Li Wu’s body lay against the wall. Chiu Wah On had managed to somehow survive. CI Chris Johnson & DI Brown were discussing the terrorist attacks.Maria Amerman (daughter, nee Chapman) & Frank were doing some investigation work.What happened at the Bird House? Lieutenant General Teng (SU), CI Christopher Johnson, Sr. I Lim Su Sung, were discussing the attacks also. Governor Wilson made it a priority they get right on it. Richard Desmond (aka Richard Stokes, Hong Kong Legislative Council, Stokes Consultancy) was found dead in his apartment.Mr (.) I did not receive any type of compensation for reading & reviewing this book. While I receive free books from publishers & authors, I am under no obligation to write a positive review, only an honest one. All thoughts & opinions are entirely my own.A very awesome book cover, great font & writing style. A very well written international political thriller book. It was very easy for me to read/follow from start/finish & never a dull moment. There were no grammar/typo errors, nor any repetitive or out of line sequence sentences. Lots of exciting scenarios, with several twists/turns & a huge set of unique characters to keep track of. This could also make another great international political thriller movie, or better yet a mini TV series. To be continued. A very easy rating of 5 stars. Thank you for the free Dark Paradigm Publishing; Instafreebie; Author; PDF book Tony Parsons (Washburn)
Marty Langenberg 2020-01-05 23:56
I couldn't finish the book. The prologue promised much but the story was much too slow in getting anywhere. The details about breaking up and moving on weren't needed and could easily be referred to in passing. Start Frank in India and go from there. The meeting with Maria was important but the easy way she ends in his bed is gratuitous. The background to Frank becoming 'broke' is an over-used plot point and a clumsy way of getting him to accept a seemingly innocent job. Way too obvious.That's where I gave up. It might get better but I'll never know!
dennis barron 2020-01-07 01:10
False Flag. Jay TinsianoA very complex thriller. Frank Bowen just needs a break from his life. Unfortunately he has become a pawn in a scheme he is totally clueless. M16 , and Chinese intelligence is framing him for multiple terrorist attacks in Hong Kong. But Frank is a survivor. He's on the run, but he's fighting back. An extremely exciting thriller full of treachery and deceit. Enjoy immensely!
Jim B. 2020-01-13 06:00
Great start to a new series. The beginning is a bit slow but as you read along you realize that it is important to the plot. Theme is "every man" as an unwitting hero.
Veronique 2020-01-19 23:14
The book was OK but definitely not my style. I didn't really enjoy the style and it was too much all over the place.
Walter Scott 2019-12-24 23:10
Solid espionage novel. No over-the-top action sequences. Lots of suspense for sure; another author to add to my reading list.
Elizabeth Duffy 2020-01-09 05:02
Great ActionWhile slow in some areas, the book was pretty good with the action. You always wanted to know how the "false flag" was being played out, and how the lead character had tricks up his sleeve that many did not expect.
Randy Grossman 2020-01-01 23:08
It was a reasonably decent story. A little confusing in the beginning, but the action carried on decently in the middle. The many names of Oriental characters got to be a bit confusing as well, but that may be my own lack of attentiveness to the names. The ending was not a BIG surprise and it it seemed to conclude rather abruptly.
Teressa 2020-01-07 00:58
"A Good Twisty New Thriller Series"I gave this a 4.5 review on AudibleFALSE FLAG was a good start for a new thriller. Right out of the gate this book was energetic. It had a good storyline with a great character in Frank Bowen. He's on vacation and suddenly he's in a whirlwind of trouble and doesn't know how or why until he thinks someone switched his luggage. A bomb went off and all hell broke loose.I really like the character of Frank and can see plenty of room for more of a back story with him in the future installments of the series. The supporting characters were good but not as well-defined. Perhaps they're just temporary to this setting.There were a lot of twists in the story and a few times I got sidetracked however it was very suspenseful and engaging. JAY TINSIANO is a great new author and I can see him take off with this series building Frank Bowen into the ranks of Jason Bourne or Jack Reacher.CHRIS MACDONNELL does a terrific job narrating this audiobook. His accent gives Bowen more character. He has nice voice inflections and keeps a steady pace while speaking clearly. I really like him for this series. He's a good match for the story and I hope to hear more from him in the future.Audiobook received in exchange for an unbiased review.
Lynn Hallbrooks 2020-01-14 01:08
This book might make you re-think world travel.This is a mixture of Mystery/Thriller and International Intrigue.Frank is a young man who is going through some emotional turmoil at the recent lose of his grandfather who has been his main family since he was a youngster. When the inheritance comes in, Frank decides to travel the world like he has been dreaming of for some time. He meets some interesting people along the way. When his finances take a nose dive after a robbery, he turns to someone who had previously offered him a job. What happens next makes a significant change in Frank's life.At first I wondered if the people Frank met really had anything to do with the plot, then as I read further I started making the connections. I even had to rethink how I felt about a couple characters as I kept reading. I applaud Mr. Tinsiano for keeping me guessing.Warning: This is for Mature Audiences due to Violence, Adult Language, and Sexual Situations.
Kris Richards 2019-12-27 03:02
I’d be interested to know if this is the author’s first book, as I found it to be well written, with a good pace and engaging dialogue. There were times that I found myself engrossed in the rich imagery, and the descriptions of the different locations were balanced nicely – at no point did I think there was an ‘info dump’.I’m expanding my usual reading preferences to include the thriller and mystery genres, and this was a good length to ‘ease’ me into the style of story. I would guess it’s around 60-70k, but it’s all succinct and every page and word matters.The twists are good. I was surprised at some of the character’s and the circumstances – which is nice. It’s tough to execute a good twist nowdays.No real qualms from me, a few places could have been edited a bit better – but nothing to complain about.Recommend.
Brandon 2020-01-20 01:00
Rating: 9.0/10.0Review: A well written, very well depicted book. I found that the original books were in parts, but putting them together was a brilliant move. Everything was streamlined, nearly no way of knowing where each part begins or ends. Very well depicted scenery and awesome character depth. A quick read, a brilliant plot, and a wonderfully well written story.Reviewed by IABookReviews.com
Liza Ferguson 2020-01-19 00:59
This was a Goodreads Giveaway book. As I was reading the Prologue, I knew this would be a good book and I was not disappointed. It is very well written and a really fast read. False Flag would make a great conspiracy movie...
Graham Downs 2020-01-17 04:05
This is not a bad story, although a bit predictable at times. Unfortunately, it's affected quite badly by numerous spelling and grammar errors, and I don't know why the characters have to keep mentioning the year.
Evelyn M Parnell 2019-12-28 00:05
PredictableDescriptions of fighting were good, but that was the most thrilling part of the story. It was too predictable for me. However, I have started to read another of his books and it seems to be more interesting to me.
Georgette Jones 2019-12-29 03:03
Maria and Frank were lasting friends and lovers in a land of espionage. Fast paced plot. Would love to read a continuing story of their lives together. Will they continue . Politics abound. Right or wrong.
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Bearcroft urges council to extend KCG contract
By Tim Becker on December 17, 2019
Posted in: Amsterdam City Government
In an email sent to common council members and local media on Sunday, Community and Economic Development Director Amanda Bearcroft urged council members to approve an extension to KCG Development’s purchase contract on the former Chalmers Mills property.
She also announced that KCG has agreed to include small Juliet balconies in the design for the proposed 120-unit income-restricted residential apartment building and is studying the possibility of adding in-unit washer and dryer hookups. Balconies and hookups have been among the most requested features to be added by both city officials and residents.
A resolution to extend the contract through the end of 2020 failed to pass at a special meeting held last Tuesday. Another resolution to extend the contract, this time through October 31, is included on tonight’s regular meeting agenda.
According to Bill Teator of DEW Ventures, a partner with KCG in the project, the extension is needed to allow more time to secure low income housing credits from the state which are necessary to fund the project. Teator said their first application was denied earlier in the year due to issues with their market analysis, as well as a hangup with a $1 million grant awarded to the city for the project, which has not yet received an award letter.
According to Teator, Bearcroft, and Mayor Michael Villa, the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal (HCR), the government entity which awards the credits, has expressed positive support for the project. The project also enjoys support from Montgomery County leaders such as County Executive Matt Ossenfort and MCBDC CEO Ken Rose.
Underlining HCR’s support, Bearcroft wrote:
HCR leadership has indicated to the mayor and others a strong backing of their efforts to resubmit the project and even have been advocating on the city’s and the developers’ behalf by communicating their strong interest in seeing the project succeed to other state agencies.
In her email Bearcroft warned that the city’s reputation among the property developers in the area is already suffering due to last Tuesday’s decision.
Referring to the past effort by developer Uri Kaufmann back in 2007-2009 to turn the former Chalmers Mills building in a luxury apartment complex before it’s demolition in 2011, she wrote:
Prior to [the KCG] proposal coming to the city, the site has sat vacant for over 10 years. This after a proven market-rate developer spent years trying to leverage historic tax credits to secure the then standing but abandoned Chalmers Knitting mills to redevelop. That developer couldn’t close financing even with historic tax credits when trying to raise capital based on Amsterdam market rental rates. That should tell us something about the ability to raise risk capital to invest in Amsterdam at this scale. Following this failed project, we had a period of silence related to this site despite county and city best efforts to attract notable developers to the site.
Bearcroft wrote that the project proposed by KCG Development, which not only includes the income-restricted apartment building but a restaurant/banquet hall facility and a public boardwalk along the bank of the Mohawk River, “checks all the boxes of what a catalyst project looks like for the city.”
With the strain caused by recent action counter to this project, and the newspaper articles circulating from Tuesday’s meeting, I am beginning to hear push back again. This time from the developers and contractors that weren’t scared off by the last failed re-development of the mill. Developers that I am trying to work on other sites within the city have begun to drop out today, telling me that it is not worth their time to focus efforts on the City of Amsterdam since we clearly don’t want development to happen. Nor do they trust to work with the city when they can pull out at any time with no alternatives.
According to Bearcroft, not extending the contract will also have an impact on the various state agencies working with the city to execute the $10 million Downtown Revitalization Grant which was recently awarded to the city.
The City walking away from a productive partnership and a project that the state is actively funding will send a chilling message to our regional economic development council peers and the state not to take seriously any future projects that the city champions.
If a team like KCG, who have been available, supportive of our efforts for years and committed to a being a long-term community member, has its $250k risk investment squandered by a City action to back out of its purchase agreement at the eleventh hour, it will put up a clear sign that we are not only not open for business, but a high risk to deal with.
In summary, this city council vote next Tuesday to provide a shorter land purchase extension than the one voted on this week is about being a reliable partner to a community development team. But it is now about even more than that; it is a chance to show we are committed to working with serious partners to further the city’s revival and showing that our city remains worthy of continued investment by state agencies and developers. A no vote risks our hard work to revitalize the city in recent years being all for naught.
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IPT’s Steve Emerson Shows his Ignorance on Islam!
by admin • October 4, 2013 • 125 Comments
I have seen more than enough Islamic expansionism in America, to see that we are losing ground to Islam on a daily basis. Two of the main reasons we are losing this war is the reluctance to actually name the enemy, and supply long term answers. Unfortunately many of the most prominent names in this field can do no better than lay the blame on “Islamism”, and promote Dr.Mohamed “Zuhdi” Jasser as the savior of America. But the reality is that Islam itself is the problem, and after all of these years Jasser does not even have one Mosque that supports him. Promoting him is a complete waste of time.
In the past I have pointed out that Daniel Pipes, Frank Gaffney, Brigitte Gabriel, and Brooke Goldstein, are all guilty of perpetrating this crime upon America. In my “How do you win a war When you Have no Answers” article, I did also mention the Investigative Project of Terrorism’s (IPT) Steven Emerson. Since then I have not mentioned a word about him, but after tonight’s conversation with IPT on Twitter, I have no choice but to expose his ignorance and support for Islam itself.
As you can see, Steve ignorantly stated there are different “interpretations” of Islam. Implying that there is a “good” Islam out there, that is going to defeat the “bad” Islam. But when I called him on it, he exited the building! I even tried to help him out and pointed him in the right direction….
Christopher Logan @LogansWarning
@TheIPT @Brynmr @AcharyaS @ImaniAmil I will help you out. Koran 9:29, and 9:33. #NAI #Islam
I believe if you take a position on such a serious topic as Islam, you should be able to back it up. Not to make this post too long, I will post two translations that back up my point. Although I could easily add many more.
Koran verse 9:29 from Altafsir:
Fight those who do not believe in God, nor in the Last Day, for, otherwise, they would have believed in the Prophet (s), and who do not forbid what God and His Messenger have forbidden, such as wine, nor do they practise the religion of truth, the firm one, the one that abrogated other religions, namely, the religion of Islam — from among of those who (min, ‘from’, explains [the previous] alladhīna, ‘those who’) have been given the Scripture, namely, the Jews and the Christians, until they pay the jizya tribute, the annual tax imposed them, readily (‘an yadin is a circumstantial qualifier, meaning, ‘compliantly’, or ‘by their own hands’, not delegating it [to others to pay]), being subdued, [being made] submissive and compliant to the authority of Islam.
He it is Who has sent His Messenger, Muhammad (s), with the guidance and the religion of truth, that He may manifest it, make it prevail, over every religion, all the religions which oppose it, even though the disbelievers be averse, to this.
Koran verse 9:29 from Sahih International:
Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture – [fight] until they give the jizyah willingly while they are humbled.
It is He who has sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth to manifest it over all religion, although they who associate others with Allah dislike it.
Now you might be asking yourself what point is in exposing this. My point is that we are not wining this war, and Brigitte Gabriel, Daniel Pipes, Frank Gaffney, and Steven Emerson are some of the biggest names in this field. Their attempt to create a “good” Islam is nothing more than a fantasy land policy, that has been a huge failure!
The tooth fairy is not coming to save the day!
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Tommy Hunt
Emerson never responded to my question about apostasy either. These so called defenders of freedom are like Moslems who make statements (and accusations) then refuse to back them up. There is no “interpretation” regarding apostasy. Apostates are to be killed plain and simple and THAT ALONE is enough to make Islam absolutely unacceptable to the West. THAT ALONE should be enough to BAN Islam from being practiced on free soil. Islamic scholars unanimously agree that ‘Sahih Al-Bukhari’ is the most authentic work in Hadith literature ever compiled second only to the Koran but here’s Steve Emerson defending this vile “religion” by saying it’s all in how one interprets the scripture. Well Emerson, interpret this:
Sahih Bukhari Volume 4, Book 52, Number 260:
Ali burnt some people and this news reached Ibn ‘Abbas, who said, “Had I been in his place I would not have burnt them, as the Prophet said, ‘Don’t punish (anybody) with Allah’s Punishment.’ No doubt, I would have killed them, for the Prophet said, ‘If somebody (a Muslim) discards his religion, kill him.’ ”
Volume 9, Book 83, Number 37:
I said, “By Allah, Allah’s Apostle never killed anyone except in one of the following three situations: (1) A person who killed somebody unjustly, was killed (in Qisas,) (2) a married person who committed illegal sexual intercourse and (3) a man who fought against Allah and His Apostle and deserted Islam and became an apostate.”
Some Zanadiqa (atheists) were brought to ‘Ali and he burnt them. The news of this event, reached Ibn ‘Abbas who said, “If I had been in his place, I would not have burnt them, as Allah’s Apostle forbade it, saying, ‘Do not punish anybody with Allah’s punishment (fire).’ I would have killed them according to the statement of Allah’s Apostle, ‘Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.'”
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 271:
A man embraced Islam and then reverted back to Judaism. Mu’adh bin Jabal came and saw the man with Abu Musa. Mu’adh asked, “What is wrong with this (man)?” Abu Musa replied, “He embraced Islam and then reverted back to Judaism.” Mu’adh said, “I will not sit down unless you kill him (as it is) the verdict of Allah and His Apostle
There was a fettered man beside Abu Muisa. Mu’adh asked, “Who is this (man)?” Abu Muisa said, “He was a Jew and became a Muslim and then reverted back to Judaism.” Then Abu Muisa requested Mu’adh to sit down but Mu’adh said, “I will not sit down till he has been killed. This is the judgment of Allah and His Apostle (for such cases) and repeated it thrice. Then Abu Musa ordered that the man be killed, and he was killed.
But let’s bend over backwards for the moment and give Emerson the benefit of the doubt and say yes there are many interpretations of the Islamic doctrine. Let’s say there are also scholars who claim apostates are not to be put to death. Maybe Zuhdi Jasser makes such a claim. Does this eliminate the “interpretation” that apostates ARE to be put to death? No. If we’re going with the “interpretation” defense of Islam then you have to accept the perfectly legitimate (considering the overwhelming evidence) “interpreation” that apostates ARE to be put to death. So interpreation or no interpretation we are left with the same result. Apostates are murdered and Islam is a vile practice unacceptable to American values and law. No matter how you “interpret” the Islamic doctrine we will still have commercial airliners flying into our skyscrapers.
It just occurred to me that IF the Moderate Islam movement’s goal is to make the so called peaceful “interpretation” of Islam the only version to be accepted then this negates Emerson’s dhimmified assertion of many interpretations. Curious.
The words “fight,” and “kill” and “dispossess” and the phrase “do not take the Jews and Christians as friends” are impossible to equivocate.
“Death to America” means what it says.
“Islam shall dominate” means what it says.
“Fight the unbelievers . . .” is impossible to equivocate.
“Whoever changes his religion, kill him.”
Kill means kill, it doesn’t mean tolerate or set him free.
Islam is profane.
It is and works against all freedom of all kinds.
Rick Stanich
Good Reply EIB
It means we should be thinking like Sun Tzu here and building alliances to bring down our fundamentalist foes.
13. By discovering the enemy’s dispositions and remaining invisible ourselves, we can keep our forces concentrated, while the enemy’s must be divided. Sun Tzu “The Art of War.”
An Islamic jurist looks for context and places these Hadiths with the rest of Islamic law.
Sheikh Tantawi,the grand sheikh of al-Azhar, the highest authority in Sunniy Islam, wrote against the death penalty for apostates.
Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi
[Grand Imam of al-Azhar since 1996]
“Shaykh Tantawi’s ruling on the subject of a Muslim apostasizing has certainly shed new light on this subject, while making the non-Muslims realise that Islam is a religion of moderation. To Shaykh Tantawi, a Muslim who renounced his faith or turned apostate should be left alone as long as he does not pose a threat or belittle Islam. If the Muslims were forced to take action against the apostate, he said it should NOT be because he or she had given up the faith but because he or she had turned out to be an enemy or a threat to Islam. Shaykh Tantawi, in his views, shows clearly how simple and moderate Islam is, a religion that is tolerant and not coercive on anybody. Shaykh Tantawi repeatedly stresses the need for Muslims to acquire traditional Islamic knowledge as well as the modern ones so that they could add to the strength of the Muslim community to defend the religion.” [Introduction of Grand Imams of Al-Azhar]
http://www.sunnah.org/history/Scholars/mashaykh_azhar.htm
We should support clerics like this. But as Reagan said: “Trust but verify.” Look at their actions rather than their words.
http://www.westminster-institute.org/articles/islam-at-war-with-itself/
The Reliance of Traveller is a nightmare for non-Muslims. It has the stamp of Al Azhar. In know way would I put the lives of my future generations on the hands of that him or any other Muslim. Trusting Muslims is a huge mistake. They are the backstabbers of the world.
Sounds like prejudice rather than logic on your part. I prefer to look at what Muslims say among themselves for Muslim consumption rather than what is aimed at non-Muslims.
If you think Muslims are taking over America then you have a paranoia complex. Logic does not seem to be your strong suit. You remind me of some of the left-wing radicals I have debated over the years. You cherrypick quotes. You generalize. You rely on appeals to fear.
I deal in discrediting real bad guys. You deal in shadows and fear.
I’d politely ask you to retract this blog considering that Steve Emerson was not responsible for the exchange we had the other day. Your suggestion that he supports child marriages, raping POWs, etc. was irrational and slanderous.
ChrisLA
The Muslim Brotherhood affiliated foreign lobby agent, CAIR, has just released its annual report on Islamophobia in the U.S. (See: http://www.cair.com/images/islamophobia/Legislating-Fear.pdf )
Remarkably, all of the figures mentioned in the article above are on their list of “inner core groups and individuals who promote prejudice against or hatred of Islam and Muslims.”
Surprisingly, my two favorite blogs — Logan’s Warning and The Religion of Peace — didn’t make the cut. I guess those blogs will just have to work harder in the year to come.
Note, by the way, that CAIR always ties the victimhood of Muslims to frank discussions about the ideology of Islam.
I wonder if they do not want to put any focus on me, because I supply actually answers? Which few others do. I promise to work harder! 🙂
Thanks for the kind words Chris!
What part of “kill” don’t they understand? (Walid Shoebat’s question for the West).
Sharia violates criminal law: it has no place in the West.
“Sharia is Islam, and Islam is Sharia”, explains Fouad Belkacem of Sharia4Belgium.
Sharia is “incompatible with the fundamental principles of democracy” said the European Court of Human Rights (Welfare party case 2003).
Oh America, Heed Logan’s Warning!
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Steven Emerson was not responsible for the tweet exchange. I was.
In summary. You should not be engaging in a Sola Scriptura redux of Islamic texts. Islam like Catholicism is a magisterial religion where interpretation is up to the jurists.
If you want to be critical of the Islamic texts fine. But focus more of your energy on keeping an eye on the fundamentalistic clerics who take empty texts and put them into action.
Groups like the modern Sufis and Ahmadiyyas do not interpret the Islamic texts literally and are being preyed upon by the jihadists for not being pure enough.
More Muslims have been murdered by al-Qaida than non-Muslims. We would rather build alliances in the Muslim world with those who strive to reinterpret the Islamic text in non-violent and tolerant ways. E.g. Ijtihad and convincing Muslims that the violent iyats of the Quran have been cancelled by the non-violent ones.
A broad-brushed approach is ignorant and irresponsible.
We will keep our focus on the fundamentalists and literalists in the Islamic world.
In summary. You should not be engaging in a Sola Scriptura redux of Islamic texts. Islam like Catholicism is a magisterial religion where interpretation is up to the jurists. – See more at: http://loganswarning.com/2013/10/04/ipts-steve-emerson-shows-his-ignorance-on-islam/comment-page-1/#comment-136940
I differ.
Islam has no magisterium. It is because Islam has no magisteriium that it is terroristic, and relies on the rule of force and fear:
of the gun,
the whip,
the sword.
It is not a religion of edicts or centralized authority, and has not been so since the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
Stop misrepresenting chaos as order.
And Logan does not have a sola scriptura view of Islam. The texts he examines are wide-ranging and all authoritative.
Islam leaves little room for equivocation or interpretation, the religion is not one of history, narrative or ethics– it is one of war, conquest and the dispossession and destruction of the infidel.
Your failure to study Muslim history is obvious in attributing to these people something they do not and have never had, a magisterium.
Islam doesn’t have a magisterium, which is why you can’t say all Muslims believe X. You sir are ignorant and bigoted.
I know Muslim history. I know enough about history around the world to have a broader perspective than you do. Were the Europeans much better?
Look at Christian history too. Look at the Christian-oriented terrorist groups in the world today. They are all Protestant Evangelical. The Christian Identity movement for one, Lord’s Resistance Army, Huttaree, KKK,etc.
Extremists can be found in all religions including Islam.
Try dealing in today, and obviously the LRA is not following the message of Jesus.
gfmucci
We know what Muhammad taught. We know what the Trilogy says.
We know what what the majority if not all the leading figures of Islam teach. Every day we see the awful results of these teachings throughout the world. It is all the same.
So you call people who understand these things “ignorant” and “bigot.” That is outrageously taqiyya-esque.
A broad brushed approach is the only way we will preserve the West.
You are wrong. You preserve what is left of Western Christianity by living your faith and engaging in active apologetics.
People get attracted to Islam because it is clear and does not muddy the waters like postmodern Roman Catholicism and Protestantism do.
I’m confident in my Orthodox Christian faith, so I’m not threatened by what Muslims think. I know they are dead wrong. But you don’t convert someone to Christ by beating them over the head.
It is his account, and you have no proof it was you. Stop wasting time, show me just ONE interpretation of a Koran that does not call for dominance over non-Muslims. The threat of Islam goes way beyond AQ. As for the rest,do not tell me what to do.
All religions call for dominance over others.
Is Christianity any different in essence?
I’m a very traditionalist Orthodox Christian, but at least I have the humility to see the failings of my own religion before I point the finger at others.
Jesus said to take the speck out of your own eye first.
Lol Jesus did not say to enslave, kill, and plunder. Tommy is correct, your ignorance is astonishing. eib already told you I am not religious. Try paying attention John.
It’s a pity you don’t have the humility to realise how boring and pompous you are.
All Muslims have to do is act like they are no threat, and naïve people like you eat it right up.
I agree wholeheartedly with your comment, Chris (Admin).
In the UK we have atheists ridiculing all religions including Islam, yet leap to the defence of Muslims when someone tells the truth about them. They don’t like to see the poor persecuted moderate Muslims made to feel unwelcome here, so they must be allowed to threaten us while being given the best housing, seats in the House of Lords, a two week jail sentence for killing a man in a stationary car while texting (Lord Ahmed) and any other privileges not given to the rest of us.
The problem with Muslims is that Allah has a firm grip on all their actions so they are unable to think for themselves.
Sufis have a bloody history, and find me just ONE Ahmadiyya who will condemn Mohammad. Your fantasy of separating the “good” Muslims from the bad just a fantasy. A waste of time. In order to win this war Muslim immigration must be ended.
Christians have a bloody history, so what is your point? The colonial period was not exactly bloodless and much of it officially was done in the name of Christ.
What Muslims did during the Middle Ages was hardly any different than what Christians or followers of other religions did. It took the Thirty Years War and the Enlightenment to cure Western Christendom of its bloodlust. Spain, England, France were all guilty.
I’m a Byzantine Christian, so our memory of the Crusades is not of some heroic liberation of the Holy Land from Muslim rule. But rather an onslaught by barbarian hordes that were nominally Christian that ended the Byzantine Empire.
As Jesus said,”Look at the speck in
your own eye.” Matthew 7:5.
In the 21st century Sufis are not the ones blowing themselves up in marketplaces. The Salafis ARE. The Chechens,for example, didn’t start engaging in religiously motivated terrorism until the Saudi
Why do you give a damn about whether or not they think you are going to hell for all eternity?
“There is no compulsion in religion — the right way is indeed clearly distinct from error.”— Surah 2:256
Mr.Logan the only thing your are showing here is just how insecure you are. Cats are more likely to rain down in a thunderstorm than Muslims are to take over America in the next 100 years.
Fault your white Christian neighbors for contracepting and not passing their faith onto their kids. That is not the Muslims’fault.
If you are an Evangelical I view you as a heretic as an Orthodox Christian, so how is that different from the Muslims?
You implied the Sufis are no threat, harmless. That was the point. Let me know when just ONE of them criticizes Mohammad. Let me make this clear to you. I already told you I am not religious, and I really do not care how you view me. Nothing I will change for you. Is that clear enough?
Mr. Logan:
I’m speaking for myself and not for the IPT. You should be focused on the exegesis of the Islamic texts and how they are put into practice by Muslim jurists. Otherwise you are doing the same sort of things that atheist polemicists do to Christians when it comes to things in the Bible like slavery or stoning people.
I’m more interested in how Islam is lived and what we can do to get Muslims to come to terms with the violent and intolerant religious texts. Muslims must be made to come to terms with them the same way Christians and Jews have over the past 300 years.
The Catholic Church issued similar decrees about Jews and Muslims throughout the Middle Ages.
If you want an example of a non-literal interpretation of Surah 9:29 look to 19th century Egypt when the Muhammad Ali dynasty abolished the jizya. The Muslim Brotherhood arose in reaction to an Islamic clerical class that it thought had grown too law in the wake of colonialism.
Actions speak louder than words. Let’s focus on exposing hypocritical and violent actions in the Islamic world rather than sniping at each other. Pride is an idol. If you want to empower CAIR, ISNA, ICNA, NAIT, MAS, etc. keep doing what you are doing because it allows them to get sympathy from the masses.
Otherwise you are doing the same sort of things that atheist polemicists do to Christians when it comes to things in the Bible like slavery or stoning people. – See more at: http://loganswarning.com/2013/10/04/ipts-steve-emerson-shows-his-ignorance-on-islam/comment-page-1/#comment-136942
He is an atheist polemicist, you fool.
Do you know the difference between the slavery of the Bible and the slavery in Islamic history?
Do you understand that 620,000 Americans died to free 4 million slaves, and not one Muslim has ever died to free even one slave?
False equivalencies galore.
And they are all your failure to understand the history of this religion in relation to its tenets.
The Martyrs of Otranto speak, and you don’t listen.
To accuse the Muslims of hypocrisy is to grant that their religion is holy. Hypocrisy exists to the extent that a person espousing a holy faith departs from it to do evil all the while deceiving himself and others that his actions are virtuous.
There is nothing of God in it.
Stop ascribing to it characteristics it does not have.
Islam must not be attacked at the branch and neglected at the root.
Its very roots must be attacked and exposed for what they are– heresy, profanity, and the worship of a demon.
On what basis do I judge? See Matthew 7 concerning false prophets.
Do not give your good-will to a wolf.
So then you cherrypick. Matthew 7 also says to take the speck out of your own eye first.
So then you are saying there is only 1 permissible perspective allowed among Muslims?
Is there only 1 sect of Islam? My initial point is that there are countless sects of Islam, and not all of them are fundamentalist of puritanical.
Wahhabism,Salafism, Ikhwanism. Those I oppose.
Jesus says to love your neighbor as yourself and 1 John says that if you say you love God and hate your neighbor you do not have him in you.
Wagging your finger at Muslims with an angry tone only serves to marginalize yourself and harm the cause.
I prefer to pick a target like Mohamed Elibiary and discredit him rather than fire a scattershot in all directions.
It’s more effective.
Refer to Michael C.’s replies below.
Every traditionalist conservative in the West I know of believes as I do.
You believe that a few Muslims are the problem, not the structure and doctrines of the Ummah itself. As such, you allow the “moderates” to cover the violence of the “extremists.”
I see no such distinction. The teachings of the religion and its history should show you that the enemy is not isolated, but global.
From a religious standpoint I agree with you about Islamic theology. But from a public policy and strategic standpoint you are dead wrong.
The Bible is made up of stories of those times. While the actions of the Koran are for all times. Name just one sect that condemns Koran verses 9:29, and 9:33. You cannot. Funny you should mention him, did you see our exchange on Twitter. Or did Emerson send you here? Marginalize myself? Not even close. I have never been on TV, while Emerson has been on over and over. I am right behind him with followers on Twitter, over 12K of Facebook, and long time and never forgotten teammates here. You are here to protect Emerson and his failed policies. So I will save you some time, people are SICK of the fantasy him and those others are pushing. I WILL continue to expose him, and I WILL continue to rally non-Muslims against Islam. As for Emerson’s attitude. If you know him, tell him this is just the beginning. He is no leader, he runs from simple questions. He is a coward.
No sir. Steve did not send me. All you seem interested in doing is stroking your ego.
So we have a difference of opinion. Big deal.
So you are willing to gamble America on the way on your wish that a “good” Islam goes to live here. I am not, as their population and power rises, so will Islam. What is your backup plan? You say Muslims must come to terms with their texts. Why, because you say so? Your word is meaningless to them. You are living in a world of nothing more than wishful thinking. This has noting to do with pride. I stand against you, and I stand against ANYONE who promotes the “good” Islam is going to defeat the “bad” Islam fantasy. That message is a waste of time, spreads false hope, and is detrimental to America. Here what Pamela Geller and Mr. Spencer have t
Pamela Geller: I have long derided the “moderate Islam” meme as a theory with no basis in reality or history. It’s wishful thinking, dangerous, and suicidal.
– See more at: http://loganswarning.com/2012/05/02/how-do-you-win-a-war-when-you-have-no-answers/#sthash.JJx63rMI.dpufo say about it.
You sir are paranoid.
If one were to buy your nonsense, yes. But fortunately we don’t.
John R. Another mental health expert. We have tons of them in the UK. Unable to explain why they support Islam , using fiery indignation they accuse the sane ones of ‘paranoia’ and ‘Islamophobia’ and as a result, help the Muslim Brotherhood who invented the latter word to destroy opposition.
Wherever they happen to live in the West, Muslims are now proclaiming ‘I love my country. I love America’ or Britain, or Canada. I think they keep in touch by mobile phone so that they all say the same thing. They are trying to demonstrate an ability to embrace patriotism and love, two concepts they have avoided previously.
They won’t integrate, so don’t trust them.
Yes, the actions of John actually help the ideology of the enemy. At times he did remind me of a Muslim, making claims he cannot back up.
“what we can do to get Muslims to come to terms with the violent and intolerant religious texts” (R. John).
This is not up to “us” to do, nor would Muslims accept it from us.
Boko Haram, Al Shabaab, Al Qaeda and other Muslim Brotherhood offshoots have ”come to terms with the …texts”: they apply them daily.
The Koran commands killing of kuffar “wherever you find them” (9:5).
The Koran is “valid from eternity to eternity” (Sam Solomon).
Denying any verse is a capital offence (Manual of Islamic Law o8.7(7)).
Islam itself is violent and intolerant, its law “incompatible with the fundamental principles of democracy” (European Court 2003).
There is no mileage in the West’s trying to reform Islam. We in the West are duty bound to defend ourselves against those who are commanded to kill us. Our leaders are failing.
The Koran is not comparable with the Bible.
The Bible is a library of books from different authors over a long period. It does not form part of U.S. law.
The Koran was brought to the Arabs through one illiterate man, the same who authorised his followers to lie. It forms part of Islamic law. The death penalty applies for denying any part of it.
“The pedigree of Islam is dirty beyond belief, it is the worship (and emulation) of a delusional desert bandit who made good, and left a legacy of rape, pillage, looting and mass murder behind him.”
(MC in Sderot http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/news-libertygb/6087-oh-what-a-tangled-web)
The death penalty depends on the jurists. In a place like Saudi Arabia, yes. You would be right in that context. But in a place like Egypt. Not so much.
Again the enemy is fundamentalistic literalism.
The Manual of Islamic Law, “Reliance of the Traveller”, which specifies the death penalty, is certified by Al Azhar University in Egypt, the highest Sunni authority in the Islamic world.
So what you are basically saying is that we should take a chance, and not fight Islam head on. That a “good” Islam might emerge in America. Well that did not happen in the UK, and it will not happen here. Do me a favor go gamble away someone else’s country. The enemy is Islam, and not naming the enemy has been a HUGE failure. You can waste your time, and repeat failed policies. Neither I nor NAI will be joining you.
Paranoid.
It is called facing reality. You should try it.
Sounds more like a fantasy that you cooked up in your head.
You are paranoid.
Look familiar to you. Evangelicals said the sky was falling in the 19th and 20th century because of Catholic immigration.
Same play different people.
http://www.pacinst.com/america.htm
A committed Westerner is not a bigot.
Are you actually citing Egypt as a positive source? They took that land from Coptics….
You are so myopic.
I’m very close to the Coptic community and have been since 1998. My Coptic friends don’t hate their Muslim neighbors and work with those who are not fanatical.
We live in the present and not in the 12th century.
John, prove you speak for them.
One more time John, Muslims took Egypt from Christians. But mentioning that is “myopic” to you. Lol
“According to Islam …the rulings and the teachings of the Quran are not restricted by time and space. They are universal and trans-time. They can be applied today as they were applied 1400 years ago, and can still be applied till the end of time.”
Imam Ahmad Saad, North London Central Mosque
http://loganswarning.com/2009/12/16/imam-of-north-london-central-mosque-koran-is-for-all-time/
Hear this from commenter “not an eloi”:
“We must stop thinking of Islam as a religion worthy of tolerance and respect. It isn’t great and it isn’t peaceful. It is a dangerous death cult that should not be tolerated. Groups like CAIR and other Moslem brotherhood groups should be outlawed. Our government has a duty to protect the homeland. The insanity has to stop.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2013/09/first-photos-of-kenyan-jihad-shattered-massacre-mall-video-shows-gaping-chasm-as-witnesses-say-terro.html#co
We agree that CAIR should go to trial, and those groups that had prosecutions in place when Obama took over should go to court.
The problem with any religious text is how it is interpreted. I’ve spent over a year reading what Muslims say among themselves. I have looked a broad spectrum. It’s diverse.
You have people like the accursed Sheikh Qaradawi uphold suicide bombing and killing non-Muslims.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2PSbGLJjV4
Then you have people like Sheikh Albani condemning it. http://www.islamagainstextremism.com/articles/dxwaj-imam-al-albani-on-the-ruling-on-suicide-bombings-and-those-who-perform-them.cfm
Fatwas are non-binding. They are legal opinions. Muslim scholars constantly contradict each other.
You beat Islam by subverting it. The European powers started getting somewhere by doing that in the 19th century when they got the Ottomans to abolish the jizya in 1855.
The MB is the largest force of reaction in the Islamic world.
The IPT worked with anti-MB forces in Egypt, and they used our materials in their drive to discredit the MB. You can’t go to an anti-MB rally in Egypt without seeing reference to our work by Christians and Muslims alike.
This placard has been seen all over Egypt.
https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1024&bih=677&q=egypt+investigative+project&oq=egypt+investigative+project&gs_l=img.3…2454.13616.0.13953.37.10.7.20.23.0.108.608.9j1.10.0….0…1ac.1.27.img..16.21.685.23Os-PcPnE0#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=Hoxpki0S7YS2iM%3A%3Bo_GmPxxguy-jgM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fsphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net%252Fhphotos-ash3%252F64938_458201857560949_1282610626_n.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.fireandreamitchell.com%252F2013%252F01%252F09%252Fforward-six-muslim-brotherhood-operatives-islamist-activists-in-obama-regime%252F%3B960%3B655
Muslims are just as sick of al-Qaida and the MB as non-Muslims have been. More Muslims have been murdered by AQ than non-Muslims since 9/11 because they were labeled as apostates for not being rigid or puritan enough.
The Muslims in Tunisia tossed out Sheikh Ghannuchi’s MB part just this past week.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/09/ennahda-tunisia-resign-missteps-revolution.html
Really? Where are the mass demonstrations? Are you the spokesperson for the ummah? You are not, so do not pretend to be. I will get right to the point here. Mohammad said he would drive all Christians and Jews out of the Arabian Peninsula,(Sahih Muslim), plundered, raped, and married a child. Name just ONE Muslim who has condemned him. You cannot. All you are doing is wasting time, and spreading false hope.
The Christians didn’t overthrow Morsi by themselves.
Point out where I said they did. You cite Egypt as some positive source. But the truth is that Muslims took that land, and the Coptics there have been persecuted for centuries. No thanks.
Hysterical. My point went right over your head.
My point was that the Egyptian Muslims woke up and saw the light about the evils of the MB.
Not exactly. The Muslims took the land with help from the Christians who fought alongside the Muslim armies against the Greek Byzantines.
They sort of brought the Islamic yoke on themselves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_invasion_of_Egypt
You really need a balanced POV when it comes to history.
Muslims sick of Al Qaida? In the UK they carry the black jihadist flag, name their kids ‘Osama’ and after 9/11 placed pictures of Bin Laden in their windows.
We had two beheadings in England during May. (Cannot expand on this for legal reasons as cases have not yet been heard) .
Muslims are so sick of Al Qaida that they beat up anyone who speaks out against the flourishing terrorist groups in the UK!! They have Muslim only areas where anyone not living by sharia law is beaten up. Gay pubs are closing down as the gays cannot take the beatings any more. Sharia law is the much loved style of government by Al Qaida.
John R you know nothing. You don’t live with the menace spouting their horrors. No Catholic immigrants behaved like Muslins so don’t try to link them with Muslims. You really only want to air your book knowledge. Where do you live?
The strategy of the Emerson, Gaffney, Pipes, and Gabriel, has been a huge failure that helps keeps Islam alive in America. That is because they target “Islamism”, which makes it sound like only an offshoot of Islam is the problem, and not Islam itself. Look how much Islamic expansionism has taken place during their watch. Emerson and Pipes took a direct stand for Islam. They are doing more harm then good.
Show me where your solution has worked.
Be specific. What Islamic expansionism?
We will agree to disagree.
“We” do not do anything. Do not speak for me. I just proved my points. You deal in fantasy.
You haven’t proven anything other than your own paranoia and ego.
Then you avoided the links.
Been to France lately? Muslims are 10% of the population there and it shows.
Would you like France to cease to be a Western country?
They’re on the road to destruction of their historical civilization and identity, decade after decade.
What is happening there, will happen here because of people like John.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc. Appeal to emotion.
Aggressive secularism and atheism is more of a threat than Islam. The expansion of Islam in formerly Christian lands is a consequence of the former. Muslims shouldn’t be scapegoated for Western apostasy.
It’s the West’s fault. Not the Muslims.
Aggressive secularism and atheism is more of a threat than Islam. – See more at: http://loganswarning.com/2013/10/04/ipts-steve-emerson-shows-his-ignorance-on-islam/comment-page-1/#comment-137124
There are many catholic who hold this view and use it as an excuse to ignore history.
There have always been the indifferent and unbelieving in the West.
They threaten nothing, provided they do nothing criminal.
But Islam is a foreign religion, culture and political system from the East that debases humanity and divinity alike.
John R is waving his magic wand. Maybe some of his pixie dust would have helped the jumpers from the World Trade Towers.
According to him, Muslims are not slowly Islamifying the country. Facts easily prove him wrong.
It has not been done. Unfortunately no non-Islamic has taken on Islam head on.
Are you serious? Sharia Court, call to prayer being broadcast onto the streets for all to hear, Sharia banking, foot washing basins,etc.Do you actually follow this issue? Here are more examples of Islamic expansionism. http://loganswarning.com/islamsharia-101sharia-mosques-in-america/
Has noting to do with ego. It has to do with the harsh reality of the situation, and knowing what needs to be done to win this war. Your “difference of opinion” is destroying America. YES, it is a big deal.
Two million American Muslims are destroying America amid a nation of 315 million. Tell me another story.
I’m more concerned with the guy in the White House and declining moral and financial standards among non-Muslims than about being conquered by Muslim fundamentalists.
I do not support the US govt, but the site is about the threat of Islam. If you do not like, do not come here. Very simple.
I am not retracting a thing. On Twitter he said he is not against Islam. Islam allows those vile actions. He made his bed, now he hides.
Muslims are slowly taking over. Take a look at Dearborn, that is not the only section of America that is becoming Islamified.
How do you know Steve Emerson was personally tweeting at you?
If you got a tweet from The Heritage Foundation, you would assume that Sen. Demint was running the Twitter feed. Right?
You really need to get yourself a real editor. If my editor made the assumption you made he would have me for lunch.
You are also committing a serious post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy pointing to Dearborn and assuming the rest of America is behind it. You are sort of begging the question.
You represent IPT. If they did not agree with you, they should fire you. I am not assuming anything. I see it with my own eyes. Only a fool thinks Muslims would just stop at Dearborn. Their goal is the world.
Muslims are slowly taking over. Take a look at Dearborn, that is not the only section of America that is becoming Islamified. The pictures speak louder than your words John.
Steve Emerson does not use Twitter.
Well then you represent him. If he does not agree with you, he should say so. Then fire you.
Muslims are 1 percent of the population of 315 million. Tell me another story. Hysteria.
They are more than that, and just that small amount is clearly changing America to suit Islam. It will only get worse as their population and power rise.
Neither am I.
John you said I cherry pick quotes? So you are implying Islam is not a threat. Let me know when you want to debate the issue. I will gladly expose your ignorance.
Not all Muslims are a threat. Many are. Small-minded bigots paint with broad brushes.
Muslims do not have to be violent to be a threat. Any promotion of Islam makes them part of the problem. I am not going to gamble America away on your failed policies.
The bigot bomb. Get angry John? lol
I stand against anyone who pushes the notion some form of “Islam” is going to save us from, well, Islam.Here is what Pamela Geller, and Mr. Spencer have to say about it.
Robert Spencer:I recently participated in a FrontPage Symposium, “The World’s Most Wanted: A ‘Moderate Islam,’” about that great unicorn in which everyone believes and depends upon but which no one has ever actually seen, moderate Islam. (R.S.) – But maybe you know better. My battle plan is not changing. Take care.
Why do I care what Pam or Robert have to say? It’s a free country. They are free to believe what they want.
I just don’t happen to share their generalizations.
That’s a gross misrepresentation of what they’re all about. They investigate Islam in great detail.
John is a fan of empty talking points, that refute nothing.
Robert Spencer knows more about Islam than you ever will. He would wipe the floor with you in a debate. That is the point, and that is a fact.
John R: Let me ask you something. How many generations do you think we should wait for Islam to reform itself into a peaceful religion assuming that was even possible? How many more terrorist attacks and body parts picked off the streets should we stomach before Islam decides to stop the violence? How many more no go zones do you think we should tolerate until Islam decides to join the human race? How much more freedom should we be willing to give up to accommodate Moslems? How many more dead children, women and men should we sacrifice so that Islam can fix itself? Creeps like you disgust me. You’re the one who values his ego over the lives of innocent people – over the freedom our fathers died to protect for us. You’re the one gambling the future of our children’s freedom and their very lives on the HOPE that after 1400 years of tormenting humanity, the evil “religion” of Islam, (oh yes, Islam is evil and I damned well know what evil is) can reform itself and become a good religion. Sure thing pal.
No, you don’t give a crap about people. You just want to be right. Well phuck you.
I know I’m right and that you don’t know what you are talking about. 🙂
I know I’m seeing an ignorant fool promoting an ideology that not only abuses children but blows them to pieces in broad daylight. Their blood is on your hands, smilie face.
If you’re so right then you should have no problem answering my questions. How many generations do you think we should wait for Islam to reform itself into a peaceful religion assuming that was even possible? How many more terrorist attacks and body parts picked off the streets should we stomach before Islam decides to stop the violence? How many more no go zones do you think we should tolerate until Islam decides to join the human race? How much more freedom should we be willing to give up to accommodate Moslems? How many more dead children, women and men should we sacrifice so that Islam can fix itself?
John showed his true childish colors, and that he cannot answer simple questions. He wants us to just blindly follow him, so he can pat himself on his back for being “tolerant”. It is all about him. Besides that, he continues to ban Jarrad Winter on Twitter. So I will return the favor here. John: the bottom line is that NOTHING I do will change for you, and I will continue to expose the naïve detrimental FANTASY IPT $ells America. Send my regards to Emerson.
On more thing John, you are empowering Islam. The root cause of the problem. Also you said Muslims are not taking over America, and implied there is no Islamic expansion taking place. If that were true, why did you talk about defeating Islam? You make little sense.
The only thing you are doing is becoming more and more fringe by the day.
You’re the one supporting and promoting an EVIL ideology. Who’s fringe here.
Really, I have over 12K strong on FB, and growing. Facts John, facts John. Weak Muslim sympathizers like you are a dying breed in the field.
The chances of you “defeating” Islam are non-existent. The experience in Egypt shows that Islamic extremism has a growing number of enemies in the Islamic world.
http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/while-atheism-egypt-rises-backlash-ensues
We’re not trying to “defeat” Islam. We’re trying to stop it from destroying our country and our freedom. You didn’t address ONE of my points. Digging in your bigoted heels I see.
Hear Nassim ben Iman, former hard-line Muslim in Germany:
“I only see a pure tactic by Muslim officials who want to obscure these truths, to give a sleeping pill to Christian society so that they sleep through the Islamisation of Europe, sleep through a treacherous, false representation and the obscuring of truth. That is part of the strategy to Islamise Europe.
If you are angry about Muslim fundamentalists that’s unfair. Why? Because these fundamentalists represent exactly and 100% Islam, such as it is in all forms. … One must not forget and deny that this is not about fanatics or Islamism, it is about people who follow their Muslim faith from A to Z, who want to fulfill it 100%.
My plea to our politicians and our society is: please open your eyes. … tolerance at the expense of truth is a total stupidity, which will exact a very high price.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT_YRjsCmpE
Go ahead stereotype.
Your plan of separating the “good” Muslims from the bad is a proven failure. See: UK.
Excellent piece of information, Michael.
How many Muslims do you know personally?
It’s not about Moslems. It’s about the doctrine that commands, sanctions and inspires evil. There are good people who have made the poor choice to become, or remain Moslem. These people are good in spite of Islam not because of it.
I know Muslims, and knowing them does not change what Islam is.
“Craftily, [‘White Widow’ Samantha] Lewthwaite denied all knowledge of her husband’s terrorism and painted herself as a ‘surprised’ moderate Muslim. In fact, she was a jihadist all along. Her betrayal of those of her own race and culture is a lesson to anyone who thinks Muslims are ‘innocent’ and ‘unaware’ of jihad.”
Comment by ‘mortimer ‘
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/10/british-muslima-and-convert-to-islam-raised-children-to-murder-islam.html#comments
Re France: John, it is a fact that Europe is being Islamified. So save your “appeal to emotion” nonsense. You are just a childish self-centered distraction to a serious problem. Enjoy watching me and my teammates continue to rally non-Muslims vs Islam. #waronIslam
The Muslims in Egypt still do not see the evil in Islam and that is root cause of the problem. The Coptics still suffer. Try and pay attention wanna-be elitist. It was Christian land, it is no longer. Got it? The same pattern is happening across the West. How much more land do Muslims have to take over, before you wake up? TRY looking past the day you are in.
Chris, why bother with John R? He is here to play the childish game of circular arguments, a game Muslims love to play. When you hit a nerve he pulls out the maniac’s dictionary and accuses the opposition of mental illness, eg ‘hysteria’, ‘paranoia’. He’s either a Muslim or in therapy. His Mum or imam probably think he is clever.
Hey mate!
I agree, he is a childish distraction to a very serious problem. In the end he helps Islam, and like a Muslim makes claims he cannot back up. He is gone now.
So enjoyed reading all the replies and learned much from it. Also was saddened to hear that Tommy Robinson formerly of EDL had been led astray. There are still many brave Fighters, such as Mr. Logan, eib, emmi, Michael C, Tommy Hunt, Pamela Geller, Mr. Spencer, Geert Wilders and so very many others. Please keep up the good fight, and having done all to stand, STAND, and God bless you all and keep you safe.
Thank you for your kind words of encouragement.
I will email you during the week to catch up.
I will NEVER give up Erna, you can count on that!
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March 20, 2015 • Discussion, Litigation, Security • by Paul
DISCLAIMER: This post is based on preliminary reports from press accounts without having reviewed the full and final settlement terms.
It’s no secret, I’d like to see a more “cyber secure” nation. If you’ve read some of my past posts, you’ve probably heard me struggle with the effects of giving incentives (right, wrong and outright “disincentives”) to both every day folks and security pros to help improve our cybersecurity posture. Earlier this month I gave a (dry even by sauvignon blanc standards) synopsis of some legislative developments as legwork for a following discussion on the incentives government gives and industry responds (or doesn’t respond) to in order improve our collective security. At least that was “the plan.” Skipping ahead a few steps, but definitely related, we have more developments in the Target data breach litigation.
As of this writing, Target appears poised to settle litigation over the massive 2013 data breach of their IT systems for a total of $10M (plus up to $6.75M in fees to settlement class counsel.) The breach affected 40 million accounts and up to 110 million individuals. From an “industry incentives” point of view, there are some mixed messages about security incentives in this news.
STANDING –Traditionally, cases like this are dismissed early in the process on the basis that cardholders and customers lack standing to sue because they suffered no actual, demonstrable harm as a result of the breach. The Target case (as one of a recent “four-pack” of cases indicating a coming change in this view of standing, see “CASES” below) is somewhat notable from the standpoint that it survived a standing challenge. Or as I heard defense counsel recently quip, “It’s getting to the point where I may actually have to defend one of these cases on the merits soon.” Talking incentives, this seems to be a clear indicator courts are giving more weight to favoring standing on likelihood of harm to customers grounds.
ACTUAL HARM – Surviving a challenge to standing hasn’t exactly paved a road to compensation, however. Let’s pause for a moment to do some math. Assuming a maximum potential affected class of 40 million accounts and/or 110 million individuals, Target and plaintiffs’ counsel are contemplating 25¢ or 9¢ in full-class compensation respectively? Not exactly. The low compensation to class member ratio probably lies in the likely difficulty class members will face in proving they’re entitled to compensation under the terms of the settlement. Individuals must:
Prove they used a debit or credit card at a US Target store (not the Target.com website) over the 19 day range of November 27, 2013 through December 15, 2013 [i]
Declare if they actually received a breach notice or if they simply believe their information was compromised [ii]
And must demonstrate they experienced at least one of the following:
Unauthorized, unreimbursed charges on their credit or debit card
Time spent addressing those charges
Fees to hire someone to correct their credit report
Higher interest rates or fees on the accounts
Credit-related costs
Costs to replace their identification, Social Security number or phone number
Loss of access or restricted access to funds
If you set the “way-back” machine to last December and my comments on Breach Fatigue (specifically, the difficulty in collecting and assessing information about your exposure as an “included individual” in a breach) it’ll be interesting to see how many people actually get compensation as a result of this settlement. But settlements are all about controlling risk and outcomes. While Federal District Judge Paul Magnuson got to decide that standing existed for litigation to proceed, Target gets to decide the parameters of what constitutes “actual harm” with these settlement compensation requirements.
DUTY OF CARE/SECURITY IMPROVEMENTS – It’s worth noting that this settlement affects consumer negligence claims that survived dismissal. Why’s that important? Because if the litigation proceeds to trial it then opens up the possibility the court carves out a duty of care for security and handling of customer data for data stewards like Target. Again on the notion of controlling risk, it’d be risky to roll the dice on that standard being developed at Target’s peril if an affordable alternative exists. It’s also somewhat unique that as part of the settlement, Target has agreed certain security improvements be imposed as part of the court order. Similar to controlling the terms of determining actual harm, Target gets to control the dialogue around what steps should be taken in light of the breach. Settlement steps include:
Appointing a Chief Information Security Officer
Maintain a security program that identifies risks to shoppers’ personal information
Have a process for monitoring security risks
Give security training to employees
To be fair, as a level 1 PCI merchant with nearly $52B in market cap, you could probably argue that these are “Security 101” steps for such an organization. And most, if not all, were probably already implemented between the time of the breach and the settlement. [iii] But by including these security improvements in the final order, we are getting some market indicators of thoughts around an evolving duty of care regarding security, even if this particular settlement provides no acknowledgement or precedent to that effect.
With new info from the Target consumer case regarding valuation (40M consumers and payout likely far south of the maximum $10M), standing (broader inclusion), actual harm and security duty of care (negligence claims allowed to proceed and parties including security improvements as part of order), are these more and better incentives to secure information or is this just an exercise in post breach risk management?
In re Adobe Sys. Privacy Litig., F. Supp. 2d, 2014 WL 4379916 (N.D. Cal. Sept. 4, 2014) – expansive treatment of “standing”, accepting notion of “increased risk of future harm” & cost of steps to mitigate fraud & malfeasance.
FTC v. Wyndham Worldwide Corp., 10 F. Supp. 3d (D.N.J.2014) – Refusal to dismiss claims and FTC contention that “reasonable” steps were not taken to protect data.
In re LinkedIn User Privacy Litig., 2014 WL 1323713 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 28, 2014) – for paying premium users, payment of fee with misrepresentation of own privacy policy gives rise to standing
[i] Can’t help but wonder then (here we go again with the math…) for a breach scope of 40M compromised accounts, does citing this specific date range mean that 12.6% of the US population (2013) shopped at Target using credit/debit over those 19 days??
[ii] As discussed in the opening disclaimer, I’m not intimately acquainted with the 97 page potential settlement doc, but I’m guessing not receiving a notification will be a barrier to receiving compensation.
[iii] For example, Target appointed Brad Maiorino CISO last summer.
March 4, 2015 • Legislation, Privacy, Public Sector, Security • by Paul
I know, talking legislation is sexy stuff. But a short look back at some recent developments will be foundational to some important coming discussions.
The past several months have been packed with Cybersecurity legislation. Law making is inherently an iterative process and at the risk of sounding cynical, despite all the activity it’s fair to say we haven’t covered much new ground in 2015. But don’t interpret the following synopsis as cynicism. The legislation is absolutely indicative of substantive forward progress, but I feel there’s an opportunity at hand for larger leaps forward. A short recap of recent legislation and recurring themes to frame a later discussion:
Private Sector Information Sharing: 2015’s State of the Union address included a section focusing on Cybersecurity, specifically with a call for better efforts to “integrate intelligence.” Less than a month later, the President would raise that concern again at a Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection Summit. The summit featured the introduction of an Executive Order (EO) “Promoting Private Sector Cybersecurity Information Sharing.” Information sharing is hardly virgin ground for Cyber legislation.[i] The call for Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Analysis Organizations (ISAO) can be found in the Homeland Security Act of 2002, the 2013 State of the Union Address and the 2013 and 2015 versions of the proposed Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Acts. The 2013 State of the Union Address also gave rise to its own EO (EO 13636) calling for the creation of a framework outlining processes for voluntary private sector information sharing. Two of four Cybersecurity bills passed late in 2014 called for similar collaboration, the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act and the National Cybersecurity Protection Act. Last month’s EO would add additional detail to ISAOs calling for formalized changes and updates to sharing policy as well as the creation of a non-government ISAO Standards Organization. If recent legislation has a predominant theme it’s “Please share…pretty please??”
Cyberspace as Critical Infrastructure: Legislation has also emphasized the protection of U.S. Cyberspace as key to economic, military and national security stability. Several sectors of U.S. Cyberspace were therefore defined as critical infrastructure in the Homeland Security Act of 2002. Provisions were made for critical infrastructure protection (CIP) in 2003’s Homeland Security Presidential Directive-7. Those CIP prescriptions were further refined in Cybersecurity guidance of 2013’s EO 13636 (titled “Improving Critical Infrastructure“) & resiliency prescriptions of Presidential Policy Directive 21. And the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014 once again highlighted the importance of our cyber assets and infrastructure to American prosperity and well being. Second theme: “This stuff is important.”
Privacy and Civil Liberties Are Essential: There have been two recent long form attempts to describe privacy rights and civil liberties in Cyberspace, 2012’s Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights and last week’s 2015 version of the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights. In the span between those two offerings preserving privacy has also been a stated outcome of 2013’s EO 13636, this year’s EO Promoting Private Sector Cybersecurity Information Sharing and The National Cybersecurity Protection Act of 2014. At one point President Obama also threatened to veto the 2013 version of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act if wasn’t amended to ensure privacy and civil liberty protections.
Now that the legal pedigree is behind us, that’s thirteen years of the same three part harmony:
“Share information.”
“Cyberspace is critical.”
“Privacy is essential.”
And let’s be clear who the intended audience is – private sector. Because as of 2009 the vast majority of public sector organizations began some migration to some subset of the same government security standards. So after thirteen years, how are we still in roughly the same position? I believe it’s because, on their face, those three previous statements don’t provide enough incentive to bring the right stakeholders to consensus yet. I believe we’re close. I’ve offered what I think it will take to get us there absent some positive change. But I also believe public sector (and not necessarily just the Feds) has at least one more compelling incentive it can offer. I think evidence of that can be heard echoed here in the reactions of Trustwave’s Phil Smith, RSA’s Mike Brown and Denim Group’s John Dickson.
[i] Information sharing is one means of attempting to scale efforts to combat an “open source adversary.” Open source adversaries, like cyber criminals and advanced persistent threats, can cheaply and easily replicate attack methods and vectors using scale to incredible advantage. J. Michael Daniel, cyber-security coordinator at the White House, gave this explanation of the counter tactic benefits: “We have seen industries that have increased their information sharing—such as in the financial services industry—and that does make a meaningful difference in being able to cut out a lot of the low-level attacks and intrusions. When you do that, then you can focus your humans on the more sophisticated intruders. I see this as a sort of baseline for us just to stay in the game.” For a brief treatment on open source cyberwar see John Robb’s blog or the excellent example in his book Brave New War.
December 18, 2014 • Discussion, Insurance, Litigation, Security • by Paul
Last week I was applying my “finishing touches” on a cybersecurity presentation: one last look at Twitter, glance at a feed aggregator & skim the day’s headlines. Between breaking news on the Sony Pictures hack, progress on class action suits over the Home Depot compromise, and some continuing local coverage (in the Twin Cities) of the Target breach, there were plenty of updates. I even worked in a Dennis Rodman slide. This Sony thing is sort of his fault, after all (I kid.) Regardless of the audience or the technical subject matter there’s always something in current events that updates the content on threat vectors, victim trends, cyber liability, regulatory landscape, etc. Every time, with every presentation, some “breach du jour” or something related leads to an update in my deck. It’s a steady diet of ubiquitous bad cybersecurity news that somehow hasn’t already led to effective steps to stem the tide of compromises. I find that surprising – but should I?
A few days ago I was trying to wrap my head around the notion of “breach fatigue” vis-à-vis the average American. I’m not just concerned with it affecting my neighbors next door, but also the fellow security geeks working in offices down the hall. Case in point: When news of Target broke, I was certain it was going to be the tipping point that would lead us down a path to change on a large scale (Spoiler alert: sometimes I’m wrong about stuff.) That was my conclusion, one I’ve aired more than a handful of times, and in the year-plus since it happened, a non-trivial number of colleagues have let me know they disagree. Some common sentiments from those doubting Thomases:
– “Breach fatigue – there are just so many headlines that people start to tune it out.”
– “As long as it’s not costing the [consumers/company/shareholders] money, they don’t care.”
– “Sure, another breach, but nothing ever changes.”
In order, what about breach fatigue? Are peers and colleagues really telling me, with a straight face, “There’s so much hacking that we have to ignore it?” I stated last week I believe the root cause is that incident information is so inadequate and alternative options so scarce, it creates a “Bruce Hornsby Effect” (“That’s just the way it is, some things will never change”) in the average breach victim. That may explain why there’s not an overwhelming groundswell of victims calling for substantive security changes, but what’s IT Operations’ excuse? You’d sprain your brain trying to derive a clearer “canary in the coalmine” example of cyber threat trend analysis (or “Let’s say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of nefarious cyber activity…”)
Next comes the notion that breaches aren’t hitting pocketbooks and bottom lines. I wrote last week about the difficulties the average consumer faces in calculating the costs of a breach. But what about the hacked organizations themselves and their shareholders? As a security guy, I know there are many ongoing efforts to track and quantify the cost of a breach – probably the most notable being the Ponemon Institute’s Annual Cost of a Data Breach Study (which places the 2014 average cost at $201 per record lost.) Similarly, you can find staggering estimates around recent high profile breaches: Home Depot warns that costs will surpass its initial $70M report, Sony’s two breaches account for over a quarter billion in losses over three years, and one Target estimate eclipses $1B. But then you may notice something interesting, for companies reportedly hemorrhaging money post-incident, none of their stocks appear to be in an all-out freefall. They trend down in short term response to the attacks, but all seem to mount comebacks that make you wonder if The Street really thinks these attacks are taking a toll.[i] You would think loss figures with that many commas in them would constitute “bet your business” or existential threats, even for organizations of this size. But who’s really bearing the cost of the breach? We’re seeing that payment card breaches drop the heaviest costs on issuing banks and many of the targeted retailers are drawing on cyber insurance policies to cover some, if not all, of the losses. It becomes another area where net effects and actual costs of an incident are hard to pinpoint. While that abstraction has made it hard to tally losses and pinpoint accountability, at least the banks have come to the conclusion that they shouldn’t be bearing the full brunt of these breaches and they’re litigating. As of this writing, Target is facing over 100 breach related lawsuits and Home Depot nearly 50. Both companies have recently suffered preliminary rulings allowing cases against them to proceed. It seems the previously murky gulf between an incident and who owns the financial fallout of that incident may be getting some clarity soon.[ii]
“Sure, another breach, but nothing ever changes.” I find it disturbing that this particular symptom of the Bruce Hornsby Effect predominantly occurs in security professionals. Maybe you’re fighting a lot of organizational inertia and have poor, abstract metrics at your disposal, but there is a flashing neon business case for revisiting and reevaluating security posture, standards and readiness here. We could continue diving into the reasons things haven’t changed, or we can ask the much more important follow up question: Is this course sustainable? That surprise I feel every time I scan the headlines prepping for another presentation is disbelief that we haven’t already had our hand forced by some compelling event.
So what will it take to see real change?
Litigation – Litigating a breach is not a new approach. But from talking to attorney colleagues about their current case load, it seems this round of litigation involves a lot more thought about what a negligence standard and duty of care for data stewards might look like. The technical understanding of the courts has matured from previous waves of cases as well. And even factoring in inertia and breach fatigue, when the “class” in a class action suit numbers in the hundreds of millions, awards are likely to scale to levels that cause even the biggest industry players and sectors to wince. A successful suit that helps define security and negligence standards would likely bring substantive security improvements forward.
Underwriting – In addition to banks, insurers are shouldering a large portion of the burden from this last wave of high profile breaches. I’ve reviewed examples of underwriting qualifications and policy exclusions based on specific security capabilities. One policy I’ve seen specifically states that unencrypted PII is out of scope for cyber liability coverage (Here’s an example of a similar exclusion related to portable devices/removable media.) A broad-based industry initiative or underwriting shift by major insurers to require specific security controls (encryption, SIEM tools, segregation of duties, etc.) or compliance with a strategic security framework as a basis for coverage would also force substantive improvements to security postures at large.
Catastrophe – These are severely damaging events that carry tremendous impact. Some catastrophes may involve events we’ve caught bite-size glimpses of and perhaps even prepared for on a smaller scale: natural disasters (Hurricane Katrina), cyber warfare (Georgia, Ukraine), sabotage (Stuxnet), and general concerns about terrorist or nation-state attacks on critical infrastructure (power, water, transportation) and targeted systems disruption (financial market collapse.) But it would take an event of unprecedented magnitude to produce wholesale change in our approach to security and readiness. There are plenty of nightmare scenarios you can paste into this space, and numerous indicators that we are trending toward such an event. For our purposes though, my contention is that it would take a scenario with measurably greater impact than what we’ve seen to date to in order to induce real change (To wit, nearly a decade after Hurricane Katrina, how many organizations still have their disaster recovery site in the same general geographic region as their production data center?) It’s entirely plausible (I’d argue predictable) to imagine that in the wake of a truly massive, crippling cyber event, many critical sectors of U.S. infrastructure would engage in a massive correction (and likely overcorrection) in security practices and standards as they did with physical security protocols following the September 11th attacks.[iii]
The previous section once read, “What would it take to see real change?” “Would” now reads “will” as I feel all three subsequent scenarios are extremely likely, if not forgone conclusions. Litigation and underwriting will continue to evolve in ways that redistribute the financial fallout of breaches and place the onus of protection back with IT as it carves out more appropriate and prescriptive security terms. While that iterative and reactive process takes place, the baddies will continue to outpace security improvements and drive us ever closer to a tipping point cyber event. The smart money is on proactively preparing for these eventualities and getting ahead of the threats and risks, right? It’s common sense, it’s intuitive, and traditionally it just doesn’t happen because of things like inertia, fatigue, and Bruce Hornsby.
But stick to your guns, folks because “that’s just the way it is…ah, but don’t you believe them.”
[i] Time will tell with Sony.
[ii] There’s probably an entire series of discussions on cyber liability that could fork off of this thread. For the purposes of this discussion though, the most important development is that between issuing banks, breached companies, shareholders, insurers, and affected individuals, actions are proceeding to correct what some of these players perceive to be an unfair or imbalanced distribution of the costs associated with a breach.
[iii] While I’m advocating for change and improvement to security practices, I’m concerned that undertaking those changes as part of a hasty, irrational, knee-jerk response to a cyber event might actually exacerbate problems. The preferred approach is to develop an approach under normal operating circumstances, before such a catastrophe occurs, with an eye toward minimizing the impact of such an event and getting the organization back to normal business operations.
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Home News 2009 BMW S1000RR
After much speculation, BMW have announced plans to race in WSB in 2009 with the newly announced S1000RR.
BMW seem to have finally come come up with a superbike that looks remarkably similar to the current crop of Japanese offerings.
After decades of alternative and often experimental designs, BMW have decided on an inline four with telescopic forks for WSB.
Shown for the first time at Intermot, is the race version (pictured left), which will be piloted by Ruben Xaus & Troy Corser in the 2009 WSB series.
If Ruben can stay on the bike long enough without crashing, is a question that nobody was prepared to answer...
Troy Corser on the other hand, is one of the world's best development riders, and is therefore a very strategic signing by the BMW factory. Hopefully the BMW is not as difficult to develop as the ill fated Petronas, which even Corser could not win a race on.
At present the road going model is expected to be available around April 2009, no price, or horsepower information is yet available.
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I've had a rough week. this makes me happy.
band of the week: She & Him
When She & Him released their debut, Volume I, I wasn't too thrilled with it. Theoretically, the combination of Zooey's damn-near-perfect vox and M.Ward's double whammy guitar/production proficiencies would be an indie equivalent to the wetdream that is Them Crooked Vultures, but the songs on the album were too...whiny for my taste. Whiny isn't even a good word here. But anyways.
I love Volume II. It was released in March and kicks off with "Thieves"--a summery, Rilo Kiley inspired track that sets the bar for the rest of the album, which is much more positive than its predecessor. It's absolutely darling, there are no two ways about it. The cuteness gets close to being annoying, but not really. It makes me want to spend the rest of my days clad in a breezy dress twirling around in a sunny field. And I say this whilst wearing black jeans and a black Led Zeppelin shirt.
Regardless of where your music inclinations lie, She & Him will melt your heart. It took two albums, but they've definitely won me over.
Now pass me that tambourine.
She & Him - In The Sun [mp3]
Labels: band of the week, she and him
The Magnetic Fields - The Book of Love [mp3]
from 69 Love Songs (1999)
"it's full of flowers and heart shaped boxes and things we're too young to know"
this is really funny and really short. watch it!
cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeers to Lulu! when I was a wee lass my cousin Lina and I were BFFs. I called her Lulu. then we grew up and she turned into a bitch. so yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
cheers, JD!
on October 6th, THE STROKES ARE PLAYING A PRE-ACL GIG AT STUBBS.
I can't go. kill me now.
get tickets FRIDAY MORNING AT 10 here.
record review: Dead Confederate - Sugar
When Dead Confederate released Wrecking Ball—their dense yet rollicking debut—in 2008, there were abundant comparisons to Nirvana and critics championed them as revivers of the grunge form. With this new album, however, Dead Confederate are taking a different approach. Less shaky, more self assured, Sugar channels Audioslave guitar wails via the raw power of The Stooges, dousing the songs with copious amounts of distortion. The album bounces back and forth from delicately pensive tracks (“Run from the Gun”) and bread and butter 90’s alt rock (“Quiet Kid” is equal parts Sonic Youth and Smashing Pumpkins). The album is loud, we’re talking My Bloody Valentine status, so it might serve as better company to a night of whiskey and mischief than it would, to, say, the resulting hangover. Regardless, the band has managed to step up the game and have crafted a stunningly vigourous album containing ten songs that will surely translate to deafening bliss in concert.
Dead Confederate - Run from the Gun [mp3]
Sugar drops today. Dead Confederate are currently on tour and will visit SF's Great American Music Hall on Wednesday 8 September with Alberta Cross
visit them on MYSPACE for more tour dates
Labels: dead confederate, record review, sugar
to my knowledge, Fab is the only musician she's dated. subtle, much, SPIN?
record review: Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People (EP)
Last year, Sufjan Stevens released the BQE, a musical ode to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. I enjoyed the album thoroughly, but it threw me off a little, being instrumental and all. A couple of the tracks reminded me strongly of Christmas, but, like my fellow music bloggers, I happened to forget to post about the album.
As of last week, however, Sufjan is back, and he has once again taken the world by storm. His new self-produced EP, All Delighted People, seems to have risen out of nowhere, but how can anybody complain when it sounds like Simon & Garfunkel through a brass section lens? I don’t understand how he has released it under the guise of an EP; the eight track album is just shy of an hour, and includes an LP worthy 17 minute closer ("Djohariah") which would have Pink Floyd reeling. This time around, Sufjan’s gorgeous vocals continue to relay his commitment to spirituality, but also incorporate Flaming Lips-esque weirdness before they plunge back into softly plucked banjo interludes. It’s simple, it’s beautiful, it’s eccentric and even borders freakish. But in the end, we need guys like Sufjan to remind us of the simple joys of looking through a kaleidoscope. It sure beats watching Rivers Cuomo go through a mid-life crisis.
Sufjan Stevens - Enchanting Ghost [mp3]
Labels: all delighted people, record review, sufjan stevens
(thanks to Little Grey Pixel for the tip!)
if you squint, he resembles Thomas Mars in this photo
ZIP FILE!
Stephen Malkmus -Ballad Of A Thin Man (Dylan cover) [mp3]
Jenny Lewis - Handle with Care (Traveling Willburys cover) [mp3]
Rogue Wave- Maps (Yeah Yeah Yeahs cover) [mp3]
Arctic Monkeys - Red Right Hand (Nick Cave cover) [mp3]
Elliott Smith - Thirteen (Big Star cover) [mp3]
The Morning Benders - I Wanna Be Like You (Jungle Book cover) [mp3]
Voxtrot - Love Vigilantes (New Order cover) [mp3]
My Morning Jacket - It Makes No Difference (The Band Cover) [mp3]
Yo La Tengo - Speeding Motorcycle (Daniel Johnston Cover) [mp3]
a few days ago, I listened to this bootleg, really loudly, in my car. the distortion was delicious. if you haven't given it a chance yet, do.
The Strokes - Live at Lollapalooza 2010 [zip]
1. New York City Cops
2. The Modern Age
3. Hard to Explain
4. Whatever Happened
5. You Only Live Once
6. Soma
7. Is This It
8. Vision of Division
9. I Can't Win
10. Reptilia
11. Last Nite
12. Juicebox
14. Under Control
15. Heart in a Cage
16. Take it or Leave It
I wish they had played Heart in a Cage in San Francisco
record review: Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted Peop...
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Pine Island, New York
Black Tern, from “Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs” 1842, Biodiversity Heritage Library
November 11, 2019: The Winding Waters Trail will be closed for the New York firearm hunting season from November 16 to December 17, 2019.
There are several spots for birding on Oil City Road in Pine Island, including Liberty Marsh Loop and the Winding Waters Trail (map) on the 6000-acre Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge (brochure).
The various habitats of the refuge—swamp/marsh, floodplain forest, grassland, shrubland, and, of course, the river—host migrating and breeding waterfowl (29 species), shorebirds, grassland birds, raptors (including Golden Eagles, Bald Eagles, and Broad-wing Hawks), and woodland birds. More than 260 species have been recorded on the refuge. In June 2017, birders were treated to a visiting Black Tern!
August 2019: Be aware that it has been confirmed that Liberty Lane (the unpaved road across Oil City Road from the Liberty Loop platform) is privately owned and is OFF LIMITS to birders. The right of way is for use only by refuge staff, to access refuge property across from Liberty Loop.
Update September 2019: From club member Curt McDermott: “I have spoken with the officer in charge of the refuge, Mike McMenamin. Mike spoke to the refuge manager, Mike Horn. Mr Horn states that the road in question (Liberty Lane) is a shared-access road to the end of the refuge. Visitors to the refuge may access the road as far in as the end of the refuge. Beyond that, trespassing may become an issue. Mike will be checking to see if there is currently signage defining the border. If there is none (which may be the case), I will urge them to post them.”
Red-tailed Hawk. Photo by Alan Wells.
Pair of Northern Pintails. Photo by Alan Wells.
Cattle Egret. Maryangela Buskey.
Merlin. Photo by Maryangela Buskey
Carolina Wren. Maryangela Buskey.
American Crows. Maryangela Buskey.
Marsh Wren. Photo by Bill Fiero.
Great Egrets. Photo by Maryangela Buskey
Northern Shoveler. Photo by Alan Wells.
Lesser Yellowlegs. Photo by Lee Hunter.
White-crowned Sparrow (juvenile). Maryangela Buskey.
Black Tern. Photo by Karen Miller.
Palm Warbler. Maryangela Buskey.
Yellow-breasted Chat, Winding Waters Trail. Photo by Dave Baker.
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Aggressive melanoma: Circular RNA explains spread
January 16, 2020 by admin 0 Comments
Researchers have zoomed in on the fine molecular and epigenetic mechanisms that explain the aggressive spread of melanoma.
Scientists examine the epigenetic silencing of circRNA and how this drives the spread of melanoma.
Along with DNA and proteins, RNA is one of the three essential macromolecules necessary for all forms of life.
The typical process at the basis of all known forms of life comprises three steps: The genetic information from our DNA — which works as the “blueprint” of the cell — is converted into an RNA “photocopy,” which, in turn, helps create proteins required by the cell.
Most RNA is in linear form. However, some RNA molecules are circular. These are called circular RNAs (circRNA).
Linear RNA encodes proteins, but very few circRNAs have clearly understood functions. In fact, the medical community is only now beginning to elucidate the contribution of circRNA to normal physiology and disease, write the authors of a new paper.
So, what is the role of circRNAs in the spread of melanoma? Senior study author Eva Hernando, Ph.D. — an associate professor in the Department of Pathology at New York University (NYU) Langone Health — and colleagues set out to investigate.
The question is important, explain the researchers in their Cancer Cell study, because metastatic spread is the cause of 90% of deaths related to cancer. The pivotal moment at which cancer spreads to a metastatic point can decide the outcome for a person with cancer.
Melanoma is a good model for investigating the mechanisms behind metastasis, because its spread is particularly aggressive: Metastasis can occur from primary tumors of only a few millimeters.
Genetic errors explain how melanoma cancer cells emerge from normal cells, but DNA errors do not tell the whole story when it comes to explaining how the cancer spreads, say the researchers.
How a circRNA can drive or stop metastasis
So, in the new study, Hernando and team carried out experiments in cell cultures from human melanoma tissues and mouse models to investigate the role of circRNAs.
The analyses revealed that a circRNA called CDR1as is key. When epigenetically silenced, this molecule promotes the spread of cancer, and when activated, it inhibits cancer’s aggressive spread.
Previous studies, write the authors, have hinted at a potential function of circRNAs: They may bind with proteins that then attach to RNA and affect cellular functions.
In this specific study, the researchers showed that metastasis occurs when the interaction between CDR1as and one such RNA-attaching protein is disrupted. The RNA-binding protein is called IGF2BP3.
Hernando and colleagues silenced CDR1as to see how it would affect metastasis. They saw that when CDR1as was switched off, the RNA-binding protein IGF2BP3 roamed freely and promoted metastasis.
By contrast, when it is activated, CDR1as connects with IGF2BP3, preventing it from straying to other pro-metastatic proteins.
“We found CDR1as restrains a known pro-cancer protein called IGF2BP3, revealing a new function of CDR1as that may have therapeutic implications,” explains first study author Douglas Hanniford, Ph.D., an instructor in the Department of Pathology at NYU Langone Health.
The team also revealed the epigenetic mechanisms through which CDR1as was silenced and no longer produced in melanoma cells.
Epigenetic changes to genes affect their functioning without altering their DNA code.
“Our study provides new insights into the aggressive behavior of melanoma, and [it] is the first to expose a circRNA as a suppressor of metastasis.”
Eva Hernando, Ph.D.
This article was originally published by Medicalnewstoday.com. Read the original article here.
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Legion: Your Boyfriend Sucks
Posted on June 19, 2018 June 19, 2018 by Anthony (Kbear!) Nichols | Editor-in-Chief
Title: Legion Season 2 Episode 10: “Chapter 18”
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Superhero
Platform: TV – FX
Director: Dana Gonzales
Writer: Noah Hawley & Nathaniel Halpern
Rating: TV-MA
Cast: Dan Stevens, Rachel Keller, Aubrey Plaza, Bill Irwin, Jean Smart, Jeremie Harris, Amber Midthunder, Jemaine Clement, Hamish Linklater, Navid Negahban
Feature image: Source
[Spoilers]
“The monster was the gift. The curse [she whispers] he’s insane.” Melanie Bird – Legion
Thunder is rolling, lightning is flashing, and men are running in the rain. In a hut, a pregnant looking Lenny Busker (Aubrey Plaza) is lying on the ground. David Haller (Dan Stevens) sits in a chair, his hair styled like his character in the comics. He is holding a globe with a picture of Syd Barrett (Rachel Keller) saying, “I’m going after him.” This is from the dialogue from the dining hall scene between Clark (Hamish Linklater) and Syd. This scene is probably from a dark future if David turns evil. In the present, David and Syd are lying in bed in the tent. Syd wakes up and goes outside. She sees a big pink bathtub stopper near a big hole. A fluffy white rabbit is thrown out of the hole with a hook in it. Syd takes the hook out of the rabbit, but she is hooked now and is dragged down the hole. David walks out of the tent and calls for her. Syd gets dragged through the tunnel, where Melanie Bird (Jean Smart) is waiting for her. Melanie: “Have you heard the one that the definition of crazy is doing the something over and over and expecting a different result.” She begins her speech about how bad men are. Syd stops her for a moment, “I get it, Oliver left, and you’re pissed. But that’s not what’s happening to me, and honestly, I’m kinda sick of talking about it.” This doesn’t stop Melanie for long. On pedestals with screens, Melanie shows Syd scenes of David doing something bad. Syd tells her David was cursed by a monster. Melanie: “The monster was the gift. The curse [she whispers] he’s insane.” Melanie says that someone can get you to do something you don’t want to do, but they can’t make you enjoy it. She shows David enjoying the bad things he’s doing. Melanie tells Syd this is David’s true face.
David is struggling trying to walk in a sandstorm. He finally makes it to the monastery and finds Oliver Bird (Jemaine Clement). He asks him where Syd is. Oliver is flippant, so David threatens to kill him. Oliver: “How can you kill me, I’m part of you.” Oliver makes himself look like David. David has enough and quotes the things Syd said about their pain creating their armor. David: “I’m the lunatic you turned me into. And I’m ready for my revenge.” David begins torturing Oliver with a drill. Melanie shows Syd David torturing Oliver. Melanie: “His true face. Now you tell me, who’s the monster?”
“Excuse me, do you know where a girl can find a monastery?” Lenny Busker – Legion
We again see the scene where the car that Lenny is in teleports into the desert. The car catches on fire and Lenny gets the case out before the car explodes. Men with safes on their heads sit around the hole. Lenny opens the case and smiles at the sniper rifle. She decides to sit with the men. After becoming bored she asks them, “Excuse me, do you know where a girl can find a monastery?” They all point towards the monastery.
Melanie continues the pressure on Syd. She asks Melanie, “How are you doing this, showing me these things?” Melanie shows David and Future Syd kissing. Syd tries to pretend this doesn’t bother her, but she isn’t convincing. Melanie asks what else David isn’t telling her. She shows the scene where Amahl Farouk (Navid Negahban) finds out David is going to destroy the world. Melanie: “The greatest monsters are those in human clothes.” Syd: “How?” Melanie: “How does he turn, I don’t know. All I know is that he does, something magnificent, something terrible. Legion…the world killer.” Syd [crying]: “He’s a good person.” Melanie: “He’s a psychopath.” Melanie has broken Syd.
Cary (Bill Irwin) and Kerry Loudermilk (Amber Midthunder) show up with Division III troops and a dog to track Lenny. Men crawl out of the hole swinging balls on a stick, the balls on a stick emits a high-pitched sound that knocks out Cary and the Division III troops. Kerry is still standing and fights the men with a staff. She defeats all of them, but more men crawl out of the hole. Inside the monastery David finds out that instead of torturing Farouk in Oliver’s form, it is actually Oliver he has tortured. Farouk is in Melanie’s body, and the Minotaur shows up. Clark finally shows up with the Vermillion and the Choke David wanted. Melanie/Farouk gives the Minotaur an order, “Go now, kill the weak.” Melanie/Farouk finds his body and kisses it. Melanie faints and Farouk rises from his casket.
“No David. He’s the monster now. Maybe he always was.” Syd Barrett – Legion
Cary is dragged down the hole, but Kerry gets an assist from Lenny when she shoots a couple of the men. Kerry: “Thanks.” Lenny: “You should probably go get him.” Kerry: “Are you gonna?” Lenny: “No I’m supposed to wait here.” Kerry: “For what?” Lenny: “The Big Payback.” Kerry jumps down the hall to get Cary. The Minotaur kills the two men who had Cary. He escapes and runs into two Vermillion, he warns them about the Minotaur. They crawl up a wall to fight the Minotaur. Cary runs into the room where David and Oliver are. Cary checks on Oliver and David assures him Oliver is alive. David: “See I’m sitting here thinking about how I’m going to kill him. My parasite. All the different ways. What worries me is how good it feels.” David tells Cary about the Choke Clark brought to dampen all of the mutants’ powers for a few minutes. Kerry runs into the broken Vermillion who fought the Minotaur. She comes upon a shaken Syd. Kerry: “Found you. That’s one for me.” Syd: “I have to stop him.” Kerry: “Farouk?” Syd: “No David. He’s the monster now. Maybe he always was.” The Minotaur shows up. Kerry: “I got this.” Syd: “No. I need to hit something.” Syd hits the Minotaur. Clark is having the Vermillion set up the Choke. Farouk comes upon them, with a flick of his hand, he sends the Division III troops and Clark flying. Vermillion: “Conflict imminent. Chances of victory: 0 percent. Retreat.” Farouk looks at the Choke, “You brought the Choke. My clever boy.” He sends it flying down the hill. David appears and recites a passage from the Angriest Boy in the World book. He is ready to kill Farouk.
Finally everyone who is important to this show [except for Ptonomy who is obviously not important to this show] arrives in the desert. Melanie using video from previous episodes convinces Syd that David is insane and evil. The Loudermilks show up with a dog and Division III troops to track down Lenny. In an exciting fight scene, Kerry fights off a small army of Farouk’s men. David is proving Melanie right by torturing Oliver. He is ashamed when he finds out he is actually torturing Oliver instead of Farouk. It’s still Oliver’s body he is torturing, so even if Farouk was possessing him at the moment, Oliver would still be taking the damage. I don’t know why David didn’t think about that, oh right he’s crazy. Farouk was in Melanie’s body the whole time. Jean Smart did a nice subtle job of showing that this wasn’t Melanie talking to Syd. Rachel Keller did a great job of showing Syd’s growing disillusionment with David. Even though Farouk was tricking her into not trusting David anymore, she already had her doubts, so she was ready to be persuaded. Farouk finally gets possession of his body. David’s glad, because he wants to beat Farouk down.
Basically this was a glorified clip show. They showed clips of David throughout the series, and they even showed Lenny landing in the desert again. The desert setting was breathtaking. The big bathtub stopper was a funny sight gag along with Farouk using a rabbit on a giant hook as bait to get Syd down the hole. Fish would be ashamed of Syd for getting caught. Not as much music as usual. True Love Waits by Radiohead plays when Syd gets out of bed in the tent. I don’t think Syd is feeling any more true love with David now. When Kerry battles the armies of men, Ocean Size by Jane’s Addiction plays.
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ZNBC ramp up STB distribution
Pay TV | Priscilla Tirvengadum | May 15, 2015
The Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) plans to soon start distributing set-top boxes (STB) in Lusaka with over 100,000 STBs ready for distribution. In an attempt to meet the digital migration deadline, the corporation has already started the installation of digital transmitters in the country, informed Masudzyo Ndlovhu, Corporate Affairs Manager, ZNBC. The Zambian government [...]
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Altech joined hands with DivX on 4K STBs
Pay TV | Priscilla Tirvengadum | January 22, 2015
South African set-top box provider, Altech Multimedia, has inked a deal with DivX to integrate DivX Plus HD and DivX HEVC technology into its upcoming 4K-ready set-top boxes (STBs) for the over-the-top (OTT) market. The STBs will enable playback of 4K video. The first to undergo the DivX Plus HD Certification process will launch in [...]
Tags: Altech, DivX, set-top box, South Africa, STB
Kenya ready for digital switch on Dec 31
DTT | Pay TV | Priscilla Tirvengadum | December 24, 2014
Nairobi has enough digital set-top boxes to successfully undertake digital switch on December 31 with more than 1.5 million set top boxes available to cater to an estimated 1.26 million households, announced Fred Matiang’I, Cabinet Secretary of ICT. He further added that over 126 digital TV broadcasting content providers have been temporarily licensed and 26 [...]
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USAASA releases STB subsidy details
DTT | Pay TV | Priscilla Tirvengadum | October 31, 2014
Universal Service & Access Agency of South Africa (USAASA), the government agency tasked with bridging South Africa’s digital divide, has announced the details for subsidy qualification while buying a set-top box for DTT. The subsidies proposed for terrestrial STBs range from 66% for no-income households to 15% for those earning up to ZAR 2,499 (USD [...]
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Zimbabwe needs 3 million STBs
DTT | Priscilla Tirvengadum | August 18, 2014
Zimbabwe will require at least three million set-top boxes (STB) to enable households to switch to digitalised content ahead of the global deadline of June 2015, the Information and Media Panel of Inquiry (IMPI) revealed. Diring the IMPI meeting, the government has also been urged to impose stiffer penalties on piracy and protect artists, and [...]
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OpenView HD to bring down STB price
DTT | Free to Air | Pay TV | Priscilla Tirvengadum | August 13, 2014
Platco Digitals free-to-air satellite TV platform, OpenView HD (OVHD), plans to lower the set-top box prices in the next two months as the platform failed to attract adequate subscribers. After it went live in October 2013, OVHD could garner only over 40,000 active subscribers, 160,000 short of OVHD’s target set for March next year. “Our [...]
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Kenyan digitisation reaches 18%
DTT | Priscilla Tirvengadum | August 7, 2014
The Communications Authority of Kenya (CAK) said that the country’s success rate of digital migration currently stands at 18%, with Nairobi recording the highest number of people using the digital television decoders. The vendors have reportedly sold a total of 738,312 set top boxes (comprising both free to air and subscription decoders) at the end [...]
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Motive Television partners Chinese STB maker for South African project
OTT / VOD | Pay TV | Priscilla Tirvengadum | April 21, 2014
UK based technology company, Motive Television Services, which began the installation of its Content Express platform in South Africa for Johannesburg-based Siyaya Free to Air TV, has joined hands with Chinese set-top box maker, Skyworth Digital Technology, to integrate its software into Siyaya’s STBs. Motive Television Services has signed a software development license agreement with [...]
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ICASA asks Competition Commission to investigate MultiChoice-SABC deal
Cable | DTH | Priscilla Tirvengadum | April 10, 2014
South Africa’s communications industry regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has asked the Competition Commission to investigate a ‘possible restrictive horizontal practice’ between the public broadcaster, South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), and pay-TV operator, MultiChoice in a July 2013 agreement between the two parties involving SABC’s 24-hour news channel on MultiChoice’s DStv [...]
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NAMEC inks STB manufacturing deal with Chinese group
Pay TV | Priscilla Tirvengadum | April 9, 2014
South Africa- based National Association of Manufacturers in Electronic Components (NAMEC) has tied up Chinese set-top box manufacturer, Skyworth Digital, to build a multimillion-rand set-top box assembly plant at the Dube TradePort in Durban, SA. NAMEC has secured ZAR 60 million (USD 5.7 million) in loans and grants from government development agencies to build the [...]
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Accueil Business Our latest IFE innovations selected to equip Singapore Airlines’ medium-haul A350 XWBs
Our latest IFE innovations selected to equip Singapore Airlines’ medium-haul A350 XWBs
Thales In-Flyt Experience will equip Singapore Airlines with its AVANT In-Flight Entertainment system and Ka-band connectivity solution.
“Being chosen to equip both systems and connectivity for the Singapore Airlines fleet is a critical proof point of Thales’s strength in the market, the depth of our local implantation in Singapore and the maturity of our products”, pointed out Dominique Giannoni, CEO of Thales InFlyt Experience, during the press conference.
The fleet will be equipped with the most lightweight AVANT monitors, featuring full high-definition video and integrating Avii, the newest evolution of the award winning Thales Touch Passenger Media Unit, in the premium cabins. Avii provides intuitive navigation, full android smartphone look & feel and acts as a second screen which greatly enhances the cabin experience.
But beyond the system itself, connectivity is the watchword. Asian customers are amongst the most connected in the world, according to Google Analytics in 2015, 90% of all web surfing in Singapore was done via smartphones and tablets, the rest of Asia has similar figures.
Passengers will have access to a wide selection of connected applications, seamless personal device integration allowing a home experience in the air, High Power USB charging and NFC technology.
“Singapore Airlines is recognised for its high standards of service and cabin experience. As a visionary of connected IFE solutions, Singapore Airlines constantly seeks to renew and maintain its image for quality, and passenger comfort by providing an in-flight experience that exceeds passenger expectations”, said Dominique Giannoni, CEO of Thales InFlyt Experience.
“Our AVANT Android based system offers a flexible architecture that responds to these needs. Through our innovative User Application portal, we will assist Singapore Airlines to constantly introduce the newest and most sought after apps present in the consumer market to their passengers” he added. “The integration of Ka-band connectivity to the in-flight system, using the fastest airborne internet speeds will open up the world to the passenger”.
“As our ultimate aim is to become the world Number 1 in IFEC, the honour of counting Singapore Airlines as one of our customers is a very large step towards that goal”, Giannoni concluded.
Delivery of the system will begin in 2018.
Our footprint and position in Singapore
Established since the early 1980s, the avionics activities in Singapore currently include production of key systems for the Airbus A320, A350 and Boeing B757 fleets, such as flight control computer displays and electrical systems and MRO facilities as well. Asia is one of our largest markets for IFEC. We already hold 80% market share in China and have a number of clients across the Asia Pacific region.
Our avionics equipment manufactured in Singapore equips China Southern Airlines, Philippine Airlines and Silk Air while our repair and maintenance contracts across Asian airlines are on the rise. Singapore is one of our three global hubs which serve all MRO operations across Asia.
Last but not least is innovation. We are engaged in co-creating differentiated offers to meet local requirements. The Thales innovation hub recently set up in Singapore was a crucial factor in the Singapore Airlines’ choice. The user-centred innovation, cross-functional collaborations in co-designing, prototyping and testing new concepts were areas that interested Singapore Airlines. It showed them that we had the ability to undertake concrete product innovation taking into account their requirements to keep their IFEC offering relevant to their regional passengers.
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Innovation Jun 14. 2019
Thales reinvents the inflight experience with best and most secure 4K technologies
Thales’s latest 4K displays include the highest security level solutions enabling streaming of premium UHD content from Hollywood Studios to passenger screens.
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/16/australia/australia-weather-intl-hnk/index.html Severe thunderstorms are pelting some regions of Australia suffering from historic wildfires with powerful rain and large hail.The storms could bring some much-needed relief to the firefighters battling some of the worst blazes the country has seen in decades. But forecasters say it’s not yet clear if the rain will fall where …
https://www.laestrella.com.pa/nacional/200116/200115-cae-segundo-fiscal-ministerio-publico In a second case of alleged corruption in the Public Prosecutor’s Office, an official of the Office of the Specialized Prosecutor for Drug-related Crimes is investigated for the commission of the crime against public administration. The incident was reported through a statement from the Public Prosecutor’s Office in which …
https://www.prensa.com/impresa/panorama/despues-de-la-posicion-de-eu-martinelli-pone-querellas/ After knowing that the United States Department of State will inform the Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP) that the former president Ricardo Martinelli does not apply the principle of specialty and, therefore, other processes can be advanced, his lawyers filed complaints against the former head of MP Kenya Porcell, and …
https://www.prensa.com/judiciales/fiscal-confirma-hallazgo-de-cadaveres-en-una-fosa-de-la-comunidad-el-terron-comarca-ngabe-bugle/ The superior prosecutor of Bocas del Toro, Rafael Baloyes , confirmed this Thursday, January 16, the discovery of seven bodies in a grave in the community of El Terrón , in the Ngäbe Buglé region . + info National Police confirms grave finding after capture of sect members in the Ngäbe Buglé region These are victims …
OP ED- James”JB” Bryson- I wish I could read this type of press and have the slightest bit of confidence it will amount to ANYTHING. Even in the halcyon early days of Nito’s presidency, ( One that PNO openly campaigned for) we can already see that “Transparency” is a crock …
https://www.prensa.com/politica/piden-al-prd-y-a-la-asamblea-nacional-aplicar-el-codigo-de-etica-a-la-diputada-zulay-rodriguez/ A group of citizens urged both the official Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) and the president of the National Assembly, Marcos Castillero, to apply the corresponding Code of Ethics to the PRD deputy Zulay Rodríguez . + info Zulay Rodríguez does not clarify if she has the gold platesDeputy Zulay Rodríguez files a complaint …
Martinelli remains the choice of PANAMANIANS. https://www.prensa.com/impresa/panorama/martinellistas-dan-primer-paso-para-tratar-de-deponer-a-roux/ A group of conventions that fan the return of Ricardo Martinelli to the presidency of Democratic Change (CD) presented yesterday, at the headquarters of the party, one thousand 18 signatures so that the process of renewal of the current board of directors, which Rómulo Roux presides, begins . Almost two …
Will “NITO” and new AG ULLOA help or squash the prosecution of the biggest thieves in the history of PANAMA.
https://www.prensa.com/impresa/panorama/moore-gana-amparo-pesquisa-de-odebrecht-tiene-5-meses-mas/ In a kilometer unanimous ruling of 38 pages, the three magistrates of the First Superior Court of the First Judicial District decided, on January 3, to grant the superior anticorruption prosecutor Zuleyka Moore the protection of constitutional guarantees that interposed in the Odebrecht case. + info Odebrecht, a case in limbo, three …
United States UPDATE: Recent Trump statement implies de-escalation.
OP ED: James “JB” Bryson- If some of the military Ex-Pats over here have not stayed in immediate attention, the 12 land based missiles that hit US appropriated military installations in Iraq resulted in ZERO casualties. This is being universally viewed as a coordinated saving of face in light of …
Disregard my “Positive” post. Panama never lets me down. Boy did PNO see this.
OP ED: Sorry. but throughout the election PNO did OP ED after OP ED, and even had CONTRIBUTIONS sent in that covered EXACTLY what they are covering here. Please use the search engine and go back and read some of the entries we blogged about as it relates to Roux’s …
Back from the Holidays! PNO trying to stay positive for 2020.
OP ED: James “JB” Bryson– So my first “official” post for 2020 is going to try to be positive. 2019 ended,,,,well in a word “stressed” for me. The time spent in Florida whether on a boat, on the links, or playing chess with my granddaughter was appreciated and needed beyond …
PNO Op ED: This is more smokescreen Bullshit. Charges appear against Zulay after she Tweets of Minister Corruption.
OP ED: James “JB” Bryson: Talk about transparent,,,,,headlines bought and paid for to go after a PUBLIC servant, over a PRIVATE payment that occurred a DECADE ago. If she has not abused her responsibility to the people of Panama, and has ZERO ACCESS to Government funds, why is it a …
Nito starts 2020 with lofty aspirations. He needs to hold his Ministers “accountable”.
https://www.prensa.com/politica/en-su-primer-discurso-en-la-asamblea-cortizo-dijo-que-recibio-el-pais-hecho-un-desastre/ In his first report to the nation since the National Assembly as president of the Republic, Laurentino Nito Cortizo recounted what he found when he took control of the country. “In the last 10 years, Panama’s debt, that of all Panamanians tripled, from 11 billion to more than 30 billion. This amounts to a debt of 23 …
Official handoff to new Comptroller.
https://www.laestrella.com.pa/nacional/191230/humbert-entrega-llaves-despacho-nuevo-contralor-gerardo-solis Federico Humbert made the official delivery of the keys of the superior office to the new comptroller, Gerardo Solís, marking the end of the transition process. Solís will begin his duties next Thursday, January 2, 2020. The symbolic delivery of the keys occurred in parallel to a tour of …
Good Ol’ Saudis- Throw a RAVE to take mind off murdered journalist, then arrest people for indecency.
Read this link first: Would be less funny of it were not true. Insane misdirection by the media. https://www.thedailybeast.com/saudis-put-jamal-khashoggis-murder-behind-them-with-death-sentences-and-three-day-rave-party https://www.prensa.com/mundo/centenares-de-detenciones-en-arabia-saudita-por-indecencia-y-acoso/ More than 200 people were arrested in recent days in Saudi Arabia for “indecency” or “harassment”, in a first such campaign since the opening of reforms in terms of social …
So far, No good Nito. This is some Quid pro Quo Bullshit.
So much for his big speech. This lady was as dirty as the day is long. https://www.prensa.com/impresa/panorama/procuraduria-no-admite-querella-contra-porcell-por-asunto-laboral/ The Office of the Public Prosecutor dismissed a complaint against the Attorney General of the Nation, Kenya Porcell, filed by a former Public Ministry (MP) official for alleged abuse of authority and violation of the duties of …
To the “Bocas Brigade” both PRO and CON. PNO not driving the boat.
OP ED: Steven- To the loyal contributors that seemingly keep sending stuff to “JB” (even during the holidays), I must say your resolve is admirable. In light of the fact that I, even more than he have stated, are not interested in being the new “Bocasleaks“. Already we have done …
2020 gives clean slate to Humbert replacement at Comptroller. Fingers Crossed
https://www.prensa.com/impresa/panorama/la-contraloria-clave-para-la-lucha-contra-la-corrupcion/ Since the beginning of the Republic there has been a succession of offices responsible for maintaining fiscal control of public spending. What we know today as the Comptroller General of the Republic was originally a tax visitor and then the state tax agent. In the 1930s it became the current institution. + info …
Before all my Holiday Cheer. One important post on Panama history.
OP ED: James “JB” Bryson- While perfectly content to continue to enjoy this Florida weather and NOT answer emails of press releases and more Panama skullduggery, I found this Washington Post article to be more than interesting enough to share for a number of reasons. First being it is the …
US News of note
Trump letter to House Dems protests impeachment in ‘strongest’ terms. US Ex-Pats take note
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/17/politics/read-trump-impeachment-letter-to-house-democrats/index.html President Donald Trump sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday, excoriating the House Democrats’ pursuit of an impeachment inquiry just a day before the full House is set to vote.He wildly claimed that “(m)ore due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials.” And he …
Shady former ruler update: Play some F—–g soccer!
OP ED: James “JB” Bryson- Looks like old Evo is having a blast of a time in Argentina since he raped Bolivia for so long. Maybe he can stay in contact with Varela when he settled in Beijing and they can play on the weekends. https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=es&sp=nmt4&u=http://elsiglo.com.pa/internacional/morales-agradece-fernandez-garanticen-refugio-argentina/24146706&xid=17259,15700023,15700186,15700190,15700256,15700259,15700262,15700265,15700271,15700283&usg=ALkJrhgzuST1nPMYKWzQ0GMrpIGBBKob3g The former Bolivian president …
Family of Khashoggi still rocked by lack of action.
https://www.laestrella.com.pa/internacional/mundo/191217/pareja-periodista-descuartizado-embajada-saudi-critica-inaccion-internacional Hatice Cengiz, the couple of the murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, was today “disappointed with all countries” and international organizations such as the UN or the European Union for not taking “any action” against Saudi Arabia. According to Cengiz, “everyone should be concerned” about the “null ability or ability …
Defrauded businessman wants to sock Varela while at lunch.
https://www.prensa.com/judiciales/jueza-de-paz-desestimo-cargos-contra-sultan-por-altercado-con-varela/ The Calidonia Peace Court dismissed the charges against businessman Carlos Sultán, after the altercation he starred with the former President of the Republic Juan Carlos Varela, yesterday Monday at the Makoto restaurant. Judge Sonia Fuentes, issued a resolution filing the complaint after Varela did not appear at the court …
Keeping a keen eye if Nito can walk the walk. We have some stuff sent that will test resolve.
OP ED: Steven- JB re-posted an article last week where the newly elected President went out of his way to state to the world that Panama in open for business. Meaning “clean” business and not “dirty” business. I personally feel that Panama is the World Lightweight Champion in under the …
Who said a lawyer is perfect?STEVE’S LEGAL OP-ED.
OP ED: Regrettably over the past 7 or 8 months, I have had to more or less oversee what James is dealing with on his site. It started with “hey can you take a look at this?”, and has turned into me reading through about 15-20 emails per week. I …
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by Kathleen Hellen
Moving but not,
on top of the drifting apart,
the shaping of continents, the nation of
Cascadia lost in the salt marsh
and mud. The orphan traveling
5,000 miles, 300 years to Vancouver. Kobe. Seattle.
Like two cheese graters rubbing,
the TV geologist says. A gesture. Like this. The wind and water turning.
The siren as we crawled under the desks, our backs to the snow in Russia.
The Chinese teacher says, Children, put your hands
over your heads.
Like this. Remember? Many were killed, many
canoes were flung into trees.
Kathleen Hellen is a poet and the author of Umberto’s Night (2012) and The Girl Who Loved Mothra (2010). Her poems are widely published and have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, Evergreen, Nimrod, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, Rattapallax, Sycamore Review, and Witness, among others, and were featured on WYPR’s The Signal.
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Dev Update: Galactic Council, Revenant Homeworld, Victory Conditions, Optimisations, and more
May 30, 2016 Brain and Nerd, Game Design, Graphics, Mechanics, Screenshots
In the previous dev update, we delved into the details of a massive technology tree revamp that was in the works for Predestination, including dozens of new ship modules and weapons and the Improvements/Synergies tech tree. We fully tested and deployed the tech tree update last month, and we released five follow-up patches thoughout the month of May to correct new bugs and crashes caused by the update. I’d like to give a huge thanks to everyone sending in bug reports on the Steam Early Access forum and those of you submitting crash reports, it really helped us get on top of this.
This month we’ve been working hard on some really exciting features! We’ve developed the key storyline event that causes the Revenant Homeworld to decloak at a certain point during the game, tempting players to plunder it for technology at the risk of waking up the Revenants. If the Revenants awake, they periodically launch fleets out to annihilate populated worlds. We’ve completed the Galactic Domination, Scientific Victory and Destroy Revenants victory conditions, and have made several big improvements to be released in V0.9.3.0.
Those who like to play a diplomatic game will be excited to hear that we’re going to add a UN-style Galactic Council that meets to vote on important issues and that this will tie into a deep Diplomatic victory condition. And everyone will be happy to know that V0.9.3.0 will add some major optimisations on the game. We’ve managed to reduce RAM usage by over 35%, cut map generation and planet generation times by up to 50%, eliminate over 60% of the startup initialisation time, and reduced End Turn delays by up to 90%!
Read on for a full detailed breakdown of everything that we’re currently working on and everything that’s coming in V0.9.3.0 (estimated release in about 1 week).
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21 November 2016, 09:50 (CET)
Fastned introduces an intelligent trip planner for EV drivers
Amsterdam, 21 November 2016. Today Fastned launches a trip planner that allows drivers of electric cars to easily plan the fastest route to their destination, including fast charging stops when required. The Fastned trip planner provides exact driving and charging instructions to get to your destination with sufficient range left. The navigation tool is available on mobile, tablet and desktop.
The algorithm of the navigation tool is developed specifically for Fastned fast-charging stations. The optimal route is calculated based on the range and efficiency of the car, traffic, the location of all Fastned stations and the charging curve of the Fastned fast chargers. In addition, the navigation tool is automatically updated when new Fastned stations are added to the network. The navigation tool is currently in beta phase. Fastned will continue to optimise the functionality of the planner.
Michiel Langezaal, CEO of Fastned: "Fastned is continuously improving the experience of electric driving and charging. In recent years we have worked hard to expand the number of fast-charging stations and ensure that chargers will always work. The Fastned trip planner will make electric driving and fast-charging at Fastned even easier. And the more you use Fastned, the cheaper it gets. With the Fastned Power price plan you can fast charge throughout the Netherlands for just 19 cent per kWh.”
You can find the Routeplanner, which is in Beta, via route.fastned.nl (desktop, tablet and mobile) and in the Fastned app ((iOS en Android). The English language version is available under 'menu'.
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Fastned is a charging company that is building a European network of fast charging stations where fully electric vehicles can charge as fast as possible. The stations are located at high traffic locations along highways and in cities, where electric cars can add up to 200 km range in 15 minutes. Fastned's mission is to give freedom to electric drivers and accelerate the transition to sustainable mobility. As of today, Fastned has 114 stations operational in the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom, and is working on expanding its fast charging network to the rest of Europe. Fastned is currently simultaneously building fast charging stations in the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom, and preparing for building its first stations in other countries, with a focus on Belgium, Switzerland and France. Fastned is listed on Euronext Amsterdam. More information: fastnedcharging.com.
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The identity of future generations is causally dependent, in a very sensitive way, on the actions of the present generations.
Would it be irrational to act in ways that we know we would prefer later to undo (because it can detract significantly from our future well-being and goals): consider an aspiring author whose strongest desire is to write an award-winning novel but who, in doing so, suffers from lack of sleep and depression. Derek Parfit constructs the Critical Present Aim Theory to exclude self-interest as our overriding rational concern and to allow the time of action to become critically important. Should this include "to avoid acting wrongly" as our highest concern? Given the choice of surviving without psychological continuity and connectedness or dying but preserving these emotional bonds and connectedness through the future existence of someone else, which would you choose?
Parfit describes the loss of the conception of a separate self as liberating:
My life seemed like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every year, and at the end of which there was darkness... [However] When I changed my view, the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared. I now live in the open air. There is still a difference between my life and the lives of other people. But the difference is less. Other people are closer. I am less concerned about the rest of my own life, and more concerned about the lives of others.
�I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me was closed, that provisions were exhausted, and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity, but I find that thy will knows no end in me, and when old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart, and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.� Rabindranath Tagore
"I have undertaken a labor, a labor out of love for the world and to comfort nobel hearts; those that I hold dear, and the world to which my heart goes out. Not the common world of those who can not bear grief, and desire but to bathe in bliss. Their world and manner of life my tale does not regard: its life and mine dwell apart. Another world do I hold in mind, which bears together in one heart its bitter sweet, its dear grief, its heart's delight and its pain of longing, dear life and sorrowful death, its dear death and sorrowful life. In this world let me have my world, to be damned with it, or to be saved." Gottfried von Strassburg
As I remember both the beauty and the poverty I have witnessed in my travels, I bow in gratitude for the good fortune I experience, and to the creators and preservers of culture who continue to inspire our daily living. You can take a look at some sample of my travel documentaries at my YouTube Chanel. It is kind of a journal of my travel footprints.
When I changed my view, the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared.
I now live in the open air. There is still a difference between my life and the lives of other people. But the difference is less. Other people are closer. I am less concerned about the rest of my own life, and more concerned about the lives of others.
To Hafiz of Shiraz
Thus said the Poet: "When Death comes to you, All ye whose life-sand through the hour-glass slips, He lays two fingers on your ears, and two Upon your eyes he lays, one on your lips, Whispering: Silence!" Although deaf thine ear, Thine eye, my Hafiz, suffer Time's eclipse, The songs thou sangest still all men may hear. Songs of dead laughter, songs of love once hot, Songs of a cup once flushed rose-red with wine, Songs of a rose whose beauty is forgot, A nightingale that piped hushed lays divine: And still a graver music runs beneath The tender love notes of those songs of thine, Oh, Seeker of the keys of Life and Death!
Thought as soon as it functions it offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates, unites or reunites; it cannot help but liberate or enslave. Even before prescribing, suggesting a future, saying what must be done, even before exhorting or merely sounding an alarm, thought, at the level of its existence, in its very dawning, is in itself an action-a perilous act. Michel Foucault - The Order of Things
At every moment the world reveals to us the Dharma, teaching us the truths of the universe. This teaching is silent, yet sometimes it leaves a deeper impression than any verbal teaching ever could. Jing Si Aphorism by Master Cheng Yen
When it comes to the question of what it means to be human and what virtues and actions should guide us as human beings — who could truly help a society have the right goals and direction? Education used to be about striving towards the light of knowledge but this is increasingly less important.
When we are explicit about constructing values together and finding shared ground of what it means to be generous, have integrity, etc., this has a significant positive effect on pro-social behaviour, well-being, and academic outcomes. Thomas William Nielsen
Why we happily type our most private thoughts into Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon every day, trading away basic rights for conveniences in the process? Darren Wershler
Out from the cave: have we lost the purpose of education?
Take the Great Vow to help all beings, to suffer with all beings, and to guide all beings to the Realm of Great Joy.
In Celtic spirituality, the anam cara friendship awakens the fullness and mystery of your life. You are joined in an ancient and eternal union with humanity that cuts across all barriers of time, convention, philosophy, and definition. When you are blessed with an anam cara, you have arrived at that most sacred place: Home
Fatoumata Diawara - Kèlè - Makoun Oumou
Aboubono - Abou Diarra, Sabou
Sébastien Giniaux - Alkoholowa Nuda / Dakan
Kora and Balafon - 'Kaffo' Lansine Kouyate Sissokho
Sanungwe Kouyaté - Armée Malí
The path of love expands in ever-widening circles. John O'Donohue
Grief of Others by Leah Hager Cohen
Is keeping a secret from a spouse always an act of infidelity? And what cost does such a secret exact on a family?
The Grief of Others asks how we balance personal autonomy with the intimacy of relationships, how we balance private decisions with the obligations of belonging to a family, and how we take measure of our own sorrows in a world rife with suffering. This novel shows how one family , decent characters who hurt one another and are hurt by forces greater than themselves, when long-suppressed uncertainties about their relationship come roiling to the surface, by finally allowing itself to experience the shared quality of grief, is able to rekindle tenderness and hope.
Black and White Photography, Winters Last Day. By Richard Armstrong.
There are cases when I can make myself better off by restricting my future choices and commit myself to a specific course of action. Richard H. Thale
Michel Foucault - The Culture of the Self (addressing the nature of power and the manner in which it functions, the means by which it controls knowledge and vice versa, and how it is used as a form of social control. In the lecture on The Hermeneutics of the Subject (the art of text interpretation especially texts in the areas of literature, religion and law.)
Foucault encourages a process which he called "transsubjectivation", "conceived as a journey within oneself... the product of a transformation." Foucault used the word ethopoiein from the Greek word ethos to describe the transformation. "Ethopoiein means making ethos, producing ethos, changing, transforming ethos, the individual’s way of being, his mode of existence”.
Hargez Dobareh Ashegh Nakhaham Shod (I'll Never Fall In Love Again) - Songwriter: Vahid Adibi - Composer: Mehrpouya
"There will be moments when the drought of joy seems unending, instances spent pretending that everything is alright when it clearly is not; check your blind spot. See that love is still there, be patient. Every nightmare has a beginning, but every bad day has an end. Ignore what others have called you; I am calling you friend.” Shane Koyczan
Jean-Féry Rebel's Les Élémens is a ten-movement choreographed tone poem depicting the formation of earth's elements (earth, water, fire and air) from cosmic chaos.
According to Rebel, Chaos is "that confusion which reigned among the elements before the moment, when subjected to invariable laws, they took their ordained places in the order of nature." Rebel goes on to describe how he undertook to represent chaos musically: "I dared to undertake to link the idea of the confusion of the elements with that of confusion in harmony. I hazarded to make heard first all sound together or rather all of the notes of the octave united as a single sound." Chaos begins with an unheard of dissonance, sustaining all seven notes of the D minor scale in one harsh chord. After a short silence, one hears the formation of elements pulsating into existence. Each is introduced as melodic themes that are developed together in later movements. The chaos theme returns seven times throughout the movement and each time it appears the struggle between the elements further diminishes in intensity. "Air" appears in a high register wind tone suspended above the chaos. Slow, flowing scales depict the appearance of "Water". "Fire and Earth" enter together at opposite ends of the register: "Fire," the shimmering violins dancing with "Air," float above the rumblings of "Earth's" bass section. As the four elements develop, interweaving throughout their seven appearances, the rhythmic "Chaos" diminishes. Chaos concludes with a perfect consonance : an octave. Throughout the movement each of the elements is represented by a distinct musical idea: Earth by slurred bass notes; Water by ascending and descending flute cascades; Air by long sustained notes at the piccolos that conclude with trills; Fire by bravura violin passages.
In the early stages of Aztec civilization, the people lived in simple democratic harmony, in a society that in economic and political terms did not transcend the village level. But then this Mesoamerican utopia was ruined by the priestly class, “the first professional economists,” who commanded that pyramids be built. Neil Reynolds: preaching the gospel of narrative, a variety of storytelling, journalism. Neil Reynolds
In the Mirror of the Sky: Ali Akbar Moradi - Kayhan Kalhor
Al Andalus - History of Islam in Spain: a documentary reminding us that in Spain, Islam was a culture of phenomenal innovation which continually emphasized the importance of learning. The library in Cordoba, Spain, on the other hand, contained over half a million volumes.
“Even if the world ends, the music will still survive.”
Ustad Bismillah Khan - playing Shehnai: He was one of the finest musicians in post-independent Indian classical music and one of the best examples of Hindu-Muslim unity in India. Bismillah Khan like many Indian musicians, regardless of religion, a devotee of Saraswati, the Hindu Goddess of wisdom and arts, and often played at Hindu temples, including the famous Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi, on the banks of the river Ganga. Khan was known to be so devoted to his art form that he referred to shehnai as his begum (wife in Urdu) after his wife died. On his death, as an honour, his shehnai was buried with him. He was known for his vision of spreading peace and love through music and believed that music is the supreme form of living.
Write to Reconcile seeks to develop a community of like-minded individuals committed to contributing, through their writing, to the process of peace and reconciliation in Sri Lanka; a community of individuals committed to also reflecting the different points of views from the multiple communities that make up Sri Lanka. Project Director Shyam Selvadurai, author of Hungry Ghosts
Write to Reconcile, is a creative writing project that bring together emerging Sri Lankan writers who are interested in writing creative pieces (fiction, memoir or poetry) on the issues of conflict, peace, reconciliation, memory and trauma, as they relate to Sri Lanka.
To my knowledge significant progress has never been born of competition. ... In science, being 'better' than others is of little practical value. Examples of how absurd the idea of scientific competition is are abundant.
Expert opinions have a difficulty to go beyond of what they know.
We had the freedom to make mistakes. That's something very important... Otherwise, you do the common things. You don't dare to do something beyond what everybody else thinks. Heinrich Rohrer
Franz Liszt - Liebestraum - Love Dream
Originally the three Liebesträume (Notturni) were conceived as songs after poems by Ludwig Uhland and Ferdinand Freiligrath.
The two poems by Uhland and the one by Freiligrath depict three different forms of love. Uhland's exalted love is saintly, or religious, love: the "martyr" renounces worldly love and "heaven has opened its gates". The second song Holy Death is often known by its first line "I was dead", and evokes erotic love; "dead" could be a metaphor here as "I was dead from love's bliss" . Freiligrath's poem for the famous third Notturno is about unconditional mature love.
When you write the story of two happy lovers, set it on shore of Lake Como. From the house where I live, I feel the ublements of the waves that died breaking against the rocks and i see the last rays of the sun disappeared and gold behind the mountain. How many times i felt the urge to destroy the miserable instruments on which I plaed losing all hope, expressing little small part of what I experienced. Poor artists there will be flashes during which one seems to have intuition of divine things but the moment when wants to give voice to these feelings, to give form to our soul brief flight, they flee, the illusion is cancelled the God vanishes and man remain alone in presence of a work without the life..
Franz List Letter to Louis de Ronchaud , Sep 1837 (The Pilgrimage Years)
Tao Yuan-ming, also known as Tao Chien or Tao Quin, , Poet of Reclusion: Quiet and of few words, he does not desire glory or profit. He delights in study but does not seek abstruse explanations. Whenever there is something of which he apprehends the meaning, then, in his happiness, he forgets to eat...Tao's simple and plain style of expression, reflect his back-to-basics lifestyle:
Uneasy was the bird which had lost the flock; In the evening of the day it still flew alone. Uncertain, with no fixed resting place ... Now it has alighted on this solitary pine, Now it has folded its wings and come home from afar.
Far off, I gaze at the white clouds, I think deeply of the ancients ...I think of you, recluses: A thousand years after, I cherish your principles. Searching their essence, I cannot exhaust it. ...That the ancients cannot be with me only I can know how sorely I regret it.
The days and months are not able to linger; The four seasons press upon one another. A cold wind shakes the withered branches; Fallen leaves cover the long road. My feeble constitution declines with the passing of time. The black hair on my temples is early winter: The white sign is now set upon my head.
The road before me gradually narrows. My hut is an inn for a traveler, And I am like a guest that must depart. Away, away, to where am I going? On the southern mountains is my old home.
John Williams composed the score for Schindler's List. He played the main theme on piano, and following Spielberg's suggestion, he hired Itzhak Perlman to perform it on the violin.
Franz List - The Pilgrimage Years
As Plato expresses it in Symposium, eros can help the soul to remember beauty in its pure form and it can contribute to an understanding of truth. Its main characteristic is permanent aspiration and desire. Even when it seems to give, eros continues to be a desire to possess, but nevertheless it is different from a purely sensual love in being the love that tends towards the sublime. Eros is thus the way that leads man to divinity.
For Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, the metaphor of eros or intimate love provides the closest analogy in human experience for a sense of the movement to transcend oneself — to reach out for a knowledge that always partially evades one’s grasp. From The Song of Songs, and throughout the Bible and its literature of commentary and meditation, this metaphor has held a more or less central place. Issues of longing and loneliness, emptiness and fullness play themselves out here. In her "The Murmuring Deep: Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious" she offers insights into the interaction between consciousness and unconsciousnessa and better understanding of the desires and motivations of the men and women whose stories form the basis of the Bible as the foundational text in our quest to understand what it means to be human.
The Faces of Eve
Camille Saint-Saens - Carnival of the Animals (a musical suite of fourteen movements)
1.Introduction & Royal March of the Lion. This section reminds one of the agitation one experiences when something stupendous is about to happen. The pianos play a pair of scales going in opposite directions to conclude the first part of the movement. The pianos then introduce a march theme that they carry through most of the rest of the introduction. The strings provide the melody, with the pianos occasionally taking low runs of octaves or high ostinatos suggesting the roars of the lions.
2. Hens & Roosters. This movement is centered around a pecking theme played in the pianos and strings. In the middle of the section, you can almost see a rooster marching along the rows of hens who nervously run around him.
3. Wild Asses. The animals depicted here are quite obviously running, an image induced by the constant, feverishly fast up-and-down motion of both pianos playing scales in octaves.
4. Tortoises. A slightly satirical movement which opens with a piano playing a pulsing triplet figure in the higher register.
5.The Elephant. Like the previous movement, Saint-Saens moves this to the lowest and heaviest-sounding instrument in the orchestra, the double bass.
6.The Kangaroos. The main figure here is a pattern of "hopping" fifths preceded by grace notes.
7. The Aquarium. The first piano plays a descending ten-on-one ostinato, while the second plays a six-on-one. These figures, plus the occasional glissando from the harmonica are evocative of a peaceful, dimly-lit aquarium.
8. Characters with Long Ears. Here the violins alternate playing high, shrill screeches and low, buzzing notes (in the manner of a donkey's braying "hee-haw"
9.The cuckoo in the depths of the woods Here the clarinet plays a single two-note ostinato, over and over; a C and an A flat, mimicking the call of a cuckoo bird.
10.Aviary . The high strings take on a background role, providing a buzz in the background that is reminiscent of the background noise of a jungle. The flute takes the part of the bird, with a trilling tune that spans much of its range. The pianos provide occasional ping and trills of other birds in the background. The movement ends very quietly after a long ascending scale from the flute.
11. Pianists. This movement is unusual in that the last three blasted chords do not resolve the piece, but rather lead into the next movement.
12.Fossils. Here, Saint-Saens mimics his own Danse Macabre which makes heavy use of the glockenspiel to evoke the image of skeletons playing card games, the bones clacking together to the beat.
13. The Swan. The lushly romantic cello solo, which evokes the swan elegantly gliding over the water, is played over rippling sixteenths in one piano and rolled chords in the other.
14. Final. The finale opens on the same tremolo notes in the pianos as in the introduction. The work ends with a series of six "Hee Haws" from the Jackasses, as if to say that the Jackass has the last laugh, before the final strong group of C major chords.
Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps): first performed in Paris on May 29, 1913. �Very little immediate tradition lies behind Le Sacre du Printemps � I wrote what I heard. I am the vessel through which the Sacre passed.�
Oumou Sangaré - Djorolen
Ndidi Onukwulu is a Canadian singer from British Columbia Kissing On A Bridge: If you want to be here then come in
“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
You have broken into my heart. This time I feel the blues have departed. Nothing can keep me away from this feeling. I know I am simply falling for you
Three Seasons - Richard Horowitz
Salif Keita - C'est bon, C'est bon
Buika - Falsa Moneda
Nasir Khusraw, the Ruby of Badakhshan: A Portrait of the Persian Poet, Traveler and Philosopher By Alice C. Hunsberger
The world is a deep ocean, its water is time; Your body is like a shell, your soul the pearl. If you wish to have the value of a pearl, Raise up the pearl of your soul by learning.
From pulpit-tops they preach to the common folk, Dazzling them about paradise and the food to be had there. They crow and cry in hope of food; Asses always bray when you speak of barley. And By day you fast and moan and finger your rosary, By night you’re enjoying music and wine. You’ve memorized the texts of deception quite smoothly, So now you’re grand mufti of Balkh, Nishapur and Herat.
How can anyone be so stupid as to crave for the world and its trappings? What is all this longing for power and kingdom? It’s nothing but slavery, and whosoever is a slave of the body can never reach the lofty height of a true rulership for to be a king means to give not to take.
Kindle the candle of intellect in your heart and hasten with it to the world of brightness; If you want to light a candle in your heart, make knowledge and goodness its wick and oil.
In the path of the hereafter, one should not walk on foot but with the soul and the intellect, and for provisions, you must fill the tablecloth of your heart with obedience and knowledge.
0 son, your mind is the garden of intellect, turn it not into a furnace with fumes of wine; your heart is the blessed mine of knowledge, why have you planted a perverse hardness in it?
Let your heart become soft because a shirt of dusky soft silk does not befit a heart of stone; cast away ignorance from your mind because celebration does not befit a house of lament. Comprehend well the wise poetry of the hujja, and with the needle of reflection, prick his excellent words in your subtle heart and soul. Nasir Khusrow
My name is Iyeoka. In the Yoruba oral translation, my name means mother who speaks the word. I am fascinated by the subtle influence of the spoken language and our potential access to the bounty of translation and meaning. My name and my journey synergistically encourages me to share the story of the Esan people.
Can life actually be more beautiful once your ideals and illusions are shattered and you see the entire picture? Wilde believes it is possible
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Fifteen Thousand Plus
March 26, 2014 Alienworks, MetaEthan
The Human Reignition Project has gone through a few iterations and false starts before it became the story it is today. One of those iterations was a nice, campy little Slice-of-Life story about a kooky old professor dragging a group of regular people along to take part in wild shenanigans while learning the importance of human connection. This, aside from its current form, is the Human Reignition Project that we stuck with the longest. It seemed a decent enough story, the setting was nice, and the characters appeared interesting.
The only problem was that it wasn’t, and they weren’t. But we never noticed that our story didn’t have a story to it, that it was just a group of people sort of aimlessly wandering around without motivation or reason. The characters had depth in our minds, but they didn’t have any real involvement, because again, there was no story to speak of. And the worst part of it all? We had no appreciation for The Holy Outline. Our outline at the time probably topped out at around two hundred words for the first act, reasoning with ourselves that even though we couldn’t figure out any more details for a particular scene, we’d just leave it to the writers to ‘figure it out later’ and patted ourselves on the back when we thought that would give the writers the greatest amount of flexibility (notice: we’re the writers.)
And so we thought up scenes and wrote. We wrote what came to us, as it came to us, outlines and structure be damned. After all, it can’t possibly be that difficult to write a story with multiple branches involving at least six heroines, right? It wasn’t too much longer before we wrote ourselves right into a corner, and we were left with a sickly script that limped spasmodically from one event to another. By the time we realized it had to be scrapped and the idea reworked from the ground up, the script topped out at around fifteen thousand words.
But this week, a little over two weeks after we started drafting again, we’ve finally reached and surpassed that word count. Our shiny new rough draft, with its interweaving plot and characters that actually matter and develop throughout the story, is over 15,000 words long so far. And we’ve not even done with the first act yet. Hell, we’re not even done with the first quarter of the first act yet, and we couldn’t be happier with how things are shaping up!
The further we get into writing, the more necessary it’s getting to hire a CG artist to finally fill out our ranks. If anyone reading this post is interested in applying for the position, click here to get an idea of our initial contract terms, and send an email along with your portfolio to AlienWorks.Recruiting@gmail.com
About Ethan
“Oily” is one of the original members of the DevTeam. He’s the mediator of the group: “The Great Compromiser.” Fitting, considering his favorite U.S. History figure is Henry Clay. He just can’t understand why Jackson was such an asshole to his homedog Henry. Again, a gifted writer, though he keeps his past shrouded in a veil of intrigue and lies. We know, Oily. We know everything. View all posts by Ethan →
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2 thoughts on “Fifteen Thousand Plus”
Loi says:
(also im new to finding your site, sorry if i ask questions for what you’ve posted in the past before;;) I’m not going to apply but i’d like to ask, the story for the game is no different from the summary in the home page of the site? (im kind of confused about that too, so i cant really image well about your project) but didnt Human Reignition Project already have artist joined..? (if its personal reasons, then you dont need to answer ^^) I’d like to cheer to everyone who is part of the project! / v /
We have a sprite artist and a background artist right now, but ideally we’d like a third artist for those complex ‘CG’ images you see in other visual novels.
What you see on the homepage is really just a summary of the world HRP takes place in. The actual plot hasn’t quite been revealed just yet, and might not be until we release our demo. But we’re always willing to talk about our story on our IRC! No spoilers, though. 😉
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Aaron Sherman WATKINS, D.D., Ph.D., LL.D[1]
Name Aaron Sherman WATKINS
Suffix D.D., Ph.D., LL.D
Born 29 Nov 1863 Rushsylvania, Logan, Ohio, United States [2]
Living 6 Jul 1870 Rushsylvania, Logan, Ohio, United States [3]
Something wrong with the census as it shows Aaron as being 62 and a retired farmer
Living 5 Jun 1880 Rushcreek Township, Logan, Ohio, United States [4]
Misc 17 Jul 1908 Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States [5]
Nominated to run for Vice-President
Read about his nomination!
Occupation 1909/10 Wilmore, Jessamine County, Kentucky
President, Asbury College
Misc 3 Aug 1920 Germantown, Allen County County, Ohio [6]
Read this human interest story!
Occupation Between 1926 and 1927 Waynesville Methodist, Waynesville, Auglaize County, Ohio [7]
Methodist minister
Died 9 Feb 1941 Rushsylvania, Logan, Ohio, United States [8]
Read his obituary!
Buried Rushcreek Township, Logan, Ohio, United States [9]
Equality Cemetery
VP candidate in 1908 and 1912 and our candidate for President in 1920 (his official campaign photograph, taken in 1907). Reprinted from the 1941 issue of the magazine of the Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Aaron Sherman Watkins was born in the Quality community, near Rushsylvania, November 29, 1863, the youngest of ten children born to William White and Rebecca J. (Elliott) Watkins. All of the family have preceded him in death and are William Jasper, Charles Wesley, Nancy Elizabeth, James Hamilton, Joseph Milton, Mary Melissa, Eliza Jane, Isaac Newton, and Harriet Adaline.
November 8, Rev. and Mrs. Watkins commemorated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. The wife, Emma Laura (Davis) Watkins, of Middleburg community; son, Willard Merrill Watkins, and grandchildren Willard Dean Watkins and Norma Jean Watkins, in the Rushsylvania home.
In early manhood he became a member of the Walnut Grove Methodist Protestant Church, and later held Ohio pastorates in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Continental, Ottawa, Edgerton, Delta, North Baltimore, Van Wert, Columbus Grove, Germantown, Linwood and Winton Place in Cincinnati; Waynesville, Wesley, in Lima and Cairo.
His long service as an educator included the one-room school, principal, and superintendent at Quincey, instructor at Miami Military Institute at Germantown Ohio, during the World War, where he held the rank of Captain, head of the English Department and Vice-President of Ohio Northern at Ada, and President of Asbury College at Wilmore, Kentucky.
Prior to his ordination as a minister, he was associated with his brother, Judge Charles Wesley Watkins, as an attorney-at-law. During his long service in the cause of temperance, he became a candidate on the Prohibition Party ticket for many public offices, including: Attorney-General, Secretary of State; and Governor of Ohio in 1905 and 1908. In 1908 and 1912 he became candidate on the National Prohibition ticket for Vice-President of the United States, and in 1920 he was selected as candidate for President of the United States.
He was honored with collegiate degrees of Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, Doctor of Laws, Doctor of Divinity, Doctor of Humane Letters, and Doctor of Philosophy.
It was his privilege to have been associated with national figures, including William Jennings Bryan, Carrie Nation, Col. John Sobieski, Eugene W. Chafin, D. Leigh Colvin, Clarence Darrow, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Typical and almost prophetic of his full and useful life was his graduation oration at Ohio Northern University in 1886. It was titled, ³The Increasing Purpose.²
It is in one a pleasure and a challenge to pay adequate tribute to one we have known, and loved, so well.
For half a century Dr. Aaron S. Watkins had been accustomed to answering the call of the church bell on Sunday mornings, so it seemed quite fitting that it should be on a Sunday morning that he should answer that last great call to enter the ³temple not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.² On Sunday morning about 5:30, February 9, 1941, Dr. Watkins died with the final statement that ³I have had a very happy life, ³and could well have added a very useful one, for his many ministrations he was teacher of our Brotherhood class and often gave the message in absence of the pastor.
The pastor used as his text Genesis 25:8, ³The Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years: and was gathered to his people,²which illustrates the ³increasing purpose² of his life.
Special music included: ³Safe in the Arms of Jesus² and ³One Sweetly Solemn Thought.² The visiting ministers sang, ³Rock of Ages.²
After retiring from the active ministry he settled in Rushsylvania, near his birthplace. He was especially appreciated by his last pastor as a wise councilor and friend.
Person ID I108 Watkins
Father William White WATKINS, b. 13 Oct 1825, Jefferson Township, Logan, Ohio, United States , d. 1 Nov 1897, Rushsylvania, Logan, Ohio, United States (Age 72 years)
Mother Rebecca John ELLIOTT, b. 9 Oct 1821, Stark County, Ohio, United States , d. 14 May 1886, Logan County, Ohio, United States (Age 64 years)
Married 22 Apr 1847 [10, 11]
Marriage performed by J.W. Johnson, Justice of the Peace
Residence 23 Sep 1850 Perry Township, Logan, Ohio, United States [12]
Family Emma Laura DAVIS, b. 20 Jul 1857, Logan County, Ohio, United States , d. 20 Sep 1950, Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States (Age 93 years)
Marriage License 7 Nov 1890 Logan County, Ohio, United States [13]
Application made by J. H. Branson.
Married 8 Nov 1892 Logan County, Ohio, United States [2, 13]
Residence 28 Jun 1900 Edgerton, Williams County, Ohio [14]
Residence 18 Apr 1910 Wilmore, Jessamine County, Kentucky [15]
Emma was a Dormitory Matron at Asbury College.
Residence 8 Jan 1920 Germantown, Montgomery County, Ohio [16]
Teacher at Miami Military Institute
32 South Plum Street
Residence 11 Apr 1930 Lima, Allen, Ohio, United States [17]
1105 St Johns Avenue
Market Street Methodist Church
Residence 13 Apr 1940 Rushsylvania, Logan, Ohio, United States [18]
Listed as Aaron S. and Emma Laura Watkins; their son, Willard, and grandson, Willard Dean Watkins were living with them.
1. Willard Merrill WATKINS, b. 19 Aug 1898, Edgerton, Williams, Ohio, United States , d. 14 Mar 1958, Marion, Marion, Ohio, United States (Age 59 years)
Aaron Sherman Watkins and Emma Davis Watkins
Taken at a reunion of the family of William White Watkins and Rebecca Elliott Watkins about 1884.
Aaron Sherman Watkins
Prohibitionist Candidate for President of the United States
1912 Vice Presidential Candidate of the Prohibitionist Party
WATKINS - Presidential Candidate Watkins Makes Sure His Wash is Dry
WATKINS - Ticket Named by Prohibitionists
Aaron Watkins chosen as Vice Presidential Candidate
Rev. Aaron Sherman Watkins and Emma Laura Davis Watkins
Aaron (1863 - 1941)
Emma (1857 - 1950)
WATKINS - Aaron Sherman Watkins
Teacher, Methodist Minister, Vice-President of Ohio Northern University, Lawyer, Prohibition Candidate for Ohio governor, US Vice President and US President.
WATKINS - The Nine
Each year the descendants of William White Watkins and Rebecca Elliott Watkins hold a family reunion in Logan County, Ohio on the second Sunday in August. This poem was written to commemorate nine of William and Rebecca's surviving children at the time of one of the reunions.
[S1] Imported GEDCOM file.
[S27] Watkins family genealogy, Page 20.
[S113] 1870 United States Federal Census.
Rush Creek Township, Logan County, Ohio Page 13 of 44
[S416] 1880 United States Federal Census, Rush Creek Township, Logan, Ohio Page 10 of 47.
[S24] Miscellaneous, Coshocton, Ohio newspaper 7/17/1908.
[S24] Miscellaneous, Lima [OH] News 8/3/1920.
[S92] Website.
http://www.mlcook.lib.oh.us/ministers_serving_waynesville_me.htm
[S153] The Prohibition Party.
[S91] Gravestone.
[S10] Genealogy of the Watkins Family, Pg 1.
[S93] Marriage Certificate, Logan County, OH Marriage Records, Book B, p. 31.
See Marriage Record!
[S409] 1850 United States Federal Census, Perry Township, Logan, OH Dwelling 53.
[S117] Logan County Genealogical, Logan County Marriages 1887 - 1895 Volume G, Page 263 Transcribed by Debbie Bleger.
[S414] 1900 United States Federal Census, St. JosephTownship, Williams County, Ohio ED 113 Page 13.
[S417] 1910 United States Federal Census, Wilmore, Jessamine, KY ED 40 Sheet 3A.
[S415] 1920 United States Federal Census, Germantown Village, Montgomery, OH ED 214 Page 2B Dwelling 62.
[S416] 1880 United States Federal Census, Lima, Allen, OH ED 2-31 Sheet 11A.
[S449] 1940 United States Census, 1940 United States Census., Rushsylvania, Logan, Ohio, ED 46-34, Page 3B Dwelling 75.
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K-Man & The 45s And Din/James Blonde Concert Previews, Plus More News & Notes!!
In our latest SMS post, we have two special concert previews for mid-week shows that you punk and alt/hard rock fans will want to take notice of, but to round things out, we have news on a reunited local band and a local solo artist's recent recording sessions. Here's what you should know!
We'll start with a preview of a big show taking place TOMORROW NIGHT, as Montreal ska-punk quintet K-Man & The 45s will return to Sault Ontario for a headlining concert at LopLops Lounge! Marking their sixth local concert appearance since 2013 (and fifth consecutive fall season date here), the change in venue from prior years shouldn't affect what should be an entertaining evening of reggae-influenced punk originals and "Ska-mones" covers, and if you've seen them live before, you'll know how entertaining their live show is! Joining them are Saskatoon noise/punk duo The Faps in their first local date since headlining here back in 2014, so expect more hard hitting minimalist action from them in their Soo encore tomorrow night! Local indie/hard rock quartet Bizotic (who opened for K-Man & company here in March) will reprise that role tomorrow with more creative originals, while local DJ The Dub Selectah will also be on hand to spin ska and reggae tunes between bands.
Intriguing yet familiar lineup all around, so don't miss out tomorrow night! A rare LopLops date from promoters Six, Two, Oh. (who put on the last four K-Man shows & 2014's Faps concert), this show unfortunately has a higher cover charge of $10 compared to their prior shows here, but you can knock the price to $8 by buying advance tickets at The Rad Zone, Case's Music, Big Guns Barbershop, The Vape Escape, and possibly the venue if you're early enough. This concert is at 9:00 PM with a 19+ age limit, so visit the official Facebook event page for more details, and here's K-Man & The 45s live!
Next up, here's another mid-week concert preview that's also regarding a LopLops Lounge event taking place THIS WEDNESDAY NIGHT, as local alternative/hard rock trio The Din will play their penultimate local concert set and final set as an opening band when they open for Niagara Falls indie/pop rock trio James Blonde! While not their final LopLops appearance (that's their finale/CD release on October 21st), time is running out to see Mike, Tammy, and Brandan's skilled alt-rock originals on the local stage, and this should be another solid night of older and newer original material & select covers, so don't miss this one on Wednesday if you can help it! As for James Blonde, they're touring in support of their new self-titled album, and their folk-influenced but modern pop rock sound is a solid fit for LopLops, so if you're a genre fan, definitely give them a listen to see what you think! Like the K-Man show tomorrow, this is a 19+ event at 9:00 PM, and I would expect a cover charge of at least $5.
In any event, LopLops' website does not have pages or online ticket sales posted for either of these mid-week events, but they are both good to go, and definitely consider a trip there on Wednesday for The Din's second-to-last show opening for James Blonde! Visit the official Facebook event page for more details, and here's The Din live!
Also today, here's the latest from former Bear Hunters guitarist & Skull After Betrayl frontman Mike Vincent's revived solo project, so what's new from his camp? Well, he posted two more songs from his debut solo album to his Bandcamp page last week, including "Chapter 2: Glow of the Dark" and a "bonus/single" named "Ultimate Chaos". As per Mike's personal Facebook page, recording sessions are compete for the album, which will also be called "Ultimate Chaos", with the previously teased EPs ("Six, Six, Six" & "We're Of Nothing") now considered it's first & second halves. With that said, the album is not (yet?) for sale in a full album format, but Mike signalled in his personal post that he already is planning work on a second solo album. I have no idea if he plans to formally package "Ultimate Chaos" into even a proper Bandcamp album with a price, cover art, track listing and all that, but pending a formal sale, I'll hold comment on the new songs.
That said, if Mike does properly release the album in a sale format, it would be eligible for a CD review on the SMS, and fans of his existing solo music should enjoy these instrumentals, so check the above links for more on Mike's recent solo work, and stay tuned for more from him!
Finally for today, here's three assorted shorter news items from the last while, and as usual, these are in alphabetical order by band or event name:
Local hardcore punk group Programmed To Fail quietly reunited last fall, as per their new Facebook page, and have enlisted former Northern Tragedy bassist Corry Rideout into their lineup! That's the extent of their new updates, with nothing else new to speak of beyond 2016 posts, but it's great to see Corry back in a local band after a few years away! Stay tuned for more from Programmed to Fail when it rolls in, and they're back in our active band links!
As of September 26th, promoters Maxx Entertainment (or Choose Maxx) were still looking for musical performers for this year's sixth annual Toystock charity concert at The Northern Grand Gardens on November 26th. Full bands, duos, and solo acts of "pretty much any genre" can apply to perform, so message them at their Facebook page if you're interested in performing at Toystock VI next month! For what it's worth, comments there implied interest in sets from Soundcheck and a returning The Peace Vibe.
In a post on the Musicians Wanted Facebook group on Friday, Vol. frontman Steve Edwards noted that he's looking for practice space and willing to pay rent for "a 4 piece alt-rock group" that would practice 2-4 times a week in the lead-up to a concert. He didn't directly specify if the intended band is for Vol. or not, but if it is, their apparent expansion to a quartet is news to me. If he meant Vol., stay tuned for word on their new member, and message Steve at this link or above if you can help out the band in question!
That's all for today, but stay tuned for more news and previews on the site as the week rolls along! Thanks everyone!
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BILL JAMIESON: HAS THE SNP AND ITS ALLIES LOST THE BREXIT PLOT?
BILL JAMIESON DECEMBER 6 2016
So: a constitutional crisis over Brexit could be an “extremely good thing for Scotland”, according to Alex Salmond.
The former first minister said if the Supreme Court judges rejected the government’s appeal this week it would result in a constitutional crisis – “ an extremely good thing for Scotland because it would put us in an extremely powerful position in terms of securing the interests of Scotland in the negotiations”.
Meanwhile, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told a European Greens conference in Glasgow that supporters of progressive values needed to “stand up and be counted” to fight against xenophobia.
For good measure the Scottish Greens co-convenor Maggie Chapman said her party would back Ms Sturgeon if she presses for an independence referendum.
Have the SNP and its allies totally lost the plot?
Have they forgotten that they have a country to look after? And that their relentless pursuit of a second referendum – even at the cost of a constitutional crisis – flies in the face of polls showing no public appetite for one and that it is damaging Scottish interests?
Little wonder business confidence is at a low ebb in Scotland with continuing constitutional turmoil. And that, on the latest forecasts released yesterday from the EY ( Ernst & Young) Scottish Item Club, output growth here will shrink to just 0.4 per cent next year – 1.6 percentage points lower than it expected in June?
Its prediction for this year has also been lowered from 1.2 per cent to 0.7 per cent, having forecast growth of 1.9 per cent in its report a year ago.
EY said growth would be “much slower” as existing headwinds were “compounded by political and economic uncertainty”. The report said the “bright spots” of economic growth from mid-2015 – consumer spending and investment – had “faded”.
If this was all due to Brexit then the UK as a whole would be suffering just as much. But the latest Scottish figures are well below its estimates for the UK as a whole, which it expects to grow by 1.9 per cent this year and 0.8 per cent in 2017.
For the record, the UK economy grew by 2.3 per cent in the year to end September.
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) forecasts that UK GDP growth will slow to 1.4 per cent in 2017 – compared to the EY prediction of just 0.4 per cent growth for Scotland – and then recover to 1.7 per cent in 2018 and 2.1 per cent in both 2019 and 2020.
So why should Scotland be faring worse – other than the acute uncertainty and dislocation being pursued by the SNP?
And as if that was not enough, now comes the former first minister with his admonitions that a constitutional crisis would be “an extremely good thing”.
Who is he trying to fool?
There’s little sign of Brexit meltdown across the UK as a whole – or that, as the EY Scottish Item Club puts it – consumer spending and investment elsewhere in the UK has “faded”.
Indeed Purchasing Managers Index figures out yesterday showed UK services activity at a 10-month high in November. The activity index climbed to 55.2 from 54.5 in October.
Other elements of the November services were decent overall with new orders growth at the second highest level this year and outstanding business rising at the fastest rate since July 2015. Employment growth in the sector was at a seven-month high.
But the services PMI is not the only upbeat indicator for the UK to have emerged in the past week. The PMI report on construction activity showed expansion for the third month running in November and is at an eight month high.
New orders are also at an eight-month high, employment up and business expectations improving.
Specifically, the PMI improved to 52.8 in November from 52.6 in October and just 45.9 in July – the lowest level since June 2009.
None of this is to say that Brexit is not a problem or that the UK economy will not face setbacks in the period ahead. Major uncertainties abound – many of them relating to political upheaval in continental Europe and US trade and foreign policy when Donald Trump takes over as President in January.
In this context the idea that a constitutional crisis would be “an extremely good thing” borders on the deranged.
Why does the SNP continue to have a problem with referendum results?
It said it would respect the outcome of the independence referendum which rejected separation – but it constantly agitates for a second referendum.
It didn’t like the outcome of the UK-wide referendum to leave the EU – and constantly agitates for Scotland to be excluded – even though it accepted it was a UK-wide vote – and that a million Scots voted for ‘Leave’.
All we seem to get from the SNP leadership is grandstanding at foreign conferences, virtue signalling about xenophobia (not to be confused with Scottish nationalism), constant whining about anything and everything that Westminster does, and relentless complaints that Westminster economic policy is “doing Scotland down” – even though the UK has been the fastest growing economy in the G-7.
What we need from the SNP administration is a keen focus on
WHY Scotland is lagging so markedly behind the UK overall,
WHY the SNP administration has so far failed to provide an uplift,
WHY it believes a constitutional crisis would be good for us,
WHY it is failing to concentrate on the job in hand, and
WHAT it intends to do about it.
Without a radical change in policy direction and help for the enterprise sector, Heaven help us all.
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Records of George A Allen Funeral Home 1920-1949 Aylmer Ontario
An alphabetical listing of the Records of the George A Allen Funeral Home in Aylmer Ontario from 1920 to 1949.
The Ontario Genealogical Society
Oxford County Branch Library Collection
Memories of Paris Volume 3 A Sentimental Journey Back to the Prettiest Little Town in Ontario
Memories of Paris Ontario from 1920 to about 1980
No Smiling Path
A variety of stories relating to the family of William and Elizabeth Greary who received one of the first land grants in London Township. The family stories are set against a backdrop of local and regional events.
A variety of stories relating to the family of William and Elizabeth Greary who received one of the first land grants in London Township. The family stories are set against ...
African Hope Renewed: Along the Grand River 1400-1800's
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Records of the George A Allen Funeral Home 1920-1949 Alymer Ontario
Records of the George A Allen Funeral Home in Alymer Ontario from 1920-1949. This was one of two undertakers in Alymer in the early 1900s. Includes name of the deceased, the volume and page and may contain additional information such as address, cause of death and place of birth
Records of the George A Allen Funeral Home in Alymer Ontario from 1920-1949. This was one of two undertakers in Alymer in the early 1900s. Includes name of the deceased, ...
Nécrologie / Obituary Rita Pearl Anderson (née Armitage)
Société historique de Nipissing Ouest
Moddinott, Boyd Clifford (Died)
appeared in Independent & Free Press, 25 Mar 2004, Classified, p. 20. Date of Event: 19 Mar 1992 Moddinott, Boyd Clifford -- (retired supervisor of C.I.L., Hamilton Works, Member of Hamilton Wentworth Regional Police Commission from 1973 -1979 and Chairman from 1974 - 1979) on Thursday, March 19, 1992 at the Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital, Boyd Hoddinott (Born in Greenspond, Newfoundland ...
appeared in Independent & Free Press, 25 Mar 2004, Classified, p. 20. Date of Event: 19 Mar 1992 Moddinott, Boyd Clifford -- (retired supervisor of C.I.L., Hamilton Works, Member of Hamilton Wentworth Regional Police Commission from 1973 -1979 and Chairman from 1974 - 1979) on Thursday, March 19, ...
Halton Hills Public Library
Kingsbury, Muriel May (née Muriel MayStewart) (Died)
appeared in Independent & Free Press, 25 Mar 2004, Classified, p. 20. Date of Event: 21 Mar 1992 Kingsbury, Muriel May -- At St. Joseph's Hospital, Guelph, on Sunday March 21, 1992, Muriel May Stewart wife of the late Alex Kingsbury of Guelph and formerly of Rockwood. Cherished mother of Donna Bateman and her husband Gary of Guelph, Marilyn Kneitl and her husband John of Rockwood and Gordon ...
appeared in Independent & Free Press, 25 Mar 2004, Classified, p. 20. Date of Event: 21 Mar 1992 Kingsbury, Muriel May -- At St. Joseph's Hospital, Guelph, on Sunday March 21, 1992, Muriel May Stewart wife of the late Alex Kingsbury of Guelph and formerly of Rockwood. Cherished ...
Rachlin, Ethel (née EthelStark) (Died)
appeared in Independent & Free Press, 25 Mar 2004, Classified, p. 20. Date of Event: 14 Mar 1992 Rachlin, Ethel -- In her 88th year, suddenly on Saturday, March 14, 1992 at Toronto General Hospital. Ethel Rachlin, Beloved wife of Benjamin. Loving mother and mother-in-law of Ted and Marie Rachlin, and Elaine and Cuppy Katz. Dear sister of Rosie Coleman, and Esther Freeman, and predeceased by ...
appeared in Independent & Free Press, 25 Mar 2004, Classified, p. 20. Date of Event: 14 Mar 1992 Rachlin, Ethel -- In her 88th year, suddenly on Saturday, March 14, 1992 at Toronto General Hospital. Ethel Rachlin, Beloved wife of Benjamin. Loving mother and mother-in-law of Ted and ...
Tamblyn, Melville Arthur (Died)
appeared in Independent & Free Press, 25 Mar 2004, Classifies, p. 20. Date of Event: 18 Mar 1992 Tamblyn, Melville Arthur -- (W.W.11 vetran, 48th Highlanders of Canada) on Wednesday, March 18, 1992 at the Halton Centennniel Manor, Milton, Ontario, Mel Tamblyn (formerly of Georgetown) husband of the late Joini Wacklin and fondly remembered by niece Susan and her husband Ken Bruce of Brampton ...
appeared in Independent & Free Press, 25 Mar 2004, Classifies, p. 20. Date of Event: 18 Mar 1992 Tamblyn, Melville Arthur -- (W.W.11 vetran, 48th Highlanders of Canada) on Wednesday, March 18, 1992 at the Halton Centennniel Manor, Milton, Ontario, Mel Tamblyn (formerly of Georgetown) husband of the ...
Townsend, Douglas Harry (Died)
appeared in Independent & Free Press, 25 Mar 2004, Classified, p. 20. Date of Event: 18 Mar 1992 Townsend, Douglas Harry -- On Wednesday March 18, 1992 at the Georgetown and District Memorila Hospital. Doug Townsend, beloved husband of Mary Appleyard, loving father of Lee and her husband Donald Costiey of Collingwood, Kevin Douglas of Cambridge and Gregory James of Brampton. Loved ...
appeared in Independent & Free Press, 25 Mar 2004, Classified, p. 20. Date of Event: 18 Mar 1992 Townsend, Douglas Harry -- On Wednesday March 18, 1992 at the Georgetown and District Memorila Hospital. Doug Townsend, beloved husband of Mary Appleyard, loving father of Lee and her husband ...
Emmerson, Lena (Died)
appeared in Independent & Free Press, 25 Mar 2004, Classified, p. 20. Date of Event: 22 Mar 1984 Emmerson -- In loving memory of Lena, who passed away March 22, 1984. Eight lonely years have passed, Since I saw you last. If only I could I could talk to you. If only I could tell you, I miss you Mom, I love you Mon, I'll remember you forever. ...
appeared in Independent & Free Press, 25 Mar 2004, Classified, p. 20. Date of Event: 22 Mar 1984 Emmerson -- In loving memory of Lena, who passed away March 22, 1984. Eight lonely years have passed, Since I saw you last. If only I could I could talk ...
appeared in Independent & Free Press, 25 Mar 2004, Classified, p. 20. Date of Event: 22 Mar 1984 Emmerson -- In loving memory of Lena who passed away March 22, 1984. Your presence we miss, Your memory we treasure. Loving you always, Forgetting you never. Love always Pinky and family....
appeared in Independent & Free Press, 25 Mar 2004, Classified, p. 20. Date of Event: 22 Mar 1984 Emmerson -- In loving memory of Lena who passed away March 22, 1984. Your presence we miss, Your memory we treasure. Loving you always, Forgetting you never. Love always Pinky ...
Golden, Thomas George (Died)
appeared in Independent & Free Press, 25 Mar 2004, Classified, p. 21. Date of Event: 30 Mar 1991 Golden, Thomas George -- in loving memory of a dear husband, father, and Gramps who passed away on March 30th, 1991. God saw you getting tired, When a cure was not to be, He closed his arms around you, And whispered "Come to Me" In tears we saw you sinking, ...
appeared in Independent & Free Press, 25 Mar 2004, Classified, p. 21. Date of Event: 30 Mar 1991 Golden, Thomas George -- in loving memory of a dear husband, father, and Gramps who passed away on March 30th, 1991. God saw you getting tired, When a cure was ...
Holmes, Frank (Died)
appeared in Independent & Free Press, 25 Mar 2004, Classified, p. 21. Date of Event: 26 Mar 1987 Holmes -- In loving memory of Frank who passed away March 26, 1987, Resting where no shadows fall In Peaceful sleep he awaits us all God will link the broken chain When one by one we meet again. Love always, Pinkey and family...
appeared in Independent & Free Press, 25 Mar 2004, Classified, p. 21. Date of Event: 26 Mar 1987 Holmes -- In loving memory of Frank who passed away March 26, 1987, Resting where no shadows fall In Peaceful sleep he awaits us all God will link the broken ...
Shipway, Nip (Died)
appeared in Independent & Free Press, 25 Mar 2004, Classified, p. 21. Date of Event: 24 Mar 1985 Ahipway, Nip -- In loving memory of my husband who passed away March 24, 1985. I think of you often, as days come and go. More warmly and loving perhaps than you know. I'm remembering times, I just can't forget. Moments and memories I'm cherishing yet. And on this very ...
appeared in Independent & Free Press, 25 Mar 2004, Classified, p. 21. Date of Event: 24 Mar 1985 Ahipway, Nip -- In loving memory of my husband who passed away March 24, 1985. I think of you often, as days come and go. More warmly and loving perhaps ...
Sorensen, Viola (Died)
appeared in Independent & Free Press, 25 Mar 2004, Classified, p. 21. Date of Event: 24 Mar 1985 Sorensen, Viola -- In loving memory of a dear mother and wife who passed away March 24, 1985. A mother who gave the best of her life, who cherished our secrets, our sorrow, our strife. Dear mother in Heaven, God Bless you today, Your life was not selfish, For others ...
appeared in Independent & Free Press, 25 Mar 2004, Classified, p. 21. Date of Event: 24 Mar 1985 Sorensen, Viola -- In loving memory of a dear mother and wife who passed away March 24, 1985. A mother who gave the best of her life, who cherished our ...
Hulme, Virginia (Died)
appeared in Independent & Free Press, 25 Mar 2004, Classified, p. 21. Date of Event: 22 Mar 1991 Virginia Hulme -- In loving memory of a very special person, wife and mom, who passed away March 22, 1991. Beautiful memories, Are wonderful things, They last till the longest day, They never wear out, They never get lost, And can never be given away, To some you may be ...
appeared in Independent & Free Press, 25 Mar 2004, Classified, p. 21. Date of Event: 22 Mar 1991 Virginia Hulme -- In loving memory of a very special person, wife and mom, who passed away March 22, 1991. Beautiful memories, Are wonderful things, They last till the longest ...
Berkelaar, Reuben Michael to Berkelaar, Jennifer and Berkelaar, Daryn (Born)
appeared in Independent & Free Press, 2 Jan 2004, p. 15. Date of Event: 19 Dec 2003 ...
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Stunts, Safety & Saving Innocence: An Interview with Stuntwoman Emily Hopkins
September 16, 2013 by smartygirl 2 Comments
Associate Editor Erica Tyler is in charge of identifying 20 Ordinary Heroes in the Community this fall. At the end of the summer the Editor-in-Chief stumbled upon a league of such in West Los Angeles.
Would you like to know one of them? She works on the team of Saving Innocence as an Intake and Volunteer Coordinator.
Saving Innocence is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit that works directly with American victims of child sex trafficking. SmartyGirlLeadership (SGL) readers want to know how Stuntwoman Emily Hopkins uses her subject matter expertise in stunts for her new job in aftercare for American girls rescued from child sex trafficking.
SmartyFellas and SmartyGirls include fans of Breaking Bad. Emily, are you a Breaking Bad fan? Can you speak about stunt drug lookalikes used on such sets?
Photo Credit: Breaking Bad Meme via Pinterest
“I did work on a few sets that involved drug lookalikes during my time in the film industry. There’s a lot of skill and artistry involved in making them look authentic! I was always so impressed with the people in charge of props and set dressing. They really are artists!
Am I a fan of Breaking Bad? My husband is! He’s seen every episode and I think he’s going to go through all five stages of grief after the series ends this year. Personally, I spend so much of my day dealing with the realities of gang culture that I had to stop watching the show just a few episodes in. Not many people realize that gangs today are finding it safer and more financially lucrative to sell girls instead of drugs and weapons. That’s why when I’m done with work for the day I’m more likely to unwind with a comedy.”
Can you tell us about your favorite thing to do as a stuntwomen?
“Rachet pulls were great! That’s essentially when you’re wearing a special ‘jerk vest’ that’s attached to a wire which is connected to a hydraulics system. Then you get pulled to make it look like you’ve been in an explosion or punched by someone with super strength!”
Photo Credit: Best Movie Explosions via Pinterest
How is work as a stuntwoman on the set similar to your current responsibilities?
“Working in the stunt industry really taught me to work hard and be diligent. Sometimes you work with tough content or tough people, but you just learn to push through it no matter what. The stunt industry is full of the most hard working people I’ve ever met, and they taught me a lot about work ethic in my time there that translates into the rest of my life.”
Readers, would you like to know How to Spot 5 Signs of Child Sex Trafficking Victims in Schools? Check back for a post on SmartyGirlLeadership next Monday!
Filed Under: breaking bad stunts, Child Sex Trafficking prevention, explosions movie history, fall service project, Saving Innocence, self help for women, west lost angeles
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I want to start a website for my Roller derby team, all we have is a myspace right now. How can I start a website that has a dot com, or html, etc, that I can design on my own, and keep up on my own so that we can actually have a website for fans to go to???? Thanks any and all help appreciated..
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Thanks for asking about the WordPress vendor we use to run about backend for SmartyGirlLeadership (SGL) Media. I have a positive customer review of Katy Widrick’s media kit building and WPsit Ryan Sullivan for layout for the blog. Best of luck for roller derby. Connect with us on Twitter so we may also view your content. Best wishes, Editor-in-Chief Renee Marchol
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Meet Team Tacoma: The 48 Hour Film Project Seattle
By smartygirl on July 25, 2014
My white Nokia smartphone is smeared with mini chocolate donut and I couldn’t be happier. Why? Tonight was the kickoff production meeting for The 48 Hour Film Project Seattle. These are a few of production crew who aren’t camera shy. From left to right: Jon Spieth, Iver Nitz, Serena Berry and Greyson Boevers. I […]
By smartygirl on September 16, 2013
Associate Editor Erica Tyler is in charge of identifying 20 Ordinary Heroes in the Community this fall. At the end of the summer the Editor-in-Chief stumbled upon a league of such in West Los Angeles. Would you like to know one of them? She works on the team of Saving Innocence as an Intake and […]
How to Light a Kid’s Bedroom When He or She is Bullied at School
By smartygirl on October 21, 2011
According to Nicole Gordon Levine of Beautystat.com, 48% of young adults age 17-22 experience or witness bullying at school or at work. Levine approves of Secret deodorant’s campaign, “Mean Stinks!” I reflected upon this and reviewed a lesson plan that I created in October 2002. My ninth graders were given the scenario, “What if you […]
Filthy Friends’ “Emerald Valley” Music Review
By Kai Shuart on August 1, 2019
Filthy Friends’ Songwriter Corin Tucker Identifies with The Underdog Photo Credit: American Flag, Crying Child and Rotting Fruit by Unsplash They say that, professionally speaking, it is difficult to review an artist of whom you are a fan. It compromises your objectivity and makes you an unreliable source of authority. Well, in the spirit of […]
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Greater Access to Training for Queenslanders from today
Minister for Education, Training and Employment
The Honourable John-Paul Langbroek
Key elements of the Newman Government’s Great skills. Real opportunities.five-year action plan to revitalise Queensland’s vocational training sector came into effect today.
Minister for Education, Training and Employment John-Paul Langbroek welcomed the introduction of subsidised Certificate III qualifications, assistance for disadvantaged students and apprenticeship and traineeship incentives.
“The plan is an adrenalin shot for the training industry – making training more accessible for all Queenslanders and ensuring it is cost effective and in-line with industry needs,” Mr Langbroek said.
“The Newman Government is committed to growing a strong, four pillar economy, and reforming our VET sector will help boost productivity and increase participation in the workforce.
“We’ve introduced the ‘Certificate 3 Guarantee’ to give more Queenslanders the chance to gain a government funded Certificate III qualification.
“Under the Guarantee, selected registered training organisations will compete for an additional $42 million in contestable funding this financial year. It will also give Queenslanders access to government subsidised training for their first Certificate III level qualification in priority skill areas.”
Mr Langbroek said the new Community Learning program, which complements the ‘Certificate 3 Guarantee’, would support inclusive learning for disadvantaged learners who are not eligible for Federal Government assistance, with funding of $47 million over five years.
“The program fills a gap in the training market by supporting disadvantaged learners to start a learning pathway and progress to a Certificate III level qualification,” he said.
“The first funding round is open to training providers from today (1 July) and closes on 31 July 2013.
Assistant Minister for Technical and Further Education Saxon Rice said two important initiatives that create opportunities and help improve completion rates for apprenticeships and traineeships are also now in effect.
“The School to Trade Pathway incentive provides employers with up to $5,000 to commence a school-based apprentice and keep them in a full-time apprenticeship on completion of schooling,” she said.
“The Group Training Additional Apprentice Bonus provides up to $3 million over 3 years to group training organisations - the largest employer of apprentices in Queensland – to create additional apprenticeship places.
“This allows people to easily gauge whether their current workplace skills, knowledge and experience can count towards gaining a formal qualification through a credit transfer or recognition of prior learning.”
Mr Langbroek said Great skills. Real opportunities. considered the state government’s responses to the Queensland Skills and Training Taskforce’s final report and the Independent Commission of Audit’s final report recommendations.
For more information on the Great skills. Real opportunities. five year plan visit www.dete.qld.gov.au/
[ENDS] 1 July 2013
Media contact: Minister’s office 3237 1000
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$1 million in state funding powers future for east Brisbane manufacturers
Minister for Child Safety, Youth and Women and Minister for the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence
The Honourable Di Farmer
Two companies in Brisbane’s inner east are upgrading their work practices and creating more jobs for Queenslanders after securing more than $1 million in combined funding from the Palaszczuk Government.
Member for Bulimba Di Farmer said the $46 million Made in Queensland (MiQ) grants program is a proven job-creating initiative that supports the backbone of Queensland’s manufacturing sector.
“MiQ funding will boost the production of Morningside’s Kilner’s Engineering and Murrarie’s NOJA Power Switchgear, allowing them to secure larger contracts,” Ms Farmer said.
“Kilner’s Engineering will invest $780,000 into high-powered fibre laser equipment, while NOJA Power Switchgear, a global-leader in power-pole mounted electrical products, will increase their export capacity off the back of their $251,730 grant.
“This funding from the Palaszczuk Government will create 10 new local jobs over the next five years, which is great news for our community.
“Manufacturing is one of our state’s most important sectors, and we’re proud to support these companies through their next phase of growth.”
Kilner’s Engineering CEO Geoffrey Kilner said the MiQ funding would allow the company to invest in state-of-the-art technology at their new Morningside facility.
“We will be introducing the most technologically advanced large-format fibre laser in Queensland, giving us increased capacity to deliver larger metal fabrication projects,” Mr Kilner said.
“The new technology will improve our efficiency and increase the range of products we make for sectors including agriculture, food, marine, automotive and mining.”
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Alex Len C Ques Mon - Back - 1/18/20 Len has missed the last three games with lower-back pain, and it is unknown if he will participate in Monday's battle versus the Raptors.
Chandler Parsons SF Out indefinitely - Concussion - 1/16/20 Parsons has entered the league-mandated concussion protocol and is also dealing with whiplash. There is no timetable for return.
Jabari Parker PF Late Jan - Throat - 1/7/20 Parker had a procedure conducted to correct a right shoulder impingement and is expected to miss at least two weeks of action.
Evan Turner SG Out indefinitely - Hamstring - 1/10/20 Turner is sidelined with a right hamstring strain, and it is unclear when he will return to the lineup.
Kemba Walker PG Ques Mon - Knee - 1/18/20 Walker missed the previous contest due to left knee soreness, and his status for Monday's clash with the Lakers is unknown.
Jaylen Brown SG Ques Mon - Thumb - 1/18/20 Brown has been held out of the previous two games due to a right thumb sprain, and it is uncertain if it will impede his status for Monday's tilt versus the Lakers.
Robert Williams III C Late Feb - Hip - 1/15/20 Williams III has been diagnosed with a bone edema in his left hip. He is expected to be out of action though the All-Star break.
Joe Harris SG Ques Mon - Back - 1/18/20 Harris missed the last game with a sore lower back, and it is unclear if he will be available to face the 76ers on Monday.
Garrett Temple SG Ques Mon - Knee - 1/18/20 Temple missed his third straight game with a right knee contusion, and it is unclear if he will play against the 76ers on Monday.
DeAndre Jordan C Late Jan - Finger - 1/17/20 Jordan is suffering from a dislocated right middle finger, and he is not expected to return until the end of January.
Kevin Durant SF out for season - Achilles - 9/24/19 Durant is expected to sit out the entire 2019-20 season while rehabbing from surgery to repair a torn right Achilles tendon.
No injuries to report.
Daniel Gafford PF Mid Feb - Thumb - 1/15/20 Gafford is expected to miss two to four weeks due to a dislocated right thumb.
Wendell Carter Jr. C Late Feb - Ankle - 1/16/20 Carter Jr. is sidelined with a high right ankle sprain, and he is expected to miss four to six weeks.
Max Strus PG out for season - Knee - 12/29/19 Strus will miss the remainder of the season while recovering from surgery to repair a torn ACL in his left knee.
Otto Porter Jr. SF Mid Feb - Foot - 12/27/19 Porter is sidelined with a left foot fracture. He is expected to be held out of action until sometime in February.
John Henson PF Ques Mon - Back - 1/18/20 Henson missed the last game with a lower back injury, and it is undetermined if he will be available versus the Knicks on Monday.
Brandon Knight PG Ques Mon - Knee - 1/18/20 Knight has missed the last two games due to a sore left knee, and it is unclear if he will be in the lineup versus the Knicks on Monday.
Ante Zizic C Ques Mon - Illness - 1/18/20 Zizic has sat out the previous four games suffering from vertigo, and it is unknown if he will play against the Knicks on Monday.
Kevin Porter Jr. SG Late Feb - Knee - 1/9/20 Porter Jr. sprained his left knee and is expected to need four to six weeks to recover.
Dylan Windler SG out for season - Shin - 1/13/20 Windler is expected to miss the remainder of the 2019-20 season after surgery to repair a left tibial stress reaction.
Kristaps Porzingis PF Ques Tues - Knee - 1/18/20 Porzingis is sidelined due to right knee soreness, and it is unknown if he will rejoin the lineup Tuesday versus the Clippers.
Ryan Broekhoff SG Out indefinitely - Knee - 1/1/20 Broekhoff is sidelined with a fracture of the proximal head of his left fibula. There is currently no timetable for recovery.
Jamal Murray SG Out indefinitely - Ankle - 1/16/20 Murray is sidelined with a left ankle sprain, and he is expected to miss several games.
Gary Harris SG Out Sun - Groin - 1/18/20 Harris has missed the last two games with a right adductor strain, and he will not be on the court versus the Pacers on Sunday.
Paul Millsap PF Out Sun - Knee - 1/18/20 Millsap has sat out the previous five games with a left knee contusion, and he will not return Sunday against the Pacers.
Bol Bol C Out indefinitely - Oblique - 12/15/19 Bol is recovering from left foot surgery, and it is undetermined when he will make his season debut.
Blake Griffin PF Out indefinitely - Knee - 1/7/20 Griffin had arthroscopic surgery on his left knee and will miss an undetermined length of time.
Luke Kennard SG Late Feb - Knee - 1/14/20 Kennard is dealing with bilateral knee soreness, and he is not expected to return until at least the end of February.
Khyri Thomas SG Late Jan - Foot - 1/11/20 Thomas is recovering from surgery on the fifth metatarsal of his right foot and is expected to be out until at least the end of January.
Reggie Jackson PG Late Jan - Spine - 1/11/20 Jackson has a stress reaction in his left lumbar spine but is likely to return before the end of January.
Draymond Green PF Prob Mon - Finger - 1/18/20 Green missed the last game with a sprained finger on his left hand, but is expected to return Monday against the Trail Blazers.
Glenn Robinson III SF Ques Mon - Abdominal - 1/18/20 Robinson missed the last game with a sprained right ankle, and it is unclear if he will be available to face the Trail Blazers on Monday.
Jacob Evans SG Ques Mon - Concussion - 1/18/20 Evans has sat out the previous two games with a concussion and a broken nose. It is unknown if he will play against the Trail Blazers on Monday.
Kevon Looney PF Out indefinitely - Abdominal - 1/5/20 Looney is idle with left abdominal soreness, and a timetable for return has yet to be established.
Stephen Curry PG Early Feb - Hand - 1/14/20 Curry had surgery on the second metacarpal on his left hand. He is making progress in his rehabilitation, but it is unclear if he will be ready to play at the beginning of February.
Klay Thompson SG out for season - Knee - 10/22/19 Thompson is recovering from a torn ACL in his left knee and is expected to miss the entire 2019-20 season.
P.J. Tucker SF Ques Mon - Shoulder - 1/19/20 Tucker left the last game with a right shoulder injury, and it is unknown if he will face the Thunder on Monday.
Austin Rivers PG Ques Mon - Thumb - 1/19/20 Rivers sat out the previous matchup with a thumb injury, and his status for Monday's clash with the Thunder is hazy.
Gerald Green SG Early May - Foot - 11/12/19 Green is expected to miss six months after having surgery to repair a left cuneiform fracture.
Nene C Out indefinitely - Groin - 11/1/19 Nene is sidelined with a left adductor strain, and there is currently no timetable for return.
Jeremy Lamb SG Ques Sun - Hip - 1/18/20 Lamb is suffering from a left hip contusion, and it is unclear if he will suit up against the Nuggets on Sunday.
Naz Mitrou-Long PG Out indefinitely - Ankle - 12/28/19 Mitrou-Long has been sidelined with a right ankle sprain, and it is undetermined when he will return to action.
Victor Oladipo SG Late Jan - Knee - 1/8/20 Oladipo is recovering from a ruptured quadriceps tendon in his right knee that cost him most of the 2018-19 season. He is lining up to make his season debut Jan. 29 versus the Bulls.
Maurice Harkless SF Ques Tues - Back - 1/18/20 Harkless missed the last game with a back soreness, and it is unknown if he will play against the Mavericks on Tuesday.
Paul George SF Ques Tues - Hamstring - 1/18/20 George has sat out the previous five games with a left hamstring strain, and it is undetermined when he will return to action.
Rajon Rondo PG Ques Mon - Finger - 1/19/20 Rondo has a nondisplaced volar plate avulsion fracture to his right ring finger. It is unclear if he will be available for Monday's contest versus the Celtics.
Anthony Davis PF Out indefinitely - Tailbone - 1/19/20 Davis has been sidelined due to a gluteus maximus contusion, and it is unclear when he will return to action.
DeMarcus Cousins C Out indefinitely - Knee - 10/28/19 Cousins suffered a torn ACL in his right knee. It is unknown if he will make his season debut if the team makes the playoffs.
Bruno Caboclo SF Late Feb - Knee - 1/17/20 Cabocio is sidelined due to a hyperextended left knee, and he is expected to miss four to six weeks.
Andre Iguodala SG Out indefinitely - Personal - 10/2/19 Iguodala will not report to the team as both parties have agreed to explore a trade.
Tyler Herro SG Ques Sun - Knee - 1/17/20 Herro has been absent from the lineup during the last two games due to a left knee contusion, and it remains to be seen if he will suit up Sunday versus the Spurs.
Justise Winslow SF Late Jan - Back - 1/17/20 Winslow is sidelined with a bone bruise in his lower back, and he is expected to miss at least two weeks of action.
Robin Lopez C Ques Mon - Illness - 1/18/20 Lopez missed the last game due to illness, and it is unknown if he will be available for Monday's clash with the Bulls.
Allen Crabbe SG Ques Mon - Illness - 1/18/20 Crabbe was recently acquired via trade and is ailing from an illness, and it is unclear if he will make his team debut against the Nuggets on Monday.
Jake Layman SF Out indefinitely - Toe - 12/5/19 Layman is sidelined due to a left toe sprain, and team officials have yet to provide a return date.
Jahlil Okafor C Ques Mon - Back - 1/18/20 Okafor has been held out of the last two games with a sore lower back, and it is uncertain if he will suit up Monday against the Grizzlies.
Kenrich Williams SG Out indefinitely - Back - 1/18/20 Williams has been sidelined due to right lower-back soreness, and it is unclear when he will return to the lineup.
Jrue Holiday PG Out indefinitely - Elbow - 1/16/20 Holiday will miss an extended period with a left elbow triceps strain.
Zion Williamson PF Out Mon - Knee - 1/18/20 Williamson had surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee. He is progressing in his recovery, and it is expected that he will make his season debut Wednesday versus the Spurs.
Darius Miller SF out for season - Achilles - 10/21/19 Miller is recovering from surgery to repair a ruptured right Achilles tendon and is expected to miss the entire 2019-20 season.
Wayne Ellington SG Ques Mon - Illness - 1/18/20 Ellington missed the last game due to illness, and it is unknown if he will face the Cavaliers on Monday.
RJ Barrett SF Late Jan - Ankle - 1/17/20 Barrett suffered a right ankle sprain, and he is expected to be out until the latter part of January.
Dennis Smith Jr. PG Out indefinitely - Oblique - 1/16/20 Smith will miss an extended period due to a left oblique strain.
Terrance Ferguson SG Ques Mon - Illness - 1/19/20 Ferguson sat out the previous game due to illness, and it is unclear if he will be healthy enough to play versus the Rockets on Monday.
Abdel Nader SF Ques Mon - Ankle - 1/19/20 Nader has been held out of the previous three games with a left ankle sprain, and it remains to be seen if he will be available Monday versus the Rockets.
Andre Roberson SG Out indefinitely - Knee - 11/4/19 Roberson is sidelined while recovering from a left knee surgery that plagued him for the entire 2018-19 season. It is uncertain when he will make his season debut.
D.J. Augustin PG Mid Feb - Knee - 1/16/20 Augustin is anticipated to be out of action for at least three to four weeks with left knee bone irritation.
Jonathan Isaac PF Mid March - Knee - 1/2/20 Isaac is expected to be out of commission for at least eight to 10 weeks with a posterior lateral corner injury and a medial bone contusion to his left knee.
Al-Farouq Aminu SF Mid April - Knee - 1/8/20 Aminu is recovering from surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee. He is expected to miss at least 12 weeks of action.
Joel Embiid C Late Jan - Hand - 1/16/20 Embiid sustained a torn radial collateral ligament in his left hand and had surgery. He is expected to miss one to two weeks of action for recovery.
Cameron Johnson PF Ques Mon - Quadricep - 1/18/20 Johnson sat out the previous game due to a bruised quadriceps, and it is unknown if he will be available to play Monday against the Spurs.
Kelly Oubre Jr. SF Ques Mon - Concussion - 1/18/20 Oubre Jr. has been held out of the last two games due to a concussion, and it is unknown if he will be cleared in time for Monday's clash against the Spurs.
Frank Kaminsky PF Early Feb - Knee - 1/4/20 Kaminsky is sidelined with a right patella stress fracture. He is expected to miss at least four weeks of action.
CJ McCollum SG Ques Mon - Ankle - 1/19/20 McCollum missed the last game with a sprained left ankle, and it is unclear if he will be available for Monday's matchup versus the Warriors.
Skal Labissiere PF Early Feb - Knee - 1/8/20 Labissiere is sidelined with a left knee articular cartilage lesion, and he is expected to be out until at least the beginning of February.
Rodney Hood SG out for season - Achilles - 12/8/19 Hood tore his left Achilles tendon and is expected to miss the remainder of the 2019-20 season.
Zach Collins PF Early March - Shoulder - 11/5/19 Collins will be out for at least four months after having surgery to repair a dislocated left shoulder.
Jusuf Nurkic C Mid Feb - Leg - 12/12/19 Nurkic is recovering from surgeries to repair compact fractures in both his left tibia and fibula. He is expected to be out of action until the All-Star break.
Richaun Holmes PF Early Feb - Shoulder - 1/15/20 Holmes is expected to miss at least two to three weeks due to right shoulder soreness.
Dejounte Murray PG Ques Sun - Illness - 1/18/20 Murray is dealing with an illness, and it is unclear if he will be available to face the Heat on Sunday.
Rudy Gay SF Doub SUn - Undisclosed - 1/18/20 Gay missed the previous game due to an undefined injury, and it is unlikely that he will take the court against the Heat on Sunday.
Dewan Hernandez C Out indefinitely - Ankle - 1/9/20 Hernandez is out of commission with a right ankle sprain, and it remains to be seen when he will return to the court.
Jordan McRae SG Ques Mon - Ankle - 1/17/20 McRae left the last game with a sprained left ankle, and it is unclear if he will be available for Monday's clash with the Pistons.
Garrison Mathews SG Out indefinitely - Ankle - 1/8/20 Mathews will miss an extended period due to a right ankle sprain.
Rui Hachimura PF Late Jan - Groin - 12/31/19 Hachimura has been sidelined with a groin contusion, and he is expected to be idle until at least the end of January.
Moritz Wagner PF Late Jan - Ankle - 12/31/19 Wagner has been sidelined due to a left ankle sprain, and he is expected to be out until at least the latter part of January.
John Wall PG out for season - Achilles - 7/22/19 Wall has undergone surgery to repair a ruptured left Achilles tendon and is expected to miss the entire 2019-20 season.
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Something’s cooking Written by Ninez Cacho-Olivares Sunday, 08 July 2012
Something’s cooking
Written by Ninez Cacho-Olivares
Keeping mum over what was discussed in a supposedly “full” Cabinet meeting owing to security reasons as the topic of discussion supposed to have been focused on the decisions that were made by Noynoy on the China sovereignty moves over the so-called disputed islands to which the Philippines also claims sovereignty, was a bit too strange.
It was claimed by Noynoy’s spokesman Edwin Lacierda, and too dramatically at that, that he could not disclose anything said in an executive session, which the “full” Cabinet meeting was turned into, under pain of imprisonment. And who will charge him, Noynoy? Lacierda really shouldn’t be giving the nation too much bull.
By remaining much too silent and using that silly executive session and security issues as a reason for not disclosing even the topics of the session, merely fueled large scale speculations.
In any case, what was strange about it is the fact if security matters were really involved and one moreover that involves moves against China over the issue of the disputed islands, there certainly was no need for the entire Cabinet to be present in that meeting, since many of these Cabinet department heads certainly don’t have to be involved in such security matters, since they are far removed from such situations..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/commentary/item/1219-something%E2%80%99s-cooking
Campaign against privatization of public hospitals intensifies
Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño urges his fellow lawmakers to withdraw support from privatization of public hospitals.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
As the House of Representatives starts its 16th congressional session later this July, apprehensions are rife that it will push for the complete privatization of public hospitals in the country, leaving poor patients at the mercy of corporate interests.
Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño is appealing to his colleagues to withdraw support to bills that aim to corporatize the country’s public hospitals. He said lawmakers should realize that House Bill 6069 or “An Act Creating National Government Hospital Corporations,” has dire, if not life-threatening implications for the country’s poorest citizens. He said hospital corporatization and the government’s Public-Private Partnership scheme will result to higher hospital fees.
“This bill and its counterpart measure Senate Bill 3130 or the National Government Hospital Corporate Restructuring Act, will make healthcare services inaccessible for poor families all over the country,” he said.
House Bill 6069 is authored by Bacolod City Rep. Anthony Golez while Sen. Franklin Drilon is behind SB 3130.
Casiño is actively campaigning against public health privatization saying that privatizing government hospitals will only worsen the already considerable problems the hospitals are already facing. He said many public hospitals are already charging exorbitant fees for their services.
He said the corporatized Philippine Heart Center (PHC) and the National Kidney and Transplant Institute (NKTI) already charge as much as P415 ($9.65) to P430 ($10.23) for a chest x-ray while the Jose Reyes Medical Center and the Rizal Medical Center, both of which are among the 26 hospitals being targeted for corporatization charge only P290 ($6.90) to P310 ($7.38) for the same service..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/07/06/campaign-against-privatization-of-public-hospitals-intensifies/
Strange bedfellows Written by Tribune Editorial
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The alliance between the Liberal Party (LP) and the Nacionalista Party (NP) leaves a bad taste in the mouth, knowing that Noynoy and rival Manuel Villar in the 2010 presidential campaign period threw at each other all the dirt and muck possible.
Villar, through the instigation of now some of the staunchest allies of Noynoy, faced an ethics investigation in the Senate over the C-5 extension controversy and he was accused of inserting a double entry in the budget for the project that gave him both kickbacks and windfall profits from the increased valuation of his properties found around the government-paid development.
Several other more bitter accusations were thrown by the LP, specifically against Villar, to the extent of even calling him Villarroyo for supposedly being the secret candidate of Gloria in the 2010 elections. Noynoy, then a senator, was part of that band of accusers against Villar..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/commentary/editorial/item/1220-strange-bedfellows
Codex Alimentarius Commission and what we eat
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The latest meeting of the Codex Alimentarius Commission in Rome has set new limits on additives to foodstuffs and has set standards for the improved safety of a number of items. Almost half a century after it is set up, why is it still necessary, is what we consume in fact safe and is the list of ingredients complete on food labels?
The fact that the Codex Alimentarius Commission is still meeting 49 years after it was set up, and is still setting standards on food safety, fixing limits on toxins that can be used gives rise to the notion that however much effort its scientists are making, we are being slowly poisoned with safe limits of toxins - in the short-term. The latest regulations by this organism, run by the UNO's World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization, include the setting of limits for maximum quantities of melamine in liquid milk formula for babies. High concentrations of melamine can be lethal and have already caused death and illness in infants. So why is it used at all?
In 2010, this same Commission stated that a maximum level of one milligram per kilogramme was safe in milk and allowed 2.5 mg/kg in other foods and in animal feed. Now the limit for infant milk has been reduced to 0.15 mg/kg..... MORE
Source: Pravda.ru
URL: http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/06-07-2012/121576-codex_alimentarius-0/
Extradition or asylum? Assange awaits Ecuadorian decision
The deadline set by the UK's highest court for Julian Assange's extradition to Sweden runs out on Saturday. The whistleblower says he won't leave the safety of the Ecuadorian embassy in London until a decision on his asylum request is made.
Julian Assange has spent the last two and a half weeks in the Ecuadorian embassy with London police standing guard at every exit should he attempt to leave.
On June 19 he entered the embassy and filed a request for asylum. Ecuador’s UK ambassador is personally working on the matter and even had to return home for consultations. An answer was expected to be forthcoming, but as of yet there has been none..... MORE
URL: http://www.rt.com/news/assange-extradition-ecuador-embassy-624/
Bam for senator? Why not president?
Bam for senator?Why not president?
Written by Jacinto ‘Jing’ Paras
There is so much push in talks of Bam Aquino running for senator. According to the Chinese speaking spokesman in Malacañang, Bam should be senator because he is certainly fit for the job, has a good educational background and is a good civic leader at that. Budget Secretary Abad, not to be outdone said, Bam is intelligent, entrepreneurial and had good public exposure. Some Liberal Party members cited Bam as being as articulate as Ninoy Aquino. He also looks like Ninoy and has gained many achievements despite his young age as Ninoy had.
Speaking of Ninoy, I would certainly acknowledge that he should have been one of the best presidents our country should have had. He was articulate, intelligent and brave. He sacrificed his life for the Filipino people such that we regained the freedom from the dictatorship. And Ninoy if he is today our President, I’m sure he would certainly not sacrifice the lives of the Filipinos by going to war against a very strong and powerful country for the simple reason of proving his machismo. If indeed Bam Aquino has the makings of Ninoy in contrast with his son, why wait for Bam to become senator, why not make him President now? All we need to do is ask President BS Aquino to lend Bam his position for a few months and who knows Bam might do it better, after all, a lot of people are saying he has the makings of Ninoy Aquino..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/commentary/item/1216-bam-for-senator?why-not-president?
How to stop sex scandal, women activists suggest ways
Gabriela aims to discourage Filipinos “from the bad practice of sharing sleazy videos” by spreading the counter-message of the “Manila Scandal Part 2.” It hopes to “mobilize the public to use the internet in solving one of the scourges of electronic harassment, bullying and violence against women” by posting the video to their FB account or website and through Twitter by using the #manilascandal2 hashtag.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
DAVAO CITY — A progressive lawmaker urged Facebook (FB) users to end electronic violence against women (e-VAW) by adding “-Scandal” to their last name and to change their cover photos. The move was part of the women’s group Gabriela’s “Bury the Past” campaign.
“This will help bury real scandal videos in the results of search engines,” Gabriela Women’s Party (GWP) Representative Luz Ilagan posted in her FB timeline.
Sex scandal videos have proliferated online, attaching stigma to women victims. One case in point is the video involving showbiz personalities Hayden Kho and Katrina Halili.
If the campaign against e-VAW — a new form of violence through the electronic medium, particularly the spread of sex scandal videos — musters enough support, seamy videos will be buried as search engines like Google and Yahoo are disrupted.
On Saturday in Manila, Gabriela launched its interactive online campaign action in commemoration of the e-VAW awareness week. Through the video it produced entitled, “Manila Scandal Part 2,” the women’s group hopes to share the “victim’s personal tragedy” and to show the “personal as well as social costs to individual women as well as women collectively.”
Gabriela collaborated with the award-winning advertising agency DM9JaymeSyf to produce an output “exactly like a sequel to a sex scandal video,” hoping to get the public’s attention especially those who like to watch sex scandal videos.
“What our video actually shows is the story of a woman after her sex scandal video spread. How she was shamed, expelled, disowned and how she contemplated suicide,” the Gabriela-Philippines National Secretariat said in its FB page.
It added, “If we get enough of our target audience to watch this, and let them see the real implications of their actions, it can definitely lessen the spread of sex scandal videos.”
“All forms of violence against women should be stopped from domestic, street, intimate relations, electronic and the State,” Mae Fe Templa, program head of Assumption College of Davao’s Social Work Department.
Templa said Gabriela’s campaign is effective because “it is a new form of protest. It uses the material but with a twist to bring it closer to what really happened to women when their identities are exposed online for further humiliation and degradation. When their families disown them, they tend to end their lives.”
First District Councilor Leah Librado-Yap said she believes it’s timely to include the internet in this campaign because it has become “a common venue for women all across the globe to be abused in every imaginable manner.”
“Scandals involving women are often posted, viewed and spread over the internet. To stop the proliferation of electronic violence that targets women should be our call. This is in line with our campaign to put a halt to women exploitation,” Librado-Yap said. (davaotoday.com by Marilou Aguirre-Tuburan).
(Reposted from Bulatlat.com)
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/07/06/how-to-stop-a-sex-scandal-women-activists-suggest-ways/
Noynoy luring ex-GMA Noynoy luring ex-GMA
Written by Fernan J. Angeles
PERSONALLY VISITS CEBU TO TAKE IN DURANO CLAN
The piracy being practiced by the ruling Liberal Party (LP) extended even to parties and politicians identified with detained former President Gloria Arroyo after President Aquino personally went to Cebu yesterday to administer the oathtaking of family members of a political clan known as extremely close to Aquino’s predecessor.
Aquino sworn in as new LP members Danao Vice Mayor Nito Durano and the rest of the local Bakud political party. However, Aquino wasn’t able to get the entire Durano clan as Cebu’s original LP leader and former Danao City Mayor Jesus “Don” Durano resigned apparently feeling bad after he wasn’t consulted about the recruitment and acceptance of the new party members.
Former President Joseph Estrada had chided the Liberal Party in forming a new coalition which was launched by “pirating” senatorial candidates from the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) which he heads along with Vice President Jejomar Binay.
Estrada in describing the snatching of strong political bets said the move “shows the weakness of the LP.”
“That shows they cannot complete their lineup,” Estrada had said..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/headlines/item/1254-noynoy-luring-ex-gma-noynoy-luring-ex-gma
Mining EO already signed, out tomorrow,says Malacañang
Malacañang bared President Aquino signed and would release tomorrow the Executive Order (EO) defining the adminis-tration’s policy on the mining industry.
According to presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda, Aquino signed the mining EO and it is already with Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa.
Ochoa will release it tomorrow afternoon alongside with Environment Secretary Ramon Paje who was designated
by the President to do a presentation of its salient features.
“Yes it has been signed. It is a… I have no copy of the signed EO. It will be released next week,” says Lacierda.
He said the executive order will be released on tomorrow afternoon by Ochoa simultaneous with Sec. Paje’s presentation to eliminate doubt on the much awaited EO defining the Aquino administration’s thrust towards a sector that has significantly contributed revenues in the form of taxes to the government.
“Let me qualify why ES Ochoa will have it released alongside with Secretary Paje’s presentation. The decision is so that there would no longer be doubt on the EO that has long kept both the mining industry and the environmentalists waiting. So we will release the EO, at the same time, we will be briefing Secretary Paje the details of the EO. And in fact, I can tell you that the Malacanang Press Corps will be the audience by which, for which Secretary Paje will be briefing the EO. He will be explaining the EO,” Lacierda said..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/headlines/item/1251-mining-eo-already-signed-out-tomorrowsays-malaca%C3%B1ang
Moro leaders slam snail pace of peace talks,say gov’t plotting to exploit Muslim lands
Written by AFP
Leaders of the Philippines’ largest Muslim rebel group have criticized the slow pace of peace talks with the government, warning that some members were growing dissatisfied.
The comments came as thousands attended a Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) gathering at their camp in the troubled southern island of Mindanao, including heavily armed fighters and government peace negotiators.
MILF chairman Murad Ebrahim said despite the slow pace of talks his group remained committed to the negotiations.
“It is sad... that even though the MILF has drastically scaled down its position, negotiations with the government are moving at a snail’s pace,” Murad told his supporters. “The Philippine government is not too inclined to solve the armed conflict but (wants) to manage the armed conflict to a level where it can... rule the (Muslim people) and exploit the resources of (their) homeland.”.... MORE
URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/nation/item/1248-moro-leaders-slam-snail-pace-of-peace-talkssay-gov%E2%80%99t-plotting-to-exploit-muslim-lands
Villanueva pushing Pimentel’s inclusion in LP senatorial slate
Sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III is reportedly running for senator not as an independent, but under the administration party with fellow senatorial aspirant Joel Villanueva as conduit.
Pimentel, however, was not inclined to turn his back on the PDP-Laban, which his father co-founded before 1986, but simply to avoid a person whom he said had taken away four years of his first term as senator.
Apparently referring to former Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri, Pimentel went on to say he would not want to be in the same Senate ticket with the very politician who benefited from the 2007 election fraud, even as he expressed a desire to run side by side with Technical Education and Skills Development Administration (Tesda) chief Joel Villanueva.
Pimentel in a statement hinted on the need for a younger Senate, adding that fresh faces like him and Villanueva could offer so much idea apt for the modern times. He however would not discount the capability of the Senate elders who he said had taught him how to be a good statesman..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/nation/item/1247-villanueva-pushing-pimentel%E2%80%99s-inclusion-in-lp-senatorial-slate
House to push inquiry into ‘game fixing’ at PBA Written by Charlie V. Manalo Sunday, 08 July 2012 00:00 font size decrease font size increase font size Print Be the first to comment! Rate this item 1 2 3 4 5 (0 votes) Rep. Mark Sambar yesterday said the Philippine Basketball Association’s decision to penalize PBA cager Don Allado has failed to exculpate the professional basketball league from the game fixing controversy, adding that it has instead made it imperative for the House of Representatives to conduct a congressional inquiry to ferret out the truth about the scandal. Sambar said he would ask the House committees on youth and sports development and on games and amusement to immediately contact the Barako Bull center to forewarn him of his responsibility to appear for the investigation and be forthright about his allegations. Citing previous reports of game fixing in college and professional basketball tournaments, Sambar said the two House panels will also be tasked to determine the involvement of gambling syndicates. At the same time, the administration lawmaker urged PBA officials to stay away from Allado while the legislative inquiry is going on.
House to push inquiry into ‘game fixing’ at PBA
Written by Charlie V. Manalo
Rep. Mark Sambar yesterday said the Philippine Basketball Association’s decision to penalize PBA cager Don Allado has failed to exculpate the professional basketball league from the game fixing controversy, adding that it has instead made it imperative for the House of Representatives to conduct a congressional inquiry to ferret out the truth about the scandal.
Sambar said he would ask the House committees on youth and sports development and on games and amusement to immediately contact the Barako Bull center to forewarn him of his responsibility to appear for the investigation and be forthright about his allegations.
Citing previous reports of game fixing in college and professional basketball tournaments, Sambar said the two House panels will also be tasked to determine the involvement of gambling syndicates.
At the same time, the administration lawmaker urged PBA officials to stay away from Allado while the legislative inquiry is going on..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/metro-section/item/1237-house-to-push-inquiry-into-%E2%80%98game-fixing%E2%80%99-at-pba
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1968 Dodge Charger R/T – $POR
Here is another very rare and unique factory 1968 charger R/T that we are restoring right now and offering for sale. The car was purchased from an estate sale in 2011 in Reseda CA where the car had been sitting since 1990. Amazingly the car is registered in the original owners name with the original title on hand. The front end of the car was bumped into and then sat from that point on and has less than 100k original miles. The car was 95% original before we started the complete restoration.
Unfortunately the car was stored outside and the weather took its tole on the original paint and interior so we had a lot to do. It was so original and clean we chose to do a complete rotisserie restoration and use as many OEM parts as we could. Many NOS parts have also been installed to this black beauty.
The story from the family goes like this: Bob, the original owner, watched the movie “bullitt” in the spring of 1968 and loved the Charger in the movie so much that he just had to have one. He had a family friend that owned a Dodge dealership in Chicago and he contacted him and ordered this Charger almost exactly like the one in the movie. A month later the car arrived and he flew out to Chicago and drove it home to California.
The car was ordered with some great options to make it a comfortable driving car. Options include:
Power disk brakes
Bucket seats with console
Possi (Sure Grip) Rearend
Of course the color of Black with black interior was chosen to match the car in the movie and it looks as sinister as ever. The car was never driven in bad weather and was not driven on a daily basis. Therefore the sheet metal is in remarkable condition. The front fenders were replaced because of the fender bender but OEM originals were used. Therefore the car retains all OEM Chrysler sheet metal, even the trunk pan. The core support still retains the correct SO number and matches the original fender tag. The car does have a very nice build sheet for documentation and an inspection card found under the seat from the factory. The motor and trans are correct with numbers matching. They have never been out of the car or rebuilt before the car came to us. The alternator, starter, carburetor and components are still original for the car and have been restored. All the side glass is original to the car and in great shape. There are a few minor scratches but we wanted to use the original glass. The front and rear glass were replaced with ECS aftermarket due to the originals being a little too pitted and scratched. The bumpers and pot metal pieces have all been rechromed and are not after market. The stainless steel pieces have been highly polished. Interior has been redone using Legendary interior components. The dash pad is still the original. Gauges were totally rebuilt by Redline gauges. Gauge faces were done by Gcar.
The car is in the middle of a full restoration and will be for sale when it is completed. This is an amazing car with all the right components for a blue chip car. Call for pricing. Expected to be complete in the summer of 2019
Update 4 April 2019 – The dash and gauges are all completed and now installed in the car. Interior is mostly complete and we now have the rear-end complete as well. Windshield is in, front end completed, and trim and wheels going on.
11 June 2019 – The car is starting to get close to completion, just finishing up the last remaining details.
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Asian shares mixed as investors look ahead to rate decisions
TOKYO — Asian shares were mixed Tuesday after a day of listless trading on Wall Street, as investors awaited signs on global interest rates.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 added nearly 0.3% in afternoon trading to 21,379.45. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 fell 0.7% to 6,599.60, while South Korea's Kospi edged up 0.5% to 2,030.21. Hong Kong's Hang Seng was virtually unchanged, inching down less than 0.1% at 26,679.83, while the Shanghai Composite lost 0.3% to 3,015.25.
On Wall Street, the S&P 500 ended virtually flat as losses in technology and health care stocks outweighed gains in financials and other sectors. The Russell 2000 index of smaller company stocks, which has lagged the S&P 500 this year, outpaced the rest of the market.
Investors are taking a shine to smaller company stocks in hopes that they'll be better shielded from the fallout of the costly trade war between the U.S. and China than large multinationals.
The S&P 500 inched 0.28 points lower, or less than 0.1%, to 2,978.43. The index, which has finished higher the past two weeks, is within 1.6% of its all-time high set in late July. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 38.05 points, or 0.1%, to 26,835.51. The Nasdaq fell 15.64 points, or 0.2%, to 8,087.44. The Russell 2000 climbed 19.06 points, or 1.3%, to 1,524.23.
The broader market has bounced back the past two weeks following volatility brought on by the trade war as Washington and Beijing imposed new tariffs on more of each other's imported goods. Investors worry the escalation of tariffs may be dampening global economic growth and threatening to nudge the United States into a recession.
Traders are hoping for a deal between the world's two largest economies and were encouraged last week by news that talks will resume in October.
A mixed bag of economic data has also kept Wall Street focused on central banks and whether they will continue taking measures to shore up economic growth. On Friday, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the central bank doesn't expect a recession and will take necessary actions to maintain growth.
Economists expect the Fed to cut interest rates when it meets next week. Separately, the European Central Bank is expected to unveil new monetary stimulus measures on Thursday to help shore up the region's economy.
"Markets look to be adrift ahead of the slew of events this week including the likes of the European Central Bank where further support for the markets is expected," said Jingyi Pan, market strategist at IG in Singapore.
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Wisconsin Senate to vote on firing agriculture secretary
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin's Republican-controlled Senate prepared Tuesday to fire the state agriculture secretary appointed by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, the latest in a series of skirmishes between the governor and the GOP that comes as Wisconsin is losing dairy farmers at a record pace.
Republicans and Evers have been fighting since before Evers even took office. Republicans convened a lame-duck session to pass laws weakening Evers' power in December. This summer, Evers used his expansive veto to reshape the GOP-passed state budget, resulting in attempts in court and through a constitutional amendment to weaken his veto authority. And on Thursday, Evers wants to force the Legislature to take up gun control bills in a special session, but Republicans plan to gavel in and out without debate.
But rejecting a Cabinet secretary is a new move not seen since at least before 1987, the earliest records available from the Legislative Reference Bureau.
The Evers administration, state and federal Democratic office holders and a variety of agriculture industry groups urged Republicans to back off and allow Brad Pfaff to continue to serve in the position he's held since January. Republicans who control the Senate with a 19-14 majority showed no signs of budging.
Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald last week said Pfaff's confirmation was in jeopardy and asked Evers to withdraw his nomination. Evers refused.
Fitzgerald said Tuesday he thought all 19 Republican senators would vote to fire Pfaff. At least three Republicans would have to flip in order for Pfaff to keep his job.
"There are more concerns now than there were a couple weeks ago," Fitzgerald said ahead of the debate on confirmation. He declined to detail what the issues were before debate began.
Fitzgerald previously cited clashes Pfaff has had with Republicans as justification for his nomination facing rejection.
Pfaff angered some Republicans when he criticized them for not more quickly releasing $200,000 to fund farmer mental health and suicide prevention efforts. Pfaff also upset Republicans and powerful agriculture industry groups when he moved forward with new siting rules, first started under Republican Gov. Scott Walker's administration, designed to protect farmers' neighbors from the stench of manure.
Opponents insist the agriculture department didn't consult farmers on the setbacks and the restrictions are so tough no one will be able to expand their operations. They also fear that local governments that oppose factory farms will use the restrictions to block new operations.
Pfaff on Friday, hours after Fitzgerald said he didn't have the votes to stay on the job, put the proposal on hold.
Pfaff's supporters, including groups representing cheesemakers, dairy farmers and corn growers, say ousting him now will only create more instability for farmers who are struggling to deal with low milk prices and an ongoing trade war. Wisconsin lost nearly 700 dairy farms last year alone, the highest number of closures since 2011.
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Extended Holiday Hours
Please note our extended holiday hours! Also, we do appointments as well! Happy Holidays!
Plaid Friday and Small Business Saturday at Tin Top
Tin Top will open early on Friday at 8am for our annual Plaid Friday SALE!
Tin Top will have the following discounts:
25% off* from 8-9am
20% off from 9-10am
15% off from 10am-11am
10% off from 11am-12pm
Other surprise deals and discounts may be announced! Watch our facebook and instagram!
*Purchases of $10 or more
OR Come Saturday!
We open again at 8am and will be giving $10 Tin Top gift certificates for every $100 spent!
Holiday Wish List!
Is there something or some-things you've been eyeing at Tin Top? Are you a champion of small businesses? Help us, help you help us...and everybody wins!
Just download, print, bring in your wish list and fill it out and hand off to a friend or relative!
Also coming soon, a Tin Top gift registry for weddings, baby showers, and more!
WAM! Holiday Bazaar Coming Soon
We're so happy to partner with Winchester Art Market and Dharma Studio on this event! Come join us on November 12th as we kick off the holiday season!
Here's our list of our awesome vendors:
Patti Best - Scarves of Happiness (Winchester, VA) - Hand Knit and Crochet Accessories
Blue Moon Petunia (Front Royal, VA) - Handmade Eco-friendly Housewares
Bowerbox Press (Monkton, MD) - Letterpress Printing & Design
Close Call Studio (Baltimore, VA) - Felt Plants and Toys
The Dessert Bar (Winchester, VA)- Desserts (Will also be taking Thanksgiving orders!)
Doran's Alcohol Inks (Strasburg, VA)- Nature Art
Earth Vibe Adornments & Woolen Whimsy - Fiber Art & Jewelry
Heritage & Belle (Arlington, VA) - Hand Crafted Candles, Cosmetics and Jewelry
Fringe Vintage FX (Winchester, VA) - Photobooth and Vintage Clothing
Alan Johnston (Winchester, VA) - Original Art & Fine Art Giclee Prints
Manka (Falls Church, VA) - Whimsical Illustrated Goods
The Inked Fig (Winchester, VA) - Watercolor Art, Polymer Clay Jewelry
Horse and Hare (WInchester, VA)- Linocut/Woodcut Printed Goods
Barbarah Robertson Pottery (Strasburg, VA) - Stoneware Pottery and Gifts
Rad Hatter/Raggle Taggle Gypsy Hats (Winchester, VA) - Knit/crochet hats and bags
Slouchbabies (Winchester, VA)- Crochet Gloves and Accessories
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Holiday Bazaar - Call to Artists
Guess what!? We're teaming up with Winchester Art Market this November and are looking for Artists and Crafters to vend at the WAM Holiday Bazaar! Too apply to be a vendor, click here and fill out the application! It's only $5 to apply and $50 booth fee if you get in. Space is limited and deadline is October 21st so don't delay!
The Darks Art Show
I always love our October Halloween-themed shows but this year I'm really excited. We have 20+ artists for this show from all over the US and one from the UK! The Dark Arts Show opens October 1st with a reception from 6:30-9. Stop in - costume optional!
Christy Broy, Josh Williams, Sumner Crenshaw, Neil Stavely, Ann Small, Armand Cabrera, Darren F. Gideon, Lauren Fleming, Erich Ruth, Emily Violet Jones, Alice Morgan, Lacey Villandry, Gracie Bremer, Jimi Park, Liam Harrision, Dan Creary, Josh Ries, Erin Robinson, Mindy Sizemore, Sue Manley, Nikolas Swaner, Magnus Hoopes, Amy Shafran.... and there may be a couple more.
Featured Artist: Morgan Fink
Morgan Fink, from Harrisonburg, VA, is our featured artist this month. You can meet her this Thursday night from 6:30-8 at Tin Top.
Morgan answered some questions for us, letting us in on her background, process and inspiration.
What is your medium of choice?
Oil has always been my love. More recently though, I've also been integrating gouache paintings into my body of work.
Why have you chosen your current medium?
As cliche as it sounds, I feel like it chose me! Becoming an oil painter was essentially dropped in my lap when I was in high school. My art teacher nominated me to attend a summer workshop series with 3 different artists over the course of several weekends. That was my first real introduction to oil and I completely fell in love.
What has been the most difficult challenge for you as an artist?
Last year I had been working almost exclusively on commissioned pieces. I made myself apply for several art shows to present this year in order to push myself back into creating a cohesive body of work. Something that would be meaningful and relevant to my life and journey as an artist. However, when I sat down to figure out what this new portfolio would entail, I came up blank! I had been so used to being given the subject, the idea that I found myself a bit rusty at doing it for myself! It took me taking a solo road trip up the east coast to get those wheels turning again.
What is the most gratifying part of making your work?
There comes a point during each painting when I hate it. When I was younger those moments used to scare me, I was afraid the painting would never come back together. Now, I almost look forward to that stage. It's comforting to me because it feels like I'm moving forward within the process. I know that once I've reached the, "uh oh" point, it means I'm that much closer to a resolution. And the resolution always comes. So I would say the most gratifying part is when I've reached that sweet spot, when I can sigh relief that I've made it to the other side.
Deeper, Still Oil on Canvas
Where is your studio?
My studio is at my dear friends' home just north of Harrisonburg. They have two dogs who I get to see regularly which makes it even more special. I like the act of going to my studio, it's a beautiful drive and especially on my way home, I find myself lost in thought, going over in my mind the paintings I've been working on.
Favorite blog/movie/tv show/book that never fails to inspire or just clears the mind.
I'm a podcast person, so just hearing Ira Glass's voice makes me feel at peace.
What artists influence your work - who are your creative idols?
Lucian Freud, Wayne Thiebaud, Jen Mann, Samantha French, Erin Murray, Jenny Morgan
Describe your work in 5 words.
Bright, Expressive, Dreamy, Movement, Shapes
To learn more about Morgan and see more of her work check out her website: http://www.morganfinkart.com
Join us this Thursday evening!
The Opening Reception for Morgan Fink: Oil and Gouache Paintings is this Thursday evening. Be sure to come support this artist from Harrisonburg, VA!
Our Top 5 Things to do in and around Winchester this Weekend!
Unfortunately I have to work all weekend but here are some things I would do if I didn't have a business to run..
1. The Hideaway Divas Drag Show at Hideaway Cafe - Friday 8-11pm What better to start your weekend than with a Drag show! Stephaine Micheals and Alexa Shontelle (my favorite) will share the stage with special guest Max Miss Everything. Dinner specials too!
2. Psychorama at Alamo Draft House - If you haven't heard of Psycho Cinema, love horror movies and live in the area...where have you been? Psychorama is a three day horror/cult film festival. Three -Day Passes are sold out but you can still get tickets for individual screenings. Click here to learn more.
3. Looking for something to do with the kiddos? Shenandoah Valley TasteFest is going on at The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley on Saturday. Lots of family activities including painting in the Carriage House, lots of food to taste, cooking demos, and much more. And it's FREE!
4. Or maybe skip the kids and head to Middletown for the Wine Fest at Belle Grove Plantation. WINE, enough said.
5. End the weekend with a relaxing stroll at the newly opened Rose Hill Park. I might actually get to do this one! Located on Jones Road, one-third mile south of its intersection with Cedar Creek Grade, the new Rose Hill Park is now open to visitors at no charge from 8 a.m. until dusk.
Enjoy your weekend and be sure to stop in to see me at Tin Top!
- Kerry
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Coming Soon: Morgan Fink Oil and Gouache Paintings
Lia Mendez Artist Pop Up
Lia Mendez will be outside in our "Big Top" tent on Saturday, August 20th from 11:30-3 with a variety of prints, paper maché art, coloring books and more! She will also be doing portrait illustrations and offer pet portraits if you bring a photo!
Come support this fantastic local artist!
Vintage Clothing Pop Up Shop!
Join us this Saturday for our first ever vintage clothing pop up shop in front of the Tin Top! Heath & Moor along with Horse and Hare Vintage will be bringing their cache of vintage clothing, shoes and accessories. Items for men, women and children!
To get a sneak peek check out the Heath & Moor facebook event here or the Tin Top facebook page here.
Also, don't forget...the Tin Top RED DOT SALE is still going on so stop inside for deals!
Sabrina Barnett - Indescribable Beings
Indescribable Beings
July 2016 at Tin Top Art & Handmade
Opening Reception July 8th | 6:30-8:30pm
“Indescribable Beings” is a series that's all about, well, indescribable beings: extraordinary creatures like Bigfoot and ghosts and Dopplegangers and alien visitors. Throughout the collection, the only two humans are a woman and girl (Doreen and Dorinda May, respectively) who bear a striking resemblance to one another and seem not at all surprised by, or even interested in, the mythic goings-on surrounding them. This raises the question: are any of these happenings real? Are they imagined? Are they aspects of a fractured self? The work doesn't seek to answer these questions, only to present them.The verdant flora depicted lends credence to the reality of the settings and the events taking place, while at the same time the unclassifiable nature of these plants suggests the creations of a complex and fertile imagination. I'm exploring and evoking both inner and outer spaces: imagination and landscape, created worlds and physical landmarks, the mind and the real. It's always my goal to make child-friendly work, and by this I don't mean treacly or simplistic, but dark and twisty and strange, the way a lot of childhood is, and filled with transformational imaginings: watch this blanket and chairs become a cave full of candy cane stalactites. Watch me become bigfoot.
Sabrina Barnett is an artist, writer, and sparkle enthusiast from Winchester, VA. A graduate of Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, with a degree in Creative Writing, she is still dreaming about life inside a Polly Pocket. Her work has most recently graced the cover of the "Cimmaron Review's" summer 2016 edition and been collected in zine form as "Wellsburg" by San Francisco's MunBeiBi Designs. You can visit her blog at sabrinaelisebarnett.wordpress.com, where she shares insight into her process and her favorite Artzpirationz (artist inspirations). Follow her flower friendly, supersaturated, glitter bomb of a feed on IG @sabrinaelisebarnett.
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July Exhibit
Local artists Sabrina Barnett and Christy Broy share the walls this month!
In Indescribable Beings, Sabrina Barnett brings us visual recordings and objects from her explorations in a strange, matriarchal, world filled with ghosts, hairy creatures and weird plantlife.
Sabrina Barnett is an artist, writer, and self-proclaimed sparkle enthusiast from Winchester, VA. A graduate of Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, with a degree in Creative Writing, she is still dreaming about life inside a Polly Pocket. Check out her blog, The Sparklearium, at: https://sabrinaelisebarnett.wordpress.com
Christy Broy is no stranger to pop culture. In her new collection of paintings, Character Bleed, she continues to examine her favorite characters from TV, film and literature.
When Christy isn't painting or watching her latest obsession, she's working at her day job as a manager of a real estate office or hanging with her husband and two kids.
Featured Maker: Barbie Saylor Kurt of Heritage and Belle
Barbie Saylor Kurt founded heritage & belle in 2015, on the principles of time-honored craftsmanship and beauty, with a belief that small batch is good, handmade is better and a natural element is best. She describes her personal approach to beauty, fashion and decorating as vintage soul with modern style, and this philosophy infuses everything they make and curate at heritage & belle.
How did you get to where you are today?
By taking the long way – there’s a Dixie Chicks song about that concept, and it totally applies to me. I’ve always had a creative streak, mostly writing, but spent many years in nonprofit work that evolved into PR and eventually a role in a Fortune 500 company. Personal passions simmered on the back burner, until I started learning more about the scented candle industry. I burn candles constantly – and started learning about the potentially harmful chemicals I was releasing into the air in my home. It became a greater and greater concern that would grow to become a passion. One day I was inspired by a beautiful candle my husband gave me as a gift to learn how to make my own. I bought a soy candle starter kit on Amazon, watched some video tutorials and got to work. From soy candles, I branched into bath & body and jewelry lines. I’m still learning, refining my skills and exploring new territory every day – and where I am today is not where I hope to be tomorrow or next week or next year. I was a late-blooming maker, but now that I’ve ignited the spark, I’m compensating for lost time in a big way.
What's your typical day like?
Truly, there are no typical days, but every one of them starts the same – with feeding my furry brood. My husband and I share our home with five rescue cats, and wet breakfast comes before all other priorities. Most days end the same as well – reading in bed surrounded by the scent of curing candles. And then, somewhere in between is the making, marketing and working on the business.
My home is just one big multi-media studio. My office is very non-traditional, filled with shelves of oils, candle jars and finished goods, as well as books and art that inspire me. I’m usually making product in the kitchen, melting wax or mixing up sugar scrubs. And, my husband is a singer-songwriter with his own music studio in our basement.
Why do you feel art/handmade is important/relevant today?
Maker culture is undergoing a major resurgence. Everything from candles to beer is better when it’s small-batch and handmade. The quality, craftsmanship and baked-in passion are unrivaled in handmade, and each piece is unique. It’s personal - to the maker and the buyer, and I think we all crave a connection to the goods we purchase and consume. People love to hear and share good stories, and you just know that when something is handmade, it has a great story.
What artists/makers influence your work - who are your creative idols?
I’m a huge fan of Mike Weber, a mixed media artist out of L.A. Much of his work features the natural world in some way, and the themes he brings to life resonate deeply with me. Kate Hewko, a jewelry maker/designer based in Calgary, does beautiful work with raw stones. Her rings are a favorite accessory of mine. I’m also incredibly inspired by people who convey a real sense of place in their work, like James Beard Award-winning chef Sean Brock, or those who create something so beautiful and timeless in its simplicity, like the designers behind Fount leather goods. I’ve even been inspired by my husband’s music – my American Man candle is an homage to his latest single. The creative spectrum is wonderfully broad, and I find bits of inspiration and awe in so many disparate places.
What has been the most difficult challenge for you as an artist/maker? Is there anything you'd like the public to know about your work upon purchasing it? What is the most gratifying part of making your work?
For me, the specific challenges change daily. Some days it’s time, others it’s the temperament of natural elements, and still others it’s imposter syndrome. But, the most difficult part is reining in all the different directions I’d like to go. I love experimenting with fragrance, and I could blend hundreds of different scents if left to my own devices. I’d love for people to understand the thought and care of planning and execution that go into each and every item I make. If someone recognizes and appreciates the craftsmanship, passion, authenticity and purity in heritage & belle, I’ve done my job. The most gratifying part is hearing feedback from someone who has fallen in love with a particular candle, piece of jewelry or bath & body product. I had a teacher recently order one of my dreamcatcher necklaces to give to her student aide as a graduation gift. She said that they shared something akin to a mother-daughter relationship, and I was so incredibly touched that this thoughtful person chose heritage & belle to convey her feelings of gratitude and affection for this young woman at such a momentous time in her life.
Nature is my biggest source of inspiration. My latest candle line was inspired by frequent visits to Shenandoah National Park. My entire line of jewelry is nature-inspired, and my bath & body products contain all-natural ingredients and essential oils. I’m also drawn to staples of Americana – barn wood, apothecary and mason jars and oxidized metals. The name heritage & belle came from the juxtaposition of old school tradition and natural elements with modern stylistic touches.
What's your studio playlist?
It depends on what I’m making at the time. I’m a big believer in the concept of the environment infusing its mood into whatever I’m making, whether it’s candles or jewelry or food, so I choose music to help ‘flavor’ my creations. My husband is a country singer-songwriter, and I’m drawn to a certain kind of Nashville sound and music that tells a story. Here’s a playlist on fairly frequent rotation:
“Angel Eyes” by Love and Theft
“My Church” by Maren Morris
“Tennessee Mojo” by The Cadillac Three
“Dixie” by Ashley Monroe
“Where the Devil Don’t Stay” by Drive-By Truckers
“Mexico” by Carrie Underwood
“Outlaw State of Mind” by Chris Stapleton
“Carolina” by Eric Church
“Railroads” by Holly Williams
“American Man” by Scott Kurt
“Front Porch Thing” by Little Big Town
“Texas In 1880” by Radney Foster
“Good Ol’ Boys Club” by Kacey Musgraves
“Right Where I Need To Be” by Gary Allan
“Heart Like Mine” by Miranda Lambert
“Middle of America” by Will Hoge
How do you get yourself out of a creative rut?
I go outside and walk to my neighborhood park; put on some music and dance around the living room; flip through a magazine or coffee table book; rearrange some furniture or organize something; pour a glass of wine and cook something delicious. If we can get away, I’ll plan a fun weekend trip to the country for my husband and me. We discovered Old Town Winchester’s lovely pedestrian mall and Tin Top during one of those getaway weekends.
Cheryl Strayed’s Wild has inspired me in so many ways, from pushing my limits in nature (kayaking through white water) to the feather pendant in my jewelry collection. I’m also a borderline hoarder when it comes to coffee table books on modern rustic design – my current obsession is the recently published At Home in the American Barn. When it comes to television, I’m all about shows from my childhood, like Wonder Woman and The Facts of Life, or primetime dramas like Nashville (hoping it gets picked up by another network), The Walking Dead and Shonda Rhimes’ oeuvre. My all-time favorite movie is Bell, Book and Candle with Kim Novak and Jimmy Stewart. I always wanted to be Gillian Holroyd, the eccentric, beguiling, bohemian gallery owner/witch. I love that film, except for the ending.
Share a recipe - bonus points if there's a story behind it.
Cooking is a hobby my husband and I have in common, and we’re always experimenting with new recipes. Since summer is just around the corner, I’ll share my signature warm weather pasta recipe – Sunflower Cilantro Pesto Penne. I developed the recipe because I have a nut allergy and can’t eat traditional pesto, and this dish is a great showcase for one of my favorite fresh herbs.
1 16-ounce package penne, or other dry pasta (my favorites are DeCecco and the fun shapes of Sfoglini)
1 ‘bunch’ fresh cilantro, about 1½ cups
⅓ cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese, plus extra for garnish
½ cup sunflower seed kernels
1 teaspoon kosher sea salt
½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
¼ teaspoon freshly ground red pepper flakes
Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. I like to use my 7¼ qt. Le Creuset Dutch oven for cooking pasta. Add pasta, and return water to a boil. Cook pasta for 8 to 10 minutes, or until al dente; drain well and return to pot. Keep covered.
In a food processor, add cilantro, garlic, vinegar, Parmesan cheese, pepper, seeds, lemon juice and salt. Pour in ¼ cup of the olive oil, and blend the pesto. Slowly drizzle in more olive oil until the pesto reaches your desired consistency.
Transfer pesto into a saucepan and warm over low heat, stirring constantly, until pesto begins to simmer. Pour over cooked pasta, and mix well.
Garnish with remaining Parmesan cheese. Serve with a dry white wine. For an extra touch of whimsy, decorate table with a bright and cheerful sunflower bouquet.
What's your dream project - if you had all the time and materials in the world?
My new candle line was inspired by Shenandoah National Park, a much loved weekend getaway destination. I created four scents representing different facets of the park and its unique annual events – Blackberry Cobbler, Blue Ridge Bouquet, Mountain Lodge and Spiced Apple Butter. My dream project would be to visit all 59 United States National Parks and create a signature candle line for each one.
Describe yourself in 5 words.
imaginative, driven, compassionate, curious, wild
inspired, pure, luxurious, soothing, distinctive
Tell us something funny that happened recently.
I live with five cats – something funny is happening constantly. For example, our youngest kitten, Dolly, has made friends with one of our backyard squirrels. They meet up at our side door just about every morning after Dolly eats breakfast and play their version of pat-a-cake through the glass. It’s adorable and hilarious at the same time.
How do you find balance?
I don’t. No seriously, I don’t strive for the elusive state of balance that many people use to define their work-life equilibrium. Instead, I find harmony. I’m not weighing one thing against another, rather allowing all the notes of life to blend together and honor the natural ebbs and flows along the way. My work is a part of my life, it’s not something separate – and it’s simultaneous much of the time. So, if candles are curing while I’m making dinner, or the sauce is simmering while I’m labeling jars, it’s all good. The kitties get fed first, and the rest just works out – but some days are longer than others.
To see more work by Heritage and Belle please visit: www.heritageandbelle.com
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Showing this Month: Things that go Flap in the Spring
Things that go Flap in the Spring (May 13th- June 30th) will feature three dimensional aerial sculptures by Woodstock, Virginia artist and self proclaimed "Saw Addict", Glenn Richardson. Glenn describes his work as "architectural elements from long closed theme parks that never existed" but I would add there is a reason why these fictional theme parks closed... much of his work looks like it would easily fit into the next Rob Zombie movie. If you don't know Glenn, you might very well imagine a maniacal clown chainsaw carving these creatures. Not that this is a bad thing, just know that Things that go Flap in the Spring will not be your typical spring art show for around these parts. Glenn has only leaked a couple of photos of the work in progress so I can't tell you what fully to expect but I can tell you to expect the unexpected and be ready to look up a lot.
Join us May 13th from 6:30-9:00 for the Opening Reception and meet the artist!
Glenn was recently featured at the H Street Festival in Washington, D.C. (courtesy of Gallery O on H Street), the ArtoMatic show in New Carrollton, Maryland, and at Love Burn 2016 in Virginia Key, Florida, where he carved portraits live with a chainsaw. He was also a third of Molly Rupert's “Coexist” show at The Mount Rainier Art Project Gallery in Mt. Rainier, Maryland.
Glenn will be demonstrating and doing live chainsaw carved portraits at Amuse on May 21 in Old Town Winchester. This summer he will be at Burning Man in Black Rock City, Nevada.
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Lia Mendez: Paper Maché Pastoral
Lia Mendez is a versatile artist and writer living in historic Winchester, Virginia. Endlessly inspired by the grace and spirit of the natural world, she enjoys experimenting and working in a variety of creative media. Since earning her B.A. in Literary Journalism from The University of California, Irvine in 2006, Lia has traveled the world as a teacher, volunteer, and cyclist (among other unofficial titles). Born and raised in Bakersfield, California, some of her favorite things about Virginia include thunderstorms, fireflies, and long bike rides through the country.
A global citizen and humble champion of peace, she believes that art and stories have the power change the world, one heart at a time.
Check out Lia's website at: http://www.smallfoxpress.com
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Upcoming Exhibition: Neil Stavely "Out of the Basement" Paintings 2005-2012
Tin Top's very own Neil Stavely will be our featured artist this March. Before print-making took over his life, Neil was foremost a painter. Very few have laid eyes on this collection of work so be sure to catch it while you can!
aMuse art fair
We are so happy to announce, Tin Top, The Gray Gallery, Shenandoah Arts Council, and Winchester Art Market are joining forces to bring aMuse Art & Craft Festival to Winchester, VA this May. We've been planning for months and now the website is up and we are taking applications! Artists and artisans are welcome from far and wide. Please check out our website for more info: www.amuseartfair.com
Tin Top - Upcoming Events Jan/Feb.
Three Perspectives: A Photography Exhibition
January 13th-31st | Opening Reception January 15th 6-8pm
High school students, Yona Britto, Ming McDonald, and Katherine Sparger, of the Independent School of Winchester present a selection of their photos taken over the past five months for Intro to Digital Photography. The students explored various genres of photography, elements of art and principals of design while getting to know their cameras.
True Love and Broken Hearts II
February 3rd-29th | Opening Reception February 5th 6-8pm
Featuring artwork by: Christy Broy, Daniel Creary, Sam Davis, Abi Gomez, Leigh Henry, Ashley Renee Hoffman, Andrew Mendez, Winslow McCagg, Julie Miles, Aaron Robinson, Neil Stavely, Kerry Stavely, Anna Tillet, and Jesse Tseronis.
Free Chocolate Tasting | February 6th | 2-5pm
Immortal Mountain will be joining us once again to take us on cacao journey!
Plaid Friday & Small Business Saturday
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Sociologist Lisa Wade unpacks why the male sexual peak might be fake in a piece for Salon, where she explains how the idea has been propped up in a number of ways. For many people, the best sex of their lives did not happen when they were having the most. Scientists measured peak sex hormones in men and women and found that testosterone in men generally peaks at 18, when they are also most responsive to arousal. But the study also found that men tend to increase their desirability again in their 50s. Know you can continue to augment and enhance. There's always something to look forward to when it comes to sex! We are all forced to fight for our own sexualities, contending with cultural, interpersonal, psychological and physiological factors that conspire to limit our imagination. You probably haven't passed it by. Pretty Steady Throughout Giphy One study from researchers at the University of Texas found that women reached their sexual peak at in their 30s and 40s , up until menopause, while men had a peak in number of orgasms in late teen years and then held steady basically until they died. Instead of thinking about sexual peaks at all, perhaps we should use a different metaphor: All Genders: Arousal involves all of your senses — smell, site, touch — and, of course, your brain as well. Or as a commenter notes on Reddit in a thread asking men what age they considered their prime: Focus on making your sex life the best it can be, today and every day. Men hit their sexual peak at 18, while women hit their sexual peak at 35, never the twain to peak or orgasm simultaneously. If women are in their prime later in life, are we even more misaligned from the year-old male prime than we thought, or has that shifted too? Obviously, this is an entirely subjective question — and answer — but their data can still be illuminating. Can we pick whatever prime we want and call it a day? Late 20s, Early 30s, Men: A man is also considered to reach his physical prime in his 30s because afterward, muscle mass begins to decline. Formerly at Jezebel. The Sexiest Age Ever And that's really the important point: Those numbers imply that boys are at their best sexually before they even officially become men and that by the time women are ready to go, those dudes are 17 years into a long, slow decline. So using genital prime as a proxy for sexual prime may not be very accurate either. This notion has long been deemed misleading—at best only a partial way of assessing sexual peak. It's not a mountain where it will all go downhill from here; it's simply at a high point and can certainly stay high. Women get more comfortable with themselves as they age, and this is usually around the time the kids go off to college, freeing up all those extra rooms for parental extracurriculars Ages , Men:
But the study also found that men tend to increase their desirability again in their 50s. For women, it was in their mids. It's not a mountain where it will all go downhill from here; it's simply at a high point and can certainly stay high. If women are in their prime later in life, are we even more misaligned from the year-old male prime than we thought, or has that shifted too? As a result, women had to actively try to get pregnant a lot in order to have the number of kids they wanted to have. So with that in mind, here are four different scientific explanations for when men and women hit their sexual peaks. So, the authors believe, women would benefit evolutionarily from having sex more frequently as they got older — at least until they became infertile. Lovehoney found that 46 percent of people said they were having the best sex of their lives with their current partners, regardless of age. Late 20s, Early 30s, Men: For many people, the best sex of their lives did not happen when they were having the most. So using genital prime as a proxy for sexual prime may not be very accurate either. Pretty Steady Throughout Giphy One study from researchers at the University of Texas found that women reached their sexual peak at in their 30s and 40s , up until menopause, while men had a peak in number of orgasms in late teen years and then held steady basically until they died. Obviously, this is an entirely subjective question — and answer — but their data can still be illuminating. If you're having a great sex life now, there's no need to think this is the best it will ever be. All Genders: There's always something to look forward to when it comes to sex! But, she adds, there's no reason to lock that to a particular age or time. The authors of the study theorized that this was because there was a high mortality rate for infants and children back in the day.
Pretty Steady Throughout Giphy One study from researchers at the University of Texas found that women reached their sexual peak at in their 30s and 40s , up until menopause, while men had a peak in number of orgasms in late teen years and then held steady basically until they died. This raises a question: Instead of thinking about sexual peaks at all, perhaps we should use a different metaphor: Focus on making your sex life the best it can be, today and every day. But, she adds, there's no reason to lock that to a particular age or time. Lovehoney found that 46 percent of people said they were having the best sex of their lives with their current partners, regardless of age. Estrogen peaks in women in their mid-to-late 20s. Those numbers that everyone cites can be traced back to Alfred Kinsey , who did his groundbreaking research on human sexuality in the s. All Genders: For women, it was in their mids. Know you can continue to augment and enhance. Related Articles. Obviously, this is an entirely subjective question — and answer — but their data can still be illuminating. So with that in mind, here are four different scientific explanations for when men and women hit their sexual peaks. A man is also considered to reach his physical prime in his 30s because afterward, muscle mass begins to decline. Yup, right now could very well be your sexual peak. Well, according to a new survey by sex toy company Lovehoney , women actually report having the "best sex" of their lives around age 26, while for men, it's age 32—so pretty much the opposite of the old "sexual peak" myth. First, we need to know where this alleged mismatched peaking comes from in the first place. It's not a mountain where it will all go downhill from here; it's simply at a high point and can certainly stay high. Like that guys are at their sexual best around 18, and women hit their stride around 30—or something like that. But back to men: If you're having a great sex life now, there's no need to think this is the best it will ever be. But think about year-old men. That could be because of one of two reasons: They also found that quantity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with quality—only 35 percent of people said they were having the "most sex" of their lives. As a result, women had to actively try to get pregnant a lot in order to have the number of kids they wanted to have. If women are in their prime later in life, are we even more misaligned from the year-old male prime than we thought, or has that shifted too? This creates a lifelong cultural repression and discomfort with their bodies that prevents women from being confident and comfortable in their sexuality.
For many people, the best sex of their lives did not happen when they were having the most. Obviously, this is an entirely subjective question — and answer — but their data can still be illuminating. Women get more comfortable with themselves as they age, and this is usually around the time the kids go off to college, freeing up all those extra rooms for parental extracurriculars But the really interesting part of the survey is this: This creates a lifelong cultural repression and discomfort with their bodies that prevents women from being confident and comfortable in their sexuality. First of all, the definition of sexual peak has varied through the years. Depressing AF, am I right? Related Articles. That could be because of one of two reasons: It's not a mountain where it will all go downhill from here; it's simply at a high point and can certainly stay high. But back to men: Scientists measured peak sex hormones in men and women and found that testosterone in men generally peaks at 18, when they are also most responsive to arousal. You go up one side, hit the top, and then go back down the other.
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For many people, the best sex of their lives did not happen when they were having the most. But back to men: This notion has long been deemed misleading—at best only a partial way of assessing sexual peak. We are all forced to fight for our own sexualities, contending with cultural, interpersonal, psychological and physiological factors that conspire to limit our imagination. So, the authors believe, women would benefit evolutionarily from having sex more frequently as they got older — at least until they became infertile. But think about year-old men. Can we pick whatever prime we want and call it a day? A recent column in The Telegraph complicates this further by suggesting that we start calling women in their 50s or 60s particularly those who prefer younger men , not Cougars, but WHIPs: Arousal involves all of your senses — smell, site, touch — and, of course, your brain as well. Those numbers that everyone cites can be traced back to Alfred Kinsey , who did his groundbreaking research on human sexuality in the s. Women who are hot, intelligent and in their prime. All Genders:
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All Genders: This creates a lifelong cultural repression and discomfort with their bodies that prevents women from being confident and comfortable in their sexuality. Women get more comfortable with themselves as they age, and this is usually around the time the kids go off to college, freeing up all those extra rooms for parental extracurriculars The authors of the study theorized that this was because there was a high mortality rate for infants and children back in the day. Related Articles. This raises a question: But, she adds, there's no reason to lock that to a particular age or time. We are all forced to fight for our own sexualities, contending with cultural, interpersonal, psychological and physiological factors that conspire to limit our imagination. Know you can continue to augment and enhance. There's always something to look forward to when it comes to sex! First, we need to know where this alleged mismatched peaking comes from in the first place. As a result, women had to actively try to get pregnant a lot in order to have the number of kids they wanted to have. Those numbers imply that boys are at their best sexually before they even officially become men and that by the time women are ready to go, those dudes are 17 years into a long, slow decline. For many people, the best sex of their lives did not happen when they were having the most. A recent column in The Telegraph complicates this further by suggesting that we start calling women in their 50s or 60s particularly those who prefer younger men , not Cougars, but WHIPs: Women who are hot, intelligent and in their prime. But think about year-old men. Think about their sexual habits. If women are in their prime later in life, are we even more misaligned from the year-old male prime than we thought, or has that shifted too? The Sexiest Age Ever And that's really the important point: So, the authors believe, women would benefit evolutionarily from having sex more frequently as they got older — at least until they became infertile. It's not a mountain where it will all go downhill from here; it's simply at a high point and can certainly stay high. Focus on making your sex life the best it can be, today and every day. But the really interesting part of the survey is this: Sociologist Lisa Wade unpacks why the male sexual peak might be fake in a piece for Salon, where she explains how the idea has been propped up in a number of ways.
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UK Railway History
In about 1895 the Scottish locomotive designer Dugald Drummond then C.M.E. for The London and South Western Railway, was required to design a fast suburban passenger locomotive with a snappy performance for stopping commuter trains into London from the south west. The result was the M7 0-4-4Tank locomotive.
These engines lasted in service for more than sixty years. After electrification ousted them from suburban commuter trains they continued in use on branch and lesser cross country lines but most especially on empty
coaching stock trains at Waterloo to and from Nine Elms Yard where coaching stock was serviced and prepared for its next journey. Just two examples of this locomotive have been restored, one at the National Railway Museum, York the other, no. 30053 privately. This was running at the Swanage branch, an impressive private restoration of a complete branch line which is now being reconnected to the main line giving full interchange facilities to and from British Rail with whom connecting services are to be run.
My model is of a ‘push-pull’ variant in British Railways days and uses a kit built chassis with a body purchased through ‘Railway Modeller’ magazine for a mere £8! The whole loco cost about £36 to build. While the motor and gearbox are ‘in the firebox’(!), there is a heavy steel weight mounted in the front of the boiler and smokebox directly over the driving wheels. As a result my loco will pull eight or more bogies.
Drummond died on the 8th November 1912 having produced the designs of a large number of locomotives. His most successful loco was the T9 ‘Greyhound’ that like the M7 tank lasted almost to the end of steam traction on British Railways. I have a T9 model and will send pictures of that in a later blog. Drummond had recognised that as trains became longer with heavier bogie stock replacing four and six wheel coaches there was a need for a new generation of much bigger locomotives. His last design was the 4-6-0 T14 ‘Paddlebox’, that was only partially successful on account of high coal consumption.
Drummond was succeeded by Robert Urie who had a\lways been Drummond’s understudy from when they both worked on the locomotives for the North British Railway in Scotland. Like Drummond, Urie was also a Scot.
After Drummond’s death Urie took the design of the T14 and produced two new 4-6-0 locomotives. These were the N15 (Express Passenger loco) and the S15 (mixed traffic) with smaller wheels. The N15 locos were given names according to the stories of King Arthur, his Queen Guinivere, his court at Camelot and the associated Knights of the Round Table. Thus the N15 class came to be known as ‘King Arthurs’.
My model shown above shows the large diameter driving wheels, the smoke deflectors with their frontal curvature thereby giving the locomotive a very imposing appearance, and the large bogie tender. There was a reason for the large tender because the Southern Railway as distinct from the other three British main line railways, had no water troughs. On the Central and Eastern sections where the journey distances were fifty to seventy miles only, this did not matter and smaller tenders could be used. However the western section which ran right down to Padstow in Cornwall and right past Camelford which is believed to be the site of King Arthur’s Camelot, was more than 200 miles. It was necessary therefore to have adequate supplies of coal and water on the locomotive.
My model is of no.736. It is named ‘Excalibur’ after King Arthur’s legendary sword.
When Urie died in 1937, his successor was an Irishman, Richard Maunsell. He produced improved King Arthur class engines with a more streamlined cab design but most importantly, higher superheat and longer valve travel. Where the Urie Arthurs could run short on steam, the Maunsell Arthurs had the ability to produce steam more freely and could therefore just keep on going on the long and heavy gradients of the West Country. No. 777 Sir Lamiel has been saved and is run from time to time on main line excursions.
Maunsell also produced a more compact Express Passenger loco for the Dover and Southampton boat trains. These were 4-4-0 locos still with the same general appearance with the frontally curved smoke deflectors and were named after the principle and exclusive secondary ‘public’ schools of Britain including Eton, Harrow and Winchester. The ‘Schools’ class took their place as the largest and most powerful 4-4-0 locomotives in Europe and were very popular with the men who drove and fired them.
My model is of no. 930 ‘Radley’ and is seen in the above photo.
Three Schools are preserved. They are Stowe, Cheltenham and no. 926 Repton. This last-mentioned loco ran for a time at Steamtown in Canada. It is now undergoing heavy overhaul at The North Yorkshire Moors Railway in the north of England.
Unlike the irascible Drummond, Maunsell was very popular with his workpeople. Maunsell would say to a newcomer to his design team, “You either will last only a week or you will be here for the rest of your working life.” ALL his team never left him until it was his turn to retire.
Maunsell’s locomotive and carriage designs restored the reputation of the Southern Railway. that had previously lagged that of the other three companies.
The final photograph is of a great Western Railway locomotive. The above photo shows my Castle Class locomotive. It is recorded that in 1904 the magic 100 mph was achieved for the first time by anything man made. At that time the peregrine falcon was the fastest creature on the planet and is now known to reach 160mph when diving on its prey. On 9th May 1904 Locomotive no. 3442 ‘City of Truro’ reached 102.3 mph between the eastern portal of Whiteball Tunnel and Taunton, Somerset on an ‘Ocean Mails Express’ taking mail which had come ashore at Plymouth from New Zealand and Australia to London. At that time the Great Western was competing against the London and South Western for the carriage of the mails from the Commonwealth.
City of Truro was to a design by a former GWR Chief Mechanical Engineer, William Dean. When Dean’s mental faculties began to fail in 1902 his understudy, George Jackson Churchward took over although Dean continued to be nominally CME until his death three years later. Churchward modified the City Class locos including no. 3442 in line with his own ideas of longer travel valves and higher boiler pressure. Thus City of Truro began a tradition of speed on the GWR that has continued into the modern age. Churchward went on to design the 4-6-0 Star class and when he retired in 1922 his successor Charles Collett improved the Stars and produced the designs of the Castle Class. My model is of no. 4073 Caerphilly Castle the first Castle built in 1923. In 1946 I saw 4073 bring the 14 coach ‘down’ Cornish Riviera Express through Reading Station. The locomotive is kept at the Steam Museum at Swindon Wiltshire in pristine condition. The Castle was not the last express locomotive of the Great Western and in 1927 Collett brought out the nominally more powerful King class. GWR footplatemen have told me though, “There is nothing a King could do that a Castle couldn’t also do just as well!”
It is an interesting fact that while only 30 Kings were built between 1927 and 1929 production of Castles continued up until about 1950 when the last one, no.7037 Great Western left Swindon Works. Because a number of Stars were rebuilt as Castles including no. 4037 ‘South Wales Borderers’ I am honestly not sure exactly how many there were, but it was around 160. There are seven in preservation including Nunney Castle second locomotive in the attached double headed formation.
This entry was posted in Model Trains on December 31, 2013 by noodles.
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Trixie Mattel Is Apparently a Big Orville Peck Fan
Published Apr 29, 2019
RuPaul's Drag Race star and All-Stars 3 champion Trixie Mattel is apparently a big fan of country outlaw Orville Peck.
Peck shared a screenshot of an Instagram message from the Barbie-inspired drag queen yesterday (April 28), and it shows Mattel starting a conversation by saying, "You are really amazing!"
Peck reposted the message, captioning it: "I love getting unsolicited messages from beautiful women."
The singer-songwriter and Exclaim! Class of 2019 alumnus released his debut album Pony earlier this year, and given his enchanting blend of old-school country sound and leather daddy look, it's not really any surprise that Mattel is obsessed.
See the pair's pleasant social media exchange below.
Pony is out now via Royal Mountain and Sub Pop Records. A documentary about Mattel called Moving Parts recently premiered at the Tribeca and Hot Docs film festivals.
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At last minute, China suspends tariffs on some US products
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Saturday, December 1, 2001 – Print Edition, Page L11
By DEIRDRE KELLY,
With cozy house parties standing in for over-the-top galas, relaxed chic is replacing ballroom glamour this holiday season, DEIRDRE KELLY reports. A sparkly sweater and sharp tuxedo pants may be all you need.
For the holidays last year, Danielle Iversen paid $525 for a Shelli Segal low-cut black velvet dress that she wore to more than a dozen blowout events.
This year, she has downgraded to a $59 sleeveless black cotton turtleneck, decorated with sequins and with an angora feel, that she plans to wear to the homes of friends and family.
Big splashy parties are out this season, says Iversen, something of a party expert in her capacity as a Toronto-based publicist and events planner for high-profile clients in the entertainment industry. And so are the ballgowns that go with them.
"No one wants to go out for the holidays this year," she says. "The trend is for house parties and dressy cocktails. Corporate parties that are traditionally held at bars and restaurants are being cancelled. It's natural right now to be with loved ones."
Iversen, known to spend lavishly on holiday wear, is among many people paring down and opting for items that are both comfortable (and comforting) and less showy this year.
"That dress from last season was very sexy and showed a lot of cleavage," the 32-year-old says. "It will now be sitting in the closet all holiday season. I won't be wearing it to one event."
With focus on home entertaining and the more spiritual aspects of the holidays -- giving instead of receiving -- stores nationwide are gearing up for a very mellow festive season.
But many retailers had already anticipated a downturn in the economy and planned for a season of darker colours and separates, a trend made for the consumer staying home for the holidays -- so inventory is moving.
The Bay is reporting that black pants and simple black dresses are among its top-selling holiday items.
Talbots, with 20 stores across Canada, says its customers are opting for silk charmeuse blouses and short-sleeve turtlenecks made of Lurex, material that has a glittery feel without the overkill.
"Women are looking for things that feel good against the skin," observes Talbots spokeswoman Betsy Thompson. "This season, they want clothing that's entirely comfortable and versatile -- things they can dress up and dress down."
Andrew's, a retailer in Toronto's tony Yorkville, is also seeing a rush on elegant separates, which have more mileage and are less expensive than a dress.
Beverley Lerner, who buys the store's evening wear, says gowns are not selling, but lace pants with beading and simple long skirts with a bit of train are: "Women still want a little oomph."
And luxe knitwear is an obvious choice.
"Knitwear definitely is more popular this year," Lerner says.
"It's a little less dressy than a beaded jacket or top and cozier -- soft and warm against the skin. That's the feeling people want for this season. They want to feel comforted."
Sometimes that feel-good sensation comes from helping others, and this season fundraisers and charity events are bigger than ever, says Maureen Atkinson, senior partner with the J.C. Williams Group, an international retail consulting company headquartered in Toronto.
People bombarded by daily images of war and terror are feeling that if they must go out they shouldn't be frivolous.
"If there are big boffo parties this season, they're for a purpose," Atkinson says. "Otherwise, people are staying at home with their families."
Sharon Halpin, a personal shopper employed by Holt Renfrew in Vancouver, reports a rise in the number of customers needing help in dressing for a holiday fundraiser.
She suggests elegant blouses with a wrap waist to wear with a simple skirt or beautifully cut pants. Halpin is also big on accessories this season, because they are versatile and generally affordable. And she is big on the tuxedo suit, in either ivory or black, because while elegant and potentially very sexy, it is also versatile and practical -- key concepts in a recession.
"Women are looking for value right now," Halpin says.
"They are no longer interested in buying a dress that they will wear only once. They want to stretch their dollars. And the tuxedo suit is a good buy because you can wear it a variety of different ways -- with a little beaded top for a charity fundraiser or an elegant satin blouse with French cuffs to wear to an elegant dinner party with friends."
Sarah Collins, a Toronto image consultant, says the look this holiday season isn't casual. It's understated. Sober times set the stage for less fussy dressing.
"With home entertaining, whether you are the hostess or the guest, the point is to look respectable and fashionable. You are not going to a dinner party this season in a cable knit sweater.
"You are going in a pair of leather or suede pants with a blazer and cashmere sweater accessorized with faux jewellery. That's still what I'd call dressy -- just not overly so."
Stay-at-home style
THE CLOTHES
Just because it's a friend's house doesn't mean you can show up in sweat pants and unwashed hair. Show your host respect by dressing with understated elegance. Try a tuxedo pant suit, dressed up or down with a bustier or lace shell. Pants are acceptable -- dress them up with a terrific top. Plunging necklines have table appeal as do crisp white shirts and your man's cufflinks. Lurex tops shimmer but are still comfy.
THE POWDER ROOM
Don't overperfume in intimate quarters. Don't over-shellac your hair with sprays -- it doesn't have to survive the macarena, after all. Don't overplay makeup. No one likes red lipstick stains on their good crystal. If you are not overly excited about your wardrobe, black always works with a splash of red nail polish.
Vintage costume jewellery is all the rage this season. Add sparkle to a basic black cashmere sweater with a brooch, necklace or dangling earrings. A basic black skirt gets a lift with fun, textured opaque tights. High-heeled boots are always elegant. But if you're the hostess, wear strappy open-toed shoes, since you have no slush piles to dodge. Nothing overly glitzy in the way of purses. You're not at a black-tie event.
FOOTWEAR ETIQUETTE
You may have to double-pack if it's snowing outside. Wear winter boots and change into footwear carried in an elegant shoe bag. Never arrive in scuffed shoes. Footwear should look polished. Hosts: Allow footwear in your home. Shoes are an integral part of an outfit. Provide a floor mat and clean up any dirt the next day. Guests: Be prepared to leave your Guccis at the door if your host or hostess is particular about the hardwood flooring; you have to respect their wishes (which means no holes in socks or stockings just in case).
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Name Index Mildred Ann COE was born on 20 August 1931 in Moberly, Randolph, Missouri. She died on 1 June 1991 at the age of 59 in Hamilton, Caldwell, Missouri. She was buried on 5 June 1991 in Mooresville Cemetery, Livingston, Missouri. Parents: Cecil Edward COE and Helen Clara RICE.
Spouse: Eugene "Junior" MOORE Jr.. Mildred Ann COE and Eugene "Junior" MOORE Jr. were married on 5 October 1948 in Linwood, California. Children were: Steven Eugene "Steve" MOORE, Patricia Lynn MOORE, Terri Elaine MOORE, Cheryl Ann MOORE.
Nancy Jane COE was born in June 1831 in Indiana. Her widowed mother, Mrs. Amy Coe, age 79, lived with George and Nancy in 1880. Parents: Milburn COE and Ann .
Spouse: George H. OLIVER. Nancy Jane COE and George H. OLIVER were married about 1852. Children were: Alice D. OLIVER, Millard W. OLIVER, Leslie B. OLIVER, Amy Jane OLIVER, Benjamin H. OLIVER.
Pat COE was born (date unknown). Parents: Cecil Edward COE and Helen Clara RICE.
Rita COE was born (date unknown). Parents: Cecil Edward COE and Helen Clara RICE.
Will COE was born (date unknown). Parents: M. H. COE and Mary MCCLELLAN.
William R. COE was born about 1833 in Indiana. He died before 1920 at the age of 87. Parents: Milburn COE and Ann .
Spouse: Sarah L. . Sarah L. and William R. COE were married about 1869.
COEN was born (date unknown).
Spouse: Stella RIGDON. Stella RIGDON and COEN were married.
Adah B. COEN was born on 21 May 1896 in Missouri. Parents: John A. COEN and Electra ALLSUP.
Alfarata "Allie" COEN was born on 29 October 1865 in Indiana. She died on 23 May 1953 at the age of 87. Parents: Marion COEN and Rebecca RISK.
Rev. Amos COEN was born in January 1851 in Butler Twp., Franklin, Indiana. He died on 27 October 1918 at the age of 67 in Milan, Sullivan, Missouri. He was buried on 28 October 1918 in Mooresville Cemetery, Livingston, Missouri. Rev. Coen was a Presbyterian minister in Mooresville for nearly 25 years. He came with his parents to Daviess County in 1870 but moved to Mooresville soon afterward. Parents: Israel Bernard COEN and Ann STUBBS.
Spouse: Melissa WARD. Melissa WARD and Rev. Amos COEN were married on 1 March 1873 in Livingston Co., Missouri. Children were: Jennie Pearline COEN.
Spouse: Rachel Anna GRENAWALT. Rachel Anna GRENAWALT and Rev. Amos COEN were married about 1876. Children were: Mollie Ann COEN, Edith M. COEN.
Andrew Jackson COEN was born on 19 April 1862 in Brookville, Franklin, Indiana. He died on 27 February 1929 at the age of 66 in Flagler, Kit Carson, Colorado. He was buried in Bucklin Cemetery, Linn, Missouri. Parents: Israel Bernard COEN and Ann STUBBS.
Spouse: Cynthia Adeline BENNETT. Cynthia Adeline BENNETT and Andrew Jackson COEN were married on 24 January 1884 in Caldwell Co., Missouri. Children were: May COEN, Israel Raymond COEN, Ruth COEN, Lena Maude COEN.
Anne COEN was born about 1842 in Indiana. Parents: Thomas COEN and Catherine LAWRENCE.
Buell Elton COEN was born on 16 January 1901 in Daviess Co., Missouri. His gravestone's birth date is 16 Jan 1900. The death certificate reports 16 Jan 1901. He died on 3 April 1925 at the age of 24 in Monroe Twp., Daviess, Missouri. He was buried on 5 April 1925 in Brown Cemetery, Daviess, Missouri. He committed suicide by hanging. He never married. Parents: John A. COEN and Electra ALLSUP.
Caroline COEN was born on 18 February 1817 in Dearborn Co., Indiana. She died on 5 January 1879 at the age of 61 in Daviess Co., Missouri. She was buried in Lock Springs Cemetery, Daviess, Missouri. Parents: Rev. Josiah COEN and Sarah Jane BABCOCK.
Spouse: William A. EGBERT. Caroline COEN and William A. EGBERT were married on 19 April 1838 in Franklin Co., Indiana. Children were: Josiah EGBERT, Alexander EGBERT, Permelia EGBERT, Mary Jane EGBERT, George W. EGBERT, Margaret "Maggie" EGBERT, Lettie Frances EGBERT.
Catherine COEN was born about 1847 in Indiana. Parents: Thomas COEN and Elizabeth LYONS.
Christopher T. COEN was born on 3 June 1874 in Missouri. He died on 1 February 1900 at the age of 25. He was buried in Lock Springs Cemetery, Daviess, Missouri. Parents: Salathiel COEN and Susan C. "Sudie" ISBELL.
Clarence Marion COEN was born on 6 September 1886. He died on 2 May 1945 at the age of 58. Parents: Marion COEN and Rebecca RISK.
Claude Thomas COEN was born on 26 June 1882 in LaCygne, Linn, Kansas. He died on 10 October 1958 at the age of 76 in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri. He was buried on 14 October 1958 in Oak Grove Cemetery, Wyandotte, Kansas. He was employed as a paper hanger. Parents: Marion COEN and Rebecca RISK.
Spouse: Edith . Edith and Claude Thomas COEN were married.
Claudia Raye COEN was born on 2 March 1900 in Jackson Twp., Daviess, Missouri. She died on 26 September 1966 at the age of 66 in California. Parents: Franklin Thomas COEN and Glenora "Nora" PATTERSON.
Clyde C. COEN was born on 6 October 1897 in Missouri. He was an oil field worker in Sardis, Oklahoma in 1918. Parents: Edward C. COEN and Ethel HALL.
Cora COEN was born in 1870 in Butler Twp., Franklin, Indiana. Parents: Henry COEN and Ruth .
Daisy Dell COEN was born on 17 February 1877 in Sampsel Twp, Livingston, Missouri. She died on 12 March 1961 at the age of 84 in Gallatin, Daviess, Missouri. She died in a Gallatin rest home; her residence was 4 1/2 miles north of Lock Springs. She was buried on 15 March 1961 in Clear Creek Cemetery, Daviess, Missouri. Parents: Salathiel COEN and Susan C. "Sudie" ISBELL.
Spouse: Park Custus PEARCY. Daisy Dell COEN and Park Custus PEARCY were married on 16 January 1913 in Jamesport, Daviess, Missouri. Bride and groom were of Jamesport. They were married at the bride's home.
Donald E. COEN was born about 1928 in Missouri. Parents: Gordon William COEN and Eula .
Donald Lee COEN was born on 15 August 1948 in Brookfield, Linn, Missouri. He died on 19 April 1949 at the age of 0 in Marceline, Linn, Missouri. He was buried on 22 April 1949 in Lakenan, Shelby, Missouri. Parents: Orville Chester "Chet" COEN and Frances Irene KELLOGG.
Earl Nelson COEN was born about 1904 in Missouri. Parents: William Harmon COEN and Ora Lou Vada DOWNING.
Edith M. COEN was born on 8 April 1886 in Mooresville, Livingston, Missouri. She died on 29 April 1886 at the age of 0 in Mooresville, Livingston, Missouri. She was buried in Mooresville Cemetery, Livingston, Missouri. Parents: Rev. Amos COEN and Rachel Anna GRENAWALT.
Edward C. COEN was born in December 1868 in Indiana. He was in Sardis, Oklahoma in 1918. Parents: Israel Bernard COEN and Ann STUBBS.
Spouse: Ethel HALL. Ethel HALL and Edward C. COEN were married on 6 July 1896 in Carlow, Daviess, Missouri. The bride was of Grand River Twp., the groom of Carlow, both in Daviess Co. They were divorced about 1909. Children were: Clyde C. COEN, Leo Ralph COEN, Mable COEN, Stella COEN, Kenneth COEN.
Elizabeth COEN was born about 1864 in Indiana. Parents: Israel Bernard COEN and Ann STUBBS.
Spouse: George AUDRE. Elizabeth COEN and George AUDRE were married on 12 February 1883 in Daviess Co., Missouri.
Elliott T. COEN was born in 1860 in Butler Twp., Franklin, Indiana. Parents: Henry COEN and Letta Frances .
Eula Faye COEN was born on 21 January 1898 in Carlow, Daviess, Missouri. She died on 23 April 1938 at the age of 40 in Chillicothe, Livingston, Missouri. She was buried on 26 April 1938 in Edgewood Cemetery, Livingston, Missouri. Parents: Franklin Thomas COEN and Glenora "Nora" PATTERSON.
Spouse: George Everett BEVELLE. Eula Faye COEN and George Everett BEVELLE were married on 28 November 1917 in Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas. Children were: Raymond Wilbur BEVELLE, Doris Lee BEVELLE, Stanley Everett BEVELLE, Billy Joe BEVELLE, Ruth Aileen BEVELLE, Donald Osborn BEVELLE, Norma Ann BEVELLE, Roy Gene BEVELLE.
Eva Pearl COEN was born on 21 May 1896 in Missouri. She died on 8 December 1977 at the age of 81. She was buried in Brown Cemetery, Daviess, Missouri. Parents: John A. COEN and Electra ALLSUP.
Spouse: Estes WHITT. Eva Pearl COEN and Estes WHITT were married on 15 November 1915 in Gallatin, Daviess, Missouri. The groom was of Union Twp., the bride of Jackson Twp. A granddaughter, Sylvia Carol Willis, age 1, lived with this family in 1940. Children were: Estes WHITT Jr., Gladys Evelyn WHITT, Margaret G. WHITT.
Francis COEN was born about 1849 in Butler Twp., Franklin, Indiana. Parents: Israel Bernard COEN and Ann STUBBS.
Frankie COEN was born about 1913 in Missouri. Parents: Franklin Thomas COEN and Leona M. FRANKS.
Franklin Thomas COEN was born on 6 July 1871 in Jackson Twp., Daviess, Missouri. He died on 13 March 1943 at the age of 71. He was buried in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri. Parents: Israel Bernard COEN and Ann STUBBS.
Spouse: Glenora "Nora" PATTERSON. Glenora "Nora" PATTERSON and Franklin Thomas COEN were married on 9 October 1895. They were divorced on 6 March 1910. Children were: Eula Faye COEN, Claudia Raye COEN, Lloyd Robin COEN, Gordon William COEN, Robert D. COEN, Margaurette Willow COEN.
Spouse: Leona M. FRANKS. Leona M. FRANKS and Franklin Thomas COEN were married on 20 December 1912 in Gallatin, Daviess, Missouri. The groom was of Carlow, the bride of Gallatin. Mrs. Rebecca Harlow, mother of Leona, consents. Children were: Frankie COEN, Lawrence Irven COEN, Margaret COEN, Mildred Ilene COEN, Russell COEN, James Everett COEN, Lila I. COEN.
Gordon William COEN was born in 1904 in Jackson Twp., Daviess, Missouri. Parents: Franklin Thomas COEN and Glenora "Nora" PATTERSON.
Spouse: Eula . Eula and Gordon William COEN were married about 1927. Children were: Donald E. COEN.
Henry COEN was born about 1834 in Indiana. Parents: Thomas COEN and Catherine LAWRENCE.
Spouse: Letta Frances . Letta Frances and Henry COEN were married. Children were: Elliott T. COEN.
Spouse: Ruth . Ruth and Henry COEN were married. Children were: Lillie COEN, Ora COEN, Cora COEN.
Herbert Harold COEN was born about 1906 in Missouri. Parents: William Harmon COEN and Ora Lou Vada DOWNING.
Hiram COEN was born in 1859 in Butler Twp., Franklin, Indiana. Parents: Israel Bernard COEN and Ann STUBBS.
Israel Bernard COEN was born on 19 July 1828 in Indiana. He died on 18 July 1907 at the age of 78. He was buried in Lock Springs Cemetery, Daviess, Missouri. Parents: Rev. Josiah COEN and Sarah Jane BABCOCK.
Spouse: Ann STUBBS. Ann STUBBS and Israel Bernard COEN were married on 9 April 1848 in Oak Forest, Franklin, Indiana. Children were: Francis COEN, Rev. Amos COEN, Mary COEN, Sylvester Stubbs COEN, Hiram COEN, Andrew Jackson COEN, Elizabeth COEN, John A. COEN, Edward C. COEN, Franklin Thomas COEN, William Harmon COEN.
Israel Raymond COEN was born on 31 May 1898 in Missouri. She died in August 1977 at the age of 79 in Lincoln Twp., Benton, Missouri. Parents: Andrew Jackson COEN and Cynthia Adeline BENNETT.
James Chester COEN was born (date unknown). Parents: Orville Chester "Chet" COEN and Frances Irene KELLOGG.
James Everett COEN was born on 26 October 1919 in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri. He died on 17 September 1988 at the age of 68 in Platte Co., Missouri. Parents: Franklin Thomas COEN and Leona M. FRANKS.
Jennie Pearline COEN was born in January 1873 in Missouri. Parents: Rev. Amos COEN and Melissa WARD.
Spouse: Harry E. SNOOK. Jennie Pearline COEN and Harry E. SNOOK were married on 13 August 1902 in Mooresville, Livingston, Missouri. The bride was of Mooresville, the groom of Breckenridge. They moved to Iowa where they made their home. This family lived in Quincy, Illinois in August 1909. Children were: Russell SNOOK, Anna May SNOOK, Harry Duane SNOOK, Harold SNOOK.
John A. COEN was born on 10 August 1866 in Franklin Co., Indiana. He died on 16 December 1950 at the age of 84 in Willard, Greene, Missouri. He was buried on 19 December 1950 in Greene Co., Missouri. Parents: Israel Bernard COEN and Ann STUBBS.
Spouse: Electra ALLSUP. Electra ALLSUP and John A. COEN were married on 24 May 1893 in Daviess Co., Missouri. They were divorced. Children were: Adah B. COEN, Eva Pearl COEN, Buell Elton COEN, Lawrence A. COEN, Virgil E. COEN.
Joseph Cupp COEN was born on 23 May 1853 in Franklin Co., Indiana. He died on 17 August 1925 at the age of 72 in Jamesport, Daviess, Missouri. He was buried on 19 August 1925 in Masonic Cemetery, Jamesport, Missouri. Parents: Thomas COEN and Elizabeth LYONS.
Spouse: Mary E. "Mollie" BENNETT. Mary E. "Mollie" BENNETT and Joseph Cupp COEN were married on 16 June 1898 in Breckenridge Twp., Caldwell, Missouri. The groom was of Lock Springs, the bride of Breckenridge. She was underage so her father, James B. Bennett, approved the marriage. They were divorced before 1920.
Rev. Josiah COEN was born on 7 February 1792 in Hartford Co., Maryland. He died in Oak Forest, Franklin, Indiana. He was a preacher in Franklin Co., Indiana in 1850.
Spouse: Sarah Jane BABCOCK. Sarah Jane BABCOCK and Rev. Josiah COEN were married on 7 July 1809 in Hamilton Co., Indiana. Children were: Thomas COEN, Caroline COEN, Mary COEN, Israel Bernard COEN, William B. COEN, Samuel COEN.
Spouse: Nancy M. LEE. Nancy M. LEE and Rev. Josiah COEN were married on 21 November 1861 in Indiana.
Kenneth COEN was born in 1909 in Oklahoma. Parents: Edward C. COEN and Ethel HALL.
Lawrence A. COEN was born about 1905 in Missouri. Parents: John A. COEN and Electra ALLSUP.
Lawrence Irven COEN was born on 9 September 1924 in Missouri. He died on 17 April 1996 at the age of 71. He was buried in Lawson, Ray, Missouri. Parents: Franklin Thomas COEN and Leona M. FRANKS.
Lena Maude COEN was born about 1904 in Missouri. Parents: Andrew Jackson COEN and Cynthia Adeline BENNETT.
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Out Now: Dimitri Veimar – Agung EP
Agung, Dimitri Veimar, Turbo 195
“techno records with personality are worth their weight in gold.
it’s so rare that a record has power, originality and genuine creativity…. and still has an edge, even a touch of danger.
The new Dimitri Veimar is one of those records: from the low-slung jack of AGUNG (which i play every night) to the distorted emotion of “Countach”, its an EP we are very proud of over here at Turbo HQ. enjoy.” – TIGA
Russian producer Dimitri Veimar, mastermind behind the outstanding ‘Less Talk’ EP earlier this year on Turbo, returns with the ‘Agung’ EP this December. The rising talent delivers a fresh four tracker and it’s out now on 12″ vinyl and on digital with an extra adjoining. Download/Buy here.
Throughout its nearly 20-year heroic label’s journey, Turbo Recordings has fulfilled its pledge to “keep on lookin’ for the music” no matter where it takes them, working with artists from cultures as diverse as Sweden, Finland, England, Spain, Scotland, Mexico, Australia, France, Argentina, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Italy, the United States, Israel, Denmark and Toronto. We realize that certain parts of the world are still underrepresented, and are working hard to correct this. Our Antarctic A&R guy has been asleep at the wheel for far too long, and can expect a sternly-worded e-mail any day now.
All of which brings us to our newest core artist, Russia’s Dimitri Veimar. We’d like to tell you we discovered him when he and his friends shot down our Eurasian Outreach Ableton Tutorial Helicopter for being “too condescending,” but the truth is actually much simpler. Veimar is merely fluent in the universal language of floor-filling, one that transcends borders and skin-crawling descriptions alike. It is a primal tongue describing a future where all communication is elevated to an endless loop of sweat-drenched club-goers pressed tightly against the front of the stage, smiling at everything you do.
A1 – Agung
A2 – D.I.L.D.
B1 – Classinger
B2 – Rise Up
DX – Countach
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f.!
Scheduled for Wednesday, 15 March 2023 CE at 16:20 UTC. Tweeted 2020-01-19 by @pantography.
Pantography tweets a message every hour. 1 Each one is consecutive: the first was ‘0’ and the last will consist of 140 zeds. 2 Between these two extremes, these two book-ends, every possible message will have been tweeted: a description of every feeling you’ve ever had, anything you’ve ever overheard or will overhear, any headline that has ever caught, or could ever catch, your eye, every retweet, every hot-take, every call-out, everything you—and everyone else—has ever thought, or could ever think. (As long as you, and everyone else, thinks in spurts of no more than 140 characters, consisting of 26 Roman letters, ten Arabic numerals and a handful of punctuation marks.)
That’s the good news. Come that final message heralding the sleep of tweeting, everything will have been said and we can get on with our lives; uncommentated, untagged, unlinked—a life lived with both hands.
The bad news is that it will take some time. 2.97 237 years.
The Universal Library
The idea of a Universal Library is best known from Jorge Luis Borges’ famous short story, The Library of Babel. Some years before writing this story, Borges had written an essay called The Total Library in which he traces the germ of the idea of a library that contains all possible texts as far back as the atomists Democritus and Leucippus, by way of Aristotle, and several mediaeval writers. But it was in the early 20th Century, he says, that the idea was given full form, first by Gustav Theodor Fechner and later, in the form of a fictional dialogue between a “professor” and a magazine editor, by Kurd Laßwitz. Borges remarks that it is a wonder how long it took anyone to come up with the idea.
Outside Borges, Montaigne, in Of Vain Cunning Devices, 3 mentions a reference of Plutarch’s to a calculation of the size of such a library and Tristram Shandy 4 looks forward to the end of any more possible texts. Faced with the alphabet, and the daily drudge of blackening paper with its letters, few writers could have failed to notice that they were working with a finite resource, a fixed number of permutations of the same letters.
A Piece of String
Although the alphabet itself consists of a pre-determined number of letters, the length of a text is as long as the proverbial piece of string. The idea of the Universal Library, of a finite number of permutations is thus open-ended. Each book in Borges’ library of Babel, we are told, “contains four hundred ten pages; each page, forty lines; each line, approximately eighty black letters.” That’s 1,280,000 characters in each book. Laßwitz is slightly more economical. “I should think that one can exhaust a theme pretty well with five hundred book pages,” his editor says authoritatively. “Let’s say that there are forty lines per page and fifty characters per line, we’ll have forty times fifty times five hundred characters per volume.” The professor quickly does the math: one million characters.
Laßwitz’s world-weary editor may think that a theme should be pretty well exhausted in five hundred pages, and if not the theme, then perhaps the reader. But would he truncate Ulysses? (264,861 words.) Would he cut Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy? Now, you may say that whatever is truncated from one volume will be found in another—but that fragment would be in a different context, and form a different book. More seriously, there are millions upon millions of shorter books that, in these libraries, would have no place since they would all be transformed by an unfamiliar coda in order to make up the required length.
Both Borges’ 1,280,000 and Laßwitz’s 1,000,000 characters are arbitrary lengths, just the number of letters that an “average”-sized book contains. Whatever we decide that size to be, we can always think of larger, and smaller volumes, briefer or more prolix in their contents.
A Missive of Hope
A surprising new direction emerged around the turn of the 21st Century. We discovered that a theme can be exhausted pretty well in 140 characters. Romance flickered, revolutions erupted, lives were saved, riots organised, opinions shared, events documented, rendezvous planned, mothers reassured, voters coaxed, customers mollified—all in 140 characters or less. God knows what we used to say in the remaining 999,860. In 2010 alone, 6.1 trillion SMS messages and 25 billion tweets were sent.
The brevity enforced by these media gives the project of a Universal Library fixed parameters. The length of each text is no longer arbitrary. It is the length within which we know we can say everything we need to say.
Arithmetic and Algorithm
The most famous image of an automatically-generated text is certainly that of Émile Borel’s Infinite Monkey Theorem, in which a monkey bashes randomly at a typewriter’s keys. Assuming that this monkey is left to do its work indefinitely, and that it does not develop human-like contrariness, it will eventually produce every possible book. 5
But this would be a very wasteful way of going about things. Not particularly because the monkey will produce reams of gibberish—but because it will almost certainly repeat itself many millions of times. What we need is a methodical, exhaustive, monkey: infinity, and randomness, is precisely what we are trying to avoid. Our aim is to reduce the production of all texts to a finite task, and there is one simple way to achieve this: by producing each text incrementally.
The algorithm used to generate each new pantograph 6 is straightforward. We are treating the fifty-four letters of our alphabet (including alphabetic and numerical characters, punctuation marks and a space) as if they were numerals in a number system to base 54.
Our “alphabet” consists of:
0123456789.,;:_@!?/#()%'-+= abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
So our first message is “0”, the next one is “1”, and so on. Our fifty-fourth message is “z”. Now, our fifty-fifth message is “00”, our fifty-sixth “01” and so on until “0z”. The next one is “10”. By these increments, we will produce 54 140 messages, right up to our final one consisting of 140 zeds.
We make two exceptions to our treatment of our letters as if they were numbers in a numerical system. Although the space is treated as one such numeral, it is not allowed to lead or trail a message, nor do we allow two or more spaces to appear consecutively since multiple spaces have no symbolic value over single ones.
There is also no concept of a “true” zero in our numerical system. Although the character “0” does appear, as the first character, in our alphabet, it has no special mathematical properties.
Determining which letters are to be included in Pantography’s “alphabet” is crucial. We need an alphabet that can express every possible - effable - thought. Each orthographic symbol adds millennia to our task. Each letter we add increases the number of texts that need to be generated by a factor of x.
It is important, therefore, that we only the characters that are strictly necessary for all our messages to be rendered completely.
But the above statement would suggest that there is a body of pre-existing utterances out there, existing objectively, waiting for us to express them. But this is whimsical. It is far more plausible to extrapolate forwards and say, The alphabet will produce every utterance that is contained within it.
A certain amount of arbitrariness has to be embraced here. Every mark is a distinction. Whether it is acceptable to assume that capital letters offer no indispensable nuance is, really, up to us. Laßwitz’s “professor,” despite playing the role of the hard man of science, decides that such a loss of colour would be unacceptable: "[...] let’s just stick to the upper- and lower-case letters of the Latin alphabet,” he says, “the customary punctuation marks and the space that keeps the words apart.” That inflates his library by a cool 26 1,000,000.
Despite the far more mystical tone of Borges’ story, and the tomes he reports in his library, his alphabet is far more economical. “The original manuscript has neither numbers nor capital letters; punctuation is limited to the comma and the period. Those two marks, the space, and the twenty-two letters of the alphabet are the twenty-five sufficient symbols.” Here Borges has dispensed with the x, the q and the w, as he predicts in The Total Library.
Since we are dealing with a particular medium, Twitter, we can more manageably predict which symbols our alphabet requires. Upper-case letters, though frequently used, are hardly indispensable in this medium, and we sometimes tend to enter into that mode of utterance, somewhere between speech and writing, as in the medium’s grandfather, the SMS message. Conversely, punctuation marks are even more prominent than in other media, and we will here use every mark required to form a sentence, assemble a url, refer to another user and indicate a tag.
The Fallacy of Further Abstraction
Faced with the enormity of the task of assembling the Universal Library, it is tempting to look for ways to economise on the alphabet employed. Dispensing with capital letters, punctuation marks, low-prestige letters such as the J or the W—all these stratagems can make the task lighter. Borges says, “the alphabet could relinquish the q (which is superfluous), the x (which is an abbreviation), and all the capital letters”. By using similar economies, George Gamow in One, Two, Three... Infinity, manages to reduce his alphabet to twenty-five letters.
Theodore Pavlopoulos goes further. He suggests using an alphabet of 100 language-independent characters so that each character can be substituted for any letter in a given language. “&@#$*$ could be thought of as representing the words ABUSES, IMPEDE, SCORER etc. for an English language reader, the words ΣΟΒΑΡΑ, ΘΡΑΣΟΣ, ΕΙΡΗΝΗ etc. for a Greek language reader, and the words СОБАКА, ЯБЛОКО, ГИТАРА etc. for a Russian language reader.” Unlike the stratagem of dropping an x here and a q there, the benefit is far from negligible, “The size ratio between the thus resulting library and the Universal Library is much smaller than the one between an atom and the whole universe.”
WV Quine goes further still. 8 He first suggests using Morse Code while retaining the length of 500,000 characters. Then he cuts down the number of characters, arbitrarily, to seventeen, while retaining Morse Code. Then he delivers his final economy: “The ultimate absurdity is now staring us in the face: a universal library of two volumes, one containing a single dot and the other a dash. Persistent repetition and alternation of the two is sufficient, we well know, for spelling out any and every truth.” 9
Quine is led to his “ultimate absurdity” by the observation that “a diminution in the coverage of each single volume does not affect the cosmic completeness of the collection”. When he substitutes letters for Morse he says the thought content is reduced—since Morse is more long-winded—but the library is still complete 10. After all, every conceivable string is still being written out using his chosen alphabet. Then, when he decides to cut down on the length of each string—after all, every string is continued in many, if not all, others—he realises that “a diminution in the coverage of each single volume does not affect the cosmic completeness of the collection”. Next thing you know, he is using binary notation, and trusting that the reader will combine the two symbols to write out any conceivable message.
Something has obviously gone wrong here; though it is not immediately obvious quite what. At first, Quine’s humorous essay may seem to be satirising the idea behind The Total Library (if, indeed, such a preposterous idea can be satirised) but it equally makes a mockery of any attempt to make the task manageable. His proposal is the equivalent of moving all the elements of an equation to the left side, putting a zero on the right—from a + b = c to (a+b)—c = 0—and then claiming to have solved the equation. 11
Morse itself, like electronic text, is an abstraction of an abstraction. We use dots and dashes, or zeroes and ones, to stand in for letters which, in turn, when grouped together, stand for things in the world. Now there is no reason why Morse code itself could not constitute an orthography for a natural language. It is not impossible to imagine someone who has so internalised the musical stream of dots and dashes that they would not need to transliterate messages into the alphabet of their language before understanding them and responding. One suspects that this must have happened in the case of very experienced Morse operators.
It’s a question of granularity, of resolution. The alphabet allows us to make a given number of statements, at a particular level of detail, in a given amount of length, or time. When we take a digital photograph, we are aware that we are using a certain number of pixels. We can always choose to use a smaller file size, using fewer pixels, but it would have less detail. If it has too few, then it is useless, it fails to reproduce what we see to an acceptable level. We can also choose to use more pixels, and render more detail. If we choose too many pixels then we are gathering redundant information. The upper limit is, of course, the resolution of our own eyes. Sub specie aeternitatis, the upper limit would probably be far closer to atomic density, or even something like Leibniz’s monad 12, but in order to reproduce our visual experience, to represent what, to all intents and purposes, the world is to us, we need go no further. 13
The resolution of our retinas seems to be a far harder barrier than the granularity offered to us by the alphabets of our natural languages. It is a physical barrier. But our alphabets, trimmed and augmented over centuries, offer us a hint of a human scale of the granularity of our experiences. There is great variety, of course, between the number of letters in the various alphabets, but with a certain number of shims and hoists, it represents the variety of sounds we make when we speak. 14 It is a closed system that expresses human experience at a particular level of granularity, at a particular scale.
The Fallacy of Further Brevity
Many attempts at making the project of the Total library more manageable seek to make the texts themselves shorter. Gamow does it, and so does Quine. After all, the argument goes, a text can always be continued in another one. There would also be many texts that explicitly say this, of course, providing convenient markers at the beginning and end of the texts. A text (in reality, millions upon millions of texts) would end with “continued on text 11172”. And sure enough, there would be many texts that would announce themselves to be Text 11172.
Perhaps because the image of a library served as the prime metaphor, Borges and Laßwitz’s texts were book-length. A book is a text of a length we have culturally settled upon, a length in which we can explore a subject at substantial but not overwhelming detail. The book itself is made of smaller components: chapters, sections, paragraphs, sentences, words and, ultimately, letters. We are well aware that the larger parts are made of the smaller but what constitutes a book is that it is made up of those particular parts, and of a given number of them. If we decide to cut up a book into chapters, or a paragraph into sentences then it is no longer a book, no longer a single, coherent exposition on a given subject.
The Total Library is a closed system that plays out every given permutation of a text of a given length, using a given set of characters. It is not the playing out of all human thought. The fact that we take our books to contain human thought, to be human thought itself, is another matter.
Pantography exploits the fortuitous circumstance of the 140-character message. We know the things we can say, we know the kind of human experience these messages express. In the fullness of time, of course, these messages could be joined up to form larger works. Indeed, the messages will themselves suggest ways in which they can be joined into larger texts. But that is no different than joining sentences to form paragraphs. It is the joining up that constitutes the text, and that is the work we expect Pantography to do for us. Pantography, and all other similar projects, and in reality, any single text, are not about the potential locked inside language, not about mental projection, but about the literalness, the writing out. 15
The Fallacy of Noise
The realisation that such a project would contain all possible texts quickly floods the imagination with the sheer exhaustiveness of all the texts that woud be revealed. Of his Total Library, for instance, Borges says:
{insert: /citations/88}
Pantography, producing shorter texts, will produce all possible one-liners and bon-mots, maxims, epigrams, apothegms, all possible newspaper headlines, curt obscenities, elaborate blasphemies, as well as many millions of libelous pronouncements.
It would also contain millions upon millions of such fantastic lists; and each one of them would be realised elsewhere in the collection.
Now, of course, all these literary nuggets would be hidden in amongst millions of other texts. As Borges puts it,
[...] but for every sensible line or accurate fact there would be millions of meaningless cacophonies, verbal farragoes, and babblings. Everything: but all the generations of mankind could pass before the dizzying shelves—shelves that obliterate the day and on which chaos lies—ever reward them with a tolerable page. 16
But to say that these texts would be meaningless is to completely ignore what Pantography is doing in its inexorable generation of one text after the other.
Firstly, on a somewhat banal level, Pantography’s internally exhaustive nature means that any phrase is defined elsewhere in the corpus so that there is always a chain of definition, or correspondence between any given text and contemporary understanding.
But more important, Pantography obliterates the distinction between meaning and meaninglessness. Claude E. Shannon defined information as a message with a lower probability than surrounding messages. Each phrase has an equal probability of appearing—i.e. 1. 17 When no phrase has a higher probability of being generated than any other, the distinction between signal and noise collapses. 18 The entire body of texts has a completely flat frequency graph 19 This is what the heat death of language looks like.
When Pantography has produced all its texts, would we be able to say that each text exists? What do we mean when we say that a text exists? Obviously all the material, and the letters existed before. How much work 20 would we we need to put in to gain access to the particular sequence of letters that make up the text? The closer to zero this measure is, the more the text can be said to exist. Is it just a case of opening a book, or a pdf file, or do we need to pluck it from among the entropic miasma of letters. Do we need to infer it from the writer’s notes? Pantography will generate every tweet but once we have the entire body of tweets, we would still have to go back and discover the ones that mean anything to us. This process would require as much work from us as if we were writing them from scratch. In fact, it would be indistinguishable from writing them from scratch. Having all of them is exactly the same as having none of them.
1By following pantography your tweets will be added to the Pantography database and, when their scheduled time comes round, will not need to be tweeted again. Mentions of pantography, #pantography and links to joegatt.net/pantography are also added.
2Now 280?
3citation needed!
5Borges, Total Library, p 216 “which chance would organize”
6Define pantograph in 1. Use consistent terminology; also in code.
7There is, in fact, a small subset of utterances imaginable outside of Pantography. This set consists of all those things we’ve ever read, thought, imagined. In natural languages, this set is paralleled by utterances in other languages against which set any “new” language can be checked.
8In Quine 1987.
9Quine’s playful casuistry delights Daniel Dennet: link{/citations/93}.
10This is a very interesting observation. As though the corpus, though finite, is beginning to behave as though it were infinite (∞ + 1 = ∞).
11Richard Feynman had quipped that, if we were to allow such manipulations, then we can say that we already have a theory of everything.
12See link{“The Apotheosis of Paris”}
13See blurb{“Retina”}
14And in some cases, such as Chinese, we can barely speak of an alphabet.
15About the information gained in the putting together of a text. Cf. Monad/information loss.
16“The Total Library” in Borges: The Total Library , p. 216
17Does our special handling of the space slightly colour this?
18This is why I chose such a bland, functional, title. I had originally thought of Nembrot, after the Babylonian who is said to have uttered the curse that brought about the confusion of languages. Catholicon—the book of everything—was another candidate. But such titles, I realised, would try to overlay a metaphorical, or narrative rubric onto a project that would increasingly render it meaningless. So I decided on an instrumental title. A pantograph, in this sense, is a text that has been produced by the process of producing all texts.
19See Frequency Analysis.
20Negative entropy?
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i honestly believe terry +amp; i keep bumping heads because were making excuses for his behavior because he played football for a living!
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thomas, let me ask u a vry simple question: evn if tht were remotely adequate.
honestly, i'd buy the display one for the penny. the brush head would. no brainer. would immediately improve our team drastically.
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charlton away with stevenage in 2012 was honestly shocking. not the only one, but he was horrible.
i just want something. i had so many goals that never came through, so many delays, i was so upset when i saw her wearing that
i remember when it was a tired scifi trope that the ruling class would secretly hurt him is 'they have come to 19 n we are at 20'
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When a public gallery announces that it has been bequeathed the works of a recently deceased artist, the tone is always one of gratitude and praise for the artist’s generosity. Museums and universities accept the papers of retired statesmen and writers with gratitude. Such donations, I’m sure, are transacted across several meetings and much legal negotiation. But surely these organisations must receive many such offers from deluded people who think that the public would benefit from their unsold artwork or their notes and correspondence. Do removals vans regularly turn up at national galleries stuffed with a lifetime’s worth of “under-appreciated” watercolours? There must be a certain sweet spot of vanity and public-spiritedness at which it becomes plausible for someone to think of donating their work to the public.
The world, online and off, is full of copyright notices that simply reek of self-delusion. Brochure websites with badly aliased logos, unwieldy drop-down menus and ungrammatical copy shamelessly claim responsibility for their content and design. Somewhere in the footer, they draw a circle around a little “c,” like a self-satisfied cat with its tail curled around its paws, to assert their ownership of the foregoing misguided pixels. This redundant little device 1 is added superstitiously to the bottom of pages, possibly to “look more professional”, as though the content would fall off the bottom without this powerful talisman. This is as paranoid, pre-emptive and discourteous as writing your name on every pint of milk and pack of butter that you put into the office refrigerator.
But there’s also such a thing as foisting your lacklustre home-baked cookies onto your poor colleagues. Creative-commons and open-source mechanisms are, of course, meant to be a sophisticated way round the delusion implicit in announcing to the world that all rights are reserved long before anyone has shown any interest in arguing otherwise.
And yet, when I add the creative-commons licence notice to the bottom of my pages, when I open-source the code for this site, I do it with the same sheepishness as if I had just sent a van stuffed with print-outs of all my emails to the Smithsonian and am anxiously awaiting a little thank-you note full of the appropriate delight and surprise.
This presumption, that anyone is interested in reading, never mind stealing, anything we produce inheres in everything we choose to publish. It is precisely how Vanity Publishing got its name, it is precisely what is being validated, what is being bought off when a publisher buys or commissions a piece. A publisher’s primary function is to guarantee that the present work is not the writer’s delusion but, at worst, a folie à deux. Knowing that a publisher has had to invest a certain amount of money, knowing that that investment carried a certain opportunity cost, reinforces this assurance. Social media buttons have a weaker but similar effect, at least when we can see that a page has been shared by a greater number of people than can be assumed to be the author’s friends and family. 2
1Copyright is automatic in all signatory countries of the Berne Convention, which is to say almost everywhere.
2Other points: An established writer, or artist, who can safely assume there is an audience for their work, who is already talking to someone as they write—in the best cases, the ease comes across not as self-indulgence but as the low stakes of a conversation. The derision and accusations of self-indulgence regularly heaped by readers, or at least commenters, at columnists who take this reception for granted.
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M.E. Zubkov
The defining conditions of managerial behavior in the field of labor safety at small construction enterprises
The sociological research was implemented to reveal features of the determination approaches to safety management and labor safety at small construction enterprises. It is inferred that there is a conflict between systems of labor efficiency management and labor safety at small construction enterprises. The cause of conflict is the change of worldview and axiological principles of workers and the low maturity of the management culture.
zubkov2012_2.pdf (198 Kb)
G.V. Shapovalov
The basic stages of development of social advertising in Russia
An analysis is made of the basic stages of development of social advertising in Russia. The author proves that modern social advertising reflects a historical way of its formation and development. This is manifested, first of all, in preservation of the leading positions of the state in regulating and implementing social and promotional activities.
shapovalov2012_2.pdf (184 Kb)
O.V. Leonova
The spiritual culture of the region: current situation and trends of changes
This paper presents a comparative analysis of the estimates and opinions of the population of Astrakhan region about the state, basic tendencies and problems in the sphere of spiritual culture obtained on the basis of the results of sociological researches in 2005 and 2010. There are some changes in the respondents' opinions concerning the Russian spiritual culture, the extent of realization of spiritual demands and the attitude to the activity of the state and regional government in the sphere of culture.
leonova2012_2.pdf (254 Kb)
M.V. Averyanov
Corruption as the crisis factor of sociocultural mentality of youth
This paper addresses the phenomenon of corruption as a crisis factor of sociocultural mentality of youth. The author defines the mechanisms of minimization of its destructive impact and examines the problematics of sociological researches in sphere of counteraction against corruption.
averyanov2012_2.pdf (215 Kb)
M.E. Grigoryan
Definition of subject domain of social management and functions of social management of the modern organization
This paper analyzes the definition of subject domain of social management. The author identifies and analyzes the functions of social management of enterprises. It is inferred that the social form of management is based on the social paradigm of the organization development. The solution of problems concerning application of the categorial apparatus of social management is related to basic elaboration or critical revision of a number of bases and categories of both sociology and management.
grigoryan2012_2.pdf (184 Kb)
N.S. Lyubavin
The analysis of the organization of information-analytical maintenance of activity of the law-enforcement bodies of the Russian Federation
The paper analyzes the organization of information-analytical maintenance of activity of law-enforcement bodies of Russia. Information-analytical maintenance is included organizationally into a control system of law-enforcement body, providing in its activity of achievement of the purposes its creation. The author discloses system properties of the given kind of administrative activity, as well as the characteristic problems to be solved within the limits of maintenance of law-enforcement activity of the state.
lyubavin2012_2.pdf (206 Kb)
F.R. Azashikova
Bases of strategy of sustainable social and economic development of the region
The paper discusses the problematic aspects of sustainable social and economic development of the region, its essence and factors. The author examines transition to a sustainable development of the region and resources required for the solution of its tasks.
azashikova2012_2.pdf (256 Kb)
A.I. Trakhov
Features of bringing to criminal liability and punishment of minors at the present stage of development of Russia
This paper addresses the maintenance of the rights and freedom of minors, as well as features of the modern legislation in the Russian Federation about a criminal liability and punishment of minors. Justice concerning minor offenders means that measures of influence applied to them provided as much as possible an individual approach to research of circumstances of the made act and were commensurable both with features of their person and with circumstances of the made act, promoted the prevention of crimes among minors and provided them resocialization and protection of legitimate interests of victims.
trakhov2012_2.pdf (210 Kb)
Z.A. Mamisheva
Legal bases ensuring national security of Russia
The paper discusses legal and political aspects of ensuring security of the Russian state and society. These aspects provide an opportunity of revealing a number of the factors which influence intensely reserves of the state in the solution of problems of ensuring national interests. The main concepts, including security, national interests, national security, state security, are analyzed.
mamisheva2012_2.pdf (209 Kb)
Z.Kh. Lovpache
Interpretation of norms of criminally-procedural law as the necessary precondition and a condition of their correct application
The paper addresses the problems arising at interpretation of norms of criminally-procedural law. The reasons of “collisions of norms of the law” are investigated. The author develops a vector which is the precondition and a condition of correct application of the norms of criminally-procedural law in practical life. Importance of the question under study which is related, at times, to destiny and well-being of the person is discussed.
lovpache2012_2.pdf (233 Kb)
A.M. Siyukhova
Lunar symbols in dreams and mythic-epic creativity of the Adyghes
The paper provides a list of the most significant symbols of dreams of representatives of the Adyghe ethnos. The dependence of mythology of ethnos on symbolical system of dreams is substantiated. Symbols of the dreams related to the lunar nature are analyzed in detail: ‘water’, ‘snake”, “fish”, “child” and “blood”. The way of realization of the given symbolics in the epos of the Adyghes is investigated. The principle of nonlinear dependence of the archetypical symbolics realized in dreams, epos and in ceremonial practice is marked.
siyukhova2012_2.pdf (288 Kb)
N.V. Tertyshnik
The national and international in arts and crafts of Adygheya artists
The paper discusses principles of interaction of the national and international in arts and crafts of artists of Adygheya. The author considers this theme still urgent, but suggests its study in a plane of sociology and culture psychology. The national and international are correlated as the ethnic-marker, information (style and temporal), esthetic and spiritual signs-codes rather than a form and the content.
tertyshnik2012_2.pdf (190 Kb)
Z.E. Abdulaeva
Specificity of regional ethnoculture in anthropological space of the Russian society
The paper deals with the regional ethnoculture as an integral part of anthropological space of Russian modern culture. Specific features of ethnoculture as an anthropological constant in contemporary Russian society are analyzed.
abdulaeva2012_2.pdf (210 Kb)
H.M. Mirsoev
A name as the most important sign means of self-identification
The paper discloses the essence and social and psychological value of a name. The consciousness of toponymy of his name often sets special purposes and tasks before the person that are altered with his growth. Questions of the theistic plan are discussed. The most important sign means of a name is prefaced with the social and cultural self-determination of the personality. Some rituals which are traditionally chosen by a society in modern real life are revealed.
mirsoev2012_2.pdf (265 Kb)
B.S. Khotko
National belief of the Abkhazes: traditions and the present (As shown by a sanctuary of the Ampar family)
Nowadays there is an active revival of the traditional religion in the Abkhazes environment. Its value grows steadily in life of society during the past years. It is necessary to underline that for a long time the national belief of the Abkhazes has been the object of steadfast attention in the scientific environment. The available data about traditional religion of the Abkhazian people treat a ceremony of sacrifice as means of uniting and strengthening related links between representatives of the given family rather than only as the form of dialogue of members of the family with a deity.
khotko2012_2.pdf (209 Kb)
V.G. Shustov
The first municipal reform as an object of political study
This paper discusses the primary period of municipal reform in the period of 1989-1991. Separately the first municipal reform was distinguished and studied. The author gives a definition of the municipal reform, defines its objectives and components. A political and legal analysis of legislation of municipal reform is undertaken. The main purpose of this publication is a study of the role and place of the local authorities in the political process in conditions of transformation of the entire political system.
shustov2012_2.pdf (270 Kb)
T.A. Shalyugina
Imitation phenomenon in the Soviet social reality
The paper reveals how a variety of imitation strategies were imposed on the new social reality in the conditions of totalitarianism formation: “installing style” of life, symbolic engineering, mythologization and primitivization and ideological indoctrination. The basic components of the imitation are: social action as the introduction of the principles of “vision” in the mass consciousness, a departure from rationality, which includes the distortion or even destruction of the fixeed sense of the social reality in a communicative dialogue and social perception, factor of the engineering of the symbolic reality, pragmatism of imitation as a practice.
shalyugina2012_2.pdf (208 Kb)
E.B. Lebedeva
Experience in associating subjects in the Russian Federation: problems and preliminary results
The paper analyzes five cases of association of subjects in the Russian Federation in the 2000s and identifies the key features and the main consequences of the reforms in the administrative-territorial division. The study demonstrates the low interest of the population and regional elites in the unification processes, the high relevance of issues related to national identity and very contradictory effects of the reforms.
lebedeva2012_2.pdf (326 Kb)
The Economic Theory
Yu.V. Chub
Scientific and methodical aspects of a cost assessment of the human capital
The paper discusses approaches to estimation of the human capital cost. The basic components of this estimate are the educational level of the individual, an investment in health, investments into information support of the worker, expenses for improvement of professional skill or training for a new profession, provided there is a change of technics and work content in a workplace, and expenses for mobility at structural changes of employment.
chub2012_2.pdf (1 Mb)
S.A. Roshchektaev
Integrated approach to the formation of the local financial market of the Russian modern megalopolis
The paper substantiates the application of integrated approach to the formation of the local financial market of the modern Russian megalopolis. From this approach the market under study is a product of market integration interaction of the subjects of financial relations, interlacing in the economic space of megalopolis as an integrated entity, producing intensively the new knowledge. It is shown that an integrator of this market is the megalopolis itself as a system subject of the local financial market.
roshchektaev2012_2.pdf (687 Kb)
Problems Related to Investment Activity
Zh.D. Darmilova
The choice of investment strategy for an enterprise working in competing emvironment
The paper describes scientific methods of strategic management in investment activity of enterprises. The author determines its investment substrategies, the main stages of the process of formation of investment strategy, levels of accepting strategic solutions and the more optimal investment strategies in post-crisis conditions.
darmilova2012_2.pdf (497 Kb)
O.A. Okorokova
Foreign experience in investment activity of the insurance companies
The paper examines state regulation and practical aspects of investment activity of the insurance companies abroad. The author determines the directions of development of their investment activity and the basic tools of investment.
okorokova2012_2.pdf (954 Kb)
А.А. Dzharimov
Some thoughts on the federation and federal relations. 20 years later
The present research focuses upon the formation and development of the federal relations underlying a state system of Russia. The condition of the federal relations in a political sphere influences an economic component of the relations of the federal center and subjects of Federation. Federalism principles and the main restrictions of their realization in modern Russia are disclosed. Special attention is given to a diversity of status of subjects of the Russian Federation underlying an asymmetric nature of federation and structural disorganization of economic space. The author provides an assessment of expediency of federal district allocation, cancellations of direct elections of heads of Russian regions and the electoral system which has developed in the country. Need of conducting elections in regions and in subjects of the Russian Federation in accordance with the majority system is proved.
dzharimov2012_2.pdf (573 Kb)
E.B. Ermishina
Principles and tools to diversify the mining industry of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania
This work discusses principles of a diversification and tools of its realization. The efficiency of a diversification of mining branch is estimated. It is inferred that the directions of mountain branch diversification in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania should rest upon the use of secondary resources and capacities.
ermishina2012_2.pdf (436 Kb)
E.N. Zakharova, T.G. Gurnovich, M.M. Dolgiyev
Conceptual bases of ensuring power safety of the region in the conditions of formation of innovative economy
This paper reports upon various approaches to concepts of security and power safety. The authors discuss the main problematic aspects of development of technical base in power engineering; describe key principles of ensuring power safety in the conditions of innovative development and the complex of actions providing implementation of the concept of sustainable power , as well as propose the control system of power safety of the region.
zakharova1_2012_2.pdf (733 Kb)
А.V. Kravchenko
Relationship of structural elements in the monitoring system of foreign economic sector of the region
The basic structural elements necessary for the efficient functioning of foreign trade complex in the region are defined on the basis of a systematic approach to the construction of its monitoring. The basic methodological requirements for its construction are formulated.
kravchenko2012_2.pdf (552 Kb)
T.A. Kuzin
Competitiveness and competitive advantages of regions of Southern Russia
This paper discusses some aspects related to the study on the relationship of competitiveness and competitive advantages of regions, as well as to the methodological problems related to rating assessment of the competitiveness in regions of Southern Russia with application of complex socio-economic indicators.
kuzin2012_2.pdf (149 Kb)
N.M. Makarchouk
Structural transformation of the internal environment in the economic system of the region
The process of structural transformation during the past years has become a priority component of regional economic policy of Russia. Problems, which regions experience under the influence of the factors of global competition, are negatively reflected on parameters of their evolution. The present paper discovers essential issues of structural transformation and gives recommendations for their solution.
makarchouk2012_2.pdf (400 Kb)
R.A. Popov, А.А. Dzharimov
Prospects for increasing competitiveness of industrial sector of Russia in the conditions of development of globalization and economy regionalization processes
The current state of industrial sector of Russia is characterized by considerable unevenness of development in both branch and territorial aspects. On the one hand, the producing enterprises of a petroleum and gas complex which have developed in the past decades provided the main proceeds in budget revenues, dampening expenses of market reforms. On the other hand, they created a situation when development of processing enterprises has become ineffective. The paper provides the assessment of the modern processes in industrial sector of Russia and substantiates proposals on giving innovative character to the process of its development.
popov2012_2.pdf (1 Mb)
L.T. Tlekhuray-Berzegova, T.G. Gurnovich
Contemporary integration managing subjects and functions of interaction of regional systems
The essence of integration of managing subjects is defined as steady and developing cooperation of managing subjects consistently approaching and binding their reproduction processes. Proceeding from a correspondence principle between requirements and functions of regional systems, it is possible to define the functional content of their integration interaction. A study of process of integration interaction of regions in contemporary Russia allows distinguishing a number of specific needs and functions of integration interaction of regional systems.
tlekhuray-berzegova2012_2.pdf (481 Kb)
R.D. Khunagov, R.A. Popov
Clusters as a form of the organization and construction technology in the conditions of volatility: a regional aspect
In the conditions of requirements to increase volumes and rates of industrial and cultural - domestic construction, a system of territorial construction clusters can act as one of the effective forms of contract activity in regions. Flexible forms of the organization, immanent to cluster structures, allow uniting technology-collocated construction organizations on a commercial basis and reaching as a result a synergetic effect in high-quality measurements and a cumulative effect in construction technology. The paper describes promising forms of a territorial and production association of separate construction organizations and the building industry enterprises with a view of increasing the efficiency of construction processes and developing a personnel component of this branch on a new organizational basis.
khunagov1_2012_2.pdf (583 Kb)
R.D. Khunagov, I.V. Sugaipova
Tools of debureaucratization and overcoming a corruption component in regional social and economic policy
The paper examines problematic aspects of corruption on the basis of materials of the Krasnodar Territory and the work of the Audit Chamber, one of the most effective bodies of fight against corruption, which has effective tools of tracking and prevention of this negative phenomenon. The optimum ways of fight against corruption are presented.
Development of the relations of a corporate property in the internal environment of regional economic systems
The paper describes the levels of the organization of a corporate property. The authors distinguish two aspects of social participation of the performing personnel in profit of corporation and two types of structure – object and subject.
Economy of Agrarian-Industrial Complex
A.A. Kerashev, M.M. Shekultirova
Promising forms of interaction between small-scale agrarian business and corporate structures in regional agricultural sector
The paper discusses the topical problem of development of small-scale business in agricultural sector in terms of capital concentration and economic subject consolidation. Great attention is paid to prospects of effective regulation of interaction between small-scale agrarian business and large corporate structures in agricultural sector of modern Russia. The key forms of development of interaction between small-scale business and corporate business groups, that dominate in agricultural sector of regions of modern Russia, are presented.
kerashev2012_2.pdf (758 Kb)
A.A. Mokrushin, A.I. Suslov
Corporative potential of structural modernization of regional agro-industrial systems of contemporary Russia
The paper is devoted to identifying the corporative potential of structural modernization and innovative transformation in regional agro-industrial system. The possibilities and restrictions of vertically integrated corporations (VIC) in structural transformation of economic connections and relations of subjects of regional agro-industrial systems have been established. The dominant mode of structural organization of interaction between VIC and agro-industrial systems of contemporary Russia has been revealed. The possibilities of the PPP in the development of regional agro-industrial systems (with the participation of VIC) have been specified. The promising strategy of interaction between VIC and agro-industrial systems of contemporary Russia has been revealed.
mokrushin2012_2.pdf (902 Kb)
A.Z. Rysmyatov, S.A. Dyakov, A.O. Kirichenko
Theoretical bases of economy and the organization of reproduction processes in fruit growing
The paper discusses the problems of theoretical and practical character characterizing reproduction processes in industrial fruit growing. An analysis is made of the modern determinants defining efficiency of reproduction processes in this branch.
rysmyatov2012_2.pdf (459 Kb)
I.V. Sugaipova, I.N. Voblaya
Formation of innovative and investment policy of the regional agrarian and industrial complex
The paper discusses the problematic aspects of reduction of investments into the agrarian sphere, as well as the questions of intensification of regional investment policy on the basis of development of its innovative component.
sugaipova2012_2.pdf (484 Kb)
A.A. Tamov, A.A. Apishev
Methodological aspects of proving strategic priorities for the development of agro-industrial complex in the problem region in post-crisis conditions
This paper discusses a number of unexplored methodological aspects related to the justification of the priorities of development of regional agro-industrial complex, taking into account peculiarities of the problem region.
tamov2012_2.pdf (481 Kb)
M.M. Shekultirova
The system of corporative management of integrating interaction between economic subjects of regional agricultural sector
The paper discusses the major problems of corporative management of integrating interaction between subjects of regional agricultural sector. The author examines the structural elements of executive system of interaction between economic subjects of agricultural sector on the basis of corporate integration, as well as the prospects of its development.
shekultirova2012_2.pdf (562 Kb)
Mathematical Methods in Economy
V.D. Selyutin
Mathematical models of economic risk management based on the conception of risk as a resource
This work proposes the models of risk management based on the use of the risk conception as a resource. It is pointed out that if risk is resource-similar, then taking a cost-benefit criterion into account, its management will be related to the reduction of its level to optimal value.
selyutin2012_2.pdf (560 Kb)
Innovative Technologies in Marketing
N.P. Ketova
Regional marketing in system of tools and principles of management of territorial development
The paper discloses the essence, features, functions and principles of regional marketing. The structure of the markets and companies in the South of Russia is presented. The author formulates methodical approaches to stimulation and regulation of their activity by methods of regional marketing and shows advantages of this tool in the general control system of territorial development.
ketova2012_2.pdf (814 Kb)
V.N. Ostrovskaya, S.V. Mayer
Constructive approach to marketing management at the petrochemical enterprise
In this paper, we propose a new approach to the marketing management in petrochemical companies, based on the use of the principles of constructivism. The authors describe the features of this approach, as well as its relationship to other approaches. A role of the constructive approach in improvement of strategic marketing management is determined.
ostrovskaya2012_2.pdf (649 Kb)
Service Economy
T.I. Afasizhev, B.M. Zhukov, V.S. Novikov
The virtual relations in a service sector: factors and prospects of globalization
At present, we understand that the virtual economy comes up to take the “real” economy’s place. Of particular note is the service sector, which in its philosophical sense has all the characteristics and components of the virtual economy. The article is devoted to the formation and development of the theoretical foundations of service virtualization.
T.I. Afasizhev, A.S. Tyutyunnikov
Directions of modernization of the Russian hotel business aimed at increasing its competitiveness
This work substantiates the main directions of modernization of the Russian hotel business aimed at increasing its competitiveness on the basis of researches carried out by the author. The authors define the interrelation of modernization of hotel business organizations with increase of their competitiveness through ensuring strategic sustainability as ability to create, develop and keep for a long time the competitive advantages in the market of hotel services in the conditions of environment changes.
S.A. Baranova, Yu.M. Belyaev
Consulting services in the sphere of innovations
This paper describes trends, types and functions of a number of consulting firms that must belong to a single infrastructure necessary for continuous sustainable innovative development. Attention is given to the need for Russia to create new types of consulting services in the sphere of innovations to provide venture capital for banks and funds, as well as the safety and protection of intellectual property.
baranova2012_2.pdf (613 Kb)
Yu.M. Belyayev, E.M. Chernenko
Organizational-economic provision of modern standards of medical services in foreign countries
This article contains a model of medical services in foreign countries, a comparative socio-economic analysis, which allows you to choose the most appropriate model for use in domestic practice.
belyayev1_2012_2.pdf (662 Kb)
Yu.M. Belyaev, E.М. Chernenko
Increases in effectiveness and quality of medical services on the basis of the organizational-economic guarantee of observance of the contemporary standards
The paper examines the methods of management of the quality of medical services, ensuring the social protection of population in the sphere of health protection. An assessment is made of basic indices characterizing the quality of medical services. The basic directions of the solution of the problems related to the quality of the medical services are determined.
belyaev2_2012_2.pdf (733 Kb)
N.A. Breslavtseva
Tendencies and problematic aspects of management in service sphere
At present the economic system undergoes considerable changes related to both structural shifts and various social factors. Therefore, the major area of public life is the sphere of services which makes appreciable impact on all sides of our activity. This paper deals with the creation of new management methods in sphere of services.
breslavtseva2012_2.pdf (649 Kb)
L.V. Vermennikova, A.S.Tyutyunnikov
System of the estimation of enterprise competitiveness in the recreation-tourist sphere in the adaptivity context
This paper proposes a system of the estimation of enterprise competitiveness in the recreation-tourist sphere in the adaptivity context made on the basis of the researches conducted by the author. This system includes two-level indicators (at level of the enterprise and external environment), consisting of both financial and non-financial indicators. This approach provides the balanced estimation of efficiency of functioning and the level of the enterprise competitiveness against the background of the changes occurring in an outer environment.
vermennikova2012_2.pdf (701 Kb)
А.А. Ermolenko, S.V. Lazovskaya
Mechanisms of formation of competing advantages in the service sphere
An analysis is made of the main group of competitiveness factors. The principal directions of formation of competing advantages in the sphere of tourist services are determined.
ermolenko2012_2.pdf (520 Kb)
A.Kh. Zhankaziev
Strategic priorities for financing higher education
The paper discusses the primary goals of reforming an education system, namely: the search for additional financial resources. Specific attention is given to the analysis of possibilities and consumer priorities of the population. The author substantiates the expediency of expansion of the use of population’s money within the limits of socially-private co-financing.
zhankaziev2012_2.pdf (356 Kb)
B.M. Zhukov, O.V. Belitskaya
Perfection of development of the transport-information infrastructure in recreational territories
An analysis is made of the current condition of a transport-information infrastructure of Krasnodar territory as one of the key factors of development of the recreation and tourism industry. The authors examine problematic aspects and prospects of its development and define modernization ways of its perfection in the period of preparation for Olympic Games of 2014 in Sochi.
zhukov1_2012_2.pdf (630 Kb)
B.M. Zhukov, S.A. Lyausheva
Modernization of the enterprises of hotel sphere on the basis of flexible management
The paper discusses the concept of modernization of a hotel economy developed on the basis of formation of system of the flexible management. This concept is used to provide dynamical development of the service enterprises in the conditions of unstable external and internal environment. The authors define the modernization ways of development of hotel business and propose a modernization toolkit of flexible management in hotel service (business communications, flexible budgeting, competitiveness monitoring).
E.N. Zakharova, T.I. Afasizhev, S.A. Lyausheva
The analysis of a state of domestic trade in the conditions of intensive development of a service sector
The paper discusses tendencies in development of the domestic trading sphere. The authors examine the structure of a turn of retail distribution networks and a tendency of formation of new store formats. It has been established that a turn of retail trade decreased in connection with financial crisis and that a share of foodstuff increased. The wholesale trade in Russia and its specificity are characterized. Special attention is given to the development of electronic trade in the country.
E.N. Zakharova, S.A. Lyausheva
Evolution of the economic nature of trade in “the economy based on knowledge”
This work discusses the principle features of “the economy based on knowledge” and various approaches to the content and essence of the concept “trade”. The authors examine the most important aspect of information revolution – the electronic business – and the basic principles of electronic trade regulation.
S.V. Lazovskaya, N.Yu. Ermolenko
Key competences of human factor as a core of integration mechanism in the service sphere
The paper examines the main preconditions of creating the centre of formation of key competences the purpose of which is increasing quality of services presented to consumer on the basis of integration of education and presented services.
lazovskaya2012_2.pdf (584 Kb)
S.A. Mikhaylov
Modernization of hotel service management as a tool of sustainable development of resort hotel complex
The aggravation of competitions between the producers of hotel services has led to the necessity of modernization and sustainable development of the hotel business in conditions of decreasing population’s solvent demand. It has also been confirmed that in the market conditions the leading role is given to the economic units which meet the requirements and upgrade the quality of service most effectively.
mikhaylov2012_2.pdf (2 Mb)
I.A. Nikitina, N.Yu. Ermolenko
Scientific-educational center as a promising form of innovational development of higher professional school
The paper examines institutional conditions and preconditions of creation of scientific-educational centers in system of higher school, which will play the role of a form of innovative development of a market of educational services adequate to the main tasks of modernization. Functions and structural organization of a scientific-educational center are defined.
nikitina2012_2.pdf (681 Kb)
V.N. Ovchinnikov, N.P. Korolyova
Employers in the structure of subjects of the educational service market
The paper considers the functional role of the employers in the structure of the demand subjects on the educational service market, generalizes the experience of their cooperation with the institutions of manpower development system in the process of formation of the competent specialist model and of the social order on their graduation from the educational institutions of the professional educational system.
ovchinnikov1_2012_2.pdf (880 Kb)
A.A. Tatuev, A.Kh. Zhankaziev
The main directions of increasing expenditure efficiency for higher education
Households from the economic point of view consistently turn to the main consumer of educational services. In this context, the need for new organizational and economic tools, including cost, allowing more responsible consumers and increasing their financial capacities.
tatuev2012_2.pdf (1 Mb)
O.A. Zelenskaya, S.K. Eshugova
Cluster initiatives in the Russian modern industry
The paper describes examples of cooperation of the enterprises and business groups with competitors that is a distinctive feature of a cluster. Despite the competition for factors of production and end products in the market, the company finds possibilities for the mutually advantageous cooperation increasing efficiency of all participants of the relations – co-competition.
zelenskaya2012_2.pdf (950 Kb)
T.A. Martynova, N.O. Sisel
Review of the state and problems of wine-making industry in the Krasnodar Territory
Wine-making industry is currently evolving. At the same time, the production of wine in the country is a risky business. Enterprises of this branch are faced with many problems in their work. In this regard, this paper provides an overview of the state of the industry, identifying strong and weak points and substantiates the necessity of risk assessments of wineries and taking into account them in the development of strategic plans.
martynova2012_2.pdf (779 Kb)
Z.M. Khasheva
Management of key competences of interorganizational network participants
Now there is an expansion of a spectrum of organizational alternatives, first of all at the expense of intensive development of various forms of network interaction of economic agents. The paper examines concepts of “an interorganizational network” and “the key competence”, stages of managerial process of key competences in interorganizational networks are elaborated.
khasheva2012_2.pdf (667 Kb)
Taxes and the Taxation
V.N. Ovchinnikov, Z.A. Klyukovich
Development of the tax theory as the reflection of the taxation system evolution
The paper considers the origin of the conceptions and tax theory development in the context of practice and tax system evolution in the retrospective historical aspect. Theory development phases are singled out and principles of the optimum tax system construction in Russia are determined.
General Problems of Pedagogy
A.V. Babayan
The concept of moral education of М.I Demkov
The paper analyzes the concept of moral education of a prominent national educator, Demkov Mikhail Ivanovich (1859-1939) who made a contribution to the actual problems of moral education. His views on the purpose, problems, the maintenance and the basic directions of moral education of rising generation are revealed here. The paper is of interest to university professors, teachers, post-graduate students and the students studying the theory and the history of pedagogical thought and education.
babayan2012_2.pdf (251 Kb)
S.N. Begidova
Acmeology determinants of professional formation of the personality
The paper considers acmeology determinants of professional formation of the identity of the expert. The main acmeology determinant is the created acmeology culture which contents make humanistic outlook, spiritual and moral perfection, innovation, vocational guidance on creative self-development, professional competence, professional mentality. The formation of the allocated components provides professional development and formation of the personality.
begidova2012_2.pdf (251 Kb)
V.G. Bazhenov
Psychological and pedagogical conditions of complex work with the family and child from «a group of risk»
The paper establishes the main lines of activities of persons in prevention of children's neglect and psychological and pedagogical conditions of their interaction in complex work with a family and child from «a group of risk».
bazhenov2012_2.pdf (190 Kb)
K.I. Buzarov
Development of national education in Adygheya (The 2-nd half of the XVIII century – The 1-st half of the XX century)
The paper analyzes problems of genesis and development of educational system in Adygheya from the XVIII century up to the second half of the XX century. This stage of development of the education system is the most significant in the history of development of Adygheya (Circassia) since the known historical events occurring in this region during this period could not but affect not only the national education system both positively and negatively but also all culture of the Adyghe people.
buzarov2012_2.pdf (227 Kb)
R.A. Galustov
Formation of design culture of a future teacher of technology and business
The paper considers questions of shaping design culture of a future teacher of technology and business. Pedagogical conditions, substantial and procedural making technologies of formation of design culture including three basic forms are defined. Separate components of design culture of the identity of a future teacher of technology and business are presented.
galustov2012_2.pdf (192 Kb)
M.V. Dikalova, V.I. Spirina
Possibility of the remote-controlled teaching of children with limited possibilities of health
The paper defines the contents of the remote-controlled teaching on the whole and outlines its possibilities as means of rehabilitation of children with violations of development, the model of organization of remote-controlled teaching is suggested.
dikalova2012_2.pdf (201 Kb)
E.N. Zakharova
Competence approach to quality management of educational services
The paper considers requirements of economics based on knowledge to an education system; concepts «quality of training» and «quality of education», "competences" and "competency" are defined; the strategic map of key competences of the graduate is given; the necessary element of a competence approach to quality management of educational services is defined.
I.V. Kryuchkova
Educational environment as condition of development of self-reliance and personal self-determination of a school student
The paper specifies the educational environment of innovative private educational institution of high comprehensive school "Razvitiye" in the town of Armavir where the author of the paper is the director. For 10 years the school works successfully on the system of developing education by D.B. Elkonin - V.V. Davidov. The main objective of school is formation of self-reliance of a pupil as major quality and condition for successful training and preparation for personality socialization.
kryuchkova1_2012_2.pdf (226 Kb)
I.V. Kryuchkova, K.I. Buzarov
Peculiarities of the organization of educational process at private innovative secondary comprehensive school «Razvitiye»
The paper shows peculiarities of structure of educational process at innovative school "Razvitiye", defines educational stages and development of universal educational actions of pupils at each stage, establishes the urgency of realization of innovative technologies in educational practice.
E.G. Marchuk
Increase of intellectual competence of the schoolboy as condition of his self-development
The paper presents the results of the experimental research of the process of formation of intellectual competence of schoolboys in educational process. It is established by the author that formation of intellectual competence of pupils depends on consecutive formation of the components of the process. The purpose of the paper is to draw attention of the pedagogical public to the necessity of use of the intellectual-focused tasks, pedagogical approaches, the principles defining the forms, methods of forming intellectual competence of schoolboys in educational process.
marchuk2012_2.pdf (233 Kb)
Z.K. Meretukova
Didactic questioning in lectures and seminars as a means of developing potential of problem training in the course of preparation of the expert
The paper discloses the essence of the concept "didactic questioning", the author of the paper offers its definition and substantial filling; difference between this concept and the concept «question statement» is revealed; the paper substantiates the interrelation of culture of didactic questioning and realization of the developing potential of problem training, thereby the author offers the definition of the concept «problem training», establishes its substantial characteristics and correlation of methods of problem training and questioning in terms of « purpose – value – creative thinking».
meretukova2012_2.pdf (312 Kb)
Problems of music education of student’s youth in the polyethnic region
In the paper problems of music education of students in the polyethnic region of the North Caucasus are considered. One of the main problems lies in divergence of the requirements to the theory and practice of musical and pedagogical activity and readiness of students to it. In the conditions of national originality of the region it is necessary to develop receptions and ways of introduction in educational process of concrete samples of folklore and the works of professional music reflecting national and ethnic originality of musical culture.
O.A. Mudrakova
Problems of development of IKT- competence of computer science teachers by use of electronic resources for educational purposes in improvement of professional skills
The paper considers the questions connected with the analysis of the concept the [IKT]-competence of the teacher of information theory and the ways of raising the level of this competence.
mudrakova2012_2.pdf (215 Kb)
M.E. Paatova, S.N. Begidova, N.Kh. Khakunov
Theoretical-Methodical analysis of social and pedagogical phenomena «deviant behaviour of teenagers», «delinquent behaviour of teenagers»
The paper is devoted to theoretical-methodological analysis of the concepts «deviant behavior» and «delinquent behavior» of teenagers in the context of a personal approach and bringing to light reasons for emergence of these social and pedagogical phenomena, substantiating the author's view on this problem.
paatova2012_2.pdf (280 Kb)
V.A. Petkov, S.I. Andryushchenko
Organization of the innovative environment of the educational establishments
The paper is devoted to consideration of bases of the organization of the innovative environment in educational institution. The author opens essence of the environment approach and typology of innovative processes, technology of their design, ways of diagnostics and forms of the effective organization of the innovative environment. The material is of interest for students, teachers and teachers of secondary and higher educational institutions.
petkov2012_2.pdf (191 Kb)
T.N. Poddubnaya, O.Yu. Krynina
Innovative Competence Model of the Graduate of the Higher School (on the example of the Bachelor)
The paper considers specifics of the development and maintenance of competence model of the graduate bachelor in specialization «Tourism»; discloses groups of competences (common cultural and professional) meeting the requirements of the academic and professional readiness of the bachelor of tourism.
poddubnaya2012_2.pdf (282 Kb)
E.T. Rubtsova
On the issue of technological culture in higher pedagogical education
Modern education implies high quality of teachers’ training which includes technological culture. To master technological culture is important for a teacher of any speciality. Technological culture in education is closely connected with pedagogical culture; it includes the ability to use pedagogical technologies, definite knowledge and skills, process of thinking, worldview and active professional pedagogical position.
rubtsova2012_2.pdf (255 Kb)
N.M. Sazhina, M.S. Golub
Prevention of pedagogical risks of victimization of the teenager
The paper reveals main approaches to the concept «the victimization of personality»; phases of the investigation are displayed; some ways of preventing pedagogical risks in victimization of the teenager in modern conditions are suggested.
sazhina2012_2.pdf (217 Kb)
T.D. Skudnova
Acmeology approach in psychological-pedagogical education
The paper presents acmeology system of training specialists in psychological- pedagogical education. It reveals the role of courses of «Social designing», «Pedagogical acmeology» in the formation of acmeology culture of specialists of social sphere in conditions of psychological-pedagogical education.
skudnova2012_2.pdf (186 Kb)
A.P. Stukanov
Realities of synergetic management of additional professional education
The paper deals with the methodological bases of efficiency of a synergetic approach to management of additional professional perfection of pedagogical staff.
stukanov2012_2.pdf (208 Kb)
M.H. Tuguz, L.N. Kubashicheva
Dialogic activities as a communicative disposition of pedagogical cooperation in a rural national school
The paper discusses dialogic activities as a communicative disposition of pedagogical cooperation in a rural national school which ensures readiness of pupils for life in polyethnic and multicultural society.
tuguz_m_2012_2.pdf (182 Kb)
А.А. Ushakov
Professionalism of the teacher as a determinant of improvement of the quality of educational services in the conditions of competitiveness of the system of secondary vocational training
The paper considers the interrelation of the problem of maintenance of quality of average vocational training and professionalism of the teacher. The result of the research made it possible to prove value of professionally important qualities of the teacher in improvement of quality of educational services in the conditions of competitiveness of system of vocational training.
ushakov2012_2.pdf (269 Kb)
F.P. Khakunova
The problem of organization of independent work of school and university students at the present stage of education
The author of the paper discloses an urgency of the organization of independent work of subjects of educational process, characterizes levels and types of independent work and peculiarities of independent work of school and university students, classifies them according to types, proceeding from the private and didactic purposes, informative tasks and specifics of educational and informative activity.
khakunova2012_2.pdf (211 Kb)
K.D. Chermit, G.Z. Kharkovskaya, N.K. Kuprina
Organizational and pedagogical conditions of use of the resourse of parents for development of the municipal education system
The analysis of structure of addresses of citizens of Krasnodar Territory and the city of Krasnodar to various municipal and regional bodies concerning development of the general education, questionnaire of parents and experts in the field of education (more than 1400 respondents at 42 schools) made it possible to substantiate organizational and pedagogical conditions, realization of which will allow to use the resource of parents for development of the municipal education system.
chermit1_2012_2.pdf (300 Kb)
K.M. Shikov, E.I. Dvornikova
Formation of the professional ideal of the teacher of Russian at the turn of XIX-XX centuries
The paper studies the ideal image of the teacher of Russian at the turn of XIX - XX centuries and specificity of vocational training through a prism of priorities of language education of the school student and axsiological categories of pedagogical activity of the teacher of language and literature.
shikov1_2012_2.pdf (277 Kb)
D.E. Em
Foreign language as a tool for formation of communicative competence of students, future managers of hotel industry
This paper raises a very important and actual for Russia problem that managers of hotel industry - graduates of higher education do not meet modern requirements of the industry of hospitality. On an example of the town-resort Anapa of Krasnodar territory the concept of the communicative competence is disclosed. Groups of background knowledge are singled out, the concept of the foreign language competence is specified and its structure is described.The paper underlines that it is necessary for the modern manager of a hotel industry to study a foreign language during training in a higher educational institution.
em2012_2.pdf (215 Kb)
Special Methods and Teaching Technologies
T.P. Avanesova
Educational module computer support
The paper describes possibilities of computer support in the course of modular training.
avanesova2012_2.pdf (369 Kb)
Kh.Z. Bagirokov
Bilingual thinking and the process of teaching a native language
Bilingual and polilingual situation in the Adyghe language space affected formation of the Adyghe language picture of the world in the Russian Federation, caused strengthening of communicative interactions and led to a community of basic knowledge about the world with Adyghe-Russian lingual- cultural core.
bagirokov1_2012_2.pdf (155 Kb)
Z.U. Blyagoz, A.N. Blyagoz
Stylistic mistakes in Russian Speech of Adyghes and work on them
In the paper stylistic mistakes in speech of pupils – Adyghes are considered. Main of them are the outcome of influence of structure and system of the native language on Russian speech of Adyghes and weak knowledge of laws and rules of lexical, grammatical word compabinality, their stylistic use.
blyagoz2012_2.pdf (170 Kb)
B.M. Dzhandar
Text as the basis for formation of oral coherent speech
The paper considers the problem of formation of foreign communicative competence on the basis of the text. A support on data of modern linguistics concerning the text allows to define the contents of system of work on development of coherent foreign speech.
dzhandar2012_2.pdf (233 Kb)
A.Kh. Zagashtokov
Questions of comparative analysis of languages for lingua didactic purposes
The comparative method is widely used not only in the theory of language but also in practical studies. The aims and tasks of teaching a non- native language determine the comparative analysis of languages for linguadidactic purposes. Therefore the linguadidactic appendix of results of comparative description of the Russian and Kabardian-Circassian languages is disclosed in the paper, as well as the main concepts of linguadidactic typology, elaborated by the author, are stated.
zagashtokov2012_2.pdf (191 Kb)
F.K. Urakova
Comparative typological description of basic units of the text in the Russian and Adyghe languages with teaching aims
Comparative analysis of syntactic units of Russian and Adyghe languages showed likeness and distinction of these two languages on the syntactic level. It gives the opportunity to develop connected speech of the pupils of national schools and overcome difficulties of interference. It also creates the opportunities for supporting at the elements of transposition, for using all skills and experience of the pupils at the lessons of the Russian language and for developing Russian speech.
urakova1_2012_2.pdf (242 Kb)
F.K. Urakova, Z.R. Khachmafova
Formation of the language personality in the conditions of school modernization: problems and prospects
The paper discloses the main problems of modern language education, the prospects of its development directed at the solution of the most urgent problems of philological education, allowing to mobilize all resources for increase of productivity of teaching the languages, meeting modern national and international requirements.
Z.R. Khachmafova
Formation of Lingua cultural competence of foreign students when teaching Russian as a foreign language on the basis of the concept «woman»
The main objective is creation of a technique of formation of lingua cultural competence of foreign students studying Russian at the initial stage of training on the basis of lexical representation of the concept "woman", rendering a key fragment of national concept sphere. The training model of the organization of the corresponding nominative field is developed.
khachmafova2012_2.pdf (216 Kb)
Modern Problems of Psychology
A.B. Rogozyan
Properties of social adaptivity in the structure of individual style of stress-resistence of the person
The paper discloses the interrelation of psychodinamic properties of a person and specific display of sense of stress. Presumption is made that a person possesses social adaptivity in the individual style of stress resistance (ISSR). Irrespective of psychodinamic properties of a person, in difficult life situations constructive ISSR includes adaptiveness-conformity, an invariant of productive ISSR. Persons with good adaptivity are capable of establishing new rules of interaction in a group. Persons with weak neuropsychic stability get stress resistance by including adaptivity-lability in the complex of psychological components of ISSR, which in the first place prevents perception of the factors of organizational stress.
rogozyan2012_2.pdf (421 Kb)
Z.I. Tsiku
Orientation in the system of psychological factors of professionalism of the teacher of preschool educational establishment of the combined type
The paper studies the empirical data characterizing manifestations of a personal orientation of the teacher of preschool educational institution of the combined type at different stages of a professional cycle. It is proved that it has invariant (typological) and specific components. To invariant components the author refers a personal orientation to business (a production task) and socially focused professional preferences which are closely interconnected. Specific components are defined as quality indicators of motives of the pedagogical activity, expressed at certain stages of a professional cycle. For beginning teachers specific components are an orientation on themselves and on creative types of work. Teachers with long experience have an orientation to communication, collective activity, desire and ability to work in a profession of subsidiary type. For the teacher-master the most important is an orientation to business, aspiration to see direct results of socially focused work.
tsiku2012_2.pdf (265 Kb)
Educational Space of Physical Training and Sports
R.M. Magomedov, I.V. Makrushina
System of socially oriented sports and sports work in the city of Derbent
The paper produces the characteristic of the author's system of socially oriented sports and sports activity directed at the solution of actual social and pedagogical problems of the youth of Dagestan; it describes effective, subject, methodological and rich in content aspects of socially oriented sports and sports activity and its results.
magomedov2012_2.pdf (346 Kb)
A.E. Mitin, A.B. Bguashev
Research of the problem of regulation by the teacher of behaviour engaged in physical education and sports in Russia and abroad
The paper analyzes the researches devoted to the problem of formation of motivation of doing some physical activity and sports at various groups of the population. It considers possibility of regulation of students’ behavior by the teacher taking into consideration their interests, requirements and motives. The attention is focused on the necessity of formation of teacher’s abilities of constructive interaction with the students, which provides increase of efficiency of physical-sports activity. Special attention is paid to the results of investigation of this problem presented in foreign publications.
mitin2012_2.pdf (283 Kb)
Chan Nayn Dik, G.D. Aleksanyants, Yu.A. Kudryashova
The analysis of variability of the heart rhythm of athletes – badminton players in the transition period of a year training cycle
Cardiovascular system is the indicator of adaptive reactions in reply to physical activity. Optimization of its functioning is a necessary condition for achievement of high sports results. The author carried out the comparative analysis of variability of a heart rhythm of athletes-badminton players and persons of the same age who do not do sports. 59 athletes were examined (first-rank sportsmen, candidates for the master and masters of sports) at the age of 17-21 years at the beginning and at the end of a transition period of a year training cycle and 35 young men from the control group. The athletes who are engaged in badminton, show reduction of tension of the central type of regulation and increase in activity of a contour of regulation of heart activity, with prevalence of a parasympathetic component.
chan_nayn_dik2012_2.pdf (274 Kb)
K.D. Chermit, A.O. Isakov, S.N. Begidova
Subject role-playing games as means of physical training and minimization of influence of deprivation on orphan children of the advanced preschool age
The paper considers the reasons and conditions the performance of which provides positive influence of subject role-playing games on physical condition of orphan children of the advanced preschool age; the bases of a technique of their application for physical training and socialization of this group of children are defined. The procedural model of application of subject role-playing games is developed to minimize the influence of a deprivation on development of children, which was positively estimated by experts.
D.A. Akhmetova
Spiritual and intellectual range of representation of national life in N. Kuyok’s novel «Wine of Dead»
The paper discusses spiritual and moral sides in representation of national life. The author shows that philosophization in the novel “Wine of Dead” is strengthened, which can be considered as manifestation of a tendency of the epic concept transformation which affected the genre and style parameters of work. Consequences of innovative aspects of interaction with folklore and the myth were the polyphonic nature, the historic-philosophical contents, art elucidation of the historical past in a planetary context, updating of the ideological and moral contents and novelty of development of characters.
akhmetova2012_2.pdf (297 Kb)
F.B. Beshukova, B.M. Tadzhiyeva
The art concept of the central image-character in I. Mashbash’s novel «Aisse Countess»
The paper discusses literary correlations of an image of the heroine of Aisse in I. Mashbash’s novel with female images in sentimental, educational and romantic novels. The moral problems caused by mentality of the heroine, in particular, solution variants of a choice between “a duty and feeling” become the main aspect of consideration.
T.Kh. Gorchkhanova
Art originality of stories by Shamil Akhushkov
The figure of Shamil Zaurbekovich Akhushkov’s (1907-1944) is famous in a pleiad of the Ingush writers of the 1920 - 1930s who have made an essential contribution to development of specific and genre diversity of national literature. The versatile, gifted person, he entered the history of the Ingush culture as the large prose writer, one of the original authors in a genre of the short story, as well as the film expert, the film critic and the cinematographer. He had a good command of the Russian, French and Ukrainian languages in addition to his native Ingush language.
gorchkhanova2012_2.pdf (354 Kb)
A.M. Gutov
Research of the Narts’ epos at the present stage
The paper discusses the accumulation of a phenomenon of traditional national culture in the conditions of a modern civilization and sums up the history of studying the heroic epos of the people of the Caucasus. Ethnocentric tendencies within several decades take down the Nart epos studies to low-perspective disputes on genesis and ethnolanguage belonging of the main core of the epos. Attention is paid to development of methods of the complex, centralized studying the epos in all national versions.
gutov2012_2.pdf (334 Kb)
Z.Zh. Kudaeva
The bee in the mythoepic views of the Adyghes
The folklore texts were analyzed to study mythopoetic views of the Adyghes, in particular, how insects show the code character. The author demonstrates how the bee is allocated with prognostic functions and how it is related to life revival, to a rain and to fertility.
kudaeva2012_2.pdf (257 Kb)
A.S. Kuek
Cult of Mountain and Stone
Globalization sweeps off most bases of nationalities, their notion about good and evil and their world outlook. That is why keeping all meaningful values of nationality is of great importance. This article takes into consideration one of the cults in the Adyghean mythology - the cult of mountain and stone. It’s remarkable that the object of research is “ispyun”, which is thousands of years old and exists nowadays. It testifies to high level of nationality culture. Unique historical monuments are neglected and unprotected, and this shouldn’t be so.
kuek2012_2.pdf (316 Kb)
I.V. Lozovoy
Beginnings as «common places» (loci communes) of Russian bylinas
The paper examines the beginnings of Russian bylinas and their functional role in texts. Three groups of beginnings as “common places” are defined: geographical, chronological and subject, their similarities, distinctions, contents and change of structure in different schools of epic singers. Comparison is carried out of beginnings at representatives of two different epic schools.
lozovoy2012_2.pdf (291 Kb)
R.G. Mamiy
Typology and esthetics of the Adyghean novelistics (genres of small prose)
The paper describes the formation and development of small genres in the Adyghean prose. An analysis is made of features of the short story, its parallels and crossings, distinctions and similarities with the story and the great story. An attempt is undertaken to answer a question whether a short story, unlike the story, is an independent genre. The author proposes to introduce such genre forms as «the novelistic story» and «the novelistic great story».
mamiy2012_2.pdf (337 Kb)
L.Kh. Mukhametzyanova
Book dastans (stories) of the Volga region Tatars: «boundaries» of genre names in national creativity
For the first time heterogeneity of the genre name of epic works of the Volga region Tatars is specially investigated. The author examines functioning and evolution of the terms of “dastan”, “khikayat”, “kyssa” and “kitab” in national creativity. Areas of the use of each term are studied and their compliance with the semantic meaning is revealed.
mukhametzyanova2012_2.pdf (317 Kb)
B.R. Naptsok
References and reminiscences in S. Li’s «Gothic» novel «A Shelter or the Story of Other Times»
References and reminiscences in S. Li’s “Gothic” novel “A shelter or the story of other times” are investigated. On the basis of the analysis of epigraphs, quotes and reminiscences from works of English and French writers - W. Shakespeare, S. Richardson, A. Prevost d’Exiles, F.-T. Marie de Baculard d’Arnaud, Jean-Jacques Rousseau - their literary influence on S. Li’s novel is established. The place and value of references in subject development, in a philosophical perspective and in a system of images of the “Gothic” work under investigation are defined.
naptsok2012_2.pdf (351 Kb)
E.V. Nikolsky
Semantic role of motive of a native home in novels - family chronicles
The paper discusses the role of motive of a native home in a novelistic subgenre of the family chronicle. The author uses creativity of writers, whose heritage is not connected with each other (Vsevolod Solovyev (1849-1903) and Joyce Carol Oates (1938) to show that the native home is an external display of internal state of a family. Such motives are characteristic of the Russian and foreign literatures. At the end of the paper, further prospects of researches are designated.
nikolsky2012_2.pdf (308 Kb)
U.M. Panesh, S.R. Panesh
Structural and style features of poems of I. Mashbash («A thunder in mountains» and «Memory»)
The present research focuses upon a new art interpretation of a subject of war by the Adyghean poets within a traditional socio-historical problematics in poems on a military subject. The authors show strengthening of art problematical character and psychologism of a plot of poems, a withdrawal from heroic-epic intonation, accuracy of descriptions, aspiration to open critical situations, the truth of the heroic act and difficult situations in life of heroes. The main thing is a conclusion that the Adyghean poetry about the war could express the main typological directions in art searches of the Adyghean writers.
panesh1_2012_2.pdf (301 Kb)
U.M. Panesh, V.T. Sosnovsky
On significance of traditions and new approaches to studying literature of the 20th century
The paper discusses a traditional concept of the history of national literature of the 20th century which leans on “a historicism principle”. The authors show the new approaches, including formalistic, when studying art creativity. A periodization and structural and typological classification of national literature are considered.
Mythic-poetic context of great stories of Adyghean writer Nalbiy Kuyek «Bechkan’s excellent horse» and «Loneliness Wood»
The paper shows how mythic poetics influences an art basis of stories of N. Kuyek “Bechkan’s excellent horse” and “The Loneliness Wood”. The author reveals features of a space-time continuum of the great story, temporal plans and degree of a mythologization of images. During the analysis, the conceptual character of leading mythologemes – the wood and loneliness – are defined in narrative. Results of research testify to considerable influence of poetics and myth ontology on semantics and art structure of great stories of N. Kuyek.
V.T. Sosnovsky
Ideological and art originality of N. Zinovyev’s poetry
This paper examines the poetic creativity of Nikolay Zinovyev, the author of 12 poetic collections, the winner of the Great literary award of Russia and of the international competition of poetry “Gold Feather”, Secretary of Board of the Union of writers of Russia. Analyzing N. Zinovyev’s verses, the author marks their high civil pathos, high art advantages, the urgent problematics, simplicity and the lapidarity of style. Addressing the past and reproducing familiar pictures of modern life, N. Zinovyev stands up for careful attitude to the morally high that there was at various times, believing that only fidelity to centure-old traditions will help people to overcome the evil which has taken roots in our society and to deduce Russia from the dangerous social and moral bog.
sosnovsky2012_2.pdf (297 Kb)
T.M. Stepanova, S.L. Zukhba
D.S. Likhachev about the folklore model of the world in the Old Russian literature
The paper examines the leading tendencies in Academician D.S. Likhachev’s analysis of features of the folklore model of the world using a material of works of the Old Russian literature in a context of an ethno-mental and historical world outlook. The folklore elements of structure and poetics of a number of monuments of the Old Russian literature are analyzed. The authors come to a conclusion about efficiency of interaction of literature and folklore in this period.
A.A. Skhalyakho, R.G. Mamiy
Interpenetration of national and non-national as a dialectic way of development of literature
The paper examines the interpenetration and interconversion of the national and universal as the only right dialectic way of development of literature. The authors show how the innovative phenomena, incorporating to the national experience, become traditional and the non-national becomes national, gaining new qualities.
skhalyakho1_2012_2.pdf (325 Kb)
A.A. Skhalyakho
About features of creativity of Bitlostan Koble
The literary heritage and the tragic biography of Bitlostan Hadzhiretovich Koble, the known poet, the playwright and the public figure of the 1920-1930s are examined.
R.B. Unarokova, R.S. Daurova
Folklore of the Adyghes of Turkey: from experience of creation of an electronic database
The paper addresses the questions related to development of principles of an archiving and storage of folklore texts, in particular, to creation of multilevel information system – an electronic database on the basis of folklore of the Adyghes of Turkey. The Center of Adyghe Studies at Adyghe State University carried out theoretical and technological support of an electronic resource and elaborated the form of the unified description of a storage unit that will allow the solution of both educational and research tasks.
unarokova1_2012_2.pdf (309 Kb)
Zefeuse (poetic debate) in the Adyghe folklore
The paper examines the poor-studied problems of poetics zefeuse – one of the unique ancient genres of the Adyghe folklore. An analysis is made of the features of composition and the sound organization of a verse, as well as of typology of the cliche formulas used in the texts of debate.
M.A. Khakuasheva
Post-Soviet Kabardian-Circassian great story
The paper provides the general characteristic of a genre of the Kabardian-Circassian great story of the last three decades. The response to social and cultural crisis or reaction becomes the main task of a part of modern works. Similar motives, having a clear folklore basis, at the same time are inconceivable without the composite process of a symbolization and semiosis. The plot fragmentariness and strengthening pre-apocalyptic motives are specific features of the Adyghean modern literature. The new, profoundly drama vision of the historical past and future of the people, a personality role in the new world, a new scale of ethical and esthetic values and considerable strengthening the existential perception are more often is defined in this genre.
khakuasheva2012_2.pdf (301 Kb)
Features of folklore of the Circassian diaspora abroad in a context of the Adyghean general culture (on the basis of a material of expedition to Jordan and Syria)
The paper examines the folklore of the Adyghean diaspora living in Jordan and Syria. The author demonstrates the texts expressing ethno-mental bases of the Adyghean people, testifying to a continuity of mythic-epic traditions at the present time. It is proved that the folklore of the Circassian diaspora abroad is the major component of humanitarian (intellectual and esthetic) history of the whole ethnos.
F.N. Khuako, T.B. Djambekova
On philosophical implication of prose of A.A. Khagurov
The paper deals with the style and composition specifics of art prose of A.A. Khagurov, the Adyghean modern writer, whose last collection of works was issued in 2011. On the basis of the analysis of prose the author of this paper arrives at a conclusion that the modern national prose as a whole is specific.
T.N. Chamokov, M.N. Khachemizova
Tembot Kerashev and folklore of the Adyghes
The paper discusses the role of the Adyghean folklore in creativity of Tembot Kerashev, who addressed constantly the national sources to reproduce the historical time, typical images, national features and psychology of heroes. Transformation of folklore traditions to the course of realistic style, as a steady esthetic law, occurs in all genres of prose of the writer. It is inferred that creative reconsideration of folklore promotes development of socio-historical and esthetic experience of the people by T. Kerashev.
chamokov1_2012_2.pdf (337 Kb)
T.N. Chamokov
On some features of poetics of the Adyghean Nart epos
This research focuses upon the originality of poetics of the Adyghean Nart songs and legends reflecting forward evolution of national art consciousness of the Adyghes from a mythic creativity to heroic-epic images and motives. The author examines the “mechanism” of interrelation of tradition and improvisation and an originality of poetic tropes (comparisons, metaphors, epithets and hyperboles), promoting steady preservation of the archaic Nart poetic texts and archetypes.
P.K. Chekalov
Elucidation of a genre of the art autobiography in scientific literature
The author of this paper shows characteristic features of a genre of the art autobiography. On the basis of the sudied scientific literature twelve characteristic indications of this genre are distinguished after estabkishing related forms of autiobiography.
chekalov2012_2.pdf (294 Kb)
Sh.E. Shazzo
Features of Russian vanguard in N. Kuyek’s lyrics (on question statement)
The paper discusses the esthetic-philosophical aspects of lyrics of Nalby Kuyek in a context of spiritual creative searches of Russian vanguardists of the 1920s – the beginning of the 1930s. Principles of poetic, figurative and language system in structure of art thinking of the poet are shown.
shazzo2012_2.pdf (410 Kb)
K.M. Shikov, P.K. Chekalov
Innovative nature of the creative person of Mikael Chikatuyev
The paper discloses the innovative essence of creativity of M.Kh. Chikatuyev. Specific attention is given to his contribution to formation of national landscape, love lyrics and satire. Spheres in which the poet acted as the innovator are defined.
K.M. Shikov
On formation of creative identity of the writer in the Circassian literatures
The paper examines the ethnocultural features and specifics of formation of creative identity of the Adyghean writers who have created the literary works that are unique in art form and content. An attempt is undertaken to disclose the features and the reasons of a fenomenal nature of creativity of national writers issuing works in the Russian language. The main research interest is concentrated on literary process of the 19th – the first half of the 20th century.
V.V. Sheremet
The media convergence typology
The paper discusses the essence of concept of the convergence which has become a characteristic of functioning of modern mass media and the reasons of a transfer of the studied phenomenon from other areas of a science and fields of activity to the theory and practice of journalism. The author describes various approaches to studying the media convergence and its typological features.
sheremet2012_2.pdf (293 Kb)
A.V. Shishkina
Information genres of periodicals as means of information openness of judicial system in Adygheya
An analysis is undertaken of information genre priorities of press service in the Judicial Department of the Adygheya Republic. The author shows the role of regional mass media in providing the atmosphere of openness and the publicity in Adygheya aimed at expansion of possibilities of control by society of management processes and self-government in the state.
shishkina2012_2.pdf (281 Kb)
Intercultural bases in text aspect of modern linguistics
The paper discusses the unique structure of culture of the people or ethnic group which contains universal properties and qualities of this or that ethnocultural community. It is shown that language and culture can be compared as independent semiotic systems, in many respects structurally isomorphic and mutually displayed. The language incorporates every possible combination of results of activity of the person, his thoughts and spirit itself. The information, put in the text by the author, organizes reality display in consciousness of the reader.
Kh.Z. Bagirokov, Z.U. Blyagoz
Realization of cognitive mechanisms in the bilingual artistic text
The paper deals with the phenomenology of bilingual language consciousness in the artistic text. The authors consider the mechanisms of linguistic interpretation of cognitive and culturological intentions of the artistic text of Circassian writers-bilingualists living in the historical homeland and abroad. They represent “a speech fabric” in which the bicultural speech code is fixed.
V.P. Balakhova
Stylistic potential of a polypredicative complex sentence
The paper examines a stylistic potential of a polypredicative complex sentence. It is noted that the author’s message defines his idiostyle, promoting genre formation, and the syntactic organization, semantics, pragmatics, the communicative essence and stylistic potential of the text cause realization of his general communicative intention.
balakhova2012_2.pdf (285 Kb)
S.K. Bedanokova
Some features of functioning of the past times in an artistic narration
The paper deals with a polysemy of the verbal forms related to essential weakening of time semantics at their inclusion in the artistic text. The text and time forms of a verb are examined from the point of view of the text organization (using an example of Passй simple and Imparfait). Cooperating with the other means of expression of the time relations in the text, they serve formation of integrity and cohesion of the text, implementing text-forming functions.
bedanokova2012_2.pdf (346 Kb)
N.I. Valeeva
Role of punctuation marks in the communicative and semantic organization of polypredicative complex sentences-microtexts
The paper discusses the role of punctuation marks and their functioning in polypredicative complex sentences-microtexts. Features of use of punctuation marks in paremiological statements are revealed. Specificity of the use of the independent punctuation caused by communicative and pragmatical tasks of the author is investigated.
valeeva2012_2.pdf (336 Kb)
S.N. Gasanova, D.S. Samedov
On differentiation of a compound word and the phrase in the Agulsky language
The paper discusses the differentiation of a compound word and the phrase in the Agulsky language. An attempt is undertaken to differentiate compound words, appositive constructions, analytical constructions and phrases taking into account phonetic, morphological, syntactic features of these units.
gasanova1_2012_2.pdf (343 Kb)
S.N. Gasanova
Syntax of phraseological units of the Agulsky language
An attempt is undertaken to analyse features of functioning of phraseological units in the text and to define semantic-syntagmatic relations between phraseological units and words. The research objective is to reveal features of the phrases containing phraseological units.
E.V. Zavertkina
Oikonymy and its inherent features
The oikonymy – a set of geographical names of settlements – is investigated in this paper as a part of lexical system of language. The position of oikonymic lexicon in system of language is considered from the point of view of a system-functional approach to language. The research has revealed the inherent properties of oikonymic lexicon presented in this paper.
zavertkina2012_2.pdf (338 Kb)
V.Yu. Zaytseva
A scheme of argumentation creation by respondents with a «concrete conceptualization» style
The paper discusses features of the scheme of argumentation creation by the respondents belonging to a group of a concrete conceptualization within a cognitive style of «a concrete/abstract conceptualization». Following the concept definition of «argumentative communication», S. Tulmin’s argumentative-functional model, used for the analysis, is considered. The analysis of one of the statements is provided and the general features of the argumentation, characteristic of this group are deduced.
zaytseva2012_2.pdf (303 Kb)
A.D. Iriolova
Linguistic realization of the emotions and feelings related to love (as shown by U.S. Maugham’s works)
The paper examines the designation and ways of expression of the emotions and feelings related to love. An analysis is made of the means related to manifestation of emotionality in language of the well-known writer. The differentiation of emotions and feelings is made. The analysis of texts of U.S. Maugham’s works shows that emotions and feelings are displayed at the same time both in internal experience and in external behavioural manifestations.
iriolova2012_2.pdf (328 Kb)
L.T. Kalabekova
Leading role of time category in the functional importance of paradigmal forms of verbal conjugation (in the French, Russian and Ossetian languages)
The paper addresses the categories of time and space. Obviously, they are the most primary categories of life not only in ontogenesis, but also in categorization and conceptualization by the person of the world around. It is inferred that the research of any grammatical category (i.e. the material of the French, Russian and Ossetian languages), the nearest implication of which is one of the forms of verbal conjugation (for example, a voice, a mood or an aspect), should take into account a priori the presence of time in it.
kalabekova2012_2.pdf (329 Kb)
A.S. Kolomiytseva
Genre signs of polypredicative complex sentences - paragraphs in the Russian text
The paper describes the genre signs of polypredicative complex sentences in function of paragraphs as the composite, syntactic and communicative units of texts. They carry out the specific communicative and pragmatical objectives directed to realization of the general communicative task of the text, corresponding to its genre features and functional orientation of the style of speech. The author shows means of realization of the main signs of art, publicistic, scientific and official styles of speech by polypredicative complex sentences - paragraphs.
kolomiytseva2012_2.pdf (299 Kb)
Z.G. Kakhuzheva (Tkhabisimova)
Linguostylistic features of a news note
The paper provides an analysis of the item of newspaper news the linguostylistic features of which are created by orientation to the informing type of speech causing the use of language standards. It is noted that in news materials of the press, such forms of informing speech as fact ascertaining, the informative description and an informative narration are intensely used. It is inferred that the distinctive properties of these types of speech in newspaper journalism are objectivity and lack of assessment.
kakhuzheva(tkhabisimova)2012_2.pdf (326 Kb)
Y.G. Kocharyan
Linguistic origin of the military term
The present article is devoted to the study of the concept «term», it’s characteristics and particularization of the «military term». It also deals with the ways of replenishment and widening of English military terminology. The most prevailing ways are suffixal term formation, combination of two words, conversion, abbreviation, lexico-semantic word formation.
kocharyan2012_2.pdf (330 Kb)
N.I. Melkonyan
On ways of formation of a computer slang
The paper discusses some innovations in English and emergence of new lexical units in the conditions of electronic communication. An analysis is made of the emergence of a computer slang, ways of its word-formation, as well as its distribution among professionals and ordinary users.
Yu.P. Nechay
Language means and ways of an explication of a modal assessment (as shown by the language of the novel by E.Voynich «Gadfly»)
The paper examines means and ways of expression of a modal assessment in the novel language of E.Voynich “Gadfly”. It is shown that a change of a word order, presence of a synonymy, specification, repetitions and tropes influence the expression of a modal assessment. Selection, sequence and nature of use of modal means of different levels are proved to be a semantic code of a modality. It is established that information put in the text by the author, organizes the programmed display of reality in consciousness of the reader.
N.V. Samarina
Functional-semantic field as an object of study in modern grammar
The research deals with such a notion as a functional-semantic field. The structures of the functional-semantic field and the functional-semantic category are compared. It is inferred that there exists a variety of functional-semantic fields which focus on a solution of representation issues basing on the material of one language as well as on comparison of several languages with such categories as definiteness/indefiniteness, quantitiveness and comparativeness.
samarina2012_2.pdf (290 Kb)
The Khattsky – Adygsky lexical parallels (linguocultural aspect of a language sign)
The Khattsky and Adygsky lexical units are compared to prove the relationship of the Khattsky and Adygsky languages at lexical level. Word-formation affixes and the root elements used at a word composition are revealed. It is shown that it is possible to appeal to the modern languages in order to restore a logic-conceptual structure of ancient words.
N.R. Khamitova
Verbal word-formation of pair nouns in the Bashkir language
The paper describes the unique way of word-formation of nouns in the Bashkir language. After the general specificity of pair nouns is considered, the author discloses functional possibilities of a making basis which differ from each other in degree of their activity and efficiency. Process of participation of verbs as a making basis in a system of formation of pair nouns is analyzed in detail. Semantic versions of the pair nouns having a verbal origin are distinguished.
khamitova2012_2.pdf (311 Kb)
T.S. Rudichenko
Principles of studying and practical adoption of national singing traditions
The paper examines the questions related to introduction of achievements of basic science in performing practice. The author offers effective working methods for the heads of creative groups, putting a task of preservation of a tradition. Those are designing a studied repertoire in accordance with the structure of genre system; presentation of samples in typical forms and in various genre and style cover; learning mechanisms of typification of the text and tune and means of a variation and combination of different cliche.
rudichenko2012_2.pdf (286 Kb)
A.B. Shishkin
Integration on the focused set on a projection
The paper contains bases of constructive theory of integration on a projection on to the partially oriented set in space R^n.
shishkin2012_2.pdf (410 Kb)
V.A. Kozlov, E.N. Kumshaev, L.Zh. Palandzhyants
On a variation task of the theory of the multiplicative integral
This paper considers the solution of a variation problem of the theory of the multiplicative integral.
kozlov2012_2.pdf (216 Kb)
A.V. Kovalenko, A.A. Khromykh, M.K. Urtenov, D.K. Mamiy
Modeling and the numerical analysis of the process of binary electrolyte transfer in the desalination channel of the electrodialytic device in the potentially static mode
The paper discusses the modeling and the numerical analysis of the process of binary electrolyte transfer in the desalination channel of the electrodialytic device. The authors propose various mathematical models of ion transfer in the potentially static mode in the form of system of the quasilinear equations with private derivatives. Transition to a dimensionless kind is carried out and presence of some small parameter ε>0 is shown at the senior derivatives in the equations. If speed of electrolyte circulation through the desalination chamber is considerable there is one more small parameter λ>0. The special stretched system of coordinates is used for the numerical analysis. The basic laws of occurrence and development of a spatial charge in the desalination channel of electrodialytic device are revealed. Various asymptotic and numerical methods of the solution are proposed.
kovalenko2012_2.pdf (2 Mb)
M.A. Voloshin, V.I. Chizhikov
Designing and building resistance furnaces for the monocrystal growth device
The paper discusses a method for calculating the temperature distribution along the length of resistance furnaces. The method has several advantages: it reduces the time to build a furnace, saves resources and leads to the desired result. Muffle material and heat insulation material are taken into account. A resistance furnace with a given temperature distribution was built based on the calculation.
voloshin2012_2.pdf (438 Kb)
A.D. Tsikunib, B. Dzhrivakh, S.A. Tlekhuch, S.R. Kaytmesova, T.A. Filimonova
Optimization of the iodic status of an organism in the conditions of high power expenditures. «Iodine-preserving» diet
The paper provides an «iodine-preserving» diet elaborated by the authors, which contains not only the optimum amount of iodine, but also nutrients, raising its bioavailability.
A.V. Shakhanova, A.A. Kuzmin, A.Kh. Agirov
The functional and adaptive capabilities of young 10–15 year-old football and basketball players, depending on the somatotype
This work addresses the questions of the functional state and adaptive capabilities of young athletes, depending on age, constitution type and training level in football and basketball training mode of child-youthful sports school of the Olympic reserve. The obtained results are of interest from the point of view of impact of sports training on the processes of growth, development and adaptation of an organism of young athletes of different somatotypes, as well as in terms of planning adequate training mode, taking into account regulatory and adaptive status of young athletes, in order to make an early forecast of overtraining and prevention of disadaptive states.
shakhanova2012_2.pdf (769 Kb)
N.N. Khasanova, L.F. Trokhimchuk, T.A. Filimonova
Assessment of functional condition of an organism of students working on computers
This work examines influence of work on the computer on a functional condition of an organism of students. It has been established that the functional condition of the central nervous system and the visual analyzer change for the worse at the students working on computers in comparison to those who do not work on computers. The authors have revealed the dependence of the degree of fatigue upon the time of continuous work on computer.
khasanova2012_2.pdf (616 Kb)
K.D. Chermit, A.G. Zabolotniy, A.V. Shakhanova, A.A. Tkhagova
The classification of the electrobiological activity produced by muscles when performing powerlifting squats
Electromyogrames (EMG) were obtained for the leg, hip and back muscles during performing powerlifting squats. Their classification is given, on the basis of which the authors elaborated the model of the transformation of the electromyogram pattern when performing squats with different weights.
chermit3_2012_2.pdf (2 Mb)
E.A. Sirotyuk, T.G. Bakhareva
Intrapopulation and ecological-geographical variability of gentian Pyrenean (Northwestern Caucasus)
The paper examines intra- and interpopulation variability of a gentian Pyrenean in Alpine and subalpine phytocenoses of the Northwest Caucasus. Based on the majority of dimensional signs and the number of metameres of a flower, the authors show that there is a differentiation of cenopopulations of this species from various phytocenopses. It is assumed that these signs are the most plastic and depend to a greater degree on influence of environment factors.
sirotyuk2012_2.pdf (2 Mb)
S.S. Grechishkina, A.V. Shakhanova, Yu.Yu. Dautov
The relationship of indicators of heart rate variability and external respiration of athletes with different orientation of the training process
This paper examines the effect of systematic athletic exercises on the functional state of cardiorespiratory system. The authors show the relationship of indicators of heart rate variability and external respiration in athletes with different orientation of the training process.
grechishkina2012_2.pdf (936 Kb)
L.F. Trokhimchuk, T.G. Kirillova, M.A. Izmaylovа
The dynamics of the statistical heart rate indices in the adolescents learning in the Physical Training Faculty
The participants in this study (40 adolescents) were all students at a Faculty of Physical Training who were surveyed in the dynamics of the first and second year of training. The dynamics of heart rate statistics was studied in autumn (in the dynamics of the first year of training in semester 1 and at the beginning of the second year of training), as well as before and after examinations in the period of winter and summer examinations. Physiological mechanisms of adaptation of young men to training process at Faculty of Physical Training promote strengthening centralization of heart rate control only in reply to examination tension that occurs at the expense of reduction of a parasympathetic tone and increase of the adrenergetic influences, capable to provide short-term mobilization of additional energy resources.
trokhimchuk1_2012_2.pdf (740 Kb)
T.G. Petrova, A.V. Shakhanova, N.N. Khasanova, G.M. Konovalova
The neurophysiological status and its relationship to a morphotype of sportsmen-track and field athletes
This paper reports upon research on the neurophysiological status at sportsmen-track and field athletes. It is revealed that somatotypological features influence the character of display of the basic properties of nerv-ous system: lability, mobility, force and degree of balance of nervous processes. The obtained results are attractive for a choice of tactics and strategy of track and field athlete training, taking into account a current condition of nervous system.
petrova2012_2.pdf (634 Kb)
V.V. Myakotnykh
Age dynamics of oxygen consumption at relative rest of persons with the various modes of impellent activity
The level of energy potential of a biosystem can serve as a criterion for stability of an organism to a wide range of adverse effects. Increase in maximal oxygen consumption (VO2max) is possible only at application of great in volume and intensity physical activities. According to the theory of oxidative stress the increase in power loading can lead to accumulation of oxidative damage and to fast exhaustion of a biological resource of an organism. On the other hand, high energy expenditure during a working phase is accompanied by considerable economization of activity in a condition of relative rest, consequently, by decrease in intensity of free radical oxidation. In the present research, an attempt is undertaken to quantitatively assess a degree of this economization on the basis of indicators of the main exchange and oxygen consumption in a condition of relative rest at persons with high level of impellent activity.
myakotnykh2012_2.pdf (575 Kb)
A.R. Tuguz, D.V. Muzhenya, E.N. Anokhina, A.S. Doroshenko, T.M. Ashkanova, L.D. Aldonina, K.A. Rudenko, A.F. Kizyanov, O.V. Sokolova, D.S. Shumilov, I.V. Smolkov
Polymorphisms G197 and 197A of the pro-inflammatory IL-17A gene associated with cardiovascular diseases and malignant new growths of female reproductive organs at inhabitants of the Republic of Adygheya
The distribution of polymorphisms G197/197A of the pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-17A gene is investigated by the SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) method in ethnic groups (Russian and Adyghes) of the population of the Adygheya Republic: donors, patients with different variants and starting mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases and malignant new growths of female reproductive organs. The «normal» G197 allele IL-17A, which is most widespread in populations, is associated (Р=0,011) with risk of development of peripheral atherosclerosis and tumoral progression at a cancer of a mammary gland (р=0,026). Availability of polymorphism G197 of pro-inflammatory IL-17A can be used for inhabitants of the Adygheya Republic as a marker of system inflammatory reactions of the organism involved in pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases and malignant new growths.
tuguz_a1_2012_2.pdf (709 Kb)
V.I. Kumakhov, A.S. Aloev
Reproduction of soil fertility depending on fertilizers and the vegetative remains in a crop rotation on the chernozem in a foothill zone of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic
The paper examines optimization of a food of crops and gives agrochemical substantiation of reproduction of chernozem fertility depending on types and doses of fertilizers, the root and superficial remains and on balance of humus in the soil.
kumakhov2012_2.pdf (1 Mb)
L.F. Trokhimchuk, O.I. Shkvirina, E.R. Kristalenko
Physiological assessment of fifth-former adaptation to learning activities on the basis of a vegetative component of heart rate variability
This work studies adaptation of pupils to learning activity in the initial stage of training in the 5th form using the method of the mathematical analysis of heart rate variability. The authors reveal sexual distinctions of adaptation potentialities of an organism. It is shown that the main physiological mechanism of initial adaptation is the high tone of parasympathetic section of vegetative nervous system. The above-segmentary level of regulation serves as a marker of reserve possibilities of an organism in the considered age.
Yu.Yu. Dautov, T.Yu. Urakova, D.N. Teunova, M.M. Dautova
Dynamics of some indicators of interstitial space in patients with arterial hypertension, abdominal obesity and metabolic syndrome under the effect of reduced food
This work provides surveillance data of persons with an arterial hypertension, abdominal obesity and metabolic syndrome. Among non-drug methods of rehabilitation the effective is a hypohigh-calorie diet which reduced the clinical-laboratory indicators and slowed down disease progressing.
dautov2012_2.pdf (707 Kb)
A.R. Tuguz, D.V. Muzhenya, T.M. Ashkanova, E.N. Anokhina
Polymorphisms of angiotensinogen and receptor I of the angiotensinogen type in teenage groups
Frequencies of Met235Thr and Thr174Met in the polymorphisms of a gene of AGT and A1166C of 2alleles of receptor I of the angiotensinogen-2 (AGT2R1) type associated with risk of development of cardiovascular diseases at the healthy surveyed teenagers living in Maikop (Adygheya Republic), are 0.410; 0.177; and 0.211, respectively. Frequency of Met235Thr in the polymorphisms of AGT gene exceeds similar indicators characteristic of the population in the Rostov region (0.179). No significant distinctions in frequency of Met235Thr of the polymorphisms of AGT gene in ethnic populations of the Adyghes, Russians and Armenians have been revealed.
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T.G. Tuova, B.R. Tuova
Geographic and economic features of the dynamics and structure of unemployment in the Adygheya Republic
This paper examines the contemporary problems of geography of unemployment within the limits of Adygheya Republic, as well as of population employment and labor market. The attention is focused on research of the number of the unemployed in the Republic, their stratification, allocation among the unemployed of a share of unemployed graduates of higher education institutions, possibilities of an employment service of the population in solving questions related to the hidden unemployment and providing services by the employment centers for youth employment.
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M.A. Kiryushkin, V.I. Chizhikov
Analysis of stages of system scaling
This work examines the main stages of system scaling and presents reasons for realization of the system to a certain stage.
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RDF on Workers Struggle; Communal Clashes; and Caste Atrociities
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All India Executive Committee of Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF) -- Three Resolutions (approved at meeting in Delhi, 1-2 August 2012) (after the First Conference in Hyderabad on 22-23 April 2012).
1. On Maruti Suzuki Worker's Struggle
RDF hails the militant movement of the workers of Maruti Suzuki factory at Gurgaon, and strongly condemns the management of the company as well as the government who have undertaken a severe repressive campaign against the workers. The company has declared a lock-out which leading to the loss of jobs of thousands of workers. More than a hundred workers including the office-bearers of the Maruti Suzuki Workers' Union have been arrested and charged with murder, while most of the other workers have been forced to go underground to avoid arrests. RDF resolves to extend solidarity and all possible support to the struggling workers of Maruti Suzuki. RDF demands that the plant be immediately reopened, the arrested workers be released, the cases against them withdrawn unconditionally, they be restored to their previous jobs, and all the demands of the workers' Union be resolved forthwith. We call upon the workers to continue and step up the struggle till these demands are achieved.
2. On communal clashes in Asom
There have been widespread clashes between peasants belonging to the Bodo tribal community and Bengali Muslim peasants. The violence has spread to four western districts of Asom - Kojkrajhar, Dhubri, Chirang and Gossaigaon - leading to the death of over a hundred people and rendering lakhs of people homeless who are living in government-run refugee camps. Even though on both side of the divide are mostly small peasants and landless people, and is a contradiction among the people, the devious role of the ruling classes have transformed it into an inimical contradiction. The attacks on the Muslim peasants in particular strengthens the Hindu communal forces. And it is not the first time that the rulers have instigated such communal violence between these two communities in this region. On many occasions in the past a large number of people from both sides have lost their lives and hundreds of thousands lost their property. The unresolved land question has been made use of by the ruling classes to instil suspicion, hatred and violence between these two sections of the people, who are both oppressed by the exploitative social relations. All so-called communal clashes are always state-sponsored. In the absence of a progressive or revolutionary force among the people, such incidents are going to be enacted repeatedly by the rulers to consolidate their own rule and to divert the attention of the masses from the real issues. RDF stands by the affected Bodo and Bengali peasants of western Asom.
2. On caste atrocities that are taking place across India
Several incidents of caste atrocities on Dalits have been committed by the dominant caste forces in different parts of the country - spanning from Bolangir of Odisha to Lakshimpeta of Andhra Pradesh and recently in Bhagana in Haryana, in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and in other places. While the massacre of five Dalit peasants in a gruesome manner in Lakshimpeta village by dominant caste landowners and rich peasants have shaken the country, other incidents of casteist attacks like the burning of houses and assault on 60 dalit families in Bolangir or the social boycott and banishing of 128 Dalit families in Bhagana have not attracted much attention from the progressive and democratic sections of the country. In Lakhsimpeta, the landed section of the Backward Caste Kapus have adopted the brahmanical ideology as a result of their acquisition of private property - most importantly, land, and became perpetrators of caste violence on the 'untouchable' Mala people. Lakshimpeta massacre also involves the questions of dam and displacement, since the people of the village are evictees of a dam constructed by the government. While other evictees got compensation and land from the government, Dalits could get nothing and lost everything due to this forced displacement.
Caste atrocities in UP and Bihar too are being perpetrated on a daily basis, including the murder and rape of Dalits, without any visible protest or resistance. Land is the central question in most of these incidents of atrocity in rural India which takes the form of caste violence. Moreover, the dominant castes resort to brutal caste violence whenever the Dalits assert their independence and freedom, challenging the dominant castes. Class struggle and class violence often takes the form of casteist violence and repression in a semi-feudal and semi-colonial country like India which has the specific attribute of brahmanical caste system. This shows the entrenched nature of feudalism in Indian society and the need to intensify the anti-feudal struggle as an immediate and urgent task before a revolutionary organisations like RDF and its constituent mass organisations. The complicity of the ruling classes in instigating and perpetrating caste violence is apparent in each and every incident of attack on Dalits, whereby the administration and the police invariably side with the dominant castes and further oppresses the Dalits. The Supreme Court's acquittal of the culprits involved in the Baithani Tola massacre in Bihar and of similar bloodbaths of Dalits show that Dalits cannot expect any justice and fairness from the existing system, nor will the attacks on Dalits will stop unless there is organised resistance and retaliation on the part of the Dalits and other oppressed people.
It should be also understood that the spiralling world economic crisis has been showing its ugly manifestations in the form of fascist attacks by the dominant ruling classes/castes and their state on Dalits, Adivasis, Muslims - the most vulnerable sections of the oppressed people.
The attacks on Dalits and their conscious assertion however is not confined only to the rural areas. Even in urban areas Dalits face the ire of the dominant castes as well as the Indian state. For instance, the workers of Maruti Suzuki factory in Gurgaon started their recent agitation when a Dalit worker was humiliated and targeted by the management on caste lines. We have also witnessed the state's persecution of Kabir Kala Manch- an Ambedkarite cultural organisation which espouses the ideals of New Democratic Revolution working in urban Maharashtra. To counter the incidents of caste violence - whether perpetrated by the dominant castes, the ruling classes or the state - retaliation is the only answer. RDF calls upon the Dalits to fight back all occurrences of caste violence. RDF calls upon all its constituent organisations to participate and lead retaliations against the violence of the dominant castes in their areas of work. RDF will launch a militant and aggressive campaign against incidents of caste violence.
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The exploits of a Whitley Bay fan circumnavigating the matches, grounds and characters in the Northern League...
26th October 2016 - Morpeth (a) TG Senior Cup -1
End of an era (again)
This was supposed to be a run-of-the mill we-got-knocked-out-of-the-cup-at-the-first-round-of-asking type of blog but events that followed the mild evening in Northumberland have over-shadowed that.
It was a packed car that set off for the big Cup game game with The Boy Mark driving myself, Mr Twitter (kicked out by his poorly wife to stop him moping around the house- get well soon Mrs Twitter) and Coventry Neil (who'd just managed to get away from dropping his cats off for their injections) into the pleasant evening.
There was the walk through the dark from the car park to the ground which will probably be immensely amusing in the middle of winter.
This was followed by the following highlights:
Morpeth dog with his own knitted scarf.
A nice dog-walking area behind the goal!
A pleasant drink in the welcoming club house:
Alas Smith and Jones anyone?
Defo for the older readers ie all of you.
Pleasant set of conifers (IMHO) - not cut down in any way!
The match itself went like this:
Chronicle!
Ooops we scored while you were selling that paper.
We were re-acquainted with Mr Chronicle Seller (formerly at Ashington: Karl Dryden) which is always a pleasure even though he never appears to appreciate our mimicking of his nonsensical calls. Kempster came up with the worst corner in history that almost went out for a throw-in on the half-way line.
Morpeth battered the Bay but amazingly going into half time we were 1-0 up thanks to Kempster's skillful threading of the ball throw Dryden's legs. Bless him he was not amused.
Josh Nearney was flinging himself left right and centre again to keep out a Morpeth strike force that included our old favourite Paul 'don't expect me to pass' Robinson. It was also nice to see Chris 'It's my new team and I'll moan if I want to' Reid. True to form Robo shot from distance (very accurately) and Reid was dominant at the back (mostly) but moaned a lot to the ref. Happy days.
Just as we set off to beat the queue for a tasty pie, Morpeth were level.
The second half was more one-way traffic but Whitley were looking considerably more tired and Morpeth were 3-1 heading into the closing minutes. Most of the game had been spent looking into the distance with the occasional foray nearer Karl D's goal...very occasional.
However on 90 minutes there was delight as Callum Patton's free kick nestled into KD's left hand post. It was however too little too late and yet again we were out of the cup.
On the way out, I was consoled by my Morpeth-supporting mate and his daughter but as I told him, the best team had won so there were no hard feelings....as if! We were miserable heading back but none of the talk centred on Chan losing his job. Okay so putting Callum Anderson up front to partner Shanksy might not have been a master stroke but what other options did we have? We were struggling. I won't mention who was moaning about missing the Bake-Off final for that.
It was a real shock when I found out that Chan had been sacked. Yes, we'd lost the last two against top three teams away from home but it had only been by one goal each time. However, before that there had been a winning run that had seen us also beat top boys Newton Aycliffe and Marske. With the smallest squad for a long time the Bay legend that is Ian Chandler had performed the equivalent of Moses parting the Red Sea. Remember what it had been like BC (Before Chan)? We'll soon remember when Mr Happy-Go-Lucky Paddy returns to the Hillheads with his new lot of Terriers.
I wonder if the decision to part company with Chan ran a bit like this:
"We have a business consortium wanting to invest millions in the Bay! They want us to be bigger than North and South Shields combined!"
"Oooh, that sounds nice. Bring them in!"
"Unfortunately they want to bring in their own man....someone called Allardyce."
"Ooh is he called Sam?"
"Och! That's the man!"
"We'll be sad to see Ian go."
"True, but we'll tell him and his family can always come back!"
"That'll be splendid, I'm sure He'll understand."
"Of course he will...and we did just get knocked out of another cup..."
"True, I really wanted to go to St James' Park again this year."
"Me too!" Wiping tears from their eyes as Chan walks in.
Somehow, I have a feeling it didn't. Only time will tell.
Allardyce? Moyes?
Who could be coming?
Hmmmmm!
So long Chan and thanks once again for more great memories...although not quite as record breaking as the last set of memories but still worth the ride. You can sit down now!
Haway the Bay!
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18th October 2016 - Guisborough Town (h)
We still couldn't believe Saturday's smash and grab at Marske or Logan Powell's miss but it was an optimistic pair of myself and the returning Boy Mark who arrived at Hillheads. In time-worn tradition I stood by the turnstiles trying to find my season ticket in the depths of my moth-riddled wallet. I know I promised the Boy Mark to have it in a handy place but it probably would be better if it was A4 sized so I could easily see it...but then I would need an A4 wallet and A4 trouser pockets and that would mean probably wearing the pair of jeans hanging outside of one of the Bay's gentleman's retailers which announces "We stock massive sized jeans..." You think you have problems!
Disco board...woaw.
For that Tommyknockers experience on the Bench.
The Boy had also lost his hat (and it was a little bit chilly) so it was off to the Bay Supporting Wonderland that is Doug's Club Shop. His choice was a plain blue one which "wouldn't show the dirt up": practicality first! We were very excited to see the club's disco board charging in the corner. We even got to touch it but weren't allowed to play with it.
A rather trim-looking
bearded wonder with the cup.
Fans of Berrywatch will have missed the Bearded one but our hero was adding his considerable skills and knowledge to the Armed Forces team that won the Kentish Cup against Armed Forces teams from the Netherlands and France. Well done young man, glad you were doing something useful with your time and not lounging around painting your nails.
Your fans all over the world salute you!
It was also confirmed that our Greek firecracker was no long ours. His move to Team Northumbria had been confirmed and that he had been offered a great deal to support his studies, something we couldn't compete with so we wish him all the best and yes...will never learn your name.
All I can say is: "να έχεις μια καλή μέρα".
I have no idea what that says but if Google translate is given me the phrase for "May your moussaka always be tasty" I apologise. Blame Google translate.
The lads who were left were on a run of good results based on teamwork and great effort, even Shanks had been known to pass the ball, so there was a good deal of optimism for the game. Yet again, however, we had a kit clash as Town appeared in a Purple kit that made it difficult for those people with poor vision to see the difference between the teams. That means me! Why couldn't they have been made to wear the kit that Newton Aycliffe worn the previous week and still, probably, lay in the corner of their changing room?
There was no Tom Flynn so the relatively unknown Sean Gordge stood in. The first action centred on Callum Patton, who pulled up, limped off, limped back on then soon after limped back off again to be replaced by Aiden Haley. The squad was getting thinner: 17 and counting?
Rumours were that there was a scout from Fleetwood Town in the crowd so we were wondering who he/she (don't want to be accused of sexism) was looking for. Shanks, though seemed to be on overdrive as he chased everything and never complained once to the ref. It was therefore, a just reward when Robbo crossed beautifully for an outstretched Shanks-foot to volley home superbly.
There then followed another ball-gate controversy when James Dawson in the visiting goal fumbled a corner. The ball then appeared to bounce off the back of a defender and in the ensuing scramble, it crossed the line by about 3 foot. We all spotted it (even me), the Bay players celebrated but the ref and linesman completely missed it...again. The sooner goal-line technology is installed at Hillheads, the better. I'm sure the Bay's Mr Twitter would volunteer to help out, when he's not doing everything else!
On 31 minutes, the ground was stunned when Town's Thibault Charmey (their French world cup youth winner, apparently) finished perfectly, high to Gordge's right hand post. Soon after Josh Nearney and Shanks combined perfectly for Shanks to hit a screamer that just missed.
Where's Kenny?
However, a minute later, the Shankster dispossessed an ambling Town defender to uncharacteristically pass to the perfectly placed Robbo to control and score. After recovering from the shock of the pass, the ground erupted, even the man standing behind the goal pretending to be the Parker-wearing Kenny off South Park.
There was a real indicator that winter was coming (Any news from the wall?) because Tommy the Tea impresario had abandoned his baseball cap in favour of his Bay beanie hat! It's going to be a cold one! He was stunned when both the Boy Mark and I followed the two ladies in front of us in ordering hot chocolate instead of the usual tea and bovril.
"I'll never look at you two in the same way!" he noted with a wistful shake of his beanie-covered head. As we enjoyed our half time choccy feasts, we watched the confident Logan Powell slam shots in from outside the box. As we reminded him, helpfully, it wasn't outside the box he needed to concentrate on, it was about three yards out.
The Bay continued to press in the second half but gradually Town came back into the game and Gordge's handling looked pretty confident and the defence held firm. Tackle of the match went to supersub Haley, who perfectly robbed a Town defender when it looked like he only had to beat Gordge to equalise.
Shanks, again, then had an effort close in, which was saved by an outstretched keeper's foot when it seemed destined for the corner.
It was the impressive Fryatt, who sealed the win when he was put in by the equally impressive Nearney, who was steaming forward at every opportunity, to blast the ball past the flailing Dawson.
3-1 could have been a lot more but a fourth just wouldn't come. Once again it had been a team effort. Nick Allen had another superb game with some great interceptions. Four wins on the trot is a fantastic effort after the previous poor run and the lads fully deserved to stand seventh in the league.
Sadly I will miss my first Classicoast (yes, I've bowed to peer group pressure in calling it that instead of El Coastico which is a Shields creation, allegedly). Having to take my eldest daughter to look at Huddersfield University, I know where I would prefer to be. But fear not I will return for the match at Morpeth in the Northumberland Senior Cup. Fingers crossed for the big game and good luck lads, after all our dear local rivals are only top of the league and unbeaten at home! Haway the Bay!
15th October 2016 - Marske (a)
Shamed by the Shanky one and Mr Twitter (although didn't take much persuading) into making the HOUR AND SIX MINUTE journey to the home of another set of Seasiders, the Woodster and I set off on our unexpected journey in bright sunshine.
Memories of our previous visit in the cup and the intimidating 'wall of sound' that emanated from the home fans as they cried out "Sea, sea, seasiders!" in their Tin Shed were still fresh. As if to rub it in, the Tin Shedders had added their own sign to rival the Chicken Run Collective. But, as Woodie so eloquently put it:
"Which came first the Chicken or the Shed?" Scarily, for visiting fans, the ferocity of the Tin Shedders was underlined by their hashtag: #Tin shed or dead! Scary stuff.
There was also a great to-do as we entered the ground because the Prof, whose birthday it was, was standing with a metal pole then a football, gingerly prodding a tree.
The Shankster was blamed for losing a ball up there so Mr Twitter, his mate and I set about, unsuccessfully to retrieve it. Thankfully, the Marske officials promised to get their stepladders out to get the ball back at half time.
I was later reliably informed that the ball was recovered and a relieved Shankster avoided a club fine for losing a ball.
Just like Peter Andre.....
the Prof is always ready to help.
The rumour around the ground was that our Greek could-have-been-a-legend Angelos Elfie had left the club to join Team Northumbria in their promotion push. If that is the case then we'll hope to have a replacement soon to help the all-ready threadbare squad. Guess we won't be learning your name Elfie after all if that is the case.
Purple: shoes,
socks, top...
well turned
out Deano?
Without the Prof, who failed a fitness test just before kickoff (nothing to do with recovering the errant ball), it was the thankfully recovered Nick Allen and Callum in the centre with Munro and Supermac who lined up in defence. The quartet soon found themselves under strict examination as the home team poured forward. Shots whizzed left, right and centre as somehow Flynn kept a number of great efforts out and the defenders threw themselves in the way to help out with the rest. It only looked a matter of time before the home team scored.
However, there was a brief moment of hope when Kempster chased a through ball only for the Purple-clad Robert Dean in the home goal to head away as he raced out of goal.
Shanks: 1-0? Keeper got it covered
However, the play returned straight back to the Whitley goal as hearts were back in mouths for the travelling fans.
Amazingly though, with the half time whistle approaching, it was the frustrated but hard-working, figure of Shanks who let fly with a shot that skipped goalwards to give the Bay the lead. Deano, looked to have it covered but the ball slid through his grasping fingers and in off the post.
Not one Bay fan had a clue how that had happened! Neither, probably did the Shankster, who duly celebrated his 50th Whitley goal. The Purple-cladded one was not amused, however and as he lay on the ground in shock, his team-mates screamed for him to get up as they took the kick off.
The second half carried on in the same vein, after a spell of consistent Bay pressure. Once again we needed our binoculars to make out the action. The occasional Bay break threatened to seal the game but it was Flynn and co who were the busiest, with our own Mr Anderson playing a blinder. It was the Tattooed Titan who came up with possibly the tackle of the game that deprived Marske a goal-scoring opportunity. The ball was launched forward and as the Purple Wurple raced out of goal, the ball took an amazing bounce that cleared him completely. Sub Logan Powell carried on running and was left with the simplest task of rolling the ball into the gaping 24 foot by 8 foot goal, however he dawdled and a defender got back to clear for a corner.
As ninety minutes turned into injury time, Marske mounted a final all-out assault and despite the fact that we looked likely to pay for Logan's miss, the ball flew everywhere except into Flynn's net. The lads had well and truly smash-and-grabbed the three points.
The Purple Wurple showed his great sense of humour as he stylishly photo-bombed our victory selfie. What a dude! The lads were doing an amazing job of papering over the cracks: third coating in a row...wonder if the floodlights are fixed!
Everyone's excited!
11.10.16 - Newton Aycliffe (h)
All that had happened was that the lads had won a game and Chan had stood (admittedly for a long time). The problems of the club didn't get forgotten. The squad was still threadbare, the debt was, probably, still there and the floodlight didn't seem to have been fixed. But a win puts a smile on a football club's face like nothing else can.
Tonight the lads were up against the second worst bad boys in the league (we were fourth worst - not helped by Elfie's two sendings off: Angelos certainly wasn't living up to his good name!). But our visitors were the quintessential bad boys, over 24 points worse than ourselves; the same as 3 straight red cards on the fair play league table. It was also galling to notice that not only were our North Shields buddies top of the Northern League but that they were also top of the Fair Play League! Splitters!
When the teams came out, it was entertaining to see our visitors had had to borrow one of our oldest (and probably smelliest) away kits after forgetting that our kit was blue and white and that it might clash with their all-blue affair: who knew? Not them, obviously.
Fryatt continued where he had left off against Washington and looked lively and physical. In fact none of the team shirked any of their challenges while Robbo looked to have re-discovered his fire. Patton managed the first real effort on goal and his super smash was saved by another candidate for Northern League Miserable Goalkeeper of the Year Award, Lewis Brass...and he hadn't even conceded a goal at this point.
The Bay were not the only ones who were up for the fight as Barry carried on his one-man psycho routine by encouraging the lads with the old tactic of shouting out: "Get Jiggy With it". I couldn't resist asking the great man and was informed that it was a "forward play tactic".
Barry then began shouting out "That's what the chicken got!"
I knew he was leading onto some crap joke but I couldn't help myself: I had to know which chicken.
"The one who committed the foul!" laughed our entertaining friend as he carried on his route around the ground. Cracking!
There was better to follow, thankfully, as a superb Shanks dummy to confuse a defender on the edge of the box sent Robbo in. Faced by his own defender, the nimble striker produced his own footwork to send another visiting defender to the ground. He then unleashed a similar strike to the one that hit the far post the previous Saturday and bounced out. This effort indeed hit the post but then bounced in, to the delight of the massed hordes behind the goal. Grumpy was not amused. The good work was almost undone as Flynn had to turn over an Aycliffe effort just a few minutes later from eight yards out.
2-0: The Whitley hordes went wild!
The Bay of the start of the season had at last returned! Sir Isaac Newton Aycliffe's bad boys were not having things their own way! In the second half things were twice as good as Grumpy Brass called for the ball. However, before the ball could reach him, the Shankster had nipped in between them to both steal it and score into the gaping net. #Backofthenet!
Minutes later it was Robbo again, who did a Shanky one by appearing to tie his shoe lace up when Supermac found the Fryster hovering around the box. His pass across the face of goal was perfect for the fully laced-up Robbo to lash into the net for 3-0.
Claire and little Claire go mad!
Ah! Bless. So not happy!
Our evening was complete when, after a series of suspect tackles the ref decided somebody on the visiting side needed to have an early bath / shower / not bother. The roulette wheel of fate fell on their number 9: Dennis Knight, who gallantly left the field to chorus of boos.
There was still time for Robbo to complete his hat-trick but his closest effort came with a fine overhead kick that is probably still orbiting the Earth.
Penalty? No chance!
The three points lifted the Bay to ninth. The brave 198 souls who had shunned England's exciting - 0-0 draw with somebody from another country were well rewarded.
The problems at Hillheads are still there but the cracks have been papered over with another coat of three points!
8.10.16 - Washington (h)
My rant in the last blog was well received and even gave me my first ever comment on a blog post in 64 attempts so thanks for that Mr/Mrs/Miss Unknown: it was gratefully received on my part.
My October was improving, I enjoyed a fantastic performance by soon-to-be stratosopheric (imho) indie rock sensations Blossoms, my signed copy of indie popsters White Lies' new album had landed on my mat and my man-flu was on the way out. Add to that my first Whitley Bay Park Run in two weeks and you could say life was on the up. Surely my good fortune would rub off on the lads!
My journey from Newcastle, where I had joined my better half and eldest daughter in a spot of shopping and lunching out, didn't go according to plan. Thanks to the wonderful 900 bus that was supposed to effortlessly and instantaneously whisk me from North Shields station to Whitley Bay, it had taken me an hour to get to the coast. I abandoned the Metro at Cullercoats at 3pm, raced home, grabbed my trusty stead (my bike of course - where do you think I live? Earsdon?) and arrived at Hillheads 15 minutes late. I thought the lads at the gate were joking when they said the Bay were 2-0 up and had to ask a number of fans before I finally believed it: Tommy the Tea Emperor doesn't lie! General Patton had scored a penalty after 4 minutes and Kyle Fryatt had produced a cracking bit of skill to beat a defender then score (apparently).
My immediate thought was that we were going to lose 3-2 and it would all be my fault but the lads were playing well, Chan was standing up and away from the bench and....the sun was shining!
I was in time to see Shanks get booked and then witness a bizarre argument between Adam, Mr Bay Twitter, and Dale Connor in the Washington goal. It started when Josh (staying a bit longer at the Bay) Nearney went down in pain after 'heading' the ball. Connor shouted something helpful towards the ref doubting the validity of the stoppage in play.
"It was a head injury!" helpfully called Adam.
"He should have headed it properly." replied our sensitive visiting keeper.
"Still a head injury"
"This is a man's game..."
"Still a head injury."
"All you big men behind there!"
We studied the waist high pole that separated us then watched Josh being helped off the pitch to be replaced by Callum Munro.
Next thing we knew our friend was having a go at the Wandering Minstrel Barry. We dare not ask either what it was about for fear of either accusations of fans' bravado (protected by a waist high pole) or a protracted description that ended in an appalling joke.
Instead Adam preferred to chunter on about:
"The lack of keeper-supporter banter in the Northern League"
"I love banter if it is any good." OOooooh! Mr Huffy!
"You should have stopped the two goals shouldn't you?" 2-0 back of the net. Ha!
Kempster slides in.
Robbo then turned the ball past our friend and as he turned to celebrate, it bounced off what I thought was the post but had in fact been the diagonal pole supporting the post and base. It then rolled along the goal-line and out. The lino hadn't spotted it had crossed the line either, unfortunately.... but our at least our visiting chum was smiling.
Fryatt found himself through on goal but his attempted lob was easily saved.
In fact this was a much better Bay performance, with General Patton living up to his name and being the link we've missed in midfield. It was also nice to see Nick Allen back from injury and growing in confidence throughout the game.
When the Shankster fluffed a chance there was a cry of "Shanky!" from Mr Twitter. Inadvertently this then became a new dictionary entry:
Shanky adj: 'description of an action or object that promises much'
(to be said in a Sean Connery-esque voice or in a slightly creepy manner)
The man himself hit a cracking shot wide before being subbed along with Fryatt, who had played much better today. The Fryster had been more physical up front, taking players on more effectively in the same manner that had excited the fans in the pre-season friendlies.
Back prowling the touchline!
The chances continued to come for the Bay and it was the Prof this time who was out of luck when Mr Grumpy saved his point blank effort.
Was the fact that the Bay were playing well connected with the fact that Chan had ended his 'sit down protest'? In fact, Chan had not sat down on the bench at all so the moment I set off to record this event, the visitors' Marc Costello scored, forcing the Chan to sit down in shock. Thankfully the Great One resumed his touchline vigil and the Bay surged forward. At one point defender Ryan Keltie set off on a mazy dribble that ended with a charged down shot. Supersub Callum almost scored as the ball squirmed across the goal but beyond his despairing lunge. Supermac was also being found more often and his runs down the wing were causing more problems for Washington. He almost finished the day off with great aplomb as he fought his way into the box before playing keepy-uppy (last count was 17 - although this is probably exaggerated) to get the perfect shot.
The performance was miles better than the previous two. At last we had a win. Next up: those nice lads and lasses from Newton Aycliffe.
The keepy-uppie king
The Kempstervator doesn't flinch....much!
Robbo charges in.
4.10.16 - Chester-le-Street (h)
Spot the Whitley Bay players?
The fans who were at Hillheads on Tuesday were treated to another forgettable night. The match itself was one of endeavour and occasional moments of skill but the Whitley team lacked the direction of a leader on the pitch and on the bench. Passes failed to get to Bay players, the teamwork from the start of the year season was missing: the team that had performed so well at the start of the season and given us so much hope was absent. The management very rarely left the dugout, except to announce substitutions (and even then I'm not sure if they stayed on the bench and turned on their disco light board from there).
SOMETHING AT OUR CLUB IS NOT RIGHT!
The match itself featured an unfortunate own goal to give Chester the lead on 22 minutes. This was soon followed by a Robo glanced effort that rolled in slow motion past their admiring keeper. However, ten minutes before half time a super curling effort, to Tom Flynn's top right post, from Chester's Callum Johnston returned the lead to the visitors. That was how it stayed. Despite the endeavour, there was no addition to the score. The '214' fans there deserved better, but what is happening?
The match passed me and the crowd in a blur!
How is that a club that boasts one of the best attendances in the league can exist with only three forwards? The voluntary effort that goes into the club each club is immense from the likes of Tommy and his tea Emporium, Adam, running the social media (he never stops updating the match stats throughout the game), the lovely programme team, Doug in the shop, Peter and David on the programme, Julian with his constant camera wanderings...the list goes on and apologies to those missed off. There are good people running this club: directors willing to put their face on the line for the club (sorry Ann) so why is it we keep hearing rumours of the club's massive debts and struggling to survive? Are we not the most successful club in FA Vase history?
Sadly those days are long gone so why are we not building for a brighter future? We had an extremely successful U19 team so they should be coming through, filling the gaps in the first team bench. Why do we get players named on the bench when they are injured and having no chance of playing? Robbo, Kielty, Harry Potter have all looked solid players and fitted in well so where are the rest?
Where's your fans?
Chan is still The Man! He has raised us up from the dark Paddy days and promised a minor miracle after some great results but injuries and suspensions have decimated an threadbare squad. Players have gone and not been replaced. Nineteen players on a Northern League squad isn't enough: (1 goalkeeper, 6 defenders, 7 midfielders and 3 forwards). Bottom club Chester-le-Street and Seaham have 24! The players look tired and so does the manager after being asked to work miracles time and again over the last few years.
The lack of new sponsorship around the ground needs looking at. It is good business sense to have as much advertising as possible yet the ads we have look tired and probably out of date. More adverts at a lower cost is surely better than a few. It is simle supply and demand (I learned that during A level economics lessons). Is there enough money to pay for the floodlight repairs needed or do we all need to bring torches to future night time matches?
As I have said there are so many good people, on the board and amongst the supporters who are working hard to move the club forward but it needs an honest approach with everyone together from the top to the bottom. We need more advertising, players and teamwork. Let the people who care about the club do their stuff.
Tuesday night was the first time I came away from Hillheads feeling so miserable and disillusioned. We now look up at North Shields, who have risen from non-existence and well done to them. Please don't let Whitley Bay go the same way!
Let's give Chan, the Prof, the Shankster, Kempstervator, Harry the Wizard Potter, Elfie (when he's back, Supermac, Flynny, General Patton et al the best support.
Proud to support the Bay!
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1.10.16 - Seaham Red Star (a)
The previous week, I'm afraid I abandoned my post and accompanied my wife to see Middlesbrough lose 2-1 to a Spurs team that looked extremely impressive. However, in my absence, the Bay lost 2-0 in the FA Vase to Division 2 leaders Stockton. Despite the glamour of watching the likes of Valdes, Negredo, Deli Alli...it was Hillheads where I wish I had stayed. The things we do for love!
In the middle of the week, the lads were unlucky to lose 2-3 in the last minute away to Morpeth. By all accounts it was an extremely impressive display so I travelled with hope to Seaham with Woodie confident that we could get a win. My weekend had been disappointing as I had been struck down by man-flu: no Park Run for me either so a pick-me-up was needed: a trip to Seaham Red Star. What could be better?
As we entered the ground we were welcomed by the grating sounds of "Now that's what I call Rave Music" (probably). My day got even worse as I emerged from the toilet to find Barry dancing to the self-same rave music on offer. The toilet cubicle, that had scrawled the terrifying "SR5: we we are here!" on it, also had no lock on the door: although it could be wedged closed then opened with a foot lodged under it. Thank the lord for the welcome sight of an antiseptic hand-wash; I know: what a wimp! There was also a noisy, brown Labrador that barked at every dog walker who walked past us. Those dog walkers, who are here at the match, instead of taking their faithful friend for their expected walk. Good job the cold and flu tablets were working! It was like Crufts...sort of.
Then the match started and my day took a nosedive. I, and probably everyone that was there connected with the Bay, wished someone could have done some kind of Jedi mind trick on us to make us forget that dismal afternoon. The fact that the sun was shining was scant consolation.
It basically went like this:
0-1: No!
0-2 No! No!
0-3 No! No! No!
Half time, cup of tea and chunky kitkat: nice!
0-4 We need to sign more Redheads as all these blond players are easy to mix-up!
1-4 Yay! Anderson's overhead kick saved and Fryatt pops in the rebound. We're going to win 5-4!
1-5 We're not. Oh! Bugger!
1-6 Can we go home now? Thank you.
The debate on the way home was whether the Duke of Northumberland, who we think owns the land Hillheads stands on would invest in the team: he owns the land my house stands on anyway. The chances though of this knight in shining armour arriving looks slim we decided because we are not a croquet, quoits or polo team.
Suffice to say, I will try to forget our visit but the scars will still remain. However, my Whitley shirt was immediately washed in preparation for the visit of Chester-le-Street.
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Item:10 General Debate - 55th Meeting, 34th Regular Session Human Rights Council
23 Mar 2017 - - Presentation of country reports and oral updates of the Secretary-General and High Commissioner for Human Rights
- High Commissioner’s annual presentation on the enhancement of technical cooperation and capacity-building in the field of human rights A/HRC/34/74
- The report of the Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the field of Human Rights A/HRC/34/74 General debate
Item 10: Technical assistance and capacity-building
34th Regular Session of the Human Rights Council.
Ms. Kate Gilmore, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights (Introductions)
Mr. Christopher Sidoti, Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights (Introductions)
Afghanistan, Ms. Suraya Dalil
Yemen, Mr. Ali Mohamed Mauhsain Askar
Pakistan (on behalf of like minded group), Mr. Qazi Saleem Ahmed Khan
Tunisia (on behalf of the African Group), Mr. Yassine Salah
Netherlands (on behalf a Group of Countries), Mr. Reinout Vos
Bahrain (on behalf of the Gulf Cooperation Council Group), Mr. Yusuf Abdulkarim Bucheeri
Malta (on behalf of European Union), Mr. Olaph J. Terribile
Peru (on behalf of a Group of Countries), Ms. Ana Teresa Lecaros Terry
Morocco (on behalf of OIF), Mr. Mohamed Auajjar
Sudan (on behalf of a Group Countries), Mr. Mustafa Osman Ismail Elamin
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (on behalf of a Group of Countries), Mr. Julian Braithwaite
Switzerland, Mr. Benjamin Müller
Brazil, Ms. Clara Solon
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Mr. Julian Braithwaite
China, Mr. Zhang Wei
Netherlands, Mr. Reinout Vos
United States of America, Mr. William J. Mozdzierz
India, Mr. Ajit Kumar
Saudi Arabia, Mr. Abdulaziz Alwasil
Iraq, Mr. Fallah Abdul Sada
Bolivia (Plurinational State of ), Mr. Olmer Torrejon Alcoba
Bhutan (on behalf of a Group of Countries), Mr. Thinlay Norbu
Canada, Ms. Catherine Godin
France, Mr. Thomas Wagner
Australia, Mr. Alexander Chapman
Maldives, Ms. Aishath Shahula
Thailand, Mr. Phanpob Plangprayoon
Cooperation Council For The Arab States of The Gulf , Mr. Abdullah Alajmi
Myanmar, Ms. Aye Lei Mon
Chad, Ms. Sololta Marie Ngarmbatinan
Russian Federation, Mr. Dimitry Vorobiev
Jordan, Mr. Akram Harahsheh
Sierra Leone, Ms. Yvette Stevens
34th Regular Session
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Ms. Kate Gilmore, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights (Introduction) 00:03:54
Mr. Christopher Sidoti, Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the UN Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation (Introduction) 00:24:35
Afghanistan, Ms. Suraya Dalil 00:35:33
Yemen, Mr. Ali Mohamed Mauhsain Askar 00:43:50
Pakistan (on behalf of like Minded Group), Mr. Qazi Saleem Ahmed Khan 00:49:55
Tunisia (on behalf of the African Group), Mr. Yassine Salah 00:52:24
Netherlands (on behalf a Group of Countries), Mr. Reinout Vos 00:54:26
Bahrain (on behalf of the Gulf Cooperation Council Group), Mr. Yusuf Abdulkarim Bucheeri 00:57:13
Malta (on behalf of European Union), Mr. Olaph J. Terribile 01:00:00
Peru (on behalf of a Group of Countries), Ms. Ana Teresa Lecaros Terry 01:02:48
Morocco (on behalf of OIF), Mr. Mohamed Auajjar 01:04:49
Sudan (on behalf of a Group Countries), Mr. Mustafa Osman Ismail Elamin 01:07:32
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (on behalf of a Group of Countries), Mr. Julian Braithwaite 01:10:00
Switzerland, Mr. Benjamin Müller 01:12:37
Brazil, Ms. Clara Solon 01:14:25
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Mr. Julian Braithwaite 01:17:08
China, Mr. Zhang Wei 01:19:30
Netherlands, Mr. Reinout Vos 01:21:37
United States of America, Mr. William J. Mozdzierz 01:24:11
India, Mr. Ajit Kumar 01:25:28
Saudi Arabia, Mr. Abdulaziz Alwasil 01:27:40
Iraq, Mr. Fallah Abdul Sada 01:30:29
Bolivia (Plurinational State of ), Mr. Olmer Torrejon Alcoba 01:32:40
Bhutan (on behalf of a Group of Countries), Mr. Thinlay Norbu 01:34:53
Canada, Ms. Catherine Godin 01:37:04
France, Mr. Thomas Wagner 01:38:40
Australia, Mr. Alexander Chapman 01:40:18
Maldives, Ms. Aishath Shahula 01:41:37
Thailand, Mr. Phanpob Plangprayoon 01:43:31
Cooperation Council For The Arab States of The Gulf , Mr. Abdullah Alajmi 01:45:41
Myanmar, Ms. Aye Lei Mon 01:47:22
Chad, Ms. Sololta Marie Ngarmbatinan 01:48:35
Russian Federation, Mr. Dimitry Vorobiev 01:50:12
Jordan, Mr. Akram Harahsheh 01:52:03
Sierra Leone, Ms. Yvette Stevens 01:54:01
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1st 5 Pages May Workshop - Walters Rev 2
Name: Julie Walters
Title: Confessions of a High School Survivor: The Freshman Reinvention
Genre: Young Adult, contemporary
PITCH:
Pubic-Head, Jew-Fro, Big Brown One. If Jennifer Arnold knew how to make her classmates stop bullying her, stop breaking her with each nasty name and rumor, she’d do it. If only she were strong enough to believe in herself, but a lifetime of emotional abuse from home and bullying from school have left her hollow and splintered.
Just when she needs her most, Jennifer meets Becca. Beautiful, self-assured and fearless, Becca quickly becomes her new best friend. At overnight camp for the summer, Becca teaches Jennifer how to begin to find her inner strength, tackle her body image issues, and accentuate her outer beauty.
In the fall, when her friendship with Becca evolves into a secret romantic relationship, Jennifer grapples with understanding her sexuality and morals. Her Reinvention plan works though, and nearly all bullying at school ceases. Jennifer confronts her burgeoning fortitude when debating sharing her clandestine relationship with her best friends. If she can’t, she will be forced to hide what is quickly becoming the most life altering relationship she has ever known. However, her secret being divulged and resuscitating the now defunct abuse scares Jennifer into a claustrophobic silence and traps her in a cocoon of lies.
“Have a great summer, Pubic Head,” he yells at my back after I pass him on my way out of this god forsaken hellhole of a school.
“Yeah B.B.O. Maybe you’ll learn how to tame that Jew Fro,” sneers one of his cronies. Their gang of goons erupts with laughter. “Or just shave it off and save yourself from looking like my jock.”
They can’t see my beet-red face or smell the sweat that dampens me instantly or feel the tremors wracking my body. Nor can they see my desperate soul leaking out through the fresh wounds ripped open by their words, bleeding me dry.
This is what I know about life at fourteen: It Sucks. Capital S.
But the way I see it, I can continue spending my time wallowing in my misery, focusing on nothing except the epic Greek tragedy that is my life, or I can play an active role in my own reinvention and try to forge a new path. A path that leads to a life not filled with self-loathing or urgent wishes to be born into a different body or a different family in a different town in a different state where people aren’t assholes.
“Jen, anybody home?” Mara snaps her fingers in front of my face, eight days into summer break.
“Sorry. Lost in thought,” I mumble as I pick my cuticles bloody.
“Does it have anything to do with your nightmare last night?” Becca questions as she tosses her long, blond waves from her shoulders with a graceful shake of her head, her mesmerizing bright green eyes beckoning my atman to liberate itself.
Becca’s spent the past four days with me at Mara’s before we head off to overnight camp for the summer together. Eight non-parentally supervised weeks in the Poconos with Mara, my best-of-the-best friend since third grade and Becca, who has gone from stranger to confidant after barely one hundred hours together. It’s the opportunity of a lifetime and it’s my chance to do the impossible, to metamorphose. If I fail, if I can’t instigate a hiccup in the social disaster of my life, if I can’t get people to stop making fun of my hair, clothing, Jewish face, I know I won’t survive 9th grade.
When I first met Becca I felt shy, snatching quick glances before averting my eyes to the floor, not wanting to get caught gawking at her beauty. But her kind spirit ripples away from her in a fog-like wave, a constant blanket of warmth that makes me feel comfortable, less awkward. Accepted. We’ve become close in these past four days, and although she climbed into my bed last night when I woke up crying, wrapping her arms around me to soothe my desperation, I still couldn’t tell her about my last afternoon at school. Nor any of the miserable days prior, for that matter.
“I don’t want to talk about it,” I mumble, walking toward Mara’s bathroom.
“Are people at school still being assholes, Jen?” Mara asks my back, but I ignore her as I close the bathroom door.
Walking out of Mara’s bathroom with my toiletries bag tucked under my arm, struggling to wrangle my massive helmet of frizzy hair into a ponytail, I see Mara and Becca sitting on the bed with my yearbook open between them. Their faces masks of horror. I abandon my hair as I rush to snatch the book from them, blood rushing to burn my cheeks.
“Please. Don’t,” I choke as I close the book with trembling hands, sweat beading along my forehead and above my lip instantly. I know it’s too late. I can tell by their expressions that they saw it. All of it.
Mara pats the bed next to her indicating that I should sit with them. “Jen, why didn’t you show this to me? Did you show this to a teacher, your advisor, anyone? This needs to stop.”
Flaying my cuticle from my pinky with my central incisors, I whisper, “No. Whatever. It doesn’t matter.”
Becca reaches across Mara to hold my quivering hand, saving my cuticles from further massacre. “It matter, Jen. How long has this been going on?”
“Feels like forever,” Mara croaks.
“Don’t we need to leave for the bus soon? Let’s grab a muffin on our way out.” But my diversion tactic falls on deaf ears.
Becca slides off of the bed and moves to sit next to me, wrapping an arm around my shoulder and pulling me against her side, her temple resting on my head.
“I’d like to help you Jen, but you need to bring me up to speed. I won’t judge you,” Becca starts but I cut her off.
“I don’t want your pity, Becca.”
“I wouldn’t dare. Just talk to me. When did this start?”
But I can’t. I can’t force my vocal chords to produce sound or my lips to form the words.
“Listen, we’re already friends and we’re about to spend eight weeks together, inseparably if you ask me. I’m not gonna let this go so you might as well save us both and tell me now.”
“You can trust her,” Mara encourages.
Trusting Mara’s endorsement implicitly, I take a deep breath before sliding from the precipice’s edge.
“5th grade but it didn’t go grade-wide viral until 6th. Now it’s of epidemic proportion. I’ve asked them to stop, but…” My voice trails off as my stomach clenches and threatens to explode even though it’s empty.
“They call you Pubic Head? Jew Fro? And those pictures. How could someone draw that in your yearbook?” Becca asks, her voice thick with incredulity. She squeezes my hand, forcing me to look at her exquisite face as my eyes fill with liquid despair.
“It’s my fault,” I offer as I attempt to reign in my emotions, to force them back into the tightly lidded compartment of my heart. “I mean look at me. I’m a mess. My hair, my face, my clothes. I make it easy.”
“Bullshit, Jen. They don’t have the right,” Becca states with the bravado of a politician.
We sit in silence for a few moments before Becca suggests the very thing I want desperately. “Jen, how about if I help you with a makeover. We have all summer to perfect it before the start of 9th grade.”
“Yes! That’s exactly what I want but don’t know how to accomplish, transmogrification. Steal their ammo like a summer thief.” I feel almost giddy with excitement, but the feeling is fleeting. “But how?”
“Makeovers are kind of my thing. We’ll start with your hair and eyebrows. Those are quick fixes but they’re invaluable life-long lessons. Then we’ll talk fashion. You’re hiding under way too much clothing. And you’ve got to stop mauling your fingers.”
I nod, extricating my thumb nail from between my teeth.
“Also, we need to work on your nonexistent self-esteem.” Mara adds sympathetically. “It’s paralyzing your potential and you’re too amazing for this shit.”
“First thing’s first. Let’s fix your appearance. It’ll take, like, an hour. Then we can move on to the tough stuff, digging through your issues, the causes and workable resolutions. That’s the real project for the summer, but it’s where I excel.” Becca says as I bite my lip and I turn away.
I know she’s right but I also understand how traumatic it will be to expose my psyche for examination. Mara smiles, but there’s guilt clouding her eyes. Or is it jealousy? Or something else?
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Labels: 1st 5 Pages Workshop w/ Ann Jacobus
Stasia May 23, 2016 at 8:26 PM
Wow, I had no idea this book was going to be so complex. Bullying, sexual awakening, complex friendships, high school...! The pitch starts out very strong. But, by paragraph 3, it peters out a bit, as if you don't have a clear grasp on the end of the story yet. That's fine. It means the pitch-writing exercise is working to show you where your plotting needs more work. So, I'm going to leave the pitch comments at that.
On to the first five...(1) Not sure I love starting with a line of dialogue from nameless (insignificant?) character. Wondering if a stronger opening might be to have this from JEN's POV (i.e., I keep my shoulders, my gaze, pointed toward the exit, pretend I don't hear the words "Jew Fro...ETC" hammering my back...") Or maybe give us a touch more of the setting--school, make it feel dark, oppressive in a more specific way than calling it a "hell-hole"??? It's generally dicey to start with dialogue anyway so experimenting with another choice might be helpful. (2) I am confused by the new structure, which appears to switch from the day she leaves school, to a moment with Mara, to a reflection of her meeting Becca to a flashback about Becca???? This structure results in a lot of "info-dumping" - using flashback as a way to convince readers to trust Becca b/c Mara says so and to know everything about Becca's plan. (3) I am still unconvinced about the whole four-day sleepover before leaving for camp. As a mom of four, I don't think I'd be cool with that without an excellent reason. Which brings us to point #(4) I feel like there's a layer of plot missing. I get that Jen wants to transform and Becca is both her guru and her ultimate romantic interest. BUT this is partly a thematic or internal character arc. We need to know specifically what Jen wants at each point in the story and what positive attributes she has (e.g., is she good at crafts, drama? does she want to win a particular prize at camp or does she have to, say, help with the housework there b/c her family can't really afford this place? besides NOT being bullied, does Jen AFFIRMATIVELY WANT anything different when she gets back to school--a role in student government, part in a play, chance to be on the school paper? PLOT & CHARACTER are critically intertwined in a good story. Specific plot and setting elements enable a writer to SHOW emotions, development, etc., in a character or characters without simply TELLING them, "she was worried" or "guilt clouding her eyes." I think you might have great success trying a couple of plotting exercises to build the skeleton on which to hang these cool characters. Keep up the good work!
Smoochyloo May 24, 2016 at 12:52 PM
I REALLY like what you’re doing here. The concept is perfect and very relevant.
I want to you to think about slowing down and savouring defining moments for your characters. A lot of important information is given perhaps too closely together.
The bullying in the first sentences leads me to anticipate that Jennifer will have to recover from this on her way home and then I’m jarred when Mara snaps her fingers at Jen. These are two different scenes, and they don’t mesh together. Explore the bullying and then have her doing things in her life that the reader can get to know Jennifer through. In your pitch you say she’s abused, so perhaps show that; her coming home to an empty fridge or a berating parent. You want the reader to empathize with Jennifer and ultimately root for her.
Also your pitch should not mention meeting Becca, if you start your story with them as friends. Also I’m unsure as to who Mara is.
As I said, I love this concept and Jennifer's character. She seems to be complex and representative of so many important things. Continue to revise until your work is clear with motives, causes and effects. Great job!
~Sue Miller
Ann Jacobus May 24, 2016 at 1:27 PM
Dear Julie,
Your hard work is fully evident and now your opening five pages clearly establish your main character, her allies, her problem, and the stakes. We are shown much more than in earlier drafts. And I love the addition of the question raised in the last lines. How does Mara feel about Becca and Jen’s new bond? Hmmm. Trouble may lie ahead.
My only very minor comment is that Jen decides in the opening paragraphs that she needs to reinvent herself. Which seems to kind of “steal the thunder” of Becca and Mara suggesting a makeover later. Maybe if it’s a little more vague-- she knows something has got to change but doesn’t know what or how. (Btw, the addition of her saying that if she can’t get people to stop making fun of her, “I know I won’t survive 9th grade,” is a sobering indication of the stakes.) Then when Becca and Mara come up with their plan, we’ll see it as a hopeful solution.
But this is a nitpick. Your opening pages have come a long way. Furthermore, you showed courage and professionalism to come at your whole opening in a new way. We all get attached to our writing, but change in early drafts is usually our friend. Excellent work. Good luck with this important story.
Your ptich has some very strong elements. I worry that you are providing too much detail and giving away too much of your story. Try to scale it back and tease more.
This revision has added a great deal of depth to the characters and the storyline. Jen is shaping up to be a complex character.
That said, I can't help but feel that you're rushing the story and not letting it develop. There are a number of jumps between characters and relationships that I don't feel are believable. Becca's impact on Jen has gone from 0-50 in one paragraph. Kids who are bullied aren't that trusting, being far too jaded by people's impressions and harshness to allow them in.
Having read your previous revisions I knew what was coming but feel you are asking the reader to buy into the makeover too quickly.
I feel like the 3rd, 4th and 5th paragraphs are a strong way to build your MC and the empathy a story like this requires. They are great openers.
This story is more complex than earlier revisions alluded to. How exciting to tell a story that explores issues that are so relevant to today's teens.
Best of luck with the story.
Anonimiss May 25, 2016 at 6:46 AM
Your 1st 5 pages are a lot more stronger now and I really like the way it begins. I could immediately connect with what Jen was going through, how serious this is for her. And I could feel empathy, which is great! So I think this revision is doing a lot more for me from a reader's point of view.
At the same time, it does feel a bit fast paced. Are 4 days enough for a troubled girl to open up to a total stranger, even though she's her best friend's friend? I'm not sure. I liked it better when Jen meets Becca in the camp. Maybe the whole yearbook scene could be played out in the camp? Because now, it also feels odd that she'd carry her yearbook to Mara's house for a sleepover. And I agree with most of the points Stasia makes - you should try and address them to take this to the next level.
The pitch makes it very clear that there's a relationship brewing between Jen and Becca. So I'd suggest building this up real slow - bring out the nuances bit by bit so when it is revealed, it feels natural. BTW, I like this angle of the plot too - didn't see it coming! It makes Jen's situation real complex and makes me wonder how things would turn out for her later. I also like the fact that Becca realizes this thing is way beyond Jen's physical makeover. Else it would have rung rather hollow.
The pitch itself is great but it could be a bit terse as others have suggested.
Again, great revision and great overall improvement from the first draft. I'm rooting for Jen all the way!
I knew it! I definitely felt the romantic vibes between Jen and Becca in the previous two versions, and I meant to comment on it and ask whether it was intentional or not, but for whatever reason I never added that to my week's comments. I REALLY like that that is what you're going for. Bullying, sexual exploration and discovery, self-growth. All of these things sound like very worthwhile subject matters to pursue.
I think, though, that the start of this story would really benefit from an extreme slowing down. A slowing down of the emotions, the relationship growth, all of it. Give us the tiniest hints in the first few chapters that there MAY be a romance blooming between Becca and Jen. I would focus more on the bullying to begin with, and what that struggle must be like for Jen. Learning to like herself again, with the help of Mara, and her new friend, Becca. Because you can't fully love another until you love yourself, right? I also agree with the comment that an unfortunate side effect of being bullied is emotional reticence, so I think it would be uncharacteristic for Jen to jump right into trusting Becca with her entire heart, right away. Let Becca earn Jen's trust. It might take time.
I also think that if the romance blooms unexpectedly, a number of chapters in -- and takes the reader *somewhat* by surprise (but not completely, because you've peppered the first bit of the book with hints), I think it will be a delightful twist. Because it would take both Becca and Jen by surprise, wouldn't it? My guess is neither of them expected to fall in love with the other. Let their relationship grow naturally as they bond at camp over trying to help Jen "reinvent" herself.
I've had a great time reading your story, Julie, and I hope it makes it out into the world! Good luck to you and Jen! :)
Leslie S. Rose May 26, 2016 at 1:37 AM
It’s exciting to see your work evolving week to week. Congrats on your perseverance and dedication. I feel I know the characters on a deeper level as they become more real with each new brushstroke you add.
The complexity and relevance of issues in your pitch is very powerful.
I’m still not convinced your story begins at the most dynamic place for the depth of passion and layers of challenge for the MC you’ve outlined in the pitch. The first five paragraphs feel closer to a set up than the beginning of a story, and the jump to the present scene is a bit jarring to me. I find myself wanting more of a discovery process to get to know the situation and characters.
Jen’s proclamation of reinventing herself still feels very self-assured for a person who has been a victim of bullying for the length of times she has. I applaud the layer you’ve added of Jen feeling that she invites the bullying.
Jen’s journey is the draw for me in this story. Instead of being told specifics, I want to experience them with a “real time” feel along with her, especially when it comes to Becca and all the doubts and wonderings Jen would have about her unique circumstances.
You have a story here worth telling. May it blossom in your talented hands.
So in your pitch you call he Jennifer, I would recommend using Jen as that is what she is called most of the time.
I think this is a different start but maybe it should involve a flashback? I think the transition from the last day of school to Mara's is too big. It needs to be smoothed out more.
I agree with Leslie in that she is too aware of her issues. Would someone who is bullied really believe that they have the self worth to fix their issues? It should probably be forced upon her or something like that.
I feel like you have grown a lot and this story is just getting stronger. Good luck.
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Comics: 5th June 2013
June 5th was the original release date for Hawkeye #11. The issue is entirely from the point of view of Pizza Dog, no, I'm not lying, and I was endlessly excited to read it (with no help from my friend Amanda who has been equally as eager). When I reached the comic shop and found no Pizza Dog I was in a panic. Had I missed it? Is it sold out? No, it's been pushed back a whole 3 weeks for release. Three. Weeks.
I sulked for the rest of the day.
But, here are the comics I did buy:
- All New X-Men #12
- Written by Brian Michael Bendis
- Art by Stuart Immonen
SPOILERS: The cover action scene doesn't happen. Not even a little bit.
But what DOES happen is a lovely brother scene where Alex gets to meet Scott at a time when he's not mental. If this comic does nothing but rehabilitate the image of Scott Summers in the comic-community, then it's still incredibly important. The character has been shat on by writers for far too many years and I think it's admirable that Bendis has found a way to cut to the core of Cyclops and remind us why he was the leader of the X-Men in the first place.
He's a good kid, he just needed to be raised differently, this is giving him that chance.
Also, god damn Immonen is a fucking amazing artist.
- Avengers #13
- Written by Jonathan Hickman
- Art by Nick Spencer
So the High Evolutionary is up to some of his (its?) usual tricks and starts using some of the alien kids as batteries. I'm slightly confused as to whether that's a bad thing or not though. I mean, when last I looked, these aliens are supposed to be kinda dangerous and an invading threat but the Avengers have decided to take them under their wing. It's all a little complicated.
Hyperion is centre stage again. He's a bit of a tricky problem. It's hard for Marvel to have any sort of superhero with a cape & heat-vision and not have the Superman comparisons come up. And for all sense and purpose he is a Superman facsimile. Same powers, from another world that has been destroyed, no family here on Earth etc. But Hickman is making a strong case for his involvement here and I'm begginning to enjoy him despite the little I know of him.
- The Walking Dead vol. 18: What Comes After (Trade Paperback)
- Written by Robert Kirkman
- Art by Charlie Adlard
I really wish I had caught this series from the start and was buying month-to-month because the wait for trades now is excrutiating. Add to that the torture of reading the series and seeing your favourite characters punished constantly, trades can be a distressing length to get through.
However, saying all that, it's still one of the most consistently brilliant and enthralling comics books ever and will no doubt go down as a classic with legendary status.
I could sum up what happens in this volume but it's esentially "Rick and friends have more bad stuff happen to them, they make a plan, it may or may not work... probably won't" which is essentially every collected book since the first.
- East of West #3
- Art by Nick Dragotta
It's still early days for this series but you can already tell that Hickman has a definite end point in mind. It's strange to think how a book that began with the Four Horsemen could get more ominous but it has, all with the addition of Death's girlfriend.
There are lots of epic concepts floating around. Love. War. Honour. Fear. All with a lot of world building. It means that there are times when it may feel like too much is going on or that it's going a bit fast but I trust Hickman as he always manages to tie everything up in the end. There is no flab in his stories.
Hickman is also a machine these days too. There have been very few weeks since I've started this when I haven't bought at least one comic written by him. His fingers must be steaming.
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Olive Ridley Sea Turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea)
During arribadas, mass nesting events, thousands of Olive Ridley sea turtles come ashore within a few hours or days.
Special Status Listing: Yes, see Status, Trends and Threats.
Range and Habitat
Status, Trends, and Threats
Sea turtles are large, aquatic reptiles with forelimbs specially modified for swimming. These front flippers are significantly larger than the back flippers. Their shell is composed of two pieces, the top, or carapace, and the bottom, or plastron. In most sea turtle species, the shell is made up of bony plates covered with horny shields.
The Olive Ridley sea turtle is relatively small compared to other sea turtle species, averaging 100 pounds in weight and measuring 2–2.5 feet in length. It has a gray-green heart-shaped shell. This species has a greater and more varied number of plates along the back of its shell compared to other sea turtle species. Each flipper has 1–2 claws. The shell height and coloration varies by region.
Growth and Reproduction
Olive Ridley sea turtles reach sexual maturity around 15 years of age. Once reaching maturity, females nest once or twice every year. Clutch size averages 100 eggs. In the breeding season, large groups of turtles gather in the waters just offshore of their nesting beaches. Simultaneously, all the turtles come ashore in huge numbers in what is known as an “arribada.” During arribadas, hundreds of thousands of females come ashore to dig their nests and lay their eggs. Not all females nest during the arribada. Some females nest alone or may practice a mixed strategy where they nest once during an arribada and once as a solitary nester in the same season.
The eggs incubate for 50–60 days. After incubation, hatchlings emerge from the nest and make their way to the water. These hatchlings are approximately 1.5 inches long and weigh less than an ounce. They are generally black and may have a green hue along their sides.
Feeding Ecology
Olive Ridley sea turtles feed on a wide variety of prey including lobster, crab, tunicates, mollusks, shrimp, and fish. They are also known to consume algae. This sea turtle is capable of diving up to 500 feet when foraging for benthic invertebrates.
Olive Ridley sea turtles migrate each year between their pelagic foraging areas and coastal breeding and nesting grounds. These migrations can cover thousands of kilometers. They do not follow specific migration paths but disperse to different areas from the breeding grounds.
The Olive Ridley sea turtle is distributed throughout tropical and subtropical regions of the Pacific, South Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. In the Eastern Pacific, they are found from Southern California to Northern Chile. In the South Atlantic they occur along the coasts of West Africa and South America. Though solitary nesting occurs on beaches throughout its range, arribadas occur on only a few beaches in the Eastern Pacific and Indian Oceans including beaches of Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, and India. Though not common in Alaska, sea turtles do occasionally visit Alaska’s Gulf Coast waters. Olive Ridley sea turtles have been reported in Alaska three times between 1960 and 2007.
This sea turtle species is predominantly pelagic, inhabiting the waters of the open ocean, but can sometimes be foraging in coastal areas. The species moves to coastal waters during the breeding season, and females come ashore to lay their eggs.
The Olive Ridley sea turtle is the most abundant sea turtle in the world but also the most exploited. The current global population is much lower than its historical level. The Olive Ridley Mexico breeding populations are listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). It is listed as threatened throughout the rest of its range. To learn more, visit the ADF&G Special Status page for Olive Ridley sea turtle.
NatureServe: Global – G3 (Vulnerable)
IUCN: Endangered
ESA: Endangered (Mexico breeding populations), Threatened (All other populations)
There has been a 50% decline in the global population of Olive Ridley sea turtles since the 1960s. Though the overall trend is decline, some populations are stable or increasing. This decline is due to long-term historical harvest, incidental take in fisheries, and degradation or loss of nesting habitat.
The biggest threat to the Olive Ridley sea turtle is harvest. Their habit of coming ashore in incredible densities during arribadas makes them very vulnerable to overharvest. In many parts of the world their eggs are collected and the adults are killed for consumption. This practice prevents the recovery of the species and may lead to continued declines. Bycatch in fisheries is another major problem for Olive Ridley sea turtles. These turtles are frequently caught in trawls and longline gear. They may also become entangled in gill nets and purse seines causing them to drown. Loss of nesting habitat is also a threat.
2–2.5 feet long, 80–110 pounds
Range/Distribution
Tropical and subtropical waters worldwide
Crab, shrimp, rock lobster, jellyfish, tunicates, algae
Hatchlings – crabs, birds, and fish; Adults – terrestrial mammals
Nest 1–2 times each year either alone or in mass aggregations
Pacific Ridley sea turtle
Managed by both the National Marine Fisheries Service and US Fish and Wildlife Service
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The Meteorologists got it wrong – the only Jet Streams were over Fairford!
Weather has been the pre-occupation of flying enthusiasts since the first shows of 2012 were cancelled, in the early part of the season. The biggest of all, RIAT, looked like a potential casualty and the Saturday was wet and cloudy which restricted many of the displays to low level and performance element reducing routines.
Early on Sunday morning I set out for Gloucestershire and my heat sank as the visibility at Birdlip Hill was reduced to just a few yards. Heading towards Cirencester, and although the clouds still looked ominous, the rain stopped. As I approached Fairford village, the clouds were higher and I could have sworn I saw a few patches of blue sky!
Arriving at about 8.30, I had expected to encounter the first traffic delays, but was pleasantly surprised when we were quickly directed into the airfield and on to concrete parking close to the main entrances – I had feared becoming entrenched in a muddy field and wading through the mire to the show site. I assume that many ticket holders had delayed their departure in order to catch the latest weather news before deciding to travel and this had prevented the usual queues.
As I unpacked my camera gear, there were a few drops of rain which, moments later, stopped. And that, was the only rain I saw all day – until back at Birdlip, on my return trip, we encountered several heavy downpours. I had foregone the Lancaster and the BBMF, on this occasion, to avoid the delays that were expected as the crowds left after the show.
The fact that so many spectators opted for a late arrival was good news. As flying was not due until 10.30, I had the chance to photograph many of the static aircraft whilst there was still enough space around the exhibits to avoid that photographers’ menace – the “can I stand in front of your camera man” – a species known to inhabit airfields and air displays!
The static aircraft were spread over a considerable distance, so I took the easy option and decided to learn about stealth technology and marvel at the UFO parked nearby. Now, I have seen videos of this B2 Spirit flying and the two US Air Force personnel present assured me that it does, indeed, fly! I will believe that when I see it with my own eyes. Access or close examination was not on the agenda, which, I assume is why two of Gloucestershire’s finest, equipped with HK sub-machine guns, were patrolling the area. We all saw “Broken Arrow” and we know John Travolta is a licensed pilot – but was he expected at Fairford for another attempt? I vowed to keep my eyes open, just in case!
The Stealth Bomber is certainly an aircraft to marvel at and it is easy to see that it must have led to the creation of numerous UFO reports before it was ever disclosed to the world.
I walked the whole length of the static display area. The number and types of aircraft were varied and an enthusiasts dream - though I soon understood the relevance of Ian Grigg’s 2011 Review comment - when he mentioned the abundance of F16’s. This year’s tattoo was the same – although, of course, it does illustrate how successful some aircraft are and just how many have been supplied to many different countries.
With the improvement in the weather the concrete and tarmac were fine. The grass areas, however, are traditionally bumpy and the previous week’s rain had turned much of it into mini wetlands. So, some care was needed, but that was a small price to pay for the chance of a full days flying. The crowds were still slow to appear and, so, securing a suitable spot on the spectator line was easy.
Let the flying program commence and, what a program it was! With around 8 hours’ non-stop flying, there would be little point in merely listing the aircraft. Far easier on the reader just to pick out what were some of the major highlights of the show. That does not detract from all the aircraft and companies who participated at RIAT, this year, but the list of aircraft can be found on-line and there is little point in duplicating that just for the purpose of this Review.
We have been hearing, for some time about the South Korean Air Force Team, the Black Eagles with their black, white and gold liveried KAI T-50B aircraft. All I can say is, “Watch out, Reds, these boys are better than good, they are world class!” To a background of Korean music, informed commentary and RT transmissions, the crowd were treated to a fantastic display of precision aerobatic flying which was every bit as exciting as you will see from any team, anywhere in the world.
The impressed crowd gave the team an ovation and were still applauding when the team returned to their aircraft stands.
Other team displays including the UAE, also contributed with some fine flying though there was a definite and discernable difference between them and teams like our own Red Arrows and the Black Cats.
Now, if there was one aircraft that has totally won the hearts and affection of the UK, it’s the Avro Vulcan. Recently, she had to have two engines replaced – no mean feat in a 50 year old aircraft and not a cheap piece of engineering to complete – she didn’t display on Saturday so today was her first display proper for some time. She may have looked sparkling with her new coat of paint but she still sounds the same – even with two new engines – and, as usual, the display was immaculate and stayed within the tight display parameters as easily as some of the so-called agile fighters of today.
Make no mistake - she is back and that beautiful Vulcan whine made sure that the whole world knew it!
Another unusual aircraft, the Boeing Osprey gave an interesting demonstration when it tilted its engines to 80 degrees for an aircraft type take off. It takes only a mere 12 seconds to change the rotor and engine angle to enable the helicopter hover capability and land vertically. The aircraft has already been used operationally recovering a downed marine pilot. A new Wing of this aircraft is due to be stationed in the UK, in East Anglia.
The beauty of RIAT is the continuous displaying of aircraft – how many T1 and T2 Hawks have you seen flying? Like myself, dozens! But, have you ever seen 29 Hawks flying in a “EIIR” formation. We were treated to a re-run of the Jubilee Fly Over – only one pass, but as it takes many nautical miles to get the formation into position and over 90 nautical miles just to execute a turn with that many aircraft, the single flyover was no surprise to the delighted crowd.
We were treated to fine displays from the Rafael, the F15 and the F18 so at RIAT, if noise is your “thing” there is always plenty of pressure on the ear drums. Unusually, despite the noise, I don’t think I heard a single youngster crying or screaming – good business for the ear plug sellers probably!
We are soon to the see the end of the VC10’s service with the RAF but the gap has been well plugged with the arrival of the next generation of transport and tanker aircraft. The new aircraft flew line astern intermingled with the C130’s and the Galaxy. Depending on numbers and operational commitments, it seems that these aircraft will take over the mantle of earlier types and will provide the logistical support needed in operational theatres.
Another noteworthy display was the newly liveried Hawk – dressed from head to tail in the Union flag, she also carries a heart in the centre of her underside – great display which showed off the Jubilee paint scheme to real effect. Other European air forces use bright colour schemes on their aircraft – any chance of a brightly coloured UK Typhoon I wonder? Lord Coe missed some free advertising there and what a photo opportunity if the Typhoons had carried decals of the 5 Olympic Rings!
The Red Arrows thrilled as always – even though reduced to a 7 ship configuration this season, they still lead the way when it comes to precision aerobatics.
The singletons impressed with their opposition roles and the performance was of the polished standard we have come to expect from them.
Quite rightly, the Red Arrows continue to thrill the crowds and certainly are the “best of British”. One runs out of superlatives to describe this team. Suffice to say that, once I had enjoyed the performance of the Reds, I was able to start my homeward trek and leave before the inevitable departure delays.
RIAT has something for everyone. It is a pity that so many people missed out because of the weather on the Saturday and I think that, despite the much improved Sunday weather, the numbers were well down on previous years.
It is not cheap to go to RIAT - although the free entry for under 16’s helps family visitors – but the show offers the biggest and, perhaps, the best. General catering prices are reasonable but I would still say that travelling light is not the way to go. Take your own food and plenty of drinks – RIAT then becomes excellent value for money. It remains to be seen, of course, whether prices will be frozen again next year.
Sunday was a great day out for all ages and all the family – see you at RIAT in 2013!
(And, incidentally, the Stealth Spirit was still there, when I left!)
Review by Dave Briers - click HERE for Daves Showcase
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Live in Europe 1975
Liner Notes by David Whiteis, 1991
These sides, recorded at Caphörnli in Grenzach, Germany on April 23, 1975, present an intimate look at one of the world’s foremost blues musicians at the peak of his form. Sunnyland Slim is among the most recorded of all Chicago blues artists. He has played a major role in shaping modern blues piano, and at 84 he continues to perform. But seldom has he been caught like this, in a solo setting, playing a good piano before an attentive and appreciative audience.
Sunnyland was born Albert Luandrew near the town of Vance, Mississippi on September 5, 1907. Early on he absorbed the songs and hollers of his neighbors working in the fields, and he learned spirituals from his minister father and his congregation. Relatives and a kindly neighbor lady named Miss Pankey, who had an organ in her home, encouraged him to learn the rudiments of the keyboard.
Albert’s mother died when he was your. Unhappy with the treatment he received from his stepmother, the boy ran away from home several times. Finally he broke free for good. It was a dangerous world for a youth stealing away alone over those treacherous Delta fields, but he learned rapidly to live by his wits. He insinuated himself into the work gangs on the levees and in the fields, and began concentrating harder on playing music.
He played for a juke in Lambert, Mississippi, called the Hot Shot Lounge; he played piano accompaniment at a movie house, during intermissions, while the reels were being changed; and he broke into the local Saturday night party circuit. A chance encounter with pianist Eurreal “Little Brother” Montgomery at a sawmill juke near Canton, Mississippi in 1923 further inspired him to make music a career.
Soon a personal style began to emerge––a driving, percussive piano technique, embellished with sparkling treble cascades and driven by a powerful bass line that alternated between boogie-woogie and sparse, strategically placed accents. his burgeoning success led him to Memphis, which remained his home base until he moved to Chicago in the 1940s.
It was near Memphis that Albert witnessed the tragedy that gave him his stage name. The Sunnyland train, which roared along the old Frisco Road between Memphis and St. Louis, killed two families within the course of a week. Haunted by that nightmarish image of death and destruction, he wrote “Sunnyland Train”––O-o-o-oh, I thought I heard that mean ol’ lowdown Sunnyland blow.” It became his theme, and he soon took the train’s name as his own.
But he brought more from the blood-stained tracks of the Frisco Road than a signature tune and a clever nickname: “You got a tender heart in your body,” is how he put it years later. “Seein’ those little white kids and black kids killed––that rested on my mind and it given me a tender heart.”
About 1943, Sunnyland hit Chicago. A gregarious and fiercely determined man, he quickly worked himself into the company of Chicago’s blues elite––John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson, Big Bill Broonzy, Roosevelt Sykes, vocalist Peter “Doctor” Clayton, and their contemporaries. In 1947, not long after Clayton’s death, Sunnyland cut his first sides, on Victor, as “Doctor Clayton’s Buddy.” Later that year, now recording under his own name, he sent for a young guitarist named Muddy Waters to work with him on a session for Aristocrat (soon to be Chess) Records, owned by Phil and Leonard Chess. That session resulted in “Johnson Machine Gun,” one of Sunnyland’s most powerful blues; it was also Muddy’s introduction to the Chess brothers––a relationship destined to revolutionize American popular music.
Sunnyland never attained the glory of some of his protégés, but he never stopped hustling. With a physical constitution that even decades later would astound doctors (“You got the heart like a gorilla!” he recalls a physician telling him), he poured his energy, talent, and enthusiasm into maintaining his career––over 200 sides as both leader and sideman, countless live gigs––while augmenting his income through a variety of endeavors. These ranged from freelancing as a barber to more conventional dodges like gambling, moonshining, and running an after-hours club. In the 60’s new horizons opened, as a generation of white music lovers discovered the blues and began hiring veterans like Sunnyland to play in venues on the north side of Chicago, at folk festivals all over America,and eventually in Europe.
Today, at 84, Sunnyland is the reigning elder statesman of Chicago blues. He has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the City of Chicago, and others; he’s been featured on the cover of newspapers, international blues magazines, and, of course, numerous record albums. His recorded legacy is monumental, and the life form that burns within him is one of the wonders of the blues world.
This recording documents a historic first encounter, the initial meeting of Sunnyland Slim and Sam Burckhardt. Sam plays drums here; most folks in the U.S. know him as Sunnyland’s sax player.
But the story of Sunnyland and Sam is much more than a tale of musical collaboration; it is, quite simply, a love story. This unlikely pair––the gruff, tenderhearted giant from the juke joints of America and the hip young aficionado from Basel, Switzerland––share a friendship that’s as spontaneous and mutually sustaining as it is rare.
Sam met Sunnyland for the first time about 24 hours before this session was recorded. At the age of 17, still a high school student, he was 50 years younger than Sunnyland. With characteristic perceptiveness, Sunnyland proclaims during this performance that the young drummer has already “kind of got into my life.” Already, you can hear the synergy, the uncanny instinct with which they think and play together.
The music speaks for itself, but listen especially for the effortless elegance with which Sunnyland switches rhythm and melody lines from his left hand to his right and then back; the cascading treble flurries; the force of his voice, which some claim used to shatter microphones; the propulsively swinging bass lines and the dancing, subtly complex upper-register explorations.
And finally, listen to the easy meld of deep blues passion and humor; note the generosity of spirit Sunnyland extends to his audience, to the musicians whose names he invokes, and to his new friend on the drums. Feel the strength and joy that flow through every note, the dedication he brings to his performance. This affirmation is his most enduring legacy––a gift from the powerful, tender heart of Sunnyland Slim.
Sunnyland Slim, vocals and piano
Sam Burckhardt, drums
Produced by Samuel B. Burckhardt
Recorded at Caphörnli, Grenzach, Germany on April 23, 1975 by Martin Läuchli
Mixed and mastered by Paul Smith
Design by Beth Strever
Photography by Marc PoKempner
Copyright: © ® 1991
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1. It’s You Baby Albert Luandrew
2. Smile on My Face Albert Luandrew
3. Dust My Broom Robert Johnson
4. Sunnyland Special Albert Luandrew
5. Backwater Blues Bessie Smith
6. I Had it Hard Albert Luandrew
7. Everytime I Get to Drinkin’ Albert Luandrew
8. Got to Get to My Baby Albert Luandrew
9. That’s All Right James A. Lane
10. She’s Got a Thing Goin’ On Albert Luandrew
11. For You My Love Paul Gayton
12. How Many More Years Chester Burnett
13. Rocking the House Peter Chatman
14. Blue Shadows Lowell Fulsom
15. Stepmother Blues Albert Luandrew
16. Chicago Jump Albert Luandrew
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County Executive McCoy Details Progress & Unveils Bold Agenda
Posted: Thursday, January 24, 2019 6:20 PM
Announces Expanded Opioid Lawsuit; Details New Initiatives Including GROW & Zero Youth Detention; Calls for End to Government Shutdown
Albany County Executive Daniel P. McCoy tonight delivered his eighth State of the County Address as he took stock of how far the County has come in the last year, while calling for an end to the longest government shutdown in American History in order to protect the thousands of residents affected by it in the Capital Region.
During the speech, he attributed the success of Albany County to stabilizing county finances, particularly at the county nursing home, and implementing innovative programs for indigent defense, for combatting opioid addiction and creating new programs for county youth.
"When I first took office, Albany County faced daunting challenges, from a structural budget deficit, to dramatic property tax increases and a Nursing Home hemorrhaging millions in tax dollars a month with slipping patient care. We have charted a different path forward, a path that sets us apart from the dysfunction of Washington and the government shutdown that threatens the economic well-being of thousands of local federal workers and those who rely on SNAP benefits, including our elderly, our veterans and our disabled residents," said County Executive McCoy.
County Executive McCoy also announced new policies he will embark on to further address the opioid epidemic by expanding the Pharmaceutical lawsuit and redoubling efforts to provide child and maternal health services to improve educational outcomes. He will also establish a new plan to ensure no youth has to interact with the juvenile justice system and forge an economic development partnership with Camoin Associates to create more jobs and economic opportunity.
"Tonight I am proud to announce that the State of the County is strong, but our best days are still ahead as we continue our work to make our neighborhoods are more affordable than ever and every resident has the opportunities needed for success. How we care for our most vulnerable defines us as a community and I will fight for our children, seniors, veterans and those dealing with sickness, addiction and poverty by continuing our nationally-recognized programs and investing in new initiatives that take on the challenges that still lie ahead," he continued.
In 2019, County Executive McCoy will implement new policy initiatives that will continue to make Albany County a leader in the region and a catalyst for development and innovation including:
Expanding the lawsuit Albany County launched just over a year ago to now include the pharmaceutical distributors as well as the manufacturers of powerful opioids that have fueled the addiction and overdose epidemic experienced around the country. As President of the County Executives of America, County Executive McCoy has made this his top priority on the national stage.
Getting Recovery Options Working (GROW), modeled after the program in Dayton, OH, will use the Albany County Mobile Crisis Team to provide overdose victims with treatment opportunities, ongoing support and peer-to-peer counseling. The program also includes prevention screening and intervention training for physicians, school nurses, coaches and others in regular contact with at-risk youth.
As the first ever County Executive to be named a Hunt-Kean Fellow, County Executive McCoy will expand efforts to provide high-quality prenatal and obstetric care as well as maternal and child health services through the lens of his Equity Agenda as the building blocks to early learning support and equitable education for our youngest students of all socio-economic backgrounds.
Building on the successes many nationally recognized programs implemented at the Department of Probation, McCoy announced a roadmap to Zero Youth Detention, similar to that of King County, WA, that will engage with law enforcement, health officials and community leaders to find even more productive and rehabilitative alternatives to incarceration for all teenage offenders.
A historic economic development strategic plan in partnership with Camoin Associates that will focus on the local and regional economies to identify growth opportunities, develop a green economy of the future and spur greater economic justice in order to eliminate economic inequality and continue the efforts of making Albany County the greenest county in New York State.
Video and transcript of the 2019 State of the County Address »
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FIRST WINTER SOLO OF MT. FORAKER
Erik Lambert / April 3, 2007
IDIOT PEAK
Chris Thomas / December 1, 2005
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Will Mayo / December 1, 2005
INACCESSIBLE, MODERN ROUTE ON THE FIN
Freddie Wilkinson
The Fin (13,350'), on the southwest side of Mt. Foraker (17,400'), Central Alaska Range, Alaska. Freddie Wilkinson, Peter Doucette and Ben Gilmore made the first ascent of the south face's technical wall, visible here, from May 3-5. Although they reached the top of the wall, ca. 400 vertical feet from The Fin's summit, bad weather on the ridge above convinced the trio to return to base camp. [Photo] Freddie Wilkinson
Editor's Note: Freddie Wilkinson, Peter Doucette and Ben Gilmore just returned from The Fin (13,350') above Yetna Glacier in the Central Alaska Range. Their ascent of the previously unclimbed south-facing wall fell 400 vertical feet shy of The Fin's summit, adjacent to its parent peak, Mt. Foraker (17,400'). As they reached the apex of the wall to find bad weather on the summit ridge, the team felt satisfied calling the new climb a "modern route". Their trip was supported by a 2007 Mugs Stump Award.
Paul Roderick dropped Ben Gilmore, Peter Doucette and I on the Yentna glacier on April 20. The whole upper Yetna is within the Denali National Park Wilderness Boundary in the Central Alaska Range—and that means no commerical plane landings. Instead we skied up-glacier into the Wilderness zone to establish a base camp in the cirque below the ice fall that leads to The Fin. To warm up, we did two new routes out of the North Fork of the Yetna. Both were about 3,500 feet, featuring mainly steep snow and neve climbing to 70 degrees with short mixed cruxes to M5. I have yet to find any documented info on either of these peaks, so it is very possible our climbs could have been first ascents as well, though I'm not sure yet. Point 8,900 we christened "Rogue Peak"—Peter and I climbed it via the northeast face (M5, 3,500'). In the Mantok group, we climbed Point 9,300 via a thin, east facing couloir we named The All Talk Couloir (M5, 3,500'). All this was warm up for the main attraction...
The Fin's south face is ca. 4,000 feet and had never been attempted, that I've heard about. But it is impossible to separate the route from the approach and descent. The face is guarded by a complex 3,000-foot, six mile glacier featuring a burly icefall. To circumnavigate it, we traversed slopes to the north of the icefall, which were objectively safe but would become highly avalanche prone in bad weather. Above the icefall, one must run the gauntlet for a couple of miles past seracs to reach the 'schrund, which is the only truly safe camp on the approach.
Our climb took three days, from May 3-5. On the May 3 we did the approach in approximately seven hours, carrying skis to past the ice fall and then skinning as high as we could before sprinting under a serac to reach the relative safety of the 'schrund. Unfortunately, the face is concave and spindrifts in almost any conditions. Our tent sustained a few light rips due to rock fall as well, necessitating a move into a hastily dug snow cave. On May 4 we left our bivy gear in the cave at the 'schrund at 6 a.m. and climbed the entire wall to the summit ridge in fifteen hours. We followed the path of least resistance, which linked snow couloirs and traverses with occasional steep mixed pitches. The crux of the route was a sustained vertical mixed chimney that Ben Gilmore led in three pitches. The weather throughout the day was overcast with clouds building. We reached the summit ridge at about 12,900 feet at 9 p.m. and decided to brew and watch the weather. There is no walk-off on The Fin; we knew we were commited to rapping the entire face and then reversing the approach. The summit appeared to be two hours of semi-technical ridge climbing away. At 11 p.m. the weather hadn't improved and we made the decision to call our climb a modern ascent and begin the rappels.
We reached our cave at 8 a.m., more than twenty rappels later, and after twenty-six hours on the go. We brewed again and fell asleep for a couple of hours, only to wake to building snow squalls. Knowing the approach would turn nasty we immediately packed up and began the descent, arriving at base camp at 11 p.m. on May 5. By noon the next day, two new feet of snow had fallen.
We were carrying no communication with us on the route—we had a VHF aviation radio at basecamp, but no satellite phone or reliable communication at all. In fact, in twenty days, we only saw a single plane. Perhaps the route can best be likened in terms of geography to the routes on the south buttress of Denali, like the Isis Face, Mascioli's Pillar, and Kelly Cordes and Jonny Copp's route. In terms of commitment, it felt more serious then the Diamond Arete. I was originally drawn to The Fin because it combines classic steep alpine mixed ground with a true wilderness experience—Colin Haley and Jed Brown's Entropy Wall was a huge inspiration. If there's a future to Alaskan climbing, it's by combining "new school" steep and technical terrain like that found on the north buttress of Hunter or the south face of Denali with "old school" multi-day approaches and descents to reach locales that are inaccessible to planes.
Ben Gilmore leading through a chimney pitch on the south face of The Fin. Wilkinson said that "the face is concave and spindrifts in almost any conditions"—so after encountering increasingly bad weather over fifteen hours of climbing, Gilmore, Doucette and Wilkinson made the twenty-pitch rappel from the base of the summit ridge. [Photo] Freddie Wilkinson
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Tiwari D
Saraogi A
Gehlot R
Life-threatening protamine allergic reaction in a patient with extra-adrenal pheochromocytoma undergoing off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting
Deepak Tiwari1, Ashish Saraogi1, Rajeev Gehlot2
1 Department of Anaesthesiology, NIMS Medical College and Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
2 Department of Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, NIMS Medical College and Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Date of Web Publication 1-Apr-2016
Tiwari D, Saraogi A, Gehlot R. Life-threatening protamine allergic reaction in a patient with extra-adrenal pheochromocytoma undergoing off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting. Ann Card Anaesth 2016;19:351-3
Tiwari D, Saraogi A, Gehlot R. Life-threatening protamine allergic reaction in a patient with extra-adrenal pheochromocytoma undergoing off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting. Ann Card Anaesth [serial online] 2016 [cited 2020 Jan 19];19:351-3. Available from: http://www.annals.in/text.asp?2016/19/2/351/179615
Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in patients with pheochromocytoma is rare and challenging for anesthesiologist. [1] To the best of our knowledge, severe protamine allergic reaction has never been reported in patient with pheochromocytoma undergoing CABG.
A 59-year-old male was admitted with severe acute chest pain on and off at rest for 3 days. He gave a history of episodes of uneasiness and slight headache with raised blood pressure (BP). He gave a history of diagnosis of hypertension for 4 years back and episode of transient ischemic attack for 3 years back. On further evaluation, his 24 h urine sample had increased vanillylmandelic acid and noradrenaline levels. Ultrasonography, computed tomography (CT), and magnetic resonance imaging scan could not locate the tumor. Radioactive tracer study could not be carried out as the patient had financial constraints.
At the time of admission, his BP was 210/100 mmHg. He was on tablet telmisartan 80 mg OD, hydrochlorothiazide 40 mg OD, clonidine 0.1 mg OD, lorazepam 0.5 mg HS, aspirin 75 mg OD, and atorvastatin 20 mg HS. His cardiac enzyme markers were within normal range, but coronary angiogram revealed triple vessel coronary artery disease. Tablet aspirin was stopped, and injection heparin 5000 U QID intravenous (IV) and tablet phenoxybenzamine 10 mg QID were added. Other vital parameters and physical examinations were unremarkable. Echocardiography revealed hypokinetic basal inferior wall, trace mitral, and tricuspid regurgitation with 50% ejection fraction. After obtaining informed risk consent, surgery was planned 3 days after admission.
Tablet telmisartan was stopped 24 h before surgery. He was given tablet alprazolam 0.5 mg and pantoprazole 40 mg orally in the night before and on the morning of surgery. Patient (weight 56 kg) was premedicated with 1 mg injection (injection) midazolam and 50 microgram (mcg) fentanyl. A 16 G IV cannula, 20 G radial artery cannula, triple lumen central venous pressure (CVP), and pulmonary artery catheter were placed before induction. Before induction heart rate (HR) was 67/min, systemic BP was 151/84 mmHg, pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) was 22/9 mmHg, and CVP was 3 mmHg. Anesthesia was induced with 1000 mcg injection fentanyl, 2 mg injection midazolam, 100 mg injection thiopentone, and endotracheal intubation was facilitated with 50 mg injection rocuronium. During tracheal intubation, there was a transient rise in BP. Anesthesia was maintained with bolus of 2 mg of injection vecuronium and continuous infusion of injection fentanyl 2 mcg/kg/min, midazolam 0.3 mcg/kg/min, vecuronium 1 mcg/kg/min, and air and oxygen (3 L) with isoflurane 1%. One hour after induction and 30 min before grafting, CVP (0 mmHg) and PAP (21/6 mmHg) gradually decreased. Additional fluids were given to raise CVP to 3 mmHg and maintained at the same level. Mean arterial pressure (MAP) was ranging from 74 to 106 mmHg during this period and maintained with minimal inotropic support. Injection heparin was given before releasing distal end of the left internal mammary artery to achieve activated clotting time (ACT) >300 s. Off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB) grafting was possible with moderate inotropic support of injection adrenaline 0.6 mcg/kg/min and injection noradrenaline 0.6 mcg/kg/min. During this period, MAP was 70-75 mmHg and mean PAP was 15-18 mmHg. At the end of grafting, MAP was 78 mmHg and mean PAP was 14 mmHg. Injection protamine 300 mg IV was given over 15 min after test dose. 5 min after protamine was given BP gradually started to fall with rise in PAP, which was not responding to the inotropes and vasopressors. Right ventricle became distended and left ventricular contractility decreased. Injection adrenaline 1 + 1 mg was given IV stat, but there was no response. At mean BP 45 mmHg and mean PAP 29 mm of Hg, patient was connected to cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) with 4 L/min flows without cardioplegia on emergency basis after 3 min following IV injection of 225 mg of heparin. Intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) support was started after inserting IABP balloon (34 cc) through femoral arterial access and continued during CPB. Injection milrinone 0.375 mcg/kg/min was also started. CPB support was continued for 1 h, and it was possible to gradually wean off from CPB over next half an hour. No protamine was given for reversal of heparin. Adequate fluids and blood components were given. Coagulation monitoring was guided by ACT and thromboelastography. In immediate postoperative period mean BP was 76 mmHg, mean PAP 18 mmHg cardiac output 4.90 L/min, cardiac index 3.20 L/min/m 2 , stroke volume 46.7 ml/beat, and systemic vascular resistance 979 dynes-s/cm 5 . In first 10 h, there was 800 ml blood in mediastinal and pleural drains. Trachea was extubated after 16 h from transfer in CTVS Intensive Care Unit. Inotropic support was gradually tapered, and IABP balloon was removed on the 2 nd postoperative day (POD). Tablet metoprolol 25 mg BD and tablet diltiazem 30 mg TDS were started to maintain patency for radial artery graft. On the 3 rd POD, mean BP was consistently between 110 and 125 mmHg. Tablet phenoxybenzamine 10 mg TDS was added. Patient was mobilized on the 4 th POD.
Anesthetic management of surgery with undiagnosed pheochromocytoma can be a nightmare because precipitated hypertensive crisis can lead to myocardial infarction, arrhythmia, heart failure, and/or cerebrovascular hemorrhage. High index of suspicion in uncontrolled and resistant hypertension is needed to diagnose pheochromocytoma. In a diagnosed patient, preoperative control of BP is usually achieved with alpha blockade by phenoxybenzamine and beta blockers can be added if required to control HR and arrhythmia but should be started only after adequate alpha blockade is achieved. [2]
CPB can precipitate hypertensive crisis and tachyarrhythmias in these patients. OPCAB has been reported with the advantage of avoiding these complications in these patients. [1]
Systemic hypotension and pulmonary hypertension during 30 min after administration of IV protamine for reversal of heparin anticoagulation has been shown to be associated with adverse events and even mortality in CABG surgery. [3] Neutral Protamine Hagedorn (NPH) insulin use, fish allergy, and a history of nonprotamine medication allergy are independent risk factors for adverse events after CPB on the administration of protamine. [4]
Management of this patient was proceeding as planned until protamine was administered. This reported case of OPCAB with pheochromocytoma who had life-threatening protamine allergic reaction was managed successfully with CPB, IABP, and pharmacological support.
Roy A, Sinha A, Scholar M, Macleod K, Glenville B. Coronary artery bypass grafting without cardiopulmonary bypass in pheochromocytoma. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000;120:826-8.
Myklejord DJ. Undiagnosed pheochromocytoma: The anesthesiologist nightmare. Clin Med Res 2004;2:59-62.
Kimmel SE, Sekeres M, Berlin JA, Ellison N. Mortality and adverse events after protamine administration in patients undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass. Anesth Analg 2002;94:1402-8.
Kimmel SE, Sekeres MA, Berlin JA, Ellison N, DiSesa VJ, Strom BL. Risk factors for clinically important adverse events after protamine administration following cardiopulmonary bypass. J Am Coll Cardiol 1998;32:1916-22.
Ashish Saraogi
Department of Anaesthesiology, NIMS Medical College and Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan
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UK Birmingham
Memorial for hit-and-run victims, clean-up, reax to rioting
Story No.: 700786
Duration:00:03:09:06
Source: AP TELEVISION
Dateline: Birmingham - 11 Aug 2011
Date: 08/11/2011 01:30 PM
1. Mid of man placing flowers at makeshift memorial outside petrol station on Dudley Road where incident occurred in which three young men died
2. Close-up of man kneeling down and putting card into place
3. Close-up of man weeping while sitting in front of the petrol station
4. SOUNDBITE (English) David (no last name given), Birmingham resident:
"I think at this particular time, as Tariq (Jahan, father of 21-year-old Haroon Jahan) said yesterday, we are all part of the same community, black, white, Asian, Jew, Muslim, whatever. We are all part of the same city. We are all Brummies."
5. Close-up of card he wrote pinned to flowers reading (English) "We never met but we could have been best friends"
6. Close up of flowers with condolence cards
7. Tabloid newspaper front pages with photo and quotes from Tariq Jahan, father of 21-year-old Haroon Jahan who was killed, reading (English) "Why are we killing each other?" and "Don''t seek revenge for my son"
8. Various of Tariq Jahan in front of his home speaking to friends and well wishers on condolence visits
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tariq Jahan, father of 21-year-old Haroon Jahan, killed in hit-and-run incident:
"If there is anything I can do to stop the situation from getting any worse, yeah, but I''m not aware of what''s happened (following his appeal on Wednesday). If the people are listening then please for god''s sake give it up. Stop this rioting and looting for no reason. I have said this a hundred times, you are not achieving anything, you know. People are losing their livelihoods, their homes. I have lost my family."
10. Jahan talking to friends, being photographed
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tariq Jahan, father of 21-year-old Haroon Jahan, killed in hit-and-run incident:
"If you value your children, keep them at home, keep them off of the streets, to parents, and to the kids, if you are listening to a grey bearded old fellow that you have no respect for, then try and understand this: when you are my age, you will look back at your lives and think how stupid you were. Thank you very much."
12. Wide zoom in to Jahan walking away with arm around a man paying a condolence call
13. Mid of Jahan and same man walking with arms around each other
14. Wide of Asian-owned grocery shop across the street from the petrol station where fatal incident occurred
15. Mid of grocer''s son working outside
16. Two men talking in front of the shop
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Danny Kahn, grocer''s son:
"Most of the shops on this road closed early on that day when, they were supposed to have, the lads were coming down, and now as you can see all of the shops are back open on the road and traffic is passing through and hopefully it will get back to normal today."
18. Women in headscarves walking by the petrol station memorial site
19. Flowers at makeshift memorial site, people walking past
20. Man putting flowers on lamp post in front of petrol station
21. Close-up of flowers with message on card reading (English) "RIP boys"
Outside a Birmingham petrol station where three young Asian men were killed during rioting in the early hours of Wednesday, a makeshift memorial of flowers and messages is growing.
Witnesses say a carload of rioters sped into a fleeing crowd of locals who had been trying to defend their shops from looters, hurling three young men into the air.
Amateur boxer Haroon Jahan, 21, and brothers Shazzad Ali, 30, and Abdul Musavir, 31 were all killed.
Their deaths have laid bare racial tensions underlying this week''s riots in Birmingham, Britain''s second-largest city and its most ethnically diverse.
One of the people leaving flowers at the memorial on Dudley Road said he hoped people would ignore their differences and come together as a community.
"We are all part of the same city. We are all Brummies," said David, who did not want to give his last name.
A fifth of the city''s one (m) million residents, or "Brummies" as they are known, are Muslims, most commonly of Pakistani origin.
About seven percent are black, mostly Caribbean, in background.
Many residents of Dudley Road and its surrounding Winson Green district said the attackers were black and accused them of deliberately targeting Muslim shops.
Haroon Jahan''s father, Tariq Jahan, appealed on Wednesday for the South Asian community not to seek revenge against the car''s occupants.
On Thursday, he repeated his message and called for an end to looting and rioting.
"I have said this a hundred times, you are not achieving anything, you know. People are losing their livelihoods, their homes. I have lost my family," he said.
Jahan was at his home on Thursday, receiving condolence visits from friends and wellwishers.
Elsewhere on Dudley Road, life appeared to be returning to normal.
Grocer''s son, Danny Kahn, said all the shops had closed early on Tuesday ahead of the riots, but most were now back open.
The commander of the 60-strong police team hunting the killers said on Thursday that they had already arrested the suspected driver and 11 others potentially linked to the shop attacks on Dudley Road.
But many members of the local community have accused police of not doing enough to prevent the killings in the first place.
With police nowhere to be seen on Tuesday night, the residents of Dudley Road say they were forced to arm themselves with bricks and stones, clubs and cricket bats to fend off the gangs.
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BRICS Film Festival starts tomorrow with the screening of Kunal Kapoor's Veeram
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Sep 1, 2016, New Delhi: The grand opening ceremony of the much awaited first BRICS Film Festival will be held today at the Siri Fort Auditorium. A step towards strengthening bilateral relationship between the 5 nations, this cultural extravaganza will be attended by various dignitaries, members of states, jury and celebrities.
Building Responsive, Inclusive & Collective Solutions or BRICS is a merger of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, where these 5 nations have come together to enhance bilateral and friendly relations. In the BRICS Summit 2015 held in Russia, Honorable Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi introduced the BRICS Film Festival, an addition to the yearly summits that would connect masses through the exchange of culture and art. Taking the idea forward, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and Directorate of Film Festivals have organized the first ever BRICS Film Festival. A 5 day cultural gala (2-6th September), this event will showcase art, diversity, cuisines and films of the member countries. One can explore exclusive cuisines from all the BRICS nations at the Food Court, arranged in the festival venue. A Craft Fair is also being organized at the Sirifort auditorium complex with all member countries putting up stalls with souvenirs and other properties for sale.
Starting on September 2, the opening ceremony will be adorned by performances from cultural troupes of the 5 member nations, reflecting the rich art forms and dances. The audience will witness the opening ceremony starting with the lighting of lamp by the respected personalities present, followed by performances by Beleza Pura from Brazil, Theatre Leningrad Centre Dreams of Russia and felicitation of veteran actor Shri Rishi Kapoor for the contribution of his father, late Shree Raj Kapoor, in Indo-Russian Relations. The gala will continue to woo the audience through extravagant performances by Chengdu Performing Arts Theatre of China, MBZ Music Production of South Africa and cultural showcase by a group from Centre for Indian Classical Dances, founded by world renowned classical dancer Dr. Sonal Mansingh.
One of the main attractions of this glorious evening would be the world premiere of magnum opus period film ‘Veeram’, a creation of well-known director Shree Jayaraj, based on Shakespeare’s novel ‘Macbeth’. The cast and crew of the movie, Mr. Jayaraj (Director), Mr. Kunal Kapoor (Actor), Ms. Divinaa Thackur (Actress) and Mr. Chandramohan D Pillai (Producer) will be present at the event and will be felicitated by HMoS, MEA and HMoS, I&B. With a brief introduction of the film delivered by the cast and crew, the screening of Veeram will begin.
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Salman Khan and SRK in a still from Rakesh Roshan's Karan Arjun
On Tuesday evening a new precedent was set on twitter. It involved two of India’s biggest superstars and two of the most talented actresses in the country. It all started with Salman ‘Sultan’ Khan making a commitment that he would tweet at 7 PM.
Soon, Alia Bhatt made a similar commitment.
Soon after Salman drop the bomb by announcing the release date of SRK's highly anticipated film, directed by Imtiaz Ali and co-starring Anushka Sharma.
And Alia followed the suit.
Finally, it caught Anushka's attention and tried to solicit a response from Shah Rukh Khan who obliged.
It appears that SRK was perplexed to learn about the release date of his film on twitter, especially when the title of the film has yet to be finalized. Anushka soon shot back another tweet to King Khan.
It was then that SRK finally came to terms with the gravity of the situation. Here is what he wrote after finally realizing that the date was first announced by Salman himself:
Yes, you read it right. The yet-to-be-titled Imtiaz Ali film is set to release on the 11th of August. Soon afterwards, both SRK and Anushka thanked both Salman and Alia.
It is goosebumps galore when Shah Rukh Khan quotes Rumi: "What you are seeking is seeking you." Now that the appointment is made, the title remains the final part of the puzzle that must be solved. And it looks like Karan Johar and Alia are the closest contenders.
But, SRK and Anushka are yet to make up their minds.
As good as their suggestions may be, SRK and Anushka are still out shopping. May one of you can offer them with a better deal. Who knows? So what are you waiting for... hurry up!
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Here is how SRK honored Salman Khan's commitment! Reviewed by Murtaza Ali Khan on 2:28:00 AM Rating: 5
Abhijit Ray December 1, 2016 at 10:31 AM
I like both Khans. In fact all three of them. It feels good when they get along.
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