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OvaFlo promoters donate stove to Pell River Primary
MONTEGO BAY, St James – Promoters of OvaFlo, Elvis Haughton and Denzel “Fada” Scott, have over the years packed countless party venues in Negril and Hanover with partygoers in safe, harmonious environments.
In recent times the event has taken on added significance with the duo's resolve to help solve some of the many problems facing primary and basic schools in the parish of Hanover through their charitable donations directly from proceeds of the annual event.
Since establishing the Elvis Haughton Charity Foundation three years ago, the duo has funded projects at the Harding Primary School, ABC Learning Centre and Green Island Primary School, all in Hanover, which have benefited hundreds of students.
And this year, despite the inclement weather, which impacted negatively on the staging of OvaFlo in October, the promoters made good on their promise and donated a stove valued at almost $300,000 to the Pell River Primary School in Hanover.
The stove on which the students' meals were prepared on a daily basis was in a deplorable and hazardous state.
Recently, Principal Opal Allen-Delisser was invited to join Scott and Elvis at the Montego Bay branch of Appliance Traders Ltd in Montego Bay, where a brand new industrial stove was handed over to her.
“I am lost for words,” said an elated Delisser, as she expressed gratitude for the donation.
“It's all about giving back to the community, it's about love, about our children's future. Despite all that is said about partygoers and party promoters, Scott and I care enough to try and make a difference,” said Haughton.
— Mark Cummings
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Too Black to be French
In this documentary film, Isabelle Boni-Claverie explores the role of race and the persistence of racism in France, as well as the impact of the French colonial past. Through an exploration of her personal family history, and interviews with historians and academics, TOO BLACK TO BE FRENCH peels back the layers of race relations in supposedly institutionally colorblind France. Boni-Claverie, a French-Ivorian, who grew up in upper class French society, unpacks how socio-economic privilege doesn’t mean protection from racial discrimination. Boni-Claverie solicits anonymous individuals to speak on their daily experiences with race, class, discrimination and micro-aggressions. TOO BLACK TO BE FRENCH also features interviews with acclaimed sociologists and historians including Pap Ndiaye, Eric Fassin, Achille Mbembe, and Patrick Simon to help contextualize racial history in France. Boni-Claverie’s film starts an urgent discussion on French society's inequalities and discrimination.
Mrs. Goundo's Daughter
Mrs. Goundo is fighting to remain in the United States. But it’s not just because of the ethnic conflict and drought that has plagued her native Mali. Threatened with deportation, her two-year-old daughter could be forced to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM), like 85 percent of women and girls in Mali. Using rarely cited grounds for political asylum, Goundo must convince an immigration judge that her daughter is in danger. Sensitive and moving, this important film reveals how women are profoundly affected by the legal struggles surrounding immigration. As issues of asylum, international law and human rights collide with FGM and its devastating health consequences, filmmakers Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater travel between an FGM ceremony in a Malian village, where dozens of girls are involved, to the West African expatriate community of Philadelphia, where Mrs. Goundo challenges beliefs and battles the American legal system for her child’s future.
Chisholm '72 - Unbought and Unbossed
This compelling documentary takes an in-depth look at the 1972 presidential campaign of Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress and the first to seek nomination for the highest office in the land.
What My Mother Told Me
Exquisitely beautiful and profoundly moving, WHAT MY MOTHER TOLD ME is a dramatic journey towards self discovery. The story focuses on Jesse, a young woman from England, who goes to Trinidad to bury her father. Reluctantly she agrees to meet her mother, whom she thought had abandoned her when she was a child. Her mother tells her stories, revealing a troubled and violent marriage, and Jesse is forced to face the truth about her past. WHAT MY MOTHER TOLD ME cleverly evokes complex connections between history, memory, violence and cultural identity.
A bittersweet drama that unfolds almost without dialogue, this prizewinning short film from Sankofa Film and Video conveys the isolation of immigrant women’s experiences. Miriam lives with her children in a cramped and dreary house near the airport where she works. The planes coming and going overhead remind her of how far removed she is from her rural African roots. Eventually Miriam constructs a beautiful mud hut in her garden, a magical space which takes her away from the loneliness crowding her suburban existence. Although her neighbors are intolerant, her daughter Fumi learns something about the African side of herself.
This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals the profound effects of body image and the strain of racial and sexual identity on their charged, intensely loving bond. At the heart of Onwurah’s brave excursion into her mother’s scorned sexuality is a provocative interweaving of memory and fantasy. The filmmaker plumbs the depths of maternal strength and daughterly devotion in an unforgettable tribute starring her real-life mother, Madge Onwurah.
I Is a Long-Memoried Woman
This extraordinary film chronicles the history of slavery through the eyes of Caribbean women. A striking combination of monologue, dance, and song—griot-style—conveys a young African woman’s quest for survival in the new world. Based on award-winning poems by Guyanese British writer Grace Nichols, the evocatively rendered story charts abusive conditions on sugar plantations, acts of defiance and the rebellion which led to eventual freedom. Produced by a Black women’s collective, I IS A LONG-MEMORIED WOMAN illuminates Black diasporic culture and heritage.
Perfect Image?
Bright and imaginative in its approach to its subject, PERFECT IMAGE? exposes stereotypical images of Black women and explores women's own ideas of self worth. Using two actresses who constantly change their personae, the film poses questions about how Black women see themselves and each other and the pitfalls that await those who internalize the search for the "perfect image"!
Coffee Colored Children
This lyrical, unsettling film conveys the experience of children of mixed racial heritage. Suffering the aggression of racial harassment, a young girl and her brother attempt to wash their skin white with scouring powder. Starkly emotional and visually compelling, this semi-autobiographical testimony to the profound internalized effects of racism and the struggle for self-definition and pride is a powerful catalyst for discussion.
Dreaming Rivers
From Sankofa Film and Video comes this bittersweet and nostalgic short drama illustrating the spirit of modern families touched by the experience of migration. Miss T., from the Caribbean, lives alone in her one-room apartment, her children and husband having left her to pursue new dreams. When she dies her family and friends gather at her wake. The tapestry of words that interweave the drama convey the fragments of a life lived, but only partly remembered.
Common themes of identity, alienation and herstory in the context of the diasporan experience emerge in this powerful film. Four Black and Third World women artists, among them African American feminist poet Audre Lorde and Palestinian performance artist Mona Hatoum, speak forcefully through their art and writing.
The Passion of Remembrance
The first film by Sankofa Film and Video, THE PASSION OF REMEMBRANCE has gained classic status as a representation of the totality and diversity of Black experience. Within a dramatic framework the film gives a mosaic impression of the different dimensions of Black experience lived and imagined by a generation of filmmakers in the UK. As beautiful as it is eloquent, THE PASSION OF REMEMBRANCE is critical viewing for those interested in race, gender, history and cinema studies.
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The Fourth Political Theory
beyond left and right but against the center
4P Theory
Against Liberalism
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Tradition and Philosophy in Modern Times
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Almost a century has passed since Guénon began to write his criticism of modernism and modern Western civilization. Since then the epidemic of modernism has spread much more globally and affected much more deeply than then the great non-Western civilizations such as the Islamic, Hindu and Far Eastern. Your question, therefore, can be asked about all civilizations and not only the West. Nevertheless, tradition has been better preserved in those civilizations than in the West where modernism was born and grew before it spread elsewhere. This is especially true of the intellectual and spiritual dimensions of these non-Western traditions with the help of which Guénon hoped a new traditional intellectual elite could be created in the West, something which in fact has taken place to some extent. As to whether Western civilization can avoid decay and destruction by returning to its traditional roots, such an event seems ever more unlikely on a civilizational scale, but return to tradition remains an accessible path for individuals in the West and many have chosen to pursue this path.
Guénon also spoke of the possibility of a “redressement” and who is to say that such an event is no longer possible no matter how unlikely it seems. As the Bible states, “With God all things are possible.” My own understanding is that a golden kernel is now forming while the petals of the “flower of civilization” are falling apart and that this kernel will serve as the seed for the next historical and cosmic cycle.
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Greece and Great Britain in the 1930s and 1940s A Couple of Revealing Documents
Dimitris Mihalopoulos
On October 28, 1940, Italy attacked Greece. We know now that Italian invasion was due not to Mussolini’s initiative but to Ciano’s one. For the latter was in contact with the British; and the British wished Greece to be involved into the Second WW in order to establish air bases on Greek territory and bombard the oil fields in Ploieşti, Romania.
Iōannēs Metaxas was by then Greece’s Prime Minister. He was a brilliant Engineers officer and a noted pro-German as well. On August 4, 1936, he managed to have an authoritarian system imposed on Greece – under his own leadership. Still Metaxas was dependent on King George II of the Hellenes. The Sovereign had expressed during the First WW the same pro-German sentiments as Metaxas. But his mind was changed in the 1930s: he had fully understood that Greece was run (and she keeps being run) by a supra-masonic government closely associated to Great Britain’s “deep state”.
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Eurasian cooperation
Gabor Vona
- Jobbik is a national conservative party which does not refrain from using radical means. So when they label us as radicals, they are wrong. Radicalism is not a principle, it is a method. The reason why we are radicals is because the situation is radical as well. At the moment, we Hungarians are sick passengers on a sinking European ship that has lost its values. This is unbearable. First we must get off the ship, then cure our diseases. Hungary was not admitted to the EU so that we could develop. The goal was to colonize us, to exploit our cheap labour and acquire our markets. Western companies and banks now try to maintain their systems by using the profit they pump out of our country in the East. And this is just the economic side of the problem. The EU did not bring any good in terms of the spiritual, mental side, either. After the anti-value approach of Communism, we are now living in the valuelessness of capitalism. I personally follow traditionalist principles, in other words, I believe that Europe should get back to its own roots and rearrange its relationship with other traditional cultures that only exist in the East now.
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Myths about Hyperborea
Boris Nad
Myths about Hyperborea, the land of forefathers in the Far North, about the country that lies "beyond the north wind", are very deeply embedded in the collective unconscious and mythology of almost all Indo-European nations (and, of course, not only of their). By itself, this fact has great importance. But, more important than the fact of their widespraeding is the question what is their meaning. If Hyperborean myths really have such an important role in the unconscious of the Indo-European peoples, they have this by their own significance, due to its interior facilties. Because, for us, a myth in not "false story", a superstition or a misunderstanding. Myth is timeless reality, which is, perhaps, "not never enact anywhere," but is constantly repeated in history and, indeed, in a reality that determined and defined it.
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Intellectual Terrorism
Tomislav Sunic
The modern thought police is hard to spot, as it often seeks cover under soothing words such as “democracy” and “human rights.” While each member state of the European Union likes to show off the beauties of its constitutional paragraph, seldom does it attempt to talk about the ambiguities of its criminal code. Last year, in June and November, the European Commission held poorly publicized meetings in Brussels and Strasbourg whose historical importance regarding the future of free speech could overshadow the recent launching of the new euro currency.
At issue is the enactment of the new European legislation whose objective is to counter the growing suspicion about the viability of the multiracial European Union. Following the events of September 11, and in the wake of occasionally veiled anti-Israeli comments in some American and European journals, the wish of the European Commission is to exercise maximum damage control, via maximum thought control.
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The Third Political Theory
Michael O'Meara
According to Dugin, National Socialist Germany and Fascist Italy were not just militarily, but ideologically defeated in the Second European Civil War (1939–45)—victims of “‘homicide’, or perhaps ‘suicide’.” Thereafter, these two national anti-liberal ideologies allegedly “overcome by history” ceased to address the great challenges facing European man. Then, with Communism’s fall in 1989/91, the second major anti-liberal “theory” opposing the Judeo-financial forces of Anglo-American liberalism collapsed. Today’s anti-liberal struggle, Dugin concludes, requires an ideology that has not “been destroyed and disappeared off the face of the earth.”
There is nothing in The Fourth Political Theory likely to please the Correctorate—which is, perhaps, reason for reading it. Nevertheless, Dugin’s effort to develop a compelling new “theory” appropriate to the global anti-system resistance must be judged (I’ll not be the first to say) a “failure”—an interesting failure, admittedly, but one also constituting a possible snare for the anti-system opposition, especially in its misleading treatment of 3PT and its implications for the anti-system resistance.
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A Note on Political Theology
The term political theology has, today in the West, a precise meaning: it signifies a group or a school of theologians who seek to explain the evangelical preaching of the salvation of humanity in categories offered by contemporary political theories, particularly those of the Marxist and neo-Marxist left.
This quest of political theology ranges from pure scientific research for a political interpretation of the texts of the Bible to the direct and active mobilization of theologians and clergy in radical socio-political movements. Behind each of the phases of this quest one can discern the classic problem of Western Christianity: the oscillation between the transcendent and the secular, between the abstract idealism of a conceptual metaphysics and the immediate affirmation and pursuit of material goods in life.
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The East and the West
North and South, at the same time, have a much greater significance. It is evident from the earliest times. Migration of peoples and races, sacred geography and toponymy, the role that this sides of the world have in the traditions and legends of diverse, but most of all in tradition of Indo-European people, all that very clearly confirmed this opinion. The importance of North-South axis, as is in our epoch, may be obscured, suppressed, but it does not become less real and less important. North-South axis remains vertical axis of history and sacred geography. In contrast, the East-West dualism only has a modest significance and meaning, therefore also raised later in the human history than the former axis (North against South). It, at best, belong to the history and its contingency; dualism North and South is a prehistoric or, rather, over-historical and meta-historical.
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The Legacy of a European Traditionalist Julius Evola in Perspective
Guido Stucco
To date, Evola’s work has been subjected to the silent treatment. When Evola is not ignored, he is usually vilified by leftist scholars and intellectuals, who demonize him as a bad teacher, racist, rabid anti-Semite, master mind of right-wing terrorism, fascist guru, or so filthy a racist even to touch him would be repugnant. The writer Martin Lee, whose knowledge of Evola is of the most superficial sort, called him a « Nazi philosopher » and claimed that « Evola helped compose Italy’s belated racialist laws toward the end of the Fascist rule » (4). Others have minimized his contribution altogether. Walter Laqueur, in his Fascism: Past, Present, Future, did not hesitate to call him a « learned charlatan, an eclecticist, not an innovator, » and suggested « there were elements of pure nonsense also in his later work. » (5) Umberto Eco sarcastically nicknamed Evola « Othelma, the Magician.»
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Interview with Gholamreza Avani
Interview of Alexandr Dugin with leading Iranian philosopher Gholamreza Avani
on Henri Corbin, Martin Heidegger, Sohravardi, ibn Sina.
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Ayatollah S. Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad on Molla Sadra Shirazi
Interview of Alexandr Dugin with leading Iranian philosopher Ayatollah S. Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad
on Molla Sadra Shirazi, shi'a, philosophy in general. Teheran 17.02.2013.
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Aleksadr Dugin: A Russian Version of the European Radical Right?
Marlene Laruelle
In studying contemporary Russian Eurasianism—both as a doctrine and as a political movement—one constantly comes across Aleksandr Dugin. One of the main reasons that he is relevant to any such study is the quasi-monopoly he exercises over a certain part of the current Russian ideological spectrum. This spectrum includes a plethora of right-wing groupuscules that produce an enormous number of books and an impressive quantity of low-circulation newspapers, but are not readily distinguishable from each other and display little theoretical consistency or sophistication. Dugin is the only major theoretician among this Russian radical right. He is simultaneously on the fringe and at the center of the Russian nationalist phenomenon. He provides theoretical inspiration to many currents and disseminates precepts that can be recycled at different levels. Above all he is striving to cover every niche on the current ideological marketplace. He proceeds from the assumption that Russian society and Russia’s political establishment are in search of a new ideology: he therefore owes it to himself to exercise his influence over all the ideological options and their possible formulations.
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Inleiding tot de idee Marc. Eemans
Piet Tommissen
Toen ik aanvaardde een essay te wijden aan het werk en het denken van de schilder, dichter en kunsthistoricus Marc. Eemans, heb ik me afgevraagd of het in mijn geval geoorloofd was te spreken van een zekere continuïteit in zijn geestelijke ontwikkeling. Langzaam maar zeker kwamen elementen en argumenten aan het licht om mijn overtuiging te staven dat die vraag positief macht beantwoord worden. Aldus is deze geschiedenis van de intellectuele en creatieve levensweg van Marc. Eemans ontstaan. Daarbij werd de klemtoon vooral op zijn denken en op zijn poëtisch oeuvre gelegd, vermits het illustratiemateriaal dat deze uitgave verrijkt, als een soort picturaal complement van mijn stelling kan beschouwd worden. Overigens bleven om voor de hand liggende redenen, biografische en andere gegevens buiten beschouwing.
Hopelijk vergeeft de lezer het me dat ik met hem wegen ga verkennen, die men normaliter in essays van het onderhavige genre links laat liggen. Maar op de eerste plaats is het zo dat ik geen kunsthistoricus ben en het derhalve als een punt van elementaire intellectuele eerlijkheid beschouw me onbevoegd te verklaren om een verantwoord waardeoordeel over het schilderkunstig werk van Marc. Eemans uit te spreken. En voorts is er het oude adagium « de gustibus et coloribus non disputandum », dat in de loop der tijden zijn geldigheid heeft behouden. Waarom de lezer dan ook willen beïnvloeden met een onvermijdelijk subjectieve analyse van de boodschap die de schilderijen van Marc. Eemans brengen?
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This article is a brief introduction to the life and central ideas of the controversial Italian thinker Julius Evola (1898-1974), one of the leading representatives of the European right and of the « Traditionalist movement » (1) in the twentieth century. This movement, together with the Theosophical Society, played a leading role in promoting the study of ancient eastern wisdom, esoteric doctrines, and spirituality. Unlike the Theosophical Society, which championed democratic and egalitarian views, (2) an optimistic view of progress, and a belief in spiritual evolution, the Traditionalist movement adopted an elitist and antiegalitarian stance, a pessimistic view of ordinary life and of history, and an uncompromising rejection of the modern world. The Traditionalist movement began with René Guénon (1886-1951), a French philosopher and mathematician who converted to Islam and moved to Cairo in 1931, following the death of his first wife. Guénon revived interest in the concept of Tradition, i.e., the teachings and doctrines of ancient civilizations and religions, emphasizing its perennial value over and against the « modern world » and its offshoots: humanistic individualism, relativism, materialism, and scientism. Other important Traditionalists of the past century have included Ananda Coomaraswamy, Frithjof Schuon, and Julius Evola.
MANIFESTO of the French New Right
Metapolitics is not politics by other means. It is neither a "strategy" to impose intellectual hegemony, nor an attempt to discredit other possible attitudes or agendas. It rests solely on the premise that ideas play a fundamental role in collective consciousness and, more generally, in human history. Through their works, Heraclitus, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, René Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Adam Smith, and Karl Marx all triggered decisive revolutions, whose impact is still being felt today. History is a result of human will and action, but always within the framework of convictions, beliefs and representations which provide meaning and direction. The goal of the French New Right is to contribute to the renewal of these sociohistorical representations.
Even more now, this metapolitical impulse is based on a reflection about the evolution of Western societies in view of the coming 21st century. On the one hand, there is the growing impotence of political parties, unions, governments, classical forms of conquest and the exercise of political power, and, on the other, the rapid obsolescence of all antitheses (first and foremost, Left and Right) that have characterized modernity. Moreover, there is an unprecedented explosion of knowledge, which spreads with little regard for its consequences. In a world where closed entities have given way to interconnected networks with increasingly fuzzy reference points, metapolitical action attempts, beyond political divisions and through a new synthesis, to renew a transversal mode of thought and, ultimately, to study all areas of knowledge in order to propose a coherent worldview. Such has been the aim for over thirty years.
This manifesto summarizes all of this. The first part (Predicaments) provides a critical analysis of the present; the second part (Foundations) outlines a view concerning man and the world. Both are inspired by a multidisciplinary approach that challenges most of today’s intellectual antitheses. Tribalism and globalism, nationalism and internationalism, liberalism and Marxism, individualism and collectivism, progressivism and conservatism oppose each other with the same complacent logic of the excluded middle. For a century, these artificial oppositions have occluded what is most essential: the sheer size of a crisis that demands a radical renewal of modes of thought, decision and action. It is thus futile to seek this radical renewal in what has already been written. Yet, the French New Right has borrowed ideas from various theoretical sources. It has not hesitated to reappropriate what seems valuable in all currents of thought. This transverse approach has provoked the ire of the guardians of thought, concerned with freezing ideological orthodoxies in order the paralyze any new threatening synthesis.
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The Greater Europe Project
Present-day Europe has its own strategic interests that differ substantially with American interests or with the approach of the Global West project. Europe has its particular positive attitude towards its southern and eastern neighbours. In some cases economic profit, the energy supply issues and common defence initiative don’t coincide at all with American ones.
These general considerations lead us, European intellectuals deeply concerned by the fate of our cultural and historical Motherland, Europe, to the conclusion that we badly need an alternative future world vision where the place, the role and the mission of Europe and European civilisation would be different, greater, better and safer than it is within the frame of the Global Empire project with too evident imperialistic features.
The only feasible alternative in present circumstances is to found in the context of a multi-polar world. Multi-polarity can grant to any country and civilisation on the planet the right and the freedom to develop its own potential, to organise its own internal reality in accordance with the specific identity of its culture and people, to propose a reliable basis of just and balanced international relations amongst the world’s nations. Multi-polarity should be based on the principle of equity among the different kinds of political, social and economic organisations of these nations and states. Technological progress and a growing openness of countries should promote dialogue amongst, and the prosperity of, all peoples and nations. But at the same time it shouldn’t endanger their respective identities. Differences between civilisations do not have to necessarily culminate in an inevitable clash between them – in contrast to the simplistic logic of some American writers. Dialogue, or rather ‘polylogue’, is a realistic and feasible possibility that we should all exploit in this regard.
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Aboriginal languages
The Aboriginal tribe or language group areas located around Canberra and the ACT. [00-360]
Location of Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India) in relation to surrounding countries. [00-353]
Andhra Pradesh and Telangana States
On 2 June 2014, Andhra Pradesh state was divided into two to form a new state of Telangara. This map shows the districts and capitals of both Telangara and Andhra Pradesh. [00-390]
Arnhem Land and the surrounding National Parks and Sanctuaries along with main roads, rivers and towns. [00-261]
Arnhem Land and Kakadu National Park showing main roads, rivers, selected place names and elevation. [09-047c]
Arnhem Land Plateau
The western area of Arnhem Land showing the Arnhem Land Plateau, Kakadu National Park, Alligator Rivers Region and aboriginal languages of the area. [00-162]
Map of Ashmore Reef including the three islets. [06-001a]
Australia showing state borders, elevation, lakes and major rivers. [10-025a]
Australia in colour showing state borders, elevation, main deserts, lakes and rivers. [09-074]
Australian Territories
Eight of the ten Australian Federal Territories - The Australian Capital Territory (ACT), the Northern Territory and Jervis Bay are all mainland territories; Ashmore and Cartiers Islands, Norfolk Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Christmas Island and Co
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Major Southern Australian basin and blocks (cratons) highlighting the Murray-Darling basin. [00-147]
Climate Zones of Australia and the location of Barrow Island in relation to the Sahul Shelf.
Bonaparte Archipelago and nearby islands and reefs.
Islands and reefs off the northwest coast of Australia, north of Broome and Derby. [00-370]
Brahmaputra River in India
The upper regions of the Brahmaputra River showing origins in the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet and Dihang River in India. Also showning the location of Hydro project dams in northern India. [15-295c]
The territory of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, a territory of Australia in the Indian Ocean. [00-138]
Derby Coast, Northwest Australia
Western Australia coast from Derby, King Sound north to Bonaparte Archipelago. [06-026]
Easter Island base
Easter Island showing main roads, settlements, international airport and high peaks - 2012. [12-208]
Fishing areas off King Sound, WA.
Australian Fisheries Surveillance Enforcement Line showing the area from Ashmore Reef to Scott Reef where traditional Indonesian fishermen are permitted to fish.
Country: Australia , Indonesia
The location of King Island and the Furneaux Group off the northeast tip of Tasmania with an inset showing the islands of the Furneaux Group.
The 5 main island groups of French Polynesia - Society Islands (Leeward and Windward Islands), Tuamotu Archipelago, Gambier Islands, Marquesas Islands and Austral Islands.
Country: French Polynesia
French Polynesia islands highlighting Tahiti - 2012.
French Polynesia showing island names and capital city - 2012.
Furneaux Group, Bass Strait
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Someone Saved My Life Tonight
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Mumford is Marcus Mumford, and the Sons are Ben Lovett, Ted Dwane and Country Winston, and no, this is not a Dickens novel. It's a London-based band comprised of four friends with a love of things like bluegrass, folk, indie rock, frayed sweaters, pints in the afternoon, group vocals, house cats, too much coffee, gray days, antiques shops and anything else that sounds heartrending and uppity -- or at least that's the impression their debut album, Sigh No More, leaves you with. Formed in late 2007, the band made quick work of the U.K. club scene, traversing the country with its initial clutch of rickety, earnest tunes, peppering the landscape with singles and EPs. The Sons then entered the studio with Markus Dravs, producer of Bjork and Arcade Fire, and laid down the 12 tracks that make up Sign No More. Bubbling over with horns, mandolin, banjo, double bass and other instruments, the record is a fiery assortment of careening, melancholy tunes that evokes everyone from Frightened Rabbit to David Gray to Richard and Linda Thompson. Not surprisingly, the album roused critics and attracted new fans, and our sun-deprived heroes proceeded to tour the world in support of it. Bebop Digital
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Indé/Alternatif
Mumford is Marcus Mumford, and the Sons are Ben Lovett, Ted Dwane and Country Winston, and no, this is not a Dickens novel. It's a London-based band comprised of four friends with a love of things like bluegrass, folk, indie rock, frayed sweaters, pints in the afternoon, group vocals, house cats, too much coffee, gray days, antiques shops and anything else that sounds heartrending and uppity -- or at least that's the impression their debut album, Sigh No More, leaves you with. Formed in late 2007, the band made quick work of the U.K. club scene, traversing the country with its initial clutch of rickety, earnest tunes, peppering the landscape with singles and EPs. The Sons then entered the studio with Markus Dravs, producer of Bjork and Arcade Fire, and laid down the 12 tracks that make up Sign No More. Bubbling over with horns, mandolin, banjo, double bass and other instruments, the record is a fiery assortment of careening, melancholy tunes that evokes everyone from Frightened Rabbit to David Gray to Richard and Linda Thompson. Not surprisingly, the album roused critics and attracted new fans, and our sun-deprived heroes proceeded to tour the world in support of it.
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Softball hosts Fontbonne, Brandeis; Celebrates Senior Day
BEAR HEADLINES – Washington University in St. Louis continues its 12-game homestand by hosting six games this week. The Bears battle Fontbonne University in the Wydown Showdown on Tuesday, April 18, followed by a four-game series with Brandeis University on Friday-Saturday, April 21-22.
SERIES HISTORY – WashU leads the all-time series with Fontbonne 25-14, but the Griffins have won the last three meetings. The Bears lead the all-time series with Brandeis 27-7, and the Bears have won five-straight games between the two teams.
CLASS OF 2017 – The senior class (Kenzie James, Hannah Mehrle, Halle Steinberg, Janet Taylor) has helped guide the Bears to a 115-53 (.685) overall record with three NCAA Tournament appearances and the 2014 and 2015 University Athletic Association (UAA) Championship.
WALK IT OUT – Senior Janet Taylor was issued four walks during the Case Western Reserve series a week ago to set the WashU all-time mark with 68. Taylor ranks 16th in NCAA Division III active players in bases on balls.
STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE – WashU ranks second out of 415 teams in NCAA Division III in toughest schedule. The Bears past opposition has a .668 winning percentage (259-129).
LIVE COVERAGE – All 16 home games will be broadcast live at no cost on the Bear Sports Network. Jay Murry will provide play-by-play. Live stats will also be available on the WashU Athletics website.
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Resolutions of the 27th General Assembly (2011)
1. To increase membership dues by 3% each year, for the years 2012, 2013 and 2014 and to introduce a regular annual inflationary increase from then on based on an international inflation indicator.
2. The Statutes will be revised to permit a further two Vice Presidents at Large to be elected so that there are a total of five Vice Presidents at Large.
3. To amend By-Law IIB on Terms on Office. (Full resolution)
4. That IUPAP endorses the global project to work through UNESCO to request a United Nations proclamation of an International Year of Light in 2015. (Full resolution)
5. The General Assembly approves the Executive Council’s recommendations on the review of the structure of commissions and agrees to delegate powers to the Executive Council to approve changes of commission names and mandates that arise from working groups on this review. (Full resolution)
6. IUPAP fully endorses the proposal to establish an International Year of Crystallography in 2013.
7. IUPAP endorses the revision to the IUPAP statement on the Universality of Science to include opposition to discrimination on the grounds of disability, gender identity, sex or sexual orientation. (Full resolution)
8. The General Assembly notes with approval the decision taken by the Executive Council to re-establish the Working Group on Energy.
9. That IUPAP will appoint a gender champion from the Executive Council. A Vice President will act as gender champion. The chair, or other representative, of the Women in Physics Group is requested to liaise with the Gender Champion.
10. IUPAP resolves to support the International Association of Physics Students. (Full resolution)
11. The IUPAP General Assembly formally accepts the following names and
symbols:
Element 110 darmstadtium, symbol Ds
Element 111 roentgenium, symbol Rg
Element 112 copernicium, symbol Cn
12. IUPAP will adopt the resolution on women in physics. (Full resolution)
13. IUPAP strongly endorses the principles and practices of peer review and recognises that peer review is an essential part of the scientific endeavour.
14. That the resolution continuing IUPAP’s support for SESAME be adopted. (Full resolution)
15. That the proposed slate of candidates for commission members and officers be adopted.
16. That the proposed slate of Executive Council members be adopted.
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March 30 – At the gym in Los Angeles
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March 29 – Heads to the Studio in Los Angeles
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Ariel Winter Flashes Derriere and Strips for Bubble Bath in ‘The Last Movie Star’
Wow! Ariel Winter, 20, is definitely bidding farewell to her child-star status with her steamy acting gig in the upcoming drama The Last Movie Star! A scene from the film have surfaced showing the stunner rocking fiery red locks and tattoos as she climbs out of bed in a lacy thong — naturally showing off her jaw-dropping booty! In another scene, she apparently takes it all off for a candle-lit bubble bath! So hot!
But the fun doesn’t end there! Before getting out of bed, she has a sexy moment with her hunky tatted-up co-star! She plays Lili McFougal in the project, a wild Nashville local charged with driving an aging film star around (played by none other than Burt Reynolds) as he’s honored at a small film festival. Ariel’s wild look definitely proves she’s ready to take on meatier adult roles!
This new clip arrives just days after Ariel announced to fans that she is going to take a break from college in order to continue working as an actress:
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March 24 – Leaves the gym with Levi Meaden and her personal coach in Los Angeles
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March 23 – Learning young actors at Gray Studios in Los Angeles
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Ariel Winter Reveals She’s Taking Time Off From College After Less Than 1 Year: I Want ‘More Of A Life’
Posted on March 24, 2018 March 24, 2018 Written by Victoria
Ariel Winter is taking a break from college.
The 20-year-old actress started studying political science at UCLA last year – after previously deferring for a year – but she is taking time off to “pursue” her acting career.
She said: “I do love UCLA, but at the moment I’m taking a break from it so I can continue to pursue my career and also try to have a little bit more of a life because I’ve been so busy.”
“That’s really it at the moment. But I think education’s really important. I love being there. I love learning. I will continue to keep learning and I just wanted to take a break to focus on myself and square some things with myself.”
Ariel – who portrays Alex Dunphy in the comedy series – is hoping to broaden her horizons by appearing in further films.
She said: “I would hope to do more movies. Really anything that comes my way that speaks to me or feels rights, something, a new character I haven’t done before. I’m pretty open. I like doing different things. I like trying things, so for me, it’s really whatever happens.”
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March 22 – Los Angeles premiere of ‘The Last Movie Star’ at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood
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Audio Interview for ‘Paper’ Magazine
Ariel Winter Taught Burt Reynolds How to Take a Selfie:
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Ariel Winter’s “Last Movie Star” Role Spotlights Mental Illness:
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Ariel Winter’s Boyfriend Levi Meaden Reveals What’s Changed Since Living Together
Ariel Winter and boyfriend Levi Meaden have been dating for more than a year and appear stronger than ever.
ET spoke with Meaden at the Pacific Rim: Uprising premiere in Los Angeles on Wednesday, where he talked about his new sci-fi film as well as his relationship with Winter. The two live together, and Meaden says “nothing” has changed when it comes to their dynamic.
“Less fear, I guess. That’s the only thing,” he tells ET’s Courtney Tezeno. “We’re happier than ever. We’ve got three dogs, we adopted a bunny, there might be another one on the way. I guess, more animals. That’s what’s changed. There was two dogs to begin with, now we got another dog and a rabbit. So, in a year maybe, I don’t know, a whole farm?”
Meaden, 30, even had a hard time coming up with a pet peeve when it comes to 20-year-old Winter.
“I mean, the pet peeves I kinda love,” he explains. “She doesn’t really know movies, which is amazing, because she’s been in movies for so long, but she doesn’t — she never watched them! So, it’s not really a pet peeve as much as it’s something I really enjoy, because I get to show her all these old films. Probably a pet peeve of hers, because then I go into all the trivia and explain the history of the movie until she’s like, ‘Shut up, Levi!'”
Winter, looking stunning in a striking red dress and heels, attended the premiere to support her beau. Meaden, who said Winter visited him in Australia and China while shooting the film, explained the meaningful tattoos they have for one another. The actor showed off the ink on his finger of a jar reading “PB,” which stands for peanut butter, his nickname for Winter.
“Well, I’m not sure how it came about, but she has ‘Cheese’ on her finger and she says, ‘It’s a messed-up sandwich that works,'” Meaden shares. “Peanut butter and cheese! Now, everyone thinks it doesn’t, but if you try it — depending on the cheese — it’s really good.”
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March 21 – Universal’s ‘Pacific Rim Uprising’ premiere at TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX in Hollywood
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Revitalise the Reformation
Today, Cardinal Keith O'Brien has his army of priests read out the following message against inclusive marriage.
A Message for Marriage Sunday
from The Bishops’ Conference of Scotland
In all things, we as Catholics look to Jesus Christ as our model and teacher. When asked about marriage He gave a profound and rich reply: “Have you not read that the Creator, from the beginning, ‘made them male and female’, and said: ‘This is why a man must leave father and mother and cling to his wife and the two become one body’.” (Matthew, 19: 4-5)
In the Year of Faith, which begins this October, we wish to place a special emphasis on the role of the family founded on marriage. The family is the domestic Church, and the first place in which the faith is transmitted. For that reason it must have a primary focus in our prayerful considerations during this period of grace.
We write to you having already expressed our deep disappointment that the Scottish Government has decided to redefine marriage and legislate for same-sex marriage. We take this opportunity to thank you for your past support in defense of marriage and hope you will continue to act against efforts to redefine it. We reaffirm before you all the common wisdom of humanity and the revealed faith of the Church that marriage is a unique life-long union of a man and a woman.
In circumstances when the true nature of marriage is being obscured, we wish to affirm and celebrate the truth and beauty of the Sacrament of Matrimony and family life as Jesus revealed it; to do something new to support marriage and family life in the Catholic community and in the country; and to reinforce the vocation of marriage and the pastoral care of families which takes in the everyday life of the Church in dioceses and parishes across the country.
For that reason, in the forthcoming Year of Faith we have decided to establish a new Commission for Marriage and the Family. This Commission will be led by a bishop and will be composed mostly of lay men and women. The Commission will be charged with engaging with those young men and women who will be future husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, and with those who already live out their vocation to marriage and parenthood in surroundings which often make it hard to sustain and develop the full Catholic family life we cherish.
We wish to support too, those who are widowed, separated and divorced and all who need to feel the Church’s maternal care in the circumstances in which they find themselves. The new Commission will promote the true nature of marriage as both a human institution and a union blessed by Jesus. The Commission will be asked to develop an online presence so that prayer, reflection, formation and practical information on matters to do with marriage and family life can be quickly accessible to all. It will also work to produce materials and organise events which will support ordinary Catholic families in their daily lives. During the course of the coming year we will ask for your support for these initiatives.
Our faith teaches us that marriage is a great and holy mystery. The Bishops of Scotland will continue to promote and uphold the universally accepted definition of marriage as the union solely of a man and a woman. At the same time, we wish to work positively for the strengthening of marriage within the Church and within our society.
This is an important initiative for all our people, but especially our young people and children. We urge you to join us in this endeavour. Pray for your own family every day, and pray for those families whose lives are made difficult by the problems and cares which they encounter. Finally, we invite you to pray for our elected leaders, invoking the Holy Spirit on them, that they may be moved to safeguard marriage as it has always been understood, for the good of Scotland and of our society.
This is precisely the kind of unwarranted political interference that the Reformation and Act of Supremacy in England, and similar laws in Scotland, were designed to prevent.
This poor excuse for a Christian describes equal marriage rights as a "grotesque subversion of a universally accepted human right". What human right is being subverted, Cardinal? None at all. As a celibate bachelor, what makes you an authority on what subverts a loving marriage?
The message reveals clearly the flaws in his argument on the matter. It describes the biblical account of Christ's teaching on marriage:
“Have you not read that the Creator, from the beginning, ‘made them male and female’, and said: ‘This is why a man must leave father and mother and cling to his wife and the two become one body’.” (Matthew, 19: 4-5)
Here Christ describes an example of marriage, he does not mandate this as the only form of marriage. Indeed, the question he answers is about divorce, not homosexuality, (Matthew, 19: 3). And he goes on to describe celibacy in various circumstances saying "He who is able to accept it, let him accept it". (Matthew, 19: 11-12). Christ teaches not one dogmatic rule which all must follow, but freedom to live a sexual life according to individual needs and circumstances, within a loving and faithful framework. What could better promote a loving and faithful sexual relationship than marriage?
Then the bishops say,
"The family is the domestic Church, and the first place in which the faith is transmitted. For that reason it must have a primary focus".
So there we have it: this is not about the good of society, or following the teachings of Christ, this is about evangelizing the Roman Catholic faith. Surely these men are calling on gay people to deny their sexuality, enter into deceitful heterosexual marriages and raise more child fodder for their church. Here we see the sordid, evil, subversive motives of the church laid bare.
But not content with subverting families and children to their own purposes, (a trait you will recall that is not new), they also hope to subvert the democratic process:
"Finally, we invite you to pray for our elected leaders, invoking the Holy Spirit on them, that they may be moved to safeguard marriage as it has always been understood...".
So you want your congregation to pray for god to overrule the consciences of the democratically elected representatives of the Scottish people, and do the dirty work of a foreign papal power? This is the 21st century - I mean: are you nuts?
But there is humour to be found in this rotten diatribe too:
"Our faith teaches us that marriage is a great and holy mystery".
Yeah mate, marriage may be a mystery to you bunch of alleged celibates. But the real mystery is the reason you think that anyone should listen to a bunch of sexually repressed paedophile-protectors in dresses on matters of love, sexuality, marriage and family. You guys are about as unqualified to speak authoritatively on these matters as it's possible to be.
So perhaps this kind of papal vitriol is a sure sign you guys in Scotland are heading in the right direction. Keep up the good work!
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2018 vol. 77, no. 47 - October 31, 2018
October 31, 2018, West Life A17
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otherwise was a non-factor.
“He’s a great a great running back,” Olmsted
Falls’ Braden Galaksa said of Anders. “He runs
hard and he’s got great moves and he’s a great
running back going to do great things in the
future. But our coaches put a great defensive
plan together to stop him. … we sealed things
up and we got the job done.”
After trading punts on the first two drives,
Olmsted Falls quarterback Teddy Grendzynski
broke free on a designed quarterback run the first
play of the drive and scored a 99-yard touchdown.
Grendzynski also found Galaska three times
through the air for touchdowns (74-yards, 41-yards
and 45-yards) and threw two to running back
Michael Howard (12-yards and 14-yards).
The Eagles answered back immediately as
Anders took the first play of their next drive
for his 64-yard touchdown. His and the Eagles
final score came just under two minutes into
the second half.
Following Anders’ first touchdown, Olmsted
Falls running back Jack Spellacy scored his only
touchdown of the night on a one-yard rush. On
the heels of a four-touchdown performance in an
upset against Avon Lake on Oct. 19, Spellacy had
64 yards on 11 carries against North Olmsted.
“We come into every game with the mindset
that we’re going to run the ball down their
throat,” Galaksa said. “If they give us the
opportunity to pass, we’re going to pass.
Things opened up… We’ve been playing
since we were toddlers, me and Teddy and a
lot of these guys. It was just fun to end the
season on the right note.”
The Bulldogs went into halftime leading 35-14
and were in complete control the second half.
North Olmsted had the ball four times in the
final 24 minutes, with their drives resulting in
two punts and two turnovers on downs. Olmsted
Falls’ four possessions in the second half ended
with three touchdowns and the end of the game.
“It makes you play disciplined football,” North
Olmsted head coach Tim Brediger said about the
multi-faceted Bulldog offense. “At times we executed
and at times we didn’t. The thing that really killed
us was the play action tonight. Credit to them to
see what we were doing defensively and hurt us.”
With Anders corralled, senior quarterback
Liam Fay was forced to go to the air 20 times.
He completed seven for 43 yards. Rain was a
constant presence in the game and likely led to
a few drops that looked like catchable passes.
For Anders and Fay, Friday marked the last
time they and 18 others who played together for
four years would wear the black and orange.
Brediger said these are the players he credits for
getting the team to where they were this season.
“It’s hard because you care about ‘em,” Brediger
said. “This was a group of kids that for me, my
first year as a head coach six years ago, these guys
were in middle school. The ones that chose to
stay here and not go to Ed’s or Ignatius or Holy
Name, this is that group. I’m very proud of them.”
Olmsted Falls now heads to their fourth-straight
Division II playoff appearance and faces No. 4
seed Avon Lake at 7 p.m. Friday on the road.
How quickly does DeLuca now start prepar-ing
his team for the postseason?
“About a minute ago,” he said after breaking
the post-game huddle.
Contact this reporter at jkopanski@westlife-news.
com or 440-871-5797.
Holy Name beats Pirates, advances to Regional
By JACK KOPANSKI
PARMA HEIGHTS – The Holy Name Green
Wave volleyball team defeated the Rocky
River Pirates in four sets in the Division
II Parma Heights District championship
Saturday afternoon. Winning 25-22, 22-25,
25-21, 25-18, each set was a battle with
neither team giving an inch in pursuit of the
District crown.
Holy Name, this year’s Great Lakes
Conference champion in volleyball, beat
the Pirates for the third time this year as the
Wave claimed both regular-season matchups.
They were the only two in-conference losses
Rocky River had.
Megan Green, head coach for Holy Name,
said the familiarity these teams have with
each other played a big role when they met
in a playoff setting.
“It’s a ton,” Green said. “We’ve played
them seven times in the past two years. They
probably know us better than any team we’ve
ever played against, and that’s why I think
it’s so tough to come in here and get that
win. At the same time, we know them too.”
In the first set, Holy Name jumped out to
a quick 9-5 lead, forcing a Pirate timeout.
Rocky River would play from behind for
the remainder of the set, though they did tie
it at 16 later in the set.
The second set was more close play, as
the difference in the first half of the set was
never more than three points. After leading
13-10 in the second, the Pirates went on a run
to increase their lead to 20-14. Holy Name
didn’t go quietly, though, as the Wave ended
the set on an 8-5 run, but it was too little too
late as Rocky River took the second 25-22.
For the Pirates, their offense ran almost
exclusively through seniors Ava Rauser,
Marissa Smiley and Olivia Young.
“We’re able to really run a fast offense,”
Young said. “They expect Ava to get the
ball a lot of the time so it allows for me to
have an open net which just throws the other
team off.”
Smiley set both Ava and Olivia up all day
long as she totaled 37 assists, and the two
hitters combined for 33 kills.
The fourth set was similar to the first in that
Holy Name pulled ahead early, and Rocky
River made a late push back into the match.
Trailing 16-12, the Pirates strung together
five straight points to take the lead.
That would be short-lived, though, as Holy
Name scored eight of the last 12 points to
win the third set 25-21. Leading the Wave
offensively was senior Kayla Jarosz with 23
kills, scoring most of those off assists from
sophomore Abriana Marchetta.
Holy Name left no doubt in the fourth set,
as they rushed to a 12-5 lead, making River
head coach Karlee Bruck burn both of her
timeouts early in the set. Holy Name’s lead
never dropped below five points the rest of
the set, and they sealed their victory with a
25-18 fourth set win.
“Our hitters, most of them are juniors, so
we have a pretty experienced team,” Green
said. “I really am confident in their ability
and they can really pull us up a step.”
For Rocky River, Bruck said getting this
point was special for her and her team. With
six seniors soon to be graduated, though, she
said that is what made this season special.
“This is an incredible group of girls, I have
nothing but positive things to say,” Bruck
said. “(The seniors) were just incredible
leaders from the beginning. From where we
started to now, it’s just a true testament of
their character and how hard they worked
this season to get this far and to put four
sets in against Holy Name who is supposed
to kill us in three.”
Holy Name now travels to Lexington
High School to play Oak Harbor at 7:30 on
Contact this reporter at jkopanski@westli-fenews.
Photo by David Cleveland
Rocky River’s Raygan Murray (2), Olivia Young (22) and Rachael Waite (9) cele-brate
winning a point during the Pirates’ District final game against Holy Name.
Magnificat volleyball advances to District Final
GRAFTON – Magnificat volleyball punched
their ticket to the Division I Elyria District
championship Tuesday night in a five-set
thriller over the Avon Eagles at Midview
High School. The Blue Streaks won 22-25,
25-18, 25-15, 20-25, 15-13.
Leading the way for Magnificat were senior
Marie Claire Frantz (47 assists), junior Liz
Ward (14 kills) and freshman Cadence Shea
(13 kills).
After dropping the first set, the Blue Streaks
dominated the next two before falling in the
fourth. Something head coach Jess Ciborek
chalked up to overconfidence.
“We were lazy, in direct terms,” Ciborek
said. “We tried to play comeback and it
was too late against a team like that. In set
five, I told my team, ‘Come out and be the
aggressor...’ That’s what we did and that’s
why we won.”
Ciborek praised her team for how they
handled the first two sets and how they
adjusted to a high-powered Avon offense. A
triple-threat attack led by Maddy Jerdonek
(39 assists), Gillian Romanchuk (15 kills)
and Katie Koziarz (nine kills) was a big part
of what kept the Eagles in every set.
“Avon’s a good team, … so I know they’re
stacked with players. I’m really proud of
them (my team) for giving 120 (percent) the
entire match,” Ciborek said. “In the third set,
(Avon) started to run everything super fast.
I told our block, ‘You gotta make sure you
keep track of your hitter, you don’t lose track
of ‘em and you’re up a split-second sooner
on your block.’ We made those adjustments
when we needed to.”
That adjustment showed when both teams
were deadlocked at 11 in the third. After
that point, Magnificat finished on a 14-4 run
to win the set. Part of the reason the Blue
Streaks were able to score so many points
in bunches was the tandem of Frantz and
Cadence throughout the game.
“She’s just been a great sport about taking
criticism from me, I take criticism from her
it goes both ways, but honestly, it’s just
communication,” Frantz said. “That was
our biggest struggle at the start of the season
and now we’re miles from where we started.
I’m just so proud of her. She knows what
she’s doing, we’re really comfortable with
each other.”
Every point was tightly contested in the fifth
and deciding set. There were seven ties and
six lead changes. Mags won by two points.
What did it come down to? Frantz said it was
the Blue Streaks’ trust in each other.
The loss was an emotional one for Avon
head coach Julie Bendzuck and her six seniors.
With little to separate either of these teams,
Bendzuck said it came down to Magnificat
executing when it mattered most. She was
proud of the fight her team showed.
“I just think that Mags was able to terminate
the ball at a few crucial times in the game,”
Bendzuck said. “I thought our defense played
unreal. I think we were even-matched. I think
(the third set) is what I’m most proud of.
It would have been very, very easy for our
girls to quit and to get out of here in four.
There’s nothing else I could have asked for
our kids. Nothing.”
The Blue Streaks won the District
Championship in five sets over top-seeded
St. Joseph Academy. They play Toledo Notre
Dame Thursday night at Wooster High School.
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Full-text search October 31, 2018, West Life A17 Go to PJPNewspapers.com for any sports coverage that didn’t make it into this week’s paper! FOOTBALL continued on next page otherwise was a non-factor. “He’s a great a great running back,” Olmsted Falls’ Braden Galaksa said of Anders. “He runs hard and he’s got great moves and he’s a great running back going to do great things in the future. But our coaches put a great defensive plan together to stop him. … we sealed things up and we got the job done.” After trading punts on the first two drives, Olmsted Falls quarterback Teddy Grendzynski broke free on a designed quarterback run the first play of the drive and scored a 99-yard touchdown. Grendzynski also found Galaska three times through the air for touchdowns (74-yards, 41-yards and 45-yards) and threw two to running back Michael Howard (12-yards and 14-yards). The Eagles answered back immediately as Anders took the first play of their next drive for his 64-yard touchdown. His and the Eagles final score came just under two minutes into the second half. Following Anders’ first touchdown, Olmsted Falls running back Jack Spellacy scored his only touchdown of the night on a one-yard rush. On the heels of a four-touchdown performance in an upset against Avon Lake on Oct. 19, Spellacy had 64 yards on 11 carries against North Olmsted. “We come into every game with the mindset that we’re going to run the ball down their throat,” Galaksa said. “If they give us the opportunity to pass, we’re going to pass. Things opened up… We’ve been playing since we were toddlers, me and Teddy and a lot of these guys. It was just fun to end the season on the right note.” The Bulldogs went into halftime leading 35-14 and were in complete control the second half. North Olmsted had the ball four times in the final 24 minutes, with their drives resulting in two punts and two turnovers on downs. Olmsted Falls’ four possessions in the second half ended with three touchdowns and the end of the game. “It makes you play disciplined football,” North Olmsted head coach Tim Brediger said about the multi-faceted Bulldog offense. “At times we executed and at times we didn’t. The thing that really killed us was the play action tonight. Credit to them to see what we were doing defensively and hurt us.” With Anders corralled, senior quarterback Liam Fay was forced to go to the air 20 times. He completed seven for 43 yards. Rain was a constant presence in the game and likely led to a few drops that looked like catchable passes. For Anders and Fay, Friday marked the last time they and 18 others who played together for four years would wear the black and orange. Brediger said these are the players he credits for getting the team to where they were this season. “It’s hard because you care about ‘em,” Brediger said. “This was a group of kids that for me, my first year as a head coach six years ago, these guys were in middle school. The ones that chose to stay here and not go to Ed’s or Ignatius or Holy Name, this is that group. I’m very proud of them.” Olmsted Falls now heads to their fourth-straight Division II playoff appearance and faces No. 4 seed Avon Lake at 7 p.m. Friday on the road. How quickly does DeLuca now start prepar-ing his team for the postseason? “About a minute ago,” he said after breaking the post-game huddle. Contact this reporter at jkopanski@westlife-news. com or 440-871-5797. Holy Name beats Pirates, advances to Regional By JACK KOPANSKI PARMA HEIGHTS – The Holy Name Green Wave volleyball team defeated the Rocky River Pirates in four sets in the Division II Parma Heights District championship Saturday afternoon. Winning 25-22, 22-25, 25-21, 25-18, each set was a battle with neither team giving an inch in pursuit of the District crown. Holy Name, this year’s Great Lakes Conference champion in volleyball, beat the Pirates for the third time this year as the Wave claimed both regular-season matchups. They were the only two in-conference losses Rocky River had. Megan Green, head coach for Holy Name, said the familiarity these teams have with each other played a big role when they met in a playoff setting. “It’s a ton,” Green said. “We’ve played them seven times in the past two years. They probably know us better than any team we’ve ever played against, and that’s why I think it’s so tough to come in here and get that win. At the same time, we know them too.” In the first set, Holy Name jumped out to a quick 9-5 lead, forcing a Pirate timeout. Rocky River would play from behind for the remainder of the set, though they did tie it at 16 later in the set. The second set was more close play, as the difference in the first half of the set was never more than three points. After leading 13-10 in the second, the Pirates went on a run to increase their lead to 20-14. Holy Name didn’t go quietly, though, as the Wave ended the set on an 8-5 run, but it was too little too late as Rocky River took the second 25-22. For the Pirates, their offense ran almost exclusively through seniors Ava Rauser, Marissa Smiley and Olivia Young. “We’re able to really run a fast offense,” Young said. “They expect Ava to get the ball a lot of the time so it allows for me to have an open net which just throws the other team off.” Smiley set both Ava and Olivia up all day long as she totaled 37 assists, and the two hitters combined for 33 kills. The fourth set was similar to the first in that Holy Name pulled ahead early, and Rocky River made a late push back into the match. Trailing 16-12, the Pirates strung together five straight points to take the lead. That would be short-lived, though, as Holy Name scored eight of the last 12 points to win the third set 25-21. Leading the Wave offensively was senior Kayla Jarosz with 23 kills, scoring most of those off assists from sophomore Abriana Marchetta. Holy Name left no doubt in the fourth set, as they rushed to a 12-5 lead, making River head coach Karlee Bruck burn both of her timeouts early in the set. Holy Name’s lead never dropped below five points the rest of the set, and they sealed their victory with a 25-18 fourth set win. “Our hitters, most of them are juniors, so we have a pretty experienced team,” Green said. “I really am confident in their ability and they can really pull us up a step.” For Rocky River, Bruck said getting this point was special for her and her team. With six seniors soon to be graduated, though, she said that is what made this season special. “This is an incredible group of girls, I have nothing but positive things to say,” Bruck said. “(The seniors) were just incredible leaders from the beginning. From where we started to now, it’s just a true testament of their character and how hard they worked this season to get this far and to put four sets in against Holy Name who is supposed to kill us in three.” Holy Name now travels to Lexington High School to play Oak Harbor at 7:30 on Thursday. Contact this reporter at jkopanski@westli-fenews. com or 440-871-5797. Photo by David Cleveland Rocky River’s Raygan Murray (2), Olivia Young (22) and Rachael Waite (9) cele-brate winning a point during the Pirates’ District final game against Holy Name. Magnificat volleyball advances to District Final By JACK KOPANSKI GRAFTON – Magnificat volleyball punched their ticket to the Division I Elyria District championship Tuesday night in a five-set thriller over the Avon Eagles at Midview High School. The Blue Streaks won 22-25, 25-18, 25-15, 20-25, 15-13. Leading the way for Magnificat were senior Marie Claire Frantz (47 assists), junior Liz Ward (14 kills) and freshman Cadence Shea (13 kills). After dropping the first set, the Blue Streaks dominated the next two before falling in the fourth. Something head coach Jess Ciborek chalked up to overconfidence. “We were lazy, in direct terms,” Ciborek said. “We tried to play comeback and it was too late against a team like that. In set five, I told my team, ‘Come out and be the aggressor...’ That’s what we did and that’s why we won.” Ciborek praised her team for how they handled the first two sets and how they adjusted to a high-powered Avon offense. A triple-threat attack led by Maddy Jerdonek (39 assists), Gillian Romanchuk (15 kills) and Katie Koziarz (nine kills) was a big part of what kept the Eagles in every set. “Avon’s a good team, … so I know they’re stacked with players. I’m really proud of them (my team) for giving 120 (percent) the entire match,” Ciborek said. “In the third set, (Avon) started to run everything super fast. I told our block, ‘You gotta make sure you keep track of your hitter, you don’t lose track of ‘em and you’re up a split-second sooner on your block.’ We made those adjustments when we needed to.” That adjustment showed when both teams were deadlocked at 11 in the third. After that point, Magnificat finished on a 14-4 run to win the set. Part of the reason the Blue Streaks were able to score so many points in bunches was the tandem of Frantz and Cadence throughout the game. “She’s just been a great sport about taking criticism from me, I take criticism from her it goes both ways, but honestly, it’s just communication,” Frantz said. “That was our biggest struggle at the start of the season and now we’re miles from where we started. I’m just so proud of her. She knows what she’s doing, we’re really comfortable with each other.” Every point was tightly contested in the fifth and deciding set. There were seven ties and six lead changes. Mags won by two points. What did it come down to? Frantz said it was the Blue Streaks’ trust in each other. The loss was an emotional one for Avon head coach Julie Bendzuck and her six seniors. With little to separate either of these teams, Bendzuck said it came down to Magnificat executing when it mattered most. She was proud of the fight her team showed. “I just think that Mags was able to terminate the ball at a few crucial times in the game,” Bendzuck said. “I thought our defense played unreal. I think we were even-matched. I think (the third set) is what I’m most proud of. It would have been very, very easy for our girls to quit and to get out of here in four. There’s nothing else I could have asked for our kids. Nothing.” The Blue Streaks won the District Championship in five sets over top-seeded St. Joseph Academy. They play Toledo Notre Dame Thursday night at Wooster High School. Contact this reporter at jkopanski@westli-fenews. com or 440-871-5797.
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Dwight Howard Hits A Rare Three-Pointer And NBA Twitter Erupts
Howard is having a comeback for the ages.
Dwight Howard has always been known as a large center who can dunk, get blocks, and play some shutdown defense. When it comes to his shooting ability, Howard has never been known as a marksman and heading into last night's game against the Utah Jazz, Howard only had six made three-point shots in his entire career.
During garbage time, the Lakers were already up by 20 and Howard figured he would experiment a little bit. As you can see in the clip below, this experimentation paid off as Howard hit a quick three that had fans questioning what they had just seen. It was a pretty good shot although you can tell Howard was just a little hesitant about whether or not he really wanted to do it.
This latest shot is yet another example of how Howard has been able to revitalize his entire career this season. There were questions as to whether or not Howard could still play at a high level in the NBA but this season, Howard has been proving all of the doubters wrong. While his stat lines have been modest, he has been able to make a huge impact and Lakers fans are loving it.
Check out some of the best reactions to the three-point shot, below.
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Solmentes
Blog by Artist David Esslemont about design, illustration, printmaking, bookbinding, and publishing – for everyone interested in books and creativity.
Papermaking part 3 – floral inclusions
The Richard de Bas paper mill in France is well known for its floral papers. Less well known are the latest floral papers from Decorah, Iowa.
Petals from violets and dandelions and young fern frond tips were added to the Zerkall & milkweed pulp. The violet petals were inclined to float to the surface, which made it difficult to incorporate them in the paper. However peristance prevailed and the effort yielded an interesting paper due in part to the contrast between the yellow and purple hues and the different shaped petals and the ferns.
This detail shows the tangled web of fibers and a fragment of dandelion petal.
Some new fibers have been gathered: bast fiber from old milkweed stems which will be processed separately; and fiber from some hemp which self-seeds itself on the farm, no doubt a remnant of the wartime crops that were once grown for rope.
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Stockhausen In Freundschaft – work in progress
Working again on the Stockhausen piece for solo clarinet, In Freundschaft. The installation photo above shows two large paintings together with smaller sketches. The painting on the right wall measures 96 x 42 inches, while the painting on the back wall measures 72 x 48 inches. These are derived from the "master painting" (67 x 108 inches) seen below.
None are intended to be the definitive, or final work in this series, as it still a work in progress. These pieces started life as interpretations or responses to a piece of music, but there comes a point in the creative process where the painting grows and matures and develops a life of its own and leaves the home, so to speak.
The main challenge is how to represent the linearity of music on a single rectangle and the solution might be a series of paintings. I have made a series of linear drawings in book form, where the pen behaves like an oscilloscope of sorts. One may argue that there is just as much potential in a single pa…
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'In the beginning', and, 'Genesis'.
In On heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in history Thomas Carlyle makes several references to the 'divine . . .' and 'sacred Hebrew Book'. In Sartor Resartus he refers to 'young Ishmael' in the 'destitution of the wild desert'. Throughout both books he includes many biblical references and allusions. For my illustrations, I looked for a quotation, and then searched for an original source – and I found Hebrew texts.
The history, meaning and beauty of the letterforms are fascinating and I began to draw and learn a little of the Alephbet. The first problem I encountered was the inability of Microsoft Word and Adobe InDesign to render the text as right to left (RTL) reading. Curiously my Firefox browser, Apple Mail and TextEdit did work, which helped when using the Hebrew keyboard layout.
Secondly, my insatiable thirst for language was hampered by a new alphabet and the myriad forms it takes. Besides t…
Pizza from Scratch – The story of a visual narrative
I have an interest in food – okay it’s a passion – actually it’s an obsession: I am obsessed with food and cooking, today it's pizza cooked from scratch in a wood-fired oven. Some of my earliest memories of cooking date back to when I was a Boy Scout: delicious, smoky, crispy outside, soft inside “benders and twisters” – simple wheat flour dough balls stretched around a stick, cooked over a campfire.
Later, travels in Italy and the revelation that the Holy Trinity was in fact garlic, tomatoes and olive oil, and the best pizzas where cooked in wood-fired ovens, helped fuel this passion for cooking that become an obsession.
I want to know where my food has come from. If the food is processed, what are the ingredients and where did they come from? How were they grown/raised? I want to taste natural flavors, not chemicals; naturally ripened tomatoes, not bland, anemic imposters – I don’t want to worry about pesticide or herbicide residues. So, I grow fruit and vegetables following or…
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Interconnected by deeds not words.
Our Managing Director, Dan has written a fantastic article which has been published in both Marketing Magazine and Campaign this month. "Interconnected" breaks down the real truths behind brands and how they act in an increasingly connected, information sharing market place. Brands can no longer get away with claiming excellent service or superb value in the safe confines of outbound communications without proving it in practice, as in the harsh reality of the interconnected world, the nature of such claims will be revealed by how the brand acts. Customers will share their experiences of those actions on social media and price comparison sites with great ease.
Dan's article goes on to explain the interconnected world in the light of how we work here at St Luke's, with particular mention to our Strongbow, Majestic, Very.co.uk and Littlewoods clients. Our agenda is not only transform a brand's communication ideas, but also the client's business ideas in order to create a strategy that rings true throughout their whole organisation, and create a brand identity which reflects the fundamental truths of their audience, company and product.
I don't want to give the whole article away, you can read it here, and you should. It gives great food for thought on how we can sculpt and encourage organisations to embody their brand identity and be true to themselves in an interconnected world.
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Strongbow challenges 'normal' guy to score like a pro
Last night, during the England v Germany match (where we disappointingly lost 0-1), one regular guy stepped up to a challenge. Not during the match, but in the half time ad break in our latest Strongbow challenge.
The Football Challenge is specifically aimed at getting those guys who always claim they could have scored that missed penalty to step up and prove it. Whether it's your mate, brother, boyfriend, husband, or dad - we all know a bloke who likes to shout at the TV and think they could do better. Our guy, Jared Aransibia, was chosen from thousands of applicants, to prepare for a once in a lifetime opportunity of scoring a penalty 'for England' against our fiercest football rivals Germany.
Jared was mentored by legendary former England player and Coach Stuart Pearce and he underwent two days of intense training which saw his stamina levels pushed to the limit by fitness coach and former Olympic sprinter Ade Mafe. This was topped off with a session by leading sports psychologist Dan Abrahams who helped mentally prepare Jared for his 12 yard challenge. He faced Hamburg’s German international goalkeeper Rene ‘Iron Man’ Adler on his home turf in the epic surroundings of the Berlin Olympic stadium.
Sam Fielding, Strongbow Marketing Manager comments "This week’s game between Germany and England was the perfect opportunity for us to introduce Jared's challenge to football fans across the country. Jared stepped up to a once in a lifetime opportunity alongside Coach Stuart Pearce that provided us with some fantastic and engaging content people will love to watch.”
Stuart Pearce said: "We all watch a game from the comfort of our sofa and think we can do better, take that corner or score that penalty. We can all talk a good game but there aren’t many times you get the opportunity to 'walk the walk'. Jared was armed with all the physical and mental tools to score the penalty but the rest was up to him.”
The trailer as aired can be viewed from the image above, and full content following Jared’s journey along with the result of the penalty is live on strongbow.com/football now.
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Doing Christmas 2013 in a Very stylish way!
Besides celebrating the birth of Jesus, singing Carols about wise men and eating far too much; Christmas is a time for spoiling each other (and ourselves) with gifts, new outfits and celebrations.
Our 30" Gifting advert for Very celebrates important Christmas preparation tasks such as gift-wrapping, cooking up a storm, hanging decorations and dining with friends, in a beautifully stylish and effortless way. With Very's range of gifts, fashion, homeware and electricals, it's easy to look effortlessly stylish whilst simultaneously delivering the perfect Christmas.
The ad launches today, 7th November, during Emmerdale (ITV 7pm) and features a remix of the traditional Christmas Carol Silent Night. But this is Silent Night as you've never heard it before! Now well-known for having stand-out soundtracks, this Very spot follows on from our Christmas Partywear ad and the Definitions campaign using original remixes, a motion-control camera, and freeze-frame vignettes.
Fearne Cotton appears in the final scene, celebrating a toast and sumptuous festive feast with her friends. Get ready for a stylish Christmas with Very.co.uk
Check the ad out here or the image above and let us know what you think @stlukescomms.
Our agency Reception display is looking rather Christmassy too now that both Shop Direct clients, Littlewoods and Very have launched their Christmas campaigns!
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Ho Ho Ho! Christmas excitement arrives as our Littlewoods advert airs!
It's the first of November which can only mean one thing, Christmas is coming and the best adverts, seasonal songs and festive jumpers are all heading our way!
We've been quick off the mark with our campaign for Littlewoods, which launched today. It's set in Santa's workshop in the North Pole, where a girl has posted her letter to Father Christmas, and he starts to read it aloud. Myleene Klass magically wraps presents while Santa's other celebrity helper Mark Wright, is sitting on a shelf, waiting to be chosen as a Christmas gift for a lucky lady. There are a whole host of elves bustling around in the workshop too, to make sure that every child and family gets the presents they deserve, all with the help of the Littlewoods Touch, meaning you can spread the cost of your gifts. We also filmed a Behind the Scenes film, so you can see what it was like on set, and how we made the magic.
The ad features a "Christmassed-up" version of Arlissa's track "Into The Light" which was featured in the Funfair campaign, and was also directed by Michael Gracey through Partizan.
Let us know what you think, it's given us the Christmas spirit at St Luke's, and there's even more to come this week...
Labels: Arlissa, behind the scenes, Christmas, Father Christmas, festive, Into the Light, Littlewoods, Mark Wright, Michael Gracey, Myleene Klass, North Pole, Partizan, Santa, St Luke's., The Littlewoods Touch
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Market roundup: June 2013
Mexiquense TV, the public broadcaster for the Mexican state of México, is now featuring the DW programs Enclaces and Reporteros en el Mundo as a part of its lineup. Mexiquense, also known as Canal 34 by locals, is a part of the nationwide broadcasting network La Red and already includes the DW journals En Forma and Prism as a part of its programming. Together with the new formats you can find DW programming in 15 time slots every week. Canal 34 is also available in México on cable and DTH providers bringing DW programming to a potential audience of 40 million.
DW has signed a strategic partnership with Lanacion.com in Argentina, providing content to the most visited website in Argentina.
DW is expanding its cooperation with the Sahara Media Group, one of Tanzania’s leading media groups. DW’s English program is now available as part of the group’s digital-terrestrial television program “Continental”. The Sahara Media Group also includes Radio Free Africa and Star TV – both of which have been long-time DW partners. According to DW’s research, 43 percent of the Kiswahili target audience listens to Radio Free Africa and 10 percent lists Star TV as their primary source of information.
DW has signed its first partner in Chad with Radio FM Liberté. The station will be incorporating DW’s French radio programming into its lineup.
After a two-year hiatus, you can once again watch DW programming in Hungary. The popular shows Tomorrow Today, Euromaxx and Arts.21 will be broadcast on channels M1 and M2 of the public broadcaster, MTVA. MTVA is also a partner of the DW series World Stories. All DW programming is being dubbed into Hungarian for broadcast.
In the context of a joint project with DW’s Russian premium partner, Newsru.com, a DW-Widget will be built into the website. It will display seven of the latest and most popular articles from dw.de/russian.
What happens off-camera at Journal? What does Learning by Ear do so well and what challenges are overcome by DWAkademie? For four weeks now, DW users and employees alike have gone online at dw.de/mydw and clicked their way through the numerous departments in Bonn or Berlin to learn more about the work that is being done by DW professionals. With 360, DW is offering fans around the world an inside look at how producers, trainers, project and department managers all overcome challenges every day to create programming and run projects. The online special is available in German, English and Spanish.
DW’s Distribution Department in cooperation with International Marketing has organized four workshops at the 2013 Global Media Forum. On June 17, there will be a panel on the growth potential of Pay TV and the teaching of values in Latin America. The following day, there will be two panels focusing on the economic growth in the Asian media industry and the challenges for free speech and freedom of the press. High ranking CEO’s and regional media representatives promise to provide an exciting presentation and discussion.
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DW’s Distribution team continued its successful year in Latin America at Jornadas in Buenos Aires. With the new Spanish-language channel DW (Latinoamérica), DW representatives were able to work out agreements with more than 20 new partners from Argentina, Uruguay and Peru. The channel has been airing since February and is tailored to the Latin American market.
Metro TV is the first partner in Indonesia to be included in the DW series World Stories. Metro TV is a nationwide news channel that was launched 2000. Metro is broadcast from Jakarta with a network of 53 regional stations and reaches more than 3 million viewers throughout Indonesia. It is also available via cable and DTH. Metro has been broadcasting DW television programming since 2001.
Also in Indonesia, Banten TV has become the fifth partner to include the new DW series Inovator into its lineup.
News feeds from DW will be integrated into the next generation of Lumia smartphones from Nokia that have Windows Phone 7 and 8. The news feeds will be pre-installed on the Reading app and available in English, German and Russian.
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Focusing on education
Education for all – that is UNESCO’s central aim when it comes to the world’s school systems. But where do we stand today? DW has developed a new multimedia project that examines innovative education initiatives and the areas where the international community still has much work to do. With “Education for all – Five bloggers, five countries, one dialogue”, young people discuss the state of education in their home countries as well as their own experiences in the school system. DW is relying on five bloggers from Iraq, Germany, Argentina, Russia and Kenya to provide discussion points for the online community. Interested? Join the discussion today.
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An Engaging, Eye-Pleasing Summary of Global Warmin...
An Engaging, Eye-Pleasing Summary of Global Warming Science
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We frequently mention the IPCC reports on Climate 411 – often referencing them as the most trustworthy authority on global warming science. In fact, our very first blog post was titled "What is the IPCC, anyway?" But for non-scientists, these rather technical reports are a challenge to read.
Climate scientists Michael Mann and Lee Kump published the book Dire Predictions to make the IPCC’s crucially important findings accessible to the layperson. For the most part, they succeed admirably. Mann and Kump did a remarkable job of simplifying complex ideas. But it still gets a little dense in places.
Despite a few bumps, in general I found the book to be an engaging read. The colorful graphics on nearly every page bring abstract concepts to life. The book also benefits from creative and catchy writing, on display in subsection titles such as "Earth, wind and fire" and "Is it time to sell that beach house?".
A Slow Start
If you’re unfamiliar with the basics of climate change, the introduction can bring you up to speed. But if you’re already familiar with the global warming "debate" and you know what causes the seasons to change, you may want to skim the intro and the beginning of Part 1 and dig in at around page 30.
The first 30 pages are dense in places, as well as less engaging. This section abbreviates some information that is presented more understandably later. For example, the graph on page 20 showing climate uncertainties lacks explanation, but there’s a full explanation of the graph where it reappears in Part 2. Another example: the term "longwave radiation" is used on page 19 without prior definition. The glossary in the back of the book can help with unfamiliar terms.
Compelling and Balanced
Throughout the book, the authors’ great wealth of knowledge and mastery of the subject clearly shine through. Dr. Mann was a lead author for a chapter of the IPCC’s Third Assessment Report, and a reviewer of the most recent Fourth Assessment Report. He’s also a co-founder of the highly respected climate blog RealClimate.org. Dr. Kump is the lead author of the preeminent textbook, The Earth System.
One of the strengths of Dire Predictions is its strong, to-the-point rebuttals of common misconceptions fueled by global warming skeptics. The authors expertly explain why the ongoing rise in atmospheric CO2 is not natural, how today’s warming is greater than and fundamentally different from that during the "Medieval Warm Period", why higher CO2 levels are not beneficial for ecosystems, and why the excuses for inaction on global warming are wrong.
The book gives a balanced presentation of the issues, citing the pros and cons of global warming, and at times posing ethical questions for the reader to decide. In fact, sometimes I felt that the authors were a bit too cautious in drawing conclusions – for example, regarding scientists’ ability to predict climate change. Most assertions are backed up with evidence and explanations, and yet the writing remains concise and engaging.
I liked the sections on what individuals can do to stop global warming and how to calculate your carbon footprint. They make the issue more personal.
A Few Rough Edges
I noticed rough edges here and there. The discussion of energy in Part 5, for example, may be confusing to lay readers. The authors use the term "energy supply" to refer only to a particular kind of energy – electricity and heating – and not fuels used in industry and transport. Then they introduce another category of energy, "buildings", which I did not think was clearly distinguished from "energy supply". To confound things further, they categorize fuel cells in vehicles as "energy supply" rather than "transport".
And then there are some errors. The graph of emissions from different economic sectors on the bottom of page 159 is missing the N2O emissions from agriculture for 2004. On pages 56-57, the authors initially define hurricanes as tropical cyclones that occur only in the Atlantic Ocean basin, but later mention "all of the major hurricane basins." The authors tell me that at least some of these errors will be corrected in the second printing.
But these problems are minor. Overall, Mann and Kump managed to pack a lot of information on the huge topic of climate change into a small amount of space, with engaging prose and illustrations throughout. If you’d like an understandable summary of the IPCC’s findings, you’ll appreciate Dire Predictions.
This post is by James Wang, Ph.D., a climate scientist at Environmental Defense Fund.
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Night of Gates III
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"By the craggy hill-side,
They have planted thorn-trees
If any man so daring
In his bed at night." The run begins on the Day of the Early Butterfly in the Month of the Magpie in the eighty-first Year of the Magpie since the Second Treaty of Houses.
The run takes place in the Port of Auspicious Voyage in the Hon'eth Arcade
1 In Media Res
2 48 hours earlier
3 In the City
4 Evening
5 Day of Gates
7 Night of Gates
8 Black Donkey
9 The Oubliette
10 A Last Possibility for Betrayal
11 Puttering
As the party heads down the street, Cai Wen's moll shouts "It's a trap!" Several ninjas decloak near Cai Wen and on roofs nearby, and much chopping ensues. Most people focus on dealing with the ninjas, though several are more concerned with what exactly is going on.
Cai Wen tries to remember who his moll is, and is partially successful (which will be useful later). His best guess is that he's in the Port of Auspicious Voyage, though it's not a street where he's been before. He'll probably be able to recognize the street again later, as well. Shen-Ji starts walling the combat into smaller boxes.
Takanata is still off the battlemap on his way, though he can arrive auspiciously if he needs to. Concentrating on the plan, he puts his tinfoil hat in his pocket and starts heading towards the warehouse district, grumbling that the idiots left without him. Min Feng, who has previously infiltrated the ninjas, decloaks. Then, she falls off the roof she is on onto a pedestrian, who flees. A ninja attacks Cai Wen's moll in an attempt to get past her to Cai Wen.
"You dare lay a hand on me, mortal?" -Mei-Zhen
"Hey, your moll has a name! But... she's kind of creepy..." -everyone else
Several of the ninja are armed with blowguns, and two hit Wei Han. In drift, he discovers that he has been dosed with the deadly Masterful Drift Poison as well as Medium Drift Poison. Min Feng, happily, has an antidote for each, but only one antidote for the Masterful poison, so she tells everyone else to make sure they get poisoned only by lesser poisons. She tries hard to remember where she got the antidotes, for later.
Takanata, still trying to remember the plan, pulls a handbill from his pocket and looks at it, hoping that they printed enough. It says something about the great Zhu Cai Wen being in town and defying all comers. He tries to figure out why he is not supposed to wear the tinfoil hat and decides he doesn' t want to accidentally make himself unscryable.
Mei-Zhen points at Min Feng, shouting "Disguise Girl! Do something!" Min Feng's fast disguise shtick goes off, and she looks like Cai Wen now. (People attacking Cai Wen have to flip a coin to see who they hit). The leader of the ninjas accuses Kasumi of having betrayed them, and though he would teach her a lesson, he has bigger game.
Both Grasshopper and Min Feng take some blowdart poison hits. Cai Wen sets off a smoke bomb, but that spooks Mei-Zhen and she runs out of it.
The two top ninja aim for Cai Wen - he dodges one, but is hit with the second dart. This dart seems different, as he doesn't feel well but doesn't seem to be poisoned. He declares that they aren't taking the great Cai Wen without a fight, and explodes his sword cane in the faces of two of them.
Takanata appears auspiciously, to make sure he catches the most important part for his thing, and realizes that one of the most important things is to make sure he gets the names of the demons in the combat.
Anto grows thorny branches and rooty feet, and "pulls a Master Deng" to hit everyone he can reach. Grasshopper and others boggle at his multiple branchy arms. Takanata declares that the plan is to figure out how to keep this from happening next time, but suddenly realizes that that's false.
The head ninja tells the others to "keep her busy" while he finishes the ritual.
"Oubliette, in the name of my fallen brothers, take his soul!" -Ninja
Takanata turns on the Eyes of the I Ching, just as a gate (that only he can see) opens beneath Cai Wen and he gets pulled in. Mei-Zhen, who appears to Takanata as a strange black featureless human form, which is its own sort of disturbing, shouts "No, he's mine!" To everyone else's eyes, Cai Wen falls to the ground unmoving.
Min Feng, checking out Cai Wen, thinks that Yoshi might have been poisoned with something like this by an agent of the Shadow - it's something that brings him closer to the World Above and Below. Anto thinks that the poison pushed him close enough to the World Below that Oubliette could grab his soul and essentially make him forcibly spiritwalk.
Mei-Zhen wishes that there was some way to track him, and Wei Han points out that there is a magic map. However, the Hunter's Map just has a really big X on it, as it thinks that Cai Wen is right there (where his body is). She snaps her fingers to look at it, and declares that she should be able to work with that. Mei-Zhen starts fussing with the map. Speaking of tracking, Min Feng checks on the locations of some of her studied folks - Ezokin is in the Gate of Shen, and Tai Lung is in the City of Spires.
Anto thinks that he can push other people who have been hit with the poison, through to the World Below, so they can spiritwalk to rescue Cai Wen. So the question is, how many darts did the ninja bring? That depends on how angry they were...
48 hours earlier
On the ship from the Isle of Beauty, Takanata finishes his latest watercolor, which looks a lot like a battlemap of a fight with ninja...
Grasshopper has also painted some prophetic drawings:
Anto yoinks a ninja towards him
Anto attacks a bunch of people with branchy limbs
Cai Wen is snatched into the World Below
Cai Wen says that he definitely wants to taunt the ninjas, but he doesn't want the combat to end up the way it did in Takanata's watercolor. Takanata disagrees - don't mess up the Yet! The important thing is to taunt them enough that they bring enough darts for everyone! Cai Wen thinks that the Rule of Threes can be invoked to get them extra-mad:
"Tell them the House of the Night Blades has come to get me three times and failed. By the rule of threes, they are broken."
Wei Han frets about how to get back from the World Below once they have Cai Wen, but Kuan-Xi is sure that'll be easier on the Night of Gates. Perhaps there are demons who the party knows from whom favors are owed? Shuyan apparently has a favor from a demon, but she's napping and not available for favor-using.
Grasshopper throws some chum in the ocean, trying to remember the chant Renyu did.
"Whale assigned you homework - how are you doing on that?" -Mike
"Um, I forget what it was." -Heidi
"The chum sinks to the bottom and there is no sign of Whale." -Mike
There is not much more that can be done from the boat, however, so the group waits for further planning until they arrive at the Port of Auspicious Voyage.
Grasshopper talks to Kuan-Xi about the local urchins, which include the healer-kids who helped her out when she was kidnapped. Maybe she can help them somehow? After some negotiation, she buys a bunch of pork buns and tells the urchins stories about Anto, while Anto (in disguise) tells them stories about how Cai Wen has defeated the House of the Night Blade.
Cai Wen's moll had been dressed like a geisha, so he and Wei Han go to look for flower houses to see if there are any which seem to be staffed entirely by demons. They don't find any, and it becomes clear to Wei Han that Cai Wen is enjoying the trip, but doesn't have any idea where he's going. When they check back in later, Takanata reminds him that they do know her name - Mei-Zhen! When Cai Wen asks around about a geisha named Mei-Zhen, he hears that she is in the House of the Lotus.
Min Feng and Takanata visit the cave where the Brilliant Dawn monastery has been camping out after they lost their monastery. Things are quite busy, with monks carrying boxes around. Jinghua is still greatful for the party's assistance with the cursed coins and says that while it is not his specialty, he will see what his order can dig up on demons. Master Jinghua Takanata and Min Feng to return early tomorrow.
After a meetup at lunch, Shen-Ji and Min Feng go on a shopping spree. Shen-Ji looks around jewelry stores and stone-carving stores, and finds (among other things) a fancy jade puzzle box which the salesman says has not been opened for a hundred years. He buys it, and lets Min Feng play with it for a while. She thinks it's easier than the Sphere of Harmony, but it takes her quite a while to get open. Min Feng also asks after the guy who sold her the antidote, but runs into a lot of frowns - people don't like dealing with minions of the Shadow like him. She does get his name (or at least what he goes by): the Quartermaster. They head down to the seedy side of town to try and set up a meeting with the Quartermaster. They foil an attempted trap, and decide that they seem too reputable, so Min Feng forges some credentials introducing herself as a lieutenant in the Circle of Spite, and inks a temporary tattoo on her arm. Now an attempt to set up a meeting is more successful, and they are invited to return to speak to the Quartermaster late that night in a winehouse of ill repute.
Meanwhile, Grasshopper succeeds in getting Kuan-Xi to come visit the urchins, who have all been convinced that Anto is a great hero. More pork buns later, the healer-trained urchins agree to meet them in the warehouse district "at the cross street with buildings."
Cai Wen and Wei Han visit the House of the Lotus - Dutiful Hsung is most pleased to see his good friends again. Cai Wen suggests that he would be most grateful to meet a particular geisha of the House, named Mei-Zhen. Madame Cho suggests that they meet in the Rose Petal Room, but Dutiful Hsung smoothly counter-suggests that the Lemon Blossom Room would be more appropriate. Mei-Zhen enters, and performs a lovely musical piece, baffling Cai Wen, who is sure that Mei-Zhen looks exactly like his moll, but is not at all a moll herself. Cai Wen tries to find out from Dutiful Hsung why the Rose Petal Room was inappropriate - the butler explains that the House does not have an astrologer on staff, so they did not realize the Night of Gates was coming in time, and, much to his chagrin and embarrassment, they did not have time to move the mirror out of the Rose Room. Enlightened but not understanding, Cai Wen and Wei Han take their leave.
Meanwhile, Kasumi tries to figure out, referencing her book of ninja etiquette, how to get ninja really annoyed at you, enough to show up in force. Well, one way to get them all there would be to hire them, but a way to get them particularly angry would be to join up with them and then break the honor vow made at joining. Ahah - they did call Kasumi a traitor.
Takanata arranges for invitations to a fancy party for the evening, before everyone gathers for dinner. Cai Wen explains about Mei-Zhen not being his moll after all. Anto recalls something - stories about not breaking mirrors on the Night of Gates, lest demons come out. Anto isn't pleased by the idea of a demon possessing Mei-Zhen - that would kind of throw her under the bus, and that's what Xiao Fa is for.
Grasshopper heads back to the urchins and gets them to tell her as many stories about demons as they can think up. Kasumi trolls for ninja, and attempts to get herself recruited by them.
"I want to join you!"
"Really? Do you know who we are?"
"Um, um, I can't remember the name. The enemies of Zhu Cai Wen - what more do I need to know? He must be stopped!"
"Then you have come to the right place! We are the House of the Night Blades."
They interrogate Kasumi as to why she hates him. She frowns and says that he goes from town to town, discarding women one after the other. Ah - they understand. They tell her that since she can get close to him, she should find out who is with him this time (since it is different each time) and warn them what their strengths and weaknesses are. But tomorrow night, she must be ready to lead him to the ambush location in the warehouse district, where they will send him off. They also say that as a side effect, if they can finally capture him, they'll all get to level up!
Takanata heads to the party, bringing as much of his entourage as isn't busy, and tells embarrassing stories about Cai Wen and the House of the Night Blade. Anto looks for people at the party who might be in need favors on the Night of Gates, but none of them are really in grave peril that can only be rescued by a trip to the World Below. However, there are some sages who would not look amiss at being given something that comes from the World Below - if Anto can get something for them, they would be obliged to put their great KS skills at his disposal in recompense. Min Feng gets an invitation to go home with an attractive gentleman, but shoots him down. Cai Wen ends up invited to the after-party, which is a particularly good time until Wei Han follows him there and looms stoically in the corner.
Then Min Feng, Shen-Ji, and Kasumi go to meet the Quartermaster; Kasumi pulls off the Scary Ninja look quite well, while Shen-Ji is clearly Min Feng's business manager. Min Feng says that she is in need of antidotes for a variety of drift poisons, though only one need be Masterful. The Quartermaster says that the price is 80 li, or Min Feng's master can owe him one significant favor. She tries to haggle him down, but he cuts her off. Perhaps it was not made clear to her before, but these items are being provided at cost to the Shadow's associates for reasons of encouraging the Shadow's business; they are not for haggling over. However, he will forgive her, since she has not dealt with the Quartermaster before. Min Feng pays the 80 li, takes the antidotes, and the group escapes.
Takanata dreamwalks to the Exalted Library, on the theory that he can dream about researching Oubliette there. However, he's dreaming more about the Library than the demon, so he mostly has a research montage that gets him five bonus dreamwalking for later.
Day of Gates
Takanata heads back to the cave of the Brilliant Dawn monks. Master Jinghua says that a rule of the World Below (like the World Above) is that if there is a place, there is a path to that place. Unless someone has intentionally guarded the path, there will usually be at least one safe path, but it will often not be clear which path it is unless you have information telling you how to go. The demon Oubliette is not about one single big pit that everyone goes into - different oubliettes are essentially custom made as part of his domain. However, the one flaw in his domain is that if there is a way in, there must be a way out. It can be guarded, or locked, or warded, but it cannot be completely eliminated.
Cai Wen starts passing out flyers to urchins - they declare the downfall of the House of the Night Blades, and that he is taking on all comers. Then he and Anto and Takanata drop by the House of the Lotus again, and persuade Madame Cho to let them see the Rose Petal room. The room is lovely, with rose motifs everywhere, but there is a large grey rug covering one wall. When Anto peeks underneath the rug, there's a large mirror, with beautiful etchings with motifs of love and beauty around the edges. Takanata offers to cast the I Ching for the real Mei-Zhen, but it isn't very interesting.
Kasumi meets back up with the ninja and briefs them on the party composition - she also mentions that Zhu Cai Wen is elusive and can sometimes undo poisons, so they will definitely need to bring extra. Wei Han buys a ball of twine and a coil of rope, in case they come in handy for path-following.
Shen-Ji goes to the Ministry of Justice and makes a Bureaucracy roll to make additional charges against the imprisoned leader of the Night Blades, increasing his sentence.
That night, after dark, Cai Wen, Anto, and Wei Han head back to the House of the Lotus. They ask to see Mei-Zhen in the Rose Petal Room, and Madame Cho warns them to please be careful about the rug. Wei Han blocks the door while Anto pulls the rug away, and the reflection of Mei-Zhen winks at Cai Wen. Anto, feeling guilty about breaking such a nice mirror, holds out his hand to the reflection in invitation. She takes his hand and (after a big chi roll and one karma) steps through. The real Mei-Zhen swoons.
The reflection says that she is astonished - she had never expected that kind of offer! This is most amazing! Cai Wen and Anto jump in to try to claim that she totally owes them one for it, and she agrees that she's quite happy to be helpful. (Somewhere else, Takanata clutches his head, convinced that letting the mirror demon out more permanently was not such a good idea).
Cai Wen, trying to tread a careful line that doesn't contradict his Yet (in which Mei-Zhen didn't know it was a trap), mentions Oubliette. Mei-Zhen assures him that as long as Anto doesn't let him out, he shouldn't be a problem. Cai Wen demurs - there might be something that causes Oubliette to try and grab him. Mei-Zhen says well, keep her close and it should all be fine.
Night of Gates
The party proceeds to the battlemap, and has the combat which Takanata has foreseen. Mei-Zhen sticks close to Cai Wen until he accidentally drives her away with his smoke vial, just in time to let his soul get captured on schedule.
As Cai Wen's soul is taken to the oubliette, he is carried beneath the branches of the smoking tree, then carried towards the sound of raucous laughter, through a party of demons celebrating and marching in a parade, then by the lake where the water does not move, then where the night flowers bloom and wither, and finally through where the gate shuts and opens not. The dark shape of Oubliette gives a strange-shaped key to a dark flappy shape, which heads away with it. Cai Wen sits down in the oubliette, along with two ninja, who look excited to see him, but he taunts them until they ignore him again.
Back in the real world, Mei-Zhen fiddles with the Hunter's Map, and replaces the big "X" for "Cai Wen is here" with something that seems more like a reflection of Cai Wen - small and visible, but inaudible. In the oubliette, Cai Wen has the feeling that he's being watched but not heard, and he does his best to pantomime out the path he was taken on, and what the key looked like.
When he finishes, the group compares notes.
Treeness. Fire and smoke rising. Or a geyser. Or slow fireworks.
Listened and heard laughter.
A bumpy roof? Underwater?
Thinking head, he had no idea how to describe it.
A doorknob. Unscrewing it?
Drawing letters? OFPTO? A key? Dungeon levels? Rar.
Two prisoners on either side of him.
Min Feng also gets two words from lip-reading: "smoke tree", and Cai Wen and Takanata can send three words back and forth since Takanata decrees that Cai Wen will be successfully returned to the inn shortly after dawn. Cai Wen sends "third party demons" to Takanata, and Takanata sends back "number the challenges". Cai Wen gestures four or five, shrugging.
Then, the group (including Mei-Zhen) sticks themselves with the leftover ninja darts. They ask her for advice on how to get back - she suggests that they not forget the path. Safe paths will tend to go both ways, though they may not always be safe.
Anto pushes everyone through, and the group follows Cai Wen's silver cord for a little ways, until they reach a choice: beneath the branches of the smoking tree or across the bridge of locusts. They choose the former. That takes them to a choice between the sound of raucous laughter and the sound of grinding and singing. Again, they choose the former, and meet up with the demon parade. There are a large number of demons, marching and cheering. They have signs, elephants on strings, balloons, all sorts of things. They're psyched to see the party - more guests! Anto says they're all just passing through, and Grasshopper gives them some sour candy he bought in the hopes that demons would like it.
The demons, suspecting power, say that they would really love to get their parade out in the real world. They'd totally owe anyone who could do that for them. Takanata says firmly that he fears they cannot be of assistance. Anto asks who they are - they're The Hundred Demons! They're famous for having parades. Takanata says firmly that he fears they cannot be of assistance. Anto recalls that in stories, usually there's not a lot of people being killed or tragedy related to parades, but sometimes things go awry. Takanata says firmly that he fears they cannot be of assistance, and the group moves on.
They choose between the lake where the water does not move and where the light flickers yellow and green; this one is iffier, and Takanata tries to get distance and direction to Cai Wen (he gets something not in human terms that he doesn't understand, but thinks Crossroads would work for the choice). No one is sure, but most people think the lake is more likely, and there's a "scrrr" sound from the lake, so they go that way.
At the lake's edge is a little furry creature with fuzzy whiskers and giant tusks of death, which Anto recognizes as a baby night terror. Grasshopper cuddles it, and it noms one of his chi and then seems healthier. Anto fills his waterskin at the lake.
From the lake, they have the choice of where the night flowers bloom and wither, and where comes the smell of green grass and dry bones. This is the one Cai Wen couldn't describe (actually, it was that he had forgotten that particular leg of the path), and think that smells are harder to describe in charades than flowers, so they choose the second option.
Black Donkey
The party reaches a green field strewn with white skeletons - human, human, hippopotamus, small leviathan, etc. It's kind of creepy. In the center of the field is a black donkey, morosely chewing grass.
"I suppose you're here to bother me. Get on." -Black Donkey
"It's Eeyore!" -Kate
Anto asks if the donkey has seen their friend - the donkey is puzzled. Do they come to him for information? What do they offer him? Grasshopper gives him the disappearing hat, which the donley eats. Anto protests - that was a very valuable hat, which he has been saving for a very long time! Now the donkey owes him one! The donkey doesn't seem to think that any sort of bargain has been cut, especially since he hasn't seen Anto's friend.
Grasshopper, having heard a million demon stories from the urchins, remembers tales of the Black Donkey. He's sort of the opposite of Horse in temperament, and those who bring him riders often escape. He doesn't usually eat the rider, they just... wear out.
Wei Han suggests that they ignore the donkey and keep going - or turn back - but they seem to be in an endless green field now. Shen-Ji, impatient, offers to ride.
"That strikes me as a noble sacrifice." -Takanata
"If I ride you for nine rounds, will you let nine of them go?" -Shen-Ji
"If you ride me, I will let all the rest go." -Black Donkey
"For how long?"
"For as long as you can."
Basically, if the party offers a rider, he will let everyone else go. But if the rider wants to get off, they must offer something else. Anto wishes that he had brought the spirit grass after all, and the Donkey's ears twitch. Anto has spirit grass? No, no, he doesn't actually.
"I'm sure you gave all your spirit grass to Horse." -Black Donkey
On the other hand, they have Horse points, which are valuable. He's willing to take one horse point each to let them go. Shen-Ji haggles - How about a combination? The Donkey agrees - if Shen-Ji rides him, then he need only spend horse points to get off. The first round costs nine points to get off. The second, eight. And so on.
When Shen-Ji gets on, the rest find that they are free to leave. They stick around to see how Shen-Ji does, however, and various people pick up bones from the ground. Anto pockets some squirrel bones and Min Feng picks up some tiny leviathan bones.
Round 1: 5 riding successes. Good.
Round 2: 4 riding successes. Enough
Round 3: 6 riding successes. Cruising.
Round 4: 7 riding successes. Doing well
Round 5: 6 riding successes. Still enough.
Round 6: 4 riding successes. Lower two main stats by one. (Shen-Ji loses a point from each Body substat and a point from each Social substat).
"Think hard about how long that lasts before you decide if you're ever rolling those dice again." -Takanata
People watching Shen-Ji think he looks older. However, he decides to go for it.
Round 7: 8 riding successes. That's fine.
Round 8: 4 riding successes. Okay, that is going to hurt. He spends four karma to get up to eight successes, and takes no damage.
Round 9: He spends a horse point, and gets off.
The group backtracks, and does not choose the smell of grass and bones this time, but where the night flowers bloom and wither. That brings them to a choice between where the gate shuts and opens not, and where the wind blows ceaselessly with tears. Choosing the former they come to a gate, which is shut and opens not, locked with an ornate lock. Min Feng tries to pick it, to no avail. Wei Han looks around for a key, but does not find one immediately evident.
Min Feng walks through the gate, and finds herself in the oubliette with Cai Wen and the two ninja. She quickly disguises herself as a ninja and mocks them for getting a raw deal, but they think it was a fine trade - two of them to make sure Cai Wen was captured, and now their House can un-doom itself. They've fulfilled their end of the bargain now, finally. However, ten minutes later, she finds she is not so easily able to walk back out. Hmm.
Outside, Anto looks around the gate and finds some birdlike tracks. Grasshopper and Ho follow the tracks for a ways and then the baby night terror manages to follow them for a little longer, and they lead to a boundary with the World of Dreams.
Takanata asks Mei-Zhen what the flappy thing is likely to be - she says that such creatures are commonly used as messengers. The group contemplates how to deal with the World of Dreams. Takanata has dreamwalking, but he has used it already to visit the Exalted Library. Anto can push people into the World of Dreams from the World Below, but he will have no Wu-Xing type powers there.
Anto raises an earth wall for defense, and he and Wei Han remain behind while the others go into the World of Dreams, except Takanata.
Takanata says he'll be back in ten minutes, and then auspiciously arrives in the Oubliette with Cai Wen and the others. That works, but he isn't able to leave back out again when the scene is through. Cai Wen refreshes his dreamwalking shtick, but even when he dreamwalks, he can only dream of the Oubliette - kind of like the Northern dreamworld. He tries to, from the dreamworld, auspiciously arrive to meet the others, and manages to join Cai Wen as an image on the Hunter's Map. He holds up a picture of the key that Cai Wen and Min Feng have put together, but by this time, the others have mostly reached the key on their own...
Meanwhile, the rest of the party chases the flappy thing around the dreamworld until they finally catch up to it thanks to some memory rolls and karma reminding them about what Cai Wen pantomimed the key's appearance as. When they catch up to the flappy thing, it's carrying the key and is flapping its way up a road with a sign saying "To Lucky Chang's House". Grasshopper shoots the flappy thing, the night terror attacks it, Shen-Ji blasts it, Grasshopper leaps up to it for the knockout tackle and brings it down. They take the key and start backtracking towards Anto.
Wei Han senses the presence of people who want to break into the World Below, through this Wall here, which about seems to fit the number of PCs (and critters) along. Trying to pull Ho back in, Anto has a sense that the Wall is nearly closing on his hand, but manages to get him back too. The group returns with the key, and successfully opens the gate - Takanata, Wei Han, Min Feng, and two ninja zip out.
Retracing their steps along the path (except for the bit with the Black Donkey), the group gets back to the Hundred Demons. They are interested to see that Anto has more companions again, and try to offer him various favors, but Takanata says firmly that he fears they cannot be of assistance, and sheperds everyone along again.
A Last Possibility for Betrayal
As Anto gets ready to send everyone back to the Material World, some people suggest that he strand Mei-Zhen away from her body - she is a demon, after all. She protests - that would be cruel, especially after she helped rescue Cai Wen! Anto wonders if he could pull her body in - maybe at her mirror, but they're not at her mirror. If he could shove people back and forth physically, they would all be here physically.
Anto suggests that she pay him in favors for being sent back. She starts to get angry - he isn't charging everyone else to not trap them forever and powerless in the World Below.
Mei-Zhen turns her wiles on Cai Wen. Bringing her through the mirror was very generous, and she's willing to be very generous with him later this evening. Cai Wen says that he wants her agreement to go back into the mirror afterwards. Well, what are they going to offer her for that? Bringing her back to her body, Cai Wen says. What, really? He's threatening to strand her and let her body starve unless she submits to this sort of extortion? She helped rescue him!
Takanata notes that she's not really much more powerful than Pir Pir - maybe a little more flexible. And the tengu are all the way in the Material World without destroying the world. However, the thought of getting favors from a possibly disadvantaged demon is too good to resist, so Cai Wen continues to press.
"Let's talk about favors..." -Cai Wen
"I'm starting to be a little creeped out here with all this 'do what we want or else' stuff. I've already offered you my favors..." -Mei-Zhen
Takanata jumps in - he thinks the main thing to get her to agree to is to not take over anyone else's life. She can't be Mei-Zhen forever and make her not wake up or destroy her reputation or anything like that. She counter-offers a one-shot perfectly impenetrable disguise, but the party decides that the "no taking over lives" is the way to go, and she agrees, still somewhat cross about the whole extortion thing.
Anto pushes everyone back through to the Material World (he is able to bring back the demon water from the lake, but everything else he and everyone else picked up does not return with them).
Min Feng plays with the puzzle box one last time, and manages to get it open - there is an amulet of protection inside.
Puttering
Xiao Fa has begun to do kata at dawn, developing his new martial style.
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Home | News | Justifying a deed of company arrangement – the case of Britax vs Infa Products
Justifying a deed of company arrangement – the case of Britax vs Infa Products
By John Keenan and Peter Krejci
In a recent matter involving the appointment of BRI Ferrier’s Peter Krejci and Robyn Karam as voluntary administrators, a major creditor (by value) challenged the deed of company arrangement (DOCA) incorporating a creditors’ trust that had been accepted by vote of all other creditors (by number) and the administrators’ casting vote.
Infa Products Pty Ltd was a child car-seat manufacturing company that had operated in the Australian market. However, approximately five years before the voluntary administration (VA) appointment it had sold its business operations to a related company, Infa Secure Pty Ltd. Shortly before the administrators’ appointment, the remaining business assets and intellectual property were also sold.
Britax Childcare Pty Ltd, a major creditor and primary competitor, had brought a series of legal claims against Infa Products, relating to various alleged breaches of intellectual property. The litigation ran for a number of years until Infa Products was no longer financially able to defend the case, at which point it sought to appoint voluntary administrators.
Britax was clearly frustrated that Infa Products had been placed into voluntary administration when they were so close to the end of the protracted intellectual property litigation. Furthermore, upon realisation that Infa Products had sold many of its assets, Britax took offence at the asset disposal transactions, and alleged that they had not been undertaken for a proper purpose or for proper value.
A substantial portion of the administrators’ efforts were spent investigating and reporting on the asset disposal transactions, so that creditors could be properly informed when deciding the fate of Infa Products.
The VA appointment and vote for a DOCA
When the administrators were appointed in December 2015, Infa Products’ balance sheet included only cash, debtors and liabilities.
The administrators immediately undertook a proper and thorough investigation of the company’s affairs and the conduct of its officers, including the previous asset disposals. They concluded that, while there may have been potential claims against the director and related parties, a liquidation was unlikely to result in a higher return to creditors as compared to the proposed DOCA.
In accordance with the objectives of Part 5.3A of the Corporations Act, they were obliged to recommend the DOCA.
The second creditors’ meeting ended in a deadlock on the vote, with all minor creditors voting for the proposed DOCA and Britax (the largest creditor by value) voting for liquidation. This meant the administrators had to exercise a casting vote and did so in line with their recommendation in favour of the DOCA.
Legal proceedings against the administrator
Following the vote and execution of the DOCA, Britax brought legal proceedings to overturn the DOCA and the conduct of the administration. It obtained an injunction preventing the deed administrators from executing the creditors’ trust pending the outcome of the proceedings.
Britax asserted that a liquidator may have been able to pursue actions against Infa Products’ director, including claims for accessorial liability against related parties. It also asserted that the administrators’ investigations were insufficient and that they had wrongly exercised their casting vote to carry the DOCA.
To not prejudice the other creditors, Britax offered funding to cover the projected dividend of those creditors under the DOCA. Further, to support the asserted claims in a liquidation, Britax offered limited funding for a liquidator to conduct further investigations.
The court subsequently scrutinised the administrators’ investigations, reporting and their views formed as a result of their investigations.
During the proceedings, the deed administrators as defendants maintained a predominantly ‘neutral’ position, acting for the benefit of all creditors including Britax, and informing the court as to the facts and their views.
In July 2016, the court ruled overwhelmingly in the administrators’ favour, vindicating them in respect of the work they conducted and their recommendation in favour of the DOCA.
The judge, in effect, found that the administrators had conducted complete and thorough investigations of the relevant transactions and had fully reported their findings to creditors. In some regards, he thought that the administrators may have even been optimistic in terms of some of the potential claims that may have been brought in a liquidation, which in the absence of any contradictory expert evidence from Britax, suggests the DOCA represented even greater comparative value.
The judge was therefore not satisfied that there was a realistic prospect of a case against Infa Products’ director succeeding in a liquidation. He concluded that the administrators were correct to exercise their casting vote in favour of the DOCA.
Ultimately, the judge dismissed the application by Britax, lifted the injunction preventing the creditors’ trust from being executed and awarded costs in favour of the deed administrators and Infa Products.
Lessons from the case
This case demonstrates that while the courts provide a forum for review, just because a creditor with overwhelming value may have a particular view (and possibly an underlying commercial agenda), this does not necessarily dictate the outcome of the administration.
By undertaking a proper process, with a thorough investigation, the administrators were able to reach a reasonable outcome for all creditors in the circumstances – an outcome that stood up to scrutiny and concluded many years of litigation.
Reflecting on the pitfalls of long-running litigation, it’s worth noting that Britax may have been able to settle their claims with Infa Products in the lead-up to the administration. This, with the benefit of hindsight, would have represented a far better financial return than Britax is now faced with, having lost the challenge to the DOCA and being the subject of an adverse costs order.
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The Age Has Googled A Ferry Disaster
The Age is running a story about Google Maps at the moment and the apparent “ferry disaster” in Sydney Cove:
The ferry “collision” appears right beside a giant cruise liner – either the Queen Elizabeth 2 or Queen Mary 2 – which was docked at Sydney Cove when the photographs were taken.
The image appears to show a ferry travelling at full speed colliding with a smaller boat. Metres away, another boat appears submerged under water except for the tip of its nose. Source: theage.com.au
Google have said that this is just an image stitching issue. The interesting thing is that the Age couldn’t be bothered to research their story properly. Two things indicate that the Liner in question is in fact the Queen Elizabeth 2: the fact that she is berthed facing out into the harbour, whereas the Queen Victoria was facing Circular Quay; and secondly, a quick Google revealed that the call-sign on the roof of the Bridge “GBTT” belongs to the QE2.
Link to Google Map [^], with the QE2’s call sign clearly visible.
Sydney – Two Queens
Mar 3rd, 2008
The CannibalRabbits are just back from Sydney. We headed up there to see the passing of the two Queens – Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth 2 and the new Queen Victoria.
There are more photos on the Photo Gallery [^]
We were lucky enough to have booked a harbour cruise for the big event. This meant that we had grandstand seats to watch the passing of the two Queens. It was amazing the number of people that decided to join us the shores of the Harbour all around Mrs Macquaries Seat and Cremorne Point and Ashton Park on the north side of the Harbour were absolutely crowded. On the Harbour itself had every size of vessel from ten-foot tinnies up to the 90,000 ton, 965 foot long, 179 foot tall Queen Victoria.
The passing was billed by Cunard as a Royal Rendezvous. This was the QE2’s 29th and final visit to Sydney, and marked the 30th anniversary of her first visit to Sydney on the 24th February 1978. Once this world cruise is over she will be turned into a luxury floating hotel in Dubai. The Queen Victoria was on her maiden world voyage. While passing on either side of Fort Denison the liners sounded a whistle salute, which could heard 16km (10miles) away.
Cunard Press Release [^]
Sydney Morning Herald Photo Gallery:
Queen Victoria [^]
Queen Elizabeth 2 [^]
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Delicious Video Game box arts are my favourite thing about this industry. A lot of games over the years have had great box arts while others have had abominations. Anyways here are the top 10 video game box arts of all time.
Some may say recency bias, but I don’t think so. I fell in love with the Devil May Cry 5 box art the minute it was revealed. First of all, it’s the best Devil May Cry box art of all time. No question. And secondly, it just looks incredibly slick and stylish. You have Nero, Dante and V walking like it’s them against the world, and you see demons hidden in the background. Plus the logo is stunning. It’s an excellent boxart all around.
9. The Legend of Zelda Majora’s Mask 3D
I’m usually not a fan of crowded box arts like Dragon Ball Tenkaichi 3 or Persona 5, but The Legend of Zelda Majora’s Mask boxart is one of a kind. It’s a very different boxart for a Zelda game. It’s dark, gritty and mysterious with Skull Kid at the very top and the moon looking as angry as ever.
8. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
This one was actually my phone background for a long time. Believe it or not us in Europe got a different boxart. It still looks great, but the North American Breath of the Wild Boxart is one of the greatest of all time and the best Zelda boxart. You get a sense of revolution and new beginning when looking at this box art, and that’s what Breath of the Wild is all about. A fresh start.
7. NieR Automata (Japanese)
It’s an absolute shame that we in the west got the horrible western box art. The western box art was such a mess compared to this gorgeously designed Japanese box art. What was Square Enix even thinking? Did they believe that this beautiful Japanese boxart would not appeal to the west? Crazy. Thankfully this was fixed in the Game of the Year version, but I’m still annoyed that it took two whole years before the west got this amazing box art.
6. Metal Gear Solid 3
It wouldn’t be right to make a “Best Video Game Box Arts of all Time” without at least one Metal Gear Solid box art making the list. So here it is. Metal Gear Solid 3. Yoji Shinkawa is a legend, and all Metal Gear games have excellent box arts.
5. Kingdom Hearts III
I still remember being in complete shock when Square Enix revealed this box art on Twitter. The box art for Kingdom Hearts 3 is incredibly good. The whole gang is there, and it looks like a shoutout to the original Kingdom Hearts box art. 10/10
4. DOOM 2016 Alternative Cover
DOOM 2016 doesn’t have a good cover. In fact, it’s very mediocre, but the good thing is the game came with an alternative box art. I actually did not notice this alternative box art until I finished the game and got really mad with myself for not seeing it earlier. This should have been the official box art, but the good thing is the Switch version of the game has this beautiful piece of art as the official box art so all is well.
3. Kingdom Hearts Final Mix
This boxart is cool. Yes, I think the word “cool” sums up this boxart pretty well. Everyone looks so smug and overconfident in this boxart. Sora is sitting like he can do no wrong, Riku looks like he’s about to conquer the world and Kairi looks like she doesn’t have any time for fun and games. This is such a simple yet beautifully designed box art.
2. Demon Souls (Japanese)
As I type this, I’m just thinking of a glorious 4k Demon Souls remake. Yum. Demon Souls has the best boxart out of all the Souls games including Bloodborne. Look at this and tell me this is a bad box art. Again this is a simple yet striking piece of art.
1. Kingdom Hearts
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A brief review of Indian Education in Natal 1962
Indian education in Natal upon the arrival of the immigrants was initiated by at least: two Church missions in the country, the Church of S.A. and the Wesleyan .
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When primary education for the children of a community is limited to Standard IV for a period of 30 years, it goes without saying that this situation evinces apathy on the part of the Authorities! Such was the "chaotic" situation of Indian primary education in Natal from 1869 to l 899.
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A man of rare parts and unique ability Dr. Arthur Dawson Lazarus was the eldest son of Mr. Dossen Lazarus of Dannhauser. He was born in Durban on 14 January, 1903. During his early life he was faced with numerous difficulties.
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Embroiled in controversy and political strife, and disadvantaged by major financial and resource deprivation, the University of Natal Medical School has nevertheless survived and prospered for nearly 50 years - and has made a unique contribution to medical education in the Southern African sub-co
Natal University and the question of autonomy (non-white education 1959-1962)
On the 7 March 1963 a plaque was erected in the Students Union of the University of This plaque states that: Natal, Durban. "The right of this University to determine who shall be admitted as students was taken away in May 1959 and restored ..
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La Palma Island is widely known as the “pretty island” thanks to its landscapes, forests, streams and beaches. The clarity of its night sky has meant that the Observatory of the Roque de Los Muchachos, situated on the highest point of La Palma, has become a world reference point for Astrophysics, thanks to the installation of the Great Canarian Telescope, currently the telescope with the largest and most powerful lens in the world. Moreover, its natural treasures include the forest of El Canal and Los Tiles, which is one of the best examples of laurel forest, and is recognized as a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO; as well as the National Park of the Crater of Taburiente.
La Palma coast, Canary Islands
• Surface: 708.32 square kilometres.
• Highest point: Roque de Los Muchachos, at 2,423 m.
• Protected nature reserves: 20.
– Complete Nature Reserves: Pinar de Garafía .
– Natural Monuments: Azufre, the Volcanoes of Aridane, the Risco de La Concepción, La Costa de Hiscaguán, the Barranco
del Jurado, the Volcanoes of Teneguía, the Volcanic Tube of Todoque and Idafe.
– Protected Landscapes: Tablado, Barranco de Las Angustias, Tamanca and Remo.
– Places of Scientific Interest: Juan Mayor, Barranco del Agua, and Las Salinas de Fuencaliente.
– Nature Parks: Las Nieves and Cumbre Vieja.
– National Park: La Caldera (The Crater) of Taburiente.
• Biosphere Reserve: The whole island.
• Marine Reserve: of the Island of La Palma.
• Typical flora: endemic species such as Echium aconthocarpum, violets of La Palma, the Canary pine (Pinus canariensis), and Lotus pyranthus.
• Typical fauna: local birds such as the crow (Corvus frugilegus), the chaffinch, Bolle’s pigeon (Columba bollii), the laurel pigeon (Columba junoniae), and the grasshopper (Acrostira euphorbiae).
• Population: 85,933 inhabitants*.
• Capital: Santa Cruz de La Palma.
The city has an important harbour which receives cruise ships and merchant ships, and was the third most important port of the Spanish Empire in the 16th century. It has a rich artistic heritage in the Flemish, Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical styles, as well as a colonial air, with buildings whose architecture is traditional.
• Municipalities: 14/ Barlovento, Breña Alta, Breña Baja, Fuencaliente de La Palma, Villa de Garafía, Los Llanos de Aridane, El Paso, Puntagorda, Puntallana, San Andrés y Sauces, Santa Cruz de La Palma, Villa y Puerto de Tazacorte, Tijarafe and Villa de Mazo.
• Airports: 1/ Mazo Airport.
• Passenger Ports: 2/ Port of Santa Cruz de La Palma and Port of Tazacorte.
• Yachting marinas: 2/ Port of Santa Cruz de La Palma and Port of Tazacorte.
• Public hospitals: 1/ General Hospital of La Palma.
• Number of tourists catered for: 10,717*.
• Number of hotel beds: 3,762.
• Number of beds in apartments, etc.: 6,087.
• Number of beds in rural houses: 868.
• Museums: 13/ Naval Museum, Island Museum, Archaeological Museum Benahoarita, Ethnographic Museum Casa Luján, Museum of Silk and Cultural Heritage, Museum of the Corpus, Museum of Gofio, Museum of Wine, Museum of the Banana, Casa del Maestro, Museum Molino El Regente, Museum Ramón Rodríguez Martín, and the Sacred Museum of the Church of Our Lady of the Remedios.
• Gastronomy: Andalusian soups, vegetable broth, chickpeas, fish, pork with red mojo (spicy sauce), fresh fish, local desserts made with fresh products, milk bread and almond cheese.
• Denominations of origin: 2/ Regulatory Authority of the Denomination of Origin Vinos de La Palma and Regulatory Authority of the Protected Denomination of Origin Queso Palmero.
• Public holidays: Carnival (The Indians), Corpus in Villa de Mazo, Day of the Cross in Santa Cruz de La Palma (Fiesta de Los Mayos) and the Breñas, Festival of San Antonio del Monte in Garafía, the Procession of the Virgin of the Pine (every three years) in El Paso, Moors and Christians in Barlovento, Festival of the Flowering Almonds in Puntagorda, Festivals of the Devil in Tijarafe and local festivals in Fuencaliente and Tazacorte.
• Places of interest: Crater of Taburiente, World Biosphere Reserve of Los Tilos, Salinas (natural salt works) de Fuencaliente, Roque de Los Muchachos (Observatory), and the Volcano of Tenguía.
Tags: Canaries travel information, La Palma travel information
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Permanent Removal of Left Turn Lanes on Eglinton Avenue East at Birchmount Road
Thu, 2019-11-07
In order to accommodate the future Birchmount Stop construction, the left turn lanes on Eglinton Avenue East at Birchmount Road will be removed..
In order to accommodate the future Birchmount Stop construction, the left turn lanes on Eglinton Avenue East at Birchmount Road will be removed.
The westbound left turn lane on Eglinton Avenue East at Birchmount Road will be removed as early as November 13, 2019.
The eastbound left turn lane on Eglinton Avenue East at Birchmount Road will be removed as early as December 9, 2019.
Eastbound and westbound left turns onto Birchmount Road will be prohibited.
Additionally, following the Eglinton Crosstown Project completion in September 2021, this left turn removal will remain in place to support the light rail transit operations along Eglinton Avenue.
Westbound left turns will be available at nearby intersections, including Warden Avenue, Rosemount Drive and Kennedy Road.
• The westbound left turn lane will be removed as early as November 13 2019 and will remain closed permanently.
• The eastbound left turn lane will be removed as early as December 9 2019 and will remain closed permanently.
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• Westbound left turns on Eglinton Avenue East at Birchmount Road will be permanently prohibited
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• The south sidewalk on Eglinton Avenue East between Birchmount Road and Rosemount Drive will be temporarily restricted, pedestrians will be rerouted.
• Westbound and eastbound left turns on Eglinton Avenue East at Birchmount Road will be permanently prohibited
• Left turns will be available at Warden Avenue, Rosemount Drive and Kennedy Road.
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• Temporary TTC bus stops will remain in their current locations.
• Relocation and re-routing of bus stops and buses is done in consultation with TTC to ensure construction can continue safely, while minimizing impact on the community and customers
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Spotify and Hulu to Offer New Combo Plan According to Variety, the new monthly subscription will give users access to both services for $12. 🙂 The best part?. By using our website and our services, you agree to our use of cookies as described in our Cookie Policy. Amazon Channels: how to subscribe to HBO Go, Showtime and Starz bundles By Joe Osborne 2017-07-06T21:20:04. Also, you can switch among plans or cancel your plan at any moment. In your purchase history, you can do these things: See a complete list of your purchases from the App Store and iTunes Store. Showtime and Hulu have partnered with Spotify Premium on Spotify's Premium for Students plan, which offers students Spotify Premium, Hulu with limited commercials and Showtime for $4. Plus, record 200 hours of entertainment with Genie DVR. 99 per month for all three. Available for Android, iPhone and Windows 10 Mobile. 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My device is Amazon Fire TV. Spotify has also confirmed subscribers who paid $12. Today, Spotify boasts over 75 million users in over 58 countries. After signing up, you'll get a text message with an activation link, where you can complete the Hulu registration process. Already using Hulu or SHOWTIME? You need to switch your billing to Spotify:. Roku Support Setup and troubleshooting Content partners Channel contact list Channel contact list Here you'll find an alphabetized list of links to our top channel providers' support websites. Here's a step-by-step guide detailing how you fund your account using Hulu gift cards. The former deal, which included access to ad-free music streaming and ad-supported TV, is now available. Big packs for a. 99 price, starting today. It should be able to provide a consistent download speed of at least 1 to 2 megabits per second (Mbps) for normal video, 5 Mbps for high-definition video, and 25 Mbps for UHD. 95 Value) Order DIRECTV today for just $59. 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In 2011, the Swedish start-up launched in the United States. Info and conditions on this page or on spotify. The dangers of venoms are well documented, but these deadly toxins can also save lives. click on the tab labeled "your services' and activate your accounts through there. For purchases at VUDU. » RELATED: Spotify, Hulu team up for $5 bundle package. Motilal Oswal Midcap 30 Fund Direct-Growth🔴Stream>> ☑How Long To Activate Ipvanish Vpn For Iphone ☑How Long To Activate Ipvanish Vpn For Android Phone ☑How Long To Activate Ipvanish > USA download nowhow to How Long To Activate Ipvanish for Business. Spotify and Hulu are joining forces in an attempt to draw more subscribers to their platforms. com and at Walmart stores in the US. Music fans around the world have been enthralled by Spotify, the very successful digital music service. 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Get his official bio, social pages, articles and more online!. Using the voice control functionality of the Amazon Echo, you can tell Alexa what to do with your Wemo devices. Sign in ; Find the phone ; Tap View and change plans and services; Tap Change my services; Under Apps check Spotify Premium; Tap Save. showtimeanytime. HELP!!! Please UPVOTE this post to get Spotify: 1 BWS-Fizz: 05/142/2019 - 11:59PM: PS3 Spotify app is completely broken. AT&T "Unlimited & More Premium" customers. Available for iPad, Android tablets, Windows and Kindle Fire HD. Get instant and unlimited access to commercial-free, award-winning SHOWTIME original series, can't miss movies, groundbreaking documentaries, laugh-out-loud comedy specials, hard-hitting sports and much more. 99 a month for the addition. Hello, I am a spotify premium member with the student bundle. Once you've signed up for Spotify Premium for Students, go to your Spotify account overview to activate your Hulu and SHOWTIME plans. 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You can add HBO to your Hulu plan and start watching HBO original series, hit movies, comedy specials, documentaries, and more. Pocket-lint. In 2011, the Swedish start-up launched in the United States. As of today, Spotify is adding another perk without upping the price: Showtime. co’s Ad Builder tool makes it simple to create and launch audio ads where people are already engaging with music. TiVo is the global leader in entertainment technology innovations and insights. Gracenote is the leader in entertainment metadata, helping people connect to the music, TV shows, movies and sports they love across the world’s most popular entertainment platforms and devices, from Apple to Amazon to Comcast and Ford. To use your SHOWTIME account with this offer, just cancel your existing SHOWTIME billing and, after the billing date has passed, activate SHOWTIME from your Spotify Services page. As you explore Spotify. There are other Gifts too. Find your yodel. Showtime and Hulu have partnered with Spotify Premium for a new students plan. Browse thousands of free and paid apps by category, read user reviews, and compare ratings. com forward slash activate, it is showtimeanytime com backslash activate. Installing Spotify++ you can use the streaming platform for free with premium features forever. StarTalk returns to the main stage in front of a packed house at NY Comic Con. The Amazon’s Choice, the Roku Express, is currently the cheapest option available. The new deal is an. I have a Capital One online account. You can then begin watching at www. If you have a current student membership with them, you can still activate the Hulu and Showtime subscription, which means you're practically paying nothing!. Available for iPad, Android tablets, Windows and Kindle Fire HD. SHOWTIME ANYTIME is available at no additional cost as part of your SHOWTIME® subscription through participating providers. At Spotify, we’ve got insights inside our DNA. Excludes rate plan change and SIM swaps. 99 per month. Why connect my Google account? Linking your Google account allows you to activate One Touch quickly and easily when you check out. You can always opt out later in Settings at PayPal. Studio One’s tools are about creating something new and re-shaping the familiar into something new—not merely documenting something created elsewhere. We have documentation and videos to answer your questions. Spotify is once again teaming up with Hulu to offer free video-on-demand subscriptions. All your favorite music, podcasts, and radio stations available for free. The downside to this bundle is you can’t use a Spotify family plan or activate any add-ons with Hulu. It’s pretty simple, and we’ve included some photos to help guide you! First, start with your headphones powered off. The free deal runs until September 5th, and doesn't lapse into a bill. So instead of paying $17. PlayStation Vue, the best live streaming tv services offers live and on demand tv programs on your favorite devices - no PlayStation® console required. To sign in to HBO NOW, enter the code from your TV on this page. But that is no longer available. The Codys are back, and the ties that bind them are about to be stretched to the limit when TNT's hit Animal Kingdom returns for its third season. At Spotify, we’ve got insights inside our DNA. Get your loyalty barcode for free by downloading our mobile app or finding us on Facebook Messenger. Spotify Premium for Students + Hulu gives you access to both Spotify and Hulu's ad-supported plan under one monthly subscription. It's possible to get Spotify Premium on an iPhone or a computer. 4 Days of Adventure & Human Connection. After that the plan will adjust to the regular price of $12. Click Activate Now and add Hulu to your account. I have activated showtime and it worked, but when i went to activate Hulu it told me my email has already been used, even though it has not. To use your SHOWTIME account with this offer, just cancel your existing SHOWTIME billing and, after the billing date has passed, activate SHOWTIME from your Spotify Services page. Spotify and Hulu are further sweetening their student subscription offer by adding a monthly Showtime subscription into the mix, pricing everything at $0. Now, let proceed to how to activate showtime anytime on all devices of your choice. COUPON (4 days ago) Spotify Premium has just changed the content game for students. The student fee includes extra perks such as unlimited instant streaming of movies, TV shows and music. Spotify already had a good thing going by bundling Spotify Premium and Hulu for $12. It's possible to get Spotify Premium on an iPhone or a computer. How to Get a Student Discount on Spotify. Free with your SHOWTIME subscription. You can play music from Spotify, Pocket-lint. Spotify has also confirmed subscribers who paid $12. Not all hope lost there. If you are a new HBO subscriber. Your search for great deals and coupon savings ends here. You can start off with a free 30-day trial, after which you'll pay a monthly fee. PlayStation Vue, the best live streaming tv services offers live and on demand tv programs on your favorite devices - no PlayStation® console required. Get the data you need for the apps you love with M1 Prepaid. The downside to this bundle is you can’t use a Spotify family plan or activate any add-ons with Hulu. Enter your account information. Some of them have additional ways to log in to their services and the support teams of a few others have managed to help me out too. com video player can help you catch up if you miss your favorite shows and if you're in a supported market, you can also watch a live stream. Once the app loads to the main menu, you will be all set to go. GPUs in the Task Manager We’re excited to introduce support for GPU performance data in the Task Manager. Browse thousands of free and paid apps by category, read user reviews, and compare ratings. From your favorite new single to your Spotify playlists, your Echo has never been quite as good as waking you up as it is today. Report a problem with an app or other item. But they've gone. Unlike Spotify's $4. Existing users can visit their Spotify account services pages to activate the plan; new users can sign up and receive the first 30 days for free. Just what new college kids need: more cheap distractions. com You currently pay Hulu directly and not through a third party (e. You can now get Hulu and Spotify Premium combined for $12. You may withdraw your consent at any time. So, let’s get started on some Cortana keyboard shortcuts. All screen images simulated. The SHOWTIME app is a standalone streaming service that enables anyone with a high-speed internet connection in the U. How to Get Hulu Plus for Free With Spotify For Students to verify your student status in order to activate the deal. 99 each month. 99 subscription plan for students. This article was produced during Gadget Hacks' annual Movies & TV on Mobile special coverage. 7 squarecubed: 05/142/2019 - 12:06AM: Playstation music: 1 redrainbow569-re: 04/111/2019 - 8:22AM: Audio Compact Disc play-ability in 2K19: 1 DavisRulez: 04/98/2019 - 9:35AM: Unable to link my spotify account because it is. Showtime Anytime is a free and awesome Entertainment app. 99 for the first three months and $4. com October 17, 2017 ACTIVATE TECH & MEDIA OUTLOOK 2018 2. Notice: You are receiving this message for one of three reasons: Your account is past due and needs to be brought up to date. Installing Spotify++ you can use the streaming platform for free with premium features forever. To sign in to HBO NOW, enter the code from your TV on this page. Give the gift of fun with a Nintendo eShop Card. We landed a couple of new customers, and were named a preferred vendor for two major service companies. Your story-telling style is witty, keep doing what you’re doing! And you can. Free Spotify Premium offer: Available for new and existing Sky TV customers. To use your SHOWTIME account with this offer, just cancel your existing SHOWTIME billing and, after the billing date has passed, activate SHOWTIME from your Spotify Services page. Click on subscription from the menu on the left side. Where to Start. AirPlay 2 effortlessly streams your music, videos, photos, podcasts, and games from many Apple devices to speakers in multiple rooms or to your TV. For two days only this weekend, anyone with a Roku set-top box can extend their free Hulu trial period from one week to two months. 2 Likes Re: can't log into showtime with student spotify account. Refresh your product page. netTALK provides Residential VoIP Phone Service which features Free Worldwide In-Network Calls and Unlimited 4G LTE Business Wireless Cellular Service at an affordable low-cost price with no contracts. Enjoy SHOWTIME's critically-acclaimed original series like Homeland, Ray Donovan, Shameless, Billions and more — all available through XFINITY On Demand!. Available without a contract on loads of devices. To access Showtime Anytime®, you'll need to enable JavaScript. While you could also just use the Alexa Voice Remote of your Fire TV, we recommend using a standalone Echo because the Fire TV doesn't play nice with Spotify. Prime Music Prime Music: This service includes over 2 million songs that are curated by experts. Select your wireless network and press the three striped button on your remote to forget the network. You can opt for their Plus program that provides unlimited access and streaming for $8 per month. 99 each month. By joining forces with SHOWTIME and continuing our relationship with Hulu, Spotify Premium is now able to give students a complete world of music and video content, shows and film. be sure to use your spotify email for showtime or it may not work. If you have any questions about Cortana, please start a new thread. One of our customers saw significant growth, and hasn't slowed down. Enter the activation code to start watching Code is case sensitive. Hulu itself doesn't offer a student discount, but you can get free access through Spotify's student discount program. Fiio M11 problem with amazon music. Now, the music streaming service sweetened the deal even more by no longer charging extra for a. 186Z Television What it is, how it works and the best channels so far. Hey, Spotify Student Users! You Can Now Get Hulu For Free With Your Spotify Account. Skype for Xbox One makes. com programs online. 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This thread has been locked. spotify hulu | spotify hulu | spotify and hulu | spotify hulu bundle | spotify hulu students | spotify hulu login | spotify and hulu bundle | spotify hulu activ Toggle navigation F reekeyworddifficultytool. Hulu with Live TV has a pretty elegant app, which is good – but it also has its own app, which is bad. For purchases at VUDU. Installing Spotify++ you can use the streaming platform for free with premium features forever. The Joe Pags Show originates from 1200 WOAI in San Antonio and can be heard on affiliate stations around the country and on the iHeartRadio app. By using our website and our services, you agree to our use of cookies as described in our Cookie Policy. Watch favorites from Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, HBO, SHOWTIME, NBC, Sling TV and more. iHeartRadio. 99 per month. Let's take a look at how to set up a music alarm with your Amazon Echo devices to help get your day started right. Get a free trial. com/spotify to activate and link your SHOWTIME account to Spotify Premium for Students. In this article, we take you through how to use your Showtime account or Showtime Anytime account to activate Showtime Anytime on any device. The SHOWTIME app is a standalone streaming service that enables anyone with a high-speed internet connection in the U. Click the Activate button for each service. Please select the language to the Corporate Site. It's just one way. Stream the best selection of gripping true crime, political thrillers, and dramatic series. With AirServer running in the background, beam over your favourite music from Spotify or Apple Music on your iOS device, into your favourite games. [email protected] Access to Hulu Limited Commercials normally costs $8 a month, and Showtime normally costs $11 a month, so if you were going to subscribe to all of this anyway you could save $24 a month. The offer will remain open until June 10 th, 2019 or while supplies last. To sign in to HBO NOW, enter the code from your TV on this page. The Hulu promo is available through June 10, and is only for the basic plan with ads. Sign up on your mobile phone. Live better. Spotify Technology S. Free trials are a great way to test out products before a purchase, or simply for the exploitation of free stuff for that limited amount of time. Gift card fundraising is the solution for every nonprofit. [email protected] Amazon Music by Richter Di Nov 1, 2019; 23 I Need Help, why is my Shopping cart on a side bar! Forum Lounge by Another_Me Nov 1, 2019; 23 Can't get past "manually connect to Echo Dot" screen to complete WiFi setup. "You get both Spotify Premium for Students and Hulu's Limited Commercials plan for just $4. When you sign up for the student premium account, you can get to Hulu and showtime in one of two ways. Sign up today for a 5-day free trial. (1) check your email sent an email and follow the steps to activate Hulu and showtime OR (2) go to spotify and sign in to your account. You will have to manually activate Hulu from within your Spotify account. You can use the so-called app only if you want to stream on a small screen. You will receive a text message with an activation link. To find out more, just get in touch with our team on 150 for free from your Virgin Media phone or 0345 454 1111 from another line. An adult escape, uniquely curated to appeal to all five of your senses, with world-class music, hilarious comedy, inspiring contemporary art, gourmet cuisine, and craft libations. 00, Cards beginning with 6006 not accepted) American Airlines (All cards are held by Raise for 45 day(s), All travel related cards will be held a minimum of 45 days from the activation date. Singtel Mobile | Skip the queue, shop online, compare phones & get it delivered at your convenience. Stream over 85,000 episodes of the shows you love or haven’t yet discovered. This deal might not be available right now, but it could come back so check frequently to make sure you don’t miss it. Spotify already had a good thing going by bundling Spotify Premium and Hulu for $12. 99 each month. On your terms. For weather data Service, the activation fees can be found in our Customer Agreement. Activation Fee: For each Receiver on your account, we may charge you a fee to activate, reactivate, upgrade or modify your Service. You must be signed in with your email address associated with your Microsoft Rewards account. Michelle Obama Higher Ground Announces Partnership with Spotify to Produce Podcasts. At TomTom, we’re all about helping you get around. Have a project that requires multiple technicians for a large scale implementation or deployment? We have a network of preferred contractors in the region that can assist you with your short term staffing needs. 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'This is my universal studio'
In the future, will directors enjoy a more direct connection with their audiences?
Documentarian Robert Greenwalk thinks so - and he's making that future happen now.
The LA Times ran a great piece last week about his latest project, "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price." (He let his fans vote for their favorite title on the Web.) The story also recaps his release last year of "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism," when he worked with MoveOn.org to use the Net to organize house parties; hosts bought a copy of the DVD and held a discussion after the showing. That DVD sold 200,000 copies.
Ralph Tribbey, editor of the online DVD Release Report, called Greenwald's documentary an example of how the home video explosion has changed moviemaking, diluting the power of the Hollywood hierarchy.
But Greenwald is also using the Web to raise money, cultivate an audience in advance for the film, and even solicit video clips. The piece continues:
The Web, Greenwald found, is a powerful tool for fundraising and information gathering. So far on Walmartmovie.com, he's raised $750,000 — of which $50,000 came from donors online. (Anyone giving $30 or more gets a free DVD.) The director also used the Internet to sign up 600 field producers, novices as well as professionals, and elicit footage, photos and tips about Wal-Mart. The title of the movie was the winner of an online popularity contest.
"This is my universal studio," said the 61-year-old filmmaker, pointing to a computer in his Culver City office, once a motel at which, legend has it, MGM executives across the street held their lunchtime trysts. "Through our website we've reached hundreds of thousands of people without a multimillion-dollar marketing push."
A potential theatrical run is in negotiation, according to Greenwald. After the DVD premiere, more than 2,500 houses of worship, schools, businesses and homes have volunteered to hold screenings that week, followed by a discussion of related issues, he said.
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Driving Green; Tesla Unveils World’s First Mass-Produced, Highway-Capable EV
Point Roberts, March 30, 2009 - InvestorIdeas.com and its green investor portal Renewableenergystocks.com report on recent updates in the EV market.
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Tesla Unveils World’s First Mass-Produced, Highway-Capable EV
Model S Sedan Has Anticipated Base Price of $49,900, up to 300-Mile Range and 45-Minute QuickCharge Capability
HAWTHORNE, Calif. ---Tesla Motors recently reported it is now taking orders for the Model S, an all electric family sedan that carries seven people and travels 300 miles per charge.
The Model S, which carries its charger onboard, can be recharged from any 120V, 240V or 480V outlet, with the latter taking only 45 minutes. By recharging their car while they stop for a meal, drivers can go from LA to New York in approximately the same time as a gasoline car. Moreover, the floor-mounted battery pack is designed to be changed out in less time than it takes to fill a gas tank, allowing for the possibility of battery-pack swap stations.
The floor-mounted powertrain also results in unparalleled cargo room and versatility, as the volume under the front hood becomes a second trunk. Combining that with a four-bar linkage hatchback rear trunk and flat folding rear seats, the Model S can accommodate a 50-inch television, mountain bike *and* surfboard simultaneously. This packaging efficiency gives the Model S more trunk space than any other sedan on the market and more than most SUVs.
“Model S doesn’t compromise on performance, efficiency or utility -- it’s truly the only car you need,” said Tesla CEO, Chairman and Product Architect Elon Musk. “Tesla is relentlessly driving down the cost of electric vehicle technology, and this is just the first of many mainstream cars we’re developing.”
Tesla expects to start Model S production in late 2011. The company believes it is close to receiving $350 million in federal loans to build the Model S assembly plant in California from the Dept of Energy’s Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program.
Building on Proven Technology
Tesla is the only production automaker already selling highway-capable EVs in North America or Europe. With 0-60 mph in 3.9 seconds, the Roadster outperforms almost all sports cars in its class yet is six times as energy efficient as gas guzzlers and delivers 244 miles per charge. Tesla has delivered nearly 300 Roadsters, and nearly 1,000 more customers are on the wait list.
Teslas do not require routine oil changes, and they have far fewer moving (and breakable) parts than internal combustion engine vehicles. They qualify for federal and state tax credits, rebates, sales tax exemptions, free parking, commuter-lane passes and other perks. Model S costs roughly $5 to drive 230 miles – a bargain even if gasoline were $1 per gallon.
The anticipated base price of the Model S is $49,900 after a federal tax credit of $7,500. The company has not released options pricing. Three battery pack choices will offer a range of 160, 230 or 300 miles per charge.
“Model S costs half as much as a Roadster, and it’s a better value than much cheaper cars,” Musk said. “The ownership cost of Model S, if you were to lease and then account for the much lower cost of electricity vs. gasoline at a likely future cost of $4 per gallon, is similar to a gasoline car with a sticker price of about $35,000. I’m positive this car will be the preferred choice of savvy consumers.”
The standard Model S does 0-60 mph in under six seconds and will have an electronically limited top speed of 130 mph, with sport versions expected to achieve 0-60 mph acceleration well below five seconds. A single-speed gearbox delivers effortless acceleration and responsive handling. A 17-inch touchscreen with in-car 3G connectivity allows passengers to listen to Pandora Radio or consult Google Maps, or check their state of charge remotely from their iPhone or laptop.
Tesla is taking reservations online and at showrooms in California. Tesla will open a store in Chicago this spring and plans to open stores in London, New York, Miami, Seattle, Washington DC and Munich later this year.
About Tesla Motors
San Carlos, Calif.-based Tesla Motors Inc. designs and manufactures electric vehicles with exceptional design, performance and efficiency, while conforming to all North American and European safety, environmental and durability standards. The Roadster, which has a 0-to-60 mph acceleration of 3.9 seconds and a base price of $101,500 after a federal tax credit, is the only highway-capable production EV for sale in North America and Europe. Tesla expects to begin producing the Model S sedan in late 2011.
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Akeena Solar Powers This Sunday Night's 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition' On ABC
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., March 27, 2009 -- When the Emmy Award-winning hit reality TV show ``Extreme Makeover: Home Edition'' was looking to build the ultimate green home for a deserving family in San Bernardino, they chose the high performing, sleek and beautiful design of Andalay solar panels distributed by leading solar designer and installer Akeena Solar ( NasdaqCM:AKNS ). This Sunday, March 29, watch with the rest of America as Ty Pennington, the ``Extreme Makeover: Home Edition'' crews, and Akeena roll up their sleeves to build an energy efficient home.
The energy efficient green home is a perfect fit for the Almquist family, who are local heroes in San Bernardino County for their dedication to caring for wildlife and providing a rescue sanctuary called Forever Wild (http://www.4everwild.org). The sanctuary houses abused or neglected exotic animals, such as Mexican beaded lizards, parrots, alligators and Siberian lynxes.
This Sunday's episode of ``Extreme Makeover: Home Edition'' features many green and sustainable building elements, the centerpiece being a 24-panel, 5 kW Andalay solar system. Long after the building crews have left, the donated system worth nearly $40,000 will continue to give back to the Almquist family and the community, drastically reducing their electricity bills and decreasing carbon emissions by 10,000 pounds -- or the equivalent of planting more than 115 trees.
What: Akeena Solar donates their award-winning Andalay solar panels to the green edition of the hit reality TV show ``Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.''
Who: Akeena Solar's team of volunteer installers. Joining the team onset was Linda Panitz, the winner of an Akeena-sponsored contest that awarded one solar enthusiast with a trip to San Bernardino to see the Andalay solar system installed.
When: Sunday, March 29, at 8/7 pm Central
Where: Local ABC channels
About Akeena Solar, Inc.
Founded in 2001, Akeena Solar's philosophy is simple: We believe producing clean electricity directly from the sun is the right thing to do for our environment and economy. Akeena Solar has grown to become one of the largest national installers of residential and commercial solar power systems in the United States. The company's new integrated solar panel system, Andalay, is the only solar panel system with integrated racking, wiring and grounding. Andalay panels offer unprecedented reliability, performance and beautiful design. For more information, visit Akeena Solar's website: http://www.akeena.com.
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About ``Extreme Makeover: Home Edition''
``Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,'' which has won back-to-back Emmy Awards as Best Reality Program (non-competitive), is entering its 6th season on ABC. The program is produced by Endemol USA, a division of Endemol Holding. Anthony Dominici is the executive producer; and David Goldberg is the president of Endemol USA. The show airs on Sundays (8:00-9:00 EST), on the ABC Television Network.
Photography is available at http://www.abcmedianet.com or at (818) 460-6611.
Contact: Akeena Solar, Inc. Jose Tengco (408) 402-9422 jtengco@akeena.com Antenna Group Public Relations Public Relations Contact: Wendy Rosen (415) 977-1930 wendy@antennagroup.com
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“Solar Stocks Explode”; Renewable and Solar Energy Perspectives with J. Peter Lynch
Point Roberts, South Salem, New York- - Investorideas.com March 27th issue of Renewable and Solar Energy Perspectives with J. Peter Lynch.
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As I have said many times in the past, solar stocks are FAR MORE volatile than the average stock and that we can expect this above average volatility to continue because of the early stage of the industry and the general nature of the market we are in today. However, the past 4 trading days have been nothing less than spectacular for solar stocks. The 21 companies we track are up an AVERAGE of 42%, which to the best of my knowledge is an unprecedented move by any market sector in my experience. The average gain is close to 5 FOLD greater than the movement of the Dow, the S&P and the NASDAQ.
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Renewable Energy Stocks Sector Close-Up on Solar Stocks; Solar Stocks Get A Boost from News on Chinese Subsidies
Investors Have a Little Fun in the Sun; Yingli Green Energy (NYSE: YGE) Up 44.82%
POINT ROBERTS, WA —March 27, 2009 -- www.RenewableEnergyStocks.com,
a leading investor news and research portal for the renewable energy sector within Investorideas.com, presents a sector close-up on solar stocks following news of China’s proposed subsidies for solar installations.
Several of the solar leaders had impressive gains, with Yingli Green Energy (NYSE: YGE) moving up 44.82% on the day.
Renewable Energy Stocks solar expert, J. Peter Lynch commented, “As I have said many times in the past, solar stocks are FAR MORE volatile than the average stock and that we can expect this above average volatility to continue because of the early stage of the industry and the general nature of the market we are in today. However, the past 4 trading days have been nothing less than spectacular for solar stocks. The 21 companies we track are up an AVERAGE of 42%, which to the best of my knowledge is an unprecedented move by any market sector in my experience. The average gain is close to 5 FOLD greater than the movement of the Dow, the S&P and the NASDAQ.”
Read the latest column of “Renewable and Solar Energy Perspectives” with J. Peter Lynch at http://www.renewableenergystocks.com/PL/
Solar investors can also track the Ardour Solar Energy Index (^SOLRX) (Market, News), a compilation of global solar energy stocks in three primary solar energy sectors: Photovoltaics, Solar Thermal, and Solar Lighting for sector indications.
Solar Stocks Sector Close-Up as of Close of Trading March 26, 2009
Akeena Solar Inc. (NASDAQ:AKNS) closed up$ 0.28 (31.46%).
Entech Solar (OTCBB: ENSL) traded up $0.05 (16.20%).
Evergreen Solar Inc (NASDAQ:ESLR) (Market, News) was up 0.29 (16.57%) on the day.
First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) (Market, News) closed up $16.41 (12.25%).
JA Solar (Nasdaq: JASO) ran up $ 1.11 (41.73%).
LDK Solar ADR (NYSE: LDK) (Market, News) closed up $ 1.87 (31.75%).
SunPower Corporation (NasdaqGS: SPWRA) (Market, News ) closed up $ 2.64 (10.98%).
Trina Solar Limited (NYSE: TSL) gained $3.53 (40.76%).
Yingli Green Energy (NYSE: YGE) (Market, News) had a massive run, closing up $ 1.86 (44.82%).
XsunX: (OTCBB: XSNX) closed up 12.67% at $0.17.
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Based in Aliso Viejo, Calif., XsunX is developing amorphous silicon thin film photovoltaic (TFPV) solar cell manufacturing processes to produce TFPV solar modules. To deliver its products the Company has begun to build a multi- megawatt TFPV solar module production facility in the United States to meet the growing demand for solar cell products used in large scale commercial projects, utility power fields, and other on-grid applications. Employing a phased roll out of production capacity, it plans to grow manufacturing capacities to over 100 megawatts as soon as possible. More info on XsunX, Inc. can be found on our media profile at: http://www.investorideas.com/co/xsnx/default.asp or http://www.xsunx.com/
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Renewable Energy Stocks Sector Close-Up; Sector Sees Green at Close
POINT ROBERTS, WA —March 25, 2009 - www.RenewableEnergyStocks.com,
a leading investor news and research portal for the renewable energy sector within Investorideas.com, presents a sector close-up on renewable energy stocks trading as of March 25th, 2009. The market in general and several of the green leaders showed strength at the market close, with gains of up to 12% in Evergreen Solar Inc.
Sector Close-Up as of Trading Close March 25th, 2009:
Akeena Solar Inc. (NASDAQ:AKNS) closed up $ 0.06 (7.23%).
Canadian Solar Inc. (NasdaqGM: CSIQ) had gains of $ 0.20 (4.32%).
China Technology Development (NASDAQ: CTDC) closed up $ 0.07 (3.27%).
Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (NASDAQ:CLNE) was up $ 0.16 (2.74%).
Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. (NasdaqNM: ENER) closed up $ 0.75 (5.43%).
Evergreen Solar Inc (NASDAQ:ESLR) closed up $ 0.19 (12.18%).
First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) had gains of $ 5.18 (4.02%).
GWS TECHNOLOGIES INC (OTCBB: GWSC) closed down $ 0.04.
Mantra Venture Group Ltd. (OTCBB: MVTG) closed down $ 0.03.
Plutonic Power Corporation (TSX: PCC ) was up $ 0.08 (3.81%).
SunPower Corporation (NasdaqGS: SPWRA) closed up $ 0.09 (0.38%).
Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. (NYSE: STP) was up $ 0.14 (1.82%).
Westport Innovations Inc. (WPT.TO) closed up 0.18 (2.93%).
Yingli Green Energy (NYSE: YGE) closed up $ 0.07 (1.72%).
XsunX Inc. (OTCBB: XSNX) closed down $ 0.01.
Featured Showcase Renewable Energy Stocks:
Based in Aliso Viejo, Calif., XsunX is developing amorphous silicon thin film photovoltaic (TFPV) solar cell manufacturing processes to produce TFPV solar modules. To deliver its products the Company has begun to build a multi- megawatt TFPV solar module production facility in the United States to meet the growing demand for solar cell products used in large scale commercial projects, utility power fields, and other on-grid applications. Employing a phased roll out of production capacity, it plans to grow manufacturing capacities to over 100 megawatts by 2010. More info on XsunX, Inc. can be found on our media profile at: http://www.investorideas.com/co/xsnx/default.asp or http://www.xsunx.com/
GWS TECHNOLOGIES INC (OTCBB: GWSC)
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First Solar to Develop 30 Megawatt AC Solar Power Plant for Tri-State
TEMPE, Ariz.---First Solar, Inc., (Nasdaq: FSLR) has entered into a 25-year power purchase agreement with Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc., a wholesale electric power supplier serving more than 1.4 million consumers through 44 electric cooperatives and public power districts in Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico and Wyoming.
"This photovoltaic (PV) power plant is another demonstration of our ability to provide affordable, utility-scale solar solutions," said John Carrington, First Solar executive vice president of marketing and business development. "In addition to being cost-effective, the plant will create 120 to 140 construction jobs, significantly reduce green house gas emissions and provide enough power to serve the equivalent of approximately 9,000 homes."
The agreement, which represents the largest PV contract by an electric cooperative in the U.S., calls for First Solar to engineer, procure and construct (EPC) a 30 megawatt AC (MW) ground-mounted PV power plant in northeastern New Mexico.
“Our partnership with First Solar further diversifies our resource mix and brings value to our member cooperatives across our four-state service territory,” said Ken Anderson, Tri-State executive vice president and general manager. “This project in New Mexico demonstrates how electric cooperatives can effectively bring utility-scale solar projects to the rural areas they serve.”
The project will be the first utility-scale solar power plant in the region and is expected to be complete by the end of 2010. First Solar will provide monitoring and maintenance services for the PV power plant over the course of its lifetime. The Company expects that, upon completion of the PV power plant, it will have transferred all or substantially all of its equity interest in the project.
“This first-of-its-kind initiative is further evidence that New Mexico is a national leader in renewable energy production. I look forward to many more projects like this coming to fruition in New Mexico and across the country as we shift from fossil fuels to cleaner, green energy. I am especially pleased to see the electric coops take this major leap into renewables,” said U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman, who chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
“New Mexico has world-class renewable resources and a ready workforce,” said Governor Bill Richardson. “The announcement of a major new solar power plant in Colfax County is welcome news and demonstrates New Mexico’s commitment to leading the nation in renewable energy development.”
First Solar combines the economic benefits of low-cost technology with superior environmental performance to provide truly sustainable energy solutions.
"Projects like these represent a step toward transforming our energy future; providing solutions for both climate and the environment," said Carl Zichella, western regional director for the Sierra Club.
About First Solar
First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) manufactures solar modules with an advanced semiconductor technology and provides comprehensive PV solutions that significantly reduce solar electricity costs. By enabling clean, renewable electricity at competitive prices, First Solar provides an economic and environmentally responsible alternative to existing peaking fossil-fuel electric generation. First Solar PV power plants operate with no water, air emissions or waste stream. First Solar set the benchmark for environmentally responsible product life cycle management by introducing the industry's first comprehensive collection and recycling program for solar modules. From raw material sourcing through end-of-life collection and recycling, First Solar is focused on creating cost-effective renewable energy solutions that protect and enhance the environment. For more information about First Solar, please visit www.firstsolar.com, or www.firstsolar.com/media to download photos.
For First Solar Investors
This release contains forward-looking statements which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The forward-looking statements in this release do not constitute guarantees of future performance. Those statements involve a number of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, including risks associated with the company's business involving the company's products, their development and distribution, economic and competitive factors and the company's key strategic relationships and other risks detailed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. First Solar assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking information contained in this press release or with respect to the announcements described herein.
Contacts First Solar, Inc.Lisa Morse602-414-9361media@firstsolar.com
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Investor Ideas Announces Launch of ‘The Solar Innovation Series’, with Solar Expert J. Peter Lynch
Point Roberts, South Salem, New York- March 23, 2009- Investorideas.com announces the launch of a new series for the renewable energy sector in addition to the Renewable and Solar Energy Perspectives with J. Peter Lynch. The Innovation Series will cover emerging private companies with new technology and innovation in the solar industry.
The Innovation Series
I have been saying for years that the future of the solar industry is very bright and that we all have nothing to look forward too except a bright sunny future. Nothing that has occurred to date has changed my mind the least bit. As I have said numerous times, the solar industry is still in its infancy and as a result, has its best days ahead of it.
One thing that has always driven industries from their beginnings through their various stages of growth has been INNOVATION. This is what America is best known for and has always been a primary driver of progress in all industries. It is innovation that breaks away from the “old” and brings on the new technologies, new applications and new products that we will need in the future to confront and overcome our looming energy crisis.
In this periodic column I will highlight new companies, people and concepts with innovative technology and/or ideas that may turn out to be one of the key contributing factors that will enable the next breakthrough in the solar industry and help to light our way to a sustainable energy future.
Mr. Lynch has worked, for 32 years as a Wall Street security analyst, an independent security analyst and private investor in small emerging technology companies. He has been actively involved in following developments in the renewable energy sector since 1977 and is regarded as an expert in this field. He was the contributing editor for 17 years to the Photovoltaic Insider Report, the leading publication in PV that was directed at industrial subscribers, such as major energy companies, utilities and governments around the world. He is currently a private investor and has from time to time been a financial/technology consultant to a number of companies. He can be reached via e-mail at: SOLARJPL@aol.com. Please visit his website for the promotion of solar energy – www.sunseries.net
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Investorideas.com New Showcase Water Stock, Wescorp Energy Inc. (OTC BB: WSCE) Provides Solutions for ‘Produced Water’ in Oil and Gas Industry
Point Roberts, WA, Delta, BC - March 23, 2009 - www.InvestorIdeas.com, a leading global investor and industry research portal covering water, environment and oil and gas sectors, announces a new featured showcase company, Wescorp Energy Inc.(OTCBB:WSCE ),a company providing technology based solutions for the treatment of contaminated ‘produced water’ for the oil and gas industry.
Oil and gas production worldwide generates a tremendous amount unwanted waste water - water that has been contaminated with hydrocarbons, sand, drill cuttings, organic and inorganic salts. The produced water is contaminated naturally from the formation and artificially through oil and gas processing. The handling, treatment and disposal of the produced water are some of the most controversial and environmentally challenging issues oil and gas producers face today. Produced water from hydrocarbon operations creates massive volumes of waste that requires remediation.
Headlines in a March 2009 article in Oilweek.com, “Water—its use, reuse and conservation—has become almost as important to Alberta’s economic future as oil”, forecast the importance of finding solutions within the industry.
http://www.oilweek.com/articles.asp?ID=638
Wescorp Energy Inc. is an oil and gas solutions provider that specializes in water remediation and environmental technologies for the global oil and gas industry. One of the company’s primary technologies, H2Omaxx, is a commercially scalable water remediation unit that uses patented aeration technology to consistently provide safe, effective and economical separation of oil from produced water. Final independent verification testing was completed in November 2008. Analytical results proved the H20maxx unit increased the recovery of oil and reduced the amount of hydrocarbons in the treated produced water to less than 0.001% or 10 parts per million.
According to the company, “Virtually anywhere in the world that oil is produced, contaminated produced water becomes an unwanted byproduct. Water becomes contaminated naturally through associated formation water in conventional oil and gas production. Unconventional oil production including Oil Sands development in Alberta, Canada contaminates huge amounts of fresh potable water during the production and processing of the oil.”
According to Industry Canada, “Strict Canadian environmental regulations have demanded that Canadian engineers and scientists develop innovative remedial technologies to clean-up a broad spectrum of contaminants, such as petroleum hydrocarbons.”
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ogt-ipg.nsf/eng/dk00095.html
Wescorp’s H20maxx technology is not going unnoticed. In December 2008, Wescorp announced that Weatherford International Ltd., (NYSE: WFT) executed a letter of intent for the testing of Wescorp's wholly-owned water remediation technology, H2Omaxx, in two projects in South America. Wescorp and Weatherford are currently in negotiations for a possible exclusive long-term global cooperative agreement. H2Omaxx units provide oil and gas operators an opportunity to increase their profits, and reduce their operational costs by reducing, reusing, and recycling water without the use of flocculants.
Weatherford (NYSE: WFT) is one of the largest global providers of innovative mechanical solutions, technology and services for the drilling and production sectors of the oil and gas industry.
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Water Stocks Sector Close – Up and Commentary; Neil Berlant of the PFW Water Fund (PFWAX) Discusses Investing in Water
World Water Day Reminds Investors of the Needs and Opportunities
POINT ROBERTS, WA and DELTA, BC –March 22, 2009 www.Water-Stocks.com, an investor and industry portal for the water sector within Investorideas.com, presents investing in water, the first in a series of commentary and insight with Neil Berlant, Fund Manager of the PFW Water Fund (PFWAX).
With World Water Day held March 22, 2009 http://www.worldwaterday.org/ , drawing global attention to water issues, Water-stocks.com reminds investors of the needs and opportunities within the sector.
As recently noted in a report from Ceres.Org, “Water Scarcity & Climate Change: Growing Risks for Businesses & Investors”, water is an area that needs more attention. http://www.ceres.org/Document.Doc?id=406
Investorideas.com and Water-stocks.com has turned to well- known industry expert, Neil Berlant of the PFW Water Fund, who has dedicated his life-long career to the sector, to provide insight and ideas on the global theme of investing water.
Q&A: Dawn Van Zant at Water-stocks.com, Neil Berlant of the PFW Water Fund
Q- Dawn Van Zant at Water-stocks.com
Neil, the recent media from Ceres.org warning investors and business they are not paying attention to water would not be news to you, as you have been a long- time believer in the sector. But in that line of thinking, for investors just getting into the water space - what are some of the key trends they should they be looking at?
A- Neil Berlant of the PFW Water Fund
The forces driving growth in the water sector can be narrowed down to three principal areas: Economics, quality, and infrastructure. On the economics side, water has historically been underpriced, that is, not reflecting its real cost. The real cost for water is what it costs to find water, treat water, and then to distribute it. We have never really factored in those costs to arrive at the price that we charge for water. That is in the process of changing, but change is coming on very slowly. As for quality, this is a major issue. Not that water quality for drinking water purposes is inadequate or not being addressed, but rather that the quality of the water we require for most applications is growing more demanding. For most applications today, and in the future, we require very highly purified water. For example, to manufacture semiconductors, we require “ultra-purified” water. The same is true for generating electricity and manufacturing. In addition, health care and food processing require highly purified water. These areas were previously not as demanding. Last, but not least, the issue of the water infrastructure throughout the US is growing in importance. It is well-documented that we are facing what may be as much as a $1 trillion deficit in capital to improve the aging US infrastructure. That means an enormous bounty of business in pipe replacement, filtration, and purification equipment over the next twenty years.
With your fund, The PFW Water Fund how would you define your short term and long term strategy? And how can investors participate in the fund?
The PFW Water Fund (PFWAX) expressly addresses the opportunities outlined above. The Fund broadly focuses on the water industry, and more specifically on the companies that comprise the broad definition of the water industry as all of the things that influence the quality or availability of water. The PFW Water Fund (PFWAX) is invested in companies in purification, infrastructure, desalination, and all things related to water. As the portfolio manager, I have focused exclusively on the water industry since the mid-1980s, with portfolios that have consistently beaten the broad stock market. The PFW Water Fund (PFWAX) is uniquely positioned to participate in the explosion of activity we anticipate over the next couple of decades. The growth we forecast is expected to last for some twenty years and therefore, the PFW Water Fund (PFWAX) is investing in the long-term growth of owning businesses, rather than short-term speculation. We are in front of wave of activity that is somewhat unique to the water industry and thus offers the prospect of wealth-building that is difficult to find elsewhere.
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D & D Securities Company Provides Overview on “Disruptive” Thin Film Photovoltaic Technologies
Concludes that best value for investors in the solar industry will be in peripheral devices that make solar PVsystems operate more efficiently and with lower input costs
Cites Sustainable Energy’s “parallel” operating system as most attractive and lowest cost operating system forthin film PV in rooftop and BIPV market segments
Calgary, Alberta – March 19, 2009 – On March 17, 2009, D & D Securities Company a Toronto based investmentdealer (www.dndsecurities.ca) published a report entitled “ Thin Film Photovoltaic – Through the Fog” providing anoverview of the rapidly changing industry dynamics.
The report concludes that thin film PV is a “disruptive” technology that will transform the PV solar market with afundamentally lower cost structure, enabling it to take significant market share from the incumbent PV modulemanufacturers.
The report also offered the following observations:• Lower panel prices are expected to spur demand by the second half of 2009 with the industry resuming annualgrowth of 30% and driving innovation to reduce cost improve system efficiencies and provide more systemdesign flexibility.• With over capacity and lower prices, choosing winners and losers among existing producers and newcomers onthe module side will be a challenge. The best value for investors may not be in the PV systems, but in theperipheral devices needed to make the system operate more efficiently with lower input costs.• Rooftop and building integrated PV systems will become an integral part of thin film growth strategy as indicatedby Ontario’s proposed $0.802 / kWh for roof top and the evidence is mounting that rooftops will adopt the moreflexible and suitable “parallel” architecture.• Sustainable Energy has the most attractive and lowest cost “parallel” operating system (patented) to make thinfilm more competitive in rooftop and building integrated market segments.The report can be viewed at the following link http://www.dndsecurities.ca/news/pdf/Thin_Film-Through_the_Fog.pdf. or by contacting Elizabeth Muchal Singh at 416.369.3302 or esingh@dominick.caAbout Sustainable EnergyBased in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Sustainable Energy Technologies Ltd (“Sustainable Energy” or the “Company”)(www.sustainableenergy.com) designs and manufactures advanced power inverters for the solar power industry.Advanced power inverters are a critical enabler of all modern solar PV power systems converting the direct current(“DC”) power output of the solar PV modules into the high quality alternating current (“AC”) power required by thepower grid. Advanced power inverters also optimize the performance of the solar PV modules and maintain theintegrity and safety of the interconnection with the power grid.
Sustainable Energy has developed and patented an inverter design which is a breakthrough in inverter technology.The Company’s products enable solar PV systems to be designed and installed using a “parallel” architecture so thateach PV panel operates at it optimum power point independently from the other panels in the string withoutcompromising electrical conversion efficiencies. The technologies also enables an inverter platform which theCompany believes will have one of the lowest costs/watt in the industry. Nine (9) patents are issued by the US andCanadian patent office with respect to the Company’s core concepts and software with other patents pending.
Forward Looking InformationThe views of D&D Securities Company concerning the matters discussed in the referenced report are its own, and the Companyexpresses no opinion concerning the information contained in the report, but is only making readers aware of the report and some of the highlights. The reader is advised that some of the information herein and in the referenced report may constitute forwardlooking statements within the meaning assigned by National Instruments 51-102 and other relevant securities legislation.Forward-looking information is not a guarantee of future performance and involves a number of risks and uncertainties.
Manyfactors could cause the future events or developments, to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking information. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information, which speaks only as of the date of publication.
The Company does not undertake any obligation to release publicly any revisions to forward-looking information contained herein to reflect events or circumstances that occur after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as may be required under applicable securities laws.
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For further information please contact:Michael CartenPresident & CEOPhone: 403.508.7177 #111Michael. Carten @SustainableEnergy.com
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Q-Cells SE confirms figures for fiscal year 2008 andpublishes its Annual Report
Bitterfeld-Wolfen, 19 March 2009 – Today, Thursday, 19 March 2009, Q-Cells SE (QCE; ISINDE0005558662) presents its Annual Report for 2008 at the press conference in Frankfurt/Main.
Thecompany therewith confirms its preliminary figures of 24 February 2009.
With a production volume of 570.4 MWp in its core business, Q-Cells SE was again the world’s largestmanufacturer of solar cells last year. Sales rose by 46 % to € 1,251.3 million (previous year:€ 858.9 million). EBIT, which was depressed to a much greater degree in the previous fiscal year bythe start-up costs of new technologies and the new production facility in Malaysia, grew by 4 % to€ 205.1 million (2007: € 197.0 million). Net income for the year totalled € 190.6 million, which isan increase of 28 % on the figure for the previous year of € 148.3 million.
Excluding the contributionfrom the investment in Renewable Energy Corporation ASA (REC) net income for the year stood at€ 140.3 million (€ 127.2 million). Q-Cells has therefore successfully continued its expansionarycourse in the past year.
In addition to commissioning the final section of Line V in the first half of the year, the sixthproduction line was commissioned at the Bitterfeld-Wolfen site in the fourth quarter of 2008 allowingtotal cell capacity to be increased to 760 MWp. The new fab in Malaysia, on which constructionstarted in the second quarter of 2008, will launch the making of its first solar cells in Q2 this year. Inaddition to expansions in the core business, two of the thin-film subsidiaries or investments startedmass-production last year. Both Sontor GmbH and Solibro GmbH continued their ramp-up successfullyin the fourth quarter of 2008. Work also began on expanding capacity at Solibro to a total of 135 MWp(currently 30 MWp) in the fourth quarter. Across the Group, Q-Cells created a total of 861 new jobsthrough its expansion, which means that the company employed 2,568 individuals in total at the endof last year.
The Annual Report 2008 and an up-to-date presentation of the Company are available for downloadingin the Investor Relations section of Q-Cells SE’s website (www.q-cells.com).Contact information:Q-Cells SEOT ThalheimSonnenallee 17 - 2106766 Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Germanywww.q-cells.comInvestor Relations:Stefan LissnerPhone: +49-(0)3494-6699 10101investor@q-cells.comPublic Relations:Stefan DietrichPhone: +49-(0)3494-6699 10111presse@q-cells.com
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Protonex Awarded $3.3 Million Contract to Develop a Deployable Fuel Cell Power System for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass.----Protonex Technology Corporation (LSE: AIM: PTX and PTXU), a leading provider of advanced fuel cell power systems for portable, remote and mobile applications, today announces that it will develop a robust, deployable pre-production fuel cell power system, designed for powering a small, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that will be capable of extended flight duration and mission endurance. This work will be completed under an awarded $3.3M contract ($2.2M base award with a $1.1M option) from the Department of Defense (DoD) and will draw on continuing developments by Protonex of its unmanned power systems and UAV technologies.
Under the terms of this contract, which was expected by management, Protonex will customize one of its fuel cell power platforms and will integrate it into development partner, AeroVironment’s (NASDAQ: AVAV) “Puma-AE” UAV. The resulting UAV, powered by the Protonex fuel cell power system, is expected to enable new long-duration missions, not previously feasible with hand-launched UAVs powered by advanced batteries.
Protonex has already demonstrated its fuel cell power systems for small UAVs through programs with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, the Naval Research Laboratory, and AeroVironment. Most recently, AeroVironment’s Puma UAV, utilizing a highly advanced fuel cell system from Protonex, broke its previous flight records and flew continuously for over nine hours—three to four times the endurance capability of its current rechargeable batteries.
Until recently, extended flight endurance capabilities were only achievable with larger scale, more costly UAV platforms. With the introduction of cutting-edge fuel cell propulsion systems from Protonex, new missions such as persistent surveillance, search and rescue, chemical-biological monitoring, and other long-endurance specialty missions can be achieved by smaller, more flexible, and cost-effective UAV platforms.
“This contract represents yet another significant milestone on our path towards the full commercialization of our power systems for UAVs and is a culmination of our development and demonstration efforts to date,” stated Dr. Paul Osenar, Chief Technology Officer, Protonex. “We look forward to continuing this progress to extend the reach of this UAV technology to other military and commercial markets.”
About Protonex Technology Corporation
www.protonex.com
Protonex Technology Corporation develops and manufactures compact, lightweight and high- performance fuel cell systems for portable power applications in the 100 to 1000-watt range. The Company’s fuel cell systems are designed to meet the needs of military, commercial and consumer customers for off-grid applications underserved by existing technologies by providing customizable, stand-alone portable power solutions and systems that may be hybridized with existing power technologies. The Company is headquartered in Southborough, Massachusetts.
About AeroVironment, Inc. (AV)
www.avinc.com
Building on a history of technological innovation, AV designs, develops, produces, and supports an advanced portfolio of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and efficient electric energy systems. Agencies of the U.S. Department of Defense and allied military services use the company’s hand-launched UAS to provide situational awareness to tactical operating units through real-time, airborne reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition. Commercial and government entities use AV’s clean transportation solutions such as electric vehicle test systems and electric vehicle fast charge systems, as well as its clean power solutions.
This announcement includes statements which are, or may be deemed to be, "forward-looking statements". All statements other than statements of historical facts included in this announcement, including, without limitation, those regarding Protonex’ financial position, business strategy, plans and objectives of management for future operations (including development plans and objectives relating to Protonex’ products and services) are forward-looking statements. By their nature, such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that could cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Protonex to be materially different from future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These factors include but are not limited to those described in the Admission Document issued in connection with the Company’s admission to AIM.
Forward-looking statements may and often do differ materially from actual results. Any forward-looking statements in this announcement speak only as at the date of this announcement and are subject to risks relating to future events and other risks, uncertainties and assumptions relation to Protonex’ operations, results of operations, growth strategy and liquidity.
Contacts Protonex Technology CorporationScott Pearson, +1 508-490-9960Chief Executive Officer
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The Stock Market in General and Solar Stocks in Particular; Renewable and Solar Energy Perspectives - J. Peter Lynch
The Stock Market in General and Solar Stocks in Particular; Renewable and Solar Energy Perspectives with J. Peter Lynch
March 17, 2009- Investorideas.com
The Stock Market in General and Solar Stocks in Particular
As I have said many times over the years solar stocks have a bright future, a very bright future. But investors have to understand a number of things about the current stock market and solar stocks in particular in order to fully take advantage of this long-term trend.
Markets go up and markets go down and these moves usually occur when it is least expected. At the present time solar stocks, the energy industry and the market in general have been in a very serious decline. The Dow Jones is breaking records everyday and the press is full of bearish articles about the market and about the questionable future of the solar industry.
If we take the time, look a little deeper and put aside the general media. I think we will see a very different picture and one that would suggest the very BEGINNING of “light at the end of the tunnel” and of the potential for investor’s to be a little more optimist at this time.
The General Market
The Dow Jones Industrial Index recently recorded a twelve year low and the media was FULL of doom and gloom. This terrible news was all over the financial press, accompanied by scenarios of more of the same to come. In fact, the recent survey from the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) had fallen to the most bearish level in history – 70% of those surveyed felt that the direction of the market would be DOWN over the next 6 months.
There are four interesting items below to take note of from an historical perspective. Remember the bottom of a market is ALWAYS, by definition, the period of greatest fear. I have been a student of the market since 1975 and I can assure you that there is plenty of FEAR out there now.
1. The last two times the stock market hit a 12 years low was in 1974 and 1932. BOTH of these times proved to be once in a life time buying opportunities.
2. The previous record of FEAR by the AAII survey (67% bearish) was October of 1990 the very beginning of the great bull market of the 1990’s.
3. Remember corporate earnings and unemployment ALWAYS lag behind the stock market. So well after the market has turned around we will continue to see poor earnings and higher unemployment.
4. The current market is EXTREMELY technically “oversold” (i.e. beneath its 200 day moving average). In fact, it is more technically oversold than any time since 1930, JUST BEFORE the market moved up 48% in the 1930 bear market rally
Nothing is 100% for sure, as we all know. But I think we are either at a significant bottom or very close to it. Everything is so “oversold” at this time, that I think the worst case is that we get a significant rally in what could still be a bear market.
Two other items I think are worthy of note. Last week there were a number of indications that two very significant negatives could be turned to the positive very shortly.
1. The mark to market accounting rule will be modified to reflect “reality”. This will positively impact balance sheets significantly and should positively impact financial institutions especially.
2. The up-tick rule will be re-instated. This will stop short sellers from pushing stocks lower and fanning the flames of panic and fear. Ever since the rule was withdrawn (October 2007) it is OBVIOUS the effect it has had on the market.
Keep in mind that ALL the bad news out there is in media now. We already know all the bad news. Remember that the stock market IS actually a discounting mechanism which looks out 6 to 9 months into the future. We do not need GOOD NEWS to turn the market around, only LESS bad news.
The Solar Stock Market Sector
Solar stocks have also been doing terribly since the second quarter of 2007. Just like the general market, we need to look a little deeper, past the media hype, and see what is actually happening with solar stocks in the market. One of the measures (tools) that I utilize when looking at individual stocks is their 50 day moving average and whether the current price is above (bullish) the 50 day average or below (bearish) the average. It is not the only way to look at stocks and may not be the “best”, but it always seems to give me an idea of which way a stock is heading in the short to medium term and when looking at a specific market sector, what sort of condition that sector is in.
At the current time, 3 of the 35 solar stocks I follow are ABOVE (Bullish) their 50 day moving average. On the other hand 92% of the stocks (32 of 35) are BELOW (Bearish) their 50 day moving average. This clearly tells me to exercise caution in the solar sector and that the sector still needs some time to sort out the recent general market decline and a number of industry specific problems.
To put it a different way, I do not think ALL the bad news regarding the solar sector is out yet and that there will be future negative surprises, such as earnings disappointments (ENER earlier this week for example), inventory write-offs, and possibly even bankruptcies. The solar sector will probably get carried UP when the general market rallies, but since they will have to work out some additional problems; I do not think their rally will be sustainable.
However, if the current project financing “roadblock” suddenly opens up a much more sustainable rally would be possible, especially in the wind sector (i.e. the ETF “FAN” may be a conservative way to play this potential), and the stronger stocks would take the lead.
Numerous opportunities will come, but investor patience will be required to wait out this tough period and for sector volatility to “settle” down. This is still an embryonic industry and it is going through a painful retracement and consolidation phase.
Wall Street Wisdom – A few general lessons I have learned over the years
Assuming the above analysis is reasonably correct, what wisdom and benefits can be gained from this current situation?
1. Markets and stocks ALWAYS get ahead of themselves (in the short term) and subsequently go to extremes in both the up and down directions. I think we are at an unsustainable extreme (down) at this time and that we will get at least a significant rally shortly.
2. When an investor is researching potential investments they must understand that a company needs to be looked at in two ways:
a. As a company with a business and;
b. As a stock, separate from the business of the company
What I mean is that you can have a good company and a bad stock and you cannot “fall in love” with the company, you have to look at both. A perfect example of this is one of the greatest and most respected companies in the world – General Electric. I think it is still a “great” company, but the stock has gone from $42.00 in early 2008 to a low of approximately $6.00 last week – certainly NOT a great stock.
Has General Electric become an unsuccessful company that is going out of business and has no future? I seriously doubt it, but it is an almost perfect example of a good company (with temporary problems) and a stock that is reflecting those problems.
3. The solar industry has a very bright future, for decades to come. However, you have to keep in mind that we are only at the VERY BEGINNING of the industry’s growth. As a result, in addition to enormous opportunities that lie ahead, we will also most likely see above average volatility and more technical failures than successes. This is the way ALL new industries start up, grow and finally emerge. Investors have to be aware of this level of risk (and opportunity) and act appropriately according to their own financial tolerance for risk.
4. Any correction in solar stocks or the market in general can also be turned around and provide an advantage for the patient investor. When a sector or market corrects it generally takes ALL stocks (good and bad) down with it. However, once the correction has run its course the stronger stocks (i.e. those stocks with the highest “relative strength” compared to the general market and to their peer group) will ALWAYS come back to life faster. This is an excellent way for an investor to pick out the stronger companies in the sector and get involved before they have fully recovered.
Rewards come to those investors who are patient and do not follow the crowd
Aspiring investors need to acquire and nurture patience. Historical data clearly shows that more money is made MISSING the downside than catching the upside. As I read my e-mails from readers, I get the feeling that people really want to buy solar stocks and ride them into a bright future. Many times I get the sense that they are afraid, that if they delay, they will miss the chance to profit from the solar industries bright future. This is NOT true. There will be plenty of time and many advances and declines in the future. Be patient, look for the strongest stocks and try not to get swept up in the crowd, because the crowd is always wrong.
J. Peter Lynch
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OREGON-BASED PLASTICS RECYCLER FIRST IN NATION TO RECLAIM SYNTHETIC CRUDE OIL FROM UNWANTED PLASTIC
Agri-Plas ships first batches of crude oil to refinery
BROOKS, Ore. (March 17, 2009) ― In the latest showing of Oregon’s entrepreneurial and environmental prowess, Agri-Plas, an Oregon-based plastics recycler, is the first company in the nation to convert unwanted and typically unrecyclable agricultural plastics into crude oil and ship it to a refinery for commercial processing.
“The fact that Agri-Plas has been able to take plastic that would otherwise go directly into the waste stream and convert it into a commercial product that can eventually be pumped into a gas tank is truly groundbreaking,” said Tim McCabe, director of the Oregon Economic & Community Development Department.
Agri-Plas is now taking discarded and unwanted plastic that chokes landfills or is abandoned, burned or buried on Northwest farms and nurseries and is converting it back into synthetic crude oil. Plastic products include dirty agricultural film, greenhouse cover, mixed nursery and jug material, prepackaged food containers and lids, and other low- or zero-value plastics too dirty to economically bring to a higher value through normal recycling efforts. The company recently delivered its first full tanker (8,200 gallons) of oil to a refinery in Tacoma, Wash., which translates to a final delivery of 196 barrels of oil.
“The state of Oregon has been a key player in helping us bring this process to market,” said Mary Sue Gilliland, vice president operations and business development for Agri-Plas. “We hope that with financial assistance from the Oregon Business Energy Tax Credit (BETC) we will be able to jumpstart construction of a new facility that will allow the company to increase crude oil production.”
The state of Oregon has made it a top priority to recruit and foster the growth of sustainability oriented businesses through a variety of financial mechanisms such as BETC, which covers up to 50 percent of a qualifying project’s applicable costs.
Agri-Plas is gearing up to deliver its second shipment of crude oil this month. The company is currently testing technology developed by Plas2Fuel, a Kelso, Washington alternative energy company, that created the unique process of converting plastic into high-value, synthetic crude oil. Agri-Plas is planning to expand its operations within the next several months. Within the next year, Agri-Plas hopes to create up to 58 new green-collar jobs at its headquarters in Brooks, Ore.
The synthetic crude oil that Agri-Plas is reclaiming from unwanted plastic can be refined for a variety of uses. The oil can be refined and used in literally thousands of high-end products ranging from makeup to food items, as well as gasoline, diesel, lubricants and other petroleum-based products.
Today, Agri-Plas is operating one plastic-to-oil converting unit. The company soon expects to add three more units, which will create one full system and will operate this venture under the name of Agri-Plas2Crude. In April of 2009, Agri-Plas2Crude plans to break ground on a new facility, which will eventually house a total of five, four-unit Plas2Fuel reclamation systems. In total, the 20 units will create enough reclaimed crude oil to deliver a full tanker for refining every single day. Oregon will once again lead the nation in recycling efforts and solutions for the agriculture community.
About Brooks, Oregon
Brooks is conveniently located just 10 miles south of Salem, the capital of Oregon, and 40 miles south of Portland, with easy access to the state’s main transportation route, Interstate 5. Brooks falls within Marion County, which has a population of 311,304 and boasts a wide array of businesses from world-class wineries to high-technology manufacturers.
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Green Investor at Investorideas.com; How Will Solar PV Businesses Benefit From The New Incentives?
Potential Impact on Solar Stocks First Solar (FSLR), Sunpower (SPWRA), Evergreen Solar (ESLR), Spire (SPIR), SunTech (STP) and XsunX (OTCBB: XSNX)
March 12, 2009, Point Roberts, WA -Green Investor at Investorideas.com reports on how Solar PV businesses may benefit from the new incentives.
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http://www.investorideas.com/gi/ Paulo J. Nery
Solar stocks have taken a major beating in the past few months. The Claymore MAC Global Solar Energy Index ETF (TAN) has fallen 78% in the past six months. Most listed solar companies have fallen from 50% to 87% over that period. Since all renewable energy stocks are intrinsically tied to oil prices I am tempted to lay the blame on the oil markets which have fallen hard. The US Oil Index (USO) is down a mere 67% in the same period, though, only a few weeks ago it hit a low of 22.80, and that was 72% down from the same baseline. So perhaps they’re in the same ballpark.
Price declines for solar stocks over the past 6 months:
· First Solar (FSLR) down 51%
· Sunpower (SPWRA) down 73%
· Evergreen Solar (ESLR) down 86%
· Spire (SPIR) down 53%
· SunTech (STP) down 87%
At the same time, prices of solar modules have fallen which could hurt some manufacturer margins. One of the causes of this fall was Spain’s reduction of its solar subsidies. But this could be good news for buyers of solar modules who can now start picking up some bargains, possibly lifting demand again. As the market adage goes, “there’s no cure for low prices like low prices.”
A bright spark however, is the newly passed economic stimulus bill which should start boosting demand once again. With the extension of the Federal 30% tax credit and the removal of the $2000 cap, home owners will see the price of solar PV get much more affordable. For instance, last year a homeowner buying a 3 kilowatt system costing $28,500 might have paid $19,000 after the tax incentives, but this year it will cost about $13,000 based on California’s incentives and the newly uncapped Federal tax credit. Of course the incentive requires you to have a tax liability to offset, and rising unemployment may well diminish the residential market.
And, for commercial developers of solar facilities the new bill has provisions that would allow them to take the 30% tax credit as a grant instead.
The President’s “New Energy For America” plan calls for 10% of US electricity to come from renewable sources by 2012, then 25 per cent by 2025. That’s a doubling in just three years. The President has pledged to spend $15 billion per year over the next 10 years to stimulate private clean energy investments in solar power, wind power, biofuels and more efficient vehicles.
The new plans also call for:
* $30 billion for improving energy efficiency, which includes smart grid and battery technology
* $29 billion for modernizing roads and bridges
* $18 billion for clean water, flood control, and environmental restoration investments
* $8.4 billion for investments in transit, and $8 billion for investment in high-speed rail
* $7 billion for extending broadband services to underserved communities across the country
Another factor slowing down solar project development is tight credit. The economic downturn has certainly put pressure on clean energy funding, like everything else. But according to a recent survey conducted by New Energy Finance, out of the 106 institutional investors that took part in the study, about 50 percent plan to increase their exposure to the clean energy sector. These institutional investors like pension, banking and insurance funds hold $1 trillion in managed assets. One leading Swiss private bank, Bank Sarasin, told Reuters last week that they saw renewed opportunity in the US. Matthias Fawer, vice president of sustainable investment at the bank said, "Now with the stimulus package and the slowdown in Europe, especially in the Spanish solar market, we are moving to U.S. stocks." Yet another investor, Mitsubishi Corp. said on March 5th, that it plans to invest more in renewable energy, particularly solar power projects. It will invest in solar panels, solar parks and stocks.
So could this represent a bottom for the sector? And if so how should one pick the right companies to invest in?
First, the company's liquidity position and balance sheet need to be strong enough to carry it through this downturn. Look at sales growth and cash less any short-term debt for a measure of how much a company has to operate for the coming year. Today any companies that show growth can be considered strong. Also look for market leaders and companies with unique value propositions to set them apart.
Some of the companies best positioned to ride out the challenges of this year are the big market leading companies with adequate cash in hand. US manufacturer First Solar (FSLR) is one of these companies. Notice how their stock price collapse is far less than any of the other solar companies. First Solar also benefits because its panels are made from cheaper cadmium telluride rather than silicon. Also look at the other second generation solar companies I mentioned in my article of Jan 6, 2009. But even First Solar said last week that it would begin reducing prices on some of its panels to keep its competitive edge when it enters new markets.
Other well positioned companies include SunPower Corp, (SPWRA) because its highly-efficient modules command a price premium. Now that SunPower also installs the systems they have the maneuverability to adjust their margins between the different parts of the business.
Also look at Energy Conversion Devices (ENER), makers of Uni-Solar amorphous silicone panels. They were the innovators of lightweight flexible roll out modules that can be directly adhered to roof tops, also known as building integrated PV.
Suntech (STP) too has bought into the installation and finance business since its acquisition last October of El Solutions, and its joint venture with MMA Renewable Ventures called Gemini Solar Development. Gemini plans to finance, develop and operate solar power plants of 10 megawatts or more.
XsunX (OTCBB: XSNX) is another thin film innovator using amorphous silicon who, while at an earlier stage, shows promise. The company’s dual layer amorphous thin film design is cheaper to make and out performs other technologies in most climates. In a recent comparative study the company’s module design was shown to deliver the lowest levelized cost of all solar photovoltaic cell technologies. They have so far gained sales contracts for 19 MW deliverable through 2010. And they recently announced a prudent decision to reduce the capacity of their planned manufacturing facility in Oregon to approximately 13 MW which closely matches their commitments and saves the company roughly 25 million.
Despite the general weakness of the solar power sector, many analysts are saying there is great growth potential - just not very soon given the overcapacity, weak economy and difficulty in gaining funding. However, I’m looking for the escalating grass roots demand to lower greenhouse gas emissions and shift away from foreign fossil fuels to drive solar stocks along with other clean tech stocks higher once more. And the bounce could be very strong when it comes.
Paulo J. Nery
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MyHeritage Review
MyHeritage has generated a solid reputation in the DNA ancestry testing industry, boasting one of the largest databases of family-tree related documents in the world. Although they only started offering DNA testing in 2016, their tests are one of the most comprehensive for ancestry and genealogy information.
Competing with the likes of Ancestry.com, 23andMe, and other giants, the company serves customers worldwide, and has over 100 million users of its family tree service (view our MyHeritage vs Ancestry direct comparison). Read our comprehensive review of MyHeritage to learn what the company has to offer, and get our editorial opinion on the company. Our team at CompareDNAKits.com has gathered information to create this MyHeritage review including costs, pricing, limits, DNA test review, terms and conditions, as well as customer feedback.
MyHeritage- Advantages and Disadvantages
If you don’t want to read our extended review of MyHeritage, check out the executive summary below:
Cheapest to use
Largest family tree service in the world
Comprehensive genealogy results
Large database of users to match with
New and competitive health testing services
Subscription required for advanced services
Complicated online system
Our Rating: 98.2%
✓ Best Family Tree
✓ Best for Genealogy
✓ Top Value for Money
✓ Clean Reputation
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MyHeritage Overview and Basic Data
Can be used for Personal Ancestry, Health/Wellness Testing
DNA collection Swab for Cheek Cells
Number of SNPs tested 702,442.00
DNA sample stored Sample Stored Indefinitely
Availability Worldwide, minus France, Israel, Alaska, and Poland
Price $59US
Platform matching for family Yes
Geographical analysis of ancestry Yes
Special Features As an exclusive ancestry and family tree platform, automatically identifies your known relatives, and plots relevant events on an ethnicity map. Plus, you can research historical documents in one of the world’s largest databases.
Number of users 1,750,000
Ownership Privately owned by Gilad Japhet
Address Or Yehuda, Israel
Website Address https://www.myheritage.com/
Client Reviews 1000+ Amazon Reviews – 3.64/5 starts
5,600+ Trustpilot Reviews – 3.5/5 stars
Company background for MyHeritage
MyHeritage was founded in 2003 by Gilad Japhet, an Israeli entrepreneur. Japhet first created the software necessary for building family trees, which was the basis for MyHeritage. The company offers many tools for discovering your family history, as well as DNA tests. Starting as desktop software that could upload results to a static website, the platform has evolved considerable. Now the platform exists entirely online. Their database now includes over 9 billion records, and offers free tools for creating family trees.
In 2016, the company offered its first direct-to-consumer DNA testing service. The results from DNA tests can be tied into your family tree on their platform. This allows users to find surnames related to their family history, find and contact genetic matches, and build a family tree based on more than just genetic information. The DNA service is now available in over 17 languages, almost worldwide. MyHeritage recently announced it has profiles for over 3 billion people incorporated into family trees! The company owns the genealogy storage site Geni.com, and currently has around 100 million users of their family tree software. In 2019, the company started offering the DNA Health+Ancestry package to compete more directly with other DNA testing companies, and as of the end of 2019 has over 2.5 million DNA kit users.
MyHeritage’s Offerings Review
MyHeritage offers three basic services on their platform. The first is access to free software, which allows you to build your family tree. The second is an ancestry-only DNA testing kit, which compares your DNA to other users and can give you access to genealogical information. The company has also recently introduced their Health+Ancestry DNA test kit, which provides all the same ancestry information and gives some health-related information. The details of each service are given below.
MyHeritage Ancestry DNA Kit
This DNA testing kit tests a large portion of your autosomal DNA for matches to other sequences in their database. The company, like other large DNA testing companies, uses chip-based SNP analysis of your DNA. After getting your DNA tested, the company provides a report about your ancestral history.
This package is usually $79, but is currently selling for only $59. We sometimes offer MyHeritage coupons in this review, be sure to look for it at the bottom. For this price, you get a basic family tree account, an ethnicity estimate, notifications of DNA matches, and the ability to view your genes in their Chromosome Browser. This one-time purchase will give you access to their basic family tree services, but their advanced features are found in their subscription packages.
MyHeritageDNA Health+Ancestry kit
If you want to discover more from your DNA, you may want to consider the Health+Ancestry package. In addition to all the great ancestry information described above, you will also receive 27 genetic risk and carrier status reports. The reports cover polygenic conditions, such as heart disease and breast cancer, as well as a number of monogenic conditions such as cystic fibrosis and Tay Sachs disease carrier reports. The Health+Ancestry test covers many of the same conditions covered by 23andMe and other companies, although it does not include traits like bitter taste preference, freckles, and other non-health traits covered by 23andMe.
The Health+Ancestry test from MyHeritage is $199 (but often discounted) exactly the same as 23andMe. However, the company is still building the number of reports it offers. As of this writing, MyHeritage covers the same essential health risk reports like breast cancer and heart disease, but it does not offer as many trait reports and general wellness reports. Further, 23andMe offers over 40 carrier status reports, whereas MyHeritage only offers around 18. More reports will likely be added in the near future as MyHeritage expands their Health offerings.
Family Tree Subscription Plans
MyHeritage offers four different subscription plans, each with a different set of features. The basic plan is free, and offers support for a family tree of up to 250 people. If you have paid for a DNA test, you can also access these results through the platform without a subscription. However, with their wealth of family tree data and hundred million users, you may find that you want access to this extra data.
The first subscription plan, the Premium Plan, offers advanced DNA features, Smart Matches, and an expanded family tree. This plan is $129 per year, but expands your family tree to 2,500 people. The Premium Plus package is a slight upgrade to this, and allows you access to Instant Discoveries (which can find and add entire branches to your tree) and Tree Consistency Checker (which will look for errors in your family tree. It also allows an unlimited family size.
The Data package doesn’t allow the use of the Premium features, but does give you access to the company’s 9 billion historical records. This package leaves your family tree at 250 people, but allows you to attach historical records to the tree. This package is $189 per year. Their final package, the Complete package, covers all of the above, allows you unlimited members in your tree, and costs $299 per year.
What Separates MyHeritage from Other Companies in that Regard?
MyHeritage offers cheaper DNA analysis services, compared to most DNA testing companies. While the company used to be strictly an ancestry service, it has expanded into the DNA health sector as well. However, with their large database and huge amount of users, they likely have one of the most accurate and complete ancestry testing services available. But, you will have to pay a hefty price to access this wealth of information and genealogy tools. The basic DNA test will give you only a taste of what the company has to offer, and is priced accordingly.
How it Works, What Will your Kit Include?
Your kit will include a cheek swabbing kit, slightly different from companies which have you spit into a vial. Simply wipe the swab across the inside of your cheek. You need only press lightly, as plenty of cells will attach to the swab. Place the swab in the container, and mail the package back to the company. In only 3-4 weeks, you’ll have your results. They will be available on your free account, accessed through the company’s website.
Understanding MyHeritage DNA Testing Results
Your results will be available under the “DNA” tab, once you log into your MyHeritage account. There will be an Overview, which summarizes the results. Two other tabs, the Ethnicity Estimate and DNA Matches provide information about who you share genes with. The Ethnicity Estimate provides information on which groups you are related to, while the DNA Matches page finds other users you are actually related to.
The Ethnicity Estimate page will have information on the ethnicities your DNA most closely identifies with. The page will have a map showing the geographic region these ethnicities come from. There will also be a chart, describing each ethnicity and what percentage of your genetics are a match. The website will also provide a short video, detailing these results in an animated format. DNA matches can be contacted and added to your family tree.
If you purchase a Health+Ancestry test, you will receive all the same ancestry information, as well as a report detailing many aspects of your genetic health risks. The carrier status reports are always the most accurate, because they describe monogenic risks which directly influence disease. If you are a carrier of a specific disease, it means that you have 1 of the 2 necessary genetic variants needed to cause the disease. Other genetic risk factors are simply correlations found in large data sets, and may or may not be related to causing actual disease. However, this is true of all genetic testing companies, not just MyHeritage.
Will your Data be Shared?
The MyHeritage Privacy Policy details that by submitting a sample you are giving them license to use the sample any way they choose. Though they mine this data for useful information in creating family trees, the policy claims they will never sell or license your DNA data to anyone else. Your DNA data is stored on their secure servers, and you can request that they delete it after your DNA test is complete. You can download and store your data, but it is no longer protected by the company. Learn why it’s important on our article “is your DNA privacy safe?”.
Media coverage and user opinions
MyHeritage has a number of reviews from large media companies. It boasts fairly high reviews and generally gets good coverage. A major exception to this was the recent data hack the company suffered, as reported by MarketWatch. This hack affected nearly all 100 million of their customers, though there is little evidence that any sensitive data was lost. Below are other prominent stories that cover MyHeritage, from mainstream media outlets:
USA Today – DNA tests used to reunite migrant families spark worries they’ll be used for much more
BusinessWire – MyHeritage Offers Free DNA Tests to Help Reunite Separated Migrant Children with their Parents
ScienceNews – What I actually learned about my family after trying 5 DNA ancestry tests
Fox Business – A list of the biggest data leaks
San Francisco Chronicle – Effort to use DNA tests to reunite migrant families is paused
USA Today – These are the top companies offering genealogical DNA testing to learn about your family
User Acceptance:
The company provides a number of stories with happy endings on their website. These stories focus on families that have been reunited using the family tree software, as well as the DNA testing kits. The site lists a number of stories from around the globe.
Over 1000 reviews on Amazon rate their DNA kit at 4 of 5 stars, as of December 11, 2018. 53% of users rate the service at 5 stars, while only 13% rate the service at 4 stars. A large 19% rate the service at only 1 star. Users on Trustpilot rate the service at 3.5 stars with over 5,600 reviews. The proportions of satisfied and unsatisfied customers are similar.
Users who are happy with MyHeritage mentioned the following points:
MyHeritage has a huge database of users and family tree data.
This company is one of the cheapest DNA testing companies, now on sale for $59.
It is also one of the fastest companies, with some users getting results in just over 2 weeks.
Several users have claimed their DNA results are more accurate than other companies.
Offers the ability to find new relatives with DNA Matches.
The platform breaks down the individual ethnicities your DNA relates to.
Users giving MyHeritage a 1-star review mentioned the following worthy points:
Although the test is cheap, it gives you very few results compared to some companies.
Many users complain about the subscription plans, and how the DNA test encourages you to buy it.
Without an expensive subscription package, many of the platform’s features cannot be accessed.
Some users found that after purchasing the kit, they couldn’t access their results.
A few complaints mention that to access customer service, you have to be subscribed to a premium plan.
Trustpilot.com rated MyHeritage at 4 of 5 stars, with over 2,500 reviews. Over 60% of the reviews were of the highest rating, and 16% give it 4 stars. Only 15% of users found it to be Bad, at 1 star. Many of the criticisms and praises here were the same as on Amazon.
Bottom Line Conclusions for This MyHeritage Review
If you are trying to build a family tree and understand your family history, MyHeritage is a great choice. Not only are their DNA results some of the most rigorous in the industry, but their business was built on building family tree information. They have the largest databases of non-DNA family tree information, and over 100 million users worldwide, similar to Ancestry.com. However, this advanced information is only available for a rather steep price.
MyHeritage Review: Executive Summary
Reputation and credibility - 93%
Depth of offering - 94%
Usability - 92%
Family Tree - 100%
Quality of results - 94%
Promotions - 100%
Summary of our findings
MyHeritage is the leader in DNA testing. It has been a leader in ancestry testing for a long while now and have recently expanded its offering to health kits as well. The company originated in 2003 as a software company for building family trees, but has grown above and beyond that while keeping its ancestry and family tree expertise.
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Today’s Hollywood stars are utra thin, with perfect size zero bodies, but some take it to the extreme with bodies whittled literally to bone protruding skinny figures. When quized about their extremely thin figures, celebrities rave about their “amazing genetic backgrounds”, to maintaining an ultra dedicated “healthy diet” with virtually no calories coupled with strenuous “fitness routines”. Of course, when they are caught on camera eating junk food late at night their slimming tales obviously come up short . Clearly, a lot of them are lying. So here are some celebrity diet facts that can help explain their weight loss success:
Hollywood Stars Diet Secrets Exposed
Celebrity Diet Secret #1 – They take diet pills to shed pounds fast
“Hollywood’s celebrity party girls always seem to have access to certain drugs known to help shed pounds. At the moment, Phenternin is the latest diet drug craze in Hollywood, and the number of celebrities using it continues to rise.”
When Lindsay Lohan was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving, police said they found cocaine in her pocket. At the moment, Phenternin is the latest diet drug craze in Hollywood, and the number of celebrities using it continues to rise. Just about every female celebrity arrested from Paris to Nicole, from Lindsay to Britney Spears has had prescription diet aides in their pocketbook. The Phenternin diet pill kills the appetite and is even available online. For the jet-set, hard-partying girl it has become the miracle pill. Some celebrities also take the Phenhermine diet pill, known as “potent appetite suppressant diet pill”. Commonly used to suppress the appetite and with a large 2,150mg daily dose of the diet drug. Paris Hilton recently admitted to U.S. talk show host Larry King that she takes Adderall for attention deficit disorder. Both drugs are often used by women looking to lose weight. Hollywood’s party girls always seem to have access to certain drugs known to help shed pounds.
Manhattan-based trainer Justin Gelband, who works with catwalk and catalogue models, says: “Diet pills and steroids are huge right now. After Kate Moss was caught supposedly doing coke, the modelling agencies started to crack down on girls using hardcore drugs like cocaine and heroin to stay slim. ” So now it’s more diet pills and steroids; they are easier to hide and, if pressed, the girls can say that they have a prescription.”
Celebrity Secret #2 – They live at the gym
Goldie Hawn’s daughter actress Kate Hudson, in her quest to shed the extra weighed she gained while pregnant with son Ryder, admitted to working out up to three hours daily for three months.
And how about Jessica Simpson, did you know that to prepare for her role as the sexy Daisy Duke, Jessica Simpson worked out for two hours a day, six days a week.
The general manager at a Crunch gym in Hollywood, a celebrity favorite hangout, even told Glamour magazine: “There’s one singer-actress who works out at my gym for about five hours a day, even on weekends. She spent her birthday here.”
Did you see the photos of a skeletal-looking Teri Hatcher jogging through Hollywood with weights in both hands and bones protruding-through her skin?
Celebrity Diet Secret #3 – They eat virtual nothing
Lots of celebrities just simply don’t eat much. They eat virtually nothing. One star, according to reports ‘she would rise in the morning and eat one and then have one or two at the end of the day. That was her entire diet.’ “It’s a self-defeating strategy, you need to eat enough, and particularly protein, to build lean and toned muscle in the first place.”
Celebrity Diet Secret #4 – They fast all the time
Paris Hilton caused a stir when she walked into New York restaurant Nobu recently. When a waiter asked the heiress for her order, he was quietly told: “Mineral water.” In fact, over the course of her two-hour “meal”, Paris took sips of water and Red Bull – she didn’t eat a single bite. Supermodel trainer Gelband admits: “I had one girl who was living on Diet Coke and peanuts. She drank three to five Diet Cokes a day and ate a big bag of nuts. If she got hungry, she smoked. Her eyes had huge bags under them and she looked wasted. When we tried to work out, we had to stop every five minutes. It was awful.” And she’s not alone. Super-slim Desperate Housewives star Marcia Cross was spotted dining at a restaurant a few years back with her now husband Tom Mahoney. According to one eyewitness: “He ordered sea bass and prawns, but she just sipped fruit juice.” Marcia recently admitted to the pressure to be thin: “Not eating is a constant struggle. It’s like they pay me not to eat. It’s a living hell.”
Then there’s the master cleanse, otherwise known as the lemonade diet: water mixed with maple syrup, lemon juice and cayenne pepper. Beyonce admitted following it for two weeks to drop one-and-a-half stone for the film Dreamgirls, and Jared Leto used it to shed the two stone he’d gained to play Mark Chapman in the film Chapter 27. Gunnar Peterson calls it the “You’re an idiot” diet. ”I had a client who did it and I thought he was ill,” says Peterson. ”His skin was grey and his eyes had terrible dark circles under them. He was shuffling when he walked, and this was after only ten days!” One of Hollywood’s dirty little secrets is the “IV diet”, in which celebrities check themselves into hospital to get put on an IV so they can avoid eating altogether. Peterson says of the IV diet: “This is beyond ridiculous. If you’re doing this you’re not fat, you’re crazy!”
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Home Confederados Papers 1904,February 3, Clay to Mother
Norris, Robert C. Letters (1904-1909)
1904,February 3, Clay to Mother
Reca Directa 6
Febuy 3rd 1904
Dear Mamma
Tomorrow is your
birthday am sorry that I can not
be there in person to spend it
with you but said from ehre a
hug And kiss, and wish you many
of and that each will bring more
and more happiness.
I left Dr
Baungoofrer(?) on Monday at 11
Oclock have gone in with Hauty(?),
not as an assistant but independent
had to spend about 500$ to be
able to go to work and will satis
fied and happy expect to
make 5 or 600$ more each omnth
the folks at home well and said
"parabeus" you letter of 20 came today
I had seen in the papers an
account of the Armstrong Affair
but did not know he was the
song of Gen A. am sorry
much love I am ,
Your affectonate son
Title Norris, Robert C. Letters (1904-1909)
Creator Norris, Robert C.
LC Subject Headings Norris, Robert C.
American Confederate voluntary exiles -- Brazil -- History
American Confederate voluntary exiles -- Brazil -- Social life and customs
EOA Categories History -- 1838-1874: Sectionalism, the Civil War, and Reconstruction
Peoples -- Domestic Life
Peoples -- Immigrant Life
Description This document contains miscellaneous documents in regards to Robert Cicero Norris, his Father-Col. William Hutchison Norris, his sons, including Robert Clay Norris and daughters including Mary Elizabeth Norris. Robert Cicero Norris was born March 7, 1837 in Perry County Ala. In 1861 he enlisted in Company F 15th Alabama Regiment and went to Fort Mitchell for organization, and from there to Virginia where his regiment served in Stonewall Jackson’s brigade. In 1862 he made sergeant major, serving in that capacity until 1864. Later he was assigned to Company A, 60th Alabama Regiment and promoted to first lieutenant. At Hatcher’s Run he was captured and sent as a prisoner to Fort Delaware, where he was kept until June 17th, 1865. He arrived at his old home in Alabama on the 5th of July. During the four years' service he was wounded three times. He served in many battles and skirmishes, including Front Royal, Port Republic, Harper's Ferry, Cross Keys, Cold Harbor, Malvern Hill, Cedar Run, Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Brown's Ferry, Wilderness, Spottsylvania Courthouse, Second Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Darbytown Road, and Williamsburg Road. At the end of 1865 he traveled to Brazil and settled in Villa Americana, State of Sao Paulo, being the first American to settle in that section of the country. Afterwards a flourishing American colony was established there. He returned to the Mobile in 1890 to study medicine. After completing his studies, he rejoined his wife and their 10 children in Brazil, where he established a successful practice. He retired from active life in 1911. Robert Cicero Norris’ son, Robert Clay Norris was Robert Clay Norris was born January 5, 1872 in Santa Barbara d'Oeste, Sao Paulo, Brazil. He studied dentistry in Sao Paulo and assisted in the practice of Dr. I. G. Baumgardner before his untimely death on December 10, 1906. He married Ana Candida Escobar 1895 in Santa Barbara d'Oeste, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Digital Publisher Auburn University Libraries.
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Collection Confederaods Collection
Repository Auburn University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives Departments
Submitted by Galati, Leslie Ann; Thornton, Linda
Title 1904,February 3, Clay to Mother
Transcript Reca Directa 6 Febuy 3rd 1904 Dear Mamma Tomorrow is your birthday am sorry that I can not be there in person to spend it with you but said from ehre a hug And kiss, and wish you many of and that each will bring more and more happiness. I left Dr Baungoofrer(?) on Monday at 11 Oclock have gone in with Hauty(?), not as an assistant but independent had to spend about 500$ to be able to go to work and will satis fied and happy expect to make 5 or 600$ more each omnth the folks at home well and said "parabeus" you letter of 20 came today I had seen in the papers an account of the Armstrong Affair but did not know he was the song of Gen A. am sorry With much love I am , Your affectonate son Clay
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Home »Music»Deadshirt Is Listening»Deadshirt Is Listening… Putting on Red Shoes, Dancing into Obsolescence
Deadshirt Is Listening… Putting on Red Shoes, Dancing into Obsolescence
Deadshirt Is Listening… Bringing you a rundown of our staff and guest contributors’ favorite new tracks released in the past week after they’ve had the weekend to blast them in their cars, in a club, alone in their rooms, etc.
Julian Ames is dancing his way into obsolescence to…
“Where Does This Disco?”
Alternative Dance
YACHT describes this new song “Where Does This Disco?” as being about the end of both love, the concept, and Compact Discs, the format. “They’re both on the edge of becoming obsolete, and they both get scratched if you play them too hard. They’re both mirrors, but one is still the best medium we have for connecting with each other.” While the idea of love becoming obsolete sounds like something Time Magazine would write in an article about Millennials, I’m not really going to judge too harshly since the song sounds great.
YACHT’s last two records came out on the alt dance-friendly DFA label; and while the band has since moved on to a new label, Downtown Records, their sound on this new song is still heavily influenced by classic new wave synthpop groups like New Order and Depeche Mode. The opening synth bass line even sounds similar to the one from “Blue Monday.” “Don’t you wanna make me move?” lead singer Claire L. Evans asks in the lyrics, the answer apparently being “yes,” as more and more synths pile on top of the thumping dance rhythm. Punny name aside, this song is just the right amount of fun and weird to definitely be a YACHT song.
The US Open Sessions
Speaking of The DFA, one of the label’s founders, James Murphy, is at it again, this time with a pretty interesting project. In the past couple weeks that the US Open had been going on, IBM has been taking data from tennis matches and making these sound collages. I say “sound collage” instead of song because the matches I listened to weren’t quite cohesive enough to really be considered music. Although this opens up the debate of what is considered music and what isn’t, let’s just say they weren’t anything most people would listen to, just some electronic bleeps and bloops in sort of a pattern, but not enough of one to make an established rhythm.
But, James Murphy released a couple remixes of matches that do sound like songs, pretty good songs as a matter of fact. Match 104 is my favorite of the ones he released. Murphy threw a house beat behind the generated sounds; he probably also had to mess with the sounds a little bit to make the tempo more consistent. The result is a really cool track that could easily find a home in some underground club somewhere. Just another cool music experiment from the guy trying to make the New York subway more musical.
Sam Paxton is putting on his red shoes for…
Little Daylight
Let’s Dance (Single)
Covering an artist as monolithic as David Bowie is the musical equivalent of daring to touch the face of God: bold and probably foolish. Brooklyn pop trio Little Daylight doesn’t let that stop them though, churning out a fist-pumping version of the classic track. The result is surprisingly great. Gone are the original’s horns and chorused guitar, supplanted by grinding bass and thundering drums. Lead singer Nikki Taylor’s innocent vocals contrast perfectly with the instrumentals, and it’s impossible to not find yourself grooving to the electric impetus of the song. All too soon, the band lets the upbeat track dissolve into a brooding, rhythmic coda. Like the original, “Let’s Dance” is very much a song of its time, and expertly exudes the simultaneous joy and foreboding attitude of the original. Bowie purists might be put off here, but as a fan of covers that attempt to creatively reinterpret the source rather than slavishly recreate it, I think the track captures the spirit of “Let’s Dance” rather well, so much so that the Thin White Duke himself would probably approve.
David Lebovitz is preparing to cry because…
“It Will End In Tears”
Philip Selway
Radiohead is supposedly meeting this month to prep for their new album. While it will likely be months, or knowing Thom Yorke, years, before we hear anything from it, a non-Yorke member has a solo project in the pipeline: drummer Phil Selway’s album Weatherhouse is due out next month. In typical Radiohead fashion, this track, “It Will End In Tears,” is a beautiful, dark song about sadness. It gets sadder and darker the closer you listen to the otherwise simple lyrics. The chorus alone says “it will end in tears and I won’t be sorry.”
Easy melodic comparisons to Radiohead–particularly The King of Limbs and Kid A–aside, Selway has a sound somewhere between solo John Lennon and Sea Change-era Beck. It’s a tightly constructed sound with a certain sense of spaciousness. His voice is gentle and conveys sadness while still maintaining a sense of control. While he’s not going to replace Yorke anytime soon, it’s nice to hear Selway solo and to know that Yorke’s not the only good singer in the band.
This track should help tide Radiohead fans over until the next album, not to mention stir up interest in Weatherhouse on its own merits.
Mike Duquette is staring toward the sunset to…
rose ave.
Acoustic Folk
With apologies to U2’s iTunes takeover, the past week’s best surprise album announcement was that of You+Me, a new collaboration between the unlikely pairing of Dallas Green, the Canadian singer-songwriter better known as City and Colour, and Alecia Moore, the hearty-voiced pop singer better known as P!nk. The duo’s first single, “You and Me,” combines the best of both artists in equal measure: Green’s warm, weighty folk sensibility and P!nk’s pop jackhammer of a voice, tempered considerably from her usual solo fare but as recognizable and full of life as you’ve come to expect. The huddled, wounded romance of “You and Me” might not burn up the charts like P!nk’s maniacally long run of hits (coasting into its fifteenth year or so), nor might it garner the Starbucks-crowd nods that come easy to City and Colour. But as happy mediums and crossover-worthy efforts go, this is pretty great.
Dominic Griffin is winding down to…
“Sober [rough]”
STN MTN/KUAUI
Dream Pop/R&B
As much as I love couplets about buying expensive cargo pants with TV writing money, I tend to enjoy Donald Glover’s plaintive singing over his still occasionally clunky raps. This new salvo from his soon to be released mixtape rests safely in that lane, a chorus of sugary, reassuring synths stacked on top of a vamping piano and some layered, Stevie Wondrous vocals from Glover himself. “Sober” reminds you that the breezy spirit of Chillwave is alive and well when Donny G feels like stepping away from the mic, and he’s as adept at setting a mood musically as he purports to be at spitting rhymes. His growth as a rapper has been impressive, but I don’t think he gets his due as a crooner, despite some serious chops, inventive songwriting and a soulful presence. More like this please.
At the top of the year, freshly removed from dropping a solid sophomore album completely overshadowed by one thinkpiece-launching guest verse from a track that didn’t even make the final cut, “Medium” Sean dropped a song called “1st Quarter” in the vein of the Drake State Of The Union song rappers make in between albums to remind you of their continued existence. Here, he’s released a sequel to celebrate signing to Jay-Z’s Roc Nation. There’s not a whole lot to say about Sean as a rapper. He’s always been enjoyable in terms of flow, delivery and cadence while simultaneously left wanting in terms of meaty content, but he’s largely harmless, a charming Jason Segel misfire in a world full of Kevin James movies.
The real MVP here is producer Key Wane, Sean’s in-house beatmaker who is always at his best quietly and carefully laying down soundscapes that best complement his partner in crime. Even their best work together on Sean’s Detroit mixtape don’t quite put them on the Aubrey Graham/Noah Shebib campeones de parejas tier, but here, the low key menacing instrumental Wane crafts slowly builds in vastness and intensity, a muted and understated vocal sample slowly rising out of murky water like Excalibur from the Lady in The Lake. Unfortunately, it crescendos to usher in a truly awful Power Rangers punchline from Sean, but he delivers the line with such self satisfaction, you can really picture Kanye putting it under a magnet on the fridge to say “A for effort.”
That’s what we’ve been listening to this week – what’s got your ear this week? Tweet your recommendations @DeadshirtDotNet or drop us a line on our Facebook page.
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The folly of the stimulus strategy
Struggling with the early impacts of the economic downturn, educators across the country were thrilled to learn that they would receive more than $100 billion over the next two years through the federal government’s stimulus plan. And rightly so: given that funding is going to continue to tighten for the foreseeable future, perhaps substantially, these stimulus funds give educators breathing space to figure out how to operate in this changed environment. As Jack O’Connell, state superintendent of public instruction in California told the Wall Street Journal, “It’s going to mean a softer landing for us.”
But as more information has become available on the desired uses of that money, it has become clear that none of the desired uses of those funds will result in a softer landing at all.
Without going into detail on the many pathways that money is taking into schools (see here for volumes of information on that front), states are being asked to use this money to make progress in four key reform areas (as listed here):
Increase teacher effectiveness and address inequities in the distribution of highly qualified teachers
Establish and use pre-K through college and career data systems to track progress and foster continuous improvement
Make progress toward rigorous college- and career-ready standards and high-quality assessments
Support targeted, intensive support and effective interventions to turn around schools identified for corrective action and restructuring
These are all worthy goals, of course – we might even see some kind of uptick in student achievement. And the feds are asking schools not to pursue programs that involve financial commitments beyond the life of the stimulus funds.
But how will pursuing any of these objectives result in a softer landing when the federal money runs out, and when state and local funds for education are likely far lower than they are today?
More effective and better-distributed teachers may in fact result in higher student achievement (assuming we know how to make teachers more effective – the evidence is thin on that front). But how will that help when the money runs dry and we have to let a lot of those teachers go? I hope some of that professional development includes management of larger classes, because they’re going to need it.
Standards and assessments are also worthwhile, but they won’t reduce operating expenses. Similarly, spending the next two years turning around failing schools will do nothing to ease the impact of significantly lower funding in 2011.
Data systems, on the other hand, could in fact reduce operating expenses, if they’re focused on replacing personnel by automating routine tasks. But there’s no evidence that this is the focus.
You would think that the two-year hiatus made possible by the stimulus bill would involve a mandate for finding cost efficiencies, reducing manpower through improved operations, and otherwise preparing for the inevitable. But there’s nothing anywhere in this bill, or in the buzz surrounding it, pointing to the need for systems reengineering, finding alternate sources of support, or anything else.
So after $100 billion in extra federal dollars washes through the system, and we’re left looking at a steep drop in available funds in 2011, how prepared will we be to deal with it? We’ve been given a two-year reprieve to start preparing; I hope educators are taking advantage of that time, whether or not the feds are asking them to.
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KH Chemicals to Collaborate with Japanese Companies to Commercialize CAST Technology
KH Chemicals is pushing for commercialization of ‘CAST (Carbon Nanotube Addition Surface Treatment) with Japanese companies based on South Korea’s only SWCNT (Single Walled Carbon Nanotube) synthesis technology.
KH Chemicals held ‘CAST Synthesis Technology Seminar’ at KOEX on the 10th and stated that it would be pushing for a project that will commercialize CAST technology along with Yamaichi Special Steel and Meijo University.
KH Chemicals was established in 2001 by a married couple of Technical Director Kim Young-nam who majored in chemical catalysis at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) and Hong Eun-hwa who has a Doctor’s degree from POSTECH and is an expert in materials. KH Chemicals is the only company in the world that has a facility that can mass-produce SWCNTs through CVD (Chemical Vapor Deposition) process continuously based on its own technologies. Based on its knowhow in mass-producing SWCNTs with uniformed quality and dualized catalyst synthesis and CNT synthesis technologies, it currently produces 1 ton of SWCNTs annually.
CNT has excellent structural, electrical, chemical, and thermal properties and it is seen as a fundamental material that can be applied to almost any industry. SWCNT, which is made up of a single wall, has excellent properties compared to MWCNT (Multi-Walled CNT). KH Chemicals is working on commercializing SWCNT that can improve fast charging and discharging abilities, lifespan, and stability of lithium-ion battery. SWCNT is also used as an ESD (Electro Static Discharge) material to prevent various electronic parts from being damaged by static or dust.
<When CAST technology is applied to the fields of refrigeration and air conditioning and heat exchanger, evaporation property can be improved as the time it takes for ethanol to evaporate is shorter when CAST technology is applied.>
KH Chemicals is currently working with Yamaichi Special Steel and Meijo University to commercialize CAST technology by utilizing SWCNT. CAST technology is not just about coating SWCNT dispersion into metals such as aluminum, stainless, and copper, but it is a technology that densely packs SWCNTs on the surface of a metal vertically through anodizing process.
This technology can apply SWCNTs on the surface of a metal while developing nano-level bumps through simple wet process at the same time. As a result, it is possible to implement various conditions such as water repellency, heat dissipation, salinity resistance, corrosion resistance, and reduction of friction coefficient as current properties of a metal start to change. Because even small amount of SWCNT can make the most of properties such as thermal conduction and electrical conduction, unit cost can be much smaller compared to coating method that is currently used. Major areas where CAST technology can be applied currently are hydraulic cooling system and outdoor unit of an air conditioner.
“Because CAST technology provides water repellency and hydrophilic property through small bumps, it can prevent condensation from occurring in the outdoor unit of an air conditioner and help reduce energy and it can also be used in other areas such as frost removal, prevention of deep snow, and prevention of condensation.” said a chief researcher of Yamaichi Special Steel. “Because thermal conduction is improved through CNT, CAST technology can also improve heat radiation property of car headlights and electronic boards.”
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Debit, Credit Cardholders at risk: Here's all you need to know...
Data of as many as 13 lakh debit and credit cardholders has been compromised and is up for sale for appx. Rs. 7500 per card and after the RBI has taken notice of the cyberattack.
Modi calls off Ankara visit after Erdogan backs Pakistan
India has decided to give the cold shoulder to its ties with Turkey after Prime Minister Narendra Modi cancelled a two-day official visit to Turkey's capital Ankara that was to take place at the end of October.
Top six major movements of Indian markets last week
These are the six major movements of Indian markets last week.
Markets next week: Further upward momentum likely...
What seemed a little different this week, is the fact that there was some buying seen from Foreign Portfolio Investors for a few days in succession. This led to a steady rally in stocks for at least five successive days in the week.
Nifty gained for a second consecutive week
Equity benchmarks gained for a second consecutive week to close higher by more than three per cent at 11662 points level on the back of strong global cues.
Laal Kaptaan movie review: Revenge is served dull in this Saif Ali Khan starrer!
Right from the first frame itself, Saif Ali Khans Laal Kaptaan warns us of the death that's lurking around in the film. However, when it finally claims its victim after a long pursuit, it simply doesn't shake you up anymore.
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5 Questions for Tommy Pico
By Melissa Adamo on Wednesday, August 12th, 2015 at 9:04 am
Tommy Pico will be reading at Free Water #8 on Friday, August 14th, at KGB, at 7 p.m. along with Morgan Parker, Lynn Melnick, and Angel Nafis.
What is the best poetry advice you’ve received?
Tommy Pico: Milk, milk, lemonade: around the corner, verse is made! Juuuust kidding. I think it was probably something like, “don’t be so vain” both with regard to my nerves while reading in front of people, and being too precious with the “I” of the poem. Like the speaker or whoever shouldn’t be the hero, the smartest, the best, the most witty or the most complex.
What are you currently working on?
Pico: Right now I’m trying to finish a book-length poem called Nature Poem, and understanding the features of my like ancestral anger at America generally.
In a previous interview with EKR, Britt said “everything is sound.” So if everything is sound, how would you describe yours? Or, disagree:
Pico: I think abt this a lot, and I’m pretty sure I sound like Ursula the Sea Witch + Fran Drescher + Barry White + Nicki Minaj but don’t quote me on that.
What is the last book you read?
Pico: I just finished the graphic novel American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang–I loved comic books as a kid, but more the super hero stuff, and am a little late to the whole “graphic novel” party. I am truly astounded by how much in common some of these comics have with poetry, and how similarly you can read them.
What is your favorite drink?
Pico: Watermelon or Blood Orange ANYTHING literally ANYTHING like I wd probably drink strychnine if you said it was blood orange flavor. Also hint hint it’s nearly my half birthday so keep b.o. in mind.
Find Tommy Pico on Tumblr at heyteebs.tumblr.com or on Twitter @heyteebs and in real life at Free Water 8 on August 14th at KGB Bar. Follow Freewater on Twitter @FreeWaterArts.
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Crime and punishment.
The beating of that Iraqi war veteran in Washington D.C. recently was a horrific and inexcusable, and the fact that the alleged thugs who attacked the poor fellow did it in the name of the Black Lives Matter movement made it even more reprehensible to me.
The victim said his attack was racially motivated, and I have no reason to believe that he is lying.
"Christopher Andrew Marquez — who attends American University and ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2014 in California — said in an interview that the attack occurred after several black youths asked him whether “black lives matter” and then called him racist.
Marquez, who is Hispanic, called the incident unprovoked. It occurred at the restaurant in the 900 block of E Street NW.
According to a D.C. police report, Marquez, 30, told officers that a group of at least four youths were loud and began to argue with him. The report says Marquez told police that one youth hit him in the face with a handgun and stole bank cards and his wallet with $400 inside. The incident was first reported by the Daily Caller, a conservative Internet news and opinion site.
Police could not verify the motive as described by Marquez and said they are continuing to look into the case. Dustin Sternbeck, the chief D.C. police spokesman, said detectives are reviewing surveillance video of the assault but it was not immediately clear what it shows." [Source]
This case has garnered quite a bit of publicity, and rightfully so, and hopefully they will catch these thugs and give them the punishment that they deserve.
In Western Pennsylvania there was another attack on an innocent man by another group of thugs.
This time, though, the races were reversed: The attackers were white and the victim was black.
"On the night of May 30, 2015, country music fans flooded out of Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, Pa., after a concert with Tennessee legend Kenny Chesney.
“The body’s a temple, that’s what we’re told,” the singer has famously crooned. “I treated this one like an old honky tonk.”
Outside, people were streaming into the nearby subway station. Among them was Kevin Lockett, an African American man who walked along the platform pulling a cooler in one hand.
That’s the last thing he can remember with absolute certainty. The rest, according to court testimony reported by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, only comes back to him in bits, pieces and violent flashes.
He thought he heard a racial slur from a group of men, and the next thing he knew, he was being thrown onto the train tracks.
After Lockett lifted himself back onto the platform, surveillance footage shows, 21-year-old Ryan Kyle started beating him. Another 21-year-old, Matthew Laplace, pulled his cooler away.
“I knew we’d find this [n-word],” he recalled someone saying. Then an onlooker called the police.
The attack was brief, but its impact has stayed with Lockett. According to WTAE Pittsburgh, he has undergone four costly reconstructive surgeries since the assault, but still suffers from impaired vision. More therapy awaits.
Four men involved in the incident — Laplace, 22, Kenneth Gault, 22, David Depretis, 21, and Christopher Laplace, 23 — were variously charged with aggravated assault, ethnic intimidation, theft, reckless endangerment and criminal conspiracy.
All four are white, as is Kyle. He is the only one who touched Lockett and the only one who could face prison time, as a result of plea deals.
Gault and Depretis pleaded no contest and were sentenced to six months probation, WTAE reported; Matthew LaPlace pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 12 months probation. All are required to perform 100 hours of community service to benefit a minority community.
Christopher LaPlace, Matthew’s brother, will be sentenced on Thursday.
“There’s no punishment,” Lockett told WTAE with a shake of the head, calling the sentences “slaps on the wrist.”
“The way they would look at if five black guys jumped one white guy. Nobody would be going home. Nobody would get 100 hours of community service,” he said.
At the preliminary hearing last summer, the Post-Gazette reported, Assistant District Attorney Julie Capone called the men bullies and said they were “complicit” in Kyle’s actions.
“They all stuck together,” she said.
But the attorneys for the other four men argued that they were innocent bystanders.
“One of these young men was out of control,” Matthew LaPlace’s lawyer, Patrick Thomassey, told WTAE. “The others, for lack of a better word, was just sort of there.”
Gault’s attorney, Robert Del Greco, said: “In each of the offensive acts, my client’s back was turned, walking away from the fray, toward the exit.”
A police officer testified in court, however, that Gault had said to him shortly after the incident, “Don’t know why you’re making such a big deal over a crackhead [n-word].”
When the men were found at a nearby bus stop, according to a police complaint obtained by WTAE, they “were very upset and wanted to know why they were being stopped.”
The complaint further stated that Kyle admitted to police that he hit Lockett, saying ‘Who cares, it was only a [n-word].”
Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey A. Manning said on Wednesday he was unhappy with the plea deals, the Post-Gazette reported, but felt compelled to accept them.
District Attorney Stephen Zappala said in a statement that the trial court had not seen the surveillance footage when the no contest and guilty pleas were made. The tape will now be provided, he said, and they expect “that the most culpable defendant, Ryan Kyle, who was the lone participant in the assault of Mr. Lockett, will face a sentence in the state penitentiary.”
Kyle admitted to aggravated assault, ethnic intimidation and other charges in a plea deal for dropping attempted homicide charges.
Out of the five defendants, only LaPlace had apologized to Lockett.
“No, ‘I’m sorry?'” Judge Manning prodded Depretis. “No, ‘This shouldn’t have happened?’ Nothing to say?”' [Source]
What's up with these Kenny Chesney concerts bringing out the worst in these young white men?
These thugs (at least the ones who have pled so far) seem to have gotten off lightly.
Let's hope that the thugs in the D.C. do not get similar plea deals.
I am sure that my white friends will agree with me on this one.
Labels: black lives matter, Christopher Andrew Marquez, Dustin Sternbeck, Kenny Chesney, Kevin Lockett, Matthew Laplace, Stephen Zappala., Washington D.C.
tit for tat?
Roy Beaner said...
All thugs matter.
Hang em'all, black or white.
More white justice system...fair and balanced.
The white guys were the only ones who got arrested.
I wondered why you'd go so far as to use the word "thugs" and to speak against BLM, but then I saw the victim as you called him Hispanic. lol
On all of these incidents, when these punk-ass thugs group together and beat people, I say more people need to be armed. I'm not one who believes all life is precious or that these sorts of morons deserve second chances. They're genetic ticks in the timing of civilized society, and life without them is more the better for everyone.
Something sounds a little fishy to me in that DC attack. Just has that weird something amiss feel to it. It was also not done in the name of BLM. They may have used it as an excuse but they had nothing to do with BLM. Anyhoo sounds a little to scripted. Know what I mean?
Something sounds a little fishy to me in that DC attack. Just has that weird something amiss feel to it.
That's you are a fucking racist who thinks only black lives matter.
Fuck you, racist. I can't wait until your type dies off.
White Privilege is a lie told by Bigots to manipulate Morons:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cbnv6g8VIAEWOXe.jpg:large
Pilot X, I agree with your thoughts on The DC Attack. And Ditto to Roy Beaner.
Nothing like black on non-black crime can bring out the paranoia in blacks. Thank allah there is video so all blacks have is their racist paranoid feelings.
And typical field negro, he can't post about black on non-black crime without finding a rare incident of white on black crime and screaming'' SEE,SEEE YOU DO IT TOO!!!!!''''. I wonder if dude had been white would field have posted about it? Or would ignore it like he has the hundreds of black mob attacks on whites since the election of obama.
“The way they would look at if five black guys jumped one white guy. Nobody would be going home. Nobody would get 100 hours of community service,” he said.''
Complete bullshit. Whatever helps blacks and their victimization...
Whatever happen in this case, blacks should be thankful their chickens are not coming home to roost...Least not yet...
I see, so we ignore that man being almost killed in Pittsburgh by the actions of those animals. So all beatings are not equal then.
Got it, wingnut.
BTW, please provide some links to those thousands of black kids beating whites in the name of Obama or BLM.
I will wait......
So all beatings are not equal then.
Seems like only yesterday you and Chauncey DeVega we teaming up to downplay black mob attacks that became frequent after the election of obama. By the same token, any rare attacks in which whites are the perpetrators always gets coverage. Ditto from the liberal media.
Seems like there's a lot of folks who think all beatings are not equal....
More people should be armed? Maybe, but remember Bernie Goetz? He was armed, and by most accounts was justified in taking the action that he did. Still it didn't work out too well for him even if one of the attackers did end up a quadriplegic.
Field, the DC McDonald's assault occurred ACROSS the street from FBI headquarters. You can see the FBI building in the video. I don't know if there is FBI video, but i would not be surprised. Additionally, when I worked downtown, in the courthouse, 4 blocks away, that McDonald's had a security guard working inside. What happened to the guard? I retired 4 years ago, but that McDonald's is in the same location. Oh, and when I was on active duty 30 years ago in the Navy JAG corps, marines were assaulted on a regular basis in the area near the navy yard, near the marine barracks.
why is there always a video when Blacks attack Whites and no video when Whites attack Blacks? This is White injustice against Blacks as usual.
Well none of of these violent incidents surprise me.
How can they not be happening when America is so violent. Violence is everywhere and so highly celebrated in so many ways. It is celebrated, touted,encouraged,applauded and seen as THE way to be.
Think about it, even in Americas hallmark rock music,what does one see? Guitar smashing,screaming at the top of the lungs,violent facial expressions etc. America loves, thrives, on violence. It's a super power because of it's violence, not because of pussy footing around and being wimpy! :) and we love it don't we!
So is it surprising that the folk on the street want to join in and be as 'American' as possible? :) Of course not! Puhleeese! It's only natural!
So let's go watch extreme cage fighting, football, a boxing match, better yet the Hulk trying to decapitate someone in the wrestling ring ahahaha!
Violence thy name is America,and we love it,don't we?
"please provide some links to those thousands of black kids beating whites in the name of Obama or BLM."
Obviously, Feeled is trying to bury the memory of BLM's previous incarnation, "Justice for Trayvon".
At least 15 Whites attacked by people declaring that it was "justice for Trayvon".
A "justice" riot in which innocent White people are beaten for trying to get to the hospital for a medical emergency.
Feeled probably smiles when he reads about these things.
Michael Bloomberg said...
More people should be armed? Maybe, but remember Bernie Goetz? He was armed, and by most accounts was justified in taking the action that he did. Still it didn't work out too well for him
That's because he defended himself in New York City, and he wasn't Jewish.
"15 whites"? Ok then. Not what I asked for, but if it makes u feel better I will acknowledge it.
Pilot, u might be on to something. We will wait and see.
The Great Divider said...
Classless move by President Obama not to attend Justice Scalia's funeral.
Scalia was reviled by the Left for his rulings that ran counter to their agenda, but was widely respected for the cogency and consistency of his writing, particularly in his dissents. He was a gregarious and personable man who was good friends with everyone on the court, even the liberals. He had nine children, one of whom became a priest and will deliver his eulogy today.
Ceremonies like these are traditionally times for politicians to put aside differences for a day and recommit to the premise that we are all Americans in this together, and although we may disagree on how to achieve it, we all want the same thing, a better life for all and a strong nation to leave our children.
President Obama is supposed to be the president of everyone, not just his side, but he never fails to remind us all that he considers half the country his enemy. When he came into office on a wave of goodwill from the majority of Americans, he had a historic opportunity to unite the country and take us beyond the grievances of the past. Instead he chose pettiness over magnanimity, and decided to take whatever immediate advantages he could. His party has remained wedded to the idea that their power derives from dividing the people using identity politics, which is why it now finds itself starting to disintegrate. Obama could have been on Mount Rushmore, instead he will be remembered as a bitter partisan who deepened the rifts in his nation and left it poorer and more fractured than ever.
Why should the President attend the funeral of a man that thought that NO Black person is/was smart enough to attend the nation's top universities? And I'm betting that since he didn't attend, they VERY likely didn't get along. It's so damn FAKE, to attend the funeral of a person you despised!
If I still lived in the area, I would have "paid my respects" by showing up with a Georgetown Alumni sweatshirt on!
Why should the President attend the funeral of a man that thought that NO Black person is/was smart enough to attend the nation's top universities?
First, he never said that. He made the point that letting people into academic programs based on anything other than merit was setting them up to fail. Which is true. Case in point: You.
Secondly, a President is supposed to above pettiness and understand that he represents the entire nation in a very important, symbolic role. He is not supposed to let personal resentments manifest themselves by making him look like a childish, petty tribalist. You go to funerals you are supposed to and pay your respects. Shirking you duty out of spite is not something a good person does. That's for people of low character like yourself.
Apple is Racist said...
Obama DOJ requests Apple's help getting into murderer's phone, Apple refuses. But they have no problem handing over their source code to the Chinese government:
The controversy began on Tuesday after a judge ordered Apple to help the FBI “hack” an iPhone linked to the tragic shooting. The next day, the White House gave the investigation its full support, describing it as an “important national priority”.
Despite being a vocal critic of President Barack Obama, presidential candidate Donald Trump agreed with him on the issue, slamming Apple’s refusal to cooperate with law enforcement officials. “I agree 100 percent with the courts… Who do they think they are? No, we have to open it up,” he told Fox News on Thursday.
Apple’s new role as a champion of digital privacy must be making the Chinese government smile. According to an article by the US news website Quartz, Cook’s intransigence apparently depends on geography.
Citing reports by Chinese daily Beijing News and the state-run People's Daily, the article claimed that Cook agreed in January 2015 to allow authorities in China to carry out “security checks” on all iPhones sold in the country to make sure the US had not installed any spyware. But, Apple has never confirmed or responded to the allegations.
The article reported that analysts believe Apple likely handed over its operating system source code as part of the agreement. If true, this would mean that the Chinese government knows how Apple’s software works, including its security system.
Apple is only doing this because Obama is black. They would never disrespect a white President like this. Or, apparently, a Chinese dictator.
http://www.france24.com/en/20160219-usa-apple-plays-digital-privacy-hardball-with-fbi-but-not-china
Of course that's the reason! The most disrespected President in the history of the US, ONLY in America would a DUAL Ivy league degree having minority be treated with such contempt.
I think Harry Reid said it best about Scalia:
"Key difference between the ideas endorsed by Trump and Scalia is that Scalia has a robe and a lifetime appointment."
For the first time in YEARS, CNN/MSNBC wasn't playing in the background on a Saturday morning in my home due to coverage of this man's funeral.
#GeorgeotownAlum
#ChapelHillAlum
#AbbyStayMad
Birds of a feather said...
Harry Reid is apparently as scummy as Yisheng.
Real FNB said...
You know who is a bigger man than Obama? A bigger man than most of us?
Monty Williams:
https://youtu.be/OEzHvImTu0o
His eulogy for his wife is lesson for us all
teh stupid said...
The stooopid is strong in this one. Scalia never said that. Never. It's a shame our petulant president would rather play golf. Class is to much to ask of obama.
Yisheng must enjoy being humiliated. Either that, or she really is too stupid to realize it.
That's projection James. How about you James? Do you smile when you read about The Blacks being attacked by whites? BTW, how old are you?
Didn't O go to this man's viewing?Besides, the VP was there,right?
So no harm no foul.
Do you smile when you read about The Blacks being attacked by whites?
We know PilotX smiles when he reads of blacks attacking whites.
President Liar said...
Obama is a self-serving lying narcissist who betrays everyone in a heartbeat at great cost to America. Seymour Hersh's account of the Killing of Osama bin Laden is devastating:
>Obama had to ‘get out in front of the story’ before someone in the Pentagon did: waiting would diminish the political impact.
Not everyone agreed. Robert Gates, the secretary of defence, was the most outspoken of those who insisted that the agreements with Pakistan had to be honoured. In his memoir, Duty, Gates did not mask his anger:
Before we broke up and the president headed upstairs to tell the American people what had just happened, I reminded everyone that the techniques, tactics and procedures the Seals had used in the bin Laden operation were used every night in Afghanistan … it was therefore essential that we agree not to release any operational details of the raid. That we killed him, I said, is all we needed to say. Everybody in that room agreed to keep mum on details. That commitment lasted about five hours. The initial leaks came from the White House and CIA. They just couldn’t wait to brag and to claim credit. The facts were often wrong … Nonetheless the information just kept pouring out. I was outraged and at one point, told [the national security adviser, Tom] Donilon, ‘Why doesn’t everybody just shut the fuck up?’ To no avail.
Obama’s speech was put together in a rush, the retired official said, and was viewed by his advisers as a political document, not a message that needed to be submitted for clearance to the national security bureaucracy. This series of self-serving and inaccurate statements would create chaos in the weeks following. Obama said that his administration had discovered that bin Laden was in Pakistan through ‘a possible lead’ the previous August; to many in the CIA the statement suggested a specific event, such as a walk-in. The remark led to a new cover story claiming that the CIA’s brilliant analysts had unmasked a courier network handling bin Laden’s continuing flow of operational orders to al-Qaida. Obama also praised ‘a small team of Americans’ for their care in avoiding civilian deaths and said: ‘After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body.’ Two more details now had to be supplied for the cover story: a description of the firefight that never happened, and a story about what happened to the corpse. Obama went on to praise the Pakistanis: ‘It’s important to note that our counterterrorism co-operation with Pakistan helped lead us to bin Laden and the compound where he was hiding.’ That statement risked exposing Kayani and Pasha.<
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden
"We know PilotX smiles when he reads of blacks attacking whites.
Fuck you, racist. I can't wait until your type dies off."
Yeah, just like the racist whites here I go to predominately white sites and hurl abuse about how inferior whites are. No wait a minute, I don't do that. Sooooo much projection here.
sheila s. said...
Boycott Apple!
"Do you smile when you read about The Blacks being attacked by whites?"
Why should it please me when something happens to give any credibility to your nutty narrative? Now, when a moolie gets iced in the act of a robbery or home invasion... yeah, I smile. But I smile when White miscreants get iced too.
"just like the racist whites here I go to predominately white sites and hurl abuse about how inferior whites are."
So if you're so great, what do you need White people for? Why do you want to stay in a country built and run by White people? (I'll bet 10:1 that you don't live in a Black-run city like Selma or Detroit.) Why hasn't Africa called you home? Their aviation statistics are one slow-motion disaster; you could do a lot more good there than here.
We all know the answer to that: only Whitey can create the goodies you want, and you will grab all you can get even if you kill the host that makes them.
Wow, James Bold sure has PilotX's number.
Jose Gomez, Jr. said...
After Hillary won six out of six coin tosses in Iowa, they decided to settle Nevada caucus ties by drawing cards.
Hillary got an Ace! Bernie drew a 6.
Some people have all the luck!
Would Obama attend Scalia's funeral if it were at a mosque?
The Original Fixer said...
Would obama attend Scalia's funeral if Paula Deen was there serving chicken wangs?
Turpentine said...
Yes, Obama loves everything that Paula Dean touches.
"So if you're so great, what do you need White people for? Why do you want to stay in a country built and run by White people?"
Everyone hates everyone. Every race is racist. That's the moral of the story. But everyone wants to live in white countries. Go figure!
""15 whites"? Ok then. Not what I asked for, but if it makes u feel better I will acknowledge it."
Bear in mind that those are ONLY the ones where the lügenpreße allowed the words "justice for Trayvon" to get past the censors. There were probably thousands, but if the crimes were not reported, the reports did not make the news, or the editors omitted the indication of the attacker's motivations out of "sensitivity", then they could not make the list.
If the victim died and the perps didn't e.g. blab on social media afterward, that would not make the list either.
"There were probably thousands"
Any evidence of this James?
"(I'll bet 10:1 that you don't live in a Black-run city like Selma or Detroit.)"
I live in the Blackest city in America. My alderman is blah as well as my state senator, my state rep is blah as well as my U.S. Congressman so not sure if that's Black enough for you but it is for me.
BTW James, how old are you? No need for specifics just a range such as 20's or 60's ect.
"Why should it please me when something happens to give any credibility to your nutty narrative?"
And we ask the same of you James. Any mirrors in your house?
You mean, evidence like the fact that the AP stylebook strongly discourages identification of minority criminal perps by race? It's everywhere. What we don't know is how many reporters and editors were sufficiently savvy in the early days of this phenomenon to leave the unusual battle call out of the final product, since it as good as declared that the assailants were racist Blacks rather than raceless "teens".
"I live in the Blackest city in America. My alderman is blah"
The blackest city is supposedly Detroit, but it has city councilmen, not aldermen. You can't even keep your story straight.
I doubt you live in 97.7% Black East St. Louis either.
"The blackest city is supposedly Detroit, but it has city councilmen, not aldermen. You can't even keep your story straight."
Sorry, New York City recently surpassed us as the city with the largest blah population. C'mon man, anyone whose been here for more than 2 months knows I live on the Southside of Chicago. That hasn't changed and won't for a while.
Uh no, I meant evidence thousands of whites have been attacked by blahs in revenge attacks. I wold like to see that.
"Now, when a moolie gets iced in the act of a robbery or home invasion... yeah, I smile"
You mean like when you "explained" how it was ok to shoot Medgar Evars in the back when he was entering his own home?
Also, how old are you James? Simple question.
Medgar Evars was a criminal who got what was coming.
What crimes did he commit? He was a veteran and family man as far as I know.
"What's up with these Kenny Chesney concerts bringing out all of this white male aggression?" It's the gay panic. They're all closet cases like Chesney and have to prove their manhood by beating people up & taping women. It's classic over compensation.
Gay panic also explains black male aggression. All blah males are on the down low and they have to prove they manhood with mob attacks and taping women. It also explains the high rates of stds and bastard children within the blah community.
HappyNegro said...
Big/large penis envy also explains white male aggression. All white males are wishing they had larger penis' and they have to prove they manhood with high rapes and attacks of white women and random killings of Black men. It also explains the high rates of methamphetamine, heroin, and penis extender use in the white community.
ray ray loves pookie said...
''Down low bro'' is sooooo 2005. Black men openly talk about their love and obsession of white penis. I don't know what black men love most, white penis or white vagina.
Hating in America again, and sleeping while black....
Disavowing Duke.
"Mr Meltdown" fights back.
Mr. Trump's America.
Lying about a movement.
Making Virginia "happy".
Confederate endorsements and killing sprees.
Bringing the sleaze.
Living with hateful symbols.
Conspiracy theories and a dead Justice.
When your college tour turns ugly.
Sudden impact.
The bigotry of paternalism.
Bye bye Chris and Carly.
Some of you miss him already.
The haters get in formation.
Super Bowl night.
News Day.
They didn't "acquit" him because they thought that...
When racism gets "up close and personal".
You have the floor.
"Political dummies"?
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Pixel Scroll 12/4/19 A Thousand Naked Scroll Files Screaming And Throwing Little Pixels At You
Posted on December 4, 2019 by Mike Glyer
(1) LEST MARKNESS FALL. Christine Feehan tweeted a justification of her application to trademark book series with the word “Dark” in the title. Penny Reid is one of many who still hopes someone will put a stop to the idea. [UPDATE: Feehan has removed the tweet to which Reid is responding. I have not located a screencap to replace it.]
If you do this, and if @romancewriters doesn't take action to stop you, we'll have to write a Dark Leopard Ghostwalker Carpathian anthology to raise money to stop you. Just FYI.
-Cocky Collective
— Penny Reid (@ReidRomance) December 4, 2019
(2) INDIGENOUS FUTURES. Abaki Beck’s article “An Old New World: When One People’s Sci-Fi Is Another People’s Past” for Bitch Media discusses Indigenous SF, with quotes from Rebecca Roanhorse.
As Portland State University Indigenous Nations Studies professor Grace L. Dillon wrote in the introduction to 2012’s Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction, “It is almost commonplace to think that the Native Apocalypse, if contemplated seriously, has already taken place.” Indigenous authors are thus in a unique position to reclaim sci-fi narratives as a form of resistance against settler colonialism. Indigenous science fiction or speculative fiction—which Dillion encapsulates with the term “Indigenous futurisms,” inspired by the Afrofuturism movement—offers a space for Indigenous writers, filmmakers, and artists to explore possible futures. From cowboy films to government-assimilation policies, Native American communities and cultures are often portrayed as a “vanishing race” with no place in the present, let alone the future. Indigenous futurism is a contemplation of what our futures look like as Indigenous people, one that recognizes the significance and strength of Indigenous knowledge systems.
Such possible futures are prevalent themes in Cherie Dimaline’s 2017 novel The Marrow Thieves and Rebecca Roanhorse’s 2018 novel Trail of Lightning. Both books create new worlds that center and celebrate Indigenous people, knowledge, and land. “You don’t see a lot of Native Americans in science fiction and fantasy, and when you do they are usually not situated in a world that is specifically Native, like the Navajo reservation,” Roanhorse told Barnes & Noble in 2018. “I wanted to read a science fiction and fantasy story where Native characters held front and center, where the landscape was filled with the places and the people that I knew from living on the rez, where the gods and heroes were of North American Indigenous origin.”
…As each world is destroyed, a new one begins. The Diné believe that we are now in the fifth world, and in Trail of Lightning, Roanhorse creates the beginning of the sixth—one that takes shape in the aftermath of global destruction brought about by climate change and human hubris. In effect, Roanhorse is modernizing Diné stories and history without translating it for readers. She expects those who read her books to already know about these traditions and beliefs, making the Sixth World series uniquely accessible to Diné and other Native peoples in a way that other sci-fi and fantasy series are not.
(3) DEAD ASTRONAUTS MUSIC. [Item by Rob Thornton.] Jeff VanderMeer has posted “The Operatic, Post-Punk Sounds of Dead Astronauts”, a selected list of 23 songs that were on the playlist that he listened to while writing Dead Astronauts, his latest science fiction book for the Farrar, Straus & Giroux imprint MCD Books. The playlist includes songs by Midnight Oil, The Church, Spoon, Mercury Rev, Three Mile Pilot, Tropical Fuck Storm, and the Chills:
The Dead Astronauts “mix tape” consists of 900 songs, played on shuffle unless I needed to summon a certain emotion for a particular scene. The 23 songs here are either favorites or representative of albums I love. But loving an album isn’t enough—I write very much by feel and music is essential to that. I have to be in the right headspace to stay within the style and voice of the novel. In the case of Dead Astronauts, there are ten sections and ten different perspectives and styles.
Yet pervading everything in Dead Astronauts is a dual sense of anger and defiance mixed acceptance and loss. These are big, almost operatic emotions that manifest in the novel in both bold, over-the-top ways and in a minor key, with intricate little eddies and shifts in perspective.
(4) YOU SAY GOODBYE, I SAY HELLO. According to The Ringer, “2019 Marked the End of a Television Era—and the Beginning of a New One”. Includes discussion of shows such as Game of Thrones and brief mentions of shows like Watchmen, The Mandalorian and Russian Doll.
Leading up to its widely watched, less widely admired culmination in May, much was made of Thrones’ status as the last of its kind, a great unifier whose most fantastical flourish of all was reviving the monoculture for an hour at a time on Sunday nights. Nearly seven months later, those eulogies for Thrones still echo, though they take on a different tone when held up against the context of all this year’s other finales. In truth, television as communal mass consumption is a model that was de facto extinct long before Game of Thrones artificially expanded its lifespan, White Walker–style—and may in fact be better represented by The Big Bang Theory, another monster hit that wound down within days of its flashier peer. However warranted, the noise around Thrones may have obscured the passing of a different kind of cultural moment.
The Ringer also produced a list of “The Best TV Shows of 2019”.
3. Los Espookys
There’s so much else unusual about Los Espookys that it’s easy to forget the novelty, and significance, of its being the first-ever Spanish-language series to air on HBO. Conceived of by SNL’s Fred Armisen and cowritten by Julio Torres and Ana Fabrega, all of whom serve in the ensemble cast, Los Espookys seems to set and defy its own rules at will. In this unnamed Latin American country, there’s ample demand for “horror groups” to stage elaborate, quasi-mystical pranks, some of them involving aliens. Also, valet parking is a high art; news anchors are beautiful, brainwashed abductees; and the U.S. ambassador is a live-action Barbie doll who gets trapped in an enchanted mirror. At once deadpan and fantastical, Los Espookys’ flair for the dramatic resembles nothing else on television, except for Torres’s distinctive sketch work over in Studio 8H. The show achieves a similar effect, immersing the viewer in an alternate reality mercifully low on stakes and high on cursed amulets. Only when the spell is broken do you notice the quietly forceful statement of subtitling the English dialogue along with the Spanish.
(5) FUTURE TENSE. This month’s entry in the Future Tense Fiction series is “A Priest, a Rabbi, and a Robot Walk Into a Bar,” by Andrew Dana Hudson, a new short story that looks at how artificial intelligence could support, and distort, faith.
It was published along with a response essay by Ruth Graham, a staff writer at Slate who covers religion: “A.I. Could Bring a Sea Change in How People Experience Religious Faith”.
(6) BABY YODA. Funko Pop’s The Child comes in two sizes, 10 and 3.75 inches. Speculation is that the former is intended to be life-sized. Available for pre-order now with delivery in Spring 2020, so don’t expect to see it in your Christmas stocking.
(7) BOLD BUNDLE. Nick Mamatas has curated “The Outspoken Authors Bundle” for StoryBundle.
The Outspoken Author series is unique: it covers the gamut of genres, from hard SF to crime and literary fiction, and it collects the underappreciated and hard-to-find work of legendary figures in an accessible format. Not only is there fiction, the authors offer up essays, transcripts of talks and speeches, and ruminations about the writing life. Each volume concludes with an in-depth interview conducted by series editor Terry Bisson, and these go deep: you’ll learn about everything from revelations about drag personas to dissections of Trotskyism in the United Kingdom.
Never has a single StoryBundle offered work by so many of speculative literature’s most important figures: Ursula K. Le Guin, Samuel R. Delany, Michael Moorcock, and many others. We’re offering twenty-three volumes in DRM-free digital formats that are yours to keep till freedom reigns over the world.
You decide what price you want to pay. For $5 (or more, if you’re feeling generous), you’ll get the basic bundle of six books in any ebook format—WORLDWIDE.
Thoreau’s Microscope by Michael Blumlein
A City Made of Words by Paul Park
The Beatrix Gates by Rachel Pollack
Totalitopia by John Crowley
Raising Hell by Norman Spinrad
Modem Times 2.0 by Michael Moorcock
If you pay at least the bonus price of just $15, you get all six of the regular books, plus SEVENTEEN more books!
The Atheist in the Attic by Samuel R. Delany
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Miracles Ain’t What They Used to Be by Joe R. Lansdale
Gypsy by Carter Scholz
My Life, My Body by Marge Piercy
Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders by Paul Krassner
The Science of Herself by Karen Joy Fowler
New Taboos by John Shirley
The Human Front by Ken Macleod
Report From Planet Midnight by Nalo Hopkinson
Surfing the Gnarl by Rudy Rucker
The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow by Cory Doctorow
The Wild Girls by Ursula K. Le Guin
Mammoths of the Great Plains by Eleanor Arnason
The Underbelly by Gary Phillips
The Lucky Strike by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Left Left Behind by Terry Bisson
(8) TODAY IN HISTORY.
December 4, 1970 — Latitude Zero premiered in New York City. It was directed by Ishir? Honda and scripted by Ted Sherdeman as based on his Latitude Zero radio show. The film stars both American and Japanese actors including Joseph Cotten, Cesar Romero, Akira Takarada, Masumi Okada, Richard Jaeckel and Patricia Medina. Critics found the plot weak but the special effects rather fun. It currently has a rating of 50% at Rotten Tomatoes among viewers.
(9) TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS.
[Compiled by Cat Eldridge.]
Born December 4, 1937 — David Bailie, 82. He played Dask in “The Robots of Death”, a Fourth Doctor story, and also appeared in Blake’s 7 as Chevner in the “Project Avalon” story. Also, he played the mute pirate Cotton in the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise. Intriguingly he shows up in The Creeping Flesh which starredChristopher Lee and Peter Cushing.
Born December 4, 1939 — Jimmy Hunt, 80. He plays Dave MacLean in Invaders from Mars. Some three decades later, he’ll appear in the remake as the Police Chief. He’s an uncredited appearance early in his career in My Brother Talks to Horses which is definitely genre. And he’s in Close Encounters of the 4th Kind: Infestation from Mars though I know nothing of this film. Have any of you seen it?
Born December 4, 1945 — Karl Edward Wagner. As an editor, he created a three-volume set of Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian fiction restored to its original form as it was originally written by Howard. He is quite likely best known for his invention of the character Kane, the Mystic Swordsman who I think is in as many as thirty works by Wagner. Anyone here read them? Rhetorical question I know. His Carcosa publishing company issued four volumes of stories by authors of the Golden Age pulp magazines. Anything I left off that folks should know about him? (Died 1994.)
Born December 4, 1949 — Jeff Bridges, 70. I’d say his best genre role was as Starman / Scott Hayden in the film of that name. Other genre work includes King Kong, the voice of Prince Lir in Peter Beagle’s The Last Unicorn, Jack Lucas in The Fisher King, Iron Monger in Iron Man and Kevin Flynn/CLU 2 in Tron: Legacy. He appeared also in a film called R.I.P.D. as Roycephus “Roy” Pulsipher which was either really bad or really, really bad.
Born December 4, 1954 — Sally Kobee, 65. Fan, Bookseller, filker. She has served on the committees for myriad conventions, and chaired both Ohio Valley Filk Fest 4 and OVFF 10, and WFC 2010 and 2016. She was honored as a Fellow of NESFA and as a Guest of Honor at Windycon XXVII. She and her now late husband purchased a bookstore in the 90s. She continues to the day to sell books at conventions.
Born December 4, 1954 — Tony Todd, 65. Let’s see… He was a memorable Kurn in Next Gen and Deep Space Nine, he plays Ben in Night of the Living Dead, he’s of course the lead character in the Candyman horror trilogy, William Bludworth in the Final Destination film franchise, Cecrops in Xena: Warrion Princess and Gladius on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. Those are just selected highlights.
Born December 4, 1957 — Lucy Sussex, 62. Fan, reviewer, author, and editor. Born in New Zealand, resident in Australia… she’s been writing SFF ever since attending a Terry Carry led workshop. And she’s edited several anthologies such as She’s Fantastical, the first collection of Australian women’s speculative fiction. She’s won three Ditmar Awards, A. Bertram Chandler Award and an Aurealis Award to name some of her awards — impressive indeed! I’ve not heard of her before now, so I’ve not read her, so who has read her?
Born December 4, 1964 — Marisa Tomei, 55. May Parker in Marvel Cinematic Universe, but also to my delight has an uncredited role as a Health Club Girl in The Toxic Avenger. She also shows up as Mrs. O’Conner in the “Unwomen”, an episode of The Handmaid’s Tale.
Born December 4, 1989 — Nafessa Williams, 30. She had only two genre roles but with the first being the revival series of Twin Peaks where she was Jade. The other is what gets her Birthday Honors — She’s Anissa Pierce who is the superhero Thunder on the Black Lightning series. Superb series, great character!
(10) COMICS SECTION.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal tells us what aliens think is special about humans. It isn’t pretty!
In Shen Comix, one of the Old Ones is consulted about a typical teen problem.
(11) SCALZI’S DOPEST BREAD CONNECTION. John Scalzi tells why he received a baked good by a very roundabout route: “The Case of the Felonious Bread”.
…Seamus Blackley …sent me a loaf via Fed Ex this weekend, and yesterday I got a notice through email that the package had been delivered. I went down from my office to retrieve it —
— and it wasn’t there….
….Then I looked to see who it was who signed for my package:
“POLICE.”….
(12) WELL… Artist James Artimus Owens told his Facebook readers about the time a therapist gave him some unexpected advice – and it worked! But the story is funny, too.
(13) THIS FRUIT’S NOT FORBIDDEN JUST FORGOTTEN. “Some Other Trees in the Garden of Eden’ – humor in The New Yorker:
The Peach Tree of False Confidence, the Persimmon Tree of Ironic Detachment, and other arboreal varieties.https://t.co/eb1qJmAQFd
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) December 4, 2019
(14) RIDE THE RISE. “Inside the innovative Disney ride that’s key to its Star Wars strategy” – CNN posted an exclusive about the “Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance” attraction about to open at Galaxy’s Edge. Beware ride spoilers! (None in this excerpt, though.)
Now Disney is finally pulling the curtains off “Rise,” opening on Thursday at Walt Disney World and on January 17 at Disneyland. The stakes are high for this expensive gamble to succeed: Attendance at Disney’s domestic theme parks was down 3% in its latest quarter. The company also recently announced the departure of Catherine Powell, the president of Disney Parks who oversaw Anaheim and Orlando.
Disney is betting it can turn things around with the power of high-tech experiences. The attraction packs dozens of audio-animatronics — and a couple of giant AT-ATs — holograms, lasers, and the most complex ride system Disney’s Imagineers had ever designed: a trackless vehicle that moves laterally, vertically, and at all times unpredictably. At its annual shareholders meeting, Disney CEO Bob Iger called the ride “the most technologically advanced and immersive attraction that we have ever imagined.”
(15) LINEAR Z. “‘Zork’ Source Code, Presumed Lost Forever, Has Been Uploaded to GitHub” – Krypton Radio reported this in the spring, but it’s still news to me!
It’s written in a language called ZIL, which stands for Zork Implementation Language. The games have been rewritten for various platforms and have been circulating for years, but knowledge of the actual scripting language used to create the game was lost to the annals of history.
Until now. Somebody called themselves ‘historicalsource’ has uploaded the original source ZIL code to a bunch of Infocom games to GitHub. That someone is computer historian Jason Scott.
(16) CLIMB EVERY MOUNT TBR. James Davis Nicoll believes he knows the cure: “How to Recover From Reader’s Block”.
Recently a well-regarded essayist expressed dissatisfaction with the current state of the SF novel. He went so far as to confidently assert, “I stopped reading novels last year. I think you did too.” Sweeping assertions are often wrong. This one is definitely wrong, at least where I am concerned.
…What may have sparked his comment is burnout, of the form that might be called “reader’s block.” You want to read something, but can find nothing specific you want to read. I think most of us who read extensively have been there.
The best method I know of for mitigating reader’s block is to cast one’s net wider….
(17) DEALER DOWNER. Bookseller Patrick Darby, who hucksters at many Maryland-area conventions, may have to shut down: “An independent bookstore owner is facing the last chapter of his beloved business” in the Washington Post.
On Black Friday, as shoppers packed an outlet mall just up the road, Patrick Darby sat behind the counter at Novel Books, his charmingly cramped bookstore in suburban Maryland, narrating the last chapter of his business.
“I’ll be gone by next week if something doesn’t happen,” Darby said, his hands trembling.For Darby, 60, this bookstore tucked inside an old yellow house with a wraparound porch in Clarksburg was his opportunity to finally sell books the old-fashioned way. He had spent decades working for big chains, including Crown Books, once a staple of Washington.
“I’d been thinking about a store like this the whole time,” Darby said.
(18) WEIGHT FOR IT. Looper claims “Fans are slamming Marvel after that Black Widow trailer”.
…The response from some fans online was highly reminiscent of the “Fat Thor” controversy after the release of Avengers: Endgame. Many were incredulous that Marvel appeared not to have learned anything from said controversy, including Twitter user @The_GothDaddy, who wrote, “The Black Widow trailer looks pretty good I’d like it more if Marvel learned their lesson with Thor and maybe considered leaving out yet… A n o t h e r… Dig at fat people.”
User @Artists_Ali agreed, writing, “So I watched the Black Widow trailer. Is Marvel just gonna do wall to wall fatphobic jokes in all their movies now or….? Yeah that’s gonna be a no from me.”
There were a wealth of similar tweets to be found in the trailer’s immediate wake, and while everybody is obviously entitled to their opinion, ours is that — as with the Endgame controversy — the approach to Harbour’s character is being wildly misinterpreted. User @MediocreJedi (great name) contributed another critical tweet that touched on our reasoning: “Imma watch the hell out of #BlackWidow,” they wrote, “but did Marvel learn ANYTHING from their Endgame Thor fat joke backlash? Most women I know find David Harbour hot. So, another fat joke? Signed, guy who can barely fit into his 21-year-old dress uniform but can still kick ass.”
(19) SHAKEN, NOT STIRRED. New trailer for the next James Bond movie No Time To Die.
[Thanks to Michael J. Walsh, Martin Morse Wooster, JJ, John King Tarpinian, Andrew Porter, N., Jennifer Hawthorne, Darrah Chavey, Rob Thornton, Joey Eschrich, Chip Hitchcock, StephenfromOttawa, Mike Kennedy, and Cat Eldridge for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing collaborative editors of the day cmm and Jayn.]
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22 thoughts on “Pixel Scroll 12/4/19 A Thousand Naked Scroll Files Screaming And Throwing Little Pixels At You”
Andrew on December 4, 2019 at 7:01 pm said:
Love the Pixel title
“Why am I the only person who ever has that dream”
JJ on December 4, 2019 at 7:15 pm said:
(1) LEST MARKNESS FALL.
She needs to demand a complete refund from her incompetent attorney and find a new one who actually knows what they’re doing.
(6) BABY YODA.
I think you mean “two sizes, 10.5 and 3.75 inches” — but the idea of putting a yard-tall Baby Yoda in my entryway to greet visitors has a great deal of appeal. 😀
P J Evans on December 4, 2019 at 7:30 pm said:
I suspect it’s one of those things that could only happen to Scalzi – or only happen in that way. Having stopped giggling after reading the comments, I can say that there is a place online that sells yeasts (and recipes) from various places, including some that are very old. [ http://www.sourdo.com/ ]
Mike Glyer on December 4, 2019 at 7:40 pm said:
JJ: You’re right, although they may be missing a bet by not offering a Giant Baby Yoda….
Martin Wooster on December 4, 2019 at 8:41 pm said:
Does this Bond trailer mean that Christoph Waltz is at least briefly in it?
Joe H. on December 4, 2019 at 8:46 pm said:
9) Alas, Karl Edward Wagner did not write 30+ Kane novels — the entire Kane series (three novels and two or three volumes’ worth of short stories) can fit into two reasonably-sized hardcovers. Maybe the count combines novels and shorter works? Happily, they’re currently available in eBook format, although the eBooks are missing a handful of more recent stories and a fragment from an unfinished novel.
BravoLimaPoppa on December 4, 2019 at 8:49 pm said:
Meredith moment – A Memory Called Empire is on sale for $2.99 at Amazon US.
Whoever mentioned A Bit Too Much Good Work – the Vorkosigan Saga fanfic of Byerly’s view of Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance – thanks. That and the related works have been a pleasure. Got me to reread Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance too. Maybe a series reread is order – it’s been a tough couple of weeks.
bookworm1398 on December 4, 2019 at 8:50 pm said:
16) I usually deal with reader’s block by rereading my favorites. Thats mostly why I have been going through a number of Discworld novels lately.
Chip Hitchcock on December 4, 2019 at 9:02 pm said:
@9: AFAIK, Sally and Larry purchased a traveling book business, not a store — all of their sales were at dealers rooms.
@13: The Olsons (used to?) own Phil Foglio’s “The Forgettable Beasts of Eld”; it’s amusing (unless you hate Phil’s sense of humor), and similarly snarky.
@14: I recently met a Disney engineer, whose extreme work hours I’d been hearing about for some time; this is probably one of the reasons. The most interesting thing he said in a not-shoptalk dinner was that duplicate rides were built to a common proof-against-everything standard — so if you get a severe earthquake in Kissimmee or a major hurricane in Anaheim, the ride will still be safe.
Lis Carey on December 4, 2019 at 9:19 pm said:
Clickity
Hampus Eckerman on December 4, 2019 at 11:29 pm said:
18) I guess every character that in some way symbolizes another country or culture is going to be turned into fat comic relief. A bit of cultural imperialism is always fun.
Cat Eldridge on December 5, 2019 at 2:24 am said:
Chip Hitchcock says AFAIK, Sally and Larry purchased a traveling book business, not a store — all of their sales were at dealers rooms.
I used the Fancyclopedia 3 language: In the early 1990s, she and her husband Larry Smith purchased Dick Spelman’s book business and for 25 years provided an extensive bookstore at Worldcons and other conventions in the Midwest…
Rob Thornton on December 5, 2019 at 6:54 am said:
@ Joe H.,
I’ve read two of the Kane novels and was pretty impressed. Enjoyed the prose and the relative unpredictability of the plots.
Joe H. on December 5, 2019 at 7:40 am said:
@Rob Thornton — Yeah, I reread the full Kane series last year and enjoyed them quite a bit; they certainly held up better than some other things I’ve revisited over the years.
Judge Magney on December 5, 2019 at 7:49 am said:
(9) Another Karl Edward Wagner correction: as I recall, he actually compiled a five-volume set of original Howard Conan texts, but only the first three were published, probably due to the legal tussles surrounding the works.
Steve Mollmann on December 5, 2019 at 7:54 am said:
@9 – David Bailie also played the Celestial Toymaker for Big Finish twice. In his second appearance, he insisted he had to be credited as “davidbailie” (they compromised on “david bailie”).
Chip Hitchcock on December 5, 2019 at 9:05 am said:
@Cat Eldridge: Fancy‘s use of the term “store” is … debatable.
wrt @6: “I want a Baby Yoda toy so badly that I’d consider selling a kidney,” jokes Star Wars fan and Instagram influencer Jessica Allsop, 26.
Chip Hitchcock sayS Fancy‘s use of the term “store” is … debatable.
Not really. Store has long since ceased to have anything of a fixed physical nature to it. After all Amazon calls itself a Bookstore and it’s virtually accessed by most of us. Cheryl Morgan has Haz Bookstore for awhile as well.so I see no reason that we couldn’t call what they did at a con a bookstore. It had books, they sold them, that’s a store.
Contrarius on December 5, 2019 at 11:34 am said:
Born December 4, 1949 — Jeff Bridges, 70.
I also enjoyed his performance, along with his brother Beau, in the Outer Limits episode titled “Sandkings” — from a story written by good old George RR Martin.
(16) CLIMB EVERY MOUNT TBR
When I get burned out on sff, I occasionally lapse into spells of either mystery or Regency Romance — especially the romance if I’m feeling grumpy about the world in general. Reading fluffy and silly and sweet every once in a while is good for the soul.
(19) SHAKEN, NOT STIRRED
Heck yeah, I’m a sucker for Bond. And Daniel Craig has been THE Bond for me; even Sean’s supremacy is in question so far as I’m concerned.
jayn on December 5, 2019 at 7:42 pm said:
Thanks for the title credit! I totally forgot about this one.
Lace on December 5, 2019 at 7:44 pm said:
Phillip Gregg Chamberlain may have achieved the perfect SF version of Hemingway’s six-word short at Daily Science Fiction.
http://dailysciencefiction.com/science-fiction/time-travel/phillip-gregg-chamberlain/recycling_SF
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Review by Laurie Cusack of "Plucking the Stinger" by Stephanie Rogers
So many scribes write about black-dog and blue-fog periods of their lives. Only a few manage to nail-it with the right words, though. Words need careful preparation, skill and authenticity to truly penetrate. Stephanie Rogers’s poems have all these in abundance. Her poems snag and prompt emotional recalibrations within the reader. I marvelled at the flashy-baited imagery that she deploys within this collection. Her deft poems strike a light at life when you’re in a dark place with the doldrums. The poems express this with acute honesty. Her writing is charged with brevity. She also articulates humour particularly well and juxtaposes it with morbidity, loss, despair and tragedy with great aplomb. This technique creates powerful undercurrents within her prose. There is great contrast within this collection. Wit is powerfully embedded within the text. A dark humorous tone resonates through this collection, which lifts it from the ordinary. The poems conjure the pain and beauty of relationships in a wry and sardonic way.
Her style suggested to me a kind of collective unconscious at work. The pain of the everyday is mapped out, as well as the thoughts that buzz around our heads that we seldom act upon, but all think about, day to day. The unsaid-said-unsaid of life: Stephanie Rogers digs on this territory with gusto.
“Another Way the Body Dies” explores this notion: “Part of me thinks I’ve shot someone,” the opening line from the first stanza, rings out with menace. How do you follow that? But she does with this magnificent observation further in the stanza: “My eyes always find what’s rotting around the room”, which I suggest is her deep despair expressed in whimsical fashion. Stasis is never far away in these poems. But this poem in particular mines a depressed state – someone confined to bed like the mafia hitting the mattresses in times of feud: “Back then I slept with a bullet under my tongue”, the final line of the last stanza, reads like a paean to Tom Waits, dirty-realist in its sensibility. That last line oozes a kind of guarded-despair.
Despite this emotional punch, it’s worth noting that all the poems pay close attention to form and have been sequentially worked upon. The aesthetics balance neatly from such fine attention. The lay out pleases the eye, as well as the mind.
Another poem that stands out is “Phone Call”, which is nakedly honest concerning the reactions to bereavement. We all can identify with it. News of a death is the poem’s subject matter, and it’s both poignant and honest. The narrative is spare and plain which increases its emotional resonance. The narrative is cathartic, writing heals and reading consoles.
It’s obvious that Stephanie Rogers has been deep-mining the self during the construction of these well-crafted poems. I admire the honesty, daring and the raw-punch within her writing. They remind me of Joni Mitchell’s Blue, which is an absolute corker! Enough said.
Laurie Cusack is scraping at the underbelly of Irish Diaspora through a collection of short stories for his Creating Writing PhD at Leicester University. His writing influences include: John McGahern, Kevin Barry, Eimear McBride, Claire Keegan and Colin Barrett.
Labels: Laurie Cusack, Plucking the Stinger, poetry, Stephanie Rogers
Review by Kershia Field of "Welcome to Leicester," ed. Emma Lee and Ambrose Musiyiwa
[This is the second of two reviews we're running on this new anthology. You can read the first here.]
When I left Leicester after living there for three years I was utterly convinced that nobody would love it as much as I do. The new Welcome to Leicester anthology has proved me wrong. It captures the remarkable and the completely normal about the city so beautifully that I realise now that Leicester stays with each and every person who passes through it.
I thought I knew everything there is to know about Leicester, its history and its culture. Once again this collection corrected me. Reading it is a wonderful, educational experience that only makes me feel closer to the city, rooting me in its fascinating past with poems like Andrew Button's “Ratae Corieltauvorum” and “Ruins steeped in history” by Norbert Gora.
Having only left Leicester a few months ago, I’m still very much homesick for the city. This collection allowed me to fall in love again and again with each page and by the end, it’s as though I’ve been back and visited the city itself. Each poem feels like a personal connection, like it was written just for me. I can hear the Leicester market place, I am part of the hustle and bustle of shoppers in the Highcross, I can smell fireworks after the Diwali celebrations, and if I close my eyes I am walking along Julia Wood’s perfect depiction of Granby Street.
Not being a football fan myself and knowing nothing about the game, I wasn’t particularly bothered by Leicester winning the Premier League this year. What I did love, though, was that the city came alive. People came from all over to our city to celebrate the success of underdogs. It resonated with thousands and that’s something that definitely shines through in “The Art of Winning” by Jayne Stanton and also “On Leicester winning the premiership” by Rob Gee.
It’s impossible to pick a favourite from the collection and I suppose that makes sense. It’s impossible to pick one part of Leicester that I love the most. Perhaps the best thing about the collection is the sense that everyone who has taken part feels proud of the city and it’s not hard to see why. Leicester belongs to everyone from all walks of life: it’s home, it’s beautiful and now everyone can have a small piece of it to keep.
Kershia Field is a twenty-one-year-old poet currently working on her first poetry collection based on Mental Health and the stigma surrounding it. She has her own blog at http://kershiadoespoems.blogspot.co.uk/
Labels: Ambrose Musiyiwa, anthology, Emma Lee, Kershia Field, Kershia Janet May, Leicester, poetry, Review, Welcome to Leicester
Review by rob mclennan of "Silvija" by Sandra Riley
After the diminishing / dirt body kicked against kitchen wall /
Kept alive / what mercy has lessened / quietened as we speak
Of light / spoiled / cry-babying / a bunkum transubstantiated
Our cunning remains within. (“FARTHER / FATHER”)
Ottawa poet (by way of Saskatchewan) Sandra Ridley’s fourth trade poetry title is Silvija (Toronto ON: BookThug, 2016). Following her collections Fallout (Regina SK: Hagios Press, 2009), Post-Apothecary (Toronto ON: Pedlar Press, 2011), and The Counting House (BookThug, 2013), Silvija is a book-length suite broken into “five feverish elegies,” composed as a “linguistic embodiment of the traumas of psychological suffering, physical abuse, and terminal illness.” Ridley’s poetry has long managed to be remarkably precise in detail while concurrently evasive, and yet, the poems that make up Silvija can be seen as incredibly revealing, writing:
You are no less dangerous than you were as you drag
Your bones / field stones / we never once wept upon
The firmament / eight children left with the lone wife
Who would not carry the quiet / the final cardiac pall
Paled thirty years / crescent moons / scars strapped
Below the heart. (“FARTHER / FATHER”)
The poems in Silvija still manage to maintain her particular flavour of evasiveness. Ridley’s Silvija takes its title from the name of her dedicatee, a “Silvija Barons,” coupled with dictionary definitions of “Silva” and “Silvan, Silvana, Silvanæ” that open the collection, suggesting a compounded definition involving a wooded area, a creature from a wooded area and the writing produced about a wooded area. Still, Silvija includes elements that are possibly more revealing than her previous collections, exploring and attempting meaning out of a poetry of violence, trauma and healing, and furthering her capacity for the book-length exploration. And, as much as her elegies hold together as a single, extended unit, two sections were actually composed as part of other projects, such as the section “CLASP,” composed as a response to Gatineau artist Michèle Provost’s multiform art installation, “Playlist,” or an early version of “VIGIL / VESTIGE” commissioned as “an engagement with Petro Isztin’s photo installation, ‘Study of Structure and Form.’”
While the effect of Ridley’s short phrases staccato and accumulate into a complex tapestry that refuses anything straightforward, the emotional content is raw, savage and brutally stark. There are epistolary elements to Silvija, writing a narrator speaking intimately and directly to an unnamed and shifting “you,” and the poems reveal a furious content of trauma and grief, pushing to comprehend and, ultimately, heal as best as possible. As she described, quickly, her first three collections in an interview at Jacket2: "the downwind effects of nuclear radiation in Fallout, medical incarceration, and the archaic and experimental treatments for tuberculosis and mental illness in Post-Apothecary, the trauma(s) of a relationship gone wrong in The Counting House,” Silvija writes out the trauma of loss, whether through physical and emotional abuse or death, composing four sequences – “FARTHER / FATHER,” “CLASP,” “VIGIL / VESTIGE” and “DIRGE” – that are surrounded by fragments of the fifth and final section, “IN PRAISE OF THE HEALER.” Via this simple thread, she holds the book together through a kind of mantra, or Greek Chorus, allowing that for whatever elese has occurred, healing, and even resolution, is possible (and the “healer” requires acknowledgment): “You give my hands the weight of your body. // Rest in me. // What I mean is this is where I choose to die.” What becomes so compelling is the understanding that it is through the very act of writing that allows the entire healing process, as she writes: “If you can’t speak / write in a fissured / alter-language / Of nerve-matter.” Indeed.
You and I—confined to our scrying room. Every falter of the limbs and every muscle of the face exposed to view. You are what I am. You cause as much sorrow. In what worse way could we vent this rage than by beating this head against these walls?
Sing for me. You seized the words out of my mouth—who suffers the most? You keep it all in. Noise—no noise. You upset me, baby. And you can’t do that.
We’re never left alone. Consider what the means are—we can’t lose what we haven’t ever had. You asked for it. You won’t get mercy. You are no more a whisper. (“CLASP”)
Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa. The author of nearly thirty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, he won the John Newlove Poetry Award in 2010, the Council for the Arts in Ottawa Mid-Career Award in 2014, and was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2012. In March 2016, he was inducted into the VERSe Ottawa Hall of Honour. His most recent titles include notes and dispatches: essays (Insomniac press, 2014), The Uncertainty Principle: stories (Chaudiere Books, 2014) and the poetry collection If suppose we are a fragment (BuschekBooks, 2014). An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, Chaudiere Books, The Garneau Review (ottawater.com/garneaureview), seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics (ottawater.com/seventeenseconds), Touch the Donkey (touchthedonkey.blogspot.com) and the Ottawa poetry pdf annual ottawater (ottawater.com). In fall 2015, he was named “Interviews Editor” at Queen Mob’s Teahouse. He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com
Labels: Canada, poetry, rob mclennan, Sandra Riley, Silvija
Review by Erik Raschke of "Two Syllable Men" by John McCaffrey
After exploring white middle-aged dystopia with his first novel, The Book of Ash, McCaffrey’s new collection or novel or linked-shorts, Two Syllable Men, has brought us to a more staid environment, where everyday men are confused and dazed by the simple complexities of modern life. They are the button-down dorks, lost to NPR or sports-radio, who absently and unwittingly tail-gate in their minivans or rusting Saturns. They are former Ross Perot supporters and now angst-ridden libertarians who might quietly, secretly smile at Trump’s bluster, but would never vote for the man. They are the lost white man we read so much leading up to the election, but unlike Trump supporters, they are the kind of white men who are neither loud nor aggressive and thus have become more or less invisible. They privately struggle and scramble against the feminization of their lives. They are not afraid of sports. They coddle instead of cling to the specter of male-hood.
Each chapter in Two Syllable Men is named after a different male, each full of doubts, but specifically in their own way. There is Byron, who while hesitating before kissing a girl, thinks about his ex: “His wife, before they split up, often criticized him for being too passive, accusing him of being a counterpuncher in life, someone who reacted rather than initiated. He remembered their first date, when he asked if he could kiss her, and she surprised him with an angry response, explaining that a man never asked to kiss a woman, he just did it.”
In the case of Graham, after many desperate dating attempts, he meets a basketball player, Talia: “She was also an English Major. When I asked her favourite author she didn’t hesitate: ‘Somerset Maugham.’ She spoke for an hour straight about his work. I found her passion erotic and suggested we go somewhere more private to talk. She must have sensed my real purpose because she told me she had a rule never to have sex with a man until he watched her play basketball.”
There’s Herman who “had gout and his doctor recommended hot yoga as a cure.” The story is an exercise in mental contortionism and perseverance as the yoga instructor, Carlos, dishes worthless platitudes like, “You can’t get anywhere in life without starting somewhere,” that leave Herman breathlessly exasperated and women yoga-attendees swooning.
The diffraction of short story collections can often be a struggle if the context and subjects vary. The thread in MacCaffrey’s stories hold, as it winds from one male to another. Although characters' personalities sometimes blur, their collective anxiety comes to a repeated crescendo as if these two syllable men were some consciously connected tribe dancing to a prayer ritual of what social therapists refer to as “precarious manhood.” McCaffrey’s characters are forever in conflict with the impending loss of manhood and it is within that struggle we find a very prescient humanity.
Erik Raschke is an American author living in Amsterdam for the past seven years. His last novel, The Book of Samuel, was published by St. Martin's Press in 2009 and translated into Italian and nominated for the Printz award. He received an M.A. in Creative Writing from the City College of New York and his short stories have been published in, among others, Guernica, Chelsea, Per Contra, Ararat, Reading Room, Tijdschrift Ei, Carver.nu, Promethean, 5-trope. His essays and articles have appeared in The New York Times, Hazlitt, Buzzfeed, The Denver Post, Het Parool, De Volkskrant and many others. You can see more of his work at www.erikraschke.com.
Labels: Erik Raschke, John McCaffrey, short stories, Two Syllable Men, Vine Leaves Press
Review by Lerah Mae Barcenilla of "Lost and Found: Stories of Home by Leicestershire Writers," ed. Farhana Shaikh, Beth-Ann Sher and Richard Sheehan
From tales set in Swedish refugee camps, houses filled with history, travelling circuses and even in space, Lost and Found: Stories of Home by Leicestershire Writers (Dahlia Publishing, 2016) captures the diversity of voices that whisper and shout from every corner of Leicester, as they weave the threads to create a tapestry stitched with the meanings of ‘home’.
There are tales that question the essence of home, how homes may differ from one to another, yet despite it all ‘we all go home eventually’ (as in the story 'Zenith') – no matter where that may be. There are powerful stories that tug at our heartstrings, the heartache that gets lodged in our throats, ‘the searing pain of loss’. And it’s there, in the hollowness of words, the gradual healing of cracks as one finds a new home (in the story 'Not Home').
There are tales of maybes, what ifs and of possibilities ('Adrian'). Tales laced with memory. Of something fond, but fuelled by trauma amidst vivid descriptions of football stadiums – beauty in its ‘terrible simplicity’ ('Home Game'). Tales that explore the search for a lost home and its connection with our very identity: ‘I know I’ve become a stranger to them, and to myself’ ('Back Home'). While there is something raw and vulnerable, the honest helplessness in the words ‘I can’t find the way home,’ but also the strange wistfulness in finding home in music ('Zöe K.'). We see a battle between familiarity and unfamiliarity, between staying and moving on. Tales of memory and forgetting; of separation, exploration and travel. Of uncertainty, reassurance and acceptance, ‘This is home now. Just be’ ('Moving the Furniture'). Yet behind the nostalgia and hope lurk something morbid, an unexpected dark turn of events (as in 'Colour').
Then there are stories that hit too close to home. Stories reminiscing about the curiosity that comes with the first year of university, and the melancholy that the final year brings. The uncertainty and fear that haunts the future, that prowls what comes after ('Home From Home'). And lastly, there are tales painted with the inevitable passing of time, and a homesickness for something lost. The story where one forgets and another remembers, and I’m not quite sure what’s worse (as in 'Shelter').
But, perhaps, it’s just like as Hermann Hesse wrote: 'every path leads home'. In this collection of short stories, we are given the privilege to peer into the lives of others, to glimpse, even for a moment, what ‘home’ means to them. And, maybe, in doing so, we’ll discover what ‘home’ means to us.
Born in Manila, Philippines, Lerah Mae Barcenilla is currently a third year English undergraduate at the University of Leicester. Her writing has been published in The Student Wordsmith, The Purple Breakfast Review, PETRie Inventory and Culturefly. In her spare time, you can find her highly-caffeinated self idly scribbling on a notebook trying to write her two-somethings every day or taking photographs of cherry blossoms. You can find more of her writing and photography at https://leionai.wordpress.com/
Labels: anthology, Beth-Ann Sher, Dahlia Publishing, Farhana Shaikh, Leicestershire, Lerah Mae Barcenilla, Lost and Found, Richard Sheehan, short stories
"Iraqi culture and arts in Leicester: Everybody’s Reading Festival" by Malka Al-Haddad
Written by Malka Al-Haddad, this article was first published in Alhadath International Agency, and was translated from Arabic by Malka Al-Haddad and Alexandros Plasatis
Iraqi culture and arts in Leicester: Everybody’s Reading Festival
Malka Al-Haddad
The 7th Everybody’s Reading Festival took place across many cultural centres in the city of Leicester, from 1-9 October 2016. There was an Iraqi representation at the festival from its opening day, as postcards with poems, including the Children of War by the Iraqi Malka Al-Haddad, had been given out by poets at Leicester Railway Station. That was part of the event “Journeys: pop up poem library”, which ran throughout the festival. On every postcard there was a poem taken by the book Over Land, Over Sea: Poems for Those Seeking Refuge, an anthology of poems edited by K. Bell, E. Lee and S. Logan, and published by Five Leaves.
The Railway Station was chosen as the setting for this event, as organisers wanted to inspire the commuters with a different journey, that of immigrants and refugees, suffering on their journey across counties, the sea and the forests, putting their lives in danger to reach safety and live a peaceful life, fleeing from wars and sectarian conflict that forced them on risky and daring trips.
The event was a success and the postcards run out long before the end of the festival.
During the festival’s seventh day, the African Caribbean Centre hosted the launch of an anthology of poetry entitled Welcome to Leicester, edited by Emma Lee and Ambrose Musiyiwa, and published by Dahlia Press. The subject of this book is to show how this city welcomes all people and especially refugees and immigrants. About 50 poets from Britain have contributed to this anthology, which features two poems by Malka Al-Haddad who represented the Union of Iraqi Writers. Malka’s poems describe the aspects of the lives of immigrants and refugees: their suffering in their homeland, and their grief when finding themselves in the new country mixed with love and hope to make this new country their homeland, as the old country was shattered, destroyed by war, discrimination and conflict.
On the ninth day of this festival, there was a strong presence of Iraqi culture in an event called “Walls”, organised by the People’s Art Collective and hosted by New Walk Museum and Art Gallery – one of the first public museums in the UK, opened in 1849. Malka Al-Haddad was involved in three parts of this event.
Firstly, in a documentary film about Iraq, Noble Najaf, which was screened in The Lord Mayor’s Room. Directed by the French filmmaker Morgan Railane, produced by Al Hikmat Foundation in Iraq, it was translated from French to Arabic by Dr Mohamed Alkaraishi. The film focused on the city of Najaf, Cultural Capital of Islam for 2012, and the holiest city of Shia Islam as well as the centre of Shia political power in Iraq. The film unveils historical, political, religious and cultural aspects of Najaf City. It shows how the city was rebuilt and restructured after being bombed during the American invasion in 2003 and how the Mehdi Army fought the Americans in order to get them out of Iraq and gain independence, and how, later, the city sent ambassadors to European countries for cultural exchanges and introducing Najaf as the capital of Islamic culture and the holy centre of the Shia faith, where the Libraries still hold ancient manuscripts. It showed how the clerics hold high and powerful positions in Iraq and how all people in the city follow and obey them, how they influence the decision-making of the Iraqi government, and even how they guide ordinary people in aspects of their everyday life. Finally, the film shows Najaf’s arts and culture and how NGO charities attempted to develop women’s rights.
After the film, Malka Al-Haddad – who appears throughout the film, back when she was the director of Najaf’s Women’s Centre for Culture and Art – explained to the audience how Najaf is at risk from potential future Isis actions and the goal of Isis is to destroy this city and destroy the Islamic culture because the faith of this city is different from the beliefs of Isis.
In another part of the museum there was another event, with poets, musicians, and storytellers, and Malka read her poems and presented some of her artwork.
It was an honour for the Iraqi poet Malka Al-Haddad to represent her culture in such a prestigious place in this city, the New Walk Museum and Art Gallery.
Despite the pain and sadness in Iraq, the voice of the Iraqi people, through culture and the arts, managed to be heard in this European multicultural city. Iraqi culture was the smile of hope for Iraqi people who live in exile and, for Malka Al-Haddad, the experience of taking part in Everybody’s Reading Festival was like listening to Ishtar guitar.
Malka Al-Haddad is an Iraqi poet, academic and defender of Human Rights. Registered with Front Line Defenders, she has lived in Britain since 2012. She is member of the Union of Iraqi Writers, Director of the Women’s Centre of Culture & Arts in Iraq, and was one of first delegates to the US for the Iraqi & American reconciliation project. Currently, she is an activist with Leicester City of Sanctuary and Leicester Civil Rights Movement. https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/profile/malka-al-haddad
About the co-translator
Alexandros Plasatis is an ethnographer and writes fiction in English, his second language. Some of his stories have been published in Overheard: Stories to Read Aloud, Unthology, Crystal Voices, blÆkk, and (forthcoming) Total Cant. He has a PhD in Creative Writing and is working on the creative writing project Write Here: Sanctuary with Cities of Sanctuary and Writing East Midlands, aiming to find and develop new creative talent within the refugee and asylum seeker community in Leicester.
Labels: Alexandros Plasatis, Children of War, Everybody's Reading, immigration, Iraq, Malka Al-Haddad, Morgan Railane, Noble Najaf, Over Land, Over Sea, People’s Art Collective, poetry, refugees, Welcome to Leicester
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Black Moth Super Rainbow Talk 'Cobra Juicy' and Their "Unsignable" Nature
By Daniel Sylvester
This week, Black Moth Super Rainbow released Cobra Juicy, the Pittsburgh quintet's first proper full-length since 2009's Eating Us. After scrapping an entire album's worth of material (working title: Psychic Love Damage), Black Moth leader Thomas Fec decided to record Cobra Juicy in his home, without the help of his bandmates or an outside producer.
Talking with Exclaim!, Fec explains, "That album that I created [Psychic Love Damage] was a total Black Moth Super Rainbow album and I didn't want that. With Black Moth, I've always put a lot of pressure on myself to write songs that maybe won't turn people off. [Cobra Juicy] is back to me just having fun with what I do.
"I think people have expectations now for what I do. I feel like I've created my own thing and I feel that people have expectations of what they want to hear."
Releasing Cobra Juicy on a USB "tooth" jammed into a full-size, wearable mask and on ventricular 3D vinyl, Fec looked to an established indie label to help put out the record, saying, "I had these expensive ideas and basically all these labels told me that I was unsignable. When you hear that 30 times, you start to believe it."
Instead Black Moth decided to self-release the record through their own Rad Cult Records imprint and turned to Kickstarter. Via the popular crowd-funding website, Fec attempted to raise $42,000 through pledges, offering donors everything from digital downloads, T-shirts and posters to lifetime guestlist passes and a private roller-skating party. In the end, more than 2,000 people helped raise approximately $125,000. As Fec sums it up, "It showed me that people want what I'm doing. Even if it's not that many, it's enough."
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Place Index - 40
Ashton In Makerfield (cont.)
Simm, Abraham b. 12 Feb 1774
Simm, Anne b. bt 8 Apr 1817 - 7 Apr 1818
Simm, Betty b. 16 Feb 1766
Simm, Jane b. 30 Mar 1777
Simm, John b. 31 Dec 1823
Simm, Margaret b. 6 Oct 1768, d. Jan 1774
Simm, Margaret b. 8 Feb 1781
Simm, Mary d. b 3 Feb 1784
Simm, Susannah b. 16 Jul 1771
Singleton, Ann b. 12 Dec 1810
Singleton, Betty b. bt 8 Apr 1848 - 7 Apr 1849
Singleton, Elizabeth b. 23 Nov 1820, d. b 23 Jul 1835
Singleton, Ellen b. 26 Jan 1825
Singleton, Ellen b. bt 4 Apr 1826 - 7 Apr 1826
Singleton, James b. 15 Nov 1813
Singleton, Jane b. 24 Sep 1815, d. b 15 Nov 1834
Singleton, Jane b. 23 Mar 1816
Singleton, Margaret b. 20 Apr 1818, d. b 2 Mar 1878
Singleton, Margaret b. 2 Aug 1821
Singleton, Margaret b. bt 31 Mar 1848 - 30 Mar 1849
Singleton, Mary b. 26 Dec 1822, d. Oct 1893
Singleton, Mary b. 21 Jan 1824
Singleton, Thomas b. 21 Aug 1814, d. b 12 Oct 1814
Singleton, Thomas b. 18 Mar 1819
Singleton, William b. 20 Jan 1809, d. Mar 1809
Smith, Frederick b. bt 1 Apr 1896 - 31 Mar 1897
Smith, James b. bt 4 Apr 1862 - 3 Apr 1863
Smith, James b. bt 1 Apr 1871 - 31 Mar 1872
Sudworth, Mary Jane b. bt 4 Apr 1871 - 3 Apr 1872
Sudworth, Susannah b. bt 6 Apr 1838 - 31 Mar 1839
Sutton, Abel b. 29 Jun 1812
Sutton, Elizabeth b. 4 Jun 1823
Sutton, Ellen b. 3 Mar 1821
Sutton, John b. 5 May 1817, d. 29 Mar 1881
Sutton, Peter b. 11 Mar 1814
Sutton, Samuel b. 24 Apr 1819
Sutton, Thomas b. bt 31 Mar 1782 - 30 Mar 1783
Sutton, Thomas b. 17 Nov 1810
Sutton, Thomas b. 11 Aug 1862
Sutton, Timothy b. 13 Aug 1815
Turton, Betty
Turton, Ellen b. 1854, d. 1936
Turton, James b. 25 Nov 1784
Turton, James b. bt 3 Apr 1862 - 2 Apr 1863
Turton, Mary b. bt 31 Mar 1806 - 30 Mar 1807
Twist, Ann b. 5 Aug 1802
Twist, James b. 1 Aug 1808
Twist, Jane b. 3 Jan 1794
Twist, Margaret b. 18 Jun 1812
Twist, Sarah b. 5 Nov 1805
Twist, William b. 3 Mar 1798
Ward, George William b. bt 18 May 1851 - 2 Apr 1852, d. 15 May 1924
Widdows, Samuel b. 28 Oct 1849
Winstanley, Ann b. bt 6 Apr 1862 - 31 Mar 1863
Winstanley, Robert b. c 1890
Witherington, Mary Lucy b. bt 6 Apr 1856 - 5 Apr 1857
Woodcock, Alice b. bt 15 Jul 1811 - 2 Apr 1812, d. 14 Jul 1872
Woodcock, Ann b. 19 Apr 1822
Woodcock, Thomas b. 12 Jul 1841
Worrall, Charles b. bt 4 Apr 1863 - 3 Apr 1864
Worrall, Sarah b. bt 4 Apr 1865 - 3 Apr 1866
Worswick, Elizabeth b. bt 1 Apr 1839 - 3 Apr 1839, d. b 4 Jul 1916
Wrench, Elizabeth b. May 1860, d. Mar 1864
Wrench, Elizabeth b. bt 4 Apr 1869 - 5 Apr 1869
Wrench, John b. bt 4 Apr 1867 - 5 Apr 1867, d. Dec 1893
Wrench, Margaret b. bt 4 Apr 1871 - 5 Apr 1871
Wrench, Peter b. bt 1 Dec 1874 - 31 Mar 1875
102 Bryn Road
Irving, George b. bt 6 Apr 1869 - 5 Apr 1870
Sands, James b. bt 1 Jan 1858 - 31 Mar 1858
Sands, John b. bt 6 Apr 1884 - 31 Mar 1885
Sands, Mary Ann b. bt 6 Apr 1883 - 31 Dec 1883
Sands, Sarah b. bt 6 Apr 1889 - 31 Mar 1890
Sands, Thomas b. bt 1 Oct 1881 - 31 Dec 1881
Sands, William b. bt 6 Apr 1887 - 31 Mar 1888
11 C Court
Arnold, Edith b. bt 4 Apr 1873 - 5 Apr 1873
Arnold, Eliza Ann b. bt 6 Apr 1869 - 3 Apr 1870
Arnold, Elizabeth b. bt 4 Apr 1870 - 3 Apr 1871
Arnold, Emma b. bt 4 Apr 1877 - 31 Mar 1878
Arnold, Enoch b. bt 6 Apr 1849 - 3 Apr 1850
B?, Clara b. bt 4 Apr 1879 - 3 Apr 1880
Lee, Hannah b. bt 4 Apr 1848 - 3 Apr 1849
11C Court, Heath Road
Arnold, Arthur b. bt 6 Apr 1889 - 5 Apr 1890
Arnold, John b. bt 6 Apr 1881 - 5 Apr 1882
Arnold, Thomas b. bt 6 Apr 1884 - 5 Apr 1885
Arnold, William b. 5 Aug 1886
139 Princess Road
McPherson, Walter b. bt 1 Aug 1902 - 31 Jul 1903
15 North Street
Bate, James b. bt 16 Apr 1878 - 30 Sep 1878
Bate, John b. bt 11 Feb 1851 - 2 Apr 1851
Bate, Mary b. 19 Dec 1875
Bate, William b. 5 May 1890, d. Mar 1966
Corless, Mary Ann b. bt 11 Feb 1856 - 10 Feb 1857
16 Whitledge Green
Sutton, Ada b. 3 Apr 1892
Sutton, Benjamin b. 7 Aug 1857, d. May 1922
Sutton, John b. 28 Jan 1885
Sutton, Margaret b. 8 Nov 1886
Sutton, Mary b. 16 Jun 1888
Sutton, Thomas b. 9 Mar 1890
Sutton, William b. 19 Dec 1893
17 Downall Green
Lowe, George b. 8 Jan 1844, d. Nov 1921
Blinston, Edith b. 3 Mar 1888, d. 9 Oct 1978
Lowe, Jane Ann b. bt 6 Apr 1868 - 31 Mar 1869
Molyneux, Ann b. 25 Sep 1895, d. 27 Dec 1985
Molyneux, Cecilia Jane b. bt Jun 1910 - Jul 1910
Molyneux, James Henry b. bt 3 Apr 1904 - 2 Apr 1905
Molyneux, John b. bt 3 Apr 1868 - 31 Mar 1869
Molyneux, John b. bt 3 Apr 1902 - 26 Apr 1902
Molyneux, Margaret Ellen b. Jun 1900
Molyneux, Mary Frances b. 28 Dec 1896
Molyneux, Susannah b. bt 1 Jun 1898 - 30 Sep 1898
Molyneux, Thomas b. 11 Jun 1894, d. Dec 1970
Lowe, Susannah Amelia b. 14 Jul 1822, d. Oct 1894
Sutton, Ellen b. 6 Jul 1896, d. 29 Jul 1896
Sutton, Henry b. 15 Apr 1866
Wrench, Anne b. 3 Aug 1862, d. 13 Jul 1896
Sands, Alfred b. bt 1 Apr 1894 - 31 Mar 1895
Sands, Annie b. bt 1 Apr 1899 - 31 Mar 1900
Sands, Arthur b. bt 1 Apr 1892 - 31 Mar 1893
Sands, Emily b. 12 Mar 1901
Sands, James b. bt 1 Apr 1896 - 31 Mar 1897
193, Heath Rd
Hart, Mary Jane b. 28 Aug 1892
211 Downall Green Road
Rimmer, Thomas b. 3 Jan 1853, d. Feb 1917
Lowe, Leslie b. 29 Jul 1919
298 Golborne Road
Hesketh, Walter b. 23 Jan 1884
30 York Road
Hesketh, James b. 5 Sep 1881
31 Wigan Road
Caterall, Alice b. 13 Jan 1891
Caterall, Annie b. 16 Aug 1899
Caterall, James b. 28 Sep 1885
Caterall, John b. b 4 Oct 1896
Caterall, Margaret b. b 12 Nov 1893
Caterall, William b. 18 Jun 1888
Lowe, Margaret b. 7 Mar 1914
Lowe, Maud b. 7 Mar 1914
34 Spindle Hillock
Lowe, Elizabeth b. bt 3 Apr 1899 - 2 Apr 1900
Lowe, Helen b. bt 3 Apr 1898 - 2 Apr 1899
Lowe, Lilian 'Lily' Mary b. 8 Oct 1891
Lowe, Margaret b. bt 3 Apr 1893 - 2 Apr 1894
Lowe, Susannah 'Annie' b. 13 Dec 1895, d. 31 Aug 1975
Lowe, Thomas b. 29 Jul 1865, d. 29 Oct 1929
Shaw, Mary Elizabeth b. 10 Sep 1871, d. 8 Feb 1960
350 Moore Lane
Lowe, James b. 8 Apr 1829, d. Nov 1907
36 Whithill Street
Catterall, Edmund b. 26 Apr 1847, d. Jul 1900
362 Downall Gren Road
Johnson, Marjorie b. 15 Jan 1860
Shaw, Alice b. 20 Aug 1890
Shaw, James b. 22 Feb 1852
Shaw, James b. 10 Sep 1895
Shaw, John b. 10 Sep 1898
Shaw, Lilian b. 23 Feb 1905, d. 2 Jan 1985
Shaw, Mary Ellen 'Nellie' b. 8 Jul 1884
38 Bryn Road
40 Heath Road
Bate, Alice b. 29 May 1919
Bate, James Henry b. 5 Jul 1879, d. Dec 1957
Bate, William H b. 19 Aug 1913
Green, Mary Ellen b. 15 Oct 1879
44 Old Road
Ellam, Annie b. bt 1 Apr 1895 - 31 Mar 1896
Lowe, Annie b. 14 Nov 1888
Lowe, Jane b. bt 1 Apr 1898 - 30 Sep 1898, d. Apr 1903
Lowe, William b. 29 Aug 1866, d. Dec 1903
Rimmer, Elizabeth b. 31 Aug 1867, d. Feb 1902
Hart, Ellen b. 25 Dec 1858
Jackson, Eva b. bt 3 Apr 1892 - 2 Apr 1893
Jackson, George b. bt 3 Apr 1887 - 2 Apr 1888
Jackson, James b. bt 3 Apr 1884 - 2 Apr 1885
Jackson, John b. bt 3 Apr 1894 - 2 Apr 1895
Jackson, Mary Ellen b. bt 3 Apr 1898 - 2 Apr 1899
Jackson, Peter b. bt 20 Nov 1862 - 19 Nov 1863
Twist, Esther Ellen b. bt 3 Apr 1895 - 31 Dec 1895
Owen, Johnnie Emrys b. bt 15 Jul 1898 - 14 Jul 1899
Bate, Frederick b. bt 3 Apr 1896 - 30 Jun 1896
7 Edge Green Street
Lowe, Walter b. 15 Feb 1868
Sherratt, Annie Marie b. bt 1 May 1872 - 30 Apr 1873
75 Bolton Road
Lowe, Alice b. 15 Jun 1887, d. Apr 1888
75 Rectory Road
Lowe, Benjamin b. 10 Jun 1840, d. Jul 1915
Arch Lane
Holden, Margaret b. 5 Nov 1825
Ashton Chapel
Clayton, Betty b. 9 Mar 1844
Clayton, Ellen b. 9 May 1838
Clayton, Joseph b. 15 Feb 1832
Clayton, Margaret b. 17 Mar 1842
Clayton, Thomas b. 21 Mar 1834
Crompton, John b. 12 Aug 1812
Cunliffe, Hugh b. 28 Apr 1832, d. 10 Apr 1856
Lowe, Ellen b. 30 Nov 1837
Lowe, George b. 22 May 1825, d. May 1825
Lowe, George b. 20 Aug 1831, d. Jul 1836
Lowe, George b. 18 Apr 1838, d. 26 Dec 1839
Lowe, John b. 30 Apr 1835
Lowe, Mary b. 22 Apr 1840
Lowe, Susannah b. 16 Sep 1842
Lowe, Thomas b. 19 Dec 1835, d. Mar 1888
Lowe, William b. 18 Nov 1830, d. May 1874
Lowe, William b. 11 Oct 1833
Sutton, Mary Anne b. 27 Aug 1842
Sutton, Timothy b. 12 Jul 1841
Ashton Cross
Sutton, Margaret b. 16 Nov 1825
Ashton Heath
Atherton, Martha b. 13 Mar 1845
Blinstone, Abel b. 26 Sep 1885, d. Apr 1886
Blinstone, Alice Ann b. 2 Feb 1876
Blinstone, Amy b. 25 Jul 1890
Blinstone, Cain b. 26 Sep 1885, d. Mar 1886
Blinstone, Elizabeth b. 26 Dec 1883, d. Nov 1884
Blinstone, Hugh b. bt 3 Apr 1867 - 28 Mar 1868, d. 28 Mar 1872
Blinstone, James b. 27 Nov 1877
Blinstone, John b. 14 Mar 1870
Blinstone, John b. 22 Dec 1882
Blinstone, Joseph b. 30 Nov 1844
Blinstone, Joseph b. 6 Sep 1872
Blinstone, Mary b. 5 Sep 1881
Blinstone, Thomas b. 7 Jul 1874
Blinstone, William b. 28 Nov 1879
Cottam, Elizabeth b. 13 Mar 1827
Davies, Albert b. bt 1 Jul 1875 - 30 Sep 1875
Davies, Annie b. bt Jan 1871 - Feb 1871
Davies, Frederick b. bt 1 Apr 1896 - 31 Mar 1897
Davies, Harriett b. bt 1 Jul 1878 - 30 Sep 1878
Davies, James b. bt 1 Apr 1834 - 3 Apr 1834
Hart, Elizabeth b. 14 Jul 1847
Hart, Elizabeth b. bt 3 Apr 1862 - 2 Apr 1863
Hart, Ellen b. 1 Nov 1850
Hart, Henry b. 1 Oct 1830
Hart, Henry b. 5 Apr 1871
Hart, James b. 21 Feb 1826, d. b 5 Apr 1891
Hart, James b. bt 3 Apr 1865 - 2 Apr 1866
Hart, Jane b. bt 3 Apr 1860 - 2 Apr 1861
Hart, John b. 14 Dec 1848
Hart, Joseph b. 3 Aug 1840
Hart, Margaret b. 11 Jan 1846
Hart, Margaret b. bt 1 Apr 1884 - 31 Mar 1885
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Best Sitcom of ALL TIME?
I know for a lot of people this is one of those stupid questions like "What's your favourite song" or "what's your favourite movie". The answer may change depending on your mood at the time.
But for me, it always comes down to a choice of just two. One American, the other British. Seinfeld or Only Fools & Horses. Two absolutely brilliant shows. Genius, really. Seinfeld is, in my opinion, the funniest show to ever come from America. Everything about it is great. From the writing to the performances by both its central cast and the many guest stars they had throughout the years. There were no weak characters on the show, which is very rare. Take Friends, for example. You often see it appear in these best sitcom lists and yet I've never met anyone who likes all 6 main characters. Yet on Seinfeld, you love them all even though they're jerks. Maybe because they're jerks?
Same goes for Only Fools and Horses. No weak characters and it's literally laugh a minute. Not only is it hilarious but it's got heart. Really emotional at times but there's always a great joke around the corner to lighten things up.
So I'm finding it difficult to decide which is best. Right now I'm leaning towards Only Fools... but like I said at the start, that could change depending on the mood I'm in.
Has anyone on the org got any recommendations or would like to give their opinions on best sitcoms of all time?
Ps. Forgive me if some of my post doesn't read well, I'm high off my head on morphine at the moment.
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Reply #1 posted 01/27/16 1:38pm
Roseanne - The Nanny - The Golden Girls (three way tie)
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My fav was Only fools and Horses and One Foot in the Grave. Only fools fav episodes Yuppy Love, ''Three Men, a Woman and a Baby"and "Danger UXD".
Desperate Housewives is a sitcom?
RodeoSchro said:
A fat woman came into the shoe store today... LOL. Classic. Al is a legend.
Guitarhero said:
I think my favourite was The Jolly Boys Outing.
I must give an honourable mention to Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em. Michael Crawford is a tour de force as Frank Spencer. In literally every episode there's at least 2 or 3 moments where I'm laughing so much that I can't breathe.
EmmaMcG said:
Yep the bus blowing up
kpowers
Hard to say. So many back in the day. Sitcoms from 2000 until now have been on a decline, I only like 2 live action sitcoms on tv now.
[Edited 1/27/16 14:07pm]
Reply #10 posted 01/27/16 3:41pm
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I thought for sure you'd say
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UncleJam
All in the Family and Cheers are my favs...honorable mention to Good Times and Sanford and Son (but only for the first two or three seasons of each).
Make it so, Number One...
Dalia11
I have many favorites. Friends, Will and Grace, Taxi, Who's The Boss, Family Matters, Siter Sister, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Girlfriends, Living Single, and many more...
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Everybody Hates Chris is easily a top favorite! I can relate lol.
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The original sitcom: I love Lucy
Sanford And Son
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Reply #17 posted 01/27/16 10:52pm
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Reply #18 posted 01/28/16 1:34am
Lianachan
I don't think there's a best, but the ones I rate most highly (in the order they spring to mind, not in order of preference) are:
The I.T. Crowd
Curb Your Enthusiasm (not really a sitcom I suppose)
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Lianachan said:
Yeah, I love Curb but I'm not sure if you'd call it a sitcom. Whatever it is, it's damn good.
Father Ted, of course. That's another show that has me gasping for breath. Dermot Morgan died the day after filming the last episode. Very sad.
This thread is a hard one....In my Mind "I Love Lucy" & "Andy Griffith" are battling it out....I'm gonna go with Lucy cuz when I watched the Vitametavegamin re-run-episode as a kid she had me crying on the Floor...Lucy is QUEEN...Honorable mention "The Cosby Show" becuz it defined an era....
Yeah, I love Curb but I'm not sure if you'd call it a sitcom. Whatever it is, it's damn good. Father Ted, of course. That's another show that has me gasping for breath. Dermot Morgan died the day after filming the last episode. Very sad.
Indeed. The decision to not make any more had already been made, but that kind of ensured it. Like Fawlty Towers, it stopped when it was still great - it didn't suffer the fate of far too many other sitcoms, of staggering on long after they should have wrapped things up.
Blackadder.
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From an objective standpoint, it's not my favorite, but Seinfeld did situation comedy better than any other show in history.
As a Gen-Xer, I'll break my favorites into decades.
70's: Good Times, The Jeffersons, Sanford and Son, All In The Family
80's: The Cosby Show, A Different World, Cheers, The Golden Girls,
90's: Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Frasier, Martin, Living Single
00's: Curb Your Enthusiasm, Family Guy
Of those, I could say that All In The Family, Good Times, The Cosby Show, Seinfeld and The Simpsons are legit GOAT candidates.
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namepeace said:
That is a great idea!
70's: MASH, Happy Days, All In The Family
80's: Cheers, Three's Company, Cosby Show
90's: Seinfeld, Friends, Married With Children
00's: Everybody Loves Raymond, King of Queens, Scrubs
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morningsong
Ok, they're not exactly sitcoms but they were on tv and they were funny as hell. Carol Burnett Show and Dave Chappelle Show.
Genesia
For me, it's a tie between The Bob Newhart Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Although The Dick Van Dyke Show was pretty stellar, too.
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lazycrockett said:
"Better off Ted" would have deserved many more episodes! Personally, it would be "Scrubs".
Hey loudmouth, shut the fuck up, right?
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Esper said the "deliberate withdrawal" only applies to northern part of Syria, but he wouldn't elaborate on how long the troops will be out of the region. "Obviously, the Kurds are adapting to the Turkish attacks".
In typical Trump style of brinkmanship, Trump announced economic sanctions against Turkey through a press statement on Monday.
"We did not sign up to fight Turkey, a longstanding North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ally, on behalf of the (Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces)". "Let Syria and Assad protect the Kurds and fight Turkey for their own land".
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Trump insists he didn't do anything wrong and has called the conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy "perfect". Despite Trump's assertions that he won't cooperate, some members of his administration are participating anyway.
The only exception to the US withdrawal from Syria is a group of perhaps 200 troops who will remain at a base called Tanf in southern Syria near the Jordanian border along the strategically important Baghdad-to-Damascus highway.
The move came after US President Donald Trump said he would issue an executive order authorizing "powerful additional sanctions" against Turkish officials, such as financial penalties, blocking property and stifling their entry into the United States.
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Tennis Court behind Barnfield Road
Can you identify the players in a 1954 cutting?
By Julius Bertram
Has anyone got a photo of the tennis court that was at the back of Barnfield Road? The entrance was at the top of Rowan Way.
Ed. We have added an extract from a 1924 OS map showing the site of tennis court.
We are still looking for photos, but meanwhile have found an account of the fire which destroyed the pavillion.
And 18 months later, in March 2013, David Waller has sent us a photo of the young players at Barnfield Tennis Club in 1954. Can you identify any of the players?
Barnfield Tennis Club - 1954
David Waller - Harpenden Free Press cutting
This page was added by Julius Bertram on 19/06/2018.
The Cobra Club considered acquiring this club at some time in the 1950's when seemingly a buyer was being sought. On the advice of somebody's father who was a chartered accountant the project was (wisely) abandoned. The Cobra Club did not have the proper infrastructure at that time and tended to take parents' advice on such matters.
The girl kneeling on the extreme left in the the second row looks to me like Yvonne YOST who went to St. Dominic's and then St. Alban's Grammar.
Yes. I'm sure that is Yvonne Yost. Her older sister Joan is in the front row, right. Next to Joan, the young lad is Harry Ottaway, who lived in Barnfield Road. His older brother Freddie was also a member, though I think he was more into table tennis, which was played up to County standard at Barnfield. The ground and pavilion were on land owned by the building firm of Fowler. One of the firm, Leslie Fowler, was a great table tennis player. He was also Chairman of Harpenden Urban Council in the 1950s. More names to come.
By John Seabrook
The boy on the right in the back row is my late cousin Michael Evans, who lived in Barnfield Road. Also on the back row wearing a dark suit is another of my cousins, Tony Hawkins, who lived in Lyndhurst Drive. We were members of the large family of Andrews who came from Piggotshill.
By Rita Chapman (nee Andrews)
3rd from the right in the 2nd row is Anne Smith from Piggots Hill Lane. I know most of the faces but after 60 years............
Michael Evans was my next door neighbour in Barnfield Road. My name then was Ronald Wheeler.
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Are Husbands and Wives Really Equal?
Michael Sebastian · February 12, 2016 · 2 Comments
I recently saw a conversation on Twitter about whether or not husbands and wives are equal. It is a fair question. The consensus of the modern world is that men and women are completely equal with the exception of different sex organs. Thus, moderns conclude that there are no set roles in a marriage. But is that really the case?
Gender Roles in the Western Tradition
I want to clear up one point. One person on Twitter argued that the headship of a husband in marriage was something foreign to the Western tradition. His argument was that the idea of the husband being the head of the wife came from Semitic influences—namely Christianity.
In the mind of this person, the concept of a wife being submissive to her husband was something more compatible with Islam than pagan Europe. Modern egalitarianism is therefore a return to what Europeans had prior to the rise of Christianity.
There are a few mistakes in his reasoning.
The Testimony of History
Roman family on a stele.
First, Christianity is not some foreign imposition upon Europe. Rather, Europe is the result of Christianity appropriating those elements of pagan culture which are true, and raising and transforming them. Without Christianity there would be no Europe as we know it.
The creation of chivalry is an example of this. The fusion of the Germanic warrior tradition with Christianity gave rise to an institution that quickens the pulse of every true man and woman to this day.
The second mistake is that it does not take all of European history into account. The Greeks and Romans were patriarchal societies. This is best illustrated by the Roman institution of pater familias. What this meant was that the oldest male in the household had complete control of the rest of family. Definitely a far cry from modern equality!
With the Germanic tribes we have less information, but they were patriarchal as well, although less so than the Romans. Women had no political station of their own. They either inherited their station from their father or their husband. On the other hand, Tacitus writes that a wife comes to her husband,
As a partner in toils and dangers; to suffer and to dare equally with him, in peace and in war.
This is not modern egalitarianism. Rather, it approaches the idea of Christian marriage.
In Christian marriage, the husband and wife are equal in the sense that they are equal in dignity. The wife is not somehow “lower” or of less value than her husband. But husband and wife have different roles.
Unfortunately, the full teaching about Christian marriage flies directly contrary to modern society. Pastors and priests are either too lazy or too afraid to teach it so it is little known among the faithful. The sticking point is St. Paul’s admonition in Ephesians 5:22-23.
Let women be subject to their husbands as to the Lord, because the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ is the head of the Church.
We have to be clear that this not the leadership that we envision in the secular world. Biblical headship does not involve the wife being treated like an employee or a child. Instead, Christian leadership must always be Christ-like: it must be servant leadership.
There are some conditions on husband’s leadership role:
It cannot take away the wife’s liberty and dignity.
It must recognize the wife’s lofty position “as wife and mother and companion.” (Casti Connubi)
The husband cannot ask the wife to do something that is immoral or contrary to reason.
If the husband rejects Christianity or embraces an erroneous form of it, he loses his authority in spiritual matters. For example, if the husband converts to Islam, his wife is in no way required to follow him in his error.
If the husband fails in his duties toward the family, it is up to the wife to take action to protect the family.
Finally, this needs to be put in the context of what Paul says afterward: “husbands should love their wives as they do their own bodies.” (Eph. 5:27)
Where does egalitarianism come from?
If modern egalitarianism does not come from the European tradition, where does it come from?
It actually has its roots in the Enlightenment. But the equality of the Enlightenment was mostly focused on eliminating monarchy and aristocracy. It left the patriarchal relationship between husband and wife intact—for a period of time.
The real thrust for equality within marriage came with Marxism. Marxism continued to take Enlightenment doctrine to its logical conclusion and it leveled all inequality, including that between husbands and wives.
According to Marxist teaching, the whole institution of marriage is inherently oppressive to women and needs to be done away with. Frederich Engels wrote:
The modern individual family is founded on the open or concealed domestic slavery of the wife, and modern society is a mass composed of these individual families as its molecules.
While the US and Europe (with the exception of the Eastern Bloc countries) never adopted Marxism directly, its radical egalitarian concepts were introduced into the West through the work of feminists and other cultural revolutionaries. If you look into the lives of the feminists of the 60s and 70s you will find that they were all deeply influenced by Marxist thought.
By the way, these people have not gone away. Radical feminists are continuing their crusade. The egalitarianism of today is just a stepping stone to their ultimate plan which is doing away with marriage entirely.
In summary, patriarchy, not equality, is the ancient European tradition. It does not originate in Christianity, but Christianity put the roles of husband and wife into their proper order.
The spiritual headship of husbands and the submissiveness of wives does not have a good analog in the world. We need to study the example of the life of Christ to understand how it should be lived.
Filed Under: Marriage & Relationships, Masculinity Tagged With: Germans, marriage, Romans, Tacitus
Cato says
Another wonderful post Michael. Keep up the good work and God bless.
Mark Citadel says
‘Wife with a Purpose’ brought this up at the recent Christianity Google hangout, as she had observed the same trend. Feminist abuse of pseudo-paganism is laughably ignorant.
Evola is correct in asserting that the woman is subject to man by virtue of her pursuits of true virility, which are dependent upon men (those being the mother and the lover), while men pursue true virility independent of women (the priest and the ascetic). In this regard, women are companions to men and find their identity through men, which is the only way such a thing can be expressed in a correct and non-degenerate manner. A woman’s organic state is thus not to experience her own independent identity, but to orbit the identity of her husband, fulfilling the duties of wifehood and enjoying in particular the richness of children which will bring her unparalleled joy.
I was reading something very interesting recently, from Gu HongMing, a pugnacious advocate of Confucian values and the imperial ideal in early 1900s China. He had been in conversation with a Western woman who asked him “Is it true that the Chinese, like the Mohamedans believe that a woman does not have a soul?”
To which he replied “The Chinese view is not that the woman doesn’t have a soul, but that a true woman, a Chinese woman, doesn’t have a self”
One thing you can most certainly say about feminists, even if they do criticize Patriarchy as a selfish institution, they cannot say that feminism isn’t selfish as it is all about the gratification of the self, which unsurprisingly makes women miserable.
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Postcards from La La Land: the Cnut conundrum
New Zealand’s merry little band of climate deniers are turning out to be a right bunch of Cnuts. Sea level rise and its implications for Christchurch and the wider world have been making news in recent weeks — as have new projections of rapid sea level rise over the remainder of this century. So what does a good climate denier do? To stay faithful to their core belief — that climate change isn’t happening, or isn’t going to be bad — they have to argue against policies designed to deal with its impacts, as well as those intended to cut carbon emissions. Sea level rise? Like Cnut, they line themselves up against the waves.
I’ve blogged many times on the challenge sea level rise poses for post-quake Christchurch. The 2011 quakes caused large parts of the city to drop by up to half a metre — effectively delivering decades of sea level rise in a matter of minutes. For some areas of the city tidal and run-off flooding are now commonplace.
The current debate on sea level issues has been prompted by the city council’s long term planning process — which recommends1 that development should be restricted in areas where future sea level rise is expected to cause problems. Not surprisingly, this has some owners of coastal properties concerned that they will lose out. The council has also looked at the idea of building a tidal barrier across the Avon-Heathcote estuary to protect the city.
Local politics and property owner self-interest is bumping into the harsh realities of climate change, leading to a wide variety of responses — including “it isn’t happening”.
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Based on a revised report (pdf) developed from consultants Tonkin & Taylor’s 2014 work. [↩]
Author GarethPosted on August 12, 2015 August 14, 2015 Categories Climate business, Climate cranks, Climate politics, Climate science, environment and ecologyTags Antarctica, Christchurch, de Lange, Greenland, James Hansen, Pine Island Glacier, Richard Treadgold, sea level34 Comments on Postcards from La La Land: the Cnut conundrum
Totten hots up, ice shelves melting: it’s grim down south
Much news in recent weeks from Antarctica, and none of it good. An Argentinian base on the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula recently reported a new high temperature record for the continent — 17.5ºC. A team of scientists has discovered that East Antarctica’s Totten Glacier — which drains a catchment that contains enough ice to raise sea levels by 3.5 metres — is vulnerable to melting caused by warm ocean water lapping underneath the ice and reaching inland1. Another group has stitched together satellite data on ice shelf thickness gathered from 1994 to 2012 and found that the ice shelves — mostly stable at the beginning of the period, are now losing mass fast2. From the abstract:
Overall, average ice-shelf volume change accelerated from negligible loss at 25 ± 64 km3 per year for 1994-2003 to rapid loss of 310 ± 74 km3 per year for 2003-2012. West Antarctic losses increased by 70% in the last decade, and earlier volume gain by East Antarctic ice shelves ceased. In the Amundsen and Bellingshausen regions, some ice shelves have lost up to 18% of their thickness in less than two decades.
The Amundsen region is home to the Pine Island Glacier, notorious for its current rapid loss of mass, and probably already past the point of no return for long term total melt. The map below shows the big picture: large red dots are ice shelves losing mass. Blue dots are shelves gaining mass.
Ice shelves are important features of the Antarctic cryosphere. They buttress the ice piled up on the land, slowing down the flow of ice into the ocean. As the shelves lose mass, the flow of ice from the centre of the continent can speed up, adding to sea level rise. There’s a very good overview of the process — and the findings of the Paulo et al paper — in this excellent Carbon Brief analysis.
The study of the Totten Glacier — one of the fastest thinning glaciers in East Antarctica — is the first to look at the detail of the sea floor and ice thickness in the area. The study finds that there are “tunnels” under the ice leading into a deep trough inland that cold convey warm water inland — the same process that has destabilised the Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica. As the authors suggest, rather drily, “coastal processes in this area could have global consequences”.
These signs of rapid changes around the coasts of Antarctica, together with hints that large parts of the huge East Antarctic ice sheet are at risk of following West Antarctica into the sea, suggest that even if sea levels only rise by a metre by the end of this century as the IPCC projected last year, the longer term picture will be a great deal wetter than that. After all, there is the equivalent of 60 metres of sea level rise locked up in East Antarctica.
For a very good overview of the state of our understanding of what’s going on in Antarctica, I recommend a listen to VUW’s Professor Tim Naish being interviewed by Radio New Zealand National’s Kim Hill last Saturday. Naish even covers what’s happening to the sea ice down there, but a longer term study of the sea ice is getting under way, led by another VUW prof — Jim Renwick.
Greenbaum JS et al, (2015), Ocean access to a cavity beneath Totten Glacier in East Antarctica, Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/ngeo2388 [↩]
Paolo, F.S. et al, (2015), Volume loss from Antarctic ice shelves is accelerating, Science, doi/10.1126/science.aaa0940 [↩]
Author GarethPosted on March 30, 2015 Categories Climate science, environment and ecologyTags Antarctica, East Antarctica, Jim Renwick, Pine Island Glacier, sea level, Tim Naish, Totten Glacier, West Antarctic Ice Sheet4 Comments on Totten hots up, ice shelves melting: it’s grim down south
Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of a Mysterious Continent
Science journalist Gabrielle Walker’s book Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of a Mysterious Continent (Bloomsbury, 2012) tells an absorbing story of the wide variety of scientific work undertaken in Antarctica and the support services that maintain it. It also attempts to capture the human fascination of the continent, not least for the author herself in her five sojourns there. She provides close-up observations of some of the specialist teams working on an array of investigations: penguins, seals, under-ice sea creatures, meteorites, astronomy, paleoclimatology, the dynamics of ice movement and loss, and more. Stories of the early explorers find a place, and the psychology which motivates people to undertake sometimes long scientific enterprises in such a demanding environment. Her book is striking and highly readable, often gripping.
It’s the climate change aspects of the book that I want to highlight here. Walker, who has a strong academic science background, specialises in energy and climate change. She co-authored a book on climate change with Sir David King a few years ago. I reviewed it at the time. Her knowledgeable familiarity with the subject is often in evidence in Antarctica.
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Author Bryan WalkerPosted on July 15, 2014 Categories Book reviews, Climate science, environment and ecologyTags Antarctica, Pine Island Glacier, sea level, Thwaites Glacier, WAIS2 Comments on Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of a Mysterious Continent
TDB today: Goodbye coastline – we are beyond the point of no return
In which I pull together the strands of the recent bad news from Antarctica and Greenland, and lament the loss of the coastline we all grew up with — no longer a theoretical possibility but a long term certainty. Check out Goodbye coastline – we are beyond the point of no return, this week’s post at The Daily Blog, and start planning for all our watery futures.
Author GarethPosted on May 21, 2014 May 21, 2014 Categories Climate science, environment and ecologyTags Antarctica, Greenland, Pine Island Glacier, sea level, The Daily Blog, Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctic Ice Sheet36 Comments on TDB today: Goodbye coastline – we are beyond the point of no return
PIG and pals pass point of no return – West Antarctic ice melt inevitable
Two new papers published this week suggest that the West Antarctic glaciers draining into the Amundsen Sea — the Pine Island, Thwaites, Haynes, Pope, Smith and Kohler glaciers — are melting rapidly and are now committed to collapse, adding up to 1.2 metres to future sea level rise. In the NASA JPL video above, Eric Rignot, lead author of a paper1 examining how the glaciers’ “grounding lines” — the point where the bottom of the glacial ice leaves the bedrock and starts to float — have retreated very significantly over the last 20 years explains how they are now melting back unstoppably. Another paper modelling ice loss from the Thwaites glacier 2 finds that it is committed to retreat and collapse via the same mechanism. Lead author Ian Joughin of the University of Washington, told Science magazine:
The next stable state for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet might be no ice sheet at all…
Continue reading “PIG and pals pass point of no return – West Antarctic ice melt inevitable”
E. Rignot, J. Mouginot, M. Morlighem, H. Seroussi, B. Scheuchl. Widespread, rapid grounding line retreat of Pine Island, Thwaites, Smith and Kohler glaciers, West Antarctica from 1992 to 2011. Geophysical Research Letters, 2014; DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060140 [↩]
Ian Joughin, Benjamin E. Smith, Brooke Medley. Marine Ice Sheet Collapse Potentially Underway for the Thwaites Glacier Basin, West Antarctica, Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.1249055. [↩]
Author GarethPosted on May 13, 2014 May 13, 2014 Categories Climate science, environment and ecologyTags Eric Rignot, NASA, Pine Island Glacier, Thwaites Glacier, WAIS, West Antarctic Ice Sheet37 Comments on PIG and pals pass point of no return – West Antarctic ice melt inevitable
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When asses go to court
Perhaps the least interesting aspect of the High Court hearing which started today — the NZ Climate “Science Education” Trust (NZCSET) versus the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), before Justice Venning — is the ostensible casus belli, the construction of a long term temperature record for New Zealand. The law does not concern itself with trifles, and the minutiae of the techniques used to homogenise temperature records to account for site moves and instrument changes is nothing if not trifling with respect to the climatological big picture. New Zealand and the world have warmed significantly over the last 150 years, of that there is no doubt, and no amount of legal action will make warming go away and New Zealand’s glaciers recover the mass they’ve lost.
Nor has the the long term New Zealand temperature record been important to the formulation of government policy on climate change. That has relied on international diplomacy, the workings of the United Nations and the international consensus on the science of climate, all leavened with a healthy dose of local politics. The NZ temperature record played no part in either the design of the emissions trading scheme or its watering down.
So if this case is not about temperature records and their relevance to government policy, what is it about? We need to consider a few key questions.
Who is bringing the action?
Who is paying the lawyers?
Who wins, and who loses?
The answers are bad news for the taxpayers and citizens of New Zealand — and perhaps the world.
The legal action is being brought by the NZ Climate Science Education Trust, described by the NZ Herald as “a branch of the NZ Climate Science Coalition”. The trust was formed at the same time as the case was announced1, and appears to have been created solely to protect its trustees from bearing the costs of a failed legal action. In the nearly two years since it was formed, the NZ CSET does not appear to have been granted charitable status, and has made no discernible efforts to act as an “educational trust”. All it has done is pursue this legal action against NIWA and its climate scientists.
The Heartland-funded NZ Climate “Science” Coalition is chaired by Barry Brill, a retired lawyer and former National party politician. Since he assumed the chairman’s role, the Coalition has discovered an enthusiasm for legal action. It’s an approach to climate affairs that Brill hopes to export to the rest of the world. Describing the genesis of the NIWA case at the Heartland Institute’s sixth climate sceptic networking event, held in Washington last year, Brill said “We are going to need to do this all round the world.”2
So who has been funding this action? It’s reasonable to assume that Brill, as the prime mover in the case, has been providing his services to the NZ CSET free of charge, but now that there is a hearing in the High Court, and Queen’s Counsel are presenting the evidence to the judge, there will be unavoidable, and probably substantial expenses to be met. Is it possible, perhaps, that Alan Gibbs, the millionaire sceptic3 backer of the ACT party, is helping out his friends? A peek at the accounts of the NZ CSET would be rather interesting…
There is, however, a significant asymmetry in the way the case is being funded. NIWA, as a crown research institute, has no option but to take the issue seriously. Since Richard Treadgold first launched his shonky assault on the NZ temperature record, NIWA scientists have worked hard to explain their methods. Taxpayer funds were allocated to a reconstruction of a long term NZ temperature record4. Despite all that, Brill and his pals formed the NZ CSET and launched their legal action. Since then, NIWA scientists have had to spend time preparing for the court case. All of this has taken place at a time when the government is cutting expenditure, and funding for the CRIs has been under pressure. Instead of getting on with doing science, NIWA staff have been diverted to preparing for this court appearance. It’s been a gross distortion of their scientific agenda and a considerable waste of their time — all brought about because a retired lawyer and his chums with weird ideas about climate science decided to try a bit of legal grandstanding.
Whoever wins or loses this case, the only real losers will be the NZ taxpayer. Should Justice Venning find for NIWA, then NIWA might seek an order to recover their legal costs in defending the action. At that point, it’s highly likely that the NZ CSET would be found to have no assets. Brill and his boys would lose, but face no financial consequences.
Win or lose, an outrageous abuse of process will have taken place, at enormous cost to the taxpayer. No discernible purpose will have been served. No warming averted, no disaster avoided, just the massaging of the bloated egos of a few climate cranks with influential friends.
In fact, the NZ CSET wasn’t properly registered until after a statement of claim was lodged with the High Court. [↩]
At 6 minutes into this video of his introduction to a Bob Carter keynote. Surprise, surprise: Carter is supporting the NZ CSET case with “expert” evidence, despite being a geologist rather than a meteorologist or statistician. [↩]
Gibbs has been closely involved with NZ C”S”C spin-off, the International Climate Science Coalition. [↩]
Which turned out to be pretty much the same as the earlier work has suggested. [↩]
Author GarethPosted on July 16, 2012 July 16, 2012 Categories Climate cranks, Climate politics, environment and ecologyTags Alan Gibbs, Barry Brill, Bryan Leyland, Doug Edmeades, NIWA, NZ, NZ C"S"C, NZCSET, Terry Dunleavy, Treadgold
56 thoughts on “When asses go to court”
IANAL, but is there not a legitimate method to dismiss this as a frivolous and vexatious case? There would surely be costs, but minimal compared with a protracted case. Alternatively, since the NZCSET is an entity that was clearly created to avoid legal consequences, perhaps in Law it will fail to protect those who hope to hide behind it. Because the Law and the courts punish those who treat either with contempt and their powers are extensive.
At least, here’s hoping. I would dearly like Treadgold and his associated societal parasites to be taken to the cleaners.
IANAL either, but the fact that it has reached a hearing suggests that the judge believes that its worth hearing argument. Beyond that, judges have significant discretion in this sort of case, but how that might be applied here is beyond my ken.
I don’t think NIWA ever moved to have the case struck out, did they? That would have been the most sensible thing to do in the first instance. Was there ever a case to answer?
What expertise does Venning have to be able to adjudicate? This is a highly technical case – does he get scientific advice? How does he guage the veracity of Bob Carter’s affadavit, for example?
In a quick partial scan, I noticed that Carter Made this statement, which I believe to be misleading or false: Energy & Environment claims to be Peer-reviewed, but since it is a ‘journal’ where bad science goes to die, I somewhat doubt that it can muster suitable referees. Although I note that Fred Singer and other ‘unreliable’ sources publish there, and that says enough about E&E for me. IIRC, E&E isn’t a WoS P/R journal. I’m certainly not paying for what I believe to be garbage, so I can’t comment on the paper, but it’s probably unmitigated BS.
30. Meantime a peer—reviewed paper critical of the Review (presented by Dr Vincent Gray, a member of the Coalition) has been published in an
internationalIy—recognised scholarly journaI4.
[footnote]
4 Gray, V. (2011) The Seven Station Series. Energy and Environment, Vol 22 No 4.
Well exactly. E&E is a denier rag. But will Venning know this?
Richard Christie says:
NZ Courts have in the past demonstrated that they have little clue how to sort out good science from bad, and they won’t go to academia or our Universities for advice (hubris?). There are plenty of examples of this hubris in the history of Queen vs Peter Ellis *.
The justice system seem to approach this area as do many of our journalists, giving equal time to both sides of arguments despite the sides having vastly different weight in terms of scientific merit.
* http://www.peterellis.org.nz/2003/2003-0906_Listener_MemoryAndTheLaw.htm
http://peterellis.org.nz/docs/2007/2007_francis_new_evidence.pdf
I dont know if strike out was sought. Its hard to get. You have to show that there is some sort of absolute legal or evidential impediment to the applicant being able to get a decision in their favour. A very weak case is not on its own sufficient.
Key documents for the Trust case are here:
http://nzclimatescience.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=14&Itemid=47
The statement of claim is carefully drafted and avoids any obvious traps that would have made a strike out easy.
Apparently a new and updated statement of claim was lodged yesterday.
billr says:
Hello Any news on how this farrago is panning out?
Nothing (that I’ve heard or seen) in the news tonight. NIWA should have been putting their case to the judge today. The hearing was set down for a week, but could be shorter…
I wish I was in akl to witness this case. It would have been tough to stay silent on the public benches tho. contempt [how ironic] being what it is etc.
Well, you’d think it ought to run like the US Federal Appeals Court’s recent decision on the EPA’s CO2 endangerment finding. We’ll see.
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AndrewH says:
Stuff says there is an attempt to strike out evidence from Terry Dunleavy as being non-expert. If that works the NZSET will just have to draw on their extensive pool of climate scientists to provide evidence……oh, wait….!
This defense seems a little weak to me. The statistical work was audited and reviewed by three separate professional statisticians, who all agreed with the workings.
Properly applied, the R & S method yields the original 7SS. The fact that Treadgold et al can get a different result says a lot about their choices and much less about reality (or their skill with statistics).
The fact that Treadgold et al can get a different result says a lot about their choices and much less about reality (or their skill with statistics).
Au contraire, I would maintain that it says a great deal about ‘their skill with statistics’
So you are claiming that all three of the professional statisticians who reviewed and audited the work are wrong?
Do you need to be a “climate scientist” to understand statistics? If so, why?
Their statistics may be correct – i.e. the mechanics may be right, the sums add up – but their application may be wrong. The corrections to be applied depend on choices that are not all statistical in nature (see Mullan, 2012, Applying the Rhoades and Salinger method to NZ’s “Seven-Station” Temperature series, Weather & Climate, 32(1), 23-37).
And in other news there was Gareth’s smiling face in the Press this morning too. Congratulations!
Thanks Andrew. Got a rather good dinner to go to tonight… 😉
Rosie looks pretty pleased with herself too.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/7305395/First-burgundy-truffle-is-a-beauty
And so she should. She’s a very talented little dog – now known as “Rosie the truffle machine”.
The truffle item was on the radio news as well.
‘Truffiere’. That’s my new word for the day, then…
Just to put this pathetic little case in perspective, here’s a NYT op-ed on “The Endless Summer” – and we’re not talking surfing, either….
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/18/the-endless-summer/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120719
Speaking of going to court, I hope you are all following Michael Mann’s case against Mark Steyn with interest.
Its about time that libelous bullies such as Mark Steyn face some headwind. His comments in: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/309442/football-and-hockey-mark-steyn are truly abhorrent, completely without any merit and nothing but hateful spite.
I guess the denial-hydra lost a few too many of its ugly heads lately in order to keep its cool, and behavior such as Steyn’s is just a symptom of its demise as it screeches under the pressure of the evidence…. good riddens and good on Mann for standing up against this crap!
You maybe need to do a bit of background reading on Mark Steyn. He will be rubbing his hands with glee at the prospect of getting Mann in the dock.
Steyn’s article is utterly contemptible. If you’re defending it, so are you.
Perhaps you should educate yourself and read more about Michael Mann and his science, and the numerous independent studies that have essentially confirmed his work. It appears that you’ve been basing your views on the wide range of often libellous denial industry propaganda. The very same dishonest and malicious garbage using such tricks as quote-mining; plagiarised passages with what is apparently deliberate falsification and twinned with bogus statistics tuned to generate hockeysticks from noise that has inspired the hate campaigns against climate scientists.
The hockeysticks are in the data.
Oh I have read lots of stuff written by Michael Mann. I subscribe to his Facebook page.
He is a truly great scientist who has shown the world how serious our predicament is.
Mark Steyn is a good for nothing rabble rouser who defends free speech and other nefarious activities.
Whether or not he’s “the Jerry Sandusky of climate change”
You’re going to dignify spewing this garbage as some ‘sacred liberty’, are you? How utterly tawdry can you get? Quite the standard for you all to rally to, I’m sure.
And no small number of your heroes may as well get used to spending time in the courts, andy. They’re going to be the Tobacco defendants of the 21st Century, after all…
Freedom of speech is not the same as the freedom to run from the consequences stemming from that speech! I thought coming from the UK you were quite familiar with that distinction yourself, where the law is rather tough on people slandering others.
Steyn used his freedom of expression in an utterly disgusting and libelous manner and the idea that you seem to find this defensible is abhorrent.
Thomas July 27, 2012 at 5:44 pm
Remind me again where I was “defending” Mark Steyn.
Andy, given the direction of your long history postings “from the dark side” 😉 in the past, your little line:
is rather suggestive to the interpretation that you think that Steyn is providing a veritable example of the use of Free Speech, while people criticizing him could be denounced as calling Free Speech a nefarious activity…
Not sure what sort of Cool aid you are drinking these days, but I must admit that at least on the surface of things you seem to have adopted a more reasonable stance on the whole matter of AGW recently in some of your postings…. was it perhaps the sudden influx of hard to deny Climate phenomena of 2012?
[Snipped.]
See how easy it is, Andy?
OK, Gareth, here’s a more restrained shot at Steyn, Andy and their ilk:
Deniers imbue the debate with callousness. They obfuscate and distract. They try to score cheap points with fallacious arguments that play to fears, not sense. They do not serve truth, only a cause. They dogmatically repeat their own beliefs yet dismiss others without thought. They are doing a tremendous disservice to our public discourse.
http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2012/07/climate-visciousness.html
Skeptical Science have written a well-balanced report about the Steyn affair, drawing our attention to the denialist lies spread by a well-funded group of despicable people
http://skepticalscience.com/mann-fights-back.html
I liked the earlier version best 😉
It might have been a good idea for Steyn to check up on Cozen,O’Connor and John B. Williams, Mann’s lawyer on this case.
I think Canada is ahead of NZ in this race.
See Affidavits in Michael Mann Libel Suit Reveal Astonishing Facts About Tim Ball Associate John O’Sullivan.
Dr Mashey, thanks for that, the name of this thread would seem to have been prescient.
Let’s hope there are more denier-Asses to come.
I’m glad to say that I was able to help Andrew Skolnick in the early stages of his investigation. 😉 I dug up the “Vanilla Girl” link, for instance, and was frankly astonished when AS found it was similar to a real case O’Sullivan was involved in.
‘Frankly astonished’ is the only conceivable reaction to this bizarre episode in the history of Denial – and, let’s face it, when you consider how wacky the baseline is here you know we’re talking industrial-strength Bizarre in managing to stand out!
(Cue Sting and ‘Don’t stand so close to me’… 😉 )
More, um, entertainment from the man himself…
Excellent sleuthing. Please keep up the good work!
“…occasionally with success.”
Oh dear – too lazy to find the Open Thread – µWatts announces he’s going into lockdown pending a dramatic and controversial announcement (google it yourself if you must!), and rumour has it the BEST final results are due – and, guess what; climate change is real!
Amazing coincidence, do you think?
If Anthony is looking for any nice hats to claim as his very own and then eat I have a couple of spares around the place… 😉
The blogosphere is abuzz with anticipation.
My guess: Fox News have bought WUWT
CALL me a converted skeptic. Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming. Last year, following an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I concluded that global warming was real and that the prior estimates of the rate of warming were correct. I’m now going a step further: Humans are almost entirely the cause.
Read it and weep, ‘skeptics’. He floats a couple of straw men – the 2035 BS again! – lower down in the piece, but this is one hell of a blow to you all.
Muller is claiming that ALL the warming of the last 250 years is anthropogenic in origin. Am I reading this correctly?
CO2 certainly. Guess there’ll be more detail away from the OpEd.But this fits with
These findings are stronger than those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Anyway, this is turning into quite the red letter day. Potholer Hadfield has given us this rather nifty piece, too. Seems some people have indeed been routinely doctoring those Hockey Stick graphs…
Interesting that Muller claims to be the converted sceptic.
This comment from Lucia’s blackboard.
You can verify the attribution for yourself
Richard Muller 2012:
“CALL me a converted skeptic. Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming.”
Let me be clear. My own reading of the literature and study of paleoclimate suggests strongly that carbon dioxide from burning of fossil fuels will prove to be the greatest pollutant of human history. It is likely to have severe and detrimental effects on global climate.
http://rankexploits.com/musings/2012/until-sunday-july-29th-around-noon-pst-wuwt/#comment-100288
As usual, when presented with the juxtaposition of quotes without the context its best to read Mullers 2003 interview directly, in which he made this point:
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/402357/medieval-global-warming/
It then does become clear that Mullers views are a bit more complex on the matter than this quote would suggest.
Nevertheless obviously Muller had back in 2003 already a very clear understanding of what it means when a process interferes with the biosphere in a manner such as (soon) doubling CO2 levels, and good on him for recognizing this then. Probably by 2012 he is witness, partially with his own work, that his 2003 intuition is confirmed.
It’s as we suspected, Rodney Hide relies on internet blogs in order to interpret climate science, lol:
http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2012/07/bias-justified-claims-niwa/#more-14390
(Sorry, Gareth, I know you don’t like to direct any traffic that way.)
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Category: Adornments
Is a woman who puts her hair on the side included among those mentioned in the hadeeth about “maa’ilaat mumeelaat”
Is what is meant by the women who are maa’ilaat in the hadeeth gathering the hair and putting it to one side?.
He tells his wife to wear hijab even when she is in the house on her own
Applying a substance to the lips to make them swell up
Imam Muslim narrated in his Saheeh that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “There are two types of the people of Hell whom I have not seen, men with whips like the tails of cattle with which they strike the people, and women who are clothed yet naked, maa’ilaat mumeelaat walking with an enticing gait (or turning away from righteousness and leading others astray) with their heads like the humps of camels leaning to one side. They will not enter Paradise nor smell its fragrance.”
With regard to the phrase maa’ilaat mumeelaat, there are four opinions among the scholars:
1 – That they turn away (maa’ilaat) from chastity and righteousness, i.e., they commit sins and wrong deeds, like those who do immoral actions or fall short in performing obligatory duties such as prayers etc.
And mumeelaat means that they lead others astray and call them to evil and corruption. So by their actions and words they lead others to corruption and sin and they commit immoral actions because of their lack of faith or weakness of faith.
2 – That maa’ilaat refers to their enticing walk and mumeelaat refers to the movement of their shoulders.
3 – That they incline towards men and lead them astray with what they show of their beauty and adornments etc.
4 – That they style their hair in the manner of prostitutes and style other women’s hair in the same manner.
See Sharh al-Nawawi ‘ala Muslim, 14/110
With regard to styling the hair, this means parting the hair in such a manner that there is more hair on one side than on the other. This was the sign of a prostitute during the Jaahiliyyah.
Some of the scholars are of the view that the hairstyle of the prostitute is what is meant by the words of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) “maa’ilaat mumeelaat”, but Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen said: The correct view is that what is meant by al-maa’ilaat is those who turn away from what is enjoined upon them of modesty and religious commitment, and al-mumeelaat means those who turn others away from that.
Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen said: maa’ilah in a general sense refers to anyone who turns away from the Straight Path, in her clothing, appearance, speech etc. And mumeelaat refers to those who turn others away, by using things which cause temptation, until people turn towards them.
With regard to gathering the hair together and putting it on one side, Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen said: The Sunnah is to part the hair in the middle, from the forelock at the front of the head up to the top of the head, because the hair has directions to the front and the back and to the right and the left. So the kind of parting that is prescribed in Islam is in the middle of the head. As for parting it on the side, this is not Islamically acceptable, because it may entail imitation of non-Muslims and it may also be included in the meaning of the hadeeth in which the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “There are two types of the people of Hell whom I have not seen, men with whips like the tails of cattle with which they strike the people, and women who are clothed yet naked, maa’ilaat mumeelaat walking with an enticing gait (or turning away from righteousness and leading others astray) with their heads like the humps of camels leaning to one side. They will not enter Paradise nor smell its fragrance.”
Some of the scholars interpreted the phrase al-maa’ilaat al-mumeelaat as referring to those women who style their hair in such a way that there is more hair on one side or who style the hair of others in that manner, but the correct view is that what is meant by al-maa’ilaat is those who turn away from what is enjoined upon them of modesty and religious commitment, and mumeelaat means those who turn others away from that.
Parting the hair on the side was forbidden by some scholars on the grounds that it is imitation of kaafir women.
It says in Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah 17/126:
With regard to parting the hair on the side, that is an imitation of kaafir women, and it is proven from the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) that it is forbidden to imitate the kuffaar. End quote.
If we assume that parting the hair on the side, for example, was the sign of kaafir women or immoral women at one time, then that ceased to be the case and this became widespread among Muslim women, and no one would think that the one who does that is a kaafir or immoral woman, then in that case it is no longer regarded as imitation of the kuffaar, so it is not haraam.
Al-Haafiz said in al-Fath (1/307), when discussing al-mayaasir al-arjawaan, which was a small pad or pillow that a horse-rider places beneath him, which was a custom of the non-Arabs: If we say that this is not allowed because it is an imitation of the non-Arabs, then this is for a religious purpose. But if that was one of their symbols at that time, when they were kuffaar, but it is no longer unique to them, then the idea of imitation no longer applies and it is no longer makrooh, end quote.
He also said, refuting those who regarded wearing the taylasaan (a shawl-like garment worn over the head and shoulders) as imitation of the kuffaar, because it is the clothing of the Jews as mentioned in the hadeeth of the Dajjaal: It was appropriate to quote the story of the Jews as evidence at the time when the taylasaan was unique to them, but that is no longer the case, so nowadays it is one of the things that are permissible. Fath al-Baari, 10/274.
Ruling on a woman removing facial hair by laser
Wearing Platinum Rings
Woman going to salons to have their hair cut
Jamaa’at al-Tableegh – pros and cons
Women cutting their hair and removing facial hair
The reason behind ‘aqeeqah
The seven sins that doom a person to Hell
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Finally we all met for our 25-year class reunion, traveling from across the globe!
Excepting a couple of potbellies here and there, we’ve not changed much, just that our crowning glories disappeared or turned grey or brown. Thirty-years later, we still connected the way we did in college. I have met some of my classmates after a quarter century. It was surreal.
Was it due to the sylvan setting of the Gandipet lake or the perfectly manicured landscapes of the Golkonda Resort, or the Hyderabadi home team’s Mehman Nawaji trimmed with TL&C, I don't’ know, but everybody was in their elements. The reunion was total fun. It can put any laughter challenge to shame. Honestly, my face was sore from smiling all day. My palms ached of endless clapping. The riot of laughter still resounds in my ears.
When I look back, I find my Class of ‘91 uniquely talented. It produced award winning architects and designers, teachers, researchers, valuers, software professionals, planners, managers, photographers, housewives and even a rock star. Most of us got graduate degrees too while some of us even earned Ph.D.s. Isn’t it remarkable?
"We were naive small town boys coming to the big city for the first time," recollected one of us.
"I landed at a namesake boy's hostel with a non-existent mess," laughed another.
"I was the best cook and made the tastiest rasam," popped yet another self-proclaimed culinary expert from behind...
Eighteen somethings from all pockets of the country (yes, we had a girl from the Andamans too) were bundled together into a cohort that spoke a dozen languages. Despite our myriad incongruities we harmonized.
"When our theories evolved differently, we knew it was the time to part and yet be together as buddies," said one of them introspecting.
"I practice living on the edge."
"I constantly challenge myself!" Two others pitched in with their stories..
May be that's the beauty of our class. In fact, our class was super-diverse and we remained rightly so, a microcosm of India.
What I liked most in the reunion was our introduction and reflection session (not self-introduction let me clarify). No wonder the introduction-reflections produced infinite images like parallel mirrors. I was excited to present my buddy to the rest of the class, giving my version of her finer nuances. Probably, everybody was at ease with the rest in the group, and must’ve enjoyed presenting their peers. All pervasive was a sense of camaraderie.
During the meet, we neither judged nor bragged. That made the difference. People really opened up. It was a storehouse of stories. A mini Katha Sarith Sagar unfolded. I heard dozens of snake and ladder accounts from my peers. Vivid, crisp memories hidden behind all these years… I had lost some of these but the other guys kept them intact.
I felt as if a time machine literally took me back to all those world heritage sites we visited together: Hampi, Lingaraja, Konark, Tadipatri… The limitless fun we had working for the NASA competitions...
"It was in your house we toiled and burnt the mid-night oil together," I reminisced.
"Because, our homes were the closest to the college, and not for any other reason," my friends interjected.
"Your grandma was awesome," quite a few of us recollected her innocent love. Memories …appeared in flashes as each one of us reflected.
"Where did we play the dodge ball?"
"Banaganapalli!" Someone volleyed.
"Hey! We operated a train.. A diesel engine right?... "Where was it?" I wasn't able to place it.
"On the way to Araku from Vizag," my friend completed the puzzle.
"Remember, trains 've two horns, for low and high frequencies. Yes! Exactly! For short and long distances," a couple of us could pull out the train trivia with the same alacrity even today. I wish we had architecture classes in train engines!!
We traveled back in time riding high on train (!) reliving those moments. But this time without the cantankerous college bus or its dandy driver. It was priceless.
I was curious to revisit the narratives from our studios of a bygone era, which my classmates reenacted to perfection. Some of the stories were the most illuminating. Nostalgia is fun. Nostalgia can be melancholic. To some, nostalgia is wrought with pain and rejection if you happen to slip back from the wheels of fortune or the good books of the tutors. All the more, if you are from the hinterlands...
A few boys candidly put their perspectives.
"In one of my juries, Sir refused to speak in Telugu and I didn't understand a word he spoke. We continued our silent battle for a while. It was going nowhere. Then I came out and pulled him in, to translate. Do you remember?"
"In fact, we wanted to start an agitation to include Telugu teaching and communication."
Some of the boys narrated their struggle in navigating through a curriculum not designed for regional language speakers.
"It took four years for us to adjust in Hyderabad," Some North-Indian boys quipped about their troubles in adapting to an alien food culture and language.
"But once I settled here, I didn't feel like going back," added another.
"Well, we improvised glass plate copying! With a cellophane, I used to erase his name and resubmit the assignment as mine. I was never caught," declared a hero...
"I passed all theory exams because he allowed me to copy from his" humbly confessed a boy, greatly regarding the generosity of his classmate.
"Me too! I copied from her. She used to sit in front of me," joined a couple of others in chorus, without being remorseful.
"By the time we finished four and half years and landed in Delhi for practical training, we realized we had hardly learned anything," lamented a handful of them albeit in a lighter vein.
"I regret not graduating despite trying for 10 years," said one of the most creative fellows of our class. I could visualize his abortive attempts and challenges in balancing a passion for music and talent in design. These were bitter moments of stress and alienation, despite the humor and pun laced around them now. These were the travails of students on the fringes of the learning arena.
Had it not not been the reunion, I would’ve never been privy to these very personal anecdotes. I couldn’t but sense, how insulated I was from these experiences... Personally, I totally internalized the Architecture lessons from college. They influence even the smallest of my daily routines like setting up a dishwasher or kitchen shelves. And these compelling stories laid thread bare, the fissures in our very education. It was irrefrangible.
I realize how some of the simplest of classes I took for granted were nightmarish to some other students. I feel unjustly privileged. I wondered how the system failed on some of my classmates, despite being admitted right royally from a multitude of backgrounds. Perhaps, we need to redesign our content delivery and evaluation systems. It's time our studios turn inclusive.
Never would I have got to know that our class had so much of singing talent, but for the post-lunch Karaoke. Oh! My goodness! Almost everyone sings, not counting the singing pro! By any chance the gastronomical delights served at the sky tower did any trick?? Or the videos of our class photos cast any magic spell?? Or the buzzing WhatsAp group pushed the limits? I wonder!
On the flip side, I failed to trace the coordinates of a couple of our class girls. And could not meet those who didn't make it, notwithstanding their Skype con-calls… Well, when it comes to a warm handshake, all of Skype and Face Time miserably fail. After all, this overwhelming togetherness is worth the travel. As we departed, I’m sure one question must've lingered in everybody’s mind, “When are we meeting next?”
I'm an architecture professor - researcher, from the Class of '91.
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Stepper Motor Working Principle Pdf
The rotor of a permanent magnet stepper motor consists of permanent magnets and the stator has two pairs of windings. Stepper motor is a kind of motor which can change electric pulse signal into angular displacement or linear displacement, usually; it must have a driver in order to work effectively. Tag : Stepper Motor pdf. Motor Control Circuits Motor control circuits are an effective way to reduce cost by using smaller wire and reduced-amperage. RUN current setting ※STOP current is a phase current provided to 5-phase stepper motor at standstill. The theory of electrical machines is based on two basic discoveries called the motor principle and the generator principle. So do check out my other. Your page is incredibly straight forward and USEFUL Congratulations and THANK YOU, I am trying to set up a bench lathe to work with Mach3 and steppers but did not got a wire connecting diagram from the manufacturer (Sanyo Denki) even with the model + Type + serial numbers. Stepper motor s are a marvel of simplicity; they have no brushes or contacts for commutation, like DC motors. In this first article, in a series of articles on stepper motors, we will introduce the reader to the theory behind the working and control of a stepper motor. Here we will discuss construction and working principle of Reluctance Motor. (NOV/ DEC2015) 17. Why Latching is needed to switch on the DC Motor? (NOV/ DEC2015) 18. The number of pulses the motor turns is equal to the number of pulses fed into the driver. Alternatively, you can also view individual images by clicking the arrows. differential stepper motions set X and Y positions. Just like any other electric motor, a BLDC motor also has a stator and a rotor. A stepper motor (or step motor) is a brushless DC electric motor that divides a full rotation into a number of equal steps. In this theory section, we’ll get a quick reminder about how stepper motor works. Page 10 The 3 Generation TB6560 stepper driver can match Large and small size stepping motors (from Nema size 17 to 34) made by us or other motor manufactures around the world, as long as the rated current of the motors is within 0. The advantages of the Hybrid Stepper Motor are as follows:-The length of the step is smaller. ) The working concept of a PM stepper motor can be understood through the illustration provided below. To read the complete technical paper and learn more about how to prevent step losses and tips for troubleshooting, download the free 4-page pdf now by clicking the button below. The servo expects to see a pulse every 20 ms. The motor driver chips that come with the kit are designed to provide up to 600 mA per motor, with 1. (NOV/ DEC2015) 17. A RADIAL BASIS FUNCION NEURO CONTROLLER FOR PERMENENT MAGNET STEPPER MOTOR SAIKIRAN GUMMA Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering J. In the picture above, the pot can be seen on the right side of the circuit board. actuation pulses is to use a custom stepper motor chip, such as the Allegro Microsystems 284 WORKING WITH STEPPER MOTORS +12VDC Phase 1 Control Phase 2 Control Phase 3 Control Phase 4 Control R1-R4 1K e b c Q1-Q4 2N3055 FIGURE 19. com with top Quality and competitive price. that mean's you are not knowning the assembly language. , the Lorentz force law which states that whenever a current carrying conductor placed in a magnetic field it experiences a force. A multimedia tutorial on motors and motor control with nice animations of various motor types and motor control methods. Yaswanth Kumar Goud5 1,2,3,4,5Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering 1,2,3,4,5G. The Step Motor Specialists Stepper Motor Basics Page 3 The rotor is connected to the motor shaft, which gives the output rotation and torque of the motor when voltage and current pulses are applied to the motor windings. The block diagram of stepper motor control using microcontroller AT89C51 is shown in figure 1. The recorder records the variation of one of more variables with respect to time. we are able to offer the most practical industrial automation products at the industry's better prices. A reluctance motor is a type of electric motor that induces non-permanent magnetic poles on the ferromagnetic rotor. CHAPTER-2 Principle-Operation-Applications of Different Stepper Motors and Significance of Permanent Magnet Hybrid Stepper Motor 2. They look like this: Be sure to get a round 7. It creates the pulse trains, A and B, required to control the motor. In this paper, we propose a new design simplifying the working principle of conventional pneumatic stepper motor. Changzhou Fulling Motor Co. ) The working concept of a PM stepper motor can be understood through the illustration provided below. Lower stepping rate. : DRSP-02062 General Motion Control Catalog Part 3 SIMODRIVE 611 universal and POSMO A Single-Motor and Multi-Motor Drives 1. (Please click. Umanand The Manual in pdf format. The motor geometry illustrated in Figure 1. Global Variable Reluctance Stepper Motor Market 2019. In general, the induction motor is cheaper and easier to maintain compared to other alternatives. I have the frame and everything done, but I consistently run. The Arduino Motor Shield is based on the L298 (), which is a dual full-bridge driver designed to drive inductive loads such as relays, solenoids, DC and stepping motors. Owing to the above technology and the self-adjustment technology (self-adjust current control parameters) according to different. By controlling pulse width, you get controlled motions. Ahmet Sekercioglu⇑ Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. PWM may be used within the stepper motor driver to limit the current in the motor coils but this process is invisible to the Arduino user. Our DC Controllers: MX2, MX3 and AT2. In many cases, the single-phase motors on board a ship will be wired into the lighting distribution panels. brushless D. Previous:Linear Stepper Motor Working Principle. 2 Electrical Connection 26 2. actuation pulses is to use a custom stepper motor chip, such as the Allegro Microsystems 284 WORKING WITH STEPPER MOTORS +12VDC Phase 1 Control Phase 2 Control Phase 3 Control Phase 4 Control R1-R4 1K e b c Q1-Q4 2N3055 FIGURE 19. The Step Motor Specialists Stepper Motor Basics Page 3 The rotor is connected to the motor shaft, which gives the output rotation and torque of the motor when voltage and current pulses are applied to the motor windings. The motor's position can then be commanded to move and hold at one of these steps without any position sensor for feedback (an open-loop controller), as long as the motor is carefully sized to the application in respect to torque and speed. Stepper Motor Direction Control using PIC Microcontroller. The stepper motor connections are determined by the way the coils are interconnected. On this page, I will explain the operation principle of the 2-phase unipolar PM type stepper motor. Is a brushless DC motor a very basic stepper motor? With proper controls, could a brushless DC motor be operated as a stepper motor? If not, how do they differ?. Udhaya Prakash3 P. step angle means that the motor will turn 250 rpm on 50Hz or 300 rpm on 60Hz (just like the Premotec). The circuit breaker is an absolutely essential device in the modern world, and one of the most important safety mechanisms in your home. This stepper motor driver lets you control one bipolar stepper motor at up to 2 A output current per coil. The stepper motor model which has 4-poles is shown in the figure on the left. In general, the induction motor is cheaper and easier to maintain compared to other alternatives. Working Principle and Operation of BLDC Motor. Stepper Motors: Principles of Operation : Motors convert electrical energy into mechanical energy. Working principle of Repulsion Motor: The basic principle behind the working of repulsion motor is that "similar poles repel each other. (2) April - 2014. Stepper motors are so named because each pulse of electricity turns the motor one step. 5 HP to 160 HP Order No. Pulse Width Modulation or PWM is a common technique used to vary the width of the pulses in a pulse-train. It works on the principle that, the theory of operation for magnets to make the shaft turn the precise distance when a pulse of electricity is provided. To energise the four. In this theory section, we'll get a quick reminder about how stepper motor works. To seat the bearings, a few pieces of stainless steel having the same outer diameter having the cylindrical base, in this way are used, the bearings can rest on small surfaces, it is important to note the cuts made in the base, some will allow crossing the axis, while others are only to reduce the weight of the device (also I did it for aesthetic ;)). The center taps are. International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, Volume 5, Issue 12, December-2014 proposed work 2 CONCEPT Stepper motor have similar construction to. Arduino Stepper Motor Control Circuit Diagram and Explanation: The circuit Diagram for the arduino stepper motor control project is shown above. Designing my own 5-phase bipolar stepper driver 5303 they should work if the motor is in pentagon. we are able to offer the most practical industrial automation products at the industry's better prices. Variable reluctance motors using this approach are available with step angles close to one degree. In practice, many fuel cells are usually assembled into a stack. 1 GENERAL All the motors described earlier have the characteristic that they can be operated, albeit at essentially fixed speed, when fed by an appropriate D. This completes our introduction to the L298N dual full bridge driver. 9° (100 – 400 steps per revolution). Principle of Operation of DC Motor - Prof. The stepper motor is used for the precision controlling perspective. Hybrid Stepper Motor Engineering Hybrid stepper motors provide excellent performance in areas of torque, speed, and step resolution. The DC motors get powered from a battery and run at high speed and low torque. The measuring head and reflector are mounted opposite one another. Servo Control Facts PMDC MOTOR. Stepper Motor Control using PC N. Principle of AC Servo Motor 3) Design of Motor(2) -Stator Stator is composed of the core and winding which generates torque. 9° (100 - 400 steps per revolution). The light-ing distribution panels are the source for single-phase power supply. More information about the stepper motors: Principle of operation; Stepper motors. Suited for 3D printers and similar devices where position is fundamental. ISSUES/EJSR_70_4_10. STEPPER MOTOR Unipolar Motors Unipolar stepping motors are composed of two windings, each with a center tap. package, this chip has such features as high working voltage (maximum voltage up to 46V), large output current (instantaneous peak current up to 3A, continuous working current 2A) and 25W of rated power. The TB6560-3 Axis Stepper Motor Driver is a excellent microstepping driver that use TOSHIBA TB6560 Chip,based on pure-sine current control technology. Identify applications of Stepper Motors. The fundamental advantage of a stepper motor, speed and position control without feedback, is becoming more attractive to industries sensitive to cost, or to overcome the reliability problems linked to the mechanical commutation system of DC motors. The movement of each step is precise and repeatable; therefore the motor's position can be controlled precisely without any feedback mechanism, as. How does a stepper motor work? Every revolution of the stepper motor is divided into a discrete number of steps, in many cases 200 steps, and the motor must be sent a separate pulse for each step. The recorder records the variation of one of more variables with respect to time. When the motor has accelerated to close to the normal running speed, the motor is connected in DELTA. S Bharadwaj Reddy July 27, 2016 February 9, 2019. This type of motor operates on the principle of minimizing the. Learn more about Chapter 5: Switched-Reluctance and Stepper-Motor Drives on GlobalSpec. • Description for Stepper motor terminal configuration on the documentation does not match with the giving options. This rule is used for determining the direction of force which act on the DC motor armature conductor. Working of Hysteresis Motor: As a result of a rotating magnetic field produced by phase splitting or a shaded-pole stator. Sathya4 1,2,3,4Department of Instrumentation & Control Engineering 1,2,3,4saranathan College of Engineering Abstract—In this paper, we are going to rotate a stepper motor by using an arduino microcontroller. Hybrid stepper motor 33. STEPPER MOTOR Unipolar Motors Unipolar stepping motors are composed of two windings, each with a center tap. A motor needs a lot more power at startup that it does when running. (However, in theory they should be OK down to about 2. The maximum angular eye velocity achieved was 230. Programmable Peripheral Interface IC. The motor driver chips that come with the kit are designed to provide up to 600 mA per motor, with 1. NOTE: There are slight differences on how the different variant of stepper motors work (i. Audel Electric Motors, All New 6th Edition. There are several types of stepper motor currently available, with permanent magnet or soft-iron rotors, and there are hybrids. Stepper motors are DC motors that move in discrete steps. Principle of a disc magnet motor step angle stepper motors are. I think I understand the operating principles of a brushless motor and a stepper motor, but I'm a little confused about the difference. Phrased differently, if you wish to turn your stepper motor exactly half way, you must send to it a value of “180” (180 degrees, have a full rotation). 5V?) Current requirements: The second thing to figure out is how much current your motor will need. A Stepping Motor System consists of three basic elements, often combined with some type of user interface (such as a host. This completes our introduction to the L298N dual full bridge driver. Stepper motors excel at providing precise angular velocity and position control in response to voltage pulses from open-loop control. A/D conversion with the 68HC11 microcontroller The physical principles and the programming features of these devices will be studied and applied. the buffer time, the other is for the stepper motor starting a buffer time, this two together to ensure the smooth response of mechanism. Yaswanth Kumar Goud5 1,2,3,4,5Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering 1,2,3,4,5G. STEPPER MOTOR Stepper motors are used in a wide variety of applications, including computer peripherals like printers, scanners, CD drives, camera lenses, etc. This IC comes in handy when we need to drive high current loads using digital logic circuits like Op-maps, Timers, Gates, Arduino, PIC, ARM etc. The DC motors get powered from a battery and run at high speed and low torque. It is a great scope. The DC motor is of vital importance for the industry today and is equally important for engineers to look into the working principle of DC motor in details that we have discussed in this article. Back emf is very significant in the working of a dc motor. This type of motor operates on the principle of minimizing the. A stepper motor converts electrical pulses into specific rotational movements. The general working principle of a piezoelectric ultrasonic motor is di erent than the electric motors discussed earlier, in that the motion generated from a piezoelectric ultrasonic motor is transferred through contact points between a stator and a rotor. Stepper motor - Full step and Half steps DC Motor Working Principle Animation 3. (NOV/ DEC2015) 17. These are the best motors on the market. Arduino Stepper Motor Control Circuit Diagram and Explanation: The circuit Diagram for the arduino stepper motor control project is shown above. This project control the axial rotation in XY plane and to control the rotation of the motor in either XZ or YZ plane similar circuit can be added. Stepper Motor Diy Projects Small Oscillator Engine: A demonstrator using the oscillating (Wobbler) principle. More information about the stepper motors: Principle of operation; Stepper motors. Stepper Motor Control using PC N. stepper motor was described by control loops. Whenever electrical wiring in a building has too much current flowing through it, these simple machines cut the power until somebody can fix the problem. Try out the Grove here. Uln2003 Stepper Driver Schematic Generally it can also be used for interfacing with a stepper motor, where the motor Typical usage of the ULN2003A is in driver circuits for relays, lamp and LED. Basic function principles of a stepper motor. Buzzer will immediately sound at the fore side receiver activation and gate will close after 5 seconds, so giving time to drivers to clear gate area in order to avoid trapping between the gates and stop sound after the train has crossed. Whenever electrical wiring in a building has too much current flowing through it, these simple machines cut the power until somebody can fix the problem. UNIT 1 Basic Principles of Motor Controls Unit 1—Introduction This unit discusses the basic concepts of motor control, including “motor control language” and the types of wiring diagrams used. Stepper Motor Diy Projects Small Oscillator Engine: A demonstrator using the oscillating (Wobbler) principle. We can create a stepper motor controller using 8086 microprocessor and 8255. 4 Integrating the Principle of “Leave No One Behind” in the NERGP CWG Core Working Group. Since the stator field is generated by permanent magnets, no power is used. (NOV/ DEC2015) 17. The light-ing distribution panels are the source for single-phase power supply. Stepper Motor Operating Principles A stepper motor relies on electromagnetism to work. On this page, I will explain the operation principle of the 2-phase unipolar PM type stepper motor. NOTE: There are slight differences on how the different variant of stepper motors work (i. the 4 wires, 5 wires and 6 wires stepper motors). Variable Reluctance Stepper Motor The principle of Variable Reluctance Stepper Motor is based on the property of the flux lines which capture the low reluctance path. Refer to Appendix B: “Glossary” for a glossary of terms commonly used when describing BLDC motors. Within the AC motor are the stator assembly and the rotor assembly. Universal design for learning (UDL) is a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn. The principle of photoelectric sensing of rotor position and electronic commutation of the motor was proved feasible. The stepper mikes can push or pull loads up to 80 N, and provide speeds up to 5mm/second. Training package for Basic Principles of Servo Motor Drive Technology • Trainees should only work with the circuits under the supervision of a trainer. 2 Parameterization of stallGuard2 The PWM registers for chopper current regulation need to be parameterized first as a base for stallGuard2 and coolStep. Since there are 2 coils and 2 directions, that gives us a possible 4-phase sequence. When you next turn the circuit back on (still set to 112 ohms), the motor doesn’t turn at all! The problem is that a motor is a varying electrical load. : DRSP-02060 Catalog MC Part 2 High Performance Motors and Accessories Order No. When the stepper motor stops, all the current turns into heat in the motor windings. Types of Stepper Motors Permanent Magnet (PM): Also called "tin can" or "can stock," these are a cheap, low resolution type of stepper motors having step angles of typically 7. There are three primary types of stepper motors including variable reluctance (VR), permanent magnet (PM) and hybrid stepper motors (Ericson). Then, you turn the circuit off. the introduction of various motors in electronics and their differences and ways of caring for them; Motor stepper - Motor servo - Motor DC - Motor AC - Motor inverter as well as their usefulness in the electronic actuator (transducer output) which may be a trigger for electronics for electronic cartridges AMNIMARJESLOW GOVERNMENT 91220017 XI XA PIN PING HUNG CHOP 02096010014 LJBUSAF YES FOR. These motor + linear encoder systems avoid inaccuracies in the drivetrain between the motor and linear carriage, but their design is made more complicated as they are no longer a pre-packaged factory-made system. The hybrid stepper motor is more expensive than the PM stepper motor but provides better performance with respect to step resolution, torque and speed. The rotor can be made multiple stacked to achieve more steps. If we follow Figure 5, the electrical equivalent of the stepper motor, we can see that 3 wires go to each half of the coils, and that the coil windings are connected in pairs. WHAT IS STEPPER MOTOR IN HINDI | WORKING PRINCIPLE | एक बार ज़रूर देखे How To Convert pdf to word without software - Duration: Working Principle of a. SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MOTOR (SRM) In construction, the SRM is the simplest of all electrical machines. , the Lorentz force law which states that whenever a current carrying conductor placed in a magnetic field it experiences a force. How does an 3-phase induction motor work? In short, it works based on the principle of electromagnetic induction. Characteristics Stepper motors are rugged and inexpensive because the rotor contains no winding slip rings, or commutator. The power stage of the controller interfaces with the motor windings (in most cases, with the stator). actuation pulses is to use a custom stepper motor chip, such as the Allegro Microsystems 284 WORKING WITH STEPPER MOTORS +12VDC Phase 1 Control Phase 2 Control Phase 3 Control Phase 4 Control R1-R4 1K e b c Q1-Q4 2N3055 FIGURE 19. Download this nice ebook and read the Militrtheorie Im Spthumanismus Schwager Therese ebook. The necessary driver board circuits have already been built and are available for use in the lab (you will need to. New manufacturing processes led to increased power and improvements in quality. Just as the rotor aligns with one of the stator poles, the second phase is energized. The stator and the rotor of the motor are aligned in such a way that the magnetic reluctance is minimum. stepper motor and permanent-magnet stepper motor. For most shore facility applications, this is the case. Draw its characteristics. The SECTION 2 transports the timing belt with the handle's fixator attached to the window/balcony door by the STEPPER MOTOR 2 so that the passage is locked. Stepper Motors: Principles of Operation : Motors convert electrical energy into mechanical energy. The design of the stepper motor provides a constant holding torque without the need for the motor to be powered. Static friction effects do happen with a H-bridge with certain drive topologies, however this can be reduced with dithering the stepper motor signal at a higher frequency. Previous:Linear Stepper Motor Working Principle. a) Demonstrate the working of a reversible A. Star Delta starting is when the motor is connected (normally externally from the motor) in STAR during the starting sequence. Maximal and reference velocity equations result on values not applicable on our system (too low values). In This instructable , I will talk about an Unipolar Stepper Motor 28-BYJ48. (NOV/ DEC2013 16. This app covers entire aspects of the subject, from basic engineering to advanced and modern topics related to Electrical Engineering and Technology. and an appreciable amount of energy is consumed from the rotating field in reversing the. The HBS series offers an alternative for applications requiring high performance and high reliability when the servo was the only choice, while it remains cost-effective. metal come into physical contact. Working Principle of AC Servo Motor. In many cases, the single-phase motors on board a ship will be wired into the lighting distribution panels. The maximum angular eye velocity achieved was 230. The principle used in motors is one aspect of the principle of induction. Introduction to the Stepper Stall Detector Module, Rev. A stepper drive is the driver circuit that controls how the stepper motor operates. 3A, and the output current has 16. Ahmet Sekercioglu⇑ Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Stepper motor connects with Microduino Stepper： Four-wire two-phase stepper motor has two sets of coils a, b, the coil resistance is very small, only several ohms. The stepper motor connections are determined by the way the coils are interconnected. To understand the operating principle of DC motor we need to first look into its single loop constructional feature. The hybrid stepper motor combines the best features of both the PM and VR type stepper. A precision linear actuator is a positioning device that provides motion in 1 degree of freedom. The name is derived from the fact that it combines the operating principles of the other two motor types (P. In this section of Stepper Motor Projects, I will provide you the list of the tutorials in which I have already controlled the speed of the stepper motor using three different software e. Stepper motors work in very specific way, a standard stepper motor will have two or more coils that charge and discharge when electricity is allowed to flow through them. To read the complete technical paper and learn more about how to prevent step losses and tips for troubleshooting, download the free 4-page pdf now by clicking the button below. When I open the switch/button, motor tends to stops and gets stop within few seconds. How to use the Stepper Motor Driver and Stepper Motor blocks together to implement a controlled permanent magnet stepper motor. Typical increments are 0. 1, is a hybrid-type stepper motor that works with a permanent magnet and soft iron rotor and stator. Owing to the above technology and the self-adjustment technology (self-adjust current control parameters) according to different. stepper motor, not a square one (too much torque), not a 1. There are two different types of encoders: linear and rotary. Series Motor, Reluctance Motor. ※It activates when there is no pulse input of motor operation for over 100ms. A Servomotor allows for precise control of angular position. Summarize the principle of operation of a variable reluctance stepper motor. WORKING PRINCIPLE OF STEPPER MOTOR It is working on the principle of electromagnetic induction. Step motor and brushed linear motor products have been available for quite some time. Ganesh Kumar2 A. When the stepping driver receives a pulse signal, it drives the stepping motor to rotate at a fixed angle in the set direction (called "step angle"). A stepper motor is an electromechanical device which converts electrical pulses into discrete mechanical movements. Explain in detail, the constructional details and working principle of synchronous reluctance A single stack 3 phase VR stepper motor has a step angle of 15. The predominant motor configuration utilized in demanding incrementing (start-stop) applications is the permanent magnet DC (PMDC) motor. Only the circuit parts relevant for the step motor are depicted. These are the best motors on the market. The type of motor is not critical to a servomotor and different types may be used. Working Principle of AC Servo Motor. The fundamental advantage of a stepper motor, speed and position control without feedback, is becoming more attractive to industries sensitive to cost, or to overcome the reliability problems linked to the mechanical commutation system of DC motors. 5 Multistack variable reluctance stepper motor 32 2. If it is a synchronous motor, the rotor and the stator move in synchronization. A speed control algorithm accepts a speed command as a number of steps per second and converts it to a pulse train that controls the stepper motor driver. Inside the rotor, there's a threaded precision nut instead of a shaft. Order Now! Motors, Solenoids, Driver Boards/Modules ship same day. (7) (OR) (b) (i) Explain torque versus stepping rate characteristics of a stepper motor. engineering. As a result, unipolar motors have 5 or 6 wires. Inexpensive relative to other motion control systems. Motors, Solenoids, Driver Boards/Modules – Stepper Motors are in stock at DigiKey. Refer to Appendix B: "Glossary" for a glossary of terms commonly used when describing BLDC motors. A stepper drive is the driver circuit that controls how the stepper motor operates. This means the magnetic field generated by the stator and. Each stepper motor creates the motion of the corresponding degree of freedom movement. Stepper motor: Stepper motors are used for precise control of position of shaft. In applications with low damping, the usable torque from the stepper motor can be drastically reduced by resonances. Attach your robot’s motors to the green Motor A and Motor B screw terminals. What is microstepping Microstepping is a way of moving the stator flux of a stepper more smoothly than in full- or half-step drive modes. The current in a winding needs to be reversed in. To control a stepper motor though a specialized stepper motor driver the Arduino just needs to provide step and direction signals using digitalWrite(). This project control the axial rotation in XY plane and to control the rotation of the motor in either XZ or YZ plane similar circuit can be added. motor and characterize its performance in terms of step size and maximum travel range. Introduction. By energizing each phase in a controlled manner or with a predetermined pulse sequence, the motor completes its full revolution with one step at a time. 2 Working Principle Here the manual input will pass to the microcontroller and microcontroller will calculate according to the program which will be taken from manual input. Working principle of Repulsion Motor: The basic principle behind the working of repulsion motor is that "similar poles repel each other. Stepper motors are so named because each pulse of electricity turns the motor one step. In this chapter, the authors discuss the stepper motor. Stepper motors offer a bundle of tradeoffs that can give test engineers headaches when they need to determine why a particular motor fails in a specific application. Hybrid Stepper Motor Engineering Hybrid stepper motors provide excellent performance in areas of torque, speed, and step resolution. The primary principle for all driver modules will be to source/sink enough current for the motor to operate. In this chapter, we shall focus our attention on the construction, working and characteristics of commonly used single-phase motors. More information about the stepper motors: Principle of operation; Stepper motors. As shown in the typical starting curve, these motors will start and. The motor consists of two elements: (i) a shuttle connected to. The angle of a single step is known as the stepper angle of the motor. Adaptive to function well in any environment. Typically, step angles for a hybrid stepper motor range from 200 to 400 steps per revolution. Pictures of some stepper motors 6. Learn more about Chapter 5: Switched-Reluctance and Stepper-Motor Drives on GlobalSpec. The basics on how stepper motor, stepper controller, and stepper driver work. State University of New York at Buffalo DC and stepper motor, A/D and D/A, C-language, interfacing and control. Motors, Solenoids, Driver Boards/Modules – Stepper Motors are in stock at DigiKey. The C876 stepper motor The optimization of the principles of the engines allows a great power and an important dynamics. Elementary operation of variable reluctance motor can be explained through the diagram of fig. Stepper motor: Stepper motors are used for precise control of position of shaft. toothed pole pieces working against a toothed rotor. Low Efficiency - Unlike DC motors, stepper motor current consumption is independent of load. If one end of each 3-phase winding of the switched reluctance motor is brought out via a common lead wire, we can explain operation as if it were a stepper motor (figure above). This tutorial covers the basic principles of stepping motors and stepping motor control systems, including both the physics of steppers, the electronics of the basic control systems, and software architectures appropriate for motor control. The working of this motor is shown by operating the switch. The price of servo-motors was another reason stepper motors were more favorable. 03) generates larger torque than a larger negative slip (1. DC motor systems are definitely a great for the budget minded shooter. Stepper Motor Operation. pdf Could someone share an working. This software calculates the dynamics of rigid and flexible bodies including the control loop dynamics. motion control course The digital storage oscilloscope used on the motion control course The electronic tacho used on the course Safety issues are, of course, paramount considerations, and the dangers of incorrect parameter settings, the dangers of electric shock whilst working 'live' and making measurements (particularly with regard to the high. The centre tap on the stator winding allows the current in the coil to change direction when the winding are grounded. The hybrid stepper motor is more expensive than the PM stepper motor but provides better performance with respect to step resolution, torque and speed. The hybrid stepper motor combines the best features of both the PM and VR type stepper. It has greater torque. It generates torque through magnetic reluctance. We can create a stepper motor controller using 8086 microprocessor and 8255. I will attempt to provide these materials when I can. 3 is by far the most widely-used stepper motor in industrial applications. Permanent magnets are mounted on the rotor of a BLDC motor, and stator is wound with specific number of poles. WHAT IS STEPPER MOTOR IN HINDI | WORKING PRINCIPLE | एक बार ज़रूर देखे How To Convert pdf to word without software - Duration: Working Principle of a. Introduction. When the stepping driver receives a pulse signal, it drives the stepping motor to rotate at a fixed angle in the set direction (called “step angle”). The stepper motor consists primarily of two parts: a stator and rotor. A stepper motor is an electromechanical device which converts electrical pulses into discrete mechanical movements.
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: Tours
: Ashmore Reef 2019
Adele Island and the Lacepede Islands Expedition 10th to the 19th March 2019 Aboard The Diversity
Brochure & Bird List & Information for participants
This Expedition visits a unique and poorly understood region of Australian maritime territory, associated Islands and Reefs. Many of the Islands support large breeding colonies of seabirds, marine turtles and complex coral reefs with an extraordinary diversity. The Timor Sea and Sahul shelf boast a significant variety of cetaceans, some using shallow inshore waters while others have a preference for deep sea canyons located on the edge of the continental shelf. This expedition is designed around exploring four islands and enjoying what they have to offer. There will be fantastic photographic opportunities of nesting seabirds, turtles and the challenge of taking that perfect shot of whales or dolphins. The snorkelling is excellent at Ashmore Reef so remember to bring your gear.
Sail from Broome boarding at 7 AM (you will be advised of the pickup time from your accommodation) We take a northerly course running parallel to the coast towards the Lacepede islands located about 30 km offshore from Beagle Bay on the Dampier Peninsular This run is good for a rare and unusual species of cetacean often referred to as Dwarf Spinner Dolphin Stenella longirostris roseiventris. We arrive at the lacepedes at about 1pm and drop anchor on the northern side of West Island at 16° 50’ S 122° 06 E. Our arrival co-insides roughly with high tide. We’ll land on West Island which has the greatest diversity to observe Lesser Frigatebird & Brown Booby breeding colonies. Huge numbers of Common Noddy congregate in large flocks on the beach, while Bridled Terns fly overhead. A lagoon with mudflats attract good numbers of shorebirds while at least 6 other species of terns are found here.
The Lacepede Islands encountered by Nicholas Baudin in 1801 who named them in honour of the Compte de Lacepede because of the large number of birds and wildlife observed on the islands. Lacepede was a noted French marine taxonomist (his son was aboard the expedition as the Naturalist). The Islands, particularly Middle Island were exploited for guano (phosphates) for several decades from the 1870’s, during this period, an infamous international incident occurred when the captain of an American Whaler claimed sovereignty over the islands! The introduction of rats from shipwrecks associated with the removal of phosphates saw a dramatic decline of breeding seabirds, luckily the rats were eradicated in the mid 1980’s and the seabird numbers have recovered.
Having steamed from the lacepedes very early in the morning we arrive at Adele Island, anchorage at 15° 28’ 123° 09’ (located 95 Km NE of Cape Leveque) mid morning. With a spring series of tides, the high (6.9m) is around 1.30 in the afternoon so we may have to wait for the tide so we can access the Island easily. Following the tide in on the tenders at Adele can be spectacular, drifting over sand bars and coral reefs. Sharks including White & Black tipped Reef, Tiger, Lemon and Hammer-head are a few species that can be seen amongst numerous other common fish. Shovel-nosed Ray, Eagle Ray and Sting Ray are generally obvious and common. Marine Turtles including Green, Australian Flatback, Loggerhead and Hawksbill occur regularly here. Estuarine Crocodiles are also present at Adele in low numbers, usually smaller animals but we still have to be aware of their presence. Adele Island is a unique place supporting huge numbers of breeding seabirds but it’s a tough place to explore due to dense Beach Spinifex. We can attempt to visit a breeding colony of Red-footed Booby and Great Frigatebird that utilize a grove of small shrubs called Indian Lantern Flower Abutilon indicum. Both Red foots and Great frigatebird have a preference for breeding in trees, In contrast Masked Booby are happy breeding in loose colonies on the beach and are easily accessed. Large flocks of migratory Shorebirds, Terns and Noddies congregate on the beaches and sand flats which makes it easy with spotting scopes to study them.
Interestingly Black & Lesser Noddy were first discovered breeding on Adele in 2012 by Rohan Clarke and I while conducting counts on the Island. Adele Island is also the most southerly and only breeding location for Red-footed Booby and Greater Frigatebird in Western Australia apart from Ashmore Reef which actually comes under federal jurisdiction. Towards the late afternoon we may be lucky to witness Greater Frigatebird’s klepto-parasitic behaviour, forcing Masked Boobies to regurgitate their fish as they fly back to hungry Juveniles waiting to be fed on the beach. We will probably have dinner at the Adele anchorage before leaving for Browse Island.
Leaving Adele Island the itinerary takes us north to Browse Island, the journey is around 120 NM so a 12 hour steam. (Anchorage at 14° 06’ 123°33’) The High tide is 4.5m at around 12.45hrs luckily we only need 1.6 m to get over the reef in the tenders so we should be ashore by 8 AM.
Browse has a rather sad history ornithologically, The Island was mined for phosphates by a number of companies starting in 1870 through to the 1890. Prior to this exploitation the number of seabirds breeding on Browse would have been significant, likely species would have included Brown and Masked Booby, Lesser Frigatebird, Common Noddy, Sooty and Bridled Tern. Crested Terns still breed occasionally.
Unfortunately there are virtually no records of the species present in those days although a painting exists showing large flocks of birds flying over the workings while vessels are anchored off the island. A tram way is also depicted for transporting the phosphate down to the shoreline. The phosphate would have been bagged and loaded into rowing boats for transfer back to the transport ships. This must have been a hazardous exercise rowing well laden tenders through a continuous swell breaking over the reef. Browse Island is not particularly well protected and vessels anchored off the surrounding reef would have been exposed to storms and cyclones. There are nine known wrecks located at Browse, occasionally one can find small fragments of copper sheeting used to protect wooden hulls and Coal presumably abandoned as ballast or surplus to requirements this being the age of sail and steam. Clay Bricks have also been found on the beach, worn from tumbling in the surf presumably these would also have been ballast. Records do exist of feral cats being present on the Island in the 1950’s so they would have precluded any chance of seabirds recolonising the Island. House Mice are also present but luckily the cats have gone and studies are being undertaken to work out the best way to encourage the seabirds to return. Being the only land for many miles land birds are attracted to the island including common Australian migrants and occasionally vagrant Asian species. Migratory shorebirds of a number of species are recorded regularly.
As Browse is fairly small (14 hectares) it’s unlikely we will spend more than the morning on the island recording everything we find.
We Continue our journey NW towards Ashmore Reef in the afternoon with 120 NM to cover we will reach Ashmore in the small hours unless we slow up to time our arrival for the early morning.
On the journey from Browse to Ashmore Leather-backed Turtles have been spotted very occasionally so something to keep an eye out for. This leg is also good for seabirds and cetaceans.
On arrival at Ashmore we liaise with Australian Customs who maintain a presence on the Reef (aboard Australian Customs Vessel Thaiyak) we then tie up to an inner mooring at 12° 14’ 122° 59’. This will be our spot for the next three nights situated about a kilometre East of West Island. It’s important that I point out that you can jump off the boat at this location and be snorkelling over beautiful reef with fish everywhere in five minutes! The high tide is at 14.25 hrs at 3.8 meters which is ample for a visit to East Island and associated sandbars.
We set out to East Island at about 1130 am aboard the tenders for the 13 km journey travelling over reefs and sand flats in about 2 to 3 metres of crystal clear water. Turtles, rays and occasionally dugong are spotted as we speed towards East Island, on our approach to the island we experience the usual welcoming committee of Boobies and Sooty Terns. Usually at this time of year the Islands are green with a lush covering of grass and herbs after recent rain. Breeding will be in full swing so huge numbers of birds will be swirling about and birds on nests everywhere so we have to stick to the beach to avoid too much disturbance. This experience is unique in Australia with all three species of Noddy (Common, Black & Lesser) breeding in close proximity to one another. Amongst the Noddies are thousands of Sooty Terns while Brown, Red-footed & Masked Booby, Greater and Lesser Frigatebird, Bridled, Roseate & Greater Crested Tern will also be breeding. We are very lucky to have access to these Islands as they are closed to the public. A short distance to the east of East Island is a small vegetated sandbar that is one of the main wader roost on Ashmore. With careful use of the tide we have time to explore the sandbar and enjoy some spectacular shorebird watching.
As with the Kimberley Coast any marine activity at Ashmore is tide dependant and although the tide range at Ashmore is smaller it still affects our activities. As we are moored close to West Island its ideal to visit the Island early in the morning while still relatively cool. This requires a short tender ride and a kilometre walk over sand bars to reach the Island. West Island is reasonably well vegetated with a narrow fringe of Octopus Bush Heliotropium foertherianium and a central herb field. Over the last 17 years the island has turned up an extraordinary list of birds, many of them new species for the Australian list, consequently birders and twitchers are drawn to the Island. Over the next three days we have the opportunity to visit West Island early in the morning and again in the afternoon to take advantage of the islands potential. White-tailed Tropicbird and Red-tailed Tropicbird both breed on the Island. Many other seabird species have recolonised West Island in the last couple of years having been absent for decades due to a number factors including guano extraction, rats and human habitation. The tide is high at 3pm so we have plenty of water to visit Middle Island. Located much closer to our mooring, Middle Island supports huge numbers of breeding seabirds much like East Island but a bit smaller. Located just to the east of Middle Island is a horseshoe shaped sandbar that’s another great wader roost.
A rest day at Ashmore for those who don’t want to walk out to West Island in the morning. Excursions can be organised to various snorkelling spots or wader roosts, tides willing, we can visit throughout the day and fishing is an option once out of the reserve boundary which is only a short tender ride from the mooring.
We leave Ashmore heading SW to Waypoint 1 12° 24’ 122° 26’ this way point is located beyond the continental shelf in a depth of over a thousand metres. These waters can be highly productive with cool nutrient rich water moving closer to the surface and Pacific seawater pouring through into the Indian Ocean. (Indonesian flow through) Tropical oceans are often regarded as unproductive and lacking diversity however the amount of life here surely proves otherwise with substantial and diverse pods of Cetaceans commonly recorded on previous trips. The presence of Blue and Sperm Whale in these waters adds to the exciting potential. Large flocks of Noddies, Boobies and Terns mix in with occasional Bulwers and Tahiti Petrel that can be common on this leg. Amongst this congregation of marine life the chance of spotting the elusive Jouanin’s Petrel a species that wanders the Indian Ocean from its only known breeding location on Socotra Island.
Scott Reef 14° 03’ 121° 47’ located 154 NM SW of Ashmore will take at least 16 hours of steaming seeing us arrive late at night.
Early in the morning we take the opportunity to visit Sandy Islet, the only speck of dry land on this vast reef system, several wrecks still remain perch up on the reef as a stark reminder of the dangers these reefs pose to shipping. Obvious Wildlife at Scott includes lots of Sea Turtles, Eastern Reef Egret, Brown Booby and Crested Tern. The Reef itself is rich with corals and Reef fish but has unfortunately been over fished. The continental shelf is very close to the western side of the reef and drops from sea level to 1100 m in less than 10 km. Under water cliffs and canyons are known hot spots for Cetaceans particularly Beaked Whales that are notoriously difficult to see and identify. Beaked Whales have a habit of logging on the surface of the ocean for long periods between very deep dives.
From Scott Reef our route follows the shelf break in a South Westerly direction (depths between 700m to 400 m) towards Waypoint 2 15° 50’ 120° 40’ Depth 400m With the distance of 157 NM we will reach the way point well after dark but this really makes no difference to us as we will have been scanning throughout the day looking for wildlife. The shelf waters that we traverse are good for a number of unusual and rarely recorded Seabirds including, Bulwers & Tahiti Petrel, with a rare chance of Jouanin’s Petrel. Abbott’s Booby and Red-necked Phalarope are also a good chance. The two all dark Storm Petrels we see in these waters in Spring (October/November) namely Swinhoe’s & Matsudaira’s are unlikely but possible. Cetaceans are often present with mixed pods of Dolphins and Pilot whales. These pods can be deceiving and it’s important to try and get photographs of as many animals as possible, because rare and less commonly seen species like Frasers Dolphin and Rough-toothed Dolphin often mix in with Spinner and Pan Tropical Spotted Dolphins and Pilot Whales. It has to be said that occasionally on these transects spotting wildlife can be slow and hard work but overall the quiet periods are quickly forgotten when some unique or spectacular interactions come about.
With 150 NM to cover we spend day 9 traversing over shelf waters with depths shallowing off as we make our way closer to Broome. Species that we see in deeper waters of around 100m plus generally don’t venture into these seas and are replaced by species that prefer shallow shelf waters. Large flocks of Terns often dominated by Bridled and Sooty Terns work in with Common Noddy chasing “work ups or bait balls” formed by tuna species that round up the baitfish. Brown Booby Join these feeding frenzies and occasionally a number of “Tube noses” including Wedge-tailed, Streaked, and Hutton’s Shearwater. The odd Wilson’s Storm Petrel join these congregations although in early March many are still making their way north from Antarctica. As we get closer to the mainland “White Terns” dominate the work ups including Common, Roseate and White-winged Black Tern, All three species at this time of year are developing breeding plumage. The shallow water allows Sea Snakes to feed, as they need to breathe fresh air its common to see them on the surface with commonest species being Olive (Golden) Sea Snake and Stokes Sea Snake. The Australian Flatback Turtle are common and occasionally Inshore Bottle-nosed Dolphins will perform a bow ride display for everybody. If we have some luck Indo Pacific Humpback Dolphins will make an appearance often in discreet mobs of four to five animals. Unfortunately they are not prone to bow ride.
Depending on our progress we should arrive in Broome around lunchtime or mid-afternoon and if we arrive a little bit earlier it will probably be a relief for some after a long journey at sea! Inshore waters still provide plenty of entertainment for the wildlife enthusiast.
Weather & sea conditions, tide heights & times, unusual sightings or other factors may affect this itinerary. The Diversity is capable of cruising at speeds of 10 knots enabling us to make detours to investigate birds or cetaceans where necessary without affecting the schedule. Daylight hours are from around 5.30 AM to 6.00 PM.
Ashmore Reef is a National Nature Reserve. A permit from the federal Government is required to go ashore on the three islands and associated sandbars. We have all the necessary permits to land on West Island, East and Middle Islands. Permits are also held for visits to Browse, Adele and The Lacepede Islands required by the Western Australian Government.
Participants will need to arrange their own accommodation in Broome for the nights immediately prior to and following the trip. Although assistance is provided for transfers between your accommodation and the boat, it is essentially your responsibility to provide mobile contact details and advise Kimberley Birdwatching of your accommodation location for transfer arrangements.
Travel insurance and emergency medical evacuation insurance and a current passport is essential for all participants. The passport requirement is to cover a situation where the vessel is required to shelter in Indonesian waters or port due to cyclonic conditions. (This unlikely event has not taken place in over 20 visits by Kimberley Birdwatching) Participants are strongly advised not to book outgoing flights from Broome on the same day that a trip returns to the port of Broome.
Data collected on these trips by the leaders and participants has contributed significantly to our understanding of the birdlife and cetaceans at Ashmore Reef and in the surrounding seas.
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Caleb Beckwith and Suzanne Stein in conversation
'Political Subject'
Caleb Beckwith
Suzanne Stein
Note: Caleb Beckwith and I have been corresponding about poetry, poetics, and poetry community since becoming friends sometime in 2015, shortly after he moved to the Bay Area from Philadelphia. Late in 2018, I suggested we have a more formal conversation about his new book, Political Subject, recently released from Roof Books. Political Subject was begun not long after Caleb made that cross-country move, and the poems, in part, reflect his grappling with local political-aesthetic constructs and the differences between his East Coast and West Coast environments, as well as broader themes of how a poet is or is not an agent of political change. The spare, dry-witted poems take aim at a number of closely held conventions about what makes a poem, or a subject, “political.” Among other things, our conversation unpacks some of the background setting of the poems, touches on whether or not “political” and “conceptual” poetic practices are mutually exclusive, and raises questions about audience, generational and other. I hope you enjoy it. — Suzanne Stein
Suzanne Stein: Caleb, I’ve been saying for several years that your collection Political Subject is my favorite new poetry book “of the year” — i.e., it’s been a multiyear favorite. Finally it’s out, from Roof Books (September 2018). It has a lot of what’s been missing for me in much of recent poetry: a sense of humor, first of all, with an unflinching self- and social awareness, but, refreshingly, without any of the leaden moralizing that seems so popular of late. With wit and precision you deftly let the hot air out of some particularly turgid political (poetry) balloons. The punches the book delivers are dastardly sharp, but the poems are also sympathetic to the objects (and subjects) of their critique. It’s a pleasure to enjoy a laugh along with a twinge of schadenfreude, while still having to swallow that pinch of self-recognition. I want other people to be as excited about this book as I am.
Let’s launch in and talk about the poetical-political climate of the Bay Area and California, in which the poems in this book were written. If you don’t mind talking first about politics by way of process, let’s do that: I seem to think that many of these poems were written and sent to friends in a kind of daily way, making commentary on the scene and scenes around you. Can you say a little bit about that?
Caleb Beckwith: Even with friends, I tend to be pretty insecure about work in process, so I mostly didn’t share drafts until they’d been obsessively edited on my phone during screen time at work, on BART [Bay Area Rapid Transit], wherever. I definitely had certain readers in mind when writing, though, which is why the book’s dedication is an obscure reference to a group chat that still occupies a lot of my daily attention. By the time Political Subject came out, I’d lived in Oakland for about three and a half years. This was long enough to feel at home in the East Bay poetry scene, but not without considerable adjustment. I lived in Philly prior to here, and the friends I naturally gravitated toward mostly had East Coast connections of some sort or another. I can only speak for myself, but I wonder if it was a shared sense of alienation or loving disidentification with West Coast mores over which we bonded.
It wasn’t long after announcing my intention to leave Philly that I heard nearly every stereotype about the Bay you can imagine: that my barely-audible Southern drawl simply “wouldn’t fly,” or that I’d somehow become an overbearing free love evangelist within in a year’s time. Turned out neither of those happened. Despite the Bay’s reputation as a hotbed of inflexible tankie groupthink, I found the scene mostly amenable to my Southern-by-way-of-East-Coast sensibilities. That isn’t to say that there isn’t a “political imperative” in the air here, just that I found the environment mostly hospitable.
Then again, I had also just dropped out of a PhD program that I naively thought would land me an academic job and was now waking up at 4:00 a.m. and riding the day’s first BART train into San Francisco to serve coffee to Googlers biking thirty-nine miles to Mountain View on an “optional” trek with their boss. I was mostly grumpy and exploited for my first year and a half in Oakland, during which time I worked, did my best to make friends, and developed something resembling a class consciousness. It worked — as much as reading Verso books on ten-minute breaks in the basement of a specialty coffee shop can teach one about political economy. So, kind of?
Then came the 2016 election. I remember biking home from my then-new cushy office job as a twenty-nine-year-old editorial assistant, hoping that Clinton didn’t lock things up so early that I wouldn’t be able to enjoy the drama with my friends. Looking back, the sliver of a class consciousness I’d developed working service labor seemed to have dissipated pretty quickly. Despite growing up in what they now call Trump country, I sputtered in disbelief until my partner put me to bed, she being less surprised at the results because her experiences with Occupy, not to mention living in the world as a woman, had taught her to expect the worst from American politics. In the morning, like a lot of folks, I knew I’d been pretty wrong about a lot of things, but I wasn’t quite sure what. Or how. To quote my friend Brian Ang, I sincerely wanted to find a “poetics adequate to the present,” and that meant developing a political consciousness that wouldn’t evaporate as soon as I caught hold of the bottom rung on the professional ladder.
Political Subject was written from January to December 2017, and it more or less documents my engagement with the political and emotional upheaval of that year, which led to a deeper reckoning with West Coast values than I had allowed myself at first. I found myself increasingly interested in the politics of many radical writers, but also alienated by what seemed like a house style for acceptable political writing. Aside from Brian, I didn’t know any political writers whose work looked or sounded at all like mine, and the book was a pretty sincere attempt to see if my interests in so-called innovative writing and internet humor could say something meaningful about our ongoing crisis; or, as a lot of political writing seems to suggest, are these times simply so dire that we don’t have time for anything other than writing one’s convictions in a direct way? I think of the book as experimental in that it very honestly asks this question, though a thing that I really value about the work is that the answer seems to be different depending on whom you ask.
Stein: How would you describe those different takes people offer, with regard to the “experiment” of the book, and what would you say are the assumptions or positions driving those different readings? You do seem to have written successfully through those questions, keeping your own sense of poetics intact, perhaps flavored by the local water. Clearly, although the book was written in, and therefore inevitably responds in many ways to your new environment, its aims are not only within the narrow scope of the Bay Area and its poetics (or California and its plentitudes and foibles). There’s a much broader temperature-taking, for example in this pair:
retrograde[1]
And in the amused-at-the-gallows glance at the always-arriving soul-death brought on by (everyone’s favorite phrase) “late capitalism,” infinitely repeating:
reality augmentation
apocrypha pedal
abiding condescension
technocratic blues
ikea moment
failing upward (70)
belabored
consensus (20)
blows (49)
Still, I wonder if there isn’t something to be described about some of the situations the poems take aim at. For example, these read as highly scene-specific to me:
COMMIE CAMP
unplugged (13)
MUSEUM OF CAPITALISM
critique (65)
Beckwith: Since we’re talking about the actual poems, I should acknowledge Robert Grenier, whose form and to some degree style I’m biting in this book, as well as Craig Dworkin, who transmutes Grenier in a way that I’ve tried to re/undo to some extent. After these two, the book is in a lot of ways straightforward. The process of writing the disjunctive poems was usually as simple as recording 2–6 different pieces of language that struck me, and putting them in an order that worked for my ear. The title usually came after the fact and framed the poems in whatever political discourse seemed to me to be operating in the background of my consciousness that day. The longer, more narrative poems that close the book, on the other hand, usually started with a title, which I’d meditate on until I felt like I had something worth saying on the subject.
There were exceptions, of course, but these were more or less the rules for composition. The title “SHADE,” for example, came after looking back and seeing that I had articulated a pretty sincere reflection on the failures of Occupy, while “MUSEUM OF CAPITALISM” was a direct response to the Museum of Capitalism exhibition held in Oakland last summer. The show asked artists to imagine a future after capitalism by presenting it as a retrospective museum exhibition (much like we might find for past civilizations at your local history museum), but, to my mind, it did little to trouble the commodity form of the art objects it presented. That’s to say I liked a lot of the work a great deal, but felt the conceit was only half-realized.
As for how folks have actually responded: I’ve honestly been shocked that more people haven’t hated it! My close friends would tell you that I worry about seeming like a poetry edgelord or something. A lot of these poems in Political Subject grew out of a dissatisfaction with the self-seriousness with which I usually hear politics discussed, so they do attempt to push boundaries to a certain extent. A thing I went back and forth about, though, was how much I should clarify my intentions (i.e. virtue signaling) and how much to ride with the indeterminacy that I know is the motor of the poems. On the one hand, I’d be super bummed if someone misunderstood the loving nature of the critique I’m trying to level, but, on the other, there’s no misunderstandings in poetry. Only readings. It’s that anxiety, I guess, that leads people to be more straightforward when talking about politics, and I’d be lying if I said I didn’t rein in the work myself once I found out that it was going to be published as a book.
Stein: I would love to hear more about some of the ways you reined the book in! Can I persuade you to say a little more? If not about what got left out of the book, then perhaps the interior monologue or exterior environment that encouraged that withholding. That is, who or what were your ghosts? I agree: it’s plausible that anxiety about how one’s politics will be read if one doesn’t belabor the point leads away from more slippery, more unkempt, political-poetical explorations. More, one could say, nuanced endeavors.
The short poems in Political Subject have a light touch but don’t lack density, and because of their punning quality they are delightfully “slippery” but still open up to deep reading. As I said, I laugh a lot while reading. (“READING // is / it / over / yet?” [36] Or: “RENT CONTROL // the new / life sentence”). Some of them I can’t believe haven’t been done before (“SUPER duper structure”). The title poem (“POLITICAL SUBJECT / matter / of / fact” [66]) is pitch-perfect in the double or triple duty it is doing: that the poems in the book are “matter of fact,” that to be a political subject is a matter of fact, that to write at all is to write a political subject. Too, the different rhythms created by the short and shorter poems; the surprise of the changing stanza structures; that some poems are more dependent on the page than others (“GOBBLE / gobble” [82]), and, finally, that the suite of the last three long poems, which differ in temperament, tone, and structure — for me, all of this goes a long way to kick the dust off of the lethargy with which I often face the glut of politically aggrieved contemporary poetry. (So much chorus with no surprise in the structure of the plot.)
This is an overlong way of getting to my next question, which is to ask you to say a bit more about your background, first I think in performance, and second about your context or “coming up” in and via conceptual poetry practices, and the way those have both informed this book. Perhaps you’ll also want to speak to the various ways you feel “conceptual” practices are perceived or received in the contemporary writing circles you interact with.
Beckwith: My partner Kate Robinson is a book artist with ties to conceptual writing and she’s fond of the maxim that a book object should be the “appropriate container” for the work. To me, this idea rhymes with a broader ethos that I picked up from conceptual writing.
In an interview that we conducted about his publishing project Gauss PDF, Gordon Faylor describes how he categorizes works “by file type” instead of relying on more subjective determinations of genre. When Gordon offered to publish my work Heat Win in 2014, my mind was pretty thoroughly blown after learning that the piece could include audio recordings of the performance element — not as supplementary material, but a part of the project proper. On a similar note, I recall a Poetry and Poetics talk at UPenn featuring the editors of Troll Thread. During the Q&A, I asked why TT works always seemed to experiment with form more than content, and I recall one of the collective reciting that Creeley maxim that I knew all too well — form is never more than an extension of content. I didn’t quite know what to make of this response in the moment, but in time it’s come to rhyme with the lessons that I’ve also learned from Kate and Gordon (among others): just as a poem’s form on the page can be an extension of content, so should its format.
When these poems started coming out regularly, I figured that I’d send them to Gordon/Gauss to see if they’d be a good fit there, or maybe I’d ask Kate to help me self-publish them if I wanted a handmade book object. These were the only two options I’d ever considered, which meant that the first draft of this manuscript assumed a benefit of the doubt afforded to works that circulate primarily among friends or on social media. In my opinion, this benefit of the doubt stopped being a fair ask when the work became a book that entered Roof’s distribution channels. Though publishing with Gauss in particular would have yielded a wider net readership (GaussPDF is online, it’s free, it has an international readership of poets and nonpoets), publishing with Roof struck the former grad student in me as official or institutional in a way that made me feel that I had to first pass as “serious writing” in order to seriously trouble. This meant that I couldn’t rely on my friend network or Gauss’s cultivated, web-fluent readership to necessarily catch certain tone-based references, the bulk of which were rooted in the way politics are talked about online.
This shift in mindset created the “ghosts” you mention, a few of which actually appear in your question because it draws on our email correspondence about an earlier draft of this book. A part of me really loves the dumb new sentence joke at the end of RENT CONTROL, for example, but I felt uncomfortable after realizing that this version effectively compares my position as a white occupant of a rent-controlled apartment in West Oakland to indefinite incarceration. So the last couplet now reads “terms / of surrender”(55), which is an honest description of what it feels like to live in this financially privileged yet liminal space in which I’ll most likely be able to stay in my apartment, but could never consider owning it. I also like the way this final stanza turns prior lines into terms of surrender themselves. Similarly, the superstructure poem now reads “SUPPER / structure”(68), which is a kind of overwrought joke conflating the way food can take over your life if you make most of your meals at home with the totalizing tone of most left cultural analysis. I’m less happy with this revision, to be perfectly honest, but I knew the original poem had to change after it synced in my head with the Super Duper Burger restaurant chain. All of the sudden the poem started feeling like it joked from the perspective of capital, which was just grody.
In general, though, the ghosts haunting this book were some of the easiest punchlines, the lowest hanging fruit, or what I came to call “the pot shots around the edges.” Your affection for the earlier drafts makes me wonder if I sacrificed too much of the playful quality of the work in an attempt to seem grown-up in my first book, but there are a few poems in particular that I’m so happy to have laid to rest that I’ll take an occasional overcorrection over a couple outlier poems that played it too fast and loose in their offhandedness.
Stein: I so much appreciate your directness here about what can happen in the editorial process when one confronts concerns about what a “real” public is. So there are coterie poetics and practices, and coterie in the face of the … expanded coterie. We all negotiate this, of course. I’m also interested, perhaps from a Gen-X perspective (so impatient with what can look like the over-carefulness of our younger counterparts) in what happened with RENT CONTROL. What you don’t say above is that, not only are you unlikely to ever own your place in Oakland (or one like it anywhere in the Bay), but you also are unlikely to be able even to move to another spot nearby — rent control famously, of course, does keep us where we are. So the joke about the “life sentence” played in a lot of ways: it is a kind of trap — which, of course, is simply not remotely like the trauma of incarceration — but you are stuck where you are.
I like the new iteration, it’s more sensitive to the problem, and to the way some of us are enfranchised to make this capitulation to being “stuck”; without what might have been seen as a gross comparison. It was a good joke though, tight and multidirectional. I’d say the jury is still out on whether or not that comparison was as odious as you have worried. (Can I say “the jury is still out” or does that reveal an overt bias of trust in a system of justice that fails and fails again?) I do appreciate the trade-off I see operating here (if not in the poems, per se, but in the ethos underlying them): what we lose in punch is made up for with a kind of expanded vulnerability. And you’re open about your process here in this interview as well, and therefore perhaps more vulnerable, again, to critique.
Beckwith: I’m curious about the generational frame that you bring to the table with regard to “over-carefulness.” Anecdotally speaking, younger millennial readers have been among the most excited by the less-than-reverent treatment of leftist themes, just as Gen-X readers — especially those engaged in more traditional forms of political writing — have understandably been among the most skeptical. The reverse, of course, has also been true, and same goes for level of political engagement. Some of the most politically active folks I know have found the call to laugh at themselves a welcome reprieve from the tone of most political conversations, while other just-as-active folks simply aren’t laughing. For as different as I tried to make this book, ultimately it’s subject to the same rules of taste as any other collection of poetry, which is to say there’s no accounting for it.
I don’t actually know which version of RENT CONTROL is stronger, though the final version is much more in-line with the work I want poems to do these days. That said, in addition to the reading you help unpack — a good place is hard to find, and almost as hard to leave — I think there definitely was some value to taking a very clear jab at language writing in the earlier draft, given my debt of influence. A premise underlying my experiment in this book is that the political project of language writing, to a certain extent, failed. Or, phrased more generously, it only partly succeeded. If the desire was to create a horizontal, nonhierarchical relationship between reader and writer that would open the political imagination to one day manifest similar egalitarian structures in the world, it worked, just not for everyone. And obviously those structures didn’t manifest — neither in the realm of literature nor in politics.
I’m definitely not of the school that thinks disjunctive writing is only accessible to specialized readers, but I do think that anyone working in disjunctive forms has to deal with the fact that this has been a really effective critique. By loading these poems with political jargon and internet language from left meme world, I hoped to marry the affective appeal of language writing’s nonsemantic, so-called “total syntax” with the demand in today’s climate for direct political speech. I also think it’s notable that the final acts of writing this book — revisions — erred toward the style of political writing that this project started out wanting to trouble. Obviously the end product still looks very different from most sanctioned so-called radical poetry, but I ended up being more influenced by that style of work than I expected. I can only hope that this influence runs both ways, making my use of disjunction and humor similarly accessible to a more overtly politically interested readership.
Stein: Let’s talk about those “more narrative” poems you referred to earlier. There’s a sequence of longer poems that close out the book, gathered together under the section title “California,” which are clearly trying to make sense of place and psychology of place. Each of these long poems has a place title that is iconically Californian in some way — DEATH VALLEY, PLANET FITNESS, TREASURE ISLAND, GRASS VALLEY, and then, finally, simply … CALIFORNIA,. The poems share the same ultra-short lines (often only one word, often in couplets) the other poems exhibit, but, as you say, their ways and ends, if not their means, are quite different.
There’s a short-lived privilege of voyeuristic acclimatizing that one experiences when one moves to a new place, that sweet (or discomfiting) spot where the habits and assumptions of the local culture, invisible to the people there, are in plain view. This view fades eventually as one becomes accustomed to them. It strikes me that Political Subject, and especially this last section, is negotiating that transition, is in some ways a form of expatriate literature, looking at this place first through the lens of myth and mystique that the East Coast (especially East Coast intellectual culture) still persists in applying to its view of California. For me to suggest that you’ve “expatriated” isn’t entirely metaphor — the California imaginary is constituted and constructed so otherwise that the warp and woof of its intellect sometimes appears exotic, primitive, absent to the untrained, unsympathetic, or hostile observer. This occasionally includes our East Coast friends! But California works its magic; the sharp (and quite funny) lens of this sequence of poems includes a pleasing admixture of tenderness, affection, and bemused critique. If I’m on the right track here, tell me a little bit more about what these poems are uncovering, and more about the ways they are like and unlike the rest of the book.
Beckwith: I can’t remember a time that I didn’t want to move to California. Growing up, I regularly heard that California would one day separate from the continental US in a tectonic shift of divine justice; that narrative must’ve been what sold me. Come high school, this obsession found me in an online relationship with someone from Los Angeles, visiting a few times and being more over the moon with the place than with the relationship. By the time I found myself actually moving to California, almost a decade later, my naivete was largely still intact, which meant that I had to reckon with it.
“CALIFORNIA,” (comma included) is the final poem in the book, the title of the last suite of poems, and the first poem from the entire book that I wrote. It’s also the stupidest, which is saying something in a book full of punchlines straight out of “post-ironic” memes and “anti-comedy” influence. After reading the poem the other day, a friend grilled me about whether I actually valued the very special place that I now live. I do, but also totally get where they were coming from. That poem, as they say, has no chill.
Maybe it’s because I come from a large family, but I’ve always believed that real intimacy comes from a radical openness — to both positive and negative affects, including but not limited to conflict. The tension with the West Coast in “CALIFORNIA,” comes from a sincere and vulnerable openness to California as both a place and idea, which for me comes as a healthy dose of disidentification. When I sent the book to a former teacher of mine living in Georgia, he remarked that this last poem felt like a bon voyage to my hometown, meaning that it’s also a naive hello.
Whenever anyone asks about this poem, my response has been to double down on the poem’s tone and playfully vouch for my Californian conversion: explaining how my hair is now the longest it’s been since I removed the Jim Morrison poster from my wall, showing off my hemp necklace from the Big Sur jade festival, and explaining how much I’ve benefited from being in therapy for the past year-and-change. I understand how equating these clichés with California might seem like a diss to someone who’s actually from here, but to me these changes have all been part of a deeply healing process of psychic integration over the past few years. I honestly don’t think this process, nor growth, could’ve have happened anywhere else, even if that’s only because of the stereotypes about California that came with me.
When I finally lived here long enough to get over that sense of exoticism that you mention and settle into my surroundings, well, that’s when the rest of the book started to come together. I feel like it’s easy to assume that everyone automatically knows the difference between socialism, communism, and anarchism, for example, or how colloquialisms can be an expression of privilege. I encountered a lot of these ideas for the first time in grad school, and even writing a thesis on queer theory did little to curtail my very real blind spots because that knowledge was theoretical and encountered as an intellectual commodity, rather than a lived set of values. So when I finally got over my initial bout of culture shock and found my understanding of theory interacting with actual practice (both mine and others’), I knew I’d be foolish not to document this process of transformation. Political Subject, as the title suggests, is that record.
1. Caleb Beckwith, Political Subject (New York: Roof Books, 2018), 28.
Marie Buck and Caleb Beckwith in conversation
Angelo Suárez's 'Philippine English' and the language of Conceptual writing
This is provocation
Tom Weatherly with Victor Bockris and Andrew Wylie
Tom Weatherly
Note: Victor Bockris and Andrew Wylie conducted a series of interviews with numerous contemporary American poets during the early 1970s, published in various venues. The playful style of the interview with Weatherly is typical of these. (These interviews were collected for a book to be titled The Life of Poetry in 1973, but the book never appeared in print.
Being in a body
Samantha Giles and Lauren Levin
Samantha Giles
Lauren Levin
Photo by Julia Bloch.
Note: Lauren Levin and Samantha Giles live and work in a loosely affiliated social, political, and aesthetic scene in the Bay Area. Nether Giles or Levin has any academic affiliation, but both have continued to participate in the professionalization of poetry as curators, as publishers, and as people who write books.
Note:Lauren Levin and Samantha Giles live and work in a loosely affiliated social, political, and aesthetic scene in the Bay Area. Nether Giles or Levin has any academic affiliation, but both have continued to participate in the professionalization of poetry as curators, as publishers, and as people who write books.
Sycorax, spirit, and 'Zong!'
An interview with M. NourbeSe Philip
Inadequacy of skin and feather
Jaimie Gusman on 'Anyjar'
Jaimie Gusman
Condemnation, confrontation, remembrance
A conversation with Andrew Levy and Norman Fischer
Norman Fischer
A conversation between poet-grammarians
Serena Chopra
Really doing contemporaneity
David Buuck on 'Tripwire,' poetics, and politics
Aaron Beasley
Jennifer Scappettone and Tonya Foster in conversation, 2010
Tonya Foster
Content suspended
'Pulverized language'
Bill Berkson in conversation with Carlos Villa
Bill Berkson
Inverting helplessness
An interview between Christy Davids and Nikki Wallschlaeger
Christy Davids
'Private Archive'
An interview with Stephen Motika
Brian Teare
'Really, music was the cause of it'
Interview with Russell Atkins, June 2, 2016, at The Grand Pavilion, Cleveland, Ohio
Cameron Williams
Kevin M. F. Platt and Aleksandr Skidan in conversation
Aleksandr Skidan
The transatlantic axis of 'Alembic'
An interview with editors Ken Edwards and Robert Hampson
Sophie Seita
'There should be battles'
Julie Carr and Jennifer Pap interview Leslie Kaplan
Julie Carr
In digital ether
W. Mark Sutherland in correspondence with Dani Spinosa
Dani Spinosa
Explode for small change (PoemTalk #104)
On the central tensions of being
An interview between Christy Davids and Allison Cobb
Allison Cobb
'The personal is environmental'
Gabriel Ojeda-Sague interviews Eric Sneathen and Lauren Levin
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It's twenty years now since I wrote this account, which was published in the Daily Mail, but it is every bit as fresh in my mind today. To accompany it, I had a photograph taken with an enormous white cockatoo sitting on my arm!
HOW I BEAT MY TERROR OF BIRDS
'How old are you?' asked the hypnotherapist. 'I'm two.' My voice sounded childish. 'What are you wearing?' 'My blue coat.'
I wasn't convinced I was reliving this: I've seen photographs of myself wearing that coat. Then I heard myself add, with a giggle: 'I'm not wearing my bonnet. Mummy makes me wear it because of my bad ear, but Daddy lets me take it off.'
That was disconcerting. It sounded like a long-forgotten truth. I honestly didn't know where it had come from.
I was in regression therapy, trying to rid myself of a phobia that had haunted me for as long as I could remember.
I fed birds in winter, adored my daughter's cockatiel and my mother's budgie, but the prospect of touching them or of them touching me turned me into a gibbering idiot.
As a child I woke sobbing from nightmares, paralysed by the terrible conviction that if I moved I would encounter … feathers. I was once sick when I walked into a butcher's shop and found myself surrounded by unplucked Christmas turkeys. I couldn't touch a picture of a bird; I couldn't even look at one.
As I grew up the nightmares came less often but the terror remained, blind and unreasoning. And the fear of knowing that I would lose total control if suddenly faced with my phobia only made things worse.
Once, I found a dead bird which must have come down the chimney, and flipped completely. All the use went out of my legs, I was screaming, hitting out blindly at my husband as he tried to comfort me. For hours afterwards I snatched my hand away from everything I touched as if it, too, had become that bird.
I was panicked by the flutter of wings, but it was the sight of a dead bird that touched the depths of my horror and brought the most extreme reaction, and especially a black bird.
I consulted a local hypnotherapist, John Hudson, who said my terror was probably rooted in something that had happened when I was young. If I could remember it as an adult, he said, there would be no phobia.
Often people think they recall the traumatic incident which was to blame, but almost certainly what they are remembering is the earliest occasion on which they were confronted with the trigger. The true cause is buried deep, resulting in a reaction irrational to an adult, yet impossible to control because subconsciously we are programmed with the emotional response of a child. What we had to do was find the incident and allow me to relive it as a grown woman.
My mother always said my phobia began when I was frightened by a pheasant while walking in the woods with my father. But this didn't explain why I was more afraid of dead birds than live ones, especially black birds.
My hypnotherapist put me into a light trance, having attached an electrical skin resistance meter (the old fashioned lie detector). I felt relaxed and in control. I didn't believe I'd been hypnotised at all and , when I began answering his questions, I was convinced my answers were coming from a desire to co-operate.
He persuaded me to describe the scene. I was in the wood. It was a bright, cold Sunday morning. My father was wheeling the pushchair along a path. I was running on ahead. Then, nothing.
'A bird flies up in front of you,' the hypnotherapist said. 'It startles you, but it won't hurt you. There's nothing to be afraid of.'
But something was desperately wrong. Suddenly I was crying and shaking. The hyphotherapist told me later the monitor had shot off the top of the scale.
'I don't think we've reached the root of the problem,' he said. 'We need to try again.'
At home, I kept remembering the session, and something more. It was as if I was watching a photograph develop in my mind, snatches of something I could almost see.
A week later the hypnotherapist repeated the procedure. The barrier – apprehension – was still there, blocking my memory.
This time I had a hazy impression of branches cracking in a tangle of trees. Someone was there.
'I am going to snap my fingers,' my hypnotherapist said. 'When I do, you'll remember what happened.' He snapped his fingers. Suddenly I heard the crack of gun shot. And then a violent fluttering in the undergrowth beside me and a bird, large, black and broken, anguished in its death throes, at my feet.
I was screaming. And a childish voice sobbed: 'It's dead! I don't want it to be dead!'
Tears were streaming down my face. At last I had remembered the horrific incident which had been buried deep in my subconscious.
My parents had no doubt encouraged me to forget. And the bottled-up horror had remained with me, out of reach, but overwhelmingly powerful.
The hypnotherapist advised me my fear may not go all at once. 'You have a lifetime of terror to overcome. But now you know the root cause you will soon learn you don't have to be afraid.'
I could hardly believe it. As I left his surgery I saw a pigeon on the pavement and decided to put it to the test. I couldn't bring myself to walk close enough to make it fly, I was tense and nervous. But my skin didn't crawl any more.
Today, my phobia is totally cured. I no longer fear the flutter of wings which in my experience had preceded a horrible death. And my memories of that long-ago have gradually developed into a clear photograph.
I remember just what it was like to be a child, but I remember with the understanding of an adult. Hypnotic regression exorcised my demons and opened a new world for me. And my freedom from fear is wonderful.
I was photographed with a cockatoo on my arm!
It's twenty years now ...
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VIDEO: The ultimate AE86 track battle
Posted on January 3, 2017 by Ben Hsu
In 2005, to commemorate volume number 86, Hot Version invited Japan’s top AE86 to Tsukuba Circuit to lay down some lap times. This era was the peak of innovation for AE86 tuning with the TRD N2 Corolla Levin, driven by Keiichi Tsuchiya, as perhaps the poster child of peak Hachiroku modding.
It’s all captured on video, with 9,500 rpm Toyota 4A-GEs turning in the same one-minute lap times as a Porsche 911 GT3 or an R34 Nissan Skyline GT-R. Famed demo cars from tuners such as NSK, Tec-Arts, Brig Cool Max, KMS Wood Village and Annex μ can be seen in all their glory. These days, AE86s are much more likely to be built as resto-mods with stock-appearing bodywork, so this is likely an era never to be repeated again. Witness it in all its high-revving glory.
tagged: ae86, corolla, corolla levin, hachiroku, hot version, sprinter trueno, toyota, Tsukuba Circuit.
5 Responses to VIDEO: The ultimate AE86 track battle
JDMjunkies.ch said:
aaah, good old times 🙂
Ant said:
Not been a fan of the recent trend for wide arches on cars. But the form/function of an AE86 in wide-arched N2 spec… that’s something else entirely.
Power Tryp said:
There’s a HUGE difference when the widened body work is for actual track use by teams attempting to gain an edge as opposed to a show car that someone just wants to look more aggressive.
Case in point of our modern era is John Lazorack’s Starion.
http://lazorackmotorsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13.jpg
Michael said:
This “reboot” AE86 N2 series is still running (& is AWESOME!!!). Is pretty much a yearly thing, & it has been a support race for some other series on other tracks around Japan.
Please see link to the current issues of Hot Version;
http://www.hot-version.jp/
Tsuchiya-san’s car has been through heaps more development, as has all of the other workshop & privateer cars. Orido-san, Taniguchi-san, & heaps of other Pro (& amateur) drivers participate.
Nothing like the sound of a whole field of 5AG & 7AG Hachis screamin’ ’round (usually fairly sideways!) Tsukuba’s last turn…………..pure heaven!!!!! :):):):):):)
on January 3, 2017 at 11:26 pm
Mark Newton-John said:
I remember seeing from TRD that they preferred the coupe over the liftback because they were lighter. The N2 flares from TRD were similar the the body kits that were available to the KP61 Starlets.
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What are the radio show & network all about?
Jeff Rense hosts a radio show called The Jeff Rense Program. He describes his show as “genuine journalism, intellect, reason, care and concern, and true inquiry” and his guests as a “unique and world-renowned core of truly memorable journalists, authors and researchers” that are the “best of the best.” Topics covered include geopolitical analysis, UFOs and the paranormal and health and environmental issues.[1]
As with Rense’s website, his radio show has a strong alarmist and defeatist slant.
The show can be listened to free on a 16k live feed and immediately following this, on a refeed. Paid subscribers have access to higher-quality feeds, as well as to archives of the show.
The internet-based Rense Radio Network, also run by Rense, has a handful of hosts that together provide 45 hours per week of live content, the remainder of the schedule being padded out with repeats.
Rense Radio–through both its hosts and guests–has been accused of being anti-Jewish, racist, white-Supremacist, sexist and homophobic; of promoting hatred; and of defending Holocaust denial or “revisionism.”
Is there any truth to these accusations? While no one denies their right to free speech, are guests and hosts who appear on the Rense Radio network respectful of people who are of a different race, religion or sexual orientation? Do they have honesty and integrity, and do they represent themselves and their backgrounds truthfully? Just as they hold the leaders of our countries and industries to high standards, so too should their listeners hold them–the leaders of the Truth Movement–to the same standard.
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[1] About Jeff Rense. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
3 Responses to “What are the radio show & network all about?”
One feels like shooting oneself after any perusal of that website. The “radio show” amounts to: ‘it’s all over, head for the hills’, and there is no way to contact this ‘host’ to object, comment or suggest, regarding anything, at all.
This psychic swamp is a perilous mix of old-school perpetual alarmists, opportunists and dreadful, drooling, depressing sycophants, with no solutions, hope or actual insight: only inappropriate, hopeless ‘doom and gloom’.
Wear hip-boots, if you go there. And hold your nose.
chiliboots needs to learn to let his feelings out. Don’t bottle it up, express your opinion. Ned. ( Besides, as 3CPO says “We’re all doomed”.)
tulip says:
No one including Makow makes or ever will make a genuine attempt to expose, pursue, arrest, try and convict the fact of all its breadth and detail of the octopus of freemasonry which is running the world, let alone expose its apparatus, machinations and incantations and their effect(s) on the whole world.
Rense does a fair job of helping us all tread water in a sea of disinformation. He knows the boundaries….becoming a genuine truth teller is difficult if not impossible in todays world. For one Google will investigate then drop you like a hot potato. If you still try to tell the world whats going on they will send a hit team out to assassinate you…. if that fails you sadly soon come to the crushing realization that people aren’t interested in the truth anyway……you go on, praying for an answer, and hoping even just one person, just one, wakes up… Nothing.
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ADU page in African Birdlife, September–October 2014
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Open 8/09/10 10:19:09 pm • Views: 1,222
A little learning is a dang’rous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring;
And drinking largely sobers us again.
— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, Part II
Open Thread Pope Quote
1 Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:27:21pm
Brilliant writer, Alexander Pope. And he was a good friend of Sir Isaac Newton.
2 albusteve Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:32:24pm
re: #1 Dark_Falcon
AC/DC said the same thing...
jus sayin
3 watching you tiny alien kittens are Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:49:16pm
Wow, the anti-muslim/Islam hate machine is really gaining ground, even most of the comments on "Newsvine" at MSNBC are appallingly racist/islamophobic now.
So has the official Democratic slogan been changed from "Blame everything on Bush" to "Blame everything on Islam" yet? Just wondering because I think you guys are letting your people get suckered into changing the "message" by the likes of Glenn Beck and his super fatso drug addict cohort...
5 avanti Mon, Aug 9, 2010 11:13:26pm
Hoops for Troops: Obama Plays Ball with LeBron James, Dwayne Wade for wounded warriors.
Wait, it's a horrible thing according to the comments on Big Government, here's two:
"What, couldn't find a white person in America to entertain the white volunteer army?"
"A publicity stunt of the lowest order, by Obama! What next? playing wheelchair basketball? Obama has no scruples or morals imo. A president who is possibly allowing Military votes to be EXCLUDED! from the November elections! should be questioned on tape, by Military officials. Expose him for the phoney that he is! The results should be published in every VETERANS HOSPITAL! and Military Base in the world!
Beauvais Hudson Post, and all Veterans Associations should rise up and investigate Obama's actions toward the military! They will be surprised at what they find! See Father_moray's post above! Don't let Obama use you for a photo opportunity! "
re: #5 avanti
crazy, cherry picked comments from other blogs is old, stale and boring....why degrage LGF into a cheezy gossip column?
7 freetoken Mon, Aug 9, 2010 11:19:38pm
This is one of the sad and infuriating things about the hate machine: they've become addicted. The chemical/emotional changes when anger is aroused is real and some find a sort of thrill or meaning in it.
Empty lives turning towards stupid lies.
8 tnguitarist Mon, Aug 9, 2010 11:27:01pm
Misleading ad peddled by scared people.
9 SanFranciscoZionist Mon, Aug 9, 2010 11:27:35pm
The white volunteer army? I thought this was the actual army they were playing for.
//good Lord
10 darthstar Mon, Aug 9, 2010 11:31:27pm
I went to a Dead show tonight and a ballgame broke out...good times, good times indeed.
11 tnguitarist Mon, Aug 9, 2010 11:34:36pm
God, I love baseball.
12 albusteve Mon, Aug 9, 2010 11:35:33pm
re: #7 freetoken
plenty of evidence of that notion, right here
re: #11 tnguitarist
God, I love football
re: #13 albusteve
That, too. Baseball has a special place in my heart, though.
When football players can play 160 games in a season, give me a call.
16 cliffster Mon, Aug 9, 2010 11:38:36pm
God, I love badminton.
re: #16 cliffster
fag.
re: #17 darthstar
Who said anything about tennis?//
right, the baseball season is too long, but a bunch of sissy's can play that number of games if they can get their nails done on their days off...
wOOt!!
that's cool...I used to feel that way myself...played a lot of ball too, a great game to play...watching on TV, not so much
ever play it?...a hell of a game to play
Okay...here's the rundown on tonight's Jerry Garcia memorial game:
1. Grateful Dead cover band Cryptical played Shakedown Street ant Touch of Grey before the game. (I know the bass player for that band...nice fellow)
2. Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, and one other person (can't remember who) sang the national anthem together...very well done, and of course, with a large crowd hanging on every note.
3. Lots of video clips of Jerry talking about San Francisco (his home), and live clips of different shows between innings.
4. 7th inning stretch was led by Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzman (two drummers, you can't go wrong with two drummers). With the bobble heads, they distributed kazoos, so we all played "Take Me Out To the Ballgame" on our kazoos to get into the Guinness book of World Records (my second entry into the Guinness World Records book jamming with Mickey - last time was setting the record for world's largest drum circle [4100 drummers] at the Earthdance Music festival at the Hog Farm in Laytonville, CA - an old hippie commune).
5. Oh, and the Giants won in 11 innings.
Yes, and yes, it is a hell of a game, hence the sarc tag.
for years I got into all sorts of net games...racketball is a blast and squash, no net, is another blast...a rich friend of mine had a full blown squash court behind his garage
If you've ever been to a baseball game, they have signs everywhere warning you that objects enter the stands. Why people yak away and don't pay attention is beyond me. I wonder if this guy was paying attention?
sounds pretty cool
aluminum bats!
They should go back to all ash bats. Maple is dangerous.
there isn't any left
I'm out like Bret Favre
Ash? I've got a barn full. Bonds made the maple bats popular.
So.....you'll be right back?
34 freetoken Mon, Aug 9, 2010 11:58:00pm
Speaking of going back... all the way to 1937 with the song "Madiana" sung by Noriko Awaya:
These old recordings are a type of mixed metaphor.
Falzon is seeking unspecified damages from the team, the league, Rawlings-brand bat maker the Jarden Corp. and two players: Mets second baseman Luis Castillo, who was wielding the bat, and then-Mets catcher Ramon Castro, who owned it, according to the lawsuits.
In other words, "Falzon had something bad happen to him and is trying to make some cash on it, from whoever might give it to him" Sickening.
night yall
37 tnguitarist Tue, Aug 10, 2010 12:00:16am
Like I said, there are warnings everywhere. If he was watching, he would probably have seen the bat.
38 freetoken Tue, Aug 10, 2010 12:49:41am
39 Cato the Elder Tue, Aug 10, 2010 12:51:14am
Boast not my Fall (he cry'd) insulting Foe!
Thou by some other shalt be laid as low.
Nor think, to die dejects my lofty Mind;
All that I dread, is leaving you behind!
Rather than so, ah let me still survive,
And burn in Cupid's Flames, — but burn alive.
--Pope, The Rape of the Lock
A superb song to which to dance:
41 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Aug 10, 2010 1:38:52am
re: #8 tnguitarist
apparently utilizing low-poly models from a Sega Saturn game to represent towering evil megamosque
God I love The Atomic Bitchwax
43 lazardo Tue, Aug 10, 2010 2:45:12am
I wish I were Australian. ):
44 The Curmudgeon Tue, Aug 10, 2010 3:04:48am
I'm still here, but I'm avoiding the political threads. I've got quite enough cyber-action just by opposing the creationists-- more than enough. This looks like a non-controversial thread. Hi, y'all.
45 Wozza Matter? Tue, Aug 10, 2010 3:28:48am
re: #44 The Curmudgeon
46 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Tue, Aug 10, 2010 4:05:48am
Morning Lizardim. Did I miss any hot troll action after I left yesterday morning? Long meetings tend to be bad for keeping up with the flow, so I usually disappear from the thread if things run too late.
re: #46 thedopefishlives
stalker troll came by earlier in one of the downstairs threads.
re: #47 wozzablog
I always miss the good stuff.
49 Darth Vader Gargoyle Tue, Aug 10, 2010 4:29:33am
Good Morning Lizards!
Regarding the football versus baseball issue:
A buddy of mine (a triathelete) had a theory about sports. If you can use a tobacco product while participating in an activity and have it not affect your performance, it isn't a real sport.
So, football wins!
re: #49 rwdflynavy
And Go Cowboys! America's Team!!!
it wasn't purdy.
my GF is a cowboys fan........... but being brought up in a Redskins household the Dolphins were as far as i got away.
Parents are yet to meet the GF - haven't told dad the bad news about her yet :p
Troll droppings usually aren't, but meh. Sometimes it provides entertainment.
54 DaddyG Tue, Aug 10, 2010 4:39:29am
re: #42 WindUpBird
blockquote>
They have a very old school sound. Nothing says metal like a Peavey amp turned up to "distort".
Sure- come in here and stir things up with your radical non-controversy stance. //
My wife grew up with a rabid Redskins fan for a father. He had 2 girls and dressed them in Redskins stuff from the time they were babies (boys stuff as they didn't have girls Redskins stuff in the 70's). This plan backfired and she is a die hard Cowboys fan.
The big thing in my family has always been college football, rather than professional football. (Probably an outgrowth of not having an actual team to root for until the Colts' rise to power in the last 10 years.) What's interesting is, in my extended family, half of them are Indiana Hoosiers, and half are Michigan Wolverines. It makes for some VERY interesting family get-togethers.
58 Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Aug 10, 2010 4:50:08am
Yay! Chick Cowboy's fans are the hottest.
re: #58 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
my gf definitely is *sigh*
Oh, Gawd.
LGF has people who have been in Drum Circles?
"What in the wild, wild word of sports is a-going on here!?"
61 RogueOne Tue, Aug 10, 2010 4:55:34am
Morning All.
re: #61 RogueOne
Morning Rogue.
What the hell is that supposed to mean?
4chan made the WaPo:
4chan users seize Internet's power for mass disruptions
[Link: www.washingtonpost.com...]
Mornin!
66 Shiplord Kirel Tue, Aug 10, 2010 5:07:01am
I wasn't around last night, so I just had my first opportunity to read the new entries.
I have to say that the pages on Conservapedia's loathsome and stupid attempt to deny relativity came as close to making me physically ill as anything I have ever read here. In a way, this is surprising, since we have had some seriously appalling items come across these pages in the past nine years.
Somehow, though, the physical atrocities of the terrorists do not strike as deeply as the frontal assault on the truth being waged today in the name of piety and godliness. This is obscene, fundamentally indecent in a way that no mere outrage against human bodies could equal. This might be because ideas survive their originators, where bodies do not. To attack a noble achievement of intellect is an offense against the human heritage; a threat to our collective, rather than just our individual, survival.
God damn these infernal quacks and their satanic lies.
67 MandyManners Tue, Aug 10, 2010 5:18:12am
re: #66 Shiplord Kirel
Which group chops off heads?
You sum it up very well - we are *still* fighting for the enlightenment.
Somehow, though, the physical atrocities of the terrorists do not strike as deeply as the frontal assault on the truth being waged today in the name of piety and godliness.
Holy hyperbole, Batman!
it's worth occasional over statement - the people who want to drag us back from sciences and the advances in equality we have made are the same who were burning witches at the stake 300 years ago - we need to stop them from taking the level of conciousness back to when all that was ok.
71 Achilles Tang Tue, Aug 10, 2010 5:25:06am
Heh; drinking largely or largely sobers, that is the question.
haha yeah, actually. But then again, drummers tend to find themselves in drum circles now and again
re: #67 MandyManners
Well, in all fairness to Kirel, I'm sure the neo-Luddites would love to get their hands on enough power to be able to kill people that disagree with them.
Which groups support and hide killers of doctors; admittedly using guns instead of knives?
"It's a really super way to express your masculinity in a nurturing all male environment."
"And that's important, especially today, as we men wrestle with our manhood"
re: #74 Naso Tang
Not watched the news this week?
[Link: www.bbc.co.uk...]
How is that hyperbole, FBV? I am just saying that the attack on science bothers in ways that the terrorists do not. I've seen the terrorists in action. It is no fun to be caught in an ambush in Iraq but I definitely know what to do with terrorists when they come within range. In a way, as terrifying as it is, this is almost comfortingly straightforward at a psychological level. I don't know what to do to fight off the luddites, not with the same level of certainty at any rate.
They aren't chopping off heads just yet but we can't afford to wait until their efforts reach their full effect, an effect that has fully matched any horror in history when it went unopposed in the past.
As much as people do not want to believe it; Cotton Mather is dead.
I weigh more than a duck anyway.
Yes of course I have, but you know what my point was.
But his spirit, if not his intellect, marches on.
I'll take your word for that one.
I know some serious Evangelicals... they have the beliefs you appear to fear.
However, someone in their group says, "Hey, let's chop off that heretic's head!", rest of group says (I'm paraphrasing), "Have you lost your fucking mind?!"
Gotta git to work.
See ya, slackers!
Shouldn't this be considered a form of "rendition"?
U.S. Urges Allies to Crack Down on WikiLeaks
[Link: www.thedailybeast.com...]
The Obama administration has asked Britain, Germany, Australia, and other allies to consider criminal charges against Julian Assange for his Afghan war leaks. Philip Shenon reports.
We can't charge them here so we're asking someone else to pick his ass up? I'm not sure how I feel about that.
they're already banning books, burning books, murdering doctors, blowing up clinics and rewriting school curriculum's.
Where were the people dancing in the streets celebrating the murders?
I'll stop... this will go absolutely nowhere.
We were talking about the JetBlue guy last night. I didn't read until this morning that he took 2 beers with him when he bailed out of the airplane. Best walkout ever!
The LGF cookbook finally arrived at my house. O: Had to tell my mom it was from me because it was billed to me but addressed to her and she got to it before I did.
you don't need streets when you have internet messageboards of thousands of people rejoicing.
There are networks of people who blow up clinics - they shelter each other, they are not on their own when they do things, whether their names are raised up high in the streets or not.
These people have supporters - Randall Terry is given mass (old) media platforms and he has advocated murder and terrorism openly.
You forgot to mention that it's never been this bad.
DADT is about to go out the window, a judge just tossed Prop. 8, gay marriage is already legal in a few states (and it's spreading), legal marijuana can be bought in a dozen states, we elected a bi-racial president, people like Condi Rice and Hillary Clinton have decimated the glass ceiling, etc., etc., etc....... Sure, we're not perfect and we have our theocratic crazies here but they aren't taking over and compared to the crazy theocrats elsewhere, they're pretty tame. Life isn't that bad.
DADT is about to go out the window, a judge just tossed Prop. 8, gay marriage is already legal in a few states (and it's spreading), legal marijuana can be bought in a dozen states, we elected a bi-racial president, people like Condi Rice and Hillary Clinton have decimated the glass ceiling, etc., etc., etc... Sure, we're not perfect and we have our theocratic crazies here but they aren't taking over and compared to the crazy theocrats elsewhere, they're pretty tame. Life isn't that bad.
All we're missing is an American Sex Party.
I'm not making that link up.
We know this - but the people apt to banning Harry Potter books and gunning down doctors do not - for them it has never been this bad.
re: #92 laZardo
There's a platform I can definitely get behind.
Good idea :)
Well, they're a party that deserves their shot at being on top.
Has the Harry Potter book banning gotten out of control or has it been an overblown controversy? There are always going to be kooks out there but they aren't taking over, they aren't gaining prominence, and they aren't knocking on my door trying to burn my shit. They're not just a minority but an extreme minority in this country. In terms of social liberties we've been moving steadily left for the last 50 years. Life is getting better, not worse.
I'm normally against book bannings, but Twilight should be...quietly put out of print.
/hint hint, nudge nudge
If you're worried about our liberties being taken away you should look no further than our own government. If you want someone to be afraid of, try your local politicians and police force.
100 RogueOne Tue, Aug 10, 2010 6:05:13am
CO primary day. This should be fun.
If Bennett doesn't beat Romanoff what does that say about the political strength of the president? And if romanoff wins how big will the Clinton victory cigar be?
102 Achilles Tang Tue, Aug 10, 2010 6:09:41am
You are correct, the "street" support for what we call religious extremism is greater in Islam than in the various forms of Christianity. The individual acts and their self justifications are however perfectly comparable, which is the only point being made when raised.
re: #102 Naso Tang
I'll agree. My only point is that "crazy" is relative and life isn't as bad as people want to make it. Life is pretty good and getting better. People need to turn off the cable news programming and sit back and enjoy themselves once in awhile. All that cable angst programming is harmful to the nations psyche.
BBIAB
105 laZardo Tue, Aug 10, 2010 6:13:45am
In all seriousness, they don't even need to go against the Constitution.
106 cliffster Tue, Aug 10, 2010 6:14:16am
Power walking looks alot like people who have taken to many laxatives,and just realized they ain't gonna make it home.
re: #103 RogueOne
And don't forget to not pay attention to the weather.
Octopus learns to open a jar
110 Wozza Matter? Tue, Aug 10, 2010 6:24:13am
re: #109 cliffster
We're all doomed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
111 Stanghazi Tue, Aug 10, 2010 6:24:34am
Smartest creatures. Very very cool.
112 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Tue, Aug 10, 2010 6:25:32am
Biology students will take over the world.
Wait till they breed with the Immortal Jellyfish.
114 Spare O'Lake Tue, Aug 10, 2010 6:32:39am
Every religion is plagued by some extremists to some extent, however one must be careful to define the term.
"Religious extremism" as in violence, misogyny, intimidation and imposition of one's own views and beliefs on others...this is the enemy of liberty regardless of which religion it comes from.
"Street support" as in active support or even passive "wink-wink" support for the extremists is just as vile and subversive as the extremists are. Chickenshit failure to stand up to the extremists and fight them comes a close second.
re: #114 Spare O'Lake
Quit being reasonable - i'm not used to it,
116 Varek Raith Tue, Aug 10, 2010 6:46:26am
117 NJDhockeyfan Tue, Aug 10, 2010 6:46:57am
Good morning lizards
re: #116 Varek Raith
re: #117 NJDhockeyfan
Morning, kids.
119 garhighway Tue, Aug 10, 2010 6:48:03am
Which group is willing to trade the health of the planet (and millions of lives) so they can have a better third quarter?
120 lawhawk Tue, Aug 10, 2010 6:48:36am
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area, where a jetBlue flight attendant had his Network moment before storming off a plane and deploying the emergency chute last night. Passengers can be an unruly bunch, but this attendant's buttons were pushed once too often.
re: #120 lawhawk
I know it is bad form to draw amusement from someone else's misfortune, but this really is funny.
However, I have been on lots of flights where people jump up too early so they can get a 5 second advantage in deplaning, so I am sympathetic to the flight attendant. But exiting via the emergency slide? Epic.
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123 Soap_Man Tue, Aug 10, 2010 6:52:37am
The Mean World Syndrome, I believe it is called. News makes people think the world is meaner, more violent and more dangerous than it really.
For example, almost everybody will guess way too high when you ask them how many people are murdered every year. (It's 16k and change, according to the FBI's most recent numbers.)
re: #119 garhighway
the eeeeebil corporashuns?
I don't envy that guy his job. I try my hardest to be civil and polite with service personnel, simply because of the large quantity of unruly a--holes that they have to deal with on a regular basis.
re: #124 wozzablog
the eeebil corporashuns?
The oil and coal industries and their lackeys.
They are the ones funding the deniers. You OK with that? You find it acceptable?
You mean the same ones that when combined with agribusinesses are pushing biofuels, which increase food costs, and fuel costs, and do nothing to actually reduce emissions?
But the updinger caught the reference.
That issue is blanket idiocy in pursuit of gub'mint subsidy and "green credentials" provided by people who don't know what they are talking about.
Reports are indicating that former US Senator Ted Stevens may have been aboard the plane that crashed with 8 aboard in Alaska.
A plane believed to be carrying eight people, including former Sen. Ted Stevens, crashed in southwest Alaska and rescue crews were trying to reach the wreckage early Tuesday, authorities said.
Alaska National Guard spokesman Maj. Guy Hayes said there were possible fatalities. Five good Samaritans were on scene early Tuesday helping the crash victims, he said. It was unclear how they reached the site.
A U.S. government official told The Associated Press that Alaska authorities have been told the former longtime Republican senator is among several passengers on the plane. The official, who spoke on grounds of anonymity, says Stevens' condition is unknown.
The federal official declined to be publicly identified because the crash response and investigation are under way.
I agree: most biofuels are simply a subsidy to the agribusiness sector. And every four years every presidential candidate in both parties has to go to Iowa to swear fealty to that industry. So I don't see much change there anytime soon.
But on an order of magnitude basis, the oil/coal guys will be responsible for much more damage if they are successful in preventing any sort of concerted action on AGW.
132 Interesting Times Tue, Aug 10, 2010 7:04:41am
I most certainly did :)
But on an order of magnitude basis, the oil/coal guys will be are responsible for much more damage if they are since they've been very successful in preventing any sort of concerted action on AGW.
Fixed - see forest fires, Russia and floods, Pakistan and China :(
133 albusteve Tue, Aug 10, 2010 7:06:24am
The Increasingly Self-Pitying Obama White House
What we are seeing, I think, is a group of supremely arrogant people humbled by events. They are turning out to be a good deal more incompetent than they (and many Americans) ever imagined. They see impending political doom in the form of the midterm elections. Yet this is not leading them toward any apparent serious self-reflection; rather, they are engaging in an extraordinary degree of whining, finger-pointing, and self-indulgence.
[Link: www.commentarymagazine.com...]
Just got informed by my mother that she actually found her first perusal of the cookbook a great way to pass the time at the doctor's while waiting to get her varicose veins checked.
D'awww.
Stealth expert guilty of selling secrets to China
A former B-2 bomber engineer who marketed and sold his stealth expertise to China is facing life in a federal prison following his conviction for bartering U.S. military secrets.
Noshir Gowadia, 66, was found guilty Monday on charges that he designed a cruise missile component for China and pocketed at least $110,000, which he allegedly used to help pay a $15,000-a-month mortgage on a multimillion-dollar oceanview home he built on Maui's north shore.
Prosecutors said Gowadia revealed classified information to foreign powers at least twice: during a PowerPoint presentation on his cruise missile technology, and when he showed the technology's effectiveness by comparing it to American air-to-air missiles.
Levi Johnston Running for Wasilla Mayor
“[Levi] will give us a real inside look into who he is as a father, a skilled hunter, an avid dirt biker, and his journey down the road of small-town politics… right after he gets his high school diploma,” the production company told Variety.
re: #136 Soap_Man
That's almost as interesting as Wyclef Jean running for President of Haiti.
Skip the facepalm - go right to the queen mother of idiot responses, the Double Facepalm.
re: #137 laZardo
Hopefully Jean can do better running a country than he could run his own charity. Haiti is such a mess that I doubt Jean will be successful (that is if he even qualifies for the ballot). It's like he's shown any kind of organizational skills or the wherewithal to get anything done on the magnitude involved.
140 Gus Tue, Aug 10, 2010 7:17:54am
For a reality show! Ah yes. American exceptionalism at its best.
If a crack smoking idiot can become mayor in Washington DC, anyone can become mayor some where.
142 Vicious Babushka Tue, Aug 10, 2010 7:19:46am
Why not Detroit? He plays hockey.
Social Lesbianism!
Please forward any complaints to Billy Bob Neck.
You leave Marion out of this!
The man's just keeping him down!
Da bitch done set him up!
147 Our Precious Bodily Fluids Tue, Aug 10, 2010 7:32:17am
Intellectual juggernaut Andy Schlafly brings to light the fact that Einstein's Theory of Relativity is part of the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
He's gotta be right. Einstein introduced Relativity in 1915, and the Russian revolution was only 2 years later. COINCIDENCE??
Teachers unions cash in at expense of food stamp recipients
House members return to Washington this week for a special session that will include a vote on a $26.1 billion spending package intended partially to keep states from laying off teachers, a move some critics have called a “bailout for teachers unions.”
The Senate last week passed their own version of the bill, which cuts $12 billion beginning in 2014 from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance, or “food stamps,” program
to help make the measure deficit neutral. Anti-hunger advocates and conservatives alike decried the move.
looks like the dems learned their lesson with regard to the last unemployment extention, paying for the benefit with spending cuts...but this is obscene...altho it has not passed yet
[Link: dailycaller.com...]
re: #147 negativ
The interesting part is that Einstein actually was a socialist. Though maybe if he had ended up becoming President of Israel than they'd have a real freaking laser shield by now. ):
Theories that don't produce anything useful are often a waste of time, or simply false - Andrew Shlafly
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Fiber optics.
Someone discovered it long before we knew what the hell to do with it.
Our tax dollars hard at work...
Feds funding Ground Zero imam's Mideast trip
The imam behind a plan to build a mosque near Ground Zero is set to depart on a multi-country jaunt to the Middle East funded by the State Department -- raising concerns that taxpayers may be helping him with the controversial project's $100 million fund-raising goal.
Feisal Abdul Rauf is taking the publicly funded trip to foster "greater understanding" about Islam and Muslim communities in the United States, the State Department confirmed yesterday.
Nontroversey.
Former NASA head Sean O'Keefe was on the plane that crashed in Alaska, according to EADS North America, where he is the chief executive officer. There was no word on his fate.
Ooo! New York Post!
Hitchens slams demagoguery over the Cordoba Center proposal.
how do you feel about your tax money funding state and local unions?
re: #158 albusteve
It sucks, truth be told.
More info here, including that former Sen. Stevens was on board. No word on survivors.
Federal workers earning double their private counterparts
At a time when workers' pay and benefits have stagnated, federal employees' average compensation has grown to more than double what private sector workers earn, a USA TODAY analysis finds.
Federal workers have been awarded bigger average pay and benefit increases than private employees for nine years in a row. The compensation gap between federal and private workers has doubled in the past decade.
Fedzilla, gorging itself
[Link: www.usatoday.com...]
When you say "funding state and local unions", do you mean the feds are actually cutting checks to unions, or that they are cutting checks to local governments to pay employees?
Well. Too early in the morning for the toxic anti-government rage.
Back to work I go.
I'm out.
Later gators.
Tea Party!!11ty
Iran plans help to Lebanon army, as U.S. blocks aid
Iran has offered support to Lebanon's army, a week after a deadly cross-border clash between Lebanon and Israel which prompted U.S. lawmakers to block funding to the Lebanese military.
The offer from Iran, which supports Lebanon's militant Shi'ite group Hezbollah, could fuel Western concern that Tehran is increasing its influence near Israel's northern border.
Israel said it had complained to Washington and Paris about funds to the Lebanese army after a skirmish left two Lebanese soldiers, a Lebanese journalist and a senior Israeli officer dead in the worst border violence since a 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas.
read the article...it goes to the states, where it can be skimmed down before being spent of course
re: #166 Gus 802
Speaking of tea, and parties, I went to a launch party earlier tonight for this cellphone and managed to land a spot for the user trials. If I'm dedicated enough with the regular correspondence I'll be making to the manufacturer's forums, I can keep the phone. (:
Oh, and I got a drink stub for a free (non-Long-Island) iced tea.
That's what I thought: the feds aren't "paying unions", they are paying states to prevent them from having to lay people off. Whether any particular employee is union or not was a state decision at some time in the past and is essentially irrelevant to the current funding.
Traffic stop saves cat from owner’s plate
Buffalo police rescued a cat from a Cheektowaga man who apparently was planning to make a meal out of his pet because he thought it was ill-tempered, authorities said Monday.
The cat, according to police, was in a cage “marinating” in a mixture of crushed red peppers, chili pepper, salt and oil.
Tex Mex fried kitty
[Link: www.buffalonews.com...]
same thing...the money is a bailout, no matter how much lipstick is smeared over it
re: #138 thedopefishlives
Why stop with two? On two different people?
Because it's bad enough that you made the Captain facepalm; now you've got Number One doing it, too. The stupid, it burns.
Oh, that just took all the wind out of my sails.
Pentagon to cut thousands of jobs, defense secretary says
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Monday that the Pentagon will cut thousands of jobs, including a substantial chunk of its private contractors and a major military command based in Norfolk, as part of an ongoing effort to streamline its operations and to stave off political pressure to slash defense spending in the years ahead.
Gates said he will recommend that President Obama dismantle the U.S. Joint Forces Command, which employs about 2,800 military and civilian personnel as well as 3,300 contractors, most of them in southeastern Virginia. He also said he will terminate two other Pentagon agencies, impose a 10 percent cut in intelligence advisory contracts and slim down what he called a "top-heavy hierarchy" by thinning the ranks of admirals and generals by at least 50 positions.
The reduction in funding for contract employees -- by 10 percent annually over three years -- excludes those in war zones.
Man without health care sues state over $2G fine
Michael Merlina was fed up, frustrated and seemingly out of options when he walked into Middlesex Superior Court last week and plunked down $275 for court fees.
With help from a few clerks, Merlina became his own lawyer and filed a lawsuit against the Massachusetts Health Insurance Connector Authority.
The 29-year-old North Reading glazier is fighting the $2,000 state fine for not having health insurance. In 2009, the first year penalties were in place, Merlina paid a $400 fine for him his wife.
it's going to get exceedingly interesting...fining workers for not buying a mandated product
[Link: www.bostonherald.com...]
Devil's Advocate moment, the military has built up a heavy bureaucracy during and even after the Cold War. A lot of good plans and project technology can get dangerously entangled and muddled up in that, so maybe it's time for streamlining.
what the feds consider 'fat' that can be trimmed...a sick joke on all of us...unions come first!
OBL's cook gets plea deal - will serve sentence at GitMo's minimum security facility, but terms of deal and duration are sealed for now:
Ibrahim al-Qosi, a 50-year-old native of Sudan, who worked for bin Laden for years before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, pleaded guilty last month to conspiracy and material support for terrorism as part of a pre-trial agreement. The case marked the first conviction at Guantanamo Bay under President Obama, whose administration had promised that reformed military commissions would offer greater due process and more transparency.
But the government and the defense, with the blessing of Judge Nancy J. Paul, an Air Force lieutenant colonel, have sealed the newly reached agreement, including the maximum sentence that Qosi can serve.
A spokesman for the military commission's prosecutors, Navy Capt. David Iglesias, refused to discuss the agreement or explain why it was kept secret, except to say the plea raises "security issues" and is to the benefit of both Qosi and the government.
Iglesias said Qosi's period of confinement would be made public after military officials review the record of trial, a process that he said could take several weeks. Another military official said the process could take several months.
181 Political Atheist Tue, Aug 10, 2010 8:15:47am
The next dominant species after we take ourselves out maybe? Come back in a million years and Octopus will rule the world.
re: #181 Rightwingconspirator
By evolving into tentacle monsters enslaving humans.
THE MATRIX IS PROPHECY.
/ homgzorz
183 abolitionist Tue, Aug 10, 2010 8:18:01am
The making fire thing might be problematic.
184 Walter L. Newton Tue, Aug 10, 2010 8:24:37am
Correct me if I'm wrong, the "tentacle monsters" of The Matrix were tentacled machines if I remember correctly, not living creatures. Or were they actually biomechanical?
185 Killgore Trout Tue, Aug 10, 2010 8:26:22am
Fox News Host Announces Plans for Muslim Gay Bar Next to Ground Zero Mosque
Important news in the annals of publicity stunts today, as Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld announced on his blog—the truly unfortunately named “Daily Gut”—that he has aims to open a Ground Zero–area gay bar catering to Muslim men in the space next to a proposed mosque. “As you know, the Muslim faith doesn't look kindly upon homosexuality, which is why I’m building this bar. It is an effort to break down barriers and reduce deadly homophobia in the Islamic world,” the Red Eye host wrote, identifying the bar’s raison d'être. “After all, the belief driving them to open up their center near Ground Zero, is no different than mine.” Ahem.
Gutfeld insists, multiple times, that he is “dead serious on this one,” and announces that he has “spoken to a number of investors” about the project.
The guy's a comedian and he's on fox. That's two reasons to not believe anything he has to say. If he found some idiots willing to throw away millions of dollars then good for him. Even if they actually open the bar they'll close within six months. Nobody's going to care.
re: #184 Walter L. Newton
Super-advanced robots, I think. But I doubt they'll be keeping humans wired to battery capsules.
That's pretty cool! Congrats.
188 Darth Vader Gargoyle Tue, Aug 10, 2010 8:30:39am
I spent 3 years on the Joint Staff and still don't really understand what JFCOM does, so I think we can live without them. This is a BRAC, not a RIF, so most of those govt employees will be offered other positions, not just let go.
re: #185 Killgore Trout
There already is a bar next to the proposed location.
Look closely. That's the Dakota Roadhouse next door. It's a bar and restaurant. Been there for years.
And the rest of Lower Manhattan is crawling with bars.
Gutfelds plan is to open a gay bar that caters to muslims. No alcohol and open 24 hours.
191 lostlakehiker Tue, Aug 10, 2010 8:33:09am
re: #9 SanFranciscoZionist
Umm, why ever would the (mostly) white, (all) volunteer army {not} want to see LeBron James and Dwayne Wade? The Army is a meritocracy. So is professional basketball. People who have learned to respect performance, dedication, and talent, and learned it as though their life depends on it because it does, are naturally going to respect performance, dedication, and talent in the realm of sports.
Race, schmace. The rest of American society would benefit from taking the same attitude as the armed forces and sports teams take.
Obama should be thanked for his show of respect for our guys and commended for making a good choice.
192 deranged cat Tue, Aug 10, 2010 8:37:13am
4chan is always funny and all.. until they turn on you.
193 CarleeCork Tue, Aug 10, 2010 8:38:32am
I feel like a need a shower everytime I read the comments after stories like this. Geez, what's wrong with people?
re: #193 CarleeCork
Just a greedy POS with no loyalty to his adopted country. He should rot in jail.
Yeah, I sure gay muslims observe strict sahria law. It's not a good business model. The area is very expensive and even people with good business plans go bust. It's stupid and nobody's going to keep throwing money down that pit.
Thankee. This is the first "smartphone" I've ever possessed and I really hope I can get to keep it, mainly because I'm sick of iPhones.
197 ShaunP Tue, Aug 10, 2010 8:46:54am
That's a perfectly sane reaction. This one from the comments, is not:
That is what happens when you trust Indians or Jews with your top secrets info. Never trust Jews and Indians.
i basically just avoid scrolling into the comments section. even in my local newspaper there are a bunch of ridiculous trolls..
That may be true, but if he's going to build his planned Islamic gay bar next to the 45-51 Park Place location, he'd be moving both the Dakota Roadhouse and the Amish Marketplace. I just don't see that happening in either case. He can't build across the street with that being 100 Church (and occupied by the Corp. Counsel of the City of New York, among others).
re: #192 deranged cat
I could use the traffic. /
Of course it is: it is a bailout to state and local governments to keep them from adding even more people top the unemployment rolls.
In general, I don't like these kinds of transfer payments, as they make local voters less accountable for the state of their local government's finances. But good monetary policy says you spend more now to prevent unemployment to dampen the cycle.
This cycle has been so deep (because the problems at the end of 2008 were so severe) that the dampening effect of the stimulus payments has been less obvious. There is a difference, though, between "less obvious" and "nonexistent", and most of the economists that I read say that the stimulus was helpful. Some don't think it was big enough, and lots of people, myself included, are unhappy about one aspect of it or another, but in general it was the right thing to do.
202 Fozzie Bear Tue, Aug 10, 2010 8:51:20am
Keep in mind that the money being trimmed is going to be funneled back into the military, into the Afghan and Iraqi fronts. There's a lot of beat up equipment that needs replacing. They aren't actually reducing the budget at all.
What's that you say - a Muslim gay bar with no alcoholic beverages is not the greatest business model?
BTW what's this bigoted "cater to Muslims" shit?
I didn't say it sounded like a solid plan, just that it wasn't going to be a typical bar/restaurant . Personally, I think it's funny as hell and it would make one great Monty python sketch but I wouldn't want to invest actual money in it.
Still Oblivious To Meltdown's Cause
The misery won't end soon, because the federal government is repeating the very same mistakes that created the housing nightmare in the first place — including pushing banks to make home loans to people who can't repay them, and expanding Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's role in housing markets even as their losses mount.
massive vote pandering scheme gone wrong...this epic economic manipulation was wholey contrived by the feds, democrats specifically...but the denial is thick
[Link: www.investors.com...]
Gutfelds bar reminded me of this story:
Christians and Strippers protest one another in Ohio
[Link: www.digitaljournal.com...]
hio Strippers tired of Christians protesting them turned the tables and set up their own picket lines Sunday morning. For four years it's been sinners vs saints in Warsaw and the girls are fed up with judgement being passed by churchgoers.
She is the "Devil with the Blue Dress On" and she is picketing Sunday services in the town of Warsaw at the New Beginnings Ministries Church. The adult entertainers have been congregating weekends in protest of those who protest them and their choice of employment.
Funny, funny, funny.
Probably similar to the Christian Family store in my city that sells, ZOMG, Christian stuff.
"And if those shoes do not rank above 7.0 on the Meter of Fabulousness, then he shall be stoned to death."
/I never watched the full Monty Python & The Holy Grail. I'm sorry. ):
It's possible it would work. First off, it would not just attract gay Muslims, even if that is the "theme." It's possibly going to attract a basically upscale gay crowd period, especially in that neighborhood (there are thousands and thousands of office workers in that area, and a lot of relaxing and socializing after work goes on there), and the idea that frequenting the establishment is also supporting a pro-gay cause, I think it would be very attractive to gay and straights who feel they want to make a point.
It would also give gay men a chance to socialize with an ethnic group that is not as accessible in general. After all, this is NYC, not the deep south or Mecca.
And I thought that Muslims in general, in the United States, were not that strict observers of sharia law. Or am I missing something.
Sign: No Stoned Muslims Allowed.
[Link: www.instantrimshot.com...]
What's Holding Back The Hiring? Start With Obama's 10 Job Killers
President Obama claims that he's concerned about "jobs, jobs, jobs," but he has signed laws, issued executive orders and approved regulations that create incentives for private-sector employers to lay off people or delay hiring people. It's no wonder high unemployment persists
pretty good summation of why we are where we are at this point...libs are gonna fume over this one....
"compulsory unionism"
213 sagehen Tue, Aug 10, 2010 9:10:00am
And all those gay guys who haven't been hitting the bars since they got out of rehab? They'll be thrilled to have an alcohol-free place they can dance and meet someone.
The unfortunate fact is that conduct and teachings that fit our definition of extremism is, by the standard of "common usage", is not extreme in the context of Saudi Arabia, much of Pakistan, Afghanistan, official Iran, etc.
That is, their mainstream Islam, as taught in school and the mosque and put into practice in daily life, is violent, misogynist, bent on imposing its own will, intolerant of all other faiths, and willing to kill, retail or wholesale, as needed to achieve its ends.
On the other hand, it's easy to speak of "chickenshit" failure to stand up to extremists. The people of Iran have shown considerable courage. Courage alone is simply no match for the batons, machine guns, and motorcycles of the Iranian Gestapo, which goes by the name of Basiji.
We do not expect our POW's to stand firm forever under the kind of treatment these thugs mete out to teenage women who push the edge of the envelope and shout Allah Akhbar from a rooftop.
Official Islam, Iranian style, is not the only version of Islam out there. God bless those girls.
Nice article in the Daily Beast re: Park51 Mosque:
There is a war raging in the world today, not just between America and radical Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq, but within Islam itself. The two mosques—one a dream, the other a reality—belong, on paper at least, in the same neighborhood—blocks apart, and just blocks from where the World Trade Center once stood. Yet, the worlds represented by these two mosques could not be further apart.
We’re not being honest in our Muslim community about the violent ideology inside of our Muslim world that needs to be defeated, and so the war has spread beyond our community to include the Tea Party activists. In the name of political correctness, too many inside our Muslim community have been apologists for Islam, feeling defensive, but not being as brutally honest as the world needs us to be about this problem.
Read the full piece
216 Charles Johnson Tue, Aug 10, 2010 9:18:01am
Yeah, be sure to read the full piece so everyone can feel secure that they're not being bigots by advocating taking away constitutional rights from Muslim Americans. Hey, a Muslim says it too! That proves there's no bigotry at all here!
The problem isn't that they're cutting checks to local government to pay employees. The problem is that those employees earn far more than they would in the private sector for comparable work. When so many have to make do on less and less, why should these few go to the front of the line and get more and more, paid for out of what little those with less have?
I don't see anything funny about this. It's on par with the French neo-Nazis and their neighborhood pork parties, and you would be freaking out if someone proposed doing the same thing next to a church.
re: #216 Charles
I don't think you read the piece. She has nothing but nice things to say about the imam, and his family, that everyone is concerned about.
Midnight, bedtime. Nighty.
The organizers of the mosque on Park Place are folks I recognize. One of the owners of the property for the planned mosque is a businessman, Sharif El-Gamal, who is married to Rebekah, an American woman from East Hampton, who converted to Islam, but who still wears shorts and tank tops in the photos posted on her Facebook page. She reads Goodnight Moon to her baby Jennah, her daughter Sarah, a toddler with locks of curly blond hair, and Peanut, the family cat. The couple and other organizers, such as my friend Ameena Meer, an advertising executive who once dated Salman Rushdie, want a moderate imam at the mosque, and have found one in Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf.
Oh please. Who do you think you're kidding? The whole purpose of that article is to side with the people who are against the Park51 community center.
Well, looks like the bigotry is even taking over here. Lovely.
That isn't how I read her piece at all. She stated her knowledge of the imam, his intentions, and her beliefs that he's being honest in his attempt/premise for the mosque. She also points out she understands why some would have a problem with the mosque being so close to ground zero, the same thing I heard a CAIR spokesman say on Morning Joe last week. I didn't see anything in her piece that suggested the mosque shouldn't be built.
What does a Mosque have to do with the WTC site?
I swear, I have never seen anything like the deluge of intolerance that's been released over the Park51 project. It's beyond appalling. Has the whole country gone insane?
-yes-
229 Cannadian Club Akbar Tue, Aug 10, 2010 9:32:40am
re: #228 ShaunP
Thirded.
And it gives me a migraine.
Here's to the founders of the Order of the Aspirin Bottle, valiant warriors against the stupid or just outright crazy, who have earned numerous battle scars from pounding their heads against the desk in a heroic resistance against the creeping mental defectiveness.
Yep. But it wasn't all that recently.
234 William Barnett-Lewis Tue, Aug 10, 2010 9:36:10am
MDS - Mosque Derangement Syndrome?
This is what the lady says:
Years earlier, I had for the first time prayed in the front row during congregational prayer at a retreat on the bucolic banks of the Hudson River. The prayer had taken place at a conference, organized by the couple, Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf and Daisy Khan, and, unlike typical prayer arrangements, the imam had accepted parallel prayer sections for women and men.
We then drove two blocks north to 20 Warren Street. There, our pilgrimage ended across the street from a wine store, New York Vintners, below the gay bar, the 2020 Club, where an open door with “MASJID” in red stick-on lettering stood propped open, beckoning the way to the another mosque, missed in the hoopla over the “Ground Zero mosque.” The MASJID Manhattan, known in the Muslim community as “the Salafi mosque,” I explained to my son, embracing the rigid interpretation of Islam that is known as Wahabism.
I don't see the problem with admitting that there is a fundamental battle going on within Islam and this lady has chosen sides. I see absolutely nothing in this piece that can be used to say the mosque shouldn't be built.
Bad block quotes.
Worky.
re: #234 wlewisiii
*DS - Everything Derangement Syndrome. For people who have a paranoia about anything that threatens their worldview.
239 Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Aug 10, 2010 9:37:43am
re: #237 Cannadian Club Akbar
Earn ToFurkey.
"Look Lois, the two symbols of the Republican Party. An Elephant and a big, fat, white guy who is afraid of change."
-Peter Griffin
242 webevintage Tue, Aug 10, 2010 9:43:24am
Yes, it has and it is all President Palin's fault.
243 sattv4u2 Tue, Aug 10, 2010 9:44:00am
re: #241 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I was just reading that
No confirmation that Stevens was on board, but doesn't look good
Stevens and O'Keefe are longtime fishing buddies and the former senator had been planning a fishing trip near Dillingham
244 Taqyia2Me Tue, Aug 10, 2010 9:44:07am
I survived the "piss Christ" hoopla, it won't be difficult to survive the mosque hoopla. The country will too.
re: #217 lostlakehiker
You know, I'm not afraid of anything. The GOP, the Democrats, no one, none of them can change anything that I would be afraid of, because no politician or government is responsible for making me happy, satisfied, proud or patriotic.
Killjoy.
The denial is thick indeed.
Did you read Greenspan's testimony about the financial meltdown?
Or is he in your "I hate the Feds" box so his opinions aren't valuable?
..."in January 2009, Obama issued executive order 13496 promoting compulsory unionism among government contractors. The next month, he issued executive order 13502 requiring compulsory unionism for federal construction projects.
In March, Obama named Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board. Becker, formerly an attorney for the AFL-CIO and Service Employees International Union, is pushing the NLRB to rewrite union certification rules, making it easier for unions to gain a bargaining monopoly in workplaces..."
was here?
It's Teh Soshcalists!
252 BishopX Tue, Aug 10, 2010 9:50:34am
The NYTimes is saying he was on board. There were apparently 5 dead out of the 9 on board.
253 DaddyG Tue, Aug 10, 2010 9:52:33am
This is gonna hurt at the State level. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) payments are administered by state workers who make about half of what the average teacher does. This is not a program that needs cut during a deep recession.
I'm a big fan of supporting teachers but I'm getting a bit tired of hearing them whine about how tough times are when other state and private employees are being laid off or furloughed. Most of the non-teaching positions haven't had any cost of living raises like teachers have in the past 3-5 years.
This is an example of the Feds using your tax dollars to make state policy from the national level. Of course who wants to campaign saying I cut a teacher so a family wouldn't go hungry?
254 Spare O'Lake Tue, Aug 10, 2010 10:23:58am
No excuse for chickenshit behaviour inside America, though.
255 sagehen Tue, Aug 10, 2010 11:00:20am
So you think teachers and cops and firefighters are overpaid? You think we should reduce their salaries, and if they don't like it we'll just find somebody who'll do the job for less?
btw, I'm unaware of a lot of "comparable work" in the private sector for firefighters or police officers.... or maybe you just meant teachers, because you're just not a fan of public education to begin with.
256 lostlakehiker Tue, Aug 10, 2010 2:17:44pm
But if we're keeping score, don't forget the ten doctors/health care workers murdered in Afghanistan this past week.
257 Wozza Matter? Tue, Aug 10, 2010 4:24:39pm
keeping score? - yeah, really, try and keep up - thats not the point any of us are trying to make. thanks for playing though.
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Skulls and Vodka? Dan Aykroyd and his celebratory bevy . . .
Maybe it is just my love of skulls, but am excited to see that Crystal Head Vodka, one of the fastest growing ultra-premium vodka brands on the market is now available in Australia.
After resetting the bar for 'purity in vodka' internationally, Crystal Head has recently come to Australian shores, combining the ultimate spirit, purest product and highest quality ingredients.
Crystal Head Vodka is quadruple-distilled and triple-filtered through Herkimer diamond crystals. Produced from water sourced from a deep glacier lake in Newfoundland, Canada, it is a pure spirit free of any additives such as sugar, glycerin or citrus oil. Boy, it actyally sounds healthy.
The pure spirit of Crystal Head Vodka is complemented by its striking skull-shaped bottle, which celebrates the mystical legend of the 13 Crystal Heads.
These mystical Crystal Heads have been unearthed in places of great spiritual power around the globe and scientific analysis places the age of each skull at between 5,000 and 35,000 years old.
Each skull was carved from a single piece of pure crystal quartz. No one knows how they were made, or why they were made. There are no discernible tool marks to provide any clues.
The brand was founded by Dan Aykroyd and John Alexander. Aykroyd, a well-known actor, musician, entrepreneur and spiritualist; a believer in what he calls the "invisible world" where otherworldly presences are a "form of reality as valid as our normal reality." Partner and veteran fine artist, John Alexander has exhibited extensively in the United States and around the world. Together, they were avid researchers of the legend of the 13 crystal heads. And from this inspiration, the idea was born.
"Crystal Head prides itself on the quality of its vodka, which originates with deep glacial aquifer water from one of the planet’s purest sources – Newfoundland, Canada. The award winning quadruple distillation and triple filtering processes are achieved at one of the last government owned facilities in the world – the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador Liquor Distillery Corporation”, enthuses Aykroyd.
Crystal Head Vodka was named a “Rising Star” by the Beverage Information Group of America, publishers of Cheers magazine and producers of the annual Cheers Beverage Conference.
According to Charles Forman, Editor, Cheers Magazine, “Crystal Head Vodka, through its attractive packaging, product quality and well-timed entrance into the market has shown that even during a challenging economy, consumers are willing to trade up to the right brand.”Visit www.crystalheadvodka.com.
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The Wolverine: Hugh Jackman and Julia Gillard get it on in Sydney . . . figuratively . . .
When Hugh Jackman met Julia Gillard to unveil the mega production and making of The Wolverine in Sydney . . . . .
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NB: This piece first appeared on news.com.au on July 17, 2012 . . .
The good life and games seriously continue . . . .
This story first appeared on news.com.au on Wednesday , August1.
The Vibe, the pop culture, the Foxtel party at The Ritz. Fifi and Jules & Hamish and Andy's party in Notting Hill, a night on the Caledonian Sun ship. The the fun and games have certainly kicked in!
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Oz swimming medallist, Christian Sprenger, strips off for Hottie . . .
Let the branding and the gains begin!
This morning, Christian Sprenger may have just scored Australia's 100m Breastroke silver medallist . . .but he had already won a zillion fans as the 'face' and 'body' of undies brand, Hottie.
Sirie Pelmos, who runs the undies brand, Hottie, just had an update from Chritstian's, umm, mum: "Hey Sirie. U have no idea of the emotion we are experiencing!!!! The messages are amazing. But most of all he is amazing. Saw him about 11pm and catching up for a big lunch tomorrow. Held the medal. Wow. It is huge. Thanks for your support. Xxxx"
Now a silver medallist; a 3 medal winner at the World Cup and a double Commonwealth champion, Christian Sprenger fronts the campaign for Australian underwear brand Hottie Australia’s new men’s line.
Sprenger cuts an enviable toned 1.9 metre tall frame in his Hottie boxer briefs. “Christian represents the best Australia has to offer; good humour, good sportsmanship, dedication and commitment to the community. He is a university student, all-round nice bloke and an elite athlete. Hottie Australia is proud to have him on board.” Says Hottie director, Sirie Palmos.
Mr Sprenger is emerging as one of Australia sport’s pin up boys, winning a silver today (and one at the Beijing Olympics), nine individual FINA World Cup races, even breaking Kosuke Kitajima’s 200m breast stroke world record at the 2009 World Championships in Rome.
Sprenger produced the race of his career but revealed afterwards he almost never got to London as he considered quitting the sport last year.
However he said a change in coach and dropping his former pet event, the 200m breaststroke, had made all the difference.
"I lost a bit of drive in the sport, I think mainly because the 200m was dragging me down," an emotional Sprenger said, he told www.news.com.au.
"I wanted a bit more dimension to my swimming. My attitude changed at training, I changed coaches, just a new environment helped a lot.
"I was starting to focus on university a bit more, and thinking about life outside of swimming because obviously it's not going to last forever.
"The stars aligned for me tonight ... I'm thankful every day now I didn't give it up and gave it one more shot. "I'm just so glad to be here."
"My goal was to break the minute this year and sometimes you just have those swims and everything falls into place, and for me it was tonight," he said.
"This was it for me. So I went into the race thinking, 'this could be my only chance' and that's how I swam the race. I swam like there was no more races ever again."
Take a look at Christian in his www.hottie.com.au. mode . . .
Brilliant take on the Industrial Revolution . . . Clever Danny Boyle.
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2019 International Releases, International Releases, Reviews — January 22, 2019 at 7:30 am
Bring Me The Horizon – amo
by Troy Culpan
Bring Me The Horizon are back and as I sit in a room with other writers at Sony Music in Sydney we’re all being treated to a very early playback of the band’s new album ‘amo’. So as we hush, they press play.
The intro builds for ‘I Apologize If You Feel Something’ and sets the tone for the album, yes, very different but you’d expect that from a band that likes to evolve, likes to experiment and with that these sounds you wouldn’t expect from BMTH are immediately blown away by a huge guitar riff that makes me happy. ‘Mantra’ was the first taste we had of the album and that chorus is one hell of a hook. Driving guitars, driving beats and one kick ass middle 8!! I can just see this one live, there’s pyro, there has to be! The big riff smashes it home and then, oh, different again, atmosphere level intense but this one called ‘Nihilist Blues’ has Grimes featuring on this track of difference, oh ok, I dig this, there’s still those underlying guitars but as it hits the bridge breakdown this is truly different and I’m sorry if I use that word a lot but unless I Joey Tribbiani it and pull out a Thesaurus then get used to ‘different’ as BMTH are not only trying but killing it in doing so and I guess that is testament to the band they are and have become.
‘In The Dark’ starts much as the last left off but this groove has you nodding along in no time and the guitars make an appearance sparingly but are used perfectly and has the perfect clap moment made for the stage. Dani Filth from Cradle of Filth guests on ‘Wonderful Life’ and yes, the big guitars are back! Yeah, this is very worthy of the second single, it’s big, it’s bold, and almost vintage BMTH. What I am loving here is the tone, holy shit they have this and their sound down. Dani takes the mid-section before I pretty much jumped up and wanted to run into other people but the Sony staff told me to sit down. This one is one damn good song.
‘Ouch’ again, kinda as far removed as you can get from previous BMTH but why not right? It was a nice interlude into ‘Medicine’ and it sounds like Deaf Havana but this for me is actually the stand out on the album so far, what a damn good hook of a chorus, catchy and so well produced, so many layers here and not one of them overpowering the next. The way Oli and in particular Jordan have grown as producers is a pleasure to listen to. ‘Sugar, Honey, Ice and Tea’ brings back the riff! I love the balance on this album, you honestly don’t know what you’re going to get next but it’s flowing and how they’ve done it with such varying sounds is beyond me but it seems BMTH know exactly what they want and are. This kicks ass. Yes, a guitar solo, nice, and with that another catchy one down and I can just see the merch now.
‘Why You Gotta Kick Me When I’m Down?’ blends all the sounds we’ve heard so far and sort of slows things down and this one is full of unexpected twists and turns and sounds but I’ll be damned if I can find a way to fault it. ‘Fresh Bruises’ makes me want to turn the lights off and get the glow sticks out as it’s probably as far removed from BMTH as I’ve heard yet. ‘Mother Tongue’ keeps that mellower sound that we heard before, ooh, I like this chorus a lot. It’s an excellent arrangement and it’s catchy once again and with some ‘whoa ohs’ thrown in for good measure this could easily be all over the radio.
‘Heavy Metal’ featuring Rahzel brings it back around and with a name like that and a massively good dig at metal culture “A kid on the gram in a Black Dahlia tank says it’s ain’t Heavy Metal” With the beat box in it, it works, this song is genius and the room just cheered as Oli screamed and the song finished. Perfect. ‘I Don’t Know What To Say’ is almost a ballad if you could say BMTH has ballads, strings, keys, and that atmosphere builds and they know when to let the music explode and take hold. This musical break is where it’s at structurally this song is a producer’s dream, parts, layers and more, it’s the perfect song to close out one amazingly well written, produced and played album.
Bring Me The Horizon is a band that grows and they get better with each album. ‘amo’ is brilliant. I can’t wait to listen through again.
From: England
Record label: Sony Music Australia / RCA
Produced By: Oliver Sykes / Jordan Fish
Website: http://www.bmthofficial.com
I Apologise If You Feel Something
Nihilist Blues (featuring Grimes)
Wonderful Life (featuring Dani Filth)
Sugar Honey Ice & Tea
Why You Gotta Kick Me When I’m Down?
Fresh Bruises
Heavy Metal (featuring Rahzel)
I Don’t Know What to Say
Tags amo BMTH Bring Me The Horizon Dallas Does PR RCA Sony Music Australia
Author: Troy Culpan
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Money plays an ever-increasing role in politics. Election propaganda is made on television, which is very expensive... [read more]
Doctors and Drones 2014: Interview with Tomasz Pierscionek on the updated Medact Report
Journalist and researcher, Carol Anne Grayson, talks to Dr Tomasz Pierscionek about his involvement in campaigning against the use of armed drones ... [read more]
The Grime Behind the Crime
It seems crazy, but the evidence about lead is stacking up. Behind crimes that have destroyed so many lives, is there a much greater crime asks George Monbiot.... [read more]
Empty Promise
George Monbiot asks if scientists have got the impacts of climate change on food supply wildly wrong?... [read more]
The Real Cost of the Banking Crisis
Mick Brooks reviews the Bank of England's assessment of the banking crisis.... [read more]
‘The Internet is a Game Changer’
With news coverage gradually moving towards a 'paperless world' in the internet age, Ramzy Baroud considers the implications for political journalism.... [read more]
Guardian journalist George Monbiot on a radical approach to cutting greenhouse gases.... [read more]
The Economic Crisis and Poor Countries
Mick Brooks compares the 'boom and bust' economics of the past twenty years with similar patterns in the 1920s and 1930s: once again it is the poorer nations that stand to lose the most.... [read more]
One Shot Left
George Monbiot on how the Bush administration, in its final death throes, is stepping up its war on the environment.... [read more]
The One-World View
Here's a tale to warm your cockles - wherever they may be... [read more]
Children of Stones
It was in May, 1939. The British rulers of Palestine had just published a White Paper, putting the dampers on our Zionist vision. The world war was drawing close, and the British Empire needed the support of the Arab world.... [read more]
The National Riddle
Binyamin Netanyahu wants to have them under his control. Completely. Totally. Radio. Television. The social media. The lot.... [read more]
The Day of the Rhinos
Position after position is taken over by the far-far right, which is ruling Israel now. Slowly. Very, very slowly.... [read more]
The elixir of life – in a poisoned chalice?
Longevity science may divide us into treated and untreated: the first living ever longer, the second dying even younger than now, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
The real enemies of press freedom are in the newsroom
The principal threat to expression comes not from state regulation but from censorship by editors and proprietors, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
How we ended up paying farmers to flood our homes
This government let the farming lobby rip up the rulebook on soil protection – and now we are suffering the consequences, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
An economy ruled by the mob
It is not easy for any of us to get our heads around the complexities of modern economics. Many capitalists themselves and certainly most politicians no longer understand how the system really works... [read more]
A Capitalist Command Economy
Forcing schools into the hands of unelected oligarchs is the latest contradiction of everything the market fetishists claim to stand for, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Defend victimised students! Defend education!
The victimisation of a Cambridge University student has caused anger and outrage amongst the wider student body. Thus far, 2800 Cambridge students have signed a petition condemning the University’s decision to suspend the individual concerned... [read more]
Lucy Parsons: labor activist, writer and revolutionary- A Liberation Black History Month profile
Women of every oppressed nationality are often at the helm of revolutionary movements. Unfortunately, the contributions of women are frequently dismissed or forgotten... [read more]
Walled In
Science and humanities students view each other with incomprehension: blame our dumb, narrow schooling, says George Monbiot.... [read more]
Champions of the Overdog
Local papers are vanishing. George Monbiot asks: Does it matter? ... [read more]
The Population Myth
George Monbiot says people who claim that population growth is the big environmental issue are shifting the blame from the rich to the poor.... [read more]
The Working Class Must Not be Left to Pay for Wall Street Mess
Socialist Appeal's Walter Leon on the far-reaching implications of the financial crisis. ... [read more]
Is it a new hope for Arab ?
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An Open Letter to "Science and Global Security" - Do Not Succumb to Political Censorship on Syria
Science and Global Security" (SGS) has been publishing technical articles on arms control and related issues since 1989. I urge you not to succumb to political censorship.... [read more]
Central Bankers' Desperate Grab for Power
Central bankers are out of ammunition. Mark Carney, the soon-to-be-retiring head of the Bank of England, admitted as much in a speech at the annual meeting of central bankers... [read more]
Facebook May Pose a Greater Danger Than Wall Street
Payments can happen cheaply and easily without banks or credit card companies, as has already been demonstrated—not in the United States but in China.... [read more]
Central Banks Have Gone Rogue, Putting Us All At Risk
Central bankers are now aggressively playing the stock market. To say they are buying up the planet may be an exaggeration, but they could. They can create money at will, and they have declared their �independence� from government. They have become rogue players in a game of their own.... [read more]
Blackstone, BlackRock or a Public Bank? Putting California’s Funds to Work
California has over $700 billion parked in private banks earning minimal interest, private equity funds that contributed to the affordable housing crisis, or shadow banks of the sort that caused the banking collapse of 2008.... [read more]
Why I am Angry
In today's Israel, the antagonism between Mizrahim and Ashkenazim is growing stronger from year to year, with vast political and social repercussions... [read more]
Jeremy Corbyn, Labour’s Unelectable Leader
The strident anti-Corbyn headlines are endless. Almost every day a new headline drums the message home: Jeremy Corbyn must go... [read more]
Brexit: The UK’s referendum on EU membership delivers a self-inflicted wound
This constantly troublesome and disloyal bunch of Labour MPs don’t care about the country or their Party. They cannot see that it is they, not Corbyn, who are making the Party unelectable... [read more]
Self, Celebrity, Debt And Sport
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority it is time to pause and reflect" Mark Twain... [read more]
How David Cameron's Coalition Government Stole the 2015 General Election
This article is an edited extract (from section 3.9) of the book How David Cameron Fixed The 2015 General Election and Much Else ... [read more]
Reinventing Banking: From Russia to Iceland to Ecuador
Global developments in finance and geopolitics are prompting a rethinking of the structure of banking and of the nature of money itself... [read more]
The left wing case for quitting the EU
Much of the left would agree that the European Union does not always function in the best interests of either the European or International working class... [read more]
UN Farce: Saudi Arabia to Head Human Rights Council
The UN has appointed Saudi Arabia’s envoy to the United Nations Human Rights Council to head (or should that be “behead”) an influential human rights panel... [read more]
“Guerrilla Warfare” Against the EU-ECB-IMF Economic Hegemony: The Challenge and Promise of Greece. The Nationalization of the Banking System
Greece could restore the liquidity desperately needed by its banks and economy by nationalizing the banks and issuing digital loans backed by government guarantees... [read more]
Fast-track Hands the Money Monopoly to Private Banks — Permanently
In March 2014, the Bank of England let the cat out of the bag... [read more]
Economic Policies for an Incoming Labour Government (Part 4 of 9 - Shimomuran Economics
Bryan Gould and George Tait Edwards describe Shimomuran Economics... [read more]
Has Democracy Gone Missing? Or was it ever here?
People are suffering from a deficiency which is as unbalancing as a hormone or vitamin deficiency. What we are severely lacking in is democracy... [read more]
Labour’s immigration Policy: A Progressive Perspective
Immigration, and how the parties claim they will control it, is one of a handful of issues that will be pivotal in swaying swing voters either right or left in this year’s general election... [read more]
Je suis un être humain
For the first time in a long lifetime, the events in Paris have left me cold, shocked, speechless and terrified. Cold because of its inevitable cruelty. Shocked because of the awful response from a hypocritical world. Speechless because there can be nothing I could possibly say to explain the inexplicable - to defend the indefensible. And terrified because I have brown skin, a beard and I am a Muslim Palestinian... [read more]
Why leaving fossil fuels in the ground is good for everyone
As a new report is published on the need to limit fossil fuel production to stop dangerous global warming, the UK is poised to pass an act committing governments to extracting as much oil out of the ground as possible, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Western Bio- Terrorism: Struck off for “Islamic sectarian violence” but no action against doctors killing patients
Carol Grayson discusses different perceptions of the phenomenon of extremism... [read more]
Challenges to the rights of sexual minorities in Africa
A Ugandan Catholic priest analyses the reasons for the existence of homophobia in Africa... [read more]
Comparison of the Washington, Berlin, and Tokyo Consensus Zones -Which one really works?
George Tait Edwards compares three separate economic systems presently operating around the world... [read more]
The Impossibility of Growth
It's the great taboo of our age – and the inability to discuss the pursuit of perpetual growth will prove humanity's undoing, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Banks: Fudged health report
The final part of the series by Eric Toussaint - Banks versus the People: the Underside of a Rigged Game!... [read more]
Bank Created Credit
Former MP and member of the Labour shadow cabinet, Bryan Gould, explains how orthodox monetary policy is fundamentally misconceived... [read more]
The Mockery of Banking Discipline
Part 7 of Eric Toussaint series, Banks versus the People: the Underside of a Rigged Game... [read more]
The Sins Of Our Fathers
David Eade reports on the Daily Mail campaign to vilify the father of the Labour Party leader Ed Miliband... [read more]
Banks versus the People: the Underside of a Rigged Game! (Part 3) - The greatest offensive against European social rights since the Second World War
We should not underestimate the capacity of the elites to make the most of a crisis situation writes Eric Toussaint... [read more]
Currently Mistaken Ideas in Western Economics and Their Suggested Corrections (preferably soon) Part 1
Economist George Tait Edwards straightens out some of the economic myths taught at Western universities (Part 1 of 2) ... [read more]
A Tale of Two Prime Ministers
George Tait Edwards comments on the comparisons and contrasts between the policies and personalities of Shinzo Abe, the Prime Minster of Japan, and David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom... [read more]
The Key Relevance of the Writings of Professor Kenneth Kenkichi Kurihara
George Tait Edwards explains how the writings of economist Kenneth Kurihara serve as the gateway to understanding Shimomuran high-growth economics ... [read more]
The Crime of Alleviating Poverty: A Local Community Currency Battles the Central Bank of Kenya
Ellen Brown reports on how former Peace Corps volunteer Will Ruddick and several residents of Bangladesh, Kenya, face a potential seven years in prison after developing a cost-effective way to alleviate poverty in Africa’s poorest slums... [read more]
Eight Questions for Western Government Economic Advisors
Economist George Tait Edwards MBE asks Western economists eight direct questions... [read more]
A manifesto for rewilding the world
A mass restoration of ecosystems offers us hope where there was little hope before, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
The End of Money
It’s Time to End Our Slavery to the Money-System declares Oliver Thompson ... [read more]
The Mind Thieves
The evidence linking Alzheimer’s disease to the food industry is strong and is growing, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Melinda Taylor: The Spy That Got Away?
On the 7th of June 2012, Melinda Taylor and three other ICC delegates were arrested in the city of Zintan in Libya by Zintani militia. How should the Australian media handle the story? Finn Bowen takes a look.... [read more]
Britain: BMA strike - The Truth
Last month's day of action by doctors in Britain attracted a lot of criticism from the Tory press - no surprise there! Dr Tomasz Pierscionek puts forward the case for the doctors' strike and explains what really happened.... [read more]
The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with the faith to fight for it
The London Progressive Journal gives its take on current events in the latest fortnightly editorial. (Dr Tomasz Pierscionek encourages the campaign to derail the Health and Social Care Bill).... [read more]
The Sacrificial Caste
In this and other nations, there are groups of children who can be abused with impunity, says George Monbiot.... [read more]
United in our Heritage
In response to comments made by David Cameron, Hussein Al-Alak takes a look at the origins of ‘Britishness’... [read more]
Labour Leadership: Abbott Gets on the Ballot
If Diane Abbott is serious about standing as a real alternative to the Milibands, she should espouse a leftwing platform, says Steve Jones.... [read more]
Money’s Hunger
Industrial civilisation is trashing the environment. George Monbiot asks: should we try to reform it or just watch it go down? ... [read more]
The Greek Crisis and the Threat to the Euro
Can the EU afford to let Greece withdraw from the Eurozone? Socialist Appeal's Mick Brooks considers the significance of the Grek Crisis.... [read more]
Consumer Hell
George Moniot asks: How do we break a system which now permeates every aspect of our lives? ... [read more]
Bye Bye, Dubai?
Mick Brooks looks at the unfolding crisis in Dubai, and its potential implications for the world economy. ... [read more]
Beware the Assault on Journalism
John Pilger retraces the 'cultural Chernobyl'of Rupert Murdoch's impact on British life.... [read more]
Green Shoots of Economic Recovery?
Mick Brooks considers recent claims that the world economic system is on the mend.... [read more]
Blue Desert
George Monbiot asks: Why is no one brave enough to stand up to the fishing industry? ... [read more]
Scrap It
Environmental campaigner George Monbiot tears into the UK government's proposals for stimulating the motor industry.... [read more]
Free the Unborn! A Proposal for Slowing Down Politics
George Monbiot on why the struggle against climate change is being undermined by political short-termism.... [read more]
Pro-Death
George Monbiot considers the implications of attempts to reverse progress on abortion.... [read more]
The impact of London on the evolution of Marxism
Class struggle and its capacity for state transformation were institutionalised by the works of a German philosopher called Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.... [read more]
Pinocchio's Green Nose
If your only introduction to the character of Pinocchio was Disney's animated adventures, you were assumed not to be "man enough" to handle Carlo Collodi's original and far more brutal fairy-tale... [read more]
Climate Destruction - bearing witness with Dahr Jamail
“The question is not are we going to fail. The question is how?” Stephen Jenkinson, author and storyteller.... [read more]
Why Is the Fed Paying So Much Interest to Banks?
When “Mary Poppins” was made into a movie in 1964, Mr. Banks’ advice to his son was sound. The banks were then paying more than 5% interest on deposits, enough to double young Michael’s investment every 14 years.... [read more]
Authoritarianism is killing the Arab Spring
Major unforeseen events such as the Arab Spring precipitated instability across the Middle East and North Africa.... [read more]
Universal Basic Income Is Easier Than It Looks
Calls for a Universal Basic Income (UBI) have been increasing, most recently as part of the “Green New Deal” introduced by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and supported in the last month by at least 40 members of Congress... [read more]
MISERERE
A poem by Dick Jones... [read more]
Brexit and the Labour Party
One of the things people were promised under Corbyn’s leadership, was a genuine member-led party, where members’ views were listened to and acted on.... [read more]
Alcohol: Why do we drink?
Alcohol consumption is one damaging effect among many that flow from this dominant socio-economic system... [read more]
Banks Are Becoming Obsolete in China—Could the U.S. Be Next?
The U.S. credit card system siphons off excessive amounts of money from merchants. In a typical $100 credit card purchase, only $97.25 goes to the seller. The rest goes to banks and processors. But who can compete with Visa and MasterCard?... [read more]
A poem by Gareth Writer-Davies... [read more]
An account from a doctor on board the Freedom Flotilla which was hijacked by the Israeli Navy
Events from 29 July when the Israeli Navy stormed the Freedom Flotilla al-Awda, hijacked and diverted it from its intended course to Gaza by Dr Swee Ang, medical doctor on board the al-Awda.... [read more]
Adolf and Amin
A Very Intelligent Person
Would I vote for Barak in spite of his record?... [read more]
The Real Victor
Two days ago, the State of Israel celebrated its 70th birthday. For days we heard about nothing else. Innumerable speeches full of platitudes. A huge festival of kitsch.... [read more]
Salisbury, Skripal and Novichok – a local view
From the moment the news came out that on Sunday March 4th in Salisbury, one of England’s revered cathedral cities, a Russian spy and his daughter had been poisoned by some form of ‘nerve agent’ my reaction was ‘Oh dear’. ... [read more]
The War on the Post Office
The US Postal Service, under attack from a manufactured crisis designed to force its privatization, needs a new source of funding to survive. Postal banking could fill that need.... [read more]
What the hell am I? An Israeli? A Jew? A peace activist? A Journalist? An author? An ex-combat soldier in the Israeli army? An ex-terrorist?... [read more]
Election Theft in Honduras
Honduras is in crisis. The national election took place on Sunday 26 November. Results posted that night showed the challenger Salvador Nasralla with a 5% lead with 57% of the votes tallied... [read more]
Iran: the Historical Cradle of Civilization, the Origin of Human Diversity, and the Bastion of Humanistic Tolerance
An article by Davood Rhani... [read more]
How to Fund a Universal Basic Income Without Increasing Taxes or Inflation
A team of researchers at the University of Oxford published the results of a survey of the world’s best artificial intelligence experts, who predicted that there was a 50 percent chance of AI outperforming humans in all tasks within 45 years... [read more]
"Anyone But Bibi"
The vultures are circling. They can see the wounded man on the ground, and are waiting for his end.... [read more]
Lament in an Insane World - Saudi Arabia: The Tragedy of the “Ships of the Desert.” Stateless, Expelled Camels.
The last straw will break the camel’s back.... [read more]
If China Can Fund infrastructure with Its Own Credit, So Can We
While American politicians debate endlessly over how to finance the needed fixes and which ones to implement, the Chinese have managed to fund massive infrastructure projects all across their country, including 12,000 miles of high-speed rail built just in the last decade... [read more]
Palestine's Nelson Mandela
Divide et impera – "divide and rule" – since Roman times this has been a guiding principle of every regime that suppresses another people. In this the Israeli authorities have been incredibly successful.... [read more]
The Tunic of Nessus
In a few weeks, Israel will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War. Millions of words, most of them hollow, will be poured out. As usual.... [read more]
The Cannons of Napoleon
All intelligent Israelis realize by now that we are facing a fateful choice: either two states, or an apartheid state, or a single Arab-majority state. Most Israelis want none of these.... [read more]
How did it Start?
The past cannot be changed. But perhaps, perhaps, we can learn from it and draw some conclusions... [read more]
That's How It Happened
When everybody on both sides was exhausted, the war ended with a set of armistices, which defined the recognized borders of Israel... [read more]
More than ever in human history, we're caught in a tug of war that threatens to destabilise entire populations and even to redefine geo-political and cultural boundaries.... [read more]
Power Will Be Restored
Would or could a different leader of this or that have altered the prospect of past, present or future... [read more]
“We’ll Look at Everything:” More Thoughts on Trump’s $1 Trillion Infrastructure Plan
The Trump agenda, it seems, is not set in stone. The president-elect has a range of advisors with as many ideas... [read more]
Trump’s $1 Trillion Infrastructure Plan: Lincoln Had a Bolder Solution
Central banks have been pumping money into the global economy without a whole lot to show for it... [read more]
Brexit has its day in court!
The third day of November 2016 was an historic day for parliamentary democracy. It was a day on which an investment fund manager and a hairdresser took on the might of the UK government in the High Court and won... [read more]
Funding California Schools: Proposition 51 Versus a State-owned Bank
There is a much cheaper way to fund this $9 billion school debt... [read more]
It Can Happen Here
Political ideas and structures don't die easily. The human mind is lazy and apprehensive, and clings to familiar ideas, long after they have become obsolete... [read more]
The Great Railway Scandal
I am not the envious type, but I envy the Germans. I envy them for Angela Merkel... [read more]
Death in Yemen - UK Arms Sales to Saudi and the “Proper Use” of Illegal Weapons
Amnesty has been pressing the British government on Saudi Arabia’s use of outlawed weapons, only to be told sanguinely that UK Ministers have been provided with “assurances” by Saudi Arabia “of their proper use.” Work that one out: “proper use” of illegal weapons.... [read more]
The Future belongs to the Optimists
Despair is easy. It is also comfortable, whether in Berlin or Tel Aviv. Looking around at this moment, despair is also logical. But despair corrupts. Despairing people create nothing, and never did... [read more]
The UK leaves Europe but will the English language remain?
Though the UK leaves Europe, its English language will remain to unite Europe. ... [read more]
The Effect of David Cameron On The BREXIT Referendum
What we now appear to be witnessing is the final bitter breakup of the Conservative Party into two warring factions, neither of which have any care for the continued integrity of the United Kingdom... [read more]
The Lebanon and the England
A poem by Dr Faysal Mikdadi... [read more]
UK: The Iraq Inquiry, A Government U-Turn and an “Apology” from Tony Blair
“It’s really 19th century behavior in the 21st century. You don’t just invade another country on phony pretexts in order to assert your interests.” (John Kerry, “Meet the Press, 2nd March 2014)... [read more]
Is the UK’s Iraq Inquiry Set to “savage” Tony Blair?
Charles Anthony Lynton Blair is beyond all shame. No matter how widely the guilt is spread, he was Captain of the No 10 Downing Street ship, and thus should shoulder commensurate blame.... [read more]
What is to be Done with the Banks? Radical Proposals for Radical Changes
Immediate measures for moving towards socialisation of the banking sector... [read more]
The War on Savings: The Panama Papers, Bail-Ins, and the Push to Go Cashless
Exposing tax dodgers is a worthy endeavor, but the “limited hangout” of the Panama Papers may have less noble ends... [read more]
Exposing the Libyan Agenda: A Closer Look at Hillary’s Emails
Before 2011, Libya had achieved economic independence, with its own water, its own food, its own oil, its own money, and its own state-owned ban... [read more]
Iraq’s Greatest Danger Yet: Collapse of: “The most dangerous dam in the world.”
It is hard to believe anything more catastrophic could befall Iraq. Now though comes a truly apocalyptic warning - that Mosul itself, Baji, Tikrit, ancient Samarra could be engulfed in a flood of literally biblical proportions... [read more]
Iraq: US, UK Fabricated WMD Threat
The scorched earth onslaught of 2003 and subsequent years of bombings brought further radioactive pollution in orders of magnitude. The US is now bombing again.... [read more]
Just A Ride
The Wachowski Brothers’ 1999 Film 'The Matrix' centres upon the concept that the modern world may not be all we perceive it to be... [read more]
Extreme, Extremer, Extremest
By 1967, the situation was quite different. The causes of the new war were disputed, David had turned into Goliath, a world-wide Cold War was on... [read more]
The Citadel Is Breached: Congress Taps the Fed for Infrastructure Funding
In a landmark infrastructure bill passed in December, Congress finally penetrated the Fed's "independence" by tapping its reserves and bank dividends for infrastructure funding... [read more]
An Open Letter to Tiffany’s Chairman, CEO, Chief Sustainability Officer and Corporate Social Responsibility Committee
Tiffany’s should act immediately to disassociate itself from BSGR and ensure that their cut and polished diamonds are not a source of revenue for regimes guilty of gross human rights violations in Africa or Palestine... [read more]
Cameron’s Strategic Defence and Security Review and the New Cold War
Every state that ever existed in world history has sought to justify its actions abroad by claiming that it is has the moral right and justice on its side... [read more]
Hang On to Your Wallet: Negative Interest, the War on Cash and the $10 Trillion Bail-In
In uncertain times, “cash is king,” but central bankers are systematically moving to eliminate that option. Is it really about stimulating the economy? Or is there some deeper, darker threat afoot?... [read more]
How Obama Could Beat the Debt Ceiling and Go Out a Hero
The debt ceiling is an unconstitutional gimmick that violates the 14th amendment... [read more]
To Catch a Saint
A poem from Dr Faysal Mikdadi... [read more]
Sheldon's Stooges
In Japan in the good old days, Binyamin Netanyahu would by now have committed hara-kiri... [read more]
Yemen: A Voice in the Wilderness
Vanessa Beeley interviews a woman who fled Yemen in the wake of the Saudi-led coalition airstrikes against her country... [read more]
A Gerrymandered Election and A Flawed Mandate
To the great puzzlement and consternation of pundits and pollsters, the British general election produced what seems a great democratic victory for the Conservative party... [read more]
Who Will Save Israel
The battle is over. The dust has settled. A new government – partly ridiculous, partly terrifying – has been installed ... [read more]
Kissinger and Shultz on 'The Iran Deal'
The Wall Street Journal on 8 April turned over an entire editorial page to former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and George Shultz... [read more]
English Heritage – with the UK’s general election ever closer, whose culture are we ‘celebrating’?
I fear the outcome of the general election; I fear the deals made by politicians desperate to stay in power, deals that will further harm the disadvantaged poor... [read more]
Pakistan government shames itself over Israeli drone connection… no friend to Gazans
Last year July 2014, Mansoor Jaffar, a senior journalist for Al Arabiya, wrote a scathing article critcizing Pakistan for its “zombie-like response" to the Gaza killings... [read more]
Penrose Inquiry: “Bad Blood”, biological terrorism and cover-up under a failed western democracy
The Penrose Inquiry, the public inquiry into the circumstances in which patients treated by the NHS in Scotland became infected with Hepatitis C, HIV, or both, through the use of blood or blood products published its Final Report on Wednesday, 25 March 2015... [read more]
How stable is the economic recovery?
The growth we have seen in the past year may not be conducive to a long-term stable recovery... [read more]
Economic Policies for an Incoming Labour Government (Part 9 of 9)
Further Proposals and a Conclusion... [read more]
Tony Blair’s Save the Children Award: An Inadequate Apology
On the evening of 19th November 2014, the charity Save the Children "recognized" Tony Blair - whose government enjoined in the ending of the fledgling lives of children on an industrial scale in Afghanistan and Iraq - with their “Global Legacy Award.”... [read more]
Stimulating Wealth Creation... [read more]
A Slow-Burning Revolution
Former MP and member of the Labour shadow cabinet, Bryan Gould, details the beginnings of a paradigm shift in economic thinking... [read more]
The Big Banks Organise Massive Tax Evasion on an International Scale
Part 7 of Eric Toussaint's series 'The banks and the “Too Big to Jail” doctrine'... [read more]
Where trade agreements are a risk to sovereignty
A nation's sovereign right to determine matters within its borders is put at risk where its government signs a trade agreement which includes a dispute resolution clause known as an Investor State Dispute Settlement ('ISDS') clause... [read more]
Is ISIS Coming?
If ISIS had approached the borders of Israel this week, nobody in the country would have noticed. Israel was riveted to a court-room drama... [read more]
Pakistan: Alleged target killer for ISI and Blackwater executed after “confessing” to assassinations during peace talks
In recent days the name of the firm “Blackwater” has reared its ugly head once again with the trial of four men, part of an assignment contracted by the US State Department to provide “security” in Baghdad during 2007... [read more]
Farah, A Gazan “Anne Frank”
Farah, who began blogging when she was just 12, sends her messages to be read by global audience, most of whom she will never meet... [read more]
Update On Shimomuran Economics: The Day May Come
Western governments and their advisors can no longer continue to ignore the work of the master economist Dr Osamu Shimomura (1910-1989) who provided the insights which have produced the high growth of the China Sea economic zone... [read more]
The return of George Orwell and Big Brother’s war on Palestine, Ukraine and the truth
In his latest essay, John Pilger describes the liberal "one-way, legal/moral screen" behind which great power and its Orwellian propaganda ensure an impunity for war and deception, dependent on what Leni Riefenstahl called our "submissive void".... [read more]
A Coup? Nonsense!
Journalist and former member of the Israeli parliament, Uri Avnery, describes how the Israeli Defence Force is held on a pedestal... [read more]
The Monster on the Hill
There is nothing better than a scandal every week. A juicy scandal excites people, engages the media, takes our minds off matters like war and peace, occupation and apartheid... [read more]
So, after the IPCC report, which bit of the world are you prepared to lose?
George Monbiot asks: When people say we should adjust to climate change, do they understand what that actually means?... [read more]
Fidesz Will Spend More Than Twice The Legal Limit in Hungarian Elections...And Get Away With It
The Hungarian General Election takes place on Sunday April 6. The spotlight has been on the far right party, Jobbik, which will be fielding a national list at the polls... [read more]
The Benefits Claimants the Government Loves
Uncapped, almost unconditional, the vast sums of public money we give to farmers buy only destruction, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
What can we do with what Thomas Piketty teaches us about capital in the twenty-first century? (Part 2 of 2)
Part 2 of Eric Toussaint's review of Thomas Piketty book Capital in the Twenty-First Century... [read more]
'Good' and 'Bad' war - and the struggle of memory against forgetting
The regime that Washington created in the South, the “good” Korea, was set up and run largely by those who had collaborated with Japan and America, writes John Pilger.... [read more]
'Good and Bad' war - and the struggle of memory against forgetting
An Extended Review of "Princes of the Yen" by Professor Richard Werner
George Tait Edwards reviews “Princes of the Yen”, the latest book written by Professor Richard Werner... [read more]
This is a declaration of love. Three loves, actually... [read more]
Artists and the Law: Exploring A Jurisprudence Of New Capabilities
When I first heard the suggestion that the judiciary and greater Parliamentary oversight could redress the reckless use of new capabilities by Britain's security service GCHQ, an image flashed into my mind of a 1903 painting by Australian impressionist Tom Roberts - known locally as The Big Picture... [read more]
The Banks, Fragile Giants
Part 5 of Eric Toussaint's series Banks versus the People: the Underside of a Rigged Game shows that big banks continue playing with fire, because they are persuaded that governments will save them whenever necessary... [read more]
One of the truest journalists is a cartoonist armed with a penguin
Steve Bell is a contemporary Hogarth, with a touch of Peter Sellers, writes John Pilger.... [read more]
A journey into the vice-ridden world of banking
The primary objective of the world’s leaders is to avoid another banking and financial crash that could be worse than the one in September 2008... [read more]
Climate Change and Marxism
Using Karl Marx's early works, Elijah Pryor asks if there is an alternative to the Capitalism vs Communism debate?... [read more]
The Failure of the Debt System
Eric Toussaint and Daniel Munevar put forward the case for abolishing third world debt... [read more]
The problem with education? Children aren't feral enough
The 10-year-old Londoners I took to Wales were proof that a week in the countryside is worth three months in a classroom, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
A Brief Guide To Early Chinese History: The Mongol Conquest Of China And Its Consequences
George Tait Edwards introduces the next in a series of articles about early Chinese civilisation to help put into context the country's recent economic rise... [read more]
Killjoy Was Here
Journalist and former Knesset member, Uri Avnery, reviews Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's speech at the United Nations... [read more]
Obama's rogue state tramples over every law it demands others uphold
For 67 years the US has pursued its own interests at the expense of global justice – no wonder people are sceptical now, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
International Relations and the Classroom
We in Britain are often subject to the age old criticism of being insular and self engrossed. Whereas this is not strictly speaking true, there is an element of truth in this belief... [read more]
The Public Debt of Japan and China – Funded by Investment Credit Creation or by Foreign Borrowing?
Economist George Tait Edwards puts paid to rumours of impending financial crises in Japan and China... [read more]
Banks versus the People: The Underside of a Rigged Game! (Part 1)
Eric Toussaint looks at 2007-2012: Six years that shook the banking world... [read more]
Red Love – the story of an East German Family
John Green reviews Maxim Leo’s Red Love – the story of an East German Family... [read more]
The Palestinian Right to Education
Dr Faysal Mikdadi explains how education is the key to Palestinian liberation and democracy... [read more]
Slavko Martinov: The antidote to Propaganda? Question everything!
Patrizia Bertini conducts an exclusive interview with film producer Slavko Martinov... [read more]
There is a war on ordinary people and feminists are needed at the front
The problem with media-run "conversations" on gender is not merely the almost total absence of male participants, but the suppression of class, writes John Pilger.... [read more]
Shimomuran Economics: The No-Debt Investment Credit Creation Path to More Rapid Economic Growth
George Tait Edwards MBE makes the case for the urgent implementation of Keynesian economics to stimulate growth, based on the economic model's previous success in the US, China and Japan... [read more]
Assata Shakur: Understanding the politics behind the FBI's new attack
On May 2, the FBI suddenly announced that they had placed Assata Shakur on its “Most Wanted Terrorists” list. The FBI's accusations target Shakur as an individual, but the labeling of her as a terrorist is an attack on all revolutionaries says Eugene Puryear... [read more]
The Counter-Enlightenment
What happens to people when they become government science advisers? Are their children taken hostage? Is a dossier of compromising photographs kept, ready to send to the Sun if they step out of line? George Monbiot writes.... [read more]
The Self-Hating State
Devolving policy to “the market” doesn’t solve the problem of power. It makes it worse, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Literacy Skills: A Basic Human Right
Shirley Langer, author of 'Anita's revolution', lived and worked in Cuba for almost five years in the mid 1960s. She describes how, after the revolution, Cubans managed to eradicate illiteracy in a matter of months.... [read more]
Paulo di Canio
David Lindsay asks why didn't they say anything about Paolo Di Canio at Swindon... [read more]
It Can Happen Here: The Bank Confiscation Scheme for US and UK Depositors
Confiscating the customer deposits in Cyprus banks, it seems, was not a one-off, desperate idea of a few Eurozone “troika” officials scrambling to salvage their balance sheets reveals Ellen Brown... [read more]
Secrets of the Rich
Billionaires are hiding behind a network of “independent” groups, who manipulate politics on their behalf, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Shallow Depths
In front of me is a copy of today's Khaleej Times; its front page story is about a speech by His Highness Shaikh Mohammed who is the Ruler of Dubai and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, writes Elizabeth Ellis... [read more]
Lenin on the Need for Political Compromise
As part of his series of articles analysing Lenin's classic work "Left-Wing" Communism: an Infantile Disorder, Thomas Riggins looks at what Lenin had to say about compromise and cooperation with political rivals... [read more]
Lenin on Marxism and Bourgeois Democracy
In chapter seven of "'Left-Wing' Communism: an Infantile Disorder" Lenin addresses himself to the ultra-left claim that socialists should no longer work with or be members of bourgeois parliaments. Thomas Riggins explains.... [read more]
The Fat of the Land
The European Union's farm subsidies are a modern equivalent of feudal aid. As Europe suffers under austerity, it's right to call for reform, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
‘So, how do you feel then? British or Palestinian or Muslim or whatever you call yourself? Hmm?'
NOT SURE ABOUT THIS ARTICLE ER 07/10... [read more]
Mass media directing the masses
Luke Innes looks at the effect of mass media on the working class in Britain... [read more]
A Step Towards the Dock
Desmond Tutu has helped us see the true nature of what the former prime minister did to Iraq and increased pressure for a prosecution, writes George Monbiot. ... [read more]
Decoding Assange
John Green reports that Julian Assange is the new bête noir, the man to be vilified, smeared and slandered. In all the media hysteria about the rape allegations made in Sweden against Assange by two women he slept with, the real issue is being conveniently buried.... [read more]
The rich world is causing the famines it claims to be preventing, says George Monbiot.... [read more]
The Great Impostors
Under the guise of saving the natural world, governments are privatising it and rarely will the money to be made by protecting nature match the money to be made by destroying it, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
A new front opens up in the war against nature
George Monbiot says that the Countryside Alliance’s campaign against a ban on lead shot strikes him as motivated by the age-old attitude of reactionary members of the landowning classes: that they will not be subject to the laws or considerations that affect lesser members of society. ... [read more]
A Word in Your Shell-like
In his latest article, resident philosopher Stephen Gilbert bemoans the lack of confidence in our society.... [read more]
I suppose I should have seen this coming. In January, I discovered that the forecasters employed by a company called Positive Weather Solutions, whose inaccurate predictions were widely used by the newspapers, don’t exist, says George Monbiot.... [read more]
The Politics of Truth
Politicians are easy targets and scoring points off aunt sallies is a national sport. Stephen Gilbert discusses the chasm between the accountability of political columnists and that of MPs... [read more]
Spain’s fishing armada stopped from ‘raping’ Gibraltar’s waters
LPJ’s Iberian correspondent, David Eade, reports on tensions between Spanish fishermen and the Gibraltarian government following the rescindment of a ‘Joint Understanding’ that allowed Spanish vessels to fish in Gibraltar’s waters... [read more]
Never forget that Bradley Manning, not gay marriage, is the issue
John Pilger shows that Barack Obama’s sudden “conversion” to the cause of same-sex marriage barely disguises the prime motives of a president as reactionary and violent as George W Bush.... [read more]
Murdoch, Mensch and a new England Manager
The London Progressive Journal gives its take on current events in the latest editorial... [read more]
Empire of Capital
A one-sided justice sees weaker states punished as rich nations and giant corporations project their power across the world, says George Monbiot.... [read more]
Noncommittal for kindle or less than kind?
The Kindle - an infinity of reading or a bibliophile's nightmare? Stephen Gilbert shares his thoughts on the matter.... [read more]
Political policing
Still needs a lot of editing, especially last part...... [read more]
Expectation, Myth & Disappointment
In her latest article, outRageous! explains how the world-wide political agenda is peeing its pants in anticipation of agents of change.... [read more]
Euro zone crisis: A Green alternative
We are watching economic injustice crush a nation before our eyes. On 20 March, Greece must meet the next tranche of debt repayments,says Alfie Stirling.... [read more]
Liberal Constipation
Conservatism is linked to low intelligence; but the real idiots are the progressives letting it win, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Lies, Damned Lies and Opinion Polls
Stephen Gilbert challenges the so called 'accuracy' of ICM opinion polls and shows how Labour continues to miss classic opportunities to rebut Conservative policy. ... [read more]
A Ghost Story Retailed (part three)
W Stephen Gilbert delivers an up-to-date, state and fate of the retail trade in Britain, it is partly personal and anecdotal, and partly a critical overview: part three.... [read more]
There is profit to be made in keeping the public fearful, Bryan G Taylor explains... [read more]
Legoviews ~ Goodbye yellow brick road!
In the first of her interviews using the novel 'Lego Serious Play' method, Patrizia Bertini speaks to one of the occupiers at the OccupyLSX camp.... [read more]
Unmasking the Press
The corporate newspapers are the elite’s enforcers, misrepresenting the sources of oppression, says George Monbiot.... [read more]
Marxist Historians Map Out an Agenda for Today
If the evidence of the successes of recent events is anything to go by, interest in the socialist approach to history is on the increase, which is probably no surprise given the turbulent and uncertain times in which we currently live, says David Morgan.... [read more]
Poor's show
Ever since the decline of European Socialism in the 1980s and the collapse of the Soviet Union in the ’90s, capitalism has considered itself king of the world and has behaved accordingly, says W Stephen Gilbert.... [read more]
Uri Avnery discusses the implications of a parliamentary bill that would seek to push the Palestinian population out of the West Bank and into Jordan... [read more]
Telling the Players with a Scorecard
How politics is manifested as economics and economics as politics should concern us right now, argues Steven Colatrella.... [read more]
Weimar Revisited
Uri Avnery explains how the three main pillars of Israeli democracy - the courts, the media and the human rights organisations - are under threat from the political right. ... [read more]
Miliband: The Knives are Already Being Sharpened
Now that the dust has settled on Ed Miliband's surprise victory in the Labour leadership election, Michael Prior considers the challenges facing the new leader as he seeks to move the party away from Blairism.... [read more]
Thatcher and the Last Tory cuts
Eric Hollies puts today's coalition government in historical perspective by looking back on the brutal public spending cuts imposed by the Thatcher government.... [read more]
Modern Football: Money, Hype and Hysteria
John Green looks at how the status of the 'beautiful game' has changed in recent years.... [read more]
The Money Gusher
The oil industry’s decommissioning costs will dwarf those of nuclear power. The money being made now should be put aside to meet them, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Choice… or No Choice: We Say John4leader!
Steve Jones calls on the left to get behind John McDonnell's candidacy for the Labour leadership.... [read more]
Morality Policing
The police treat protests and festivals as a threat to their power, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
War With the Ghosts
George Monbiot asks: what are our nuclear weapons for, and who controls them? ... [read more]
Venezuela’s Chavez Calls for Calm after Violent Protests
A concerted campaign of destablisation from Venezuela's corporate media has fomented violent anti-Chavez demonstrations by right-wing students in Merida, as Tamara Pearson reports.... [read more]
Khaled Taja: The Anthony Quinn of Arab Drama
Khaled Taja, 70 years old and the iconic figure of Arabic drama, is planning to play the leading role in a movie about the tunnels of Gaza, writes Iqbal Tamimi.... [read more]
Requiem for a Crowded Planet
George Monbiot's analysis of the failure of the climate talks.... [read more]
UK Libel Law Needs Reforming
Two high-profile cases in 2009 have highlighted the desperate need for reform of the UK's libel laws, as Demetrius Notice explains.... [read more]
The Ease of Righteous Causes: What to Feel About Undocumented Migration
People should stop thinking about undocumented migrants merely as victims, argues Laura Agustín.... [read more]
If Nothing Else, Save Farming
It’s probably too late to prepare for peak oil, but we can at least try to salvage food production, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Cuts, Cuts ... And Yet More Cuts!
Steve Jones argues that Britain's three main political parties are engaged in a 'race to the bottom' on public spending.... [read more]
The Great Cop-Out
Impeded by Gordon Brown, the G20 has decided that bankers won’t be properly regulated, as George Monbiot explains.... [read more]
Should We Seek to Save Industrial Civilisation? A Debate with Paul Kingsnorth
Guardian journalist George Monbiot discusses climate change with the Oxford-based environmentalist Paul Kingsnorth.... [read more]
Politically Transmitted Disease
Rising rates of teen pregnancy and STDs in the United States are the result of programmes intended to stamp them out, argues George Monbiot.... [read more]
Matter of the Heart
Uri Avnery looks back over the first 100 days of Binyamin Netanyahu's second term as Israeli Prime Minister.... [read more]
Political Crisis Deepens in Britain
Rob Sewell picks apart the media furore over the MPs' expenses scandal which has rocked British politics over the past fortnight.... [read more]
Captive Knowledge
The funding for academic research has been taken over by business, says George Monbiot.... [read more]
Budget: Where’s Our Bail-out?
As New Labour announces its new budget, Socialist Appeal's Mick Brooks provides his assessment of the British economic malaise.... [read more]
Hillsborough Twenty Years On
With the nation marking the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough tragedy, Steve Jones reflects on the UK's worst stadium disaster.... [read more]
Gutter Press Campaign Aims to Distort Union Demands
Rob Sewell on the mainstream press's campaign to discredit the unions in the wake of recent strike action.... [read more]
Day of Celebrations across Venezuela for Revolution’s 10th Anniversary
Tamara Pearson on the celebrations marking the tenth anniversary of Hugo Chavez's presidency. ... [read more]
Banks in Crisis? Take them Over
With politicians and financial experts grasping at straws in their efforts to resolve the worst economic crisis in decades, Mick Brooks outlines the case for the nationalisation of the banking system.... [read more]
Iraq's US Security Charade
As the mainstream media complacently celebrate the security pact which purports to confer independence upon the puppet regime in Baghdad, Ramzy Baroud provides a withering assessment of what the agreement really means.... [read more]
£50bn Bail-out Will Not Stop the Rot
Socialist Appeal's Mick Brooks on the UK government's financial bail-out package.... [read more]
Congress Confronts Its Contradictions
George Monbiot on why it's ordinary taxpayers who will pay the price for the incompetence of big finance.... [read more]
Bail-out Blackmail
Mick Brooks on the truth behind the US government's bail-out of the financial sector.... [read more]
Smuggling Music and Sex Education: 'Bravo' Magazine in the German Democratic Republic
Alexa Van Sickle looks back on a popular magazine which achieved cult status in East Germany during the Cold War era.... [read more]
Guardian columnist George Monbiot on....fruit.... [read more]
Manufactured Famine
George Monbiot on the European trade initiatives which are likely to exacerbate existing food shortages in the developing world.... [read more]
The Magic Pudding
George Monbiot on why the US government still pouring billions into missile defence.... [read more]
US Campaign Group Calls For General Strike
Robert Yourell of the American campaign group VoteStrike.com believes a general strike in September would send a strong message to Washingotn elites.... [read more]
Back to Boom and Bust
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Losing the Will to Serve
With below-inflation pay rises and increased targets, no wonder Labour has lost the votes of the public sector workers who keep this country going.... [read more]
Hedge Funds, Speculation and Capitalism
With market speculation very much in the news at the moment, Mick Brooks examines the phenomenon of the hedge fund, and its role in the current economic malaise.... [read more]
We Must Escape the Neverland of Market Fundamentalism
Neal Lawson, Chair of the campaign group Compass, believes the Labour party must free itself from New Labour's fixation with market fundamentalism and return to social democratic values.... [read more]
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Left-wing coalition group Left List offer their verdict on the local elections.... [read more]
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A courtroom ban on burkas is not racist - just practical.... [read more]
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As government documents show, Sir Nicholas Stern accidentally launched a trade in human lives.... [read more]
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Home » Women’s Table Tennis Shines at NCTTA Championships
Women’s Table Tennis Shines at NCTTA Championships
By Andy Kanengiser
NCTTA Media Chair
(Pictured above Wenting Zha of Texas Wesleyan; picture by Grant Bergmann)
Talented women with a passion for table tennis will showcase their favorite Olympic sport on a national stage in Texas.
Players from women’s teams at schools such as as Texas Wesleyan University and the University of California-Berkeley should rise to the occasion at the 2018 championships in Round Rock. Cal-Berkeley is led by Lily Zhang, a Team USA player, who propelled the Lady Bears to a first-place finish at the 2017 championships in Wisconsin. Texas Wesleyan women were the runner-ups a year ago at the NCTTA’s biggest tournament of the season.
Look for women’s teams at other schools like the University of Minnesota, the University of British Columbia in Canada and Lindenwood University in Missouri to give chase, and win big games, too, in 2018. About 250 of the best collegiate players in the USA and Canada will square off April 20-22 at the Round Rock Sports Center near Austin.
Doru Gheorghe, head coach for the TWU Rams women’s team beginning in May 2016, is again leading another solid group on the Fort Worth campus. He’s a former longtime head coach of the USA women’s national table tennis team. His service there began in 1998.
His Texas Wesleyan roster will include stellar student-athletes like Wenting Zha. Born in China, she’s been a USA resident for some time.
Wenting brings skills to the table with paddle in hand, but she’s also a bright student. She began working on her MBA at Texas Wesleyan last Fall. “She’s a very talented athlete and a great student,’’ says Coach Jasna Rather, who heads the university’s table tennis program. “We are lucky to have someone of her caliber on the team.’’
Wenting Zha shined with her Texas Wesleyan University teammates to achieve a first-place finish at the NCTTA’s 2018 South Regionals. The games were held at the Sid Richardson Center on the Fort Worth campus in late February.
The perennial national champs, Texas Wesleyan captured five of the six championship titles at stake at the NCTTA’s 2017 championships last April in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
At the Texas divisionals in early February, the Texas Wesleyan’s powerful women’s lineup went 3-0, with perfect 4-0 scores. Wenting Zha ended up at the top spot, followed by teammates Yue Wu, Edina Haracic and Viyaleta Manastyrskaya.
It’s hard to say who’s the most talented player on the Lady Rams team.
“Our top three players are at a similar level, and basically share the 1-3 position, and then strong 4 and 5 athletes as well,’’ Rather said.
Other squads the Texas Wesleyan Lady Rams will face in the 2018 championships, she said, “are very strong. It is getting tougher and tougher to make the top 4 in coed and women’s teams,’’ Coach Rather said. “As always, our team will fight hard.’’
Cal-Berkeley’s team received a major boost when Ohlone College table tennis standout Ying Wang transferred to the school. That big announcement came in June 2017. The 22-year-old sensation from China and economics major at Ohlone College didn’t miss a beat when she became a California Bear last Fall. The 5’3” Wang fell in love with the academic environment and zeal that Cal students have for their education.
NCTTA President Willy Leparulo says the women’s teams to beat at the late April tournament will remain Texas Wesleyan University and California-Berkeley.
But he believes other squads will make some noise in Round Rock. “The University of Minnesota and the University of British Columbia are no walk overs,’’ Leparulo said. “These teams feature stars in the making and could make a run at the title.’’
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Local Comic Shop Day – Sat Nov 19, 2016
Posted on October 17, 2016 by ndcweb
Limited exclusives will be available from Marvel, DC, Image, Dark Horse, and so many more! (While supplies last!)
50% Off all regular back issues & $1 books!!
Meet local artists!
Artists by location: Century III:
Geoff Munn
Geoff Munn is a Pittsburgh based Freelance Animator/Illustrator with experience in Video Game Design, Animation, Comics, Multimedia, and Graphic Design. He self publishes the comics “#parenting” and “Interstellar Squad” online, and self publishes “Kiosk: Life in Neutral” in trades. 2016 has seen the first collection of “#parenting” published, with volume 2 coming by the end of the year.
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Josh Bommer
Bomtron Art is the handle used by Joshua Bommer, an illustrator and pop culture artist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His subject matter covers a wide cross section of comic books, television, and film. In his professional life he has created art for Topps and LucasFilm and would also love to create some art for you.
Nathanael Batchelor
Nathanael Batchelor is a freelance comic/concept artist, as well as a voice actor, sculptor, and special effects/makeup artist. He has worked on Adventure a Week and three RPG books, Veranthea Codex, Hypercorps 2099 as the lead artist, and Mists of Akuma.
Marvin Wynn
Marvin Wynn is a resident of Pittsburgh PA, and begun crafting the story of The Edge in 1992. The story went through multiple iterations and story changes before starting work with Mark V. It was then that the story settled into what it is today. Marvin is an avid gamer siting Uncharted as his favorite video game series.
Pittsburgh Mills: Jared Catherine
Jared Catherine is a cartoonist and baseball aficionado who resides in Greensburg, PA. When he’s not at his day job or at a Pittsburgh Pirates game he’s at his drawing board making his own comic series; Incrediman Comix. He’s made some mini-comics too; Mean Face, The Expressionless, Squatch Bros with Shawn Atkins and the critically acclaimed Walrus series with Brian John Mitchell. Jared’s stuff has appeared here & there since 1996, starting with a series of Incrediman strips for his high school newspaper and a “controversial” series of editorial cartoons for Penn State Universities’ Daily Collegian. He has also contributed to a few Pittsburgh based comic anthologies, including Memory & Love & Monsters.
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James Sims
JW’s career started in 1995 with his very first BOBA FETT drawing. “I posted it on Facebook just to show my friends and see what they thought. The reaction was more than I had ever expected. I was off drawing like crazy, and before I knew it I had people offering to pay me to draw them something and HOOLIGAN ALLEY PRODUCTIONS was born.”
In 2017, JW battled illness and an amputation; all the while, his art had been the thing that kept his head above water. That’s when he decided, there is no better time than now, to pursue his dream and resurrect ‘DARKEST NIGHT’ (a comic he actually started in 1997). He began to plot out the first story arc and quickly realized he was going to need help writing this thing. At the same time JW started working on a short 5 page story entitled, ‘EL DIABLO AZUL: IRISH WAKE’. The story was written by Derek Adnams and features the character El Diablo Azul created by Michael Waggoner.JW then enlisted the help of first time comic writer Stephen Kelley. JW and Stephen worked together to flesh out the first two issues of ‘DARKEST NIGHT’. At the same time JW had several other ideas for books and one of these ideas was called, ‘FALL FROM GRACE’ (originally titled Hope Falls) with writer, Daniel Hamm and illustrator, Roy Stewart.
Currently JW has become the artist on “Sinful Justice” for Virtuosity Entertainment and writer Stephen Dodd (issue #1 currently available). He has also done the colors for comics “Police State” #2 (Nathaniel Broadus), “Arcane” by Ross Kennedy, among some other stuff that have not been announced yet.
Cranberry:
Jack Vasvary
Jack Vasvary is a freelance artist from Pittsburgh. He studied Visual Arts at Radford University as well as Multimedia Technologies at Pittsburgh Technical Institute. While attending Radford University, he was a staff writer and graphic artist for Whim – Radford University’s online magazine. His one-panel cartoons, inspired by Gary Larson’s The Far Side, often mash up pop culture references that show off his inner geek and unique sense of humor. He has also done color work for the third installment of John Davis and Patrick Ebel’s comic book “Worlds Apart” as well as “The Adventures of Steeldog and Steel Puppy: The Garden Party” and the upcoming issue of “Steel Man”. Jack has also designed artwork for the table-top gaming company Wynner’s Circle Games including upcoming game “Squish.” Finally, he is working on his first graphic novel, Hammurabi, which he hopes to have published soon.
NDC is currently looking for local creators for Local Comic Shop Day to be featured at our Butler and Ohio Valley Stores. If you are interested in being a guest please email our General Manager Jon at Jonengel(at)ndcomics.com
Puppet Master Beer Premier Sat Nov 19, 2016
Our owner, Todd McDevitt, partners with Shubrew in Zelienople, Pa and Action Lab Entertainment to bring you BLADE’S BLOODY BARLEYWINE!
Available on Local Comic Shop Day Nov. 19. The comic book and the bloody brew will be available at two New Dimension Comics events: Nov. 19 noon to 3 p.m. at New Dimensions’ store in Century III Mall, West Mifflin, and from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Pittsburgh Mills store in Tarentum.
Fans of horror films or craft beers will be able to drink this limited release brew on Oct. 25 at the ShuBrew Brewery in Zelienople during its Halloween party. It will continue to be on sale at the brewery after the event.
As for the comic book to peruse while imbibing, an exclusive Puppet Master variant cover comic book was designed with special art also included on the beer label. Only 500 copies have been produced.
Puppet Master comic writer Shawn Gabborin and label artist Chad Cicconi will be there to sign autographs alongside representatives of Action Lab that produced the variant cover.
Check out this awesome article for more details!
http://m.ellwoodcityledger.com/mobile/news/local_news/blood-red-beer-special-comic-book-collaboration-brewing-for-halloween/article_8199805a-8b28-11e6-a912-cf1c94a8de9d.html
Halloween Comics Fest Oct 29, 2016! – All Locations!
Posted on October 1, 2016 by ndcweb
Saturday Oct 29th – All Locations!
FREE Halloween Comics!
Kids coloring sheets!
Come in costume and get 10% OFF purchase
Everyone who comes in costume gets their name in a drawing for a weekend pass for 3 rivers comicon 2017! 1 winner per location!
Costume contest! Winners announced Nov 1st per.
1st wins a Prize box with Three graphic novels, $25 gift card, & a Signed comic! 1 winner per location!
Kids coloring sheets with original art by DC & Marvel Artist Scott McDaniel!
Artist by location:
Century III:
Pittsburgh Mills:
John Martin is a Digital Painter from the Pittsburgh area who creates original paintings based on Comics and other Pop Culture characters. If you like Batman, Spiderman, Doctor Who, Star Wars, and even some new Star Trek prints . . . . You found the right artist! John will also be accepting commissions during and after the show.
Jared Catherine
Collin Richards
Colin Richards is a freelance illustrator and artist from Western Pennsylvania. He specializes in pen-and-ink and graphite drawings of horror, sci-fi, and fantasy themes and is greatly inspired by golden-age illustrators and classic fantasy art. Connect with Colin at http://www.colinrichardsart.com or http://www.facebook.com/colinrichardsart.
Ohio Valley:
Justin Birch
Born in the hills of West Virginia and raised on a diet of pepperoni rolls and Ecto Cooler Hi-C, Justin surprised everyone by surviving to adulthood. Now he letters comics for some pretty awesome publishers like Action Lab Entertainment, Broken Icon Comics, CAE Studios, Rising Sun Comics, and Source Point Press. His eventual dream is the same as everyone else – to work full time from home in his underwear.
NDC is currently looking for local creators for Halloween Comics Fest to be featured at our Butler and Ohio Valley Stores. If you are interested in being a guest please email our General Manager Jon at Jonengel(at)ndcomics.com
Don’t miss out on the Mall Halloween festivities where we have stores as well!
Century III and Pittsburgh Mills – Thurs Oct 27
Butler – Weds Oct 26
3 Rivers Comicon Tickets On Sale Oct 1!
3 Rivers Comicon tickets go on sale Saturday Oct 1 at noon!
Don’t get stuck standing in line! Get your tickets from Oct 1 thru Dec 31, 2016 to get last years pricing!
Please note you will save on service fees when you buy your tickets at your local New Dimension Comics!
Get your tickets here www.3riverscomicon.com
Major guest announcements coming soon! You will not want to miss 3RC in 2017, we promise!
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#25: Naked Lunch
(USA, 1991; dir. David Cronenberg; scr. David Cronenberg; cin. Peter Suschitzky; with Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Roy Scheider, Julian Sands, Joseph Scorsiani, Monique Mercure)
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The first time I saw Naked Lunch, in May 1998, I wasn't all that crazy about it. I had just finished an eight-hour shift of my fume-heavy janitorial job, and maybe the psychedelic misadventures of a laconic exterminator hit too close to home? But the film presented its own problems, blending the qualities of an unruly dream, a spill of looseleaf papers, and a congested pipe. Spectacles seemed lodged in the film's mind, heavy in texture and stubbornly recurrent, without offering the viewer much help in unpacking them. Even for a portrait of a deeply troubled subject, the unwitting wife-killer and deadpan exile Bill Lee, the movie felt divided against itself. Images, subplots, even locations keep shuffling, and questions of perspective are multiply complicated by imaginative fantasy, narcotic abandon, and traumatic disavowal. Still, the plasticky look of the film and of its signature props work completely against these diaphanous tilts: the heavily armored beetle-writers, the reptilian Mugwumps, the giant steel cage where the original human centipede murders and sodomizes a vulnerable maghrebin. Most of this compelled me, but either failed (I'd have said then) or refused (I'd say now) to compel in the same way. And this was back in the day when Internal Consistency and Fluid Articulation reigned even more than they do now as traits I demanded from "good" movies. I might not have revisited the film if I weren't so enthralled by Cronenberg's Dead Ringers and Crash, if I weren't so enraptured with Judy Davis's brilliant, casually bilious take on the ill-fated Joan Lee, or if I lacked the context of movies opening in theaters around that time. These encompassed LGBT films that weren't the insolent pastiches of early-90s New Queer Cinema, because their formal claims seemed either more modest (The Opposite of Sex, High Art) or quite baroque but to unclear political and rhetorical ends (Psycho, Velvet Goldmine). The strangeness of Naked Lunch suddenly seemed to mediate the challenging, queer-inclined representations of its early-90s cohort and the rococo yet somewhat inchoate stylistic experiments of a decade later.
From all this a book was eventually born, in which I have plenty to say about Naked Lunch as both an artistic feat and a theoretical proposition. Through all that process of fortuitous timing, endless revision, and steady career-building, this outlandishly, self-consciously unlovable movie became quite dear to me. I owe it so much; I'm so incredibly fond of it. I also feel certain, even as I stand completely behind all my book's claims about Naked Lunch (and I have heard readers describe that chapter as exhaustively detailed, for better or worse), that I performed something similar on the movie as Cronenberg performed on William Burroughs's novel. I configured the movie in the image of my own obsessions with it, which make some of its aspects primary (its pansexuality) and others less than they might have been (its Orientalism). I made nothing up, but I did remake, and thought a lot during and after the writing about the implications of this process, as unavoidable critically as it is artistically. Burroughs had or at least performed remarkable equanimity about Cronenberg's massive changes to his novel's incidents, arc, eroticism, and tone. "He didn't do anything to my book," he told a reporter who went fishing for recriminations. "My book's right there, on the shelf." Cronenberg, having boldly altered so many sources of his scripts, surely wouldn't mind. Peter Weller, whom I met once while writing the book, and was initially quite agitated about my projecting contemporary paradigms of gayness or queer politics onto the movie (much less the novel), started digging my recombinatory approach the more we spoke about it. This was my first experience feeling a creator's approval for the use I was making of his own artistry, and of course I enjoyed that.
Still, the approval of particular people, actual or imagined, didn't teach me as much as the process of writing the book did: that dichotomoies of looseness vs. loyalty are just as inadequate in framing how humanist scholars treat our objects of study as they are in organizing our ideas about book-to-film adaptation. The details always tell a more complicated story. An unexpected corollary to this epiphany was that a familiar adage about Naked Lunch—that it's one of the screen's best, most honest allegories of the process of writing—finally resonated for me. In truth, I'd often found this assertion high-handed and self-enclosing, like when people underscore Dawn of the Dead's critique of commercialism. These are the kinds of theses that can draw almost every detail of the film under their umbrella, which is another way of saying they are unhelpfully broad and don't necessarily go anywhere. Naked Lunch sometimes seems quite arch in how it invokes the Beat cohort (Ginsberg, Kerouac, etc.) and a bit indulgent in staging how it feels to churn out a book, as though delirium tremens and repeated murders are both tropic for and subservient to a more sacrosanct theme of writer's block. This is another way of saying I still don't love everything about Naked Lunch. It's a little besotted with its ideas about literature and the agonies of the artist, only seeming to repudiate any hint of the "precious." The Benway/Fadela stuff is hard to embrace, or to perceive as totally successful. Ditto the Yves/Kiki dynamics, and the refractions of John and Jane Bowles. But what I didn't "get" and, more than that, didn't love about the film as a finished work I wound up getting and loving once I appropriated it as a text and started creating with it, from it, alongside it. That changed my whole relationship to movies and to writing about them, demanding more rigor but also releasing me into new creativities. The movie is a favorite because it challenged so much of what I assumed it implied for a movie to be a "favorite." You can easily over-tire of the films you spend years writing about, so lately I don't pop Naked Lunch into the Blu-ray player all that often. But in my mind, it's always spinning.
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Jimmy DELANEY 1935-1939
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Name: James "Jimmy" Delaney
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Clearly one of the most remarkable football players of all time is Jimmy Delaney. He is known of course nowadays as the grandfather of John Kennedy, Celtic's talented defender currently recovering from a dreadful knee injury. But who was this man, Jimmy Delaney, and what did he achieve? His achievements are 305 appearances for Celtic between 1934 and 1946 (sadly so many of them in unofficial wartime competitions), two Scottish League winners medals, one Scottish Cup winners medal, one Empire Exhibition Trophy medal, one Glasgow Cup medal, three Glasgow Charity Cup medals and 13 Scottish Caps. All right, one may say, that is not all that impressive. Other players (of inferior quality) could be adduced with better records, but Delaney's record is only half the story. Jimmy is unique in that he won a Cup winners medal in Scotland , England and Northern Ireland with Celtic in 1937, Manchester United in 1948 and Derry City in 1954. He also almost did the same in the Southern Ireland Cup, but his team Cork Athletic were beaten by Shamrock Rovers in the Final of 1956. Jimmy also played for Aberdeen , Falkirk and Elgin City . And yet he was a very unfortunate player. On April 1 st 1939, with the Germans already in Prague and casting covetous eyes on Poland, in a League game against Arbroath, Jimmy suffered not so much a breaking of the arm as a shattering and splintering of the bone, as he fell and was inadvertently trodden upon by Arbroath's Attilio Becchi. Becchi, unashamedly Celtic daft and enlisted in the British Army in spite of his Italian origins, would be distraught in the war years about his part in that cruellest of injuries, confessing to my father that he wished he could play time over again and avoid the Jimmy Delaney whom he adored. This broken arm (amputation was considered at one point) kept Jimmy out of football for two years, but he didn't really miss much as Celtic floundered in the war years. But he was playing again by 1941, and indeed throughout the rest of the war, often the only bright light in an otherwise depressing spectrum. In the same way as Patsy Gallacher was the talk of the trenches in 1914-18, it was Jimmy Delaney who warmed many a heart in Africa , Italy or the High Seas. And how appropriate it was that it was Jimmy Delaney who restored heart to a war ravaged nation when he scored his famous last minute winner for Scotland against England in the Victory International of April 1946! Jimmy's great years for Celtic had been from 1934 to 1939. On the right wing, it was clear that Maley had once again turned up trumps. Delaney was fast, direct, could cross and had the disconcerting ability to cut inside a defender and charge into the box. He could also take a goal. Perhaps his most famous goal-scoring exploit was the hat-trick he scored against Rangers in the Final of the Glasgow Charity Cup in 1936. Delaney was surprised that Maley didn't greet him with more enthusiasm. “Don't let that go to your head”, growled Maley. Celtic won the League in 1936 and 1938, each time playing superb football and delighting the hearts even of non-Celtic fans by their brilliant ability to switch position. Delaney, Buchan (or MacDonald), Crum, Divers and Murphy were one of the best forward lines in the history of the Club – and there were many competitors for that claim. In 1937, Celtic won the Scottish Cup, 146,433 (and a lot more) seeing Delaney inspiring Celtic to beat Aberdeen only a week after a similar crowd had seen Delaney inspire Scotland to do the same against England . And then in 1938 came the Empire Exhibition Trophy. ”Fetch a polis man, Everton's getting murdered” was the cry in the Final at Ibrox as Jimmy roasted the Everton defence. In February 1946, Celtic's chaotic management allowed the 31-year old to go to Manchester United, but he still had ten years football left in him! The winning of the FA Cup against Blackpool in 1948 was obviously a highlight of his career, but he would always look in the evening paper to see the Celtic result, or ask the Old Trafford backroom staff to listen to the radio. In this he was hardly discouraged by Matt Busby, who had a similar problem in that Busby too suffered from the endogenous and terminal condition called being “Celtic daft”. Indeed how galling it was in these awful days of the late 1940s to think that Old Trafford had two of the most Celtic daft people on the planet, who would have done anything for a return to the ground they loved! In 1950, Delaney returned to Scotland , to Aberdeen , and it was because of Jimmy Delaney, now almost completely bald (he had been shedding hair even before the war) that Aberdeen were always given a warm and affectionate welcome at Parkhead. He then moved to Falkirk , where the Celtic crowd once famously turned on their full back Frank Meechan for fouling the great Jimmy. He then went to Ireland before finishing up with Elgin City . But he was never anything other than Jimmy Delaney of Celtic, nor would he ever wish to be. In similar fashion to Jimmy Quinn of old, Jimmy Delaney remained until his death in 1989 the modest, unassuming old Celt that everyone would have wanted him to be. He was also renowned as a very chivalrous and gentlemanly player – a great role model for children and he once, when invited to present the prizes as a School Sports Day, told the children, “Better to be a Champion Sport, than a Sports' Champion”. His son Pat Delaney played for Motherwell in the 1960s, and as we have said, his grandson John Kennedy (who has been similarly cursed by serious injury as his illustrious grandfather was) will, we hope, don the green and white Hoops for Celtic once again and restore for the Delaney family of Cleland the glory that is due for such an outstanding Celtic tradition.
On August 18th 1934 Jimmy Delaney made his Celtic first team debut in a league encounter at Hearts. The match finished goalless, but it had been an exciting spectacle and one in which Delaney had made a pleasing contribution. A Celtic team going through a period of transition would suffer inconsistent form for much of the following months. Nevertheless, the performances of Delaney were a cause for optimism for the Parkhead faithful.
An exciting old-fashioned winger, Jimmy was not only blessed with both pace and skill but was as brave and hardworking as anyone who has stepped onto a football pitch.
He quickly won a place in the hearts of the Celtic support with displays which coupled his thrilling (if raw) ability to a never say die attitude.
Although he could be over-wed by the pressence of his more illustrious team-mates Jimmy relished life at Celtic. He loved the club and his pride in wearing the Hoops was impossible to disguise. In 1935 Jimmy attended the funeral of Tom Maley and as a Celtic shirt was draped over the coffin young Delaney earnestly remarked: "I hope that they will do that for me."
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Re: Jimmy DELANEY 1935-1939
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He was primarily a right winger, but I also read in a newspaper from the 50s that he played as a left winger too.
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The forthcoming horror miniseries from Unnatural creator will launch in the United States this March 2020 from Image Comics
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Hungary is considered as land-locked country in central Europe. Today this has turn out to be world well-known destination acknowledged for the beauty of its capital, Budapest, its culture, history, unique language, and the interesting cuisine. Additionally it is famend for its fascinating and distinctive delicacies which includes varied unique recipes. Genuine Hungarian dishes are positively not for individuals on eating regimen; they are bit too heavy containing lots of fats, nonetheless their rich flavour, aroma and texture compensate you for the slightly excessive calorie intake.
Hungarian cuisine has been influenced by the French, Germans, Italians and Turks, to not mention the Polish, Slavs and Asians. The result's a rich mix of one-pot meals cooked for hours over open fires and pastries that out-beat any dish in no time. They are well-identified for Ungarische Spezialitäten their frequent use of eggs and bitter cream. One explicit ingredient that is found in most of the Hungarian dishes is Paprika, adding an uncommon style to them.
Essentially the most well-known of Hungarian dishes is surely goulash which can also be known in Hungary as "gulyás" or "gulyásleves". You probably have had probability earlier to style overseas adaptation of the dish then you is perhaps surprised when you taste its traditional version. Hungarian goulash is prepared as a soup, utilizing beef shoulder, shin or shank, along with other ingredients such as onions, potatoes, scorching peppers and tomatoes, by slow cooking in a cauldron and has a really particular taste of paprika. Through the cooking process, the soup turns into very thick, which might be why many individuals think of goulash as a stew.
Goulash is such reputed Hungarian delicacies that each have become synonym to each other now. Anywhere on the planet you point out the name goulash it's instantly related to Hungary with no query asked. Hungarian goulash is neither a soup nor a stew, it's somewhere in between; though in Hungary it's considered reasonably to be a soup than a stew, so when you look for it amongst Soups on restaurant menus.
Hungarian goulash is traditional dish prepared utilizing a cauldron often known as a "bográc" over an open fire. First chunks of beef, normally shin, shoulder or shank, are seasoned with salt, pepper and paprika. The meat is browned, and then chopped onions are added. Subsequent stock or water is added to make a soup. The soup is slowly simmered for an extended period, and on account of the collagen within the meat turning to gelatin, will gradually thicken. Depending on the precise recipe, other ingredients may be added, comparable to tomatoes, chopped potatoes, and sizzling peppers. Herbs are used for flavoring, and a few cooks might also add a bit of white wine or vinegar when cooking.
Traditional Hungarian goulash soup recipes includes of a beef dish cooked with onions, Hungarian red paprika powder, tomatoes and a few green pepper. Potato and noodles are also added based on some recipes. The opposite definition of goulash says that it is sometimes used to imply any combination of numerous things. This is something you wouldn't wish to devoid your taste bud of; it is advisable to have it to know what you've gotten been missing all along.
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Queen Modjadji is a direct descendant of the once powerful royal house of Monomotapa, which ruled over the Karanga people in Zimbabwe in the 15th and 16th centuries. Rider Haggard’s classical novels King Solomon’s Mines and She drew the world’s attention to the legendary Rain Queen of the Balobedu Peoples.
The rule of South Africa’s present Rain Queen, Makobo Modjadji VI, began on 16 April 2003 when the 25-year-old succeeded her grandmother Mokope Modjadji V. Her own mother, Princess Maria Modjadji, the real successor, died two days before the last Rain Queen. Makobo Modjadji is the first rain queen to have received formal education, having completed high school. Her predecessors were:
Rain Queen Maselekwane Modjadji I (1800-54)
Rain Queen Masalanabo Modjadji II (1854-95)
Rain Queen Khetoane Modjadji III (1896-1959)
Rain Queen Makoma Modjadji IV (1959-80)
Rain Queen Mokope Modjadji V (1981-2001)
The Kingdom of Modjadji situated in the Limpopo Province comprises of a rural community of over 150 villages. The Balobedu Kingdom has got a population of more than a million people. Apart from her ruling duties, Modjadji has got the duty of providing her nation with rain.
Many legends are told about the origins of Queen Modjadji. According to one of the most acceptable versions an old Karanga chief from the Kingdom of Monomotapa (south-eastern Zimbabwe), was told by his ancestors in the 16th century that he must impregnate his daughter, Dzugundini. This would bestow on the princess rainmaking powers, which would expand the wealth of his kingdom. This princess was called Modjadji or “ruler of the day”.
Early In the 19th century Modjadji’s tribe, known as the Balobedu, moved further south into the fertile Molototsi Valley, where they founded present day Ga-Modjadji.
According to custom, the Queen must eschew public functions. She communicates to her people via her male councillors and indunas, village headmen. In November of every year she directs the annual rainmaking ceremony at her royal compound in Khetlhakone village. The queen never marries, but she bears children by her close relatives. She is cared for by her ‘wives’, which are sent from the many villages in Ga-Modjadji. When she is nearing death, she appoints her eldest daughter as her successor and then she ingests poison.
For centuries many tribes have respected the Queen’s powers. Even Shaka Zulu sent his top emissaries to request the Queen’s blessings. With the influence of Christian missionaries, many of these traditional customs have been discontinued. In June 2001 both the ruling Queen and her eldest daughter passed away.
An archaeologist of the University of South Africa, Sidney Miller, has excavated the ruins of the original royal kraal. Archaeological finds in Lebweng village include stone foundations, pottery, and middens. In addition these ruins bear resemblance to the famous ruins discovered at Thulamela near Phafuri in the far north of the Kruger National Park and the Great Zimbabwe ruins in south-eastern Zimbabwe. It lends further credibility to the many legends about the origins of Ga-Modjadji.
On 12 June 2005 Queen Modjadji died, and a successor has still to be appointed. The present regent in Prince Mpapatla Bakhoma Modjadji.
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Lithium and Pregnancy - The Latest From the NEJM
Lithium and pregnancy have always been a major concern for psychiatrists, obstetricians, and of course women who need to take the medication for mood stabilization. In the Lithium Encyclopedia (published in 1983) - there is a chapter on the physiological effects of pregnancy and how that potentially affects lithium balance and a separate chapter on teratogenesis. That chapter describes the Lithium Baby Registry that was established in 1970 to collect information on the effects of lithium in pregnancy. In the first 10 years, 225 infants exposed to lithium were described and 25 had congenital malformations. Of these births 18/25 had cardiovascular abnormalities including Ebstein's anomaly, 7 were stillborn, 2 had Down's syndrome and 1 had intracerebral toxoplasmosis. The results suggested that lithium was a cardiovascular teratogen, but there was a question of reporting bias. That is, results consistent with the study concern about lithium being a teratogen were more likely to be reported than normal births.
Those references set the knowledge about lithium and pregnancy for all residents trained in my era in the late 1980s. The standard question by attendings and on examinations was: "What is the cardiac anomaly associated with intrauterine exposure to lithium?". The answer was Ebstein's anomaly. The follow up question was expected: "And what is Ebstein's anomaly?" In those days the short answer was downward displacement of the tricuspid valve into the right ventricle. Today Ebstein anomaly (no longer a possessive) is described in greater detail. A modern reference describes the extension of the tricupsid valve into the right atrium to the extent that most of the functional chamber chamber is collapse to a very small volume. In some cases it is collapsed to the right ventricular outflow tract. The downward valve displacement is due to a number of morphological abnormalities in the tricuspid valve. The myocardium is also abnormal because the valve tissue has failed to completely separate from the myocardium during fetal development - a process called delamination. That is associated with a thin and poorly contractile myocardium and poor right ventricle performance. There are several associated cardiac abnormalities including ventricular septal defect, patent foramen ovale, patent ductus arterious, and accessory conduction pathways that can lead to arrhythmias. The associated clinical syndromes of cyanosis, congestive heart failure and arrhythmia can occur in infancy to adulthood depending on the degree of anatomical disruption. The complications can be fatal at any age (2).
Ebstein abnormality is a preventable complication and one that must be avoided. In real life that is easier to say than do. In a controlled hospital or clinic environment it is a very straightforward process to take a history and determine the obstetric history and last menstrual period. Urine and serum pregnancy tests can be done for confirmation. The best advice to physicians in this situation is to treat very woman of childbearing age as if they were pregnant until proven otherwise. In my experience life is less regimented. There are lapses in contraception and planning that lead to pregnancies in women taking lithium who know that exposure to the infant is an avoidable risk. Many of these women are on lithium maintenance. Since lithium remains a mainstay of treatment for bipolar disorder and may be a superior agent in postpartum psychosis - the question of teratogenicity remains an important one.
There have been a number of estimates of congenital malformations due to psychiatric medications and I recently reviewed a few of them and cited extensive database references. In one of the reviews very large databases were examined looking for major congenital malformations to lithium exposed women especially Ebstein anomaly.
The New England Journal of Medicine published another large retrospective database study of the question of lithium exposure in pregnancy and risk of cardiac malformations. Their database involve a Medicaid cohort of 1,325,563 pregnancies over the ten year period between 2000 and 2010. In this cohort there were cardiac malformations noted in 16 of 663 (2.4%) lithium exposed infants. Lower rates of cardiac malformations were noted in nonexposed infants (1.15%) and lamotrigine exposed infants (1.39%). In addition there appeared to be a dose related effect with increasing risk ratio noted with increasing doses of lithium. For example at the dose of 600 mg or less/day the risk ratio was 1.11 but the risk ratio increased to 1.11 and 3.22 for doses of 601-900 mg/day and greater than 900 mg respectively.
The authors have a detailed report on how the cardiac malformations were determined. They make an interesting point that a misclassification bias can occur with Ebstein anomaly. Some clinicians may make the diagnosis of right ventricular outflow tract obstruction defects or Ebstein anomaly based on whether or not there has been a history of exposure to lithium. That may make it more likely to misclassify Ebstein anomaly. They provide data for the total prevalence of all cardiac malformations and cardiac malformations classified as right ventricular outflow obstruction. They were focused on "major cardiac defects that were likely to be consequential for the infant." The diagnostic codes had to be listed several times or associated with surgery.
The calculated prevalence of Ebstein abnormality in unexposed pregnancies was 7 cases per 100,000 live births. They did not provide the prevalence of Ebstein anomaly in the lithium exposed due to the low number. After a detailed analysis and analysis of possible sources of error like terminate pregnancies where lithium exposure occurred the authors conclude that lithium had a modest effect in terms of increased risk of cardiac malformations. Their final estimate was an increased risk of 1 additional case per 100 live births if the exposure occurred early in the pregnancy. They describe this as a modest increase in risk of cardiac malformations due to lithium. The difference in the ration of cardiac malformations in this study (16/663) compared with the Lithium Baby Registry (18/225) is probably due to a more rigorous methodology.
The authors looked at five sources of error in their final discussion of the results. For clinical psychiatrists the most relevant point was that other factors affecting treatment decisions in pregnancy were not investigated. They are considerable given that it is highly likely that the women being treated with lithium have severe mood disorders and suicide in the postpartum period in the number one cause of death. This study can best be viewed as a study that supports current clinical practice to avoid first trimester exposure to lithium by careful screening and then planning if additional adjustments need to be made for planned pregnancies based on the trimester. In those cases of accidental exposure, consultation with high risk obstetrics and a decision based on a detailed discussion with the patient is usually the preferred option.
1. Jefferson JW, Greist JH, Ackerman DL. Lithium Encyclopedia for Clinical Practice. Washington, DC; American Psychiatric Press, Inc., 1983: 264-265.
2. Connolly HM, Qureshi, MY. Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of Ebstein anomaly. In UpToDate, Greutmann M, Fulton DR, Yeon SB (Accessed on June 9, 2017).
3. Patorno E, Huybrechts KF, Bateman BT, Cohen JM, Desai RJ, Mogun H, Cohen LS, Hernandez-Diaz S. Lithium Use in Pregnancy and the Risk of Cardiac Malformations. N Engl J Med. 2017 Jun 8;376(23):2245-2254. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1612222.
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This hyperlink -w2eu.info - leads to an independent source of information for refugees coming to Europe. w2eu.info might be useful on their journey to and through Europe by giving access to counseling and useful contacts in different European countries.
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Model-based Optical Flow: Layers, Learning, and Geometry
Wulff, J.
Tuebingen University, April 2018 (phdthesis)
The estimation of motion in video sequences establishes temporal correspondences between pixels and surfaces and allows reasoning about a scene using multiple frames. Despite being a focus of research for over three decades, computing motion, or optical flow, remains challenging due to a number of difficulties, including the treatment of motion discontinuities and occluded regions, and the integration of information from more than two frames. One reason for these issues is that most optical flow algorithms only reason about the motion of pixels on the image plane, while not taking the image formation pipeline or the 3D structure of the world into account. One approach to address this uses layered models, which represent the occlusion structure of a scene and provide an approximation to the geometry. The goal of this dissertation is to show ways to inject additional knowledge about the scene into layered methods, making them more robust, faster, and more accurate. First, this thesis demonstrates the modeling power of layers using the example of motion blur in videos, which is caused by fast motion relative to the exposure time of the camera. Layers segment the scene into regions that move coherently while preserving their occlusion relationships. The motion of each layer therefore directly determines its motion blur. At the same time, the layered model captures complex blur overlap effects at motion discontinuities. Using layers, we can thus formulate a generative model for blurred video sequences, and use this model to simultaneously deblur a video and compute accurate optical flow for highly dynamic scenes containing motion blur. Next, we consider the representation of the motion within layers. Since, in a layered model, important motion discontinuities are captured by the segmentation into layers, the flow within each layer varies smoothly and can be approximated using a low dimensional subspace. We show how this subspace can be learned from training data using principal component analysis (PCA), and that flow estimation using this subspace is computationally efficient. The combination of the layered model and the low-dimensional subspace gives the best of both worlds, sharp motion discontinuities from the layers and computational efficiency from the subspace. Lastly, we show how layered methods can be dramatically improved using simple semantics. Instead of treating all layers equally, a semantic segmentation divides the scene into its static parts and moving objects. Static parts of the scene constitute a large majority of what is shown in typical video sequences; yet, in such regions optical flow is fully constrained by the depth structure of the scene and the camera motion. After segmenting out moving objects, we consider only static regions, and explicitly reason about the structure of the scene and the camera motion, yielding much better optical flow estimates. Furthermore, computing the structure of the scene allows to better combine information from multiple frames, resulting in high accuracies even in occluded regions. For moving regions, we compute the flow using a generic optical flow method, and combine it with the flow computed for the static regions to obtain a full optical flow field. By combining layered models of the scene with reasoning about the dynamic behavior of the real, three-dimensional world, the methods presented herein push the envelope of optical flow computation in terms of robustness, speed, and accuracy, giving state-of-the-art results on benchmarks and pointing to important future research directions for the estimation of motion in natural scenes.
Official link DOI Project Page [BibTex]
Wulff, J. Model-based Optical Flow: Layers, Learning, and Geometry Tuebingen University, April 2018 (phdthesis)
Virtual Human Bodies with Clothing and Hair: From Images to Animation
Guan, P.
Brown University, Department of Computer Science, December 2012 (phdthesis)
Guan, P. Virtual Human Bodies with Clothing and Hair: From Images to Animation Brown University, Department of Computer Science, December 2012 (phdthesis)
From Pixels to Layers: Joint Motion Estimation and Segmentation
Sun, D.
Brown University, Department of Computer Science, July 2012 (phdthesis)
Sun, D. From Pixels to Layers: Joint Motion Estimation and Segmentation Brown University, Department of Computer Science, July 2012 (phdthesis)
An Analysis of Successful Approaches to Human Pose Estimation
Lassner, C.
An Analysis of Successful Approaches to Human Pose Estimation, University of Augsburg, University of Augsburg, May 2012 (mastersthesis)
The field of Human Pose Estimation is developing fast and lately leaped forward with the release of the Kinect system. That system reaches a very good perfor- mance for pose estimation using 3D scene information, however pose estimation from 2D color images is not solved reliably yet. There is a vast amount of pub- lications trying to reach this aim, but no compilation of important methods and solution strategies. The aim of this thesis is to fill this gap: it gives an introductory overview over important techniques by analyzing four current (2012) publications in detail. They are chosen such, that during their analysis many frequently used techniques for Human Pose Estimation can be explained. The thesis includes two introductory chapters with a definition of Human Pose Estimation and exploration of the main difficulties, as well as a detailed explanation of frequently used methods. A final chapter presents some ideas on how parts of the analyzed approaches can be recombined and shows some open questions that can be tackled in future work. The thesis is therefore a good entry point to the field of Human Pose Estimation and enables the reader to get an impression of the current state-of-the-art.
Lassner, C. An Analysis of Successful Approaches to Human Pose Estimation An Analysis of Successful Approaches to Human Pose Estimation, University of Augsburg, University of Augsburg, May 2012 (mastersthesis)
Exploiting pedestrian interaction via global optimization and social behaviors
Leal-Taixé, L., Pons-Moll, G., Rosenhahn, B.
In Theoretic Foundations of Computer Vision: Outdoor and Large-Scale Real-World Scene Analysis, Springer, April 2012 (incollection)
Leal-Taixé, L., Pons-Moll, G., Rosenhahn, B. Exploiting pedestrian interaction via global optimization and social behaviors In Theoretic Foundations of Computer Vision: Outdoor and Large-Scale Real-World Scene Analysis, Springer, April 2012 (incollection)
Data-driven Manifolds for Outdoor Motion Capture
Pons-Moll, G., Leal-Taix’e, L., Gall, J., Rosenhahn, B.
In Outdoor and Large-Scale Real-World Scene Analysis, 7474, pages: 305-328, LNCS, (Editors: Dellaert, Frank and Frahm, Jan-Michael and Pollefeys, Marc and Rosenhahn, Bodo and Leal-Taix’e, Laura), Springer, 2012 (incollection)
video publisher's site pdf Project Page [BibTex]
Pons-Moll, G., Leal-Taix’e, L., Gall, J., Rosenhahn, B. Data-driven Manifolds for Outdoor Motion Capture In Outdoor and Large-Scale Real-World Scene Analysis, 7474, pages: 305-328, LNCS, (Editors: Dellaert, Frank and Frahm, Jan-Michael and Pollefeys, Marc and Rosenhahn, Bodo and Leal-Taix’e, Laura), Springer, 2012 (incollection)
Scan-Based Flow Modelling in Human Upper Airways
Perumal Nithiarasu, Igor Sazonov, Si Yong Yeo
In Patient-Specific Modeling in Tomorrow’s Medicine, pages: 241 - 280, 0, (Editors: Amit Gefen), Springer, 2012 (inbook)
Perumal Nithiarasu, Igor Sazonov, Si Yong Yeo Scan-Based Flow Modelling in Human Upper Airways In Patient-Specific Modeling in Tomorrow’s Medicine, pages: 241 - 280, 0, (Editors: Amit Gefen), Springer, 2012 (inbook)
An Introduction to Random Forests for Multi-class Object Detection
Gall, J., Razavi, N., van Gool, L.
code code for Hough forest publisher's site pdf Project Page [BibTex]
Gall, J., Razavi, N., van Gool, L. An Introduction to Random Forests for Multi-class Object Detection In Outdoor and Large-Scale Real-World Scene Analysis, 7474, pages: 243-263, LNCS, (Editors: Dellaert, Frank and Frahm, Jan-Michael and Pollefeys, Marc and Rosenhahn, Bodo and Leal-Taix’e, Laura), Springer, 2012 (incollection)
Weiss, A., Hirshberg, D., Black, M. J.
In Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision: Research Topics and Applications, pages: 99-118, 6, (Editors: Andrea Fossati and Juergen Gall and Helmut Grabner and Xiaofeng Ren and Kurt Konolige), Springer-Verlag, 2012 (incollection)
Weiss, A., Hirshberg, D., Black, M. J. Home 3D body scans from noisy image and range data In Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision: Research Topics and Applications, pages: 99-118, 6, (Editors: Andrea Fossati and Juergen Gall and Helmut Grabner and Xiaofeng Ren and Kurt Konolige), Springer-Verlag, 2012 (incollection)
Fields of experts
Fields of Experts are high-order Markov random field (MRF) models with potential functions that extend over large pixel neighborhoods. The clique potentials are modeled as a Product of Experts using nonlinear functions of many linear filter responses. In contrast to previous MRF approaches, all parameters, including the linear filters themselves, are learned from training data. A Field of Experts (FoE) provides a generic, expressive image prior that can capture the statistics of natural scenes, and can be used for a variety of machine vision tasks. The capabilities of FoEs are demonstrated with two example applications, image denoising and image inpainting, which are implemented using a simple, approximate inference scheme. While the FoE model is trained on a generic image database and is not tuned toward a specific application, the results compete with specialized techniques.
Roth, S., Black, M. J. Fields of experts In Markov Random Fields for Vision and Image Processing, pages: 297-310, (Editors: Blake, A. and Kohli, P. and Rother, C.), MIT Press, 2011 (incollection)
Spatial Models of Human Motion
Soren Hauberg
University of Copenhagen, 2011 (phdthesis)
Soren Hauberg Spatial Models of Human Motion University of Copenhagen, 2011 (phdthesis)
Model-Based Pose Estimation
In Visual Analysis of Humans: Looking at People, pages: 139-170, 9, (Editors: T. Moeslund, A. Hilton, V. Krueger, L. Sigal), Springer, 2011 (inbook)
book page pdf [BibTex]
Pons-Moll, G., Rosenhahn, B. Model-Based Pose Estimation In Visual Analysis of Humans: Looking at People, pages: 139-170, 9, (Editors: T. Moeslund, A. Hilton, V. Krueger, L. Sigal), Springer, 2011 (inbook)
Probabilistically modeling and decoding neural population activity in motor cortex
Black, M. J., Donoghue, J. P.
In Toward Brain-Computer Interfacing, pages: 147-159, (Editors: Dornhege, G. and del R. Millan, J. and Hinterberger, T. and McFarland, D. and Muller, K.-R.), MIT Press, London, 2007 (incollection)
Black, M. J., Donoghue, J. P. Probabilistically modeling and decoding neural population activity in motor cortex In Toward Brain-Computer Interfacing, pages: 147-159, (Editors: Dornhege, G. and del R. Millan, J. and Hinterberger, T. and McFarland, D. and Muller, K.-R.), MIT Press, London, 2007 (incollection)
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TIME FOR LABOUR TO LOOK REALITY IN THE FACE
It is reported that after a six hour meeting of Labour’s Scottish Executive nothing much was decided. But it seems safe to suppose that, in common with their comrades in the south, some time was allotted to apportioning blame. The media would have got a good kicking, which is not unreasonable given the number of outlets which were happy to be seen pulling the Boris bandwagon over the line. Many of their electronic cousins had a fairly undistinguished campaign too, proving all too susceptible to treating slices of Fake News from the number ten spin machine as veritable tablets of stone.
What is less clear is whether the gathering was able to contemplate the distressing news that some of the principle architects of recent Labour misfortune were actually seated round the table. The old maxim that those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it has never been more apposite. One Scottish commentator at the weekend, a time served opponent of any kind of devolved government, supposed that the loss of all but one of their seats could be laid at the door of London Labour leaders diluting and undermining the Scottish party’s clearcut hostility to another referendum. This particular chap might consider the possible benefits of stopping bashing his head against the same brick wall.
His mates in the deep south were meanwhile engaged in telling each other that there was nothing wrong with the Labour offer. And, given time and a fair wind, the temporary Tory voting working classes would see the error of their ways, and recognise that Jeremy might have been a prophet without honour in his own backyard, but that history would surely record his sainthood. They too seem to have perfected the mantra that ‘abody is out of step bar them; the keepers of the true flame of socialism. Here in Scotland of course the game is only at half time. Whatever else may have been settled in the early hours of Friday morning, matters constitutional gained a fresh head of steam. Hardly surprising, when Johnson’s tartan troops could speak of little else but independence, and the party of Scottish government was banging the drum for Indyref2.
But the Labour Party has a more checkered history than either. There was another rather infamous meeting of the same Scottish Executive in the early seventies, which voted by an admittedly small margin to set its face against an elected assembly. Rather embarrassingly they had to be reminded by head office that devolution was party policy. Then of course there was the unlovely George Cunningham MP whose infamous 40% rule was to scupper the ‘79 referendum result and help pave the way for 18 years of opposition and Mrs T and all her works. That particular referendum campaign was treated to the sight of the aforementioned commentator, joined at the hip to the late Tam Dalyell, traversing the land warning that devolution was the devil’s work.
Then, as now, the party couldn’t quite make up its mind about all this devo stuff. Whilst George Robertson famously predicted it would kill nationalism “stone dead”, Tam - the old Etonian who went red rather than blue – pronounced it the “slippery slope to separation.” I think Tam may just be ahead on points on this one. John Smith, who had piloted the doomed first Scotland Act over long weary nights through parliament, and Donald Dewar who, with colleagues, drafted the later one and took real pleasure in reading out that first historic line “there shall be a Scottish parliament”, were both committed to a parliament and signatories to the Claim of Right.
But even post Holyrood there remained a sceptical rump who doubtless helped persuade their brethren of the merits of linking up with the Tories for the Better Together Campaign in 2014. A campaign led by Alistair Darling (though his memoir suggests he was a somewhat reluctant general) and vocally supported by Gordon Brown, instigator of the Daily Record’s notorious front page Vow! Neither hostile to devolution, but both handmaidens of the No vote on independence. So then, as now, Labour leaders on both sides of the border were happy to sign up to the constitutional status quo, occasionally promising a few more beads to the natives if they would just stop being so damn restless. Then, as now, the Tories wrapped themselves in the union flag which apparently becomes increasingly precious the more Saltires are seen fluttering.
Yet now we seem, at last, to be in some sort of end game, and how the two main unionist parties play it will determine not just the future success or otherwise of the SNP but of their own parties in Scotland. (We might pause here to spare a thought for Willie Rennie who has not just failed to learn from his own party’s history but to read it up.) Already some all too familiar hints are being dropped into selective ears. Might Boris revive the F word and offer a form of federalism? Might there be a re-think on repatriating some long devolved powers to Westminster rather than Holyrood? Twitter too is seeing the revival of the bid for English independence from its troublesome neighbours.
We shall see. And we shall see quite soon. This week we will learn the shape of the Scottish Government’s bid to gain the power of decision over the holding and timing of another referendum. And Scottish Labour will have the opportunity to join the Tories to resist it tooth and nail as before. Alternatively they could reflect that whole tranches of their former support simply do not share their implacable opposition to real self determination for a nation which voted against both Boris and Brexit. Labour has often been a house divided on this issue, but the diehard unionist wing is now living in an increasingly small room.
In truth all parties should view another referendum on Scottish Independence as an opportunity. If the Tories are right and Scottish voters will say No, then their case will be tried, tested and made. Ditto Mr Leonard’s Scottish Labour party. The most obvious way to take the temperature of a post Brexit Scotland with Boris in charge is to put the question to the people and the issue to bed one way or another. I have spent this last weekend in Northern Ireland where, among other minor earthquakes, the Alliance Party made significant strides, particularly among young voters weary of sectarian politics. Their posters say “Had Enough? Demand Better.” I can think of worse slogans for the next Yes campaign.
First published in The National 16th January.
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TFM: Treballs de Final de Màster
TFM: Màster Universitari en Llengua Anglesa per al Comerç Internacional
Internacionalization of service firms: the case of consultancy firms and distance learning in the health and social care sector
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Cabrera Ros, José María
Saorín Iborra, Ana María
Tutor/Supervisor; Universitat.Departament
Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos
In this globalized world that we live in, internationalization has become an important phenomenon in the business environment. Nowadays, most companies aspire to expand their businesses abroad, no matter if they ... [+]
In this globalized world that we live in, internationalization has become an important phenomenon in the business environment. Nowadays, most companies aspire to expand their businesses abroad, no matter if they provide manufactured goods or services. In general, marketing has always been taught and studied from a manufacturing-only perspective. However, the truth is that the services sector has become one of the most important economic engines in today’s world, and its relevance is increasing. In fact, we live in a service economy, where services represent a 30 percent of the total world trade and, in territories like the European Union; they share the 50 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Despite its importance, the internationalization of service firms is a marketing field that still needs more research to be done, since its theories and studies have traditionally been created exclusively from a manufacturing perspective. The present Master’s Thesis will analyze the internationalization of service firms through the case of Índice Formación y Consultoría, a consultancy firm from Valencia which is planning on expanding its business to the United Kingdom. The company is specialized in the health and social care sector, and provides, not only consultancy services, but also distance learning courses for health and social care professionals in search of improving their training. The case study will create a marketing plan which will go through the main internationalization steps that the company should follow in order to complete the initial stage of internationalization according to the firm’s profile. The analysis will also describe its internal features and external factors that are likely to influence the internationalization process. [-]
Màster Universitari en Llengua Anglesa per al Comerç Internacional | Máster Universitario en Lengua Inglesa para el Comercio Internacional | Master's Degree in English Language for International Trade | Internationalization | Marketing | Service | International trade | Service firms | Consultancy firm | Distance learning
Treball final de Màster Universitari en Llengua Anglesa per al Comerç Internacional. Codi: SAR016. Curs acadèmic 2015-2016
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RALEIGH, N.C. – Contego Medical, a Raleigh-based medical device firm that received FDA approval for two systems targeting neurovascular, coronary and peripheral vascular disease, has landed $22 million from 10 investors. Contego disclosed the funding in an SEC filing. In 2018, Conteo Medical received FDA approval for: The Vanguard IEP Peripheral Balloon Angioplasty System with Integrated Embolic Protection.The “first” filter-based Integrated Embolic Protection (IEP) device, the Paladin Carotid PTA Balloon System. Contego CEO Ravish Sachar signed the filing. The...
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are one step closer to a possible new treatment against multiple myeloma, a devastating type of blood cancer. That’s because their project now has the backing of Pinnacle Hill, the drug spinout company formed in partnership with UNC and Deerfield Management, a New York-based health care investment firm. The firm recently said it would support a project led by Lindsey Ingerman James, Ph.D., a UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy chemical biology and medicinal chemistry division...
MORRISVILLE, N.C. – Locus Biosciences, a developer of precision antibacterial therapies, will conduct the world’s first clinical trial of a recombinant bacteriophage therapy, a major milestone for the field, the company announced. Locus has opened enrollment for a Phase 1b trial of a potential treatment for urinary tract infections caused by Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria. The study will evaluate LBP-EC01, a bacteriophage “cocktail” that has been engineered with the gene editing technology CRISPR Cas3 to target the E. coli genome. “This trial represents a major...
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LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS (Steel Panther & Fluid 5ive), Plus This Weekend's Concert Previews!!
Today's news post is half devoted to this weekend's announced hard rock concert previews, and half to some brand new LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS for later this year, including a major new Kewadin Casino event! Before anyone asks, I am well aware of the new Halloween Party announcement for Sault Ontario, as well as new fallout and postings relating to the Oh!No festival, those are absolutely coming on the site over the coming days! Now, here's what you should know for the other new hard rock concerts in our area!
Local classic/hard rock cover band Fluid 5ive will return to The Rockstar Bar for one night only on Saturday, October 6th! This sporadically seen band were last publically advertised when they rocked the same venue in May, and while I'm not sure what happened to them over the summer, hopefully their old school sound and frequently heavy cover selection goes over well next month! This concert will also mark their public debut with their current lineup, as former Smokehouse guitarist Liam Vaillancourt has joined their ranks, making the band a "fluid 5ive" once again. Technically, he's replacing Rob Irving on lead guitar (who has moved back to keyboard and rhythm guitar full time), but the band's prior lead guitarist was Joseph Miller. Liam's actually a recent high school student, but he's a skilled performer beyond his years, and it'll be interesting to see how he fits in with Fluid 5ive going forward! This concert on October 6th has an oddly early start time of 8:00 PM (though that may be just the door-opening time), you must be 19+ to attend, and there's no cover charge. Visit the official Facebook event page for more details on Fluid 5ive's return to the stage!
Next up, there's at least one more major headlining concert making it's way to The Dreammaker's Theater at the Sault Michigan Kewadin Casino in 2018, as Los Angeles glam/comedy metal quartet Steel Panther will make their local concert debut on Saturday, December 1st! Already an established cult favourite from hit songs like "Death To All But Metal", "Community Property", and "If You Really Really Love Me", their explicit-yet-hilarious original songs and hair metal parodies have made them a must-see attraction in the 2010s, and I know there's some diehard fans eagerly awaiting this show in a few months! Detroit hard rock quintet Wilson will return to our area as openers on December 1st, marking their first local concert appearance since opening for Bam Margera in Sault Ontario 5 years ago. Their wild set at that concert arguably stole the show, so prepare for a hard partying set of fast and heavy originals then! This is a presentation of Allstar Promotions, in their 25th official concert since their launch. Congratulations to Dave & company, and what a party to mark the occasion!
Tickets go on sale for $25 TOMORROW (unless you have a fan club password) at this link, at 1-800-KEWADIN, or at the in-person box office, and unlike last month's Seether concert, there will be assigned seating. An 8:00 PM start time is in effect, and even with minimal regional radio play (partially due to their X-rated lyrics), this should be a well attended hit show! I saw Steel Panther open for Judas Priest in Detroit, and they had a great and funny set, so hopefully the same experience hits the Soo on December 1st! Visit the above links for more details, and get your tickets TOMORROW!
Now, let's get into this weekend's concert previews on a fairly quiet stretch as we hit the middle of the month, starting with Traverse City metal trio Scarkazm's return to The Rapids Lounge at the aforementioned Kewadin Casino in Sault Ste. Marie TOMORROW & SATURDAY NIGHT! Definitely more familiar regionally from their St. Ignace Kewadin gigs, the Peril side project last played at The Rapids Lounge in April, and before that in October 2017, so if you haven't gotten a chance to see Scarkazm this year, these shows should be circled on your calendar! If you can't make these, they will be back in the Soo in just three weeks. You can take in Scarkazm's fan favourite hard rocking covers (and perhaps originals) tomorrow and/or Saturday night at 9:00 PM, you must be 21 or older to attend, and there are no announced cover charges. Visit the official Facebook event pages linked here & here for more details, and here's Scarkazm live!
Finally, let's head back to Sault Ontario for our last currently known hard rock concert previews for this weekend, as prolific hard rock solo musician Tym Morrison has two public shows lined up at different venues, namely The Road House Bar & Grill TOMORROW NIGHT and Room 21 on SATURDAY NIGHT! With his Gliss hiatus ongoing (look for word on the venue's re-opening soon), he's keeping busy with shows at two of his recent favourite venues this weekend, having just played at Room 21 last week, and at The Road House last month. These should prove to be prime opportunities to hear Tym's skilled hard and classic rock covers in familiar locales, so if you're in the east end or downtown, you have chances this weekend! No word though on if there will be a Sangria Saturday theme or something similar at Room 21. These shows are 10:00 PM events with no announced cover charges and 19+ age limits. Visit the official Facebook event pages linked here & here for more details, and here's Tym live!
That's all for now, but stay tuned for Oh!No fallout next! Thanks everyone!
Posted by The Sault Metal Scene at 1:09 PM
Tags: 5ive, bar, casino, dreammakers, fluid, kewadin, lounge, metal, michigan, morrison, panther, rapids, rockstar, sault, scarkazm, scene, steel, theater, tym, wilson
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composers > Ulrich Schultheiss
Ulrich Schultheiss was born in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1956. He took piano lessons from the age of four and later studied violoncello and violin. At seven he appeared for the first time in public concerts. In 1967 Schultheiss became an under-age student at Nuremberg Conservatory, where he studied piano with Prof. Erich Appel. He won several prizes in Germany's "Jugend musiziert" competition, including a nationwide award in 1970. In 1977 he moved to Italy and began to study human medicine in Ferrara.
From 1978 to 1987 Schultheiss was enrolled at the Musikhochschule in Wuerzburg, where his teachers included Julian von Korolyi (piano) and Bertold Hummel (master class in composition). He also took private lessons in composition from Robert Wittinger. In 1984 he spent a study year in Paris in the City Internationale des Arts.
Since 1985 Schultheiss has taught at various musical institutions, including the conservatories in Wuerzburg and Munich and the Hochschule der Kuenste in Berlin. In 1989 he became a full-time staff member for music theory at the Hochschule fuer Musik Wuerzburg. From 2000 to 2002 Schultheiss together with Professor Dr. Christoph Wuensch leads the Wuerzburg "studio fuer neue musik". Actually he is professor at the Musikhochschule Muenster.
Schultheiss performs his own works in public both in Germany and abroad and has taken part in many radio recordings. Besides his interest in contemporary art music, his work focuses on the composition, arrangement, production and performance of largely jazz-influenced music. He has also written, arranged and performed much incidental music for the theater and cabaret.
Visit the composer's site: www.ulrich-schultheiss.de.
Works on SXP
Ulrich's compositions and arrangements available on SXP include:
Chaconnita e Fugato
soprillo & piano edition
saxophone & piano edition
soprano saxophone & guitar edition
Rata'tui
saxophone quartet edition
Three Funky Pieces
saxophone octet edition
saxophone ensemble edition
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Fox 5’s entertainment reporter, Kevin McCarthy (@KevinMcCarthyTV), geeked out with Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Christopher McQuarrie and Rebecca Ferguson about “Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation.”
Big Simon, little Simon
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Big Simon, little Simon, at the global premiere of
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Photo posted to Twitter by assistant Claire Finbow.
5 Stunning Art Posters for Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation
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From filmoria.co.uk:
“Paramount Pictures UK has released a set of 5 new posters for Christopher McQuarrie‘s upcoming fifth installment in the action-packed Mission: Impossible franchise Rogue Nation, and they are stunning.
Focusing on five infamous stunts from all five of the Mission: Impossible installments, the posters highlight the franchises’s best quality: Tom Cruise putting his talents into some really impressive stunts.
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie, the film reunites star Tom Cruise with Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner and Ving Rhames, and adds to the cast Rebecca Ferguson and Alec Baldwin.”
Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation is set to be released on 30th July 2015.
Mission Impossible Rogue Nation – World Premiere Live Stream
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From io9.com:
“In eight days, everyone will find out that IMF is in a bad way. As Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation begins, the Impossible Missions Force is struggling to survive on multiple levels. Only Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) can restore the agency In this exclusive featurette, you’ll see Hunt has his work cut out for him.
The IMF team has been a crucial component of the last few Mission: Impossible movies and this one is no different. In those films, Cruise has always been the star, but his associates played by Ving Rhames, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg and others have become increasingly essential. They’re a huge part of the stories, but they’re also important to the chemistry, humor and tension of the films. Rogue Nation continues that trend.
We’ll have more on Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation as we get closer to its release on July 31. What I can say now though is that it’s an edge-of-your-seat, action-packed, awesome entry into and already good franchise that seems to get better and better with each subsequent installment.”
Mission Impossible Rogue Nation Promo Tour
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In full force Vienna !!!
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From hollywoodreporter.com:
“The Omaze team spent a few days on the Vancouver set before production began to work on the campaign and promises videos, to be released in subsequent weeks, featuring different castmembers showcasing their personalities. Elba, who is playing a mystery villain, may even have a video of his own.
Omaze has become a favorite among stars wishing to hold charity contests. Robert Downey Jr.’s campaign offering a trip to the Avengers: Age of Ultron premiere holds the record as the highest-earning contest for an individual (more than $2 million raised), while the Star Wars campaign to visit the Force Awakens set raised the most money to date overall (more than $4 million).
Paramount’s Star Trek Beyond hits theaters July 8, 2016, with Justin Lin directing.”
Ethan Hunt is back in theaters in 10 days!
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Samurai were the social group which developed at the turn of the seventh and eighth centuries AD, probably during the Yamato period. The changes in the Japanese political system at that time may constitute their genesis. In 702, the Taihō Code was created and it stated that the emperor's power covers the whole country, so the lands which had been possessed by particular clans before, were given to him. Then, the feudal structures (shōen) with the governors at the helm started to emerge. As the time went by, the influence of the emperor's power was weakening. It was the time when warrior troops submitted to the owner appeared and they were supposed to defend his properties in case of any danger.
Samurai first arose in the Eastern North part of Japan, especially on the Kantō lowland, as numerous bloody mutinies and rebellions took place there. In 1871, after the Meiji Restoration, all the samurai titles were cancelled. Ignoring numerous protests, the judicial liquidation of the samurai class was applied.
The samurai's characteristics
The samurai were distinguished by their haircuts for instance, as they shaved the front part of their hair (above the forehead) and pinned up the rest of it at the top of their heads. Their attire included hakama trousers, kamishimo waistcoat with a kamon emblem representing a given clan or family and also accessories, such as a luck amulet worn at the neck. The samurai armor was called Ō-yoroi and it consisted of numerous segments, made mainly of metal and endowed with lacquered leather coverings. They were joined together with thick silk straps and also leather. Those straps were given bright colours in order to additionally decorate the armor.
The most significant laws were defined by the bushidō code, as it taught the basic rules of a warrior. The samurai rules were included also in other masterpieces, such as The Book of Five Rings or Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai. It was particularly crucial to serve the master faithfully and to be subordinated to him entirely. Both during a battle or while committing suicide (seppuku), a samurai was not allowed to fear death. Capitulation in the fight also was forbidden, as it was considered to be a highly dishonorable solution. The samurai education was focused on the best knowledge of bushidō. They were taught to write, read and create calligraphy. They were also educated in the field of music, rhetoric, literature, law, mathematics and medicine. What is more, the samurai were obliged to know the traditional tea ceremony, as well as the Japanese and Chinese poetry.
Katana is a Japanese samurai sword. Its curved, single-edged blade measured over 60 cm and the foible was truncated or rounded.
The first samurai swords emerged in Japan between 710 and 794 AD, in the so-called Nara period. They were called kara-tachi at that time, what stood for Chinese swords. At the very beginning, they were not so amazingly decorated and did not have a plaque guard. In the Muromachi period, the uchi-gatana ("a striking sword") appeared and this one already resembled the katana sword remarkably. At the end of this era, the samurai began to consider it to be their favourite weapon. At that time many variants of this sword were created, but they only slightly differed from each other.
The sword production was not systematized until the Edo period (1603-1868). It was the time when the legal rules of carrying and using the weapon were stated. Moreover, daishō emerged, which was the specified set of swords. Katana became a specialization of some armorer families. It was then when the main traditional names started to be used.
The tachi and katana swords differ to a great extent in the way of being carried. Tachi was attached to ashi, which were two straps, with the sharp side of a blade placed downwards. It was used together with an armor most commonly. Katana was fastened to a regular attire, without any straps, but only fixed behind the belt (kaku-obi) with the sharp blade placed upwards. The outfit (koshirae) was to a great extent formed accordingly to the way how the particular samurai sword was carried. The same concerned the sheath (saya), which was endowed with additional rings when it was made for tachi. The shape of the blade also depended on the method of carrying the sword, as in the case of tachi it was more curved.
When the Haitōrei edict entered into force in 1876, all the Japanese citizens (apart from the police and army) were prohibited to own a weapon. The skills of using a sword were vanishing and took only the forms of fencing as a kind of sport (kendō) or meditation (iaidō). Up to 1933, not a single new traditional katana sword was created. However, at the time of World War II, the Japanese officers fought with the guntō swords, which remarkably resembled katana from the Edo period.
Wealthy peasants often owned wakizashi, because unlike katana sword, they were legally allowed to have it. Both weapons included the daishō set, which could be carried only by the samurai.
A sword constituted the crucial element of the samurai culture, as it was said to be the embodiment of the warrior's soul. There were numerous rituals associated with it, sometimes very complex, and they appeared as early as in the process of its production. Before starting his work, an armorer was obliged to undergo the purification ceremony and while creating a samurai sword, in some moments he had to wear the festive attire. The smithy was decorated with motifs originating from the shintō religion and served as protection against evil forces. The rituals were associated even with clay, fire and water, used for hardening the sword.
In order to prevent the blade of a samurai sword from chipping, the armorer had to forge the hardest cutting edges possible. At the same time, they had to be very flexible, because otherwise the weapon could crack. It was an incredibly difficult task to make it, performed with repeatable re-forging iron, tempering the metal and other methods, which were created over the centuries and carefully guarded. Dealing with a sword was subject to many rules. One of them stated that if a samurai pulled out this weapon from a sheath, he had to immerse it in the human blood. For this reason, if a noble person, that should not be refused, asked for presenting the sword, a samurai had to cut himself before hiding it back.
A samurai sword had to be conserved regularly by rubbing the blade with an ointment made of the Japanese mint.
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Smitaki
BOULEVARD NEWS LESVOS
June 28 – Heat wave oracle
(Klidonas Festival in Molyvos; photo: Arie van Willigen)
It’s difficult to believe but in six months we will again be celebrating Christmas. The summer in Greece has hardly begun but bonfires were already ignited to observe midsummer on a date that also marks the name day of John the Baptist. The St. John’s Fires are lit, as the sun reaches it’s highest point in the northern hemisphere. This happens in several countries on the night of June 23 to 24, including here in Greece where the occasion is called Klidonas, a date that has its own interpretation.
In former times this was a night when young, unmarried girls hoped that the stars would whisper the name of their future husband. A girl had to go to a spring, fill an urn and carry this so-called ‘silent water’ home (she was not allowed to speak when carrying the water). She and other virgins would place small, much-loved objects into the urn and seal it with a red cloth. Then they would find it a place to wait for the sunrise of June 24, somewhere as close as possible to the stars. That night, so the tradition goes, the girls would dream of the man who would be their husband, helped by several fires lit in the surrounding streets. The following day, a poet or storyteller would retrieve the objects from the urn, one by one, while relating some riddles that would reveal even more about the man the girls had dreamed of.
I do not believe that there were a lot of urns on the rooftops of Molyvos hoping that the stars would reveal their secrets this midsummer, because it is only the most sensational part of this tradition, jumping over the fires, that is still practiced. According to tradition, you must put your life at risk by jumping over the flames three times. if you do this, luck will be part of your future life.
The practice of jumping the fires may continue, crossing yourself as you pass one of the many churches on the island, or cherishing the amulets against the evil eye may still be practiced, but nowadays nobody takes a lot of interest in predicting the future. That said, now that the Gods of Olympus have lost their credibility, the Greeks continue to worship a very long list of saints, even if it is only occasionally to mark their name day. Churches are scattered all over the island and they are never neglected. Whatever church you visit - tucked away in caves, perched atop mountains or hidden away in the forests - they are always tended with love and devotion.
In ancient times, however, it was the oracles that kept order in Greek society and the priests that interpreted those oracles were the most important people in that society. No war or battle would be started, no important decision would be taken without seeking the opinion of an oracle. And, like the words for those unmarried girls, this could be an opinion interpreted in many different ways – perhaps in the form of riddles, or even a poem.
Apollo was the god who mainly used oracles to reveal the future, and Delphi was the most important temple from which the secrets of the future were revealed. It was sometimes even referred to as the ‘navel of the world’. But Delphi was only for the rich and the famous. Normal people had to consult more obscure oracles and fortunetellers, who picked the future out of the air by interpreting the flights of the birds, or the whispering of leaves in the trees.
It is said that once upon a time there was an oracle on the slopes of the Lepetimnos, where priests defined what roads life would take by watching the flight of the crows. The most famous Lesvorian oracle, however, was Orpheus, the musician who went mad after loosing his wife, driving beautiful nymphs to such distraction that they cut of his head to stop his wailing. But even this did not stop him. His still anguished head washed ashore somewhere near Ancient Andissa, where it was taken to a cave. Orpheus’s distress continued, according to the legend. People from far and wide came to hear his opinion about their lives, and after hearing about this popular oracle, it was Apollo who finally silenced Orpheus. Even today, when I wander on the beaches of Ancient Andissa, I am sure that the wind still sings the words of Orpheus.
I would love to climb up to Orpheus’s cave and discover for myself if he secretly continues to whisper wise words about the future. Now that the island (and the rest of Greece) has been hit by a serious heat wave, you have to turn to the wisdom, not of an oracle but that of a meteorologist to predict the weather for the coming days. And while with the benefit of modern science, the weather oracles can speak with confidence about what is in store for us, they too, are not always right. In ancient times when the oracle’s prediction was not to your liking, it was best to blame the interpretation, never the gods. Maybe it would be better if our modern day ‘weather priests’ also spoke in riddles. Then we could believe whatever we wanted.
The coming time
the days will be suffering
from the stirring heat of heavenly fires
Streets in the city
will burn the soles of the feet
and the sea has to cool
all flaming hearts
until men will realize
it is only the gods that know about the future
Geplaatst door smitaki op Friday, June 30, 2017 No comments: Links naar dit bericht
June 26: Goodbye, Michaelis
Yamas, Michaelis
I am sure they have ouzo
although I am not sure
if there are donkeys or any horses
grazing above the clouds
You embraced life as a free man
loving donkeys, horses and women
You were always full of crazy stories
to celebrate life and friendship
while your Greek heart
could not beat without music
as long as something was in the glass
and the table surrounded by company
You kept on smiling
whenever crisis or human disaster struck
you would fill a glass
raise it to heaven and challenge the gods
in order to drink to a happy life
you thought that lasted forever
and then you danced the night away
Your donkeys known by the entire village
in the winter finding their food in mountains and emptying my garden
in the summer carrying the weight of tourists
while you taught them how to live as a Greek,
enjoy sun, water, food and Ambrosia
I am sure you took everything
life offered you
and now it is time
to give back that free life you lived
to rest in heaven
where you probably will raise your glass once more:
Yamas, Michaelis!
Geplaatst door smitaki op Monday, June 26, 2017 3 comments: Links naar dit bericht
June 17 - Requiem for Vrissa
(The Gattelusi Tower near Vrissa)
I have to admit that I’ve never wandered around in the village of Vrissa, meaning that I’ve only passed through the village a hundreds of times whilst going to and from Vatera. Each time its traditional silhouette beckoned to come and discover its quiet, colourful streets, I always decided: later. Now that the earth has moved and the stones of the houses have shaken loose, it is too late. Vrissa will never again be that innocent, beautiful traditional little village.
In the Seventies the same thing happened to the village of Chalikas, at the feet of Lepetimnos. There the earthquakes triggered landslides which made the village uninhabitable. The residents were evacuated and never returned. I hope that Vrissa will not become such a ghost town and that it can be rebuilt, although I wonder if the villagers want that.
Vrissa is kind of a nomad village, having moved from one place to another place throughout its history. Once its houses stood at Cape Fokas, later the people flourished at the banks of the Almyra river, from where it moved to its actual place. The cause of the village relocating from one place to another can be easily guessed. The temple of Dionysos that once attracted people to Cape Fokas, and now left with just one pillar gesturing to the sky, was completely destroyed by natural disasters, or was it war?
Vrissa was surrounded by stone factories, where they transformed mined ignimbrite into bricks. Most houses of Vrissa were built with these stones. On Lesvos you will see various local styles, like that of Pterounda where special nice crafted bricks can be seen in some of the walls of the houses and it was explained to me that they were fabricated locally. Lesvos with its volcanic history has plenty of building materials, although I wonder how steady they are. According to Wikipedia: “Ignimbrites are made of a very poorly sorted mixture of volcanic ash (or tuff when lithified) and pumicelapilli, commonly with scattered lithic fragments.”
Even before the earthquakes the walls and roofs of these factories were in a poor state, so I guess it was a long time ago that their chimneys blew smoke into the air. I wonder if these Vrissian icons are still standing, or have they met the same fate as the village, falling into pieces, and finally finding a place in dusty history books.
Not far from the village is the Paleopirgos, a watchtower built by the Gattelusi family that reigned the island for about a century from 1355 on. From pirate roots, the Gattelusi became kings and they fortified the castles of Molyvos and Mytilini and built several watchtowers in order to defend themselves against other pirates. Who knows how far into the land Vrissa was then, because in those times nobody without fortification walls and castles dared to live close to the coast risking being slaughtered by those sea bullies. Will you still see this impressive tower from the road passing from Vrissa to Vatera?
The most known attraction of the village was situated in the old school: the Natural History Museum. There is not much left of this eccentric and interesting museum. It housed the bones of prehistoric animals found in the area and that of Gavathas. They have already survived so many earthquakes that I do not fear for their well being; but I do for that of the plant fossils and animal skeletons and other things in the display cabinets and, of course, the building itself, now scattered into millions of pieces. The bones can be dug up again.
Also all street dogs have mysteriously disappeared from the village. Apart from two. Street dog Liza used to hang around the museum and will not move from its shattered remains. Instead of by visitors, she now is patted by the rescue people and those that have started cleaning the village. The only caretaker of the museum keeps on feeding her. The other dog that did not want to leave the shattered village was the dog of the one person that was killed by the earthquake (a mother of 43). He dug into the debris looking for her and once she was found he did not want to move and could only cry. They had to remove him to an animal shelter.
Lesvos has many traditional villages like Vrissa, each one with its own history, all marked by time and every one is an important historical monument. Now there is one pearl less on the island. It is a pity that it was the eldest houses, those telling most of the stories, that were the first victims of the earthquakes. Lots of houses, churches and other buildings in Plomari, Polichnitos, Lisvori, Akrasi and other villages have been severely damaged. And so time is devouring another piece of history.
(with thanks to Mary Staples)
© Smitaki 2017
Geplaatst door smitaki op Monday, June 19, 2017 No comments: Links naar dit bericht
June 7 – Help: a queen!
(A camel spider)
Summer can be lovely but it also has its dark sides, sometimes even creepy sides, like scary insects and other small creepy-crawlies. My biggest nightmare is the Camel spider (Solifugae). You won't come across him daily, but yesterday I found a dead one lying outside my front door and I went nuts: where did this moron came from?
Two summers ago I saw at least five of those creepy spiders, one of them climbing on my screen door, probably looking for a tiny hole to break into the house. Imagine if such a monster were to succeed in hiding behind your computer, or to crawl under a cushion on the couch just to watch tv, or if it were to take a nap under your sheets. The very thought of any of these things makes me panic, just as I was so horrified when I saw one of these creeps hanging onto my screen door. I rushed to the bathroom, took whatever spray I could grab hold of and sprayed the monster dead. A friend had to save me from the (dead) spider, and finding the camel spider so interesting, he decided to keep it and put it in a glass box where it remained until now (the hairspray having done such a good job of preserving it).
As far as I know, in Greece camel spiders do not get any bigger than 10 to 15 cm. In Afghanistan and other desert-like countries – where these spiders belong – stories go that the wind scorpions (another name for them) can be double that size and can easily dig a huge hole in the belly of a camel. Scientists defend them saying that they are not poisonous, even though the bite of this monster hurts enormously. I will make a detour of any size in order not to meet such a sun spider (this creep with eight legs, that officially even isn't a spider, has lots of names). If you have seen one, more will follow, so I will be more on guard this summer.
I am not afraid of the jumping grasshoppers. As long as they do not land on my arms or, for sure, on my nose. But they are catastrophically gluttonous. Two weeks ago, on the neighbouring island of Ai Stratis, a state of emergency was declared because of a grasshopper plague of biblical dimension. I am wondering if they might come to Lesvos, once they have completely stripped that little island. The very first colourful messengers – already quite an army – have landed in my strawberry plants, and eaten the leaves and tasted the fruit. Some of them, having had enough of the strawberries, have jumped onto my roses, even though there they have competition from lice, beetles and mildew.
There are also entire armies of mini ants, making the kitchen and the pantry into battle fields. These don't scare me too much, but they too can constitute another huge plague. I make enormous efforts not to drop a single crumb for them and seal away all the sweets. The popular jar with honey in it I put in a bowl with water, hoping to save it from the ants. But this lovely sweet-water pond is now used for swimming lessons: and the most successful ants have reached the jar of honey. So now I have to create an enormous wavy ocean around it, if I do not want to share the honey with these nasty rascals.
Then I got 'royalty' visiting me. For years now, a gigantic wasp, a Hornet-Queen, has succeeded in penetrating my house and even though I throw her out as an unwanted guest, early each summer she tries exactly three times to come for a coffee. Maybe she is less scary than she looks; but, like the sword of Damocles, she hangs from the ceiling right above my head, screeching loudly as if she was on a soap box in Speakers' Corner, making it impossible or me to work. But I refuse to let her chase me out of my house. From a decent distance I spend long hours waiting for her to come down from the ceiling, so that I can catch her with a glass and a whisk and remove her from the house. In a way I should be honoured with this regal visit, because it's impossible that each year it is the same queen (that would make her over ten years old!). I wonder if I am part of the traditions around the coronation celebrations: she may only be crowned if she invades my house three times and get thrown out three times without damage.
Overall, I am pretty tired of it all: scared because of the camel spider, sad because of my sick roses, desperate because of not knowing how to stop the grasshoppers eating my garden, tired of my fights against the armies of ants and having to be constantly alert for a secret fourth mission by the Queen. But before you know it, I will be relaxed again: gone will be all offenders, but then too the summer will be gone.
Geplaatst door smitaki op Sunday, June 11, 2017 No comments: Links naar dit bericht
27 mei – Love related
(beetroots)
Every year, before the summer really starts, I spend hours in the grocery store, not knowing what to chose because most crates are empty: the cabbages have perished, green salads are finally flowering, all the beans have been picked and it's still some time before the tomatoes, cucumbers, aubergines and the zucchini can be harvested from the gardens.
A vegetable easy to preserve and what I previously thought of as a winter vegetable, is filling the gaps of all those vegetables not yet ready for summer: beetroots! Cucumber and tomatoes are synonymous with Greek cooking, and not many people will believe me when I say beetroots also belong to the Greek kitchen. This vegetable even had its cradle in the countries around the Mediterranean Sea.
According to old Assyrian writings beetroots were present in the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. In ancient times Egyptians and Greeks just ate the green stalks; it was the Romans who discovered the culinary side of the tuber. Greeks preserved the tubers for the gods and offered them in Delphi to Apollo, their weight counted in silver (turnips in gold). Aphrodite must have eaten tonnes of them because she believed it was beetroots that kept her beauty and lust for love alive. No wonder the Romans later thought beetroots to have aphrodisiac power. Even the walls of a brothel in Pompeij were covered with paintings of beetroots. There still is a belief that when two persons eat from the same beetroot, they will fall in love. And when in ancient times you ‘went to the beetroot fields’, it meant you were visiting the whores. Montgomery still used this expression during World War Two, sending his soldiers not only to the Killing Fields, but also to the beetroot fields.
The beetroots on the plates of the Greeks and Romans in ancient times were not like the ones we eat now, rather more like a kind of wild spinach (the plant that was the precursor of the beetroot). That might explain why their leaves still taste like spinach. Moreover, the tubers were black or white. I am wondering how it is that through time the beetroots got their red color. Was it through the Crusaders having brought them from the battlefields drenched in blood? It was only in the Middle Ages that the red beetroots turned up in the European kitchens.
There are masses of beetroot recipes. The oldest surviving cookbook, De re Coquinaria, by the Roman cook Apicius has two recipes for beetroots. The classical Greek recipe for beetroots is (just like all other Greek dishes) very simple: they are cooked and served with their green leaves, sprinkled with olive oil, lemon or vinegar. You may eat them together with a garlic dip (skordalia).
I was very happy when last week I was served a new salad in my favorite Greek restaurant Meltemi in Skamnioudi: grated beetroots with nuts and a dressing that I cannot yet identify. My other favorite beetroot salad is served in Majoram (Molyvos) where besides traditional Greek they also serve fusion food and salads that are like mountains, only to be eaten by more than one set of knife and fork.
This week when I cooked beetroots, I was wondering how to dress them: I still had those grated beetroots in mind, so I decided to give them a go. But where to get nuts? It was too late to crack walnuts or to crush almonds and peel them. Then I saw a pot of serundeng, a leftover from an Indonesian meal. Nuts! And coconut? Why not. I mixed two tablespoons with mayonnaise, one tea spoon honey and three tablespoons of serundeng and put it over the rasped beetroots: divine!
In ancient times and in the Middle Ages there was a strong belief in the medicinal benefits of beetroots. Modern food gurus now confirm how healthy it is to eat them. Before the tomato-madness breaks out, I will be cooking plenty of these undervalued, purple-red tubers. Greece is not only the country of tsatsiki and choriatiki, but also of these by Aphrodite so much appreciated pantsaria (beetroots).
Geplaatst door smitaki op Saturday, June 03, 2017 No comments: Links naar dit bericht
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Animal Collective Ballet Slippers
By Allie Gregory
In honour of the tenth anniversary of Merriweather Post Pavilion — Animal Collective's eighth studio album and their most commercially successful record to date — comes the release of Ballet Slippers, a collection of live recordings from that album, as well as a healthy mix of pre-2009 AnCo discography.
The record opens up with MPP's first track, "In the Flowers," and is aptly bookended by the record's final sprawling masterpiece, "Brothersport." Other album tracks include "Summertime Clothes," a messy yet fun "Lion in a Coma," "No More Runnin'" and the digitally rendered "Daily Routine," which showcases Panda Bear with an all-time peak vocal performance. The collective's rendition of "Guys Eyes" is especially otherworldly. Beginning like a sound collage, it is pieced together slowly and clumsily, underscored by its doubled-vision, choppy mixing and intermittent shouts from Avey Tare.
Likewise, where the band explore their back catalogue, they spice things up with new mixes and extended jams. "Banshee Beat" is another track the band took extra liberties with for an impressive, alien-esque performance. The resulting dazed-out, sunbaked execution is entirely unlike the original Feels recording, and is somehow even dreamier. Their "Who Could Win a Rabbit" interpretation is equally as transmogrifying, with an improvised quality not felt in the studio recording.
Then, something very special happens in the band's rendition of "Lablakely Dress"/"Fireworks." 20 minutes of demon noises and uneasy minor key alterations morph into an inexplicable guitar solo akin to the post-rock instrumentations of Explosions in the Sky, which simultaneously takes clear inspiration from their heroes in the Grateful Dead, a band they would go on to sample in "What Would I Want Sky" (a track unfortunately omitted from this particular live roster, despite its Fall Be Kind EP-mate "Bleed" making an appearance).
Ten years after the release of the century's best alternative record, Merriweather Post Pavilion remains as culturally important as it felt back in 2009. Ballet Slippers mines that very significance for its pure euphoria, and with carefully selected performances and interpretations, this celebration of that groundbreaking work does justice to its source material. (Domino)
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Optimizing Color BASIC, part 6
See also: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5.
Size Matters. Or Space Matters. You decide.
Sometimes we want to optimize for code space, and other times for variable and string space. For example, if you want to create a 32 character string like this:
<------------------------------->
…you could either declare it as a static string:
A$="<------------------------------->"
Or build it programatically like this:
A$="<"+STRING$(30,"-")+">"
The second version takes about 16 bytes less of program space because the string is generated dynamically in string memory rather than being stored in the tokenized BASIC program.
Doing it the second way seems like a good idea, but keep in mind when you make this string, somewhere in string memory will be those 32 characters, PLUS you still have the BASIC statements that created it. It’s actually larger, overall, to do it this way.
BUT, any temporary strings like that might make sense to create on-the-fly as you need them since that memory can be reused by other strings.
10 A$="<------------------------------->"
20 PRINT A$:PRINT "MAIN MENU":PRINT A$
30 INPUT "COMMAND";C$
In the above example, A$ points to that sequence of characters INSIDE the BASIC program itself. It is always there. But, if you generated the string only when needed, the memory used by A$ could be used for other purposes:
10 A$="<"+STRING$(30,"-")+">"
30 INPUT "COMMAND";A$
Above, A$ is allocated and turned in to the long 32 character string, printed, and then the memory used by A$ can be reused by INPUT. I suppose just setting it to A$=”” might give it back, too.
This would come with a speed penalty since the creation and destruction of strings takes more CPU time than just using a static string.
I think I may have also mentioned that, even if a string is part of the BASIC program, if you do anything to it, it has to duplicate it in string memory which creates a second copy of it:
20 A$=A$+"HELLO"
Above, A$ initially starts out pointing inside the program itself, taking up none of that string memory. At line 20, the entire A$ gets copied in to string memory and then the extra characters are added to it. At that point, that string is now using over twice the memory (program space plus string space).
Let’s try to prove that. The CLEAR command is used to reserve memory for strings. By default, 200 bytes are reserved. We can change that by doing CLEAR 0. Here is a program that has no string memory, yet it works because the string is inside the program space:
10 CLEAR 0
If you run this, you can PRINT A$ and prove it exists, but the moment you try to declare a second string like B$=”HELLO” or even manipulate A$ like A$=A$+”” you will get an Out of String Space errors (?OS ERROR):
Proving strings can live inside program space.
Sometimes you choose speed over size, and sometimes you choose size over speed. Thus, you can optimize for speed (which we have been doing so far), or optimize for size.
Elementary, my dear DATA
Today I want to discuss DATA statements. In my assembly language series, I showed how the lwasm assembler can generate a small BASIC program that has the assembly code in DATA statements, and a small loader which will READ them and POKE them in to memory:
10 READ A,B
20 IF A=-1 THEN 70
30 FOR C = A TO B
40 READ D:POKE C,D
50 NEXT C
60 GOTO 10
80 DATA 16128,16167,142,63,14,166,128,39,6,173,159,160,2,32,246,57,84,104,105,115,32,105,115,32,97,32,115,101,99,114,101,116,32,109,101,115,115,97,103,101,46,0,-1,-1
DATA statements can contain base-10 numbers, base-16 hexadecimal numbers, or strings (and I guess base-8 octal numbers too, but who would do that?). This means you could have the data stored as numbers:
100 DATA 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15
100 DATA &H0,&H2,&H3,&H4,&H5,&H6,&H7,&H8,&H9,&HA,&HB,&HC,&HD,&HE,&HF
…or as strings like “FE” or “1F” that you could READ and convert to hex numbers in the loader:
100 DATA 59,4F,55,20,4D,55,53,54,20,42,45,20,42,4F,52,45,44
When it comes to a size, hexadecimal numbers without the “&H” in front are always smaller than their base-10 equivalent. Single-digit decimal values 0-9 are single digit 0-9 in hex. Double-digit decimal values 10-15 are represented by single digit hexadecimal values A-F. Every time a value from 10-15 appears, representing it in decimal takes up twice as much space. And for three digit decimal values 100-255, those are two digit hex values 64-FF.
If you store the data as strings, like this:
100 DATA 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F
101 DATA 10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,1A,1B,1C,1D,1E,1F
…you can read each string in, and convert it to a number by adding “&H” to the start and using the VAL() function:
READ B$:B=VAL("&H"+B$)
For the decimal and hexadecimal versions, you just read it as a number:
READ B
The smallest version would be the string approach, since three digit numbers can be represented with two digits. But, doing the string conversion with VAL() makes it slower.
The fastest version would be using hexadecimal numbers since BASIC can parse hex values faster than base-10 numbers. But, this is the largest version since 255 in decimal (3 characters) or FF as a hex string (2 characters) would be represented as &HFF as a hex number (4 characters). Those numbers would take up twice as much space as the string version!
In the middle is base-10 numbers. It’s not the largest, or the smallest, or the fastest or the slowest. It makes an ideal compromise.
Let’s do a test. I have DATA statements representing values from 0 to 255. I have three versions: the first will use base-10 numbers, the second will use hexadecimal numbers, and the third will use strings that are just the hex part of the “&H” number.
Base 10 Numbers
0 REM DATADEC.BAS
10 TIMER=0:TM=TIMER
20 FOR A=0 TO 255
30 READ B
50 PRINT TIMER-TM
101 DATA 16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31
106 DATA 96,97,98,99,100,101,102,103,104,105,106,107,108,109,110,111
107 DATA 112,113,114,115,116,117,118,119,120,121,122,123,124,125,126,127
Hexadecimal Base-16 Numbers
0 REM DATAHEX.BAS
100 DATA &H0,&H1,&H2,&H3,&H4,&H5,&H6,&H7,&H8,&H9,&HA,&HB,&HC,&HD,&HE,&HF
101 DATA &H10,&H11,&H12,&H13,&H14,&H15,&H16,&H17,&H18,&H19,&H1A,&H1B,&H1C,&H1D,&H1E,&H1F
110 DATA &HA0,&HA1,&HA2,&HA3,&HA4,&HA5,&HA6,&HA7,&HA8,&HA9,&HAA,&HAB,&HAC,&HAD,&HAE,&HAF
111 DATA &HB0,&HB1,&HB2,&HB3,&HB4,&HB5,&HB6,&HB7,&HB8,&HB9,&HBA,&HBB,&HBC,&HBD,&HBE,&HBF
112 DATA &HC0,&HC1,&HC2,&HC3,&HC4,&HC5,&HC6,&HC7,&HC8,&HC9,&HCA,&HCB,&HCC,&HCD,&HCE,&HCF
113 DATA &HD0,&HD1,&HD2,&HD3,&HD4,&HD5,&HD6,&HD7,&HD8,&HD9,&HDA,&HDB,&HDC,&HDD,&HDE,&HDF
114 DATA &HE0,&HE1,&HE2,&HE3,&HE4,&HE5,&HE6,&HE7,&HE8,&HE9,&HEA,&HEB,&HEC,&HED,&HEE,&HEF
115 DATA &HF0,&HF1,&HF2,&HF3,&HF4,&HF5,&HF6,&HF7,&HF8,&HF9,&HFA,&HFB,&HFC,&HFD,&HFE,&HFF
String HEX Numbers
0 REM DATASTR.BAS
30 READ B$:B=VAL("&H"+A$)
110 DATA A0,A1,A2,A3,A4,A5,A6,A7,A8,A9,AA,AB,AC,AD,AE,AF
111 DATA B0,B1,B2,B3,B4,B5,B6,B7,B8,B9,BA,BB,BC,BD,BE,BF
112 DATA C0,C1,C2,C3,C4,C5,C6,C7,C8,C9,CA,CB,CC,CD,CE,CF
113 DATA D0,D1,D2,D3,D4,D5,D6,D7,D8,D9,DA,DB,DC,DD,DE,DF
114 DATA E0,E1,E2,E3,E4,E5,E6,E7,E8,E9,EA,EB,EC,ED,EE,EF
115 DATA F0,F1,F2,F3,F4,F5,F6,F7,F8,F9,FA,FB,FC,FD,FE,FF
If we look at the size JUST the DATA statement lines take up (lines 100-115), here is the size breakdown:
DATADEC.BAS – speed 78, size 1010
DATAHEC.BAS – speed 49, size 1360
DATASTR.BAS – speed 109, size 848
As you can see, using hex values is over twice as fast as using string versions and converting them to hex.
For size, using strings is about 15% smaller in my test program than using decimal values.
If load time is important, use hex. If program space is important, use strings. Otherwise, normal decimal values are a good compromise between speed and size.
Bonus Data
One more thing… If we are going to use strings anyway, we could save more space by making the hex strings long, and parsing through them to pull out the individual hex values. Every number has to be two characters (00, 01, 02 … 0E, 0F) and this additional string parsing makes it even slower, but if code size is most important, try this:
0 REM DATASTR2.BAS
20 FOR A=0 TO 15
30 READ B$:FOR I=1 TO 32 STEP 2:B=VAL("&H"+MID$(B$,I,2)):NEXT
100 DATA 000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F
110 DATA A0A1A2A3A4A5A6A7A8A9AAABACADAEAF
111 DATA B0B1B2B3B4B5B6B7B8B9BABBBCBDBEBF
112 DATA C0C1C2C3C4C5C6C7C8C9CACBCCCDCECF
113 DATA D0D1D2D3D4D5D6D7D8D9DADBDCDDDEDF
114 DATA E0E1E2E3E4E5E6E7E8E9EAEBECEDEEEF
115 DATA F0F1F2F3F4F5F6F7F8F9FAFBFCFDFEFF
DATASTR2.BAS – speed 172, size 624
By removing all those commas, it’s the smallest data size yet. And, since the longest line you can type* in BASIC is 249 characters…
BASIC allows for typing up to 249 characters on a line.
…you could really back some data in to it.
Side Note: *The BASIC editor allows for 249 characters, but when you press ENTER, the line is tokenized. Keywords like PRINT get reduced to smaller tokens. You may have typed a five character keyword (taking up part of that 249 byte buffer), but when you press ENTER, that five characters may be converted to a one byte token. This means it’s possible for a BASIC line to contain more valid code than you could actually type. There have been utilities for BASIC (such as Carl England‘s CRUNCH) that do this, packing program lines as big as they can be, and making them un-editable since the moment you try, they get detokenized and you lose anything past 249 characters. We’ll have to discuss this in a later installment.
With that in mind, we could pack any type of DATA in to fewer lines and save a bit. Each line number takes up 6 bytes, so every line we can eliminate makes our program smaller.
Through some trail-and-error experimentation, I got this:
30 READ B$:IF B$="*" THEN 50
35 FOR I=1 TO LEN(B$) STEP 2:B=VAL("&H"+MID$(B$,I,2)):NEXT
100 DATA000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F101112131415161718191A1B1C1D1E1F202122232425262728292A2B2C2D2E2F303132333435363738393A3B3C3D3E3F404142434445464748494A4B4C4D4E4F505152535455565758595A5B5C5D5E5F606162636465666768696A6B6C6D6E6F7071727374757677
107 DATA78797A7B7C7D7E7F808182838485868788898A8B8C8D8E8F909192939495969798999A9B9C9D9E9FA0A1A2A3A4A5A6A7A8A9AAABACADAEAFB0B1B2B3B4B5B6B7B8B9BABBBCBDBEBFC0C1C2C3C4C5C6C7C8C9CACBCCCDCECFD0D1D2D3D4D5D6D7D8D9DADBDCDDDEDFE0E1E2E3E4E5E6E7E8E9EAEBECEDEEEF
108 DATAF0F1F2F3F4F5F6F7F8F9FAFBFCFDFEFF,*
As you can see, this is slightly faster than the previous combined hex string version because it does less READs. It is also slightly smaller because it has less line numbers. And, I think, it could even be packed a bit more, but because I am loading these test programs as ASCII files in to XRoar, the lines cannot exceed 249 characters (the same as typing them in) so this was as much as I could fit on them (even though using EDIT on these lines shows I could still type about 6 more characters, but it only seemed to show me 5 more after I re-listed it).
Fun with DATA, eh?
Until next time, I leave you with this:
A virtual cookie goes to the first person that finds them.
This entry was posted in BASIC Programming on February 16, 2017 by Allen Huffman.
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James Jones February 16, 2017 at 1:27 pm
There’s more to it than space–there’s time. Depending on how strings are represented internally, concatenation may require repeated scanning of the string as it’s built up. It’s true for NUL-terminated strings in C, and for the Haskell String type, which is a list of characters. “Can you say O(n^2)? Sure, I knew you could.”
The way around it in C is printf (or sprintf if you really need to store it rather than print it. in BASIC, if I’m just going to print it, I’ll just PRINT “” (OK, &H1E if you want :). I know printf() will keep track of where it is and not repeatedly scan, and I’d bet BASIC PRINT does as well.
Oops… The blog software made most of the PRINT statement go away. It should have had what you were assigning to A$ in the example, but with ; instead of the +.
Actually, that probably isn’t O(n^2), because you rescan once for each string, not each character in each string a la bubble sort–but at the very least it ups the constant factor, which, while it’s not considered significant for big-O calculations, still can be a significant performance hit. (That’s why, for example, a typical sort implementation switches from quicksort to a simpler sort once the hunks being sorted are sufficiently small.)
William Astle February 17, 2017 at 12:34 pm
Color Basic stores strings with an 8 bit length and a pointer to the data. They’re actually binary clean as a result and there’s no need to scan the string to find the end. String concatenation is actually O(n) where n is the combined length of the two strings. (It has to copy both strings to a newly allocated string space.) String space allocation is O(1) unless garbage collection is triggered in which case it’s O(n^2) where n is the number of extant string descriptors (which may be larger than the number of string variables due to anonymous strings being on the “string stack” during expression evaluation. The string stack overflowing is what causes “string formula too complex”.).
Skipping the concatenation step and just joining with “;” (or nothing) in PRINT is faster simply because it doesn’t have to bother allocating new string space and doing the concatenation. Instead, PRINT just has to look up the various strings. Both concatenation and PRINT use an incrementing pointer to traverse strings since they both process entire strings. So, in actual fact PRINT with concatenation is O(2n) and PRINT with “;” is O(n) if you keep the constant factors since the total string length is scanned twice with the concatenation option and only once with the PRINT and “;” option.
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They are indeed easily pissed off are they not? No, it’s not for getting a cross eyed stare, its because of Cliff Richard’s version of the Leonard Cohen song, Hallelujah, that was enough to set off the followers of the madman. They’re seething, spitting mad.
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Hackers removed the station’s home page and replaced it with haunting images and a message said to be on behalf of Ahmed Al-Qahtani – a suspect in the 9/11 attacks. Radio Basingstoke owner and DJ Astrid Haigh-Smith was horrified to find her website pictured a spooky pair of green eyes above a woman on an altar.
The message, which was written in green on a black background, called on God to bless Muslim fighters, or Moujahidines, and warned the West not to insult Islam. But Ms Haigh-Smith, 53, says she will not allow the fanatics to intimidate her and insists she will not change the station’s playlist.
The station, whose website had 140,000 hits last month, expressed their support for British troops over Christmas and played Cliff Richard’s version of Hallelujah. The ageing popstar is famous for being a Christian and the Leonard Cohen song was Christmas number one for X-Factor winner Alexandra Burke.
Ms Haigh-Smith said: ‘When I realised what had happened, I was quite frightened and the hairs on the back of my neck stood up. ‘I couldn’t understand why we had been targeted. ‘I just thought maybe it was because we had commented that we hoped our troops would be safe over Christmas.‘We’ve also played the Cliff Richard version of Hallelujah, but we would never dream of running down any religions.
‘I’m not going to change what songs we play. If we start doing things like that then the terrorists will have won.’
A small station like Radio Basingstoke shows true British backbone, and the way forward, in its refusal to act like its cowering dhimmi government on Downing Street, in the face of Islamic intimidation. Remember folks, it’s going to be left up to the average citizen to resist Islamization, not the government. Kudos to the radio station owners for showing what once made Britain great. KGS
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‘You Beauty!’ says Branson
Virgin boss revels following Lord’s victory and Virgin Media charity incentive
As England celebrate the first win in this year’s Ashes, Virgin chief Richard Branson has praised the team and their ‘bonza’ performance following the stunt that riled Australians and saw him appear on the Sydney Harbour Bridge before the first test, to help launch Virgin Media’s ‘Fifty50’ charity initiative.
The company has already pledged £8,000 to charity following the first two Ashes tests in Cardiff and at Lord’s, where England finally beat Australia for the first time in 75 years.
The unique initiative will see the UK’s leading broadband provider donate £1,000 to charity every time an England batsman scores a half century during the series, to celebrate the national roll-out of it’s ultrafast 50Mb broadband service.
Delighted with the team’s performance to date, cricket fan Richard Branson said; “You beauty! What a bonza performance by England’s boys - I’m absolutely over the moon that we took the second test at Lord’s. England put in a fantastic performance and the team have already reached eight half centuries to date, raising £8,000 for charity in the process through Virgin Media’s ‘Fifty50’ initiative. It seems that our little stunt in Sydney has riled the Australian team by putting pressure on them, whilst our charity incentive has equally spurred on the England team. All I can say is once again, good luck at Edgbaston Ricky…you’ll need it!”
Following England’s draw in Cardiff and superb win at Lord’s this week, no fewer than five England players have already reached the half century milestone on eight separate occasions:
Kevin Pietersen, who scored 69 in the first innings of the Cardiff test will see £1,000 donated to children’s charity Barnardo’s;
Matt Prior who ran in 56 in the first test and 61 in the second raised £2,000 for his chosen charity;
Paul Collingwood who has managed three half centuries to date in the series, racking up 64 and 74 runs in the first test and 54 at Lord’s, raising £3,000 to be split between Marie Curie and Chance to Shine;
Alistair Cook, who managed an impressive 95 in the second test raising £1,000 for Young Lords Taverners; and
Captain Andrew Strauss, whose unforgettable 161 in the first innings of the second test
The unique ‘Fifty50’ scheme will run throughout The Ashes and will see Virgin Media donate to a selection of good causes favoured by the England players. Launched by former England skipper and Yorkshire player Michael Vaughan, the charity donations will go to each English batman’s chosen charity, every time he scores 50 runs or more in a single innings, throughout the series.
To find out more about Virgin Media’s 50Mb service, visit www.virginmedia.com/50
Frank PR, 0207 693 6999 or virginmedia@frankpr.it
Virgin Media will donate £1,000 for every England player who scores 50 runs or more in a single innings
One charity per player is permitted which should be communicated to Virgin Media before the end of the series.
The prize is non-transferable, and there is no alternative.
Virgin Media reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the initiative or amend these terms and conditions where reasonably necessary.
With operations based entirely in the UK, Virgin Media Inc. is listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market (VMED).
For more information, go to www.virginmedia.com
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NEWS FROM HONEY MONSTER FOODS
Honey Monster goes Bananas for new cereal
Mums beware – Honey Monster is introducing his most a-peel-ing cereal yet - Banana Puffs! Based on the much loved Sugar Puffs the new banana flavoured cereal is part of the big furry fella’s mission to put fun and excitement back into breakfast time.
Banana Puffs, which is the first ever limited edition cereal to be produced by Honey Monster Foods, is set to hit shelves across the UK from August. Designed with kids in mind the new cereal not only tastes great but contains no artificial flavours, colours or preservatives and is fortified with vitamins and iron so Mums can rest assured their bunch are getting everything they need.
Honey Monster, who will be appearing on the packaging for Banana Puffs, said: “Everyone knows I love Sugar Puffs, but it’s a little known fact that I love bananas too. I’ve been known to eat a whole bunch at once, sometimes without even peeling them – I am a monster after all! I’m really excited about my new flavour Puffs and can’t wait for everyone to try them. If you like the taste of Bananas as much as me then you’ll love Banana Puffs – they’ll be right up your tree!”
Jane James, Head of Marketing at Honey Monster Foods said: “Many children still skip breakfast so Honey Monster is striving to make it a more enjoyable time for families by getting kids excited about the most important meal of the day, whilst striking a balance between what kids are happy to eat and what parents are happy to feed them.”
For further information, images and to arrange interviews contact:
Frank PR on 0207 693 6999 or honeymonster@frankpr.it
For more information on Honey Monster Foods visit www.hmfoods.co.uk
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Branson winds up the Aussies with the ultimate sledge
Virgin Media tycoon beams himself onto Sydney Harbour Bridge
Richard Branson has thrown down the gauntlet to the Australian nation by beaming a tongue-in-cheek image of himself onto one of Australia’s most iconic landmarks, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, to mark the start of the Ashes series.
The image, referencing Australia captain Ricky Ponting and featuring Branson’s face painted with a St George’s Cross, was unveiled in the shadow on the famous Sydney Opera House with the slogan “Good luck Ricky. You’ll need it. Dicky x” to promote Virgin Media’s ‘Fifty50’ campaign, designed to spur England on as they fight to win The Ashes this summer. The company has pledged to donate £1,000 to charity for every England batsman who scores a half century during the series to celebrate the national roll-out of the broadband provider’s ultrafast 50Mb broadband service.
Richard Branson said: “I love Australia and I know that the Aussies are always up for a spot of light-hearted banter, especially when it comes to The Ashes. Every Australian I know wants to stuff us in the upcoming series and I wanted to do my bit to encourage the England team in the hope that they can win the Ashes this time round.”
Laurinda Rio-Copeland, who lives in Sydney but is originally from London, was passing by as the image was beamed onto the bridge. She said: “I have had so many Aussies rib me about England’s defeat in the last series, telling me how we are going to get beaten again. I think this image is really funny and it’s nice to see the Aussies being on the receiving end for a change.”
Labels: ashes, broadband, virgin media
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NEWS FROM BBC CHILDREN IN NEED
One Direction and Gary Barlow join BBC Children in Need's 'Very Important Pudsey' Collection
BBC Children in Need today announced that superstars One Direction and Gary Barlow have joined the inaugural 'Very Important Pudsey' Collection. The bespoke collection of ten Bears has been designed by the great and the good from British film, TV and music.
The X Factor judge and the world's biggest boy band join Sir Paul McCartney, Coldplay, Sir Terry Wogan, Dame Shirley Bassey, Brian May, Dame Judi Dench, Joanna Lumley and Dame Helen Mirren who have all redesigned Pudsey in their own unique ways. One Direction and Gary Barlow have chosen to imprint their passions onto their designs. The 'One Directioner' Bear is based on the band's incredible fans whilst Gary Barlow's suited Bear is inspired by his love of performing and wearing a snappy suit.
The rest of the Very Important Pudsey Collection sees Pudsey recreated in an array of different colours from brown to royal blue, in a range of different materials from velvet to diamante, and in a range of different styles, from an Ab Fab Pudsey to a Leprechaun Pudsey.
The unique collection is now on auction via bbc.co.uk/pudsey. Whilst under the hammer, the collection is being exclusively exhibited at St Pancras International until the17th November.
One Direction said: "As a band we are often asked what the driving force behind us is, and the answer is always the same, our fans. Our fans are the ones who got us where we are today, and who inspire everything we do, including Bear designs! So, meet One Directioner Pudsey, please do dig deep and bid on our Bear, it really will go on to make a difference."
Gary Barlow said: "BBC Children in Need is a charity incredibly close to my heart, so I wanted my Pudsey Bear to echo something else that I hold close to my heart, performing. This Bear is a reflection of me in one of my favourite suits performing on stage and I hope he raises lots of money and goes to a happy home."
Director of Marketing and Fundraising at BBC Children in Need, Sarah Monteith says: "We are truly privileged that these national treasures have redesigned Pudsey for this incredible collection. Their creativity has given each Bear wonderful character and personality, and you can’t help but smile when you see them. We hope the public will get bidding to give these Bears a home and to help change the lives of disadvantaged children and young people right here in the UK."
The list of 'Very Important Pudsey' Bears is as follows:
One Direction – the 'One Directioner' Bear is inspired by their incredible fans. The Bear features a typical One Directioner outfit of Converse trainers, a One Direction t-shirt and cardigan. The Bear will also be signed by the band.
Gary Barlow – the suited Bear is inspired by Gary's love of performing and wearing a snappy suit. The suit includes Gary's signature black skinny tie.
Sir Paul McCartney – the 'Sgt. Pepper' Bear is inspired by the legendary Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The medals and buttons embellished on the jacket are all vintage military.
Coldplay – the Viva La Vida Bear has been made out of fabric from the band's vey own clothes, and was inspired by their 2008 song which is the Bear’s namesake.
Joanna Lumley – the 'Sweetie Darling' Bear is inspired by Joanna’s years spent fondly as Patsy from Absolutely Fabulous. The 'Sweetie Darling' Bear's tweed suit jacket is made of proper Linton tweed with original vintage Chanel buttons. The outfit is complete with a Lulu Guinness handbag.
Sir Terry Wogan – Sir Terry Wogan has designed a leprechaun Pudsey. He hopes that he will bring pots of gold and lots of luck for BBC Children in Need this year.
Brian May – Brian’s Astronomy Bear is inspired by Brian's passion for astronomy and his Doctorate in Astrophysics, and comes with its very own telescope, so Pudsey can enjoy stargazing, as his creator intended.
Shirley Bassey – Shirley’s 'Diamond’s are Forever' Bear is coated in 3,500 genuine single Swarovski crystals with a glass bead fabric as the bandana. The Bear is inspired by her iconic Bond theme tune.
Dame Helen Mirren – the Helen Mirren Pudsey is inspired by Helen’s world famous red bikini and her love of being on holiday.
Dame Judi Dench - Judi’s Jockey Bear is inspired by her beloved racehorse Smokey Oakey.
The auction is live now. For more information on the Very Important Pudsey collection and the auction or to find out more about BBC Children in Need, please visit bbc.co.uk/pudsey.
Labels: ab fab pudsey, BBC children in need, brian may, coldplay, gary barlow, helen mirren, joanna lumley, judi dench, one direction, paul mccartney, pudsey bear, shirley bassey, terry woman
NEWS FROM HOTELS.COM
Hair Raising Holiday Choices!
Could your hair colour determine what type of holiday you book?
It seems that when it comes to holidays our hair colour could determine our choice of perfect getaway. A new study today from Hotels.com has discovered that ginger haired people are most likely to head off on safari (8%) while bald folk would much rather embark on a backpacking trip (6%).
The survey of 2,000 people showed that when choosing a holiday blondes are most likely to pick a relaxing, sunbathing beach holiday with 42% of blondes voting this their favourite type of trip. People with black hair were most likely to pick a skiing holiday (13%) than any others while thrill-seeking brunettes were most likely to go for something more wild like hiking, kayaking or rock climbing (11%).
Grey haired people in later life were found most likely to prefer a quiet countryside retreat (36%) above all other hair types. Shockingly, ginger haired people most favoured a safari more than other hair types (6%), even though over 50% of the ginger population have admitted getting sunburned is their biggest fear when on holiday and the bald Brits like to show their adventurous side with a backpacking expedition (6%).
Brunette - holiday of choice (%)
Ginger hair - holiday of choice (%)
Blonde hair -holiday of choice (%)
Black hair - holiday of choice (%)
Grey hair - holiday of choice (%)
Bald - holiday of choice (%)
Sunbathing (37%)
Countryside retreat (36%)
Other (33%)
Adventure holiday (10%)
Skiing holiday (13%)
Safari (8%)
Adventure holiday (7%)
Backpacking (4%)
Other (8%)
Spa holiday (3%)
Skiing holiday (1%)
Kate Hopcraft of the Hotels.com brand said, "Our research shows an additional way of looking at how we choose our holidays…based on our hair! While you would expect a countryside retreat may be preferred by those with grey hair it is fantastic to see our ginger population enjoying the excitement of a safari over other holidays; we just hope they pack plenty of sun cream."
Labels: brunettem blonde, frank pr, grey, hair, hair colour, holidays, hotels, HOTELS.COM, public reactions, public relations, red, survey
London Cabs First in Taxi Rank
Global travellers vote London taxis as top cabbies in the world
London taxis have been voted the best taxis in the world for the sixth year in a row, according to the annual global taxi survey from Hotels.com. London secured 22% of the votes, a clear runaway winner followed by New York with 10% and Tokyo with 9% in second and third place.
London's iconic black cabs won nearly a quarter of the vote in the survey*, which also saw Berlin reclaim it's position in the top five list, in fourth place with 5% and Madrid, Mexico City and Amsterdam in joint fifth with 4%.
The world’s best taxis:
% of votes
Of the 30 countries surveyed, London topped the list across five of the seven categories, including cleanliness (23%), knowledge of the area (27%) and quality of driving (30%). While London cabs were also voted top for friendliness (23%) it was this category that was deemed the least important to travellers, meaning London's friendly cabbies could be seen to put some punters off. Almost a quarter of respondents (23%) voted safety their number one priority when travelling by taxi, which London's cabs also ranked highest on.
New York and Bangkok taxis came joint first in terms of value for money (20%); interestingly the latter didn’t quite make the overall top five this year. New York's recognizable yellow taxis grabbed the top spot when it came to availability (23%).
Categories ranked in order of preference:
Knowledge of Area
Quality of Driving
The global Hotels.com taxi survey also revealed the world's more obscure objects that travellers have admitted to leaving behind, which included:
· A wig and a bird in a cage left behind in a US cab
· A prosthetic leg and an ex-boyfriend in Australia
· A trombone in Finland
· A Rubik's cube in Italy
· Dentures in Germany
Globally the survey found that people tend to text or email whilst in cab (19%), while sleeping was the second most popular activity (15%), followed by eating (10%) and kissing (9%). When asked which nation was the most amorous in the back of a cab Brits came out with 14% admitting to displaying passionate behaviour - 10% higher than the global average of 4%.
Other global findings include:
· Over half of us (53%) would choose a taxi as our desired mode of transport from airport to hotel.
· While the majority of people would round up to the nearest amount when tipping (38%), taxi passengers tend to choose to not tip over tipping more than 10% for the journey.
· The most important feature in a taxi is WiFi (14%) beating both the radio and music.
· The biggest pet hate for UK travellers is when taxi drivers take a longer route to the destination.
Alison Couper, Senior Director of Communications of the Hotels.com brand said, "Six years running and London cabs are still leading the pack when it comes to travel – it's great to see! Our iconic black Hackney Carriages and their well informed cabbies can pride themselves on being globally recognised for their expert knowledge and quality of driving, maybe next year we can top the list for all categories!"
Steve McNamara, General Secretary of the LTDA, said: “Once again, the expertise, professionalism and in depth knowledge of our great city has seen London’s taxi drivers voted as the best in the world. Clearly, their friendliness, dedication and pride in the trade, helps visitors not only get to their destination quickly and safely, but enhances the whole experience of a visit to London.”
Labels: frank pr, hotels, HOTELS.COM, inforgraphic, london taxis, public reactions, public relations, taxi survey
NEWS FROM COW & GATE
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